When the "hot" new Biology teacher Desiree Atkins (Krista Allen) arrives in Smallville, Clark Kent gets excited in her presence and his hormonal surge sets off a new ability: heat vision. Lex Luthor meets and falls for Atkins and they decide to get married. Meanwhile, Clark's heat vision causes another fire at The Talon when Clark is talking with Lana, leading Clark to get briefly jailed on suspicions of arson. Lex invites Clark to be his best man, but when Desiree tries to seduce Clark, he realizes that she is a meteor freak with the power to seduce men.

The Daily Planet's gossip queen Linda Lake uses her ability to transform herself into water to find the dirt on people and run her weekly saucy story, however detrimental for them. After bringing out baseball star Mike Dawson is doped, Lake drags him into a fountain pond staging suicide, which fan Jimmy Olsen convinces Chloe can't be true. Next Linda overhears Chloe and Lana about her doubts to accepts Lex's marriage proposal because she is not quite over Clark and prints it, to Lex's despair and making Clark realize he's not quite over Lana either. Lex promises Linda any price to find something against Clark, and Chloe has a hard time keeping his being Kryptonian secret, while it makes her furious that people tells her their secrets while complaining when refused another's secret. When Lois tells Clark she suspects Olliver of being the Green Arrow after seeing he has an arm wound at the same spot, but wants him to be innocent either way, he finds an original way to help both friends while she gets Jimmy to help her set a trap for Ollie. Lex is prepared to wait for his pregnant lover...