References for Season Three

Episode 3.01, Exile

Chloe meets up with Lana at the Talon, claiming that Lana's been avoiding her and that her editor has her stuck on dry cleaning detail.  She offers to go with Lana to the funeral and asks if she's heard anything about Clark eventually, after admitting she pulled "the emotional rip-cord" herself.  Lana said no, but she wanted to go looking for him; Chloe reminds her that Clark ran away from "his friends, his family, and the girl he claimed to love."  She adds that they've said their piece about Lana's relationship with Clark but that hanging around will only cause more emotional turmoil; that she "wrote the book."

The next day, she meets Lionel down in the Kawatchi caves; he points out to her an octagonal keyhole that is now missing and explains it disappeared the same day Clark went missing.  Chloe explains that she's not seen nor talked to Clark and had already given him everything she had on Clark, noting that it was hard to glean more when the subject was missing.  Lionel remarks that her interest was waning, and she retorts that "threatening me isn't going to magically make Clark reappear."  Lionel warns her not to run away from her mistakes like Clark did.

"Why, Chloe?
So you can
put me in your
column and
write a big story

about me?"

Chloe goes to Clark's apartment in the city, telling him that his "secret is safe with her."  Clark tries to keep her out, but she comes in claiming that in Metropolis he's a completely different person and that she prefers "country Clark."   He wants to know if she'll write a "big story" about him in her column; she clarifies that she kept his secret because he "asked [her] to."  Chloe reminds him that someday, someone from Smallville will come to find him and that he ran away from his problems - "you're being a coward!"    He kicks her out, threatening her.  She tells him that she "doesn't even know who [he] is anymore."

Later, Chloe goes back to the Talon to mend up with Lana.  She admits that she was pushing her own version of denial on Lana and it wasn't right, but that Lana can't "save someone who doesn't want to be saved."  Lana shows her the fliers she made; Chloe sighs and says she knows where Clark is.  Lana doesn't want to listen to Chloe's explanations that Clark is dangerous and threatened to run away.

Episode 3.02, Phoenix

Chloe's working at the Torch when Clark comes back to apologize for the way he acted the past summer, claiming that she has "no reason to stand by [him]."  Chloe claims that is what a friend does and turns the topic to him mending bridges with Lana.  He says it's for the best and Chloe gets that Clark probably isn't going to stay.  She tells him that some times "you have to stop and face your demons."  The song in this scene in "Maybe Tomorrow" by Stereophonic.

Chloe approaches Lana the next day to apologize, again.  She says she was wrong, but that Clark wasn't himself in Metropolis and as wrong as it was it felt good to be "the one he confided in again."  Lana says that Clark was always more comfortable with her, but Chloe admits that is because Clark isn't in love with her.

Episode 3.03, Extinction

Chloe's following the murder story of Jake Pollen, a former SHS student who was found with a meteor rock inscribed with 'freak' on it next to his body; she reveals that she as a list of "hunches" that is a "purgatory before [someone] graduate to the Wall of Weird."*  Chloe reveals that she's thought Jake had meteor-enhanced powers for a while; Clark chastises for not looking into the person who murdered Jake.   In turn, she offers to team up with him on the story and admits that "really nice to have [him] back." 

Chloe tracks down the coroner's report; Jake Pollen had gills.   Clark and Lana debate what is more disturbing - the mutation or the murder.  Clark points out that no one asked to get powers, Lana retorts that many of these mutants attack both her and Chloe; she then calls Clark a vigilante.

Chloe meets Lionel in Metropolis where she tries to hand in her last column for the Daily Planet; she says that some people are "just better at living double lives than others" and that her friendship with Clark is too important to her.  Lionel brings up her father, telling her that if she tries to break their arrangement that he'll fire Gabe and that he expects them to have a long lasting partnership.

"I guess
some people
are just
better at
living
double lives
than others."

The day after, she's linked the meteor rock next to Jake Pollen's body to one near a local mechanic who was murdered two weeks ago; Chloe had suspected him to have powers as well, but the mechanic had never hurt anyone.  Clark points out that his investigation has lead him to Jake's former best friend, Van McNulty who has a motive for hunting down freaks after Tina Greer killed his father.  After an attempt on Lex's life, Clark realizes a connection between Chloe's private note database and the hit list in Van's cabin; he tells her he doesn't mean to blame her and Chloe admits that she still feels like she "loaded the gun and pointed it in the right direction."

