Smallville (TV Series)

Nicodemus (2002)

Sam Jones III: Pete Ross

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• Chloe Sullivan : Dr. Hamilton had a copy of this book in his barn.

  Clark Kent : "The Nicodemus Diary".

  Chloe Sullivan : It's a firsthand account of Smallville's first mystery. In 1871, the whole settlement went postal before they even had a post office.

  Pete Ross : Nice to know Smallville was still whack before the meteors got here.

  Chloe Sullivan : Yeah. In the diary, they talk about a flower; the settlers called it Nicodemus. Said it liberated repressed feelings, sent them into rages, then fever, and finally... well...

  [Chloe lets the sentence hang] 

  Clark Kent : All right, well where can we find this flower?

  Chloe Sullivan : Well, see, that's the glitch. After the massacre, the cavalry torched the whole settlement and wanted to make sure whatever caused it wasn't gonna spread. The flower's been extinct for over a hundred years.

  Clark Kent : Well, what does Hamilton have to do with this? Isn't he a geologist?

  Chloe Sullivan : With a meteor fixation.

  Pete Ross : We tracked down this paper he wrote six years ago.

  Clark Kent : Metropolis University Press?

  Chloe Sullivan : I think this is the last straw. In it, he postulates that meteor rocks can be used to irradiate dormant plant cells.

  Clark Kent : So you think Hamilton pulled a "Jurassic Park" and brought back the Nicodemus.

  Pete Ross : And now he's trying to cover it up.