Smallville season 5
| Smallville Season 5 | |
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| Season 5 | |
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| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Release | |
| Original network | The WB |
| Original release | September 29, 2005 – May, 2006 |
| Season chronology | |
This article contains a complete review of the fifth season of the American drama action/adventure sci-fi television series Smallville. The season began airing on September 29, 2005.
| No. | Title | Airdate |
|---|---|---|
| 5.01 | Arrival | September 29 |
| 5.02 | Mortal | October 6 |
| 5.03 | Hidden | October 13 |
| 5.04 | Aqua | October 20 |
| 5.05 | Thirst | October 27 |
| 5.06 | Exposed | November 3 |
| 5.07 | Splinter | November 10 |
| 5.08 | Solitude | November 17 |
| 5.09 | Lexmas | December 8 |
| 5.10 | Fanatic | January 12 |
| 5.11 | Lockdown | January 19 |
| 5.12 | Reckoning | January 26 |
| 5.13 | Vengeance | February 2 |
| 5.14 | Tomb | February 9 |
| 5.15 | Cyborg | February 16 |
| 5.16 | Hypnotic | April 2006 |
| 5.17 | Void | April 2006 |
| 5.18 | Fragile | April 2006 |
Season Five overview
Now beginning its fifth season on The WB, this new interpretation of the enduring Superman mythology and its classic characters blends realism and adventure into an exciting action series. This is the season that changes everything. Clark Kent finally begins to accept his destiny.
Sections
Episodes of Season Five
Arrival
- Original air date: September 29, 2005
- Featured music: "Precious" by Depeche Mode
Having been transported to the Fortress of Solitude, Clark is confronted by Jor-El, who tells him he cannot return to Smallville, instead he must stay and prepare to save the planet. Also, transported to the Fortress, Chloe is unable to handle the sub-zero temperature and collapses, begging Clark to use his powers to save her. Jor-El forbids him to leave, but finally acquiesces, telling Clark he must return before sunset or there will be dire consequences. Meanwhile, Lana is horrified when she sees two Kryptonian aliens emerge from a spaceship discovered in the remnants of the meteor shower. The two aliens are searching for Kal-El. Clark returns and traps the two in an alternate dimension, but loses his powers when the sun goes down. He then goes to Lana and carries her to the hospital. Lex grabs the ship from the crater and takes it back to Luthorcorp. But something black leaks out of the ship and takes human form.
- Note: As of this episode, Smallville becomes the first live action Superman series to have a fifth season in color.
Mortal
Jor-El strips Clark of his powers, making him human. Delighted to finally be "normal," Clark pursues a relationship with Lana sans secrets. However, after Lana, Jonathan and Martha are taken hostage by three thugs (Lee and the Twins), Clark must figure out how to save his family without his super powers. Using his now-mortal wits, he confounds the thugs and saves the day, not before confronting Lex and exposing his involvement in the affair. The episode ends with Clark and Lana consummating their love.
- Episode quotes:
- Clark: "The days of me believing your lies are over!"
Hidden
- Original air date: October 13, 2005
- Featured music: "Breathe(2 AM)" by Anna Nalick, "Collide" by Dishwalla, "Disappearing World" by David Gray
Chloe is warned by Gabriel - a former school newspaper worker - that he is going to set off a missile and obliterate all of Smallville. Still stripped of his super powers, Clark confronts Gabriel and ends up getting shot. In the hospital, Clark flatlines and his fate is left in Jor-El's hands. Meanwhile, Lex believes Lionel has the key to open the spaceship. Clark ends up being resurrected back to his Kryptonian body by Jor-El, who is using Lionel's body as a vessel, but at the cost of the life of someone he loves. Newly empowered, Clark returns to Smallville, dismantles the rocket in space and saves the town.
