Allison Mack |
Chloe Sullivan |
Annette O'Toole |
Martha Clark Kent |
Erica Durance |
Lois Lane |
John Glover |
Lionel Luthor |
Kristin Kreuk |
Lana Lang |
Michael Rosenbaum |
Alexander ('Lex') Joseph Luthor |
Lochlyn Munro |
Orlando Block |
Guest Star |
Emy Aneke |
Robert Pontius |
Guest Star |
Brendan Penny |
Wagner |
Guest Star |
Justin Hartley |
Oliver Queen/Green Arrow |
Recurring Role |
TRIVIA Robert Pontius' phones:
Cell : 555-0144
Office: 555-0142
Fax : 555-0143
When Chloe gets the idea of Clark "blowing" out the security door with a sneeze and then just his breath, she actually stands in front of him, to the side, while he does it. Given that it's a new power he can't yet control and that his other powers have not always gone well at first (plus the fact he sneezed a barn door halfway across the county), he would never have tried it unless she were behind him.
When Clark sneezes in his barn, the door takes off fairly low to the ground. When Lois is at the Kents, she looks out the window and sees the hole in the barn, parallel to the house, so the door should have hit the house.
Despite the fact that Clark blows the barn door seven miles across Smallville, everything in the barn between him and the door is totally unaffected.
When the barn door nearly hits Lois she is just jogging alongside a clear piece of fence, but when she and Chloe investigate it later, there's a rather large gate there.
Lois made it clear in "Commencement" that the last thing she wanted to do was be in a newsroom and go into journalism. She went from absolutely loathing the job to telling Clark and Chloe she never felt more at peace writing her article pretty quickly.
Lana comes in and says she wasn't aware she was moving into a fortress. Setting aside the fact the place is a castle, she's been there when Lex's house was invaded, she knows he has a safe room, why would she be unaware of all the security?
Why does Clark reach for a kleenex when he's in the house and about to sneeze? He's seen his sneezes blow off a barn door, what does he think a Kleenex is going to do? And it can't be force of habit, because he's never been ill before.
In the establishing shot of Oliver Queen's hangout, it's clearly a tall tower well above any local buildings and at least 5-10 stories above the ground with no trees anywhere near the top. Nor are any trees or terraces visible. But when Lionel is talking to Oliver inside, there are clearly trees or potted plants of some sort in the window behind him.
When Lana plays back the security recording of Lex meeting with Pontius, the time reading says 21:24 (9:24 p.m.). However, there's clearly daylight coming in through the windows.
When we first see Lex restrained to the table, the restraint that holds down his left hand is around the middle of his forearm. However, all other times after that when you see his arm, the restrain is around his wrist. It can't be because Lex slid up or down, because the one on his right hand is always on his wrist.
When Clark blows out the barn doors, they go out at a fairly low angle to the ground. But when they come down next to Lois they drop down straight out of the sky.
When Block is threatening Lex, there's a line in the closed captioning--"The next bullet goes in your brain. Now start talking!"--that he doesn't actually say.
When Clark blows down the door hinges, look at the frame. There's no metal supports to anchor it into the wall, or a recess for the door to slide into it.
Once again Chloe and Clark break into a secured building, belonging to a private detective who can afford a massive vault and knows about security, but they don't take any precautions and seem completely unconcerned that there might be security cameras.
An arrow fired into a brick wall will break. It's not a matter of skill, and in fact an arrow fired from a compound bow (such as Oliver uses here) has more force behind it and is more likely to break, no matter how sturdy the arrow is.
Lois is not only working at least two jobs--waitress at the Talon and chief of staff for Martha--but she has enough time to go jogging, poke around investigating a falling barn door, and take on a third job as a reporter for a newspaper.
Pontius says the SUV following Lex had "Edge City plates." Cities don't have plates, states do.
When Chloe holds up the newspaper with the headline "Lex Luthor Donates Millions to Rebuild City," a careful examination of the text reveals that the article in the left column is duplicated in the right column.
