The Daily Smallville 03:09 Asylum • The Daily Rios

03:09: ASYLUM

Prologue

I can’t make out what the Belle Reve logo is supposed to be. Unless the B is backwards?
Yellow. Red. Blue. And Lex is painting using his color: purple.
All the baddies are here: Van the meteor freak killer. Eric the Super Boy. And Ian, duplicate boy.
What is Lex drawing? Looks like a planet – or maybe Warrior Angel?
He still knows Clark’s secret
Lex on the run and then gets zapped.
This felt like one of the longer prologues.

Act One

writer Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer / director Greg Beeman – he gets to direct important episodes.
Clark just about ready to let Lex in on everything.
Pa: “If you get involved it could just get worse.” vs Ma: “you gotta take care of your own heart too”
Adam!!! Here we goooooo! More on this later. Actor Ian Somerhalder joins for a little while.
Look at Lionel with tears in his eyes.
Chew that scenery Michael

Act Two

Act Three

is that Watkins patient a former KMOTW?
Ian visits Lex. I don’t remember an extortion scheme in that episode.
Newspaper: Themyscirian Queen addresses the Vatican. A show about Superman. A nod to Wonder Woman. Is the other Trinity member in this ep too? heh.
Adam: “I guess I’m a little afraid of my future too”
Look at Pete all overprotective and maybe a lil jealous. Saying he always has Clark’s back. Has to say meteor rock and not Kryptonite. That’s true
Claire Foster dead. Someone really wants to fry Lex’s brain
Clark just using his powers openly around Lex. And Lex learns about what the meteor rock can do when Ian attacks
Lex is obviously going to lose his memory of all this – do they do the shock treatment?

Act Four

where are the guards? Oh there they are
Ma and Lana.
Both Lex and Clark getting zapped.
Eric is almost like a Parasite
Eric’s been in Belle Reve for two years since Season 1
Clark restoring his powers causes Lex to get shocked! Damn. That’s going to go unanswered but that’s a deep development should Clark ever learn about what happened.
Lex gets zapped twice. Gruesome.
Of the three Revenge Squad, I imagine Eric and Ian are still loose ends since Van was killed. Possible that Ian is dead too.

Act Five

the Midwich Cuckoos. That’s a creepy book for Adam to be reading.
Adam wearing a shirt with the number 27 – get it?
Both actors are 6ft and 6’3 and yet Tom looks way taller than Michael.
Lex doesn’t remember; awkward hug
Clark: “Someone’s gonna make Lionel pay for his crime”
Pa: “There are people out there more powerful than you are.”
Clark wants to forget the last few months as well. That’s dark.
Lionel realizing he has lost whatever Lex knew about Clark. Although after everything we’ve seen Lionel has to know more than anyone.
No reunion for Clark and Lana
A good followup to last episode. And shows where several of Clark’s “loose ends” wind up. The Clark/Lana story gets another bump in the road. Lex finally does something this season – and starts a new journey from here. And things between Clark and Lionel – as well as Chloe – take a major step.

Next episode: Whisper!