Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: A- | 416 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT War Games
By Tippi Blevins | Season 9 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2010.04.09
Oliver, walking down the street, is met by Chloe. He lights up when he sees her. "Thanks for keeping my seat warm at Watchtower," she says, all grins. They fall into step with one another. He says, teasingly, that she shouldn't get used to it. She playfully gushes about how he flipped the power switch at just the right time. "I kind of liked being out in the field," she says, "knowing I had a warm bed to come home to." "That's very funny," he says. He takes her hand and turns her around to face him. He stops joking around. "You scared the life out of me." She smiles up at him, tells him to be careful. "Or I might start to think you're falling for me." The way he smiles back at her says he already has. This can't end well.
Smallville. Clark stands in the window of his old loft. With a whoosh, John is suddenly standing behind him. "Your identity is safe for now," John says. Clark admits Waller's not wrong, judging by the future he saw where Zod started World War Three. "She was right about being prepared," he says. "You don't have to join her," John says. Clark thinks he'll eventually have to choose a side, but John protests, because he's supposed to be an "ambassador" to bridge the alien and human sides. Clark moves past issues of diplomacy and wonders why John didn't include the rest of them in whatever he was doing. "I would have told the team what was going on," John says, "but I wanted you and the rest of them to stay off Checkmate's radar." So why not tell them now? Clark reminds John he's not doing this alone: "Who are you working for?" John paces a bit. "Let's just say there are more players on the board than you might think," he says. "And when it comes to choosing sides, things aren't always black or white." Clark frowns, but doesn't press the issue. He lets a dramatic musical flourish finish out the scene for him.