Smallville Season 4 - Episode 8: Spell
Synopsis
Lana reads a spell book belonging to her 17th century ancestor, the witch Isabelle, and becomes possessed by her spirit. Isabelle resurrects her other two witches and together they seek out the kryptonian crystals, using their magic to render Clark powerless.
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France – 1604. Three witches have lost their book and are being taken to be burned. One of them looks like . . . Lana Lane. It's Countess Thoreau, and the Magistrate demands the three stones of power, but "Lana" warns that the stones will be hers and invokes a spell, stenciling a familiar symbol on to her skin. As Thoreau and the other two burn, she warns that her heir will awaken her and she will have vengeance. In the present, Lana has purchased the spell book on Ebay and she reads from it as Jason looks on. When she sees the symbol it and the one on her back glows and Lana is . . . possessed.
Isabelle/Lana returns to Smallville and meets Clark at the Kent farm to prepare for a surprise birthday party for Chloe. The Kents are out of town and Clark is awaiting a Princeton recruiter. The possessed Lana works on a spell and visits Clark to get a spell component – the hair of a virgin. She then confronts Lex to get wine for her spell and notices the Russian manuscript – she knows of the map. She uses magic to steal the page and forces Lex to uncontrollably play the piano. Isabelle/Lana has Lois and Chloe drink the wine and they are possessed by the two other witches, Madeleine and Brianna. Lana/Isabelle.
The girls dress up and go to the birthday party, livening things up considerably. The Princeton recruiter arrives and is not amused when he sees an entranced shirtless Clark dancing. The next day an embarrassed Clark visits Lex, who is still playing the piano. Clark stops him while Jason examines the book and Isabelle/Lana reveals who she is to him. She takes the book and tortures him – Clark comes to the rescue and Isabelle/Lana tells him to meet her at the barn. Clark arrives but they immobilize him then cast a spell to strip him of his powers.
The witches interrogate Clark about the stones and obtain the location of the cave, then teleport off. Jason finds and frees Clark. The witches open the cave chamber and find the first stone, but Clark shows up with a shotgun that proves unsurprisingly useless. Isabella/Lois grabs the stone but screams in pain – Clark grabs it and it restores his powers. He uses his heat vision to burn the symbol from the book, restoring the girls to normal. Clark is left to try to explain things to his parents, while Lex admits to Lana that he had Jason fired – she doesn't take it well. She goes to Clark and they more or less resolve the issues between them and Lana explains the whole tattoo thing. Clark is forced to (badly) lie once more, while Lex contemplates the cave symbol . . .
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