Smallville Season 5 - Episode 3: Hidden
Synopsis
Gabriel, a former Smallville High student, hacks into missile codes and prepares to eliminate krypto-mutants in Smallville once and for all. A powerless Clark confronts him and is shot, and only Jor-El can save him.
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A boy is holding a gun on two soldiers in a missile launch facility and takes the key from one and forces the other one to turn the key. He then shoots the two soldiers and sets the launch for one hour. Then he calls Chloe and it is revealed that he is Gabriel Duncan, a former Smallville High student. He warns Chloe to get out of Smallville before it is destroyed.
Clark and Lana awake together in Clark’s room and are caught trying to leave at 6:30 am by both of Clark’s parents. After Lana is sent, Jonathan starts with a lecture but Chloe arrives in time to see Lana fleeing the scene. She brings Clark up to speed and Jonathan goes to warn the sheriff. Lana returns to her Talon apartment and finds Lex rummaging through her things and admiring her sketches of her and Clark. Lex attempts to play the good friend card and find out what she saw in the field the day of the meteor shower. Lex reveals he sent an expert to the site and he believes something other then a meteor was responsible. He wonders if Lana told Clark and assures her she’s not crazy – Lana claims she didn’t tell Clark.
Jonathan squares off with Sheriff Adams who claims that the military action is just a drill but is actually a covert raid on the Hampstead farm, where they think Gabriel is. Unfortunately there’s no sign of him there as Gabriel has made ghost signals to send the authorities to a different abandoned silo.
Chloe and Clark break into Gabriel’s house with Chloe’s credit card and conclude Gabriel’s father, Colonel Duncan, was the “lighthouse keeper” for the local nuclear missiles. They find a room completely filled with articles about meteor freaks. They further explore only to find Gabriel’s father dead on the floor.
Lex is angrily addressing his scientists about their failure to open the spaceship and tells them to find a way in. But then notices a symbol on the bottom…that wasn’t there before. Meanwhile, Clark and Chloe formulate a plan to draw Gabriel out, Chloe calls him and says that her car is stuck and she can't get out of town.
Lex confronts Lionel and demands he tell him what the symbols mean and how to open the ship. Lionel, who has drawn the symbols all over his room, says that only “He” can open it.
When Gabriel comes to help, Clark confronts him but is shot. Gabriel grabs Chloe and rides off, leaving Clark in the middle of the road and bleeding profusely. Someone who heard the gun shot rushes Clark to the hospital.
At the missile silo, Chloe unsuccessfully tries to talk Gabriel out of destroying Smallville. Gabriel tells Chloe that those articles were his dad’s and that he had asked Gabriel to kill him because the last meteor shower had turned him into a meteor freak.
At the hospital Clark is stabilized and Lana enters to pour out her feelings and makes some confessions. After she finishes Clark regains consciousness for a moment and then flatlines. The doctor pushes Lana out and attempts to jump-start Clark’s heart. At the same time Lionel snaps out of his trance and uses newfound Kryptonian strength to punch through the glass then superspeed to leave Belle Reve. After failing to save Clark the doctor pronounce him dead and gives the news to Jonathan and Martha, but returns to find Clark gone. At the silo, Chloe gets free and knocks out Gabriel, but with a minute left, she can’t stop the launch sequence. Gabriel recovers conscious and the two of them fight over the gun, and Gabriel is shot. The missile launches as Chloe can only look on in horror.
At the Fortress of Solitude, Clark is healed then confronted by Lionel Luthor, who has been inhabited by Jor-El. To Clark's dismay “Jor-El” returns Clark's powers but warns him that someone else’s life must be exchanged in return for his return to health. "The life force that has been given to you in order to bring you back will soon be taken from someone you love. You are about to face your darkest hour, my son.” “Jor-El” embraces him and says that he will always love Clark. Clark then superspeeds back to Smallville just in time to jump on to the missile and throw the detonator into the depths of space just in time to save the day.
Clark returns home and tells his parents about his new status but doesn't tell them about Jor-El's warning. Lana walks in and reunites with Clark. Later, Lana barges in on Lex at the manor and hands him Clark's medical record, telling him that all of Clark's tests were normal. After she leaves, a healthy conscious Lionel shows up but denies remembering anything of what has happened in the intervening weeks.
At his loft, Clark confides in Chloe, telling her everything that happened. Chloe tries to talk Clark into sharing his secret with Lana too. Clark says he can't expect her to react the same way that Chloe did, and he just can't afford to take that big of a risk, as that could make her never want to see him again. The, Clark tells Chloe of Jor-El’s warning, leaving them to wonder who will die.
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