Aqua
- Original air date: October 20, 2005
- Featured music: "All The Money Or The Simple Life Honey (remix)" by The Dandy Warhols
A summer beach party at Crater Lake takes a dramatic turn when Lois hits her head while jumping into the lake. Before Clark can save her, a mysterious swimmer, Arthur Curry (AC), a.k.a Aquaman, comes to her rescue, out-swimming Clark and leaving him baffled. Professor Fine, revealed as the human form that dripped from the ship at Luthorcorp, tells Clark that Lex is behind a covert operation manufacturing weapons. AC attempts to break into the Luthorcorp Marine Center in an attempt to destroy one of the weapons and is captured by Lex. Clark breaks into the lab and finds AC and saves him. When Lex is showing his weapon to the military, Clark and AC destroy it at superspeed, ruining his million dollar contract.
At the end of the show, AC suggests to Clark that they should begin a "Junior Lifeguard Association." Clark tells him he's not ready for the "JLA" just yet, a rather unsubtle reference to the JLA or Justice League of America found in the comics.
Thirst
- Original air date: October 27, 2005
- Featured music: "Wikked Lil' Grrrls" by Esthero, "Guiltless" by Martin Grech, "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus, "The Girl's Attractive" by Diamond Nights
Lana decides to enroll at Metropolis University at the last minute and is forced to join a sorority to find housing at such a late date. However, the house leader Buffy Sanders and her new sorority sisters offer her more than a place to crash after they turn her into a vampire and instruct her to kill Clark.
Meanwhile, Chloe applies for an internship at the Daily Planet, but the newspaper's formidable editor may be more then she can handle.
Also, Professor Milton Fine finally reveals his evil side and superhuman powers when he kills Lex's bodyguard. He also keeps getting deeper inside Luthorcorp's classified information, trying to provoke heat between Clark and Lex in the process.
- Episode quotes:
- Professor Fine: You might want to have a word with your buddy Lex Luthor.
- Clark: Lex?
- Professor Fine: Yeah, ask him about "Project 1138." (THX 1138 reference)
- Lex's Bodyguard: You shouldn't be putting your hands on things that aren't yours, Professor.
- Professor Fine: Actually...it is mine. (referring to the spaceship of "Arrival")
- Professor Fine: "Clark there's no such thing as vampires." (injoke since Fine is played by the actor who played Spike, a vampire, on Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Exposed
- Original air date: November 3, 2005
- Featured music: "Cold Hands (Warm Heart)" by Brendan Benson, "Don't Cha" by The Pussycat Dolls, "All Jacked Up" by Gretchen Wilson, "I'm Human" by Flashlight Brown
Clark and Jonathan are thrilled when Jack Jennings, Jonathan's oldest friend, rolls into the Kent farm looking for their support in his campaign for re-election to the senate. However, after a young girl named Melissa turns up dead, it is revealed that she was a stripper and Jennings' mistress, which makes him the prime suspect. Searching for answers, Chloe convinces Lois to go undercover as a stripper, but things take a dangerous turn when Lois gets kidnapped by a diplomat's son who intends to sell her into slavery.
Jack Jennings is played by Tom Wopat who starred as Luke Duke in the Dukes of Hazzard television series. John Schneider (Jonathan Kent) played Bo Duke (Luke's cousin) in the same series. This relationship is played heavily in this episode by showcasing both Jonathan and Jack hot rodding in Jack's Dodge Charger. The featured vehicle in Dukes of Hazzard was an orange Dodge Charger with a confederate flag painted on the top.
Splinter
- Original air date: November 10, 2005
- Featured music: "Superman" by Stereophonics, "Forget It" by Breaking Benjamin, "Homeward Angel" by Moby
Clark is exposed to a new to kind of meteor rock, silver kryptonite, causing him to have paranoid delusions about those around him. The silver kryptonite makes him believe that Chloe is going to reveal his secret, Jonathan is scheming against him with Lionel and Lex and Lana are having a secret relationship. Chloe and the Kents frantically search for a cure, but it is Professor Fine who comes to Clark's rescue - but not without an agenda.
Solitude
- Original air date: November 17, 2005
- Featured music: "Wicked Game" by HIM
After Martha contracts a strange disease and is given hours to live, Clark turns to Professor Fine, who convinces Clark that Jor-El is the one responsible for her illness and the only way to save her is to destroy the Fortress of Solitude, separating Jor-El's link. However, once the two arrive at the Fortress, Professor Fine tries to free Zod and kill Clark, revealing himself not to be just a mere Kryptonian as he claimed.
