Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Smallville - A Retrospective - 20

Greetings Friends,

More Smallville watched. Enjoy.

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.


Keep watching. I will.

D.L.             

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