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Onyx
Series 4x17
Episode 83
Writer Steven S. DeKnight
Director Terrence O'Hara
Broadcast Date April 13, 2005
Production Code 2T5217
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[edit] Summary

A glimpse of the future Lex Luthor is revealed after a kryptonite explosion splits Lex in two: his good side - Lex and his evil side. Evil Lex immediately imprisons Lex in the mansion and begins his rampage by trying to kill Clark and Chloe in the lab, jousting with Lionel and convincing him to return to his dark seeded nature, and finally, threatening to close the Talon unless Lana moves in with him.

[edit] Recap

Lex and Dr. Sinclair are inside a LuthorCorp lab about to undergo an experiment involving green kryptonite. In the experiment the kryptonite must be super-heated. Unaware of the risk,
Lex is struck by the explosion.
Lex and Sinclair go ahead but begin to worry when the kryptonite exceeds its target temperature. After an alarm sounds, Lex shoves Dr. Sinclair out of the way while he is caught in a burst of energy emitted from the kryptonite, which has transformed to black kryptonite. This produces an effect where Lex is split in two - one of which is his darker alter ego. Shortly after falling to the floor, Lex - unaware of his split self - helps up the scientist and brings him to the hospital. Watching the two make off, is the evil Lex, who is just realizing what has happened.

Clark and Chloe go to visit Lex in the hospital and begin to ask what happened. Lex says that he'll take Clark to the lab and show him what he was doing, Clark accepts but Chloe says that she'll stay behind to ask the scientist a few questions.

Before Dr. Sinclair is visited by Chloe,
Evil Lex kills Dr. Sinclair.
Evil Lex visits him and tells him what happened and asks if there's a way to reverse the process. After the scientist asks for his notes back from the lab, evil Lex puts air into his IV tube thus killing the scientist. Evil Lex then exits the room to find Chloe who wonders why Lex is there rather than at the lab with Clark. She asks if she can see the scientist, however, evil Lex says that he's not feeling well enough to be questioned at the moment and to come back later. Lex then walks away when a code blue is alarmed for the scientist's room and Chloe realizes that the scientist is dead.

In the Luthor Mansion, the good Lex shows Clark around in the lab. Lex has been conducting experiments with plants, trying to get them to grow in the most harsh environments. He gives Clark an apple, but it tastes rotten. Lex explains that even if the plants grow anywhere, they don't retain their usual taste. Then Lex opens a locker containing kryptonite samples, and Clark excuses himself, blaming the apple for his nausea attack. In the background, evil Lex has overheard the whole conversation.

Lex vs. Evil Lex
Later, Lex is visited by his father, who is arranging a charity fund raiser. Lex agrees to come to the fund raiser, on the condition it's held in the LuthorCorp plaza. Lionel is surprised by Lex's newfound generosity. When Lionel leaves, evil Lex walks in and knocks Lex unconscious. Then he brings him to the cellar, and imprisons him there. He explains he does not know what might happen if he killed him. Evil Lex then goes to Lana's apartment. He tells her he deserves better then Jason, then kisses her and tells her she can be his queen. Lana slaps him and orders him out. The evil Lex then tells her that he's going to close the Talon.
Evil Lex sees Clark's powers when Clark saves Chloe.

At the Torch, Chloe informs Clark that the scientist died at the hospital. They realize that Lex was at the lab and in the hospital at the same time. Chloe then retrieves a surveillance movie from the hospital security system, showing Lex being in two places at once.

At the same time the evil Lex is practicing fencing, Lionel comes into the room. He asks him how he could invite him to the LuthorCorp plaza and then cancel the thing behind his back. Lex then quotes Lionel back to him: "Because helping those who refuse to help themselves is a waste of time, and money, son!" He challenges Lionel to a round of fencing, and attacks him with his rapier while taunting him, trying to get the old Lionel back. After a while, Lionel reverts back to his old self and overpowers evil Lex. The evil Lex walks out of the room, happy to see his father revert to darkness.

Clark walks in on the evil Lex, and believing him to be the good Lex, he explains about the split. Lex acts surprised and tricks Clark and Chloe into the lab. Once there, he drops a large block of concrete on top of them. Clark protects Chloe from the falling debris and brings her to the house, while the evil Lex watches. At the house, Chloe questions how they were able to survive, and Clark tell her they were just lucky. Chloe looks doubtful.

