Written by Sonia K.
Lex visits Lionel at The Belle Reve Sanitarium and
instructs the nurse to keep him under 24-hour surveillance. Meanwhile,
it seems Lionel is still under the trance brought on by the Kryptonian
symbols. On his way out, Lex bumps into a mental patient and frees him
from his cuffs. The patient frees two ghostly looking twins to help him
make his escape. They join fists and produce electricity creating a
force field in order to make their escape from Belle Reve. It seems
they gain power by draining the electrical energy around them. Their
first stop, Smallville.
At the Kent farm barn raising, Clark hurts his hand
with a hammer, which introduces him to pain, another reality of being
“normal”. Jonathan asks Clark to go up to the farm and retrieve
supplies, Clark asks Lana to join him. As they kiss and embrace, they
hear a noise downstairs. Thinking it is the Kent’s, Clark & Lana
quickly straighten themselves up. Clark rushes over to the stairs and
is blasted up to the ceiling by the twins, where they have pinned him
using their freakish power. As a helpless Lana looks on, Clark asks
what they want, and the blond haired baddie responds, “What every freak
in Belle Reve wants Clarkie boy, You!” They take Clark & Lana inside
the Kent house and rough them up. Clark is badly hurt by the blond
baddie while trying to protect Lana, being that he no longer has his
super powers, he too is helpless. While the twins continue to complete
each other sentences, the blond baddie lights up a cigar with his
fingers.
Down in the Kiwatche Caves, Chloe runs into Lex,
who has some questions of his own about the day of the meteor shower and
Clark. He mentions seeing her & Clark in the caves during the shower.
Chloe responds by saying that the idea is just as crazy as Lana saying a
spaceship crashed during the meteor shower. He attempts to play on
Chloe’s feelings towards Clark & Lana yet her loyalty to Clark is
impenetrable. She coolly responds hat if he does not want her asking
questions of her own, he had better stop asking his.
It seems the baddies need to reach the infamous
Level 3 at LuthorCorp and are convinced Clark can help them. He
explains that while there, they received a “nifty little green cocktail”
to boost their powers. Clark realizes they were being experimented on.
They reveal that one morning they found themselves in Belle Reve without
their experimental drug, on which they are dependant. He tells Clark
that he cannot break in to LuthorCorp because it is designed to keep
people like him out. Just then, the Kent’s pull up, looking for
Clark. Inside, the baddies have Lana in another room while Clark tries
to play things off in front of his parents. Mr. Kent is confronted by
the blond baddie that hits him with a ball of energy, knocking him
down. Clark gives in to their demands. The baddie gives Clark two
hours to return with the serum, otherwise Jonathan, Martha & Lana’s fate
is grim.
Chloe & Clark team up to break in to LuthorCorp.
Chloe comes equipped with her laptop and blueprints for LuthorCorp.
They figure out where Level 3 is and hatch a plan. Chloe reveals an
arsenal of weapons, flash bombs & equipment in her trunk to help them
break in. Once inside, Clark reminds Chloe that he does not have his
powers. Chloe works on the system through her laptop, while Clark makes
his way further inside.
Back at the farm, the sheriff arrives with sirens
wailing. Lana tells the blond baddie not to freak out and that they
would stall the sheriff if necessary. He takes Martha into the back
with him and tells Jonathan & Lana to handle the sheriff. The Sheriff
notifies them of the escapees from Belle Reve and asks where Martha is.
Back at LuthorCorp, Clark has climbed his way in to
the ventilation system and is being guided by Chloe and her laptop. He
lets slip to Chloe that Pete already knew his secret. In the middle of
Chloe’s shock at Clark’s little confession, something goes wrong with
the system. It seems Clark has tripped a silent alarm and if he does
not move fast, he could end up trapped in the ventilation system. He
follows Chloe’s instructions, until the vent gives out on him, and
leaves him hanging from the ceiling of a very large laboratory.
On her way out, the Sheriff notices a pack of
cigarettes. Knowing of Jonathan’s heart condition, she begins to
question whom they belong to. Lana quickly takes responsibility for the
cigarettes, claiming to have picked up the habit after the meteor
shower. However, the Sheriff is not buying the act; she senses
something is not right. As she walks to her car, she calls in for
backup at the Kent Farm. Before she can reach for her gun, the blond
baddie gets her attention and blasts her with his supercharged fingers.
Jonathan takes advantage of the moment and tackles him outside on the
lawn. Inside, Lana attacks one of the twins and drills his hand into
the wall; the other strikes Lana and knocks her down. It seems the
ghostly twins can literally feel each other’s pain. As the police
arrive, the twins come together to create an enormous shield around the
farm to keep them out. Believing that Clark has betrayed his family,
the blond baddie
Clark finds his way to a door in the lab and lets
Chloe in. Together they find where the door to Level 3 would be. They
need Lex’s thumbprint to gain access, it just so happens that Chloe has
come properly equipped.
The twins’ force field is growing weaker since they
do not have their serum. The blond baddie will not allow them to quit
however.
The thumbprint works and they gain access just as
the blond baddie phones to tell them times up. Clark tells him that
they have the serum and he is on his way. Clark reaches for the serum
but is zapped by a laser security system. The serum seems to be heavily
guarded by lasers. The blond baddie is losing it meanwhile; he is
getting more agitated with every passing second and warns the Kent’s and
Lana that they only have a few minutes left.
Chloe tries to figure out a way to bypass the
security system. Clark asks her to locate where the signal is coming
from while he tries something else. He returns to the Kent farm with a
briefcase in hand and tells the Sheriff that he has what the baddies
need. She tells him that it is not up to her to allow him in; the
barrier is keeping everyone out. Clark shows her his cell phone and has
the baddies drop the barrier in order for him to get inside.
When he opens the briefcase, the flash bomb from
Chloe’s trunk goes off in his face and he is temporarily consumed by
smoke. It seems Clark’s plan was to beat them the old-fashioned way.
The blond baddie shoots electrical currents at Clark, but he dives out
of the way and the twins are hit instead, blasting them to opposite
corners of the house. Clark picks up a hammer and destroys the
electrical fuse box to keep the baddies from drawing any more energy.
Seeing that the baddie is now completely powerless, Clark commences to
beating him with his bare hands, knocking him out in one punch.
The ghostly twins and the baddie are cuffed and led
out by the police. The Sheriff compliments Clark on a job well done.
Chloe shows up to praise Clark for saving the day without his powers.
Clark tells her his hero days are over but a persistent Chloe tells him
that while they were in LuthorCorp, someone was watching them through a
video feed the whole time.
At the Luther mansion, Lex is watching that exact
video. He sees Clark being burned by the laser and says thinks aloud,
"this is impossible” just as Clark walks in and asks Lex if he’s
disappointed. Lex tells Clark he has heard of what has happened just as
Clark punches him, knocking him to the ground. Clark tells him he knows
that Lex was watching them the whole time. He informs Lex that he has
had access to surveillance videos from Belle Reve. Clark tells him that
he knows Lex was there earlier that day and that he believes he had
everything to do with the baddies escaping and targeting him, followed
by another punch, knocking Lex down again. He punches Lex in anger, for
putting Lana and his family in danger. He calls Lex a coward and tells
him to see for himself what Clark Kent is really made of. As he goes to
strike Lex again, Lex blocks his hand and strikes Clark in return,
causing Clark to bleed. Lex seems confused that he could injure Clark.
Clark goes to Lana’s apartment where she is waiting
for him. They talk, they kiss and they embrace, and they finally take
their relationship the next level. The music takes over, the candles
fade and all is well once again in Smallville.
Written by Sonia K.
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