Season 1
Season one of Smallville, an American television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, began airing on October 16, 2001, on The WB television network. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to his developing superpowers in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The first season comprises 21 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 21, 2002. Regular cast members during season one include Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Annette O'Toole, John Schneider, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, and Eric Johnson.
The season's stories focus on Martha and Jonathan Kent's (O'Toole and Schneider) attempts to help their adopted son Clark (Welling) cope with his alien origin and control his developing superhuman abilities. Clark must deal with the meteor-infected individuals that begin appearing in Smallville, his love for Lana Lang (Kreuk), and not being able to tell his two best friends, Pete Ross (Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (Mack), about his abilities or his origins. Clark also befriends Lex Luthor (Rosenbaum) after saving Lex's life.
The episodes were filmed primarily in Vancouver and post-production work took place in Los Angeles. Gough and Millar assisted the writing staff with week-to-week story development. "Villain of the week" storylines were predominant during the first season; physical effects, make-up effects, and computer generated imagery became important components as well. Limited filming schedules sometimes forced guest actors to perform physical stunts, and the series regulars were more than willing to do stunt work. Episode budgets ultimately became strictly regulated, as the show frequently ran over budget during the first half of the season. The pilot broke The WB's viewership record for a debut series, and was nominated for various awards. Although the villain of the week storylines became a concern for producers, critical reception was generally favorable, and the series was noted as having a promising start. The first season was released on DVD on September 23, 2003, and included various special features the focused on individual episodes and the series as a whole. It has also been released on home media in regions 2 and 4 in the international markets.
The season's stories focus on Martha and Jonathan Kent's (O'Toole and Schneider) attempts to help their adopted son Clark (Welling) cope with his alien origin and control his developing superhuman abilities. Clark must deal with the meteor-infected individuals that begin appearing in Smallville, his love for Lana Lang (Kreuk), and not being able to tell his two best friends, Pete Ross (Jones III) and Chloe Sullivan (Mack), about his abilities or his origins. Clark also befriends Lex Luthor (Rosenbaum) after saving Lex's life.
The episodes were filmed primarily in Vancouver and post-production work took place in Los Angeles. Gough and Millar assisted the writing staff with week-to-week story development. "Villain of the week" storylines were predominant during the first season; physical effects, make-up effects, and computer generated imagery became important components as well. Limited filming schedules sometimes forced guest actors to perform physical stunts, and the series regulars were more than willing to do stunt work. Episode budgets ultimately became strictly regulated, as the show frequently ran over budget during the first half of the season. The pilot broke The WB's viewership record for a debut series, and was nominated for various awards. Although the villain of the week storylines became a concern for producers, critical reception was generally favorable, and the series was noted as having a promising start. The first season was released on DVD on September 23, 2003, and included various special features the focused on individual episodes and the series as a whole. It has also been released on home media in regions 2 and 4 in the international markets.
Episode 1: Pilot
In October 1989, a meteor shower hits Smallville and with it arrives a little boy. The child is adopted by Martha and Jonathan Kent, and named Clark. Twelve years later, Clark struggles to understand his identity. After Clark saves Lex Luthor's life after Lex drives his Porsche off a bridge, the two become fast friends. After sharing an intimate moment with Lana Lang, Clark is forced into a school hazing ritual led by Lana's jealous boyfriend Whitney. Meanwhile, Jeremy Creek (Adrian Glynn), a teenage boy who was left in a coma after the first meteor shower, wakes up and sets out to get revenge on those that hurt him. Afterward, he prepares to do the same to the rest of the Smallville High students, but Clark arrives in time to stop him.
Episode 2: Metamorphosis
Greg Arkin (Chad Donella) gets into a car accident with his meteor rock-enhanced insects, which escape from their containers and begin stinging him. The resulting attack transforms him into a half man/half insect creature. Rapidly going through a metamorphosis, Greg kidnaps Lana so he can mate with her. After talking with Whitney, Clark realizes where Greg has taken Lana and leaves to rescue her. During the fight, Greg accidentally crushes himself under some mechanical equipment, resulting in a mass of insects flooding out from underneath. Before Clark can return to Lana, Whitney arrives and receives credit for her rescue.
Episode 3: Hothead
A meteor rock infused sauna endows Coach Arnold (Dan Lauria) with pyrokinesis. After several football players are caught cheating, Chloe discovers that Coach Arnold assisted the players when they cheated. Coach Arnold asks Clark to join the football team, and Clark agrees against his father's wishes. Clark confronts Coach Arnold before his first game, after Arnold attempted to kill Chloe and another football player for exposing the truth about the cheating. The coach's fury gets the better of him as he engulfs himself in flames while battling Clark.
Episode 4: X-Ray
Clark begins to develop X-ray vision when he is thrown through a window by Lex Luthor, who has just robbed the local bank. Clark accidentally x-rays "Lex's" body and discovers a green glow around his skeleton as Lex is running away. When it turns out someone was impersonating him, Lex is cleared of all charges. After gaining control over his X-ray vision, Clark discovers that Tina Greer (Lizzy Caplan), a young woman infected with meteor rock radiation, can morph into anyone she wants. He also learns that she robbed the bank when he X-rays her locker and sees the money from the bank. After a brief battle, Clark knocks Tina unconscious so the authorities can arrest her. Meanwhile, Lex hires Roger Nixon (Tom O'Brien), an Inquisitor reporter, to find out how he survived driving his Porsche off a bridge.
Episode 5: Cool
During a party at Crater Lake, Sean Kelvin (Michael Coristine) falls into the frozen lake and emerges with an insatiable hunger for heat, thanks to the meteor rocks on the lake bottom. In an effort to stay warm, Sean sucks the heat from anyone he can. Sean goes after Chloe, but Clark is there to stop him. Clark finds Sean, who is headed to Luthor Mansion, but is left frozen when Sean sucks the heat from his body. Clark's body reheats itself, and he arrives at the mansion just as Sean is about to attack Martha, who came with Jonathan to discuss their financial troubles with Lex. During the fight, Clark throws Sean into a lake, which immediately freezes with Sean inside.
Episode 6: Hourglass
Clark meets an elderly, blind woman, named Cassandra Carver (Jackie Burroughs), who receives precognitive visions by touching someone. When she touches Clark both of them see Clark surrounded by the tombstones of everyone he loves. Lex visits Cassandra, after listening to Clark, and her vision of him entails blood raining from the sky. Harry Bollston (George Murdock), an elderly man at a nursing home, falls into a meteor rock filled pond, which reverses the aging process. Harry (Eric Christian Olsen) uses his new youth to get revenge on the children of the jury members that put him away for murder decades earlier, one of whom was Jonathan's father. Clark stops Harry before he can kill Martha, who happened to be home when Harry came looking for Jonathan.
Episode 7: Craving
Jodi Melville (Amy Adams) is tired of being overweight, so she creates her own diet, which consists of meteor rock-infected vegetables. The new diet causes her to shed weight faster than she can handle, which forces her to suck human fat to satisfy her hunger. When Pete arrives to pick her up for Lana's birthday party, her hunger gets the better of her, and she tries to feast on Pete. Chloe and Clark discover the truth about Jodi's weight loss, and Clark rushes to her house to save Pete. Clark stops Jodi from killing Pete, and gets her the help she needs to maintain a healthy weight; in the process, however, Clark misses Lana's birthday party, but makes it up to her by giving her his present: a makeshift drive-in theater complete with the classic Bugs Bunny cartoon High Diving Hare. Meanwhile, Lex becomes interested in the effects of meteor rocks, and funds a study on the green meteor fragments.
Episode 8: Jitters
LuthorCorp is experimenting with meteor rocks, and overexposure to the rocks has caused employee Earl Jenkins (Tony Todd) to develop violent seizures. During a field trip to the local LuthorCorp plant, Clark and his classmates are taken hostage by Earl, who wants into "Level 3" (a secret testing facility at the plant) so he can find a cure for himself. Clark discovers "Level 3" just as Lex trades himself for the hostages. Clark reveals "Level 3" to Earl and Lex, but Earl's seizures put all three in danger. Clark manages to keep them all alive, and Lex makes a public statement that LuthorCorp will find a cure for Earl's condition.
