Written by Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
Directed Bby Jeannot Szwarc

---Guest Cast:
Ian Somerhalder as Adam
Ryan Merriman as Dante
Moneca Delain as Mara

Good episode.

So Pete not only gets to be the focus of an episode, but is even featured in the TV Guide ad for the episode! Will wonders never cease? What was great was how the show's premises are once again used to show conflict among the characters, and how they are forced to deal with their consequences. When Clark outlined his plan to heat up Dante's engine, I knew a monkeywrench would eventually get thrown into that plan, and force him to come up with another one. The manner in which Clark being forced to empty Pete's gas tank to save him from the bomb also ended up inadverdantly killing Dante was well-scripted, and the way in which it created a serious rift between Clark and Pete by the end of the episode was tragic.

One more use for kryptonite. We know it can used to give humans super powers, as a coating on bullets, in class rings, and in snowglobes. Now it can be used as a propulsion booster in cars! This stuff has more uses than Arm & Hammer Baking Soda!

The "Adam Knight is a young Bruce Wayne" theory seems to continue to be taking a beating....

Why didn't Pete go to Sheriff Adams after Dante beat the snot out of him and threatened his parents? I mean, Pete's mom is a JUDGE, for crying out loud! Wouldn't she have plenty of connections and light on her to get this Dante creep off the streets? Even having her go to the news media might scare him off.

They keep indicating that Adam has already died. I wonder if maybe the substance he's been shooting himself up with is the stuff in the Lazurus pits that Ras AlGhul uses in Batman. Far fetched, I know, and the whole thing with the biologist lady introduced in this episode seems to suggest otherwise, what with the blood palette stuff.

Lionel seems to have been on vacation lately. Hope he comes back soon, as John Glover does such a good job playing a villian. I still wish Brimstone had never been cancelled.

Well what do you know! I was actually right about Adam! Go me!

One more use for kryptonite. We know it can used to give humans super powers, as a coating on bullets, in class rings, and in snowglobes. Now it can be used as a propulsion booster in cars! This stuff has more uses than Arm & Hammer Baking Soda!

I'm waiting for some enterprising Smallville buisnessman to start making Metero Rock Kitty Litter, requireing Clark to take on an army of super pwerful cats

Why didn't Pete go to Sheriff Adams after Dante beat the snot out of him and threatened his parents? I mean, Pete's mom is a JUDGE, for crying out loud! Wouldn't she have plenty of connections and light on her to get this Dante creep off the streets? Even having her go to the news media might scare him off.

Sheriff Adams said that Dante's a slippery fellow, there probobly wouldn't have been any grounds for holding him on anythng other than assault (and I bet he could get out of that real quick with his connections at the Sheriff's office)

I have to aska gain, what is wrong with The WB? This was a really strong and solid episode, arguably one of the best of the entire series (at least in terms of acting; the story was a bit of a stretch). So why the hell did the ad campaign make it look like a crummy rip-off of an even crummier movie (Fast and the Furious, which I hated)? Are the suits in The WB's advertising department trying to sabotage the network?

Most likely because the comercials are intended to interest people who don't already watch. Sure, they COULD to the inteligetnt thing and hype the good acting and character development, but chances are just about everyone who would care about that is already watching the show any way. On the other hand, there are artless gearheads and trend concious hip-hop wannabes who would never pick up on the show unless they were fooled into thinking that it was "The Fast& The Furious" the show... At least, that seems to be what the ad execs think, and the first rule of advertizing is never to overestimate the audience (I mean, look at the trailer for next week!)

Why didn't Pete go to Sheriff Adams after Dante beat the snot out of him and threatened his parents? I mean, Pete's mom is a JUDGE, for crying out loud!

Yeah, but Pete would be exposing himself to arrest as well, and that wouldn't look really good on his mother's career. Besides, it's kind of obvious that in this one, he really wanted to get off scot-free if at all possible... which is why he tried to have Clark save him rather than, say, perform some sort of crime himself to get the money.

Oh, by the way, was I the only one expecting Dante to suddenly drag himself out of his car's wreckage with super powers from all of his exposure to Kryptonite?

Hey, yeah! It's given every OTHER shady, unballenced individual in Smallville powers, why not this one? (of course, one could say that it DID give him powers, just ones that don't do squat about being thrown around in a car wreck, so we wouldn't know)