Smallville: Season 9 Episode 6: Crossfire

This week, Kandorian hijinx take a backseat to Lois and Clark aspiring to become the new Regis and Kelly.  Desperate to get her mug on television and broaden her scope, Lois dubs print journalism a dying breed. And because Lois has so much journalistic integrity, she opts the career path of a fluffy, coffee-talk sort of morning show instead of a hard news show like 60 Minutes.  Even better, she recruits Clark to submit an audition tape along with her for a new show.  With their sparkling chemistry evident on film, the producers only agree to take Clark and Lois as a package deal.  Their first assignment: Each of them has to go on a blind date on camera. Clueless Clark’s televised blind date is up first with a gorgeous blonde named Catherine. He’s adorably clumsy yet still manages to make Lois seethe with jealousy with Cat on their café date. 

Across town, Oliver’s got a new plaything named Mia.  Mia is a prostitute by night and a one bad mutha in an underground fighting ring during the other part of the night.  In spite of the fact that Mia can clean the clocks of five guys twice her size in hand-to-hand combat, she still can’t escape her pimp/promoter.  Enter Oliver Queen who attempts to save Mia and enlist her in the League. It’s all very Pretty Woman meets UFC with Ollie stepping into the role of Richard Gere to Mia’s Julia Roberts – right down to buying her new clothes and setting her up with someplace to stay.  He cites this good deed on the fact that his own friends helped him to find a way out of his problems.