Smallville: Season 5

Transported to the Arctic, Clark watches as the united crystals create the Fortress of Solitude. Inside, Jor-El (voiced by Terence Stamp) instructs Clark that he must complete training for an impending doom that is about to hit Earth. Lana tells Lex about the spaceship; he dismisses her and transports the ship to LuthorCorp. A mysterious man, Milton Fine (James Marsters), comes out of it. Chloe is transported to the Arctic with Clark. Ultimately, Clark has to save her life and he reveals to her

For not returning as promised, Jor-El strips Clark of his powers, making him normal. Delighted to finally be "human", Clark pursues a relationship with Lana without secrets. Lana's distrust in Lex grows due to his lies to her about the ship. When Lana, Jonathan and Martha are taken hostage by the electricity-harnessing Tommy Lee (Kenneth Johnson) and the force field-generating Twins (Todd and Brad Mann), Clark must figure out how to save his family without his superpowers. In the end, Clark lear

Chloe is warned by Gabriel Duncan (Johnny Lewis), a former school newspaper worker, that he is going to set off a missile and obliterate all of Smallville. Still stripped of his superpowers, Clark confronts Gabriel and is shot. Shortly after, he dies with Lana by his side. Jor-El possesses Lionel's body and resurrects Clark and restores all his powers, but with the consequence that someone Clark loves will have to die. Jor-El tells Clark that Lionel became a vessel of information for him to use.

Lois injures herself while diving in the lake, but before Clark can reach her, a mysterious swimmer, Arthur Curry (Alan Ritchson), out-swims Clark and rescues her first. Clark attends his first class at Central Kansas A&M University and Fine, his professor, tells him that Lex is behind a covert operation manufacturing weapons. The same weapons are what brought Arthur to Smallville. Teaming up with Clark, the two destroy Lex's underwater weapon Leviathan and Clark's trust in Lex disappears comple

Lana decides to enroll at Metropolis University at the last minute and is forced to join a sorority to find housing. The house leader Buffy Sanders (Brooke Nevin) and her sorority sisters offer her more than a place to crash when they turn her into a vampire. Buffy got her vampiric abilities after being bitten by a kryptonite-infected bat. Lex provides Clark with an antidote for Lana after LuthorCorp is revealed to be connected to the vampires. Chloe earns an internship at the Daily Planet. Fine

Senator Jack Jennings (Tom Wopat), Jonathan's oldest friend, arrives at the Kent farm looking for support in his campaign for re-election. When a stripper turns up dead, and is revealed to be Jennings' mistress, Jennings is made the prime suspect. Searching for answers, Chloe convinces Lois to go undercover as a stripper, but things take a dangerous turn when Lois is kidnapped by a foreign diplomat's son, Mr. Lyon (Woody Jeffreys), who intends to sell her into slavery. Clark and Chloe save Lois

Clark opens a package sent to Lana containing a new kind of silver kryptonite, causing him to have paranoid delusions about those around him. Lex reveals the spaceship to Lana. The kryptonite makes Clark 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 Fine who comes to Clark's rescue, claiming to be a Kryptonian and knowing Clark's name i

Lionel enlists Chloe to investigate Fine's powers, leading her and Lois to learn that Fine comes from the spaceship. When Martha contracts a strange disease, Clark turns to Fine, who convinces Clark that Jor-El is the one responsible for her illness, when really he is. Fine convinces Clark that the only way to save her is to destroy the Fortress of Solitude, separating Jor-El's link. Once the two arrive at the Fortress, Fine reveals himself to be an artificial intelligence created by Kryptonians

Lex considers finding or manufacturing damaging information against Jonathan to upset his senatorial race, information that may harm Clark and Martha. Interrupting Clark and Lana's first Christmas, Chloe persuades Clark to play Santa, and deliver gifts to those less fortunate. Lex is shot, falls into a coma, and is visited by the ghost of his mother Lilian (Alisen Down). She shows him a life apart from his father's money and influence, where Lex is married to Lana, and the two are expecting a se

Jonathan's life is threatened by a mysterious source, who urges him to drop out of the state senate race. Lionel intercepts the damaging information against Jonathan and destroys it before it gets to Lex. Clark discovers that Lex's followers, primarily Samantha Drake (Annie Burgstede), are determined to do anything to see that Lex wins the election. She threatens Lois into an assassination attempt on Jonathan during his campaign speech, but is foiled by Clark and apprehended by Lois. Clark and L

Deputies Greg Flynn (Kevin Daniels) and Harris (Sarah Lind), the former who witnessed the Kryptonians land in the second meteor shower, take Lex and Lana hostage, threatening to kill them unless Lex reveals where he hid the spaceship. Lex takes a bullet meant for Lana, and fearing Lex may bleed to death, Lana asks him to tell the officers the location. Sheriff Nancy Adams (Camille Mitchell) is killed by the officers and Lana takes them to an empty location, where Clark saves her. Clark discovers

Clark is finally willing to reveal his secret to Lana, but there are consequences. Jonathan and Lex learn the results of the senatorial election and the life of someone Clark loves, Lana, is finally taken away from him. A desperate Clark appeals to Jor-El for help, only to find himself frantically trying to save her again. Lionel reveals to Jonathan he has a little more up his sleeve. Minutes later, Jonathan dies of a heart attack in front of Martha and Clark.

