Originally aired February 18, 2004
Written by Holly Harold
Directed by James Marshall
When Clark and classmate Alicia Baker are trapped in an elevator, he is forced to use his powers in front of Alicia to save them both, and Alicia reveals her own power to teleport. Romance blossoms between Clark and Alicia... until Alicia becomes possessive of Clark. Lana learns that Adam has been spying on her and Clark.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Abusive Parents: Ambiguous. We know that Alicia's parents locked her in a lead-lined room in their house when she was a child to prevent her from using her teleportation powers, and that Alicia is now psychotic, but Alicia is the only one we hear talking about this, and it's ambiguous whether she went crazy due to this abuse or whether this was just their attempt to keep an already-crazy Alicia in line.
- Antagonistic Offspring: Alicia injures her father after he cautions Clark about her.
- Interrupted Intimacy: A scantily-clad Alicia teleports into Clark's bedroom in the middle of the night, and they start making out...until Jonathan walks in to check on Clark.
- Kick the Dog: In the final scene, Lionel dangles the serum in front of Adam's face before leaving him alone in a room strapped to a chair as Adam pleads for help.
- The Mole: Adam is revealed to have been keeping tabs on Lana and Clark on orders from Lionel Luthor.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Alicia decides to kill Lana so she and Clark can be together.
- Teleporters and Transporters: Alicia was caught in the 1989 meteor shower and gained the ability to teleport.
- Temporary Love Interest: Alicia, to Clark.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: The teacher who makes Clark ride in a different elevator car than the rest of the class due to being annoyed by his light-hearted bickering with Chloe. If she hadn't done that, Alicia would have never found out about Clark's powers (and her own teleportation powers would have let her escape the damaged elevator car without Clark). Not only would that have kept Alicia from ever connecting with Clark enough to go Yandere over him and nearly kill Lana, but it would have let her stay out of Belle Reve and keep her from being menaced by Dr. McBride and Tim Westcott after her Heel–Face Turn. On a more basic level, if neither of them had been secretly metahumans, then this decision would have gotten Clark and Alicia killed, and her reaction when she next sees them makes it plain she's well aware of this and is horrified by it.
- Villain of the Week: Alicia Baker, a girl who can teleport.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Lead paint renders Alicia unable to teleport. In the final act, Clark hurls a can of the stuff at Alicia and uses heat vision to cut it open.
- Yandere: Alicia becomes very possessive of Clark and eventually decides to kill Lana so she and Clark can be together.
- You Have Failed Me: In the final scene, Lionel interrogates a bound Adam about failing his mission to spy on Clark and Lana, announces that Adam is no longer part of LuthorCorp's research project, withholds Adam's medicine, and leaves Adam behind in the room as Adam pleads for the medicine. He's basically sentencing Adam to a slow, painful death.Lionel: Why did I send you to Smallville? Hmm? To become the best friend of Lana Lang. To find out everything she knew about Clark Kent. Wasn't that it? Instead, you have alienated her completely.Dr. Teng: Mr. Luthor, his medication is ready.Lionel: That won't be necessary, Dr. Teng.Dr. Teng: He needs the serum, or he'll die.Adam: I'm sorry.Lionel: I've already made my decision. This patient is no longer a participant in our research program. [leaves the room]Adam: Help me. Please. Help me. No! No. No! Help me! Help me!
