Smallville (Season 5)

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Smallville Season 5
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DVD Release Date -
DVD Format -
Country USA
Network The WB
Original runs September 29, 2005 – May 2006
No. of episodes 8

This article contains a complete review of the fifth season of the American drama action/adventure sci-fi television series Smallville. The season first aired on September 29, 2005.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
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 2006
5-11 Lockdown January 2006
5-12 Reckoning February 2006
5-13 Vengeance February 2006
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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 and becoming Superman.

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Sections

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Episodes of Season Five

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Arrival

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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.

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Mortal

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Jor-El strips Clark of his powers, making him human. Delighted to finally be "normal," Clark pursues a relationship with Lana sans secrets. (If you have seen Superman II, this may remind you what happened in the movie.) 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!"
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Hidden

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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 as a Kryptonian by Jor-El through Lionel, but at the cost of the life of someone he loves. Newly empowered, he then proceeds to dismantle the rocket in space and save Smallville. (similar to the event in Superman: The Movie)

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Aqua

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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, Aquaman, a.k.a. AC, comes to her rescue, out-swimming Clark and leaving him baffled. Professor Fine 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.

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 subtle reference to the JLA or Justice League of America found in the comics.

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Thirst

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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)
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Exposed

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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.

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Splinter

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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.

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Solitude

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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.

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Lexmas

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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:
    • Lex: "What the f...?"
    • 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"


Smallville
Seasons: Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5
Characters
Regular: Clark Kent | Lana Lang | Lex Luthor | Chloe Sullivan
Lionel Luthor | Lois Lane | Martha Kent | Jonathan Kent

Past: Pete Ross | Jason Teague | Whitney Fordman

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