Smallville (Season 1)

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Smallville Season 1

Released on DVD
Country USA
Network The WB
Original runs October 16, 2001 – May 21, 2002
No. of episodes 21
DVD Release Date September 23, 2003
DVD Format Widescreen, Boxset

This article contains a complete review of the first season of the American drama action/adventure sci-fi television series Smallville. The season began airing on October 16, 2001 and concluded on May 21, 2002.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
No. Title Airdate
101 Pilot October 16
102 Metamorphosis October 23
103 Hothead October 30
104 X-Ray November 6
105 Cool November 13
106 Hourglass November 20
107 Craving November 27
108 Jitters December 11
109 Rogue January 15
110 Shimmer January 29
111 Hug February 5
112 Leech February 12
113 Kinetic February 26
114 Zero March 12
115 Nicodemus March 19
116 Stray April 16
117 Reaper April 23
118 Drone April 30
119 Crush May 7
120 Obscura May 14
121 Tempest May 21

[edit] Season One Overview

A freak meteor shower brings mysterious green rocks and one young infant to Smallville, Kansas. Raised by a loving couple, the infant soon begins to exhibit extraordinary abilities. Thirteen years later, Clark Kent has become fully aware of some of his abilities and the pain it causes to hide them from his friends. Season One dives into the emotional difficulties of high school life, wrapped with superpowers and supervillains. Clark has to deal with the newfound truth of his origins, the meteor freaks that are popping up all over Smallville, new abilities, the love of his life, Lana Lang, and not being able to tell the two people that mean the most to him, Pete Ross and Chloe Sullivan, the truth about who he really is. Clark also makes a new friend, Lex Luthor. Can Lex be trusted, or, is he just like his maniacal, corporate tyrant of a father? Clark also has to worry about concealing his abilities from the public, especially nosy reporters and corrupt police detectives who wish to abuse his abilities to support their own personal goals.

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Pilot

Clark Kent
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Clark Kent

[edit] Plot

As Jonathan and Martha Kent are on their way home, a meteor shower hits Smallville without warning. People scramble to take cover, but not all are so lucky as 5 year old Lana Lang watches her parents get crushed by a meteorite. Jonathan loses control of his truck as a meteorite skids across the road just in front of him. When he and Martha come to, they find a little boy inside a crater with a spaceship behind him. They decide to keep him, and name him Clark. At the same time, a young Lex Luthor is traveling with his father, Lionel, when a meteorite lands in the cornfield he is playing in. Lionel finds his son unconscious and without his hair. Twelve years later, Clark attends high school with his friends Chloe and Pete, while fawning after Lana Lang. Clark is finally told, by his father, that he wasn't born on Earth. Frightened by this revelation of his origins, Clark flees his home, only to become a human scarecrow as part of a school prank. Learning that Jeremy Creek, the high school's "scarecrow" from 12 years earlier, is planning on killing everyone at the school dance, Clark accepts who he is so that he can stop Jeremy.

[edit] Notes

  • Originally Cynthia Ettinger was cast as Martha Kent but she was replaced by Annette O'Toole, requiring re-editing.


[edit] Metamorphosis

Bug-boy
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Bug-boy

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Greg Arkin is a nerdish bug collector. After an argument with his mom, when she finds a video he has filmed of Lana (a family friend), an angry Greg leave his house with his bug collection. While driving, his collection of kryptonite irradiated bugs gets loose, stinging and transforming him into a half man/half insect monster. Clark confronts Whitney over the Smallville High hazing ritual where Whitney and his friends hung Clark up like a scarecrow. Whitney demands that Clark return Lana's necklace, which had been placed on him during the hazing, but Clark informs him that he doesn't have it. After arguing with and then killing his mother, Greg decides to mate with Lana. Chloe and Clark learn of Greg's transformation and Clark fights and defeats Greg in a kryptonite laden old foundry. At the same time Whitney rescues Lana from the cocoon that Greg had placed her in.

