Smallville - Persuasion - Season 9 Episode 13 - CW

Sadly . . the CW website doesn't have any pictures posted for this episode. They'd probably just be of Tom Welling, Erica Durance or Callum Blue anyways. Although, Lois did look cute in her Leave it to Beaver type costume. There was a bit of a Valentine's Day theme to this episode, but . . actually it was pretty down-played. Clark and Lois talk about it in the beginning of the episode, and really . . that was about it. However, they do stop at a bar, or something, and there's a girl dressed as cupid selling candy, roses and kisses. Lois gets a box of chocolates, and then the girl blows some magic love dust on them. It turns out later that these are rocks from a quarry in Smallville. Meteor rocks, obviously. Anyways, they give Clark the power to control others through suggestion, or wishes. We're never really clear on what triggers it. But he tells Lois that he wishes she could take their relationship to the next level, Chloe that he hopes that she'll always have his back, and Emil that he wishes that he could learn to relax. He also tries to use it on Zod, once he figures out what he's doing, to ask him if he killed his father. I don't know if Zod was immune, or he really didn't know, but basically he lies to him and sends him after Tess. That's who Zod convinces Kal-El did it. But Clark is out for blood because during their verbal exchange Clark says that he wishes he could take the type of action that Zod would. Basically . . he accidentally uses the power on himself. It's only by Chloe's intervention, and a sizable meteor rock, that Clark is stopped from killing her. And when he's affected by the Green K, it stops the power of the other rock over him . . and everyone else. Anyways, while all of this is going on Zod is finishing up plans for his solar-towers. But in the process he has to kill one of his soldiers, Alea, because she admits to him that she was the one that killed Jor-El. And since she was the one who shank-ed Chloe in their vision of the future . . obviously things have changed. But Clark doesn't want to take any chances. So he goes to a nearby building and uses his heat-vision to wreak havoc on the spires of the solar towers, just hours before it was supposed to go on-line. Now Zod is going to be seriously pissed. He's already mad at him because Clark has been giving the Kandorians fake papers and id's so that they can become acclimated into their new home. Zod sees it though as Clark trying to alienate his people. I thought it was a pretty good episode. I did like last weeks better though. I'm not to hip about this Zod story-line. But, I guess that's one of those hurdles he has to face in learning to become the world's hero. And, I don't really like this black costume, with the trench-coat. I know he's searching for a look, but . . dressing goth doesn't inspire confidence or hope. Hopefully he'll work out something here . . soon.