Summary
It's time for the 100th Annual Smallville Harvest Festival.
Clark and Kara help move bushels
of corn. Kara figures she's
wasting her time when she should be flying about looking
for that missing crystal from her ship. Clark reminds her
that the people that took her ship will no doubt be looking
for the pilot, and they're much more likely to find her
if she's seen flying. Clark advises her that her best bet
is to try and fit in. Kara gets her first look at Jimmy
Olsen and decides she wants to get to "fit in" with him.
Three America's Next Top Model rejects show up to register
for the Miss Sweet Corn pageant, complete with Tyra Banks
attitudes.
Kara notices the attention Jimmy Shutterbug lavishes on
the would-be sweet-corn-cobettes (or is that niblets?)
and decides she wants in on that action.
Later, Clark works in the barn and gets a surprise visit
from Lana. He's understandably shocked, but pleased, to
see her. They embrace.
Niblet Carly talks to her sweetie on the cell phone.
She tells him that she's done letting the others call the
shots,
and they'll soon be in Cabo "with the money." As she stands
in a flower shop, continuing her conversation (we don't
hear what she's saying), the windows of the shop freeze
over.
Lana gives Clark the Reader's Digest version
of why she let him think she was dead (to protect him from
Lionel). Clark wants to tell Chloe immediately, but Lana
tells him that she committed a "serious crime" before she
left, and she needs to clear her name before she officially
comes back from the grave. Clark invites her to stay at
the farm. Kara helps create an awkward moment when she
walks in wearing a bikini and balancing a book on her head.
Clark quickly assures Lana that Kara is his cousin, then
tells Kara that this wasn't what he had in mind by fitting
in. He asks her to get more clothes on, now. Kara does,
in a blur, and Lana learns that Clark isn't the only one
in Smallville that's faster than a speeding bullet. Lana
leaves to let Clark and Kara discuss the beauty pageant,
and whether or not Kara will be a contestant.
Clark reluctantly agrees that Kara can enter the contest
(after all, he was the captain of the football team, not
exactly staying out of the spotlight), but only after she
learns to control her abilities. Clark sets up a watermelon
and uses his heat vision to burn a smiley face on it. Kara's
turn. She gets a little to intense and makes the mellon
explode. Clark proclaims her not ready to get up on stage.
Kara is determined to do things her way.
Backstage at the pageant, Kara isn't quite sure how to
go about using makeup. She overhears Niblet 2 ask Niblet
3 what happened to Carly. Niblet 3 tells 2 that there was
a problem, but she's taken care of it. Kara asks 2 and
3 if they'd be willing to help with her make up, but they
give her the brush off. Kara walks out and walks past the
flower shop. No one else has noticed it's frosted over,
but Kara does. She wipes the frost off of the front glass
and sees a frozen Carly inside.
Lex is at Luthorcorp, still wearing his wedding ring.
He's paid a visit by Agent Carter, whom we recognize as
the man who retrieved the crystal from Kara's spaceship.
Carter produces a copy of the sketch that Lex's men have
been passing around in a attempt to find Lex's rescuer.
Why, Lex asks, is the government interested in the woman
in the sketch, because Lex is.
Jimmy brings a picture of the Carly-pop to Chloe, figuring
she'll jump on the story. Chloe isn't interested (partially,
I believe, because she wants to get away from Enquirer-type
stores and partially because she's a meteor freak herself),
but Gabriel sees the photo and sends her and Jimmy off
on an assignment to get the scoop on the other papers.
Jimmy reminds
Chloe
that Lois is off on assignment in New York, and if Chloe
wants to beat Lois out of the basement, she needs to give
Gabriel what he wants.
During a break in a rehearsal of a pageant group-dance
number, the sheriff asks the pageant director about Carly.
Director lady only knows that she registered at the last
moment along with two others girls. Jimmy is there taking
pictures and snaps a shot of Niblets 2 and 3. They see
him snapping away and make a hasty retreat backstage, which
Jimmy notes.
Niblets 2 and 3 discuss using the pageant as cover for
stealing the map that legend says in contained in a time
capsule that's due to be opened during the festival. The
map is supposed to lead to a great big pile of stolen gold
bars. Jimmy snaps another picture of the two as they talk,
and
they
notice. Niblet 2 tells Niblet 3 to do her thing.
Jimmy leaves a message on Chloe's voice-mail, telling
her that he's got a lead on their "Ice Queen" (I still
prefer Carly-pop, but whatever). His car starts to freeze
over, and him with it. He looks out the back window and
sees Niblet 3 with her hand on the trunk of his car. Niblet
3 walks off to watch Jimmy's final moments from a distance.
She sees Kara show up and rip the door off of Jimmy's car.
Lana asks Lex to come to the Kent farm, and he does. He
tells her that the District Attorney is not going to press
charges against her, the evidence has been destroyed,
and the man
that Lionel
paid to confess to Lana's murder has
died of natural causes. Lana's a free woman. He tells her
that every terrible thing he did was because he truly loves
her, but
she's
not interested in hearing that, or it doesn't matter either
way.
