Phantom
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| Phantom | |
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| Series | 6x22 |
| Episode | 132 |
| Writer | Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer |
| Director | James Marshall |
| Broadcast Date | May 17, 2007 |
| Production Code | 2T7722 |
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| Previous Episode: Prototype
Next Episode: Bizarro | |
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[edit] Summary
When Clark discovers Lionel threatened to kill him unless Lana married Lex, he goes after Lionel to silence him once and for all. Lana tells Lex she is leaving him, and Martian Manhunter makes a return appearance to help Clark stop Lex, who is trying to find the last wraith from the Phantom Zone in order to use its DNA to power his army of super soldiers. Meanwhile, Lois goes to Reeves Dam in search of information about Lex's secret lab and is brutally stabbed by a security guard. Chloe's secret power is revealed.
[edit] Recap
In a remote cabin in Quebec, a woman is caring for a sick loved one. She is visited by a stranger, Martian Manhunter and leads him to her ailing father. He has tracked
Martha is preparing to move away from Smallville to Washington, D.C., to take Ed Burke's Senatorial seat. Martha tells Clark that he doesn't have to stay on the farm if he doesn't want to. Clark protests, saying the farm is the only home he's ever known and he wants to be the one to take care of it. Clark hugs her goodbye and promises to visit her.
Lex is on the phone demanding the eyes of every man, woman, and child be inspected. He claims that that blood
Chloe finds Lois in the Talon after pulling an all-nighter of an investigation. Lois is trying to figure out the meaning of the eight-digit number that Wes Keenan was repeating when he died. Chloe warns her that in her experience, she will probably not win going against the Luthors, and more likely get hurt in the process. Lois pretends to agree. She says she will stop investigating and rips the paper with numbers in half. Proud of her cousin, Chloe exits and Lois looks at the numbers again realizing that they are latitude and longitude coordinates.
Clark and Chloe are at the Daily Planet investigating where the Zoner could be held. They learn that an eight-year-old boy with mysterious symptoms was collected in an unmarked helicopter and guess that he was taken by LuthorCorp. Clark goes to check it out but before he leaves, he tells Chloe that he told Lana his secret and her response was positive.
Clark confronts Lionel at LuthorCorp Plaza and accuses him of forcing Lana to marry Lex and revealing his weakness. He is enraged and slams Lionel up against a wall. However, his assault is interrupted by Martian Manhunter who appears and explains to Clark that Lionel is working with him. Lionel knew that Lex was hunting the last Phantom wraith and was helping Martian Manhunter find him. Clark realizes that Martian Manhunter is hurt and he admits that the last wraith is a Kryptonian laboratory experiment that inhabits human bodies. However, they die in 24 hours, so the wraith is searching for a Kryptonian host. He urges Clark to find the last Zoner.
Lana is on the phone with Lionel, telling him that she is leaving Smallville and never coming back. Lionel asks her to wait before doing anything but Lana replies that it's too late because Lex hit her. Lana runs towards her car as Lionel's vehicle pulls up. Lana then enters her car as a postal truck drives by obscuring Lana's car from view. After the truck passes, the car explodes, knocking Lionel to the ground.
Clark finds Lionel at the mansion and tells him what he knows about the unmarked helicopter. He then realizes that Lionel knows something and Lionel informs him that Lana's car exploded. Visibly shaken, Clark is quiet for several minutes, then decides that Lex had Lana killed to prevent her from leaving. Lionel urges him to stay but Clark speeds away to Reeves Dam in a rage.
Lois follows the coordinates to Reeves Dam and sneaks into the facility. Inside, she encounters a LuthorCorp security guard. After a struggle ensues, Lois kills the guard but not before he stabs her in the abdomen. Before she passes out, she is able to call Chloe. Chloe arrives at the dam to discover the deceased LuthorCorp guard, the knife and pools of blood. Following the blood, she finds Lois unconscious and bleeding profusely. She tearfully begs Lois to wake up, but Lois does not respond. Chloe begins to cry and a shining tear falls on Lois' forehead. After a burst of light, Lois wakes up to find Chloe leaning against a wall, now unresponsive.
Lex, Bartlett, and the project doctor are in the laboratory of the dam observing the captured phantom in the boy's form. They take a blood sample to confirm that the phantom is inhabiting the boy, but shortly after the sample is taken, the boy breaks out of the detainment room and kills Bartlett. Lex pushes the doctor into the path of the wraith and leaves him behind to be killed so he can buy more time to escape. When Lex is nearing the exit, he is blindsided by Clark. Clark, furious over Lana's death, grabs Lex and demands to know why Lex did it. Lex claims he doesn't know what Clark is talking about. Clark tells him what happened to Lana insinuating that it was orchestrated by Lex.
