Summary
Chloe brings Clark to the Talon, claiming to not know
that a Valentine's Day party is in full swing. She's surprised
when Jimmy shows up with Lois in tow. He's had the brilliant
idea of setting up Lois and Clark. Chloe thinks this is
a terrible idea. Once Lois and Clark realize they've been
set up, they're not too crazy about it either. The go their
separate ways and Lois finds someone at the party selling
love potions. The woman claims that her new lipstick (which
gets it's red hue from red meteor rocks) will make her
instantly fall in love with the next man she sees. Eager
to move on from Oliver, she gives it a shot. Surprise,
surprise, the next man she sees is Clark from across the
room. And, yes, she's smitten.
The next day at the Kent farm, Martha calls to RSVP that
she'll attend an engagement party for Lex and Lana. She
doesn't mention it to Clark. Lois shows up, dressed to
kill. Martha excuses herself, and Lana starts coming on
to Clark. She's even made him a mix CD of Whitesnake songs.
She starts pawing him. He's getting rather uncomfortable
with things and asks Lois to put the CD on. When she turns
her back, he zooms off at super speed, leaving her alone.
Lana drops by Chloe's apartment and asks her to be her
Maid of Honor. She accepts, but asks if they're just going
to ignore the whole Clark issue. Lana tells Chloe that
she wishes that Clark trusted her enough to confide in
her, too, but she's not going to hold it against Chloe
that he didn't. She also won't ask Chloe to reveal Clark's
secret if Chloe will stop denying that Clark has one.
Clark goes to the Planet the ask Chloe for help with Lois.
He thinks she must have taken some kind of love potion
because she's suddenly "into" him. Chloe thinks the whole
thing is funny until Lois shows up sporting a "Lois & Clark
Forever" tattoo, at which point she tells Clark that she'll
get right on it and runs off. Lois drags Clark into a closet
and kisses him. The red Kryptonite takes effect and he
starts kissing back.
They leave the closed and find an empty office. Clark
is ready to clear the table and, um, get to it. Lois wants
to slow down for a minute, wondering how one kiss could
make such a change, and asking if this is all real. Clark
tells her it's real, though he hardly seems to mean it.
They kiss again and Lois comes to the realization that
she's kissed Clark before, in the alley. She thinks he's
Green Arrow. Clark admits it was him, but says he was just
covering for Oliver. She takes that revelation in stride
and says she's thankful to find someone normal.
Clark isn't too happy about the normal comment. He tells
her Oliver isn't even in his league and starts ranting
about not being ordinary just because he doesn't wear a
costume and splash his face all over the papers. Lois tells
him that she likes the dorky farmboy routine, and Clark
decides it's time she learn his secret.
At the Luthor mansion, Lex has a surprise for Lana before
the engagement dinner. It's a fully decorated baby nursery.
I don't recall Lana knowing the baby's sex yet, but Lex
must expect a boy as almost everything is in blue. Lana
isn't sure it's such a great idea to have the room already
done. After all, there are going to be a lot of people
at the party and someone might see it and figure out that
she's pregnant. Lex asks the obvious question, "so what?"
He wonders if Lana is in denial, if people don't know about
the baby, then it's not as real. She tells him she doesn't
want people to assume that the baby is why she's marrying
him.
Lois and Clark make their
way to the roof of the Planet. Much to Lois' surprise,
he grabs her and leaps off the roof only to land on Oliver's
balcony. Lois is suitably impressed. They go inside Oliver's
place and make their way to a couch. Clark says he wants
to make sure she spelled his name right on the tattoo.
Things heat up between the two of them until Clark spots
Lois' invitation to Lex and Lana's engagement party. "It's
not a party until someone crashes it."
Chloe's still digging into what happened to Lois, oblivious
to the fact that Clark is now affected by the red K. Jimmy
notes that she's past due to leave for the party. He also
thinks that Chloe is so ready to believe that Lois isn't
really in love with Clark because she's jealous of anyone
getting between herself and Clark. She denies it, and essentially
tells him to back off, which doesn't exactly help her case.
He presses on, wondering why, if she isn't jealous, she's
missing her best friend's engagement party to pursue the
Lois story. She decided he's right, and asks him to check
out the love potion peddler from the party at the Talon
while she goes to the party (remember, Jimmy has been blacklisted
by Lex).
Jimmy visits said peddler and asks if she love-potioned
anyone at the Valentine's party. Indeed she did, and she
also has an antidote (apparently based on green Kryptonite).
