Talon
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| Talon | |
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Coffee shop | |
| Industry | Food service |
| Management | Tess Mercer (Managing Director of parent corporation) Lex Luthor (owner), Lana Lang (co-founder, former assistant manager) |
| Location | Smallville |
| Status | Operational |
[edit] Physical Appearance
The Talon is located at 220 Main Street, Smallville Kansas, 35409 [1]. It is across the street from Fordman's Department Store and connected to Nell's flower shop. [2].Originally designed to be a movie theater, the exterior facade of the building has neon sign that, letter-by-letter, spelled out the theater's name repeatedly. Inside operates a modern coffee shop that features an Egyptian design motif which gives the place certain mysticism. It has a main entrance and a back door that opens onto a side street behind the building which is often used as a parking. [3].
The building has an apartment located at the top, accessed through internal stairs and a basement used to store things without using. Also, it still has the original theater that in occasions provides functions to the public.
[edit] Early History
The Talon was built by vaudevillian and Smallville native William Talon and opened in September of 1939 with a matinee screening of the Wizard of Oz. Though primarily a movie house, the theater also hosted the Kansas Philharmonic when the orchestra visited Smallville.The Talon burned down in the Main Street fire of 1955 and William Talon immediately made plans to rebuild and expand. On November 29, 1955, the Talon reopened its doors to a full house of teenagers eager to see James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. During this period of time, Laura and Lewis Lang met for the first time into the theater.
To celebrate its 60th anniversary, in 1999 the Talon show a restored re-released version of the Wizard of Oz, film with which have started the business. Having remained family-owned and operated until 2000, the Talon saw its patronage fall over the years due to the proliferation of large-chain multiplex theaters, and on February 26, 2000, the Talon Theater dimmed its lights for the last time.
Nell Potter acquired the Talon Theater in 2000 and unable to find a new tenant to revive the old movie house, Potter sold the property in 2002 to local businessman Lex Luthor.
[edit] Movie Theater
Originally all the building of the Talon was a movie house. It had all the trappings of a classic movie house: royal red velour seats, moldings and wall sconces in the theaters, and plush couches and upholstered chairs in the lobby. When opened, it was a 560 seat theater, but after a fire, reopened as a 750-seat. It has gently curved staircases on each side of the theater led to a spacious balcony, where teenagers often hung out.
The theater is also still functioning, and shows classic movies.
[edit] Coffee Shop
Lana Lang and Lex Luthor renovated the building and converted the site into a modern coffee shop. It offers a full-service espresso bar and pastries, has wireless Internet access, occasional live music, and karaoke.The place is decorated with an Egyptian theme, with ornaments in the form of sphinxes and hieroglyphics painted on the walls and pillars. The gold and yellow mixed with blue and violet of the walls harmoniously complement the environment. Also has lights stuck on the walls, porches and stairways, that light up at night and give it a mystical touch to the place.
It has individual tables scattered all over the place and also padded seats to ensure the convenience of its customers. It has a bar with stools, set in the middle of the place. There, the orders are made and also displayed the various candies and cakes. The coffee machines are also located in this place.
The waitresses usually wear an apron of color as a uniform. Some of the waitresses have been Lana Lang, Lois Lane and Kara Kent.
[edit] Talon Apartment
Initially, the space was a studio which served as a deposit located above the Talon. In 2004, Lana Lang renovated it when Adam Knight stated that he had nowhere to live.
The apartment's only access is through the stairs located above the bar. It has a stained glass front the door. The apartment is technically a studio apartment, with no real wall separating the bedroom from the kitchen and living area. Inside, the apartment is a long room furnished minimally to give feeling of spaciousness.The walls are turquoise with colored squares and have posters of old movies adorning it. It also has an additional room located on the side of the living room. [4].
The bedroom area is located next to the bathroom and separate of the living room by the kitchen. It has a bed located in the middle with night tables on the sides. The kitchen has a small bar and drawers against the wall to store things. The living room have a futon that serves as a bed on occasions and that is located in front of a window overlooking the neon signs of the building. It also has a modern smokestack that gives warmth to the place.
Adam Knight lived there until Lana discovered he was spying on her, and tried to have him evicted. She enlisted Lex Luthor's help, but before the two could act, he was taken away by Lionel Luthor and Dr. Lia Teng.
