Toxic

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Recap 3 Guest cast 4 Episode Title 5 Notes 6 Notes 7 Quotes 8 Featured Music 9 External Links

[edit] Summary

Oliver collapses at a charity event and reveals he only has 12 hours to live. Clark and Chloe call Davis for help but his prognosis is grim. Delirious, Oliver flashes back to when he was stranded on an island and first learned how to use a bow and arrow. He also recalls meeting Tess for the first time on that island after she had been kidnapped by a drug runner. Meanwhile, Chloe decides to use her new powers to help save Oliver, shocking Clark.

[edit] Recap

Oliver's fever dreams are in green.

Chloe and Clark are attending a rainforest fundraiser. Chloe wonders why Lois isn't Oliver's date and Clark admits that Lois is already on Tess Mercer's bad side and is working late. He adds that Tess might work for LuthorCorp, but she's been civil to him. They notice Oliver Queen arrive with a woman and take a glass of champagne. Shortly after drinking it, he begins to stumble around. Chloe wonders if he's drunk but Clark doesn't think so. He offers to take Oliver to the hospital but Oliver refuses. He tells him he has been poisoned and has twelve hours to live.

Clark and Chloe take Oliver to the Isis Foundation and Chloe calls Davis to check on him. Clark still thinks Oliver needs to be in the hospital, but Chloe argues that she has learned to trust Oliver and there must be a good reason why he doesn't want to go. Davis arrives and declares that he can monitor Ollie's vitals but if he worsens he must bring him in. Clark leaves to track down Oliver's date.

Lois is showing her latest article to Tess, who is unimpressed. Lois notices a sheet of paparazzi photographs featuring Oliver and asks about it. Tess tells her about how Oliver left the party falling-down drunk and that she was going to ask Lois to cover the story, but doesn't think she will be objective due to Lois and Oliver's past relationship. Lois insists that they broke up a long time ago and that she can cover the story.

Clark tracks down Oliver's date but she is being taken away from the party in an ambulance. The EMT tells her that she was found in the bathroom unconscious. Chloe is at Oliver's side, but he is getting worse.

Oliver slips into a fever dream in which he

Oliver falls into a fever dream of his past.

awakens, stranded on a deserted island. He is trying to forage for food but isn't having any luck. Finally, he creates a makeshift bow and arrow and starts to hone his skills. Eventually he hears someone else arrive on the island and goes to see. He pricks his finger on a flowering plant and passes out.

Lois arrives at the Isis Foundation looking for Ollie. She thinks he is hungover, but then notices the heart monitor. Chloe reiterates that that Oliver insisted on no hospital and Lois is skeptical but she agrees. Oliver begins to murmur in his sleep and Lois goes to his side.

Oliver on the island wakes up. A younger Tess is applying leeches to his chest. She explains that Oliver has been poisoned by a very toxic plant.

Oliver and Tess meet for the first time.

She says she is a marine biologist and a hospital would have misdiagnosed him and treated him with adrenaline, but knows how to cure him. They are in a tent surrounded by armed men. She admits that she and her friend have been kidnapped.

Clark runs into Davis at the Metropolis General Hospital and Davis reports that they treated Oliver's date, Adrianna, with adrenaline and she is fine. He is on his way to bring Oliver to the hospital when Adrianna suddenly takes a turn for the worst.

Tess continues to tend to Oliver, who is improving. She tells him that the men kidnapped her and her friend, Megan, who is tied up. Just then, one of the kidnappers (Marcos) approaches Oliver and tells him that he knows his identity. He knows that Oliver is a rich heir.

Oliver protects Tess from armed men.

He announces plans to ransom Oliver, then shoots Megan dead and almost shoots Tess too, but Oliver jumps in front of her. The kidnapper decides not to kill Tess.

Lois is at Oliver's side. She is upset that he is getting worse. She muses that she wonders if they should have stayed together. When Clark returns, Chloe tells him that she has researched the poison and its origins. Clark is stunned that she identified the plant but Chloe brushes him off. She scans a LuthorCorp online database of plants and instantly locates the plant. Clark is upset that Chloe didn't tell him that she has a new ability, sure that it is the result of her attack from Brainiac. Chloe tells him that there is nothing they can do about it and she chooses to view the result as a gift. She gives Clark a printout of the flower and tells him to ask Tess about the antidote.

Clark approaches Tess at her office in the Daily Planet and shows her the picture. Tess gets him to admit that it is Oliver Queen who is in danger. Tess' expression is unreadable. She admits that the lab has been relocated to Brazil but there is no way they could get the antidote in time. Davis returns to the Isis Foundation and tells Lois that Oliver will probably die. Lois tells him to do anything he can to keep him alive.

Oliver continues to dream about Tess and himself on the island. He tries to console Tess over the death of her friend. He tells her that he told himself that he would change and not waste his life if he ever makes it off the island. He and Tess get ready to board the Marcos' boat but Oliver has fashioned a dart. He throws it and wounds the Marcos.

