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The origins of the world’s greatest hero–from Krypton refugee Kal-el’s arrival on Earth through his tumultuous teen years to Clark Kent’s final steps toward embracing...
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Season 1

  • Pilot
    8.4/102,710 votes
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    Pilot

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2001

    The first episode tells the story of the meteor shower that hit Smallville and changed life in the Kansas town forever. Clark Kent meets Lex Luthor for the first time and encounters the first in a long line of humans mutated by the strange green meteor rocks that accompanied him on his journey to Earth.

    Director: David Nutter

    Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar

  • Metamorphosis
    7.3/102,065 votes
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    Metamorphosis

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2001

    Clark must deal with Greg, a nerdish bug collector with a crush on Lana who gains the ability of various insects and uses them to lash out at anyone who opposes him.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia, Michael W. Watkins

    Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar

  • Hothead
    7.3/101,939 votes
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    Hothead

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/30/2001

    An abusive and hot-tempered football coach gains the ability to control and project fire.

    Director: Greg Beeman

    Writer: Greg Walker

  • X-Ray
    7.8/101,929 votes
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    X-Ray

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/6/2001

    Clark begins experiencing "vision problems" as his x-ray vision begins manifesting. Meanwhile a mysterious shapeshifter is going about town using his or her abilities to steal and get others in trouble.

    Director: James Frawley

    Writer: Mark Verheiden

  • Cool
    7.3/101,803 votes
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    Cool

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/13/2001

    A jock named Sean gains the ability to absorb heat from everything and everyone around him, and begins preying on people to gain the heat he needs to survive.

    Director: James A. Contner

    Writer: Michael Green

  • Hourglass
    8.0/101,842 votes
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    Hourglass

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/20/2001

    An old man uses green meteor rock to reverse the aging process, then gain vengeance on the children of the jury that put him away decades earlier. Meanwhile, another woman at the same old folks' home has prophetic abilities and she sees the futures of both Clark and Lex.

    Director: Chris Long

    Writer: Doris Egan

  • Craving
    7.2/101,824 votes
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    Craving

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/27/2001

    A weight-obsessed teen dieting on kryptonite-infected vegetables gains her fondest dream...but must feed on the fat of others to maintain her enhanced appearance.

    Director: Philip Sgriccia

    Writer: Michael Green

  • Jitters
    7.7/101,730 votes
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    Jitters

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/11/2001

    An experiment at the Luthor fertilizer plant makes an old friend of the Kents literally shake and jitter, and he seeks vengeance against the Luthors, who hide the secret of his transformation behind "Level Three" at the local plant.

    Director: Michael W. Watkins

    Writer: Jeff Gottesfeld, Cherie Bennett

  • Rogue
    7.8/101,689 votes
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    Rogue

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/15/2002

    Clark visits Metropolis in this episode, and does a secret good deed - a police detective witnesses this and decides to look into it. He contacts Lex and reminds Lex that he knows about his past in order to get him to talk. The detective, Phelan, discovers that Clark had been around many "accident scenes" in recent months, and he decides to look into it. Phelan begins blackmailing Clark to help protect him from an IA investigation. When Clark balks Phelan frames Jonathan. Clark manages to set up Phelan for the theft of a rare piece at a museum and Phelan is killed in the shootout before he can tell anyone about Clark's secret. Lex is left to wonder at the superspeed image captured on a museum camera.

    Director: David Carson

    Writer: Mark Verheiden

  • Shimmer
    7.3/101,661 votes
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    Shimmer

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1/29/2002

    Lex and Victoria are victims of a suspected household poltergeist. As the disturbances become more violent, suspicion lands on Amy, the daughter of a house servant who is obsessed with Lex. Not is all as it seems...

