Distraught over her break-up with Clark, Lana goes to a rogue medical student who experiments with a dangerous kryptonite-based serum that allows people to flat-line but see their dead loved ones. Lana attempts to see her dead parents using the serum and when Clark returns from Honduras to help her, the doctor injects him with the serum and Clark speaks with his dead father...who warns him that Lionel knows his secret. Meanwhile, Lionel continues working to get closer to Martha, and Lex has a near-passing vision of his mother.

Episode Viewers and Ratings

Season 5 Episode 17 of Smallville resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.

Smallville Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - Arrival
• s05e02 - Mortal
• s05e03 - Hidden
• s05e04 - Aqua
• s05e05 - Thirst
• s05e06 - Exposed
• s05e07 - Splinter
• s05e08 - Solitude
• s05e09 - Lexmas
• s05e10 - Fanatic
• s05e11 - Lockdown
• s05e12 - Reckoning
• s05e13 - Vengeance
• s05e14 - Tomb
• s05e15 - Cyborg
• s05e16 - Hypnotic
• s05e17 - Void
• s05e18 - Fragile
• s05e19 - Mercy
• s05e20 - Fade
• s05e21 - Oracle
• s05e22 - Vessel

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.