Post by Matriarch Goddess on Feb 1, 2010 6:29:00 GMT -5
Smallville Season 2
This is a synopsis for each Episode of Season 2. If you would like to discussion each episode individually then please open a separate thread for each episode.
2x01 Vortex
Clark rescues Lana from the giant tornado and takes her to the hospital. When he returns home, Clark learns the ship is gone, and that his father chased Roger Nixon into the storm. Lex is wracked with guilt over not helping his father sooner, who is now in the hospital, and makes a decision that costs his father his eyesight. Jonathan and Nixon attempt to dig themselves out of the crypt they fell into after a mobile home dropped out of the sky on top of them. Clark shows up before the two men lose all oxygen, but the meteor rocks weaken him. Nixon takes advantage of the situation, and kidnaps Clark. Lex shows up and saves Jonathan's life by shooting Nixon before he can kill Jonathan.
2x02 Heat
During a record heat wave, Clark develops a new ability, heat vision, which causes him to have uncontrollable bursts of heat from his eyes. Lex marries Desiree Atkins, a woman he barely knows, who it turns out is able to control men with meteor rock-enhanced pheromones. With Jonathan's help, Clark discovers the trigger for his heat vision and learns to control his new ability. Desiree attempts to use her pheromones on Clark, but he is resistant. Instead, she convinces Jonathan to kill Lex, so that she can inherit his fortune. Clark manages to save Lex before either Jonathan or Desiree can kill him.
2x03 Duplicity
After Pete discovers the spaceship in a cornfield, Clark goes against his parents' wishes and reveals his secret to Pete. Pete's reaction makes Clark begin to regret his decision. Dr. Hamilton, suffering from overexposure to the meteor rocks and exhibiting the same jitters as Earl Jenkins, steals Clark's ship. When Lex refuses to believe his rants about a ship, Dr. Hamilton seeks support from Lionel Luthor. Pete's loyalty is tested when Dr. Hamilton kidnaps him in an effort to find out how to open the ship. Clark arrives, but Hamilton's overexposure to the meteor rocks sends him into deadly convulsions. Pete apologizes for his previous behavior and happily accepts that Clark has special abilities.
2x04 Red
Clark goes against his father's wishes and purchases an expensive high school ring. The ring contains red meteor rock, and affects Clark mentally. With his inhibition gone, Clark begins to act out of character. He ruins a date with Lana when he starts a fight in a bar. Showing resentment toward his parents for forcing him to live the life of a farm boy, Clark decides to use his abilities to become rich and leave Smallville. It takes both Pete and Jonathan, working together, to stop Clark and remove the ring from his hand. Clark tries to apologize to his parents, but Jonathan suspects that Clark was expressing his true feelings. Lana refuses to accept Clark's apology when he cannot explain his actions to her. Meanwhile a strange girl is being hunted by a strange man and running from the police.
2x05 Nocturne
Lana finds a secret admirer in a boy named Byron. However, Byron is a former test subject for one of LuthorCorp's projects run by Lionel Luthor. After an encounter with Byron's parents, Clark and Lana come to the conclusion that Byron is being abused, and decide to rescue him from his parents. When they release Byron from his room, the sunlight turns him into a violent creature with superhuman strength. Clark tracks down Byron and during a fight the two fall down a well shaft. The darkness returns Byron to normal long enough for Clark to get Byron to the hospital. Martha takes a position as Lionel Luthor's personal assistant.
2x06 Redux
When a student is pulled out of the school pool, having aged 60 years in a few seconds, Clark and Chloe decide to investigate. They discover an 80-year trail of similar events left behind by Chrissy "Missy" Parker, another student. Lana discovers a photo of her mother with an unidentified man. Learning that her parents were separated for a short time, she believes the unidentified man may be her biological father. Without a fresh victim, Missy's body begins to age rapidly. Clark manages to keep her from killing the new principal, which causes Missy to deteriorate into dust.
2x07 Lineage
A woman named Rachel Dunleavy shows up claiming to be Clark's biological mother. Dunleavy kidnaps Lex and threatens to kill him if Lionel doesn't reveal the truth about Clark's adoption. Lana finds her biological father, Henry Small, and confronts him, only to find out that he is not interested in her. Jonathan reveals to Clark that he made a deal with Lionel Luthor, in an effort to make sure he and Martha could adopt Clark, which enabled Lionel to buy the Ross Creamed Corn factory. Rachel witnesses Clark using his abilities and realizes that he isn't her son. Lionel admits to Lex that he did father another child, but that it died as an infant.
2x08 Ryan
After his aunt abandons him because of money problems, Ryan phones Clark for help. Clark rescues Ryan from the Summerholt facility, where the boy was being held an unwilling subject of experimentation, and brings him back to Smallville. He soon finds out that Ryan has a tumor in his brain, and that he only has a couple days left to live.
2x09 Dichotic
Ian, a straight-A student, has the ability to duplicate himself. He uses his power to take extra classes, and date both Lana and Chloe at the same time. Clark and Pete reveal Ian's secret, which forces Ian to try and kill both of the girls. Meanwhile, Lex attends an anger management session, where he meets Dr. Helen Bryce.
2x10 Skinwalker
Clark stumbles into a local Native American cave, located below a new LuthorCorp construction site, and discovers symbols in an alien language on the cave walls. A local Native American, Joseph Willowbrook, and his granddaughter Kyla, recount a story that reflects Clark's life. In an effort to save the land, Kyla tries to scare the Luthors away, using her ability of skin-walking, but she is mortally injured during her attack on Lionel.
