Chloe assumes a pseudonym; Adam decides to stay in Smallville; A mysterious woman unleashes a deadly e-mail on Chloe's friends.

What's up with Chloe: Since Chloe was fired by Lionel, she packs up her belongings at the Daily Planet and as she's walking out her editor Max brings her into his office. She asks him to look at some stories she's working on, but he tells her he couldn't print her stories if he wanted to because of her fallout with Lionel. She tells him to print them under a pseudonym. She offers her cousin's name -- because she'd never be interested in journalism -- Lois Lane. When she gets back to the Torch's office, Pete tells her Luthor Corp has taken back all the Torch's computers. As she leaves school, a man in a truck tries to run her down. Chloe just escapes death, the truck door opens, and to Chloe's surprise, Clark is the driver!

What's up with Lex: Lex needs some help with his computer and meets Molly in the Luthor Corp tech department. The two flirt and after getting a disc from her he heads back to his office. When he returns, he learns that no one named Molly works there and that the hard drives from the Smallville High computers have been stolen.

What's up with Clark: At the hospital, Chloe tells the police that Clark just seemed to loose control of the truck and he's allowed to leave. On his way out of the hospital he runs into Lana and Adam. Lana introduces the two and awkward pleasantries follow, neither one seems impressed with the other. Later at the farm, Chloe shows up and tells Clark she knows he didn't loose control of the truck and demands to know why he tried to run her down. Clark says he can't remember what happened and the two try to piece together clues. They find a mysterious e-mail on his laptop from a sender named Brainwave, but it's locked and they can't open it.

What's up with Lana: Lana and Adam talk at the Talon. Adam asks if she still has feelings for Clark and she says that Clark will always be important to her, but whatever there was between them is gone. The next day at school, Lana gets an e-mail from Brainwave and after opening it attacks Chloe in the hall. She grabs an ax and is about to kill Chloe when Adam shows up and uses some impressive karate moves to knock her out. When she wakes up she doesn't remember anything after opening the e-mail.

How it ends: Chloe, Adam, Lana and Clark meet at the Talon and find out that Lana and Clark opened the same e-mail. Adam uses his hacking skills to find out that the message came from a Luthor Corp computer. Chloe tells them that she's dug up a lot of incriminating things on Dr. Gardner, a psychiatrist from Summerholt Institute and that the only other person to know about it is her former editor Max. When she calls Max, he tells her it'll be ok, but is killed by his secretary, who's opened a Brainwave e-mail, while on the phone. Clark decides to ask Lex for his help. He then confronts Dr. Gardner and tells him he knows what he's been up to, after he's escorted out of Summerholt by security, he uses his super hearing to listen to Gardner's phone conversation with Molly and find out where she is. When Clark shows up, he sees that Lex has already tracked her down. They learn that Molly was a super genius as a child and that Gardner has been treating her since she had a break down. She's very protective and didn't want Chloe's story to incriminate him, so she created mind control software that she's sent out via e-mail to everyone in Chloe's address book. Lex sees that the last one she sent was to Clark's parents. Clark is able to get to the farm just in time to stop his parents from killing Chloe and Lex sends Molly off to get "real" help.

Lex ends up giving new computers to the Torch, and Clark and Chloe mend their friendship and Chloe promises to stop digging into Clark's mysteries. Adam decides to stay around Smallville after he's released from the hospital, and despite her reservations about Adam's inability to open up; Lana rents him the loft above the Talon. Lex meets with Dr. Gardner, telling him it would be unwise to attempt any more attempts on Chloe's life. He also tells him that he won't run Chloe's article if he can get back the seven weeks that have been erased from his memory.