Smallville 93

Thirst
Season 5 Episode 5

At the Daily Planet, Paula Kahn, (Carrie Fisher) is interviewing Chloe about an internship. Chloe did not get it and she asks why she there then. Paula replies she wanted to see the kid that got Lionel Luthor to arm-twist the form editor into a column. Chloe explains that this time around she wants to earn her column on her own merit. Chloe does a voiceover of her feeling and introduces us to the Tri Psi Sorority. Three gorgeous co-eds in bikinis greet a pizza delivery guy at the door and invite him into the Jacuzzi.

At the Talon, Lana is packing her things for Metropolis University when Clark comes by. Because of her late admission, there is no housing left so she pledges Tri Psi to have housing. Buffy Sanders explains the Tri Psi philosophy. At Central Kansas A&M Professor Fine gives a lecture on the final days of the Roman Empire. He explains how the Romanian sat by and allowed a corrupt leader to bring down their great society. Lex enters the lecture hall and Professor Fine calls on call to answer if he knew Lex Luthor was evil would Clark have the courage to stop him. The bell rings before Clark can answer. Lex tells Fine that he could sue for liable and Fine replies that he only teaches the truth in his class. Lex also alludes to Professor Fine having information on propriety Luthorcorp projects and having the Professor fired. At the sorority house, the Tri Psi Sorority chooses and initiates Lana.

At the Luthor’s mansion, Professor Fine brings Lex a folder with the history of his life, while he is playing pool. Lex gives Fine his pool stick and Fine clears the table as he looks over the information. It turns out to be records of Lex’s doing experimental projects on campus. Fine tells Lex never start a game you cannot finish Lex has the Professor followed. Chloe’s roommate, Karen, comes in and starts taking down Chloe’s WOW article. Chloe comes in and they argue over the article, Karen tells Chloe that this is not the Betty Ford clinic alluding to a Lana being out on Chloe floor. Clark comes to Chloe’s room looking for Lana. Chloe gives them privacy and when Lana smells Clark she gets sexual aggressive with Clark, when he turns her down she leaves. Professor Fine ends up in the warehouse with the spaceship. Fine kills the guard a la T-2000 liquid finger through his heart. Lana is at the Sorority house drinking with her sisters when Buffy slaps her over a banister and down a flight of stairs. Lana contorting her body back into is right position; Buffy explains to her that she is immortal.

At Met U Chloe talks to Clark over the phone about Lana and the story of the Tri Psi house she’s working on. Clark runs to Met U when Chloe explains that there is something strange at the house. Chloe tells Clark about a costume party the Tri Psi are throwing suggesting that they crash the party to investigate. At the Sorority House, one house the sister takes a liking to Clark and uses that attraction to get into the invitation only party. Chloe distracts Clark from seeing Lana dancing sexy with a cowboy by telling him to investigate up stairs. Clark is upstairs investigating Buffy’s room when she comes in catching him. She is about to attack him when some partygoers distract her giving Clark enough time to exit out the window. When Chloe gets Lana alone, Lana attacks her and Clark comes to her rescue when he hears her pleads of help with his super hearing. When Clark arrives in the room Lana jumps out the window.

At the hospital the doctor explains to Clark that they have done everything possible, that Chloe has been infected by a weird strain of rabies. Professor Fine comes in and identified that hear symptoms are similar to Luthorcorp Project 1138. Clark goes to ask Lex about the project, Lex is reluctant to give any information until tells him Lana is infected. Buffy tells Lana that she is to clean up this mess, by bringing Clark back to the house so that all the sisters can feed upon him or death becomes her. Lex explains Project 1138 to Clark when Lex exposes Clark to kryptonite just as Lana breaks in. She knocks out Lex and bites Clark. She develops heat vision from exposure to Clark’s blood. At the sorority house, Lana pleads with Buffy to change him and Buffy tells her no because they are a sorority not a fraternity. Buffy and Lana fight and Lana incinerates Buffy with heat vision, becoming the new head of the sorority. She kicks the rest of the sisters out. When she goes to convert Clark, he stabs her in the heart with the cure to her vampirism.

Chloe recaps in voiceover that the Tri Psi Sorority got booted off campus and all the infected girls were cure, her roommate Karen was so freaked out that she transfer to NYU, making Lana Chloe’s new roommate. Clark and Lana are walking on Met U campus discussing what she remembers. Lana explains that mostly what she remembers is jumble but she does remember the warm, the goodness and the strength she felt when she bit him. She thinks she felt what was in his heart and she never felt closer to anyone. Clark goes to see Lex and thank him. Lex asks him how he knew about Project 1138 and warns Clark that Professor Fine may not be the man he thinks him to be. Chloe turns her story in to Paula Kahn, who dismiss it as tabloid garbage but gives Chloe an internship.