"Smallville" Crisis (2004)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Kenneth Biller

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

3 March 2004 (Season 3, Episode 16)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

While working as a volunteer with Pete at Smallville Youth Center, Clark receives a distress phone call from Lana...

Plot Keywords:

Smallville | Power | Kansas | Best Friends | Meteor Shower

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
Camille Mitchell	...	Sheriff Nancy Adams
Françoise Yip	...	Dr. Lia Teng
Gary Hudson	...	FBI Agent Frank Loder
Terry Chen	...	Detective Paul Cage
Aaron Pearl	...	Glenn Burton
Johannah Newmarch	...	Gwen Burton

Runtime:

42 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Smallville Films

Quotes:

Clark Kent: We think it's some sort of a prank Sherriff.
Sheriff Nancy Adams: [to Clark] You know, usually these situations originate a little closer to home than you'd expect.
[to Lana]
Sheriff Nancy Adams: Any reason you might wanna goose these boys with a little crank call Ms. Lang?
Clark Kent: Lana didn't have anything to do with this.
Sheriff Nancy Adams: You know, unless Ms. Lang has grown several inches and developed an affinity for plaid, this'd be a good time for you to pipe down.

Soundtrack:

Here It Comes

Machinations are revealed

Lana's future doom needs to be solved, and the complete truth behind the relationship of Lionel Luthor and Adam Knight, is revealed in the terrific episode "Crisis."

Clark goes with Pete to work at the teen hotline when he receives a call from the future from Lana, where she is running away from a man with a gun. Everybody, including Clark's parents, works to solve the mysterious problem and prevent it from truly happening. However, it is inevitable. Turns out, the man after Lana is Adam, who is desperately searching for the serum that will keep him from dying- again.

This episode is full of dramatic excellence, since something that has already happened in the future is trying to be solved in the present. The audience finally completely sees what Adam's purpose in the town was, and how it is connected to Lionel Luthor- indeed, Lionel was using Adam to spy on Clark Kent, and though Adam dies again, his obsession with finding out who Clark really is will not stop.