Lexmas

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Recap 3 Recurring Role 4 Guest Stars 5 Featured Music 6 Notes 7 Continuity 8 Quotes 9 External Links

[edit] Summary

Lex considers whether to turn an operative loose to obtain or fake damaging information against Jonathan to upset his Senatorial race. Yet when Lex is shot, he falls into a coma and is visited by the ghost of his mother, who shows him what his life could be like if he frees himself from his father. Meanwhile, Clark helps deliver Christmas presents.

[edit] Recap

Lex drives into a dark alley to meet Griff, who is being paid to do whatever Lex wants to destroy Jonathan in the race for State Senator. Lex hesitates and says that he wants 24 hours to decide if he wants to go down that path. As he heads for his car, he is mugged and shot, and left for dead in the street.

It is Christmas Eve. Lex wakes up, shocked to see a very pregnant Lana in bed next to him. He also has a young son, Alexander. Lex lifts up his shirt and sees the scar on his side from the gun shot. His dead mother, Lillian, appears to Lex and says that it is not a dream and this can be his life if he makes the right choices.

In the present time, Lex lays unconscious in the alley. He is transported to the hospital as the doctors try to save his life. He slips back into his dream.

Lana says that it has been seven years since Lionel cut Lex out of the family fortune. He takes his son to go buy a Christmas tree. At the tree farm, Lex sees Clark and Chloe. Clark is now a full-fledged reporter at the Daily Planet and Chloe is publishing a book next month exposing LuthorCorp with Lex's help.

Back in the present, the Kents are getting ready for Christmas and Clark has invited Lana to spend it with them. Clark gets an urgent call from Chloe, still at work. He goes to help her and she explains that her Teamsters went on strike, and the thousands of presents they collected for Toys for Tots will be undelivered unless he helps her out. Clark agrees to help her distribute the toys. While zipping through the city, he sees a man dressed in a Santa Claus costume about to jump off a building with a liquor bottle in his hand. He says he was going to jump because the Christmas spirit is dead. Clark objects and tells him about how he gave up his first Christmas with Lana to help Chloe deliver toys. When Santa falls off, Clark saves him and sends him on his way.

Dr. Scanlan explains to Lionel that Lex will most likely be paralyzed from the chest down because he is too unstable for surgery or transfer. Despite this, Lionel transfers Lex to the Davis Clinic in Metropolis for immediate but extremely risky surgery.

In the alternate reality, Lex and Lana Luthor go to the party at the Kents' house. Jonathan Kent is now the current State Senator. He says that Lex is the best man he knows and announces that Lex will receive the Kansas Humanitarian Award. Lex steps outside where his mother's spirit. He marvels that he's never been happier and she tells him that he could have this happiness in reality if he makes the right choice. He doesn't understand but when he asks for more information, she disappears. Clark approaches and muses that he and Lana didn't work out because Lex became a man she could love. However, they are still on good terms. Their conversation is interrupted by Martha, who reports that Lana has gone into labor. Lana delivers a baby girl on Christmas Eve. However, she starts to rapidly lose blood. Lex goes to Lionel in the Luthor Mansion to beg for resources to save his wife, but Lionel refuses to help them because Lex betrayed him seven years ago by dropping out of the Senate race. He tells him that he has no son. Lana dies and Lillian appears again. Lex tells her that he doesn't want this alternate reality because everyone he's ever loved has died. The man dressed as Santa Claus appears at the Daily Planet and offers to help Chloe with the gifts because Clark was willing to give up his Christmas with Lana. After Chloe reluctantly accepts Santa's help, he and all the presents disappear. Back at the Kent party, Chloe tells Clark about the presents disappearing and says she thinks that he may have possibly been Santa Claus. Clark and Lana spend their first Christmas together as it snows.

Lex wakes up with Lionel at his bedside. He is upset with Lionel for ordering surgery with very low odds of survival, asking him, "How dare you play God with my life?" When Griff asks Lex what his choice was, Lex decides that he will do anything it takes to win the Senate race. Lex says his only wish is to live happily ever after and the key to that is money and power. He says the only way to secure everything is to get money first and he wants it all. In her reflection in the window, Lillian cries over the choice Lex just made.

