Season Three Episode Guide

Exile

Episode #: 301
Air Date: 10.01.03
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With Clark living in Metropolis under the influence of red meteor rocks, his friends and family go to great lengths to try and find him. Lionel and Helen clash over Lex's mysterious alleged death.

Phoenix

Episode #: 302
Air Date: 10.08.03
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Morgan Edge, a crime boss who hired Clark to steal a package from LutherCorp while he was in Metropolis, follows him home to Smallville. Lex returns home with the aching question of who betrayed him.

Extinction

Episode #: 303
Air Date: 10.15.03

Clark saves Lex from a killer's bullet, but is nearly killed when the man learns of Clark's weakness and shoots him with a bullet formed out of the meteor rock element.

Slumber

Episode #: 304
Air Date: 10.22.03
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A telepathic coma victim traps Clark in his own dreams, and he must take advantage of his waking hours to try and save her.

Perry

Episode #: 305
Air Date: 10.29.03
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Clark is pursued by a sleazy television reporter -- Perry White -- who is determined to learn his secret after problems with Clark's powers reveal his uniqueness. Lex is pressured into counseling.

Relic

Episode #: 306
Air Date: 11.05.03
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Lana discovers that a drifter suspected of killing her great aunt 40 years ago looks just like Clark. Clark's investigation leads him to a stunning discovery about his father.

Magnetic

Episode #: 307
Air Date: 11.12.03
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A student with the ability to control magnetic fields uses his meteor rock-derived powers to make Lana fall for him. Lex and Chloe form a new alliance.

Shattered

Episode #: 308
Air Date: 11.19.03
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Lex seeks help from Clark after barely escaping an assassination attempt -- but his behavior makes it hard for Clark to dismiss Lionel's claim that his son has suffered a mental breakdown.

Asylum

Episode #: 309
Air Date: 01.14.04
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Lex is institutionalized, but continues to suspect that his father is trying to shut him up for what he knows. Three of Clark's former adversaries plot to use him to escape the asylum. Lana meets someone during her recovery efforts.

Whisper

Episode #: 310
Air Date: 01.21.04
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When a Kryptonite accident leaves Clark blind, he develops super-hearing -- and must use it to save Pete, who is kidnapped in order to blackmail his mother. Clark learns that Chloe has been gathering information about him for Lionel Luther.

Delete

Episode #: 311
Air Date: 01.28.04
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Chloe is targeted by people who have gained the ability to control others through e-mail communications -- including her close friends.

Hereafter

Episode #: 312
Air Date: 02.04.04

A student with the ability to see into the future claims that he saw Lana dying in a fire. Chloe starts digging into Adam's past.

Velocity

Episode #: 313
Air Date: 02.11.04
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Pete falls in with the wrong crowd when he takes to street racing Kryptonite-powered cars. Lana discovers a secret about her new friend Adam's past.

Obsession

Episode #: 314
Air Date: 02.18.04
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Clark starts a relationship with a girl who has teleportation abilities -- and whose obsession over him soon threatens everyone she thinks stands between them. Lana seeks help from Lex in investigating Adam.

Resurrection

Episode #: 315
Air Date: 02.25.04

After his brother appears to miraculously return from the dead, a young man threatens to destroy the hospital if his brother does not receive the liver transplant he needs to survive.

Crisis

Episode #: 316
Air Date: 03.03.04
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Clark receives a terrified phone call from Lana, who is being chased by an unknown gunman -- only to learn that the call came from the future. Lionel pursues his secret serum research, only to have Lex targeted for investigation following a disaster at the lab.

Legacy

Episode #: 317
Air Date: 04.14.04
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Clark discovers that Jor-El is sending his father Jonathan messages through the key, drawing him into a confrontation with Lionel Luther -- who has struck a bargain with Dr. Swann.

Truth

Episode #: 318
Air Date: 04.21.04
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Chloe is exposed to a strange gas, which forces everyone to whom she talks to tell the truth -- an ability she can't resist using against her classmates, her friends, and the Luthors.

Memoria

Episode #: 319
Air Date: 04.28.04
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Lex undergoes an experimental procedure to try and recover the memories that his father took from him, but instead unlocks the secret of his baby brother's fate.

Talisman

Episode #: 320
Air Date: 05.05.04
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When a young Kowachi acquires a knife that gives him super powers, Clark must consider the prophecy that says he is the Kowachi savior. Lana considers whether her dream of going to Paris is worth losing the Talon.

Forsaken

Episode #: 321
Air Date: 05.12.04
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Lana is confronted by an old childhood friend, who wishes to prevent her from going to Paris. Clark considers telling Lana his secret to keep her in Smallville, and Lex makes a final move against his father.

Covenant

Episode #: 322
Air Date: 05.19.04
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A young woman arrives on the Kent's doorstep claiming to be from Krypton, and tries to convince Clark to leave with her to meet his destiny. Lionel makes a last-ditch effort to save himself.