Smallville (Season 3)

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Smallville Season 3

Released on DVD
Country USA
Network The WB
Original runs October 1, 2003 – May 19, 2004
No. of episodes 22
DVD Release Date November 16, 2004
DVD Format Widescreen, Boxset

This article contains a complete review of the third season of the American drama action/adventure sci-fi television series Smallville. The season began airing on October 1, 2003 and concluded on May 19, 2004.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
No. Title Airdate
301 Exile October 1
302 Phoenix October 8
303 Extinction October 15
304 Slumber October 22
305 Perry October 29
306 Relic November 5
307 Magnetic November 12
308 Shattered November 19
309 Asylum January 14
310 Whisper January 21
311 Delete January 28
312 Hereafter February 4
313 Velocity February 11
314 Obsession February 18
315 Resurrection February 25
316 Crisis March 3
317 Legacy April 14
318 Truth April 21
319 Memoria April 28
320 Talisman May 5
321 Forsaken May 12
322 Covenant May 19

[edit] Season Three overview

Clark has exiled himself to Metropolis. With all morals lost under the influence of red kryptonite, Clark has been engaging in many criminal activities to fund his personal expenses. With everyone still searching for Clark, it may take more than just kryptonite to stop him.

Lex is found, still alive, on a deserted island. Brought back home, he undergoes several psychiatric evaluations. After learning of his father's hand in the death of his grandparents, Lex suffers a "psychotic break" and is institutionalized by Lionel. Lex is accused of murder and as a deal with the FBI agrees to provide evidence against his father. With the help of Chloe, Lex is able to provide a case against his father and have him sent to jail to await trial.

Clark and Lana's relationship ends faster than it begins, Clark meets Perry White, learns more about his biological father and his friends, loses his sight, and gains a new ability. Finally, sacrificing himself to save his father, Clark agrees to fulfill the destiny that Jor-El wants; pulled into the Kawatchi Cave wall, he is transported into space. Lionel takes care of some loose ends, to acquit himself of the allegations of murder, by having Lex and Chloe removed from the equation.

[edit] Characters of Season Three

Main article: Smallville Characters Season Three

[edit] Episodes

[edit] Exile

The phone booth scene
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The phone booth scene

[edit] Plot

Under the influence of red kryptonite and living in Metropolis, Clark gets involved with a crime lord named Morgan Edge (Hauer) who hires him to break into LuthorCorp. Meanwhile, desperate to put his family back together, Jonathan takes drastic measures to bring Clark home. At the mansion, Lionel accuses Helen (Vaugier) of killing Lex.

[edit] Phoenix

Morgan Edge (Hauer) finds Clarks
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Morgan Edge (Hauer) finds Clarks
  • Original airdate: October 8, 2003
  • Written by: Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson
  • Directed by: James Marshall
  • Recurring role: Terence Stamp (voice), Emmanuelle Vaugier & Francoise Yip
  • Guest role: Rutger Hauer
  • Featured music:

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After Jor-El (Stamp) grants Jonathan temporary superpowers, he and Clark engage in a destructive battle atop the LuthorCorp building. Meanwhile, Lex returns home and must determine whether it was Lionel or Helen who arranged his plane crash.

[edit] Extinction

Van's got a vendetta against all "meteor freaks"
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Van's got a vendetta against all "meteor freaks"
  • Original airdate: October 15, 2003
  • Written by: Todd Slavkin and Darren Swimmer
  • Directed by: Michael Katleman
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell
  • Guest role: Jesse Metcalfe
  • Featured music:

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Clark discovers a teenage boy, Van McNulty (Metcalfe), is hunting people affected by the kryptonite rocks and the killer's next target is Lex. Clark uses his powers to save Lex, but is caught off guard when the killer learns his weakness and manufactures kryptonite bullets.

[edit] Slumber

  • Original airdate: October 22, 2003
  • Written by: Drew Greenberg
  • Directed by: Terrance O'Hara
  • Guest role: Katharine Isabelle & John DeSantis
  • Featured music:
    • "At My Most Beautiful", "Bad Day", "Losing My Religion", "Everybody Hurts", and "Imitation of Life" by R.E.M.