After Lana left to attend school in Paris, Lex decided to close down the Talon. However, Lana abruptly and urgently returned to Smallville three months later, and rented the apartment.
When Lana moved into the dorms at Metropolis University, Lois Lane rented the apartment. Although she no longer works as a waitress, she is still the Talon apartment's current tenant. As Jonathan Kent's campaign manager, Lois hosted his election victory party at the Talon in January 2006.
The events of Dark Thursday caused the Metropolis University dorms to close, so Lois shared the apartment with her cousin Chloe Sullivan for over two years. At the time, Chloe Sullivan and Lois Lane were both Daily Planet journalists who have written articles attacking LuthorCorp. Despite Lex Luthor's position as their landlord, he did not object to their staying in the Talon apartment. That said, he is not above abusing his position: in the past, he has used his status as landlord to excuse snooping in the Talon apartment.
Lois moved out of the Talon when Chloe's fiancé Jimmy Olsen moved in. Chloe and Jimmy were the residents of the Talon until their wedding. When Lana Lang returned to Smallville for a short time in 2009, she stayed with Chloe in the apartment while Jimmy was still in the hospital. However, the relationship was unable to sustain Jimmy's severe injury and Jimmy did not return after leaving the hospital. In order to be close to Chloe, Davis Bloome took up residence in the basement of the Talon. The day Jimmy died, he revealed to Chloe that he had purchased a loft apartment for the two of them to live in.
[edit] Season One
Lana Lang is upset to find a sale sign in the window at the flower shop of her Aunt Nell, which includes the Talon Theater. She explains to Clark Kent that it has sentimental value for her since her parents met there. She tries to talk to the buyer in hopes of convincing him to renovate And then discover that the new owner is Lex Luthor.Lana makes an impassioned plea to Lex to renovate the old theater, but he is unmoved by sentiment and says her that he plans to create a parking garage to service downtown. After speaking with Clark, Lana decides not to quit with her project and then she makes another presentation to Lex. This time, Lana proposes to turn the Talon into a successful café, bookstore and venue for local bands and art house movies. Impressed, Lex accepts the idea. Then, Lana and Lex becomes partnership. Lana becomes excited with the project, and start to repairs the building for the reopening. Once completed, she gives a housewarming and is fulfilled.
Like any business, the Talon starts with the left foot and does not produce much profit. Lana catches a employee stealing cash from the register and fired her. Days later, Clark stops by the Talon to see Lana, and notes that the place is deserted. Then Lana reveals to him that the Beanery is trying to put them out of business. Clark visits Lex to see if he has any ideas about how to help the Talon but Lex insists that the Talon has to find its own feet and he doesn't intend to subsidize it. Lex arrives at the Talon and although he doesn't offer to bail Lana out, he encourages her to keep fighting for the Talon and get creative. Then Lana discovers that the Beanery has several health code violations and and publishes them in the Smallville Ledger. Since then, the Talon becames the Smallville's most popular after-school hangout.[edit] Season Two
After a tornado crosses through the town causing damage, the Red Cross converted the Talon into a disaster relief center. Lana helped the injured people and once the danger has passed, continues with her business. For an entire summer, Lana continued working in the Talon. During a heat wave, Clark's development a new ability within the Talon and almost a fire in the building. Being controlled by Desirée Atkins, Lex arrives at the Talon to inform Lana that he's closing the Talon in 24 hours. Once solved the mystery, Lex gave Lana back the Talon.When Aunt Nell get a new boyfriend, Lana didn't want to be around Nell and Dean and spent nights at the Talon. During that she´s going through old boxes, she finds a photograph of her mother hugging an unidentified man. Lana starts wondering about the mysterious photograph and then find that her biological father is still alive.
During this time, the Talon served several social events, like Ryan James surprise welcome-back party and a protest movement to save the Kawatche Caves. When Witney backs, Lana also celebrate a party in his honor.The Talon serves for Lana met in several occasions with his biological father, but their relationship goes into a tailspin because of jealousy for part of the wife of Henry Small and had to stop seeing.