Episode 9: Rogue
Sam Phelan (Cameron Dye), a corrupt Metropolis cop, witnesses Clark using his abilities and decides to blackmail Clark. When Clark double crosses him, Phelan frames Jonathan for murder, and forces Clark to help him steal a priceless Alexander the Great chest plate. Double crossing him again, Clark alerts the security to the heist. Phelan is gunned down after trying to shoot his way out of trouble, and the charges are dropped against Jonathan when Lex's lawyers arrive. Lex and an old flame, Victoria Hardwick (Kelly Brook), plot to take over their parents' corporations.
Episode 10: Shimmer
Amy Palmer (Azura Skye) is obsessed with Lex. After discovering that Lex's roses release an invisibility fluid, someone attempts to make sure that Lex knows Victoria is wrong for him. Victoria is forced out of the house after almost being killed by an invisible assailant. Amy is blamed for the attack when a watch Lex's mother gave him turns up in her drawer, but it is her brother Jeff (Kett Turton) who is the attacker. Clark confronts Jeff in Lex's manor, and using some paint, keeps Jeff visible long enough to be arrested.
Episode 11: Hug
Bob Rickman (Rick Peters) has the ability to bend others to his will, because of an incident with the meteor rocks years earlier. Rickman plans to put a new pesticide plant in Smallville, and he needs the Kent farm to do it. Using his ability, Rickman convinces Jonathan to sell the farm. Clark seeks out Kyle Tippet (Gregory Sporleder) for assistance, after learning that Kyle was with Rickman during the meteor shower. Rickman uses his ability to convince Lex to kill both Clark and Kyle. While Clark is battling Lex, Kyle, who has more control over the ability, forces Rickman to take his own life.
Episode 12: Leech
During a class field trip, lightning strikes Clark and fellow classmate Eric Summers (Shawn Ashmore) while Eric is holding a piece of meteor rock. Clark's powers are transferred to Eric, allowing Clark to finally live a normal life. Eric initially uses the powers for good, but soon begins abusing them. Clark decides to sacrifice the chance at a normal life so that Eric does not hurt anyone. Hoping Eric took his weakness along with his strength, Clark confronts Eric at an electrical generator, and uses the electricity, along with a meteor rock, to get his powers back. Meanwhile, Lex double crosses Victoria, who was planning to do the same to him, and has her father's company buy up a worthless research lab. The result allows LuthorCorp to buy the Hardwick company.
Episode 13: Kinetic
Three ex-jocks are using meteor rock-saturated tattoos to give themselves the ability to pass through solid objects. Using their ability, they begin robbing banks. Clark has a confrontation with the thieves and is unable to stop them because of his weakness to the meteor rocks. The thieves decide to recruit Whitney, who has recently begun hanging out with them after losing his football scholarship, but he has second thoughts. Clark helps Whitney and Lex, who is now being blackmailed, fight the thieves. With their powers growing weak from overuse of the serum, Clark is able to subdue them.
Episode 14: Zero
Lex's past comes back to haunt him, when Jude Royce (Corin Nemec), a man presumed to be dead, resurfaces after three years and kidnaps Lex. Jude tortures Lex in an attempt to get him to reveal the truth about the cover up of his death. Jude's ex-fiancée's brother is revealed to be the true orchestrater, having found someone who resembles Jude to assist him in his scheme. Angered over his sister's suicide, which he believes is Lex's fault, he wants Lex to pay for her death. Clark saves Lex, but he begins to worry about Lex's past. During a class project, Chloe discovers inconsistencies in Clark's adoption, and it puts strain on their friendship.
Episode 15: Nicodemus
Dr. Steven Hamilton (Joe Morton) uses meteor rocks to resurrect a toxic flower, Nicodemus, which has been extinct for 100 years. If someone is sprayed by the flower's toxic mist, they lose all of their inhibitions, acting like they are intoxicated. Jonathan, Lana and Pete are all infected with the flower's toxins, and begin to act out of character. Clark prevents them all from harming themselves or someone else. After a while, the flower's toxins cause the three to fall into a coma. Lex, unhappy that Dr. Hamilton has spent his time resurrecting dangerous flowers, has a team of specialists create a cure for Jonathan, Lana and Pete.
Episode 16: Stray
Ryan James (Ryan Kelley), a young boy who can read minds, is forced to use his ability to help his stepparents rob stores. Ryan escapes his stepparents and is taken in by the Kents, who are unaware of his ability. Ryan immediately bonds with Clark, who he sees as his personal superhero. Ryan's stepfather finds him in Smallville, and kidnaps him. He attempts to use Ryan's abilities to steal Lex's trust fund. Clark comes to Ryan's aid before his stepfather can kill him. Ryan's aunt is located and she agrees to take custody of him.
Episode 17: Reaper
Tyler Randall (Reynaldo Rosales), while trying to assist the suicide of his ailing mother, accidentally falls out of a window, and a piece of meteor rock becomes embedded in his wrist as he dies. When the coroner removes the rock from his wrist, Tyler becomes reanimated. Now, whenever Tyler touches someone, or something, they instantly incinerate and die. Believing he is helping, Tyler tries easing the pain of Whitney's dying father. Clark arrives in time to stop him, and informs him that his mother is still alive. Thinking his mother could not accept who he had become, Tyler takes his own life.
Episode 18: Drone
Class elections are being held, and Pete nominates Clark. Apprehensive at first, Clark soon takes to the idea. A rival candidate, Sasha Woodman (Shonda Farr), does not appreciate the competition and sends out swarms of bees to take care of the other competitors. Eventually, the bees become dissatisfied with Sasha's demands and turn on her. Lionel has a journalist write a scathing exposé on Lex, but Lex has the story dropped when he gets the journalist promoted to editor. Lana gets cutthroat with the Talon, and reports the rival coffee shop to the health board.
Episode 19: Crush
After a hit-and-run accident destroys his drawing hand, Justin Gaines (Adam Brody) is left with an unexpected gift of telekinesis. Justin uses his new gift to exact revenge on those who wronged him. Using Chloe to discover the identity of his hit and run driver, Justin sets out to kill the person who took his drawing hands. Justin kills Principal Kwan (Hiro Kanagawa), believing he was the driver who hit him, and turns on Chloe when she discovers what he has been doing. Clark knocks Justin unconscious before he can kill Chloe. Whitney's father, who has been battling heart problems, dies.
Episode 20: Obscura
An explosion near meteor rocks gives Lana the ability to see through another person's eyes. Lana watches through the stranger's eyes as they kidnap Chloe. Teaming with Clark, Lana uses her gift to help locate Chloe. The kidnapper turns out to be a cop looking for an easy promotion. Whitney finds some military medals his father earned, and takes it as a sign he should do something else with his life. Lex learns of a ship that crashed during the meteor shower, and discovers an octagonal disc made of an alloy not found on Earth.
Episode 21: Tempest
Lionel Luthor closes the Smallville plant and blames it on his son for not turning out a large profit as instructed; Lex decides to initiate an employee buyout of the local plant to save everyone's jobs and forge his own future with LexCorp. Meanwhile, Whitney decides to join the Marines and leaves Smallville. Learning the truth about Clark, Roger Nixon attempts to expose Clark's secret to the world. As Lana drives home after dropping Whitney off at the bus station, three tornadoes touch down, forcing her off the road. When the news is announced at the school dance, Clark leaves the dance to make sure Lana is okay. Just as Lana is pulled into a tornado, Clark arrives and speeds in after her.
