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Power
Series 8x13
Episode 165
Writer Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
Director Allison Mack
Broadcast Date 29 January 2009
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[edit] Summary

Clark finds Tess in Lana's ransacked apartment and realizes that Lana is missing. Tess tells him Lex is still alive and may have kidnapped Lana and finally reveals the truth about what happened to Lana after she awoke from her Brainiac-induced coma. Meanwhile, Tess breaks into a secret LuthorCorp facility and is shocked at what she discovers.

[edit] Recap

Lana Burned
At a lab, Dr. Groll is preparing a procedure during an experiment but his assistant warns him that they aren't yet ready for human testing but Dr. Groll insists that they are. He begins the procedure and the device bursts into flames whilst the subject is passed through the flames being burnt in the process to reveal Lana. Chloe enters the Kent Farm house to find Clark watching Lana's goodbye DVD from afar and asks why, and he says that he needs to remind himself of why they broke up and why Lana left. He then admits to kissing Lana the night before, and Chloe is puzzled as to why Clark acts as if it is a bad thing. He says that he has moved on so much towards his destiny since they broke up, but Chloe suggests that he talk it over with Lana who will be at her apartment to which Clark speeds off.
Chloe enters the Kent Farm house
He arrives to find the place ransacked and is about to search before Tess emerges from the bedroom holding a gun. Tess puts the gun down after she discovers Clark was there. Clark suspects Tess is responsible but she says she came to warn Lana who was investigating some LuthorCorp technology and that Lana showed her who Lex really is. She then tells Clark how Lana really left Smallville. Lana is speaking to the video camera with Lex's men holding a gun to her before they take her away with Tess watching over the procedure. They have put Lana in a van and are transferring her to a safe location, but she fakes illness, knocks the gun out of one of the men's hands, and shoots him in the shoulder, before ordering the driver out. She drives off to a gas station where she cuts her hair off.
Lana, forced to get away from Clark by Tess Mercer and Luthorcorp guards
Clark yells at Tess and pushes her against a wall. Tess apologizes, saying Lex claimed it was for Lana's own good. Clark interrogates Tess on the names of the Luthorcorp guards who kidnapped Lana and Tess says that they're dead and Lex is using new employees.
Clark yells at Tess
Clark spots a phoenix medallion in a drawer and Tess identifies it as belonging to her strategic advisor, Carter Bowfry. Clark goes to the manor and confronts Carter, who shows Clark that he has his own medallion on him and tells Clark to leave. When Clark refuses, he explains that he gave it to Lana last spring.
Lana talks with Carter
Lana offers Carter money to train her and convinces him to help. He puts her through a training regimen designed to resist pain and torture. He gets her to admit that she's still holding onto Clark, and tells her to overcome her previous life and become a new person. After his training is complete, she says she needs power. Lana admits she had it before, but wasn't ready for it emotionally. Carter warns against it and then gives her a phoenix medallion to remember. Carter tells Clark that Lana returned to Metropolis and he tracked her down, considering Lana his chance at redemption. She continued to investigate LuthorCorp against Carter's advice, so he took a job with Tess to provide Lana with information. Carter notes that Lana contacted Chloe while she was in Metropolis.
Clark talks with Chloe

In his laboratory, Groll is grafting a layer of nanites to Lana.

In Metropolis, Tess meets with Lex's trusted employee Regan Matthews and confronts him over the fact he broke into Lana's apartment. Regan insists he's trying to save Lex, unlike Tess. She offers him a job and when he refuses, informs him he doesn't have a choice and demands the Prometheus technology, or she'll take it by force.

Once the regeneration is complete, Groll removes Lana from the vat and puts her into quarantine.

Clark confronts Chloe and asks why she didn't tell him about Lana. Chloe says Lana didn't want her to tell Clark, and respected her privacy. Clark insists that Lana doesn't have the abilities he does and she needs help.


Lana visits Chloe and congratulates her on expanding the Isis Foundation. Lana says she isn't going to see Clark but has read about his activities in Metropolis. She wants to track down information on Lex's Project Ares, but Chloe advises against it. Lana insists that she's going to do it, and she'll tell Clark when the time is right. She makes Chloe promise not to say anything to Clark.
Lana show Chloe what she discovered

Chloe explains that the program was mothballed a year ago, then wonders why Lana didn't contact Clark if she was forced to make the DVD. Clark figures that Lana was intent on getting revenge on Lex.

Clark and Chloe discover Lana secret hidden safe
Tess returns to her office at the Daily Planet and finds her security guard in her chair. Regan is behind her and reveals that he killed the man after forcing him to give up the location of Lex's lab. Tess says she has security cameras that recorded her guard's death, and Regan boasts that he viewed some of the recordings Lex made of her. Regan prepares to shoot her but Tess disarms him and then kicks him to death as his blood splatters on her face. Chloe and Clark return to the Isis Foundation and Clark realizes that Lana has a hidden safe behind a fake heater. Clark pulls open the safe door and finds a hard drive. Chloe hooks it up and brings up files of Lana talking to Dr. Groll.
Lana in quarintine

Lana contacts Groll and compliments him on creating Prometheus and wants him to provide her with the skin graft, capable of providing super powers. She warns that Lex is too dangerous to wear it but she can. Lana convinces Groll to use his legacy to improve mankind and offers him space to set up his laboratory. She tells him to tell his co-workers that Lana was his guinea pig.