Lana finally agrees to go on with Clark after thinking the things better and and accepts his proposal for an date but the things get bad again when discovers an infected Chloe and Clark make-out session at the Talon. Days later, Clark tries to hold a job at the Talon and goes and surprises Lana by asking for a job. She is reluctant because he doesn't "have the best track record for keeping appointments," and suggests he try the hardware store but finally got the job. By this time, Lucas Luthor stripped of all the things that Lex own, including the Talon, and berates Clark for being late for his shift and tells Lana to fire him. Lana refuses, so he threatens to fire her too, but the new partnership agreement doesn't allow that. The next day Clark goes back to the Talon to explain why he left his shift and Lana says she isn't mad, but she has to fire him.
Some time later, the cinema of the Talon began to run again. After watching a horror movie with his friends, and while Lana is cleaning up the theater, an old friend of Lana that dies years ago appears in front of her, and begins to make her believe that she is crazy.
[edit] Season Three
Lana spend all summer looking for Clark. She still manages the Talon but has stopped giving so much importance because his priority was find Clark. When Clark returns , he goes to the Talon and tentatively approaches Lana and apologizes for the way he acted in Metropolis. Since that, Lana continues managing the Talon like ever.When Perry White visit Smallville, Clark takes Perry to the Talon, where Perry callously asks Lana for an interview about the day of the meteor shower. She is offended and asks them both to leave.
After an incident in a stable caused by Lex, Lana is wounded and can not attend to the business for some weeks. After she recovered partially, Lana's have a welcome home party at the Talon. During his rehabilitation, she meets Adam Knight and befriends him. He spent time at the Talon with her and when Lex is going over financial reports from the Talon, notes that some bills from the Talon included some gift baskets to him. Lana invites Adam to live in the apartment above the Talon and he agree. Then, she renovate the apartment and rent it to him. She haves an slight afraid with him, but after Lana discover the dark secret of Adam, she asks Lex for help to lift Adam out of the building. Lana arrives at the Talon to find that Adam is gone and Lana attempting to scrub away the memory of Adam from the apartment.
[edit] Season Four
Following the departure of Lana toward Paris, the Talon was closed for several months. When she returns to Smallville, goes to visit Lex at the Luthor Mansion and talk about reopening the Talon and Lana renting out the upstairs apartment there. Lex accepts the proposal and then rents the apartment for her. That same night, Lana's boyfriend Jason Teague surprises her by showing up in the Talon to stay together. After an economic crisis, Martha tells Jonathan that she has taken a management position at the Talon because they need the extra income to cover his hospital bills. Since then, she begins to run the business with the help of Lana, who now lived on the Talon.Since Lana began to live in the Talon, she is frequently visited by Jason, who continually help her to reveal the mystery behind the enigmatic Countess Isobel Thoreaux and the stones of power. During this process, Lana is possessed by the spirit of the countess, having nightmares about her and finally meets the manipulative mother's of her boyfriend who goes to the Talon only to meet Lana.
During a night of karaoke at the local, Clark comes in with her ex girlfriend Alicia Baker by his side and Lana becomes upset and angry for this. That same night, she is attacked while taking a shower, but is saved by Jason. Later Jason is attacked outside the Talon, and then Lana blames Alicia for the attacks. Lois Lane got a job at the Talon as a waitress and begins to help Mrs. Kent. When his sister Lucy arrives in Smallville, she cares for her but is upset when she learns that her steal money out of the cash register of the Talon. When Lex is splinted in two, the evil Lex tells Lana after kissing her, that he's going to close the Talon, but when he returns to normal, abort the idea.Later, during morning coffee rush at the Talon, Lois is working when Kevin Grady steals a muffin and a handful of cash out of the cash register. He clears her memory and when she awakens from the trance announces they've been robbed.
In his quest for the Stones of Power, Lana uses the apartment of the Talon to hide the Cristal of Air once she starts to realize the true intentions of Jason and Genevieve, and finally, being possessed by the countess, kills Genevieve, when she confronts her at her apartment.
[edit] Season Five
Always under the administration of Martha Kent, the Talon is still open even after the second meteor shower that asot Smallville. After several ups and downs in their relationship, finally after Clark was made mortal by Jor-El, Clark and Lana consummate their love in the department of the Talon losing their virginity to each other.After returning from his trip to Europe, Lois returns to his old job as a waitress and meets AC, with whom she has a whirlwind relationship for a few of days. Finally, after Lana decides to enlist at the college, she moves from the apartment of the Talon to the campus of the Met U, and Lois is able to rent the place and moved to live there.
