Summary
March 29, 1995 - A young Chloe comes home, thrilled at
the reception her latest story has gotten in the school
newspaper. Her mother is proud of her, but she's crying.
Soon men in white coats come to haul her off. Momma Sullivan
tells Chloe she's going on a vacation and that her father
will take care of her.
Now - Lex gets driven off the road at night by a pickup
truck. The driver of the pickup truck knocks Lex unconscious
with a flashlight, then reaches into his jacket and takes
a device. We then see that Lex's assailant is Chloe.
The next morning, Chloe wakes to find a pair of muddy
boots on her floor. She doesn't have any idea where they
came from. Clark drops by and she tells him the last thing
she remembers was doing the dishes the night before. It's
the second time something similar has happened to her,
and she worries that her Krypto-ability may be starting
to assert itself. Clark tries to reassure her that she
won't have to go through anything alone and offers to give
her a ride to work, but he's troubled, too.
Lana is still seriously depressed about losing her baby.
She tells Lex that she worries that there may be something
wrong with her that would prevent them from ever having
a family. She wants to run every test imaginable to find
out what went wrong. Lex tells her he'll make the appointment
for her.
On their way to Metropolis, Clark and Lex spot Lex's car
where it came to rest the night before. Clark drives up
in his sparkling new product placement Toyota Tundra
to where both the police and Lex's security men are checking
out the car. Clark uses his super-hearing to eaves drop
in on one of the goon's conversation with Lex. Clark learns
that Lex was run off the road and his jump-drive is missing.
Clark uses his x-ray vision to locate a button under one
of Lex's seats. He uses his super-speed to snag the button
without being seen. Chloe identifies it as being hers.
No more guessing where that mud came from.
Back in Chloe's apartment, she and Clark find Lex's jump
drive. It only has a single file on it, a case file for
one of Lex's Krypto-freaks. The freak in question turns
out to be Chloe's mother, Moira Sullivan, and she's suspected
of being able to control other meteor-freaks.
At the latest home of 33.1, Lex has a chat with Moira.
She wants to see Chloe. Lex first wants to see an example
of her ability. She claims she doesn't have any. Lex notes
that she had herself committed because she claimed she
could control her daughter any time she was touching something
that belonged to Chloe. Moira is currently holding a necklace
that we saw her holding in the opening scene, presumably
it belongs to Chloe, but Lex doesn't pay it any attention.
Moira tries to tell Lex that whatever she told people
back when she was committed was the product of her mental
illness. Lex tells her that her illness, and eventual catatonia,
was a symptom of her ability, and that they've given her
an
experimental
drug that's brought her out of it.
Lex knows that both Moira and Chloe have traces of meteor
rock in their bloodstream, and he believes that Moira can
control other meteor-infected people the same way she controlled
Chloe. Before he'll reunite Moira with Chloe, he wants
her to demonstrate her power on someone else.
Chloe and Clark attempt to visit Moira at the mental hospital.
When she shows up, she's accused of having created a scene
two days before, even though she doesn't recall having
been there in months. Security is called to escort her
from the building. Clark spots a sign showing the way to
the security office and comes up with a plan.
Back at 33.1, Moira is still insisting that she can only
control Chloe, so Lex decides to force the issue. He puts
her in a cage with another meteor freak, this one is a
super-strong homicidal maniac, Lowell. He hurls a desk
at her, missing but taking a chunk out of a nearby wall.
Moira grabs a pen from the desk, her hand glows green,
and she mentally commands Lowell to stop, then sit down.
He does as she commands and Lex has his proof.
At the Daily Planet, Clark and Chloe view footage from
the hospital's security camera. It shows Chloe asking to
pick up her mother. She's told that Moira was transferred
at her doctor's request. Chloe tries to force her way into
the hospital to check for herself, and security has to
be called to restrain her. Clark and Chloe theorize that
Moira sent Chloe to the hospital for help, not knowing
that she had been transferred. When that failed, she sent
Chloe to get Lex's flash drive, hoping that would lead
Chloe to her. It's time to visit Lex.
Lex is busy, of course. He guilts Moira into commanding
an escaped homicidal meteor-freak into returning. Moira
instead commands the freak to find Lex and kill him. Unfortunately
for Lana, freak-boy goes to the mansion to carry out his
orders. She's injured when she attacks the freak. Clark
shows up to stop any further damage, knocking the freak
unconscious. Chloe has Clark rush Lana to the hospital,
leaving her there with the freak. When he wakes, Chloe
questions him at gunpoint. She quickly figures out that
he was under he mother's control. He tells her where he
was being held.