Evil Lex shoots Jonathan in the leg.
In the barn, Clark encounters the evil Lex, who tries to coerce him into joining him so they can rule the world together. Clark declines and grips his throat. The evil Lex put on a kryptonite ring and tells Clark that he knows his weakness. Martha and Jonathan come in and Lex shoots Jonathan in the leg and departs.
Clark blasts the ring with heat vision, thus defeating Evil Lex.

After taking Jonathan to the hospital, Clark goes to the mansion searching for Lex. Using his super hearing, he hears his moans and superspeeds to free him. However, the evil Lex walks in on them and overpowers Clark using his kryptonite ring. Lex and the evil Lex fight until Clark uses his heat-vision to turn the evil Lex's kryptonite ring into black kryptonite, fusing the two Lexes together.

Lex doesn't remember what happened.

After the incident, Lex doesn't remember anything from the evil Lex's memories - including Clark's secret. Lex apologizes to Clark and Lana. When he comes back to the mansion, Lex finds Lionel to be his old self. Lionel says he has seen the error of his ways and that he'll close the charity foundation immediately. Lex protests but Lionel replies "A man can't deny his true nature. We're Luthors... we're Luthors". With the cryptic and dark smile on Lex's face after Lionel's statement, it's revealed that Lex's dark side isn't as hidden as Clark thinks.

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[edit] Featured Music

  • "I Drive Alone" - Esthero

[edit] Episode Title

  • Onyx is the name of a mineral, of which the jet-black variety is the most common. Onyx can also refer to the color black.
  • This episode features black kryptonite.
  • Black also refers to the dark part of the soul. In this episode, Lex's dark side comes out and almost kills Lex's good side.
  • Lex's dark side also wear mostly black clothing in this episode.

[edit] Notes

  • The production crew and fan sites refer to the "evil" Lex as Lex, and the "good" Lex as Alexander, presumably referring to the fact that Lex's loving, warm, and good-natured mother referred to him as Alexander while his derogatory father always refers to him as Lex. Both incarnations are referred to as Lex on screen. This idea is portrayed in Fracture.
  • Jason Teague doesn't appear in this episode.
  • The WB promoted this episode as "Lex vs. Lex".
  • Working titles for this episode were "Lexes" and "Fissure."
  • In this episode, when Clark used heat vision on green kryptonite, it turned into black kryptonite. However, when Clark used heat vision on green kryptonite in Whisper, the beam of heat was reflected back at his eyes and blinded him. The blinding effect may have been due to the particular cut of that episode's piece of kryptonite or the particular way in which Clark was using his heat vision then (in intense bullet-like bursts rather than the slow, steady beams used in this episode).
  • When Lex tells Lionel that he was safer in jail, it sounds similar to when Lex, possessed by Zod tells Clark that he was safer in the Phantom Zone.
  • Lex is seen wearing a kryptonite ring. In the comics, Lex wears a kryptonite ring and as a result, he loses his hand due to kryptonite poisoning.
  • When evil Lex forces an iron-like mask on good Lex, its a reference to the story "The Man in The Iron Mask" where the main character has an identical twin who is kept in prison whilst the other is free. Furthermore Evil Lex says "it's good to be the king" also relates to the story where one of brothers becomes king and the other is in prison.
  • The line Lex delivers as he pummels Clark with the kryptonite ring "I want you to remember, Clark... there was one man who beat you", is nearly verbatim of a line Batman delivers while pummeling Superman in Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.
  • When evil Lex says "Hello me, meet the real you" it is an illusion to the Megadeth song "Sweating Bullets" in which a schitzophrenic talks to himself.

[edit] Quotes

Chloe: Well, I was hoping I could maybe talk to him.
Evil Lex: Well, he's sleeping now. Maybe you should come back later when he's feeling a little more alive.
Evil Lex: It's like that Dumas novel we used to read as a boy. King Louis imprisoned his brother in an iron mask. Everyone thought it was so no one would know his identity but we know better. It was because he couldn't bear to see such a weak reflection of his own greatness.(Evil Lex places the mask over Lex's head) It's good to be the king.
Clark: Well, there must be way to figure out the timeline.
Chloe: Yeah, there is. Um, Smallville Medical Center has a surveillance system which, as far as you know, I've never hacked into, because... that would be... wrong.
Clark: Where's Lex?
Evil Lex: He's standing right in front of you.
Clark: No, you're not him. The real Lex would never try to kill me or Chloe.
Evil Lex: No, you're probably right. But he's thought about it! All the times you've meddled in his plans, derailed his ambitions. He's thought about killing all of you - he just never had the guts to go through with it.
Evil Lex: You were right about me all along, Mr. Kent. I am the villain of the story.

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