Smallville - A Retrospective -4.

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I finished up season one of Smallville. Check it out.



Season 1 Episode 17: Reaper (original air date 4-23-02).

A woman lies dying in her hospital bed. She asks her son to kill her. He gives her some pillow therapy and then falls out the window to his death. During his autopsy he wakes up with new powers. Enter freak of the week: Tyler Randle The Absorbing Boy. Tyler helps old people die by absorbing their life. Dominick Sentori is sent from Luthor Corp. to investigate Lex's corporate spending (investigation of his car wreck involving Clark). After investigating an old ladies death, Clark tries to talk to Tyler but has to save his mom from him in the process. Chloe gets a copy of Tyler toxicology report. It says Tyler had pain killers and meteor rocks in his system. Clark saves Whitney's dad (on his death bed) from Tyler. Clark shows Tyler that his mom is still alive. A guilt stricken Tyler kills himself. Lex confronts Lionel about Dominick's investigation. Lionel to Lex "Well done". Lex tells Jonathan that the book on the investigation into Clark is closed.





Season 1 Episode 18: Drone (original air date 4-30-02).

Freak of the week: Bee Girl. When Bee Girl wants to be class president, the other candidate start having bee related accidents. Pete puts Clark on the election ballot. Mom and dad Kent are okay with Clark's running for office. Lex calls Clark "The Man of Tomorrow". In her Torch editorial Chloe backs Paul for class president. Lana is having trouble making money at the Talon because of a rival coffee house. Lex tells her to go to the mattresses. Clark saves Lana from a bee attack. Clark then saves his mom from a bee attack. Bee girls bees turn on her in her barn. Clark has to save her. Lana plays hard ball with rival coffee house. Lex tells Clark that he wants to be president some day. Clark loses the election. Lex works out a deal with the tramp reporter.



Season 1 Episode 19: Crush (original air date 5-7-02).

Freak of the week: Justine the mind artist. Justine was a great artist until the accident. Now he blames his sergeant that his hand is useless. But Justine's mind works just fine and draws for him. It can also do his bidding. The navy recruiter tells Clark "I see you in a uniform flying". Justin goes back to school and meets up with Chloe. Meanwhile Lex's nanny is back and she has cancer. Justine reveals that his injury was a hit and run. And he has remembered part of the licence plate. Justine and Chloe share a kiss which causes things in the room to float around them. Justine then tells Chloe the truth that he can move things with his mind. She's okay with that. During the kiss, a plate match comes across the Torches computer. We now see Justine confront Principal Kwan at his home about hitting him with his car. Then the car hits Kwan. Lionel shows up to tell Lex that they are selling Cadmus Labs, because they only bought it to bankrupt Sir Harry. Clark then finds out that it was Kwan's son that hit Justine with the car. Clark finally rescues Chloe from Justine in his barn using speed, strength and invulnerability. Finally Whitney's father dies.




Season 1 Episode 20: Obscura (original air date 5-14-02).

A gas main blows and Lana is showered with Meteor rocks. Lana now has precog powers. Lex brings the Kent's a check for the dead cows and contaminated grazing land. Roger Nixon from the Inquisitor newspaper is back in Smallville. He is now investigating his own leads on the Kents. Lana "sees" that Chloe has been kidnapped and buried alive. Lex and Roger meet with a former crop duster who saw a ship come down to earth with the meteors. Clark rescues Chloe. Lex is having the field where Clark's ship hit tested. Jonathan who is suspicious of Lex gives him back his check. The octagonal disk is found in the field by Dr. Hamilton. Lex tells Clark that his life changed the day that the meteors hit. And he met a man who saw a ship fall from the sky that day. The deputy kidnaps Lana. Clark rescues her with a display of speed, strength and invulnerability. The deputy is killed by the police. All is witnessed by Roger Nixon. Clark asks Chloe to the Spring Formal.




Season 1 Episode 21: Tempest (original air date 5-21-02).


Lionel is back to close the plant. Whitney tells Lana he is going into the Marines (just like his dad did). Clark finds the disk in Lex's office. Lex offers an employee lead buy out of the plant. Clark's display of power: driving fence posts into the ground, surviving his truck blowing up, shoving the truck door off and no injuries to skin when his shirt is on fire. All filmed by Roger Nixon. Clark kisses Chloe. Roger tells Clark that he wants to do a story about him. Roger eavesdrops on the Kents. Whitney gets final dance with Lana but not at the formal. Nixon steals disk from Lex. Lana drops Whitney off at the bus station and gives him her necklace. A violent storm is brewing. Roger finds the ship in the Kent's storm shelter. Remy Zero is playing at the dance while Lana is having a wreck because of the storms. Jonathan and Martha find Roger in the shelter with the ship. The disk flies out of Roger's hand into the ship and it starts up. Roger gets out of the shelter. Jonathan gives chase. The ship flies out of the shelter. Meanwhile Clark leaves Chloe at the dance to find Lana. Lex and Lionel are injured in the storm. Lex saves his dad at the last minute. Clark sees Lana (inside her truck) be lifted into the tornado. Clark runs into the tornado to save her.

Wow. That is a lot for a first season. On to season two.

Keep watching.

D.L.