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Committed
Series	8x05
Episode	157
Writer	Bryan Q. Miller
Director	Glen Winter
Broadcast Date	October 16, 2008
Production Code	3T7455
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Contents 1 Summary 2 Recap 3 Guest Cast 4 Featured Music 5 Episode Title 6 Notes 7 Continuity 8 Quotes 9 External Links

[edit] Summary

Chloe and Jimmy are abducted by a psychotic jeweler as they leave their engagement party. Emotionally scarred by his wife's infidelity, the jeweler is now kidnapping couples and subjecting them to a lie detector. Meanwhile, in an effort to find Chloe and Jimmy, Clark and Lois pose as a couple, only to find themselves abducted as well. Those who fail the jeweler's tests die, and now he's asking Chloe if she is in love with anyone else... and how Lois and Clark feel about each other.

[edit] Recap

Chloe and Jimmy have a party to celebrate their engagement, during which Lois gets drunk. Clark warns Lois off the drink and suggests she might be doing it because she is jealous. He encourages her to "show some support". Lois stands on a stool and makes a toast, unintentionally insulting Chloe and Jimmy's "soulmate" status. Clark takes the microphone from Lois and delivers some heartfelt closing words.After the party, Chloe expresses her appreciation to her fiancé for him overcoming his prior jealousy of Clark and Chloe's relationship. Suddenly the couple is blinded by headlights, and see a masked man standing in front of the car. They're both shot with a tranquilizer dart and kidnapped.

The next morning, Lois wakes up on the couch in the living room of the Kent Farm. Hungover wearing Clark's football jersey and noticing her dress is on the opposite chair, she wonders out loud if her and Clark slept together the night before. Clark is quick to assure her they didn't.

At the Daily Planet

office, Tess and her assistant discuss the e-mail from the person who stole the crystal. Her assistanttells her that they were unable to find the IP address, and that the message was sent from a ghost router that disappeared as soon as they saw it. She suggests that it could mean Lex is in fact still alive. Tess enters her office to find Oliver, who confronts her about the Star City towers that she bought right out from under him. He queries her obsession with Lex and questions whether he was only her mentor, but soon backs down and offers to take her to dinner. She tells him "Oliver always wants what Oliver can't have." After Oliver claims it's "just a meal," she accepts. Lois and Clark arrive at Chloe's apartment, but find it to be empty. Rose petals are on the floor and bed, untouched mail lies in a pile just inside the door, and a message is on the answering machine that a drunken Lois had left the night before.Also on the voicemail is a message from Smallville Police Department Impound, informing Chloe and Jimmy that their vehicles were taken in for obstructing a street cleaner. Clark and Lois realize that the couple had never come home the night before.

Chloe and Jimmy are shown to be in a dark dungeon with a mysterious man who declares that he will determine if the two lovers are truly meant to be together. They then realize that the kidnapper has done this before as they see the corpses of a couple.

At the Daily Planet

,Lois and Clark start to investigate Chloe and Jimmy's disappearance, and soon discover that they weren't the only couple to go missing recently. They find that all the victims are connected by the same three shops: a bakery, jewelry store and a stationery shop. Clark suggests he should go to investigate the stationery shop alone, but Lois insists on making it a team effort. Meanwhile, Chloe and Jimmy are attached to lie detectors, and their chairs are connected to electricity. The kidnapper tells them it's his "duty" to determine their love for each other is genuine, and not everyone is meant to be married. He then begins asking questions, asking Jimmy if he's cheated on Chloe. Jimmy declares that he hasn't but the lie detector claims he's being untruthful. Chloe is then shocked, and Jimmy then admits he kissed Maxima . The abductor explains that this test is intended to show lies do not effect the liar, but the ones they love. Chloe, aware of what the kiss with Maxima did to Jimmy, tells him she knows it wasn't his fault.

When the stationery shop leads the investigation to a dead end, Lois remembers that the kidnapper is targeting couples. She suggests they pose as an engaged couple in the jewelry store next. While in the jeweler's, Oliver comes in and sees them together, which forces them to lie and tell him they're getting married. They then go to the bakery, where Clark uses his super speed to ditch Lois while her back is turned.

The kidnapper reveals his motivation when he explains he was cheated on by his wife, and that he wishes someone would have tested his relationship with her. He then continues his interrogation, asking Chloe if she has ever cheated on Jimmy.The lie detector proves her to be telling the truth. He then asks if she is in love with anyone else, which Jimmy insists she doesn't answer. The masked abductor shocks him and insists she answer the question, to which she calmly and truthfully responds "no". They are then congratulated by their captor, and then tranquilized once again. Oliver arrives to pick up Tess, but she tosses him a bo stick and attacks him. He fights back, and as they fight she pries about his emotional state and drinking problem after the death of his parents. He dismisses the subject with a joke, and she tells him he's never been able to take anything seriously, including their former relationship. She demands an explanation for his affair while they were dating, wondering what it was he was so afraid of. He admits he was afraid of her, and they kiss. On her way home, Lois is tranquilized by the kidnapper while leaving a voicemail for Clark. It is revealed that he is the jeweler from the store they visited together. Chloe and Jimmy wake up in their bed, and Chloe says she wouldn't have survived had she gone through the ordeal with anyone else. After Chloe and Jimmy kiss, they call the sheriff and Clark arrives to tell them he can't find Lois. When they tell Clark everything, he realizes that it must have been the jeweler that kidnapped her. Clark rushes to the store where he finds Lois restrained in a chair, and attempts to free her, but is weakened when the jeweler approaches him from behind, wearing a kryptonite watchband. He knocks Clark unconscious.

