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Combat

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Combat
Series 6x17
Episode 127
Writer Turi Meyer, Al Septien
Director James Marshall
Broadcast Date March 22, 2007
Production Code 2T7716
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[edit] Summary

Clark and Chloe discover Titan, a Zoner, who is the star of a secret underground fight club whose bloody battles to the death are broadcast on the internet. Lois needs a story and decides to investigate the fight club by herself but is captured and forced to participate in the fights with Athena as her first opponent. Lana has pregnancy pain and is rushed to the hospital, and it is revealed that she miscarried the baby.

[edit] Recap

In a hangar, an underground fight is held. The announcer Richtor Maddox lines up the fights while in a
Athena in the locker room.
locker room, a man approaches a woman dressing for the match: Athena. They talk about the "big guy" until Athena tells him to leave. An alarm goes off and they grab guns and go out to see the "big guy," Titan, going berserk. They run away as Titan fights with... Clark Kent.

46 Hours Earlier

Clark is talking to Oliver Queen on the phone when Martha comes in to mention that Clark has secretly been capturing criminals in Metropolis. Clark is upset in the aftermath of Lex and Lana's wedding and releasing his frustrations on any krypto-mutants who get in his way, despite Martha's warnings. Through Oliver, Clark gets word of an underground fight circuit being broadcast
Lex thinks Lana's pulling away from him.
over the Internet, and he and Chloe watch on the computer as the main fighter, Titan, battles a man who can project energy from his hand; Titan is unfazed by the blast and kills the man with a spike that extends from his hand. Chloe can't track the signal or get past the security. They do freeze the frame on Titan and see he has a Kryptonian prison tattoo.

At the manor, Lana and Lex share a non-alcoholic drink and Lex comments on how Lana has been pulling away from him. Lex assures her he'll give her time and figures things will be different once the baby is born.

A short-tempered Clark arrives at Chloe's apartment and she's discovered the previous password has been changed. Chloe has identified one of the fighters, a krypto-mutant who was killed and returned
Lois goes undercover.
to where he was kept at Belle Reve. Lois comes in and is desperate for a story for the Inquisitor, and Clark and Chloe quickly hush up their investigation. However, after they leave Lois spots the screen capture of the fight and recognizes the setting as an Air Force hangar.

Lois goes to the hangar and claims to be a dancer from a nearby strip club and needs some help. She gets by Athena and takes some photos for her story, but Athena comes back and sees her taking photo and tries to capture her at gunpoint. Lois attacks her and takes her down, but Maddox pulls a gun on her and she is captured.

Chloe has identified Maddox as the director of Belle Reve and Clark decides to talk his way into the ring to find Titan. Meanwhile, at the manor Lex discovers that his facility in Corto Maltese is compromised... by Green Arrow. He goes to talk to Lana, who is lying on the floor in pain. Lex has her
Lex tells Lana they lost the baby.
taken to the medical center and Lex is forced to tell her that she's lost the baby due to complications. Clark breaks into Belle Reve and confronts Richtor as he leaves for the night. Clark demands a fight and demonstrates his powers to Maddox to convince him. Maddox agrees to let him fight and takes him to the hangar, where Clark's first opponent is Lois. They're forced to fake a fight and Clark uses his heat vision to destroy the equipment. Titan spots him and comes out to fight, killing Maddox when he gets in the way. Clark tells
Lois vs Clark
Lois to run right before Titan punches him with all his strength and Lois tries to run interference, without much luck and in the midst of this Lois gets unconscious after been thrown by Titan.

Clark comes back for more and the hangar is torn apart in the ensuing battle. Titan knocks Clark down and prepares to stab him with his hand-spike, but Clark regroups and inadvertently knocks him back onto his own spike. Titan congratulates him on a good fight... and then dies. Clark gets Lois out.

Lex's man reports that they found the fight club but Titan was killed and they don't know who did it. Further,
Titan and Clark fight.
the autopsy reveals that Titan wasn't human.

At the Kent Farm, Clark is going over photos and realizes there are probably more Phantom Zone prisoners. Since he doesn't know how to return them, the only way he can deal with them is to kill them. He confesses to Martha that he isn't sure if Titan's death was an accident and she tries to comfort him and reassure him his feelings mean he's human. Finally he admits his anger is over Lana and he thinks someone forced her to marry Lex, but Martha says at some point he has to let go.

Lana is in the nursery and tells Lex she's discovered that Dr. Langston was killed in a "car accident" the day of their wedding. Lex tries to reassure her without much luck and she wants to see Langston's files. Lex asks what he can do but Lana has nothing to say. Later Lex gets Lana's files from his family physician and burns them.