Season 2
Season two of Smallville, an American television series developed by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, began airing on September 24, 2002, on The WB television network. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to life in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The second season comprises 23 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 20, 2003. Regular cast members during season two include Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, John Glover, Annette O'Toole and John Schneider. At the end of season one, Eric Johnson, who portrayed Whitney Fordman, had left the show.
Season two picks up directly where season one ended, with Clark (Welling) dealing with the aftermath of the tornadoes that hit Smallville. This season, Clark finally learns who he is and where he comes from, but must also acknowledge a potential destiny set into motion by his biological father that could change his life and the lives of those around him forever. Clark's relationship with Lana Lang (Kreuk) becomes increasingly closer, straining his friendship with Chloe Sullivan (Mack). Clark's best friend, Pete Ross (Jones III), learns Clark's secret this season.
Before the start of the second season, Gough and Millar established a writing staff to help develop episode stories for the show, which eventually saw the introduction of two characters that would shape Clark's life, Dr. Virgil Swann and Clark's biological father Jor-El. These roles were filled by Christopher Reeve and Terence Stamp, respectively, who were previously known for their respective roles as Superman and his nemesis General Zod in the Superman film series. Special effects company Entity FX became the primary effects unit for the show this season, winning awards for two of the episodes they worked on. Apart from the digital effects team, the series and its actors were nominated for and won various awards as well. Season two performed better than the previous season, averaging 6.3 million viewers a week, and placed #113 in the Nielsen ratings, up from #115 the year before.
Season two picks up directly where season one ended, with Clark (Welling) dealing with the aftermath of the tornadoes that hit Smallville. This season, Clark finally learns who he is and where he comes from, but must also acknowledge a potential destiny set into motion by his biological father that could change his life and the lives of those around him forever. Clark's relationship with Lana Lang (Kreuk) becomes increasingly closer, straining his friendship with Chloe Sullivan (Mack). Clark's best friend, Pete Ross (Jones III), learns Clark's secret this season.
Before the start of the second season, Gough and Millar established a writing staff to help develop episode stories for the show, which eventually saw the introduction of two characters that would shape Clark's life, Dr. Virgil Swann and Clark's biological father Jor-El. These roles were filled by Christopher Reeve and Terence Stamp, respectively, who were previously known for their respective roles as Superman and his nemesis General Zod in the Superman film series. Special effects company Entity FX became the primary effects unit for the show this season, winning awards for two of the episodes they worked on. Apart from the digital effects team, the series and its actors were nominated for and won various awards as well. Season two performed better than the previous season, averaging 6.3 million viewers a week, and placed #113 in the Nielsen ratings, up from #115 the year before.
Episode 1: Vortex
Clark rescues Lana from the giant tornado which she was pulled into and takes her to the hospital. When he returns home, Clark learns that his ship is gone and that his father chased Roger Nixon (Tom O'Brien) into the storm for attempting to expose Clark's secret. Lex is wracked with guilt over not helping his father sooner when the mansion ceiling collapsed. Lex makes a decision to rush into surgery to keep his father from becoming paralyzed. The surgery succeeds but results in the loss of Lionel's eyesight. Jonathan and Nixon attempt to dig themselves out of the crypt they fell into after a mobile home dropped out of the sky on top of them. Clark shows up before the two men lose all oxygen, but the meteor rocks in the crypt weaken him. Nixon takes advantage of the situation and kidnaps Clark. Jonathan chases him, but Nixon gets the upper hand. Lex shows up and saves Jonathan's life by shooting Nixon before he can kill Jonathan.
Episode 2: Heat
During a record heat wave, Clark develops a new ability, heat vision, which causes him to have uncontrollable bursts of heat from his eyes. Clark quickly learns that his flare-ups are based on a state of sexual arousal, having started a fire at school and the local coffee shop while with Lana. With Jonathan's help, Clark is able to gain control over his new ability. Meanwhile, Lex marries Desirée Atkins (Krista Allen), a woman he barely knows and Clark's new biology teacher. Desirée has the ability to control men with pheromones enhanced by meteor rock. Desirée attempts to use her pheromones on Clark, but he is resistant. As a result, Desirée uses her abilities on Jonathan, convincing him to kill Lex so that she can inherit his fortune. Clark manages to save Lex before either Jonathan or Desirée can kill him.
Episode 3: Duplicity
Pete unknowingly discovers Clark's spaceship in a cornfield and makes plans to sell the story to the media. Against his parents' wishes, Clark decides to tell Pete the truth about his alien origins in an effort to keep Pete from telling anyone about the ship. Pete, more upset over Clark's dishonesty than the fact that he is an alien, leaves. Dr. Steven Hamilton (Joe Morton), suffering from overexposure to the meteor rocks, steals the spaceship. When Lex refuses to believe his rants about a ship, Dr. Hamilton seeks support from Lionel Luthor. After realizing that the ship requires a key to open it, Dr. Hamilton kidnaps Pete in an effort to find out where the key is. Dr. Hamilton threatens Pete's life before Clark arrives and rescues Pete. In the process, Dr. Hamilton has a violent convulsion, as a result of his condition, and dies. After returning the ship to the Kent farm, Pete and Clark reconcile.
Episode 4: Red
Clark goes against his father's wishes and purchases an expensive Class ring. Unknowingly to him, the ring contains a red meteor rock, something he had previously never seen. The red meteor rock affects Clark mentally, stripping away his inhibitions. With his restraint gone, Clark begins to act out of character. Clark asks Lana out on a date, but ditches her in the middle for another girl when Lana does not like how he is acting. Showing resentment toward his parents for forcing him to live the life of a farm boy, Clark decides to use his abilities to become rich and leave Smallville. Pete and Jonathan must work together to stop Clark, who goes after a young girl and her father who are on the run from mobsters. Using green meteor rock to weaken Clark, Jonathan smashes the ring with a sledgehammer. Later, Clark tries to apologize to his parents, but Jonathan suspects that Clark was expressing his true feelings.
Episode 5: Nocturne
While visiting her parents' grave, Lana finds a love poem left for her. The poem was written by a boy named Byron Moore (Sean Faris), whose parents never allowed him to leave the house. Clark and Lana suspect that Byron is being abused, but when the police investigate Byron's parents say that he died years earlier. Clark and Pete break into the home the next day and find Byron locked in the basement. When Byron is brought into the sunlight he transforms into a violent creature with superhuman strength. It is revealed that Byron had a deadly disease and was a test subject for one of LuthorCorp's projects run by Lionel Luthor. Byron goes after Lionel, but Clark tracks him down and slams him into a well shaft and out of the sunlight. The darkness returns Byron to normal long enough for Clark, with Lex's help, to get Byron to the hospital. Meanwhile, Martha takes a position as Lionel's personal assistant, much to the dismay of Jonathan and Clark.
Episode 6: Redux
When a student is pulled out of the school pool, having aged 60 years in a few seconds, Clark and Chloe decide to investigate. They discover an 80-year trail of similar events left behind by Chrissy Parker (Maggie Lawson), another student at Smallville High, and deduce that she is draining the life force from her victims in order to stay young. Missy goes after the new school principal, but Clark manages to get there in time to stop her. Without a fresh victim, Missy's body begins to age rapidly until she deteriorates into dust. Meanwhile, Lana discovers a photo of her mother in a romantic pose with an unidentified man during a period of time when she believed her parents were happily married. Lana asks Lex to investigate who the man is, and she eventually learns that her parents were legally separated at the time of the photo and that the man in the photo could be her biological father.
Episode 7: Lineage
A woman named Rachel Dunleavy (Blair Brown) shows up claiming to be Clark's biological mother, and that Lionel was his biological father. Clark finds the truth about his adoption. Clark dismisses her claims, but Rachael files a court order to have a DNA test performed. Clark and Pete sneak into the testing labs, and Clark swaps Pete's DNA for his so that the technicians do not figure out that he is not human. When the results come back negative, Rachael kidnaps Lex in an effort to force Lionel to admit that he fathered a child with her and that Clark is their son. Rachel witnesses Clark using his abilities when he rescues Lex and realizes that he is not her son. Lionel later admits to Lex that he did father another child, but that it died as an infant. Later, Lionel is seen with a locket and a picture of a young boy. Meanwhile, Lana finds the man from the photo, Henry Small, who eventually agrees to do a DNA test to determine if he is her father.