Clark wakes up in the electrical chair opposite Lois, defenseless due to the kryptonite around them. The test begins, and the jeweler asks Lois if she has ever cheated on her fiancé. Lois denies it, which, to her surprise registers as a lie on the polygraph. The jeweler electrifies Clark, who realizes where the kryptonite is. Lois tries to convince the jeweler that they were only pretending to be a couple to investigate the kidnappings. However, he refuses to believe her and continues the test. He asks Lois if she loves Clark, and Clark asks her to tell the truth. She reluctantly says yes, which proves true. Clark, who thought she was lying, is somewhat taken aback by this, having flinched for the electricity he thought was imminent. The jeweler asks Clark of his feelings for Lois, but gets close enough for Clark to pull off the wristband and throw it into the sewer. He head-butts the jeweler and uses his heat vision to sever the steam pipes.

Later at the Isis Foundation

, after everyone has recovered from recent events, Lois apologizes to Chloe for her druken toast during the engagement party and chalks it up to her tainted view of relationships. She explains she just didn't want Chloe to go through the same heartache she's faced. Chloe reassures her that she knows in her heart she has made the right decision. Lois admits she's jealous, butwhen Jimmy arrives she gives him an awkward hug to welcome him to the family. As soon as Lois leaves, Jimmy admits a secret: his father is an alcoholic, and he has never actually met his mother. He explains that recent events have made him realize that they cannot have secrets between them, and he apologizes for keeping them from her. She forgives and embraces him.

Oliver wakes up with Tess at the manor in a romantic mood. He wants to spend a weekend together, and reveals a diamond bracelet for her. She refuses his gift and tells him it was only sex; nothing romantic. He is surprised as she has changed so much from the person he met on the island. She explains that she has simply grown up and passes the blame to him for leaving when things started to get interesting between them before.

At the Daily Planet, Lois attempts to avoid Clark but accidentally runs into him on the elevator. To clear the air, Lois mentions the jeweler had confessed. Things get somewhat awkward when she mentions the lie detector, but Clark congratulates her on being such a good liar. To save face, Lois plays along and claims she slipped the sensor off her finger. As she gets out of the elevator, Lois says that they would have been in trouble had it been Clark that answered the question.

[edit] Guest Cast

• Macy - David Lewis

[edit] Featured Music

• "Rescue Dog"- Jill Cohn

[edit] Episode Title

• Committed generally means to be wholeheartedly dedicated to something, in this case a partner in a romantic relationship.

[edit] Notes

• This episode has a similar premise to the Season 5 episode Mercy, where a masked villain kidnapped Lionel Luthor and Martha Kent to play his "game". However, the two villains' motives and methods were very different.
• While trying to convince Lois to take the elevator rather than the stairs, Clark says, "Statistically, this is the safer way to travel." In Superman: The Movie, Superman tells Lois that when it comes to flying, "Statistically speaking of course, it's still the safest way to travel." In Superman Returns, Superman also says (in reference to flying), "Statistically speaking, it's still the safest way to travel."
• Clark uses many of his powers in this episode. He uses super speed to get to the Jeweler's shop in Metropolis, super hearing to locate Lois, super breath to blow down the door, heat vision to destroy the steam pipes, his healing ability after he throws away the jeweler's bracelet, and super strength to escape from his chains.
• Davis Bloome does not appear in this episode.
• David Lewis plays the jeweler in this episode. He also played Dr. Marcus in the Season Two episode Calling.

[edit] Continuity

• Chloe brings up the Season Six episode Crimson, when Lois crashed Lana's engagement party under the influence of red kryptonite.
• Jimmy mentions being seduced by Maxima, which happened in the previous episode Instinct.
• Lois is seen wearing Clark's old football jersey after waking up hung-over on Clark's couch. Clark's last football game for the Smallville Crows was in Season Four's Jinx, when he led the Crows to the State Championship.
• Lois is wearing Clark's game day jersey, which is red and yellow; it also has a LuthorCorp logo on it, as Lex Luthor bought the entire team uniforms. This jersey is different from the red and white jersey worn by Chloe Sullivan in Devoted.
• This is the first appearance of super breath since the Season Six episode Freak.
• Oliver tells Tess that she has changed considerably from the person that she was as seen in Toxic.

[edit] Quotes

Lois: Chloe?

Clark: Jimmy?

Lois: You know what Lois likes to see when she comes home. Pants. Pants on everyone.

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Lois: Oh my god, Chloe, I am so sorry. I mean I know my face is under "faux pas" in the dictionary, but this is a whole new low.

Chloe: I would say this is a close second behind the time you crashed Lana's engagement party. In fact, you may want to start avoiding engagement parties all together.

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Psychotic jeweler: (referencing Clark) Do you love this man?

Lois: (crying, nodding) Yes.

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Lois: (to Clark) You know, you're coming dangerously close to cocky. (Clark superspeeds off screen)

Lois: What, no snarky comments from the peanut gallery?

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Lois: How about this one, pumpkin?

Clark: Anything you want, muffin!

[edit] External Links

• TV.com

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