References for Season Two

Show Introduction

Chloe's shot in the introduction of the second and third season is from her looking/snooping around in Crush.  Allison Mack's 'head shot' is from Obsucra when Clark asks her out and she grins.  The lyrics of "Save Me" that she is set to are 'C'mon, I'm still waiting for you.'

Episode 2.01, Vortex

Vortex picks up where Tempest left off; Chloe comes to visit Lana in the hospital where she tells her friend that Clark took off during the dance and that she spent three hours looking for him afterward.  Lana says that they are a cute couple; Chloe tells her that it's not any consolation.

A day or so later, Chloe's touched base with Clark and is with him (and Pete) looking for Jonathan Kent who went missing in the tornados.  She first spots the trailer that is trapping Jonathan and Roger Nixon, but none of them realize that they are under it.  Chloe finds Nixon's empty video camera.  (And, one finds it amusing that Jonathan calls for Chloe, then Pete, and not his own son.)

Cark has them search the maps again, and this time pulls Chloe off to the side to apologize about running off; she tells him that "leaving to save a friend totally gets [him] off the hook."  Chloe then purposes that they stay "really good friends."  Clark digests this, agrees telling her the "last thing [he] wants to do" is screw up their friendship," and goes off to look for his dad on his own. Chloe stumbles over and leans on a tree which has a picture of an alien and the words 'soul mate' on it, heart broken. Chloe has an emotional moment with Pete where she admits she pulled the friend card only because she didn't want to have him pull it first.  She laments about having her priorities out of order (her failed romance over people in serious danger) and continues the search.

The next day, Chloe is finishing up at the Torch.  She's already received her digital photos of the dance one her computer and is deleting them off her hard drive, though it's obvious in private that Clark breaking his promise really hurt her when she is (at this point) leaving Smallville for good.  The song is Stretch Princess' "Time and Time Again" which fits the relationship of the whole season; and amusingly her last scene of the episode fades into Clark talking with his father about flying.

Episode 2.02, Heat

It's the first day of their sophomore year at Smallville High, and Chloe Sullivan is back from Metropolis.  Gabe Sullivan is now part of LexCorp as he contributed heavily to Lex's buy out and hence, they get to stay in Smallville.  Chloe interned at the Daily Planet during the summer from the internship she won in Obscura, and despite Clark promising to email and visit, he did neither.  Chloe tells him there are no stories about the Planet to tell and that she met some guy who made her forget about Smallville "for three whole months." 

Chloe, Clark, Pete, and Lana are in the same biology/sex-ed class.  Chloe notices Clark checking out their teacher and laughs at him; about thirty seconds later after continuing to ogle their teacher, Clark accidentally triggers his heat vision for the first time.

Clark spots Chloe at Lex's wedding later and strikes up a conversation with her; he tells her he's been looking for her and she retorts that she's "not that hard to find."  They continue having a conversation about pheromones which preps the digging later in the episode and Chloe tells Clark that it boils down to chemistry.  Chloe tells Clark that "love is rarely, if ever, logical."

A few days later, Clark and Chloe are digging at the Torch; they find Desirre's alias and Clark admits that she came on to him.  Chloe digs at him slightly asking why would someone who married Lex show up for Clark, but agrees to keep digging while Clark talks to Lex claiming that "where there is smoke, there's a fire."  Chloe goes over to the Talon to record her message to Whitney; Lana tries to get her to open up about Clark which she does admitting that the Metropolis High boy is a sham - and we find out later that she had a crush on someone else that summer entirely.  Lana tells her that they should define their relationship not by who they "date (or don't) date."

When Clark is in jail, Chloe and Lana go to visit him.  Chloe finished her research on Desirre finding her out to be a black widow and snarking that Clark apparently wasn't affected to pheromones the same way everyone else is.  Despite her sarcasm and bitterness, she tells him to hang in there.

Episode 2.03, Duplicity

Chloe gets gets pulled into Lana's problems with Dean and Nell and covers for her, faking a "Keanu DVD-athon."  Chloe tells her that her house is always open to her.

Later that week, Chloe stumbles in between Pete and Clark's fight.  She asks "Why didn't [they] tell [her] about the superhero deal?" but is merely talking about Pete's rescue.  She notes his reluctance and puts them both on the spot, asking if they are trying to cover up "a whole spaceship thing."  When Pete tells her he saw a ship and met an alien, she snarks that she thought they were "little and green."  Clark tries to dissuade her from looking into the UFO, claiming it's Inquistor stuff, but Chloe tells him that finding a true alien is "front page news -- for the Daily Planet."  

