lex wakes up to find himself tied up to a chair in his mansion office. the women is there also. she is of course a luthorcorp employee and explained to his mansion staff that he had had to much to drink and they helped her carry him up. the women explains that that room is where she “earned her earrings”. the women explains that she left her fiancé for him and then he wanted nothing to do with him. she bumps into him three months later outside of his attorney’s office ( dead lawyer’s office ) and he did not even recognize her. she then found eve through the luthorcorp database. she told eve that lex wanted to meet her again and that is why she went to the fund raiser that night. lex did not recognize her either. she framed lex for the murder and called the police wanting lex to get caught when he was at eve andrews house. jason and lana talk about jason’s mother. he tells her that she can not be trusted and is always out to control him and everything about his life. lana tells jason about her dreaming about his mother before he met her. clark and chloe are back at the torch looking over the earring. the earring has a serial number and with the help of lionel they are able to find out that that pair of diamond earrings was “issued” to a shannon bell. clark recognizes the name because she is a luthorcorp employee. chloe calls the police and clark superspeeds to lex’s mansion.

shannon is pretty upset at this point and points out that if lex had just recognized her that day outside of the office that things would be different. she is upset that they slept together again and she did not even recognize her. as she is explaining to him how he ruined her life, she is pouring bottles of wine on him and around him in a circle. when she is finished she lights a match and the a circle of fire emanates around him. lex looks like he is about to be cooked when clark busts threw the door and pushes shannon away and runs to the fire. he talks off his jacket and begins circling around the fire waving his jacket in the air really fast. he is able to put out the fire completely and escapes before shannon slams against a wall and lex realizes the fire has been put out.

clark and his parents are talking back at the house. clark is not sure what to think about lex and his inherited habits. clark also tells his parents that he went to go see lionel. clark’s parents are shocked and he says that he could not have helped lex without this help. clark says that lionel is completely healed and believes that lionel has changed. jonathan asks if lionel suspects him and clark says no. lionel believes what happen to him was some sort of miracle. jonathan explains that lionel will never change and lex will not either. lex goes to see lionel in prison and is impressed with him and his influence. lex realizes that lionel had nothing to do with him being framed and lex believes that lionel wants something in return. lex says that he will not helped him get released and lionel tells lex that that is not what he wants. lionel tells lex that he has changed and wants him to give him a chance to be his father. lex knows that lionel is healed and tells lionel not to expect another miracle.

lex goes to clark’s loft to thank him. clark asks him how long is this going to go on. clark feels that he can not trust lex and lex explains that he has no idea why he keeps going on sometimes. lex also explains that when the fire was around him and he thought he was going to die that he was happy. lex felt that his death would save the world a lot of grief. but when the fire was put out that maybe it was some kind of second chance. clark explains that with his father being more honest with him that lex, that in the past few days it felt as if they were not friends but enemies instead. lex tells clark not to give up on him yet.

jason goes to see his mother and tells her to stay away from him and lana. it appears that jason’s mother is semi-obsessed with lana and tells him that he only wants what is best for him. jason finds his mother’s dialogue strange and asks what she knows about lana. it appears that jason’s mother has messed with jason’s life and past relationships in order for jason to met and be with lana. jason’s mother leaves jason behind wondering what she is actually doing in smallville.

the good:

okay i will be honest. i was kind of disappointed with this episode. i thought it was going to be a really good episode. i guess i should focus on what was good about the episode though. clark and chloe working together to solve this mystery was cute and fun to watch. chloe could have just looked for the earring on the elevator floor but it was fun to watch get her hands on clark. clark going to lionel for help was interesting. it has worked better in the past though. martha and jonathan kent did a really good job as usual. although the whole jason and lana sub storyline really does not appeal to me, jason did a good job on his part. lana's dream/nightmare sequence was pretty good too. the special effects especially when clark was putting out the fire were aweome. other than that though...

the bad:

*sigh* okay. i can not speak for everybody but this episode did not peak my interest in the slightest. i kind of expect a major step in the rift of clark and lex's friendship. but it just seems like any other episode. we really did not learn anything new about lex or any other character that would have made this episode worth it. jason's mother did a good job as acting as jason's bad mother but i really do not care the slightest about her. this episode seemed like a really basic filler episode. by the time it was almost over i really could care less who was trying to frame/kill lex. and lionel not remembering what happen between him and clark and rubbing things off as a miracle? what the?! maybe he is just lying about it so i guess that would basically mean that he really has not changed. it would have been better if lionel did remember and he claimed that he has changed. kind of like him deciding to keep clark's secret even though that is what he has been after for almost two years. basically i felt like i had been ripped off. this episode could have been so much better. i was expecting the darkness inside of lex to be more obvious and noticable to clark. the only person who really noticed was lionel. this episode was kind of boring. it could have been worse i guess.

favorite quotes? ( i will be honest, there were not any good quotes worth mentioning )

the ruben lb personal review: c plus... maybe b minus. maybe

the ruben lb critic review: c

next week: ( actually next next week )

on december first, everyone in smallville has something to be afraid of and clark is going to have to trust lex like he never has before in scare.