She goes on to tell him, though, that she has a "sixth
sense"
about
people,
and
she's sure
that Lois and Clark's futures are more entwined than they
think.
Lex just finishes a toast to Lana when Clark barges in
with Lois in tow. He begins verbally attacking everyone
he knows that's there. He tells Martha she's more a Luthor
than a Kent these days. He suggests that Chloe is celebrating
because once Lana is married she might have a chance with
him. He accuses Lana of taking Lex on the rebound as a
way of getting back at him, and tosses Lex a baby rattle,
announcing to the crowd that Lana's pregnancy is the only
reason she's marrying him.
That's the last straw for Lex. He rushes Clark, but he
brushes him aside. Lana comes to Lex's aide, but Clark
takes her by the arm and tells her that if no one else
will rescue
her from Lex, he will. Lois isn't too thrilled by this.
She tells him that Lana is his past, she's his future.
He points out to her that it's the present, leaves, and
takes Lana with him.
In the aftermath of Clark's appearance, and apparently
after a cell phone conversation with Jimmy, Chloe and Martha
figure out that Lana's love-potion lipstick contained red
Kryptonite, which has gotten into Clark's system. Martha
takes off to try and find Clark before Lex does, leaving
Chloe to deal with a crestfallen Lois. Jimmy shows up with
the antidote, and Lana is back to normal, though totally
embarrassed by her outfit.
Clark drags Lana off to his loft. He tells her that she
can't marry Lex when she still loves him. She asks how
he can be so sure, and he says it's because he still loves
her. He forces her to kiss him, but she soon gives into
the kiss. He tells her to marry him instead of Lex, and
she pushes him away. After all the chances she gave him,
he says something now? She tells him that he doesn't love
her, he just can't stand the idea the she loves someone
else.
Lex shows up and Lana goes to him, but Clark isn't through.
He tells her that Lex always wanted everything he ever
had, and Lana was at the top of that list. Clark tells
Lana to tell him the she doesn't love him. Lex isn't thrilled
when she hesitates, but before she can reply Clark moves
towards her, and Lex pulls a gun on Clark. Clark grabs
the gun and pushes Lex through a wall. Lana tries to pull
Clark off of Lex, but Clark starts to choke him, telling
Lex that he never should have saved him that day on the
bridge.
Lex grabs a tool from a nearby toolbox and stabs Clark
in the abdomen with it. Clark surprisingly doubles over
in
pain,
and Lex
and Lana run away, but not before Lana notices the bent
tool (honestly, I don't know what it was originally meant
to be). We find Martha nearby holding green Kryptonite
to weaken Clark
and flush
the
red Kryptonite
out of his
system.
The next day, Clark and Martha discuss what Clark did
while under the influence of the red K. She thinks there
was a grain of truth to how he feels in everything he said
to her, Chloe and everyone else. For years he based all
his decisions on what's best for everyone else, and it's
time he started being honest with himself about his feelings
(Though she also thinks the best thing Clark can do where
Lana is concerned is to leave her alone).
Lois pays Clark a visit. She's suitably embarrassed by
her actions, though she can't imagine the two of them actually
being together. She apparently has amnesia about the whole
thing. She wonders whether she and Clark, well, you know.
He says he thinks he'd remember that. To which she remarks,
"of course you would. Highlight of your life."
Things don't go so well for Jimmy and Chloe at the Planet.
Jimmy won't simply let her sweep Clark's behavior aside
as if it were nothing. He tells her that if he did the
things that Clark did, she'd never speak to him again.
He asks her if she had a choice whether she'd rather be
with Clark or with him. She tells him she'd rather be with
him, but she hesitates, and he tells her he thinks they
should take a break.
In the Luthor mansion, Lana gets a clean bill of health
by the doctor. She and Lex then have a bit of an argument
over Clark. Lex mentions Lana kissing Clark, something
that would have been easy enough for Lana to deny since
Lex didn't see it, and Lana comes back with "I wasn't the
one pointing a gun at Clark's head." She asks whether he
would have shot Clark, he would have if necessary. He doesn't
blame Clark for his actions, though. If he ever let Lana
slip through his fingers, he doesn't know what he'd be
capable of.
Outside Lana's room, Lex meets with the doctor again.
He asks, "how is she, really?" The doctor notes that her
pregnancy isn't "typical," but everything is "on schedule."
Away from Lex's prying eyes, Lana sits at her vanity and
removes an item wrapped in red cloth. Inside the cloth
is the bent tool from the barn.
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