Smallville 9:5

Oliver’s downward spiral continues, and while at a club called Roulette, he meets a woman with a dragon tattoo who gives him a red pill, which he takes, and quickly passes out.  Which brings me to my first question of the episode – how does a pill work that quickly?  My limited biology knowledge tells me that any time you take something orally, it takes awhile to digest and get into your system.  Even the fastest acting pain killers still take 15 or so minutes, so I don’t buy that it took like 2 minutes for the pill to affect Oliver enough that he passes out in the street.

Once Oliver wakes up and manages to get himself out of the first “test”, he runs to a pay phone.  Which he picks up and can dial.  Because apparently pay phones work without money these days.  It’s the big pay phone scheme – they’re hard to find, but free!  Question number two – if he wants help, because he calls Chloe, why doesn’t he just start shouting for Clark?  Granted, no one knows Oliver is missing at this point, but Clark would be able to hear him yelling.

Later on in the episode, Oliver is arrested for the murder of dragon lady, aka Victoria.  Even though she was shot in the back and he has no weapon, and is clearly trying to help her.  Some guy comes into the interview room, claiming he’s FBI, and asks Oliver to check his bank accounts on the computer.  Question number three – has Oliver never seen any kind of movie where a rich person is targeted?  Realistically speaking, if someone tells you that there is a group out there trying to take all your billions of dollars, even if you know that person, don’t log into your bank account on their computer!

At this point, Clark has heard Oliver yelling (see!?) and comes to save him.  Cept the game isn’t over!  Victoria is not actually dead and kidnaps Lois, dresses her in the red dress she had previously been wearing, and hopes that Oliver will shoot Lois thinking it would be revenge against Victoria.  Oh wait, but Oliver is really a hero deep down, so he doesn’t shoot, and then even rescues Victoria!

Big surprise is that it was actually Chloe running the whole thing, trying to get Oliver back on the right track and saving people again instead of drinking himself into oblivion.  Personally, since my love for Chloe is no secret here, I don’t like the role she’s having, as more of a sideline character.  I know that this is likely Allison Mack’s last season on the show, and it’s looking like Chloe is going to die by the end of the season, but I’d rather see her go out as Clark’s bestie like she has been the whole time, rather than this new person she’s becoming.

Chloe also shows Clark some Kryptonian lady who was at Oliver’s talk in the previous episode, and they finally discover that there are a ton of Kryptonians who have landed on Earth.  Strangely enough, Clark does not seem very concerned.  Why?  Because the writing on this show sucks.

There’s also this stupid side plot about how Lois wants to watch movies with Clark, and it’s more blah tension between the two of them.  I still don’t like Lois.