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[edit] Episode Title

  • Combat is a fight, struggle, or controversy.
  • This episode feature an underground fight club which broadcasts battles between metahumans and aliens.
  • The episode opens with an epic fight between Clark and the alien Zoner, Titan.

[edit] Notes

  • When in the ring, Lois Lane is introduced as Vixen. DC Comics has a character by this name who is a member of the Justice League.
  • Lionel Luthor doesn't appear in this episode.
  • Chloe and Clark watched the fight online on the site http://www.ringfighters.com/directory/videos/watch?v=T1T4N. (The "Fight or Die" matches are fictitious but the domain name was recently purchased.)
  • In the comic books, Titan was the name of one of the New Gods from the planet Apokolips, part of Darkseid's elite. Like Smallville's version, he was large, and a fierce fighter.
  • Titan also has some similarities to the Superman comics villain Doomsday, including the green clothes and the bone shards that protrude from his arms. Also, the wrestler Kane used the ring name "Doomzday" some time ago. However, Smallville's version of Doomsday appears later in Season Eight.
  • For the second time in two weeks, Clark is referred to as the "Man of Steel", one of Superman's nicknames.
  • Chloe says Maddox is a "Vince McMahon wannabe," a reference to Vince McMahon, founder of the World Wrestling Federation, or his son of the same name, who is current head of World Wrestling Entertainment. Both Kane (Glen Jacobs) and Ashley were wrestlers on the fellow CW program Smackdown!
  • When Chloe and Clark first watch Titan fight, he can be seen delivering a "choke slam" to his opponent. This is the finishing move of Kane (Glen Jacobs) who plays Titan.
  • This episode has a deleted scene, in which Clark confronts Titan's next opponent in the locker room before their fight. The fighter reveals that Maddox promises them freedom from Belle Reve if they win the match, and Clark tries to warn him that all of Titan's opponents die. He knocks the fighter out and takes his chance to face Titan.

This is the second time in the season where WWE Superstars make an appearence on the show. The first was Batista playing the Zoner, Aldar, in the episode, Static

[edit] Continuity

  • This is the first time Green Arrow has been seen since Justice. (However it is unknown whether or not he was actually played by Justin Hartley. Most likely, the security camera shot of the Green Arrow was reused footage from Justice.)
  • Lois mentions her "killer stars-and-stripes routine", a reference to her awkward stripper dance number in Exposed.
  • Dr. Albright was also seen at Belle Reve in the Season 5 episode Mortal, transferring patients on Lex's orders.
  • The 33.1 facilities that have not yet been taken out by the Green Arrow and his team are Chicago, Sydney, Mumbai and Reeves Dam. Those that have been shut down are Corto Maltese, St Martaan, Taipei, Vlatava, Havana, Middletown, and Tierra del Fuego.
  • Titan is the last corporeal Zoner that Clark has to encounter.

[edit] Quotes

Clark: The tattoo on Titan's arm. From what I could tell, it said he was a warrior, enhanced for combat. Ever since he's been here, he's been looking for a fight.
Chloe: Then what better challenge for a brawl-loving Zoner than a rumble at a Krypto fight club?
Chloe: Clark, he can kill you!
Clark: Not if I kill him first.
Clark: I'm not going to punch you, Lois.
Lois: Fine. Then you take the dive. (she punches Clark in his stomach and hurts her hand.) That is not just a six-pack under your shirt! That's a steel kegger!
Richtor Maddox: You scared me. Where did you come from?
Clark: You wouldn't believe me if I told you.
Richtor Maddox: Uh, you must have me confused with someone else. It happens, I have that kind of face.
Clark: Come here. (he pushes Maddox against his car) I know about the fight club. I know you're not only using patients from Belle Reve. I want in.
Richtor Maddox: Ow. Okay, look. The only place I could get you into is a psychiatric facility.
Richtor Maddox: Hey, what do you think of the name "The Man of Steel"?
Clark: "Man of Steel"?
Richtor Maddox: Yeah, I give all the fighters their monikers. Trust me, kid, it's a name that no one's ever going to forget.
Lois: Come on... help a girl out? I'll leave your name at the front door. You can watch my act. I do a killer Stars-and-Stripes routine.
Athena: I've always been a sucker for a girl in boots.
Lois: Lucky me.
Clark: You don't belong here.
Titan: You're the one that doesn't belong.
Chloe: I'm starting to think that, uh, super-sleuthing might be my latent krypto-power.
Clark: I wanted to kill him, Mom. I wanted to kill him with my bare hands. I've never felt rage like that before.
Martha: You were angry before you ever heard of Titan. We both know that's not what this is about.
Titan:(to Clark) Good fight. (falls down dead)

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