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Bizarro (episode)

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Bizarro
Series 7x01
Episode 133
Writer Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson
Director Michael Rohl
Broadcast Date September 27, 2007
Production Code 3T6301
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[edit] Summary

As a result of the dam break caused by Clark's struggle with his evil doppleganger, a new super-powered individual is released. Meanwhile, Lex, is imprisoned for Lana's murder and Chloe suffers the consequences of her powers.

[edit] Recap

Lois is holding Chloe's body in the water.
As a result of the brutal fight between Clark Kent and escaped Zoner Bizarro, Reeves Dam has broken. A father and his son are fishing close to the dam and are unaware that it is breaking. Inside the dam, Lois Lane is in the water holding Chloe Sullivan's body as the water rises. Lex Luthor is locked in a police car on the bridge of the dam, which continues to crumble. Water pours over the bridge, sweeping Lex downstream.

Clark is in the woods close by where he meets Bizarro again. As Clark tries to leave, remembering his friends are still in the dam, Bizarro attacks him, but Clark manages to punch him away.

Lex is saved by a mysterious woman.
Downstream, the father now sees the water rushing towards them. He tells his son to run but falls and hits his head. His son runs to his side and sees the water coming towards them, but Clark arrives just in time and uses his super speed and heat vision to vaporize the water. The boy stares at Clark in awe as he leaves.

Lex is now underwater and trying to get out of the car before he drowns. He sees a woman flowing closer to him from outside the window as he passes out. He later wakes on the shore with the woman standing over him. She flies off, leaving Lex alone.

Meanwhile, Bizarro has been impaled on an electrical pylon by the force of Clark's punch. He frees himself and as a passerby encounters him, Bizarro simply kills him with heat vision. Bizarro goes to the Kent Farm to heal himself with green kryptonite.

Clark and Lois at the hospital.
Clark arrives back at the dam and begins to look for Lionel Luthor. Outside the dam, Lionel is unconscious on the riverbed. A trenchcoat-wearing figure finds him and pulls him away... Lois tries to get Chloe to safety and sees a door with a glowing green light. She goes up to it and sees that on the other side is endless water and floating dead bodies. She turns around to find Bizarro's previous host, an eight-year-old boy, crying for help. Lois calls out for help too and the wall collapses, revealing Clark. He sees Chloe is unconscious.

Lex is in his office in Metropolis when his assistant announces that his helicopter is ready to take him out of the country. Lex is somber and quiet. He thinks he was saved by an angel and reminisces about Lana. As he fingers his wedding ring, he tells his shocked assistant that he is turning himself in.

The ER team tries to revive Chloe.
At the Smallville Medical Center, Chloe is in the ER and Lois and Clark are waiting outside. Lois tells Clark how she was stabbed and miraculously healed, and she awoke to find Chloe unconscious beside her. She asks him to stay with Chloe so she can go to the Luthor Mansion to investigate. At the mansion, she runs into Bizarro. She thinks he is Clark and is unnerved at his flirting advances and friskiness. She slaps him and he leaves.

The ER team continues to attempt to revive Chloe, but after they lose her pulse, they pronounce her dead.

Chloe wakes up in the morgue drawer scared and confused. She starts to bang and yell. At the same time Clark asks a doctor about Chloe, but she will not tell him that Chloe is dead until she tells Lois first. Clark gets upset and another doctor admits that she didn't make it. Clark is disoriented and devastated. His super-hearing turns on and is barraged by all the surrounding noises. Clark is able to focus on Chloe's yelling for help and comes to her rescue, releasing her from the body drawer. She cannot explain what happened and does not want to discuss it. Chloe sees her death certificate on a
Bizarro breaks Lex out of jail.
clipboard, but when she rips it off, she sees one for Lana Lang as well.

In custody, Lex listens to his lawyer Keating playing a tape of him and Lana fighting about her relationship with Clark. Lex is also worried about repairing the dam and about his father. Bizarro breaks open the jail wall and kills Keating. Lex thinks the phantom has taken over Clark's body, but Bizarro informs him that he is, in fact, a copy. He demands Lex help him find more meteor rocks.

Chloe is back home at the Talon apartment, in tears as she watches a video of her and Lana together. When Clark arrives, she hugs him for comfort, but Clark is unwilling to mourn just yet. He tells her that Bizarro reacts positively to kryptonite, and they realize that he is probably searching for more meteor rocks for strength. They learn that Lex had a large shipment sent to the dam. Clark does not know how to defeat an enemy that "has all of his powers but not his weakness."

Clark then meets with the Martian Manhunter in his loft. He tells Clark the he has done what Jor-El did not want. Clark tells him that he is proud that he cares for humans and considers it a strength. The Martian Manhunter hints that Clark's other strength might help him defeat Bizarro; Clark remembers that he gets his power from the Earth's yellow sun. Clark then realizes that Bizarro was weakened earlier when he was exposed to sunlight.

