Pilot

**Pilot** is the first episode of the first season of The CW's superhero drama *Mighty-Man*. It aired on January 11, 2022.

## Synopsis

The first (and pilot) episode of *Brookcity* tells the story of the 2004 meteor shower in Brookcity, New-york and it's meteor rock effects on the small town. Sam Jackson is adopted by Jefferson and Marie Jackson after they discover him as a young boy in Riley Corn Field. Years later, while already understanding he is different than others, Brookcity High student Sam Jackson begins his journey towards his destiny. He begins discovering new abilities and strengths, which he uses to save the life of billionaire, Alex Luthor. The pilot introduces the first of many meteor infected victims, Jeremy Creek, who had been tied to a post in Riley Cornfield as the traditional Brookcity Scarecrow during the 2004 meteor sher.

## Plot

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On October 7, 2004, a meteor shower flies through space towards the earth with a small spaceship among them. Oblivious to these events in space, wealthy businessman Norman Luthor and his 9-year-old son Alex Luthor are flying in their helicopter to a factory in Brookcity. Young Alex is scolded by his father for expressing his fear during the flight, later finding relief when they land.

Meanwhile, young farmer couple Jefferson and Marie Jackson take a trip into town, visiting florist shop owner Natasha Potter and her three-year-old niece Nelly Watson. Nell is looking after Nelly whilst her niece's parents are at the Homecoming football game. Jefferson buys some flowers whilst Marie makes a wish from Lana who is dressed up in a fairy princess costume she was given for Halloween. After leaving Nat's flower shop Marie reveals her wish for a child. As the couple are about to drive away they notice the homecoming parade coming down the road as the town celebrate the Brookcity Crows scoring another victory. The pair eventually start to make their way back to their farm.

As the meteors starts getting closer to earth, Norman Balthor starts to make a business deal with Dale and Bill Ross of the Ross Creamed Corn Factory to buy their land, whilst a bored Lex starts to wander off into Riley Field. After hearing someone whisper "help me", he runs in a panic, stumbling to the ground where he is called upon by stripped 14-year-old Jeremy Creek, who is tied to a cross in the cornfield as the "Scarecrow" with an "S" painted on his chest.

 File:Meteorshower1.jpg  Suddenly something hits the cornfield and creates a shockwave seemingly swallowing Jeremy and Alex. In the town, the townspeople gawk at the destructive trail of what had hit Riley Field. Suddenly more meteors hit the town, including one that kills Nelly's parents, Lewis and Laura Watson. The barrage of meteors leaves a path of destruction in its wake, and even Jefferson and Martha are caught in the madness when their pickup truck gets overturned by a meteor.

 File:Smallville s01e01 115.jpg  Norman races off to find Lex, only to find him lying in the cornfield, and backs away in horror as he sees that Lex is now bold with only a small patch of red hair remaining on his head. While hanging upside down in their toppled truck, the Jackson couple is approached by a naked young boy, who does not speak but displays amazing strength. After getting out of the truck, they search nearby for the boy's parents only to find a black spaceship laying among some wreckage, seemingly this young boy they have just found is not of this planet. The Jacksons decide to keep the boy and name him Sam.

### 12 years later

In 2022, Brookcity is now the "Meteor Capital of the World" with a population of 45,001. The 14-year-old teenage Sam Jackson is now a Brookcity High School freshman. He is surfing the internet looking up various impossible acts on his computer. After being called down to breakfast by his mother he then tries to convince his parents to allow him to play high school football. Overly cautious of his growing abilities, Jonathan disappoints Sam and refuses to sign the permission slip fearing he will accidentally hurt other students. Leaving the Jackson farm a moment too late, Sam misses his school bus.

On the bus already is Sams two best friends Jack Diamond and Katie Jones, they discuss how Sam is always slow and Katie hears a noise on the roof, but Jack thinks she is imagining it. It is Sam having just used his super-speed to run through a cornfield short cut and has jumped on top of the bus. After arriving at school Jack asks Katie if she's going to the homecoming dance and if she is, whether she 's planning on going with Sam, which causes her to defensively deny having a crush on Sam , only for Jack to ask her to go with him instead "just as friends".

Katie and Jack bump into Sam, who makes up a lame excuse for arriving before they do, leaving Katie perplexed. Sam tells Pete that he can't sign up for the football team which amuses Katie forcing the pair to explain that they only want to join the football team to avoid becoming the "Scarecrow", a traditional prank in which every year the Brookcity High football team chooses the geekiest freshman male whom they leave tied to a cross in his underwear in Riley Field like a scarecrow. Suddenly Sam notices Nelly, who has grown to become a beautiful young lady. When Sam approaches her he becomes physically ill due to Nelly wearing a greenstone necklace made from the meteor that killed her parents. This causes Sam to fall over in pain and it's revealed by the reaction of Katie and Jack that this isn't the first time Sam has fallen over in front of his crush.