Episode 8: Ryan
After his aunt abandons him because she can't handle his secret, Ryan (from the first season episode "Stray") phones Clark for help. Clark rescues Ryan from the Summerholt facility, where the boy was being held an unwilling subject of experimentation, and brings him back to Smallville. He soon finds out that Ryan has a tumor in his brain, and that he only has a couple days left to live.
Episode 9: Dichotic
Ian (Jonathan Taylor Thomas), a straight-A student, has the ability to duplicate himself. He uses his power to take extra classes and to date Lana and Chloe at the same time. Clark and Pete reveal Ian's secret, which induces Ian to try to kill both girls. Meanwhile, Lex attends an anger management session, where he meets Dr. Helen Bryce.
Episode 10: Skinwalker
Clark stumbles into a local Native American cave, located below a new LuthorCorp construction site, and discovers symbols in an alien language on the cave walls. A local Native American, Joseph Willowbrook, and his granddaughter Kyla, recount a story that reflects Clark's life. In an effort to save the land, Kyla tries to scare the Luthors away, using her ability of skin-walking, but she is mortally injured during her attack on Lionel.
Episode 11: Visage
Whitney Fordman returns from overseas, claiming to have lost some of his memory during battle. Therefore, he tries to get back together with Lana, ignorant of the Dear John letter she sent. Not wanting to hurt him, Lana submits to his attempts to win her back, but Clark discovers that Whitney is actually Tina Greer (from the first season episode X-Ray). When Clark confronts Tina, she immobilizes him using green meteor rock. Left helpless in the Kents' storm cellar, Clark is saved by his spaceship. During a later confrontation with Clark, Tina injures herself and dies. It is subsequently revealed that the real Whitney was killed in action.
Episode 12: Insurgence
After Lex is defeated in a takeover bid by Lionel, he discovers that his mansion is full of listening devices. Lex starts a plan to bug LuthorCorp's headquarters, but aborts when he finds out that Martha and Lionel are headed there. The abort is botched when the workers want to steal from the LuthorCorp vault. While held hostage, Martha learns that Lionel has files on Clark and bars of refined meteor rock. She also retrieves the octagonal disc and stores it in a flour jar in the kitchen.
Episode 13: Suspect
Lionel is mysteriously shot at the Luthor mansion, leaving behind a huge list of suspects with various motives to want him dead. Jonathan, who is found unconscious in his truck with a bottle of tequila and a gun in his hand, is arrested as the prime suspect. Clark and Pete investigate and discover an elaborate plan orchestrated by Sheriff Ethan.
Episode 14: Rush
Pete and Chloe are infected by bug-like creatures that burrow into the necks of those who get close enough. The bugs cause people to engage in extremely risky behavior. Meanwhile, Clark finally asks Lana on a date. This infuriates a jealous Chloe. Pete uses red meteor rock to get Clark to join them in their adrenaline-rushing behavior. Chloe tries to seduce Clark, and the red meteor rock is incidentally removed, restoring Clark to his normal self. Clark manages to get both his friends to the hospital, but he ruins his evening with Lana. Lex hires Dr. Frederick Walden, an expert in ancient glyphs, to try to translate the language found on walls of the Kawatche Caves.
Episode 15: Prodigal
Lex discovers that his half-brother, Lucas, is still alive. Lionel has been looking after Lucas, and he uses him to steal Lex's inheritance, so he cannot buy-out LuthorCorp. Penniless, Lex moves in with the Kents. Lucas, dissatisfied with Lionel's plans for him, discovers that Lionel has been faking blindness for a while. An elaborate scheme with Lex reveals Lionel's lie, and Lex secures his inheritance.
Episode 16: Fever
Martha, who has been hiding the key to the spaceship, becomes extremely sick from inhaling the dust of green meteor rock that was underground. The Kent farm is quarantined, and the key discovered. Clark, who inhaled the meteor dust as well, falls sick too. While Clark is unconscious, Chloe reads him a note describing her true feelings for him, only to have him mumble Lana's name in his sleep. After testing his blood, Dr. Helen Bryce realizes that Clark is different. Martha is revealed to be pregnant after the ship removes her poisoning.
Episode 17: Rosetta
Clark decides to place the key into a slot in the cave wall. Upon inserting the key, the wall instills him with the language of the cave. Dr. Walden discovers the key and uses it himself, but the information overload puts him in a coma. At home, Clark's heat vision forces him to etch a symbol onto the barn door. He is contacted by Dr. Virgil Swann (Christopher Reeve), who educates Clark about Krypton, his home planet. Using the key on the ship, he uncovers a hidden message from his biological father stating that his destiny is to conquer Earth.
Episode 18: Visitor
A classmate at school, Cyrus, displays special abilities. Clark discovers that Cyrus believes he is an alien who arrived during the meteor shower, leading him to believe Dr. Swann was wrong when he told Clark he was the only Kryptonian on Earth. Cyrus shows Clark the transmission tower he is building to contact his alien parents, but evidence surfaces that proves that Cyrus is human.
Episode 19: Precipice
After Lana is assaulted by a college student, Andy Conners, Clark loses control and seems to injure the boy. When the Kents are sued for punitive damages, Clark begins to question his powers, while trying to find a way out of the lawsuit. It is later revealed that Andy was faking his injuries, and, thanks to a plan concocted by Lana, Clark, and Chloe, he is exposed. Meanwhile, Helen's ex-boyfriend arrives in town, intent on winning her back. When she turns him down, he stabs her, prompting Lex to take the law into his own hands.
Episode 20: Witness
Eric Marsh, a baseball player at Smallville High, hijacks a LuthorCorp van along with two other thieves and steals a shipment of refined green meteor rock. Clark stumbles upon the robbery, but is no match for them. It turns out that Eric and his crew are manufacturing and inhaling liquid kryptonite, which leads to enhanced strength that rivals that of Clark's natural one. Eventually, however, Jonathan reminds a discouraged Clark that although Eric's gang has strength, they don't have any of Clark's other powers. As a result, Clark was able to subdue the trio of thieves and prevent them from pulling another job. Meanwhile, Lionel offers to fund the Torch and a position at the Daily Planet to Chloe.
Episode 21: Accelerate
Lana thinks she is seeing ghosts, when an old childhood friend, Emily Eve Dinsmore, who died six years earlier, appears. Clark discovers that the child is indeed real. By moving extremely fast, the girl seems to disappear and walk through walls. Clark learns that Emily's father has been cloning her, with the help of green meteor rock. The flaw with the Emily clone is that she has no sense of morality, which eventually puts Lana in danger. Meanwhile, Lex prepares for his wedding with Helen.
Episode 22: Calling
Dr. Walden wakes up from his coma, and tells Lex and Lionel that Clark is an alien that must be destroyed. A romantic encounter between Clark and Lana is quickly dismissed when Chloe finds out they are together. During a rehearsal for Lex and Helen's wedding, Clark hears a strange voice calling from the storm cellar.
Episode 23: Exodus
The will of Clark's biological father, Jor-El, informs Clark he must leave Smallville. Not wanting to leave his family and friends, Clark steals Lionel's copy of the spaceship key made out of refined green meteor rock and sticks it into the ship, destroying it. The blast from the explosion causes Martha to lose her baby. Grief stricken, Clark starts using red kryptonite and decides to leave Smallville. During his honeymoon flight, Lex wakes to find the plane going down and Helen and the pilot missing.
Season 3
Season three of Smallville, an American television series, began airing on October 1, 2003. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to life in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The third season comprises 22 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 19, 2004. Regular cast members during season three include Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Sam Jones III, Allison Mack, John Glover, Annette O'Toole and John Schneider.