2x11 Visage
Whitney Fordman returns from overseas, to everybody's surprise. Claiming to have lost some of his memory during battle, he tries to get back together with Lana, ignorant of the Dear John letter she sent. Not wanting to hurt him, Lana submits to his attempts to win her back, but Clark discovers that Whitney is actually Tina Greer. When Clark confronts Tina, she immobilizes him using green meteor rock. Left helpless in the Kents' storm cellar, Clark is saved by his spaceship. During a later confrontation with Clark, Tina injures herself and dies. It is subsequently revealed that the real Whitney was killed in action.
2x12 Insurgence
After Lex is defeated in a takeover bid by Lionel, he discovers that his mansion is full of listening devices. Lex starts a plan to bug LuthorCorp's headquarters, but aborts when he finds out that Martha and Lionel are headed there. The abort is botched when the workers want to steal from the LuthorCorp vault. While held hostage, Martha learns that Lionel has files on Clark, and bars of refined meteor rock.
2x13 Suspect
Lionel is mysteriously shot at the Luthor mansion, leaving behind a huge list of suspects with various motives to want him dead. Jonathan, who is found unconscious in his truck with a bottle of tequila and a gun in his hand, is arrested as the prime suspect. Clark and Pete investigate, and discover an elaborate plan orchestrated by Sheriff Ethan.
2x14 Rush
Pete and Chloe are infected by bug-like creatures that burrow into the necks of those who get close enough. The bugs cause people to engage in extremely risky behavior. Meanwhile, Clark finally asks Lana on a date. This infuriates a jealous Chloe. Pete uses red meteor rock to get Clark to join them in their adrenaline rushing behavior. Chloe tries to seduce Clark and the red meteor rock is incidentally removed, restoring Clark to his normal self. Clark manages to get both his friends to the hospital but he ruins his evening with Lana. Lex hires Dr. Frederick Walden, an expert in ancient glyphs, to try to translate the language found on walls of the Kawatche Caves.
2x15 Prodigal
Lex discovers that his half-brother, Lucas, is still alive. Lionel has been looking after Lucas, and uses him to steal away Lex's inheritance, so he cannot buy-out LuthorCorp. Penniless, Lex moves in with the Kents. Lucas, dissatisfied with Lionel's plans for him, discovers that Lionel has been faking blindness for a while. An elaborate scheme with Lex reveals Lionel's lie, and Lex secures his inheritance back into place.
2x16 Fever
Martha, who has been hiding the key to the spaceship, becomes extremely sick from inhaling the dust of green meteor rock that was underground. The Kent farm is quarantined, and the key discovered. Clark, who inhaled the meteor dust as well, falls sick too. While Clark is unconscious, Chloe reads him a note describing her true feelings for him, only to have him mumble Lana's name in his sleep. After testing his blood, Dr. Helen Bryce realizes that Clark is different. Martha is revealed to be pregnant after the ship removes her poisoning.
2x17 Rosetta
Clark decides to place the key into a slot in the cave wall. Upon inserting the key, the wall instills him with the language of the cave. Dr. Walden discovers the key and uses it himself, but the information overload puts him in a coma. At home, Clark's heat vision forces him to etch a symbol onto the barn door. He is contacted by Dr. Virgil Swann (Christopher Reeve), who educates Clark about Krypton, his home planet. Using the key on the ship, he uncovers a hidden message from his biological father stating that his destiny is to conquer Earth.
2x18 Visitor
A classmate at school, Cyrus, displays special abilities. Clark discovers that Cyrus believes he is an alien who arrived during the meteor shower, leading him to believe Dr. Swann was wrong when he told Clark he was the only Kryptonian on Earth. Cyrus shows Clark the transmission tower he is building to contact his alien parents, but evidence surfaces that proves that Cyrus is human.
2x19 Precipice
After Lana is assaulted by a college student, Andy Conners, Clark loses control and seemingly injures the boy. When the Kents are sued for punitive damages, Clark begins to question his powers, while trying to find a way out of the lawsuit. It is later revealed that Andy was faking his injuries, and, thanks to a plan concocted by Lana, Clark, and Chloe, is exposed. Meanwhile, Helen's ex-boyfriend arrives in town, intent on winning her back. When she turns him down, he stabs her, prompting Lex to take the law into his own hands.
2x20 Witness
A group of thieves hijack a LuthorCorp van, and steal a shipment of refined green meteor rock. Clark stumbles upon the robbery, but is no match for them. It turns out that they are manufacturing and inhaling liquid kryptonite, which leads to enhanced strength. Lionel offers to fund the Torch and a position at the Daily Planet to Chloe.
2x21 Accelerate
Lana thinks she is seeing ghosts, when an old childhood friend, Emily Eve Dinsmore, who died six years prior, appears. Clark discovers that the child is indeed real. By moving extremely fast, the girl seems to disappear and walk through walls. Clark learns that Emily's father has been cloning her, with the help of green meteor rock. The flaw with the Emily clone is that she has no sense of morality, which eventually puts Lana in danger. Meanwhile, Lex prepares for his wedding with Helen.
2x22 Calling
Dr. Walden wakes up from his coma, and tells Lex and Lionel that Clark is an alien that must be destroyed. A romantic encounter between Clark and Lana is quickly dismissed when Chloe finds out they are together. During a rehearsal for Lex and Helen's wedding, Clark hears a strange voice calling from the storm cellar.
2x23 Exodus
The will of Clark's biological father, Jor-El, informs Clark he must leave Smallville. Not wanting to leave his family and friends, Clark steals Lionel's copy of the spaceship key made out of refined green meteor rock and sticks it into the ship, destroying it. The blast from the explosion causes Martha to lose her baby. Grief stricken, Clark decides to leave Smallville. During his honeymoon flight, Lex wakes to find the plane going down and Helen and the pilot missing.