 Just as Clark and Lana are making progress and he finally sums up enough courage to ask Lana out on a date to a local festival. But an old flame rekindles when Lana s former beau, Whitney Fordman, returns from the Marines to make up for lost time. But something is wrong with Whitney for he isn t himself, and Clark sets off to find out what s wrong and why Whitney doesn t remember some things. But the big twist is that the real Whitney was killed in action in Indonesia, and that the meteor-rock shape shifter Tina Greer (from the  X-Ray  episode) is impersonating Whitney to get romantically close to Lana. Soon, Clark finds himself in a bind then Tina traps and immobilizes Clark in his storm cellar tied up with with Lana s kryptnoite necklace, until help comes from of all things... the spaceship. Meanwhile, Lex confronts Helen Bryce about her employment with Lionel and questions her motives for being in Smallville.