Void

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Contents 1 Summary 2 Recap 3 Recurring Role 4 Guest Cast 5 Notes 6 Continuity 7 Quotes 8 External Links

[edit] Summary

Still distraught over her break-up with Clark, Lana experiments with a dangerous serum that allows her to flat-line and see her deceased parents again. A worried Clark rushes to save Lana from hurting herself, but ends up being injected with the kryptonite-laced serum by a rogue doctor. When Clark flat-lines, he is able to talk to his recently deceased father, who warns him that Lionel knows his secret. Meanwhile, Lionel continues to get closer to Martha.

[edit] Recap

In her dorm room, Lana is lying in bed and taps her feet against the wall nervously as she waits for her roommate Chloe to leave. Finally she gets up, takes out some money, and goes to the college cafeteria. She meets with a young med student Lance and his girlfriend Ally, who prepare a kryptonite-based serum to inject her with in return for payment. She begs for more time to "find them" and Lance finally agrees. They strap her down on a table and inject her with the serum, and she starts to hallucinate…seeing her mom and dad. She tries to embrace them but is hauled away and wakes up in convulsions, then demands she needs to go back.

Chloe is checking news stories and spots Professor Fine in a photo from Honduras. She calls Clark who instantly arrives but is hesitant to come in until he knows Lana is out. Chloe reveals she's been out regularly with two med students, then brings Clark up to speed on her suspicion that Fine is still alive. They're interrupted when Lana and Ally arrive. Clark awkwardly slips out and Lana tells Chloe she's fine – Chloe is skeptical. Clark superspeeds to Honduras and starts asking around and spots a boy with a carved wooden toy – the spaceship that Fine arrived in.

At the Talon, Martha holds a press conference and all goes well. Lionel meets with her afterward and gives her some information. Martha wants to know why he's helping her and he demurs and offers to go with her to help her schmooze with the other senators. Martha warns him not to expect anything other than friendship and he seemingly accepts that.

Lana goes to see Lance in the middle of anatomy class and demands another "treatment" to see her parents. He demands even more money and she says no problem. Later, Lex is at his manor and hears someone breaking in – he goes to investigate and finds Lana going through his stuff. He confronts her and she admits that Lance has created a drug that kills the user and brings them back, and on the other side she saw her parents. Lex tells her they both need to let it go and Lana agrees. When he goes to get her a blanket, she leaves with his car.

Clark goes into the jungle with the boy who leads him to a large black charred mark where the spaceship was. Lex calls Chloe and wants to know where Lana is and as she prepares to leave she finds some books on near-death experiences and a piece of paper. She goes to the address and finds Lance's friend, Ally, who is in bad shape and clearly into the near-death experience. Chloe threatens to go to the college authorities but Ally starts gasping for breath and coughs up blood, says "meteor rock, compound, near death experience" then dies.

Lana visits Lance who is getting rid of the evidence since he's heard that Ally is dead. He has the remainder of the drug and Lana demands another injection and gives Lex's Porsche as payment. Lex arrives and he and Lance get into a fight, while Lana grabs a vial of the drug and runs. Lex goes after her but Lance stabs him in the back with a syringe and injects the drug. Lex collapses and Lance flees. Lex "wakes up" at the manor and hears his mother Lillian playing the piano. She points out how he was dying the last time they "met" and how he ignored her advice then. She warns the path he's chosen will hurt and he's not the only one who will suffer. She asks him to stay and avoiding killing so many…and then he is yanked back. Chloe is there and gave him the second injection to revive him. However, he has no idea where Lana is.

Clark arrives and Chloe brings him up to speed, pointing out that Lana was seeking love from the only two people who would do so unconditionally – her parents. Chloe uses the computer to track Lana's ID card where she is breaking into the campus infirmary. She gets a syringe and prepares to inject herself and Lance arrives and tosses her into a cart of glassware. He prepares to inject her and finish her off but Clark knocks him away. She begs him for an injection and Lance gets close enough with the green-k syringe to inject a weakened Clark. Clark collapses and Lance prepares to take a bone saw to Lana. She grabs a beaker and smashes it into his face – he drops the saw then falls on it.

Lana goes to Clark, who is hallucinating that he's back in the Kent barn uninjured. He opens the door to a bright light and in steps…Jonathan Kent. Jonathan tells him he must go back and Clark tells him about the deal he made with Jor-El. Jonathan reassures him he's not to blame and he's proud protecting Clark…from Lionel Luthor. Jonathan reveals Lionel knows everything and that Clark must go back to

keep his mother and the whole world safe. Jonathan tells him to go and find his destiny to help others, then shoves him back to where Clark wakes up with Lana over him.

Clark returns home and calls for Martha as she prepares to go out to the dinner with Lionel. Yet before he can warn her, Lionel arrives and takes her off and Clark can only glower angrily.

At the Daily Planet, Clark reveals to Chloe that he didn't find anything on Fine but he saw Jonathan who warned him about Lionel's knowledge of his secret. Chloe reveals that Lionel was her source on the Honduras photos and Clark wonders if he's playing them all.

Lex is practicing the piano when Lana arrives to apologize and Lex is okay with it. He reveals to her that he saw his mother but lies about what she said. Lana is at her dorm considering her family photos when Clark arrives and she gives him an explanation of sorts about how she's always felt alone, but now she won't allow herself to be so dependent. They part on good terms as Clark assures her he just wants her to be happy…she replies she will be.

[edit] Recurring Role

• Lillian Luthor- Alisen Down

[edit] Guest Cast

• Lance - G. Patrick Currie
• Ally - Michaela Mann

[edit] Notes

• Clark's phone number is listed as 555-0128.
• Lois Lane does not appear in this episode.

[edit] Continuity

• Wendy Chmelauskas and Ben Odberg reprise their roles as Lewis and Laura Lang for Lana's drug-induced trip.
• Lillian references her last appearance before Lex in Lexmas.
• Chloe and Clark learn that Milton Fine may be alive after they thought he had been killed in Solitude
• Jonathan returns (for the first time since Reckoning) for Clark's drug-induced trip and reveals that Lionel knows Clark's secret, which Lionel found proof of from the events in Lockdown but was revealed onscreen in Cyborg.

[edit] Quotes

Lance: You stole a Porsche?

Lana: No, I borrowed it from a friend.

Lex: And he wants it back!

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Lillian: Don't let the blood wash away what is left of your soul.

Lex: What are you talking about? What blood?

Lillian: From all the people you are going to murder.

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Lillian: What was it then that brought you to me? Oh yes, you were shot coming out of a meeting with the man you hired to destroy Jonathan Kent's reputation, so you could become senator. How'd that turn out, by the way?

Lex: If you're really my dead mother, wouldn't you know?

Lillian: It was a rhetorical question, Alexander – of course I know.

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Jonathan: This is your destiny, son. You are going to touch the lives of so many people. Not just as a man, but as a symbol. You're a symbol of peace. You're a symbol of justice. And now it's time for you to go.

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Jonathan: I'll always be with you, son! Always...

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Clark: Lana, all I want for you is to be happy.

Lana: I will be.

[edit] External Links

• TV.com (recap source)

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