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Clark dreams he is being pursued by a frightened young girl (Isabelle) who needs his help. However, after he discovers she is actually a comatose neighbor who should have woken up years ago, he enlists Lana's help to uncover the truth - which puts Lana in grave danger. Meanwhile, Lionel demands that Lex undergo a full psychological evaluation before he hires him.

[edit] Perry

Clark meets Perry White
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Clark meets Perry White

[edit] Plot

Perry White (McKean), a once- promising journalist whose career was destroyed by Lionel Luthor, arrives in Smallville in search of alien stories for a tabloid news show. In spite of being constantly inebriated, Perry believes he has witnessed Clark using his extraordinary speed, so he devises a dangerous scheme to expose Clark's superpowers. Meanwhile, Lex learns that Perry has powerful incriminating evidence of Lionel's shady past.

  • Note:
    • In this episode Perry White addresses Sheriff Adams (Mitchell) as "Chief" to which she responds "Don't call me Chief". This is the response Perry White usually gives to Jimmy Olsen, when he calls him Chief.
    • In real life, Michael McKean is married to Annette O' Toole.


[edit] Relic

Jor-El may have once visited Smallville
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Jor-El may have once visited Smallville
  • Original airdate: November 5, 2003
  • Written by: Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson
  • Directed by: Marita Grabiak
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell
  • Guest role: William B. Davis
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

Lana's great uncle, who was convicted of murdering his wife forty years ago, shows her a picture of the man he believes really killed her aunt, and she is shocked to discover the drifter looks just like Clark. Sure that the man is Jor-El, Clark's investigation leads him to a kryptonian medallion that allows him to see bits of the past - and the life that Jor-El started for him long before he arrived on Earth.

[edit] Magnetic

It seems someone holds a little magnetism over Lana
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It seems someone holds a little magnetism over Lana

[edit] Plot

Clark is suspicious when Lana suddenly becomes attracted to a fellow student and begins to act rebelliously, which eventually lands her in jail. Clark's suspicions are confirmed when he discovers Lana's new boyfriend has magnetic powers that can move objects and alter human emotions, but when he tries to free Lana from the paranormal hold that is controlling her, she tries to kill him. Meanwhile, Lex discovers Chloe has been delving into Lionel's past and tries to get her to join forces against his dad.

[edit] Shattered

Lionel watches as Lex has a psychotic break
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Lionel watches as Lex has a psychotic break

[edit] Plot

Lex locates Morgan Edge (Bergin) and gets him to admit to dirty dealings with Lionel, but before Lex can take it to the authorities, someone tries to kill him at the mansion. Barely surviving, Lex flees and asks Clark for help. However, when Clark returns to the mansion to investigate he finds nothing amiss, and begins to wonder if it really happened, especially after Lionel announces Lex has had a psychotic break and must be institutionalized.

[edit] Asylum

Lex goes in for electro-shock therapy
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Lex goes in for electro-shock therapy

[edit] Plot

Lex attempts to enlist Clark's help to escape from the hospital, but when Clark refuses he attempts to escape by himself. His resulting capture forces Lionel to send him in for electroshock therapy to erase his memory. Unknown to Clark, three of his old foes, who have also been institutionalised, are planning to steal and use his powers to escape. Meanwhile, Lana meets a mysterious new stranger, Adam Knight (Somerhalder), in the hospital.

[edit] Whisper

Clark gets a taste of his future self
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Clark gets a taste of his future self
  • Original airdate: January 21, 2004
  • Written by: Ken Horton
  • Directed by: Tom Wright
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

Attempting to stop a robbery, Clark is temporarily blinded when he shoots off a burst of heat vision that is reflected back into his eyes by a piece of kryptonite. He soon realizes that his body has developed super-hearing to compensate for his lack of sight. However, as it was in the beginning with his other gifts, Clark doesn't quite have his new power under control.

  • This episode is where Clark first dons the glasses, something he wears later when he lives in Metropolis and becomes Superman.


