Writer:	Alfred Gough, Philip Levens, Miles Millar
Director:	Greg Beeman
Star:	Sam Jones III ('Pete' Ross (Seasons 1-3)),  Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang),  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+))
Recurring Role:	Tom O'Brien (Roger Nixon),  Rekha Sharma (Dr. Harden),  Julian Christopher (Second Doctor (Dr. MacIntyre)),  Mitchell Kosterman (Sheriff Ethan)
Guest Star:	Jerry Wasserman (First Doctor)

Music: In My Place (Coldplay), Time And Time Again by Stretch Princess. (edit) Eric Johnson no longer appears in the opening credits. (edit) This episode was rerun along with "Tempest" on January 7, 2003 as a two-hour movie and presented in widescreen format. (edit) This is the last episode to feature Tom O'Brien as Roger Nixon unless he comes back in a flashback, since he was killed. (edit) Slightly redesigned opening credits, with some clips from later first season episodes such as "Leech" and "Obscura." (edit)

Lionel: (to Lex) I need to say something to you. If I've acted ruthlessly, it was because I knew my opponents wouldn't hesitate to do the same. I know you've always seen us as opponents, Lex. When I needed help... you saved my life. I thank you, son. (Lex takes his hand) Listen, I know you agreed to go right ahead right way to operate.
Lex: I thought it was best to take immediate action.
Lionel: I would have done the same thing, and we both... would have been wrong. (edit) Clark: Dad's missing because of me. I brought this upon us.
Martha: You can't blame yourself. You can't change who you are. As long as you live, people will try to exploit you. Your father and I have tried to shelter you as long as possible, but one day we won't be there for you. And you're gonna have to carry the burden of your gifts on your own. (edit) Jonathan: The first time Clark used his abilities, he'd crawled under a big oak bed that my grandfather had made, and I crawled underneath it to try to get him out. All of a sudden the frame just came up in the air. (he laughs) He... he was a toddler lifting--I don't know--500 pounds over his head. (edit) Lana: (to Clark) I've always had this sense that I was going to die young. Maybe because of my parents, I felt guilty I'd survived. When the tornado came, I thought this was it. Fate had finally found me. Then I saw you in the truck and you put your arms around me and you told me that everything was going to be okay. I know, it sounds crazy, but I started to think of all the other times that you've been there to protect me. And I thought maybe there's more to Clark Kent than meets the eye. (edit) Jonathan: Clark is not a story, he's my son. (edit)

It seems like if Clark's spaceship could travel through space hitting meteors and harder things than wood, without the key coming out, it would be able to go through a tornado getting hit by, at the most scrap metal and wood, without the key coming out. (edit) When Clark and Lex are out in the woods, they find Nixon's car hanging in a tree. Well, since the tree is that thin, it's just impossible that the car would hit it hard enought to hang in it without breaking and tearing it apart. (edit) When the TV is on in the background at the Talon, the newscaster who reports Lana's miraculous lack of injuries misprounces Lana's first name. (edit) When Roger and Jonathan regain consciousness after the collapse, Jonathan says that "the cave-in must of cut of the air supply". However, in the background you can clearly see beams of light coming into the tomb. (edit) While Clark and Lex are searching for Jonathon, the cut above Lex's right eye is above his left eye during a close-up shot. (edit)

Chloe: So you clicked your heels, said theres no place like home, and ended up in Smallville Medical Center.
Alluding to the movie The Wizard of Oz released in 1939. The story started with a girl getting sucked up into a tornado, and surviving. At the end she clicks her heels three times and states "There's no place like home." (edit)