What's up with Clark: While on a field trip Clark and fellow student Alicia get on an elevator together. When the doors shut, the cable breaks and it begins plummeting 35 floors. Clark has no choice but to fry the security camera then use his super strength to stop the elevator. Alicia is noticeably shocked, and as the security teams begin to open the door, Clark asks her not to tell anyone. Alicia grabs Clark and teleports him to an empty floor. Now Clark's the one surprised and Alicia says now they both know each other's secrets. The next day at school, Clark asks Alicia about her powers. She says she's had them since the meteor shower and that she's relieved she can finally share her secret with someone. Later, Clark and Alicia deicide to meet up after school for a movie. After the movie they look at stars at the loft and bond over their powers. When Clark drops her off they move in for a kiss, but Clark pulls away at the last minute and heads home. As he's sleeping that night, Alicia teleports into his bed and the two kiss passionately. As they're kissing Jonathan walks into the room. Clark tells his parents about the elevator incident and that Alicia doesn't know all about Clark's powers and how to stop them. Alicia teleports into a near by closet and listens to Clark say he thinks he's finally found someone he can have a relationship with.

What's up with Lana: Lana sneaks into Adam's room and finds a journal he's been keeping about her and Clark. Adam finds her and demands she give it back. She says no and that she wants him to leave, but Adam tells her he's not going anywhere. Lana goes to Lex for help in getting Adam out of her life. Lex tells her not to worry.

How it ends: Alicia puts pictures of herself all over Clark's locker. She tells people she's his girlfriend and tries to kiss Clark in the hall. He freaks out and tells her things are going to fast, to which she replies "people like us don't have boundaries." Clark continues to worry as Alicia continues to become more and more obsessive and controlling. He goes to see her family and her parents say that he should be careful because the last time a boyfriend tried to leave her it turned out badly. As Clark leaves, Alicia teleports in and tells her father he shouldn't have warned Clark. Clark finds out Alicia hospitalized her father and tells her she should turn herself in. She refuses and tells Clark if he wants his family safe and secret kept, he'll keep his mouth shut and be her boyfriend.

Clark enlists Chloe's help and the two set a trap for Alicia. She thinks Clark's in trouble and heads off to find him. Clark tricks her and gets her in a room that's been covered in lead paint. Alicia tells him that she can't teleport out, but she can walk out. And with that, she uncovers a piece of kryptonite, she overhead Clark's parents saying it was his weakness. As Clark falls to the floor she tells him that once she gets Lana out of the way, he'll come to his senses. Alicia hunts down Lana and tells her that Clark is still in love with her and that she must get her out of the way. As she's chasing Lana, Clark kicks over a bucket of lead paint onto the piece of kryptonite... neutralizing its power and allowing Clark to come to Lana's aid. Clark covers Alicia in lead paint, stopping her from teleporting and saving Lana's life.

The next day Lana stops by the farm to thank Clark and confront him about still being in love with her. Clark says it's not true and a disappointed Lana walks away. When Lana returns to the Talon she finds that Adam is gone, but Lex tells her he had nothing to do with it and that no one can find any traces of him... Adam is seen strapped to a chair with Lionel Luthor hovering around him. He tells Adam he's failed. That he sent him to Smallville to become friends with Lana and learn all he could from her about Clark. Dr. Tang comes in with the serum Adam needs to live, but Lionel tells her Adam's purpose is over now that he's alienated Lana and Adam is left in the room to die.
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All that male-model training has finally paid off for Clark: He has a girl-stalker! When Clark and Kentfan are stuck in an elevator together and the contraption suddenly begins to fall to destruction, Clark has to show off his powers to keep the girl from getting squashed. Turns out she has her own power: the ability to make Clark horny. Also? Teleportation, holmes. Clark feels he's found a kindred soul in this comely Kryptofreak, but his enthusiasm is short-lived. She's teleporting to every damn place: his bed, his locker, to hold Lana by knifepoint. So, uh, what's the problem? Unfortunately, Clark is a young guy. You can't pin him down! He's the wind, baby! Step off, ho! So after Clark develops some raging hormones for this girl, he begins to back off, and things go badly from there. Kentfan's parents are afraid of her and have let her powers go unchecked (she escaped from her lead room). In the end, Clark must save Lana (yawn) from Kentfan with, of all things, a can of illegal lead paint. Yay! Meanwhile, Lana's tenant Poor Man's Wes Bentley has been keeping a diary on Lana, but before she can kick him out, he disappears. Before Lana and Lex can spring into action to look for him, we discover that Papa Luthor is behind PM'sWB's weird medical risen-from-the-dead condition, and that Papa was using PM'sWB to get to know Lana and spy on Clark. When he fails in that mission, Papa is ready to withhold medicine and let the dude die. Sucks to be Poor Man's Wes Bentley.
By: Omar L. Gallaga (TWoP)

