Smallville Season 4

The **fourth season** of *Smallville* began airing on September 22, 2004. on The WB television network, and concluded its initial airing on May 18, 2005 with 22 episodes.

### Crusade

A brunette is watching a video diary made by Chloe Sullivan.

In the video, Chloe states that something must have happened to her and says that Clark is the only person that can learn the truth of her death. The young woman is now driving to the Kent Farm, but she is lost. Her car is struck by lightning and she veers off the road and into the corn field. Suddenly, a ball of light falls from the sky and a hole the shape of a pentagon is burned into the corn. In the middle lies Clark Kent, who is naked and claims not to know who he is. She offers to take him to the hospital, but he says he is fine. She introduces herself as Lois Lane.

They arrive at the hospital, but the orderly says that she has to stay with him until he can be identified. Lois decides to keep an eye on him to prevent him from wandering around the waiting room naked.

In Paris, Lana is taking photographs on the street when she bumps into a young man who asks her opinion on a gift to celebrate the two month anniversary of meeting his girlfriend. After a bit of banter, it is revealed that the man is her new boyfriend, Jason Teague.

Martha Kent is reading to an unconscious Jonathan Kent when Dr. Harden informs her that she needs to think about the future and that Jonathan is brain-dead. Martha declares that she will not give up on him.

Lois starts talking about why she's in Smallville, but Clark is apathetic and keeps trying to leave. Clark wanders into the hallway and Martha is overwhelmed when she sees him, but he does not recognize her. Clark tells her he is waiting for the sign. She says that she can help him find the sign, but he must go with her immediately. Lois finds out that it is Clark, but he has already left.

Lex Luthor is in Egypt, where he obtains an artifact, an ancient statue. He pays a large amount of money to erase all the evidence of him visiting Egypt. Lex boards his plane and Dr. Harden reminds him that he survived a massive poisoning that would have killed most people. It is also revealed that Lex must have his blood purified every 72 hours or his organs will shut down.

Martha takes Clark back to the farm and up to his loft to try and jog his memory. She shows him a picture of Jonathan and says it's his father, but Clark just replies that Jonathan is dead to him. When she realizes that his behavior is probably due to Jor-El's influence, Martha grows upset and starts to scream and cry for her son to be returned.

Lex in his airplane returning from Egypt, when the plane hits some turbulence and the statue breaks, revealing a mysterious stone. Suddenly, Clark hears an incredibly piercing sound in his head. He says that he is Kal-El of Krypton and that it is time to fulfill his destiny. Martha grows upset and starts to scream and cry for her son to be returned. Kal-El says that Clark Kent is dead, and to Martha's shock, launches himself into the sky and flies away from the farm.

Lana and Jason Teague go to a church to do a tombstone rubbing of the crypt of Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux for an art-history class. When Lana touches a symbol on the tomb, a great surge of bright energy flows through her body. The Mark of Transference appears on her lower back.

Back at the Kent farm, Martha is trying to reach Virgil Swann over the phone. Lois arrives, having followed them home and asks Martha about Clark and Chloe's relationship. She asks about Clark, but Martha makes the excuse that Clark is sleeping to hide the fact that he is no longer there. Martha states that she will have Clark contact Lois if he remembers anything. Lois explains that she thinks Clark might know something about Chloe's death. She also states that she is trying to get in to speak to Lionel but she is having trouble getting him to accept the visit, and that Lionel would otherwise be discharged in two weeks and Chloe's murder would never be avenged. Martha warns her to stay away and tells her that getting involved with Lionel is dangerous. Lois says that she knows Martha used to work for Lionel and wants to know how she escape unscathed. Martha tells her she didn't and finally gets Lois to leave.

Meanwhile, Kal-El flies up to Lex's plane and rips off the door at 20,000 feet. As Lex and Dr. Harden are tossed about in another cabin, Kal-El steps into the plane, reaches out his hand and draws the stone through the cabin wall to him. As Lex scrambles up to look through the hole, Kal-El flies away. Martha's request to speak with Virgil Swann is finally answered, but by his emissary, assistant Bridgette Crosby instead. She tells her that Clark flew away and Crosby realizes that he has completely embraced his Kryptonian destiny. She gives her black kryptonite, which will split Kal-El and Clark.

Lex visits his father in jail believing that he stole the Stone from him. They throw insults back and forth. Lionel tells him that he is chasing a fairy tale even though he himself has been extensively searching for the Stones by financing six expeditions over the last two years. Lex accuses him of poisoning his son and murdering Chloe. Lionel says that those responsible for him being charged for murder will feel his wrath, but claims that Chloe's death was an accident.

Kal-El goes to the Cave and activates three symbols around the octagonal hole, which opens the pathway to the inner chamber. He places the first Stone on the table. Lana somehow ended up back at her place. She hears someone banging on the door. She goes to see who it is and finds out that it's her boyfriend Jason Teague. He asks her what happened but she doesn't know how she ended up back at her apartment.

On his way out of the cave, Clark encounters Martha. When she presses the black kryptonite into his chest, Clark and Kal-El split and begin to

fight each other for control. Martha throws the black kryptonite to Clark who stabs it into Kal-El, effectively combining them back, this time with Clark in control. Simultaneously, Jonathan miraculously wakes up.

Lana is taking a shower and once she steps out of the shower and wraps a towel around and looks in the mirror to see the Mark of Transference mark on her lower back.

Lois gets in to visit Lionel in jail by saying she is Martha Kent. After some back and forth, Lois tells him that she knows that safe house was no accident. As she leaves, Lois taunts Lionel with the question of whether he is being set up as he prepares to walk out of the hospital a free man.

Lois goes to Smallville Cemetery to pay her respects to Chloe, whose headstone reads "Chloe Sullivan 1987-2004 Beloved Daughter."

Lois promises to find out who did this to Chloe. She is surprised when she sees Clark behind her. Clark offers to help find out what happened to Chloe and extends an invitation for Lois to stay at the Kent farm. Lois gives him some time alone at the grave and Clark X-rays Chloe's coffin and discovers it to be empty. He tells Lois that Chloe is indeed alive, in which Lois already suspected.

### Gone

Clark and Lois are walking through the corn fields to what is left of Chloe's safe house. Clark is explaining to Lois that even though she finds it hard to believe, he knows Chloe is not dead. They are investigating the ruin when a helicopter swoops down on them.

Clark tells Lois to run and Clark fends off two commandos. Meanwhile, Lois is running through the fields dodging the low flying helicopter. When another commando jumps from the helicopter in front of Lois, she goes into combat. Clark superspeeds closer to the helicopter and uses his heat vision to fry the engine, forcing the helicopter to land. He superspeeds up behind a victorious Lois. Together they run away from the scene. A man smoking a cigar steps out of the helicopter and looks on.

Back at the Kent Farm, Clark and Lois are cleaning up after having run from the helicopter. Lois barges into the bathroom during Clark's shower. Clark is mortified when his mother catches them in the bathroom together. Downstairs, the Kents ask for an explanation and Clark is forced to explain about the helicopter incident much to Lois' dismay. After Lois leaves, Clark is reprimanded for crashing a helicopter.

Lex goes to see his father who is getting ready for the trial at the penitentiary. Lex accuses him of being responsible for Chloe's death. Lana, who has just returned to Smallville from a summer in Paris, goes to visit Lex back at the Luthor Mansion and they talk about reopening the Talon and Lana renting out the upstairs apartment there.

Lois sneaks out of the house and goes to investigate Chloe's grave site. She digs down to her coffin and discovers that Clark was right and Chloe is not in the coffin. A man approaches Lois at the grave site, demanding an explanation. He morphs his hand into a huge sword and attacks her, knocking away Lois' prepared bottle of mace. Lana appears and knocks the man in the head with the shovel, to no effect. She sprays him in the eyes with the mace and he recoils. Lana helps Lois up and they notice the man has disappeared. Lana assumes that he had been digging up Chloe, but Lois tells her that she in fact was the one to dig up the grave and not the "medieval psychopath".

Lana and Lois go back to the Kent Farm and meet up with Clark, who is fixing a tractor. Lois lets slip that Lana "had a hot summer fling" and discovers that Clark and Lana once had a thing. Clark explains that it's complicated.

Lois is talking to Clark about Lana when a helicopter shines a searchlight through the barn loft. The man smoking a cigar enters and is revealed to be Lois' father, General Sam Lane. After a talk with Lois about her visit to the crime scene, he is invited for dinner by the Kents but the General politely declines.

Clark goes to see Lex and tells him Chloe is not in her grave. Lex tells him due to the magnitude of the explosion there was nothing left to put into a casket. Clark notices the brand of cigar General Lane smokes in an ashtray on Lex's desk. He doesn't say anything and quietly leaves.

Lionel is showering in the penitentiary when an inmate stabs him in the liver and leaves the broken blade inside of him. Lionel is left on the floor while the inmate runs away. Later, he is lying in the hospital bed when the man from the graveyard comes to talk to him. His name is Trent and he is a former patient from Belle Reve. Lionel has hired him to make sure Chloe can't testify against him at the trial.

Clark goes to the army base office to do some investigating. Instead, he finds Lois there for the same reason. Clark finds a suspicious name in a record regarding Nellie Blye, one of Chloe's heroes who has been dead for eighty years. He superspeeds away to find the address indicated.

Clark enters the home of "Nellie Blye" and finds Chloe's Wall of Weird and her laptop. In the next room, he finds two guards lying dead on the floor. Lex walks in. Lex explains that he arranged the safe house explosion to stage Chloe's death. He did it to protect her from Lionel's attempts to get rid of her. He has attached a tracking bracelet to her wrist and calls one of his men to locate her. Clark overhears the location and superspeeds away.

Chloe is tied up in a foundry. She manages to kick a button to let herself down. She is untying herself when Trent grabs her by the throat. He morphs his hand into a metal claw and is strangling Chloe when Clark comes up from behind. Trent sees his reflection as Chloe faints. Clark grabs Trent and throws him through piping. Clark and Trent battle it out. Clark blocks Trent's sword again and again, advancing on him. Clark goes to attack him but falls right through Trent. Lois appears and fries Trent with an extremely large stun gun. Trent turns around and is prepared to attack Lois when Clark uses his heat vision to fry him from behind. He explodes into a puddle of molten metal. Clark and Lois go get Chloe who is regaining consciousness. She hugs Clark and her cousin and as they are leaving says she is going to finally defeat Lionel Luthor at the trial the next day.

At the house the Kents are talking about Lionel's conviction and are glad there was something even he couldn't buy his way out of.

Clark goes to the caves and meets Lana. She talks to him about his friendship with Lois. Clark without hesitation replies that he thinks Lois is bossy, stuck-up and rude; he cannot stand her. Lana gives Clark a knowing smile as she replies, "The best ones always start that way."

Lex goes to see Lionel going off to prison. He gloats that it was something he could not possibly have missed. Back in the apartment above the Talon, Lana's boyfriend Jason Teague surprises her by showing up in Smallville to stay together.

### Façade

During freshman year 2001, the Smallville High School football players are rallying the students for the start of the season. Lana Lang is perched above the dunk tank and Whitney Fordman recruits Clark to dunk her. Before he can throw the football, Clark's hands begin to shake from Lana's kryptonite necklace. Just then, the mascot arrives to cheer on the crowd. Instead, one of the players, Brett Anderson, takes the head off the costume, revealing dowdy freshman Abigail Fine. Her hair is dishwater-brown and stringy and she has glasses and severe acne on her face. Brett calls her "Scabby Abby" and Clark tries to stand up for her, but she runs away crying. The flashback ends as Abigail is lying on an examination table in the present time. A female voice soothingly says that her senior year will be different. It belongs to Dr. Elise Fine, Abigail's mother, who is a plastic surgeon. Dr. Fine turns on some machinery and a network of green glowing tubes and needles descend on Abby and pierce her skin.

Clark is in his barn yard catching his own passes and daydreaming of being a Met U football star. Lois arrives and asks him why he's not on the team. He is annoyed at her questions but they are interrupted when General Lane pulls up and informs Lois that she failed her senior year. Clark laughs at Lois' misfortune until Lane also says she must enroll at Smallville High to get enough credits to graduate.

Chloe is thrilled that Lois is in school with her and suggests she write for the *Torch* for an extra credit but Lois is resistant. Clark is eyeing a poster advertising football tryouts when the students start whistling. A beautiful blonde girl is walking down the hall. She says hi to Clark and he realizes it's Abby; she's had extensive cosmetic surgery and her entire appearance is changed. He admits that he almost didn't recognize her. She tells him that she changed herself because she was tired of sitting on the sidelines. Lois thinks Abby is too young for plastic surgery, but Chloe surprises her by saying she supports Abby's decision. When Clark agrees that Abby looks great, Lois starts to rant about high school being a façade full of people pretending to be something they are not. Chloe again suggests she write an article about her opinion and Lois agrees.

Lana finds a note in her locker from Jason and goes to his office. They are about to kiss when Clark bursts in to introduce himself to Coach Teague. They lie that Lana is giving Jason a school tour and Clark seems to buy the story. He asks Jason about tryouts and Jason gives him a permission slip.

Martha tells Jonathan that she has taken a management position at the Talon. Jonathan is resistant to the idea, but Martha urges him to be reasonable about the subject; they need the extra income to cover his hospital bills.

Jason asks Clark for his permission slip to try out and correctly guesses that Clark doesn't have parental permission, but he lets him try out anyway. During practice, Abby runs by and Brett gets another look at her. He approaches her in the halls just as Lana is walking by. Brett acknowledges that he treated her badly in the past and they go to the showers to make out, where Abby's necklace falls off in the shower. She is kissing him when green veiny strands form on his mouth. She is unnerved and leaves abruptly. Brett chases after her but when he sees his reflection, he sees the lower half of his face rotting away, even though in reality, there is nothing wrong with him. Abby looks on in horror as he runs out in a panic, directly into Lois' car.

Lois is visibly shaken by the event and Clark tries to calm her down. He asks Lois what happened and she speculates that pressure made him go crazy. She follows Clark into the boys' locker room and starts to interrogate the players. Clark finds Brett's jersey by the shower and locates Abby's necklace.

Lana finds Lex opening a package she had sent to the Talon. It is full of books about hieroglyphics, one of which has the same symbol as Lana's tattoo on the cover. Lex remarks that she must be working on the same "school project" that Clark is always working on.

Jonathan learns that Clark joined the football team, but Clark maintains that he knows how to control his abilities and won't hurt anyone. Jonathan is more worried that Clark will get caught up in the game and do anything to win. Clark points out that Jonathan loved high school football and he wants the chance, too.

Lana is visiting Dr. Fine for a consultation about getting her tattoo removed, but Dr. Fine informs her that the tattoo is not ink—it is branded underneath her skin. She tells her that Lana will probably need a complete skin graft if she wants it removed. She recognizes Lana as one of Abby's classmates. Abby arrives and when Lana asks about her and Brett, Abby says she doesn't know what she's talking about. Unnerved, Lana exits quickly. Abby is upset and demands to know what her mother did to her. Dr. Fine says Brett deserved it anyway and they will have to get Lana out of the way since she saw the two of them together. She manipulates Abby by saying that if they get caught, Abby will have to stop her treatment and go back to being Scabby Abby.

Lana meets Jason in the old drama room because he has a birthday surprise for her. He admits that he feels strange as an authority figure of the football team, since he's not much older than the players. He blindfolds her and goes to get the surprise. When he is gone, Abby sneaks up and gives Lana a toxic kiss, then apologizes and runs away crying. Lana sees her reflection and has the same hallucination of her face rotting. In a panic, she backs into a large wall mirror, which falls on her and shatters, knocking her out. Jason is at her bedside at the hospital when Lex comes to visit. He introduces himself and correctly guesses that Lana and Jason have more than a teacher/student relationship.

