Smallville Season 8 Ep 12 recap

I'm been watching the stuff on my PVR lately, to catch up on my Smallville watching, Well i've I've finally caught up, hopefully I can watch it live this week and provide a recap earlier...

*THIS RECAP CONTAINS SPOILERS, IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE EPISODE, STOP READING NOW*

Previously on Smallville: The Martian Manhunter saved Clark's life, Sacrificing his own powers in the process. He then became Detective John Jones. Meanwhile, Lana tried to find more information about Lex.

The episode starts with Detective John Jones in hot pursuit of a suspect, catching and roughing him up a bit. After the suspect is taken away, a sniper fires a few shots, hitting Jones in the chest. He's taken to the hospital, where Clark (Tom Welling) is conveniently doing some research on a story.

Clark worries that the doctor will discover Jones Martian Background, but Oliver (Justin Hartley) arrives to say he has a doctor on retainer for their special circumstances.

Chloe (Allison Mack) helps track down information on Jones, but she's kind of unhappy she doesn't have her super-charged Brainiac brain anymore to make it easier. They determine the shooter was a fellow cop and Chloe's brilliant plan is to have Clark pose as an undercover rookie.

The poor man's version of Training Day gets underway, and Undercover Clark's gruff partner Danny talks about how the cops resent these silly costumed super heroes running around. He also likes candy. That last part kind of destroys any street cred he thinks he has. They get a call and Clark uses his super speed to save his partner's life.

Acting in no way suspicious at all, Undercover Clark keeps asking about Jones' shooting. All the cops get called and they head off to a warehouse where Danny's cop buddies are holding the man who killed his partner and got off on a technicality. It's time for some vigilante cop justice. The beat down is stopped by the Green Arrow, who arrives to stop it.

Danny sees Undercover Clark chatting with the Green Arrow, so he asks a bunch of questions until Clark admits to investigating them for the shooting of John Jones. The next day, Oliver tries to convince Clark that the cops' version of vigilante justice is wrong.

Clark tries to find some clues, but he gets set up and arrested for Jones’ shooting. The leader of the "bad cops" also tells Danny it’s time to get his hands dirty and kill the Green Arrow (couldn't he start smaller? damn, feeding him to the wolves already) . The cops set him up by staging another suspect beating (well, the beat down part is real) and when the Green Arrow arrives, he tries to talk Danny out of killing him.

He’s successful, but then the leader, sitting in sniper position, fires and calls in a fake report that the Green Arrow is attacking a cop. Clark speeds off to stop the sniper and save the day.

Lana busts in on Tess Mercer to discuss a secret project called Prometheus that makes her think Lex is still alive and calling the shots. Tess denies it and when Lana leaves, we see she stole some data from the mansion.

Tess figured that out too, so she visits Lana and tells her she corrupted all the data on Prometheus, which is the only thing that can save Lex’s life. Then...Woohooo!!! CAT FIGHT! These two knock the crap out of each other for a while until Lana pulls a gun on Tess.

Instead of killing her, Lana shows Tess that she has a nano-transmitter embedded in her eye, and that Lex has been using it to see whatever Tess sees. Tess is devastated to discover that she’s simply being used by Lex.

Later she gives Lex a stern lecture in the mirror about how loyal she’s been to him, how she felt about him.... She finally tells him she’ll completely destroy his entire life and company. She uses a necklace to jam the signal and says, “I loved you, you son of a b*tch.” Oliver arrives for dinner, and Tess tells him she wants a merger, in more ways than one.

Finally, Clark and Lana meet up to talk and play some hardcore tonsil hockey...um...dude... WHAT ABOUT LOIS MAN!!!!!

It'll be interesting to see where they're going with the Tess Mercer storyline, In the episode, she discovered that Lex has been spying on her using a nano-transmitter he implanted in her eye so he can see what she sees.

After Lana told her this, Tess instantly evolved as a character, feeling sad and betrayed by the man she loved. If Lex was hoping that would be the end of it, he clearly underestimated Tess Mercer.

Tess vowed to destroy Lex Luthor’s empire, starting with the formation of a merger between LuthorCorp and Queen Industries. She also seemed open to the opportunity for other kinds of mergers between herself and Oliver Queen. That should be an interesting dynamic, not only for their personal relationship, but to see how Tess fits into the super hero world.

But with not that many episodes to go before the end of the season/series...be interesting to see how this is going to be used...

While the Tess Mercer part of the episode was interesting, the rest was pretty bad. Clark going undercover as a cop was laughable, as was the entire plot about vigilante cop justice. Smallville succeeds when it’s about the super-powered villains, and usually fails when they stray from that.

The other somewhat major development, was that huge lip-lock between Clark and Lana, which only serves to frustrate. We all know Lana won’t be around for long, and we also all know Lois and Clark wind up together, so this is just a pesky distraction. Love triangles aren’t compelling when we already know which point loses, Get over it already... Move on Clark... Move on Lana....It's not meant to be..

Let’s just hope, for Clark’s sake, Lois doesn’t find out, Because, As Tess showed us last night, Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned!