Post by Matriarch Goddess on Feb 2, 2010 5:50:26 GMT -5
Smallville Season 4
This is a synopsis for each Episode of Season 4. If you would like to discussion each episode individually then please open a separate thread for each episode.
4x01 Crusade
Clark returns to Smallville as Kal-El; intent on fulfilling his destiny, Kal-El takes to the skies to steal a powerful Kryptonian stone. Dr. Swann's emissary, Bridgette Crosby (Margot Kidder), arrives to help Martha, who learns about a new form of kryptonite. Lois Lane comes to town to investigate the death of her cousin Chloe. Lana is shown in Paris with a new boyfriend, and Jonathan Kent lies in a coma.
4x02 Gone
Clark and Lois Lane investigate Chloe's apparent death, but are stopped by General Sam Lane, Lois' father. Lois suspects he knows more about Chloe's death than he is letting on, and tries to find out more. Discovering that Lex has been keeping her in hiding, Clark tries to find Chloe before Lionel's assassin can really kill her.
4x03 Façade
Lana's boyfriend, Jason Teague, having followed her to Smallville, takes a position as the assistant football coach. The two try keeping their romance a secret from the school, and also Clark. Abby Fine, a student, turns to plastic surgery to enhance her looks and boost her popularity. Things go awry when she discovers that her kryptonite-enhanced beauty causes harm to anyone she kisses.
4x04 Devoted
The cheerleading squad spikes the football player's drinks with a kryptonite-enhanced love potion. The result allows Clark to become the starting quarterback for the school. It also causes Chloe to become devoted to Clark, and sends a jealous Jason after Clark. Clark and Lois investigate and uncover the truth, and the key to removing the trance.
4x05 Run
Clark attempts to track down Bart Allen, a thief who stole Jonathan's wallet, but he's faster than Clark. Later, Bart arrives at the farm to make amends. Lex buys a manuscript with Kryptonian symbols, and Clark discovers that it contains a hidden map to one of the Kryptonian stones. When Bart steals the manuscript, he inadvertently puts Clark's life in danger and must make the decision to save Clark or himself.
4x06 Transference
One of the stones begins calling to Clark, who speeds to the prison where Lionel is held. When he sees Lionel attempt to stab Lex with the stone, Clark grabs for it, causing the two men to switch bodies. Learning his new body has super powers, Lionel immediately begins wreaking havoc in Smallville. Trapped behind bars without his powers, Clark tries to figure out a way to get his body and powers back in order to save his friends and family.
4x07 Jinx
Foreign-exchange student Mikhail Mxyzptlk has the power of persuasion, and uses it to fix sporting events. Clark and Chloe try and figure out how he is controlling everyone. Mikhail makes a bet with Lex to keep his citizenship, but Clark and Chloe discover his weakness, preventing him from controlling the game. With his powers lost, Mikhail surrenders to Lex, but Lex decides to take him to a secret lab, 33.1, where he hopes Mikhail will regain his ability.
4x08 Spell
After Lana reads from a spell book, she, Lois and Chloe become possessed by witches that were burned at the stake in the 1600s. The three witches seek revenge for their burning, as well as the Kryptonian stones. Clark attempts to stop the witches, but they strip him of his shirt and powers, shackle and torture him, and force him to reveal the location of the stone he hid in the cave.
4x09 Bound
Lex is accused of killing a young woman, and Clark sets out to prove his innocence. Swearing he is a changed man, Lionel offers Clark insight into the crime, but he asks for something in return. Meanwhile, Lana meets Jason's mother, Genevieve Teague, and has a vivid flashback of the incident in Paris, leading her to suspect that Jason's mother was there when she got her tattoo.
4x10 Scare
Lex's secret experiment at LuthorCorp goes awry and causes a dangerous toxin to be released into Smallville. Those infected by the toxin, including Clark, Lana, Chloe, Lex, and Jason, imagine their greatest fears come true and then fall into a coma. Desperate to find a cure, Clark heats up the vials containing a cure while Lex is not looking. With the cure heated to the correct temperature, Lex does something unexpected with the unproven antidote.
4x11 Unsafe
Claiming to be cured, Alicia Baker is released from Belle Reve and returns to Smallville. Initially skeptical of Alicia, Clark finds himself enjoying a relationship with someone who knows his secret. When she pushes for more he hesitates, causing her to use red kryptonite on him. A morally challenged Clark emerges and whisks Alicia off to get married. Lana decides to have sex with Jason in an effort to win him back.