 File:Smallville pilotlana.JPG   As Nelly helps Sam pick up his books, High School senior, star quarterback and Nelly's boyfriend Derreck, arrives and kisses Nelly, noticing Sam on the floor Derreck pitties Sam and asks him if he's ok before leaving with Nelly to go to Class.

Also inside the school is Jeremy Creek (looking exactly as he did twelve years ago). He gazes at the football trophy case, then breaks it and steals a picture of three smiling football players.

Meanwhile, on the other side of town, 20-year-old Alex Balthor arrives in Smallville to assume management of the Smallville branch of his father's company, a fertilizer plant on the site of the former Ross Creamed Corn factory. It's clear from his deminer that he doesn't want to be there as he sarcastically says "Thanks dad" to himself.

Back at Brookcity High at after school football tryouts, Sam watches Nelly practicing with the other cheerleaders. He daydreams about being the star quarterback and winning the game, only to be interrupted by Jack dressed in Sam's words "like a tackling dummy". Sam then leaves and walks home at normal speed to think and mope. A truck passes him and some sharp debris falls from it, coming the other way is Alex who is speeding along when his cell phone rings. Distracted, he doesn't notice the object which fell from the tuck lying in the road ahead. His tires get shredded and he ends up losing control of his car. He sees Sam moments before the car hits him. Both go over the Loeb Bridge into Elbow River. The impact knocks Alex unconscious, but Sam swims towards him, rips the top off of his car, and pulls him out. He resuscitates Alex, who is sure he hit Sam, but Sam brushes him off. When Sam's father arrives at the scene, he is very unhappy with Alex and tells him to drive slower in the future.

 File:Clark and Lex.jpg   Later that night, Sam is in the loft of his parents' barn. He spies on Nelly, who is also his neighbor. She is taking to her Whitney about Sam saving Alex's life and Nelly gives him her necklace for good luck in the homecoming game as a scout from Metropolis will be there to watch them the team play. She tells him about it being made from the same meteor that killed her parents "So much bad luck came from it, there must only be good luck left".

Also that night at Frank's auto shop, Jeremy looms in the shadows watching Frank work on a car. When Frank notices him and Jeremy steps into some light and gets closer Frank recognizes him as the scarecrow kid from 12 years ago. When Jeremy doesn't say anything Frank tires to shake him only to get electrocuted and fall to the floor. Asking him what he wants and telling him it was just a game, Jeremy replies with "to play". He then electrocutes Frank and holds him up against a wall zapping him into a coma, shattering an image of Frank in his youth with two other football players that Jeremy holds responsible for putting him out in the cornfield twelve years earlier.

The next day, after arriving home from school Sam notices a brand new truck in the driveway. Martha tells him it's as a gift from Lex for saving his life and Johnathan has the keys. However, Jefferson doesn't want Sam to keep it due to an animosity he has towards the Balnors. He tells Sam that they evicted their neighbors to buy land for LuthorCorp's factories that made the money that probably bought the truck. When Jefferson says that it's normal for Sam to be upset, Sam turns on the wood chipper and sticks his hand inside to demonstrate that he is not "normal", leaving Jefferson stunned.

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This act forces Jonathan to explain to Sam his origins, at first Sam doesn't want to believe him until he shows him the spaceship, which they have hidden in their storm cellar. He tells Sam that he arrived in it during the meteor shower. Sam is angry and says he should've been told sooner.

 File:Clarkpilot.jpg   He runs away to think and meets Nelly in Brookcity Cemetery. Not wanting to tell her why he's there he asks her why she's in a graveyard and she confesses that she goes there to talk to her dead parents. She and Sam have their first real conversation as Whitney now has Nelly's necklace. Sam walks Nelly home and he asks if her if she's going to the homecoming dance when she replies she's going with Derreck, she then asks Sam if he's going with anyone. He says that he is going to sit it out and Nelly says if he changes his mind, she'll save him a dance. She then kisses him on the cheek and goes home but watching Derreck watching from the shadows is Whitney who quickly appears jealous.

The next day before school Sam goes to Alex's mansion to return the keys to the truck. He explains to Alex that he can't keep the truck and Alex realizes it's because Sam's father doesn't like him. He thinks it's because of his boldness but Sam tells him it's because of the things Alex's father has done to the town. Alex thinks Jefferson is worried that the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree and that Alex might be like his father. When Alex asks Sam if he is like Jefferson and believes that Alex is a bad person, Sam, who is still coming to terms with being an alien, tells him he's got to go. Alex then asks Sam if he believes a man can fly, and that after the accident and his heart stopped he had a vision of flying over Brookcity. Alex says he doesn't want anything to stand in the way of their friendship.

Meanwhile, Jack and Katie are at the scene of a crime. A third former football player has been found in a coma. They see

Jeremy sculling around after releasing they have never seen him at school before and that he is acting strange they quickly snap his picture. They take the photo to the office of the school newspaper, the Template:Brookcity Torch as Katie is the editor of it. Joined by Sam the 3 manage to find him in a twelve-year-old yearbook.

