Now, I thought the parental warning had to do with violence, but within fifteen seconds, I wondered if it was going to involve nudity. We got to see Lana's silhouette in the shower a couple of times, and we also got to see Lois's shadow changing when she was playing a stripper, and now it is time for Chloe to join in. She happened to be visiting Lois for some reason, and decided she needed to take a shower, not that I am complaining. For all of the Chloe stalkers out there, we got quite a few shots that gave us a preview of everything Chloe had to offer with only a thin layer of semi-transparent plastic to get in the way of our imaginations.

Oh yeah, that's the stuff.

Unfortunately, you knew something had to go wrong, and after some lightening knocked the electricity out of the building, the story began to look a lot like The Grudge. First, Chloe is putting her robe on in the shower, and we see a face peering at her through the shower curtain. Then while she is looking for a candle, we see a figure running in the background. Next, a great staple of horror movies. Chloe looks at herself in the mirror of the medicine cabinet, and then looks inside for something. When she closes the medicine cabinet, the spooky face is in the mirror. Chloe turns around and sees the image of a girl with bloody wrists pleading for her help.

By the time Lois hears Chloe and comes into the bathroom, Chloe is sitting on the floor and it looks like she is now the one who slit her wrists. Lois takes Chloe to the Smallville medical center where the doctors have sedated her. She asks the psychiatrist, Dr. Sidell, who already gives me a bad vibe, what could have caused all of this, like perhaps stress or a history of mental illness. I am not sure how long this Sidell has been in Smallville, but if he only looked around, he might notice that mental illness seems to not just run in families, but was somehow added to the tap water as well. And who would Lois be to answer? Remember when she was possessed by a horny witch? Crazy shit happens all the time in this town.

Clark finally makes it to the hospital, but when he visits Chloe she is actually really lucid. When he asks if there is anything she wants to tell him, she says that she was a writer and if she tried to kill herself, she would have left one hell of a suicide note. Chloe sounds like she is making sense, and then she sees the face of that creepy woman again and starts to freak out, and of course she can't understand why Clark can't see this strange woman asking Chloe to help her. At this point, Clark becomes worried and thinks that Chloe should tell the doctor about her mom. Lois doesn't know it, but Chloe's mom was sent away to a mental institution when she was very young, and one of her biggest fears is ending up crazy like her mom. She makes Clark promise not to tell anybody, and since she is hiding his secret identity, he can't really argue, can he?

After Clark leaves, Chloe begins to hear the freaky ghost thing saying "Help me." She gets up to investigate, and is startled when Lana comes in and asks her what is wrong. What's wrong is that Chloe is seeing blood all over the place, but nobody else does. She starts yelling at her doctor, who has to put her in restraints. Lana becomes so worried about what she just saw that she decides to ask Lex for help. Things have been awkward since their sort-of kiss, but he was glad to help out, even if it was going to distract him from the most important thing on his mind right now, which is finding Milton Fine, who seems to have disappeared off the planet, although we know Clark killed him in the Fortress of Solitude many weeks ago.

Lex promises to take great care of Chloe, which means that she is going to go to Belle Reve. When Clark visits Chloe and sees that she is now in isolation and hears about Belle Reve, he is none too happy. First of all, Belle Reve might have people who are professionals, but their history of experimentation is pretty bad. If they are going to get inside Chloe's head, she might tell them things she didn't want to, like Clark's secret. Therefore, Clark had to take her away, so busts Chloe out and takes her to Lois' apartment. Lois isn't particularly happy Clark took Chloe away from doctors. She doesn't care how bad Belle Reve might be; her cousin tried to kill herself and she wants to give her the best care possible.

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Posted by J-Unit on February 13, 2006 11:13 PM