Smallville Season 3 Episode 16

On Lionel's medical report at the end, it says "Unspecified Hepatic Disease Affecting the Liver. Prognosis: Terminal." "Affecting the Liver" is redundant here, as "Hepatic Disease" means liver disease. It seems unlikely that a medical report would phrase the diagnosis like this. It should either be Unspecified Hepatic Disease or Unspecified Disease Affecting the Liver, not both.

Apparently after Principal Kwan was killed his license plates were taken over by the Speedy Heat & Air company.

When fighting with Lana in "Delete," Chloe took roundhouse kicks to the head and fell down two flights of stairs, but she could still fight back. Here, simply being pulled from the truck's cab is enough to knock her unconscious for several minutes.

When Clark, Chloe, and Lana are breaking down the call, one of the key moments has them hearing Adam yell, "You lied to me!" But, when Clark is lifting the telephone pole in and out of the puddle, the moment it's out of the puddle and in the present, Clark hears Adam yell. So, how did that part of the call get back to the past?

When Lana dials the Youth Center, she dials one, maybe two, digits. What is the likelihood that the Accounts Payable person at the hospital has the Youth Centre on speed-dial? Even if so, how did Lana find it in under a second on a strange phone?

When Chloe arrives back at the Kent farm with Adam, it is storming rather hard. However, as patriotic as the Kent family is, their US flag is just hanging out in the rain. Flag care laws determine that you are supposed to take down and properly fold a flag as opposed to just leaving it out in adverse weather such as this.

Judging from what Lana said, she must know that Clark took the bullet that Adam fired. Why else would she say Clark saved her? If you ignore the bullet thing, all he did was run over, stare at Adam, and ask Lana if she was okay. So...exactly how does she think he saved her?

Jonathan was hit with a tire iron and was fine the next scene but Chloe had a bruise on her head and an icepack after her altercation with Adam. Don't you think Jonathan would show some signs of being hit with a tire iron?

The first time Clark gets the phone call from Lana at the crisis center, how come no one wonders how he got to Lana at the Talon so fast? Especially that curious and annoying as hell sheriff? Or the room full of people working at the Center who suddenly had a large man in primary colors yelling into a phone and then suddenly disappearing?

As of the end of the Adam story arc, it still isn't very clear why Lionel sent Adam to check up on Clark and Lana. Lionel has hundreds of loyal lackeys and could pay to get more - couldn't he find one of the right approximate age with injuries that needed physical therapy (or could fake it)? Instead Lionel selects someone who is receiving an experimental liver treatment upon whom in part Lionel's resting his own hopes of a cure, is dependent on 12-hour injections, has a dubious background and is publicly reported to have died, and who doesn't appear to be very mentally stable anyway (either originally or due to the treatments), and sends Adam to Smallville. None of these seem to add up to make Adam a very qualified person for infiltrating Smallville and getting close to Lana. Heck, Adam kept leaving drug syringes around. As Lionel said, he usually isn't that sloppy.

How is it that Clark couldn't tell which direction Adam headed in the van. It seems his super hearing and x-ray vision (and implied telescopic vision) should easily picked up the van. Also, he knows what the van looks like, since he can tell what the insignia is from the repairman's clothing. Once he got out of sight of the repairman, why couldn't he super-speed around Smallville and find it?

When Lana saw Adam knock out Clark's father, why didn't she call 911 from the house?

Given the temporal paradoxes involved, how the heck does Lana even know that Clark was at the crisis hotline center the second time around and then conclude he got to her so quickly? He'd already established with her that he was acting on the original telephone call. The only way she'd know is if Clark told her he'd be some distance away, which is pretty dumb.

Clark doesn't seem too smart in telling Lex he knows about the meeting with Teng. Lex was there. Teng was there. Now Lex knows Clark was nearby and that someone mysteriously/magically stole the serum. Would Clark, knowing that Lex has been suspicious of him in the past and even having nightmares of Lex finding out he's super-powered, really give Lex that much of a clue?

When a telephone pole falls over, either the wires break or...there isn't enough slack and the pole doesn't fall over. It's not like telephone lines have a lot of slack or anything.

When Clark, Chloe, and Lana were listening to the playback of the tape, you hear Lana say "Clark, it's happening" with the rain in the background. But when Lana said that, she was still inside the building.

Several people have noted that it would make much more sense for Clark to just stay with Lana for the entire day of the murder. There's some indication that Clark was trying to stop Adam well before he got to Lana, and possibly save anyone else Adam might have killed. Still, you'd think that, say, an hour or two before sunset or when the weather report shows rain, Clark would just go to Lana and stay with her.

Every time the serum is wearing off with Adam, blood is seen coming from his eyes. When he is dying, the serum is definitely wearing off, but we do not see any blood coming from his eyes this time.

When Clark comes up on the injured repairman, he looks all around and asks which direction the van went. Can he not see the tire burnout from the gravel shoulder, and the tire tracks since the side of the road was damp?

Shouldn't Clark and (presumably) Pete have some training when dealing with a crisis hotline? Do they just let people wander in off the street and deal with people considering suicide, broken households, etc.?

Chloe changes the sound settings on the computer and gets nothing on Adam's voice. Then the camera cuts away, then cuts eventually to Clark supposedly changing the settings. According to the screen display, however, he ends up with the exact same settings Chloe had, but his adjustments let's them hear Adam.

For some reason, Cage's partner interrupts his interrogation of Clark (using the classic "Your partner told us everything" routine) just to tell him what the basketball scores are. Not the most professional of techniques.

Where's the army of lawyers that Lex has referred to many times in the past? When Cage interrogates him and Clark, they're nowhere to be seen and Clark is the one who has to pull the legal card to get out.

When Lana tries to go up a flight of stairs to get away from Adam and realizes that it's a dead end, she sobs, "Damn it." The captions read, "It's locked."