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Season 3 Episode 9 Asylum (original air date 1-14-04).

Bellview Sanitarium. Lex Luthor is here painting and taking his pills. No he is spitting them in the paints. Clark comes to visit Lex. On his way into the great room, Clark passes three different people he helped put there. Lex asks Clark to help break him out. He refuses. Later Lex tries an escape but doesn't make it. Lionel visits Lex the next day in the asylum. Lex tells his dad that he is cured. Lionel doesn't believe him. Lex remains in solitary confinement. On the asylum ward, the three patients that Clark had a hand in placing there are conspiring on stealing Clark's powers and destroying him. There is a package delivered to one of the patients. It's a meteor rock. One of the other conspirators realizes the meteor rock is what is needed to stop Clark. So he kills the patient who got the rock. At the hospital Clark and Chloe confront Dr. Foster about her upcoming electroshock therapy on Lex. While at therapy for her broken leg, Lana meets a new friend, Adam. Later Dr. Foster is found dead from a mysterious car wreck. Knowing about the impending electroshock therapy, Clark tries to rescue Lex. But Clark is blindsided by the patient who has possession of the Kryptonite rock. Meanwhile at the rehab, sparks fly with Lana and Adam. A dazed Clark is hooked up to the asylum's electric generator. With the Kryptonite holding him down, the third patient is now going to try to steal his powers. In the electroshock room, Lionel watches on as a new doctor gives Lex a shock. Clark looses his powers. During the fight Clark is able to shock the patient and get back his powers. With both remaining patients down, Clark races up to the electroshock room. He is too late. Lex already got the treatment. Later Clark visits Lex at the mansion. He's all better now. Or is he?

Season 3 Episode 10 Whisper (original air date 1-21-04).

During a robbery at the Smallville jewelry store, Clark tries to intervene. One robber uses a sonic scream and Clark is blinded in the process. The screaming robber gets away. The other is caught. The next day Clark is back in high school with Pete as his seeing eye dog. At the same time Chloe gets a phone call from Lionel. He wants more info on Clark. At school, Clark's hearing goes crazy sensitive. He over hears some of Chloe's phone call. Later Lex visits Clark at home. Clark tells him his dad's job offer was a shame. Lex pays for Lana's hospital/rehab bill because he feels responsible. While at home Clark gets a visit from Chloe. He asks her how long she's been working with Lionel. She comes clean. But Clark doesn't except her apology. Later while out by the road Clark and Pete are talking. A wrecker pulls up and the robber with the sonic scream unleashes his power. Clark is down and Pete is kidnapped. Later at the Kents, it becomes apparent that Pete was kidnapped because his mom is the judge on the case. At the mansion, Lex tells Lionel he won't except his shame job. Back in town, Clark hears the familiar sound of the truck that was there when Pete was kidnapped. Clark almost rescues Pete, but the kidnappers get away with him. Clark's vision is slowly coming back. Clark over hears one of the jewel thieves tell the other to get rid of Pete. Clark catches up to them at a junk yard. Clark rescues Pete just before he's crushed in a car crusher. During the rescue, the robber is crushed under a mountain of wrecked cars. Because Lionel suspects Chloe told Lex about the shame job and her threats toward him, Lionel kills her column in the Daily Planet and her father looses his job. Meanwhile, Clark's vision is back. At home Lana tells Clark that she has met someone else. As she is driving off, he can hear her crying.

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Season 3 Episode 7 Magnetic (original air date 11-12-03).

Lana's lab partner Seth runs a booth at the fair. When he has an altercation with a thug, he gets hit with a snow globe. Inside the snow globe is Kryptonite flakes. When the snow globe breaks against his head some of the Kryptonite flakes enter into his blood stream. After an MRI he gets powers over Lana and gravity. At the mansion, Lex's man Darius has info about his (dead) grandparents. Chloe Sullivan has been looking into the Luthor past also. Lana agrees to go out with Seth. On their date at the closed fair, Seth shows Lana his power over metal by turning on the fair rides. When Clark shows up Lana accuses Clark of stalking her. At school, Clark tells Seth to leave Lana alone. Seth tells Clark to stay out of his way. At the hospital, Chloe and Clark scan Seth's files and conclude that the MRI affected him. At the Torch, Lex's man Darius steals Chloe's computer and wrecks the place. At the Talon, Seth offers to take Lana away using his power. she agrees. Lana is caught by Lex as she takes the Talon's money. He can't stop her. Clark uses his heat vision to melt the road and stop them in their stolen car. Seth gets away but Lana goes to jail. Chloe confronts Lex about the theft but he tells her that his man is now dead. At the jail Seth uses his power to break Lana out. Clark locates Seth and Lana at the fair grounds. As a fight breaks out Seth shoots Clark to no effect. Clark uses electricity on Seth and shorts him out. Later Lana, doing community service at the hospital,  gets her job back from Lex. Chloe comes clean to Lex telling him that his dad was black mailing her to spy on Clark. Chloe is looking into Lionel to black mail him. She tells Lex that Morgan Edge was his father's closest boyhood friend. At the barn,  Lana comes by to apologise to Clark.

Season 3 Episode 8 Shattered (original air date 11-19-03).

Morgan edge is back! But with a new face and voice. Lex convinces him to confess that he and Lionel killed his grandparents for the insurance money. Morgan confesses on tape. While watching the video play back in his office, two ninjas try to kill Lex. He narrowly escapes. Lex hides out at the Kent farm and tells Clark what has happened. Clark goes to the mansion to get the contents of the safe. It is gone and all the debris from the skirmish has been cleaned up. Clark tells Chloe that she is in danger. Back at the Kent farm, Lionel is there looking for Lex. He says that Lex has had a psychotic break. Clark covers for him. Later Clark finds Lex in the barn tending to blankets like they were a baby. He tells his parents that Morgan Edge is back with a new face. And oh yeah, Lex is crazy. He over hears them. Lex tells Clark "your either with me or against me." Clark leaves with Lex to find Morgan Edge. Clark and Lex search a factory where Lex saw Morgan. Now it's a sweat shop. At the mansion, the psychiatrist Dr. Claire Foster and Lex's dead man try to bring Lex to the hospital. He's not having it. Lex and Clark go hide. Later, Chloe tells Clark that Lex has had a break from reality before when his younger brother Julian died. At the barn Lex gets away from Lana but Lana is trampled by a horse. Lana goes to the hospital. Lionel meets Clark at the hospital and berates him for not giving up Lex. Clark conclueds that Lex was drugged at the mansion. Was it food or drink? Clark takes down Darius (Lex's man). He admits that he was paid to do it. At Luthor Corp a deranged Lex confronts Lionel about killing his grandparents. Morgan Edge is tracked down by Lex. Morgan Edge tells Lex that Lionel was behind it all: Killing his parents. Drugging Lex. Repairing the damage at the mansion. And setting up the sweat shop. Before Lex can kill Morgan, Clark breaks in to stop him. Morgan has Kryptonite rocks which he punches Clark with. Lex shoots Morgan. Morgan makes it to his car and tries to run down Lex but Clark saves him by pushing him out of the way. Lex sees the car get destroyed when it hits Clark. Lex " I was right about you all along Clark. Your not even human." Dr. Foster doesn't believe Lex and takes him away.

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Season 3 Episode 5 Perry (original air date 10-29-03).

