Jillian Harris came on The Bachelorette to find love and in the end, she chose to give her final rose to Ed Swiderski, who in turn popped the big question. Of course, she accepted his marriage proposal and soon, the happy couple will move in together and is expected to marry within the next 12 months. But it all seems too good to be true. Word on the street is that Ed was still involved with another girl during his stint on The Bachelorette
— a rumor that just won’t die.

If you’ve been following our Bachelorette spoilers, then you’re already aware of this buzz. RealitySteve was able to get his hands on an email exchange allegedly between Ed and his girlfriend.

The exchange reads: “So I guess we’re seeing other people now.” Ed responded with “No, I just need to wait until this show is over.”

Obviously, this girl is under the impression that they are still together and she just has to wait out the show. With this report coming out, it has also been speculated that Ed may have left the show for his girlfriend and only used his job as an excuse.

Ed having a girlfriend is pretty explosive compared to the other speculations that came out before the big finale though surprisingly, it’s not something that viewers were skeptical about.

Adding fuel to the fire, Radar Online is now reporting “multiple sources” confirm that Ed was still texting and emailing a girl named Bethany Steffen throughout his appearance on The Bachelorette. Apparently, Ed had been in a four-month relationship with Bethany whom sources say he broke off with right before going on the reality dating series. And once he was on the show, Ed allegedly started to contact her again.

Another source referred to the text as “more than platonic” describing them “sexy” which they say even continued after he had proposed.

“When the episode aired showing Ed as the winner and he and Jillian agreeing to marry, Bethany was stunned,” the source said. “Ed’s sexy messages to Bethany certainly aren’t of the kind a happily engaged man should be sending.”

Season: 3    Episode: 7    First Aired: 1/8/2009

It’s a brand new year and now that we’re past the leap into 2009, we can officially begin counting down the days until our favorite shows come back from hiatus! We’ve got a few clips from the new episode of 30 Rock, titled “Senor Macho Solo,” which airs next Thursday.

Stars:

Keith Powell (James)

Katrina Bowden (Cerie Xerox)

Jack McBrayer (Kenneth Parcell)

Judah Friedlander (Frank Rossitano)

Scott Adsit (Pete Hornberger)

Jane Krakowski (Jenna Maroney)

Tracy Morgan (Tracy Jordan)

Alec Baldwin (Jack Donaghy)

Tina Fey (Liz Lemon)

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I had the opportunity to watch the first two episodes of the new TNT series LEVERAGE. Let me start by saying this is a must-see new show.

The series follows a team of thieves, hackers and grifters, who act as modern-day Robin Hoods, taking revenge against those who use power and wealth to victimize others. It stars Timothy Hutton as Nate Ford, Christian Kane as Eliot Spencer, Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison, Gina Bellman as Sophie Devereaux and Beth Riesgraf as Parker.

Here is what I have to say about the first two Leverage episodes:

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LEVERAGE - The Nigerian Job

As season premieres go, this is a definite great start. Everything worked. The smart story, the witty characters and the hilarious dialogue were brilliantly put together in a perfect blend. Leverage is the A-Team meets Mission Impossible and it works really well.

The biggest thing I took away from the “The Nigerian Job” is how incredibly funny Leverage is, especially Parker (Beth Riesgraf) who really steals every scene she is in. One particular line stuck out to me, and once you see it you’ll understand why: “Is she injured? In the head?” (I literally had to rewind and watch it again it was so funny).

Which brings me to Gina Bellman who potrays Sophie Devereaux. In the episode she has a brilliant scene where she is in a play, but let’s just say that Sophie is not as talented as Gina is in real life. One of the best moments.

The con in itself is freaking brilliant and is extremely believable but for me, it just served as a backdrop to what was actually happening, the beginning of a team.

Another thing that I absolutely loved were the fighting scenes of Eliot. He has some of the best fights I have seen on TV so far. The guy can kick some ass that’s for sure.

