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Contents 1 Summary 2 Recap 3 Recurring Roles 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Quotes 7 External Links

[edit] Summary

A second meteor shower is headed for Smallville. Jor-El says that Clark must get all the Crystals. Lana may be wanted for murder. Lois is leaving to find her sister in Europe. Clark's graduation ceremony gets interrupted.

[edit] Recap

Lana returns to her apartment to find Genevieve Teague demanding Lana to give her the Crystal of Air. They fight until Countess Isobel transfers back into Lana's body. She stabs and kills Genevieve with the stone. The Mark of Transference disappears from Lana's back, because Isobel has finally gotten her revenge. Clark has a dream in which red, yellow, and blue lights come together to form a meteor. He is awakened by his parents, who say that Clark was yelling, "It's coming!" in his sleep. Meanwhile in outer space meteors start flying towards Earth.

Lex walks in immediately after Isobel kills Genevieve and convinces Lana that it was self-defense and she had no choice. He offers her one of the best defense attorneys in the nation. He tells her to stay in the Luthor Mansion and talk to no one until the lawyer arrives. Lionel goes to her apartment and takes the body. He threatens Lex that if he does not get the Stone from Lana by noon, Genevieve's body and evidence against Lana will be given to the sheriff.

Clark and Chloe notice that Lana is not at school to pick up her cap and gown. They start to worry when she misses the ceremony completely. Right after Clark receives his diploma, military vehicles pull up, interrupting the ceremony and announcing a meteor shower will hit Smallville in three hours. Clark urges Chloe and Lois to escape Smallville.

Lex offers Clark and his parents safe passage out on the LuthorCorp jet, but Clark rejects the offer. He goes to see Jor-El to ask him what he has done. Jor-El says that Clark has caused this himself because he did not collect the Stones of Power, and today he will witness the consequences for denying his heritage. He tells him that there is nothing that he can to do to prevent it from happening. Human blood has soiled one of the stones, causing a second meteor shower and a dark force from Krypton to come to Earth. If he does not unite the Stones at once, the Earth will be destroyed, and not even Clark will survive. The fate of the world is in his hands.

Clark returns to the Kent Farm where his parents are loading the car. He reluctantly tells them that he cannot go with them and he must unite the Stones. They are fearful because the last meteor shower was full of kryptonite and Clark could be killed. Sounding not very confident, Clark insists that he is the only one who can prevent the Earth's destruction. Finally, Jonathan states that all of Clark's trials have prepared him for this moment and tells Clark to go, and make them proud.

Clark finds Lana waiting for him in the barn. She gives him the Crystal of Air because she thinks that it is meant for him. They say they love each other and kiss, in case they never see each other again. She returns to the Luthor mansion and leaves Chloe a short voicemail. When Lex asks Lana for the stone, she simply says it is safe.

Lex returns to the Mansion with Lionel waiting for him. They argue over the whereabouts of the Stone of Water. When Clark sets the second stone in the altar, he hears a piercing sound which alerts him to its location - Lionel's pocket. The stone emits a ray of energy, and Lionel is shocked into catatonia and Lex is shot back against the wall. Unconcerned, Lex simply leaves his manservant to deal with Lionel and puts the stone in his vault. As Lana boards the helicopter, Lex insists again that she give him the stone. She finally says she gave it to someone else, angering him. Lana realizes that he is not interested in her safety and angrily boards the helicopter. Lex returns to the mansion. Clark superspeeds to the Mansion and flings open the vault, but it is full of kryptonite artifacts. He grabs the Stone right before he collapses. Lois and Chloe are stuck in traffic, so they hatch a plan in which Lois distracts the guard at the roadblock long enough to let Chloe sneak by him to get to the Luthor Mansion and look for Lana. Chloe finds Clark unconscious and and drags him away. Lex walks in and finds Chloe, but Clark speeds out before Lex can see him. Lex forces Chloe to tell him why she is there and she insists that she does not know what happened. He drags her to the cave, demanding answers. Having apparently survived his fall into a river, Jason Teague stops Clark's parents as they are leaving the farm. Bloody and pointing a shotgun at them, he demands they tell him where Clark is. He ties them up and they try to fight back, but he threatens them with his gun.

The meteors hit all over Smallville. Lois is stuck in traffic and cannot get out before the meteors hit. She gets out of Chloe's car and escapes to higher ground. In tears, she watches Smallville being destroyed. The Kent house is hit by a meteor with Jason, Jonathan, and Martha inside it. Lionel lies in a catatonic state. Lana's helicopter is hit by a meteor and crashes to the ground. Badly injured, she crawls to the edge of a crater containing a giant black spaceship.

Lex and Chloe see the light coming from the hidden chamber in the Kawatche Caves. Chloe pushes him against the cave wall and he falls down. Clark combines all the Stones and the Crystal of Knowledge is created. Clark grabs the Crystal and is transported to the Arctic. He looks around and throws the Crystal.

[edit] Recurring Roles

• Lois Lane- Erica Durance
• Voice of Jor-El- Terence Stamp
• Genevieve Teague- Jane Seymour

[edit] Notes

• This was most expensive episode since the Pilot.
• One of the graduates mentioned at the ceremony is "Holly Harold", who has written eight episodes of Smallville.
• The astronomer at the research facility that spots the asteroid is reading Adbusters, a popular sub-culture magazine.
  

  

  Lights in the sky.
• This episode received the 2005 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Series.
• On its original airing, this episode filled a 90 minute time slot with the last ten minutes featuring an exclusive 10-minute preview of the movie Batman Begins. The episode itself is about ten minutes longer than others.
• This is so far the last appearance of Jensen Ackles as Jason Teague and Jane Seymour as Genevieve Teague.
• This is the last episode that Erica Durance (Lois Lane) is credited as a "Special Guest Star".
• This episode contains several Superman allusions: Lois tells the Kents she had an nightmare about a "guy in a red cape", then tells Clark that he will "go into the big city and make his mark." In Clark's premonition, he sees red, yellow, and blue lights in the sky, Superman's colors. Also, the crystal takes the shape of the Kryptonian pentagon on Superman's chest.
• A repeat of this episode on E4 during mid-afternoon cut the scene with Jason Teague kidnapping the Kents.

[edit] Continuity

• Clark had a precognitive hallucination about a second meteor shower in Scare.

• Lex reveals two years later in Wrath that the date of the second meteor shower is May 18, 2005.

• Chloe, Clark, Lex, Lionel, Lana, Martha, Jonathan, Lois, and Shelby's fate are revealed in the next episode.

[edit] Quotes

Lois: Clark, I know how devastated you must be but if you could just keep the tears to a minimum, I'd appreciate it.

Clark: I'll try.

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Lionel: You know, for a woman without a heart, Genevieve Teague certainly had a lot of blood.

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Lex: Can you hear me, dad? Before you leave this Earth, I want you to know... you did create the son you always wanted.

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Jason: I'm having what you'd call a rough day.

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Lois: You know, I took this career test in some magazine- it said that my perfect job would be a radio disc jockey.

Clark: That would make sense- you talk enough. There won't be any dead air.

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Chloe: Because you have a way of getting things done in half the time a normal person gets things done.

Clark: And I'm not normal?

Chloe: No, of course you're normal, Clark. You're as normal as they come.

[edit] External Links

• TV.com
• Season 4 gallery

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