Lois (Erica Durance) and Clark (Tom Welling) drive to cover a story in the boonies and Lois realizes she can't cover the anti-hero rally story, which will go to Cat Grant who'll get the front page. Lois questions Clark about all the strange incidents that she came across, which Clark puts down to being Kryptonian, such as the spaceship she found, which belonged to Kara. Lois is also into the whole Clark being an alien thing, "it's like dating a god." Thought she was into him for him, not his powers! The car gets a flat tyre which Clark can't fix and has to walk to town. Lois befriends a girl, Charlotte (Bella King) and stays behind with her. Charlotte dressed in bonnet and 'old worldly' clothes which were a big giveaway. Okay well if not for the clothes then the horse and buggy, but she's happy to ride along with her. Missing her 'spelling out' evil as soon as she arrived on the scene. Lois jokes about Clark having to walk all the way, well he'll use his powers.
Tess (Cassidy Freeman) throws a party for Alexander (Connor Stanhope) who has grown in the space of two weeks and hires one of Lex's old doctor's (Lexa Doig) to find him a cure. Alexander is suffering from accelerated mitosis growth and will be dead within six weeks. Tess is aware the doctor's done terrible research for Lex in the past and wants to put things right, they both seek redemption. Tess does as she's feeling guilty over how she was used by Lex. Whilst they speak outside the room, inside, Alexander begins to draw with red candle wax. Obviously that's what you get for using red candles on the cake, ha.
Clark returns to find Lois gone and a lowly deputy tries to convince Clark to leave, who looked too smarmy to be interested in Clark's version of events, even after Clark shows him the piece of wood with nails in the road, causing the flat and the buggy tracks. Clarkie cuts his hand on the tyre rim and it doesn't heal, showing he's in the presence of some form of Kryptonite. Charlotte takes Lois back to her village in the middle of nowhere and to think she told Clark she couldn't get into any trouble miles from nowhere. Everyone is preparing for the harvest. Wake up Lois, she's a reporter and she hasn't noticed the signs somethings not right. Harvest signifies thanks in the form of a sacrifice and who's going to be that sacrifice: Lois! She stays for dinner, like a fatted calf but hardly eats anything.
Tess promises Alexander she won't let anything happen to him as he steals the key from her pocket. He tells her the symbol, 'S' he drew, relates to a man who is powerful and strong and Clark's going to kill him. She always lets men walk all over her and wanted power by holding onto such powerful men, such as Lex, Oliver, Zod and now Clark. Locking Tess in his room. Clark and deputy follow the tracks to an old building and a water trough, where he notices blue Kyrptonite, which has drained him of his powers, allowing him to be clobbered by deputy. Thought Clark passed out a little too quickly. Lois wants to leave, but Charlotte lets on she's the sacrifice like her sister, Esther was twenty years ago when the fire rained from the heavens and killed her. They've been sacrificing women for twenty years.
Lois finds Clark passed out in the room where they're held captive and she finds a trap door, but he doesn't even have the strength to break the padlock. She uses a hairpin and suggests Clark should change. "You stick out like a stripper in a seminary" with his clothes. Trust Lois to come up with the colloquial alliteration. Watching him she comments, "Why are we never some place romantic when he takes off his shirt?" Just as they're about to leave, Lois is stopped by a woman as she doesn't have any flowers for the sacrifice and she notices her nail polish. Lois never used to wear bright nail polish and now wears bright red/orange. Charlotte's father Joseph Cavanaugh (Ron Lea) slashes Clark with a scythe, who is then buried. Luckily it's away from the blue Kryptonite, allowing him to recover.
Tess locates Alexander at Clark's barn where he relays Clark saving his life and promising they'd be friends forever, but Clark will kill him. She tells him he's not Lex but then has her doubts and that those things didn't happen to Alexander. Finally the penny drops and she realizes Alexander is really Lex. The doctor's found a cure and synthesizes a small amount after dredging through Lex's research, but Tess throws it into the fire. Demanding all the research be destroyed, wanting Alexander to die. Tess is ruthless at times and she understands she can't change Alexander by loving him. He's Lex and in the same way he was evil, his clone is too.
Clark regaining his powers, returns to save Lois and after long-winded exposition from Cavanaugh on faith and Lois not having any, but she does and she believes. Cavanaugh's only committing murder. Clark protects Lois from the blue Kryptonite fire, burning his back - temporarily. Lois gives a speech, or rather sermon, about Clark descending from the heavens, a messenger who will destroy them with the use of his heat vision and breath and they should fear him. His back heals and they fall to their knees.
Back at the barn, Clark gives Lois the Kryptonian diary and says they compliment each other. Lois says Clark may need to "step into the light soon" and give the people the sort of hero they deserve and can believe in. "You could be a symbol to inspire everyone that this planet could be a better place." Clark isn't sure they're ready to believe "in a stranger from a strange land." Lois is the one for him and "trust they'll always be there for each other when times get tough." He saves her and she saves him, as he now finds out that Lois pulled the dagger out of him in the season opener and she brought him back. Lois needs to "know me completely - no secrets - cos you're the one, you always will be." Cue song; falling into bed and lots of kissing and passion! Lois has removed her bright nail polish now.
Alexander shaves off his hair and is now a complete Lex, bald head 'n'all as he looks at himself in the mirror.
Another episode which breaks away from this season's arc, besides the Alexander storyline; but was too reminiscent of earlier Smallville storylines having been done before. Also reminded me of Supernatural season 1.11 episode, Scarecrow, where human sacrifices to a pagan god kept the town flourishing.
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