Chloe and Clark talk about Lana's condition and Clark reports that Lana and Brett had elevated levels of serotonin. Chloe connects that Abby was with Brett and Lana saw them both, and suggests that Abby might be responsible. They go back to the *Torch* office and find Lois' research on Dr. Fine's facility, Beechwood Medical Center. Dr. Fine has developed a medication to keep serotonin levels in check, so Clark and Chloe decide to go to the facility so she can treat Lana and Brett.

Lois pretends to be interested in plastic surgery and schedules an appointment for the same procedure that Abby had. When Dr. Fine realizes that Lois is taping the interview, Lois gets up to leave, saying she will expose her. Dr Fine pulls her back by her hair, injects her, and renders her unconscious. Lois wakes as needles and tubes descend on her, realizes she's stripped to her underwear and pinned in the plastic surgery machine. Dr. Fine tells her that she will destroy her beauty and she will learn what Abby had been through. Lois is terrified and tries in vain to get out.

Clark bursts into the lab to save her, but when he pulls the machinery off, green gas starts to fill the room. Clark is incapacitated and Dr. Fine knocks him to the ground. However, Lois kicks her away, frees herself from the machine, and winds up helping Clark from the room. Lana tells Jason that her whole ordeal makes her wonder if he only likes her for her looks. Jason assures her that he loves her for her personality.

Clark arrives home to tell his father that he's sorry to disappoint him but he is staying on the team. Jonathan tells him he understands and they make up. At school the next day, Chloe tells Lois that her article was well-received and suggests she write more. They go to the football rally where Clark is now in the dunk tank. Lois easily throws the football and dunks him. Chloe looks on, crestfallen, as Clark and Lois share a flirty moment.

### Devoted

It is the beginning of the school year and Lois is still trying to get her situation straightened out with the Dean of Met U so she can attend that fall. At Smallville High, Clark teases Lois for still being in high school while showing off his new letterman jacket.

On Clark's first day of football practice, he is dismayed at how much time he spends sitting on the sidelines instead of actually playing. He complains to Assistant Coach Jason Teague that the other players ignore his passes or miss on purpose. Jason tells Clark that the team has been playing together for three years- Clark is the new guy and they just have to warm up to him. He tells the players to go easy on Clark. On the bench, Clark observes a cheerleader, Amanda, give her boyfriend Danny Cormay, the quarterback, a drink from a cooler the cheerleaders provide for the players. Immediately after, Danny is suddenly particularly affectionate and obedient to her. When Jason approaches Danny and tells him to get back in the game, he gets mad at Jason and leaves in the middle of practice, giving Clark a chance to go in and play. After practice, Jason is in the locker room when Danny appears with a shotgun. He starts to fire at Jason, but Clark arrives just in time to save him and disarm Danny.

Lois and Clark meet Chloe at the *Torch* office. Chloe asks Lois to go to the hospital to interview Danny but she is too busy. She asks Clark to interview Coach Teague, but Clark reluctantly tells her that he will probably have to spend less time on the *Torch* because of football practice. Chloe is dismayed, but does not press the issue. He does admit that the other team members are rude to him, but Chloe just repeats that they are probably annoyed at him for becoming star quarterback his first year on the team. Both Clark and Lois notice that all the players on the team are attentive and devoted to their girlfriends. Clark learns that Lex is providing the jerseys for the team and coolly informs him that he cannot buy Clark's friendship back.

That evening, Lana laments to Jason that she's never been happier in their relationship and wishes they didn't have to sneak around, but Jason reiterates that he really needs his job, so they have to continue keeping it a secret.

Chloe starts investigating the story and decides to ask Jason for an inside scoop on what might have made Danny freak out. She approaches Jason in the middle of practice, but he blows her off. Bored waiting, Chloe sips the green sports drink from the players' cooler. Suddenly, she spots Clark on the field and realizes that she is completely and singularly devoted to him. Lana is also at practice, watching Jason. Clark mistakenly thinks she is there to support *him* and goes to the stands to talk to her. Jason, also drinking from the cooler, sees Clark talking to Lana and suddenly feels annoyed and possessive.

Lois finds Chloe in the office of the *Torch* taking down her Wall of Weird. She asks what's up and Chloe states that she's quitting the *Torch* because she only has time to devote to Clark. She asks Lois to take charge of the paper so she can work on a relationship with Clark. Lois is at first concerned that Chloe is setting herself up for heartbreak, but Chloe gets angry. Lois agrees to interview the cheerleaders, because she needs the credit to graduate. She overhears the cheerleaders talking and sees one of them with a chemistry paper on "love molecules". She decides to investigate a bit more. That night Clark finds Chloe in his loft, wearing nothing but his football jersey. She tells Clark that she wants to devote all of her time and energy to him. She straddles him and kisses him passionately. Confused, Clark resists, but Chloe is persistent. The next morning, Clark cryptically asks his mother what to do about Chloe's advances and she advises Clark to be honest with her. Clark also asks Jonathan what he should do about the football team not liking him and Jonathan says he needs to earn their trust.

In school, Jason summons Lana to his office and overtly starts making out with her. Lana is puzzled because they are usually very careful about keeping their relationship a secret and questions his overly-devoted behavior. Jason then requests Lana come to practice because he just "wants to see her."

Chloe appears at practice wearing a cheerleading uniform, stating that the best way to support Clark is to be his personal cheerleader. When Clark drinks from the players' cooler, he chokes and instantly starts to feel ill. Nauseated, he asks Jason if he can sit out because he doesn't feel well, but Jason cruelly sends Clark in and tells the other players that Clark is fair game. Weakened and sick, Clark takes a beating on the field while Chloe cheers and jumps on the sidelines. As he is lying stunned on the ground, Clark notices the cheerleaders carrying the cooler away and makes the connection that there must be kryptonite in the sports drink.

That night, Clark is in his loft applying ice packs to his bruises when he is attacked by a hooded figure. He realizes it's Jason and tries to tell him that there is something in the sports drink. However, Jason is in a jealous rage and refuses to listen. He tells him to "stay away from his girlfriend" and beats him up. He throws Clark through the rail of the loft and advances on him. Just then, Lex arrives and scares him off. Clark lies that he has no idea who his attacker was. He also notices that the kryptonite liquid is slowly forcing itself out of his body, even dripping out of his nose. His bruises and injuries disappear and Clark discreetly covers up so Lex doesn't notice. Lex arrived to tell Clark something important. Since Lex just fended off Clark's attacker, Clark agrees to listen. Lex gives Clark the file containing all the information he has on him, but Clark is skeptical. Lex tells him that he greatly values their friendship and is sincere about repairing it.

Lois realizes the cheerleaders put together a science project in which they experimented on a "love molecule" whose effects are enhanced combined with meteor rock. She also notices Mandy always carries a folder with the specifics of the molecule, including the antidote, in her bag. She makes a plan to infiltrate a pool party and brings Clark along. She sends Clark to distract Mandy. Clark pretends to be devoted and Mandy drags him to the weight room. Mandy pins Clark and begins to make out with Clark while Lois tries to get her bag. Eventually, the two manage to get the bag away.

Lois leaves to study the notes when she is attacked by Chloe, still under the influence of the love molecule. Chloe and Lois fight until Lois knocks her into a furnace. Suddenly, Chloe snaps out of it and they realize that heat neutralizes the effect. Chloe and Lois interrupt Clark and Mandy, but when Mandy realizes that Clark is pretending to like her, she gets mad and brings in some football players. Lois defeats one of the players by kicking him. Then Clark uses his heat vision to bust open a steam pipe which cures the players.

Lex shows Clark how he had his secret room emptied out and his wrecked Porsche destroyed. He then promises to never pry into the Kent's lives again. Clark appreciates the gesture of friendship and asks Lex to do him a favor. Lex volunteers. Clark says Lois.

Jason apologizes for the attack, but Clark says he has no hard feelings since Jason wasn't himself. He asks Jason who "his girl" is, but Jason says he doesn't know. At the football game that evening, Clark and the team work together to score a victory.

Later, Clark and Chloe have an awkward conversation about her advances. He takes his mother's advice and is honest about only wanting to be friends with her. Since she already knew this, Chloe takes it in stride and the two are able to put it behind them. Clark redeems himself by telling her that he has changed his mind about the *Torch* and will continue to fulfill his commitment to Chloe and the paper. When Clark kisses Chloe on the cheek and Chloe leaves, Lois comes up to tell Clark that Lex made good on his promise and got her into Met U and out of Clark's hair, but not before warning him never to break Chloe's heart.

### Run

Bart Allen, a street urchin, is attempting to sell stolen personal items in Suicide Slums, but his fence, Hanison, is unwilling to give him a fair deal. When Hanison is momentarily distracted, Bart steals the goods and the money, and puts himself on Hanison's radar.

In Metropolis, Clark and Jonathan are walking out of Jonathan's latest cardiologist's appointment. They are on their way to a Metropolis Sharks football game, tickets courtesy of Lex Luthor, who is still trying to repair his and Clark's friendship. Jonathan reminds Clark to be careful of Lex, but Clark brushes off his concern, saying he wants to put his issues with Lex and Jor-El behind him, play football, and enjoy his senior year of high school. Jonathan waits to be picked up by Clark at the curb. Suddenly, a truck comes careening down the street, the driver drinking and falling asleep at the wheel. He wakes up and swerves, pipes flying from the back, but is headed straight towards Jonathan. There is a flash of red lightning. Bart smiles, and the truck seems to freeze as Clark goes into super speed.Before Clark can get to him, Jonathan is pushed out of the way by a kid in red and yellow, who, to Clark's surprise, can move faster than he can. Clark tells Jonathan what he saw and Jonathan notices that he is fine, but his wallet is missing. He realizes Bart must have taken it.

Jason discovers Lana's tattoo, but when he asks her about it, she avoids the questions.

Because their game tickets were also stolen, Clark and Jonathan return to Smallville early. Clark asks his parents not to report their credit cards stolen for a few hours so he can track the boy down. With Chloe's help, Clark finds him at a hotel in Metropolis and discovers he has multiple identity cards under the names of Barry Allen, Wally West, and Jay Garrick. He also has much more stolen goods. He confronts the boy, Bart, who is unconcerned about being caught, because he'll be gone before Clark can catch him. He zips out of the room at super-speed and Clark chases him. However, he is faster than Clark and leaves him behind, even skimming over a lake. Clark returns home, but is surprised to find Bart sitting at his kitchen counter, sipping orange juice.

Bart tells Clark that he's been able to run at super-speed for several years, after an accident involving lightning. He went to the Kents because he'd never met anybody who could run as fast as he could. Clark asks Bart where his parents are. Bart explains that he ran away because they began to treat him differently. He suggests that Clark come with him, and use their abilities to have fun and do what they want. He reasons that he only steals from the rich and needs the money to avoid sleeping on the street. Clark tells him that stealing isn't right, no matter who it's from or for what purpose. Bart changes the subject by speeding around Clark's loft and observing that he's in love with Lana Lang, and that he collects rocks. Clark is confused until Bart opens a lead box containing a meteor rock. Affected, Clark tells Bart that he is "allergic," and Bart puts it away and convinces Clark to go to Florida with him just for fun.

Clark and Bart return from Florida that night and they go to the Talon, where Clark introduces Bart to Chloe. Bart flirts with Chloe and impresses her with a "magic trick" using his super speed.

Martha remarks that Lex was looking for Clark, so Clark leaves Bart to see what Lex wanted. At the Luthor Mansion, Lex shows Clark his newest find, the last page of a Fourteenth Century manuscript with Kryptonian symbols drawn along the border. He says he wants Clark to help him uncover the mystery behind the manuscript. Clark uses his X-ray vision and sees some sort of map behind the image on the manuscript. Lex receives a phone call and leaves. Suddenly, Bart shows up, marveling at the mansion and getting a look at the manuscript, but he disappears before Lex can see him.

Clark arrives home and tells Jonathan about the map and that the symbols had one sentence repeated over and over: *"Look deeper."* Clark says he wants to get a closer look at it, because he thinks the map leads to something powerful, and does not want it to fall into the wrong hands. In the barn, Bart shows up and thanks Clark for hanging out with him by giving him an MP3 player. When Clark asks if he stole it, they argue; Bart reasons that he isn't hurting anybody and Clark lectures that he should use his abilities to help. Bart doesn't want to listen and speeds away. When Clark goes back to the mansion to get another look at the manuscript, Bart steals it right from underneath him, setting off the alarm and leaving Clark alone in the library. Lex asks Clark if he saw who took it. Clark lies that he doesn't, and Lex believes him. Lex isn't worried; he knows all the fences in the area and figures he'll find it when the thief tries to sell it.

Lana and Martha have a conversation about Martha's avoidance of Jonathan. Martha admits that she has thrown herself into managing the Talon because it keeps her mind off of Jonathan's health. Lana points out that it does no good to distance herself from Jonathan while he is actually here.

Bart tries to sell the manuscript to Hanison, but Lex arrives. When Lex realizes the thief is just a little kid, he tells Hanison to let Bart go, but Hanison disagrees. He knocks Bart out and his goons take out Lex. Before they can kill them both, Clark arrives on the scene and saves Bart and Lex. However, Bart overpowers Clark with a meteor rock, and steals the manuscript. Clark pleads with Bart to do the right thing, but Bart speeds away. Before he does though, Bart closes the lead box with the meteor rock so that Clark can recover. Clark leaves quickly before the police show up and before Lex wakes up. Eventually, Lana takes Jason to the Kawatche Caves, where he notices the symbols on the walls are identical to her tattoo. She explains that this is the reason she abruptly left Paris and Jason promises to support her as she figures it out.

The next day, Clark goes to visit a recovering Lex, who states that the manuscript

was waiting on his desk when he got home and that the thief must have had a change of heart. On the farm, Clark is visited one last time by Bart, who thanks Clark for looking out for him. He says he's going to explore the world, and invites Clark to come. Clark asks him to stay, and Bart slyly says he'd consider it... if Clark can catch him. The two superspeed down the roads of Smallville, and Clark is catching up . . . When Bart turns around and starts outdistancing him running *backwards*. He salutes before turning forward again and disappearing in a flash of red and yellow lightning.

Clark comes to a stop, and stares after him, realizing this impulsive kid is too fast to catch. He smiles and turns to run home.

### Transference

Clark is in the barnyard practicing football when Jonathan and Jason arrive to announce that a Met U scout will be at Friday's game. However, Clark's excitement is cut short when he begins to hear a painful ringing in his ears. Jonathan sends Jason away. Clark explains that he hears a ringing sound and says he has to go. He superspeeds away.

At the Kansas State Penitentiary, Lionel is having a visitation with Lex. He looks very weak and pained. Lex remarks that he probably has about a month to live. Lionel explains that he did not want to die without telling Lex he loved him and reaches across the table to him. Just then, Clark enters and uses his X-ray vision to see that Lionel is clutching a pointed stone. He rushes between them and lifts Lionel away from Lex. Lionel grabs Clark's fist and the spirits of the two men swirl and merge. They switch bodies and fall away from each other. The guards rush in and haul Clark-in-Lionel's-body away as he protests.

Lionel-in-Clark's-body stutters out an explanation to Lex, who offers to take him home. Lex drops "Clark" off and he wanders around the barnyard, where he finds Jonathan, who asks him to lift up the tractor. Lionel is astonished to discover that he can.

Clark finds an entire wall filled with articles and research about the Stones of Power in Lionel's prison cell. He meets his cellmate, Edgar Cole. Edgar tells him that he is an expert translator who was framed and helped Lionel figure out how to switch bodies, intending to trap Lex in prison. Edgar also tells Clark that Lionel is dying of an incurable liver disease.