Inside the dam, the wraith leaves boy's body. It charges and hits Clark head-on, Clark is knocked through several walls and is stunned. When he recovers, he finds an exact replica of himself, Bizarro. Clark and Bizarro have an intense brawl that shakes the structure. The damage to the dam destroys a large water pipe and starts to flood the facility. Lionel arrives just in time to use green kryptonite on Bizarro. Bizarro seems to absorb the radiation of the green k, turning it into a clear crystal (similar to Lana's neutralized necklace). But this process only seems to make him stronger. He throws Lionel against a grate, knocking him unconscious, pinned under rubble in a rapidly flooding dam. Clark and Bizarro super-speed towards each other. The whole dam rumbles as Clark is thrown out of the side and Bizarro flies after him. In flight, Bizarro's face transforms into a chalk-white, rock-like visage.
[edit] Recurring Roles
- Martian Manhunter - Phil Morris
- Bartlett - Ben Ayres
- Philipe Lamont (little boy) - Jake D. Smith
- Bizarro- Tom Welling
[edit] Guest Cast
- Doctor - Gerard Plunkett
[edit] Episode Title
- "Phantom" is a reference to this episode being all about the final phantom that Clark inadvertently freed from the Phantom Zone: Bizarro.
[edit] Notes
- During the fight with Clark, the Phantom Wraith takes some of Clark's DNA to become "evil Clark". This is Smallville's version of Bizarro, a result of a long ago Kryptonian experiment as explained by the Martian Manhunter. In the comics, one version Bizarro was a laboratory-created evil Superman clone where another was an alternate reality Superman from a Bizarro World.
- This is the last episode featuring Annette O'Toole in the role of Martha Kent as a regular cast member.
- This is the last appearance of Ben Ayres as Bartlett.
- On the Season 6 DVD box set, a deleted scene gives more insight into Lana and Lionel's deal. Lana secretly meets with Lionel to give him the DVD featuring the wraith, saying she's fulfilled her half of the bargain. Lionel informs her that her role isn't finished, but Lana declares her intention to leave Lex. Lionel tries to remind her that they are doing this to protect Clark, and that she must stay with Lex a little longer. However, Lana is too terrified of and angry at Lex to listen.
- In Lineage Clark wonders if he even has DNA. In this episode, it is proven that he does, as Bizarro uses it to copy Clark's form to create a host for itself.
- Lois finds out coordinates with the numbers that Wes was saying. In reality, they lead to a location just outside Kansas City, the most probable location for Smallville's Metropolis..
- This episode marks the second time Clark has nearly killed someone he blames for the death of a girlfriend. The first time was in Pariah when he attempted to strangle Tim Westcott for murdering Alicia Baker. Interestingly, he appears to have been much more willing to kill Westcott, than Lex, and does not seek an explanation from him.
[edit] Continuity
- Bartlett, the Project Ares supervisor, also appeared in Combat, Nemesis, Noir, and Prototype.
- It appeared that seven forms were released from the Phantom Zone in Zod. However, counting Clark, Raya, Gloria, Baern, Aldar, Dr. Hudson and Titan, Bizarro is the eighth Zoner released.
- Lana finally learns Clark's secret when Clark tells her his origins. After years of speculation, her investigation was revealed in Trespass and she learned most of his powers in Promise.
- Bizarro is defeated in Bizarro, said to be sent to the "sunny side of Mars" by Martian Manhunter. He returns in Gemini posing as Clark for several weeks before finally being defeated in Persona.
[edit] Quotes
- Lex: As hard as it is for you to believe, Lana actually loves me.
- Lionel: Oh, you know so little about women, Lex.
- Clark: (to Martha) Washington, D.C. is no different than Topeka, only a few more seconds away for me.
- Chloe: (to Lois) Hey! Is that an investigative reporter on the trail of a hot story or someone trying to pick good lottery numbers?
- Lana: You aren't capable of love, Lex. You never were.
- Bizarro: Thanks for sharing. I feel a lot better now.
- Clark: What just happened?
- Bizarro: I took a little piece of your DNA. (he chokes Clark) And now, I'm gonna take your life!
- Police officer: You are under arrest for the murder of Lana Luthor.
- Lana: (to Lex) Clark means more to me than you ever will.
- Bizarro: At last! A Kryptonian!
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