clark hammering it home with "up to now she's only attacked men. i wonder why she chose you?" thing.
Hahahaha! Yeah, I was laughing so hard in that scene. In my mind Tess was thinking 'yuh, I read the file, and you didn't get it with *Lex* all those years so you sure as hell are not going to get it now'.

Wow, I hadn't noticed that about Erica's face--though I confess I did have a moment where I wondered about a nose job. *nods* If it's true then I feel really terrible that she had to do that for the show. She's always been blindingly beautiful to me despite people saying she reads 'old' on camera or her make-up was bad (and yeah, it was sometimes)... so I guess her beauty is overriding any issue for me. I haven't had any problems with her actual performance.