Lex has taken Bizarro to the dam and pulls a large gun on him but Bizarro easily stops Lex and knocks him across the room. Bizarro then absorbs the kryptonite radiation when Clark arrives. Clark goes after Bizarro, but is easily knocked back. Clark lands under a hole in the wall, directly underneath a beam of sunlight.
The Martian Manhunter tells Clark that Jor-El would be proud.
Bizarro thinks he has won and starts to leave but the sun heals Clark and he gets up and calls Bizarro back. Bizarro comes toward Clark, right into the sunlight, where his face changes into its inhuman appearance. Clark takes Bizarro's best punch, then uppercuts him high into the sky, where Martian Manhunter takes him away.
Lois threatens Clark
Back at the Kent Farm, Clark is listening to a news radio report about Lana's death when Chloe arrives. He tells her that he wasn't sure there was much difference between him and Bizarro. He admits that when he learned of Lana's death, he intended to kill Lex. Chloe assures him that his human upbringing proves that there is. Clark mentions what happened to Chloe but she avoids the subject. Lois enters and tells Clark that she forgives him for hitting on her. Clark is a little confused, but Lois explains that he must have been insane with grief. Surprisingly, she hugs him and sincerely expresses her condolences. Then she threatens that if he ever does that again she will tear his head off.
A mysterious woman.

Later, the Martian Manhunter tells Clark that his father would be proud of him but Clark wonders if it was worth it. He says that losing Lana has made him realize that the humans he loves will not be around forever. Chloe destroys her death certificate and Lex is put back in jail while looking at a photograph of him and Lana.

In Shanghai, China, a blonde woman is walking down a busy street. She enters her apartment and takes off a wig. It is revealed to be Lana Lang. She looks up to the moon from her window at the same time as Clark.

The mysterious woman that saved Lex sits atop the Smallville water tower. Now wearing regular clothes, she puts on the bracelet and flies away above the town.

[edit] Recurring Role

[edit] Guest Cast

  • Keating - Conrad Coates

[edit] Featured Music

  • "Sober"- Kelly Clarkson

[edit] Episode Title

  • The title of this episode refers to Bizarro, the last remaining Zoner.
  • The episode title is the only time that Bizarro's name has been used by itself. In Phantom, Bizarro says to Clark Kent, "I'm you, only a little more bizarre." In this episode, Chloe says, "Well, where's our Bizarro Clark now?" He is never actually referred to as "Bizarro".

[edit] Notes

  • This is the first appearance of Laura Vandervoort as Kara Kent.
  • Season Seven reveals a new set of opening credits, the first set without Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent. Kristin Kreuk and Michael Rosenbaum switch places, Erica Durance and Allison Mack also switch places. It is also the first set with Aaron Ashmore as Jimmy Olsen and Laura Vandervoort as Kara Kent.
  • Bizarro's skin is only distorted when exposed to direct sunlight. In the comics, he is irreversibly distorted.
  • Jimmy Olsen does not appear in this episode.
  • Kara is first seen dressed nearly the same way as Raya was when she resided in the Phantom Zone.
  • Kara started her flight from the water tower with an outstretched right arm, bearing a striking resemblance to Superman's take-offs in the movies.
  • Chloe's toe tag indicates that she is 110 pounds, 5'3", and 21 years old. (However, according to the airdate of Spell, she doesn't turn 21 until the fall. Perhaps the SMC staff simply estimated.) [1]
  • This is Lana's second visit to China, the first was in the fourth season episode Sacred, where she and Clark traveled there to locate the Stones of Power.
  • Although there have been episodes that do not feature Lana Lang at all, this is the first episode in which Lana has appeared without any dialogue and with the shortest amount of screentime.
  • In the comics and series, Bizarro has a crush on Lois Lane and in the episode, he unsuccessfully flirts with her.

[edit] Continuity

  • The little boy that Lois encountered in the dam is the last human host that Bizarro possessed in Phantom.
  • Lex is saved by Kara from drowning under water, which mirrors Lex and Clark's first interaction in Pilot where Clark Kent performed the same heroic deed.
  • Lex's assistant also appears in Action, Gemini, Hero, Traveler, Veritas, and Descent, where it is revealed that her name is Gina.
  • Martian Manhunter is still injured from the wound dealt to him by the final phantom in Phantom
  • This is the third premiere episode in which Clark has fought a Phantom Zone escapee, he also fought Zod in Zod and Zods disciples in Arrival

[edit] Quotes

Chloe: This guy can fly? God, Clark, you've got to get on that one.
Lois: (to Clark) Just trust me on this one. But if you ever grab my ass again, I will be taking your hand with me when I go.
Lex: I may have tracked you around the globe, but clearly you're not a native. Where are you from and why did you only replicate Clark?
Bizarro: Now you got a decision to make, Lex. What's more important? Destroying me or solving the mystery of Clark Kent?
Bizarro: Man, how can a guy miss what's been right in front of him all this time?
Lois: Slow down there, tiger. A little personal-space breach.
Bizarro: Come on, I know you're looking for a guy who doesn't play by the rules
Lois: And on what planet is that you, Smallville?
Bizarro: Whatever planet you want me to take you to.
Clark: In a weird way, he may have been right. Maybe I have allowed myself to become weak, caring too much about everything, everyone here.
Martian Manhunter: You've learned a lot from your time in Smallville. These people have made you who you are.
Clark: They won't always be here. Losing Lana has made me realize no matter how close I get, someday they'll all be gone. And all the time I've spent ignoring my destiny, trying to be something I'll never be: human.
Clark: Hey! Is that all you got?
Bizarro: You are no match for my strength.
Clark: Loving someone is hard, it's difficult. But hate— hate is so... clean.
Chloe: Maybe you need to feel this right now. I mean, anger is a natural human emotion.

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Clark defeats Bizarro with Solar Energy from the Sun


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