A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 1 Episode 16 of Smallville resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Smallville Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Pilot
• s01e02 - Metamorphosis
• s01e03 - Hothead
• s01e04 - X-Ray
• s01e05 - Cool
• s01e06 - Hourglass
• s01e07 - Craving
• s01e08 - Jitters
• s01e09 - Rogue
• s01e10 - Shimmer
• s01e11 - Hug
• s01e12 - Leech
• s01e13 - Kinetic
• s01e14 - Zero
• s01e15 - Nicodemus
• s01e16 - Stray
• s01e17 - Reaper
• s01e18 - Drone
• s01e19 - Crush
• s01e20 - Obscura
• s01e21 - Tempest (1)

Smallville Show Summary

Smallville tells the tale of a teenage Clark Kent in the days before he was Superman. It is the town where he came from where very strange things started happening with his arrival in a spaceship in the midst of a meteor storm of green rocks.

Clark must deal with a variety of individuals given powers by the green rocks, keep his powers a secret, cope with his friendship with a young Lex Luthor, and balance the two girls in his life, Chloe and Lana. The show also shows us how Lex Luthor develops from a friend of Clark's and kinda-okay guy to (presumably) the villain who will plague Superman in his later years.