_____Obscura
Obscura
original airdate: May 14, 2002

Lana receives the ability to see through a kidnapper’s eyes after an explosion. She and Clark race to save Chloe before she’s buried alive. Meanwhile, Lex discovers evidence that a spaceship landed during the meteor shower.

What’s up with Whitney? Lana accepts Whitney’s invitation to the spring formal. As he mourns the loss of his dad, Whitney has found his dad’s medals from service in the Vietnam War. He is inspired by his dad’s heroism.

What’s up with Lana? While horseback riding with Whitney, Lana and Whitney witness a gas main explosion. The explosion knocks Lana to the ground, showering her with green glowing meteor rocks. Luckily utility workers and police are there to help Whitney quickly get her to the hospital. The accident gives Lana a mild concussion and strange visions through someone else’s eyes. After her first vision, she tells Clark about the "dream" she had in the hospital that Chloe was kidnapped. Lana and Clark dismiss it as being caused by her concussion and painkillers, but become concerned when they don’t hear from Chloe. Later at the Talon, Lana gets a vision of Chloe blindfolded and tied up.

What’s up with Chloe? Chloe is planning a day in Metropolis to interview for a summer internship at The Daily Planet. Before leaving, she stops at the hospital to check on Lana. On her way out, she is kidnapped in the hospital parking lot. When she awakens, Chloe finds herself tied up in a warehouse. Just as she frees herself, her masked abductor catches her, drugging her by piercing her skin with a needle dripping with green liquid.

What’s up with Clark? Clark doesn’t have a date to the spring formal. His mom encourages him to ask Chloe. He’s been hesitating because he doesn’t want Lana to think "the door is closed" with him.

After not hearing from Chloe, and learning of Lana’s visions, Clark begins to worry. Lana tells police of her visions. Chloe’s dad gets a call that her car has been found abandoned in the woods. Clark reminisces with Lana about the first time he met Chloe, who gave him his first kiss that day. Lana reassures him that they’ll see her again. Just then Lana has another vision of Chloe buried alive near a windmill. Clark races to the field. Using his x-ray vision, Clark finds the spot where Chloe is buried alive. He rips the box from the ground, saving her. Later in the hospital, Chloe tells Clark and Lana details she remembers about the kidnapping. She asks Clark to stay through the night, as she’s afraid since her kidnapper is still at large.

What’s up with Lex? Lex delivers a check to the Kents to settle the loss of their herd and land from the chemical spill ("Zero" episode). It’s a fair settlement, not inflated.

The Inquistor reporter confronts Lex about the Kerrie Castle article ("Drone" episode). He is snooping for a Smallville story, and has found a lead in a crop dusting pilot’s account of the meteor showers. Lex and the reporter visit the crop duster. He tells them of a spaceship that soared by him that day while he was in his plane. Later when he looked for the spaceship, it was gone. Lex is doubtful of the story, but has his experts survey the field in question. Clark and Jonathan stop to see Lex and the scientists at the field. When Jonathan sees the HAZMAT team and metal detectors, he gives Lex the settlement check back. Jonathan’s mistrust has returned, knowing the field being tested is where Clark crashed down.

Later Lex tells Clark about the crop duster’s story. He explains he can’t put the past behind him Lex wants to understand what happened the day of the meteor shower.

How it ends: Clark ties the explosion, Lana’s visions, and one of the policemen together in a theory, believing that one of the policemen is the captor in Chloe’s kidnapping. It’s a reach, and Chloe comments "Clark Kent leaps tall theories in a single bound." Meanwhile at the Talon, one of the policemen shows up to further question Lana. As she turns her back, she has another vision of someone attacking the policeman from behind. She turns and screams, facing her masked abductor. When she awakens, Lana finds herself in a carnival warehouse where her abductor, Deputy Gary Watts tells Lana he kidnapped Chloe to rescue her to be seen as a hero. He is about to shoot Lana, so he can solve her murder. Faster than a speeding bullet, Clark arrives, stepping in front of Lana, deflecting the gunshots. Then he shields Lana from the falling glass of a shattered overhead mirror.

Later, Chloe visit Clark at the barn, telling him of her offer from The Daily Planet for a summer internship in Metropolis. Clark promises to visit. He gets up the courage to ask Chloe to the spring formal as his date. Delighted, she accepts. Meanwhile, Lex’s chief scientist Dr. Hamilton briefs Lex on the octagonal metal disk found in the surveyed field. "There is nothing like this alloy on this earth," he says. The last scene shows Clark’s spaceship in the Kent’s cellar. There is a piece missing that is the same size and shape as the disk in Lex’s possession.