In Clark's barn, Lionel is admiring his new physique, while on the phone with a foreign bank. He is trying to transfer funds, but he fails the voice verification and grows frustrated. Martha enters, and is surprised to see Clark wearing a dress shirt and slacks. She notices Clark's behavior is off, and asks him about the ringing he heard earlier. "Clark" says he just needs a hug. They hug awkwardly and Lionel becomes aroused and shoots a beam of heat out of the barn window. Martha gets annoyed and leaves. In the house, Jason has come back to see how Clark is feeling. "Clark" tells him that he's not going to the football game and quits the team, slamming the front door closed. Jason looks shocked.

In prison, Clark-as-Lionel asks Edgar to help him make a phone call. When they enter the common area, a large convict roughs Clark up, threatening to kill him. Without his abilities, Clark is powerless to fight back.

Lionel tries to access the LuthorCorp company database from the computers in the *Torch* office, but Lex has changed the password. Chloe arrives and also comments on Clark's attire. Lionel starts playing mind games with Chloe, asking her what she would do if Lionel were to get out of prison. He then starts going on about how he finds her fascinating and leans in to kiss her. Just as they are about to kiss, he pulls back and whispers cruelly, "Don't you wish," and saunters off. Chloe is nearly in tears as he walks away.

Lana and Jason are in his office discussing Isobel Thoreaux and "Clark" walks by and bursts in on them kissing. He makes rude remarks about their relationship, shocking Jason again and upsetting Lana.

Lionel-as-Clark goes to the prison to visit Clark-as-Lionel. He threatens to kill Lex unless Clark records himself saying the access codes to Lionel's bank accounts. Back at the barn, he learns the accounts are empty and is still seething as Lana enters. She tells him that her relationship with Jason is serious, but she's sorry he found out the way he did. He doesn't really care, but decides to play mind games with her, too. He forces a kiss on her and she slaps him across the face, as she storms off angrily while Lionel looks pleased with himself.

Martha arrives at the prison to visit "Lionel". He tells her a story she already knows—about how when he was six, he super-sped into the woods and got lost. "Lionel" convinces her that he is really Clark inside. He explains how the stone caused them to switch bodies and warns her of who she thinks is Clark.

Lionel-as-Clark then goes to the Luthor mansion to force the money out of Lex. Through his words and actions, Lex realizes that he is really Lionel as he forces the life out of him. Martha shows up and subdues "Clark" with a meteor rock, but he zips away. She tries to call Jonathan to warn him, but "Clark" arrives first and throws Jonathan across the room. He is just in time to answer a call from Edgar. At the prison, Edgar explains that the transference is temporary unless one of the people is dead. At the same time, the convict is harassing "Lionel" again in the common room. He fights back and a riot breaks out. Lionel-as-Clark uses the opportunity to approach Clark-as-Lionel and picks him up by the front of his prison uniform (orange jumpsuit and white slip-on sneakers). The two argue and Clark-as-Lionel grabs his hand, clutching the stone. Their spirits transfer back into their rightful bodies. Clark drops Lionel and the stone and speeds away. Dazed, Lionel notices the liver splotches on his hand have disappeared.

Back home, Martha and Jonathan inform Clark that he (Lionel-as-Clark) quit the football team and upset both Chloe and Lana. Clark explains that he was drawn to the stone, just like he was as Kal-El. He tells them about the altar in the caves and about how he believes the stones are meant for him to find. They warn him of Lionel, since he knows his secret, but Clark remarks that Lionel is dying.

At school, Clark tries to patch up his friendships with Chloe and Lana, who are still furious. Chloe suggests he get psychological help, and Lana angrily asks him to keep quiet about her and Jason, not realizing that Clark didn't know what Lionel did as "Clark".

Lastly, Clark goes to see Lex who immediately threatens Clark with the four barrel pistol.  As Lex knows Lionel could be inside Clark's body, he must have proof it is Clark in Clark's body.  Lex asks Clark about what the two joke about concerning the day they met. Lex gives Clark some background and Clark wonders out loud about the twenty questions. Lex won't have any stalling and again threatens Clark with the gun. Clark realizing Lionel also upset / did a number on Lex, backs off and replies, he told you to drive slower. Lex drops the pistol and welcomes Clark back. While Lex wonders how it all happens and Clark again plays "dumb," this time Lex doesn't push it (friendship). He wants to thank Clark for saving him, as otherwise it would have been him locked away in prison dying of liver failure. Clark asks a favor of Lex to help Edgar out of prison. After asking s few questions, Lex agrees to try and get an innocent man out of prison.

At the prison, it is confirmed that Lionel's liver has indeed healed itself and Edgar is released. He climbs into a waiting limousine to be greeted by Bridgette Crosby, who collects the Crystal of Water from him.

### Jinx

It is the deciding game to see who will go to the State championship and the Smallville Crows are trailing when Assistant Coach Jason Teague sends Clark Kent in. Chloe meets Mikhail Mxyzptlk in the deserted field house and bets $80 on Smallville to win and Mikhail accepts her wager. They both return to the game, where the Crows are on defense. Mikhail mutters to himself and the Crows player drops the ball. Clark saves the fumble but when Mikhail says, "Trip," he stumbles into another player and over the touchdown line. The Crows win the game but Clark is horrified to see that the player he fell into is injured.

Clark goes to see the player at the hospital. Jason tells him that his collarbone is shattered but he will recover. Clark feels guilty and Jason starts to question Clark's remarkable football skills and his ability to overpower someone who outweighs him by 100 pounds. He admits that Coach Quigley thinks Clark is on performance-enhancing drugs and tells Clark he better submit to any questioning if he wants to preserve his college football career.

Lex is meeting with Mikhail, who is a foreign-exchange student from the Balkans area that has been awarded a LuthorCorp scholarship. Lex questions why Lionel would award Mikhail such a prestigious award because he is a barely-average student. He asks what potential Lionel saw on him and Mikhail replies that it is potential that doesn't show up on a report card.

Mikhail goes to the *Smallville Torch* office to talk to Chloe. She reveals that her bet was part of her investigation into a high school football betting ring and she wants Mikhail to give her an exclusive. He agrees if she keeps his name out and places a large bet on the next Metropolis Sharks game.

Jonathan confronts Clark about injuring the player, saying that Clark is being irresponsible by playing. Clark tells Jonathan that football means a lot to him because it helps him forget all his burdens and Jonathan objects, saying there is more to life than championship football. Clark says something happened to him on the field that wasn't his fault because he is sure he can control his abilities. Jonathan says he's going to talk to Coach Quigley at the victory party and tell him that Clark is quitting, but Clark says it's his responsibility. At the party, everyone's spirits are high and Clark is the star of the celebration. Coach Quigley makes a rousing speech about how Clark will take them to win the championship, and Clark winds up not saying anything to him.

Mikhail is waiting for Chloe in the *Torch* office. She arrives with an armload of shopping bags. She talks about how exciting it was to win her bet and Mikhail suggests she not spoil the fun and stop writing the article. Chloe replies that her story is getting juicier by the minute and Mikhail pulls her close. He uses his power to force her to kiss him and tells her that she *will* stop the article. Chloe is left looking confused.

Clark is practicing his passes in the barn by throwing a football through a tire. He throws perfectly every time. He then takes a small shard of green kryptonite, closes it into his fist, and tries again. He misses this time and Martha comes behind him and remarks that she's never seen him miss. She asks him why he didn't talk to Coach Quigley, and Clark says he couldn't let the other players down. She notices his closed fist and he shows her the shard. She is angry, saying he can't make himself sick to play, but Clark says that others play injured. Martha isn't budging. She tells Clark that no, they have never seen him trip, and Clark should find out what happened to him on the field.

Clark is in the *Torch* office reviewing the plays of the game. Chloe comes in and Clark is surprised when she allows him to stay, saying she's giving him the benefit of the doubt. Clark tells her that he felt like he couldn't control his legs and Chloe tells her that Mikhail forced her to kiss him. They begin to investigate Mikhail's background, but a search of his name doesn't provide any results. However, Chloe searches his name backwards and pulls up an article about the region he is from. He is from a long line of people who have a history of being able to control luck, but the only thing that stopped them was a plague of locusts. Clark suggests they turn Mikhail over to LuthorCorp because he is running illegal bets. He tells Lex about Mikhail's gambling and Lex asks why he didn't tell Coach Teague. He says it must be hard for Clark to see Lana with Jason. Clark says he knows Lana is serious about Jason, so he is dealing with it as best he can. Lex says he should do whatever it takes to win, both on the field and off.

Lana and Jason are discussing Clark's possible drug use. Lana doesn't think Clark is using drugs. Jason doesn't either, but he confesses that he told Coach Quigley that Clark took a drug test that came back clean because he didn't want Clark to retaliate by revealing Lana and Jason's relationship. Lana says that Jason doesn't have to worry about her leaving him for Clark because she is serious about them.

Lex tells Mikhail that he is sending him back to his home country, but Mikhail uses his ability to make Lex let him stay. He says if Lex wants to know what Mikhail can do, he can make a bet with him. If the Crows lose, Mikhail will get one million dollars and citizenship, but if they win, Lex will find out about Mikhail's powers. Mikhail then visits Clark in his loft. He knows Clark turned him in and tells him that he has a lot of money riding on the game. He says, "Choke," and Clark starts gasping and coughing. As he suffocates, Mikhail tells him that he will play, he will lose the game, and he won't tell anyone else about him, or else more people will be hurt. Clark can't breathe until Mikhail tells him to as he exits.

Chloe tells Clark that the locusts might have driven Mikhail's ancestors out by blocking the signals they use to control other people, like jamming a radio frequency. They hatch a plan to jam Mikhail's frequency so he cannot influence the game, but Clark has to leave to suit up. Jonathan meets him outside the locker room, disappointed that he has chosen to play. Clark says it is his decision, but Jonathan still thinks he is making the wrong one. Clark points out that he has to make a conscious decision to fall during every game so others don't get hurt, so Jonathan can't ever understand how much responsibility he is taking on.

During the game, Chloe rewires the loudspeakers, causing Mikhail to hear a high frequency which makes him cover his ears. He tries to influence the players but it doesn't work. The Crows pull ahead and Mikhail gets up to investigate. He finds Chloe and they struggle. The Crows are one touchdown away from winning, but Mikhail appears on the field during a timeout. He shows Clark Chloe's press pass and tells Clark that if they score another touchdown he will kill her. Just as the play is about to start, Clark X-rays the wall of the field house and sees Mikhail holding a knife to Chloe's throat. Clark throws the last pass, superspeeds off the field, shoves Mikhail into a locker and cuts Chloe loose, fast enough to reappear back on the field in the same position without anybody even noticing. The pass is caught and the Crows win the State championship.

Clark gets back from the victory party after his curfew, but Jonathan and Martha let him off the hook. Jonathan acknowledges that it takes a lot of consideration for Clark to play with his abilities and they are proud of him. They tell him that Mikhail was arrested.

Chloe comes to congratulate him and tells him that she got the equipment from her Uncle Sam and remarks that her bonds were miraculously untied. Clark asks her about how she got sucked into the gambling scene anyway, and she just says everyone has weaknesses.

Lex takes Mikhail to the LuthorCorp Plaza and they ride the elevator to a secure floor. Mikhail says he has lost his ability, but Lex assures him that he is taking him to a place where it can be recovered and that Mikhail will not be alone. The elevator stops on Level 33.1.

At school, Clark asks Lana where Jason is because he's won a scholarship to Metropolis University and Clark wants to thank him. Lana is short with him and informs him that Jason was fired that morning. As she stalks away, Clark realizes that Lana thinks Clark is the one who revealed Lana and Jason's relationship. He goes to confront Lex, who initially claims their relationship was inappropriate. Clark is upset because the whole town is talking about Lana and doubts Lex did it for moral purposes. He questions Lex's motivation, but Lex doesn't answer.

### Spell

In France in 1604, three women, Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, Madelyn Hibbins, and Brianna Withridge, are about to be burned at the stake, after having been convicted of practicing witchcraft. The leader, Isobel, is approached by Magistrate Wilkins, and she asks him if he has come to enjoy his handiwork. He then strikes her across the face and tells her she may yet escape the pyre's flames if she tells him of the three stones of power. When she asks for her spellbook, she spits blood onto the marked page, directly onto an illustration that is identical to the tattoo on Lana Lang's back. She casts a Latin spell and a tattoo identical to Lana's appears on her back. As the three witches are burned, Isobel curses the crowd and vows to rise again, stating that the stones and vengeance will be hers.

In Smallville, Lana and Jason are sitting by the fire in her Talon apartment. She shows him a spellbook belonging to the Countess Thoreaux, saying she maxed out her credit card to buy it on eBay. When Lana touches the page stained with Isobel's blood, the fire roars up and her eyes shine violet as Isobel possesses her body. When Jason asks if Lana is all right, she says she's never been better.

Lois pulls up outside the Kent barn carrying boxes of party decorations. She informs Clark that the barn is the new venue for Chloe's upcoming surprise birthday party the next day. Clark objects, saying his parents are out of town and he has a representative from Princeton University coming to visit. Lois doesn't care and begins to unload the party goods.

Lois and Chloe show up at Lana's apartment, where they find her doing a strange chemistry experiment, making some sort of potion. Lois notices Lana's behavior and reminds her that it's her job to keep Chloe busy until the party. Lana/Isobel, preoccupied with her ingredient list, waves Lois off. The next ingredient on the list is "hair of two virgins." She takes a hair out of her own head, then one from Lois. Lois' turns out to be unacceptable, so when they leave, Lana heads out to find another virginal hair.

She walks into the Kent home to find Clark wrapping a large present. She offers to help him with it, then proceeds to try and kiss Clark. Confused, he backs away. Lana sidles up to him and, using the gift-wrapping shears, tries to cut a lock of his hair off. The scissors break and Clark asks what she's doing. She sputters that she needs a lock of his hair for a scrapbook she's making. Annoyed, Clark gives her some of his hair and she promptly leaves to get the next ingredient on her list.

At the Luthor mansion, Lana/Isobel observes Lex practicing his piano-playing. She asks Lex if he has any vintage wine, "for the party". Lex produces a bottle, but then Isobel notices the manuscript displayed in Lex's study. Angry, she casts a spell that makes it disappear, then freezes Lex in place. Explaining that the map wasn't meant for Lex, she releases him and casts a spell, bewitching Lex to play the piano forever.

Chloe and Lois find Lana/Isobel in the woods assembling her potion. Isobel convinces them to drink a toast. When they do, they are possessed by Isobel's fellow witches, Madelyn (Chloe) and Brianna (Lois). She explains that they will continue their quest to find the Stones of Power, but Madelyn and Brianna point out that this is the quest that got them killed in the first place. They convince Isobel to let them attend Chloe's party first.

At the Kent barn, a worried Clark tries to keep the wild party under control. When the three witches show up, they decide to liven up the party. They cast a spell and all the party goers, including Clark, are suddenly dancing in various states of undress. As scheduled, the Princeton representative comes to interview Clark and Clark makes a "great" first impression.

The day after, Clark awakens in the barn to the aftermath of the wild party. He realizes he blew his interview and goes to talk to Lex for help. He finds Lex, his fingers bloody, still playing the piano.

He breaks the spell by physically removing him from it. Lex tells him that Lana is the one who cast the spell, so Clark leaves to try and stop the three. He finds Lana/Isobel at her apartment, where he arrives just in time to catch Jason, whom Isobel has thrown out the window after he attempted to burn her spellbook upon realizing that she was now in possession of Lana's body.

