Writer:	Steven S. DeKnight
Director:	Paul Shapiro
Star:	Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang),  Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan),  Michael Rosenbaum (Alexander ('Lex') Joseph Luthor),  Tom Welling (Clark Kent/Kal-El of Krypton)
Recurring Role:	James Marsters (Professor Milton Fine)
Guest Star:	Erica Cerra (Courtney),  Kaare Anderson (Ramirez),  Sebastian Gacki (Delivery Boy),  Angelika Baran (Sorority Girl),  Keira Kabatow (),  Richard Kahan (Bitterman),  Colin Lawrence (Doctor),  Cory Monteith (Frat Cowboy),  Luciana Carro (Kayrin (uncredited)),  Carrie Fisher (Pauline Kahn),  Brooke Nevin (Buffy Sanders)

In England, depending on the time of day this episode is broadcast, you either see Lana bite Clark's neck (at the later hour) or the scene is cut just as she is moving down to bite him. (edit) Angelika Baran-Libera previously played a different character, Erika Fox, in "Tempest." (edit) Music By: Esthero (Wicked Lil' Grrrls), Martin Grech (Unholy), and Bauhaus (Bela Lugosi's Dead) (edit) On the episode's first airing, clips of music videos were featured from the upcoming Metropolis Mix collecton. Clips included Josh Kelley's "Almost Honest," Diamond Nights "The Girl's Attractive," and "Breaking Benjamin's "Forget It." (edit) At the end there is a "In Memory of Kimberly Regent" post. Kimberly Regent was a prop master on Smallville and many other shows, and died May 10, 2005 of lymphatic cancer. (edit)

Chloe: (while Ms. Kahn reads over Chloe's article) Is that a good "hmm" or a bad "hmm"?
Kahn: Oh, it's a good "hmm". If we printed tabloid nonsense like the Inquisitor does, but we're the Daily Planet and tall tales about slaying Buffy the vampire don't make it into the pages of a real newspaper.
Chloe: Ms. Kahn, I didn't make this up. They weren't vampires of the mythical sense, they were victims of an unusual disease. Look, here, it's all researched. Interviews, eyewitness accounts, the CDC report--everything.
Kahn: Hmm.
Chloe: Was that a good "hmm" or a bad...
Kahn: (interrupting) Shut up. Here's the thing: your writing shows you aren't completely without talent.
Chloe: Thank you.
Kahn: But, you're not a real reporter either, yet. Everyone has to start somewhere. Welcome to the Daily Planet, kid. (edit) Clark: How much of what happened do you remember?
Lana: Bits and pieces. Nothing coherent, thank God. But there was one thing that stuck with me, something I felt when I bit you.
Clark: What was that?
Lana: Warmth and love and an overwhelming feeling of strength. I think that for a moment, I felt what was inside your heart and I've never felt closer to someone in my entire life. (edit) Buffy: (after Lana brings back Clark) Nice work. He's quite a catch. One-hundred percent corn-fed Kansas beef. Let's eat.
Lana: Wait. Isn't there something else we can do with him?
Buffy: Like what? Barbeque?
Lana: No, like convert him. Into one of us.
(the Tri Psis laugh)
Sorority Girl: We're a sorority, not a fraternity.
Sorority Girl #2: No boys allowed. (edit) Lana: (about Clark) What're you going to do to him?
Buffy: Oh, me? Oh, honey. This is your freshman mess. Find Clark and bring him back here with just enough life in him for all of us to have a taste, or you're the one who we're feeding off of tonight. (edit) Buffy: How could you be so stupid? You never leave anyone alive, you have to finish them off.
Sorority Girl: Or turn them by making them drink your blood. Oh, that guy Carlos saw you.
Lana: His name's Clark.
Buffy: Oh, whatever. He saw you feeding and he was sneaking around my room. That's two strikes. I'm not waiting for a third.
Lana: He's my boyfriend.
Buffy: So? Lana, you're going to live forever now. He's going to get old and withered and sag in places you don't want to see sagging. You're special, he's not. Deal. (edit)

Although Clark is bitten by Lana the night before, neither Lana nor Lex seem to think it's strange that he has no bite marks on his neck the next day. (edit) When Lana & Clark are in Chloe's dorm, the morning after she was turned into a vampiress, Lana drinks something and her hair is kind of messed up. But, when she turns around her hair is combed and perfect. (edit) When Lana gets between Buffy and Clark, Buffy punches Lana with her left hand, hitting Lana on her right. Naturally after being hit, Lana's head is thrown to her left, but she falls to her right. (edit) Lex says some of the things the Professor says in class come dangerously close to libel. Libel only applies to printed lies, slander is for spoken ones. (edit) When Professor Fine goes to see Lex Luthor to give him the file on his past, Lex is playing pool and the white ball is to the left of Lex, when Professor Fine shoots the ball into the corner pocket, the ball is now on his right (edit)

Kahn: And tall tales about slaying Buffy the Vampire...
Along with the villainess' name of Buffy Sanders, this is an in-joke/homage to Buffy Summers, the title character from the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (edit) Clark: I hate costumes.
Alluding to the fact that, in the future, Clark Kent dresses up in a costume (Superman) in order to hide his true identity. (edit) Zorro
Clark dresses as Zorro, the legendary Spanish hero of the California people that served as an inspiration for Batman. Clark makes note that he doesn't like the mask, but he likes the cape. Superman, of course, wears no mask but is famous for his red cape. (edit) Pauline Kahn
The character's last name and general position/authority alludes to Jeanette Kahn, onetime Publisher and President at DC Comics. (edit) Bat references:
Clark escaping through window references Batman in the comics, who would always leave through a window after talking to someone, when they weren't looking. The wind would then blow the curtain, as what happened here. There is also a long focus on a bat decoration for the Halloween party, another Bat homage. Finally, Clark finds an article entitled "High School Senior Survives Bat Attack in Cave". Batman's hideout was the Batcave. (edit)