This episode is called "Fade," which is just what I'm about to do after twenty recaps this season. Yikes. Does it get any easier after five seasons?

The streets of Vancouhooooeerr...I mean Metropolis. There's a News 11 van and lots of reporters standing around waiting for news to happen. Sirens blare to announce that some sort of motorcade is coming. The reporters crowd around in their heavy not-at-all-Kansas coats and watch, as the police escort a little nebbishy guy wearing glasses out of an SUV. He's also wearing a bulletproof vest. He's 50 Cent's accountant. Photographers snap shots, as reporters shout out questions. Nebbishy Witness is escorted inside a courthouse by police officers. As the scene plays out, a guy in a suit jacket and casual shirt with wavy hair stands off to the side and watches. He walks closer toward the mob scene. He doesn't look like he's doing this for fun.

Down the street, Chloe is telling Clark to pick up the pace. She asks him to do something between a brisk walk and super-speed. Chloe says that the testimony is supposed to begin in fifteen minutes. Clark says that he doesn't mind being Chloe's "Boy Friday" (is that like "Boy George"?), but he wonders why she needs an escort. Maybe to defend her from comments about her ugly plaid trench coat. Chloe tells Clark that she doesn't need an escort, but that she was hoping a trip to the courthouse would reignite Clark's interest in journalism. Clark, who is handed a press-pass by Chloe, says that his ace reporter days ended at The Torch. When does Chloe go to college? Chloe tells Clark to just consider it a "get off the farm" pass. Chloe says that she knows he's had the year from hell, but he shouldn't hole himself up with the cows. That was Bo's life. Clark whines that he's not holed up. He's been cornholed up, sure, but that was a different era. Clark complains that ever since he found out that Papa Luthor knows his secret, he's been waiting for a bomb to go off. Clark fiddles with his press-pass, but before he can do any damage to it, Chloe takes it and pins it to his Members Only jacket.

Wavy-haired young guy walks.

Chloe is telling Clark that Papa Luthor may never light the fuse of his discovery. Clark doesn't think that'll happen. Just then, Chloe and Clark both notice a red van passing by very quickly. Wavy-haired guy stops like a deer in the headlights, as the vehicle is about to plow into him. The whole world freezes, and Clark super-hops over some cars and gets in front of the van. He pulls Wavy Dude out of the way. "You...you saved my life!" the guy tells Clark. He notices "Clark Kent -- Daily Planet" on the press-pass. Dude says that he doesn't know how to thank Clark. How about a kiss? Clark says that he did what anyone else with magic leaping abilities would have done . Wavy Guy tells Clark he has to go, but thanks him again. He's in a rush to get somewhere. Chloe catches up with Clark and says, with admiration, that he couldn't have done that on the farm. She tells Clark it was nice work.