Chloe is talking to Clark and Pete in science class; she introduces Cyrus Krupp who she was supposed show around the school a few weeks prior when he transferred from Grandville. Shortly after she has the conversation with Clark, she saw Cyrus supposed heat vision in the lab.
Compared to most people I think aliens would be a step up.
The next day Chloe drives out to the farm to talk with Clark, joking that she knows his secret. She tells him that the lab is still closed by the Principal. Clark asks her theories about what happened, she lists out pranks, meteorites, or aliens as possibilities adding that Cyrus claims he is one. She also cites an incident when he ran away and was found naked in field, trying to be beamed up; she adds that it landed him in a mental institution but she really doesn't think he's an alien -- though it would be cool if he was. Clark mentions the journalism angle, but she disagrees that it's not "about Pulitzers" but about learning about other worlds; Clark is amused when she admits that she thinks that aliens would "be a step-up."
