Rush

Season 2, Episode 14, Aired
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Students are engaging in wild, sometimes suicidal stunts, and Chloe and Pete are the next ones to become "infected"...and they use a piece of red meteor rock to get Clark to join them.
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  • Alien bugs start making people nuts

    5.3
    "Mediocre"
    By techie775, Jun 03, 2011 Report Abuse
    I liked it was going before Lana got pissed at JUST Clark for kissing Chloe. That made NO sense at all. It takes two to do a kiss like that so it gets illogical not to hold a grudge against Chloe too. But it didn't makes sense for Pete to be all of a sudden having pieces of kryptonite ready to use against Clark either. I thought that stuff wasn't readily available. Otherwise the plot was fine and I could understand a possible future tension between Clark and Lex. But it seems like they make it every episode some new alien threat comes that Clark has to stop. I thought this was before he became superman...moreless

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  • this was a good ep

    8.5
    "Great"
    By cube2k8, May 10, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep pete and cloey are at a wilde party in the caves and a guy that cloey knows jumps off the top of the thing and dies . but when pete goes to get up he is bitten by a nasty parisite that makes you want to live on the age that gives you that rush . so when pete starts acting werid clark realizes it but cant do anything when he starts to tell people in public clark is alien and almost jumps in the front of a truck. but clark saves him then he says stay and uses krptonight on clark the scientist goes and tells lex they found a parysite and he has it shipped to the lab. then clark and cloey go down and investiagate the story turns out cloey gets bit again. and she starts acting weird she tells the guy to kiss her ass. so clark must figure it out before its too late they then pete and cloey put red krptonight on him and he starts acting like he normal does when he is next to red krpotonigt thing is clark reaveals secrets to cloey and they start making out at the tallen before they og and jump the gorge thing is lana sees it when clarks comes out of red krptonight and starts saying he did not mean to do that but she does not listen and clark must figure it out.moreless

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  • A cave-rave turns up a nasty parasite, which bites both Pete and Chloe, who go off their inhibitions. They then convert Clark to his dark side using red kryptonite, and Lana spots him in a lip-lock with Chloe - bad times coming.moreless

    8.7
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    By cxtasy, Sep 04, 2008 Report Abuse
    This episode is geared to the high schoolers in fandom, starting with a noisy rave in the cave, but ending quickly when Chloe's lab partner is killed in a fall. Pete also falls prey to a cave-borne infection, which turns out to be a scorpion-like parasite with a nasty bite - leading to another bad-girl, bad-boy story line where hedonism reigns.

    Sam Jones has to make do with a stunt double doing his motocross wheelies down the Smallville sidewalk, while Clark slowly tries to figure out why everyone is going bonkers. Back at the cave, Clark meets a new character, Prof. Walden, whom Lex has hired to do hieroglyphics research - Lex presses Clark about his frequent cave visits, a probe which Clark neatly deflects by claiming a term paper interest.

    Clark barely rescues Pete from a city bus runover, but his worst fear materializes - Pete, not in his right mind, yells to everyone that Clark is an alien. Chloe gets a bug bite also, and she plays it better, but why does Clark fail to recognize Chloe's uninhibited behavior, even as her eyeshadow thickens and her bleached blonde hair makeover says "tramp?"

    When Pete slips red kryptonite to Clark so he'll join the pod-people, Clark demos superpowers to him and to Chloe, and Lana sees him and Chloe in a lip-lock just as the potent red rock falls out and Clark is restored to his senses. Pete and Chloe attempt an end-game off a cliff in a blue 70s-era Camaro, but Clark arrives to catch the whole car and cast. Both recover after parasite-removal surgery, but fortunately not their memories of Clark's power trip.

    Lana ash-cans a rose offered by Clark as a broken-date apology, so she and Clark are on-again and off-again. Allison Mack is the star here, with a wide range of characterizations and clever lines delivered just right. As a re-run, it's a C-.moreless

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  • I Like My Adrenaline Low, Thank You!

    7.8
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    By lenzinoH20, Apr 14, 2008 Report Abuse
    Rush-Students are engaging in wild, sometimes suicidal stunts, and Chloe and Pete are the next ones to become "infected"...and they use a piece of red meteor rock to get Clark to join them.