Lexmas
- Original Air Date: December 8,2005
- Featured music: "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Lex considers whether to find or create damaging information against Jonathan to upset his Senatorial race...information that may harm Clark and Martha as well. But when Lex is shot, he falls into a coma and is visited by the ghost of his mother, who shows him what his life could be like if he frees himself from his father. In this life, Lex is married to Lana, and they are expecting a second child. But, will this be enough to pull Lex from the dark path he is taking? Meanwhile, Chloe persuades Clark to play Santa, and to deliver gifts to those less fortunate.
- Episode quotes:
- Jonathan: "To Lex Luthor. The finest man I know."
- Lex: "I've never been happier."
- Lex: "You know what happiness is? Power. I want it all"
- Lex: "Who are you to play god with my life?
- Alexander: "Uncle Clark, Uncle Clark, make me fly!"
Fanatic
- Original Air Date: January 12, 2006
- Featured music: "I Want It All" by Depeche Mode
Jonathan's life is threatened by a mysterious source, who urges him to drop out of the senate race. Later, Clark finds his dad beaten and hung from the rafters. He later discovers that Lex's followers are determined to do anything to see that Lex wins the election. Lois is threatened into assassinating Jonathan during his senatorial speech. Lionel offers Martha some money to help Jonathan's campaign. Lana believes that the answers she is looking for lie in the first meteor shower.
Lockdown
- Original Air Date: January 19, 2006
- Featured music: -
Two police officers, one of which witnessed the spaceship land in the second meteor shower, take Lex and Lana hostage and threaten to kill them unless Lex reveals where he hid the spaceship. While escaping to the panic room in the mansion, Lex takes a bullet meant for Lana. Fearing Lex may bleed to death, Lana asks him to tell the officers the secret location, but he confesses the ship has been missing for weeks. Clark discovers Lana has been researching the spaceship with Lex and fears she is close to discovering his secret. Meanwhile, the Kents do not see eye-to-eye on campaign financing.
Reckoning
- Original Air Date: January 26, 2006
- Featured Music: "You're Beautiful" by James Blunt, "I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel
Clark is finally willing to reveal his secret to Lana, but could there be consequences? Jonathan and Lex learn the results of the senatorial election and the life of someone Clark loves will be taken away from him. A desperate Clark appeals to Jor-El for help, only to find himself frantically trying to save them again, and Lionel reveals to Jonathan he has a little more up his sleeve.
- Note: This is the 100th episode in the series.
- Episode quotes:
- "The heart only beats so many times in a lifetime. Your father used more of those beats than anyone I know."
Vengeance
- Original Air Date: February 2, 2006
- Featured Music:
- Guest Star: Denise Quinones
Clark discovers the new reporter at the Daily Planet, a bespectacled, bumbling woman named Andrea (Denise Quinones), is actually a masked avenger who fights crime at night. Meanwhile, Clark’s bottled-up grief threatens to get the best of him as he joins Andrea in her fight against crime.
Tomb
- Original Air Date: February 9, 2006
- Featured Music:
The spirit of a young girl is released from her tomb after Lois finds a corpse in the walls of the Talon. Clark and Lois follow the trail of the spirit to find her killer, who has been preying on girls in Smallville for the past 10 years. When Lois is suddenly kidnapped, Clark has to come to her rescue.
Cyborg
- Original Air Date: February 16, 2006
- Featured Music:
- Guest Star: Lee Thompson Young
A sympathetic doctor releases a half-human/half-machine subject named Victor (Lee Thompson Young) who was being held captive and experimented on by LuthorCorp. While making his escape, Victor is struck by Lana's car. After watching him walk away without a scratch, Lana calls Clark to investigate. Clark befriends Victor and promises to help him find his girlfriend, but Lex traps Victor and takes him back to LuthorCorp.
Hypnotic
Void
Fragile
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