Clark discovers someone is hunting people affected by the kryptonite rocks and the hugger's next target is Lex. Clark uses his powers to save Lex, but is caught off guard when the hugger learns his weakness and shoots him with a kryptonite bullet.
Season 3 Episode 3 of Smallville resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
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.