When Clark muzzles a sneeze in Chloe's office just after they discover Pontius' address, you can see a blackish purple bruise on his right middle finger. Clark is invulnerable and shouldn't get bruises, if he did even in his weakened condition they wouldn't last long, and even if he could somehow sneeze himself a bruise, it's on the outside of the hand, not the inside of his hands that he's been using to block his sneezes.
When Lionel hands the scotch to Oliver Queen, we see Oliver lower the hand that the scotch is in, but in the immediate camera angle following, we see Oliver's hand extended in front of him holding the scotch.
Lana: When I moved in you forgot to mention I would be living with Big Brother.
Lex: Lana those are just security cameras to ensure the safety of everyone on this property.
Lana: I see.. was I breaching security when I was alone in my bedroom?
Chloe: (reads Lois's byline "Global Warming or Alien Invasion?") I don't know how I feel about the alien angle but..
Lois: Yeah I wasn't too crazy about the E.T. spin either but my editor insisted that it would help sell papers so..
Clark: Well lets hear it for journalistic integrity.
Chloe: (holding a kite) Hey, I brought something for us to do in case the lake's too cold to swim in... and the great thing is, you don't have to wait for it to get windy.
Clark: Gee thanks.
Chloe: Oh come on, doesn't it make you wonder what else the possibilities are? I mean, Clark Kent Airlines, non-stop to Metropolis.
Orlando Block: What is it that turns a weak, hairless punk into some superhuman Goliath?
Lex: Well I forgot what a concerned parent you are. That's why you're having me followed, isn't it? To make sure I don't destroy the rest of the world?
Lionel: If I were having you followed, son, you would never know it. I can guarentee you that.
Lionel: Lex, please, let me help you.
Lex: I've been on the receiving end of your help before, Dad, I think I'll pass.
Lois: Read it.
Chloe: Funny, I don't remember there being an "e" in "tornado."
Lois: It's just a little typo.
Chloe: And the extra "h" in "weather."
Block: Are you mocking me?
Lex: Now why would I mock a guy who just shot me?
Lionel: I know, I know, Oliver, you've suffered through a lot in your young life, but if you have so much as laid a hand on Lex, the word "suffer" will take on a whole new meaning to you.
Chloe: Umm, when you escaped from that Kryptonian Land of the Lost, I bet you didn't think that you'd be rewarded by having to save Lex Luthor while battling a raging head cold, huh?
Clark: Not exactly the goodbye gift I was expecting, no.
Chloe: I guess heroes don't get sick days.
Chloe: Clark, with a sneeze like yours, that says a lot about your lung capacity. Now just take a really deep breath and blow it out as hard as you can.
Clark: That's a steel door, it's not a birthday cake.
Chloe:I don't see anything else working. Come on, let's see what you got. Huff, puff, and blow this door down.
(Clark blows down the door)
Chloe: Good thing you didn't have garlic today.
Lionel: I suggest you concentrate on remembering every little minute detail of that horrific day.
Lex: Well I guess I should have kept a blog.
Chloe: You just take care of that cold. We've enough natural disasters around here without having to worry about Hurricane Clark looming off the coast.
Lois: I'm out there jogging along, minding my own business when, out of nowhere, a barn door comes falling from the clear, blue sky and almost crushes me. How does that happen?
Clark: Maybe it fell from an airplane.
Lois: Good guess, but the only thing up there was a severely traumatized sparrow.
Chloe: (to Clark) But if you feel even the slightest inkling of a sneeze, you cover your face and ziplock it shut.
Originally, "Sneeze" was planned for an episode of Season 4 titled "Cold." The episode would originally have had Clark learning to use arctic breath as opposed to the super breath seen in the episode.
Deleted Scene: Lionel thanks Clark for saving Lex and commends him for helping an enemy as well as a friend. Clark invites Lionel to have dinner with him and his mom.