[edit] Hothead

Coach Arnold on fire
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Coach Arnold on fire
  • Original air date: October 30, 2001
  • Written By: Greg Walker
  • Directed By: Greg Beeman
  • Recurring roles: Hiro Kanagawa (Principal James Kwan), Sarah-Jane Redmond (Nell Potter)
  • Guest roles: Dan Lauria (Coach Arnold), Allan Franz (Football Player), Jason Connery (Dominic Sanatori), David Paetkau (Trevor Chapell)
  • Featured music:

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Coach Arnold, Smallville's winningest football coach, is mutated from the meteor rocks used to heat his sauna. Whenever Arnold gets angry he becomes a firestarter. When several members of the football team are accused of cheating, Chloe writes an article exposing them. After saving Chloe from the wrath of one of the players, Clark is asked to join the football team, and does so against his father's wishes. When Chloe uncovers the truth about how the players cheated, Coach Arnold attempts to silence her for good. One of the players comes clean with Clark after being burned by Coach Arnold, and Clark decides to confront the Coach about his new abilities. During the battle, the Coach's fury gets the better of him as he engulfs himself in flames.

[edit] X-Ray

X-Ray Vision
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X-Ray Vision

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Lex runs into Clark, literally, after fleeing a bank robbery. When Clark is thrown through a window his vision begins to alter so that he is able to see Lex's skeleton, only this skeleton has a green aura around it. While attempting to find out who framed Lex for a bank robbery, Clark battles his sporadic X-ray vision. After practicing at school, Clark discovers that Tina Greer was the one responsible for the bank heist. Tina's unique skeletal structure can be morphed into anything she wants, and it glows green when Clark X-rays her. Her obsession with Lana leads Clark right to her, and after a brief battle he is able to knock Tina unconscious so the authorities can arrest her.

[edit] Cool

Iceman
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Iceman
  • Original air date: November 13, 2001
  • Written By: Michael Green
  • Directed By: Jim Contner
  • Guest roles: Ted Garcia (News Anchor), Michael Coristine (Sean Kelvin), Tania Saulnier (Jenna)
  • Featured music:

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Sean Kelvin falls into a frozen Crater Lake only to reamerge the next morning with an insaciable hunger for heat. Now, just to stay warm Sean must suck the heat from anyone he can. Sean initially sets his sights on Chloe, but opts for a quicker fix with his ex-girlfriend. When Sean gets his second chance with Chloe, Clark arrives just in time to save her. Clark arrives at Lex's mansion just in time to stop Sean from sucking the heat from his mother. During the fight, Clark throws Sean in a lake which immediately freezes, sealing Sean inside.

[edit] Hourglass

Vision of Lex
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Vision of Lex
  • Original air date: November 20, 2001
  • Written By: Doris Egan
  • Directed By: Chris Long
  • Recurring role: Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff Ethan), Sarah-Jane Redmond (Nell Potter)
  • Guest role: Eric Christian Olsen (Young Harry Bolston/Volk), George Murdock (Old Harry Bolston/Volk), Jackie Burroughs (Cassandra Carver), Alfred E. Humphreys (Jim Gage), Reg Tupper (Doctor), Lois Dellar (Nurse), Lisa Calder (Zoe Garfield),
  • Featured music:
    • "5/4" by Gorillaz
    • "Time Served" by Dispatch
    • "Crush" by Kevin Clay
    • "Piano Sonata No. 3 in B minor, op. 59", and "Piano Sonata No. 1 in C minor, op. 4" (by Fryderyk Chopin) performed by Idil Beret

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Harry Bollston, an old man at a nursing home, falls into a meteor rock filled pond that can reverse the aging process. Harry, in the prime of his youth, decides to exact revenge on the children of the jury that put him away for murder decades earlier. Cassandra Carver, an old woman at the same nursing home as Harry, has precognitive abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.

[edit] Notes

  • The West Wing set was used for a scene where Lex is President.[3]
    • See Cassandra's vision of Lex's future. [4]
  • Lana's assigned senior citizen tell her that the Lang family first came to Smallville in 1938, the same year Superman was first published.


[edit] Craving

Jodi
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Jodi

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Clark must save Pete from literally being devoured by Jodi Melville. Her crash diet of meteor rock-infected vegetables causes her to shed weight faster than she can handle, which forces her to suck human fat to satisfy her ravenous hunger. Lex gets closer to the truth about Clark after funding a study on the green meteor fragments.

[edit] Jitters

The bridge riot
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The bridge riot
  • Original air date: December 11, 2001
  • Written By: Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
  • Directed By: Michael Watkins and Greg Beeman
  • Recurring role: Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan), Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff Ethan)
  • Guest roles: Mark Gibbon (Deputy), Michelle Goh (Suki), Tony Todd (Earl Jenkins), Michelle Eklund (Will), Lucia Walters (Belinda Jenkins), Andrew Johnston (SWAT Commander)
  • Featured music:

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Clark and Lex team up to rescue Clark's high school class after Earl Jenkins, a janitor, takes them hostage in LuthorCorp. Earl wants to be let into "Level 3" to find out what chemical Lionel Luthor was using that he was exposed to. Clark tries to help Earl, but his skin is radiating meteor rock effects. Clark manages to find "Level 3", and save Earl and Lex from a falling bridge.