Lex tells Lana that his lawyers are drawing up a settlement
agreement. Lana says she doesn't want his money. Lex
points out that she managed to "siphon off" $10 million
before
her "death." Lana tells him it was only because she was
trying to get away from him. He applauds her skill, rather
than admonishing her, but he doesn't think Clark would
see it the same way. On his way out the door, Lex mentions
that he's looking forward to meeting Clark's cousin from
Minnesota.
Jimmy recovers at the Smallville Medical Center. Chloe
thanks Kara for calling. Kara takes offense and leaves
when Clark asks if anyone saw her rip off Jimmy's car door.
Chloe tells Clark that she's done some digging and found
that the three Niblets have been friends since early childhood
and were caught in the last meteor storm together. They've
been traveling the midwest doing various beauty-related
events, and at each one, there's been a major heist. Clark
and Chloe figure that the "Weather Girls," as Chloe tags
them, are after the map.
Niblets 2 and 3 approach Kara as she's packing up her
makeup to leave the pageant. They tell her that they know
she has powers, and they need her help for a treasure hunt.
They show Kara a picture of the gold before it was stolen,
and hanging in the picture is a crystal with a Kryptonian
symbol on it. Kara's in, or so she says. Later, we see
the time capsule has been broken open, and the map is missing.
Niblets 2 and 3 decide that Kara has double-crossed them.
The pageant goes on as planned. Clark comes in at the
tail end of the swimsuit competition. Kara and Niblets
2 and 3, who finally get names, Tempest and Tyler, respectively,
are all in the lineup.
At the mansion, Lex tells Agent Carter that he's looking
for the woman because she saved him. She didn't just save
him from the river, but she saved him from drowning in
the evil of his ways, like an angel. He tells Carter that
the woman doesn't exist, so he should focus on his real
item of interest, the space ship. Lex tells Carter that
it wasn't the first spaceship to land in Smallville and
hands Carter a hard drive containing all his research from
the dam on what he figures is an imminent alien invasion.
Kara wins the pageant, to Clark's dismay. As she's giving
her acceptance speech, the sheriff walks on stage and tells
Kara that her friends tipped them off. She's under arrest.
In jail, Clark stops Kara from breaking out of her cell.
Clark wants her to give him the map while Chloe tries to
get Kara out legally. Kara says a gust of wind blew the
map away after she got arrested. Chloe correctly figures
out that the map is now in the hands of a Niblet, and asks
Kara to tell them what she remembers seeing.
Tyler and Tempest dig up the parking lot of a gas station
and find only a small box containing the Kryptonian crystal.
Clark shows up and tells the Niblets that the crystal doesn't
belong to them. Tempest creates a small tornado that tears
up the asphalt in front of Clark. Unfortunately, the
twister also digs up pieces of Kryptonite. Clark goes down.
Kara
shows up and takes care of the Niblets. She uses her
heat vision to destroy the Kryptonite. It wasn't they way
Clark
would have gone about it, but he thanks Kara for saving
him. He knows now that she's got to learn how to use
her powers on her own.
Clark doesn't recognize the symbol. Kara tells Clark that
it's some sort of S.O.S., and if the symbol is still on
Earth, so is the Kryptonian that left it. Perhaps Earth
played a bigger part in their fathers' plans than they'd
expected.
Kara has gotten a job at the Talon to fit in, but she
reminds Clark that neither of them are human, no matter
how much Clark wants to be one. She tells him that if he
thinks he can just hide out on the farm and grow old with
Lana, he's fooling himself.
Lex's aide tells him they found the woman from the sketch,
"just where you said she would be."
At the Talon, Jimmy and Chloe head for her apartment.
Jimmy tells Chloe that when he first met her, he thought
she was prejudiced against the meteor-infected, but now
he sees that, sooner or later, they all turn out to be
murderous freaks. Jimmy declares open-season on the meteor
freaks. Being a meteor freak herself, this isn't exactly
what Chloe wants to hear. Kara comes to pick up her bag
from the pageant. She and Jimmy briefly lock eyes before
he suggests to Chloe that they go upstairs. She agrees,
but she couldn't help but notice the look that passed between
the two. Kara, for her part, is disappointed that Jimmy
is already taken.
Clark and Lana stroll through the festival, hand in hand.
Lana's happy to be back from the dead. She was worried
that Clark wouldn't forgive her for marrying Lex, or for
leaving. She tells Clark that she wants there to be no
more secrets between them, though she still doesn't mention
the $10 million. Clark tells her he hopes she knows what
she's getting into. She says that she does, and she wants
the two of them to grow old together.
Lex meets Kara as she's leaving the Talon. He thanks her
for saving him at the river. She denies knowing what he's
talking about. He tells her that she ripped the roof off
of his car, and he's certain it was her, but her secret
is safe with her. He'll protect her like he would have
protected others, if they'd been honest with him.
Kara continues to deny that she's who Lex thinks she is.
Lex tells her that it's the second time someone from the
Kent family has saved his life, and he doesn't believe
in coincidences. Sooner or later, he claims, he'll learn
the truth, and find out whether she's a savior or a warning.
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