Isobel leaves Clark a message to meet him at the barn. He meets the three witches, but at first had no clue that they were in fact witches. Mistaking Clark as being like everyone else despite his speed, Brianna strikes Clark with a large wheel using magical telekinesis; but quickly realized that his invulnerability made it so it had no effect on him. Isobel, surprised, but not frightened, notes that Clark is more than just quick. Using her own magical telekinesis, Madelyn tossed several tools at Clark, but he destroyed them with his heat vision. The witches then become disgruntled; now seeing Clark as a threat to their plans (though they see him as a sorcerer rather than an alien). Isobel tries to kill Clark with a death-based spell, but only succeeding in seriously wounding and stunning him. To ensure that he stays out of their way, the witches remove Clark's shirt and drain his abilities.

The three chain Clark to a post in the barn and try to pry more information of the stones out of him after realizing that he is connected to them and knows where one is hidden. After magically seducing the answer out of him, Isobel and her cohorts leave Clark chained up and depart for the Kawatche Caves. Jason finds and helps Clark escape and he goes after them. In the caves, Isobel tries to obtain the relic, but it glows and burns her hand.

Clark shows up and catches the relic before it hits the ground, restoring his powers. Before the witches can take his powers away once again, Clark burns the spellbook with his heat vision and all four teens are knocked unconscious from the explosion. Upon waking, everybody has been restored to normal. Lana, Chloe, and Lois are confused, but alright.

Clark has to explain the raucous barn party to his parents. He also remarks that magic is real and can truly hurt him. Lex goes to see Lana at her apartment at the Talon and explains to Lana that he was the one to get Jason fired, not Clark, saying he had only her best interest in mind. Lana comes to apologize to Clark as he is cleaning up the barn. She tells him the whole story of the Countess and shows him the tattoo. She asks Clark what it means and he lies that he doesn't know.

In the caves, Lex studies the cave drawing identical to Lana's tattoo.

### Bound

Lex is at a fundraiser in Metropolis when he spots a stunning woman across the room, listening to an mp3 player. He approaches her and asks her what she is listening to, and she offers him the headphones. They exchange a few words, and Lex takes her to a hotel room. The next morning, Lex is awakened to a hysterical screaming of the maid. Confused, he looks around and finds the woman's bloody body in the bed next to him.

Lex's lawyer Corrine Hartford tries to field the media frenzy while she questions Lex about the evening. Lex says he was drinking, but he can't remember anything about the woman except that she had a pink mp3 player. She and her assistant, Shannon Bell, depart just as Clark comes to visit. Clark asks Lex how he's doing. Lex is embarrassed and tells Clark that one-night stands never happen to him. He says he knows he didn't kill her and he thinks Lionel is framing him.

Lana is having a strange dream in which she witnesses the execution of Isobel Thoreaux. In the dream, a woman is yelling at Isobel angrily. The next morning, she sees a woman at the Talon that looks just like the woman in her dream, who introduces herself as Jason's mother, Genevieve. Lana is shaken but decides to sit down and chat. Genevieve says she hasn't spoken to Jason since he left Paris and says she misses him. Lana is reluctant to get in the middle of their issues, but agrees to tell Jason that Genevieve is in town. Genevieve says she noticed that Lana looked at her like she recognized her, and says that Lana is so beautiful, it's no wonder she and Jason were destined to be together.

Clark goes to the prison to ask Lionel if he is framing Lex and Lionel tells him that his liver has been healed since he woke up on the floor of the prison during a riot. He tells Clark that he felt an energy course through him that healed him. He says it has destroyed the destructive power always inside him, the same thing that is consuming Lex. He also believes Lex is being framed and wants to help. He tells Clark that Lex has patterns with women and to start the search for the woman's car. Clark agrees, but he tells Lionel that he still doesn't trust him.

At school, Clark tells Chloe that Lionel gave him the lead and he thinks he's found the woman's car, but hasn't been able to find her name or address. Chloe warns him not to get caught up in Lionel's games, and Lex has a great lawyer.

Clark is disappointed when Chloe reports that the paper found over a dozen women have had relationships with Lex over the past few years. They find the name and address, of Eve Andrews in Metropolis, and Clark speeds away. He finds Lex in the house burning a piece of paper. Lex is surprised to see him but when they hear sirens, he asks Clark to help. They go back to the mansion and Clark questions why he was there. Lex maintains that he went to find out who she was. He found out her name was Eve Andrews and she had been stalking him for some time. He tells Clark that there is a database of people who stalk him. He still thinks Lionel is responsible and Clark reveals that he visited Lionel. Lex guesses Lionel told him to find the car and tells Clark that he can't trust them both because he and Lionel are enemies.

Clark tells Chloe that he's starting to doubt Lex's innocence because he has lied twice. Chloe shows Clark security footage of Lex and Eve making out in the hotel elevator. She reveals that when they got on the elevator, she only had one earring on, but the police report says the body was wearing two. They surmise that she either found the earring or Lex was with two different women. They go to the elevator to reenact the scene and Chloe suggests the earring fell down the shaft. Clark telescopes his X-ray vision and finds it. He takes it to Lionel and asks him to help find the second woman. Lionel reveals that he too used to send his exes diamond earrings and tells Clark that the second woman is probably the killer and the diamond can be traced.

Corrine tells Lex that Eve was stalking him because he slept with her and never called her again, but gave her a pair of diamond earrings. She reveals that Lex also jilted her, and Lex realizes she is the one who compiled the stalker database. Corrine declares she can't be his lawyer and leaves. He later goes to her office after she summons him but when he gets there, he finds her dead. He calls 911 but finds the pink mp3 player on the desk, playing the same song from the night he met Eve. Shannon appears and asks Lex if he recognizes her. Lex is confused and Shannon knocks him out. She takes him back to his mansion and reveals that she cheated on her fiancé with Lex because she thought he loved her. She explains that she joined up with Eve, then murdered her, drugged Lex and put Eve's body in the bed next to him to make it look like he killed her.

Clark and Chloe trace the diamond purchase to Shannon Bell and he hurries away to warn Lex. Shannon has tied Lex up and is pouring a bottle of wine all over him and the floor, ranting about how Lex slept with her more than once, then didn't even recognize her at the party nor as Corrine's assistant. She says she's stopping him from doing it again and drops a candle on the floor. The alcohol ignites and the flames surround Lex just as Clark superspeeds into the room. He uses his jacket to blow out the fire. He knocks Shannon out and superspeeds away unseen.

Lana admits to Jason that she met his mother, and that she didn't want to get in the middle, but his mom seemed really worried. Jason thinks his mother is manipulative and ruthless. Lana tells him that she dreamed about Genevieve *before* she met her. Later, he meets Genevieve in her car and she mentions again how serendipitous it is that Lana is in his life. Jason asks if he met Lana by accident or not, and Genevieve just says of course he did. She kisses his cheek and departs as Jason looks confused.

Clark expresses to his parents his disappointment in Lex because of the way he treated those women. He also tells them he went to see Lionel and that Lionel's liver has healed, but Lionel thinks it's a miracle. He is convinced Lionel has changed. Jonathan says neither Lex nor Lionel will ever change.

Lex goes to the prison and says he no longer thinks Lionel is guilty of framing him, but wonders what he wants in return. Lionel says he simply wants to be Lex's father. Lex just says not to expect another miracle and leaves. Lex goes to visit Clark in his loft to thank him for helping. Lex seems quiet and guilty, but Clark is still upset and says it seems like Lex only cares about himself and wonders what else he doesn't know about Lex. Lex is resigned and says Shannon might have been crazy, but she was right about one thing—he ***did*** treat the women terribly. He says when he thought he was going to die, he was almost relieved that the world would be rid of him. He asks Clark not to give up on him yet.

### Scare

Lana shows up at Clark's loft wearing a red dress and heels and asks Clark for help because she believes Jason is lying to her. She then admits she shouldn't have given up on the two of them and they start making out. Jason then barges in and beats up Clark, knocking him out. Lana stabs Jason... and it is revealed that Jason is dreaming as he falls off the balcony at the Talon.

Jason is in a coma at the hospital and is deteriorating quickly. Chloe and Clark do some digging and discover that Jason had a job interview at LuthorCorp that morning. They go to the plant to investigate and split up. Clark runs into Lex. He questions what Jason was doing that morning. Lex is high-strung and short-tempered. He tells Clark that he himself didn't meet with Jason, declaring that he's doing everything he can to help him. He orders a security guard to escort Clark out of the building and storms off. Chloe is walking down a dark corridor when there is a sudden power failure. She finds a spooky basement room with a woman sitting in the middle, her back to the door, wearing a straitjacket. Th

e woman cryptically warns that Chloe can't escape-– none of the women in their family have. She tells Chloe that she is her mother; Chloe touches the woman's shoulder and is horrified to see a nightmarish version of herself. She finds herself bound in a straitjacket and begins screaming. It becomes clear Chloe is hallucinating as Clark and the security guard find her. Clark knocks out the guard and takes Chloe to the hospital.

At a lab within the facility, the reason for Lex's irritability is revealed. He is meeting with a team that was working on an experiment with meteor rocks and unconscious subjects. A bacteria became airborne and several of the workers are unconscious. Lex orders the project (contracted with the military) dismantled, even after the lead doctor, Dr. Ford, points out that the project is worth millions of dollars. Lex says it isn't worth people's deaths and tells him that Jason is infected as well. Dr. Ford confirms the bacteria is not contagious, it is only transmitted though inhalation. He is working on an antidote but it won't be ready for another five hours.

Clark tells his parents what he learned and Lana arrives at their house. She is upset and says she can't sit around watching her loved ones die.

At the prison, the warden reveals that Lionel's conviction has been overturned by a mysterious person in power and that he can go free. He chooses to remain in the prison as it's where he can "do the most good", but the warden says the prison is not a place where he could come and go as he pleases.

Checking weather patterns, Clark and Lana find the presence of a mysterious "cloud," originating over the lab and seeming to spread. As soon as Clark leaves, Lana is hallucinating that she is in a room with the dead bodies of her mother and father and her friends, and herself as a corpse warning that everyone will leave her. Lana starts screaming and Clark catches her as she faints. Dr. Ford comes up with an antidote but it contains elements of the bacteria. Lex takes responsibility and goes in to administer the antidote. It kills a patient but not before he indirectly rips Lex's suit, exposing him.

Lex goes to the hospital and finds out how far the infection has spread and reveals the nature of the disease. Clark arrives with an unconscious Lana. Then a series of explosions rock the hospital. Clark looks out the window as another meteor shower rains onto Smallville. A meteor bombards him with kryptonite. He tells Lana that he's from another planet and she is appalled. Disgusted by his true origins, Lana "kills" him with a shard of kryptonite... when Clark wakes back into reality, suddenly cured. Clark hurries home to find his parents have collapsed.

Clark then confronts Lex. Clark believes his blood may be the cure since he is the only survivor so far, but Dr. Ford points out that testing for the factors responsible will take too long. Lex states that their only hope is the new antidote, which is yet to heat to the proper temperature. Dr. Ford argues that the antidote is potentially lethal and needs to be tested before it's given to any victims. Clark secretly superheats the antidote while they are arguing, and the antidote is ready for testing hours ahead of schedule. Rather than risk testing it on someone else, Lex takes the serum himself. Lex begins hallucinating a future vision of himself as President launching nuclear missiles and destroying the world. However, the antidote is successful and he snaps out of it.

When Lionel leaves the prison, his mysterious benefactor is waiting in the car for him. It is revealed to be an old friend who at that point remains anonymous to the viewer. Lionel laughs and says he should have known.

With the toxin under control and everyone treated, Clark and his parents return to the farm and discuss things. He says that his hallucination has made him afraid to tell any of his close friends about his secret.

Jason is considering leaving Smallville since he doesn't like what he's becoming. Lana senses he is not telling her the full story, but Jason does not come clean.

Clark finds Chloe at the *Torch* office, very angry that the whole thing is being swept under the rug. He asks why she is so worked up and she admits her anxiety over her worse fear. She admits that she found her mother three months ago, in a mental institution with a hereditary psychiatric disease. She starts to cry and Clark tries to assure her that she isn't necessarily going to develop it too. Chloe stresses that she feels much less scared of having shared her secret with a friend. Because of dream-Lana's reaction, Clark is scared to reveal his secret to anyone. He is forced to renege on telling his own fear and does not take the opportunity to tell her his secret.

### Unsafe

At the Talon, Clark is sitting alone studying. When two girls invite him to a party, he politely declines. Martha asks him why he doesn't go and he mopes that it's not worth starting a relationship with someone he'll have to lie to. Martha sympathizes and assures him he'll find someone. At Belle Reve, Alicia Baker is being released by her doctor, William McBride. He proclaims her cured and releases her to her parents.

Alicia approaches Clark who is alone in his loft. He is very surprised to see her and assumes she escaped. However, she tells him she was cured and released and drove her parent's car to visit him. She shows him a lead bracelet that she must wear to prevent her from using her powers. He reminds her that she tried to kill both him and Lana Lang and she reminds him that she was sick, but is better now. She tells him that she kept his secret for over a year and the thought that someone different like her was out there was the only thing that gave her hope in the hospital. Clark enlists Chloe to make sure Alicia did indeed get released and they learn that her doctor proclaimed her cured. Against his parents' judgment, Clark asks Alicia on a romantic date.

On their date at the ice-skating rink, Clark and Alicia are having a great time until she spots her doctor lurking. She slips away from Clark to confront him. Dr. McBride tells Alicia to break up with Clark, claiming that her obsession with him in the first place was what caused her psychotic break. He indirectly threatens to put her back in Belle Reve if she doesn't stop seeing Clark. Alicia returns to Clark's side and begins to talk about running away to California, where nobody will know who she is or what she did. She begs Clark to come with her, but he is hesitant and a bit alarmed at her change in mood.

A newly released Lionel Luthor pays a visit to Lex. He explains that he has a new lease on life and wants to start charitable organizations to share his good fortune. Lex is unimpressed by Lionel's new cause. Lionel explains that he is trying to make the best of being penniless.

Alicia breaks into the *Torch* office and finds a red kryptonite class ring. She pries the gemstone out of the ring. Returning to Clark's barn, she tells him that she made him a necklace and wants to see him wear it before she goes. The necklace contains red kryptonite, and Kal takes over.

Lana goes to visit Jason at his school, but he is not happy to see her. He tells her that their relationship won't work because he doesn't think Lana is ready for "that kind of relationship." Lana is hurt and confused. Later, she goes to talk to Chloe about her relationship problems. She realizes that Jason wants to break up because he doesn't think she's ready for a sexual relationship and tells Chloe that she thinks that now she is. Chloe admits that she's surprised Jason and Lana haven't had sex yet, but tells Lana that she should make sure that Jason is worth remembering if she decides to sleep with him. Chloe also offers her own story—admitting that she lost her virginity the summer she worked on the *Daily Planet*. She says it wasn't special and she sometimes regrets losing it too soon. Later, Lana invites Jason over, saying she actually is ready for an intimate relationship and Jason confesses that that's not the reason he broke up with her. He tells her his theory on how he thinks his mother orchestrated their whole relationship.

In Clark's barn, Alicia and Kal are getting into a very heated moment when she asks him to slow down, because she's a virgin. Kal is not very interested in her trepidation, proclaiming, "That's great! So am I!" Eventually, he blurts that he wants Alicia to marry him and breaks her lead bracelet off. They teleport to Las Vegas and are married in a quickie ceremony. They rent a hotel suite to consummate their "marriage".

They chase each other around the hotel room while losing various articles of clothing. Making out on the bed, Alicia decides that she wants to be with "all of Clark" and takes his necklace off. Clark instantly goes back to normal and is horrified that Alicia "drugged" him to get him to do what she wanted. She says she was desperate to be with him and Clark realizes that she might not be better after all. They argue until Alicia teleports away.