    Director: D. J. Caruso

    Writer: Michael Green, Mark Verheiden

  • Hug
    7.7/101,642 votes
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    Hug

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/5/2002

    A guy in charge of a rival fertilizer firm to LuthorCorp's talks an EPA investigator into commiting suicide, then arrives in Metropolis. He is intent on buying up the Kent farm and using the land to build a rival company to Lex's. After shaking hands with the man, Jonathan Kent inexplicably agrees to sell. Lex offers to have his lawyers help. Meanwhile, Clark befriends a local recluse. It turns out that the recluse and Lex's rival were both salesmen who were caught in a car accident and exposed to kryptonite. They both gained the same power of "persuasion" on anyone they touched, as the recluse graphically demonstrates to Clark by having Chloe kiss him! Lex's rival finally manages to shake hands with Lex, and convince him to try and gun down Clark. Clark manages to knock out Lex and the recluse takes out his former partner, "convincing" him to shoot himself. The recluse decides to go back into the world, but not before telling Clark that he shouldn't hide from his powers either.

    Director: Chris Long

    Writer: Doris Egan

  • Leech
    8.1/101,707 votes
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    Leech

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/12/2002

    Clark's powers are transferred into a classmate during a freak juxtaposition of meteor and storm. Clark must deal with being normal for the first time, and his classmate Eric is unable to cope with the new powers. Can Clark stop Eric's rampage without his abilities?

    Director: Greg Beeman

    Writer: Tim Schlattmann

  • Kinetic
    7.4/101,583 votes
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    Kinetic

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/26/2002

    Whitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoos that give them the power to walk through walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans.

    Director: Robert Singer

    Writer: Philip Levens

  • Zero
    7.6/101,608 votes
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    Zero

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/12/2002

    A man from Lex's past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark's past as an adopted child.

    Director: Michael Katleman

    Writer: N/A

  • Nicodemus
    8.0/101,648 votes
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    Nicodemus

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 3/19/2002

    A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.

    Director: James Marshall

    Writer: N/A

  • Stray
    8.5/101,817 votes
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    Stray

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 4/16/2002

    A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.

    Director: Paul Shapiro

    Writer: Philip Levens

  • Reaper
    7.2/101,530 votes
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    Reaper

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 4/23/2002

    Tyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery...and Whitney's father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex spar over Lionel's rising success in Smallville.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: Cameron Litvack

  • Drone
    7.1/101,534 votes
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    Drone

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 4/30/2002

    Clark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex.

    Director: Michael Katleman

    Writer: Michael Green, Philip Levens

  • Crush
    7.8/101,572 votes
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    Crush

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 5/7/2002

    Former Smallville High cartoonist Justin loses the use of his hands in a hit and run accident, and develops the ability to move things with his mind. After crippling his unsympathetic doctor he returns to Smallville and hooks back up with his friend Chloe. He reveals his secret to Chloe, and then takes revenge by killing Principal Kwan, who was the driver who hit him. It turns out Kwan's son Danny was the driver. Chloe realizes Justin is responsible, and Clarks comes to her aid, knocking Justin out. Meanwhile, Lex's former nanny, Pamela, comes back to see how he's doing and to apologize for leaving him after his mother's death, bringing up some old issues for Lex. And Whitney's father passes away.

    Director: James Marshall

    Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Philip Levens

  • Obscura
    7.9/101,524 votes
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    Obscura

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 5/14/2002

    After an explosion Lana finds herself getting visions of a serial killer...and his next target is Chloe. Meanwhile Lex and Roger look further into the meteor shower and determine that something besides meteors hit Smallville that day.

    Director: Terrence O'Hara

    Writer: N/A

  • Tempest
    8.9/101,801 votes
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    Tempest

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 5/21/2002

    Lex is hit with a surprise after his father closes the local Smallville plant to force him back to Metropolis, blaming the plant's failure on his management. Meanwhile Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, reporter Roger Nixon gets wind of Clark's alien origins after setting up an explosion, and Whitney joins the Marine Corps. Lex works with the workers to buy the plant and put it under local management, and his father Lionel threatens to sabotage the efforts by buying up their mortgages. It all comes together when Nixon uses the "key" Lex found (in "Obscura") to activate the spaceship just as three tornados hit Smallville. He flees into the storm with Jonathan in pursuit and Martha left to confront the opening spaceship. The tornado hits Lex's manor and traps Lionel under beam, leaving Lex with a life-or-death decision to make. And Clark arrives to see Lana whisked up into the tornado. (to be continued...)

    Director: Greg Beeman

    Writer: N/A