Episode #5-1: "Arrival" Air Date: September 29, 2005
Guest Stars: Erica Durance (Lois)
Added 6/24/05: Some spoilers have now leaked! Here's some stuff. New spoilers added 6/28/05 posted in green - New spoilers added 7/1/05 posted in yellow
Teaser:
- Out of the ship that Lana finds come what seem to be two Kryptonians - Nam-Ek, a "beautifully built black man," and a blond female named Aethyr. Sounds like they're naked, as all Kryptonians are when Smallville seasons begin. So much for that "suit that Clark was going to wear in Superman Returns" rumor, eh?
- Aethyr superspeeds in front of Lana. Lana notices a Kryptonian symbol on the small of Aethyr's back that is identical in look and placement to the one that Lana had on her back in Season 4.
- Lana asks the strangers who they are and where they're from. A military chopper approaches, and Aethyr sends it spiraling out of control, thanks to a burst of heat vision. Then, Nam-Ek uses his heat vision power to completely incinerate the chopper. Twenty armed soldiers approach in Humvees, and bullets bounce right off of the two strange visitors. They then incinerate all of their attackers with their heat vision.
- A Humvee charges full throttle at Aethyr, who grabs it by the bumper and flips the vehicle into the air. After all this commotion, Aethyr asks Nam-Ek where the girl has gone to. "She's of no use," he says. "We must find Kal-El." Lana hides and crouches in the bushes as all this is going on. End of teaser...
A few minutes later:
- Lex comes up from the rubble inside of the cave. His hand is bruised. He walks into the cave's inner chamber, and finds Chloe's cell phone laying on the ground. Lex spots the altar, where the octagonal key is resting. He examines the octagonal key, and hears a "You!" from behind. It's Nam-Ek and Aethyr, wearing fatigues stolen from the military people. Lex thinks they're really soldiers, and tells them that everything is under control, and that they're probably needed elsewhere. Nam-Ek asks Lex where Kal-El is. "Who?" Lex asks. "He possesses the octagonal key," Aethyr says, and in doing something that sounds like the Force in Star Wars, Nam-Ek lifts his hand and the key rockets into his palm. They ask Lex if he is Kal-El. "Who wants to know?" Lex asks. Aethyr grabs Lex by the throat and digs her nails into his skin. "Kal-El would not bleed," she says.
And then....
- We see the Arctic tundra, and there's a human figure laying face down in the ice. It's Chloe. We don't know for sure what happens next, but it's a pretty safe bet that by episode's end, or at least early in the season, Chloe and Clark will have to have a little talk, because she now knows everything about where his powers came from and he's not your average run-of-the-mill meteor freak.
Meanwhile, at the hospital...
- Lois visits the Kents to make sure they're all right. She makes a comment about how they let her have a home before, so the least she could do is to help out when it came crashing down. The Kents smile, and then a shattering explosion shakes the walls. In the corridor are Nam-Ek and Aethyr. "Tell us where Kal-El is, or suffer the fate of your brethren," they warn. The sheriff fires his gun at them and the bullets fly off. (The script says his, but hey, isn't Nancy a she?) Lois watches in disbelief. Nam-Ek approaches Jonathan. "Where is Kal-El?" Aethyr demands that they are taken to him, that Jonathan would know where he is. Jonathan is shocked to hear someone saying Clark's Kryptonian name.
- Aethyr reaches for Jonathan, when Lois intervenes. "I know where Kal-El is!" She tells them that Kal-El is at Fort Ryan and is waiting for them. "I'll take you to him right now. But you have to promise to behave yourselves. That means no blowing stuff up. Got it?" Lois asks. Nam-Ek and Aethyr each take Lois by an arm. Lois grins, trying to cover her fear.
And what of Lana?
- Lana wakes up on a couch in the mezzanine of Luthor Mansion. Her leg is bandaged up. She hears a scratching noise coming from downstairs. She looks down, and sees the Kryptonian symbol that she saw on the man and the woman, carved into the wood floor. Then it is revealed who is doing the carving - it's Lionel! "Mr. Luthor, what are you doing?" Lana asks.... and sadly, that's all we know right now.
- Lionel tells Lana that Nam-Ek and Aethyr are disciples of Zod and must be stopped. Yes... he said it... ZOD!
- Lionel gives Lana a green Kryptonite rock so she can stop the two aliens. Lana looks down at the rock, and seems to start to put the situation together as to what she needs to do...
Clark Finds Out What's Happened
- Clark, wherever he is, sees a television news broadcast on a television that's up on a wall. Smallville's second meteor shower is international news. The number of casualties in this second meteor shower is revealed. Clark stares in horror at the news report. We're assuming his next step is to return to Smallville. He's with someone else in the scene, but we can't really tell you who, because we don't know who.