Clark returns to Smallville and tries to find Alicia. Making calls in the barn, he is approached by Dr. McBride. McBride threatens to shoot Clark to get him out of the way and Alicia teleports in front of the bullet. With Alica falling to the ground Dr. McBride hurries to check on her but Clark super pushes him out of the barn. Alicia tells Clark she would keep his secret no matter what.

At the hospital, Clark and Alicia talk about what happened. She apologizes profusely, but he breaks up with her and leaves her lead bracelet, silently asking her to put it back on. Back at home, Clark has to face the music from his parents. Jonathan is too angry to talk to him, but a disappointed Martha gives him an unreasonable stern lecture about the sanctity of marriage, completely ignoring the fact that Clark was on Red K and keeps lecturing stays surprised of his actions even then. Clark tearfully confesses that Alicia makes him feel free to be himself. Still disappointed, Martha tells Clark that she wants him to use better judgment from now on. Alone in the barn, Clark gets one more visit from Alicia, who is back on her feet. She says she just wanted him to know that he made her a better person and that she is truly sorry. Clark is clearly still angry at her, but she says she loves him and turns to leave. Clark gives her one last hug as she cries in his arms and they get back together.

### Pariah

It's karaoke night at the Talon - Chloe and Lois are belting out their best version of Joan Jett's "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" when Clark comes in with Alicia Baker by his side. The music fades and the entire audience stares at Alicia with contempt. Disgusted, Lana gets up to leave while Jason stays to confront Clark and Alicia. He spits out that he can't believe that Clark brought her there. Clark tries to stand up for Alicia but she hurries away in tears.

Later that night, Lana is showering when an unknown presence glides through the keyhole of her door and tries to suffocate her with the shower curtain. Jason hears the commotion and breaks into the bathroom just in time to save her.

At the hospital, Jason tells Clark that Lana doesn't want to see him. Lois and Chloe point out that there's only one person in town who can enter and exit locked rooms unseen. Clark objects that she was wearing her special lead bracelet to subdue her powers, and that he was with Alicia at the time of the attack, so she couldn't be responsible. He tells the same version of events to Sheriff Adams the next morning. After the sheriff leaves, Martha and Jonathan again tell Clark that they disapprove of him dating Alicia. Upset, Clark maintains Alicia's innocence and reminds them that they taught him to look for the good in people.

At school the next day, Clark asks Chloe to help him see if others in Smallville have abilities similar to Alicia. Their conversation is interrupted when another classmate, Tim Westcott, approaches Chloe with an article he has written for the *Smallville Torch* about the opening of a historical exhibition. Tim notices Lois and asks her on a date. She reluctantly agrees. Clark then asks Tim if he saw anything that night at the Talon and he remarks that he saw a blond girl in the alley.

In his loft, Clark receives a visit from Alicia. He asks her if she was in the alley and she again tells him that she had nothing to do with Lana's attack. However, she admits that she was not wearing her bracelet, because giving up her powers was like being in prison. She asks Clark if he could ever give up his powers and he says he'd rather not have them than hurt anyone.

That night, Clark goes to the Talon to give his mom a ride home. Lana and Jason are there, but Jason is reluctant to go, even though he has homework. Clark and Martha convince Jason that they will watch over Lana. In his car about to leave, Jason is attacked from behind. A green scarf is pulled around his neck by an unknown assailant. He manages to hit the car horn until Clark comes out and saves him.

At the hospital, Lana has a run-in with Genevieve Teague. Genevieve laughs away Jason's theory that she orchestrated their "chance meeting." Genevieve then confronts Lex and asks him to hire Jason because she believes that it will separate him and Lana.

Clark asks Alicia why her scarf was in Jason's car and she again maintains her innocence. She realizes that he now thinks she's guilty, too, and states that if everybody knew about Clark's powers, he'd be a suspect, too. He urges her to come to the sheriff with him and explain everything, but she says she won't go unless he reveals his powers, too. Clark can't do it and Alicia teleports away. Clark takes the scarf to Sheriff Nancy Adams, but she reveals that Alicia is no longer a suspect because she herself was in an interrogation room with Alicia at the time Jason was attacked.

Alicia shows up at the *Torch* office, where Chloe is working late. She remarks that one of Chloe's closest friends is one of the so-called "meteor freaks" about whom she writes. Chloe asks why she should believe her and Alicia teleports them into her car. Driving dangerously fast, she calls Clark and tells him her car's brakes are failing. Instantly, Chloe and Alicia are teleported out of the car, out of sight, and Clark superspeeds to the scene. The car speeds into road construction, sending it flying through the air towards Clark. Chloe watches as Clark splays his hands out, catches the car sideways in midair, turns it right side up, and gently lowers it to the ground, only then noticing the car is empty. Confused, he superspeeds away. Chloe is left stunned speechless at witnessing a display of Clark's powers.

Lois's date with Tim turns from awkward to creepy when Tim offers his opinions of Lana and Jason's relationship. He states that a teacher dating a high-schooler is wrong and they got what they deserved. Lois is unsettled by this comment and leaves the date abruptly.

Lois meets Chloe in Talon and asks if she has seen Clark. But Chloe can't answer properly. Lois tells Chloe that she has suspicions about the murderer. She asks Chloe if she is all right and goes away to find Clark.

At her barn, Alicia encounters Tim, who boldly states that he's there looking for something belonging to her to leave at the next murder. She realizes that Tim is the one framing her, but is unable to get away before he drugs and overpowers her.

At the Luthor Mansion, Genevieve tries to persuade Lex to help separate Jason and Lana, saying that she could provide Lex with information about his father's release from prison.

Clark arrives at the barn looking for Alicia and finds her body hanging from a noose. He gets her down but she is already dead. Clark cradles Alicia's body as he cries in his grief. Lois appears and tells Clark that she knows who is responsible. Clark goes to confront Tim.

Clark finds Tim and, after an intense fight, defeats him by severely burning him with his heat vision. In a rage, Clark then attempts to strangle him. Lois shows up just in time and her pleading causes Clark to break down and halt his attack.

Jason meets Lex in his office and is surprised when Lex offers him a job paying $100,000 a year. Suspicious, Jason asks whether his mother put Lex up to it to end his relationship with Lana. Lex confirms this and suggest they work together against Genevieve.

Days later, Clark is in his loft, forlornly throwing a ball against a wall. His parents show up, worried that he's been in the loft by himself for two days straight. He tells them that he can't forgive himself for not going to reveal his powers when Alicia asked him to, and feels responsible for her death. Martha and Jonathan respond by trying to comfort him.

At the *Torch* office, Lois shows up and Chloe asks if she should tell a friend that she knows a secret the friend hasn't told her yet. Lois offers that if no one's being hurt by the secret, she should wait for the friend to tell her. Chloe begins to take down the articles about Clark that are posted on the Wall of Weird. Chloe meets Clark at Alicia's grave. She drops subtle hints that she understands his situation, but Clark is not ready to open up. She tells him that she is there for him if he ever needs to talk.

### Recruit

At Metropolis University, Lois is at a frat party competing in a drinking contest against football player, Coop. When another football player, Geoff Johns, tries to break it up due to upcoming physicals Coop continues and loses against Lois. After the party a drunken Coop attempts to make his move on Lois. Once he grabs a hold of her shoulder, Lois kicks him to ground and walks away. The following morning a hungover Lois, in her dorm, is woken up to the knocking of police officers at her door. Lois confirms the fact she knocked down Coop and is under arrest due to his paralysis.

At the Kent barn, Clark is preparing for his visit to Metropolis University. Jonathan does not feel Clark will be able to resist using his abilities in the pressured atmosphere of college football at Metropolis University. Geoff shows up to escort Clark to Metropolis University, after they stop by Smallville High, and encourage him that he will be a great football player there. Lois, out on bail, arrives at Smallville High to talk to Chloe about the incident. Lois plans to go back to Met U and Chloe decides to join too so she could visit the financial aid office. When Clark meets up with them, Chloe is surprised that Clark decides to take the football scholarship to Metropolis University having an unfair advantage. Clark, not knowing that Chloe knows about his abilities, tells her that being a great football player is what is bringing him to Metropolis University. Chloe doesn't want to let Clark know she knows his secret, so she glosses it over by saying that she doesn't understand football. Before the conversation can go any further, Geoff returns to bring Clark to Metropolis University.

Jason enters the Luthor Mansion and questions Lex Luthor's job offer. Jason does not like the fact that Lex was trying to break up his relation with Lana. Lex tells Jason that his true threat is his mother, Genevieve Teague. She has been researching about her ancestry which ties in with Lana and her being possessed by a former ancestor, Countess Margaret Isobel Thoreaux. Lex is trying to convince Jason that Genevieve may be the cause for the Countess's possession of Lana. Jason's assignment is to learn how much Genevieve and Lana know about the Countess. Jason, convinced, does not like the fact that he would have to spy on both his mother and his girlfriend about their ancestrally intimate bonds.

At the Hospital, Lois attempts to speak with a paralyzed Coop. Wanting to learn more about Coop, Chloe and Lois decide to look through his bouquets of flowers and get well cards. They figure they should meet his girlfriend, Monique, a sorority girl of Tri-Alpha.

Clark and Geoff enter the sorority house of the Tri-Alpha where a party has been thrown just for him. All the Sorority sisters run to the door to greet him and are willing to do anything to make him commit to Met U. Two of the girls bring Clark into a bedroom where they attempt to seduce Clark. An uneasy Clark tries to stall and hears a noise in the closet. He uses his X-ray vision on the closet and sees a person. He convinces the girls that he is both hungry and thirsty as he finds Lois in the closet. Clark questions Lois on why she is there, to learn that she is reading the diary of Coop's girlfriend Monique for clues. She discovers that Monique had suspicions that the football team has a secret. This resulted in Coop meeting with a reporter about it.

At the hospital, Coop is visited by Geoff as he sees Coop's paralysis is wearing off. Geoff suspects that when Coop regains consciousness, he will tell the world about his secret. So Geoff induces more paralysis and then smothers him.

At Met U, Lois and Clark are looking for Geoff at his dormitory. Geoff, teary eyed, informs them that the coach just called to inform them that Coop is dead. Lois, fearing that she will be locked up for sure, tells Geoff she knows that Coop wanted to go to the newspaper to reveal something. After some tension between Geoff and Lois, Geoff tells Clark that Lois has done enough damage already.

At the Talon apartment, Lana is furious that Jason accepted Lex's job offer. Jason tells her he would use this to get to know more about Lex, as well as for his and Lana's research on the Countess. Lana fears that taking this job would be Lex and Genevieve's way of breaking them up. Jason tells Lana to trust him and she decides to see Lex for herself.

At Met U, a wake is being held for Coop with Geoff giving a speech. Geoff begins drinking and tells Clark that being a Metropolis bulldog is a dream come true, but it also brings much pressure from everyone. Clark uses his super hearing when Geoff meets with a student, Marcus, outside of the room. He learns that Marcus has been paid to provide urine samples for physicals and witnesses Geoff momentarily paralyzing Marcus with his hands.

Chloe is filling out her financial aid form with Lois in the dorm as Clark comes in. He tells them that Geoff paralyzed Coop and that he passes his physicals using Marcus' urine sample. Clark realizes that Geoff must have the ability to paralyze other people with the touch of his hand. Concluding that he must be meteor-infected, Lois tells Clark that no one beyond the Smallville city limits would believe that the Metropolis football star has superhuman powers. Lois finds Marcus and obliquely asks him where she can find a clean urine sample. Marcus denies this and Geoff comes from behind. Lois attempts to leave, but is completely paralyzed by Geoff. He tells her that in high school, he played football fairly, but once he entered college, there was too much pressure to win. Now that Lois knows too much, Geoff decides to take matters into his own hands. He drags her into his truck as her sunglasses fall from her pocket and he drives away.

Chloe looks for Lois in the parking lot and sees Geoff's truck drive by. She finds Lois' shades now broken in her hands. Chloe races to find Clark and tells him what happened. Clark knows that if Geoff is in his truck there is a way to track him down due to the TripStar system. But in order to hack into the system from a computer, they need Geoff's pin. Clark impersonates Geoff on the phone and after discovering the truck's location, he super-speeds away, leaving Chloe alone in the room.

Down in the sewers, Geoff is carrying the paralyzed Lois in his hands and places her on the ground. He apologizes, saying he never meant to hurt anyone, and turns on the valve, slowly flooding the floor as he leaves Lois. Geoff heads towards his truck until Clark gets a hold of him. Geoff's paralysis ability is ineffective against Clark and Geoff confesses that his ambition to win is what led him to use his abilities out in the field. He lightly paralyzes any football players that come in his way. He had to resort to killing those that would expose him, beginning with Coop. He confesses where Lois is and Clark heads down the sewers. Lois is still fully paralyzed on the ground submerged in water losing consciousness. Clark incinerates the gate using his heat vision and lifts Lois from the water.

At the Kent Farm, Jonathan and Martha are speechless after discovering what Geoff the football star did. Clark reconsiders his football scholarship, not wanting to have to lie on every physical, and ultimately resort to using his abilities on the field like Geoff, where the stakes are much higher than in high school. Clark decides to give up football and with it, his full scholarship to Met U.

Lex meets Lana at the Talon apartment and tells her how Jason was brought up knowing about the Countess. This causes Lana to reevaluate how well she knows Jason.

Lois visits Clark at the Kent Farm to thank Clark for saving her. Lois ends up being cleared of all charges, but has been kicked out of Met U for drinking underage (and not for the first time). Lois guilts Clark into inviting her back to living with the Kents. At the school, Chloe meets Clark and lets him know that she was admitted to Met U too, so he wouldn't go there alone. Clark says that he refused the university. Chloe is at first surprised, but then she feels respect for Clark. She says he is destined to do a lot more in this world. Clark is surprised at these words, but Chloe clears herself, saying that it's just a hunch. At the Met U football stadium, Clark stands alone staring all around him at what could have been his... then slowly walks away.

### Krypto

A small town grocer is robbed by two dogs: a black rottweiler and a golden retriever. One attacks the grocer, with the force to dent a steel door, while the other opens a safe and takes the money out. It is revealed that the dogs answer to two teens, Zack and Josh Greenfield. They collect the rottweiler, Hercules, and the money. But the retriever, whom they call Einstein, runs away into the night.

After getting kicked out of college, Lois Lane is on her way to move back in with the Kents. She hits something in the road and gets out of the car, horrified to see a dog. It seems injured so she collects the dog and takes it to the farm.

The Kents wake in the middle of the night to see that the dog has snapped its chain, and broken into the house and the refrigerator. Lois tries to explain that she was going to take him to a vet, but he seemed fine. She chained him up as she moved her things, but when they inspect the barn, they see a wooden post completely shattered. Highly allergic to the dog, Lois goes back to bed, and Clark reasons that he will stay up and do his farm chores so he can use his powers without Lois seeing. The dog observes Clark's super speed as he repairs the post in the barn.

The next morning, Chloe brings Lois' mail to her, meets Clark and sees the dog. Clark explains how they got the dog. She asks about Lois and him. Clark complains he can't be himself with Lois. Chloe notes that he can be himself with the dog now and mentions she is also here. Chloe goes to find Lois and Clark ties the dog to a tractor, but the dog pulls it through the fence into the front yard. Clark realizes there is something different about the dog and uses his X-ray vision to locate an identification chip under its skin. Lois and Chloe come out from the house and see tractor and dog. Lois is very surprised, Chloe puts on a show she is surprised too but tries to protect a secret whatever it might be, and after that goes away. Clark tells Lois that they can probably get the chip scanned at the vet. So after arguing over what to call him, they take the dog to the vet. The Greenfield brothers are running the shelter and Lois notices that the dog growls at them and is reluctant to go with the brothers. They scan the tag and the owner comes up as LuthorCorp. Zack muses that it must be some kind of lab dog and offers to return it. Clark doesn't want to leave the dog there so he asks Lois to take it back to the farm while he goes to talk to Lex, but the brothers make him leave his name and number. Zack reports that Einstein has been found and is at the Kent Farm. Hercules is locked in a cage and Josh antagonizes it. The brothers talk about how Josh used to work in a LuthorCorp lab, and used a kryptonite injection to make super-dogs. They make plans to get their dog back.

