Smallville: Season 9

Lois returns from the future with no memory of the three weeks she was missing. Meanwhile, Clark has been training with Jor-El (voiced by Terence Stamp), while also branding his family crest around Metropolis after saving someone as The Blur. After saving Lois, Clark's feelings for her cause a disruption in his training and he realizes that the only way to finish is if he tells Lois goodbye. Dr. Emil Hamilton (Alessandro Juliani) and Chloe begin working together in the Watchtower. Released from

Daily Planet reporter John Corben (Brian Austin Green) is hit by a truck while trying to ascertain the Blur's identity. When he wakes up, Corben discovers that his body has been outfitted with robotic parts, and his heart replaced with a piece of kryptonite that acts as a power source for his body. Tess later discovers that Zod and his men were the ones who "helped" Corben, but only as a means to test a new way for them to get their powers. While helping the Blur, Lois is kidnapped by Corben as

After Tess is admitted to the hospital showing zombie-like symptoms, Clark has Emil investigate the cause with a Disease Control specialist. Clark overhears that Tess was at the Daily Planet when she began to show symptoms, so he speeds to the Planet to rescue Lois. In a battle with multiple zombie attackers, Lois is bitten. Clark then volunteers his blood to Emil, who discovers that the virus was created from Kryptonian enzymes, so the doctor can create a cure. With Chloe's help, Emil manufactu

Jor-El gives Clark the ability to hear others' thoughts in an effort to teach Clark to hone his Kryptonian intuition and learn to not allow humanistic assumptions inhibit his destiny. While using this new ability to determine who blew up a Queen Industries textile factory, Clark also learns more about Lois's feelings for him and asks her out on a date. Clark has to stand Lois up when he learns that the Toyman (Chris Gauthier) has returned to get revenge on Oliver. Jor-El takes back the new abili

At a casino, Oliver meets a woman named Victoria, who goes by the name Roulette (Steph Song) and gives him a red pill to swallow. Afterward, Oliver passes out and wakes up trapped inside a coffin. After breaking out, Oliver finds himself in the middle of someone else's deadly game designed to make him pay for destroying someone. Oliver finds Roulette in the casino, but the two go on the run when the people behind the game show up. While escaping, Victoria is killed and Oliver is arrested. Eventu

While Lois and Clark prepare to host a new morning talk show, Oliver attempts to train a prostitute/cage fighter, Mia Dearden (Elise Gatien), to be mentally stronger after witnessing her battle with her own personal demons just as he did. In addition, Tess unknowingly builds a solar powered energy plant that will allow Zod the chance to harness the powers of the sun for his own machinations. Zod tells Tess to locate the Blur for him. Oliver confesses to Lois that he still loves her—while Clark w

Zod recalls to his troops how twenty years before the destruction of Krypton, the Ruling Council took their blood shortly before the destruction of Kandor, which is what was used to clone each of them on Earth. Just as Clark realizes that his father is on Earth while investigating a Kandorian landing in the desert, Jor-El (Julian Sands) arrives at the Kent farm. Chloe finds Jor-El and fills him in on the man his son has become, as well as the revelation that Zod—who was once Jor-El's best friend

In an attempt to fuel the legend of the Blur, twins Jayna and Zan (Allison Scagliotti and David Gallagher) — who have the ability to morph into animals and water-based forms, respectively — begin performing saves around Metropolis and painting Clark's shield at the scene of the crime. Those mistakes made by the twins push the Blur under scrutiny from the District Attorney Ray Sacks (Dylan Neal), who challenges the Blur to reveal himself. Meanwhile, Lois accidentally hears Clark's voice while tal

Tess kidnaps Lois and uses a memory reading machine from Sommerholt Institute to try to discover Lois's lost memories. In order to see how Zod "saves humanity", Tess synchronizes her brain with Lois's so that she can live through the memories. In the future, the solar powered energy plant LuthorCorp builds is used to harness the solar radiation from the sun—turning it red and stripping Clark of his powers—and provide Zod and his troops with all of their natural powers. In the present, Clark disc

After a date with Clark, Lois is shot with an arrow by a man dressed as Green Arrow. Chloe is also attacked by the same individual. Oliver begins investigating and discovers that his old mentor Vordigan (Steve Bacic) is the one behind the attacks. Meanwhile, Zod tells Clark that the Kryptonians are waiting on Clark to help them all get their powers, and that they will resort to anything to get them. Oliver's old mentor kidnaps Mia and uses her as bait to lure Oliver in and force him to kill Vord

