Season 3 Episode Guide
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Clark returns to Smallville as Kal-El - intent on fulfilling his destiny, he goes after a powerful kryptonian crystal that Lex has obtained in Egypt. Meanwhile, newcomer Lois Lane arrives in Smallville to look into the death of her cousin Chloe, and Lana returns from Paris with a new boyfriend. Jonathan lies in a coma after the events of last year's season finale and Lionel must deal with his new life in prison. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Margot Kidder (Bridgette Crosby) |
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After discovering that Chloe's body isn't in her coffin, Clark and Lois Lane investigate but are stopped by Lois' father, General Sam Lane. They believe General Lane knows more then he's telling, and figure out he's been in contact with Lex. Meanwhile, after Lana's sudden departure Jason follows her to Smallville. And Lionel sends a mutant killer to determine if Chloe is alive and kill her for sure. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Michael Ironside (General Sam Lane) Robert Wisden (Gabe Sullivan) |
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Abigail, an ugly high school girl, gets plastic surgery from her surgeon-mother to booster her popularity. Howver, her beauty hides a dark secret - when she kisses someone they're inflcited with life-threatening hallucinations. When Lana sees Abigail with one of her victims, she becomes the next target. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Brianna Lynn Brown (Abigail Fine) Eric Johnson (Whitney Ford) Julianne Christie (Dr. Elaine Fine) Michael Ironside (General Sam Lane) |
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Clark decides to join the football team over Jonathan's wishes and gets the starting quarterback position when his predecessor attacks Jason over a girl. Clark and Lois investigate and discover that the cheerleaders are using kryptontie in the team's water supply to turn them into obedient mindless boyfriends. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Amanda Walsh (Mandy) |
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Jonathan's wallet is stolen by a super-speed thief, Bart Allen, who is faster then Clark. Bart comes to the farm and becomes friends with Clark, but Bart returns to crime when he sees an ancient manuscript that Lex has. As Clark soon realizes, the manuscript holds a map to one of the kryptonian crystals and he must go up against Bart to recover it. Guest Staring: Kyle Gallner (Bart Allen) Benjamin Ratner (Hanison) |
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Clark is drawn to the state penitentery by one of the kryptonian crystals, which Lionel is using to switch bodies with Lex. Clark intervenes and Lionel enters his body instead. While Lionel uses his newfound super-powers to regain his lost fortune and alienate Clark's friend, Clark must convince his parents that he is the "real" Clark and reverse the processs, while avoiding murderous convicts. Guest Staring: J.P. Manoux (Edgar) Margot Kidder (Bridgette Crosby) |
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Mikail Mxyzptlk, a foreign exchange student and bookie, has the power to control others and uses it to sabotage football games, including the one Clark is quarterbacking. Clark and Chloe figure out his secret, but he threatens to kill Chloe unless Clark throws the next game. Mikail came to Smallville via LuthorCorp, and Lex will do almost anything to learn his secret. Guest Staring: Trent Ford (Mikail Mxyzptlk) |
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Lana reads a spell book belonging to her 17th century ancestor, the witch Isabelle, and becomes possessed by her spirit. Isabelle resurrects her other two witches and together they seek out the kryptonian crystals, using their magic to render Clark powerless. Guest Starng: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) |
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Lex is accused of killing a young woman and and Clark turns to Lionel for help. Meanwhile, Lana has a dream of her ancestor and a mysterious second woman - a dead ringer for Jason's mother Genevieve, who arrives to visit her son and his new girlfriend. Guest Staring: Jane Seymour (Genevieve Teague) Claudette Mink (Corinne Hartford) Cobie Smulders (Shannon Bell) |
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A Luthorcorp experiment is released into the atmosphere - a toxin that causes its victims to hallucinate their worst fear. Chloe, Clark, Lana, and Jason all fall fictim to the toxin, and Lex, desperate to find a cure, takes a dangerous antidote. Meanwhile, Lionel is released from prison and his conviction overturned thanks to a mysterious benefactor. Guest Staring: Malcolm Stewart (Dr. Sinclair) Jerry Wasserman (Dr. Scanlan) Samantha Ferris (Warden Anita Stone) |
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Alicia (from "Obsession") is supposedly cured and returns to Smallville to start things back up with Clark. When she pushes for more and he turns reluctant, Alicia expoess him to red kryptonite, and the two go off to Las Vegas to get married. Meanwhile, Lana questions whether sex may prove the key to winning Jason back. Guest Staring: Sarah Carter (Alicia Baker) John Pyper-Ferguson (Dr. William McBride) |
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Guest Staring: Jane Seymour (Genevieve Teague) Sarah Carter (Alicia Baker) Derek Hamilton (Tim Westcott) Camille Mitchell (Sheriff Nancy Adams) Erica Durance (Lois Lane (uncredited)) |