Clark goes to question Lex about LuthorCorp's experiments on dogs. They have an uneasy conversation in which Lex says that his father had a number of unsuccessful side projects. One of them did indeed involve making super-strength dogs with meteor rock injections, but he had the dogs humanely destroyed. He asks Clark if his dog is acting unusually, indirectly saying that if so, it would be a liability for Lex. Clark says that the dog is perfectly normal. Back at the farm, Martha and Jonathan argue over whether Clark should keep the dog, especially after it cracks the dining room table in half. Cleaning up that night, Jonathan is attacked by the super-strong Rottweiler. The golden retriever saves Jonathan and the two dogs growl at each other until the Rottweiler hears its calling whistle. It runs away and the retriever chases it away but returns to the farm.

Clark meets his parents at the hospital and he and Martha realize the dogs were responsible for the attack on the grocer. Lois points out that the only people who knew the dog was at the farm were Lex and the brothers at the vet. Jonathan warns Clark that he probably shouldn't get too attached to the golden retriever because if it did indeed attack the grocer, it will have to be put down. This upsets Clark, who insists that the retriever is a good dog and just needs a chance. Lois and Clark go to investigate the vet's office where Clark finds a map and a schedule for LuthorCorp's payroll. He figures out that the brothers are going to rob an armored truck. He tries to distract Lois so he can superspeed and stop them, but she insists on driving them, slowly and carefully. Clark uses his super-hearing to locate the brothers.

They see the two brothers robbing a security truck with the dogs in their van subdued in cages with kryptonite liquid vials on top. Lois goes to help the security guards, and Clark climbs into the van to free the dogs. He opens the retriever's cage but as Einstein jumps out, the vials smash. He falls ill from the kryptonite and the van drives off with Clark and Hercules in the back. The boys stop eventually to switch cars and discover Clark in the back. Einstein has followed the truck. They lock Clark into a cage and prepare to blow up the whole truck, but the golden retriever jumps in and pulls Clark to safety. Clark knocks the brothers out and Einstein saves the other dog as well. However it is trapped by the flames so Clark jumps back in and despite the Kryptonite, is able to rescue the dog and superspeed out just as the truck blows up.

Clark takes the dog back home where the vet gives him a clean bill of health. Lex comes to collect the dog but Clark says it saved his life and he intends to keep him. Clark is delighted when Jonathan allows him to keep him and Martha suggests Clark name him Shelby, after a dog she owned as a child.

Meanwhile, Genevieve Teague questions Lex on his motivations for hiring Jason. She asked Lex to hire him to keep him away from Lana, but is sure Lex is using Jason to find the Stones of Power.

She asks Jason to leave with her, but he confronts her about her orchestration of his and Lana's relationship. Genevieve reveals that she knew of Lana's connection to Isobel Thoreaux and that their ancestors were responsible for burning Isobel at the stake. She goes on to reveal that Isobel vowed she would one day rise from the dead and kill all of Gertrude's heirs.

Lana sees them talking but when Jason doesn't offer any details of the conversation, she asks Chloe to research his ancestors. Chloe tells her that she could only go back as far as Genevieve's grandmother and the family comes from the French village of Castelnois de Montmiral. Lana reveals to Chloe that that is the same village her ancestors are from... as well as Isobel Thoreaux's. Chloe proceeds to tell her that Genevieve's grandmother is the one who moved Isobel's tomb into the church in Paris. Lana wonders why anyone would move a witch's tomb into a church, and Chloe says the only way to find out is to talk to Jason about it. Lionel warns Jason not to trust Lex and gives him a copy of the map on the manuscript.

### Sacred

Clark is pondering where to attend college when a messenger shows up with a package from Dr. Swann. Before he can open it, the TV news announces that Swann has died. Swann's message says that Clark must find his father to complete his "mission", and the package contains the octagonal key. Clark goes to the cave and when he puts the key in a slot, Jor-El speaks to him. He tells Clark about the three stones and warns him that if the humans unite them, then the world may very well be destroyed.

Jonathan and Clark are arguing about Jor-El and Martha tries to remind Clark that "ever since he got away from his Kryptonian destiny, they got the old Clark back". Clark protests, saying that even though it is good to be normal, the truth is that he is not normal. He believes all the trials with Jor-El in the past could have been a test to prepare him for his search for the stones.

Jason calls Lana and tells her that he's overseeing a project for Lex in Metropolis, but Lana is suspicious of where he really is when she hears an Asian dialect being spoken in the background and becomes even more suspicious when Jason tells her good night when it is clearly day in Kansas. Jason hangs up with Lana and is immediately called by Lex who reveals that he is standing right behind him and that he has followed Jason because he knows that Lionel gave him a map that leads to one of the three stones. Lana goes to the Luthor mansion and meets with Lionel, who informs her that Jason and Lex are actually in China looking for one of the stones. He then tells her that they have been seriously investigating Lana's long-dead relative Isobel, whose arch rival was a duchess by the name of Gertrude from whom Jason's family is directly descended. Gertrude was obsessed with finding the three mythical stones and sent many ships to scour the globe, but they all failed to find even one of the stones. The only clue about the stones that they were able to find was a map of a temple in China, which Isobel promptly stole before it could reach Gertrude. Because of Isobel's theft, Gertrude had her executed by burning her at the stake as a witch. Lana is upset that Jason lied to her and that he and Lex are working together behind her back, so she decides to go to China and confront them both. Clark goes to visit Lana and after she tells him about Jason and Lex, they both go off to China (without Clark telling his parents).

In Shanghai, the local police chase Lex and Jason, who end up getting arrested when they are cornered in an alley. Jason and Lex are tossed into a cell underneath the very temple that the map depicts and Lex is dragged away by the guards, leaving Jason alone. Meanwhile, Clark and Lana arrive in Shanghai where they meet up with Lionel's contact, Professor Sen, who then leads them to the temple using a copy of the map given to them by Lionel. Lex is thrown back into the cell and when Jason is hauled away to be interrogated, Lex tells him to just give up the information and save himself. Once Jason is gone, Lex turns to the guard and reminds him not to harm Jason when they interrogate him for the information, revealing that Lex had originally set up the arrest. However, the leader of the soldiers tells Lex that he cannot ensure the safety of either of them because someone else has paid him quite a lot more money for information that both Lex and Jason know and this someone has no qualms about using torture to get the information. Clark, Lana, and Professor Sen arrive at the temple and Clark spots a secret chamber behind a wall using his X-Ray vision. He has them leave the room to search elsewhere and then uses his super strength to roll back a wall and enter the chamber. He finds a ceremonial dress, a mask, and a dragon statue with green kryptonite eyes which causes Clark to fall to the floor as he is weakened by kryptonite.

Soldiers immediately burst into the temple, killing Professor Sen, but when one of them sees Lana's tattoo, they capture her instead of killing her. Meanwhile, the soldiers have been torturing Jason and Lex but so far they have been unwilling to divulge anything, so they bring in Lana and start shocking her in hopes that either Jason or Lex will give in to save her. However, much to the shock of the guards, the pain unleashes Isobel, who electrocutes them and breaks free. She mocks Jason and Lex for being so headstrong in their pursuit of the stones and tells them that they were looking at the map in the wrong way.

The soldiers return to the chamber and take the weakened Clark prisoner, but when they get him away from the kryptonite eyes of the statue, he regains his strength and breaks free, sending the soldiers flying to opposite walls of the room. When Clark goes to rescue Jason and Lex, Isobel knocks him out and goes back to the chamber where the dress, mask and statue are.

Clark wakes up, frees Lex and Jason, and then takes them to the hidden chamber. Upon seeing the statue, Jason figures out that the map is actually a drawing of the tree where the stone is buried. Isobel is already there and unearths a horse-statue holding the stone. When she breaks the statue to remove it, the stone gives off the noise in Clark's head so he super-speeds to where she is and takes the stone from her hand. Isobel knocks him away and puts the stone in her pocket before rushing back to the temple. Clark confronts her again and Isobel fights him with weapons that she has charged with magic capable of wounding him. Clark gets the stone away from her, but when they both reach to pick it up, they are blasted by Isobel's magic. The blast causes Lana to reemerge, but the stone has disappeared..

Back in Smallville, Clark and Lana talk about their experiences in Shanghai and how much the search for the stones have changed them both. Lex has a conversation with Lionel who claims ignorance about the soldiers who tortured him but he warns Lex that finding the stones won't ultimately help him gain peace and may not give him the answers he is looking for. Jason tries to reconcile with Lana who feels betrayed by his lack of trust in her, so Jason reveals that he took the stone for Lana because of how he important she is to him. Reluctantly, Clark has to tell his parents that he didn't recover the stone but he also tells them that Dr. Swann sent him one last email before he died. In the email, Dr Swann told Clark that he asked his associate Dr. Crosby to give Clark the stone that he had recovered from Lionel Luthor, but now Crosby has disappeared entirely along with the stone she had in her possession. Clark goes to the Kawatche Caves and stares at the Crystal of Fire still sitting in the slot. As he stands in front of the pedestal, Clark remembers Dr. Virgil Swann's last words before his death: "Kal-El, You must write your own destiny".

### Lucy

A young girl is skiing down a mountain in Switzerland. She is expertly eluding her male companions. At 3:00 AM in Smallville, Lois Lane (in Clark's bed) is awakened by her ringing cellular phone. She learns that her little sister Lucy is coming to visit her in two days while on break at boarding school. After attempting to cook breakfast (soggy pancakes and burned bacon), Lois reluctantly asks the Kents if Lucy can stay for a few days just as Lucy arrives.

Lana and Jason return from a jog when they realize her Talon apartment has been broken into, but the only thing stolen is the Crystal of Air. Lana convinces Jason to forget about the stone, saying whoever took it can keep it. She tells him that she's tired of their relationship revolving around the Stones and Jason agrees to drop the subject. However, later, Jason goes to the Luthor Mansion and accuses Lionel Luthor of stealing the stone. Jason is in the process of roughhousing Lionel when Lana walks into the room.

Much to Clark's annoyance, there are now two Lane girls to drive him crazy. However, he seems to get along with Lucy, since she flirts with him constantly. Lois hands Lucy off to Chloe to show her around because she's gotten a job at the Talon. After Lucy exits, Clark notices that Lois seems "grumpier than usual" and asks why she's not happy to see her sister. Lois explains to Clark that their relationship is strained because after her mother died, she became a mother figure for Lucy and never got to have a real childhood. Clark goes to the Talon with Lois. When Lucy and Chloe arrive, he introduces Lucy to Lex, but she already knows who he is. Chloe mentions that Lucy is a skilled violinist and Lex invites her to the Luthor Mansion to hear him play the piano. Clark notices a shadowy figure enter the Talon and stare intently at Lucy. It is one of the men who were chasing her in Switzerland. Clark asks Lucy who he is, but when she turns to see, he's gone.

That night, Clark (on the sofa) awakens to see Lucy slip out of the house. He follows her to the Talon and catches her stealing money out of the cash register. When he questions her, she confesses that she got in with the wrong crowd and owes a loan shark in Europe fifty thousand dollars. She complains about how she's different from all her friends and needs money to fit in. Clark feels sympathetic and tells her that he wants to help her solve the problem. He asks Chloe for help and she learns the identity of the loan shark: Marcus Becker. They tell Lois about the situation and Lois and Clark go to the Luthor Mansion, where Lucy is demonstrating her violin skills for Lex. Lucy is angry at Clark for telling and insists that she can handle the situation herself. She and Lois argue about Lucy's actions until Lex defuses the situation and gets between the sisters. Clark explains the truth and Lex agrees to help Lucy with the money, but only because Marcus Becker is one of Lex's old business adversaries.

Lucy sets up the transaction and tells Lex that only she can deliver the money to an abandoned warehouse. Lex objects and insists on handing off the money. Lex, Lois, and Lucy all pile into one of Lex's sports cars to make the exchange. However, they get pulled over and when the police officer insists Lex get out of the car, he is revealed to be Marcus Becker. He pistol-whips Lex after he hands over the cash. Lois tries to defend him and he turns the gun on her. Becker forces Lucy and Lois into Lex's car, leaving Lex on the pavement.

Clark super speeds to the warehouse to discover the exchange was staged. He realizes that Lucy was lying all along and locates Lex. At the same time, Lucy and Lois (and Lex's car) are in the back of an 18-wheeler being driven by Becker. During an exchange with him, Lois notices that Lucy is on very friendly terms with him and also realizes Lucy staged the whole thing. Lois is angry and hurt over Lucy's choices and they have an intense argument over their fractured childhoods. Lois thinks Lucy is throwing away a promising future but Lucy resents Lois because she got their father's attention. Back at the mansion, Clark and Lex try to decide what to do. When Becker calls demanding ransom, Clark super-hears the name of the road on which they are traveling and goes to apprehend Becker. He waits on an overpass and jumps onto the top of the truck. Getting inside the cab, he knocks Becker unconscious and pulls the truck over to safety. When Lex and the police arrive shortly afterward, Clark zips away unseen.

Lex attempts to have Lucy turned over to authorities, but she escapes in his car. Lex goes to the Kent Farm to inform Clark that they later found the car, but not the money, and Lucy is nowhere to be found. Clark feels bad that Lois and Lucy's relationship is so damaged and says he wishes they got along. He and Lex talk about siblings, and Lex tells Clark that he sees him as a brother. Later, at school, Clark tells Chloe that Lois is taking Lucy's disappearance hard. Chloe confirms that Lucy's betrayal would be extremely upsetting because Lois has always been fiercely protective of her. Back at the Luthor Mansion, Lionel tells Lex that Jason accused him of stealing the stone. Lionel thinks Lex stole it but Lex is shocked that Jason had the stone in the first place. It is revealed that Lana is the one who "stole" the Stone.

Later, Clark finds Lois in the loft, using Clark's telescope. Lois opens up to Clark, saying she had to tell her father the whole story and he predictably blamed her for Lucy's behavior. Clark assures her that she *is* a good big sister, and maybe Lucy isn't all bad. They admit to being friends and Lois playfully punches Clark on the arm and leaves. Clark then looks up at the sky through the telescope, revealing that his vision is certainly more powerful than humans as he sees details Lois does not; he watches as two stars collide with each other.

### Onyx

Lex and Dr. Sinclair are inside a LuthorCorp lab about to undergo an experiment involving green kryptonite. In the experiment, the kryptonite must be super-heated. Unaware of the risk, Lex and Sinclair go ahead, but begin to worry when the kryptonite exceeds its target temperature. After an alarm sounds, Lex shoves Dr. Sinclair out of the way while he is caught in a burst of energy emitted from the kryptonite, which has transformed to black kryptonite. This produces an effect where Lex is split in two - one of which is his darker alter ego. Shortly after falling to the floor, Lex - unaware of his split self - helps up the scientist and brings him to the hospital. Watching the two make off is the evil Lex who is just realizing what has happened.

Clark and Chloe go to visit Lex (Alexander) in the hospital and begin to ask what happened. Alexander says that he'll take Clark to the lab and show him what he was doing. Clark accepts, but Chloe says that she'll stay behind to ask the scientist a few questions.

