"Smallville" Asylum (2004)

Director:

Greg Beeman

Writers:

Joe Shuster (characters) &
Jerry Siegel (characters) ...

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

14 January 2004 (Season 3, Episode 9)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Lex is committed to the Belle Reve Sanitarium for the criminally insane by Lionel who forces the shrink...

Plot Keywords:

Smallville | Power | Kansas | Meteor Shower | Alien

Cast

Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Sam Jones III	...	Pete Ross
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
John Glover	...	Lionel Luthor
Annette O'Toole	...	Martha Kent
John Schneider	...	Jonathan Kent
Ian Somerhalder	...	Adam Knight
Lorena Gale	...	Dr. Claire Foster
Jonathan Taylor Thomas	...	Ian Randall
Jesse Metcalfe	...	Van McNulty
Shawn Ashmore	...	Eric Summers
Ron Selmour	...	Connelly
Elias Toufexis	...	Luke

Runtime:

44 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Smallville Films

Trivia:

There is a newspaper headline about the Themyscirian Queen visiting the pope, a reference to Wonder Woman's mother, Queen Hippolyta.

Goofs:

Continuity: After Lex received his electro-shock therapy, you can clearly see the doctor remove the rubber mouthpiece from Lex's mouth. However, after Lionel speaks to Lex, you see a close-up with the mouthpiece once again in Lex's mouth.

Quotes:

Ian Randall: Well, if it isn't Ku Klux Van.
Van McNulty: Get out of my grille, freaks.
Eric Summers: I'd watch your mouth in here if I were you.
Ian Randall: We heard about your little one-man ethnic cleansing campaign.
Van McNulty: I don't know what you're talking about.
Ian Randall: Oh, come on. You were out there picking off meteor freaks like ducks on the first day of hunting season.
Eric Summers: And now you're stuck in here with all us ducks. Quack, quack.
Ian Randall: We don't want to hurt you, Van. Believe it or not, the three of us have something in common.
Van McNulty: I seriously doubt that.
Eric Summers: Clark Kent put us all in here.
[...]

Soundtrack:

Future Proof

Nasty Lionel Luthor

Lionel Luthor forces the shrink Dr. Claire Foster to submit Lex Luthor to electroshocks to erase his memory and forget his crime. Clark Kent tries to save his friend, but Eric Summers (from "Leech"), Van McNulty (from "Extinction") and Ian Randall (from "Dichotic") plot a plan to attack him and escape from the asylum. Meanwhile, Lana Lang is recovering the movements of her wounded leg with the support of the patient Adam Knight (Ian Somerhalder, the Boone Carlyle from "Lost").

"Asylum" is a great episode of "Smallville", with outstanding performances of John Glover and Michael Rosenbaum. This episode is certainly one of the best of this series, with intense dramatic situations and also lots of action with Clark struggling against two powerful enemies. Lionel Luthor is really a nasty character, especially when he says "-Lex, my son.". My vote is ten.

Title (Brazil): "Sanatório" ("Asylum")