Season 1 Episode Guide
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The first episode tells the story of the meteor shower that hit Smallville and changed life in the Kansas town forever. Clark Kent meets Lex Luthor for the first time and encounters the first in a long line of humans mutated the strange green meteor rocks that accompanied him on his journey to Earth. Guest Staring: John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Adrian Mc Morran (Jeremy Creek) Sarah Jane Redmond (Aunt Nell) |
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Clark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him. Guest Staring: Chad E. Donella (Greg Arkin) Gabrielle Rose (Greg's Mother) |
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An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire. Guest Staring: Jason Connery (Dominic Sanatori) Sarah Jane Redmond (Aunt Nell) John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Dan Lauria (Coach Walt Arnold) Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan) |
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Clark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and get others in trouble. Guest Staring: Lizzy Caplan (Tina Greer) Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon) Mark McConchie (Mr. Ellis) Sarah Jane Redmond (Aunt Nell) |
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A jock named Sean gains the ability to absorb heat from everything and everyone around him, and begins preying on people to gain the heat he needs to survive. Guest Staring: Michael Coristine (Sean Kelvin) Tania Saulnier (Jenna) |
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An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex. Guest Staring: Eric Christian Olsen (Young Harry Bolston/Volk) Jackie Burroughs (Cassandra Carver) George Murdock (Old Harry Bolston/Volk) |
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A weight-obsessed teen dieting on kryptonite-infected vegetables gains her fondest dream...but must feed on the fat of others to maintain her enhanced appearance. Guest Staring: Amy Adams (Jodi Melville) Sarah Jane Redmond (Nell Potter) Malcolm Stewart (Mr. Melville (Jodi's Dad)) Joe Morton (Dr. Steven Hamilton) |
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An experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant. Guest Starng: John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan) Tony Todd (Earl Jenkins) |
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Clark visits Metropolis in this episode, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it. He contacts Lex and reminds Lex that he knows about his past in order to get him to talk. The detective, Phelan, discovers that Clark had been around many "accident scenes" in recent months, and he decides to look into it. Phelan begins blackmailing Clark to help protect him from an IA investigation. When Clark balks Phelan frames Jonathan. Clark manages to set up Phelan for the theft of a rare piece at a museum and Phelan is killed in the shootout before he can tell anyone about Clark's secret. Lex is left to wonder at the superspeed image captured on a museum camera. Guest Staring: Kelly Brook (Victoria) Cameron Dye (Sam Phelan) Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan) |
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Lex is being stalked by an invisible entity that threatens him and almost kills a bathing Victoria. Suspicion falls on Amy, the daughter of one of the household staff. She is dangerously obsessed with Lex, to the point of having a shrine of him in her room. Lex finds out and insists that the family move out. It turns out that the villain is Amy's non-entity of a brother, who has distilled an invisibility potion from krptyonite-mutated roses. He attacks Lex when the family is turned out, but Clark intervenes and manages to knock him out. Meanwhile, Victoria and Lex are putting together a plan to bring down Lex's father, but Victoria seems to have a scheme on the side that involves a bio-tech firm, Cadmus Laboratories. And Whitney is growing distant from Lana due to the poor health of his father, which drives Lana over to Clark. Guest Staring: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwick) Azura Skye (Amy) Kett Turton (Jeff (Amy's Brother)) John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Sarah Jane Redmond (Aunt Nell) |
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A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's talks an EPA investigator into commiting suicide, then arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. After shaking hands with the man, Jonathan Kent inexplicably agrees to sell. Lex offers to have his lawyers help. Meanwhile, Clark befriends a local recluse. It turns out that the recluse and Lex's rival were both salesmen who were caught in a car accident and exposed to kryptonite. They both gained the same power of "persuasion" on anyone they touched, as the recluse graphically demonstrates to Clark by having Chloe kiss him! Lex's rival finally manages to shake hands with Lex, and convince him to try and gun down Clark. Clark manages to knock out Lex and the recluse takes out his former partner, "convincing" him to shoot himself. The recluse decides to go back into the world, but not before telling Clark that he shouldn't hide from his powers either. Fortunately, people under the influence of the persuasion power don't recall what they did, so Lex doesn't know about Clark's superpowers...yet. Guest Staring: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwick) R. Nelson Brown (Lex's Doctor) Rick Peters (Bob Rickman) Gregory Sporleder (Kyle Tippet) |
