I remember from the previews last week that this week was going to be a heavy product placement episode featuring the Ford Fusion. The product placement was obvious, but the writers had plenty of time to work it in without being overly distracting, although it only took them about 30 seconds to first mention the car. Lois is driving Martha Kent home, and Mrs. Kent takes some time to reflect on how proud she is of Lois. She has her own apartment and has a brand new car in a color I think they call underoo red. Lois says she is proud of her new car as well, but she said part of the reason she bought it was that she might screw up again and end up end up having to live in her car, as if the Kent's wouldn't let them back on the farmhouse to terrorize Clark and keep him and Lana from sleeping in their house. It almost makes me wonder why there hasn't been a scene where Chloe walks in on Clark and Lana in the dorm room. Chloe's always working at the Daily Planet, so she's gone, and Lana is always in her room studying. I am not saying I need to see any more of the Lana/Clark non-existent physical chemistry, I'm just amazed it hasn't happened.

But whatever, as Lois drives away and Martha is taking some groceries back into the house, she sees a some lights in the sky, then an explosion, and she is knocked over by some sort of energy wave. Whatever happened was loud enough that Clark heard it from the barn. He rushed out to find his mom unconscious in the driveway. She attributed it all to having not eaten that day, and when the doctors checked her out the day after, everything seemed to be just fine, or at least her vital signs were normal. Still, Clark knew that Jor-El promised to make somebody close to him pay for giving him back his powers, and he wondered if it was going to be his mom that was picked to go.