Annette O'Toole |
Martha Clark Kent |
Michael Rosenbaum |
Alexander ('Lex') Joseph Luthor |
John Schneider |
Jonathan Kent |
Allison Mack |
Chloe Sullivan |
Tom Welling |
Clark Kent/Kal-El of Krypton |
John Glover |
Lionel Luthor (Recurring Season 1, Regular Season 2+) |
Jerry Wasserman |
Dr. Scanlan |
Guest Star |
Dave Ward |
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Guest Star |
Wendy Chmelauskas |
Lana's Mom |
Guest Star |
When Chloe is in her nightmare, after she runs out of the room where she sees her mom/zombie-self into Luthorcorp hallway, right before the scene changes you can see the red and yellow lockers of Smallville High in the background.
During Lana's nightmare, when she goes over to the "dead" Jason she moves her hand all across his face. While she is doing this, you can see that Jason's eyes are twitching/blinking slightly.
Lana seems a little inconsistent with her story here. She claims that the first time she saw Jason, he was lying on the floor of the Talon, but hadn't she gone upstairs to get her jacket when he arrived to take her to lunch?
Why does Chloe's father's security pass still work at Lexcorp? He doesn't work there anymore.
Lana asks Chloe and Clark to go back to her apartment and get Jason's health insurance card, but she never says where it is. Wouldn't she tell them, or does she just expect them to ransack the place and find it? Furthermore, she doesn't give them the keys which leaves two very improbable situations: either Chloe or Clark have keys to Lana's apartment, or she just keeps it unlocked.
When Clark is being escorted out of the LuthorCorp plant by the security guard, they come across Chloe, who is currently running at them in a delusional state. Why does Clark decide to knock out the guard by thwacking him on the back of the head? He didn't make any threatening gestures or any thing...he just stood up.
When Lionel is freed from prison, he walks out the gate. But at the same time, there is a bus of new prisoners coming in. The is no way the prison guards would leave a gate wide open when people are going in. They usually lock the gate then open the truck, or use two gates and a small driveway in between.
A thousand degrees Kelvin is HOT -- far hotter than anything organic could withstand (or Lex could pick up), hot enough even to melt quite a few metals. Any enzymes, hormones, etc. would burn to charcoal at significantly lower temperatures. And unless there's massive air pressure in that incubator (which is doubtful), there's no way that anything that's liquid at room tempurature wouldn't boil off into vapor well before reaching 1000K.
Clark heats the antidote to 1000K very rapidly using his heat vision. If fast heating was a viable solution, why were they heating it slowly in the first place? Even the most primitive brick oven wouldn't take 5 hours to reach 1000K, much less the high-tech incubation unit they're using.
Although the antidote is referred to as a "vaccine," and vaccines do contain a portion of the dangerous substance involved, vaccines serve as prevention, not cure. An antidote would provide a cure, but wouldn't contain the element that caused the problem in the first place. Further, the hallucinatory-invoking substance is described as a bacteria. You use antibiotics to cure bacterial disease, and vaccines to prevent viral infections.
When Lana is leaning over the comatose Jason she's crying freely and her eye makeup is kinda smeary. Then she talks to Clark and Chloe and it's perfectly made up.
Malcolm Stewart mispronounces "Luthor," saying it luth-ER rather then luth-OR.
In every other instance, the person hallucinating is the focus of his or her own hallucination. In other words, they see themselves, they're "present" in the hallucination, they act and interact with things in the hallucination. But for the first couple minutes of Jason's hallucination...Jason himself isn't "present" anywhere to be seen.
Although an unknown illness is running rampant around the hospital, doctors and nurses are seen not taking universal precautions such as a surgical mask, although you see the odd doctor with gloves. Think SARS...
Lionel: You know I've done everything to work this system. I hired the best lawyers in the world. I tried to pay off everyone from the bailiff to the president of the united states and I was told categorically that I was never gonna see life outside these walls again.
Warden Stall: You do not want to be telling me things of this nature.
Lionel: Yes I do, I'm guilty. Not of the crime I've been imprisoned for but...so many other crimes which should have landed me in here years ago.
Lex: Clark... how the hell did you get in here?
Clark: The gate was open. Your security seems a little MIA lately.
This episode won a Leo Award for Best Make-Up in a Dramatic Series. This episode was nominated for a Golden Reel Award for Best Sound Editing in Television Short Form - Sound Effects & Foley.
On disc 3 of the Smallville Season 4 DVD set, there is an alternate dream sequence for Lex Luthor near the end of the episode. After he gives himself the vaccine, he dreams that he is about to get married. It is then revealed that the person he is about to marry is actually his mother, who starts to blame Lex for his brother's death. She then talks about how he is on a path to destruction. Lex responds furiously by strangling his mother before being woken up by Clark.
Wendy Chmelauskas and Ben Odberg reprise their roles as Lana's mom and dad for her hallucination.
Malcolm Stewart previously played a different character, Mr. Wilson (Jodi's Dad), in the first season episode Craving.
Music by Mindy Smith "Falling" (from One Moment More).
The Lex hallucination uses a combination of reused footage from the first season episode "Hourglass" (spiffied up with some new CGI) and nuclear explosion footage from the movie Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (a Warner property).
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