Smallville Season 5 - Episode 7: Splinter

Synopsis

Clark gives into paranoid delusions brought on by exposure to new "silver" kryptonite, and Professor Fine is the only one who can save him...before he kills Lana.

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At the university, Lana is studying a computer simulation when Clark comes in with some food. Lana hedges on what she’s doing and then notices Clark has brought in a package that was outside her door. Clark opens the package, which is from Lex, and scratches his finger on the silver metallic object inside. He makes a hasty exit as Chloe arrives, and both her and Lana wonder why he hurried off.

Clark is driving home and looking at his scratched finger, when a car pulls up behind him and honks at him. He signals the other driver to pass but the guy rams him and then pursues him in a chase. Clark’s truck rolls over and off the road and Clark is left to look at the damage – the other driver has disappeared. He then gets a cell phone call and a mysterious voice says, “I know who you are.”

Jonathan is reading the paper about Lex’s senatorial run and discusses the possibility of him running in Jack Jenning’s place. Martha feels it could put Clark’s secret at risk as he arrives to announce the hit-and-run and the phone call. Jonathan advises caution. The next day, Professor Fine is talking about friends and powerful men being betrayed by those they trust. After class Clark goes for his backpack but a piece of green kryptonite falls out and the slide projector is set to show the message, “I Know How to Kill You.” Clark heads out and Professor Fine asks him what’s wrong. Clark tells him about the black truck and Fine says the same truck has been following him, and that he thinks Lex is involved. Clark seems to agree and Fine advises caution, and suggests they track the license plate.

At the Daily Planet, Chloe runs the license plate and then leaves, and Clark notes an incoming e-mail on her computer. He checks and finds out she’s been in communication with Lionel Luthor, including an e-mail saying “There are no secrets.” Chloe says there is no such truck and Clark confronts her over Lionel. He doesn’t believe her and stalks out.

Lana meets with Lex and thanks him for the silver rock, but Lex claims he doesn’t know anything about a rock. She doesn’t believe him and reveals she’s determined from the earlier program that the spaceship arrived. He claims he’s protecting her and when she says she doesn’t need to be protected, he shows her the spaceship and asks her to help open it.

At the Kent farm, Lionel visits Jonathan and offers his assistance in Jonathan’s Senate race. Lionel claims he wants to thwart Lex and warns he knows about Clark. Clark, listening in secret, hears Lionel admit that Chloe has told him everything about Clark, and forces Jonathan to take his money or he’ll have Clark experimented on. As Clark looks on in shock and horror, Jonathan accepts.

Lana is examining the spaceship, which has a frictionless surface, and is skeptical of Lex’s reasons for her help. Clark confronts Jonathan in front of Martha and pulls the money from his pocket, even though it’s simply ballot sheets. Clark then goes berserk, slugs Martha, and begins to choke Jonathan while demanding the truth. Jonathan expresses his disgust with Clark, the thing he found in the cornfield, but then Clark weakens as Chloe arrives with a piece of green kryptonite. Clark superspeeds away while the Kents recover, and are surprised about Chloe’s knowledge of Clark’s secret. They mention red kryptonite and Chloe makes the connection to the silver rock at Lana’s dorm. Lana walks into her room and Clark embraces her then tells her they have to go north. Lana’s skeptical and he knows Chloe is coming. He leaves and Chloe confronts Lana, who is initially skeptical due to Clark’s warning. She believes Chloe, who heads out to get a search going, and Lana reveals she has the silver kryptonite hidden away.

Clark goes to Professor Fine who reveals he hasn’t talked to Clark in over a week and doesn’t remember their earlier discussion. Fine reassures him that he’ll be right back and leaves, Clark steps out through the door…and finds himself in a chamber holding his spaceship, a cradle, and a child running through the shadows. Lex’s voice announces that Clark is an alien and the vanguard of an invasion, and finally he appears, saying he’s the one that’s going to kill Clark. Green kryptonite gas spews out but Clark manages to escape.

Lana confronts Lex who convinces her he doesn’t know about the rock. He insists they’re partners and that he’ll take the rock to LuthorCorp and find a cure. As they talk, Clark looks on and sees Lex and Lana kiss.

Lex coordinates the search when the lights go out and he goes out to find his unconscious security guards. He picks up a gun and spots a busted electrical board. Clark moves in from behind and Lex tries to calm him down. Clark takes the gun away then sends him flying. Lana hears the commotion and runs off, and Clark uses his super-hearing to follow her into the basement, professing they’re meant to be together. Lana tries to calm him down but he believes she’s lying and starts to choke her.

Professor Fine arrives and interrupts, and Clark drops Lana. He superspeeds after Fine, who somehow evades him and says that if Clark hurts Lana it’ll destroy him. Clark punches him and Fine, protected by some kind of field, uses a blast of heat vision to knock Clock down. He grabs him, announces he’s a Kryptonian, and slams a device into Clark that extracts the splinter of silver kryptonite. Fine calls him Kal-El and then superspeeds off as Lex arrives to find Lana in a recovered Clark’s arms.

Clark visits a recovering Lana in the hospital, where Chloe is with her but makes a hasty accident so Clark can apologize, and Chloe has explained that the meteor was responsible and gave him temporary powers. Lana accepts his apologies and the two share a moment. Clark asks Chloe about the rock, who notes it disappeared from Lex’s manor in the confusion. Chloe also admits that she’s been e-mailing with Lionel, but to get inside information on Lex’s campaign.

Lionel talks to Lex and advises he might not want to let the story get out that Clark beat him. Lionel advises that all Lex’s efforts to change his image won’t help with those who know him, and Lana Lang will never love him.

Clark talks with his parents and they reassure him, and it becomes clear Clark doesn’t remember exactly how he was cured. Jonathan says he won’t run for Senate but Clark tells him it’s the right thing to do and Jonathan gives in. Out in the barn, Professor Fine is waiting for him and wonders why Clark trusts humans, but won’t reveal his identity even to Lana. Fine, based on what he’s seen, isn’t impressed by humans, and warns they’re duplicitous and can’t be trusted. Clark concedes some can, but others are honorable and that he trusts his friends and family. Fine says that Clark can come to him when he’s ready to accept the truth. Fine then goes to the spaceship and extracts the “silver kryptonite” back into body, leaving a plain rock.



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