A comet has hit the sun causing solar flares. At a bar Perry White has been drinking. Later while driving drunk, Perry swerves to miss Clark and hits a telephone pole. The next day perry is at the farm. He wants Clark to drive him around town to find stories about the meteor craters. At the mansion, Lex has finished his five psych evals. Meanwhile working on the tractor, Clark tries but cannot lift it. He tries again and throws it high into the sky. The tractor lands at a bus stop and is witnessed by Perry. Perry doesn't leave town. Instead he goes to the Torch and talks to Chloe about the Kents.  Clark, Jonathan and Pete talk about Clark's powers and the sun flares. Clark comes to the conclusion that the sun has something to do with his powers. At the farm, Perry White challenges Clark about what is going on. Clark tries to run off but because of the solar flares, Clark super speeds off. Perry sees it. Later at the mansion, Perry offers Lex info on his dad in return for info on Clark. Lex cracks and threatens Perry. At the farm, a solar flare causes Clark to loose control of his heat vision. Later, Perry decides to jump from the look out peak. Clark dives after him and they both end up dangling from a rope. Clark's powers are gone so Pete has to use his car to pull them up. At the top Pete, Lana and Perry see Clark's mangled hands. He is not invincible. Lex agrees to go through psycho therapy again. Clark gives Perry a ride to the bus stop. Perry tells Clark that if he makes it to Metropolis to look him up, he owes him one.

Season 3 Episode 6 Relic (original air date 11-05-03).

There was a murder in 1961. Was the right man convicted of the crime? The husband of the murdered woman blames a drifter that looks like Clark. And in the picture, the drifter is wearing a necklace with Kryptonian markings. In the caves, Clark and Jonathan find the same markings on the walls. Clark touches the image and receives visions of the past. Could Jor-El be involved? Later as Clark is walking down the street, he is thrown into the sixties and meets Louise. Later in the barn, Lana and Clark go through some of her aunt's belongings. Clark gets another vision from the past. The drifter and Lana's aunt (Louise) were lovers. At Luthor Corp. Lex asks Lionel why his grandfather was arrested for robbery. Lionel confesses that his parents weren't rich. That he was from suicide slums. Meanwhile Clark and Lana investigate the old barn were Louise was killed. Clark gets another vision that Lachlan Luthor killed Louise when the bullets ricocheted from hitting Joe (the drifter). At home Clark touches his grandfather rifle and gets another vision. His grandfather met Joe. Clark then goes through more of his grandfather's possessions. At the courthouse, Clark pretends to be Joe. The Mayor thinks hes seeing a ghost and admits that he was behind Lachlan trying to kill Joe. And Louise was an accident. The Mayor is arrested and Lana's uncle gets out of jail. At the mansion, Lex confronts Lionel about his grandparents death. Lionel then admits that his parents were murdered. Lex suspects his dad. Clark and Jonathan go to the caves. Clark sees that Joe put the Kryptonian necklace in the wall. The necklace was a document of information. Clark sees that Joe (Jor-El) hid the metal piece from his father. His trip to earth was a rite of passage. Clark suspects that the Kents finding him was not an accident but was planned by Jor-El.         


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Season 3 Episode 3 Extinction (original air date 10-15-03).

Lana has a new stalker. While she swims alone in the school pool, he attacks her. Before she drowns he is shot by a mysterious gunman. While trying to figure out who the shooter is, Chloe asks Clark back to the Torch. At Luthor Corp., Lionel welcomes Lex back as an executive. At the Talon, Clark, Lana and Chloe discuss the fact that the stalker had gills. Clark ponders that these people have gotten their power from the meteor rocks. Lana and Chloe point out that they always try to kill them. At Luthor Corp., Chloe tries to get out of her deal with Lionel. When he threaten to fire her father she realizes that she is stuck. It is revealed that the mysterious killer has killed freaks before. Smallville student Vin (and friend of dead gill boy Jake) is confronted by Clark. In Vin's locker there is a picture of Vin's dad (who was killed by a freak of the week). Clark and Pete investigate Vin's cabin. There they find weapons and pictures of possible targets. Lex is one. Clark races to Metropolis just in time to save him. But Vin gets the upper hand on Clark with Kryptonite rocks. Clark tells Lex that Vin believes people have been altered by the meteor rocks. Lex tells his dad that he hasn't been sick a day in his life since the meteor shower. Out in the woods, Vin has made a Kryptonite bullet. At the farm he shoots Clark. Clark goes down. His dad and mom have to pull it out to save him. At school, Clark and Vin have it out for the last time. Clark gets shot multiple times but since he's wearing a lead chest plate it has little effect. At the mansion Clark tells Lex that Vin has been captured. Lex tells Clark he thinks he was affected by the meteor rocks. At the farm, Lana tells Clark that if he was affected by the meteor rocks it's okay.

Season 3 Episode 4 Slumber (original air date 10-22-03).

At Crater Lake, Lana and Clark are skinny dipping. A girl is being chased. Clark tries to save her but she is swallowed by the ground. At the farm, mom and dad give Clark a new truck. At school, Sara the girl from the woods is walking the halls. Clark sees her. But does anyone else? At the mansion, Lex hits Clark with a samurai sword. It shatters. Lex tells Clark life as he knows it is over. At the farm Sara is back. Clark then wakes up after a day and a half sleep. Clark and Lana go to her old house. Sara and her uncle live there now. Sara has been in a coma since her car wreck. Clark finds out that Sara's parents were killed in the car wreck. Sara is now rich. Driving his truck Clark falls asleep and enters Sara's dream world. Clark wreaks the truck. In the dream world, Sara and Clark battle Sara's uncle. Lana confronts the uncle about drugging Sara. And Lana is drugged also. Clark wakes up and rescues Lana. At the hospital, Clark meets Sara who is now awake. At Luthor Corp., Lex agrees to a psych evaluation.

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Season 3 Episode 1 Exile (original air date 10-1-03).

It's months later, Clark, now living in Metropolis and going by Kal, is wearing the red Kryptonite ring. He's breaking into ATMs to steal money to buy the finer things in life. He also stops a bank robbery and keeps the money. This attracts the wrong kind of attention. At the farm, Pete and the Kents read about the robberies and know that it is Clark. A funeral is planned for the missing Lex. At Clark's apartment, Crime boss Mr. Edge sends some goons to kill Clark. That doesn't work out too well for them. This prompts Mr. Edge to offer Clark a job. At the caves, Lionel meets Chloe for a meeting to demand more info on Clark. Lex, alive on an island finds himself living with a crazy man. Later, during a fight with Chloe Clark's chest scar glows red hot. He takes the ring off. At the farm, the Kents are being evicted. Lana finds Clark in Metropolis. She decides to stay with him. Clark decides to take his job offer. On the island, Lex has a brake from reality. The crazy man wasn't real. Jonathan visits the caves on his way to go find Clark. He throws down the disk. The cave walls emit a beam of light that blasts Jonathan. Jonathan makes a deal with Jor-El. He gains powers to bring Clark home. Later in Metropolis, Jonathan battles Clark. They both fall out of the sixtieth floor of the Luthor Corp. building battling all the way to the ground.

Season 3 Episode 2 Phoenix (original air date 10-8-03).

