8.6/101,619 votes#1 - Vortex
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2002
Clark rescues Lana from the storm, but discovers that the spaceship is released, while Jonathan is buried alive with the unscrupulous reporter who discovered Clark's secret. Meanwhile, Lex is wracked with guilt over his critically injured father.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: N/A
8.3/101,632 votes#2 - Heat
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2002
Clark gains a new power - heat-vision. As he struggles to control it, Lex gets married to the new Smallville High teacher, Desiree Atkins, little does he know that she not only has an alterior motive, but that she's coming on to Clark too.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Mark Verheiden
8.1/101,484 votes#3 - Duplicity
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2002
Pete finds Clark's spaceship, forcing Clark to reveal his secret to his best friend. Dr. Hamilton is plagued by kryptonite-fueled illness and focuses on Pete. Meanwhile, Lana has to deal with Nell and her plans to remarry while Lex and Lionel adjust to life together.
Director: Steve Miner
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
8.7/101,754 votes#4 - Red
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2002
Clark has his first run-in with red kryptonite in this exploration of classic Superman mythology, turning immoral when he gets his high-school ring holding a piece of rock. Meanwhile, Lex and his father have some issues to resolve when Lionel starts taking over the manor.
Director: Jeff Woolnough
Writer: Jeph Loeb
7.3/101,430 votes#5 - Nocturne
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2002
Lana has a new stalker - a boy imprisoned in his basement by his parents who sneaks out at night to visit her. Meanwhile Lionel hires Clark's mother as his personal assistant.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
7.1/101,399 votes#6 - Redux
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/2002
Martha's father William comes to town after many years of estrangement due do his disapproval of Jonathan. Meanwhile Clark must deal with a series of old-age deaths at Smallville High, and the new principal puts his foot down.
Director: Chris Long
Writer: Russel Friend, Garrett Lerner
7.8/101,433 votes#7 - Lineage
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/5/2002
A strange woman shows up claiming to be Clark's biological mother...and that his father is Lionel. Meanwhile Lana decides to meet with the man who is her biological father.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: N/A
8.6/101,648 votes#8 - Ryan
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/12/2002
Ryan (from "Stray") returns and Clark has to save him from Dr. Garner of the Summerholt Research Facility. Meanwhile, Aunt Nell leaves Smallville, and Lex wants to expand the plant but runs afoul of the mayor.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Philip Levens
7.6/101,403 votes#9 - Dichotic
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/19/2002
A Smallville student, Ian, displays the ability to make clones of himself and uses his power to date both Chloe and Lana. Meanwhile Lex goes to anger management class and meets an attractive local doctor.
Director: Craig Zisk
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.9/101,518 votes#10 - Skinwalker
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/2002
Clark becomes involved with a Native American woman, Kyla, and becomes aware of ancient Indian prophecy that warns of a man of great powers who fell from the sky. Worse, a wolflike creature is attacking the local Lexcorp construction project, and Martha and Lionel may be the next victims.
Director: Marita Grabiak
Writer: N/A
8.0/101,435 votes#11 - Visage
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/14/2003
Whitney returns to Smallville, eager to start back up where he left off with Lana. But everything isn't what it seems...
Director: Bill Gereghity
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
8.4/101,458 votes#12 - Insurgence
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/21/2003
Lex hires some thugs to bug Lionel's office but things get out of control when Lionel and Martha are taken hostage, and Clark must rescue them without revealing his secrets.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Jeph Loeb, Kenneth Biller
7.9/101,369 votes#13 - Suspect
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/2003
Lionel is shot in the manor, and Jonathan is the prime suspect.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Mark Verheiden, Philip Levens
7.8/101,424 votes#14 - Rush
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/4/2003
Students are engaging in wild, sometimes suicidal stunts, and Chloe and Pete are the next ones to become "infected."..and they use a piece of red meteor rock to get Clark to join them.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
7.6/101,378 votes#15 - Prodigal
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/2003
Lex recovers his long-lost brother Lucas and uses him in a ploy to buy out his father's share of the company. But it soon becomes clear that Lucas isn't to be trusted, and Lex soon finds himself ousted from his own company.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
8.0/101,385 votes#16 - Fever
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/18/2003
Martha catches a lungful of kryptonite-irradiated spores and a weakened Clark is her only hope for survival.
Director: Bill Gereghty
Writer: Matt Okumura
9.1/101,862 votes#17 - Rosetta
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 2/25/2003
Clark travels to New York to meet Dr. Swann, a brilliant scientist who holds a message for Clark from his home planet. Meanwhile Lana decides to move out of Chloe's house after they get into an argument about Clark.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
7.5/101,340 votes#18 - Visitor
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2003
After a schoolmate claims to be an alien and proves it by using heat vision, Clark investigates and believes the boy is from Krypton. Meanwhile, Helen confronts Lex over the locked room in the mansion that holds his investigation of Clark's secrets.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Philip Levens
7.7/101,341 votes#19 - Precipice
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2003
After Lana is almost assaulted by a college student, Clark injures the boy while helping her. When the Kents are sued for damages that could cost them the farm, Clark tries to find a way out of the lawsuit. Meanwhile, Helen's obsessive ex-boyfriend comes to Smallville to win her back but when she turns him down, he stabs her, prompting Lex to take the law into his own hands.
Director: Thomas J. Wright
Writer: Clint Carpenter
7.4/101,313 votes#20 - Witness
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2003
Clark runs up against super-strong robbers who are apparently tied to LexCorp. And Chloe begins to ally with Lionel, while Lana and Henry Small bond.
Director: Rick Wallace
Writer: Mark Verheiden
7.8/101,371 votes#21 - Accelerate
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2003
Lana is haunted by the ghost of a dead friend, Emily, but the "spirit" has connections to Lionel Luthor, who is also scheming to get control of the Indian caves and "help" Lex with his wedding.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: N/A
8.4/101,379 votes#22 - Calling
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2003
Dr. Walden comes out of a coma with super-powers and a desire to kill Clark, piquing the Luthors' interest. The spaceship starts talking to Clark, and Helen and Lex prepare for their wedding.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Kenneth Biller
8.9/101,590 votes#23 - Exodus
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/2003
A sense of foreboding surrounds Smallville as Clark must choose between staying with Lana and his family or fulfilling his destiny to rule the Earth. Lex and Helen prepare for their marriage, and Chloe considers Lionel's offer to investigate Clark.
Director: Greg Beeman
Writer: Alfred Gough, Miles Millar
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Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Vortex" is the best rated episode of "Smallville" season 2. It scored 8.6/10 based on 1619 votes. Directed by Greg Beeman and written by N/A, it aired on 9/24/2002. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Heat".