Suspect
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| Suspect | |
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| Series | 2x13 |
| Episode | 34 |
| Writer | Mark Verheiden & Philip Levens |
| Director | Kenneth Biller |
| Broadcast Date | January 28, 2003 |
| Production Code | 175061 |
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[edit] Summary
Lionel is mysteriously shot at the Luthor Mansion, leaving behind four suspects with various motives to kill him: Jonathan Kent, Lex Luthor, Dominic Sanatori, and Ethan Miller. Lana convinces Henry Small to defend Jonathan. Clark is able to prove that Jonathan was framed.
[edit] Recap
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond what is good and evil. -Friedrich Nietzsche
At the Luthor Mansion, Lionel is reading in the library and making plans to return to Metropolis. He indicates that Martha Kent is no longer in his employ. Someone enters the room without identifying himself and shoots Lionel twice in the chest. He falls from the balcony and crashes through a glass table below. Sheriff Miller finds Jonathan Kent passed out in his truck with a bottle of tequila and pistol in his hand. He is placed under arrest and taken into custody.
At the county jail, Martha and Clark visit Jonathan. Jonathan says he only had half a beer the night before, but he started to feel sick as soon as he got in his truck. Then he doesn't remember anything until the police pulled him out. Clark says that the gun they found is the same caliber as the one that shot Lionel. Martha offers to ask her father to defend him, but they decide to ask Henry Small instead.
At Smallville Medical Center, Lex arrives to check on his father. He finds Dominic Sanatori instead. Dominic thinks Lex shot Lionel.
At the Talon, Henry Small refuses to represent Jonathan saying only that he isn’t the right man for the job. Lana tells Clark that she was at the mansion yesterday, and she overheard Jonathan arguing with Lionel about the watch he gave Martha.
Clark and Pete go out to search the site where the police found Jonathan's truck. Clark uses his x-ray vision to find a bullet in a shed. He guesses that someone drugged his dad, followed him until he pulled over, put the gun in his hand and fired it at the shed, so that he would have gunpowder residue on his hands.
At the hospital, Lex has just learned that his father remains in critical condition. Clark arrives to tell Sheriff Miller about the bullet in the shed and the theory that his dad is being framed. The sheriff promises to follow up on it, but he doesn’t seem enthusiastic. Dominic Sanatori also approaches the sheriff with his version of events. He tells the sheriff that Lex and Lionel had an argument the night before. Lionel has been approaching the Smallville residents who invested in LexCorp and buying up their shares. Lex is furious at the prospect of losing his company to his father. Lionel seems to think of it as another training mission to make Lex a sharper and more ruthless businessman.
Clark goes to the mansion to confront Lex about the fact that he was also arguing with his father the night before. Lex refuses to discuss it with him and throws him out. Martha visits Jonathan in jail, and Jonathan laments that no jury is going to believe he is innocent.
At the Smallville Medical Center, Pete gets checked out while Lex talks with Clark about his theory of who shot his father. Dominic Sanatori was not at all happy last night when he found out that Lionel was going to take Lex back into the company after he bought out LexCorp. Dominic was under the impression that Lex would be out and he would be in, but Lionel made it clear that, although Dominic has been loyal, Lex is family.
Henry Small comes to the Talon to see Lana. She confesses that she has been looking into his past and learned about how the Luthors had him dismissed from his firm. He's upset that she went snooping around, but he tells her that the real story is that the Luthors complained about him because he wouldn't go along with an unethical scheme. The real reason that he refused to take Jonathan's case is that he lost a capital case in which the defendant was innocent, but the defendant was executed before his family could get the evidence retested.
First, they put out the word that Lionel was getting better; then they move him to another floor. Sheriff Miller shows up and shoots Lionel's empty bed. Clark disarms him and confronts him with everything he knows: the sheriff had a business arrangement with the bartender at the Wild Coyote, which is how he got away with repeatedly violating the law against serving minors. The sheriff also faked Jonathan's blood alcohol test.
The next day in the loft, Clark shows Lex his dad's old yearbook. Ethan and Jonathan had been friends. Lex has to decide if he's going back to work for his father. At the Smallville Medical Center, Lionel explains to Lex that it was the sheriff who got him the dirt on the LexCorp board members. Lionel used that information to blackmail them into selling their shares to him. He then threatened to expose the sheriff if he didn't continue to do favors for LuthorCorp from time to time.
[edit] Recurring Roles
- Mitchell Kosterman as Sheriff Ethan
- Patrick Cassidey as Henry Small
- Jason Connery as Dominic Sanatori
[edit] Featured Music
- "La Wally (Ebben Ne Andro Lontana) - Alfredo Catalani.
- "The Tequila Don't Kill Her" - Tim Buppert and The Nashville Six
[edit] Notes
- This is the last appearance of Jason Connery as Dominic Sanatori. Though the character would make his last appearance in the Smallville comic book story Chimera, Part 2.
- This episode demonstrates Clark's serious temper while questioning the bartender at the Wild Coyote, as does in Phoenix when Morgan Edge threatens to call the police, in Pariah when Clark finds out Tim Westcott killed Alicia, and in Vengeance when he nearly kills the mugger w ho stole his father's watch. Also in Rogue, Clark almost kills Sam Phelan for putting Jonathan in jail.
- This is the last appearance of Mitchell Kosterman as Sheriff Ethan. His last name is never said on-screen, but the online Ledger states it is "Miller."
- Jonathan Kent mentions both the Wild Coyote (as do many others) and Highway 91. The Wild Coyote is an actual bar in Vancouver, and Highway 91 does in fact exist as well (and would likely be the route that Jonathan would take to get from the Wild Coyote to the Kent Farm).
- The State of Kansas has gone back and forth on the death penalty over the years. From 1859-1907 Kansas had the death penalty, then revoked it until 1994, when it was reinstated Kansas State.
[edit] Quotes
- Jonathan: Martha, [your father] has never believed in me before. I don't see any reason why an attempted murder charge is gonna change that.
- Lex: You know what I find so amusing about you, Dominic, is that you actually believe my father is grooming you.
- Dominic: It's unfortunate that they already have a suspect in custody. I can't think of a person with a better motive for killing your father than you.
- Jonathan: You know the worst thing that ever happened to my family was getting involved with yours.
- Lionel: Oh, now, I seem to recall that the benefits to our families were mutual. Are you forgetting the circumstances of Clark's adoption?
- Jonathan: You poison everything you touch. This town would be a whole lot better off if you weren't in it.
- Lionel: But you're as much to blame for that as I am, aren't you?
- Clark: (to Lex) It's not like I haven't seen you shoot someone before.
- Sheriff Ethan: Don't you see, Clark? It's not just about me. It's the Luthors. They're like a cancer destroying everything they touch.
- Lex: It's hard to imagine working for a man who can enrage four people to the point where any one of them had motive to kill him.
- Clark: Even you.
- Lex: You know that darkness you were talking about? I'm not sure we're born with it. I think people like my father find a way to bring it out.
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