During the battle the ring is shattered. Clark reverts to normal and Jonathan looses his new found power. The burn leaves Clark's chest. At Luthor Corp. Lionel is inspecting the break in damage. Lex shows up with a gun. Lionel tells Lex that Helen just wanted the money. Lionel asks Lex - What do you think happened to the vial of blood once you were dead? Clark tells his dad that he stole his blood back from Lionel. Jonathan destroys the vial. Lionel accuses Mr. Edge of stealing the vial. At the mansion Lex confronts Helen. She tells Lex what happened on the plane. At the farm Mr. edge shows up for the package. Clark tells him not to come back. Lex pays Clark a visit at the farm. Mr. edge is back and holding Mr. and Mrs. Kent hostage. Clark takes a piece of Kryptonite and cuts himself for a blood sample. This sample is taken by Mr. edge to Lionel. The sample is tested and is a perfect match of the vial that was stolen. Mr. Edge tells Lionel he got it from the source. A kidnapped Clark breaks free. Lionel, suspecting of a set up, has his men shoot it out with Mr. Edge. Morgan dies and Clark gets away. At the farm, Lana helps to free the Kents. Lex and Helen are on honeymoon #2. During the flight Lex tells Helen he knows. During the flight Helen exits the plane. Lex makes up with his dad. At the farm, Lex gives the Kents the deed to the farm. He explains that their wedding present led him to safe harbor. Clark and Lana  talk about their unresolved relationship.         

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Season 2 Episode 22 Calling (original air date 5-13-03).

Lex is summoned to the hospital. Dr. Walden is getting an MRI. The doctor in charge says that some of his higher brain functions have returned. At the farm Lana brings Clark a birthday cake. This leads to their first meaningful kiss. Lex asks the Kents to set in for him at the rehearsal dinner. At the Talon Chloe catches Lana and Clark in a lie about what they were doing last night. Someone broke into Dr. Brice's office. The only thing that was stolen was the sample of Clark's blood. After Lana and Clark's night together, Lana wants to say it was a mistake. While talking to Lana in a field, Clark hears someone saying: "The day is coming". At the hospital it's Dr. Walden saying "the day is coming". Dr. Walden uses a force power to brake out of his holding cell. Dr. Walden then goes to the caves and uses his power to turn on the cave wall. At the mansion, Lionel catches Helen going through Lex' files on the Kents. Lionel suggests Lex stole the object from Dr. Brice's office. Later at the caves Lionel finds Clark looking for Dr. Walden. Lionel tells Clark that he once had an object that would fit into the impression in the wall and he is now the conservator of the caves. He also notices that the walls might have changed. Clark tells his parents that the wall message now reads: "The day is coming when the last son will begin his quest to rule the third planet". At the mansion, Lex and his dad are having a heated debate about the caves. Dr. Walden breaks in. He says he can read the walls, what the message says and the last son is Clark. And they need to kill him! Dr. Walden then gets tranquilized by his doctor. Lex tells Clark about Dr. Walden's rant. At the Torch Lionel asks Chloe to do a complete investigative report on Clark. She refuses. In an ambulance bound for the hospital, Dr. Walden brakes out. After his best man speech, Clark is called back to the farm by the disk. There he finds Dr. Walden who tries to kill him. During their battle there is an explosion that kills Dr. Walden. During a talk about trust, Helen suspects Lex in the break in. He denies it. But when she leaves the room Lex pulls out the vile with Clark's blood in it. Clark gets back the disk. At the morgue, Lionel notices that Dr. Walden body is charred except for the disk shaped impression on the palm. Lionel gets the hand. Clark gets his kiss from Lana but an upset Chloe sees it. The ship summons Clark to the cellar.

Season 3 Episode 23 Exodus (original air date 5-20-03).

In the cellar the ship has started on it's own. It morphs into a sphere and communicates with Clark. It tells Clark to let go of his past. The ship explodes and envelops Clark. The next morning Clark tells his parents. In the cellar the ship is back together. At the mansion Lex tells Helen he was behind her office break in. He gives her back the vile of (Clark's) blood. She takes it and tells him it's over (is it?). In the the caves Lionel is having machinery installed. Lionel shows Clark that hes had a key made out of Kryptonite. Lionel notices that Clark has an aversion to it. At sunset the ship attacks Clark and brands him on the chest. Clark hatches a plane to destroy the ship. With Pete's help, Clark steals the Kryptonite disc from Lionel. Back at the barn (with the disc) Clark is confronted by Chloe about his and Lana's relationship. Clark misses Lex and Helen's wedding. Clark places the disc in the ship and it blows up. The energy wave destroys the cellar and flips Jonathan and Martha's truck. After the wedding, Lex and Helen are flying away for their honeymoon. A dejected Chloe takes Lionel offer. Clark puts on the red Kryptonite ring and leaves town. On the plane, a drugged Lex wakes up to find everyone gone and the plane going down.

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Season 2 Episode 20: Witness (original air date 4-29-03).

Clark is helping Lana but he missed his deadline for a story for the Torch. Chloe is unhappy about it. Meanwhile at night, masked men have stopped a van to steal it's cargo. Clark tries to stop them but can't. Clark sees that one robber has a Smallville class ring and a plate in his head. The next day at school he notices (with x-ray vision) that the plate is in the head of the school baseball star, Eric Marsh. Is the jock taking hits off a Kryptonite inhaler? Lionel is back at the mansion to wish Lex well for his engagement. Did Lex have the contents of the van (from Luthor Corp.) stolen? At the Talon, Henry Small stops by to see Lana. Clark finds out through Torch investigating that the jock was a chemistry star. He was involved with an explosion at chemistry camp. Clark follows the ball player to a foundry where the contents of the van (pure Kryptonite) is being super heated into a gas for aerosol delivery. Clark (depowered because of all the Kryptonite around him) gets his ass kicked and is thrown in the furnace. Once the preps take off with the Kryptonite, Clark busts out of the furnace. Lana talks to Mrs. Small at the Talon who tells her that she is divorcing her husband. Someone has trashed the Torch. Clark tries to help with the clean up but Chloe doesn't want it. Because of Clark's tip Eric lands in jail. Lex bails him out for knowledge of what was stolen from Luthor Corp. Clark confronts Eric about the Torch. He gets thrown around and his parents are threatened. Clark has to race home to free his captive parents. Clark confronts Lex about helping Eric out of jail. But Lex did it for information. His dad maybe starting up the level three experiments again. Lex and Clark hatch a plan to catch the gang. Clark knocks out Lex. When the next shipment of meteor rocks is shipped, Clark gets onto that truck. At the foundry Clark uses his other powers to take down the gang. Clark and Pete bury the meteor rocks in the woods. Lex has his suspicions what happened to the rocks. Lana tells Mr. Small he needs to spend time with his wife. Lionel pays Chloe a visit at the Torch. He is going to help her rebuild and will get her a column at the Daily Planet. Because they are after the same thing: The Truth.


Season 2 Episode 21: Accelerate (original air date 5-6-03).

