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Cool

Episode Number: 5    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Tuesday November 13, 2001    Prod Code: 227605
A jock named Sean gains the ability to absorb heat from everything and everyone around him, and begins preying on people to gain the heat he needs to survive.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Michael Green
Director: James A. Contner
Star: Annette O'Toole (Martha Clark Kent),  Sam Jones III ('Pete' Ross (Seasons 1-3)),  Eric Johnson (Whitney Fordman (Season 1)),  Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang),  Tom Welling (Clark Kent/Kal-El of Krypton),  Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan),  John Schneider (Jonathan Kent (Seasons 1-5)),  Michael Rosenbaum (Alexander ('Lex') Joseph Luthor)
Guest Star: Michael Coristine (Sean Kelvin),  Ted Garcia (News Anchor),  Tania Saulnier (Jenna Barnum)

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Music: "Rescue" by Eve 6, "Standing Still" and "This Way" by Jewel, "Let Your Shoulder Fall" by Matthew Jay, "On Your Side" by Pete Yorn, and "We're At the Top of the World" by The Juliana Theory. (edit)
When Chloe and Clark are going through Clark's clothes, she tells him "blue's a good color on you." -Reference to his costume to come? (edit)
Originally advertised as "Freeze" (edit)
Even more in-jokes: Chloe comments she doesn't want to be a crash test dummy for the guys' dating lives. The band Crash Test Dummies put out a hit single about Superman. (edit)
When Lex approaches Martha Kent at her farm and she almost cuts him with a chainsaw, he comments apropro of nothing, "Good thing you didn't have an arc welder." In the TV show The Adventures of Lois & Clark, Martha Kent was an artist who used an arc welder to make metal sculptures. (edit)

Quotes

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Clark: You deserved a lot better than Sean even before he...tried to kill you.
Chloe: That's sweet, I think. (edit)
Clark: Maybe I can help.
Jonathan: You already have. Last season you saved us four part-time hands.
Clark: No, I'm thinking bigger picture. You know, forget about this whole high school thing and try out for a pro sports team. I could make a ton of money in endorsements. (off his parent's stern looks) Just trying to lighten up the mood.
Martha: Much as we'd love to see your face on a cereal box, we'd settle for you getting to school on time. (edit)
Clark: I thought you came over for fashion advice.
(Clark shows her a shirt)
Chloe: Burn that. What else have you got?
Clark: I'll check the laundry basket. (edit)
Chloe: Are you from an ice planet? It's freezing. I'm going to go thaw out by the fire. Have fun. (edit)
Chloe: Don't sound so shocked, Clark. Guys do find me attractive even though I don't have raven hair and the initials "L.L." (edit)

Trivia

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When Sean is trying to get a girl to come over, he is trying to light matches but they keep freezing, yet the phone in his hand doesn't freeze. (edit)
When Sean goes into Jenna's bathroom while she is taking a shower, he is in desperate need of heat, yet the candles stay lit. It isn't until after he kills Jenna, and restores himself, that the candles freeze as he exits. (edit)
Right after Sean gets the football on the frozen lake, there is an aerial shot of him walking back to the shore as the ice starts cracking, and the frozen lake is covered with snow. In the next shot, when Sean falls through the ice, he is shown under the clear surface of the ice, as if there were no snow on it at all, or had been swept clear for the shot of his face under the ice. (edit)
Right after Shawn breaks out of the lake, he moves to the fire. We see in the first shot that his hands are right close to the fire. However, in the next shot, Shawn is bending down to get his hands close to the fire. (edit)
In the begining of the show, they're all at Crater Lake having a good time. The lake is completely frozen over, enough for someone Sean's size to walk around on. At the end of the episode, Clark sends Sean through the air and he lands in a pond in Lex's back yard...that doesn't even have the beginning stages of ice. Unless they had a heat wave strong enough to completely thaw the pond, there should be at least a little ice on Lex's pond. (edit)

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Community Reviews (19)

 
5.5
Mediocre
Cool
"Not my favorite storyline"
Chill Out, Chloe!
Continue » Posted May 13, 2008 1:55 pm PST
9.5
Superb
Cool
"Series classic"
Not cool
Continue » Posted Apr 26, 2008 4:33 am PST
9.5
Superb
Cool
"Exciting"
FREEZE!
Continue » Posted Apr 4, 2008 7:42 am PST
9.3
Superb
Cool
"Exactly why I watch this series"
Cool guy
Continue » Posted Dec 23, 2007 6:58 am PST
10.0
Perfect
Cool
"Adventurous"
Great Episode
Continue » Posted Aug 22, 2007 3:30 am PST
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