Lois continued working as a waitress even she was hired by Jonathan Kent to help him to run for State Senate. Lois hold an election party for Jonathan at the Talon, where they discover that Jonathan has won his bid against Lex for Kansas State Senator. After the death of Jonathan, Martha began to encounter several setbacks as a result of her pain and unliquidated obligations that have been, so on several occasions, Lana was committed to do closing work for Martha helping her.During a thunderstorm, Chloe is taking a shower at Lois' Talon apartment and sees a young girl pleading to help her. Lois rushes into the bathroom and finds Chloe crouched in a corner with her wrists cut. After being accused of attempting suicide, Chloe and Clark investigate the incident and find a skeleton behind of the wall and discover that the girl has been murdered years ago by a former tenant of the apartment.
Martha finally agrees to be Senator after the offer made to her of the position of her late husband, and then left to manage the Talon. Despite this, Lois continues to work and living there although his relationship with the now owner of everything, Lex Luthor, is not entirely good.[edit] Season Six
After awakening her soul of a reporter, Lois leaves the rates of coffee and gets a job at the Metropolis Inquisitor. She continues living at the apartment above the Talon, but after the incidents of the Dark Thursday, now shares the place with Chloe, who stay with her until the Met U recovers from the destruction. Although some time later the bedrooms are repaired, Chloe feels comfortable living in the Talon and choose to stay there.During a dream of Clark abducted by a Zoner, the Talon was actually closed but Chloe still lived within like a beggar. When Clark wakes up, goes to the Talon where he met Lana and recall when the things were simpler, but are interrupted by Lex who takes Lana.
On Valentin day, a party is held at the Talon and Chloe and Jimmy attended along with Clark and Lois, who were spiteful following the commitment of Lana with Lex and the departure of Oliver respectively. There a mystic who sells novelties such as potions gives Lois a lipstick, claiming that after putting it on, she will fall in love. Then, Lois fall in love with Clark after sees him behind her in a mirror. Lana engaged to Lex attracts the attention from the paparazzi, who begin to harass her. After a maniac begins to torment her, she seeks refuge staying with Chloe at the Talon while Lex was on a trip.When Chloe mysteriously disappears after witnessing an abduction, Jimmy placed advertisements by the Talon to see if anyone recognized her. But just then, Chloe appears behind him with no memory of what had happened. Certain day, Chloe wakes up with muddy boots on the floor of her apartment and after investigate, she and Clark discovers that she has been out of the Talon for the nights under the orders of his mother.
After Jimmy's departure, Chloe remained at the Talon living with her cousin.
[edit] Season Seven
Chloe and Lois continue to live in the apartment above the Talon and are frequently visited by Jimmy who had returned from his trip.
When Clark's Kryptonian cousin Kara comes to Smallville, Clark thinks that she must have to hide his identity and socialize with humans and then she gets a job as a waitress at the Talon. During a beauty contest that is held at the Talon, Kara falls in it and wins. She works there until after a discussion with Clark makes her leave Smallville.One night, while Chloe and Jimmy had a date in the coffeehouse of the Talon, Chloe recognizes in the bar an old enemy from high school who had been interned at Bell Reeve years ago and goes after her, thinking she had escaped. When the movie of the Warrior Angel is shot in Smallville, a scene is shot in the Talon.
An amnesiac Kara returns to Smallville and while trying to regain his memory goes to the Talon to try to remember but it's useless. She meets there with Lex, who offers her help to regain his memory and his job if she wanted back.When Chloe is accused of working for a terrorist organization, his apartment is being watched by the federals and Jimmy is approached by a brunette woman at the Talon coffee shop and forced to spy on his girlfriend.