Lionel visits Chloe at the Torch, where she can't delete anything off the hard drives including her list; she deduces that it was due to Lionel owning the computers originally.  Chloe points out that she's not so stupid as to keep her knowledge about Clark on a school computer and apologizes for what happened to Lex.  Lionel informs her that he's interested in her entire body of work, but if she investigates "member of my family again, a computer glitch will be the least of [her] problems."

* This feature was revealed prior in S2 in a comic book.  If one goes to the Torch website, clicks on the crow eye using the name 'csullivan' and the password 'wallofweird' they will have access to Chloe's desktop.

Episode 3.04, Slumber

Within Clark's nightmare, he comes to Chloe for help.   She teases him about skinny dipping with Lana, claiming that "everyone knows."  Clark brings up Sara Conroy, claiming she's a "candidate for the Wall of Weird."   Chloe responds that it's been retired; she admits it's "time to leave childish pursuits behind" and that the Daily Planet wasn't pleased with her little obsession.   Clark is upset, retorting that the Wall has helped a lot of people and the stories on it are all true.   Chloe blows him off saying she's sticking to "hard news that can be backed up with facts."*

The next day, Clark runs into the real Chloe; she teases him about testing the limits of Red Bull.   Clark talks about Sara being in his dreams and Chloe brings up a theory about telepathic ability being increased during REM sleep; she also exposes the fact that Sara Conroy crashed into a lake filled with kryptonite and has been in a coma ever since.  Clark asks her for help, but she admits that she has to run to the Daily Planet for a deadline.  Clark brings up that she's leaving childish pursuits behind, but Chloe vehemently admits she'd much rather be "pulling dusty records with [him]"; he says that's okay, he'll grab Lana to help instead.  Chloe snarks that at least Lana can keep him properly caffeinated.

*This episode was set to songs by REM; this scene was set to "Losing My Religion", their only number one hit that is about an 'obsessive love.'   This scene starts the nightmare portion of Clark's dream in earnest.

Episode 3.05, Perry

Perry White has come to Smallville in search of a story; he claims the Torch has become known in the "bug-eyed freak" circles and has Clark take him to see the Torch offices.  Perry is impressed by the Wall when Chloe enters, claiming that "it's also all true" once Clark introduces her.  Chloe balks at the idea that X-Styles will "borrow" her "ideas"; she tells him that she has a "penchant for the truth."  Clark tells Perry to leave when Chloe notices that he's "the" Perry White; Perry leaves telling the two "young lovers" to patch things up.   Chloe is disappointed that Clark has no clue who Perry was.

Perry comes back to the Torch later where Chloe is working; she mocks his claim about tractors falling from the sky as he takes another look at the Wall.   She can't help but ask why "Perry 'The Pitbull' White" had a career slide; she tells him that he was "once the kind of reporter that [she'd] like to be."*   Perry admits that it's because of Lionel Luthor.   He says the only thing worse than landing the story is "having it, and being afraid to write it."  He sees the Kent farm on the Wall and tells her that Clark intrigues him.

Chloe drives over to the farm to warn Clark that Perry's interest has switched over to him; she's interested in why.  At same time Perry, classifies to Lana why he's a reporter: "Because it's in my blood, and sometimes you have to push to get the truth.  Even when it hurts."

* Modern Age Lois Lane idolized Perry White

Episode 3.06, Relic

Chloe's pulled records out of City Hall to help Clark find out more about the drifter in Smallville from 1961 (in reality, Jor-El).  He asks her to just go with his "hunches" and she agrees to drop it even though it's unusually detailed for a hunch.   They noticed pages missing the day of Lana's Great Aunt's murder; Chloe notices that they arrested Lachlan Luthor for the crime.   Clark tells her to talk to Lex, and that she's going to have to get over the incident about the database sooner or later.  Chloe goes to talk to him, pointing out that Luthor isn't exactly a common name; Lex denies that any of his family was in Smallville prior to buying up the cream corn factory.  