[edit] Delete

The gang discuss why they are all trying to kill Chloe
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The gang discuss why they are all trying to kill Chloe

[edit] Plot

Clark and Lana each make an attempt on Chloe's life for unknown reasons after they receive a mysterious e-mail from the Summerholt Institute. Clark must discover the source of these e-mails after Chloe reveals she has uncovered proof that they are doing mind-control research at the lab and realizes they must be trying to kill her in order to prevent her from writing an exposé. Meanwhile, Lana decides to rent the apartment above the café to Adam even though she feels he is hiding something dangerous about his past.

[edit] Hereafter

Clark rescues Lana, after her death is foreseen by Jordan
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Clark rescues Lana, after her death is foreseen by Jordan
  • Original airdate: February 4, 2004
  • Written by: Mark Verheiden & Drew Greenberg
  • Directed by: Greg Beeman & James Marshall
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell & Ian Somerhalder
  • Guest role: Joseph Cross
  • Featured music:
    • "100 Years" by Five for Fighting
    • "Two Steps Closer" by Static
    • "I Owe You" by Stegala Music
    • Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

[edit] Plot

Clark discovers that his schoolmate Jordan can foresee the future death of anyone he touches. But Clark is horrified when Jordan tells him he "sees" Lana dying in a fire in the next few days. Jordan also tells Clark that he does not die like everyone else he has seen. Meanwhile, suspicious of his behavior, Chloe investigates Adam's background and discovers some disturbing news.

[edit] Velocity

Pete gets mixed up in the wrong crowd
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Pete gets mixed up in the wrong crowd
  • Original airdate: February 11, 2004
  • Written by: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
  • Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell, Ian Somerhalder & Francoise Yip
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

After Pete refuses to blow a street race, the thugs that run it threaten his life, so he asks Clark to use his powers to stop them. Furious that Pete would put himself in this position, Clark must figure out a way to save Pete and still protect his secret. Meanwhile, Jonathan begins to suffer the consequences of his deal with Jor-El.

[edit] Obsession

Clark has a new girl in his life
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Clark has a new girl in his life
  • Original airdate: February 18, 2004
  • Written by: Holly Harold
  • Directed by: James Marshall
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell, Ian Somerhalder & Francoise Yip
  • Guest role: Sarah Carter
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

Clark is forced to use his powers in front of Alicia (Carter), a new girl at school, but he is surprised to find out she has powers of her own. The two develop a bond through their shared secret, but things turn ugly after Alicia becomes obsessive about sharing Clark with anyone else - especially Lana. Meanwhile, Lana asks Lex to "get rid of" Adam.

[edit] Resurrection

  • Original airdate: February 25, 2004
  • Written by: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
  • Directed by: Terrance O'Hara
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell, Ian Somerhalder & Francoise Yip
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

While his father is awaiting surgery, Clark befriends a young boy, Garrett, whose brother Vince just died from liver failure. However, everyone is shocked when Vince shows up at the hospital alive and seemingly well - until his liver starts failing again. In a desperate attempt to keep his brother alive, Garrett straps a Kryptonite bomb to himself and demands that Vince be given Jonathan's liver or he will blow up the building.

[edit] Crisis

Adam is back, and he's on the hunt
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Adam is back, and he's on the hunt
  • Original airdate: March 3, 2004
  • Written by: Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson
  • Directed by: Ken Biller
  • Recurring role: Camille Mitchell, Ian Somerhalder & Francoise Yip
  • Guest role: Gary Hudson

[edit] Plot

Clark receives a panicked call from Lana and hears a gunshot before the line goes dead, but when he arrives at the Talon he is stunned to discover she is alive and well. Clark realizes the phone call came from the next day and that Adam is the one who will shoot Lana. Upon taking Clark to the Luthorcorp lab where Adam was being kept, Lex finds all of the staff murdered and suspects his father is behind it.

[edit] Legacy

John, Christopher and Tom pose for a photo before shooting.
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John, Christopher and Tom pose for a photo before shooting.

[edit] Plot

When Jonathan begins to act strangely, Clark believes Jor-El is sending Jonathan messages through the key and is the cause for his father's withdrawal from the family. Clark goes down to the caves to confront his biological father but Lionel catches him there and begins putting the pieces together - leading him straight to Dr. Swann (Reeve). As the two billionaires face off, a deal is struck and Lionel's true motives are revealed.