Clark is forced to use his powers in front of Alicia, a new girl at school, but he is surprised to find out she has powers of her own. The two develop a bond through their shared secret, but things turn ugly after Alicia becomes obsessive about sharing Clark with anyone else - especially Lana. Meanwhile, Lana asks Lex to investigate Adam. Allison Mack, Sam Jones III, John Glover, Annette O'Toole and John Schneider also star.

Clark (to Alicia): Elevators. Too much demand, not enough supply.

Alicia: What did you do?
Clark: Please don't tell anyone about this.

Clark: What did you just do?
Alicia: You didn't want to get caught. You can't tell anyone.

Alicia: (to Clark): I'm not really as stuck up as people think... I just figure it's better to be alone.

Lana: You've been spying on me and yiou've been spying on Clark.

Adam: Look who's talking.

Adam: I guess you haven't checked tenant laws. It's not that easy to evict someone. I'm not going anywhere.

Alicia (to Clark): When you dropped me off I could tell you didn't want the night to end... and neither did I.

Jonathan: What'd you do, fall out of bed?
Clark: (pauses) Dad!

Pete (to Clark): Anyway, that girl is on fire. Congratulations stud.

Alicia: We're special Clark. People like us don't have boundaries and limitations.

Alicia's Dad (to Clark): There was another boy that Alicia liked a lot. It didn't end well. Be careful.

Alicia (to Clark): It's time to move on... You and I are meant to be together.

Chloe (to Clark): Once you go psycho, all bets are off.

Chloe (to Clark): Well we know Alicia has one weakness - you.

Alicia (to Clark): Once Lana's out of the way, you'll realize we were meant to be together.

Alicia: What have you got that I haven't got?
Lana: I don't know what you're talking about. Alicia: I think you do... what's your secret. You're not prettier thabn I am, you're not smaerter than I am and you definitely don't have my abilities.

Alicia: Why Clark, why?

Martha: Someday you'll find the person right for you... sweetheart there's no one like you.
Clark: Maybe that means i'll always be alone.

Alicia is like Clark. They meet because they both have powers that alienates them from others. So Clark gets close to her, and Clark gets a little physical with the most straightforward woman he's met.

Then things fell apart. For some reason, Clark, an able bodied male, turned down physical affection, and for some reason, a girl who can teleport, like, say, 55 of her brethren or so, suddenly turns homicidal. Yeah, a previous boyfriend ended "badly" and her parents might have locked her in a little room, but really, I was locked in my room, my first girlfriend ended with me MORE than badly, and though I can't teleport, I did often jump out my second story bedroom window with a crafty sneak sneak escape.

But I'll get to that. Basically, that's why I'm half and half. Why couldn't we simply have Clark fall in love with a girl who makes sense, like Alicia did before her arbitrary character shift, and maybe have an episode centered around the characters we love and how they interact (like say, Lana realizing that she might be losing Clark, or Clark figuring out his sexual independence, beyond cursory dialogue and two terse scenes). Instead, we have an inserted, horrible freak motivation (though the fight was okay. I'll get there as well) and an ending that leaves much unresolved.

So the episode, as it happened:

Clark and Chloe are in advanced economics? Tell me, why is there an Advanced Economics class in rural Kansas? They'd be lucky to have plain old Economics, and at that, the Home kind. Okay, you Kansas people, now you can write me in and flame me. But I grew up in a fairly big city and there was no economics program...

Clark's hair is shorter. Attention to continuity with his hair getting shorter and shorter is great, but how does he cut it? That would be a cool scene to see.

Now, we either have really dumb teachers in Smallville (my guess) or we just have a nonsensical arbitrary plot twist when the teacher allows Clark and Alicia to go alone in the big city on an elevator. That just doesn't happen. Teachers are so afraid of being sued, they won't let you do anything risky any more, much less let a guy and a girl be alone in an elevator, a potent aphrodisiac if I've ever seen one. (more...)
By Neal Bailey