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SEASON THREE REGULAR CAST:

  • TOM WELLING (Clark Kent)
  • KRISTIN KREUK (Lana Lang)
  • MICHAEL ROSENBAUM (Lex Luthor)
  • JOHN SCHNEIDER (Jonathan Kent)
  • ANNETTE O’TOOLE (Martha Kent)
  • ALLISON MACK (Chloe Sullivan)
  • SAM JONES III (Pete Ross)
  • JOHN GLOVER (Lionel Luthor)

 

3.01 EXILE

Original Airdate: 10.1.2003

Written by: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

Directed by: Greg Beeman

Music:

  • “Frantic” by Metallica
  • “Good Talk” by Shocore
  • “Hey Mama” by The Black Eyed Peas
  • “Calling All Angels” by Train
  • “All the Stars” by eastmountainsouth

Synopsis:  Clark, now calling himself “Kal”, is living in Metropolis and maintaining a lavish lifestyle funded by robberies.  Lex is a plane-crash survivor on a desert island.

 

3.02 PHOENIX

Original Airdate: 10.8.2003

Written by: Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson

Directed by: James Marshall

Music:

  • “White Flag” by Dido
  • “Maybe Tomorrow” by Stereophonics

Synopsis:  After persuading Clark to destroy the red-kryptonite ring, Clark is cured and returns home with Jonathan.  Morgan Edge expects Clark to follow through with there agreement and comes to Smallville to collect.  Lex returns home to confront Lionel and Helen.

 

3.03 EXTINCTION

Original Airdate: 10.15.2003

Written by: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer

Directed by: Michael Katleman

Music:

  • “Way Away” by Yellowcard
  • “Give It To Me” by Vishiss
  • “I Give You Take” by Maria
  • “Goodbye Again” by Vertical Horizon

Synopsis:  A killer is targeting meteor-infected individuals.  Clark and Chloe do some investigating and discover it’s another student and Lex is the next target on the list.

 

3.04 SLUMBER

Original Airdate: 10.22.2003

Written by: Drew Z. Greenberg

Directed by: Terrence O’Hara

Music:

  • “Imitation of Life” by R.E.M.
  • “Everybody Hurts” by R.E.M.
  • “Losing My Religion” by R.E.M.
  • “Bad Day” by R.E.M.
  • “At My Most Beautiful” by R.E.M.

Synopsis:  After dreaming for 36-hours, Clark awakes to discover he’s been dreaming about a girl in a coma next door that he’s never met.

 

3.05 PERRY

Original Airdate: 10.29.2003

Written by: Mark Verheiden

Directed by: Jeannot Szwarc

Music:

  • “Walking in Memphis” by Lonestar
  • “Blue” by LeAnn Rimes
  • “I Love This Bar” by Toby Keith

Synopsis:  Clark meets Perry White, a former top-class reporter who has fallen upon hard times.  After Perry witnesses Clark throwing a tractor into the sky, he starts investigating Clark.

 

3.06 RELIC

Original Airdate: 11.5.2003

Written by:  Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson

Directed by:  Marita Grabiak

Music:

  • “In Your Eyes” by Aaron D
  • “I Only Have Eyes For You” by The Flamingos
  • “Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)” by The Penguins
  • “Matchbox” by Toby Keith

Synopsis:  A newspaper sketch from 1961 of a drifter suspected of murdering Louise, Lana Lang’s great aunt, looks strangely like Clark Kent.  Clark investigates the story and finds a medallion the drifter was wearing, which belonged to his father, Jor-El, that allows Clark to see past events.

 

3.07 MAGNETIC

Original Airdate: 11.12.2003

Written by:  Holly Harold

Directed by:  David Jackson

Music:

  • “Hey Now” by Black Toast Music
  • “Trouble” by Bonnie McKee
  • “Stupid Girl” by Cold
  • “Amazing” by Josh Kelley
  • “Over You” by Michelle Featherstone
  • “Trouble” by Pink

Synopsis:  Lana’s lab partner aquires magnetic powers, which can move objects and alter a person’s emotional state.  He starts to use his new abilities to make Lana fall in love with him.