Season three follows Clark's constant fight against the destiny that his biological father, Jor-El, has in-store for him, and his guilt over the price Jonathan paid to bring him back to Smallville. Lex deals with the psychological breakdown he had when stranded on a deserted island, while the conflict between him and his father comes to a final blow. Clark's secret begins to weigh heavily on Pete, and the relationship between Clark and Lana hits a dead end. Writers also brought in several DC Comics characters, Maggie Sawyer, Morgan Edge, and most notably Perry White, in special guests spots.
After spending its first two seasons airing on Tuesday nights at 9/8C Smallville was moved to Wednesday nights and aired an hour earlier at 8/7C for the third season. Season three dipped in the ratings, averaging 4.9 million viewers a week.
Season three follows Clark's constant fight against the destiny that his biological father, Jor-El, has in-store for him, and his guilt over the price Jonathan paid to bring him back to Smallville. Lex deals with the psychological breakdown he had when stranded on a deserted island, while the conflict between him and his father comes to a final blow. Clark's secret begins to weigh heavily on Pete, and the relationship between Clark and Lana hits a dead end. Writers also brought in several DC Comics characters, Maggie Sawyer, Morgan Edge, and most notably Perry White, in special guests spots.
After spending its first two seasons airing on Tuesday nights at 9/8C Smallville was moved to Wednesday nights and aired an hour earlier at 8/7C for the third season. Season three dipped in the ratings, averaging 4.9 million viewers a week.
Episode 1: Exile
Under the influence of red kryptonite, and living in Metropolis, Clark gets involved with a crime lord named Morgan Edge who hires him to break into LuthorCorp. Desperate to put his family back together, Jonathan makes a deal with Jor-El so that he can bring Clark home. Lex is stranded on a deserted island, with the world believing him to be dead. At the mansion, Lionel accuses Helen, revealed to be alive, of killing Lex.
Episode 2: Phoenix
Jor-El grants Jonathan temporary superpowers, and he and Clark engage in a destructive battle below the LuthorCorp building. Clark, unable to kill his father, destroys the red kryptonite. Lex returns home to the shock of Helen. He quickly learns that Helen attempted to kill him, and takes measures to ensure that doesn't happen again. Morgan Edge finds Clark and kidnaps him in an effort to make amends to Lionel.
Episode 3: Extinction
Clark discovers Van McNulty has been killing green meteor rock-infected people. When he confronts him, the green kryptonite rock Van is carrying stops him. Knowing Clark's weakness, Van manufactures meteor rock bullets, and almost kills Clark. Using Lana as bait, Van tries to increase his efforts, but both Lana and Clark prove to be too much for him to handle.
Episode 4: Slumber
A comatose girl, Sara Conroy, has the ability to pull Clark into her dreams, and does so without warning. Clark and Lana visit her, and grow suspicious of her uncle when they learn of Sara's inheritance that he oversees. They discover the uncle has been drugging her to keep her in a coma. When Nicholas Conroy finds out, he tries to kill Lana, but Clark arrives in time to stop him.
Episode 5: Perry
Clark discovers his abilities are derived from the Sun, when an increase in solar flares cause his powers to either flare up, or give out completely. Perry White, a once promising journalist, arrives in Smallville in search of stories for a tabloid news show. Despite being constantly inebriated, Perry believes he witnessed Clark using superhuman abilities, and devises a dangerous scheme to expose the truth.
Episode 6: Relic
Lana's great uncle, who was convicted of murdering his wife forty years prior, shows her a picture of a drifter he believes really killed her aunt. The drifter looks just like Clark. Positive that the man is Jor-El, Clark's investigation leads him to a Kryptonian medallion that allows him to see moments of the past, and also lets him see how human Jor-El was when he first came to Earth.
Episode 7: Magnetic
When Lana starts seeing a new guy, and begins acting out of character, Clark investigates. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lana's new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions. When he tries to free Lana from the magnetic hold, she tries to kill Clark. Lex discovers Chloe has been digging into Lionel's past and tries to get her to join him in his fight against his father.
Episode 8: Shattered
Lex locates Morgan Edge and gets him to admit the he helped Lionel murder his parents. Before Lex can take it to the authorities, someone tries to kill him. Lex flees and asks Clark for help. Evidence begins to amount that suggests Lex has had a psychotic break. Lex watches Clark slam into Edge's car, after Clark pushes him out of harm's way. Lex's doctors arrive and take him to Belle Reve sanitarium.
Episode 9: Asylum
Lex attempts to convince Clark to help him escape, but when Clark refuses, he attempts to escape by himself. His resulting capture forces Lionel to send him in for electroshock therapy to erase his memory. Ian Randall, Eric Summers, and Van McNulty band together in an attempt to steal Clark's powers and escape. Lana, at the hospital after a near fatal accident caused by Lex, meets another patient, Adam Knight, who pushes her to fight the pain and finish her rehab.
Episode 10: Whisper
Attempting to stop a robbery, Clark is temporarily blinded when he shoots off a burst of heat vision that is reflected back into his eyes by a piece of green kryptonite. He soon realizes that his body has developed super-hearing to compensate for his lack of sight. Pete is kidnapped by one of the thieves, in an attempt to blackmail the judge, Pete's mom, into dismissing the charges against his partner. Clark tries to gain control over his hearing so that he can find Pete.
Episode 11: Delete
When Chloe uncovers a secret experiment at Summerholt Institute, someone begins sending mind-controlling emails to her friends with orders to kill her. Clark and Lex discover the person responsible, Molly Griggs, but cannot tie her to Dr. Garner. Lana decides to rent the apartment above the café to Adam, even though she feels he is hiding something dangerous about his past.
Episode 12: Hereafter
Clark learns his schoolmate Jordan can foresee the future death of anyone he touches. Jordan warns him that Lana is going to die in a fire in the next few days. Clark sets out to prevent Lana's death. Jordan also tells him that he didn't see a death in Clark's future. Chloe, suspicious of Adam, begins investigating him, and uncovers disturbing news.
Episode 13: Velocity
Pete begins street racing with kryptonite-infused cars. When he refuses to throw a race, the people in charge threaten to kill him. He asks Clark to use his powers to help him. Pete challenges the leader to a race, but when Clark overhears their plan to blow up Pete's car, he tries to stop the race. Meanwhile, Jonathan begins to show the effects of his deal with Jor-El.
Episode 14: Obsession
When Clark is forced to use his powers in front of another student, Alicia Baker, he is surprised to find out she has powers of her own. The two develop a bond through their shared secret, but things change when Alicia becomes obsessive about sharing Clark with anyone else – especially Lana. Lana, fearing for her own safety, asks Lex to get rid of Adam.
Episode 15: Resurrection
While his father awaits surgery, Clark befriends a young boy, Garrett, whose brother Vince just died from liver failure. Everyone is shocked when Vince shows up at the Kents' alive. When his liver starts failing again, Garrett straps a kryptonite bomb to himself and demands that Vince be given Jonathan's liver or he will blow up the building. Clark learns that Lionel has been using a sample of his blood to bring the dead back to life.
Episode 16: Crisis
Clark receives a panicked call from Lana and hears a gunshot before the line goes dead, but when he arrives at the Talon he discovers she is alive and well. Clark, Chloe and Lana realize the phone call came from one day into the future, and that Adam is the one who will shoot Lana. When Lex takes Clark to the Luthorcorp lab where Adam is being kept, he finds all of the staff murdered, and Adam missing.
Episode 17: Legacy
Clark begins to suspect that Jor-El is sending Jonathan messages through the key, and that he is the cause for his father's withdrawal from the family. Clark goes down to the caves to confront his biological father. Lionel catches him there and begins putting the pieces together, which leads him to Dr. Swann. A deal is struck, and Lionel's true motives are revealed.
