SMALLVILLE 9.06 “Crossfire” Episode Description

SMALLVILLE 9.06 “Crossfire”
Airdate: October 30, 2009

It looks like Clark and Lois’ relationship are progressing to the next level! You’ll immediately notice that in the summary released for this episode –

OLIVER TAKES DC COMICS’ CHARACTER SPEEDY UNDER HIS WING — Oliver (Justin Hartley) tries to help a young street girl, Mia AKA Speedy (guest star Elise Gatien), get out of her dangerous life by offering to train her, but Mia double crosses him.  Lois (Erica Durance) asks Clark (Tom Welling) to help her land a job as an on-air television host, but the two are shocked when the station wants to hire them as a team. Allison Mack, Cassidy Freeman and Callum Blue also star.  Mike Rohl directed the episode written by Holly Henderson and Mike Whitehead

I think Lois will make a good TV host! But it’s a surprise how Clark made the team, although thinking about it, it could be the chemistry between the couple that makes their relationship click. I wonder what Chloe thinks of all this, though. Anyway, that’s the drama of Smallville.

On to the superhero stuff. Fans familiar with Green Arrow comic will know Speedy to be Green Arrow’s sidekick. The DC comics superhero was originally a teenage male, but a female version appeared in 2001.  She is known as Mia Dearden, an HIV-positive teenage runaway who was molested by her father. She fell into a prostitution ring where Green Arrow rescued her after he himself “returned from the dead”. Green Arrow trained Mia to be an archer but would not make her his sidekick for fear of putting the teenager into harm’s way.

It looks like Mia Dearden will appear in two episodes this season, the first in “Crossfire” and the second time in “Disciple”.

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