 

3.08 SHATTERED

Original Airdate: 11.19.2003

Written and Directed by: Kenneth Biller

Music:

  • “Hurt” by Johnny Cash

Synopsis:  Lex tracks down Morgan Edge, and discovers that Lionel had a hand in his grandparent’s death.  He is then attacked by an assassin and flees to the Kent farm.  After it seems there was no such attack on Lex’s life as Lex claims, Clark comes to Lex’s aid to convince all that Lex is sane.  Lana is injured while trying to help Lex.

 

3.09 ASYLUM

Original Airdate: 1.14.2004

Written by: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer

Directed by: Greg Beeman

Music:

  • “Future Proof” by Massive Attack
  • “So Far Away” by Staind

Synopsis:  After Lex is sent to Belle Reve, Clark attempts to rescue Lex from electroshock therapy.  Lana meets Adam, another patient, while in physical therapy, who claims he was injured trying to save his parents from a fire.

 

3.10 WHISPER

Original Airdate: 1.21.2004

Written by:  Ken Horton

Directed by:  Thomas J. Wright

Music:

  • “Cold and Empty” by Kid Rock

Synopsis:  While visiting a jewelry store, Clark is blinded by an accident involving his heat vision skills.  He develops a new ability after his vision loss – super-hearing, which helps him locate and rescue his kidnapped friend, Pete.

 

3.11 DELETE

Original Airdate: 1.28.2004

Written by:  Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson

Directed by:  Pat Williams

Music:

  • “The Reason” by Hoobastank
  • “Try” by Nelly Furtado
  • “So Damn Lucky” by Dave Matthews

Synopsis:  After Chloe writes a story about Summerholt Neurological Institute and asks a reporter at the Daily Planet if he can publish it, she almost gets hit by Clark in his pick-up truck, attacked by Jonathan and Martha Kent, and Lana goes ninja trying to kill Chloe – all due to an email from “brainwave”.

 

3.12 HEREAFTER

Original Airdate: 2.4.2004

Written By:  Mark Verheiden & Drew Z. Greenberg

Directed by:  Greg Beeman & James Marshall

Music:

  • “100 Years” by Five for Fighting
  • “Two Steps Closer” by Static
  • “I Owe You” by Stegala Music
  • “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43″ by Sergei Rachmanioff

Synopsis:  A student who can glimpse the future just by touching, glimpses Lana’s future and is horrified what he sees.  Adam refuses to discuss his nightmares with Lana, and she becomes suspicious of his mysterious musical, martial arts and computer talents.

 

3.13 VELOCITY

Original Airdate: 2.11.04

Written by:  Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer

Directed by:  Jeannot Szwarc

Music:

  • “Fix Up, Look Sharp” by Dizzee Rascal
  • “The Way I Am” by Knoc-Turn ‘Al
  • “You Know” by Saq
  • “Evilution” by Shocore
  • “Rawkfist” by ThousandFootKrutch
  • “Wonderwall” by Ryan Adams

Synopsis:  Pete’s illegal street car racing puts him in gambling debt and puts Clark in a dilemma over how to help him.  Adam admits to Lana that he is really Chad Nash, who died five months earlier, and threatens her not to say anything to anyone about him.

 

3.14 OBSESSION

Original Airdate: 2.18.04

Written by:  Holly Harold

Directed by:  James Marshall

Music:

  • “Setting of the Sun” by Ben Jelen
  • “Echo” by Blake Hight
  • “One Thing” by Finger Eleven
  • “Parking” by The Fuzz

Synopsis:  During a tour of LuthorCorp, Clark and fellow student, Alicia Baker are nearly killed in a faulty elevator.  Clark uses his abilities to try to stop the elevator and Alicia teleports them both out.  Sharing their secrets they begin to bond, but Alicia becomes dangerously obsessed with Clark.

 

3.15 RESURRECTION

Original Airdate: 2.25.2004

Written by:  Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer

Directed by:  Terrence O’Hara

Music:

  • “Everything” by Alanis Morrisette
  • “Infatuation” by The Rapture

Synopsis:  While Jonathan undergoes open-heart surgery, a bomb-strapped teenager takes over the hospital demanding a new liver for his brother who is in need of a liver transplant, and demands Jonathan’s liver.