Lana is having a fright fest movie festival at the Talon. When she is cleaning up she sees a little girl. The next day she sees the same little girl in her room. She believes that the little girl was a former friend of hers (Emily) that died six years ago. Lana and Clark go to meet her friends dad. He still hasn't gotten over his daughter's death. At the mansion Lionel has given Lex his marriage gift: a trip for them to the caribbean. Mr. Dinsmore goes to his old house and sees his daughter there swinging. He asks her to come home. She doesn't want to go home or stop seeing Lana. So she tries to kill her dad. Clark and Pete go to search the cemetery. They find the girls grave. Clark sees that she is still in it. They also see Emily in the grave yard. She runs away. And Clark sees that she is moving very fast. Back at the Talon Emily surprises Lana. Lex sees Lionel at the hospital. He is visiting Emily's dad. Lex goes in to see the former Luthor Corp. employee and meets Emily in the room. Lana and Clark search Mr. Dinsmore's house and find a secret passage into the basement. There they find tubes for cloning people. They tip off the police but it's cleaned up before they get there. On his return trip to the basement, Clark runs into Lex. Lex tells Clark that when Mr. Dinsmore left Luthor Corp. he was working on cloning. At the hospital, Lex offers Mr. Dinsmore help. At the river where the original Emily died, Emily pushes Lana in. Clark saves her. Lex accuses Lionel of cloning. Lionel tells Lex he's now in charge of the caves. At the Luthor Corp., Lionel tells Mr. Dinsmore that he is off the project. Also Emily is Luthor Corp. property now.

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Season 2 Episode 18: Visitor (original air date 4-15-03).

An inventive kid gets picked on in the Electronics Lab. Clark steps in to help, but the kid sets fire to a metal tool rack. Lex asks Dr. Helen Brice to move in with him again. Meanwhile Clark goes the Cyrus' house (the kid). Cyrus tells Clark that he is from outer space. Lana moves her horse to the Kent farm. The (old) horse collapses and Cyrus heals it. Helen moves into the mansion. Her master key will unlock every door but one. Chloe finds out that Cyrus rigged the tools to catch on fire. When confronted Cyrus says he only has power to heal not harm. Cyrus take Clark into the woods and shows him the radio tower he built to contact his family on another planet. He needs his transmitter back at school. Clark helps him get it. On the way off the school grounds, the bullies show up. Clark catches their truck on fire with his heat vision. They scatter. But Cyrus knows that Clark is also an alien. Clark tells Pete that Cyrus knows he's an alien. Pete is willing to use a piece of meteor rock to see. Clark tells Pete it is called Kryptonite. Meanwhile Cyrus gets locked up for observation. Clark frees him. Helen tells Lex that she's upset about the locked door. Chloe finds out that Cyrus isn't an alien he's an orphan. Cyrus goes to his tower to contact his planet. Bullies show up and try to pull it down with their truck. Clark stops them. One kid gets injured and Cyrus saves him. Saving the kid blows Cyrus' chance and his message doesn't make it to his parents. Cyrus has a complete mental snap. Lex shows Helen the contents of the locked room. It's his complete investigation of Clark and the Kents.

Season 2 Episode 19: Precipice (original air date 4-22-03).

Three drunk frat boys give Lana trouble at the Talon. Clark enters the Talon and runs them off. He speeds off and confronts them out in the alley. He throws one threw the air and he lands on the new sheriff's car. When she sees Clark throw the kid she gets involved in Clark's life. Also at the Talon, Dr. Brice's old boy friend shows up. The kids from the Talon are suing Clark. Trying to leave the hospital at night, Dr. Brice's car won't start. Paul (the old boy friend) is there to help out. Enter Lex suspecting the old boyfriend had something to do with the car. Lex is having him followed. Unfortunately he has hurt himself and is blaming Lex. Lana wants to defend herself so she starts training with Lex. Paul follows Helen into the pathology lab in the hospital's basement. She spurns his advances and he attacked her. She ends up in the I.C.U. Lex and Clark track Paul to a hotel room. Inside they find Lex's private eye dead in the bath tub. Lex and Clark catch Paul at the train station trying to leave town. Andy the frat boy shows back up at the Talon. Lana kicks his ass. Andy drops the law suit. Dr. Brice makes a full recovery. At the mansion, Lex asks her to marry him.

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Season 2 Episode 16: Fever (original air date 2-18-03).

Martha Kent takes the flour canister to the cellar and buries it under old paint cans. While she is digging she gets a dose of microscopic spores into her lungs. When she goes into the house she passes out in the kitchen. Martha stops breathing and is rushed to the hospital. Meanwhile Clark starts doing her errands for the fund raiser. Lex's girlfriend is taking care of Martha. She tells Jonathan that she is worried about Martha and the baby. Baby! The D.C.A. (Desease Control Agency) has been called out because of the unknown infection in Martha. And they are going to search the farm. Clark speeds home to remove the ship and get a dose of spores in the process. The D.C.A. searches the cellar, gets a hit on the spores and finds the flour can and disk. Martha (who can hardly breath) tells Jonathan that she thinks that the ship healed her. Clark (infected) passes out while talking to Lana. Helen makes a house call for Clark. She takes a blood sample and realizes that he is special. Jonathan tells Clark that his mom might not make it through the night and he might not either. Then Jonathan heads to the D.C.A. to get back the key. Jonathan breaks in and gets the key. He is helped by a sick Clark to escape. The military Chase Jonathan and Clark but when caught it's not them. It's Pete! Later with the ship in the hospital parking lot, the key (disk) is placed in the ship. The ship starts up. a wave of energy shoots out and cures Clark. a newly dead Martha Kent is revived as well. Later, the baby is healthy. Lex buys the file on Martha Kent. He also asks Helen to move into the mansion.

Season 2 Episode 17: Rosetta (original air date 2-25-03).

Clark has a dream that he is flying. during the dream, Clark flies through clouds and into caves. He puts the key into the impression in the cave wall. he wakes up out on the highway only to be almost run over by Lex. Dr. Walden shows up at the mansion. Lex gives him three days to make a break through. Clark is hearing things and it leads him to hid dads tool box. Inside he finds the key. Clark takes the key and places it into the impression in the cave wall. A charge of power shoots out of the wall and goes through Clark. Lex wakes Clark up on the floor in the cave. Lana and Chloe get into it over Clark again. At the farm, Clark hears the noise again. His heat vision goes out of control and he burns a cave symbol on the barn wall. At the Talon, Clark is drawing cave symbols (and their definition) on a place mat. When he throws it away Lex gets it out of the trash. Dr. Walden thinks Clark's understanding of the language is flawed. Clark gets an e-mail by a Dr. Virgil Swann. While investigating the cave walls Dr. Walden finds the disk. He puts it into the cave slot and is thrown into the cave wall and knocked unconscious. He winds up in the hospital when Clark finds him and the disk. Lex confronts Clark about the language being of alien origin. Clark goes to NYC to meet Dr. Swann. Dr. Swann shows Clark a message that came down with the meteor storm. The message says: This is Kal-El of Krypton our infant so our last hope. Please protect him and deliver him from evil. Dr. Swann knows it's Clark. He tells Clark that he is the only one. Clark takes the key and places it in the ship. The Kryptonian language starts moving around the ship. The message tells Clark to conquer the planet.

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Season 2 Episode 13 Suspect (original air date 1-28-03).