Also I really appreciate that the writers actually created a situation at the end of this episode that makes the existence of this team absolutely believable. It is always nice to have a good reason to believe in something.

Synopsis: A desperate aerospace CEO hires Nate Ford – an insurance investigator who once specialized in recovering stolen goods worth millions – to lead a team of expert thieves to recover stolen airplane designs from a rival company. But after Nate’s team recovers the designs and turns them over to the CEO, they realize the property never belonged to him in the first place. Now, the crew must come up with a new plan to return the designs to their rightful owner and wrangle the money the CEO had promised them as payment.

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Leverage Episode 2 “The Homecoming Job” - Tuesday, December 9, at 10pm.

LEVERAGE - The Homecoming Job

The second episode is not as strong as the series premiere, but it does a good job of engaging us into the con and of course of bringing the funny in all the right places. What is also interesting to watch is how the team’s chemistry is evolving.

Once again, Parker steals this one with her funny remarks but I have to say that Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) has crazy comedic timing which makes this even better.

Eliot keeps us entertained with some more fighting.

And if you ever wanted to stick it up to the man, well then you will definitely appreciate this episode.

Synopsis: Leverage Consulting & Associates opens for business as the crew takes on the case of a reservist who’s been wounded in Iraq by private military contractors. In order to get the veteran the medical rehabilitation he needs but cannot afford, the team goes after the security firm to break their cover-up and expose the truth about the incident.

OMFG, how brilliant was this DEXTER episode? Once again, Dexter’s writers are insanely talented in how they weave a story of treachery and betrayal.

If I had to bet, I would have thought that they would have strung us along as long as they could with the Miguel-Dexter conflict ending with the resolution on the season finale. Obviously I would have lost that bet.

By resolving the Miguel-Dexter conflict in this episode, we are now facing a whole new set of challenges with Dexter now having to deal with Ramon AND Georges King, while at the same time trying to get married to Rita.

This is mind-boggling Machiavellian level story-telling that I just can’t get enough of. I can’t wait for next week.

PS: I hate to end on a sour note. My only “Huh?” moment was when Dexter told Deb about his dad sleeping with a CI. That just seemed out of the blue and actually kind of careless, as this will now open up a can of worms for Dex. Weird, right?

There are two things I would like to point about tonight’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

First, the story was sort of boring. At first, it was interesting but it was kind of a let down at the end. Ok so some girl will cure some disease in a future where machines rule the land. Isn’t that what we are trying to stop? So why is it important to protect her? Wouldn’t it make more sense to stop the future from happening?

Second, Three words. Brian….Austin…..Green. Who knew that it would take a TV show like Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles about futuristic cyborgs to show that he is a really amazing actor. There is a lot of depth and maturity in his performance that make the character look good.

What do you guys think? Was Brian awesome or what?

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“All About the Ripple Effect”?

We finally got to meet Megan’s mother. While I’m not sure I would want a mother like that, her return did allow for a breakthrough in Megan’s relationship with Will. She followed his advice and he opened up to her about his needs. I found that last scene between the two very sweet.

And Charlie, well I don’t care what he says, he is totally still in love with Megan. Now it’s just about time until he realizes that he needs to tell her.

Another thing that I really enjoyed in tonight’s episode was Rose and Sage’s “games” to make each other admit who they like. I think it’s the first time we really see how much they care about each other and how they express it.

Overall, a sweet episode which set up a few story lines that we can expect to expend in the future.

Do you think Charlie should tell Megan how he feels or should he stay with his girlfriend?

Any 30 Rock that features Steve Martin, jail breaks, and an exact replica…uh…”private funtime” doll should be enough to get you through to Friday. The only thing missing was a banjo.

We open with Liz and Jack attending a fancy dinner party at the Connecticut home of rich, agoraphobic, ex-businessman Gavin Volure (Steve Martin). Because he never leaves the house, he brings the world to him by inviting interesting people to eat with him (including John McEnroe representing the worlds of art collecting and yelling).