The next day, Chloe finds out that the jail record clears Lachlan Luthor and asks Clark how he's so certain about what's going on, that he's "passed crazy four random clues ago"; Clark admits that he's been having flashes back to 1961.  Chloe claims that maybe it's a past life memory or genetic memory at work.  Her sources at the Ledger faxed her the missing pages of the log book which erase Lachlan's alibi and reveal that Billy Tate, the current mayor, was the one who let him out. 

Episode 3.07, Magnetic

Chloe and Lana go to the end of the fair to have a fun time; while there Chloe points out that Clark not wanting to get back together with Lana is his issue, not Lana's.   Seth Nelson works at the fair and sneaks her a prize; he as a crush on Lana.  Chloe tells Lana to "expand her horizons."

Later, Chloe's waiting for Clark to come help her with the Torch.  Instead, it's Lex who says he's discovered that Chloe's looking into his father's past including obscure medial records.   He also tells her that he know she's a "good reporter" and that his father pulled string to make her the youngest reporter in the history of the Daily Planet.*  Chloe tells him he can tell his father if he wants, since only by looking at them as well could he know that she visited the Metropolis County Records.

Clark and Chloe sneak into the hospital to pull Seth's medical files; Clark's theory is that MRI Seth had combined with meteorites caused Seth to gain a magnetic power that he's using to control people's mental states.   Chloe counters that Lana could just like Seth and that Seth's long time crush on Lana isn't that different from his own.  They find the file and a spike in Seth's levels when a doctor walks in on them.  To cover, Chloe pushes Clark against the cabinets and kisses him, playing it off like a couple of hormonal volunteers to the doctor.   Chloe tells Clark that "a good reporter always thinks on her feet."

She returns to fine the Torch in shambles once again and a mysterious older man steals her computer; she deduces that he's working for either Lionel or Lex and he suggests that she not contact the police about it.  The next day she confronts Lex about the incident and when he asks why she chose him, she claims he's the "lesser of two evils."   Lex says she's either gutsy or stupid, offering to take her to see her intruder; Lex takes her to the morgue where the man is now dead, he claims that he believes the man was purposefully killed.   He explains that he can protect her and that she doesn't know what she's gotten herself involved with.  Chloe retorts, "Like you protected him?"

"A good
reporter
always thinks
on her feet."

Chloe considers the offer and meets Lex later that week, telling him that Lionel started off being interested in the Wall and then turned his attentions to Clark.  She says that of course she didn't betray Clark but then Lionel threatened to fire Gabe.   She admits her plan was to find "something damaging enough so that [she] could blackmail Lionel Luthor."  Lex says he'll protect her, but he needs to know what she's found out.   Chloe brings up Morgan Edge, a crime boss in Metropolis (who "Kal" worked for that summer), who used to be Lionel's best friend and is currently presumed dead.

*This is typically Lois Lane's claim to fame in the comics.

Episode 3.08, Shattered

When Lex is attacked in his house, he goes to Clark for help; Clark is then told that Chloe and Lex were working together to take down Lionel.   Clark goes to pick Chloe up asking her how she got involved; she plays it off as a story that she figured Lex would be interested in.  Apparently she had no idea that Lex would theorize that Lionel killed his parents, and points out that she's not going to be the only one in trouble if this is true.   Clark tells her that he won't "leave her alone" with these people about.

Clark takes her back to Kent Farm, where Lionel Luthor is talking with his parents.   Lionel claims Lex has had a psychotic break and that he needs to find his son.   Neither Clark nor Chloe tell them that Lex is hiding out in the barn until after Lionel has left.  Chloe watches over Lex while Clark explains the situation to his parents.  Lex walks in on the conversation accusing them all of hiding things from him.

Clark meets Chloe later that night after hiding Lex at a local stable with Lana to look after him; he snagged a bottle of medication for Chloe to have her source test and he wants her to do a background check on Claire Foster.  Chloe has done some digging on Lex and has found out that Lex had a similar incident when he was in boarding school after his brother died.  She tries to prep Clark for the possibility that Lex's sanity really is slipping away.  She meets him back at the hospital after Lana's injured; the drug test came back negative for hallucinogens, but Chloe points out there are other ways to get a drug into Lex's system.  Clark realizes that everything is brought to the mansion and that Darius, one of Clark's guards, is behind it.

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