 A solar storm provokes uncontrollable changes in Clark s abilities making him use his powers in rash fashion. While running to meet Pete and Lana at The Talon, Clark suddenly stops on the road, and the drunken driver, journalist Perry White, crashes into a pole trying to avoid him. Perry White (Clark s future boss and editor of the Daily Planet) is an alcoholic ex-reporter from the Daily Planet, now a tabloid freelancer, whom he blames Lionel Luther for his career downfall. Perry blackmails the Kents into getting Clark to transport him around Smallville for a couple of days because Perry is in town writing an article about the 1989 meteor shower and starts to suspect Clark s abilities. Meanwhile, the upset Lex has a psychoanalysis evaluation on him due to imposition of the insurance company to Luthor Corp.