Present Day Smallville: Clark Kent is now a teenager. He is incredibly strong and fast. Handsome yet awkward. He longs to "get through high school without being a total loser." His parents are always keeping him on a tight leash, excluding him from many activities, for fear that his abillities will be discovered. Clark now has a crush on the beautiful, popular Lana Lang She is smart, pretty, a cheerleader, and dating the star quarterback, Whitney Fordman. She is everything that a guy could hope for. Clark's closest friends, Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan, joke that Clark can't get within five feet of Lana Lang, without turning into a total freak show. Clark's clumsiness around Lana seems to be provoked by the strange green pendant Lana wears around her neck. Chloe is obsessed with folklore about the paranormal activity that prevades Smallville since the meteor shower. Pete has a dream to join the football team. He told Clark that he should join with him, being on the football team will keep them from being chosen as this year's "Scarecrow." - the kid chosen by the football players to be strung up in a corn field. Clark declined saying that his father didn't want Clark playing on the football team. On his way home from school, Clark stops on a bridge to look over into the water, when he is hit by a Porsche, driven by Lex Luthor. The car and Clark crash through the side of the bridge, and into the river below. Clark is uninjured as he swims over and rips open the roof of the Porsche. He drags the unconscious Lex from the wreckage to shore. After reviving Lex, Clark wonders how he survived the crash.
Jeremy Creek, the 1989 "Scarecrow, " appears at a auto repair shop one evenin, not having aged a day. He attacks a mechanic, who was on of the football players that strung him up in the field. Bolts fo lightening shoot out of Jeremy's body, and electrocute the man to death. Meanwhile, at the Kent farm, Clark arrives home from school to find a new pick-up truck in the driveway. It is a gift of gratitude from Lex Luthor. Clark's father tells him he cannot keep the truck. He reasons that being a hero doesn't require rewards, and besides, much of the Luthors' money was swindled form the residents of Smallville. Clark is very upset by this. He tell his father, "I'd give anything to be normal!" Johnathan is then motivated to tell Clark of his true origins. He explains how Clark came to earth in a spaceship with the meteor shower. He shows him a strange metal plaate they found in his ship, with engravings in an unknown language. Jonathatn tells Clark that he is meant for something special, and should look at his abilities as gifts. This doesn't help Clark feel better, and he runs off to do some seroius thinking. That night, Clark wanders through a quaint local graveyard, where he encounters Lana. Lana goes there to visit her parents' grave, and to speak to them as if they were present. Clark does not feel sick around Lana now, because she has given her necklace to Whitney for luck on an upcoming game. Clark and Lana share their angst ("Do you ever feel like your life was supposed to be something else?") and discover that they have a lot in comon. Clark walks her home, where Lana kisses him on the cheeck. [Go Clark! By the way, Clark doesn't live very far from Lana :) ] Lana promised Clark one dance if he shows up at he homecoming dance. Whitney, who was well hidden on Lana porch, watched them when she kissed Clark.
The next day, Clark returns the new pick-up to Lex at his mansion. Lex knows that Johathan doesn't like him, but he hopes that he and Clark can still be friends. Meanwhile, Chloe and Pete are at the crime scene, taking photos for the school paper, "The Torch." Another ex-football star has been electrocuted. They notice Jeremy, a strange face in the crowd, and snap his photo. At school, they find Jeremy's photo in the 1989 yearbook, and learn that he was that year's "Scarecrow." They tell Clark that since the meteor shower, Jeremy has been in a coma. An electrical storm came through a few days ago, and all the power went out at the hospital. When it came back on, Jeremy had disappeared. Now he is seeking revenge on the football players who strung him up. Chloe surmises that the meteor strike must have somehow altered Jeremy's body, causing it to have not aged and all, and giving it the capacity to store and control electricity. Clark finds Chloe's theory far-fetched, so she shows him the "Wall of Weird." - a huge collection of articilues of the strange occurrences in Smallville since the meteor shower.. Clark sees a picture of the young orphan Lana, and suddenly believes that his arrival with the meteor shower makes him complicit in her parents' deaths, as well as all the other unnatural incidents in town. Clark runs from the school, riddled with guilt. He's stopped by Whitney and some of his football buddies. In a rage of jealousy, Whitney grabs Clark. Clark moves to defend himself but Whitney is wearing Lana's necklace, and Clark is weak with pain. Whitney sees Clark looking at the necklace and puts it around Clark's neck. "This is the closest you'll ever get to Lana." Whitney said as he threw Clark in the back of a truck and drove off.
That night. Clark is stripped to his boxer shorts and hung on a pole in a cornfield, a red "S" painted on his chest. Lana's necklace still dangles from his neck, causing Clark great pain. Jeremy arrives and tells Clark this has to end. Clark warns Jeremy to stay away from his friends, but Jeremy refuses and leaves for the homecoming dance. Lex sees Jeremy leaving the field and goes to investigate. Finding Clark, Lex frees him and the necklace falls off. Instantly revived, Clark quickly dresses and takes off, leavin Lex to examine Lana's necklace. At Smallville High, the homecoming dance is in full swing while Jeremy is outside prepareing his revenge. Clark arrives and again asks Jeremy to stop. Jeremy tries to use his electrocution power on Clark, but Clark is unharmed and hurls Jeremy across the alley. Jeremy then drives a truck into Clark, carrying them both through a brick wall and smashing open a water main. The truck begins to fill with water and Jeremy's electricity power rages out of control. Jeremy shocks himself into unconsciousness. As he comes to, he has no memory of what he's done or what has gone on. As the dance ends, Whitney and Lana, the homecoming king and queen , exit ony to find that Whitmey and buddies' trucks have been stacked one on top of the other. Later, at home, Clark tells Jonathan he's glad it was Martha and he who found him. Then Lana arrifes. She's come to collect her dance. Clark and she share a special moment as they dance gently, but Clark's reverie is broken by the sound of horns honking. lana is gone - Clark was daydreaming. "Thanks for the dance, Lana."
Parts of the summary taken from Smallvilleledger.com.