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Clark is approached by Met U for recruitment and meets Geoff, a former Smallville resident. It soon becomes apparent that he is using his powers to paralyze anybody who gets in his way...including Lois. Guest Staring: Chris Carmack (Geoff Johns) Erica Durance (Lois Lane (uncredited)) |
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Lois accidentally hits a dog and brings it back to the farm to heal, but Clark quickly realizes it has super-strength. He investigates and discovers it was pat of an aborted LuthorCorp experiment...and that robbers are using the dogs to help them steal money. Meanwhile, Lana wonders what Jason is up to with his mother, and Jason is forced to ask Genevieve a few questions of his own. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Jane Seymour (Genevieve Teague) Nolan Funk (Zack Greenfield) Diego Klattenhoff (Josh Greenfield) |
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After Clark receives a message from the recently-deceased Dr. Swann, he and Lana follow Jason and Lex to China in search of one of the kryptonian crystals. Lana is tortured, causing Isabelle to emerge and wreck havoc in her search for the crystal. Guest Staring: Terence Stamp (Voice of Jor-El) Byron Mann (Chinese Officer) |
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Lucy Lane, Lois' younger sister, comes to Smallville but Clark catches her stealing money from the Talon to pay off a European crime syndicate. Lex offers to help but everything is not what it seems. Meanwhile, a thief breaks into Lana's apartment and steals the crystal, and Jason suspects Lionel. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Peyton List (Lucy Lane) Peter Wingfield (Marcus Becker) |
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A black kryptonite explosion splits Lex in two and his evil side - Alexander - is released. Alexander imprisons Lex in the mansion then gives full vent to his evil side - he threatens to evict Lana from the Talon unless she becomes his mate, jousts with Lionel, and tries to kill Clark and Chloe when they figure out his secret. Guest Staring: Malcolm Stewart (Dr. Sinclair) |
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Dawn Stiles, the haughty lead contender for Smallville High prom queen, is irritated when Chloe is nominated and her boyfriend dumps her. But as she settles on Clark for her new date, Dawn crashes her SUV into a kryptonite-filled ravine, releasing her spirit and granting it the ability to possess the bodies of the living. Leaping from body to body, she has Martha dance wildly, Lana try to kill Dawn's ex-boyfriend, and Lois ask Clark to the prom. When Chloe is the winner, Dawn prepares to set the school on fire in revenge, and only Clark can stop her. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Beatrice Rosen (Dawn Stiles) Camille Mitchell (Sheriff Nancy Adams) Kandyse McClure (Harmony) |
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When a boy who can make people lose their memories robs the Talon, Clark goes after him but gets total amnesia. Chloe finds out what happened and has to tutor Clark in the use of his superpowers and make sure he doesn't accidentally reveal his secret. While Clark, Chloe, and Lois try to track down Kevin, Clark takes advantage of his "new life" to ask Lana on a date. And Lex tries to turn Clark's memory loss to his advantage by getting him to reveal the secret of the caves. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Jonathan Bennett (Kevin Grady) Tom Butler (Mr. Grady) Camille Mitchell (Sheriff Nancy Adams) |
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(From the WB) Clark and Lana discover an abandoned baby in the cornfield and take him back to the Kent farm. However, once the baby ages from a newborn to a 7-year-old in a matter of days, the two realize he is aging at a rapid rate and frantically search for a cure before the disease kills him. Meanwhile, Genevieve orders Lionel to kill Lana or else she will send him back to prison. Guest Staring: Jane Seymour (Genevieve Teague) |
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(From the WB) Clark must stop the school photographer after he sets up a secret simulated high school and begins kidnapping students - starting with Chloe - to keep the glory days of high school going forever. Lex and Lionel are kidnapped and tortured by the Teagues in an effort to find the crystal. However, after Genevieve realizes Lana has the crystal, she decides to put an end to the hunt once and for all. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) Jane Seymour (Genevieve Teague) |
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(From the WB) Clark begins to piece together the reason he was sent to Earth after he has a nightmare that something horrible is going to happen to Smallville and heads to the cave to seek answers from Jor-El. His biological father tells him he must reunite the three crystals immediately or a disaster of epic proportions will befall the planet and even Clark won't be able to stop it. Meanwhile, Lex first helps Lana escape Smallville after the events of "Forever" then takes shocking action to get one of the crystals away from Lionel. Realizing the crystals are connected to Clark, Chloe tries to stop Lex from discovering the truth. Guest Staring: Erica Durance (Lois Lane) |