Original International Air Dates:
Norway: March 4, 2007 on TVNorge
Belgium: October 13, 2007 on KanaalTwee
Czech Republic: May 2, 2008 on TV Nova
Slovakia: June 28, 2009 on Markiza
The outside of the building that Lex is being held captive in, is the same used in "Shattered" when Lex found Morgan Edge.
In-joke: The kite that Chloe hands Clark, which he briefly holds up to his chest, is in the familiar shield shape of the Superman logo
Green Arrow is a Golden Age hero created by Mort Weisinger and originally drawn by George Papp (in More Fun Comics #73, November 1941). As one site put it, "create" may be too strong a word - Green Arrow was a virtual clone of Batman - wealthy millionaire Oliver Queen, red-costumed sidekick (Speedy, later Arsenal, who shows up over on Teen Titans), drove around in a Arrowcar and hung out in the Arrowcave. He basically had everything Batman did except for a Robin Hood-based costume, a distinct personality, and interesting opponents - he did join the Seven Soldiers of Victory, however, along with Speedy. He progressed to the Silver Age, and joined the Justice League (issue #4, April/May 1961) where he remained pretty generic and bland, pretty much indistinguishable personality-wise from the other members under Gardner Fox. When he lost his own comic, the League writers decided to "kick him up" - they stripped him of his fortune, changed his costume, had him grow a beard, and he became a new "liberal" type of 70's hero. He became outspoken and rather obnoxious and the first League member to display a distinctive personality. He became romantically involved with Black Canary, and later became the costar in Green Lantern's comic and left and rejoined the League several times. The Golden Age Green Arrow was incorporated into the Earth-Two setting as were the Seven Soldiers. The Earth-2 Green Arrow died during the events of Crisis and was eventually retconned so he never existed anyway.
The Earth-1 (main) Green Arrow eventually "died" and was replaced in the League by his illegitimate son Connor Hawke who took on the role of Green Arrow, but Oliver was resurrected and got a new comic series initially written by filmed movie director Kevin Smith.
In-joke: Lois' inability to spell refers to her bad spelling in the Christopher Reeve Superman movies.
This marks Emy Aneke's second and final appearance as Robert Pontius, having previously appeared in "Jinx."
Oliver's Metropolis office is a redress of Barbara Gordon's secret base from the TV series Birds of Prey.
Justin Hartley is billed by character name (Oliver Queen).
Justin Hartley was signed to portray Arthur Curry/Aquaman in the Gough & Millar spinoff series (sort of) Aquaman, that derived from the Smallville episode "Aqua". However, that series failed to be picked up for the 2006-07 season.
Lana: When I moved in, you forgot to mention I'd be living with Big Brother.
Big Brother is a popular reality show, where for around three months a number of contestants try to avoid periodic publicly-voted evictions from a communal house and hence win a cash prize. They are monitored and taped constantly. However, the term Big Brother was created long before the television show, in George Orwell's science fiction novel 1984, in which a whole society was surveyed and ruled by means of cameras.
Chloe: Huff, puff, and blow this door down.
In the children's story The Three Little Pigs, the Big Bad Wolf repeatedly says "I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down."
Chloe: Umm, when you escaped from that Kryptonian Land of the Lost, I bet you didn't think that you'd be rewarded by having to save Lex Luthor while battling a raging head cold, huh?
Referencing the 1974 TV series Land of the Lost, which featured the Marshall family going on a rafting trip and ending up in a prehistoric land inhabited by dinosaurs and cavemen.
Chloe: The highest paid Sam Spade in Metropolis?
Referencing the fictional private detective created by Dashiell Hammett for the novel The Maltese Falcon in 1930. Humphrey Bogart played the character in the most famous filmed version from 1941.
Lex: So if you're looking for an encore performance, you're out of luck. Elvis has left the building.
This statement was first made by Horace Lee Logan, who said it at the end of Elvis' performance at the end of his two-year contract on the country-music radio show Hayride, in 1954.
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