Clark has been bottling up his grief and anger and is struggling to mourn Jonathan. He has also dropped out of school. When Martha is mugged in Metropolis and Jonathan's watch is stolen, Clark decides to find out who it was that saved her life. He discovers the new reporter at the Daily Planet, a woman named Andrea Rojas (Denise Quiñones), is actually a masked avenger who fights crime at night. Clark's bottled-up grief over the loss of his father threatens to get the best of him as he joins Andr

The spirit of a young girl named Gretchen Winters (Leela Savasta) is unleashed after lightning strikes a kryptonite bracelet she was wearing. Clark finds her corpse in the walls of the Talon after the spirit attaches to Chloe. Chloe is believed to be crazy, becoming like her mother. Clark follows the trail of the spirit to find her killer Michael Westmore (Damon Johnson), who has been preying on girls in Smallville for the past decade, and has kidnapped both possessed-Chloe and Lois. Lois subdue

A sympathetic doctor named Dr. Hon (Rick Tae) releases a half-human/half-machine subject named Victor Stone (Lee Thompson Young) being held captive and experimented on by the LuthorCorp-owned company SynTechnics. Clark befriends Victor and promises to help him find his girlfriend Katherine (Christie Liang). Chloe and Clark learn the company is owned by LutherCorp but Lex promises he had nothing to do with it. After Victor is shot, he is desperate to see Katherine, allowing Lex and Dr. Alistair K

Fine emerges in a jungle of Honduras and murders two biohazard specialists before stealing a blood sample and burning the evidence. Lex tracks him down and confronts him under the belief he is a covert government operative. Fine claims he is looking for the spaceship and an alien, and warns Lex that if he does not help, it could mean the end of the world. Clark meets a beautiful seductress named Simone Chesterman (Nichole Hiltz) who uses a magical charm to make people succumb to her every wish.

Chloe discovers that Fine is alive and warns Clark, who sets out looking for him. Lana, still upset over her break-up, experiments with a kryptonite drug that allows her to see her deceased parents. A worried Clark rushes to save Lana from hurting herself, but ends up being injected with the kryptonite-laced serum. When Clark flat-lines, he is able to talk to Jonathan, who warns him that Lionel knows his secret.

Clark and Martha take in a little girl named Maddie Van Horn (Emily Hirst) after her foster mother is brutally stabbed to death. Maddie becomes the prime suspect, at least in Lois' eyes, when it is discovered that she has the power to manipulate glass. Maddie's father Tyler (Callum Keith Rennie) arrives to claim her and is revealed to be the real murderer when he can also manipulate glass. Lois takes a job as Martha's Chief of Staff, and Chloe walks in on Lex and Lana during an intimate moment.

After a failed take-over of LuthorCorp, a disgruntled employee named Lincoln Cole (Ian Tracey) takes Lionel hostage and orchestrates a series of elaborate games that Lionel must win in order to stay alive. After Clark tells Martha that Lionel knows his secret, she inadvertently becomes a pawn in Lincoln's game and ends up fighting for her own life. In trying to save his mother, Clark openly shows his power to Lionel when he catches an elevator with Martha and Lionel inside. Lex confronts Lionel

While in Metropolis, Clark saves the life of a stranger named Graham Garrett (Alex Scarlis) who vows to repay Clark for his kindness, but Graham happens to be a hit man with the ability to render himself invisible and he decides killing Lex would be the best gift he could give Clark. Meanwhile, Lana tells Clark about her growing relationship with Lex. Also, Lex is revealed to be working with Fine on releasing a bioweapon.

Clark is stunned when he sees his father's ghost at the graveyard, but becomes even more confused when Jonathan tells him he must kill Lionel. Jonathan appears again and gives Martha the same message. Lex develops a vaccine for Fine's deadly virus, but Fine intervenes and injects him with the vaccine. Clark realizes Jonathan is really Fine in disguise. Lionel tells Martha the truth about his talk with Jonathan. Clark and Chloe deduce with Lionel's help that Lionel's writings are a warning about

Fine unleashes a crippling computer virus, which will lead to the destruction of Earth via pandemonium and refuses to stop it unless Clark agrees to release Zod. Clark turns to Jor-El, who informs him that Zod needs a vessel to inhabit. Clark must destroy that vessel and that vessel is Lex. Lex is stunned by his newfound powers and shares the discovery with Lana, who decides to stand by him. Chloe gives Clark a final kiss goodbye as Metropolis goes dark and mayhem begins. Clark confronts Lex and