 When Lex Luthor is threatened by Jude Royce, he remembers his past in Metropolis when his former friend Jude stabbed him in the shoulder and was killed in a night-club. The scared Lex tries to find who is haunting him, pretending to be a dead man. Meanwhile, in the high school, each student is assigned to survey the life of another one, and Chloe Sullivan questions the adoption process of Clark by the Kents.