I was really surprised at how much I loved this episode — I didn't expect to, at all. I think that it has to do with the construction of it. As always, Smallville does the parallels beautifully... and while Chloe was excusing Lana's behavior (grrrrrrr), the script itself wasn't — with the explicit parallel between Lana being stalked and her being a stalker. Jimmy even called her a stalker straight out — in an episode that made explicit how offensive and hurtful invasion of privacy is, from the paparazzi on down. Her presence in Clark's bedroom really played like an invasion. She even got the creepy music of evil while she was snooping.

Lana and Lex with their layers of lies (how's that for alliteration!) were delicious to me. That scene at the end, when Lana lies about why she went to the Kents, and Lex lies about believing her, and he doesn't believe her but he still doesn't get the truth of it... it had me cackling insanely with glee because they're both so shady.

And Clark... with his apologies to Lex and Jimmy, and his talking Jimmy into patching things up with Chloe... and his burn statement to Lana after he saved her... that's the second time she's tried the passive-aggressive way to get him to spill his secrets, and the second time he's called her on it. First was his "I know about the pregnancy," which backed her off, and this was "I know you've been stalking me," which had exactly the same effect.

And I squeed when she found the necklace. Continuity is precious, and must be squeed over when it occurs. ;-)

And the... "Are we done?" was just — so charged. And of course, was about so much more that just "are we done with this conversation." And of course, Lex's answer was, essentially, "no, we're not."

Heh.