Episode 18: Truth
When Chloe accidentally inhales a mysterious kryptonite-gas, she discovers it acts as a truth serum to anyone who comes in contact with her. She decides to take advantage of her new power by attempting to uncover Clark's secret. However, her new power comes with fatal consequences. Clark sets out to find an antidote before Chloe can discover the truth about him, rescuing her just when she's about to die.
Episode 19: Memoria
Believing that key information about his father's past was lost when his memory was erased, Lex decides to join an experimental program with Dr. Garner to regain his memory. Knowing that Lex will discover his secret if he regains his memory, Clark tries to stop him, but is caught by Lionel and Garner so that they can experiment on him. Through the experiment, Clark learns about his birth mother.
Episode 20: Talisman
When a Kawatche Indian, Jeremiah Holdsclaw, steals a mythic knife from the caves, he is bestowed with superpowers similar to Clark's. Believing he is the true Naman, he sets out to find and kill Lionel. Lionel attempts to find the knife, while Clark learns that it will crumble if the real Segeth touches it. Clark tries to find Jeremiah before he can kill Lionel.
Episode 21: Forsaken
After learning that Lana is leaving Smallville, Clark decides to tell her his secret so they can finally be together. FBI agent Frank Loder kidnaps and tortures Pete to try to force him to reveal Clark's secret. Lex panics after the FBI gives him 24 hours to turn over information on his father or face jail time for the murders of the lab technicians at LuthorCorp. Chloe helps provide text of a conversation between her and Lionel, with Lionel admitting his hand in his parents' death.
Episode 22: Covenant
A young girl, calling herself Kara and claiming to be from Krypton, arrives at the Kents' to entice Clark to fulfill his destiny. Clark turns to his parents for advice, but is shocked when the girl forces Jonathan to finally reveal the deal he made with Jor-El. Clark makes a discovery that ultimately redefines his relationship with Lex, and Clark's relationship with Lana takes a final turn when she leaves for Paris. Clark gets taken by Jor-El with Jonathan half strangled to death. A Kryptonian symbol is burned onto the Kent farm land, and Lionel has his head shaved in prison as Lex is poisoned and Chloe is presumably killed in an explosion.
Season 4
Season four of Smallville, an American television series, began airing on September 22, 2004. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to life in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The fourth season comprises 22 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 18, 2005. Regular cast members during season four include Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Jensen Ackles, Allison Mack, John Glover, Annette O'Toole and John Schneider.
Season four chronicles Clark and his classmates' senior year of high school and centers on his attempt to unite the three stones of knowledge, and trying to cope with Lana's new relationship with Jason Teague. Clark's friendship with Lex becomes increasingly strained, as he begins to distrust Lex more and more. At the end of season 3, Sam Jones III left the series as Pete Ross, and Jensen Ackles was brought in as Jason Teague and given star billing. Erica Durance was cast as Lois Lane, and became a recurring character for 13 episodes. Writers also brought in other popular DC Comics characters, such as Bart Allen, Mister Mxyzptlk, and Sam and Lucy Lane.
Smallville's Season four slipped in the ratings, averaging at 4.4 million viewers a week.
Season four chronicles Clark and his classmates' senior year of high school and centers on his attempt to unite the three stones of knowledge, and trying to cope with Lana's new relationship with Jason Teague. Clark's friendship with Lex becomes increasingly strained, as he begins to distrust Lex more and more. At the end of season 3, Sam Jones III left the series as Pete Ross, and Jensen Ackles was brought in as Jason Teague and given star billing. Erica Durance was cast as Lois Lane, and became a recurring character for 13 episodes. Writers also brought in other popular DC Comics characters, such as Bart Allen, Mister Mxyzptlk, and Sam and Lucy Lane.
Smallville's Season four slipped in the ratings, averaging at 4.4 million viewers a week.
Episode 1: Crusade
Clark returns to Smallville as Kal-El; intent on fulfilling his destiny, Kal-El takes to the skies to steal a powerful Kryptonian stone which was in the possession of Lex Luthor. Dr. Swann's emissary, Bridgette Crosby (Margot Kidder), arrives to help Martha, who learns about a new form of kryptonite. Lois Lane comes to town to investigate the death of her cousin Chloe. Lana is shown in Paris with a new boyfriend, Jason (Jensen Ackles), and Jonathan Kent lies in a coma. Martha uses the Black kryptonite to help Clark retrieve his past self. Lana sees a symbol on her back which is similar to one on tombstone of Countess Isobel Thoreaux.
Episode 2: Gone
Clark and Lois Lane investigate Chloe's apparent death, but are stopped by General Sam Lane, Lois' father. Lois suspects he knows more about Chloe's death than he is letting on, and tries to find out more. Discovering that Lex has been keeping her in hiding, Clark tries to find Chloe before Lionel's assassin can really kill her.
Episode 3: Facade
Lana's boyfriend, Jason Teague, having followed her to Smallville, takes a position as the assistant football coach. The two try keeping their romance a secret from the school, and also Clark. Abby Fine, a student, turns to plastic surgery to enhance her looks and boost her popularity. Things go awry when she discovers that her kryptonite-enhanced beauty causes harm to anyone she kisses.
Episode 4: Devoted
The cheerleading squad spikes the football player's drinks with a kryptonite-enhanced love potion. The result allows Clark to become the starting quarterback for the school. It also causes Chloe to become devoted to Clark, and sends a jealous Jason after Clark. Clark and Lois investigate and uncover the truth, and the key to removing the trance.
Episode 5: Run
Clark attempts to track down Bart Allen, a thief who stole Jonathan's wallet, but he's faster than Clark. Later, Bart arrives at the farm to make amends. Lex buys a manuscript with Kryptonian symbols, and Clark discovers that it contains a hidden map to one of the Kryptonian stones. When Bart steals the manuscript, he inadvertently puts Clark's life in danger and must make the decision to save Clark or himself.
Episode 6: Transference
One of the stones begins calling to Clark, who speeds to the prison where Lionel is held. When he sees Lionel attempt to stab Lex with the stone, Clark grabs for it, causing the two men to switch bodies. Learning his new body has super powers, Lionel immediately begins wreaking havoc in Smallville. Trapped behind bars without his powers, Clark tries to figure out a way to get his body and powers back in order to save his friends and family.
Episode 7: Jinx
Foreign-exchange student Mikhail Mxyzptlk has the power of persuasion, and uses it to fix sporting events. Clark and Chloe try to figure out how he is controlling everyone. Mikhail makes a bet with Lex to keep his citizenship, but Clark and Chloe discover his weakness, preventing him from controlling the game. With his powers lost, Mikhail surrenders to Lex, but Lex decides to take him to a secret lab, 33.1, where he hopes Mikhail will regain his ability.
Episode 8: Spell
After Lana reads from a spell book, she becomes possessed by the spirit of Isobel Thoreaux; Lois and Chloe also become possessed by witches that were burned at the stake in France during the 1600s. The three witches seek revenge for their burning, as well as the Kryptonian stones. Clark attempts to stop the witches, but they strip him of his powers, shackle and torture him, and force him to reveal the location of the stone he hid in the cave. Eventually, however, Clark is freed by Jason Teague and confronts the witches in the cave. There, he regains his powers and uses his heat-vision to destroy the spell book and free Lana, Lois, and Chloe from possession.
Episode 9: Bound
Lex is accused of killing a young woman, and Clark sets out to prove his innocence. Swearing he is a changed man, Lionel offers Clark insight into the crime, but he asks for something in return. Meanwhile, Lana meets Jason's mother, Genevieve Teague, and has a vivid flashback of the incident in Paris, leading her to suspect that Jason's mother was there when she got her tattoo.
Episode 10: Scare
Lex's secret experiment at LuthorCorp goes awry and causes a dangerous toxin to be released into Smallville. Those infected by the toxin, including Clark, Lana, Chloe, Lex, and Jason, imagine their greatest fears come true and then fall into a coma. Desperate to find a cure, Clark heats up the vials containing a cure while Lex is not looking. With the cure heated to the correct temperature, Lex does something unexpected with the unproven antidote.
