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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.