It's a dark stormy night, Lionel is in Lex's office listening to music when an unknown shooter shoots him. Lionel is down for the count. Meanwhile Jonathan is asleep in his truck with a bottle in one hand and a gun in the other. The police wake him up and arrest him. Jonathan tells his family that he didn't do it. Maybe Henry Small will take his case. But he wont. Lana tells Clark she saw Jonathan at the mansion. Lionel and Jonathan were having a heated debate. Jonathan tells Lionel to stay away from Martha or he will regret it. During a search of their house, the police find the watch that Lionel gave Martha. The bartender tells the police that Jonathan got crazy drunk. Lex is told by the doctors that Lionel's higher brain functions are shutting down. After poking around the site where his father was arrested, Clark and Pete find a bullet in the wall of a shack. Clark then gets into it with Lex at the mansion. And Clark talks to the bartender that served his dad drinks. Still in their investigation Pete and Clark are ran off the road by a semi truck. The truck driver then shoots Pete's car in the gas tank and it blows up. Display of powers: Clark kicks off the car door, rescues Pete and shields him from the explosion. At the coffee shop, Mr. Small explains why he can't take Jonathan case. But then changes his mind. When he is missing Clark and Pete find the bartender dead in a freezer. At the bar Clark also sees a picture of the bartender and the sheriff. Clark realizes it's Ethan the sheriff. The sheriff had a motive because he was feeding Lionel information and he couldn't get out of the deal. Lionel makes a come back.


Season 2 Episode 14 Rush (original air date 2-4-03).

Chloe and Pete are attending a rave in the cave. After something happens to Pete he begins to act different. He tells Clark he should go for it with Lana. Clark sees Lana at the Talon and asks her out on a date. She says yes. Lex (the owner of the land that the caves are on) checks the caves for damage to the cave drawings. Clark is their cleaning up the trash left by the rave. Lex hires a linguist to translate the pictogram's of the caves. While Chloe and Clark are investigating the caves, Chloe is infected just like Pete. The linguist finds an unusual bug on the cave walls. While with Clark at the Talon, Pete puts a piece of red Kryptonite in Clark's pocket. Pete and Clark show Chloe his powers. Later at the Talon, Clark and Chloe are going at it hot and heavy. When his shirt comes off the piece of red Kryptonite falls out. Clark reverts back to normal. Clark confronts Pete and Chloe about having a parasite. Pete is not having it and punches Clark with a Kryptonite laced rock. After being woke up by Lana, Clark catches Pete's car when he tries to jump a gorge. Chloe and Pete end up in the hospital after their parasites are removed. Lex directs the linguist to let Clark have access to the caves. Clark tries to apologises to Lana about standing her up but shes not having it.


Season 2 Episode 15 Prodigal (original air date 2-11-03).

In a high stakes poker game a man is caught cheating. The Chinese mob tries to kill him but he gets away with help from Lex. Clark applies for a part time job at the Talon. Lana is less than thrilled to hire Clark. At Luthor Corp. Lex brings to his dad the man he saved. It's his brother Lucas. Lionel welcomes him with open arms. Then finds out Lex plans to use him for a Luthor Corp. buy out. Later at the Kent farm, Lex brings Lucas by to meet Clark and Pete. Lex' buy out plan with his brother backfires when his brother joins sides with Lionel. Lex is kicked out of the mansion and has to move in at the Kent farm. Lex helps out by doing chores. At the mansion, as part of their deal, Lionel tries to get Lucas to sign over his stock. Lucas waffles for more money. Lucas also notices Lionel might not be blind anymore. At the Talon Clark gets the job. Lucas shows up and tells Lana that he owns the Talon now. Lex finds out that Lucas was found because Lionel wanted him to be found. At the Talon Lucas wants Clark to be fired. Then Clark says him from the Chinese hit man. Lex leaves the farm but is kidnapped by Lucas. Later at Luthor Corp. in Metropolis, Lucas tries to get Lionel to shoot Lex. Clark intervenes to save Lex. But it is scam by Lex and Lucas to combine forces against Lionel. They realize Lionel now has his vision back. To keep Lex quiet about Lucas, Lionel gives back Lex Corp. and the mansion to Lex.


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Smallville - A Retrospective -10.

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Season 2 Episode 11 Visage (original air date 1-14-03).

Water leak at the Talon. Display of power: Heat vision on the leaking pipe to melt it shut. Whitney remains missing in action and his mom has given Lana back her Kryptonite necklace. Even though he's missing in action, Whitney walks down the halls of Smallville High into Lana's arms. Lex confronts Dr. Helen Brill about spying on him. At Whitney's welcome home party, Whitney is acting very unusual. Later when a representative from the Marines comes to his house, Whitney kills him. Later Whitney gets into it with Clark and throws him through the air. Clark sees Whitney through the door and can see Kryptonite in him. Clark wonders if Whitney could be Tina the shape shifter. Back at the farm Jonathan takes down Clark. It's Tina! Tina ties up Clark and throws him into the cellar with the Kryptonite necklace on. Tina poses as Lana. Lex confronts Helen about his investigation but she's not having it. Clark wakes up on the floor of the cellar. The covered spaceship starts lighting up and the Kryptonite turns clear and inert. Clark is back to full power! Tina takes Clark's place and tries to get Lana. The real Clark shows up and the fight is on. During the fight the "Tina" Clark is impaled and dies. The news comes back that Whitney's body was found.

Season 2 Episode 12 Insurgence (original air date 1-21-03).

Lex misses out on a 150 million dollar deal to his father. While trashing his office Lex finds multiple bugs. Assuming they are from his dad, Lex orders bugs placed in Lionel's office at Luthor Corp. Martha misses her anniversary to work for Lionel. This pisses of Jonathan. At the Luthor Corp. office Lionel offers Martha her own office, a promotion and a fancy watch. During their work the cleaning crew (placing bugs) confronts Lionel and Martha. They are taken prisoner. After Lionel hits the silent alarm, Jonathan, Clark and Lex head to Metropolis. When the the robbers break into the safe Martha sees a pallet of Kryptonite bricks, a file on Clark and the octagonal disk. Lex calls the captors and offers them a way out: A secret elevator for the contents of the safe and safe passage for his dad and Martha. Meanwhile stopped by the police, Clark jumps from the top of the Daily Planet building into the Luthor Corp. building. Clark brakes into the office and takes out the robbers only to be taken out by the Kryptonite. During a struggle with the chief robber, Martha pushes the pallet back into the safe and shuts the door. Now Clark is back but Lionel shoots the robber in the back. Martha whispers to Clark to burn the fills. Clark uses his heat vision to burn 'em. Martha steals the disk. Jonathan has a nice reunion with Martha. Lex asks how Clark got into the building. Lionel "It doesn't matter the boy is resourceful. He saved us." Lionel upset with Lex, is leaving the mansion. Martha wants to quit working for Lionel. Jonathan suggests staying and spying. Martha hides the octagonal disk in the flour canister.


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Smallville - A Retrospective -9.

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Season 2 Episode 9 Dichotic (original air date 11-19-02).

Ian a four point student can't accept a "C" in metal shop. So his teacher must pay. Enter freak of the week: Duplicate Boy. Clark helps Lana move in with Chloe. At the farm, Jonathan is working on his tractor and the jack slips. His leg is pinned. Amazing display of powers: Clark (in the house) hears his dad yelling in the barn, fast run to the barn, lifts the tractor off his dads leg and uses his vision to see the broken leg. During an interview for the Torch, Ian makes a move on Chloe. Then he offers to help Lana with her math homework. Clark gets jealous. Duplicate Boy then splits in half to spend quality time with Chloe and help Lana at the same time. After a confrontation with Ian about Chloe and Lana, Clark and Pete investigate the metal shop. They find dead Mr. Frankel. Before they can leave the shop is set on fire by Ian. Clark and Pete trick Ian into being two places at once. When he realizes the gig is up, Ian tries to kill Lana and Chloe at the Smallville dam. Ian drops Chloe over the side of the dam. Clark jumps down to the bottom and catches her. Clark takes out Ian and saves Lana.


