Smallville Season 4 - Episode 10: Scare
Synopsis
A LuthorCorp experiment is released into the atmosphere - a toxin that causes its victims to hallucinate their worst fear. Chloe, Clark, Lana, and Jason all fall victim to the toxin, and Lex, desperate to find a cure, takes a dangerous antidote. Meanwhile, Lionel is released from prison and his conviction overturned thanks to a mysterious benefactor.
Full Recap
Lana shows up at Clark's loft and asks for help – she believes Jason is lying to him. She then admits she shouldn't have given up on the two of them and they start to kiss. Then Jason barges in and beats up Clark, knocking him out. Then Lana stabs Jason . . . and he falls off the balcony at the Talon.
Jason is in a coma at the hospital with his heart in bad condition. Chloe and Clark check up and find Jason had a meeting at LuthorCorp to get a job. They go visiting and Clark meets up with Lex, who is angry he's in a restricted area and claims he didn't meet with Jason himself. Chloe goes off on her own and when there's a power failure she finds a spooky basement area and a woman – Chloe's mom. The woman warns that Chloe can't escape – none of the women in their family have. It becomes clear Chloe is hallucinating as Clark and a security guard find her. Clark knocks out the guard and he gets her out.
At a lab within the facility, Lex is meeting with a team that was working on an experiment with meteor rocks and unconscious subjects. A bacteria is leaking out and Lex orders the project (contracted with the military) dismantled. The head guy, Dr. Ford, is working on an antidote and confirms the bacteria is only transmitted through inhalation. Clark finds out other folks not at LuthorCorp are suffering the same symptoms and one has died. At the prison the warden reveals Lionel's sentence has been overturned by a mysterious someone and he can be freed but he chooses to remain in the prison and "do good."
Checking weather patterns, Clark and Lana find the presence of a mysterious "cloud" and Lana is infected – she hallucinates that she's in a room with the dead bodies of her mother and father and her friends, and a corpse warning her everyone will leave her. Dr. Ford comes up with an antidote but it contains elements of the bacteria – Lex takes the responsibility and goes in to administer the antidote. It kills a patient but not before he rips Lex's suit.
Lex goes to the hospital and finds out how far spread the infection is. He reveals the nature of the "disease" while Clark arrives with Lana. Then a series of explosions rock the hospital – in reality, Clark hallucinates a new meteor shower that bombards him with kryptonite and exposes his powers to Clark. Dream-Lana "kills" him . . . and Clark wakes up, cured. He goes to his parents who have collapsed, then confronts Lex. Clark realizes his blood may be the cure since he's immune but Lex wants to wait for the current antidote to heat to the proper temperature. Clark secretly superheats the antidote and Lex takes the serum himself. Lex begins hallucinating back to his future vision of himself as President launching nuclear missiles and destroying the world, but snaps out of it.
Clark and his parents return to the farm and discuss things – Clark realizes he can't reveal his secret to anyone. Jason is considering leaving since he doesn't like what he's becoming – Lana senses he has a secret but he leaves rather then reveal it. Chloe and Clark talk about Chloe's anxiety over her mother and reveals she knew about her mother for three months – her mom is in a mental institution with a hereditary disease. Clark is forced to dodge on telling his own secret fear.
Back at the penitentiary, Lionel leaves the prison and is greeted by his benefactor . . . who he knows.
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