 File:Clarkchloepete.jpg   They realize he has been in a coma since the meteor shower and hasn't aged a day because he was suffering from an electrolyte imbalance. He escaped from the hospital during an electrical storm and is now prowling around Brookcity electrocuting jocks and putting them into comas for revenge. Sam doesn't believe such a thing is possible but Katie shows him her "Wall of Weird" - a collection of articles about the strange goings-on in Smallville since the meteor shower. Sam then sees Nelly's face in an article about the meteor shower and releases her parents died during the events that bought him to earth and believes that he is to blame. He quickly leaves, whilst Ryan and Katie look on.

 File:Scarecrow.jpg   As Sam is leaving the school, Whitney picks him to be the next scarecrow. Sam tries to fight, back but Whitney is wearing Lana's necklace. When Sam notices the necklace, Whitney puts it on Sam which renders him helpless. Whitney and his fellow football players throw him in the back of a pickup truck but Jeremy has witnessed the event and follows them.
Sam is strung up in field on a cross with an "S" painted on his chest.

 File:SMpilot Jeremy Creek.JPG   Jeremy finds him and realises that this hazing ritual will never stop even though hed punished the jocks that did it to him as a warning. Sam asks him to free him but he refuses to help, telling Sam that he'll be safer where he is. Sam realises that Jeremy plans to go to the homecoming dance and electrocute everyone there. Jeremy then leaves just as Alex is driving by. Alex sees Jeremy as he jumps the fence and he recognizes him from twelve years ago. Alex gets out his car to investigate but Jeremy slips away. Alex then hears Sam cry for help and searches for him in the field he quickly finds him and unties Sam. Nelly's necklace falls off in the commotion and as Sam runs away, Alex picks it up.

At the dance, everyone is having fun dancing but unknown to everyone inside Jeremy is about to set off the sprinkler system to get them wet for electrocution. But Sam shows up and orders him to stop, he then tries to connect to Jeremy telling him he understands his pain. But Jeremy is in denial that he is in pain and points out that the homecoming hazing needs to stop and that punishing everyone inside is the only way. When Sam moves to block him, Jeremy tries to electrocute him only for Sam to be immune, Sam then grabs and throws Jeremy away from the sprinklers. Sam warns him to give up but Jeremy then uses his electric powers to start a maintenance truck up. Jeremy tries to run Sam down with the truck but Sam grabs onto it causing Jermey to crash into a water main. As the cab of the truck fills with water, he short-circuits himself. When Sam opens the door of the truck he notices Jermey has turned back to his true age of 25, his powers are gone and he has no memory of Sam. He asks Sam where he is and who Sam is. Sam introduces himself to Jermey and tells him he's in Brookcity . Jeremy says that he just wants to go home and Sam nods.

 File:Pilot 620.jpg   Sam goes into the gym and watches Nelly and Derreck dance after being crowned Homecoming King and Queen and leaves in frustration. When he sees Derreck's truck, he pauses and smiles. After the dance, the students are astonished to see three trucks belonging to the football players stacked one on top of the other making Whitney furious as Sam smiles and superspeeds away. Back at his loft, Sam looks out into space through his telescope. Jefferson comes to the loft to talk to Sam telling him about how his father gave him the telescope when Jefferson was Sam's age. Sam is no longer angry and says he is glad the Jackson are the ones that found him. Jefferson says it was Sam who found them. Sam daydreams that Nelly stops by and gives him the dance she promised him. As they dance, she asks him if everything is alright, and he responds that it's perfect. The sound of a car horn jolts him back to reality, as he watches Nelly being dropped off by classmates. He gazes at her and whispers, "Thanks for the dance, Nelly." She turns, almost as if she heard him, then smiles to herself, and walks into her house. Sam remains looking out the window.

## Cast

### Starring

* T.J.Williams as Samuel Jackson
* Devenity perkins as Nelly Watson
* Jace Norman as Alex Luthor
* Andrew Caldwood as Derreck Fordman
* Sean Ryan Fox as Jack Diamond
* Maeve Tomalty as Katie Jones
* Angel Parker as Marie Jackson
* Adrian Holmes as Jefferson Jackson

### Special Guest Star

* Jeffrey Nicholas Brown as Norman Luthor

### Co-Starring

* Drake Bell as Jeremy Creek
* Jade Unterman as Young Nelly Watson
* Malkolm Alburquenque as Young Sam Jackson
* Matthew Munn as Young Alex Balthor
* Dee Jay Jackson as Bill Diamond
* Alvin Sanders as Dale Diamond
* Steve Bacic as Frank/Garage Worker/Former Jock #1
* Justin Chatwin as Teen Jostled by Whitney
* Wendy Chmelauskas as Laura Watson
* Ben Odberg as Lewis Watson
* Jay Kirby
* Amy Esterle as Heike

### Uncredited

* Hiro Kanagawa as Principle James Kwan (Deleted Scene)
* Eric Keenleyside as Gabe Sullivan (Deleted Scene)
* James Ralph as Factory Worker (Deleted Scene)

## Notes

1. ↑ Naomi: Season One Ratings - TV Series Finale