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Lois (Erica Durance) plans the wedding and tells Clark (Tom Welling) that her guests are in danger of recognizing his 'super' friends. Then sees Clark as the Blur outside of Big Ben in London. (Hey England no longer uses those sirens here and especially not for police cars.) Upon his return to Metropolis, Lois calls him 'Smallville' so Clark immediately knows he's in trouble again; oh and those Brit accents on the TV were awful! with a capital AW! She warns Clark is in danger of being recognized as the Blur. But Clark feels he's okay, he didn't get into any sort of trouble. He then says he spellchecked his story after Lois shows him the paper (Clark and his spellchecker comments, he used those for Lois last time.) Lois has to spell out, 'heroes' and circles Clark's photo next to it. He needs a new disguise, which is really what this episode was all about: disguises: Chloe's (Allison Mack), Oliver's (Justin Hartley) and Clark's need for them.
Chloe and Oliver meet at a swanky restaurant for dinner and he's disguised in his hat and shades, carrying on Chloe's hat and shades disguise form last episode. She's meeting Oliver Queen, it's hard to live normally. Couldn't help thinking their entire disguise scene was a send-up of the whole Clarkie mask thing. Chloe can call Oliver her boyfriend. If he had been seen as Oliver he says he could have gotten a table without any hassles.
The Joneses are paged and they're Oliver and Chloe. A take on the Brangelina Mr and Mrs Smith movie on play here. Really (Smith) and Jones need newer aliases! Chloe refers to herself as the "girl with no identity" and Oliver as "the guy with a secret," but he's no longer got a secret.
Lois has sewn a hood onto Clark's Blur jacket and gives him shades (store must have made a fortune selling those.) She calls his vision "x-ray vision." Clark doesn't want to don a mask. Lois reminds him Oliver didn't want to wear a mask either and Clark says that was his choice to make. She tells him Oliver "two identities, which went to one to none." She asks what if someone recognizes his suit and tie as the Blur.
Mr Jones has a call and Mrs Jones dies on the other end - amongst other DBs. Obviously the killer is Desaad ( Steve Byers) Chloe doesn't know where to start looking for Jones. Men with guns wait in Oliver's limo. Oh so no one recognized Oliver's limo and these men, apparently FBI agents don't recognize Oliver or that he's Green Arrow. Where have they been?
Burt the forensics guy recognizes Clark from the other CS. He comments that a clip of the Blur looked like Clark, so he may "as well put an 'S' on your chest." More allusions to the Superman Clark will become. Clark pulls Burt up from falling into a hole and puts it down to adrenalin and the centre of gravity. Burt sees Clark as a hero. Desaad plays coroner Blane and Clark uses his vision and notices marks on the Vic. Which Desaad puts down to a leaky pen on his part. He thinks the deaths were caused by someone "who's given in to his/her darkest urges." An obvious clue. Come on Clarkie, everyone's been talking about the darkness for weeks now and as soon as Desaad mentions darkest urges nothing clicks, as Lois would say. So he missed the subtle hint there.
Chloe and Oliver argue in the limo boot/trunk, this is more romantic a kidnapping for Oliver out of his most recent kidnappings. Chloe hasn't forgotten their one year anniversary, it's been a year since 'they've been doing whatever they've been doing'. Oliver tells her she doesn't know what to call him. Chloe calls him competitive, well that's one name for him. Oliver and Chloe fight the men, in another scene reminiscent of Mr and Mrs Smith and realize they're FBI agents. She finds a file on Mr and Mrs Jones and x-ray scans of the Omega symbol of the Darkness. Leading to Desaad's club, where Oliver climbs in and leaves her outside where she's approached by Mr Jones, who later expires courtesy of Desaad. Whoever visited his club all had Omega symbols on their heads. Chloe is kidnapped, now it's her turn again.
Burt sends forensic photos to Lois and she's lucky to be engaged to such a "super guy." Jeff bumps into Clark. Clark sees the stamps on the photos and the penny drops, ha, realizing the coroner lied. Clark calls his vision 'microvision', it's his power so he can call it what he likes. Appears this microvision is something that he's just gotten. Oliver shows Clark the file and he recognizes Desaad as being an agent of the Darkness, killing those he can't convert. They find the business is registered to an address where Clark goes but Oliver doesn't stay behind since he's not going to leave Chloe there.
Desaad attempts to convert Chloe to the dark side, first as Clark, who wants to kiss her and thinks maybe they missed their chance to be together. Then Oliver tries to take her away from everything, they don't need to be heroes. Followed by Lois trying to convince Chloe she wants what Lois and Clark have. Desaad finally shows up as himself and attempts to get Chloe to kill him but she refuses to give in. Throwing the knife from him. Chloe then turns up as herself, white suited again and tells the tied up Chloe, she was too proud to ask for help which is why she vanished. Chloe realizes she's being tempted by the seven deadly sins, Clark was lust, Oliver was sloth, Lois envy, Desaad was temptation and Chloe was pride.
The sins worked when he was trying to convert others. But being used here was a bit overdone, couldn't they have used something different. Chloe proved she was stronger than Oliver, who gives in when Desaad tells him Chloe's dead. Desaad tells Clark he's loyal to a greater power, to Darkseid: finally a name. Clark has more love in his heart and he's stronger than when he faced Godfrey and Granny. Clark can't be corrupted. So he unleashes some major black power onto Clark. Clark fights Desaad's power but Oliver beats him up, until Clark tells him he rescued Chloe; but it's too late.
Clark removes his name from the story, he's been drawing too much attention to himself lately. He hasn't needed a mask until now. His face is that of a man his parents raised, the man Lois loves. "Who I am should define what I'm called." Clark Kent is a word. The Blur is who he really is, who he always was. Clark will be the mask and not the Blur. He puts on glasses. People need to believe he's just ordinary. Lois says and not "Super." He'll be ready and uses his middle finger to push his glasses. Then bumps into Jeff. Lois points out who it really is as Jeff doesn't recognize Clark with glasses and Clark tells him it's his fault he bumped into him.
Chloe realizes she was many things over the years, defined by a group or person. She hasn't felt like herself since the days of The Torch. She's afraid she'll lose the part of her that's left. Oliver knows who she is. Oliver can call her his girlfriend. Oliver will be in the spotlight all his life, he is who he is and stopped hiding from it. Just like Clark, he too realizes he needs to be who he is, but Clark must maintain the disguise. Oliver switches off the lights and the Omega symbol is visible inside his head.
Thus he's converted without even knowing it. A big clue missed by Clark and by Oliver that clearly Oliver's very passionate about doing the right thing and he's also very vocal in using his anger and rage. Like he stopped himself from fighting Lionel, he couldn't do that here when he realizes Chloe is dead, thus falling for his darkside. Though appears he was easily corrupted.
As for Clark now becoming the bungling reporter Clark Kent of the Daily Planet, seems a bit tacked on considering he was a jock/hunk all through his teen years etc, will people really believe now he's wearing glasses he's inept. That's a stereotype if ever there was one. Not everyone who wears glasses is stupid, clumsy or geeky.
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