When Kara begins to act strangely, Clark thinks that she could be infected with red kryptonite and then enlist Chloe to help. She lures Kara to her apartment and tries to use green K on her but doesn't work and then discover that "she" is, in fact, Brainiac. Brainiac attacked her and Chloe falls unconscious on the ground, being found later by Jimmy. Finally after, Chloe recovers, Jimmy takes her to the apartment and after realizing how much he loved Chloe, Jimmy proposes her at the Talon coffeehouse, but just then they are ambushed by the DDS, that take Chloe before she can answer.[edit] Season Eight
With Chloe in jail, Lois was the only one living at the Talon for nearly a month. When Chloe is released from Black Creek, she goes to the Talon and there finds Jimmy waiting for her. Then, she finally says yes to his marriage proposal.After Lex's disappear on the Arctic Circle, all his businesses were taken over by his protégé, Tess Mercer, including within the Talon. She goes to the coffee shop to ask Chloe for help her with the mystery that hid the Crystal of Knowledge and after the refusal of Chloe, threatens her but don't achieve greater results.
Jimmy moves in with Chloe to begin to live together and celebrate their engagement party at the Talon coffee shop. Lois, uncomfortable with the situation, decides to moves to another department and then left the building. Chloe wakes up one morning feeling strange and begins to lose his memory, forgetting that Jimmy lived with her and then throwing him out of the apartment. Chloe escapes from the hospital where she was interned and after Davis Bloome finds her, he returns her to the Talon thinking that there might help her better. Chloe and Jimmy continue to live together until their wedding day, in which Jimmy is seriously injured and have to be moved to Star City for better treatment. During this time, Lana returns to Smallville and stay at the Talon apartment, as Chloe travels constantly to care for her husband. Lana and Clark remembers the old days at the Talon and the she realizes that he has changed a lot since she served coffee in the coffee shop.When Lana finally leaves Smallville, Chloe returned to live at the Talon. After a hard fight, Jimmy refuses to return to live with her on the grounds that their marriage was over and then she is left utterly alone in the apartment.
After discover the true identity of Davis Bloome, Chloe is devastated after help him to commit suicide, but one night while she returning home, hears a noise coming from the basement of the Talon and after going to investigate found that Davis had not died. He asks her for help and then Chloe starts to giving him refuge to in the basement of the Talon, hiding him from everyone. Davis dark side starts to become more and more strong, and one night kills a thug who tries to harm Chloe in the coffee shop.
Clark warns Chloe at the Talon that Davis could still be alive, but the girl ignored his warning and say that he just was paranoid and that Davis had died. Jimmy driven by his addiction attempts to steal the money that Chloe kept in the Talon but is surprised by Oliver, but at the same time, both are surprised by Davis, who has become a psychopath obsessed with Chloe, that keeps them captive in the basement threatening to kill them. Chloe returns quickly to the Talon to try to help his friends and then, Oliver scolds her attitude of hiding a fugitive. Chloe finally decides to elope with Davis to protect Clark and then left the town.
[edit] Season Nine
After that Lois was lost for three weeks and Chloe had been widowed, the two cousins returned to live together at the Talon apartment. Thanks to this Chloe learned that Lois was still receiving calls from the Blur and also that she was beginning to feel certain attraction for Clark Kent.
[edit] Special Events
The Talon has become a center for a variety of special events in the town.
- In 2002 a party was held to celebrate the inauguration of the Talon
- In 2003 The Talon hosted a "surprise" Welcome Back party for Ryan James.
- In 2003, a "Welcome Back" party was thrown for Whitney Fordman upon his apparent return from fighting in Indonesia.
- In 2003, A food fair is held in the Talon.
- In 2004 A party is celebrate in honor of Lana Lang after her recovery.
- In 2004, the Smallville Crows football team held a victory party to celebrate advancing to the State Championship game.
- In 2006, Jonathan Kent's election party was held at the Talon.
- In 2007, the Talon hosted an elaborate Valentine's Day party.
- In 2007 Is hosted the Miss Sweet Corn beauty pageant that fall that included a talent show and Kara Kent wins.
- In 2008, the Talon hosted Chloe and Jimmy's engagement party.
[edit] Employees
Owners
- Lana Lang was a founding partner in the Talon. She worked there until she left for Paris, France in 2004.
- Lex Luthor was Lana's silent partner, until he bought out her shares.
- Tess Mercer is currently the director of LuthorCorp, so she presumably indirectly owns the Talon.
Staff
- Martha Kent in 2004 pleaded with her husband Jonathan Kent for his consent in her taking the position as Talon manager. She said that in addition to the extra income, she needed an outlet and a place to keep herself busy.
