Giving Him Something He Can Feel - 
by J-Unit
One of the challenges for this season of Smallville is how the writers are going to have the kids do what they did in high school now that they are not living or taking classes in the same places anymore. Logistically, the writers have decided to employ the 24 model of travel, where people can simply whisk themselves from one place to another with little worry about how much time it should actually take. The other question, which is where the conflicts are going to come, is a little tougher to solve. It would get boring if we simply said that people affected by kryptonite were wreaking havoc all over the place, although they left that possibility open. Instead it looks like we are going to see mayhem of the general variety, and now that Chloe is working at the Daily Planet, it looks like we'll have plenty of trouble for her to get in to.
Well, Chloe helping people out is a great theory, but in reality, she is really just an intern and her main job is answering phone calls for the night shift. Hey, it's not a bad place to start, but Chloe is way too talented to be answering phone calls about dog obituaries, isn't she? On this particular evening, Lois is with Chloe in the basement because Chloe had promised her a girl's night out, but bailed when she was called in to the office. Normally you wouldn't say that watching your cousin answering phones would be all that exciting, but as Lois said, compared to the Kent Farm, it's a rager. Shit, Lois, it's not like they are charging you rent, why don't you simmer down? If you are so upset about how boring it is, just move out, right? That's exactly what Lois decided to do, but it's not because she feared the oppressive hand of the Kents. Since Lana moved out of the space above the Talon, there was room for her there. She worked at the Talon anyway, so it would work out for everybody, and she could go back to pretending there was no sexual tension between her and Clark.
The girls were expecting a really boring night, but the next call Chloe received was a frantic attempt from a girl looking to meet with a reporter. She wouldn't give out her name, but she sounded desperate and Chloe decided that she should take a risk and go meet the girl herself. She said she was at 7th and Edgemont, which I thought would be an intersection in Los Angeles and I was going to check it out, except I checked the google map, and it appears Edgemont doesn't go south of Melrose, so I was out of luck. Chloe and Lois, however, got to their destination, and they saw a girl in the middle of the street walking towards them, and then she got hit by car. And let's be clear, I am not talking about some Pinto here. It was a brand new Expedition and it slammed into her, and the camera didn't cut away. Look at this shit, what the hell is that?
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I am not a physics geek, but I am sure there are some poor bastards out there crying into their Basics of Newtonian Law textbook. If Chloe needed some reason to solve a crime, this was a pretty good place to start.
At the police station the next day, Chloe and Lois get a lecture from detective Maggie Sawyer, or as I like to call her, detective low rent Mariska Hargitay. The investigators didn't have that much information and they told Chloe that this is the big city and bad things happen. In other words, don't get too worked up over this hooker who got killed. Chloe comes back with some feisty words about how this dead girl is not a statistic, and she and Lois decide to do something about it. They track the location of the girl to a nightclub that was in the area, and decide that they are going to investigate later.
Now that we are several episodes in, I have been trying to figure out if this has been a good year or a bad year for Clark Kent. On the plus side, he has now has his fortress of solitude, but then again, it's not so solitude-y when Chloe knows everything about it. He finally was able to get with Lana and then he got with Lana because he lost his powers, but then he got his powers back and somebody is going to die. Speaking of his girlfriend, he thought that she was going to stick around and he would get to bang her in between his classes at Central Kansas and his yard work on the farm, but Lana decides she is going to go away to Metropolis U.
I would say Clark is making out even considering the above scenario, but when Lana leaves for a field trip for her astronomy class and is not going to be around, that leaves Clark to contemplate a date with Rosie Palm and her five friends. But just as he is giving Clark the bad news , he also gives Clark some good news. Lois is moving out, so he doesn't have to convince himself he'd rather have Lana than Lois. Just as they are about to wrap up that conversation, a car comes hurtling down the driveway, kicking up gravel. It looked like some sort of General Lee rip-off, which would be funny, because John Schneider, the man who plays Jonathan Kent, was Bo Duke on Dukes of Hazzard.
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