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X-Ray
Series 1x04
Episode 4
Writer Mark Verheiden
Director James Frawley
Broadcast Date November 6, 2001
Production Code 227604
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[edit] Summary

Tina Greer's skeleton is laced with meteor rock. She is able to assume any form. She assumes the form of Lex Luthor to rob a bank. Clark Kent discovers he has x-ray vision. Lana Lang discovers her mother was much more interesting than her aunt ever told her before. And Lex Luthor turns the tables on Roger Nixon gaining himself an unwilling ally at the Metropolis Inquisitor.

[edit] Recap

At the Smallville Savings and Loan, Lex Luthor tells the manager that he wants to close all of his accounts. The manager is very disappointed and a bit confused when Lex requests all the money in cash. When Lex's signature doesn't match the signature on record, he asks to see Lex's driver's license. Lex pulls out a gun. He leaves the bank at a run with the alarm sounding. Halfway down the block he meets up with his friend Clark Kent. When Clark asks what's going on, Lex throws him through the large front window of Speck's Optical. As he recovers, Clark is able to see right through Lex's skin to his skeleton.
Clark sees a green tinge to the bank robber's skeleton.
Lex's bones have an odd green glow.

Rose Greer confronts her daughter Tina about a backpack full of money she found in the house. She asks if it was Tina who robbed the bank yesterday. Tina morphs into Lex and says that it was Lex Luthor who robbed the bank. Her mother insists they return the money. They struggle over the backpack, and Tina's mother falls down the stairs to her death. Tina starts to call 911, but she doesn't report the emergency.

Martha Kent reads about the bank robbery in the newspaper. Clark insists that it couldn't have been Lex. Jonathan seems willing to believe any terrible thing about Lex. Just then, Lex shows up on the Kent's porch. Clark is surprised that he isn't in jail, but Lex explains that he had a rock solid alibi: he was in Metropolis hosting a reception for 200 fertilizer distributors. He wants to talk to Clark because he was listed as one of the eyewitnesses. Clark insists that the bank robber looked exactly like Lex Luthor.

In gym class, Clark is climbing rope against his buddy Pete Ross, when he suddenly looks right through his skin to his muscles. Clark is so shocked, he loses his grip and falls to the floor.
Clark watches Lana remove her towel in the locker room.
As he recovers, he looks right through the wall to the girls' locker room and smiles as he sees Lana Lang remove her towel. After school, he explains to his parents about his x-ray vision. His parents encourage him to practice so that he can learn to control it. Clark knows that they are just guessing and he storms out in frustration.

Tina visits Lana and wonders aloud if Lana's Aunt Nell would adopt her if anything ever happened to her mother, then she and Lana could be sisters. Lana is unnerved by the strange question and assures her that nothing is going to happen to her mom.

Clark is running errands on Main Street with his mom when he gets another headache. He starts seeing everyone on the street like an x-ray. He notices the skeleton with glowing green bones walk into the antique shop. Martha catches up and they enter the store to be greeted by Rose Greer. Clark asks about Tina. Rose explains that she is with Lana, so Clark leaves. Martha asks Rose for the lamp that Rose has been restoring. While Rose is in the back of the store, Martha finds a large sum of cash on the floor. Rose says that the lamp isn't ready and a client paid her in cash earlier that day. When Martha turns her back, Rose slips her keys out of her purse. On the street, Martha is nearly run down by her own truck, with Clark at the wheel. Martha is shocked as Clark seemingly drives around the corner, but then appears behind her to help her to her feet.

Jonathan announces that the police found their truck abandoned. Martha recalls that the antique shop is the only place she stopped that day. She also notes that Rose Greer was acting strangely and that the cash she found on the floor had a Smallville Savings and Loan band, so it could be from the robbery. It seems too crazy to suspect that Rose turned into Clark until Clark admits that when he saw Tina's skeleton it seemed green and inhuman. Martha explains that Tina was born with a soft bone disease. Despite experimental treatments, she wasn't expected to live to the age of six, but she got better about her third birthday-- right after the meteor shower.

Roger Nixon attempts to blackmail Lex Luthor.
Coming out of the coffee shop, Lex finds Roger Nixon, a journalist, leaning against his car. He threatens to publish a story about a previous run-in with the law Lex had at a younger age, involving a nightclub called Club Zero.
Lana finds her mother's journal while cleaning the garage.
In the garage, Lana finds a box with some of her mother's high school things, including a diary. She asks her aunt about her mother. From the diary, Lana learns that her mother hated cheerleading and dreamed of leaving Smallville. Aunt Nell admits that she told Lana the things she thought Lana could handle at the time. Lana laments that she has been trying to live up to a Laura Lang that didn't exist. Aunt Nell tells Lana that Laura gave the graduation speech. The first line said: “I never made a difference here, but maybe my children can.”

