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Smallville Premiere Recap: Odyssey

by brian on September 19th, 2008

At what’s left of the Fortress of Solitude, new LuthorCorp CEO Tess Mercer oversees the search for Lex Luthor and whatever he was looking for. The Justice League crashes the party and busts some heads, finding Clark’s clothes but not him.

At Lex’s house, Lois Lane is in a French maid outfit. Does anybody wear those anymore, even French maids? Not that I’m complaining. Tess promptly has Lois removed from the premises.

Chloe is being held captive and forced to display her newly found mental powers. The guy testing her tells her she has two choices: federal prison or helping her country. She’ll take helping her country for $1000, Alex!

Clark is in some Russian work camp, completely powerless. He steals a truck and tries to make a break for it. Let’s face it, Grand Theft Auto is just not Clark’s style and the attempt fails. Chloe is being asked to solve an algorithm that will give her captors three cell nos. She figures out that she’s tracking down the JL and stops, but with her help they’ve already captured Aquaman and Black Canary.

Arrow finds Clark in the work camp, and there’s a cute Easter egg here. Oliver uses the alias Roy Connor, two names immediately familiar to Green Arrow fans. Those are the first names of his proteges, Roy Harper and Connor Hawke. Connor is actually Oliver Queen’s son in the comic books and fills in as Green Arrow while Ollie’s dead. Like most comic book characters, he got over it. Ollie and Clark stage a fight to bust him out of the camp.

There’s one LuthorCorp facility the JL hasn’t hit yet, so they figure Chloe must be there. Ollie doesn’t want Clark to go, calling him “useless” without his powers. Ouch. Inside the complex they split and Clark runs into Lois, who basically warns him not to be useless. This has to be getting on his nerves.

Chloe’s captors have a serum made from her mother’s spinal fluid (Ewww) that can temporarily mind control people. They use it on her to track down Ollie inside the building and then use it on him, telling him to do whatever’s necessary to find Lex. Apparently what’s necessary is putting two arrows in Clark’s chest. Chloe isn’t able to heal him, but the Martian Manhunter shows up and flies Clark toward the sun to restore his powers. Unfortunately it has the opposite effect on the Manhunter so no more saves from him.

Clark discusses the possibility of a secret ID before he and the JL part ways. They all agree to lay low for a while. Chloe and Jimmy Olsen try to pick up where they left off and the wedding is back on. And Tess Mercer receives a package with a strange blue stone in it. Some form of Kryptonite, maybe? And last but not least, Clark starts his new job at the Daily Planet, right next to Lois.

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