Oliver saves Tess from the armed men and board the boat to leave the island.

He and Tess board the boat and leave the island safely. In the present, Oliver's fever has spiked. Lois and Davis are performing CPR when Clark returns with the antidote. Oliver's condition improves and he wakes up. He tells Clark that whoever poisoned him will target Tess next. He tells Clark to go rescue her. Tess is leaving the Daily Planet and sees her tire has been slashed. The Marcos appears behind her and she tries to fight back but he eventually punches her out. Just as he is standing over her to kill her, Clark arrives. He uses his heat vision to make a power line fall and knock him out. Tess awakens but she doesn't see her rescuer.

Tess is recovering at Luthor Mansion when Oliver Queen arrives. They argue about their past history and Tess remarks that he never said goodbye. Oliver wonders if that is why she summoned him. Instead, she hands him a folder. Clark arrives at work and notices that Lois is not working on Oliver Queen's story. He correctly guesses that Lois decided she was too emotional over Oliver's near-death experience. Lois tries to tell herself that she and Oliver's break up was for the best and Clark offers support, saying that she is still allowed to feel for him. He admits that he watched the break-up video that Lana sent him more than once.

Clark finds Oliver doing shots at the Ace of Clubs. He chastises him for drinking since he is just recovering from being poisoned. Clark asks Oliver why he didn't tell him that he knew Tess. Oliver is upset over the contents of the folder Tess gave him and gives it to Clark. It contains information that indicates that Lionel Luthor sabotaged his parents' plane and caused their death. Oliver thinks that because of Clark's relationship with Lionel, he probably already knew this. Clark admits that he wondered what Oliver would do with this information. Oliver counters that his time on the island made him strong enough to face his fears, but he thinks Clark is still afraid.

Chloe is surprised to find Davis at the Isis Foundation looking at her complicated plant research. She tries to shrug it off but Davis realizes that Chloe's intelligence is a bit unusual. She admits that even her wedding seating chart has become strangely complicated and Davis guesses that her fiancé doesn't know about her ability. Davis tells her that everyone has a dark side they might not understand.

Marcos has made bail and is boarding a cab, preparing to leave town. Tess approaches him and scratches his hand with the same toxic flower. She tells him that she bailed him out so that she could have her revenge. She tells the cab driver to take him to the hospital.

[edit] Guest cast

• Marcos - Ron Selmour
• Megan - Andrea Lai
• Adrianna - Barbara Kottmeier

[edit] Episode Title

• Toxic refers to the toxic poison of the deadly flower in south america. Oliver Queen was poisoned using the toxic flower at the charity fundraiser. Also Marcos was poisoned twice by Oliver Queen and Tess Mercer. Adrianna was also poisoned.

[edit] Notes

• Oliver's youth was visited in the animated mini series Oliver Queen Chronicles in a 6 part series.
• Jimmy Olsen does not appear in this episode.
• Chloe admits to Davis that her wedding seating chart looks like a "Euclidian algorithm". Euclid was a Greek mathmetician, and his algorithm is a complicated mathematical formula to determine the greatest common divisor between two intergers.
• Tess' license plate reads NO MERCY.
• "CLARK" is clearly written down the side of the the coffee cup that Lois steals from him at the Daily Planet.

[edit] Notes

• Clark references Lana's break-up video, seen in Arctic.

[edit] Quotes

Chloe: Although, as much as I love the one-on-one time, I gotta say I'm actually surprised Lois unattached you from her hip.

Clark: What do you mean? Lois and I aren't always together.

Chloe: Clark, you see her more than I see Jimmy, and we're engaged.

Clark: What are you trying to say?

Chloe: Never mind.

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Lois: Maybe we had it wrong. Maybe our story ends and neither of us are heroes.

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Oliver: (capturing a centipede) All right, here's the deal. Normally I don't eat anything with more than 99 legs on it, but I haven't eaten in days. Kind of a bummer for both of us, right?

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Marcos: Oh. You don't think I know who you are? Oliver Queen?

Oliver: No idea what you're talking about.

Marcos: You're famous! Everyone knows you're that rich brat who took off with his friends on a yacht and partied his way into a shipwreck. And lucky for us, not all of you was shark bait.

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Clark: There must be something you can do. Lex never abandons a project.

Tess: He doesn't, does he? I'm still catching up from the ones he's named after constellations.

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Oliver: You may be invincible, but you are not fearless, are you? You're afraid to trust your friends, and you're afraid to face who you're really meant to be. You're afraid of everything. Maybe you haven't been put to the test yet. Maybe your island's still out there, Clark.

[edit] Featured Music

• "It Don't Matter To Jesus"-Emily Zuzik

[edit] External Links

• TV.com

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