Before they leave, Gavin tells Jack about his new business deal and agrees to let Jack in on it. The pitch is comprised of three things: wind power, bandwidth, and the Chinese market. Because he’s kind of germaphobic too, he has his man-servant Karl kiss Liz on the hand and tell her he had a lovely time and would like to see her again. The next morning, Gavin calls Liz and asks her for a weekender date which she somewhat reluctantly agrees to.

The B plot involves Tracy being wigged out by his kids, Tracy Jr. and George Foreman, who are all of a sudden paying attention to him. Kenneth says it’s because they love him, Tracy believes they’re out to get him. Because of all the money coming in from the video games and assorted tie-ins (including Japanese sex dolls made in his likeness), Tracy comes to the natural conclusion that the kids are out to kill him.

Because of the agoraphobia and germaphobia, Gavin says a relationship with him will only consist of watching TV, eating, sitting around and reading internet gossip, and never having sex - exactly what she’s looking for. Except not because when Liz is leaving the next day, the other shoe drops. After locking Karl in a room, Gavin confesses that he is really under house arrest for tax evasion, fraud and arson. Karl’s a government agent. He makes a break for it and gets tackled on the lawn by another agent, yelling to Liz that he miscounted. Awesome.

Meanwhile, Jack convinces Kenneth to give him his $4,000 coffee can savings to invest…and unfortunately he invests it in Gavin’s business and they both lose their money. Jack goes to confront Gavin and finds out that he’s broke, the house is owned by the government which he shares with a couple other white collar criminals, and that the “investment” money was really used to fund his escape (most of it was spent on disguises). The famous company he ran was really a front, a dummy corp - the commercials never actually said what it did. Gavin spills a drink on himself, then goes to the bathroom while Jack follows and talks to him. Once the door is closed, some of the answers are weird so Jack breaks in and finds that Gavin has escaped.

At Tracy’s house, he uses only of his insanely life-like sex dolls as a decoy to trap his potentially murderous sons. Hiding in the closet in the middle of the night, one of them comes in to talk. Turns out the boys were just having nightmares about Tracy getting so rich that he’ll leave them. Touched, he steps out of the closet…and scares the crap out of the kid who starts hitting Tracy with the lamp from the nightstand. Finally calming him, Tracy assures his son that he’ll never leave the boys and the he loves them. He also adds that if anything happens to him, they’ll get nothing.

The next morning, Jack tries to repay Kenneth his $4,000. Kenneth sweetly and politely declines. Pete pops up and asks Kenneth to be in charge of safety for the floor (a job he’s been trying to get rid of since the beginning of the ep). Kenneth happily agrees and Jack says there’s a $4,000 bonus for it. Looking at Pete to verify, he says he remembers that new tidbit from the same meeting that gave him a driving per diem. Jack somewhat begrudgingly gives up twelve-cents per mile.

As Liz walks on to set, Gavin appears disguised as one of the set builders. It’s not a very good disguise. He tells her he’d been in Canada but had to come back for her. Jack arrives and confronts him, telling him that Liz is too good for him. Desperate, Gavin begins climbing up a ladder to the scaffolding 14 to 15 feet above ground and threatens to jump. Tracy appears and Kenneth runs in with his safety gear (a hardhat and a orange kit that seems to only contain water bottle and saltine crackers). Jack tries to talk Gavin down…but it doesn’t work. Just as he’s about to jump, Tracy appears and tackles him. Turns out the Tracy on the floor was his doll decoy.

