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Anyone care to describe last night's plot? >>
Young boy, probably ten or so, can read minds. His Mom is dead, so he's with his evil step father and his <also evil> new wife. They are forcing him to use his power to do crime. Example; pawn shop owner opening safe, kid gets combination from his mind, slimeball abusers rob and kill owner. Kid makes a run for it.
Clarks Mom accidentally hits him as he's running. The kid refuses to reveal any info and pretends to have lost his memory. While waiting for CPS, he stays with the Kents at their house. The only mind he cannot read is Clarks, so early on the kid realizes they have something in common. Great older brother/younger brother thing develops between he and Clark.
The scenes where he's reading minds, and the look on his face - his reactions, extremely well done. He reads Mrs. Kent's mind and discovers Clark's origins and finds the space ship. The scene between he and Clark in the storage shed when Clark finds him there is very powerful.
He is a comic book lover, something called ".....Angel". (Sorry, can't remember the whole name). This is a character from another planet who protects others (of course). There's one panel in the comic book where the hero says "You're safe now", that is played out in a scene where Clark rips a hole in a garbage truck to save the kid from being crushed.
Kid even reads Lana's mind and knows how she feels about Clark, but Clark refuses the offer to find out. Also warns Clark about Lex. And, now Clark has someone who shares his secret outside of his family.
I also liked the fact that they didn't try to explain the kid's power. It was just there.
There's a lot more, including some excellent sub-plot material involving Lex and his father.
Russ, NCNE