 

3.16 CRISIS

Original Airdate: 3.3.2004

Written by:  Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson

Directed by:  Kenneth Biller

Synopsis:  Clark picks up a call on the crisis-hotline while volunteering at the Youth Center, and Lana is on the other end screaming for Clark’s help as she is being attacked by Adam.  But Clark soon discovers that the call wasn’t from the present – but the future.  Now Clark must figure out how to prevent it from happening.

 

3.17 LEGACY

Original Airdate:  4.14.2004

Written by:  Jeph Loeb

Directed by:  Greg Beeman

Music:

  • “Once In A Blue Moon” by Edie Brickell
  • “Mona Lisa” by Grant-Lee Phillips
  • “Love’s Divine” by Seal

Synopsis:  Jonathan begins receiving messages from Jor-El, which makes him behave strangely, but before Clark can investigate, he is interrupted by Lionel in the Kawatche caves.  Clark discovers that Dr. Virgil Swann has been working with Lionel.  Lex admits to Clark that he is working with the FBI to help put his father away.

 

3.18 TRUTH – Episode 18

Original Airdate: 4.21.2004

Written by:  Drew Z. Greenberg

Directed by:  James Marshall

Music:

  • “Someday” by Fastball
  • “Better Don’t Do” by Ing
  • “Stabat Mater” by Paul Schwartz
  • “Selling Out” by The Fuzz

Synopsis:  Chloe inhales a gas after sneaking into a LuthorCorp lab that gives her the ability to force everyone to tell her the truth.

 

3.19 MEMORIA

Original Airdate:  4.28.2004

Written by:  Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

Directed by:  Miles Millar

Music:

  • “My Immortal” by Evanescence

Synopsis:  Lex begins treatment at Summerholt, where Dr. Garner is regressing him in an effort to recover the memories he lost through shock treatment.  Clark is betrayed by Lionel, and is subjected to the memory-recovery treatment at Summerholt Institute, and Clark remembers his parents, Jor-El and Lara placing him in the kryptonian spacecraft.

 

3.20 TALISMAN

Original Airdate:  5.5.2004

Written by:  Kenneth Biller

Directed by:  John Schneider

Music:

  • “Chase Me” by Katie Herzig
  • “Reason Why” by Rachael Yamagata
  • “From Afar” by Red Letter Day

Synopsis:  Lionel’s team find an ancient “star blade”  in the Kawatche Caves, but he won’t let Professor Willowbrook and his student Jeremiah study it.  The star blade breaks open and throws an energy into Jeremiah, giving him abilities similar to Clark.  Lana is accepted into a school in Paris.

 

3.21 FORSAKEN

Original Airdate:  5.12.2004

Written by:  Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson

Directed by:  Terrence O’Hara

Music:

  • “When The Sun Goes Down” by Charlie Mars
  • “What You’re Thinking” by Christopher Jak

Synopsis:  Lex gives Lana an open ended ticket to Paris and advices Clark to be honest with Lana if he wants her to stay in Smallville.  Clark decides to reveal his secrets to her in hopes that she will stay.  Chloe provides Lex with evidence against Lionel regarding the death of his grandparents that could put Lionel on trial for murder.

 

3.22 COVENANT

Original Airdate:  5.19.2004

Teleplay by: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar

Story by:  Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer

Directed by:  Greg Beeman

Music:

  • “One Moment More” by Mindy Smith

Synopsis:  A stranger names Kara arrives at the Kent farm with powers and says she’s from Krypton, and that she’s come to take Clark back with her.  Clark discovers the secret room in Lex’s mansion that centers on his investigation into Clark and his family.  After forgetting to take Lana to the airport, Clark rushes to find her only to see Lana giving Lex a farewell kiss.  Clark helps put Lionel behind bars with his evidence in court but tells Lex their friendship is over.

 

Information compiled from:

  • “Smallville, Season 3 DVD-insert
  • “Smallville Season 3 – The Official Companion”