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Why hasn’t Eleventh Hour been formally picked up for the full season yet? The networks have made their call on whether to pick up or cancel almost every freshman and sophomore series that only began this season with a 13-episode order. Fox picked up Fringe and Sarah Connor. NBC picked up Knight Rider, Life and Kath & Kim, will let Crusoe play out the string, and dispatched My Own Worst Enemy and Lipstick Jungle (supposedly, in the last case). The CW picked up 90210 and gave additional episodes, if not yet a full season, to Privileged. ABC hasn’t announced anything officially, but there are unconfirmed reports all over the web about the future, or lack thereof, for Eli Stone, Dirty Sexy Money, Pushing Daisies and Life On Mars. CBS whacked The Ex-List, picked up The Mentalist, and has ordered additional episodes of comedies Worst Week and Gary Unmarried. All of that leaves one show hanging in the balance, one show that nobody knows what’s happening with: our little show here, which as of this episode is officially past the halfway point on its initial 13-episode run.

Consistency is apparently overrated. From a ratings standpoint, Eleventh Hour may be the most consistent show on the air. Here are the total viewers, in millions, for each of the first six episodes: 11.4, 11.9, 11.8, 11.2, 10.9, 11.7. Not a whole lot of standard deviation going on there. Eleventh Hour has consistently proven, week after week, that it’ll be somewhere in the eleven million range. On any other network, that’d be a major hit - eleven million would be the top show on NBC outside of football and the #2 show on Fox outside of House. But CBS, far and away the strongest network in viewer totals this fall, is biding its time. CBS seems to be hoping for a spike one week, believing that Eleventh Hour has a week in it where it jumps to 13 or 14 million so that they can announce a pickup at that point. I don’t really see the point. Isn’t a loyal audience ideal? EH has proven that the same viewers are coming back week after week. I’d honestly rather have that than see the viewing totals read 11-11-11-14-12, which would mean you shed 15% of your audience from one week to the next. But for now, Eleventh Hour is stuck on 11 million, week after week, and it continues to be in limbo as a result.

(Ah, but wait, you say. You consider yourself an amateur TV ratings expert, and you know that raw aggregate viewer totals aren’t really what matters. Everybody has their own metric of choice: some people believe that the 18-49 demo is all that counts; some people believe that retention from the preceding show is what matters most of all; some people believe that what you really need to do is compare viewing totals to what aired on the network the year before. Feel free to discuss your favorite ratings angle in the comments.)

And now on to the episode itself. In a flawed episode, there were nonetheless some positive developments. But let’s start with the biggest flaw. One of the most important things that Eleventh Hour really needs to accomplish every week is to make it clear that even though each episode may feature a case of science going wrong, the show nevertheless comes from a pro-science viewpoint. That’s vital. If you can’t accomplish that, then there’s really no point to the show at all. Jacob Hood is unabashedly pro-science, and will constantly tell us of the possible benefits of even the craziest-sounding research, but he needs to be backed up by characters in each episode who come across in the same way. In short, even the bad guys need to have some semblance of good intentions.

That was done much less effectively in this episode than in some of the others thus far. The whole rationale of why chemically-altered super-soldiers might be a good thing is never very convincing here. By the time that Dr. Nesic is trying to justify his actions at the end, he’s saddled by the fact that he has come off as a crackpot for the first fifty-plus minutes of the episode. Even the more nefarious, murderous villains of previous episodes, like the coroner in last week’s episode or the brain surgeon a few weeks back, had more detailed and more legitimate motivations that we as an audience could buy into. But the motivation for why Dr. Nesic was secretly experimenting on Kevin Pierce was never made all that clear here. In turn, this episode feels like Bad Science, full stop, rather than Bad Science that came from good intentions.

On the other hand, if Bruce Nesic is comparatively less effectively detailed than previous episode baddies, Kevin Pierce is more effectively detailed as the unwitting victim of the week. Part of the formula of the show has turned out to be the fact that each episode offers an unwitting sap whose life is endangered by others’ actions. Pierce seemed to be a little bit better fleshed out than characters in a similar position in recent weeks, like Edward the cryogenics client last week or Ned the smallpox-afflicted construction worker the week before that.

