Toxic
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| Toxic | |
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| Series | 8x03 |
| Episode | 155 |
| Writer | Caroline Dries |
| Director | Mairzee Almas |
| Broadcast Date | October 2, 2008 |
| Production Code | 3T7453 |
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[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 Clark'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.
Clark and Chloe take Oliver to the Isis Foundation and Chloe calls Davis Bloome 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.
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
Lois arrives at the Isis Foundation looking for Ollie. She thinks he is hungover, but then notices the heart monitor. Chloe reiterates 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.
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 getting better. 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.
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
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.
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.
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, fully aware that they will probably misdiagnose his condition and treat him with adrenaline – resulting in his death.
[edit] Guest Cast
[edit] Featured Music
- "Dance To The Beat" - Brian Wayy
- "Get On Up" - Carl Burnett
- "It Don't Matter To Jesus" - Emily Zuzik
[edit] Episode Title
- Toxic refers to the toxic poison of the deadly flower in South America. Oliver Queen was poisoned by the flower's toxins 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 six part series.
- Jimmy Olsen does not appear in this episode.
- Chloe admits to Davis that her wedding seating chart looks like an "Euclidian algorithm". Euclid was a Greek mathematician, and the Euclidean algorithm (so called because it appears in a book Euclid wrote, not because Euclid invented it) is a mathematical process to determine the greatest common divisor of two integers. However, the algorithm is not geometrical in any way, so it does not apply to Chloe's claim.
- 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.
- Lois refers to Oliver as "an icon; the man of tomorrow," and herself as "Lois Lane, the girl who writes about him," a reference to her role in the comics and films as Superman's primary love interest/reporter.
- Tess references the projects that Lex has named after constellations. This would include Project Ares, the super-soldier experiments that were made to house the abilities he had harvested during the 33.1 experiments, and Project Gemini, the LuthorCorp project dedicated to human cloning, accelerated growth, and memory implantation.
[edit] Continuity
- 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.
- Lois: Maybe we had it wrong. Maybe our story ends and neither of us are heroes.
- Oliver: I swore that if I ever made it off this island, I'd change. I wouldn't waste my life. That starts now.
- Davis: Modern medicine, Clark. That girl's living proof that Oliver's too sick to know what he's talking about.
- 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?
- Davis: Level with me, Chloe. Are you some kind of genius? I'm embarrassing you.
- 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.
- 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.
- Chloe: He doesn't know. Well, it's all sort of just happening, which is why I would really prefer it if we could keep it between us.
- Davis: Look, Chloe, I think that, in some weird way, we all have some part of us that we hold underneath the surface. Even I do.
- 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.
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