4x12 Pariah
Clark has concerns after Alicia becomes the prime suspect in a brutal attack against Lana and Jason. Initially defending Alicia, Clark begins to think differently as the evidence begins to pile up. Hurt, Alicia forces Clark to unknowingly reveal his powers in front of Chloe. Afterward, she is killed by the person who was truly responsible for the attacks. Jason's mother returns to town with an offer for Lex.
4x13 Recruit
In an effort to recruit Clark for their football team, Metropolis University sends their star player Geoff Johns to show Clark the perks of attending Met U. However, after one of Metropolis University's players dies under mysterious circumstances, and Lois is arrested for his murder, Clark discovers that Geoff has super powers and is using them to paralyze anyone who gets in his way, including Lois. Meanwhile, Chloe attempts to learn more about Clark's secret.
4x14 Krypto
While driving, Lois accidentally hits a dog and brings it back to the farm. Clark realizes it's not an ordinary dog when it drags a tractor across the lawn. Clark and Lois learn the dog was stolen from an aborted LuthorCorp experiment, and was now being used to commit crimes. Lex lets Clark keep the dog, whom Martha named Shelby. Meanwhile, Lana questions Jason's involvement in his mother's schemes.
4x15 Sacred
After learning that Jason and Lex are in China searching for one of the Kryptonian stones, Clark and Lana follow in the hopes of finding it first. Clark finds an artifact that leads them to the stone, but he must battle Isobel Thoreaux, the witch who possessed Lana, who has returned to take the stone for herself. Lex has more information on the stones than he is letting on.
4x16 Lucy
Lois' younger sister, Lucy, comes to town and charms everyone she meets. However, Clark discovers a darker side to Lucy, after he catches her stealing money from the Talon, and forces her to reveal the truth about her sudden appearance in Smallville. Meanwhile, the stone from Shanghai disappears from Lana's apartment and Jason accuses Lionel of stealing it.
4x17 Onyx
A glimpse of the future Lex Luthor is revealed after a kryptonite explosion splits Lex in two, and his evil side - Alexander - is released. Alexander immediately imprisons Lex in the mansion, and tries to kill Clark and Chloe. After discovering Clark's secret, he attempts to persuade Clark to join him. Clark uses black kryptonite to force the two Lexes back together.
4x18 Spirit
A stunned Chloe is nominated for Prom Queen, and tries to talk a reluctant Clark and Lana into attending the dance with her. However, after her rival Dawn crashes her car into a ravine filled with kryptonite, Dawn's spirit is released, allowing her to enter the bodies of anyone she wants. As a result, Lana asks Clark to be her date, Lois attends the Prom and Chloe attempts to set the school on fire.
4x19 Blank
Kevin, a boy who can cause people to temporarily lose their memory, turns his powers on Clark and causes him to have total amnesia. Chloe discovers what has happened and must teach Clark about his superpowers, while simultaneously trying to keep him from accidentally revealing them to others. Without his memory, Clark meets and falls in love with Lana again. Lex takes advantage and convinces Clark to reveal the cave secrets.
4x20 Ageless
Clark and Lana discover an abandoned baby in the cornfield and take him back to the Kent farm. However, once the baby ages from a newborn to sixteen years old in a matter of days, the two realize he is aging at a rapid rate and frantically search for a cure before the disease kills him.
4x21 Forever
Clark must stop the school photographer after he sets up a secret simulated high school and begins kidnapping students to keep the glory days of high school going forever. Lex and Lionel are kidnapped and tortured by the Teagues in an effort to find the Kryptonian stone. However, after Genevieve realizes Lana has it, she decides to put an end to the hunt once and for all.
4x22 Commencement
A second meteor shower threatens Smallville, and Clark is forced to listen to Jor-El and retrieve all of the stones at once. Genevieve confronts Lana, but Isobel takes control and kills Genevieve, subsequently releasing Lana from possession. Clark races across town to retrieve the stones, and puts them all together in the cave. Lex forces Chloe to accompany him to the caves, where they see Clark standing in a blinding light. Lana's helicopter crashes next to a newly-arrived spaceship, and Clark is transported to the Arctic.