Smallville Recap:Instinct

Smallville Episode 8.04 “Instinct” Recap

Air Date: Oct 9, 2008

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Summoned to Earth by a Kryptonian beacon Tess was playing with, Maxima begins the search for her soulmate. Unfortunately it comes with a body count and some poor stockbroker is the first dude to get her killing kiss. He dies of a heart attack because he isn’t Kryptonian.

At the Daily Planet, Lois gives Clark some dating advice telling he needs less “damsel in distress” and more “wild cherry.” Gee, wonder who she could be referring to? Lois also quickly jumps on the Maxima story, telling Clark’s he not ready. Hey! An actual Jimmy sighting, I almost forgot he was on the show this season. He and Chloe engage in playful banter and he accidentally knocks down a book with a gushing love letter that Chloe wrote Clark when they were in high school. Jimmy is understandably ticked and wants to know why Chloe never wrote him a letter like this.

Ollie tries to rekindle with Tess by sending her a nice dress and a note to meet him at the Ace of Clubs. She tells her assistant to politely decline. Maxima shows up and wants to know why she can find nothing but human men on this planet. Um, I’ll take humans are the native race for $1,000? Maxima finds the dress and the note and thinks Tess is trying to keep the Kryptonian man for herself. Maxima slams Tess into a wall and gets ready for her date.

Lois and Clark are investigating the case and there’s a string of corpses with high endorphin levels between Smallville and Metropolis. Maxima gets to the Ace of Clubs and thinks Jimmy is the man she’s been looking for. Clark talks to Chloe, who thanks to her Brainiac download knows way too much about this stuff. Clark is scared for her and Chloe tells Clark that he can’t “wave his Kryptonian wand” and fix this one. Reluctantly, Clark goes to resume the hunt for Maxima.

Poor Jimmy takes the killer kiss and begins cardiac arrest. Clark comes running in to save him and Maxima sees Clark in action. There’s the man she was looking for. Tess wants to hire Chloe to hack a supercomputer. Chloe reminds Tess that Lex had her locked up for doing that, so she’s uninterested. Jimmy’s OK, since Clark got him to the hospital in time. He tells Clark about the letter Chloe wrote him. Clark explains that he’s not a threat and Jimmy should be glad to have Chloe. Finally, Clark and Maxima encounter each other and he can’t resist her feminine wiles either.

Lois catches them Clark and Maxima in the elevator and Miss Lane ain’t happy. She snaps at them and Clark follows after her. While Lois is in her car talking about what a slut Maxima is, Maxima shows up and tells Lois that Clark is very attracted to her, else he couldn’t have resisted Maxima’s powers. She also throws Lois’ car like a top – jealous much? Clark runs into Tess, who recognizes Maxima from their earlier encounter. She pulls out Kryptonian crystal and gets a phone call about Maxima’s rampage. Clark listens in and realizes Lois is in danger.

Maxima makes convincing arguments and it looks like Clark is thinking about it, but the Big Blue Scout gives her the Super Brushoff. Maxima leaves Earth – for now. Chloe talks to Clark and tells him he blew his chance, she’s in love with Jimmy now. She does ask Clark to give her away at the wedding. As a wedding present, Clark said if he can get his hands on the computer in the crystal Jor-El could heal Chloe.

Chloe realizes that must be the supercomputer Tess needed hacked and goes to talk to her about it. Tess says computer is gone and that someone stole it. Tess later gets an e-mail asking if she’s looking for the crystal and telling her she’s not ready to know what’s inside it.

Lois and Clark talk about their latest weird experience. Clark tells Lois about all Maxima’s “soulmate” business then asks what Maxima said to her. Lois plays it off as if it were nothing important. Clark offers Lois her old room at the farm but she turns him down, saying their being roommates didn’t work last time.