2.08 - Ryan

Chloe and Clark stop by the Talon to get coffee and talk about where he might go to college (we already know that Chloe is going back to her home town of Metropolis togo to Met U in thefall.). Clark talks about going to Miami (he checked it out in Run with Bart, and it's a set up for Aqua.) While they are there, her cousin on duty is robbed and doesn't remember it. Clark rushes outside to confront the robber who zaps Clark - erasing all his memories (and we see a still from every episode in the series thus far.) Chloe comes running out of the Talon to check on him, and Clark looks up at her confused. "Clark who?"

Well, what about a psyedonym? She's my cousin. She won't mind at all. She's not interested in journalism.

Lois Lane?

Chloe Sullivan is leaving the Daily Planet when she's stopped by George "Max" Taylor; he tells her that she's pissed off someone because they can't even print her name in the classifieds.   She jokes about being blacklisted before she graduates, before having an idea.  She passes Max a yellow floppy with some stories she wants him to look at; Chloe suggests using a pseudonym if he can't get around the name issue -- Lois Lane.  It's the name of her cousin who "isn't interested in journalism at all."

Clark gets a phone call from Ryan, he feels guilty about not realizing his friend (from Stray) was in trouble.  Chloe introduces another one of her contacts, Heinrich, an Austrian who works at the phone company and rides a vespa, who traces Ryan's call for her.  She finds out that it came from Summerholt Neurological Institute in Metropolis - not Edge City, where Ryan had been living.  Her initial research on the Institute shows that they don't take patients, that it's solely for "super-esoteric brain research."

She then (along with Pete and Lana and others) helps organize a "jailbreak" party for him, complete with cake, balloons, and a band after Clark physically frees Ryan from Sommerhalt.

Later that day, she sees Lana looking up emancipation details in the Torch; Lana explains that Nell is marrying her boyfriend and they would all move to Metropolis and that emancipation could take up to a year.  Chloe comments that Lana might have another option and agrees to let Lana move in with her and her dad.