A few days later, Chloe shares what she's found about the accident with Clark (who is looking for the now-kidnapped Pete).  She helps him link the accident to Hamilton and to Pete's disappearance; Clark decides to check it out once again leaving Chloe alone in the crowd searching for him - same as at the dance in Tempest.

Episode 2.04, Red

The sophomores at Smallville high are buying their class rings; Chloe pays for hers first and is skeptical about a ring so big - Clark tells her he thinks it looks great.  Chloe immediately wonders why the ruby in their two hundred plus costing ring look fake, and rushes off to look into it from the opener.

Chloe is shown with Pete and Lana to be studying for their upcoming history test; when red!Clark suggests they all go out to a bar, she remarks on while Clark might have the ability to "commit academic Hari-kari" she and the others don't.  When she gets up for coffee, Clark takes the opportunity to x-ray through her clothes. He notes that Chloe has a birthmark on her cheek, which his scoping on Chloe upsets Pete.

Later, Chloe is in the Torch looking at a big chunk of meteorite she got from Hob's Pond.  While Pete questions her about Clark's odd behavior, she brushes it off as absurd - "Clark Kent would have to be on drugs to be on drugs"; instead she reveals her latest "expose" is on the red vein of meteorite found near the pond which were used a substitute rubies in the rings. 

Episode 2.05, Nocturne

Chloe, Pete, Lana and Clark take notice of a love letter that Lana's received; she snarks that romance isn't dead.  When Clark and Lana become suspicious of the letter writer - Chloe at first questions if Byron was a ghost as he declared dead eight years prior.  Her digging turns up a scientist, Dr. Emil Jenkins, who worked for Metron Pharmaceuticals and had Byron participating in a drug trial.  Later, she figures out the link between Byron's sun-triggered strength and the drug trial, and reveals that Metron was bought up by LuthorCorp.

Episode 2.06, Redux

After a student dies after rapid aging, Chloe goes looking around for answers; she disagrees with the coroner's reporter which claimed a rapid onset of progeria.  When Clark mentions that the new principal will probably come after the Torch, but Chloe pulls out a full file on the new Principal Reynolds and his qualifications.

The next day, she's scheduled a interview with the new principal; she tells Clark that her source at the M. E.'s office, a goth named Chad who she met after sharing eyeliner, sent her the student's autopsy report.  Chloe points out an abnormality in the students pituitary gland noted on the autopsy and theorizes that the life was sucked right out of the student.  Chloe and Clark are caught off guard by the principal over hearing their discussion and tells her that "many a Pulitzer has sprung from the seeds of wild theories. Just make sure you can back them up, and that'll be the difference between writing trash for Inquisitor, and reporting for the Daily Planet."

Chloe continues working on the progeria story after yet another student was found to have the same problem with his pituitary as the first; she digs and traces similar cases of triple progeria cases back to 1921 by the same girl who sucked the life to stay eternally young.*  Clark once again conveniently runs out on her once her head is turned.

At the end of the episode, Clark confesses that in five years he will be in college studying journalism.   He blames Chloe, but asks Lana not to tell her that; add that he likes "to find the truth behind things."

* This the second metahuman on the show; this time Chloe does know about their existence.

Episode 2.07, Lineage

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. 

"It's just
hard thinking
you weren't

good enough
for someone
to love."

"Don't ever
think that."

The next day, Clark reads Chloe's email and accused her of continuing to dig into his adoption; she clarifies that she posted a few notes about the charities - not him - looking for hits.  Clark gets angry and says he's not offering her an "exclusive on [his] life" and telling her if she's  so interested in finding mothers to find her own.  Chloe says that she knows where her mother is and that her mother isn't interested in her.  Before Clark storms out, she tells him that Lionel Luthor funded the adoption agency that he was adopted through.

Lana approaches her to help with finding information on Henry Small; Chloe calls her a friend and admits that she has a "massive" blow out with Clark about "his secrets, privacy, [her] pathological inability to curb her curiosity." When Lana explains that Henry might be her father and her want to dig up information on him, Chloe tells her that she's "flattered" that someone trusts her.    She mentions that she can pull up his college transcripts, his auto insurance, and even his dental files but it won't tell them what kind of person Henry is - that only meeting him in person would.