Lana has managed to avoid a concussion, but the doctor
wants to run some tests due to her recent miscarriage.
Lana admits to Clark that she lost the baby shortly after
the wedding, and tells him that with the baby gone, this
isn't the life that she wanted. Clark asks what changed
Lana's mind on her wedding day, but Lana isn't about to
tell him. She asks him to stop worrying about her.
Lex confronts Moira. He's more than a little ticked about
what happened to Lana, and he tells her that Chloe's going
to have to pay for her mistake. Chloe, meanwhile, has met
up with Clark at the Kent farm. She tells Clark where the
33.1 facility is, but before they leave to check it out,
Moira commands Chloe to get out of Smallville by any means
necessary. Clark realizes she's being controlled, but she
pulls out the Kryptonite and leaves Clark writhing on the
floor.
Chloe doesn't get too far. She runs into a work crew blocking
the road out of town. The work crew is, of course, working
for Lex. Chloe is injected with a tranquilizer and taken
to 33.1. She wakes in her mother's cell. Chloe is amazed
to find her mother perfectly lucid. Moira tells Chloe that
she's responsible for Chloe's suffering. She tells Chloe
that she used to control her when she was little, and that's
why she had herself committed.
When Chloe was little, Moira had commanded
her to wash ink off of her hands and scrub until all
the ink was gone. She found Chloe in the bathroom with
blood everywhere. Chloe had scrubbed until her hands
were raw. That's when Moira knew that she needed to protect
Chloe by going away. Now, Moira needs to protect Chloe
from Lex. Chloe tells her that they both need to escape,
and asks if any of Lex's
other subjects could help to free them.
Chloe manages to snag Lowell's knit cap as he's led down
the hall. She tosses the cap to Moira, who commands Lowell
to help them escape. He tosses the guards aside, but the
three escapees don't get far. Lowell is felled with a tranquilizer
dart. Moira is grabbed by a guard. Chloe is cornered, but
Moira commands her to do whatever it takes to escape. Chloe
attacks and knocks out the guard, taking his rifle. Chloe
finds Lex blocking her path.
Chloe tells Lex to get out of her way. Lex refuses. He
starts to tell her not to let her mother make her do something
she'll regret, but she pulls the trigger. Clark arrives
and watches as the shell makes its way toward Lex. At the
last moment, he knocks Lex aside, though he looked
like he was considering otherwise. Lex looks up from the
floor and Chloe is gone.
Clark has taken Moira to Oliver's place in Metropolis.
Chloe shows up with sandwiches, but Clark has bad news
for her. The drug that was keeping Moira lucid is wearing
off. She's slipping back into her catatonia. Chloe insists
that she can get more of the drug one way or another. Moira
tells Chloe that her ability makes her dangerous, like
a human weapon. She can't allow herself to be that way,
so she doesn't want Chloe to get the drug. Moira tells
Chloe that she's proud of her, and gives her back her
necklace. They exchange "I love you"s as Moira
slips off for good.
At the Daily Planet, Chloe sits alone working on a news
story detailing Luthorcorp's "crimes against humanity."
Lex drops by and threatens her into dropping the story.
Chloe doesn't flinch when Lex tells her she'll be sent
to prison for running him off the road, but she gives in
when he mentions "Plan B," which he promises
would make prison look like a picnic.
At the Smallville Health Center, Lana's doctor tells her
they found synthetic hormones in her blood stream and accuses
her of faking her pregnancy to get Lex to marry her. Lana,
of course, has no idea what he's talking about. She saw
the sonogram of her baby. The doctor tells her that he
doesn't know who's baby she saw, but it wasn't hers. She
was never pregnant.
Chloe visits Clark at the Kent farm. She tells him how
unfair it is that her mother will never get to read the
articles she writes or know what kind of woman she's become.
Fortunately, Clark told Moira all about Chloe, and he tells
Chloe how proud Moira was of her.
Chloe also tells Clark about her visit from Lex, and that
he essentially told her to kill the story or he'd kill
her. She's in Lex's cross hairs. Clark says that Lex is
now in his. Chloe cautions Clark that they can't do anything
to Lex until they know that Lana is safe. Clark agrees,
but thinks the war is about it begin.
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