While waiting for the next part here's another theory- Maybe somethng does happen between Lane and Max, but later Lane realizes something's amiss / fishy and recruits Clark and his super-senses to find out what...

(just trying to pass the time till the next part).

laugh cool

If she had to move heaven and Earth, perhaps come back to haunt Perry and explain the story after they'd killed her, she would do it.

Waking a Miracle by Aria