[edit] Recurring Role

• Lillian Luthor - Alisen Down

[edit] Guest Stars

• Griff - Adrian Holmes
• Dr. Litvack - Adam Harrington
• Santa Claus - Kenneth Welsh
• Dr. Scanlan - Jerry Wasserman
• Alexander - Nico Ghisi

[edit] Featured Music

• "That Spirit of Christmas" - Ray Charles
• "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairies" - Tchaikovsky

[edit] Notes

• This is Smallville's first Christmas episode.
• Two of the doctors in this episode are named after members of the production crew. Dr. Litvack is named after co-executive producer John Litvack. Dr. Scanlan is named after producer Tim Scanlan.
• Erica Durance as Lois Lane doesn't appear in this episode. However, Chloe's name is never spoken in the alternate-reality in which she is a published journalist.
• If this episode was a real version of the future and not just a dream Lex had, it may be that Lois Lane was the loved one of Clark's that died in Reckoning rather than Lana or his father. However, Lex has no knowledge of Clark's Kryptonian destiny or Jor-El's prediction.
• It has been speculated by fans that Chloe and Clark are a in a relationship in Lex's vision. However, this is only vaguely implied when they are seen buying a christmas tree together.
• Lex and Lionel were in the opposite position in the Season Two premiere Vortex, in which Lionel's injuries threatened to blind and paralyze him. Lex decided to allow the risky surgery to be performed, but it was only partially successful, resulting in Lionel's temporary blindness.
• Lex's award reads:

The Kansas Humanitarian Award

Bestowed by the governor and legislature of

The State of Kansas upon

Lex Luthor

In recognition of his generosity and dedication in providing housing for the homeless.

• In Lex's vision, Clark tells Lex he has a "a wonderful life" a reference to It's a Wonderful Life, a film with a plot similar to this episode.

[edit] Continuity

• Dr. Scanlan also appeared in the episodes Scare, Resurrection, Vortex and Nemesis.
• Lex's henchman Griff brings him evidence to sabotage Jonathan's campaign in the next episode Fanatic.
• In Lex's vision of the future, Clark is with Chloe and doesn't wear glasses, but is a reporter at the Daily Planet. This is the first time Clark has been portrayed as a professional reporter; the second is in Noir.

[edit] Quotes

Clark: Chloe, this isn't Toys for Tots, this is Toys "Я" Us. How many are there?

Chloe: Aaaah, couple thousand, give or take.

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Dr. Litvack: Merry Christmas everyone. Now kill the carols, I'm about to perform a miracle.

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Little Girl: You're not Santa Claus.

Clark Kent: Yes I am. I'm, uh... I'm the new improved model.

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Santa Claus: Now, let me get this straight. You gave up your first Christmas with the girl you loved since you spied on her with your telescope to deliver these gifts?

Clark Kent: Yeah, well, I mean, I wasn't spying.

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Santa Claus: Ho Ho Ho-ly cow!

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Senator Kent (in Lex's vision): Ladies and gentlemen, I give you, Lex Luthor... the finest man I know.

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Lex: Oh, not to worry, Griff – we Luthors are made of pretty tough and definitely expensive material.

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Lex: And you know what the secret to living happily ever after is? Power! Money... and power! See once you have those two things, you can secure everything else. And keep it that way.

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Lex: Find it, fake it. Do whatever it takes to knock Jonathan Kent out of the race. I want to be Senator... I want it all!

Griff: Consider it done. Merry Christmas.

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Lana: (in Lex's vision): (To Lex) And This year try and remember that we're on a budget.

Lex: (in Lex's vision): (To Lana) What? We, we have a budget?.

Lana: (in Lex's vision): (To Lex) It's been seven years since your father cut up your platinum card, I think It's time to embrace the middle-class lifestyle.

[edit] External Links

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