Before Dr. Sinclair is visited by Chloe, Lex visits him and tells him what happened and asks if there's a way to reverse the process. After the scientist asks for his notes back from the lab, Lex puts air into his IV tube, thus killing the scientist. Lex then exits the room to find Chloe who wonders why Lex is there rather than at the lab with Clark. She asks if she can see the scientist. However, Lex says that he's sleeping and she has to come back later. Lex then walks away when a code blue is alarmed for the scientist's room and Chloe realizes that the scientist is dead.

At the LuthorCorp lab, the good Lex shows Clark around and explains that he has been conducting experiments with plants, trying to get them to grow in the most harsh environments. He gives Clark an apple, but it tastes rotten. Lex explains that even if the plants grow anywhere, they don't retain their usual taste. Then Lex opens a locker containing kryptonite samples and Clark excuses himself, blaming the apple for his nausea attack. In the background, Alexander has overheard the whole conversation.

Later at the Luthor Mansion, Lex is visited by his father, who is arranging a charity fund raiser. Lex agrees to come to the fund raiser, on the condition it's held in the LuthorCorp Plaza. Lionel is surprised by Lex's newfound generosity. When Lionel leaves, Alexander walks in and knocks Lex unconscious. Then he brings him to the cellar, and imprisons him there. He explains he does not know what might happen if he killed him.

At the *Torch*, Chloe informs Clark that the scientist died at the hospital. They realize that Lex was at the lab and in the hospital at the same time. Chloe then retrieves a surveillance movie from the hospital security system, showing Lex being in two places at once.

Lex goes to Lana's apartment. He tells her she deserves better than Jason. He then kisses her and tells her she can be his queen. Lana slaps him and orders him out. Lex then tells her that he's going to close the Talon.

At the mansion, Lex is practicing fencing. Lionel comes into the room. He asks him how he could invite him to the LuthorCorp Plaza and then cancel the thing behind his back. Lex then quotes Lionel back to him: "Because helping those who refuse to help themselves is a waste of time, and money, son!" He challenges Lionel to a round of fencing, and attacks him with his rapier while taunting him, trying to get the old Lionel back. After a while, Lionel reverts to his old self and overpowers him. Lex walks out of the room, happy to see his father revert to darkness.

Clark walks in on evil Lex, who tricks him into thinking he is the good Lex by talking about their trip to the lab. Clark explains about the split. Lex acts surprised and tricks Clark and Chloe into the lab. Once there, he drops a large block of concrete on top of them. Clark protects Chloe from the falling debris and brings her to the house, while Lex watches. At the house, Clark tries to get Chloe to the hospital but she convince him that she is fine. Chloe questions how they were able to survive, but Clark refuses to come clean.

In the barn, Clark encounters Lex, who tries to coerce him into joining him so they can rule the world together. Clark declines and grips his throat. Lex puts on a kryptonite ring and tells Clark that he knows his weakness. Martha and Jonathan come in and Lex shoots Jonathan in the leg and departs.

After taking Jonathan to the hospital, Clark goes to the mansion searching for good Lex. Using his super hearing, he hears his moans and super speeds to free him from the wine cellar. However, evil Lex expects that and overpowers Clark using his kryptonite ring. Lex and Alexander fight until Clark uses his heat vision to turn the evil Lex's kryptonite ring into black kryptonite, fusing the two Lexes together.

After the incident, Lex doesn't remember anything from the Alexander's memories - including Clark's secret. Lex apologizes to Clark and Lana. When he comes back to the mansion, Lex finds Lionel to be his old self. Lionel says he has seen the error of his ways and that he'll close the charity foundation immediately. Lex protests, but Lionel replies, "A man can't deny his true nature. We're Luthors... we're Luthors". With the cryptic and dark smile on Lex's face after Lionel's statement, it's revealed that Lex's dark side isn't as hidden as Clark thinks.

### Spirit

It's Smallville High School's Senior Prom and Lifehouse is performing their song, "Come Back Down". The crowd is dancing and the night is perfect for everyone in the Class of 2005, except for Chloe Sullivan. Chloe is seen breaking a fire axe out of its glass case, striking Jonathan Kent in the stairwell, and busting open an oil line in the boiler room of the school. She is wearing a formal dress and tiara with her makeup running down her face. She opens the furnace and prepares to burn the school down.

**One day earlier**

Lana is discussing Chloe's scathing article in the *Smallville Torch* in which Chloe has denounced the idea of electing a prom queen, saying it is just a popularity contest. Lana thinks Chloe is skipping the prom with her, but Chloe is surprised that Lana isn't going. Lana says she would rather not show up with Jason since he was fired for dating her, and Chloe asks her to go stag with her. While they are talking, Dawn Stiles marches up to confront Chloe, mad about the article. Dawn is fiercely popular and is the front-runner to win the crown. Chloe isn't intimidated and sarcastically remarks that Dawn will win anyway. But to Chloe's surprise, apparently she has been nominated too.

Lex and his security are on the grounds of the Luthor Mansion. A body has been found partially buried. Jason appears just as a guard announces the body's identity — that of Bridgette Crosby. Jason knows she worked with Dr. Swann and starts to ask questions, but Lex orders him off the grounds.

Clark is waiting for Chloe in the *Torch* office, also amused that she has been nominated. She doesn't understand how it happened until Clark says that she's leading the way for breaking out of the mold. She gets him to admit that he has lobbied her nomination and asks who he's taking to the prom. Clark mumbles that he probably won't go. She is disappointed but also annoyed. She says high school is about to end and they're all stuck in a rut, but she's willing to go on stage in a sash while Clark (and Lana) sit at home thinking about what could have been.

Dawn and her buddies are discussing prom preparation at the Talon when she spots her boyfriend Billy Durden talking to another girl. Dawn acts obnoxious and bossy and Billy surprises her (and upsets her) by openly dumping her. She says it doesn't matter, she'll just get a new prom king. Driving home, Dawn is busy looking at the yearbook for potential dates instead of paying attention to the road. She sets her sights on Clark, but the car crashes through the guardrail into Carlton Gorge, revealed to be full of meteor rocks. Night falls and Dawn stumbles onto the road. She flags down an upcoming vehicle, driven by Martha Kent. However, Martha's truck goes straight through Dawn, who is actually a disembodied spirit. A purple mist swirls and Martha stops the car abruptly. Dawn's spirit has been transferred into Martha's body.

Clark arrives home that night to find his mother dancing to loud pop music, eating ice cream right out of the carton and acting strange and ditzy. "Martha" asks him if he has a date for the prom and Clark reminds her that he's not going. "Martha" gets upset, saying prom is too important to miss and insists he go with her. Clark is confused, since Martha is already going with Jonathan. Just then, Lois comes downstairs and "Martha" jealously accuses Clark of going with Lois instead. Lois and Clark are appalled at the idea, and Lois thinks Martha is drunk. "Martha" stomps off and Clark offers to drive her to work, but she turns him down and leaves.

"Martha" arrives at the Talon just as Lana comes out of her apartment. "Martha" asks her why she isn't on the decorating committee and when Lana says she's not going, "Martha" says rude things about how Lana thinks she is above it all. Lana gets upset and turns to go. "Martha" grabs her shoulder and Dawn's spirit jumps from her to Lana. Pleased with her new form, "Lana" leaves, runs into Clark on the way out and asks him to prom. Clark is skeptical at first, but quickly agrees to go. "Lana" leaves to help decorate and a confused Martha tells Clark she doesn't remember how she got there.

"Lana" arrives at the school and orders the volunteers around. She sees Billy and asks him about his breakup. He says he's glad Dawn isn't around and "Lana" gets upset momentarily, then flirts with him. She tells him to get cleaned up and she will meet him later. Clark arrives at the school shortly afterward and asks Chloe if she's seen Lana. He tells Chloe about how his mom, then Lana, started acting strange. "Lana" takes a frayed electrical cord and holds it up to the metal lockers in the room. Billy is wet from the shower, standing at the other end, and starts to convulse from electrocution.

Clark superspeeds into the locker room. He knocks Billy out of the charge and sees Lana leaving. He goes to approach her, but Dawn's spirit jumps to another student, then another, until she is in the body of her friend Harmony. Lana is left confused as to how she even got to the school, or why she would want to hurt Billy. Chloe and Lana realize that Billy dumped Dawn and trace the strange behavior to Martha's last memory — driving near Carlton Gorge. Chloe says Dawn is in a deep coma at Smallville Medical Center and they guess that she is transferring her spirit.

They go to the hospital to check in with Clark, who is there with Billy, and get an update on Dawn. "Harmony" shows up and sneaks into Dawn's room. Lana feels guilty for whatever she did as Dawn, and Clark admits to her that she asked him to prom. They both agree that since she wasn't herself, she didn't really mean it. A nurse catches "Harmony" in Dawn's room and shortly afterward, she comes out to report that Dawn has died, secretly revealing that she is responsible for the death. Lois is also at the hospital trying to get treatment for her dog allergies, and the same nurse approaches her and offers to help.

Jonathan and Martha are preparing to go chaperone the prom and they tell Clark they hope he doesn't regret missing it. Martha correctly guesses that Clark isn't going because he can't go with Lana. She says she rented him a tux "just in case." Just as they leave, "Lois" shows up in a revealing pink gown and announces that Clark is taking her to the prom whether he likes it or not.

Jason is hacking into Lex's email and finds a message that says he had a meeting with Ms. Crosby the same day her body was found. Lex catches him and Jason also asks him about an artifact mentioned in the email. When Lex won't answer his questions, Jason threatens to tell the authorities that a body was found but Lex seems unconcerned. Jason shows Sheriff Adams the spot where Crosby's body was found, but not only has the spot disappeared and been replaced by a gazebo, but Sheriff Adams announces that no database has a record that anybody by the name of Bridgette Crosby even existed. She is impatient with Jason's claims and Jason is frustrated that Lex has covered the whole thing up, but when she drives away, he makes a phone call to his mother and reports that everything went as planned — Lex took care of the body and he has the artifact from Bridgette.

Clark and "Lois" arrive at the prom. Chloe approaches Clark and says she's surprised but glad to see him. He says that he decided to come because he wanted to see her win. The music stops for the announcement of Prom Queen and Chloe wins! "Lois" hugs her before she goes to accept the tiara and Dawn's spirit possesses Chloe. Going unnoticed by most viewers, the Prom King title was never mentioned. Now normal, Lois asks Clark why she's there and Clark realizes that Chloe has been possessed. "Chloe" accepts her crown and begins a strange speech in which she enthusiastically talks about how being Prom Queen is her lifelong dream and how Dawn Stiles really deserves the crown. The crowd begins to boo and chant Chloe's name. "Chloe" gets angry and storms off. She is again seen pushing Jonathan down as she makes her way to the boiler room to set the school on fire.

Clark finds Jonathan and explains what's going on. Clark prevents "Chloe" from starting the fire, addresses Dawn and tells her to let Chloe go. She grabs him instead and transfers her spirit into Clark's body. Chloe is restored to normal, while "Clark" plucks the tiara off her head and hits her across the room. Jonathan arrives and uses a chunk of meteor rock to incapacitate "Clark" and force Dawn's spirit out. Chloe seems knocked out, but is semi-conscious and sees the entire exchange. Clark helps her up and gives her back her crown.

They go back to the prom and Lois has figured out what happened. Clark offers her a dance but Lois turns him down because she knew that Clark really wanted to dance with Lana. Clark and Lana share a dance while Chloe looks on. She admits to Lois that it still hurts that Clark abandoned her at the Spring Formal when they were freshmen, but Lois tells her that Chloe is headed for bigger and better things than Clark. As Clark and Lana continue to dance, Jason arrives and sees them together. He leaves angrily, unseen.

### Blank

During morning coffee rush at the Talon, Lois is working when Kevin Grady steals a muffin and a handful of cash out of the cash register. He blasts her with a green flash of light. Instantly, Lois has forgotten the incident and Kevin strolls away casually. Clark and Chloe walk in - they are discussing Clark's possible acceptance to the University of Miami. Clark says he feels guilty for leaving his parents to run the farm alone and Chloe vaguely remarks that it will be hard to replace him, given his "skills". Before Clark can reply, she changes the subject by giving Lois her order. Lois announces they've been robbed.

Clark notices the back door swinging and goes into the alley to try and catch the thief. He stops Kevin's car just as he is about to drive away, and Kevin blasts Clark with a green flash of light. He is knocked back and, in a flash, Clark's memories zoom past. Chloe finds Clark in a daze and when she asks if he's all right, he merely says, "Who's Clark?"

Chloe takes Clark home, where he stares confused at the house he has grown up, and accidentally tears up the locked door. Lois is home and she tells Chloe that Jonathan and Martha are in Metropolis for a cardiologist's appointment and won't be back today. Chloe and Lois realize that the boy who robbed the Talon probably also wiped Clark's memory. Chloe decides to go to the *Torch'* office to see if she can find out what's causing Clark's amnesia, but then realizes that Clark would probably reveal his secret if left alone, so she takes him to his loft.

Jason gets upset with Lana when she announces that she is no longer going to enroll at CKU with him and that she's probably not going to college at all. She also states that their relationship has changed outside of Paris. Angry, Jason yells that he has done so much to protect her.

Chloe explains Clark's own powers to him by telling him her theory: that he was affected by the meteor shower and has super powers. She tells him that he's saved many lives, including herself several times, and has self-appointed himself Smallville's hero. Clark says he and Chloe must have been close friends for him to have trusted Chloe with such a secret and she reluctantly admits that he didn't. But even without his memory, Clark knows that Chloe wouldn't betray him.

She takes him back to the Talon, where he uses his X-ray vision to find a card under a floor mat and Chloe is slightly disturbed by this new ability. He muses why he just doesn't tell everybody what he can do and says he doesn't want to go back to a life of lying to everyone and not being himself. Chloe asks him to please reconsider "coming out", at least until his parents get back. Just then, Lana exits her apartment and Clark falls in love with her all over again, setting a lamp on fire with his heat vision, and Chloe hurriedly puts it out. Staring at Lana in wonder, he breathlessly asking who she is and Chloe sadly informs him that Lana Lang is the love of his life. That night, Lois goes to visit Clark in his loft, who is looking at pictures of Lana and studying drawings of the caves, and he correctly guesses that they don't get along.

The next day at school, Clark approaches Lana and asks her what happened to their relationship. She says she doesn't know and Clark sadly realizes it was something he did. Clark says that this time will be different. Lana is uncomfortable with his implication, but they agree to meet later to talk about it. Lois and Chloe track him down and inform him that they found out who the card belonged to: a boy named Kevin Grady.

At the Grady residence, Kevin is packing his bag when his father finds him. Kevin explains that wherever he was, they turned him into a freak and he knows that he can't stay because of what he did, so he is leaving for good. He zaps his father's memory and leaves. When Clark, Lois, and Chloe show up, Dr. Grady admits that Kevin was at the Summerholt Institute for memory treatment. He told them that Kevin had accidentally killed his brother Dillon while hunting, and that he was trying to get the tragedy erased from Kevin's memory.

They go to visit Lex, who also had memory treatment at Summerholt. Lex gets Clark alone, but Chloe is worried and whispers to Clark to be careful and he hears her just as Lex starts to ask about the Kawatche Caves. They go to the caves and Clark begins to explain the secret area. Lex heavily suggests that Clark show him the drawings. Remembering Chloe's warning, Clark avoids it by saying he needs to get back home.

Chloe sneaks into the Summerholt Institute and finds video files of Kevin's treatment. Just after she emails them to the *Torch*, a hand grabs her from behind. Clark goes to the *Torch* to find her, but only Lois is there, viewing the videos which showed that Kevin did not kill his brother, but someone let him believe he did. He leaves to find Kevin and tell him the truth.