Episode 11: Unsafe
Claiming to be cured, Alicia Baker is released from Belle Reve and returns to Smallville. Initially skeptical of Alicia, Clark finds himself enjoying a relationship with someone who knows his secret. When she pushes for more he hesitates, causing her to use red kryptonite on him. A morally challenged Clark emerges and whisks Alicia off to get married. Lana decides to have sex with Jason in an effort to win him back.
Episode 12: Pariah
Clark has concerns after Alicia becomes the prime suspect in a brutal attack against Lana and Jason. Initially defending Alicia, Clark begins to think differently as the evidence begins to pile up. Hurt, Alicia forces Clark to unknowingly reveal his powers in front of Chloe. Afterward, she is killed by the person who was truly responsible for the attacks, Clark finds her and is deeply affected as he loved her. Jason's mother returns to town with an offer for Lex.
Episode 13: Recruit
In an effort to recruit Clark for their football team, Metropolis University sends their star player Geoff Johns to show Clark the perks of attending Met U. However, after one of Metropolis University's players dies under mysterious circumstances, and Lois is arrested for his murder, Clark discovers that Geoff has super powers and is using them to paralyze anyone who gets in his way, including Lois. Meanwhile, Chloe attempts to learn more about Clark's secret.
Episode 14: Krypto
While driving, Lois accidentally hits a dog and brings it back to the farm. Clark realizes it's not an ordinary dog when it drags a tractor across the lawn. Clark and Lois learn the dog was stolen from an aborted LuthorCorp experiment, and was now being used to commit crimes. Lex lets Clark keep the dog, whom Martha named Shelby. Meanwhile, Lana questions Jason's involvement in his mother's schemes.
Episode 15: Sacred
After learning that Jason and Lex are in China searching for one of the Kryptonian stones, Clark and Lana follow in the hopes of finding it first. Clark finds an artifact that leads them to the stone, but he must battle Isobel Thoreaux, the witch who possessed Lana, who has returned to take the stone for herself. Lex has more information on the stones than he is letting on.
Episode 16: Lucy
Lois' younger sister, Lucy, comes to town and charms everyone she meets. However, Clark discovers a darker side to Lucy, after he catches her stealing money from the Talon, and forces her to reveal the truth about her sudden appearance in Smallville. Meanwhile, the stone from Shanghai disappears from Lana's apartment and Jason accuses Lionel of stealing it.
Episode 17: Onyx
A glimpse of the future Lex Luthor is revealed after a kryptonite explosion splits Lex in two, and his evil side – Alexander – is released. Alexander immediately imprisons Lex in the mansion, and tries to kill Clark and Chloe. After discovering Clark's secret, he attempts to persuade Clark to join him. Clark uses black kryptonite to force the two Lexes back together.
Episode 18: Spirit
A stunned Chloe is nominated for Prom Queen, and tries to talk a reluctant Clark and Lana into attending the dance with her. However, after her rival Dawn crashes her car into a ravine filled with kryptonite, Dawn's spirit is released, allowing her to enter the bodies of anyone she wants. As a result, Lana asks Clark to be her date, Lois attends the Prom and Chloe attempts to set the school on fire.
Episode 19: Blank
Kevin, a boy who can cause people to temporarily lose their memory, turns his powers on Clark and causes him to have total amnesia. Chloe discovers what has happened and must teach Clark about his superpowers, while simultaneously trying to keep him from accidentally revealing them to others. Without his memory, Clark meets and falls in love with Lana again. Lex takes advantage and convinces Clark to reveal the cave secrets.
Episode 20: Ageless
Clark and Lana discover an abandoned baby in the cornfield and take him back to the Kent farm. However, once the baby ages from a newborn to sixteen years old in a matter of days, the two realize he is aging at a rapid rate and frantically search for a cure before the disease kills him.
Episode 21: Forever
Clark must stop the school photographer after he sets up a secret simulated high school and begins kidnapping students to keep the glory days of high school going forever. Lex and Lionel are kidnapped and tortured by the Teagues in an effort to find the Kryptonian stone. However, after Genevieve realizes Lana has it, she decides to put an end to the hunt once and for all.
Episode 22: Commencement
Genevieve confronts Lana, but Isobel takes control and kills Genevieve, subsequently releasing Lana from possession. As a result of using a Kryptonian stone to kill a person, a menace comes to Smallville (under the guise of a second meteor shower that threatens the city), and Clark is forced to listen to Jor-El and retrieve all of the stones at once. Clark races across town to retrieve the Kryptonian stones, and puts them all together in the cave. Lex forces Chloe to accompany him to the caves, where they see Clark standing in a blinding light. Lana's helicopter crashes next to a newly-arrived spaceship, and Clark is transported to the Arctic.
Season 5
Season five of Smallville, an American television series, began airing on September 29, 2005. The series recounts the early adventures of Kryptonian Clark Kent as he adjusts to life in the fictional town of Smallville, Kansas, during the years before he becomes Superman. The fifth season comprises 22 episodes and concluded its initial airing on May 11, 2006, marking the final season that aired on The WB. Regular cast members during season five include Tom Welling, Kristin Kreuk, Michael Rosenbaum, Allison Mack, John Glover, Erica Durance, Annette O'Toole and John Schneider.
Season 5 deals with the aftermath of the second meteor shower. Clark deals with adult life, going to college, a real relationship with Lana, and the loss of someone he loves. His distrust for Lex continues to grow, as Clark's professor begins supplying him with evidence of LuthorCorp's secret projects. Clark looks to Chloe for support, while Lionel's transformation into a better person draws skepticism from everyone. Jensen Ackles, who played Jason Teague, left the show after season four, and Erica Durance became a series regular as Lois Lane. The writers also brought in Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, and Andrea Rojas, DC Comics superheroes, in three separate guest spots as well as the classic Superman villain Brainiac.
After spending seasons three and four airing on Wednesday nights at 8/7C Smallville was moved to Thursday nights airing at 8/7C, where it stayed for four seasons. Season five rose from the previous season, averaging 4.7 million viewers weekly.
Season 5 deals with the aftermath of the second meteor shower. Clark deals with adult life, going to college, a real relationship with Lana, and the loss of someone he loves. His distrust for Lex continues to grow, as Clark's professor begins supplying him with evidence of LuthorCorp's secret projects. Clark looks to Chloe for support, while Lionel's transformation into a better person draws skepticism from everyone. Jensen Ackles, who played Jason Teague, left the show after season four, and Erica Durance became a series regular as Lois Lane. The writers also brought in Arthur Curry, Victor Stone, and Andrea Rojas, DC Comics superheroes, in three separate guest spots as well as the classic Superman villain Brainiac.
After spending seasons three and four airing on Wednesday nights at 8/7C Smallville was moved to Thursday nights airing at 8/7C, where it stayed for four seasons. Season five rose from the previous season, averaging 4.7 million viewers weekly.
Episode 1: Arrival
Transported to the Arctic, Clark watches as the united crystals create the Fortress of Solitude. Inside, Jor-El instructs Clark that he must complete training for an impending doom that is about to hit Earth. Meanwhile, two Kryptonian disciples of Zod arrive in Smallville searching for Kal-El. Clark is forced to return to Smallville, before completing his training, but promises Jor-El that he'll return before sunset.
Episode 2: Mortal
When he doesn't return, Jor-El strips Clark of his powers, making him human. Delighted to finally be "normal," Clark pursues a relationship with Lana without secrets. When Lana, Jonathan and Martha are taken hostage by three krypto-thugs, Clark must figure out how to save his family without his super powers. In the end, Clark learns that everything was orchestrated by Lex, in an effort to test Clark's abilities. Clark confronts Lex, thus ending their friendship.