[edit] Rogue

Clark stops a bus, in clear view of a corrupt cop
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Clark stops a bus, in clear view of a corrupt cop

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Clark's secret identity is at stake when Sam Phelan, a corrupt cop, witnesses him use his ability. Phelan attempts to blackmail Clark into joining forces with him, but Clark double crosses him. Planting a body at the Kent farm, to frame Jonathon, Phelan makes Clark help him steal Alexander the Great's chest plate. Lex and an old flame, Victoria Hardwick, plot to take over both Luthorcorp and Victoria's father's corporation.

[edit] Shimmer

An infatuation takes a drastic turn
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An infatuation takes a drastic turn

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Amy Palmer, the daughter of one of Lex's employees, is obsessed with Lex. After discovering that Lex's roses release an invisibility fluid, because of the meteor rocks, Jeff sets out to make sure that Lex knows that Victoria is wrong for him. Clark manages to confront Jeff in Lex's manor, but even his X-Ray vision has trouble finding Jeff.

[edit] Hug

Bob Rickman can seal a deal with just a handshake
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Bob Rickman can seal a deal with just a handshake
  • Original air date: February 5, 2002
  • Written By: Doris Egan
  • Directed By: Chris Long
  • Recurring role: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwick)
  • Guest role: Ben Cotton (Paul Hendrix), R. Nelson Brown (Lex's Doctor), Rick Peters (Bob Rickman), Gregory Sporleder (Kyle Tippet)
  • Featured music:

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Bob Rickman, a manipulative, wheeler-dealer entrepreneur, has the ability to bend others to his will, because of an incident with the meteor rocks years earlier. Rickman convinces Jonathan to sell the farm, after Lex assured him that it would never happen. Kyle Tippet, a hermet, learns that Rickman is in Smallville and sets out to make sure that he leaves. Clark and Chloe uncover the truth about Rickman and Tippet's past, but Rickman has already managed to turn Lex, the one person Clark could turn to.

[edit] Leech

Clark is struck by lightning and loses his powers
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Clark is struck by lightning and loses his powers
  • Original air date: February 12, 2002
  • Written By: Tim Schlattman
  • Directed By: Greg Beeman
  • Recurring role: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwick), Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon)
  • Guest role: Shawn Ashmore (Eric), William Samples (Sir Harry Hardwick), Will Sanderson (Brent), P. Lynn Johnson (Eric's Mom), Kevin McNulty (Eric's Dad), Lauro Chartrand (Feral Man), Ashley Presidente (Holly)
  • Featured music:
    • "Fade" by Staind
    • "Elevation" by U2
    • "Fat Lip" by Sum 41
    • "Bonecracker" by Shocore
    • "Inflatable" by Bush

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During a class field trip, lightning strikes Clark and a fellow classmate, Eric Summers, while Eric is holding a piece of meteor rock. Clark's powers are transfered to Eric, who uses them in more than just noble ways. Clark soon begins to accept, and become ecstatic, over the loss of his abilities and new found "normalness". Clark abandons his hope of being normal when his abilities begin to go to Eric's head, and he must be stopped.

[edit] Kinetic

Whitney falls in with the wrong crowd
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Whitney falls in with the wrong crowd

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Whitney loses his football scholarship and falls into bad company because of it. Ex-jocks, using meteor rock saturated tattoos, break into Lex's mansion and empty his vault. Clark and Chloe interrupt them, leaving Clark huddled over from the meteor rocks, and Chloe thrown through a 20ft. window. The thieves recruit Whitney, but he has second thoughts. Clark attempts to help Whitney and Lex fight the thieves.