"Society": After Sylvester Pemberton (Jim Shields), formerly the superhero Star-Spangled Kid, is killed by supervillain Icicle (Wesley MacInnes), Chloe and Clark begin investigating the murder. The pair discover that Sylvester was part of a group known as the Justice Society of America (JSA), which was led by Carter Hall / Hawkman (Michael Shanks) and includes Kent Nelson / Doctor Fate (Brent Stait). They also learn that Hawkman and the rest of the JSA have been monitoring Clark and his superher

After stealing an enchanted Warrior Angel comic book, adolescent Alec Abrams (Owen Best) is transformed into super-powered adult "Steven Swift" (Carlo Marks). With his new abilities, Alec saves Chloe's life. Thinking that Alec is another superhero, Chloe tries to get to know him and recruit him to Clark and Oliver's super-powered team. At the same time, Zatanna (Serinda Swan) returns and informs Clark that her father was the one who cursed the comic book that turned Alec into Warrior Angel, and

Clark is unknowingly exposed to a new form of kryptonite that gives him the power of hypnosis. As a result, Lois quits her job at the Daily Planet and moves in with Clark after he tells her he wants a more traditional relationship. Once Clark finds out about his new power, he goes to Zod to see if he can force Zod to reveal who killed Jor-El. Zod tells Clark that Tess murdered his father, and tries to convince Clark to seek vengeance. After refusing to kill anyone, Clark accidentally hypnotizes

Bernard Chisholm (J. R. Bourne), a doctor who was experimented on by Kandorian scientists, begins kidnapping those same Kandorians, including Faora's (Sharon Taylor) sister Vala (Crystal Lowe), in order to expose them to the world. Chisholm tries to persuade Lois to write the story. When she refuses, he kidnaps her and forces her to write it. Clark attempts to locate the missing Kandorians and is confronted by Zod, who knows that Clark destroyed the solar towers. Meanwhile, Oliver discovers that

Clark and Lois head to the McDougal Inn for the weekend and find Chloe and Oliver having their own romantic getaway. While settling in, Lois unwittingly releases the spirit of Siobhan McDougal (Odessa Rae), who was cursed and sent to live in the underworld, from a painting at the inn. Known as the Silver Banshee by the villagers, the spirit transfers from one woman to the next, looking to murder any men who come into her path. Eventually, Chloe discovers that destroying the portrait of Siobhan w

Tess and other Checkmate agents kidnap Green Arrow. While in transport to the organization, Waller, the White Queen, attempts to recruit Green Arrow, unaware that he is Oliver, to a government cause designed around preparing for a potential alien invasion. Green Arrow declines and escapes. With Oliver missing, Clark and Chloe search surveillance feeds. John Jones, who is also investigating, discovers the location of Checkmate's home base. There, he learns Waller has a sample of Kryptonian blood.

Based on a tip from Zod, who is posing as the Blur, Lois infiltrates one of Tess's secret labs and discovers she is experimenting with kryptonite. An explosion in the lab sends Lois down an elevator shaft, where she is saved by John Corben. Clark tracks down the lab Lois was investigating, where he is exposed to red kryptonite. Now without any inhibitions, Clark discovers that Chloe and Oliver have been stock piling kryptonite weapons, so he joins forces with Zod, who reveals that he has powers,

The new Daily Planet editor Franklin Stern (Blu Mankuma) pits Lois and Clark against each other for the right to keep their job, but the pair decide to write the ultimate story on Sacks, whose conviction was overturned. Their story ultimately collapses when the two of them become front page news for fighting at Sacks's "Welcome Back" party. As a result, Stern fires both of them. Clark discovers that Lois has been talking to someone posing as the Blur. When he tries to figure out who is really ta

Checkmate breaches the Watchtower computer firewalls and begins stealing information. Clark, needing to find Zod, sends Oliver to the Luthor mansion to look through Tess's things to see if he can find any information. At the same time, Clark talks to Faora and reveals to her that Zod has had powers for weeks and that he was the reason Krypton was destroyed. Armed with this new information, Faora attempts to organize the remaining Kandorians to seek out peace with humans and stand against Zod. Me

Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) returns to Smallville with Perry White (Michael McKean), whom she is dating, to Clark's surprise. Lois informs Clark that they should break up, as she needs to find her true calling in life. Subsequently, Lois and Perry team up on a story about the Book of Rao and the Red Queen that could help Lois regain her job at the Daily Planet. The pair fail to land the story, but a good word to the editor-in-chief from Perry allows Lois and Clark to return to the Planet. Mean

Zod appears to Lois claiming to be the Blur and accusing Clark of trying to reveal Zod's secret. Tess confronts Zod with kryptonite at the Fortress in an effort to save Clark, but Zod uses his heat vision to burn her and leave her for dead before destroying the main console of the Fortress. Clark takes Tess to the hospital, where she tells him there is a second console that will activate the Book of Rao. Tess is later pronounced dead at the hospital and a shrouded woman enters the room. Zod atta