Season 2 Episode 10 Skinwalker (original air date 11-26-02).

Luthor Corp. has workers building an office park in the woods. An old Indian man warns the workers to stay off his land. During the night a worker is mauled to death by a wolf. Half the site is blown up. The next day Pete and Clark are riding motor cross cycles in the area. Clark flips his cycle and falls into a hole in the ground. The large hole ends up being a network of caves. An Indian female finds him while she is investigating the caves. After looking an uninjured Clark over, she refers to Clark as "invincible". The Indian girl finds hieroglyphics on the cave walls. Clark notices an octagonal impression in the wall. Clark also realizes that the language on the cave walls is the same on the ship. Clark invites the girl (Kyla) and her grand father for dinner. Later in the barn Kyla makes a move on Clark (witnessed by Lana). Lionel offers Lex into a joint venture, since he successfully lead his employee lead buy out. While investigating the caves there is a partial cave in. Clark rescues Kyla using his strength, speed and invulnerability. Kyla who witnessed it asks if he can shoot fire out of his eyes. Lana asks Mr. Small if he can help with a blockade of building on the cave site. Mr. Small tells Lana that they share the same DNA. Clark enlists Lex for help with the caves. During their search of the caves Lex sees the octagonal impression in the wall. Lex says that the caves could be more important than anything they can imagine. Lex offers to buy out Lionel, but he refuses. Clark asks his new girlfriend if her grandfather is a skinwalker (after his mom is attacked by a wolf). At the mansion, Clark saves Lionel from a wolf. The wolf gets injured while jumping out the window. The wolf turns back to Kyla before she dies. The building site is closed down. Lex gets his wish to make it a historical site. Lana tells Clark that Whitney is M.I.A.

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D.L.

Smallville - A Retrospective -8.

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Season 2 Episode 7: Lineage (original air date 11-05-02).

Use of power: Clark uses his heat vision to toast bread. A mysterious woman breaks into the Kent house. Later the woman confronts Clark at his school. She tells him that she is his mom. Metropolis United Charities (founded by Lionel Luthor) adopted Clark to the Kents. Mrs. Dunlevy claims Lionel father her son and that Clark and Lex are brothers. The mystery man in Lana's photo is Henry Small of the Smallville Smalls. Jonathan tells Clark about the day the meteors fell. How they found him and his ship. And then down the rode found a stunned Lionel and helps him find his son Lex. The court wants to find out if Clark is actually Mrs. Dunlevy's son. Clark reluctantly gives a mouth swab. Later that night Clark and Pete break into the lab and steal the sample. Lana confronts Mr. Small about being her father. He tells her to go away. Lex tells Clark that they could be brothers. Mrs. Dunlevy then kidnaps Lex. Dramatic Rescue: Clark blasts through Mrs. Dunlevy's front door to save Lex. Clark takes an axe shot to the gut and the axe head explodes. In a flash back Lionel gives Jonathan the adoption papers but asks for a favor: Talk the Ross brothers into selling him their farm. Lionel tells Lex his real brother died when he was an infant. But hold on - Lionel has a picture of the child as a 6-7 year old.


Season 2 Episode 8: Ryan (original air date 11-12-02).

Ryan is back and being experimented on. He escapes his captors briefly and calls Clark for help. The mayor of Smallville shows up in Lex's office and wants a bribe. Nell tells Lana that she wants to move them to Metropolis with her boyfriend Dean. Clark tracks Ryan to the Summerholt Research facility and breaks him out. Clark hides Ryan with Lex at the mansion. The doctor from Summerholt wants Ryan back. Lex uses his lawyers to block him. Lana then tells Clark about her upcoming my to Metropolis. Clark tells her not to go. Lex shows Ryan his collection of Warrior Angel comic books. A noticeably sick Ryan passes out and goes to the hospital. Ryan tells Clark that he has a brain tumor and it is growing. It is killing him. Use of powers: Clark runs to Hub City looking for a brain doctor. The doctor agrees to try to help Ryan. Lana gets to stay in Smallville with Chloe. After his surgery, Ryan doesn't get better. Clark takes Ryan in a hot air balloon ride. Then Ryan dies.

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Smallville - A Retrospective -7.

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Season 2 Episode 5: Nocturne (original air date 10-22-02).

A boy is being held prisoner in his parents basement. The boy bids his time by writing Lana love poetry. Meanwhile Lionel (still blind) has fired another assistant. Martha Kent (bringing her products to the mansion) sees Lionel needs help and lends a hand. Lionel offers her a job. Byron (the captive boy) escapes his basement and leaves Lana more poetry on her parents gravestone. Clark (not understanding the poetry) is branded "The Man of Steel" by Lana. After a confrontation at Byron's house with his parents, Clark and Pete brake into Byron's house looking for him. Byron who gets out in the daylight turns into some kind of uncontrollable monster. Getting away Byron throws Pete through the air. Then he throws Lana at the cemetery. Byron (convinced that Luthor Corp. is behind his mutation) tries to bring down the Luthor Corp. chopper with Lionel and Martha in it. Clark stops Byron by knocking him into a well. In the darkness Byron reverts back to normal. Martha convinces Lionel to have Luthor Corp. work on cure for Byron.


Season 2 Episode 6: Redux (original air date 10-29-02).

Clark is swimming in the high school pool when another swimmer gets into trouble. Clark rescues his fellow class mate only to find him aged to an old man. Troy (the kid) is dead. It's revealed Clark's grandfather is alive and lives in Coast City. While cleaning out the Talon's theater, Lana finds old pictures of her mother with another man. Meanwhile Martha's father shows up on the farm. When he comes home early Clark meets his grandfather for the first time. When aunt Nell is no help, Lana solicits Lex's help in the IDing of the man in the photo. The new principal, Mr. Reynolds puts Clark on his radar when he sees him hanging with Lex. It is revealed Mr. Reynolds was the head master at Lex's prep. school - Excelsior. Freak of the week: High school girl with the kiss of death. Another student (Russel) gets his life sucked out of him. Clark realizes that Chrissy was with Troy and Russel prior to their deaths. Clark then stops Chrissy before she can kill the principal (who has been on her about her previous school records). Chrissy is thrown through the air, when she lands hard she ages till death. Chrissy was over one hundred years old and sucked the life out of others to stay young. Lana finds out that the man in the photo could be her father.

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D.L.

Smallville - A Retrospective -6.

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I'm deep into my quest to watch all 10 seasons of Smallville now. Check it out.

Season 2 Episode 3: Duplicity (original air date 10-8-02).

Doctor Hamilton is back but not acting well. Lex decides to end his investigation into the meteor crystals and fires him. On his way down the rode, Dr. Hamilton has an episode of the shakes and causes another driver to crash his van. Pete sees the crash, helps the victim and sees Clark's ship in the corn field. After dropping the victim at the hospital, Pete gets Clark to help him get the ship back to his house. The next day it is stolen out of Pete's family tool shed. He suspects Clark. To prove his honesty to Pete, Clark tells him his secret. Lionel is back at the mansion now but blind. Dr. Hamilton (looking for new funding) "shows" Lionel the ship he stole from Pete. Lana tells Clark that she has broken up with Whitney. Clark tells his mom and dad that he told Pete the truth. That news causes a fight between them. A desperate for answers Dr. Hamilton kidnaps Pete and tries to get him to talk. Clark rescues Pete. During the fight, Dr. Hamilton is doused with Kryptonite liquid. This makes Dr. Hamilton shake so violently it kills him. Clark and Pete then get the ship back to the Kent cellar. Lionel and Lex go to see the ship at Dr. Hamilton's but it is gone.