[edit] Zero

A dead man from Lex's past resurfaces
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A dead man from Lex's past resurfaces
  • Original air date: March 12, 2002
  • Story By: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
  • Teleplay By: Mark Verheiden
  • Directed By: Michael Katelman
  • Recurring role: Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff Ethan)
  • Guest role: Eric Breker (Roy Rothman), Michasha Armstrong (Max Kasich), Cameron Dye (Sam Phelan), Corin Nemec (Jude Royce), Judy Tylor (Amanda Rothman)
  • Featured music:

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Jude Royce (Nemec), a secret from Lex's past presumed to be dead, resurfaces after three years in Smallville to stalk Lex. Jude frames Lex's plant for a toxic spill at the Kent farm, and uses it as a distraction to kidnap him. Jude isn't working alone, as his ex-fiancé's brother orchestrated everything to get Lex to confess about the truth of Jude's death. During a class project, Chloe discovers inconsistency in Clark's adoption and it puts strain on their friendship.

[edit] Nicodemus

Pete loses all inhibitions and decides to kill Lex
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Pete loses all inhibitions and decides to kill Lex
  • Original air date: March 19, 2002
  • Story By: Greg Walker
  • Teleplay By: Michael Green
  • Directed By: James Marshall
  • Recurring role: Joe Morton (Dr. Steven Hamilton), Julian Christopher (Doctor), Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan)
  • Guest role: Marny Eng (Lana Body Double), Nicki Clyne (Waitress), Bill Mondy (James Beales)
  • Featured music:
    • "Good Ol' Boys" by Waylon Jennings
    • "I Will Make You Cry" by Nelly Furtado
    • "Destiny" by Zero 7
    • "Supernatural" by Divine Right
    • "Sadie Hawkins Dance" by Relient K
    • "Big Day" by Puracane
    • "Love Sweet Love" by Josh Clayton-Felt
    • "Saturday Night's Alright" by Hal Lovejoy
    • "Beautiful Day" by U2

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A toxic flower, Nicodemus, that went extinct over 100 years earlier, is resurrected using meteor rocks by Dr. Hamilton (Morton). The flower causes whoever it sprays to lose all inhibitions. Jonathan, Lana, and Pete are poisoned by the plant and begin to speak their true feelings. Lex manages to find a cure for the poison, but Pete drops by to express his hatred with a gun. Clark manages to save all of them from doing things they would later regret.

[edit] Stray

Clark finds a pseudo younger brother in Ryan
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Clark finds a pseudo younger brother in Ryan
  • Original air date: April 16, 2002
  • Written By: Philip Levens
  • Directed By: Paul Shapiro
  • Recurring role: Rekha Sharma (Dr. Harden), John Glover (Lionel Luthor)
  • Guest role: Brandy Ledford (Mrs. Gibson (Ryan's Stepmom)), Ryan Kelley (Ryan James), Joe Maffei (Bowling Lanes Janitor), Bill Finck (Pawnshop Owner), Jim Shield (James John Gibson (Ryan's Stepdad))
  • Featured music:
    • "Deliverance (Free To Change Your Mind)" by Regency Buck
    • "Lonely Day" by Phantom Planet
    • "Is It Love?" by Todd Thibaud
    • "Dragging Me Down" by Todd Thibaud
    • "Hollywood" by Micah Green
    • "Superman (It's Not Easy)" by Five for Fighting

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Ryan (Kelley), a young boy who can read minds, is hit by Martha's car. The doctors confirm that Ryan has been abused and has temporary amnesia. The Kents take Ryan home, where he immediately bonds with Clark. Ryan's step-father comes looking for him and uses him in an attempt to steal Lex's trust fund. Clark comes to Ryan's aid, and eventually Ryan finds a new home with his Aunt.

[edit] Notes

  • The climax scene was shot on location at an authentic bowling alley named "Lois Lanes Bowling and Billiards" in Richmond, British Columbia. [5]


[edit] Reaper

Tyler has the touch of death
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Tyler has the touch of death
  • Original air date: April 23, 2002
  • Written By: Cameron Litvack
  • Directed By: Terrance O'Hara
  • Recurring role: John Glover (Lionel Luthor)
  • Guest role: Rheta Hutton (Rose Randall), Dale Wilson (George Fordman), Reynaldo Rosales (Tyler Randall), Patrick Keating (Coroner), Jason Connery (Dominic Sanatori), Sheila Moore (Mrs. Sikes)
  • Featured music:

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A young man, Tyler Randall (Rosales), attempts to "help" his ailing mother, by smothering her, but the nurses rush in and in an attempt to restrain him he falls out of the window. During the autopsy a piece of meteor rock is found embedded in his skin, once removed he awakens and carries the ability to kill anything he touches. After a failed attempt at "helping" Whitney's father, he learns of his mother's existence and sacrifices himself.