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Both Clark and a classmate named Eric are struck by lightning when Eric is holding a piece of meteorite rock. The strike takes Clark's powers away and transfers them to Eric. As Eric gets used to his new powers, Clark has to deal with being a normal person for the first time, with all the advantages and disadvantages. Eric's domineering father wants to have him examined in Metropolis - in response, Eric goes on a rampage. Borrowing Lana's meteor-rock necklace, Clark confronts Eric at a power plant and manages to reverse the transfer. Meanwhile, Sir Harry Hardwick (Victoria's father, and rival of Lionel Luthor) and his daughter try to recruit Lex for their business in Metropolis and almost succeed in buying out LuthorCorp, but they find out that they were tricked by Lex. Guest Staring: Kelly Brook (Victoria Hardwick) Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon) Shawn Ashmore (Eric) Kevin McNulty (Eric's Dad) Sarah Jane Redmond (Aunt Nell) William Samples (Sir Harry Hardwick) |
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Whitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoes that give them the power to walk through the walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans. Guest Staring: Kavan Smith (Wade Mahaney) David Lovgren (Derek Fox) David Coles () Sarah Jane Redmond (Aunt Nell) |
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A man from Lex's past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted child. Guest Staring: Cameron Dye (Sam Phelan) Corin Nemec (Jude Royce) Judy Tylor (Amanda Rothman) |
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A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings starnge reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete. Guest Staring: Joe Morton (Dr. Steven Hamilton) Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan) |
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A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex. Guest Staring: Ryan Kelley (Ryan James) Brandy Ledford (Mrs. Gibson (Ryan's Stepmom)) John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Jim Shield (James John Gibson (Ryan's Stepdad)) |
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Tyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery...and Whitney's father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex spar over Lionel's rising sucess in Smallville. Guest Staring: John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Jason Connery (Dominic Sanatori) Sheila Moore (Mrs. Piper) Reynaldo Rosales (Tyler Randall) |
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Clark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex. Guest Staring: Simon Wong (Paul Chan) Shonda Farr (Sasha) Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan) |
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Former Smallville High cartoonist Justin loses the use of his hands in a hit and run accident, and develops the ability to move things with his mind. After crippling his unsympathetic doctor he returns to Smallville and hooks back up with his friend Chloe. He reveals his secret to Chloe, and then takes revenge by killing Principal Kwan, who was the driver who hit him. It turns out Kwan's son Danny was the driver. Chloe realizes Justin is responsible, and Clarks comes to her aid, knocking Justin out. Guest Staring: John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Hiro Kanagawa (Principal Kwan) Donna Bullock (Pamela Jenkins) Adam Brody (Justin Gaines) |
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After an explosion Lana finds herself getting visions of a serial killer...and his next target is Chloe. Meanwhile Lex and Roger look further into the meteor shower and determine that something besides meteors hit Smallville that day. Guest Staring: Darrin Klimek (Deputy Gary Watts) Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan) Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon) Joe Morton (Dr. Steven Hamilton) Aaron Douglas (Deputy Birtigo) |
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Lex is hit with a surprise after his father closes the local Smallville plant to force him back to Metropolis, blaming the plant's failure on his management. Meanwhile Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, reporter Roger Nixon gets wind of Clark's alien origins after setting up an explosion, and Whitney joins the Marine Corps. Lex works with the workers to buy the plant and put it under local management, and his father Lionel threatens to sabotage the efforts by buying up their mortgages. It all comes together when Nixon uses the "key" Lex found (in "Obscura") to activate the spaceship just as three tornados hit Smallville. He flees into the storm with Jonathan in pursuit and Martha left to confront the opening spaceship. The tornado hits Lex's manor and traps Lionel under beam, leaving Lex with a life-or-death decision to make. And Clark arrives to see Lana whisked up into the tornado. (to be continued...) Guest Staring: John Glover (Lionel Luthor) Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon) Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan) |