Clark and Lex Confrontation
- "I don't have time for an interrogation," Clark tells Lex, maybe referring to the events that happened at the end of season 4. "Then be straight with me," Lex challenges him. "If you're my friend, you'll tell me the truth. Why were you in the caves when the meteors hit?"
Clark and the Kents Reunited
- Clark eventually makes his way to the hospital where the Kents are at. Jonathan tells Clark that they're looking for Kal-El. "I'll make it easy for them. Where are they?" he asks.
- Jonathan tells a police officer that Fort Ryan must be notified immediately. The officer turns around with a bloody face, his eyes dazed.
At the military hangar....
- Lois gets Aethyr and Nam-Ek to the military hangar and is stalling them with chit-chat. "Conversation? Don't they do that where you come from?" Lois asks. Aethyr reveals that the place they come from doesn't exist anymore. Nam-Ek gets angry. He realizes that Kal-El is not there. Lois tells him that Kal-El is right around some metal trunks in the corner, that that is "where he likes to hang out." The two walk toward the trunks, which are labeled "Lead Munitions." Behind them is nothing but a rat, but it buys Lois the time to pick up a rocket launcher. Yes. A rocket launcher. Lois fires and it blasts towards the duo. Nam-Ek catches the rocket, but it still explodes, engulfing the both of them. The Kryptonians emerge from the blast. Lois is terrified. "Whoops..."
Somewhere in Act Four...
- Lionel slumps toward the ground, unconscious. Lex gets up, out of breath, with a stream of blood trickling like a tear down his cheek.
- Nam-Ek and Aethyr are not pleased with Lois's ruse. "It was just a little prank," Lois babbles nervously. "Don't you guys have a sense of humor?" They hold her up in the air. "Guess not." Aethyr throws her 20 feet into a shelf of supplies. Things, and Lois, crash into the floor. Suddenly, Clark blurs out in superspeed, grabs both Nam-Ek and Aethyr by the hand, and throws THEM 80 feet, slamming into a cargo jeep. Yay for Smallville and the throwing around gag. They stand from the wreckage, unfazed. "We are not your enemies, Kal-El. We mean you no harm," says Nam-Ek. Nam-Ek explains that they three are the last survivors of Krypton, and that together they can do what their forefathers envisioned. "I saw what you did at the hospital," Clark tells them. "That's not utopia. It's murder."
- Aethyr tells Clark that some must be sacrificed for the sake of the many."
- Clark challenges her. "Then you'll have to sacrifice me, because I won't allow you to kill anyone else."
- Aethyr takes off her metallic bracelet and hurls it onto the floor. The bracelet mushrooms into a vortex of wind and black-purple light. "We cannot destroy you, Kal-El, but we can put you in a place where you cannot stop us," Nam-Ek tells him. Clark struggles as he is dragged toward the inferno.
- Clark uses some new skills he learned at the Fortress of Solitude earlier in the episode (obviously material we don't yet have spoilers for). He musters all of his strength to break free, and....
- Clark's new skill learned from Jor-El in the Fortress has him leaping backward in the air in a perfect backflip. His feet ram into Nam-Ek's chest, sending him flying 30 feet. Aethyr rips a wing off of a plane's fuselage and swings it at Clark. It misses. Twin shimmers of heat vision blast after Clark. Clark blasts back with his own rays. This goes until Aethyr fires a blast into the axis of criscrossing beams up above. All three of them are flown back from the inevitable blast. Clark falls on the ground, near the vortex, and Nam-Ek grabs him by the leg. "Goodbye, Kal-El," Nam-Ek says, ready to give him the final blow, when his own knees start to weaken.
- Reveal Lana right behind him, clutching a glowing green rock of Kryptonite. Clark tries to hide his own gripping pain. Aethyr rushes across the warehouse, getting weaker as she gets closer to the green rock. Weakened, Aethyr lets out a burst of heat vision which sears Lana's arm. Lana screams and slams back, knocking over some shelves, right behind those trunks labeled "lead munitions." Clark is back on his feet. The vortex continues to whirl. "Your human friends are of no use to you now, Kal-El," Nam-Ek tells him. Clark remembers Jor-El's words inside the Fortress and superspeed leaps into the air, ands ends up in the rafters, hidden from Nam-Ek and Aethyr. Aeythr searches for him, frustrated, when Clark comes back down from up above and pounces her, propelling her into the vortex. She digs her fingers into the floor when she is sucked inside. Nam-Ek struggles and tries to grab her arm and pull her out. As Nam-Ek struggles, Clark hurls a cannon at him, and....
....That's all we've got so far! See you in September! Stay tuned for more Season 5 spoilers as they become available!
Episode #5-2: "Mortal" Air Date: October 6, 2005
Spoilers posted 7/6/05 - New spoilers in yellow posted 7/11/05
Teaser:
- Lex has had Lionel admitted into Belle Reve. He's still in a "Kryptonian trance." The scene sounds like a complete reversal of "Shattered," where Lionel was looking in on Lex. This time, the tables are turned.
