Smallville: Chloe Chronicles
Chloe Chronicles is a spin-off series from Smallville. It is currently in its third season and is only available online and in the DVD box sets of Smallville. The series revolves around the character of Chloe Sullivan.
The first series started from an investigation of Smallville's first season episode Jitters, though it was included in the second season box set. The second series, Chloe Chronicles, Vol II, was included in Smallville's third season box set.
The fourth season box set did not include the spin-off series. However, recent episodes of the third series have been released online under the title Vengeance Chronicles. These revolve around the fifth season episode Vengeance. They are sponsored by Acuvue contact lenses.
Chloe Chronicles
The first volume of Chloe Chronicles detail Chloe's investigation into "Level 3" at the Smallville LuthorCorp plant after the events of Jitters.
In her first video, Chloe lays out her mission statement: dig up evidence regarding a deceased LuthorCorp employee named Earl Jenkins. Jenkins' violent tremors and eventual death are linked to prolonged exposure to meteor dust (kryptonite). She tracks the meteor experiments back to a company called Nu-Corp and finds an ex-scientist, Dr. Arthur Walsh, who is willing to turn over information about what happened to Earl. Dr. Walsh vanishes before Chloe can interview him.
Point of continuity: Takes place after the season 2 episode, "Skinwalker".
Chloe Chronicles, Vol II
Bix, an ex-navy seal and former member of the LuthorCorp's "Deletion Group," contacts Chloe with a cryptic riddle from the missing Arthur Walsh. Chloe decides to keep digging, realizing that innocent lives depend on her. Walsh, who was earlier presumed dead, sends her several videos which lead her to the grave of Sarah Stromberg, a journalism student at Metropolis University with whom Walsh was involved. Chloe finds out that Walsh, Donovan Jameson (head of Nu-Corp), and the late Dr. Stephen Hamilton all worked together on meteorite experiments. Chloe feels that Sarah Stromberg is a kindred spirit and resolves to get justice for her.
Chloe, with Pete as her camera crew, sneaks into Jameson's underground lab where Jameson explains that he has been experimenting on dead meteor freaks, including Sean Kelvin, Greg Arkin, and Tina Grier. While Jameson claims to have benevolent reasons for his research, Chloe finds videotape proof implicating Jameson in Sarah Stromberg's death after she got too close to revealing his experiments.
Walsh apparently knew about Jameson and confronted him about his involvement. It is implied that Jameson then murdered Walsh. When Jameson discovers the incriminating surveillance tape, he attacks Chloe. Exhibiting the same "jitters" as Earl Jenkins, Jameson then reveals he is in fact researching the meteor freaks in order to inherit their powers. Pete and Chloe flee from the murderous Jameson and Chloe throws a hydrogen tank at him to slow him down. Jameson's arm is vibrating too fast from the tremors and the tank explodes, killing him and setting the lab ablaze.
At the end of the Chronicles, Chloe and Pete flee the burning building only to get sidelined by Lionel Luthor's passing limousine. Realizing Lionel was funding Jameson from the beginning, Chloe vows to bring him down. Lionel responds with a veiled threat, but lets Chloe and Pete go when he realizes they have no evidence to implicate him. In the end, Chloe decides against revealing the details of Walsh's involvement with Nu-Corp and Sarah to protect his family. Nu-Corp collapses and Level 3 seemingly ceases to exist.
Point of continuity: Takes place after the season 3 episode, "Shattered".
Vengeance Chronicles
During the Vengeance Chronicles, Chloe joins forces with a costumed vigilante whom she dubs the "Angel of Vengeance." In reality, it's her mild-mannered co-worker Andrea Rojas (whose costume seems to be a nod to Batwoman[citation needed]). Andrea killed the man who murdered her activist mother, and made an attempt on Lionel Luthor's life for his involvement in the crime. On the run, Andrea turns to Chloe for help when Lionel's newly reformed "Deletion Force" begins pursuing her relentlessly.
Chloe's problems worsen when, rather than disband his father's project, Lex Luthor expands Level 3 into Level 33.1. It's a subproject using superpowered mutants to expand LuthorCorp's technology, including Molly Griggs (Delete), Nick Yang, Bart Allen (the future Flash in Run), and Mikhail Mxyzptlk (Jynx). When Chloe exposes 33.1, LuthorCorp's plans fall through once again.
Point of continuity: Takes place after the season 5 episode, "Cyborg".
Vengeance Chronicles episode titles
- Chloe
- Vengeance: Dark Hero
- Help from a Friend
- Yang
- 33.1
- The Mansion Dance
- A New Kinda Loft Scene
External links
- Vengeance Chronicles - Information on the Vengeance Chronicles