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Shattered
Series 3x08
Episode 52
Writer Kenneth Biller
Director Kenneth Biller
Broadcast Date November 19, 2003
Production Code 176208
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[edit] Summary

Morgan Edge and Lionel conspire to break Lex's fragile psyche. Clark, Lana, and Chloe try to help Lex, but Lana is badly injured and Lex is committed at Belle Reve Sanitarium.

[edit] Recap

The new Morgan Edge with his kryptonite beads.
In Metropolis, Morgan Edge is fingering a rosary made of kryptonite beads as he is having his bandages removed after extensive plastic surgery to change his appearance. Lex catches up to him in a warehouse and convinces him to confess on tape that he conspired with Lionel to kill Lex's grandparents.
An insane Lex threatens Lionel.
Lex does not appear completely well; he seems jumpy and uneasy. Edge explains that they made a deal with the slumlord to split the property insurance money. While Lex reviews the tape at the manor, his security guard Darius informs him that his father has called again. Lex avoids the call and stashes the tape in the safe just before armed men burst in and kill Darius. Lex leaps out a window, badly twisting his ankle. Lex escapes to the Kent Farm. Clark offers to go to the mansion to retrieve the evidence in the safe.
Clark is temporarily incapacitated by Edge's kryptonite rosary.
When Clark gets there, he finds the manor undamaged and the safe empty. The stained glass window has been repaired, but Clark uses his x-ray vision to find a shard of glass behind some furniture. Clark reports what he found to Lex and then goes to Chloe who admits to finding the connection between Lionel and Morgan, but she has no idea how Lex developed the theory that they killed Lionel's parents. When they return to the farm, they find Lionel waiting for them. He asks for Clark's help finding Lex and explains that he has had a mental breakdown stemming from his experience on the island. When Clark returns to the barn, he finds Lex singing and rocking a blanket. Lex explains that his father woke his baby brother Julian.

Clark discusses Lex's behavior with his parents. They try to encourage Clark to get Lex the proper help. Lex overhears the conversation and decides the Kents aren't really on his side. He insists that he has to go find Edge to prove he's not crazy. Clark decides to stick with him. They go to the warehouse where Edge had his plastic surgery, but it has been transformed into a sewing factory. Lex threatens one of the immigrants as Clark pulls him out. They return to the mansion to search for clues and they find Darius alive and well.

When his psychiatrist, Claire Foster, arrives, Lex grabs a gun and backs out. Lex admits that he might be crazy, but he has also guessed that his father might have drugged him in order to discredit him. Lana meets Clark and Lex at the Smallville Stables. She stays with Lex while Clark goes to meet Chloe. He gives her the medicine that Dr. Foster tried to give Lex and asks her to check out Lex's doctor and security. Chloe tells Clark that Lex has had psychiatric trouble before. Once in boarding school, after his brother died, his headmaster found him in the bell tower singing lullabies to a blanket. Lana brought food for Lex, but he becomes angry. He accuses Lana of attempting to drug him. He throws her into a horse stall and runs off. The horse is spooked and before Lana can sneak out of the stall, it tramples on her, breaking her leg so badly, she nearly dies.
Clark kills Edge by stopping his car, thus, crushing Edge like an egg, to save Lex.
Lex sees Clark's powers.

While Clark is helping Lana to the hospital, Lex steals a truck (with a rifle in the back window) and flees into the night. Lionel contemptuously blames Clark for Lex's disappearance and Lana's injuries. When he leaves, Clark admits to Chloe that he feels guilty for what happened to Lana. Then he goes to Darius and gets him to confess that he drugged Lex's scotch. He forces Darius to call his contact and tell him to meet him at the stables. Meanwhile Lex breaks into Lionel's office and confronts him. Lionel denies everything and claims Morgan Edge is responsible. Lex begins to hallucinate about his brother Julian and Lionel says that he doesn't blame Lex for Julian's death. Lex forces Lionel to give him the location of Morgan Edge and then knocks him out.

Clark gets Edge's location as well from the assassin sent to kill him, but Lex gets to Morgan first. Edge claims it was Lionel's idea to make Lex crazy rather then kill him. Clark shows up to stop Lex from shooting Edge but is incapacitated by Edge's kryptonite beads. When Edge seems to know Clark, Lex figures Clark is in on the conspiracy with Edge and Lionel. Edge beats up on Clark for awhile until the deranged Lex shoots the gang lord and prepares to shoot Clark. But when Edge slips away Lex leaves Clark to finish Edge. Edge comes at Lex with a car. Lex empties his gun into him, but the car doesn't stop. Clark pushes Lex out of the way and Clark destroys Edge and the car and Lex witnesses his powers. Clark disappears just as Lex's psychiatrist arrives and hauls him away.

Lana wakes up and asks about Lex. She tells Clark that she always thought he was being paranoid when he said that he was dangerous, but now she thinks it's true. She says she needs to stay away from him. At the sanitarium (which looks like a maximum security prison), Lionel and Dr. Foster conspire to erase Lex's short term memory.

[edit] Guest Cast

[edit] Featured Music

  • "She'll Be The One" - Bosshouse
  • "Hurt" - Johnny Cash

[edit] Notes

  • Belle Reve in the comics is a maximum security prison in Louisiana for super-villains.
  • After Lana Lang is trampled by the horse, as the camera is panning back, a microphone is clearly visible.
  • Clark drives his father's brand new red Dodge Ram pickup in this episode. He will wreck this truck (again) two years later in Splinter.
  • Lex wears a straitjacket in a padded cell, but these have largely been out of use in the United States for the treatment of the mentally ill for many years and have been replaced by psychiatric drugs.
  • Lex asks Clark what the "price of a Judas kiss" is. This is another of Lex's frequent Biblical allusions. It is a reference to the story in some gospels of the New Testament that describe how Judas identified Jesus with a kiss to those that arrested and killed him. [1]
  • Lionel calls Clark "Sancho Panza", who is the companion to the titular character in the book Don Quixote, in which Quixote goes on a delusional adventure fueled by his own imagination. Panza is his squire who obediently follows Quixote on his inane quest but never steers him towards reality. [2]
  • Pete Ross does not appear in this episode.
  • This is the third time that Lex has discovered Clark's secret. He first discovered it in Hug but forgot after being influenced by Bob Rickman. The second time was in Clark's dream in Slumber.
  • In the scene where Clark,Jonathan,Martha,Lionel and Chloe are talking about Lex, you can clearly see a laughing Chloe where she hides here face on Clark's Shoulder.
  • Clark wears yellow, red & blue.

[edit] Continuity

  • The event where Lex was found rocking a blanket at school as a child is shown in the episode Memoria.

[edit] Quotes

Lionel: How did you get in here, Lex?
Lex: Well, when people think you're insane and you're holding a rifle to their head, they, uh, tend to do what you ask.
Lex: We'll have a nice father-son chat... About how you and Morgan Edge killed my grandparents and how you're drugging me to make the world think I'm crazy. And hey, why not do the whole thing on Oprah, you know? Spill our dysfunctional guts on national TV like regular families do.
Lex: You know what disappoints me, Dad? You hired pros to kill me. You always taught me, "If you want something done right, son, do it yourself!"
Lex: What'd you do? Did you betray Edge too? Is that why he beat you to a pulp? Tell me Clark! What's the price of a Judas kiss these days?
Lex: I was right about you all along, Clark. You're not even human.

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