Perhaps the most positive development in this week’s episode, though, is the fact that Hood and Young are clearly getting more comfortable with one another. That whole theme I had mentioned earlier in the series about how Jacob Hood is a really private guy who wasn’t at all comfortable opening up about himself is quickly dissipating. Hood is getting far more comfortable with Rachel, and now he’s happily spinning stories about his younger days and how he ended up with this job. There are two major benefits here, the first obviously being that this will allow for greater character development and give viewers more of a hook to keep interested in following these two from week to week. The ancillary benefit is that the more comfortable that Hood and Young get with one another, the more comfortable they are joking with one another and having a little harmless fun with each other. This week’s episode probably offered the greatest number of lighthearted bits of comedy between the two characters, which is very helpful in calming the mood of a thematically dark series.

As the episode begins, Hood and Young are summoned by Colonel Brooks, the head of DARPA (played by Patrick St. Esprit of the Sleeper Cell Alumni Society). DARPA is the scientific research wing of the Department of Defense (known to some of us by another name, Global Dynamics), and is most well-known for being, in Hood’s words, “the folks who really invented the internet.” Not that that’s necessarily always something to take pride in.

DARPA is working on a project to make better soldiers. They’ve worked for years and years on making the outside of the American soldier better: better weapons, better equipment, communications technology and strategic advantages and so on. This project is working on improving the inside of the soldier. In short, they’re working to chemically alter the mind of a soldier to be a better fighter.

There has been an incident at a lab in Nevada where research is being done on chimpanzees, and Hood is asked to investigate. But what he’s really being asked to do is investigate and clear a prized chimpanzee named Sacha, because if Sacha was really responsible for the violent attack on fellow chimps and a veterinarian at the lab, Sacha would have to be put down, and this chimp has had a whole lot of money and research poured into him as the leading test subject. When Hood and Young make their way to Nevada, they meet with the lead researcher, Dr. Nesic, who believes that somebody is trying to sabotage their research and blame Sacha for it. The initial suspect for who might have sabotaged the research is an animal rights activist who snuck onto the research team and was going to expose alleged animal abuse, but the activist, Rudy, is ultimately not the guy.

While Hood and Young are talking with Rudy, Dr. Nesic is dealing with a patient, USAF Sgt. Kevin Pierce. Nesic and Pierce are interacting under the ruse that this is just a side project of Nesic’s, working on medication to help with post-traumatic stress disorder. In reality, Nesic is secretly administering the same experimentation to Pierce that he was doing on Sacha and the chimps, despite telling everyone that the research was presently only limited to animals and had not yet moved on to the next phase.

Pierce has been having violent mood swings, and wants to stop the drug treatment he’s getting from Nesic, but Nesic talks him out of it. After the latest treatment - which involves sticking a giant needle into the back of his head - Pierce has another mood swing and goes AWOL from the Air Force base to visit his family, but soon demonstrates his newfound predisposition to violence with his wife.

Meanwhile, Sacha has also gone AWOL, which is even more problematic in that Sacha was locked up in a cage and it should be harder for him to escape. Sacha is found dead, along with a mangled animal control officer. But Hood and Young quickly deduce that this is another frame job, that Sacha is being blamed for attacking the animal control officer but really had been killed elsewhere. Hood takes Sacha’s body back to the lab for an autopsy, which prominently features him holding up the chimp’s brain for all of us to see. “Congratulations, Hood, you’ve got me staring at monkey brains,” Rachel notes. Hood determines that Sacha’s amygdala has been enlarged. Among other things, it’s the part of the brain that controls fight-or-flight reactions. Enlarging this part of the brain would give somebody an uncontrolled, instinctive impulse to fight when feeling threatened.

