"Smallville"
Obscura (2002)

Director:

Terrence O'Hara

Writers:

Joe Shuster (characters) &
Jerry Siegel (characters) ...

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

14 May 2002 (Season 1, Episode 20)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

When Lana is hit by an explosion of a gas pipeline in a field, she develops the power of clairvoyance...

Plot Keywords:

Good Versus Evil | One Word Title | Young Versions Of Characters | Best Friends | Shipper

Cast

Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Eric Johnson	...	Whitney Fordman
Sam Jones III	...	Pete Ross
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
Annette O'Toole	...	Martha Kent
John Schneider	...	Jonathan Kent
Mitchell Kosterman	...	Sheriff Ethan Miller
Tom O'Brien	...	Roger Nixon
Joe Morton	...	Dr. Steven Hamilton
Robert Wisden	...	Gabe Sullivan
Darrin Klimek	...	Deputy Gary Watts
Aaron Douglas	...	Deputy Michael Birtigo
Frank C. Turner	...	Eddie Cole

Runtime:

43 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Certification:

Mexico:B | USA:TV-PG

Filming Locations:

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Smallville Films

Quotes:

Clark Kent: [after asking her to the spring formal] Chloe... I'm sorry I didn't ask sooner.
Chloe Sullivan: It's okay. It was worth the wait.

Soundtrack:

Two Stones in My Pocket

Build-up to Season's End

There are plenty of plot points that build up to the finale of the first season in this 20th episode.

In an accident, Lana awakes as a visionary. She can see a man hotly pursuing Chloe. These visions help Clark see the man's next move and save Chloe from disaster.

In addition, Whitney Fordman tells Lana that he is going to leave Smallville and join the army after his father's death. Clark contemplates asking Chloe to the spring formal, as does Pete Ross. Nagging reporter Roger Nixon works with Lex to continue the investigation of what came down from space in the meteor shower. Also, and most importantly, Dr. Hamilton discovers an octagonal-shaped piece of the spaceship in which Kal-El arrived on Earth, validating the questions that Lex and Nixon had had on extraterrestrial life having arrived that fateful day.

This is debatably the most suspenseful episode of the season leading to the finale.