- Four armed guards are moving three patients along. There's a "hulking, tattooed badass" named Tommy Lee. He's with a pair of eerily gaunt twins. (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen maybe? Kidding.)
- Tommy Lee apparently has a power to control electricity flow and uses it to make his escape. The two twins he is with slam their fists together which leads into a white hot glow that fuses them together into a rippling force field. They ask Tommy Lee where their next destination will be. He tells them it will be Smallville.
- The twins have a habit of finishing each other's sentences.
A little bit later, in Act Two:
- The Kent house is being repaired after the effects of the meteor shower. Half of the walls are stripped to the studs. (Did someone say stripping? It's early Season 4 all over again) This information we have apparently is somewhere around the middle of the scene, because Clark is being tossed into a wall. Lana rushes to him and tells the people who did it to "Stop it!" Reveal the twins and Tommy Lee.
- "You're a legend in Belle Reve," Tommy tells Clark. "Half the freaks are in there because of you," he says, right in front of Lana. Lana asks what he's talking about. Clark claims he's got the wrong guy. Tommy yanks Lana up, holding her by her "porcelain neck." (Their words, not ours) He licks the side of her face, which enrages Clark. Clark heads towards him and Tommy draws power from the exposed wiring to electrocute Clark. Clark goes down, in pain. Tommy and the twins think they have the wrong person.
And in the caves...
- Chloe is down in the caves looking at the symbols on the wall and the damaged altar in the open chamber room. She tries to let go of the memory of being transported across the world in a flash of light.
- The next scene we know of, which is a little later, has Lex talking to Chloe... possibly in the caves. "I think you know more than you're telling me, Chloe," Lex tells her, warning her that she's getting involved in a "dangerous game" by covering up for Clark.
- "Like covering up the spaceship Lana said crashed during the meteor shower?" Chloe retorts. Lex claims Lana was hysterical and didn't know what she was talking about. "Stop asking questions, Lex, or I'll start asking my own," Chloe threatens.
And even later than that...
- Tommy Lee apparently isn't so much of an enemy to Clark anymore, or at least now they're talking rather than throwing each other across the room, because they're talking inside the Kent kitchen. Clark learns that Tommy Lee spent a few weeks inside of Level Three.
- Tommy jokingly refers to the two gaunt twins as "the Wonder Twins."
- Tommy needs Clark to break into Level Three to get him and his friends some kind of "serum." The serum, a "nifty green cocktail," amped up Tommy and the twins' powers, and became addictive. Then, they were moved from Level Three into Belle Reve, and boom, no more cocktails. "If the stories I heard about you are true, you shouldn't have any problem" with getting in, Tommy Lee tells Clark. The Kents approach, and Tommy Lee apparently makes himself scarce.
- Jonathan and Martha return home and find Clark alone. Martha notices Lana's SUV there but doesn't know where she is; Clark says she wasn't feeling well and was laying down. Clark's shirt is inside out - probably from something having to do with the fight with the FOTW's - but it's likely that the Kents think something else was happening there. Clark tries to get his parents to leave and go to the hardware store; when that tactic doesn't work, he tries something else. Seems like he thinks his parents will be in danger.
- There's a confrontation where police cruisers are headed toward the house and Tommy destroys a police cruiser with an energy blast. The blast sends the sheriff flying. Jonathan, outside on the porch, gets in a scuffle that results in Tommy Lee elbowing him in the face. Tommy Lee tells the twins "to get the field up" which is likely to be their escape route. Indoors, Lana is working her Lana Fu on the twins, kicking them. She also nails Twin #2's hand to the wall with a nail gun. Ouch!
New Chlark!
- Clark goes to Chloe for help in getting into the vault that holds the serum inside. They're happy to see one another, because they greet with a hug, and Chloe says "Let's not do that again, okay?" which implies they may have been in danger before this scene. They need fingerprint access. Chloe says she'll need a week, or Lex's thumbprint.
- It seems like no conversation happens at all in the premiere, since Clark is still playing unpowered and Chloe is still dropping hints. Chloe pulls out a flashlight that Lex handled and hands it to Clark, and gives Clark a knowing look that he'll know what to do with it. Clark is puzzled.
Also...
- Jonathan, Martha, and Lana are tied up by the baddies, who are "waiting for that Kent kid to come back." So he's not there...
Episode #5-3: "Hidden" Air Date: October 13, 2005
New spoilers in yellow posted 7/20/05
Teaser:
- The episode starts with two corporals who it sounds like are guarding a "horned lava mutant." One of the two is attacked by someone with a camoflauging power, who materializes like pixels out of the air. It's a young man named Gabriel. He takes the corporals' keys and gets to type in a security code, which reveals another panel, which reveals two key holes. He then makes a call.