Clark hunts down Chloe the next day, apologizing; Chloe says she'd burn her press pass if she thought it would come between them.   He disagrees saying that it "is too much of who [she is]" and that he needs it.  He apologizes again and she shrugs it off claiming that everyone has "family secrets."  She explains how her mom just up-and-left when she was five and admits that it's hard to think that "[she wasn't] good enough for someone to love."  Clark refutes that as the search of housing in Smallville had no match for Rachael.   Clark suggests trying 'Lucas Luthor' which Chloe tells him he'll have to explain later; they get a hit and Clark runs off and leaves her alone yet again.

Episode 2.08, Ryan

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. 

Episode 2.09, Dichotic*

Chloe and Lana move in together; Clark helps transport Lana's boxes to Chloe's house and offers for the three of them to hang out but both girls have plans.   He tells them to call him when they are scheduled to breathe.

At school the next week,  Chloe working in the Torch when Ian Randall comes over to borrow back some of the reference books she's borrowed from the library.  When Ian tells her he's getting ready to graduate this year if he can get the Luthor scholarship, she claims she's "journalistically intrigued." She offers to give him an interview in the Torch, promising to take it easy on him.

She goes with him after school to the Talon where she interviews him; he comments that he can't wait to get out of Smallville.  Chloe adds that while she doesn't get the "mad rush" to graduate, she can't wait to take the world beyond Smallville on.  She agrees to let Ian tag along and help at the Torch.  She nods to Clark before she leaves; Clark and Ian talk as he picks up the bill and agrees to help Lana with her Algebra.  The audience sees Ian's power - to split into to two halves.

The next day Clark confronts Lana in the hallway about having Ian cancel a date with Chloe to hang out with her; Lana brushes it off.  He then tries to talk with Chloe, joking that she blew off her "journalistic detachment."  Chloe says that not everything she does is Wall of Weird material and then chastises Clark for trying to baby her.  Clark says he just doesn't want to see her hurt and tells her about Lana and Ian in the hall; Chloe brushes it off saying that Ian asked her to keep a secret and adds that he honestly can't believe that someone would choose her over Lana.

Clark accuses Ian of playing the girls off one another for the the LuthorCorp scholarship, and starts tracking down the missing shop teacher whom he and Pete find dead in his classroom.  Clark runs over to Chloe's house where he finds Chloe and Ian making out on her couch.  Clark is shocked but says he came right over; Chloe says it's impossible and Ian adds that he'd been there all night.

Chloe gave her statement to the sherriff and went to work at the Torch; Clark set up a sting for Ian, but when he tried to call to warn her she kept shutting her phone off.  Lana, whom Clark had already confronted, went to the Torch to talk to her about Ian.  Chloe says she's "0 for 2 in the 'They always chose Lana' sweepstakes."  Ian corners them in the Torch and tries to throw both of them off Smallville Dam; Clark stops him.

Later Chloe helps Lana finish unpacking, wondering what her luck in love was and if she had a "Mutant Magnet" sign around her neck.  Chloe tells Lana that she doesn't have to earn her right to be a part of her family and Lana reaffirms that they aren't going to have anymore secrets between each other.   They both meet Clark later at the Talon later; Chloe apologizes and Clark states that he just wants them all to be friends.

*This episode really kicks off the Silver Age Lois vs. Lana in the form of Chloe vs. Lana on the show; they are shown to be very good friend (and in the 70's, similarly, Lana and Lois even roomed together) and yet they consistently have romance come up between them.  It was touched on in Heat but this really starts it rolling as an on going plot.

Episode 2.10, Skinwalker

Chloe notes that Clark and Henry were pulling Lana into their activist phase to preserve the newly found Kawatchi caves.*  Chloe buttons up as Lana remarks that she doesn't think the caves are the only thing Clark's interested in and that she's been writing Whitney weekly.  Chloe says that guys tend to keep things in the closer one gets to them as a protective instinct; she comments that they need to stop falling for guys who are trying to "save the world."

Clark has Chloe do some digging on a death of a foreman to try to clear his new girlfriend's grandfather's name; Chloe had her source at the coroners go over the bones of the foreman where they found wolf teeth prints.  She cites that the Kawatchi tribe name translates into 'Skinwalkers' which stems from a Native American myth of tribesmen turning into animals.  She tells him that sometimes "legends are true."

* This episode introduces the Kawatchi legends of Numan (a being who falls to earth with Clark-like superpowers to help the world), Seigieth (Numan's former human friend who turns against him), and a cave!woman who bares a bracelet which Clark gains "for the true one in [his] life" at the end of the episode.

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