Fever

Season 2, Episode 16, Aired
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Martha catches a lungful of kryptonite-irradiated spores and slips into a coma. Clark, who temporarily loses his powers by breathing in the same spores, is her only hope for survival. Lex sneaks behind Helen's back at the hospital in his continued search for the truth about Clark.moreless
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  • this was a good ep i thougt

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By cube2k8, May 10, 2010 Report Abuse
    in this ep of smallville martha is donw in the storm seller and she is about to put the key in the slot and she sees clark coming and so she digs a hole and puts in in a can but when she is digging she breaths in krptonigt spores that cause her to go into a high fever and she is sent the hospital and the chemical investgation comes to see what caused it and so they start to seach the kent farm they ask jothan and clark questions clark says he saw her down in the basement. and they go investgate the seller and find the metialic key down there and what she came in contact with . clark goes down there and he gets sick and loese his abilties and clark gets brought into the house and jothan askes lexes wife to come over and treat him and she does blood work and it goes right through him and he akses her to keep it a secret. and only she do the work on it. cloey comes over to see clark and he calles out lana as she tells him how much she loved him. clark get up and trys to help his dad go and steal the metalic disk back from the investgation and they sneek in the building and get the stuff but the alarm goes off and the people fall the truck but its pete the wrong guy and clark and jothan go and get the spaceship that saves marthas life. and the lexs wife cant figure out what happen and how she was healed.moreless

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  • Martha and Clark are brought down by contaminated spores in the fruit cellar, and Clark, who loses some of his power, must find a cure. Disease Control troops find the spaceship key Martha hid, forcing Jonathan to activate the spaceship for her rescue.moreless

    8.5
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    By cxtasy, Sep 04, 2008 Report Abuse
    Martha hides the spaceship key she retrieved in an earlier episode, by hiding it in the fruit cellar near the spaceship, but she inhales meteor-affected spores and collapses. Jonathan and Clark get her to the hospital, and the Disease Control Agency gets involved after being notified of the case by Dr. Bryce (Emmanuele Vaugier, in her third Smallville appearance), who reveals that Martha is pregnant. The DCA searches the Kent farm, forcing Clark and Pete to move the spaceship, but Clark became infected, loses some powers, and control of the Dodge pickup. In a bit of clever camera work, he and Pete appear to push the truck back onto the road.

    So far so good, until the storyline stretches too far with camo-geared troops guarding the DCA cache of contaminated material and helicopters and Humvees instantly ready to pursue any intruders, like the bull-in-a-china-shop Jonathan. His break-in to get back the spaceship key, easily found in a plastic baggie (which wouldn't protect anyone from a real contamination threat) ends in a clever escape ruse. The chase has the unbelievably efficient military-sheriff intercept thwarted by Pete who is actually driving the Kent's truck. The activated spaceship provides a "miracle" cure for Martha, then we have a nice tension build-up when Dr. Bryce gets a blood sample from Clark while in his weakened state. She discovers it's radical differences, and tries to hide the analysis from Lex, who offers her the key to his mansion, and a bribe to a hospital tech to get the blood report.

    As Clark recovers at home, Chloe visits in her red New Beetle cabriolet, and, in a touching scene, quietly reads a love letter to him while he lies sleeping. The FX folks create an impossible celestial event - a rising crescent moon pointing upward - toward a sun which has already set - time for an astronomical advisor. Ms. O'Toole and Ms. Mack do the best acting here, for a re-run rating of B-.moreless

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  • An Ill Fate

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    By lenzinoH20, Apr 14, 2008 Report Abuse
    Fever-Martha catches a lungful of kryptonite-irradiated spores and slips into a coma. Clark, who temporarily loses his powers by breathing in the same spores, is her only hope for survival. Lex sneaks behind Helen's back at the hospital in his continued search for the truth about Clark.

    A drama filled episode that sees the Kent family enduring the biggest problem yet when Martha falls into a deadly illness. Martha's illness brings up a lot of revelations like her being pregnant and that the Clark's spaceship made it happen. It's a shocking and intriguing development how the ship has powers of its own and can give life. The kryptonite induced spores aren't as bad as they sound and the way they disempowered Clark for a while was affective. the best scene in the episode is Chloe reading her romantic letter to Clark while he was unconscious. Allison Mack completely steals the show and her confession of her love for Clark is touching. Then, or course, the moment is ruined by Clark as he utters the words "Lana" bringing more melodrama to the annoying love triangle that's been going on between Clark, Chloe and Lana, sigh! I also like the development of Clark's blood being abnormal and Helen being in on Clark's secret as well as keeping it. It makes things interesting as it gives Lex fuel to continue to secretly investigate Clark. The special effects are always a plus and the scene of the ship healing Clark and Martha toward the end with a beautiful white light is stunning. A heartwarming episode with some nice developments and revelations.moreless