And then the action moves to outside of the Talon...
- Where we see Chloe's VW with a "Met U" bumpersticker. Her car is filled with all of the things she'll need to relocate for college - computer, clothes, lamps, and that sort of thing. She answers her cell phone... and the caller is Gabriel, the guy you saw in the previous scene. He calls Chloe and warns her to get out of town. He says "How much time did I spend at the Torch helping you chase 'the' big story?... In one hour, you're going to get it."
- Gabriel sets down his phone. A digital clock ticks down, and behind it is a large Plexiglas window. Beyond the window is a cylindrical metal form. There's a painted American flag on its tubular structure, with the words "United States of America" beside it. It's an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. I smell trouble...
Later...
- Clark and Chloe discuss the call she received from Gabriel. He tells her that her approach to journalism apparently got someone's attention. "Either way, he trusts you. Maybe we don't have to search every silo," Clark tells her.
- Chloe improvises, and calls Gabriel pretending she has had car troubles. We learn that Sheriff Adams wasn't able to trace the number for some reason. Clark pushes the VW Bug off to the side of the road into the gravel. The script bits say "Clark strains with all of his human strength," which implies that his powers may still be gone.
In a Luthorcorp warehouse...
- We see the black spaceship! But that's all we know about that!
Lex Confronts Lionel
- Lex demands that Lionel tells him what the Kryptonian symbols mean. Lex accuses him of playing games, like he did when he did the "blind routine" or when he was pretending to be "born again."
- "You can never open it," Lionel tells Lex. "Only he can open it."
And then...
- Chloe and Gabriel meet up. Gabriel offers to take Chloe with him. Clark tackles him, but gets elbowed in the face, which makes him bleed. A gunshot rings out. Clark has been shot, right in front of Chloe. Gabriel takes Chloe, shoves a gun to her side, and demands that she comes with him.
In Act Three...
- Gabriel's taken Chloe with him and we learn that the second meteor shower has left behind 10 times "more rock" than the first meteor shower did. It sounds like Gabriel wants to destroy Smallville so there will be no more meteor freaks. We also learn Gabriel's dad had always warned him about "the meteor freaks in this town."
At Smallville Medical Center...
- Lana visits the hospital as soon as she hears Clark has been shot. "They found Chloe's car in a ditch and Clark had been shot," Jonathan tells her.
Episode #5-4: "Aqua" Air Date: October 20, 2005
Guest Stars: Erica Durance (Lois), James Marsters (Professor Fine)
New spoilers in yellow posted 7/22/05
- Tom Welling announced at the 2005 Television Critics Association press tour that their next episode to be filming would feature an appearance by another DC Comics character - Aquaman. He will have a romantic fling with Lois Lane. Click here for more details.
- This episode introduces James Marsters as Prof. Milton Fine.
Professor Fine Propositions Clark
- Professor Fine tells Clark that he should come work for him, even though Clark shows up late for his class and fumbles with excuses. "Actually, I'm not looking for a job, sir," Clark tells him. "The only thing worse than the fear of speaking the truth, is the fear of uncovering it," Fine tells him. "If you know Lex Luthor, ask him yourself."
At the Luthor mansion....
- Lex has hired a swim coach. He's surprised to find "A.C.," a 19-year old phenom from the Stanford swim team. Why are my Hoyay alarms going off? "Your inexperience is a concern," Lex tells the young man. We learn that A.C. - Arthur Curry - bowed out of the Olympic trials. "There are more important things in life than chlorine and winning medals," Arthur tells Lex. "Like what? Finding the perfect wave?" "Among other things."
- Lex introduces Clark to his new swim coach. Arthur recognizes Clark for a rescue from earlier in the day. "You were like a torpedo out there," Clark tells him. "I'm going to show our boy Lex everything I know," Arthur replies.
- Clark confronts Lex, as he always does, and asks him why he needs a swim coach. Lex tells him that Arthur can do the 100 meter free-style in under fifty seconds, and Lex wants to try out for a Pentathlon. "It's something I need to do," Lex tells him. "Is building weapons something you need to do, too?" Clark asks him. Professor Fine has told him some new information about his bald friend...
Later, in the Talon...
- Arthur meets Lois at the Talon and says "Do you look beautiful or what?" Seems at this point he's already rescued Lois twice.
- "You're not like most chicks, are you?" Arthur asks Lois. "Life would be a whole lot easier if there were," she tells him. He calls her on her "bad-ass" attitude, but inside sees her tenderness. Arthur kisses her. Clark walks in to the Talon at that time.
Episode #5-6: Title Unknown Air Date: November 6, 2005
Guest Stars: Tom Wopat
- Tom Wopat guest stars as a senator and old friend of Jonathan Kent's.
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