2.07 - Lineage

Smallville, Episode 4.10: Chloe and ClarkClark and Chloe go to Smallville Medical Center when Jason slips into a 'panic mode' sleep to visit Lana; Chloe agrees to go to Lana's apartment to get Jason's insurance card.  The pair leave the hospital and go to the Talon; Chloe chides him slightly about his reaction to Jason and Lana dating but comforts him by reminding him that love isn't something that "you just ease out of."   She begins look around and Clark gets on her case for going through Jason's things, saying it's outside her "snoop jurisdiction" - Chloe brushes off his worries and points out that backtracking through Jason's day might help them save him.  On Jason's palm pilot, Chloe discovers that Jason had a meeting at LuthorCorp.

Chloe, Pete, Lana, and Clark are conversing about a history assignment to do family trees, Pete is the only one not bummed about it claiming that one never knows what mysteries will be found.  Chloe points out that the rest of them had their nuclear family "nuked long ago."  Lana suggests getting together to plan out the project, when Clark (after hearing an odd whining sound that only he could hear) runs out.

Later, Chloe lets Lana use the Torch to work on the project.  Chloe leaves and then comes back to find Lana looking through the pictures from the Spring Formal.   Lana tries to deflect the prying charge by telling Chloe to tell Clark about her feelings; Chloe says it's a matter of privacy, following up that she already had told Clark and that he'd called out Lana's name.  

Bossing Clark around is the highlight of my day!

Chloe comes into the Talon after lunch for an almond latte, and starts looking through Lana's current job applications.  She picks out Clark's application snarking that he didn't list her as a reference.  Lana claims she's not going to hire him, but Chloe admits that "bossing Clark around is the highlight of [her] day."  She adds that Clark always come through, even if it's on his own schedule and that Lana's only balking on hiring Clark because of her own issues with him.

The next day, Clark delivers her favorite Talon goodies to the Torch to thank her for the recommendation that got him hired.  He comments that with Lucas Luthor's return, he's worried for the Talon; Chloe remarks that it could earn someone a "byline on the front page of the Daily Planet."  Clark claims he doesn't trust Lucas and asks her what she found.  Chloe retorts that he's had a hard life but the only unusual thing she found was that his Metropolis United Charities file was created only two weeks ago.

I would burn my press pass if I thought it came between us.

No, you wouldn't. It's too much of who you are.  And right now, I need it.

Chloe, Pete, and Clark walk out from their test on Greek myths, and Chloe explains the dynamics of Heracles' birth and family dynamics; Chloe warns that "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."  Shortly there after, Clark meets Rachael Dunleavy, a woman claiming to be his mother.  He points out to his parents that he knows from Chloe's past looking (in Zero) that he was the only child placed through Metropolis United Charities.