Knowing that Nesic is keeping secrets from them, Hood and Young sneak into his lab one night. They figure out that one of Nesic’s test subjects is no chimp, but a human, and they also quickly suss out that it’s probably the Air Force sergeant who just went AWOL after demonstrating some erratic behavior. Rachel and Jacob know that they need to find Pierce before he does something really dangerous. Fortunately, Pierce is lucid enough when he’s not dealing with immediate perceived threats to know that something is terribly wrong with him, so he has left his family out of the danger and gone into hiding. A couple of drug dealers have the ill fortune of finding his favorite spot of seclusion, though, and Pierce messes them up when they threaten him. Pierce then steals their truck and heads into town, breaking into a pharmacy to look for painkillers.

It’s here at the pharmacy that Rachel and Jacob track him down. Hood reminds Young that they have to appear nonthreatening, which means that Rachel shouldn’t be waving her gun around like she likes to do all the time. It doesn’t really work; Rachel tries a shouty approach anyway. Hood backs her away and calmly approaches Pierce to reason with him and talk him down, and it’s a success. Pierce, in turn, thanks Hood by handing over a copy of DVD surveillance of what really went down at Nesic’s lab originally. It was Pierce who smashed up the lab, trying to put a stop to what was being done to him, and we’re treated to an unfortunately comical scene of the super-human fighting a gaggle of angry super-chimps.

Pierce will be rehabilitated, while Nesic is going to go to jail, with his research career over. But first, Hood has to confront Nesic and try to figure out exactly what he was doing. Hood argues that Nesic was attempting to strip soldiers of their humanity by turning them into machines with no real decision-making or conscience, but Nesic beams that that is exactly what he wanted to do. “Sounds like a heroic advance to me,” he smiles. Oh, crazy talk. But even though Nesic is discredited, the research isn’t really ending with him. DARPA is just going to continue the process without him.

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It’s the Smallville event of the year: the much anticipated wedding of Chloe Sullivan and Jimmy Olsen. You are cordially invited to the Kent farm where love is in the air. With long lost friends and unexpected villains making cameo appearances, it’s more than worth the price of a dinette set from the registry.

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What’s a wedding without home movies? It begins with Clark and Lois sending their greetings, Jimmy waiting for his beautiful bride, Clark escorting Chloe down the steps of the barn… pretty standard stuff so far. We cut to the kissing of the bride, where Jimmy kicks it up a notch by dipping her. It’s only when they begin to cut the cake that a rumbling comes from the roof. Leave it to a dark, shadowy, angry monster to crash the most anticipated wedding of the year.

Eight hours earlier, Lois runs around the Kent farm all manic in the last minute preparations of the wedding. Jimmy makes it known he’s only nervous of seeing Chloe before the ceremony. Superstitious often, Jimmy? He does offer one bit of useful help in offering best man Clark as her plus one. He feels it in his gut that this is the right thing to do. Lois puts up her “strong” front, yet can’t help but smile her goofy smile. It’s good to feel wanted.

Despite his best efforts, Jimmy does indeed run into a glowing Chloe putting on her garter belt. He simply cannot believe his luck here. Chloe takes a minute to list just some of the disasters they’ve weathered thus far in their courtship. Seeing her before the ceremony, she says, is the least of their problems. I can only imagine this conversation would have continued on if not for Davis calling. To keep the groom from stressing even more, she lies about who is really calling. That’s what good brides do.

In the Kent kitchen, Clark learns from Oliver that Lex is alive. There’s a wayward router out there that indicates emails have been sent, and if they can get their hands on that piece of equipment in time, they can track his location. Clark is up for the idea but wants to wait until after the wedding. Oliver seems incredulous to the idea of waiting one second more.

It seems the point is moot as Clark later whooshes to Oliver’s plane, router in hand. Clark says Oliver can’t be mad at Lex for the sins of Lionel. Of course, Oliver could care less as all he wants is the router. Again, Clark chooses to wait until after the wedding before he’ll help again. Lucky for Oliver, a guy appears from behind the curtain, saying he’s already downloaded information from the router during the lover’s quarrel.

