Chloe finally wakes up and says she would love a cappuccino to clear her head from all of the drugs they gave her. As Lois goes downstairs to make the drink, Chloe once again tells Clark that she is not like her mother. Once again, as soon as she mentions that she is not crazy, she starts seeing things again. It's that same girl, and she still wants Chloe to help her. The girl melts into the wall, and although Clark is skeptical, he uses his x-ray vision to look inside the wall, where he sees the skeleton of the girl. OK now, that makes sense. She was just trying to lead people to her body so it could rest in peace. Why bother with all of the slit wrists and whatnot? And uh, why pick poor Chloe to possess? Lana lived there a long time, and she loves being possessed, she might have understood this crazy girl better and prevented all of the mess we had now.

Clark immediately broke through the wall, which was kind of unnecessary, don't you think? Wouldn't it have seemed strange that the wall was smashed and there was no sledgehammer around? Then again, you would have to explain to people why you were so sure there was a skeleton behind the wall. Eh, I guess it's a push. When Clark gets through, it turns out the body has a kryptonite bracelet, so he has to back away, but Chloe is still drawn to the body. She touches the bracelet and she is possessed, for real this time. How do I know? Well, for starters, she looks in the mirror and she is looking at the reflection of the crazy girl that has been haunting her for so long.

Since they have to call in the dead body, Clark takes Chloe back to his house to hide her. I thought it would have been perfect for either Lana or his mom to walk in and make things awkward, but the writers decided to be more straightforward. Chloe mentions that they need to find whoever did that stuff to the poor girl, and make him suffer the way she did. Lois is downstairs, and we have some information on the girl. Her name was Gretchen Winters, and it turns out she wasn't the only girl in Smallville that was found dead behind a wall like that. They go upstairs to tell Chloe, but she has left.

Gretchen-Chloe didn't know who she was, but when she sees that she is a student at Metropolis University and works at the Daily Planet, she decides to do a little investigation. I wish they would stop pretending that Metropolis was so far from Smallville, because whenever they travel there, it makes 24 look realistic by comparison. Gretchen-Chloe makes it to Chloe's room, and picks up a few things, including a stun gun. Lana is there, and she is wondering where the hell Chloe has been. Lana and Lex had been looking for her all afternoon. In fact, there was Lex to forcibly take Chloe to the doctors at Belle Reve, but Gretchen-Chloe had the stun gun, used it on Lex, and was able to get away.

So exactly where was Gretchen-Chloe heading off to? Remember that doctor I said I had a bad feeling about? Well it seems like I didn't really have to worry about him. The orderly was another matter entirely. How do I know this? First, he just looked creepy, and second, he abducted Lois. Yes, he decided to visit the Talon to see if he could find any information on Chloe, but instead finds Lois reading some exorcism books and trying to cleanse the aura of the place. We learn that the orderly, Michael, is very familiar with the space above the Talon. As soon as he said that his dad used to manage the place, we knew that obviously he was the killer. He did like the way they had cleaned up the place, and it smelled a lot better as well. You know, the decomposing flesh of a dead body tends to foul things up. That didn't stop him from abducting Lois and taking her back to his place.

Like I said, Gretchen-Chloe made it to Michael's as well. Michael has no idea that she is possessed until Gretchen-Chloe starts talking about how Michael had seduced Gretchen. Personally, I don't see what the fuss is. He bought gifts for Gretchen, he listened to her problems, but when it was time to share her problems, she wanted to leave. I know that sounds rough, but we can also call it "Dating in 21st century." I mean, if somebody does that to you, it is instinct to perhaps want to shut them out of your life. That doesn't mean that you need to shut them out by killing them and placing them behind the drywall.

As soon as Michael recognizes that Chloe is actually Gretchen-Chloe, he slams her against the wall, but Gretchen-Chloe was anticipating that and used the stun gun on him. She wasn't finished however, and grabbed a candlestick and began to beat him unconscious with it. It looked like she was not going to stop until she went all Hartigan vs. the Yellow Bastard on his skull. A perverted orderly dies, a young girl lives. Seems like a fair trade, but before Gretchen-Chloe can finish the job, she hears Lois screaming, and goes downstairs to rescue her.

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