At school, Clark stares at Tina trying to see her skeleton. Chloe and Pete admit that the only thing weird about Tina is the amount of time she spends idolizing Lana. When Lana emerges from her classroom, Tina tells her that her mom is moving to Metropolis, but she doesn't want to pull Tina out of school, so she wants to know if she can move in with Lana and Nell. When Lana hesitates, Tina takes it as a rejection and storms off. Clark is successful in focusing his x-ray vision and spying a backpack full of cash in Tina's locker. Clark tells his parents about what he found.

Deputy Miller has come looking to arrest Tina.
At the antique shop, Tina morphs into her mother just as two sheriff's deputies approach, looking for Tina. They admit that a kid with an anonymous tip lead them to find the money from the bank robbery in her locker.

Lana arrives at the loft to tell Clark about Tina. When she kisses him, she morphs into Tina and throws Clark through the wall. She has guessed correctly that it was Clark who tipped off the police. She leaves Clark for dead. Clark tells his parents they can't call the police because Clark is the only one who can recognize Tina.

Chloe tries to help Lana find the graduation speech her mother gave in 1977.
Lana goes to the Smallville Torch office to ask Chloe Sullivan to help her find the graduation speech her mother delivered in 1977, but due to its controversial nature, the editors decided not to print it that year.

At the Luthor Mansion, Roger Nixon arrives to deliver the files and collect his money. Lex tells him that if he walks out that door Lex will make him disappear. He deleted all records of the man's existence, and announces that he wants Nixon's help. He wants him to print positive stories about him and kill negative ones. Lex takes him to a large room with a wrecked Porsche. He wants Nixon to find out how Lex survived the crash.

Clark is practicing his x-ray vision on a lead box when Lana comes to visit. She tells Clark about her mother's diary. Clark muses about what he might ask his biological parents if he ever had the chance.
Clark sees a skeleton in the cabinet.
Later, he and Pete go to the antique shop to investigate. Clark sees a skeleton in a cabinet and they open it to Tina's mother's body. They also find pages with Lana's signature over and over, and guess that Lana will be Tina's next victim.

Tina appears as Lana and asks Whitney for his letterman jacket. At the cemetery, Lana is visiting her parents' grave when Tina appears as Whitney. She says terrible things about how Lana has a great life, but she can't see it. She has no right to be unhappy, and she doesn't deserve her own life. Tina morphs back into herself and strangles Lana, stealing her meteorite necklace.

Lana wakes up inside a crypt.
Clark battles Tina as Whitney.
When Clark arrives at the cemetery, he finds Tina-as-Whitney with the necklace in her pocket. At first Tina has the upper hand, but when she takes off the jacket, Clark recovers. During their battle, Tina tells Clark that Lana is dead.
Clark sees that one of the skeletons in the cemetery is moving.
Clark scans the cemetery and sees one of the skeletons is moving. He breaks into the crypt and lifts her from the tomb.

Clark's parents let him know that Tina will not be able to hurt anyone else. Whitney arrives to comfort Lana. Clark's x-ray vision activates and he is pained as he watches Whitney and Lana enter the house and embrace.

Chloe locates an audiotape copy of the graduation speech and Lana is able to hear her mother's speech.

[edit] Recurring Roles

[edit] Guest Cast

[edit] Featured Music

  • "Movies" - Alien Ant Farm
  • "Ooh La La" - The Wiseguys
  • "Breathe You In" - Stabbing Westward
  • "Up All Night" - Unwritten Law
  • "Analyse" - The Cranberries
  • "Unbroken" - Todd Thibaud
  • "Wall In Your Heart" - Shelby Lynne

[edit] Episode Title

  • The episode title is an obvious allusion to Clark Kent's emerging ability to x-ray matter.
  • Clark uses his X-ray vision to see through Tina Greer's disguise and to save Lana.

[edit] Notes

  • This episode marks Mitchell Kosterman's first on-screen appearance as Sheriff Ethan.
  • Tina Greer is the show's first female villain.
  • In this episode Lex threatens Roger Nixon after he attempts to blackmail him. This is the first of many times that Lex will threaten and manipulate people into doing what he wants.
  • Tina as Lex writes his signature right handed while the real Lex Luthor is left handed.

[edit] Continuity

  • Tina Greer's fate is revealed in the Season 2 episode Visage.
  • The nightclub event that Roger tries to blackmail Lex with is revealed in the episode Zero.

[edit] Quotes

Martha: This is incredible. Why would Lex Luthor need to rob a bank?
Jonathan: I've seen some strange things in my day, but this definitely takes the cake. (he looks at Clark) Well, almost.
Lex: I promise I'm not a criminal mastermind.
Clark: I know; a criminal mastermind would have worn a mask.
Chloe: Pete, you throw that rubber spider again, and I'm going for my staple gun.
Lex: (to Nixon) You came into my life, thinking you could shake me down 'cause I'm just some spoiled rich brat who needed his daddy's protection. Trust me - when I make things disappear, they stay buried.
Clark: Mom, if you could see anything, what would you do?
Martha: Learn to close my eyes.

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