Season 2 Episode 4: Red (original air date 10-15-02).

There is a new girl at school that dresses on the wild side. It's time to get his new class ring. When Clark puts it on his personality changes. Lionel (now fully moved into the mansion) makes Lex's office his own. Clark (with ring on) refuses to study with his friend. He then checks out Chloe with his special vision. Clark is starting to act out and everyone else is paying for it. Clark kisses Lana (at the Talon) and tells her he has feelings for her. While out on a date with Lana, Clark dumps her for the new "hot" girl. Chloe finds out that the stone in the class rings are fake. Pete discovers that the stones are a form of Red Kryptonite. Clark is told that the stone in his ring is Red Kryptonite. This Red Kryptonite could be changing his personality but he refuses to take it off. Jonathan and Pete confront Clark about his class ring. Pete flashes a Green Krytonite meteor rock from a lead lined box. While he is briefly down, Jonathan crushes the stone with a sledge hammer. Clark reverts back to normal. When trying to apologises to Lana she refuses to accept it.

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Smallville - A Retrospective -5.

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I've started watching season two now. Check it out.

Season 2 Episode 1: Vortex (original air date 9-24-02).

Beginning from the last season cliff hanger. Clark flies into Lana's truck as the tornado suspends it. He saves her. Lex rescues his dad as the tornado bears down on the mansion. The ship flies into the tornado. As the tornado hits, Jonathan and Nixon end up in a hole in the ground covered by a trailer. Clark catches Lex in a lie (about Nixon) while they are searching for Jonathan in the woods. Lana uses the Talon for tornado relief. At the Talon, Clark has to lie to Lana about her rescue. When confronted Lex tells Clark about Nixon. Lionel has to get emergency surgery. Once they get out off the hole, Nixon tries to kill Jonathan but Lex kills him. Clark tells his dad that when he was in the tornado it felt as if he was flying. At the end Lionel will walk again but he is blind. The ship winds up in a corn field.

Season 2 Episode 2: Heat (original air date 10-1-02).

With a hot new biology teacher, Clark gets a little over heated: New display of powers - Heat vision. Desiree Atkins (the teacher) is Lex' new fiancee. She gives off pheromones and men do her bidding. These pheromones cause Lex to marry her. Meanwhile Lana is filming messages to Whitney (in the Marines) from everyone. While filming and thinking about Lana, Clark has a flare up and sets the Talon on fire. Desiree wants Clark out of Lex's life so she sets her car on fire and blames Clark. Clark goes to jail. When Lana and Chloe visit Clark in jail they tell him about their Pheromone theory. Clark then gets out of jail and rescues his dad and Lex from Desiree using his heat vision. The final message on the tape to Whitney: His and Lana's relationship is over. Ouch.

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D.L.

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.

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D.L.

Smallville - A Retrospective -3.

Greetings Friends,


I have now watched enough Smallville that when I go without it a few days I begin to miss it. I wonder how long that will last. Anyway six more episodes watched. Check them out.



Season 1 Episode 11 Hug (original air date 2-5-02).


Freak of the week: Touchy. This man's hand shake can really influence people. Bob Rickman causes a business rival to jump off the 31st floor and even gets Jonathan Kent to sell him his property. Rickman is confronted by old salesman friend Kyle who tells Rickman to leave Smallville. Clark's display of power: a swung baseball bat shatters against him, he throws a grown man many feet through the air, rips a car door off its hinges and out runs a shot bullet. Whitney is convinced to go after Kyle. Then Lex is sent to kill Clark and Kyle. More displays of Clark's power: Matrix moves when machine gunned by Lex, getting shot and super kicking Lex. In the end Kyle convinces Rickman to kill himself. Lex says: Trust me Clark. Our friendship will be the stuff of legend.


Season 1 Episode 12 Leech (original air date 2-12-02).


Rock hunting on a school field trip exposes Clark to more Kryptonite rocks. While rescuing a fellow student (Eric) holding a Kryptonite sample, Clark is struck by lightening. His powers are transferred to his geeky classmate. Lex gets a computer simulation of his car wreak from episode one. Lex confronts Clark believing he hit Clark with his car and Clark ripped open the roof. Meanwhile Eric's display of power: stops a purse snatching, swung knife shatters against his hand and he throws the purse snatcher through the air. Sir Harry makes his appearance with his daughter Victoria, Lex's girlfriend. Lana's aunt puts her flower shop and the Talon theater up for sale. Meanwhile Eric is spurned by a girl, punches a mirror off a car, throws a car and throws Clark through the air. Lex realizes that Clark is human when he is injured. Cadmus Industries ends up being worthless so Sir Harry and Victoria aren't going to take over Luthor corp. after all. Victoria to Lex: We could of been great together. Lex: I plan to be great by myself. Using Lana's necklace, Clark takes back his powers with electricity. Clark gives the necklace back to Lana in the Lex's lead box.





Season 1 Episode 13 Kinetic (original air date 2-26-02).



At the Luthor mansion, Chloe and Clark are interviewing Lex for the Torch. When Lex is called away to take a phone call, three Kryptonite infused robbers phase into the office. During the skirmish Chloe is thrown out the third story window. Clark (down for the count because of the Kryptonite tattoos) is unable to aid her. While Chloe is recouping at the hospital we see a guilty Clark chopping wood with his hands. Meanwhile Whitney, down on his luck after loosing his football scholarship, falls in with the wrong crowd. His new friends are older jocks that never got out of Smallville either. These new friends tattoo themselves with Kryptonite infused ink that make their molecules move so fast they can phase through solid objects. A drunken Whitney joins in, gets a tat but then regrets it when they try to shake down Lex. Enter Clark Kent to save the day. Clark display of power: chopping logs and looking through walls,safe. Easter Eggs: Chloe refers to Clark as an investigative reporter. Whitney refers to Clark as a boy scout. New underlying plot point: Lana proposes Lex turn the Talon into a coffee/art house shop.





Season 1 Episode 14 Zero (original air date 3-12-02).





This episode opens up with Lex at a Metropolis night club three years prior. While at the club a friend catches her fiancee (Jude) with two other women. During the fight that ensues Jude stabs Lex then is shot and killed by the bouncer, or was he? Present day Lex is at the Talon looking over the work progress in preparation for opening day. Out on the street, Lex is confronted by the bouncer who tells him Jude is alive and well. Lex sends the bouncer into hiding. We then see that the shooting was covered up by the same dirty cop that tried to blackmail Clark into helping him. Meanwhile a package shows up at the Talon for Lex. The box contains the bouncers hand. Upon his arrival to the Kent farm, Lex is captured and tortured by Jude. Clark saves Lex. And the Jude doppelganger (Jude was always dead) is killed by the Talon handyman (secretly the brother of the scorned woman). Other plot points: The Talon has it's grand opening and Chloe digs deep into Clark's adoption.


