At LuthorCorp, a "mad scientist" tests an experimental procedure on a human that will hopefully save Lex's life. The scientist orders a “transdermal evisceration” and a body in a water tank is set on fire. The body isn't Lex's however, it's Lana's!
Chloe visits Clark, who is so bummed out, he's rewatching Lana's break-up tape. He's trying to remind himself why Lana leaving is a good thing, even though he still wants to be with her. Dude, you're the Man of Steel, stop crying over a woman.... AND GEEZE!! START PAYING MORE ATTENTION TO LOIS!!!
Clark heads off to visit Lana, but finds her apartment is destroyed and Tess is there, expressing concern that Lana was taken because she was snooping into Lex's life.
Tess lets it slip that this isn't the first time Lex has abducted Lana. In other words, Lex's goons forced Lana to film her break-up tape before taking her away to one of their compounds after she woke up from her coma last season.
However, that plan didn't quite work out as planned as we see a flashback after Lana was abducted from her coma. She hijacked the van taking her away and kicked some major butt Chun-Li style, before going commando and cutting her hair.
Using just a knife in front of a bathroom mirror, She did a pretty good job!
Back to the present now, Clark finds a strange medallion in Lana's apartment that Tess recognizes as that of one of her colleagues, Carter. Clark finds him only to learn that he gave the medallion to Lana last season.
Another flashback now, This time it shows Lana asking Carter to train her since he used to work with the Green Berets. He put her in ice water baths (DAMN that's gotta be cold!) and made her burn her arms (DAMN that's gotta be hot!) to withstand pain and "live up to her true potential". She wanted power and left him to get it, dangerous as it may have been.
Carter tells Clark he got the job with Tess to help in Lana’s quest to take down Lex. He also lets it slip that while in Metropolis after their training, Lana visited Chloe. Speaking of Lana, the mad scientist’s second step in the Prometheus project is to graft nanotechnology onto Lana’s skin. The dialogue this man has to spew is some of the most absurd random science nonsense ever written.
Tess tries to recruit Regan, one of Lex’s evil guard dogs, by promising, “I’ll give you more milk bones than Lex ever did.” can not have felt good about saying that line. She asks him to get her the Prometheus technology so she can prevent Lex from being brought back to life.
Instead, he shows up to her office and kills her other bodyguard who found out Prometheus’ location. He threatens to reveal some of the juicy details he watched on Lex’s security tapes in her obituary, but instead she decides to kick the living crap out of him, literally. She keeps kicking him like an all-star punter until his blood is covering her face.
Clark heads to Chloe to fill in another piece of Lana’s back story.
Lana used the Isis Foundation to find out information on Project Ares, Lex’s plot to heal injured soldiers using alien DNA. They find a hidden safe in the Isis Foundation that includes a hard drive with information about Projects Ares and Prometheus.
The video takes us back to when Lana begged the scientist not to let Lex wear the special Prometheus body suit infused with alien technology that would turn him into a super hero. She wanted him to use Project Prometheus on her so Lex couldn’t get it.
Back in the mad scientist’s lab, Tess busts in asking for the Prometheus Suit and is surprised to see Lana as the test subject.
Tess wants the suit destroyed, but doing that would kill Lana.... which doesn’t really matter to Tess.
Tess fires her gun at the mad scientist and Clark speeds in to watch it. At the same time, Lana, who is now bonded to the super-powered Prometheus Suit, speeds in too and saves the mad scientist, taking time out to send a flirtatious look Clark’s way.
Afterwards, Lana visits Tess as a gesture of friendship. She tries to warn Tess against the danger of being overwhelmed by hatred for Lex. Not sure what the female equivalent of bromance is, but that’s what’s going on here. Lana pleads with Tess not to be a victim before speeding off in her Prometheus Suit.
She pays one last visit to Clark by meeting him on the roof of the Daily Planet. He tells her he thinks it’s a bad idea she has powers, but she’s OK with it. She doesn’t want to be a distraction in his life, and now that he doesn’t have to worry about her safety because she has powers, they can be together. As the episode comes to an end, they share a rooftop kiss as the sun rises behind them.
A few things of note, not really about the episode, but for Smallville in general:
- With only a few more episodes remaining until the end of the season, and as all indications have been pointing to, the series, They need to stop with the "filler episodes" and really move the progression of the Clark Kent - Superman story onwards! They're running out of time!!
- We all know that Clark doesn't end up with Lana, and it's fine to have that going on for a while, for the first few seasons, to help Clark kill time, give him a little something else to do..but COME ON NOW!!!
- Less then half a season to go, and Clark is still using his super-speed as his chosen mode of transportation.. At least show him LEARNING to fly!!
- Freeze breath was used what, once during the series run? did he forget he had that power since?
- What about the clap that creates a sonic boom?
- There should be a little more Doomsday, especially if they're going to be using him at all.
- Clark should be shown wearing glasses now, doesn't really make sense that he's not wearing them at all, then when he's just a bit older, he wears them all the time as a "disguise"
- Smallville needs to start sending everyone away NOW onto there future conquests(?) towards what they later become.... Lana needs to go away (I won't ruin it for those of you that don't know, but if you're curious, read up on what her future holds) Clark needs to man up and "embrace his destiny" already, Lois needs to become an ultra serious reporter, Chloe, well since she's only been introduce as a character on Smallville...have her do whatever they'd have her do... and so on and so on....
It irks me that Smallville is wasting what time they have left, WHO'S WITH ME??
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