The pressure of keeping Clark's secret, plus the fact that he was almost killed because of it, got to Pete and he decided to move to another city. I thought he was supposed to make guest appearances, but he hasn't yet.
Oh and in reference to the whole "Clark can't have sex with Lana he'd kill her", well it looks like it will happen while Clark doesn't have his powers, so that won't matter.
Of course if Windu kills Palpatine in front of Anakin then Anakin might still go bad from anger and grief that the one person that he thought could save Padme is dead. I bet Anakin would have killed Windu out of anger.
The thing about Jessica is before she married Nick and got her own TV Show she was basically that "other girl" she wasn't Britney and she wasn't Christina. You could have lumped her with Mandy Moore and the other fringe Pop Stars. Marrying Nick boosted her career big time.
They keep going on about how Flair's best friend is back...do I smell HHH heel turn? Or...fake face turn since technically he was heel when he left wasn't he?