Episode 3: Hidden
Chloe is warned by Gabriel, a former school newspaper worker, that he is going to set off a missile and obliterate all of Smallville. Still stripped of his super powers, Clark confronts Gabriel and ends up being killed. Jor-El, in possession of Lionel's body, resurrects Clark with all his powers, but with the consequence that someone Clark loves will have to die.
Episode 4: Aqua
Lois injures herself in the lake, but before Clark can rescue her, a mysterious swimmer, Arthur "A.C." Curry, out-swims Clark and rescues her first. During his first lecture at a University, Professor Fine (James Marsters) tells Clark that Lex is behind a covert operation manufacturing weapons. The same weapons are what brought A.C. to Smallville. Teaming up with Clark, the two destroy Lex's underwater weapon, and Clark's trust of Lex disappears completely.
Episode 5: Thirst
Lana decides to enroll at Metropolis University at the last minute and is forced to join a sorority to find housing. The house leader Buffy Sanders, and her sorority sisters, offer her more than a place to crash when they turn her into a vampire. Lex provides Clark with an antidote for Lana, after LuthorCorp is revealed to be connected to the vampires. Chloe earns an internship at the Daily Planet.
Episode 6: Exposed
Senator Jack Jennings (Tom Wopat), Jonathan's oldest friend, arrives at the Kent farm looking for support in his campaign for re-election. When a stripper turns up dead, and is revealed to be Jennings' mistress, Jennings is made the prime suspect. Searching for answers, Chloe convinces Lois to go undercover as a stripper, but things take a dangerous turn when Lois is kidnapped by a foreign diplomat's son, who intends to sell her into slavery.
Episode 7: Splinter
Clark is exposed to a new kind of kryptonite, causing him to have paranoid delusions about those around him. The silver kryptonite makes him believe that Chloe is going to reveal his secret, Jonathan is scheming against him with Lionel, and Lex and Lana are having a secret relationship. Chloe and the Kents frantically search for a cure, but it is Professor Fine who comes to Clark's rescue, claiming to be a Kryptonian.
Episode 8: Solitude
When Martha contracts a strange disease, Clark turns to Professor Fine, who convinces Clark that Jor-El is the one responsible for her illness. Fine convinces Clark that the only way to save her is to destroy the Fortress of Solitude, separating Jor-El's link. Once the two arrive at the Fortress, Fine reveals himself to be an artificial intelligence created by Kryptonians and tries to free Zod from the Phantom Zone.
Episode 9: Lexmas
Lex considers finding, or creating, damaging information against Jonathan to upset his Senatorial race, information that may harm Clark and Martha. When Lex is shot, he falls into a coma and is visited by the ghost of his mother. She shows him a life without his father, where Lex is married to Lana, and the two are expecting a second child. Interrupting Clark and Lana's first Christmas, Chloe persuades Clark to play Santa, and deliver gifts to those less fortunate.
Episode 10: Fanatic
Jonathan's life is threatened by a mysterious source, who urges him to drop out of the race. Clark discovers that Lex's followers, primarily Samantha Drake, are determined to do anything to see that Lex wins the election. Lois is threatened into assassinating Jonathan during his senatorial speech. Lionel offers Martha some money to help Jonathan's campaign, while Lana believes that the answers she is looking for lie in the first meteor shower.
Episode 11: Lockdown
Two police officers, one of whom witnessed the Kryptonians land in the second meteor shower, take Lex and Lana hostage and threaten to kill them unless Lex reveals where he hid the spaceship. Lex takes a bullet meant for Lana, and fearing Lex may bleed to death, Lana asks him to tell the officers the location. Clark discovers Lana has been researching the spaceship with Lex and fears she is close to discovering his secret.
Episode 12: Reckoning
Clark is finally willing to reveal his secret to Lana, but there are consequences. Jonathan and Lex learn the results of the senatorial election and the life of someone Clark loves – Lana – is finally taken away from him. A desperate Clark appeals to Jor-El for help, only to find himself frantically trying to save her again. Lionel reveals to Jonathan he has a little more up his sleeve. Minutes later, Jonathan dies of a heart attack in front of Martha and Clark.
Episode 13: Vengeance
When his mother is mugged in Metropolis, Clark decides to find out who it was that saved her life. He discovers the new reporter at the Daily Planet, a woman named Andrea Rojas, is actually a masked avenger who fights crime at night. Clark’s bottled-up grief over the loss of his father threatens to get the best of him as he joins Andrea in her fight against crime.
Episode 14: Tomb
The spirit of a young girl is released from her tomb after lightning strikes a kryptonite bracelet she was wearing. Clark finds the corpse in the walls of the Talon and it attaches itself to Chloe. Clark follows the trail of the spirit to find her killer, who has been preying on girls in Smallville for the past decade. When Lois is suddenly kidnapped, Chloe has to come to her rescue.
Episode 15: Cyborg
A sympathetic doctor releases a half-human/half-machine subject named Victor Stone being held captive and experimented on by LuthorCorp. Clark befriends Victor and promises to help him find his girlfriend, but Lex traps Victor and takes him back to LuthorCorp. Clark helps Victor free himself for good. Meanwhile, Martha is being blackmailed, and Lionel offers to step in and deal with the blackmailer. It is later revealed that Lionel knows Clark's secret.
Episode 16: Hypnotic
Lex goes searching for Professor Fine in the jungles of Honduras. Clark meets a beautiful seductress named Simone who uses a magical charm to make people succumb to her every wish. An enchanted Clark reveals his powers to Simone, who seizes the opportunity and, after forcing Clark to break up with Lana, demands Clark kill Lex. Lana tries to reconcile her and Clark's relationship, but Clark breaks up with her thinking that they can never be together because of his secret identity.
Episode 17: Void
Chloe discovers that Professor Fine is still alive and warns Clark, who sets out looking for him. Lana, still upset over her break-up, experiments with a kryptonite drug that allows her to see her deceased parents. A worried Clark rushes to save Lana from hurting herself, but ends up being injected with the kryptonite-laced serum. When Clark flat-lines, he is able to talk to his father, who warns him that Lionel knows his secret.
Episode 18: Fragile
Clark and Martha take in a little girl, Maddie, after her foster mother is brutally stabbed to death. Maddie becomes the prime suspect, at least in Lois' eyes, when it is discovered that she has the power to manipulate glass. Maddie's father arrives to claim her, and is revealed to be the real murderer. Lois takes a job as Martha's Chief of Staff, and Chloe walks in on Lex and Lana during an intimate moment.
Episode 19: Mercy
After a failed take-over of LuthorCorp, a disgruntled employee takes Lionel hostage and orchestrates a series of elaborate games that Lionel must win in order to stay alive. After Clark tells Martha that Lionel knows his secret, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in the tormentor’s game and ends up fighting for her own life.
Episode 20: Fade
While in Metropolis, Clark saves the life of a stranger named Graham, who vows to repay Clark for his kindness. Unfortunately, Graham happens to be a hit man with the ability to cloak himself, and he decides killing Lex would be the best gift he could give Clark. Meanwhile, Lana tells Clark about her growing relationship with Lex.
Episode 21: Oracle
Clark is stunned when he sees his father’s ghost at the graveyard, but becomes even more confused when Jonathan tells him he must kill Lionel. Jonathan appears again, and gives Martha the same message. Lex develops a vaccine for Fine’s deadly virus, but Fine intervenes and injects him with the vaccine. Clark realizes Jonathan is really Milton Fine, and Jor-El takes possession of Lionel so that he can destroy him.
Episode 22: Vessel
Fine unleashes a crippling computer virus, which will lead to the destruction of Earth via pandemonium, and refuses to stop it unless Clark agrees to release Zod. Clark turns to Jor-El, who informs him that Zod needs a vessel to inhabit. Clark must destroy that vessel, and that vessel is Lex. Lex is stunned by his newfound powers and shares the discovery with Lana, who decides to stand by her new man, unaware of Fine's true intentions.