Season 1 Episode 15 Nicodemus (original air date 3-19-02).


Opening scene: Easter egg: Pa Kent (Jonathan) is driving down a back road listening to The Dukes of Hazard theme song on the radio. Jonathan stops to help a man in a bad car wreck. While helping the man, Jonathan gets a shot of spores in his face from a strange looking plant. The driver and Jonathan both end up in the hospital fighting for their lives from the plant attack. Chloe and Lana go to the scene of the accident and Lana get a shot of spores also. Lana begin to act strange just like Jonathan did before he was admitted to the hospital. Meanwhile Lex confronts Dr. Hamilton about studying plants. An old Indian remedy for the plant's virus is found at the last minute. When confronted Lex has to lie to Clark about Dr. Hamilton's research. Dr. Hamilton's lab is shut down, but he is secretly moved to Lex's new acquisition Cadmus Labs.


Season 1 Episode 16 Stray (original air date 4-16-02).



While driving at night, Ma Kent (Martha) hits a mind reading kid with her car. After being checked out at the hospital, the child (Ryan) stays with the Kent's awaiting social services since he has no family. Ryan starts reading everyones mind but is unable to read Clark's.
When Ryan meets Lex he's reading his favorite Warrior Angel comic books. Lex tells Ryan and Clark that he has a complete set and likes how the character is an alien and helps people. Ryan's step dad and girlfriend are trying to get Ryan back to help them commit crimes. Clark protects Ryan. Ryan leaves town to stay with Chloe's aunt. Before leaving he gives his comics to Clark and tells him to be careful of Lex.


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D.L.

Smallville - A Retrospective -2.

Greetings Friends,


I'm continuing to watch Smallville. Check out my episode review.


Season 1 Episode 5 Cool. (original air date 11-13-01)

Freak of the week #5: Frost Boy. High school football jock gets frosty power after falling through iced over lake and drowning near Kryptonite laced rocks. Whitney lets Lana down (this could be the start of a trend). Lex gives Clark more Lana relationship help. Meanwhile, Frost Boy is sucking heat from fire and people. Clark asks Lana on their first non-date, but lets her down by rescuing Chloe from a frosty death. Finally Clark saves his family, Lex, Lana and Whitney at Lex's house from Frost Boy.


Season 1 Epiode 6 Hourglass. (original air date 11-20-01)


Freak of the week #6: Man out of time. The second episode in a row with Kryptonite infused water, this time the victim becomes sixty years younger. Another victim of Clark's arrival to earth: Old lady at nursing home who is blind. She tells Clark that her blindness is caused by a flash burn to her optic nerve caused by the asteroids coming to earth. Lana sees the Wall of Weird for the first time. Clark sees his future by touching the the blind lady: Destined to help people. New Clark power: Invulnerability. A knife shatters when thrust at Clark. Lex shows Clark his destroyed Porsche from when he met Clark (and wonders how the roof got ripped back). Clark rescues his mom from the younger old man.


Season 1 Episode 7 Craving. (original air date 11-27-01)



Freak of the week #7 Thinner. Fat school girl makes smoothies that have vegetables grow in dirt Kryponite crystals. She has a miracle weight reduction but starts having incredible food cravings. Lex sees the Wall of Weird and meets Chloe for the first time. Lex meets Dr. Hamilton and offers him funding on his research into the (Kryptonite) crystals. Meanwhile the now thin girl sucks the fat of a road kill deer and classmates. Clark saves Pete from the thin girl, but lets down Lana for the second time. Dr. Hamilton takes the offer.


Season 1 Episode 8 Jitters. (original air date 12-11-01)


Freak of the week #8 Shakey. Former Kent family farm hand and current Luthor Corp. employee Earl gets the jitters from cleaning the missing third level. Clark gets sick when around Earl. He then tells Ma and Pa how being around Earl and the crystals makes him feel. Earl takes the school field trip hostage at Luthor Corp. Lionel Luthor is back. Lex stands up to his dad for the first time. Clark saves Earl and Lex by pulling them up from dangling off of a breaking cat walk.


Season 1 Episode 9 Rogue. (original air date 1-15-02)



New Clark power: Super strength. While in Metropolis, Clark stops a run away bus with his body and bench presses a generator that has been dropped on him. Clark is blackmailed into helping out a rogue cop that learns his secret. More super powers on display: Clark drops safe on the cop's car, punches through his houses vertical support beam and rips open a metal box. Rogue cop gets death by cop. Clark also shows off some speed: dodging a bullet and blur on museum security camera. Lex suspects somethings up when reviewing the tape. New underlying plot point: Hottie from Lex's past trying to get her hooks into Lex and Luthor Corp.


Season 1 Episode 10 Shimmer. (original air date 1-29-02)


Freak of the week #9 Invis-a-boy. A ghost like presence is moving things around at the Luthor mansion. With no Whitney around, Clark helps Lana with the blood drive and almost gets his first kiss. Clark rescues Lex and his girlfriend from the ghost. Clark's power on display: Invulnerability. A mace shatters when it is swung at Clark's face. Clark stops the "ghost". Clark uses his telescope to see Whitney back with Lana at her house.

That is just about half of season one down. I'll keep watching.

D.L.

Smallville - A Retrospective -1.

Greetings Friends,


The second part of my 2012 challenge is to watch all 10 seasons of Smallville. That sounds like a lot. We'll see.



Season 1. Episode 1: Pilot (original air date 10/16/01).






Great open scene of the asteroids and ship crashing to earth. First display of powers: Clark grown up using his super speed headed to high school. First scene with Clark, Chloe and Pete. We also meet Lana Lang who Clark pines for and her Kryptonite necklace (I forgot about the necklace). Rival Lana boyfriend Whitney makes his first appearance also. This episode really takes off with the entrance of Lex Luthor into Clark's life. Clark rescues Lex. We also have the first Freak of the Week: Scarecrow Boy. Pa Kent tells Clark the truth about his origin. The wall of weird makes it's first appearance. And Lex finds Lana's necklace. Nice set up to the series. A great first episode.






Season 1 Episode 2: Metamorphosis (original air date 10/23/01).






Freak of the Week #2: Bug Boy. He has a thing for Lana Lang, but who doesn't? Super power sighting #2: We see Clark drive a nail with his thumb. #3: Floating while asleep. First appearance of Lex's office and lead box with Lana's necklace in it. Lex meets Lana for the first time. Lex gives Clark the lead box with Lana's necklace in it and discovers Clark has some aversion to the necklace.






Season 1 Episode 3: Hothead (original air date 10/30/01).






Freak of the Week #3: Sparky. The Smallville football coach gains control over fire from sauna steam released from lava rocks laced with Kryptonite. Clark plays football and shows off a few more powers #4 Big Jump #5 Super strength and balance while running caring the football. Clark saves the principal and Chloe from fires set by the coach. Lionel Luthor makes his first present day appearance!






Season 1 Episode 4: X-Ray (original air date 11/06/01).



Freak of the Week #4: Shape shifter. Clark's new power: X-Ray vision. Clark uncontrollably looks through people down to their muscles and bones, through a metal locker and into a bag, through a wooden cabinet and through a brick wall into the girl's locker room. The shape shifter does in her mom then tries to replace Lana. Clark saves Lana from a premature burial from the shape shifter.


Okay, that's the first four episodes watched.



Continuing To Watch.



D.L.