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Chloe knows that with Clark done, she may be the only person to have a chance at saving Smallville. She breaks out of her shackles and manages to knock out Gabriel. Even though she is a computer genius herself, she isn't able to get past the safeguards Gabriel had set up on the computer program. Gabriel wakes up in enough time to see the launch sequence commence. He and Chloe struggle, he gets shot, and Chloe watches as the missile launches, destined to kill everybody that she knows.

Despite the imminent annihilation of Smallville, the hospital is still working, I guess it helps if the military doesn't tell you what's coming. Clark's lung is pierced and he is rushed to the OR. Lana manages to sneak into the ICU in order to talk to Clark. For having surgery, Clark doesn't look too bad. He has some gauze that is taped on his stomach, but it looks like they only had to remove a cyst or mole or birthmark or something, and didn't spend much time looking for the bullet and repairing the damage. Actually, maybe he was just waiting for surgery, because how did all that surgery happen in ten minutes?

Lana is by Clark's side, and for dramatic effect, she makes sure to tell Clark everything that she never got a chance to say, hoping that he hears her through his little semi-coma. Among other things, she said that she always knew that no one could make her happier except Clark, and that she pulled herself away so many times because she knew that with the way he loved to help people, there was always a chance that he would get badly hurt. Clark wakes up, looks at her, and then goes into cardiac arrest. The doctors come in, tell Lana to get out, but conveniently left the door open while they worked on Clark. It was a great arrangement if Lana wanted to see Clark die.

Yes, that is right. Clark died. They tried a lot of things. Well, actually, they didn't try that much. I would think that they would have some hospital scene expertise at the WB since Warner Bros. produces ER, but that wasn't the case. Maybe the hospital was still trying to regroup after the meteor shower, but they didn't try any blood transfusions or anything. Clark would have been better with some green tea and Robitussin. Lana starts crying, and can barely stand. The Kents see her, and can only think of the worst. They begin to break down when the doctor tells them Clark is dead.

One of the things they did with Clark is to defibrillate him, and every shock he had seemed to wake up Lionel. The glaze over his eyes left, and he suddenly had super strength and super speed. I am sure that people can put two and two together and were not surprised to hear that Clark was missing from his room. Lionel took him to the fortress of solitude, where Jor-el revived him. At the end of last season, when Clark was bringing the final pieces of the stones together, Lionel was affected by the stone and passed out. He was left in the catatonic state, which we learn was just a temporary state until there was a time that Jor-el could use his body to help Clark. When Clark died, that time came. Clark would get all of his powers back, but there would be a consequence. The life force Clark received was going to be taken away from somebody he loved.

With that taken care of, Clark needs to get back to Smallville and stop the warhead. He gets there, but not in time to stop the launch. Things would be so much easier if he could fly like the beginning of last season. What happened with that anyway? The writers are such a tease. Clark is able to jump high enough to grab onto the booster rocket, and by the time it is in space, he makes it to the top of the warhead, pulls it out, and throws it into space. There's really not much else that he can do but to plummet back to earth.

Clark returns home, and his parents are unbelievably happy to see him. Just imagine, just an hour or so earlier, they were upset that Clark might have been playing a little sticky finger (or stinky finger - whatever floats your boat) with Lana. They know that he had to have his powers back, and they aren't sure what to think other than they are so happy to see him alive. Clark is happy to see his parents, but he seem to deal with the idea that he is not human anymore, and that in order to bring him back, somebody else is going to die. Jor-el said that the lessons you learn from pain are the ones that make you the strongest. When Lana stumbles into the back door (shouldn't they have tried that at the beginning of the episode?) she sees Clark, and I am sure that Clark is thinking about what his father said.

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Posted by J-Unit on October 19, 2005 12:33 AM