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This article is about the Season 2 episode. For the article about the Kawatche Indian tribe, also known as "Skinwalkers," see Kawatche.
Skinwalker
Series 2x10
Episode 31
Writer Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders
Director Marita Grabiak
Broadcast Date November 26, 2002
Production Code 175059
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[edit] Summary

Kyla Willowbrook transforms into a wolf and terrorizes those who might destroy the Kawatche Caves. Clark falls in love and discovers more clues to his origin. Lana learns that Henry Small is her biological father, and Whitney is missing in action. Lex gains control of the caves.

[edit] Recap

LuthorCorp's latest project is a corporate plaza in Smallville offering high tech office space with a variety of amenities, including fiber optic internet, open office plans, and a rooftop heliport. Joseph Willowbrook shows up to object to the construction and the foreman, Dan Hammond, orders him off the property. Late that night, the foreman is filling the vehicles with gasoline when he hears a noise coming from the trees. He fetches and loads a flare gun just before a beautiful white wolf comes out of the darkness and leaps on him, knocking him to the ground. The vehicle is overflowing with gasoline when the foreman fires the flare up into the air. The wolf runs away as the flare falls back to the ground and ignites the gasoline, killing the foreman.

On octagonal shaped depression in the cave
Clark and Pete are riding motor bikes near the new construction site. They notice several sheriff's vehicles at the site. Clark explains that there was explosion last night, and Pete predictably expresses contempt for LuthorCorp. As they race back to Miller's Bend, Clark crashes and falls a hundred feet into a hidden cave. Kyla Willowbrook hears the crash and comes rushing to his aid from another part of the cave. She is amazed to discover that Clark has no injuries. She explains that she is doing research on the caves with her grandfather, Joseph Willowbrook. Pete shows up just as Kyla notices a painting on the wall of the cave that tell the legend of Naman. Her grandfather has been looking for these paintings his whole life. She tells Clark that Naman will come in a rain of fire, have the strength of ten men and be able to start fires with his eyes. Kyla rushes off to tell her grandfather and Clark notices a depression in the cave wall the exact size and shape of the key.
The heart of the ship.
When Clark tells Jonathan about the cave, he is very skeptical. Clark pulls a silver rectangle about eight inches long and four inches wide from under a cloth. It is the ship's heart, which Jonathan pulled it out of the ship before it closed. The symbols on the heart are the same as the symbols in the cave and Clark wants to ask Joseph and Kyla to help him read them, so Clark invites them to dinner.

At dinner, Joseph tells the Kents more about the legend of Naman. He admits that he does not know how to read the symbols and is worried that LuthorCorp will destroy the caves before he learns how. Clark hopes Martha will speak to Lionel and she says that she will, but she also believes that the project is important because it will bring desperately-needed jobs to Smallville. From Clark's loft, Kyla points out a constellation of a wolf with only one eye. Legend has it that the wolf once had two eyes, but the other star is gone now. Lana arrives because Clark wants to ask her to get Henry Small involved in helping to protect the caves.

At the mansion, Sheriff Miller tells Lionel that Joseph Willowbrook has been involved in civil disobedience before, so they are investigating him in connection with the foreman's death. Lionel laments to Martha that he didn't do this project in Granville. Lionel asks Lex to be his partner in the office park, but Lex refuses.

Naman and Sageeth
At the Kawatche Caves, Kyla tells Clark that Naman will one day protect the whole world and that his brother Sageeth will turn against him. He notices another picture on the wall that Kyla interprets as the woman that Naman is destined to be with, and Clark notices that Kyla wears a bracelet fashioned very much like the picture. She tells him that it has been handed down through the women in her family for years. The bulldozers cause vibrations, which cause Kyla to fall from a height of about 10 feet. Clark superspeeds down and catches her just as a large piece of the cave ceiling comes loose above them. He covers her and the rock breaks apart against his back. When she again sees that Clark is unharmed, she sarcastically asks if he can shoot fire out of his eyes. When he turns away and doesn't answer, she guesses that he is Naman. He admits that he doesn’t know what he is, but he is pleased that she isn't freaked out. She admits that she knows what its like to be different. He tries to explain further, but she stops him with a kiss.

Henry Small has started the protest against the development near the caves. He also tells Lana that the DNA tests are back, and they confirm that he is indeed her biological father. He wants to try to be a father to her if it's not too late.

Back at the construction site, Joseph Willowbrook is leading a protest when Martha Kent asks him to meet with Lionel. Joseph calls her a wolf in sheep's clothing. Henry Small arrives with a cease and desist order, and Joseph tells Martha that he will speak with Lionel in court. Then Sheriff Miller shows up to arrest Joseph for the murder of Dan Hammond. They found a towel in Mr. Willowbrook's trash with blood on it that matched the victim. Joseph accuses Lionel of framing him before he is led away.

