Smallville (TV Series) Crisis (2004) User Reviews

Machinations are revealed

[Rcwilkinson123 · 9/10 · 27 November 2007]

Lana's future doom needs to be solved, and the complete truth behind the relationship of Lionel Luthor and Adam Knight, is revealed in the terrific episode "Crisis."

Clark goes with Pete to work at the teen hotline when he receives a call from the future from Lana, where she is running away from a man with a gun. Everybody, including Clark's parents, works to solve the mysterious problem and prevent it from truly happening. However, it is inevitable. Turns out, the man after Lana is Adam, who is desperately searching for the serum that will keep him from dying- again.

This episode is full of dramatic excellence, since something that has already happened in the future is trying to be solved in the present. The audience finally completely sees what Adam's purpose in the town was, and how it is connected to Lionel Luthor- indeed, Lionel was using Adam to spy on Clark Kent, and though Adam dies again, his obsession with finding out who Clark really is will not stop.

Bloody Episode

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 14 May 2006]

While working as a volunteer with Pete Ross in Smallville Youth Center, Clark Kent receives a distress call from Lana Lang, who is shot by Adam Wright. His further investigation shows that the call was made from the future. Meanwhile, Lionel Luthor shuts down the obscure Metron Laboratory and the research that Dr. Lia Teng is developing with blood platelet. Adam becomes aware that he has less than twelve hours to be injected with the serum, otherwise he will die. He escapes and apparently kills Dr. Teng and her team. Lex is framed as responsible for the massive murder.

"Crisis" is a bloody episode, but full of holes. There is no explanation for the reception of Lana's cellular call from the future, and the sudden arrival of Clark saving Lana uses the same lack of clarification. The fate of Lionel Luthor and his interest in the serum is finally disclosed. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Crise" ("Crisis")

3x16 - Rewatch (Lana-centric)

[DCSassyQueen · 7/10 · 21 July 2016]

Clark & Pete are volunteering at a crisis center. When Clark picks up his phone, Lana is on the other line asking for his help, but the call is from the future.

The Luthors are bossing the Lady Doctor around... threatening deportation if she does not help them... that poor woman. Lex & Lionel are some different kinds of monsters... both powerful & scary.

I want to know where the hell that call came from because I did not get any explanations & I am pressed.

We found out Lionel used Adam to find out information on Clark because Lionel has terminal cancer. So, he wants to find out the secret to Clark's blood.

Edge of your seat but flawed.

[m-47826 · 7/10 · 8 August 2022]

Season 3 was clearly trying new things. After Velocity, there was this corny little homage to fatal attraction. That was both good and bad. Good for bringing another Black Sash actress into the show. And offering new opportunities to Clark. While showing a different side of him. And bad, for how scary as the prop knife Alicia threatened Lana with, it was. Resurrection is a different story. I thought it was intriguing, until that ridiculous hostage taking situation, at the hospital. But at least, the episode used to premiere one of Alanis Morissette's new unreleased track. I miss this kind of anticipation... Crisis is a good and thrilling episode. You know who's behind the shot gun, and that Lana will make it in the end. But it's still interesting to see how things unraveled. That being said, I was still annoyed with the predictable way writers created complications for Clark. And that last shot of Lionel trying to commit suicide, was weird. He never appeared like someone who would do that, to me...

Liver disease sucks

[PUstrontium · 1 February 2006]

Outline: For some reason, Pete has been volunteering at the Teen Crisis Center, taking phone calls. He brings Clark to help, and Clark receives a phone call from Lana. "Clark....it's happening...he's got a gun!" The basic premise of her phone call. You then see Lana clearly getting shot and dying, but when Clark shows up to the Talon, Chloe and Lana are studying. Eventually, Chloe, Lana, and Clark figure out that the call came from the future. Trying to "cheat death" as this might be heading to another sequel of "Final Destination," Clark takes Lana to the farm, so that Adam can't find Lana to shoot her. Eventually, he gets ahold of her, and this time, since Clark fixes the power lines, he hears the phone call better, and Lana tells him where she is. Right before he gets shot, Clark takes it in the chest, obviously unhurt. Adam, then, without his serum, since by now you should know he has a degenerative liver disease, he dies, and Lana is once again safe. The episode concludes to reveal that Lionel is performing these tests because he, himself, has the same degenerative liver disease. It concludes showing Lionel putting a gun in his mouth.

I was happy at the end. Smallville without Lionel would be grand, but probably less plots to work out in the future. Also, I was eager to get rid of Ian Somerhalder (Adam), because his character had already gotten pointless. It was never really made certain WHY he wanted to kill Lana. So she didn't have his serum, that's not death needing. Overall, I thought it was a pretty pointless episode. Meteor rocks, which usually the show is based around, didn't even show, minus a 2 second shot with the power lines.