Throughout the history of the show, Smallville has been known for some gruesome deaths. There were way too many good ones to even begin mentioning, but I would count this latest episode as one of the best. After getting off the phone with Martha Kent, an unidentified woman is trying to get her daughter Maddie to come and eat dinner. Maddie bears a striking resemblance to Conchita Campbell, who plays Maia Rutledge on The 4400, in that they both have that "seven year old Matt Dillon with long blonde hair" look going for them. It takes about two seconds for use to realize that Maddie has the special ability to break glass, and it appears like it happens whenever she gets upset, and when her mom tells her that she has to put down her crayons and start eating vegetables, well, wouldn't you be pissed off too?

So Maddie breaks glass, and then we soon learn that the woman is not her mother, but her foster mother. When this woman sees that Maddie is breaking glass, she starts to get freaked out and says she is going to call children's services and have her taken away. Well, being put back into foster care is enough to really piss off anybody, and so Maddie starts breaking more glass, even though she is now upstairs hiding under her bed and doesn't appear like she wants to hurt anybody.

I admit, it's gotta suck to be a foster parent when your child can inadvertently kill you, but I don't have a lot of sympathy for this woman. Maddie breaks some glass, which should freak you out, but hey, if you lose some of that shitty china you mother in law gave you for your birthday, who the hell cares? However, when your little girl conjures up enough energy to blow out all of the windows in the house, you either letter her draw during dinner or get the hell out of there.

Mystery woman sticks around, and considering she just got bombarded with hundreds of pieces of glass, she is doing pretty well. OK, that's a lie. She was doing well until she heard that creepy sound people hear whenever somebody in a movie is about to break glass or kill somebody. At this point, she really should have just ran out of the house as fast as she could. Instead, she decides that she might as well stare at the last bit of glass in the house that is still unbroken, which just happens to be a huge glass mirror. The mirror breaks, and rips the woman to shreds, meaning there is one crazy unintentionally homicidal girl that needs to be taken care of, and what better people to take care of her than Martha and Clark Kent?

When a woman is found dead in her home nobody thinks that the killer is a ten year old that can break glass with her mind so Maddie is left with the Kents. Her foster mom, Naomi, was Martha's chief of staff. Naomi was big on helping kids, which includes taking in Maddie, who hasn't spoken since she was three years old. Clark may be afraid of having sex, but that's not because he is afraid of kids. He actually does well with Maddie, and even gets her to speak a little bit when he mentions that he is also an orphan.

It seems like things are just starting to move along when Lois walks in. Martha thought that Clark would need some help with Maddie and decided to call in Lois, although I don't know why because Lois' home life wasn't exactly stellar, and she doesn't even get along with dogs that well. Lois barges in and starts suggesting that all of these great things that she and Maddie could do, even though Clark had already promised her a horseback ride. Suddenly, Maddie starts to get a little upset, and we know what happens when she gets upset. This time around, there weren't any windows breaking, but a bunch of light bulbs did burst, which was sufficient to really freak out Lois. As for Clark, he was a little more understanding.

Clark identifies with an orphan, and now that he sees that Maddie has special powers, that connection is stronger. She runs into the house and Clark follows her, where she explains that she had the ability to break glass ever since she was little. When she's mad, she can't control it. Clark asks the obvious question about Naomi's death. There was all of that broken glass around, so was she mad at Naomi? Maddie denies being upset with Naomi, instead saying that it couldn't have been her because she is not able to do anything through walls. This explanation is good for Clark, but Lois doesn't want to take any chances and says they should call family services. Instead, Clark convinces Lois to stay with Naomi while he goes to investigate.

Posted by J-Unit on April 19, 2006 5:44 PM