Episode Report Card Omar G: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sex, Lies, And Security Video
By Omar G | Season 4 | Episode 9 | Aired on 11.16.2004
Metropolis at night. Very cute scene follows: Chloe and Clark are in the hotel building. Chloe updates Clark on the earring situation and the police. According to someone at their front desk, the earring hasn't been found. When you call the police front desk, they're always happy to give you details on an ongoing murder investigation. Just tell them, "Hey, buddy, I work for a high-school newspaper. In Kansas! So spill it, man!" They stay right on the line with you after that. Chloe and Clark enter the same elevator that Lex made out in recently. "If I were an earring..." Clark says. I'm convinced that line was put into the episode simply so that I could respond, "...I would have been licked and licked by Lex until I fell to the floor." Chloe wants to recreate the making-out movements. I thought she was grossed out by such going-up shenanigans. Dispassionately, Chloe puts herself against the corner of the elevator and asks Clark to climb all over her. Clark hesitates. "Come on, big boy, it's for the cause of truth and justice." She pulls Clark to her and arranges his hands. Why don't they do this in every episode when they're investigating? Not for evidence; just for fun. Chloe grabs Clark's ass and pulls him closer. Awk-ward! Clark guesses that Lex might have knocked off the earring by accident. Chloe throws Clark against the opposite wall. "Hi," she says, cutely. They look like they're going to kiss. The elevator dings and the door opens. It's a mom and her two twin girls, each holding dolls. Creepy! The woman acts completely disgusted, way out of proportion to seeing two fully clothed teenagers hugging. She takes her kids down the stairs. Chloe tries to explain to the woman that nothing was happening. Whatever. Chloe looks down and notices the gap between the elevator and the floor. She asks if it's possible the earring fell down there into the elevator shaft. Well, let's see! Clark uses his X-Ray vision with his new optical zoom lens to look all the way down the shaft and see the tiny earring way, way, way down there.
Next thing we know, Papa Luthor is holding the earring between his fingers. "I'm glad you came back, Clark," he says. He asks why Clark brought the earring. Clark says he didn't think Lex would tell him the truth. Clark says he's trusting Papa Luthor. Clark elaborates on his two-women theory. He thinks the woman in the elevator is still alive. Papa Luthor holds up the earring again. "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," he says. Frankly, I expect a little better than basic everyday quotes from a character who's supposed to know more famous quotations than Bartlett's. Papa Luthor reveals that when he was younger and wanted to get rid of a woman, he used to send her diamond earrings via courier. I guess it's better than a horseshoe ring. He says it was his signature. Bastardous! Papa Luthor thinks Lex is carrying on the tradition. He thinks the woman in the elevator was a former lover of Lex's. "She's the killer," Papa Luthor says.