[edit] Truth

Chloe tries to get Clark's secret from Pete
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Chloe tries to get Clark's secret from Pete
  • Original airdate: April 21, 2004
  • Written by: Drew Greenberg
  • Directed by: James Marshall
  • Featured music:
    • "Someday" by Fastball
    • "Better Don't Do" by Ing
    • "Stabat Mater" by Paul Schwartz
    • "Selling Out" by The Fuzz

[edit] Plot

When Chloe accidentally inhales a mysterious krypto-gas, she discovers it acts as a truth serum to anyone who comes in contact with her and decides to take advantage of her new power by going to the Kents to find out Clark's secret. However, her new power comes with fatal consequences and Clark must find an antidote before she discovers the truth about him or, worse, dies.

[edit] Memoria

Lex attempts to find those memories Lionel erased
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Lex attempts to find those memories Lionel erased
  • Original airdate: April 28, 2004
  • Written by: Al Gough & Miles Millar
  • Directed by: Miles Millar
  • Recurring role: Terence Stamp (voice)
  • Guest role: Martin Cummins
  • Featured music:

[edit] Plot

Believing that key information about his father's past was lost when his memory was erased, Lex decides to join an experimental program with Dr. Garner (Cummins) to regain the information so he can turn his father over to the FBI. Knowing that Lex will discover his secret if he regains his memory, Clark tries to stop him but is caught by Lionel and the doctor and exposed to the same radical treatment so that Lionel can solve the mystery of Clark's past.

Clark has a flashback from when he was a baby, when he was sent away from Krypton. He hears his parents talking, and after confiding in Martha that he is sad that he forgot his parents, learns that from his mother that his first word was 'Lara'- his biological mother's name.

[edit] Talisman

[edit] Plot

When a Kawatche Indian, Jeremiah Holdsclaw (Arcand), steals a mythic knife from the caves, he is bestowed with superpowers similar to Clark's, causing the young man to believe he is the legendary Naman, "the man who fell from the stars." Clark learns the Kawatche legend foretold of a knife that could kill Naman and sets out to reclaim it before the young Indian can use it on Lionel.


[edit] Forsaken

Lex gives Lionel up to the Feds
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Lex gives Lionel up to the Feds
  • Original airdate: May 12, 2004
  • Written by: Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson
  • Directed by: Terrence O'Hara
  • Guest role: Gary Hudson
  • Featured music:
    • "When The Sun Goes Down" by Charlie Mars
    • "What You're Thinking" by Christopher Jak

[edit] Plot

Clark decides to tell Lana his secret so they can finally be together. Meanwhile, an errant FBI agent kidnaps and tortures Pete to try and force him to reveal Clark's secret. Also, Lex panics after the FBI gives him 24 hours to turn over information on his father or face jail time, but help arrives from an unexpected source.

[edit] Covenant

Clark offers himself to Jor-El, to save Jonathan
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Clark offers himself to Jor-El, to save Jonathan
  • Original airdate: May 19, 2004
  • Story by: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
  • Teleplay by: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
  • Directed by: Greg Beeman
  • Recurring role: Terence Stamp (voice)
  • Guest role: Gary Hudson & Adrianne Palicki
  • Featured music:
    • "One Moment More" by Mindy Smith
    • Mozart Requiem in d minor - "Introit and Kyrie"

[edit] Plot

Things come to a head in Smallville when Kara (Palicki), a beautiful girl with superpowers, who claims to be from Krypton, comes to entice Clark to fulfill his destiny. Overwhelmed by her appearance, Clark turns to his parents for advice but is shocked when the girl forces Jonathan to finally reveal the deal he made with Jor-El. Also, Clark makes a discovery that ultimately redefines his relationship with Lex, and Clark's relationship with Lana takes a final turn. Meanwhile, Lex turns the tables on Lionel with the FBI.



[edit] References

Smallville
Episodes: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6
Characters
Clark Kent | Lana Lang | Lex Luthor | Chloe Sullivan
Lionel Luthor | Lois Lane | Martha Kent | Jonathan Kent
Pete Ross | Jason Teague | Whitney Fordman
Smallville Guest Characters
Seasons: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6
Related articles
Broadcasters and home video releases | Kryptonite | Kryptonian Crystals
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