He finds him in the woods where his brother died. Kevin seems a bit guilty that *all* of Clark's memories are gone. Clark encourages Kevin to remember what really happened. Emotional, Kevin realizes that it was his father that shot his brother, not him. Near tears, he asks Clark why he's helping him and wishes he could return the favor. The two decide to break into Summerholt to see if they can find a cure for Clark's amnesia.

Lois and Sheriff Adams are already there, since Lois can't get in touch with Chloe. Chloe is strapped down, begging to be let go and promising not to tell anybody what really happened. Dr. Grady is ready to wipe her memory clean. Clark and Kevin break into the buildung through a trap door and come into a room filled with jars of kryptonite. Clark is incapacitated for a time and tells Kevin to go on without him.

Kevin finds Chloe and confronts his father. Dr. Grady knocks him out and begins the treatment on Chloe. As a beam of energy is fired at her, Clark arrives and gets between it and Chloe. Another beam knocks out Mr. Grady. Clark's memory is restored, but the machine is overloaded and starts to collapse. Lois and Sheriff Adams arrive just in time to see Clark catch and toss away two large electrical columns before they crush Chloe. Kevin wakes up just then and blasts all three women. Lois and Sheriff Adams forget what they saw and Chloe forgets the treatment. Clark says to Kevin he owned him a favour, but Kevin tells him they were even and disappears. Dr. Grady is taken into custody by the police.

Lex visits Clark at the farm, but with his memory restored, he doesn't give him any new information, only that he can't remember anything that happened in the past 24 hours. Lex lies that he just wanted to share his own amnesia experience. They act friendly, but Clark seems suspicious of Lex's motives and Lex seems disappointed that Clark's memory is restored. He leaves and it is revealed that he stole one of Clark's cave map drawings from his loft. Lana arrives and Clark doesn't understand why she's there. She vaguely alludes to the possibility that they had "date-kind-of-plans", but seems embarrassed and leaves. Clark calls her back and repeats that "this time will be different".

Clark goes to see Chloe and thanks her for looking after him. She says she never realized how complicated his life was. Clark looks worried, asking if he did anything unusual. He even pleads with her to be completely honest. Chloe simply says he only did one thing different - he trusted her. She leaves him to think about that.

### Ageless

A young man and a pregnant woman are in a car, trying to call 911. Suddenly, the woman screams and her abdomen begins to glow. The man drives the car off the road, then apologizes as he makes a hasty exit. The car explodes in a burst of light, startling Clark and Lana, who are driving by. They go to investigate and find a crater where the car was, along with a crying baby. Clark and Lana take the baby to the hospital, where Sheriff Adams questions them. Clark suspects that the baby might have arrived on Earth the same way he did, so when the Sheriff states that Child Services doesn't have room for the baby yet, Clark gets his parents to agree to bring the baby home.

Genevieve Teague visits Lionel Luthor, intending to collect on his debt he owes her for getting him out of prison. She wants the Crystal of Air, but Lionel maintains that neither he nor Lex have it and suggests that Jason does. Genevieve suggests something might come to harm Lex if Lionel doesn't produce the stone. Lionel asks Lex about the Stone and reveals that Genevieve had Bridgette Crosby killed.

At school the next day, Clark asks Chloe to track down the 911 call. Clark and Lana babysit the baby, who they have decided to name Evan, since they found him in Evan's Field. Clark is very good at taking care of the baby, but he then decides that he probably shouldn't get too attached just in case the father is still around. Lana reasons that the father abandoned the baby and he is an orphan, like them. Just then, the lights flicker and Evan ages from an infant to age seven instantly. Clark and his parents talk about what to do next while Lana watches Evan in the loft. Evan already knows how to talk and read, and appears to be brighter than most seven-year-olds. He tells Lana that he read the encyclopedia all the way to the letter "W" and says he wants to see a real windmill one day.

They decide to take him to Lex's lab at LuthorCorp and after an evaluation, Lex's doctors determine that Evan is storing energy at a high rate and expels it in one large burst, causing him to grow alarmingly quickly. Lex suggests a bone marrow transplant might slow the energy storage, but he needs a match from a biological parent. On the examination table, Evan grows again, to about age 16, dispersing energy and wrecking the lab. He begs Clark and Lana to take him home. Evan quickly realizes that he will not live very long if he continues to grow at such an accelerated pace and Clark and Lana unsuccessfully try to quell his fears.

Clark leaves Evan with Lana to try to track down his father. Chloe traced the 911 call to a Smallville High student, Karen Gallagher, who used to short out computer monitors. Apparently, she went to a party one week before and hooked up with a boy. Chloe uses an online invitation to track down Evan's father. Clark goes to the garage where the father, Tanner Sutherland, works as a mechanic. He confronts him and lectures him on responsibility. Tanner denies having a son and tells Clark about how Karen claimed the baby was his after a one-week pregnancy. He is also not interested in helping Evan.

Clark returns and admits to Evan that he found his father. Evan is devastated that his father doesn't want anything to do with him and runs away. Lex reveals that the next time Evan grows, he will release enough energy to kill everybody around him, including himself. Lex wants to confine Evan to minimize the damage he will cause. Evan goes to Tanner's garage and the two argue. In the scuffle, Tanner accidentally falls back onto a mechanic's tool and is killed and Evan runs away in horror.

Lex and Clark find Tanner's body and sadly realize that Evan has no donor now. Evan shows up back at the Kent Farm and confesses to Lana that he's done something awful. He is also starting to feel pain as his next energy release nears. He begs Lana to take him to see the windmill at Chandler's Field. Clark learns from Chloe that power losses are occurring in a string around Smallville. They trace them to the windmill, where Lana and Evan are standing high above the field. Clark urges Lana to climb down, as Evan doubles over in pain. Clark climbs up to be with Evan as he rapidly ages. Evan tells Clark that he is glad it was he and Lana that found him, with Clark replying that it was Evan who found them. Clark shields the blast with his body as Evan expels one more burst of energy, killing himself and destroying the windmill.

After Evan's death, Lana and Clark talk about how she felt like she had a purpose while caring for him. When Lana showed Evan's favourite book to Clark, he told her it was his favourite childhood book also and how he used to imagine himself as the rabbit in the story.

Lionel pays Genevieve a visit and pours her a glass of wine. When she starts choking and collapses, Lionel reveals that he has poisoned her wine and dangles the antidote in her face. He tells her that if she ever threatens him or his family again, there will be dire consequences. He also forces the location of the Crystal of Water out of her.

Clark's parents talk to him and he shares his fears that since he is not even human, he won't ever know what it's like to be a father. Martha and Jonathan point out that they are parents even though they couldn't have children and Clark looks thoughtful.

Clark goes to the Lex's Mansion to thank him for settling up thing with Child Services by claiming that Evan has died of pneumonia. Lex assures Clark that Evan's death will not have been in vain, as the research acquired from Evan's aging process could eventually advance studies on cancer and other diseases by hundreds of years. He tells Clark he'd be releasing the findings to help future generations. Clark wondered what kind of a man would Evan have been as a man and both started talking on how much of a capable parents would they be. After Clark's departure a man working for Lex asked him if he's seriously intending to release the findings acquired from Evan to the public. He replies with an "eventually" implying he would not be releasing the findings.

### Forever

Chloe is preparing the last issue of the *Smallville Torch,* and signs her photographer Brendan Nash's yearbook. Puzzled by the lack of people outside, she goes out into the hallway and finds the place deserted. Going into the locker room, she finds a petrified girl seemingly frozen in wax. All of the doors are locked, the phones are dead, and the windows has walls outside them – she's apparently in an abandoned factory.

The Kents are unhappy that Clark plans on going to CKU and staying nearby so he can help out on the farm. Meanwhile, Chloe is desperately trying to get outside Internet access and finds two students who claim they are "playing along". She meets Brendan, who clearly knows what's going on and doesn't want high school to end. When she wonders how he can keep them there, he petrifies one student the same way as the one earlier.

At the real Smallville High, Clark and Lana are discussing graduation and their plans – Clark reveals he's going to Central Kansas. Lana is happy about this, since she has decided to stay in Smallville. Clark and Lana are then fairly surprised when he discovers that Chloe and a number of students have not shown up to receive their graduation uniforms.

Lex is preparing to excavate the Kawatche Caves when Jason shows up and darts him unconscious. They want the stone Lionel got hold of from Genevieve and plans to use.

Jonathan is determined to get along without Clark so he doesn't have to stay around – Martha believes they can't run it by themselves. Clark and Lana notice Chloe's absence. Meanwhile Lex wakes up bound to a chair... along with Lionel. Genevieve and Jason plan to use Lex for leverage.

Clark checks in with Lois, who hasn't seen Chloe either, but puts him onto Brendan. At the high school, Lana has one of the stones and then Brendan petrifies her for his "collection". Back at the fake school, Brendan reveals to Chloe that he also has Lana and unpetrifies her. Chloe brings her up to speed and reveals they have a plan.

Jason and Genevieve begin torturing Lex with a hot poker and when they threaten to take out an eye, Lionel reveals that Lana has the stone, as she's the "Chosen One". Genevieve appeals to Jason to let her get the stone from Lana, but Lionel warns not to underestimate Lana due to Isobel. Clark and Lois check out Brendan's darkroom and find plans for the fake high school.

One of the captive students mentions to Brendan that Chloe has a crush on him, and she plays along long enough for Lana to knock him unconscious from behind. They grab the keys and head for the door, trying to flee the factory, but Brendan catches up to the third girl, Haley, and petrifies her. He then kills her by pulling off her head, and threatens to do the same to Chloe and Lana.

Lionel works on Jason to turn him against Genevieve by appealing to his feelings about Lana. Jason is torn between shooting him and going to get Lana and storms out. Lex and Lionel manage to get free and flee with Jason in pursuit. Jason gets ahead of them and a near shot sends Lionel tumbling, but Lex gets the drop on him and Jason flees to the edge of a cliff over a river. Jason confronts Lex with Clark's involvement in all the mysterious events but Lionel shoots him and he falls into the water below. Lex still doesn't trust Lionel and warns him that if anything happens to Lana there'll be hell to pay.

Clark and Lois arrive at the Nash warehouse and Clark sends Lois off while he uses his strength to get in. He finds a petrified Chloe while Lois finds her own way in through the vents but is petrified by Brendan. He grabs a bat to break her but Clark blocks his strike and tries to talk him into facing reality. When Brendan grabs Clark, his powers backfire, slowly petrifying himself. He tries to break Lana and Clark rescues her as Brendan falls to a shattering death. With Brendan's death, everyone reverts to normal.

At the barn, Jonathan and Clark discuss his going to college and the fact that Jonathan stayed with the farm rather than go to college himself. On the last day of school, Chloe takes down her Wall of Weird and closes up the *Torch*. She, Lana and Clark take off, and Chloe finds out in dismay that the other two are going to stay in Smallville.

### Commencement

Lana returns to her apartment to find Genevieve Teague demanding Lana to give her the Crystal of Air. They fight until Countess Isobel transfers back into Lana's body. She stabs and kills Genevieve with the stone. The Mark of Transference disappears from Lana's back, because Isobel has finally gotten her revenge. Clark has a dream in which red, yellow, and blue lights come together to form a meteor. He is awakened by his parents, who say that Clark was yelling, "It's coming!" in his sleep. Meanwhile in outer space meteors start flying towards Earth.

Lex walks in immediately after Isobel kills Genevieve and convinces Lana that it was self-defense and she had no choice. He offers her one of the best defense attorneys in the nation. He tells her to stay in the Luthor Mansion and talk to no one until the lawyer arrives. Lionel goes to her apartment and takes the body. He threatens Lex that if he does not get the Stone from Lana by noon, Genevieve's body and evidence against Lana will be given to the sheriff.

Clark and Chloe notice that Lana is not at school to pick up her cap and gown. They start to worry when she misses the ceremony completely. Right after Clark receives his diploma, military vehicles pull up, interrupting the ceremony and announcing a meteor shower will hit Smallville in three hours. Clark urges Chloe and Lois to escape Smallville.

Lex offers Clark and his parents safe passage out on the LuthorCorp jet, but Clark rejects the offer. He goes to see Jor-El to ask him what he has done. Jor-El says that Clark has caused this himself because he did not collect the Stones of Power, and today he will witness the consequences for denying his heritage. He tells him that there is nothing that he can to do to prevent it from happening. Human blood has been spilled on one of the stones, causing a second meteor shower and a dark force from Krypton to come to Earth. If he does not unite the Stones at once, the Earth will be destroyed, and not even Clark will survive. The fate of the world is in his hands.

Clark returns to the Kent Farm where his parents are loading the car. He reluctantly tells them that he cannot go with them and he must unite the Stones. They are fearful because the last meteor shower was full of kryptonite and Clark could be killed. Sounding not very confident, Clark insists that he is the only one who can prevent the Earth's destruction. Finally, Jonathan states that all of Clark's trials have prepared him for this moment and tells Clark to go, and make them proud.

Clark finds Lana waiting for him in the barn. She gives him the Crystal of Air because she thinks that it is meant for him. They say they love each other and kiss, in case they never see each other again. She returns to the Luthor Mansion and leaves Chloe a short voice mail before Lex takes her phone and saying that she agreed not to contact anyone. When Lex asks Lana for the stone, she simply says it is safe.

Having apparently survived his fall into a river, Jason Teague stops Clark's parents as they are leaving the farm. Bloody and pointing a shotgun at them, he demands they tell him where Clark is.

Lois and Chloe are stuck in traffic, so they hatch a plan in which Lois distracts the guard at the roadblock long enough to let Chloe sneak by him to get to the Luthor Mansion and look for Lana.

Lex returns to the Mansion with Lionel waiting for him. They argue over the whereabouts of the Crystal of Water. When Clark sets the second stone in the altar, he hears a piercing sound which alerts him to the location of the final stone - in Lionel's pocket.

The stone emits a ray of energy, and Lionel is shocked into catatonia and Lex is knocked back against the wall. Unconcerned, Lex simply leaves his manservant to deal with Lionel after saying that he has become the son Lionel always wanted and puts the stone in his vault.

Clark superspeeds to the Mansion and flings open the vault, but it is full of kryptonite artifacts. He grabs the Stone right before he collapses.

As Lana boards the helicopter, Lex insists again that she give him the stone. She finally says she doesn't have it, angering him. Lana realizes that he is not interested in her safety and angrily boards the helicopter. Lex returns to the mansion.

Chloe finds Clark unconscious and drags him away. Lex walks in and finds Chloe, but Clark speeds out before Lex can see him. Lex demands Chloe to tell him why she is there and she insists that she does not know what happened. He drags her to the cave, demanding answers.

Jason ties Jonathan and Martha up and they try to fight back, but after a scuffle he manages to regain control.

The meteors hit all over Smallville. Lois is stuck in traffic and cannot get out before the meteors hit. She gets out of Chloe's car and escapes to higher ground. In tears, she watches as Smallville lays in ruins.. The Kent house is hit by a meteor with Jason, Jonathan, and Martha inside it. During the showers, Clark Kent saves a boy named Henry at the last second, protecting the boy by using his body as a shield.

Lionel lies in a catatonic state at the mansion with Kryptonian symbols running in his brain. Lana's helicopter is hit by a meteor and crashes to the ground. Badly injured, she crawls to the edge of a crater containing a giant black spaceship.

Lex and Chloe see the light coming from the hidden chamber in the Kawatche Caves. Chloe pushes him against the cave wall from behind and he falls down, but she fails to knock him out. Clark combines all the Stones and the Crystal of Knowledge is created. Clark grabs the Crystal and is transported to the Arctic with Chloe unknowingly coming with him. He looks around the vast arctic landscape and in anger and confusion throws the Crystal.