"Smallville" Veritas (2008)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

James Marshall

Writers:

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

TV Series:

"Smallville" (2001)

Original Air Date:

27 March 2008 (Season 7, Episode 15)

Genre:

Drama | Sci-Fi

Plot:

When Brainiac ends up in a confrontation with Clark after trying to coerce Kara into joining him, he takes it out on Lana.

Plot Keywords:

Vegetable | Mind Probe | Mind Control | One Man Army | One Word Title

Cast

Tom Welling	...	Clark Kent
Michael Rosenbaum	...	Lex Luthor
Kristin Kreuk	...	Lana Lang
Allison Mack	...	Chloe Sullivan
Erica Durance	...	Lois Lane
Aaron Ashmore	...	Jimmy Olsen
Laura Vandervoort	...	Kara
John Glover	...	Lionel Luthor
James Marsters	...	Brainiac
Jonathan Scarfe	...	Robert Queen
Rick Ravanello	...	Edward Teague
Connor Stanhope	...	Young Lex Luthor
Luke Gair	...	Young Oliver Queen
Owen Best	...	Young Jason Teague
Conner Dwelly	...	Young Patricia Swann

Country:

USA | Canada

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-PG

Quotes:

[Kara tries to give Clark a boost so he can fly]
Clark Kent: Not helping.
Kara: I'm sorry, Yeah, I know. It... but it's just really easy. Up, up and away.

Who knows what will happen next?

*** This comment may contain spoilers ***

An open-ended continuation of Season 7's 14th episode 'Traveler' leaves many questions heading into the final quarter of this season.

BrainIAC wants Kara. Why? We do not know, but in Kara and Clark's defiance, BrainIAC takes control of a human that is a large part of Clark's life. This causes Kara to make a crucial decision. Lex, having secured one of the keys of Veritas after Patricia Swann died in 'Traveler,' gets closer to recovering the keys he needs to discover a secret in Zurich by remembering Veritas meetings that his father held with Virgil Swann, Robert Queen and Edward Teague- meetings that lead to Lionel and Lex's journey to Smallville back in this series' pilot. Finally, Lionel desperately warns Chloe that something terrible is coming, but for all his lies and deceit of the past, Chloe refuses to listen to him.

For everything that was revealed in the last episode, more was left open-ended in 'Veritas.' However, we do see that the society of Veritas had wanted to control the Traveler, who is Clark, from the beginning, but didn't know how. We also see that Lionel's intentions with the Traveler have changed since he became the emissary of Clark's biological father Jor-El.

I am a little conflicted with the episode, particularly concerning the final scene involving Lana, but there are plenty of compelling story lines and backstory that are left to be wondered about once this exciting episode concludes.