Smallville Season 3 Episode 17

Trivia: Lex reveals that he speaks German.

At 0:55 as Jonathan falls, there is a wire visible that is keeping the weathervane from falling all the way off the roof.

When Clark move's in to kiss Lana his face is toward the right side of her face, but in between shots his face switches from left to right.

When Lana is about to leave Lex's office, she is holding her suitcase under her arm and up against her side, but when the shots change she is instantly holding it out.

During the struggle with Mr. Kent, Lionel reaches out for the key with left hand. Jonathan interlocks the fingers of his own right hand with Lionel's left hand to stop him. Then a close-up shot has Jonathan's right hand near Lionel's left shoulder. Then suddenly in the next shot, it's interlocked with Lionel's right hand.

Why does Clark lean out from behind the tree to use his X-ray vision to see into the FBI van? Surely he can look through the tree and thus stay completely hidden.

When Dr. Swann commands the screen to come up, it has already begun moving.

At this point it seems pretty definite that Clark has telescopic vision. He sees the small transmitter via x-ray vision on Lex's chest at some distance. But...the omission of this is rather odd. Telescopic vision is a fairly significant aspect of Clark's powers as Superman. When he's got new powers like heat vision and x-ray vision, there have been whole episodes devoted to them. But telescopic vision just seems to be...well, "there."

When Lionel is talking to Lex, he mentions Galileo and his theory about the earth revolving around the sun. In doing so he mentions that Galileo was sentenced to death for his ideas. That is not true, he was sentenced to house arrest after he renounced his theory before the church.

Last season finale, Lionel was about to open the caves using a kryptonite-made key. He never did it because Clark stole it and the wall sealed up. Well, if the wall is open again why doesn't Lionel pick up where he left off?

It seems odd that when Lionel recalls to Lex all the connections of Clark and the cave, he fails to mention Dr. Waldon and his message about "The day is coming" and Clark being the last son. After all both he and Lex met him together.

Once again we see the Kryptonian language displayed with alternating lines moving in opposite directions, yet Clark has no difficulty reading it. While we have no way of knowing exactly how an alien brain might perceive this text, this movement would seem to make the simple act of reading unnecessarily complex.

When Jonathan falls from the barn and Clark caught him, the weather vane hits the ground and gets bent. Then when Jonathan pick up the weather vane off the ground it is unbent.

Maybe we haven't noticed before, but when Lana pulls up in the last scene there's a fairly large mildly subsurbanish-looking house directly across from the Kent farm. It's not Lana's place (taken over by the Conroys in 'Slumber'). Who live there? And why have they apparently never seen any of Clark's super-shenanigans?

Where do the "FBI agents" go after Jonathan drives them out of the cave? They show up about five seconds after Clark super-speeds in and pulls Jonathan off of Lionel. And wouldn't they have seen Clark super-speeding?

The Kent farm has been visited by gangsters and Freaks of the Week, but the Kents continue to take absurdly minor efforts to hide the key. Clark locks it in a toolbox with a padlock, for Pete's sake.

Either the timeframe here is very odd, or there's some obtuse narrative toying at the beginning. The previous episode was 'Crisis', where (among other things) that episode ended with a big storm and Lex just starting to set up an arrangement with FBI Guy. And then that episode ended with Lionel with a gun in his mouth. Then this episode begins with Lionel with a gun in his mouth and the same opera in the background, implying it begins where 'Crisis' ended. But Smallville is now pretty dry and the FBI seem to have a rather elaborate surveillance operation set up. But unless Lionel likes to practice shooting himself there doesn't seem to have been enough time passing for various other events to happen.

When Lionel was about to commit suicide in his high rise office in Metropolis, he got a phone call from someone telling him that Clark was in the caves. But apparently, Clark was only down there for a few minutes to put the key in the wall. However, Lionel shows up immediately after his phone call, which is just after Clark had arrived. We learned that Metropolis is a 3 hour drive from Smallville in a previous episode. Even in the Luthor helicopter, it would have taken at least 20-30 minutes. There is no way he could have gotten there that fast unless he had Clark's speed, which he doesn't!!!

Once again, Clark acts absurdly obvious around Lex with his powers. Won't Lex wonder at all how Clark knows about the well-concealed wire beneath his jacket? Or doesn't Clark care?

It's only been two episodes (two months real time) since Jonathan's heart surgery in 'Resurrection' but Lionel kicks him here in the chest hard. Very hard. That kind of blow to someone recently recovered from a heart bypass surgery would be temporarily crippling at the very least. For that matter, Lionel's terminally ill. And yet they have an extended fight sequence.

The new building/room/whatever that Swann occupies seems very big and not very private. And yet he has a big screen that flashes Kryptonian language messages on it that he presumably doesn't want folks to know about (he claims ignorance to Lionel).

Dr. Swann states that Clark's secret has never left "this building." However, "this building" is clearly different from the one in "Rosetta," where the promise was made.

Why does Jonathan say Clark is never going to have to face his own mortality? Clark's been aging normally so far - why would he think Clark is suddenly going to be ageless? And Clark has faced death by kryptonite several times - it seems like he's already faced his mortality.

Why don't the stairs in Swann's big foyer/office have a wheelchair lift?

In the fight scene in the cave, when Jonathan and Lionel are rolling around one of them hits a large stalagmite and wobbles like it was made of styrofoam or balsa wood.

If the FBI guys are undercover and in a disguised surveillance van...why are they having a public outdoor meeting with Lex right next to it, with Lex's car parked nearby.

We've seen in the past that Clark has a cell phone. So...why does he need to borrow Lana's phone at the Talon.

Clark talks to Lex and finds out that Lex isn't responsible for the fake FBI raid. But...later Jonathan gets Lionel to call off his men by threatening to reveal that Lionel was responsible for the raid. How did Jonathan find that out - he never met with Clark after the Lex/Clark confrontation. Why wouldn't he think Lex was responsible, for instance?

Clark says to Swann that his father is dying - since when? Didn't the heart bypass surgery take care of that? Jonathan's been a little weak since then, but there's been no indication since then that he's going to die.