    A fun and sometimes disturbing episode, "Rush" sees Pete and Chloe getting infected by some meter infected insects in the cave that soon feed on adrenaline causing them to act out in disasterous ways. Sam Jones III and Allison Mack looks like they were having fun acting out of character for an episode which is to be expected. While I found Pete's antics annoying, Chloe's antics were much more entertaining. I loved her telling off the doctor in the caves and making fun of Lex's lack of hair. The parasites themselves looked disgusting and you can tell the designers put some real thought on how the parasties' look. Also, Red K Clark returns and it's always fun to have him around. The only downside is Lana's reaction when she sees Clark and Chloe together at the Talon. She's all upset about Clark kissing Chloe when it was obvious Chloe was all over him when she saw them. Just more needless melodrama to shake up the still non-existent Clana romance. Also, Lex continues to investiagte the caves which is an interesting development. All and All, "Rush" is very watchable episode with some cool scenes if yuo can get over the melodrama that is Clana.moreless

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  • Parasites in the Kawatche Caves are causing Smallville High students to participate in deadly stunts. When Pete and Chloe are infected, Pete slips red meteor rock into Clark's shirt pocket, then Clark reveals his secret to, and makes out with, Chloe.moreless

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    By scorpionqueen86, Oct 14, 2007 Report Abuse
    RUSH gives viewers the brief, but memorable, return of Clark's bad boy alter ego, as well as personality changes for a couple of other characters. During a "rave in a cave", Pete becomes infected with a parasite in the Kawatche Caves, and it's soon discovered that the parasite feeds off adrenaline and that other students have died after being infected. Of course, when Clark and Chloe poke around the cave trying to figure out what happened to Pete, Chloe also becomes infected and begins flirting with Clark. To get Clark to join in on the fun, Pete realizes that he needs help from red kryptonite, and slips a piece of the red rock into Clark's shirt pocket, instantly transforming our favorite boy scout. Under the influence of red k, Clark reveals his secret to Chloe, then proceeds to make out with her in the backseat of Pete's car and in the Talon. Luckily, Chloe doesn't remember any of it after becoming uninfected, but during all this, Clark finally gets up the nerve to ask Lana out...and she actually says yes! However, Pete and Chloe soon make him look like a liar, then Lana's patience runs out when she catches Chloe and Clark locking lips.

    Highlights, for me, include: Chloe spontaneously being kissed by her nerdy lab partner, Chloe being infected and telling off Dr. Walden (who Lex hired to translate the cave symbols), Clark and Pete revealing Clark's secret to Chloe, Clark and Chloe making out in Pete's car, and Clark and Chloe's game of strip poker using imaginary cards. Overall, I give the episode four out of five stars. I would've given it the complete five, but I hated that Chloe and Pete made Clark look bad in front of Lana, despite me being an avid Clois supporter and therefore unable to stand even the idea of Clark pining after Lana, much less dating her.moreless

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    • When Lana is coming in the hospital room to talk to Chloe, Clark gets up and walks out of the room. The camera goes to Chloe and you hear the sound of a closing door. When the camera goes back to Lana, the door is still open behind her. Edit
    • Trivia: The Talon sign says "Espresso - Your morning rush". Edit
    • Chloe was a big part of the "Save the Cave" campaign in the "Skinwalker" episode. Why would she want to go to a rave party in the cave without even giving Clark a call? A party like that is sure to do damage to the cave that she fought so hard to save, and those caves mean a lot to Clark. Edit

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    • Music: "I Just Wanna Be Loved" by AM Radio, "Never Gonna Come Back Down" by BT, "Bread And Water" by Sheila Nicholls, and "Don't Dream It's Over" by Sixpence None the Richer. Edit
    • John Glover doesn't appear in this episode. Edit
    • We get another mention of Principal Reynolds (Richard Gant) from "Redux" - so when do we get to see him on-camera again? (Ironically, he guest-starred in this week's episode of Charmed the week this episode originally aired - maybe he was too busy.) Edit

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    • Lana: Clark, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that you and Chloe still have feelings for each other. Clark: Lana, Chloe and I are just friends. Lana: Obviously closer friends than we are. Edit
    • Chloe: Why the sudden Jekyll and Hyde? What--don't tell me you're thinking about Lana? Clark: This has nothing to do with Lana. Chloe: You don't have any real feelings for me, do you, Clark? Every time we hang out, it's just to get answers. "Chloe, why don't you research this?" or "Chloe, why don't you look up that?" I'm nothing more to you than your own personal search engine, and I'm sick of it. I want you, Clark. Edit
    • Chloe: I heard about that thing they extracted from me. Did they get a picture I can see? Clark: You don't need to see it. Chloe: It's gross? Clark: (nods his head) Pretty bad. Edit

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    • Pete: Clark's Achilles' heel. Pete is referring to the Greek mythology of Achilles. Achilles' mother tried to make Achilles immortal by dipping her son in the river Styx. She neglected to wet the heel that she held him by, thus leaving this spot as Achilles' only vulnerable spot. This vulnerability would later be exploited in order to kill Achilles. Edit
    • Chloe: Why the sudden Jekyll and Hyde? Chloe is referring to the novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. The novel vividly portrays the psychological condition of split personality. Edit
    • Chloe: These caves have survived for hundreds of years, I don't think a little Moby is going to hurt them. Moby is an electronic musician who is best known for singles such as "Go", "Porcelain", and "South Side" with Gwen Stefani. He took his performing name from the novel, Moby Dick (which was written by his great-great-granduncle). Edit

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