References for Season Two

Episode 2.18, Visitor

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.

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."

"Compared to
most people

I think aliens would be
a step up."

Not being an alien doesn't detour Chloe who presses Cyrus for an interview; she figures it out on her own from the magnesium strips hidden in the boards in the lab.  She sets up a demo for Clark, admitting that his healing powers might be meteor induced but that he's "no more extraterrestrial than [he] is" and it isn't "magic."

She does research when Cyrus goes missing from the Medical Center and traces a story back of a William Burnet, a three year old who went missing when his parent's farmhouse was destroyed in the meteor shower.  She shows that Cyrus was found not a mile from the wreckage and was adopted, that he's an orphan - "not an alien."

Episode 2.19, Precipice

Chloe and Pete mock Clark's community service sentence from the new Sheriff  - Chloe notes that the orange vest is going to "clash with the plaid!"

Clark calls her up later that night to his barn looking for help on his case; Chloe retorts that she's always up "for a good conspiracy" when Clark talks about tracking people down for evidence that they are faking their injuries.  She jokes about Lana's new found self-defense, adding in that Clark wouldn't understand what it's like to cross the street at night "and hear footstep behind [him]" and if it makes Lana feel "less like a victim" then he should be all for it.

Episode 2.20, Witness

Chloe confronts Clark in the Talon; he hadn't written or submitted his piece on the debate team causing her to have a hole in the issue that she had to fill with the lunch menu enlarged.   She says she doesn't blame Lana, but Clark's inability to manage his time or come through on his promises.  Chloe says that she's never a priority, "just a back up plan" and in response to the claim, Clark quits.

Lex threatens Lionel for information using an article Chloe wrote on mysterious transport vans from LuthorCorp that are continually being hijacked.   Lionel doesn't give Lex any answers, just studies Chloe's article. 

Clark is cleaning out his desk when Chloe enters the Torch the next day; Pete makes a remark that they are studying Eric Marsh (suspected for breaking into the vans) but Chloe doesn't get any answers out of Clark.  She reminds him that it was his idea to quit, he retorts that all he does is "disappoint [her]."  Chloe clarifies that it's about him dropping everything anytime Lana needs him but Clark states that everytime she sees him and Lana she thinks "looks at [him] like a cheating boyfriend."  Chloe swears she doesn't and suggest if he feels that way then they just shouldn't hang out either. 

Chloe drives her and Lana home; Lana jokes about Chloe's silence.  She offers up that she put her friendship with Clark "on infinite hiatus" but claims it was over many items, not just the one newspaper article.  Lana offers to do whatever she can to help.

Chloe goes to the Smallville Medical Center to interview one of the van drivers, but he's unconscious.   Lionel Luthor is waiting in the room for her, saying he knows who she is and that he followed her paper for a long time.  She follows him out of the room, asking questions about what was in the stolen vans and Lionel tells her that she's "looking for a mystery where there is none."

Lana talks to Clark about not giving up his friendship with Chloe "without a fight."  He goes to look for her and finds the Torch destroyed and asks if she was hurt.   Chloe tells him to go away and nixes his claim to help her get the Torch running again - "There is no we anymore, Clark.  There is only me and this paper was my whole life!"  She runs out on him telling him that she's going to find a friend.

"There is only
me and this

paper was my
whole life."

A few days later, Lionel confronts Chloe in the semi-cleaned up Torch.  She says she still doesn't know who vandalized her paper, when Lionel notices the Wall of Weird.  He tells her that he'd like to help her rebuild; Chloe can't help but question his intentions.  Lionel dodges the question, noting her past earned internship and talked about getting her a full column at the Planet.  She tells him she doesn't understand why again; he says that they "are both after the same thing - the truth" claiming that journalists shape history and that maybe they could shape history together.  Clark turns to Lana - who suggests that he may yet get another chance to fix things with Chloe - and he admits that he "misses [Chloe] already."

Episode 2.21, Accelerate

Chloe finds Clark sitting in the Torch and reminds him that he can't use the computers if he's not on staff; he says he's helping Lana who is being terrorized by "a girl who died six years ago" which catches Chloe's attention. Clark admits that Lana thinks it's a ghost but that people do have a habit of coming back to life.  Chloe offers up that despite her paranormal slant, she thinks it's just Lana's way of dealing with trauma and that Clark doesn't really know Lana at all; she adds that Lana is her friend and thus Clark has a right to know since Lana listens to him.   She lets the computer policy slide and reminds him to lock up when he's finished.

Episode 2.22, Calling

Chloe goes into the Talon to get coffee before going out investigating with Pete saying that she's not "holding out for [her] fairy godmother to bring [her] glass slippers"; she runs into Lana and Clark who both look overly tired and she seems suspicious.  She tells Pete that she's ready to go having "ashes to sweep and wicked stepsisters to undermine."* 

That night, Chloe goes to visit Clark at the barn to tell him that Dr. Walden woke up from his coma and to ask if he "wanted to come out of retirement to do a story with [her]."  Clark says it's not a great time; she clarifies that she didn't mean right this instant.  Chloe adds that she feels that there is a huge "rift" and that she feels like she can't get back to him.  Clark says it will take time; Chloe agrees that but if they act maturely and honestly she thinks that they will be okay.  She leaves him to his speech for Lex's wedding, and goes back to the Torch.

Lionel visits her at the Torch, remarking on her "work ethic" and tells her the column is all set; she doesn't know how to thank him so he suggest an article on Clark Kent.  Chloe claims the Planet wouldn't be very interested in Clark, he clarifies that the piece is for him.  She's offended that she "blew off [her] journalistic skepticism" to believe he actually wanted to help her and tells him to shove his deal.  He remakes that Clark's lucky to have a friend with such integrity, and asks her if the roles were reverse would he "give up [his] dreams out of loyalty to [her]."

*Two more references to Cinderella, as was Tempest.

Episode 2.23, Exodus

Chloe notices Lana getting ready for the wedding; she notes that Lana and Clark as going as a couple, Lana lies and says they are going as friends.   Lana then says Clark wanted to talk with Chloe, but Chloe said he wasn't around earlier so it couldn't of been as urgent as Lana thought.

Chloe drives out to the farm to see what Clark wanted to talk to her about; Clark physically pushes her away (As he was about to blow up his space ship) but Chloe gets upset.  She tells him that she knows, that she saw them when she came over to warn him about something that "doesn't matter."  Chloe goes on a tirade about how fate is "inevitable but always surprising."  Clark claims he was going to tell her, but she brushes him off saying that she was okay with the relationship as she saw it coming but she couldn't stand that they lied right after their agreement to be honest with each other.  She tells him to "have a nice life."

She meets up with Lionel later, claiming deals like his don't come along every day and that Clark "wasn't who [she] thought he was."  She mocks her "crack journalistic instinct" but Lionel tells her that love can hide many things because we don't want to see them - flaws, foibles, and secrets.  Chloe presses him for why he's so interested in Clark, and Lionel waylays her saying he will tell all "in good time."*

*This is similar to Tempus' line in Lois and Clark in the episode Tempus Fugit.

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