SPOILERS - for episodes 18 - 22 (quite detailed)

Episode 3.18: Truth

A chemical accident at the LuthorCorp plant gives Chloe the ability to make people tell her the truth. When Lionel learns of Chloe's new power, he tries to exploit it by forcing her to uncover Clark's secrets.



CHLOE ASKS CLARK ABOUT HIS SECRET - When Chloe (Allison Mack) accidentally inhales a mysterious krypto-gas, she discovers it acts as a truth serum to anyone who comes in contact with her and decides to take advantage of her new power by going to the Kents (John Schneider, Annette O’Toole) to find out Clark’s (Tom Welling) secret. However, her new power comes with fatal consequences and Clark must find an antidote before she discovers the truth about him or worse, dies.

Chloe's power gets Pete to admit that he still has feelings for her! "Because I knew how you felt about Clark. I didn't see the point," he says, when Chloe asks why he didn't tell her before. Lionel confronts Chloe in the hospital - he knows she swiped a security card!
After bringing Chloe to the hospital, Clark goes back to the Torch to find info on Lex's project. The intern examining Chloe doesn't find anything, he goes out of the exam room for a minute. While he's away, Lionel comes in Chloe's exam room. Clark finds an antidote for Chloe's condition but when he goes to the hospital she has already checked herself out. Clark sees Lionel and asks him about the Levitas Project.

There's a character named Jack Cole, no relation to anyone who worked on Plastic Man comic books. He's a LuthorCorp security guard who has called Chloe three times. Chloe makes a comment that between her dad and the Torch, she hasn't had much time for dating. The scene between him and Chloe takes place in front of the LuthorCorp plant. Jack's been working some double shifts lately, and "judging from the expensive haircuts," it's big. He tells Chloe that if he finds out any more information for her, it could mean his job. Chloe is seen palming Jack's swipe card as she glances back at Jack, who obviously has the hots for her. There's also a scene where Jack is seen with a suitcase, leaving town.

Clark introduces himself as a friend of Chloe's, and Jack tells him if that's the case, then he's no friend of his. Apparently someone broke into the plant using Jack's swipe card and "all hell's breaking loose." Chloe snoops inside the LuthorCorp building when she sees a steel-chrome pressurized tank. When she hears footsteps coming, she backs up and bumps into a tank, that emits green mists in her general direction. A Dr. Jacobsen sees this and goes "Oh my God!" and gets gas masks and turns the alarms on. Chloe gets a kind of a meteor-freak power from this apparently - she can make everyone tell the truth.

Someone admits he hasn't had a date in a year, another student admits cheating on an exam. Everyone just wants to tell Chloe the truth. Clark is supposed to interview Mrs. Taylor, Smallville High's Teacher of the Year, but she keeps putting off the interview. Chloe finally takes the initiative herself and moves in and learns that Mrs. Taylor is hiding a secret - something that may have been admitted by Chloe's new power. She is actually living under an assumed name. Back in 1972, she was involved with a radical movement that planted explosives outside of a bank in Seattle. It seems that whatever she tells Chloe, Chloe writes a story on it that lands Mrs. Taylor in jail.

A cheerleader Jane is furious Chloe printed certain quotes from her. "I can't believe you said them," Chloe snarks. Mrs. Taylor's son William comes after Chloe for ruining his life and sending his mom to jail. He decides to speed towards Chloe in his car, to kill her, so she wouldn't live to tell the tale of anything he's done to her. Someone (you can guess who) super speeds in at the nick of time to save Chloe. Chloe collapses and Clark has to rush her into the hospital. Apparently she hasn't been taking her blood pressure medication. Clark meets with a man named Mr. Smith at a seedy apartment in Metropolis. He is greeted at the door by someone holding a gun, and is told he needs to learn a little about manners. Clark tells Mr. Smith he's there to talk about the Levitas Project (what that is, we have no idea). Apparently anyone who is exposed to this (including Chloe, which explains her collapse) has been having medical problems involving high blood pressure and possibly death.

(All i can say is it sounds great, and thank goodness they gave Allison something good to do, instead of being all lana lana lana all the time.)


Episode 3.19: Memoria

Lex undergoes a series of experimental procedures with Dr. Garner to try and retrieve the memories he lost while he was delusional. Elsewhere, Lana is accepted to art school in Paris, but she has to find a way to pay for it.

LEX DECIDES TO UNDERGO RADICAL TREATMENT TO REGAIN HIS MEMORY Believing that key information about his father’s (John Glover) past was lost when his memory was erased, Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) decides to join an experimental program with Dr. Garner (guest star Martin Cummins) to regain the information so he can turn his father over to the FBI. Knowing that Lex will discover his secret if he regains his memory, Clark (Tom Welling) tries to stop him but is caught by Lionel and the doctor and exposed to the same radical treatment so that Lionel can solve the mystery of Clark’s past.

