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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.
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.
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Revision as of 12:15, 31 October 2006

Smallville Season 1
Season 1
File:Smallville1.jpg
Released on DVD
No. of episodes21
Release
Original networkThe WB
Original releaseOctober 16, 2001 –
May 21, 2002
Season chronology
Next →
Season 2
List of episodes

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.

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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
See also: List of Smallville episodes

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 supervillians. 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.

Episodes

Pilot

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Clark Kent

Plot

Clark Kent learns that he isn't from Earth, and that it was his arrival that brought the meteor shower to Smallville 12 years earlier. After becoming a human scarecrow, as a prank, he has to save the very people that bullied him from a young boy, Jeremy (McMorran), who was mutated in the meteor shower that brought Clark to Earth.

Notes

  • Originally Cynthia Ettinger was cast as Martha Kent but she was replaced by Annette O'Toole, requiring re-editing.
  • A deleted scene was featured in this episode in which Clark imagined himself on the football team as the star quarterback who won Lana's heart. Many of the things Clark does during the daydream is featured in "Hothead" when Clark does join the team.
  • The headline of the newspaper Lionel is reading in the flashback claims "Queen Industries CEO, presumed dead". Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow in DC comics, and a member of the Justice League of America, which Superman is also a member of. In Season 6, Oliver Queen, and his "Green Arrow" alter-ego, become a recurring character.

Metamorphosis

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Bug-boy

Plot

A teenage boy, Greg Arkin (Donella), infatuated with Lana, becomes a victim of his bug collection when has an auto accident and is swarmed by meteor rock mutated insects. With his new instincts, and superhuman abilities, he sets out to find his mate, Lana. Clark must overcome his weakness of meteor rocks to fight for Lana's life.

Notes

  • Jonathan Kent tells Clark that he "was meant for much greater things than winning football games." A similar quote from Jonathan to Clark in the 1978 Superman film.[2]

Hothead

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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 & Sarah-Jane Redmond
  • Guest roles: Dan Lauria
  • Featured music:

Plot

Coach Arnold, Smallville's winningest coach, is mutated from the meteor rocks used to heat his sauna. Whenever Arnold gets angry he becomes a firestarter. Clark is asked to join the football team, and does so against his father's wishes. Chloe uncovers the truth about some cheating football players, and gets caught in Coach Arnold's fury.

X-Ray

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X-Ray Vision

Plot

Clark's vision begins to alter so that he is able to see through walls. While attempting to find out who framed Lex for a bank robbery, Clark must battle his sporadic X-ray vision. After gaining control, Clark is able find the thief, via their meteor rock infested skeletal structure.

Cool

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Iceman

Plot

A fall into icy, Kryptonite-laced Crater Lake, turns a student (Coristine) into a hypothermic monster who seeks to rob others of their body heat; Chloe being the next target.

Hourglass

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Vision of Lex

Plot

Harry Bollston (Murdock), an old man at a nursing home, falls into a meteor rock filled pond that can reverse the aging process. Harry (Olsen), 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 (Burroughs), an old woman at the same nursing home as Harry, has precognitive abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.

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.

Craving

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Jodi

Plot

Clark must save Pete from literally being devoured by Jodi Melville (Adams). 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.

Jitters

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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
  • Guest roles: Tony Todd
  • Featured music:

Plot

Clark and Lex team up to rescue Clark's high school class after Earl Jenkins (Todd), 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.

Rogue

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

Plot

Clark's secret identity is at stake when Sam Phelan (Dye), 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 (Brook), plot to take over both Luthorcorp and Victoria's father's corporation.

Shimmer

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An infatuation takes a drastic turn

Plot

Amy Palmer (Skye), 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 (Turton) 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.

Hug

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Bob Rickman can seal a deal with just a handshake

Plot

Bob Rickman (Peters), 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 (Sporleder), 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.

Leech

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Clark is struck my lightning and loses his powers
  • Original air date: February 12, 2002
  • Written By: Tim Schlattman
  • Directed By: Greg Beeman
  • Recurring role: Kelly Brook & Tom O'Brien
  • Guest role: Shawn Ashmore
  • Featured music:
    • "Fade" by Staind
    • "Elevation" by U2
    • "Fat Lip" by Sum 41
    • "Bonecracker" by Shocore
    • "Inflatable" by Bush

Plot

During a class field trip, lightning strikes Clark and a fellow classmate, Eric Summers (Ashmore), 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.

Kinetic

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Whitney falls in with the wrong crowd

Plot

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.

Zero

  • Original air date: March 12, 2002
  • Story By: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
  • Teleplay By: Mark Verheiden
  • Directed By: Michael Katelman
  • Guest role: Corin Nemec
  • Featured music:

Plot

Jude Royce (Nemec), a secret from Lex's past presumed to be dead, resurfaces after three years in Smallville to stalks 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.

Nicodemus

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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
  • Featured music:

Plot

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.

Allusions

Stray

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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
  • Guest role: Ryan Kelley
  • 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

Plot

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.

Notes

  • The climax scene was shot on location at an authentic bowling alley named "Lois Lanes Bowling and Billiards" in Richmond, British Columbia. [3]

Reaper

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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
  • Guest role: Reynaldo Rosales
  • Featured music:

Plot

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.

Drone

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Clark running for class president

Plot

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.

Notes

Crush

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Chloe cornered
  • Original air date: May 7, 2002
  • Written By: Philip Levens, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
  • Directed By: James Marshall
  • Guest role: Adam Brody
  • 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

Plot

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.

Notes

Obscura

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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: Tom O'Brien, Joe Morton & Robert Wisden
  • Guest role: Darrin Klimek
  • Featured music:

Plot

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.

Tempest

A tempest hits Smallville

Plot

The Smallville plant closes after Lional 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.

Notes

  • Rock band Remy Zero performs the Smallville theme song, their hit single "Save Me," at the high school formal.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Season 1 Music List". The Ultimate Smallville Music and Song List. smallvillemusic.atspace.com. Retrieved 2006-08-28.
  2. ^ Smallville Metamorphosis (2001) at IMDb Retrieved on 2006-08-28
  3. ^ a b c d e f http://www.imdb.com/title/tt{{{1%7C0702965/trivia Retrieved August 28, 2006
  4. ^ http://www.ruinedeye.com/lex/cass.htm Cassandra's vision
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