8.8/101,381 votes#1 - Zod
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2006
A powerless Clark is trapped in the "Phantom Zone" surrounded by the criminals his father imprisoned there. However, an unexpected ally comes to his aid. Meanwhile, Zod in Lex's body advances his plan to transform Earth into a new Krypton, while using Lana to produce an heir.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
7.9/101,189 votes#2 - Sneeze
Season 6 Episode 2 - Aired 10/5/2006
In the aftermath of Zod's activities, Clark develops a new power. Lois gets a new job, Lana takes a new step in her relationship with Lex, and Lex has to deal with a new danger. Meanwhile, an old friend of Lex's arrives in Metropolis.
Director: Paul Shapiro
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
7.4/101,157 votes#3 - Wither
Season 6 Episode 3 - Aired 10/12/2006
Clark and Chloe pursue a plant creature that uses male humans to recreate, one which has taken Jimmy Olsen as its next human breeding ground. Meanwhile, Oliver Queen asks a reluctant Lois to be his date at a charity ball held by Lex.
Director: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Tracy Bellomo
8.6/101,290 votes#4 - Arrow
Season 6 Episode 4 - Aired 10/19/2006
The mysterious Green Arrow steals a necklace from Martha, and both Lois and Clark resolve to find out who the vigilante is. While Clark determines Green Arrow's true identity, Lex continues his investigation of the mysterious black box while Lionel warns Lana against him.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
7.9/101,156 votes#5 - Reunion
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/26/2006
Lex and Oliver Queen return to their old prep school for a reunion, but Oliver's old friends (and Lex's old enemies) start dying in mysterious accidents. Meanwhile, Clark learns that someone... or something may have left the Phantom Zone with him.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
7.8/101,127 votes#6 - Fallout
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 11/2/2006
After escaping from the Phantom Zone, Raya comes to Smallville to visit Clark. Raya and Clark grow close, and Raya reveals how to repair the Fortress of Solitude. Unfortunately, Baern, another escapee seeks out revenge on Clark and Raya for his time spent in the Zone.
Director: Glen Winter
Writer: Holly Harold
7.7/101,104 votes#7 - Rage
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/9/2006
After being shot while stopping a carjacking, the Green Arrow begins acting strangely. Chloe and Clark investigate and find Oliver is taking a super drug that while healing his wound, has some dangerous side effects.
Director: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
7.3/101,130 votes#8 - Static
Season 6 Episode 8 - Aired 11/16/2006
One of the escapees from the Phantom Zone has killed the crew of a ship in Seattle. Clark confronts the killer who feeds on the bones of his victim. In Smallville, a patient in LuthorCorp Labs escapes experimentation and seeks revenge on Lex by trapping him in a dimension where he can see and hear those around him, but they cannot see him.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Shintaro Shimosawa, James Morris
7.0/101,205 votes#9 - Subterranean
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/2006
An illegal immigrant comes to Clark for help, escaping from a nearby farm where he's working... a farm that houses a dark secret.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Caroline Dries
8.0/101,249 votes#10 - Hydro
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 1/11/2007
A Daily Planet gossip columnist uses her special power to overhear a conversation between Lana and Chloe, and publishes the conversation... where Lana admits having doubts about marrying Lex. While Chloe investigates the reporter, Lois asks Clark to help her investigate the mysterious Green Arrow bandit when she suspects he may be Oliver Queen in disguise.
Director: Tom Welling
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
9.2/102,159 votes#11 - Justice
Season 6 Episode 11 - Aired 1/18/2007
When Lex's Level 33.1 project comes to fruition, Oliver Queen must bring together several of Clark's "heroic" super-powered allies together: Arthur Curry, Bart Allen, and Victor Stone.
Director: Steven S. DeKnight
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
8.3/101,342 votes#12 - Labyrinth
Season 6 Episode 12 - Aired 1/25/2007
Clark is in his barn one moment... and the next finds himself in a psychiatric hospital where he discovers he's been suffering from delusions that he came from another planet and has super-powers.