Tess discover that Lana was fusionated with the Prometheus Suit
Chloe and Clark conclude that Lana wants to use the Prometheus technology on herself.

In Groll's laboratory, Lana stabilizes as they attach the suit. Tess comes in and demands the Prometheus suit. Groll warns that opening the chamber could kill Lana. Groll claims it was Lex's orders and Tess says Prometheus must be destroyed. Groll warns that destroying the suit will kill Lana. Tess pulls out a gun and prepares to shoot her, and Groll struggles with the gun. A shot goes into a control panel. Tess fires a second shot at Groll, and Clark enters just in time to see Lana burst out of the containment chamber, stop the bullet, knock out Tess, and run away at superspeed.

Later at the manor, Tess calls her people to find Lana and enters the study to find Lana burning all the research files on Prometheus. Tess tries to run and Lana cuts her off. She tells Tess that she's there as a friend, and warns that Tess' anger against Lex will doom her and leave Lex in control of her. Lana tells Tess not to be a victim any more, then leaves.

Lana find Clark on the roof
At the Daily Planet, Clark is searching police reports for information on Lana when she contacts him via his super-hearing and asks him to meet her on the roof. He's concerned that the powers will overwhelm her but she insists that she can handle it now. Lana says he doesn't have to worry about her any more because she can protect herself and she's no longer a distraction to him. Together they can make the world a better place. Clark agrees that's what he wants but worries that normally dreams don't come true. She assures him they're not normal and Lana passionately kisses Clark.

[edit] Recurring Role

[edit] Guest Stars

  • Carter Bowfry -Ted Whittall
  • Security Guard - Mike Dupod
  • Researcher - Aaron Craven

[edit] Featured Music

  • "Empty Road" - Natalie Walker

[edit] Episode Title

  • The title refers to the struggle for power between Tess Mercer, Lex Luthor and Lana Lang symbolized by a "power suit". Not a literal suit but a fusion of Earth's Nano-technology and alien DNA that is embedded in and under the skin of a human that gives that human superpowers close to if not equal to those of Clark.

[edit] Notes

Allison Mack directing a scene.
  • This episode was directed by Allison Mack. She was due to direct an episode of Season 7 but due to the WGA Strike and the change up of normal schedule, it was postponed.
  • It was revealed in this episode Lana originally returned to Metropolis several weeks to a month before Chloe's wedding (Chloe told Lana that she was getting married "next month"), since the wedding was held in November 2008, Lana returned in October and after her short stay she then went to Cuba hunting Lex down.
  • Lana seeks out Carter Bowfry in Edge City.
  • Oliver, Lois, Jimmy, and Davis do not appear. This is the second time that only 3 main characters have appeared in an episode.

[edit] Continuity

  • The events in this episode reveal what happened to Lana between her departure in Arctic and her return in Bride.
  • Lana said that she has had power before. She is probably referring to gaining Clark's abilities in Season Seven Wrath. She gained superpowers in Thirst, but forgot them after she was cured; she also had the powers of a witch while possessed by Margaret Isobel Thoreaux, but forgot them after the possession passed. Besides Wrath, the only time that Lana has had temporary powers she didn't forget was in Obscura, when she had the limited ability to see through the eyes of another.
  • Clark looked at the botch 'Dear John' video Lana made in Arctic.
  • Regan was presumed to be missing since Odyssey.

[edit] Quotes

Lana: Yeah, well, life hasn't exactly been a walk in the park lately.
Carter: Oh, poor, poor, pitiful you. How long have you been feeling sorry for yourself? Let me guess. Your entire life.
Carter: I am not training you to be LIKE someone else. I'm training you to be Lana Lang. Rise from the ashes of your previous life. Stronger. More Powerful. Fearless.....It's time to rise.
Carter: As you rise higher and higher, never look down.
Tess: That's a ballsy move, sitting in the boss' chair. Either you have good news for me, or you like to live dangerously close to the edge. (discovers her guard is dead) I guess it's the latter.
Chloe: Clark, you know you're bored when you resort to watching a repeat of your breakup.
Lana: I'm not here to hurt you, Tess. I'm here as your friend.
Tess: My BFF who tears open my safe with her bare hands and burns all my research. I think you're stretching the definition of "friendship" just a little bit.
Edward Groll: You can't destroy the suit without murdering her.
Tess: Lana Lang was born to be a martyr.
Tess: You're a pretty pathetic guard dog. Loyal to a master that can't even feed himself. Why don't you come and work for me? Hmm? I'll give you more Milk-Bones than Lex ever did.
Regan: I think I'd rather shovel cow dung.
Lana: The last thing I wanted was to be some distraction in your life.
Clark: You're not a distraction. You never were.
Lana: I'm not anymore.
Lana: You and I are equals now and together, we can help make the world a better place.
Clark: It's a dream Lana. We both know dreams normally don't come true.
Lana: There's never been anything normal about us.

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