"We get a little piece of Clark's origin in the piece," Miles Millar hinted in Sci Fi Magazine.

Jor-El and Lara appear in a flashback scene, as we see them put their baby in a ship and send him toward his destiny... "Goodbye, my sweet Kal-El" are Lara's last words as we see him go...

Lillian thinks she is not fit to be a mother. "It's unnatural for a mother not to bond with her child," Lionel tells her. Baby Julian actually stops crying when Lionel holds him. Luthor tells Lillian she's going to let down Julian like she let down Lex. Since this scene paints Lillian so badly and Lionel so well, how much do you want to bet this is a flashback told from his POV? Lex finds that his mother has done something shocking... She tells Lex that the baby is sleeping. "There's nothing to worry about, sweetheart. Julian's happy now," she tells him. The flashback ends with Clark's hand on Lex's shoulder. Young Lex plays a big role, but sadly it seems Matthew Munn is not returning. Lex is meeting with Dr. Garner of Summerholt to try to get back some of his memories, which is bringing on some of these flashbacks. We see Lex at his twelfth birthday party. "They're jealous of you, son, because you're special," Lionel tells him. It seems the two have a good relationship here - and maybe it's Julian's death that brings them apart. Lionel gives Lex a gift, from his mother who couldn't come downstairs - the box that Clark first saw in "Metamorphosis." Lionel tells Lex about St. George and the dragon. When Lex returns to school after Julian's death, he causes a ruckus at school, hiding up in the bell tower. A toolbox with a "KansCom" logo is seen. A repairman has it and sees Lana and Chloe. Chloe flirts with him, and says she has a thing for cute guys in uniform. The "repairman" was actually a Luthorcorp spy, and Lana actually was wise to his antics, and confronts him, asking which Luthor he works for.

Episode 3.20: Talisman

JOHN SCHNEIDER DIRECTS — When a Kiwatche Indian (guest star Nathaniel Arcand, “The Lone Ranger”) steals a mythic knife from the caves, he is bestowed with superpowers similar to Clark’s (Tom Welling), causing the young man to believe he is the legendary Naman, “the man who fell from the stars.” Clark learns the Kiwatche legend foretold of a knife that could kill Naman and sets out to reclaim it before the young Indian can use it on Lionel (John Glover).

Lex is having a surprise birthday party for Clark at his mansion! Jeremiah walks up to Lex and says, "Where's your father?" Lex says, "He's not on the guest list." Jeremiah looks towards Lana and says to Lex, "Is she someone special?" Jeremiah then goes for Lana and throws her up against the wall and holds her there by her throat (actually done by Lana walking backwards up a ramp to the wall). Lex (many versions of this as he was improvising) says, "Take it easy!" Jeremiah says, "Get your father on the phone" ... "Do it or I'll crush her windpipe" ... "DO IT NOW!" Lex gets his dad on the speaker phone that just happens to be laying on a table with food around it and figures out a place to meet and then Jeremiah runs out the door and Lana falls to the ground.

Episode 3.21: Foresaken

Lana's apparently leaving town, and someone says "I guess you're not going to stay and run the Talon with me." That girl appears to be an all grown up Emily Dinsmore. Apparently Emily keeps Lana in a "room" in an abandoned mill and will not let her go, because "How will be be friends if you leave town?" It seems Lana was going to go to Paris, and that's where everyone thinks she is. How Joey Potter of her. Lionel speaks with a scientist about "Emily" and the cloning process, and is aware she's been sneaking out.

Lionel goes to a warehouse in which a little girl named Emily was kept inside a makeshift child room. Lionel asks the scientist how did she extricated herself from the room. The scientist says that the accelerated mitosis who caused her to matured very fast also sped her molecular structure. Lionel says that he knows the cloning process gave her extraordinary speed. The scientist shows Lionel footage of Emily going through a wall... Emily goes to the Talon where she asks Lana to stay (looks like Lana is ready to start anew elsewhere) and help her run the Talon. Lana doesn't seem to recognize the Emily in front of her... until Emily comments on something both of them used to do years ago... What will Emily do to make sure her friendship with Lana lives again and to make sure Lana will not go away?


Episode 3.22: Covenant [Season Finale]

Miles Millar offered many hints in the June 2004 Sci Fi Magazine. "We see the characters in various states of distress and bring everything to a head," Millar told the magazine. "The Lionel and Lex relationship, the Chloe/Clark relationship, the Clark/Lana relationship. We know where we're going to end and I think we've spin things in an original way which people won't expect." Millar also says the episode will take things full circle, and we will understand the consequences of the deal Jor-El made with Jonathan. "That comes to a head in the season finale. And there will be consequences for Clark and for Jonathan. And we leave Clark in a very mysterious place at the end of the season." "Lionel and Lex's relationship will never be the same," Millar reveals. We're hearing rumors (not yet confirmed) that the season ender may send Lionel to Death Row.

O.k, well I saw all of them and I kinda liked episode 18.