Director: Whitney Ransick
Writer: Alfredo Septién, Turi Meyer
8.6/101,361 votes#13 - Crimson
Season 6 Episode 13 - Aired 2/1/2007
Clark is once again exposed to red kryptonite, and his "other self" goes on a rampage of sorts on Valentine's Day, kissing the women he's most attracted to and expressing his uninhibited feelings for the various relationships around him.
Director: Glen Winter
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
7.3/101,115 votes#14 - Trespass
Season 6 Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/2007
Lana has a stalker which leads her to an unexpected hideout. Also, Chloe has to reevaluate her feelings for Clark after she and Jimmy break up due to Jimmy's belief that she isn't really over Clark.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: Tracy Bellomo
8.0/101,167 votes#15 - Freak
Season 6 Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2007
A boy named Tobias was blinded by the meteor shower but given the ability to identify other meteor freaks. Lex is using Tobias to locate other people with abilities so that he can perform experiments on them. Lana learns of Tobias and is fearful that he will name Clark as a freak, so she offers him a cornea transplant to keep him quiet. But Tobias has some surprising news.
Director: Michael Rosenbaum
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
8.8/101,464 votes#16 - Promise
Season 6 Episode 16 - Aired 3/15/2007
Clark has second thoughts about Lana marrying Lex, and Lana has the same concerns. Meanwhile, the doctor involved in the secret behind Lana's pregnancy threatens Lex with his knowledge.
Director: Rick Rosenthal
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
7.9/101,230 votes#17 - Combat
Season 6 Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2007
Clark and Chloe find an escaped Zoner named Titan who is the star of a secret fight club that puts its death battles on the internet. Lois can tell that there is a story and goes to investigate, where she is put in the ring to fight. Clark goes in as a super-powered fighter to take on Titan but ends up against a different opponent instead.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Alfredo Septién, Turi Meyer
7.9/101,146 votes#18 - Progeny
Season 6 Episode 18 - Aired 4/19/2007
Lex discovers that Chloe's mother has special abilities and forces her to help him in exchange for Chloe's life. However, she has a trick or two of her own to use to escape.
Director: Terrence O'Hara
Writer: Genevieve Sparling
8.2/101,175 votes#19 - Nemesis
Season 6 Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2007
Lex and Clark get a chance to hash out their differences... when they're both trapped in a cave after an explosion, and Clark is unable to get them out without revealing his powers.
Director: Mairzee Almas
Writer: Caroline Dries
7.2/101,266 votes#20 - Noir
Season 6 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2007
Lana and Lionel have a secret meeting, after which Lana is shot. While Jimmy is observing photos of the encounter, he is knocked unconscious. While unconscious Jimmy dreams about what life in Smallville would have been like in the 1940s. Clark is a reporter at the Daily Planet, Lana is a siren who planned the demise of her magnate husband Lex, and Lois is a singer at a bar that Lionel owns.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson
7.9/101,107 votes#21 - Prototype
Season 6 Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2007
Lex tries to turn a soldier that supposedly died in Afghanistan into a "super-soldier." A senator threatens to tell the world about Lex's labs, prompting Lex to send the "soldier" to kill the senator. Lois sees the attack and becomes the soldier's next victim.
Director: Mat Beck
Writer: Steven S. DeKnight
9.1/101,550 votes#22 - Phantom
Season 6 Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2007
Clark discovers the reason Lana married Lex then and sets out to kill Lionel. Lex tries to use DNA from the last phantom to power his super-soldiers. Lois goes to a dam to search for Lex's lab but is caught by a security guard and fatally injured. Chloe's power is discovered.
Director: James Marshall
Writer: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin
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Season 6 Ratings Summary
"Zod" is the best rated episode of "Smallville" season 6. It scored 8.8/10 based on 1381 votes. Directed by James Marshall and written by Steven S. DeKnight, it aired on 9/28/2006. This episode is rated 0.9 points higher than the second-best, "Sneeze".