As we open the episode, there is Lana in her dorm room, obviously going through some serious withdrawal. She checks her closet, takes out a stack of money, and heads to the cafeteria. No, that doesn't mean she was looking to buy up all of the chocolate chip scones before they were sold out. The cafeteria was abandoned, and Lana met two medical students inside. After ponying up two thousand dollars, Lana was injected with a dose of some strange drug that was glowing green, which meant that it was partially made of kryptonite.

Well, if you haven't guessed yet by the title of this post, the drug killed you, and after a set amount of time, somebody else would inject you with an antidote to bring you back alive. Basically, it was the Smallville take on the movie Flatliners, which happens to be the best movie to combine the talents of Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and Billy Baldwin. Ever. Unfortunately, if you have seen the movie, you pretty much know how the plot of this episode goes.

So, Lana "dies" and I don't really see the appeal of taking a drug that makes you die, and believe me, I am all for legalization of everything. What we put in our bodies is our choice and all that shit. And sure there is a risk in any drug you take, but why would you take something that is guaranteed to kill you and then sit around and hope they bring you back with something else? Well, I may not understand, but both of my parents are alive and well. Lana can't say the same thing. She is taking this drug in order to see her parents. Nothing seems to be going right in her life and she is no longer with the person she thought she could love unconditionally, so the sight of mom and dad bring her some comfort. The problem with dying is that you look like shit even if you are resurrected and Chloe is starting to get a little worried with what is going on.

Normally, Clark would be doing some investigating, but he had to run to Honduras. Chloe found a picture online talking about the killer virus or whatever, and noticed that Professor Fine was in the background of one of the shots. Of course Clark had to run to Honduras to investigate, although he was having trouble asking questions because he didn't speak Spanish. I always wondered why he could do everything at super speed except reading. He's got to have super memory as well, right? Why not just read a Spanish-American dictionary and be over with it? Clark may have actually come up empty-handed except he noticed a small boy was carving a piece of wood in the shape of the black space ship. When Clark asked the boy to take him to the place where the little boy saw it, he discovers that the space ship used to be there, but it isn't anymore.

The whole bit about Honduras was obviously a set up for later episodes, so we should get back to Lana. Lana was told that she couldn't take the serum again, but she desperately wanted to try one more time. The guy who created it, Lance, said that was fine, but she'll need $5000 this time. Since the last $2000 she handed over was the last little bit of her savings, Lana had to get a creative to find out where to get the money. When junkies need money, junkies steal, and this junkie decided to steal from Lex Luthor.

You would think that if Lana needed a fix, she wouldn't drive all the way to Smallville and the Luthor mansion, but as far as millionaires go, he does have awful security, so it actually sounds like a pretty good plan. Lana manages to get by security, but she is actually caught by Lex, who came home and pulled a gun on her. Lex's house is huge and has a lot of expensive things in it, so I am not sure what Lana was digging around for, but it must have been good.

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Posted by J-Unit on April 12, 2006 12:56 PM