- Kara Kent worked as a waitress there during her short stay in Smallville. Although she often disappeared and confessed to making a "terrible cup of coffee", she managed to keep her job because of her friendship with Lex Luthor.
- Clark Kent worked at the Talon for one day. Due to his habitual lateness and tendency to disappear, Lana Lang reluctantly hired him, then fired him when he predictably disappeared during his shift.
- Lois Lane worked as a waitress in Season 4 and Season 5, until she began helping Jonathan Kent run for State Senate.
[edit] Notes
- In the real life, The Talon is called the Clova Cinema, and is actually a community theater, that was built in 1947 and operated by a local family for the past nine years. The business is in Cloverdale and is actually a working movie theater which still uses real butter. The scenes filmed inside the Talon are in a different set.
- Lana's parents meet for the first time in the Talon Theater.
- Tess and Lex has sometimes used his position as the landlord to excuse snooping in the Talon apartment.(Hereafter, Hidden, Instinct, Power)
- Although Chloe Sullivan, the current resident of the apartment, does not get along with Tess Mercer and Lex Luthor, she still continues living there. This is perhaps because both Lex and Tess know that Chloe might be useful at some point due to her friendship with Clark Kent.
- Lex has threatened to close the Talon on three occasions, (Heat, Talisman and Onyx). Has had the opportunity to sell it in one occasion (Forsaken) and has closed it in another(Gone)
- Chloe and Tess are the only woman af the cast who have not worked in the Talon. However, Tess is the manager of the site
- Lana says that the Talon makes "three hundred dollars in a good day". That means that the Talon makes a maximum of $109.5k a year. This explains why Lana was willing to sell out her share for the cost of a year's tuition at a Parisian high school. It also explains why Lex was eager to close down the Talon, and open a more lucrative business in its place.
[edit] Quotes
- Lana: The Talon makes three hundred dollars in a good day.
- Season Three, Memoria, deleted scene
- Lana: I got accepted at the Paris School of the Arts for my senior year. But I can't afford to go.
- Lex: Well congratulations and umm, consider it covered.
- Lana: You know, I don't want a loan and I don't want a gift. I just.. I want you to buy me out of my share at the Talon.
- Season Three, Memoria, deleted scene
[edit] Appearances
The Talon has appeared so far in every season since season one, although the apartment was first shown in Season Three when Adam Knight moved in.
- Season 2: Vortex, Heat, Duplicity, Red, Nocturne, Redux, Lineage, Ryan, Dichotic, Skinwalker, Visage, Insurgence, Suspect, Rush, Prodigal, Fever, Rosetta, Visitor, Precipice, Witness, Accelerate, Calling.
- Season 3: Exile, Phoenix, Perry, Magnetic, Asylum, Whisper, Delete, Hereafter, Velocity, Obsession, Resurrection, Crisis, Legacy, Truth, Talisman, Forsaken.
- Season 4: Gone, Facade, Run, Jinx, Spell, Bound, Scare, Unsafe, Pariah, Sacred, Lucy, Onyx, Spirit, Blank, Commencement.
- Season 5: Mortal, Hidden, Aqua, Thirst, Exposed, Splinter, Lockdown, Reckoning, Vengeance, Tomb, Cyborg, Hypnotic, Fragile, Fade, Oracle.
- Season 6: Wither, Arrow, Rage, Subterranean, Hydro, Justice, Labyrinth, Crimson, Trespass, Freak, Combat, Progeny, Prototype, Phantom.
- Season 7: Bizarro (episode), Kara, Fierce, Cure, Action, Wrath, Gemini, Siren, Fracture, Sleeper, Quest, Arctic.
- Season 8: Odyssey, Plastique, Instinct, Committed, Identity, Abyss, Bride, Legion, Bulletproof, Power, Requiem, Turbulence, Hex, Eternal, Stiletto, Beast.
[edit] References
- ↑ The address was displayed in Freak.
- ↑ Fordman's can be seen across the street in broad shots of Main Street, mostly in Season 1, and specifically in Kinetic and Rush. Nell's flower shop can also be seen in exterior shots of the Talon.
- ↑ Committed.
- ↑ You can see the hallway that connects to another room when Jimmy finds Chloe´s letter in Instinct.
[edit] See Also
[edit] External Links
- Smallville Talon site at Warnerbros.com (history source)
- The Talon Chat