I have to say, Allison Mack totally rocks the wedding dress. Lois makes her way to the loft, with Chloe thanking her for what she did to the barn. Davis plays the role of the jilted lover and calls for the 437th time. There are more pressing issues as Chloe needs to find her something borrowed. Clark arrives just in time for her to suggest his kryptonite. Wisely, he pulls the flower from the freshman dance long ago. Apparently, he never throws away good memories.

Meanwhile in Cuba, Green Arrow enters a textile mill when he shoots what he thinks is Lex. Turns out, it’s just a mannequin with a note saying “Sorry I missed you.” A concealed gal roars out of nowhere and knocks our hunk down. Holy crap, it’s Lana! It seems they’re both there to settle various scores. Even with all the information the router is providing, she’s not totally convinced Lex is alive. He offers to help her, but she’s less than thrilled at that concept. Oliver lets her know Chloe is getting married and even goes so far as to invite her to the wedding. Of course, Lana claims its “complicated,” but Oliver has a way of laying on quite the guilt trip!

Lois and Clark meet at the stairs with that look in their eyes. She helps Clark with his father’s cufflinks with that hopeful look in her eyes. He begins to read Jimmy’s backup vows, which only makes Lois even more emotional.

In stark contrast to the happenings on the Kent farm, we find Davis massively upset and bloody, calling Chloe yet again. He carries bags full of blood and God knows what else to a dumpster. A random rent-a-cop spots him and pulls his gun once he realizes what is going on. Davis begs the guy to walk away, but before he can, our favorite paramedic begins his transformation to the dark side… taking out the guard in the process.

Slow jazz plays as Clark and Chloe have their dance. She mentions that she’ll never forget all the things they’ve been through. Somehow, a weight has been lifted from her and that is what helped her to move on with the wedding. When Jimmy reclaims his bride, Clark makes his move on Lois. They dance, and awkward pauses allows for the two to move closer and closer… except who should arrive but Lana, the moment killer!

Lois wanders the porch, champagne bottle in hand when Oliver arrives. He offers to be the sympathetic ear. She’s having a lot of feelings and doesn’t know what they mean, having trouble sharing it with her ex of all people. Surprise surprise, the love bug has burrowed deeply into Lois, taking her by complete surprise.

Lana looks at an incoming text reading “Did the Archer believe you?” when Clark finds her. He hoped she would give him some heads-up of her arrival, but he also knows the wedding wasn’t in her original plans. Lana is proud of his mysterious blur actions. She says leaving Smallville was the hardest thing she’s ever done, but she’s glad she had the guts to do it. Clark reveals that he wiped Chloe’s mind.

Jimmy and Chloe are just beginning to cut the cake when it happens… lights flicker, mysterious thumping and everyone freaking the hell out. Out of nowhere, Doomsday busts in, immediately knocking Lana out. It barrels through the barn, destroying everyone and everything in its path. Clark tries to take is on and, of course, fails spectacularly, getting knocked all the way to the loft next to the open box of kryptonite. Jimmy tries to take it on and gets a massive chest wound as a consolation prize. Chloe rushes to his side but finds Doomsday taking aim at her. Lana saves Clark by returning the glowing rock to its box. Oliver shows up to reveal the “thing” took Chloe.

At the emergency room, Clark wanders the halls. He first finds Lana, who asks about Chloe. Oliver is using all his satellites in an effort to find the missing bride. Lois is just outside Jimmy’s room, saying he’s in bad shape, bad enough that the hospital is going to Medevac him to a Star City facility. She wonders why terrible things keep happening to them.

Let’s kick start the sappy montage of everyone in reflecting mode, all while Jimmy is being wheeled away. Doomsday is seen carrying an unconscious Chloe into the Fortress. Once she’s placed on the ice slab, she opens her Brainiac eyes and flashes that evil smile. We end with a body double that bears a striking resemblance to Lex, hooked up like Neo watching the wedding video!

Next time on Smallville: new heroes, new enemies, new legends… coming January 15th! In the meantime, Happy Holidays and we’ll see you in 2009.

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