[edit] Drone

Clark running for class president
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Clark running for class president
  • Original air date: April 30, 2002
  • Written By: Philip Levens & Michael Green
  • Directed By: Michael Katelman
  • Recurring role: Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan)
  • Guest role: Marguerite Moreau (Cassandra Castle), Chelan Simmons (Felice Chandler), Shonda Farr (Sasha Woodman), Simon Wong (Paul Chan)
  • Featured music:

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Class elections are being held, and Clark is nominated by Pete. Clark is apprehensive at first, but he soon takes to the idea. A rival candidate, Sasha Woodman (Farr), doesn't appreciate the competition and soon sends out swarms of bees to take care of the other competitors. The bees soon become dissatisfied with their "Queen" and turn on her.

[edit] Crush

Chloe cornered
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Chloe cornered
  • Original air date: May 7, 2002
  • Written By: Philip Levens, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
  • Directed By: James Marshall
  • Recurring role: Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan), John Glover (Lionel Luthor),
  • Guest role: Serge Houde (John Frankle), Catherine Barroll (Betty Fordman), Donna Bullock (Pamela Jenkins), Adam Brody (Justin Gaines), Kevan Ohtsji (Danny Kwan), James Purcell (Dr. Christopher Wells), Anaya Farrell (Renee Wells)
  • Featured music:
    • "You and I" by Micah Green
    • "40 to 5" by Leave the World
    • "Nothing To Do" by Bottlefly
    • "Light In Your Eyes" by Louise Goffin
    • "2001 Spliff Odyssey" by The Thievery Corporation
    • "Time After Time" by Eva Cassidy

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After a hit-and-run accident that destroys his drawing hand, a cartoonist, Justin Gaines (Brody), is left with bitterness, pain and an unexpected gift of telekinesis that he turns into an instrument of revenge against Clark, Chloe and his school Principal. He runs his Principal over as he blames him for destroying his hand, only to discover that it was the Principal's son driving the car the night his hand was crushed.

[edit] Obscura

Clark looking for Lana
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Clark looking for Lana
  • Original air date: May 14, 2002
  • Story By: Greg Walker
  • Teleplay By: Mark Verheiden & Michael Green
  • Directed By: Terrance O'Hara
  • Recurring role: Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan), Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon), Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff Ethan)
  • Guest role: Joe Morton (Dr. Steven Hamilton), Aaron Douglas (Deputy Birtigo), Frank C. Turner (Eddie Cole), Darrin Klimek (Deputy Gary Watts)
  • Featured music:

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After an explosion with meteor rocks, Lana gains the ability to see through someone else's eyes. Unfortunately, that person kidnaps Chloe as Lana watches unable to help. Lana and Clark attempt to use her new found gift to help locate Chloe. The kidnapper turns out to be a cop (Klimek) looking for an easy promotion. Lex learns of a ship that crashed during the meteor shower and sets out to investigate the field where it landed.

[edit] Tempest

A tempest hits Smallville
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A tempest hits Smallville
  • Original air date: May 21, 2002
  • Written By: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
  • Directed By: Greg Beeman
  • Recurring role: John Glover (Lionel Luthor), Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon), Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan)
  • Guest role: Scott Bellis (Assistant Principal), Angelika Baran (Erika Fox), Remy Zero (Musical Guests)
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

The Smallville plant closes after Lionel Luthor drops by for an "inspirational speech", and blames it on Lex. Lex is determined to fight his father and organizes the managers for an employee buyout. Whitney decides to join the Marines and leaves Smallville during the Spring dance. Jonathan finds Roger Nixon (O'Brien), a reporter for the Inquisitor, filming Clark's ship in the storm cellar. A fight ensues and Nixon flees into the storm with Jonathan in pursuit. While Chloe and Clark attend the dance together several tornadoes touch down in Smallville, and eventually merge into one, sending Lana crashing off the road. Clark rushes to her aid, but is too late as she is sucked into the new, larger tornado.

[edit] Notes

  • Rock band Remy Zero performs the Smallville theme song, their hit single "Save Me," at the high school formal.


[edit] See Also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Pilot Guest Roles
  2. ^ Season 1 Music List. The Ultimate Smallville Music and Song List. smallvillemusic.atspace.com. Retrieved on 2006-08-28.
  3. ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt{{{1|0702965/trivia Retrieved August 28, 2006
  4. ^ http://www.ruinedeye.com/lex/cass.htm Cassandra's vision
  5. ^ Smallville Stray (2001) at the Internet Movie Database Retrieved on 2006-08-28

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