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  • Great Episode

    10
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    By Beer75, Aug 22, 2007 Report Abuse
    Martha, who has been hiding the key to the spaceship, becomes extremely sick from inhaling dust of green meteor rock that was underground. The Kent farm is quarantined, and the key discovered. Clark, who inhaled the meteor dust as well, falls sick too. After testing his blood, Dr. Helen Bryce realizes that Clark is different. Martha is revealed to be pregnant after the ship removes her poisoning. In "Fever", it is disclosed the miraculous healing power of the aircraft. The story is very tense, with a good plot point. Chloe Sullivan discloses her secret love masqueraded as friendship for a feverish Clark Kent.moreless

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  • So both Martha and Clark get infected by the kryptonite spores in the storm cellar that Martha stirs up trying to hide the spaceship key. Martha falls into a coma, and Clark has episodes of fainting and weakness. The DCA take the key and samples.moreless

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    By ecinajx19, Aug 03, 2007 Report Abuse
    Season two has many emotional episodes, and this is no exception. Martha being near death in the hospital is tempered by Jonathan hearing the news that she is pregnant. Still, she gets worse, and Clark is so sick he's unconscious. When Chloe comes to the Kent farm to visit the ailing Clark, she reads him a letter she wrote, so she doesn't have to look at him while telling him her feelings, and her words truly are elegant and heart-rending when she tells the unconscious Clark that she is the girl of his dreams masquerading as his best friend. Clark stirs briefly, and says, "Lana?" which is a stake into Chloe's heart I could feel with a piercing sadness. Jonathan hopes that recovering the key, and putting it in the slot in the spaceship will somehow cure Martha and Clark, and even staggeringly, Clark helps him, and Pete is their getaway decoy. When they let the key float onto the spaceship they've driven near the hospital, moments after Martha is pronounced dead, a blinding light comes out of the spaceship and enters the hospital, curing both Clark and Martha. After she wakes, she admits she was afraid the key would somehow take Clark away from them. Meanwhile during Clark's infirmity, Dr. Bryce managed to take a blood sample from Clark she knows is most peculiar. Of course Lex is more than intrigued and hopes to find out what she learned, but so far, she keeps the secret. At the Torch, Lana finds Chloe's discarded speech to Clark, and tells him later that both Chloe and she were very scared for him, and realized how much they care, even if she isn't as eloquent as others might be. Chloe really is a superior person, full of intelligence and appeal, and I'm sorry that I already know she never "gets her man," because she truly is worthy of a superhero boyfriend, if only Clark could see how great she is. Sure, Lana is the hottest chick in Smallville, but Chloe is my favorite, especially in episodes like this one.moreless

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    • When Martha drops the lemonade jug it broke on its side. But when she falls it is only broke at the top, and is sitting upright. Edit
    • Martha holds the Key and shot moves to focus on the keyhole in ship 0:31, yet when she looks back over to the ship after Clark left, the ship is turned around, and the hole is nowhere near visible 0:56. Edit
    • At 19:34 Helen removes the rubber strap from Clark's arm, but seconds later it is back on his arm and she removes it again. Edit

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    • Deleted Scene: Clark and Lex are talking about Helen's success in her career and whether or not if Lex should make a move or let her go. Edit
    • In Chloe's poem to Clark she reads the line: 'In fact, my disguise is so thin, I'm surprised you haven't seen right through me'- this is a small reference to how Clark disguises himself when he is not Superman. By simply wearing glasses. Edit
    • John Glover doesn't appear in this episode. Edit

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    • Clark: (to Lana) It's weird how random memories can just pop into your head, huh? When I was in second grade, I was afraid to go to school because I thought my mom would disappear while I was gone and never come back. I wouldn't even get on the bus in the morning until she promised she'd be there when I got home. Sure enough, every day, there she was when I walked in the door. Edit
    • Chloe's Letter: I want to let you in on a secret. I'm not who you think I am. In fact, my disguise is so thin I'm surprised you haven't seen right through me. I'm the girl of your dreams masquerading as your best friend. Sometimes I want to rip off the façade like I did at the spring formal. But I can't because you'll get scared and you'll run away again. So I decided that it's better to live with the lie than expose my true feelings. My dad said there are two types of girls -- the ones you grow out of and the ones you grow into. I really hope I'm the latter. I may not be the one you love today, but I'll let you go for now, hoping one day you'll fly back to me. Because I think you're worth the wait. Edit
    • Jonathan: (as Bryce tries to take Clark's blood sample) You don't understand... you can't do that. Dr. Bryce: Is this some kind of religious thing? Edit

  • Allusions

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    • Pete: Indiana Jones couldn't find it down there. Indiana Jones is a fictional archaeologist and adventurer. Played by Harrison Ford, Indiana is the star character of the films Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984), and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). Several spin-offs of the Indiana Jones mythos have also been created. Edit
    • Pete: Yeah, we'll put it between the old Betamax and my dad's Pong games. Pete is referring to icons of 1970s pop culture and entertainment. Betamax is video cassette format used in early camcorders, similar to VHS. Pong is a classic video arcade game consisting of two paddles bouncing a small ball between them. Edit
    • Pete: X-Files alert! Alluding to the TV show - coincidentally or not, the guy who plays Dr. Moore appeared in several episodes of that show as an FBI agent. Edit

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