Chloe arrives at the Talon to join the crusade to save the caves. She and Lana discuss Kyla and Whitney. Lana admits that they have been writing every week.

Clark asks Lex for bail money for Joseph while at the same time accusing LuthorCorp of framing him. Lex wonders if his newfound advocacy has more to do with Kyla than anything else and decides not to donate to Joseph's bail fund. To change his mind, Clark takes him to the caves. Lex is impressed, but when he sees the depression in the wall, he is convinced.

Kyla and Joseph thank Clark
At the Talon, Joseph and Kyla thank Clark for raising the money and getting Joseph out of jail so quickly. Martha arrives to express her regret that Joseph has gotten mixed up in the murder investigation. Joseph is adamant that he has been set up, and he is offended that Martha continues to defend LuthorCorp. At the Smallville Torch, Chloe tells Clark that the autopsy report revealed that the foreman was bitten by a wolf. Wolves have been extinct in Smallville for 90 years, but Joseph's tribe, the Kawatche, translates to "skinwalker", a reference to a Native American legend that humans can transform into animals. While sitting in her car in the parking lot of the LuthorCorp plant, Martha Kent is attacked by a wolf. She is frightened but not injured. Clark tells his dad that he has real feelings for Kyla, but he suspects she knows more about the foreman's death than she claims.
Lex tries to buy the caves from Lionel.
The next day, Lionel is upset with Lex for having bailed out Joseph Willowbrook. He complains that the project has become a public relations nightmare, and Lex offers to buy him out. Lex says he is interested in preserving the caves, but Lionel guesses that Lex knows something else about the land that makes it valuable. Kyla goes back to the Kent Farm to talk to Clark. He asks if her grandfather might be a skinwalker and Kyla is very upset by the accusation. She leaves crying that Lionel has corrupted everyone. At the Luthor mansion, the beautiful white wolf tries to attack Lionel, but Clark intervenes. When armed security arrives, the wolf jumps through a glass window. Clark chases after it and finds that it has been cut badly. Before his eyes, the wolf transforms into Kyla. Clark rushes to her and gathers her into his arms. She says she didn't want to hurt the foreman or Martha and dies in his arms.

The next day, at the construction site, Lionel and Martha arrive to find that work has been stopped again. Clark is somehow preventing the bulldozers from clearing the land. Lionel complains to Martha, but Martha agrees with her son. Joseph gives Clark Kyla's bracelet and tells him to give it to the one he is destined to be with. Lex arrives to tell Lionel that in light of the petition drive, the state of Kansas has decided to exercise the historic artifacts amendment and buy the project from Lionel. LexCorp has secured the contract for the preservation of the entire area.

Lana finds Clark in his loft to offer her condolences about Kyra. She also tells him that Whitney is missing in action.

[edit] Recurring Role

[edit] Guest Cast

[edit] Featured Music

  • "Outtathaway" - The Vines
  • "Don't Know Why" - Norah Jones
  • "The Game of Love" - Santana & Michelle Branch
  • "Psycho Ballerina" - Jackpot

[edit] Episode Title

  • In Native American and Norse legend, a skin-walker is a person with the supernatural ability to turn into any animal he or she desires. In Navajo legend, skinwalkers most frequently transform into a coyote, wolf, owl, fox, or crow.
  • In this episode, Kyla Willowbrook is a Native American skinwalker with the ability to transform into a white wolf.

[edit] Notes

  • In the scene where Clark and Kyla go stargazing in his loft, she points out a star, which is now missing. This is a possible reference to either Clark's home planet of Krypton or its red sun, as both were destroyed at the same time. It also suggests that Krypton is less than 15 light years away, as otherwise it would still appear in the sky.
  • Clark wears a helmet while riding bikes with Pete, but he doesn't wear a helmet when he's under the influence of red kryptonite in Red and Exodus. It is likely this is because, under the effects of RedK, he had no inhibitations and was eager to reveal his abiltiies to just anyone; to keep up appearance, he wore a helmet, even if technically he doesn't need one.
  • Joseph Willowbrook hands Clark Kyla's bracelet with the words, "For the true love in your life." So far (up to Season 8) Clark is yet to hand this bracelet to his true love.

[edit] Continuity

  • Joseph Willowbrook returns in the third season to help Clark understand his connection to the Kawatche people in Talisman.
  • Clark learns the meaning of the symbols on the cave wall and the purpose of the ship's heart shortly afterward in Rosetta.
  • When Lex is talking to his father at The Caves (@38 min.into episode) Lex's sunglasses seem to appear and disappear.

[edit] Quotes

Clark: Lex, have you ever wondered if you were destined to be with someone?
Lex: You're asking someone who's been fighting his destiny his entire life.
Chloe: What is it about Kyla that breaks through Clark's shining armor?
Chloe: Maybe we should just stop falling for guys who are trying to save the world.
Lionel: Lex, have I done something in the recent past to offend you?
Lex: There are so many ways I could answer that question, Dad.

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