Shortened Smallville (avg 10 episodes per season)

Baby Clark (Kal-El) arrives on Earth. Teen Clark starts high school, saves Lex's life after a car accident, and finds out about his past and birth parents.

Clark discovers that he has X-ray vision, but struggles to use it properly. Meanwhile, shape-shifter Tina Greer robs a bank impersonating Lex Luthor, and then decides that she wants to become Lana Lang - permanently.

Clark and classmate Eric Summer are both struck by lightning while Eric is holding a meteor rock, and Clark's powers are transferred to Eric. While Clark experiences normal humanity, the emotionally challenged Eric goes on a rampage.

Earl Jenkins claims that his violent shaking disease was a result of illicit experiments on Level 3 of Luthorcorp. Lionel denies that it exists, so Earl takes a plant tour group hostage. Lex offers himself in exchange for the hostages.

Martha Kent injures mind-reading Ryan in an auto accident, and he fakes amnesia to get away from his criminal step-parents. His step-parents hatch an elaborate plan to steal him back and use his abilities to rob Lex Luthor.

Lana develops a form of clairvoyance after being injured by an explosion, and she has visions of the activity of a local serial kidnapper and killer. When Chloe is kidnapped, Clark must rely on clues from Lana's visions to save her.

Lex and Lionel engage in a struggle over closing down the fertilizer plant. Reporter Roger Nixon steals Clark's spacecraft and learns his secret. Whitney joins the Marines, and Clark takes Chloe to the prom, while a huge tornado approaches.

Clark saves Lana from the tornado, leading Lana to be suspicious of Clark. While protecting Clark's secret, Jonathan gets trapped with reporter Roger Nixon in an underground mausoleum. Lex and Clark search for Jonathan.

When the "hot" new Biology teacher Desiree Atkins (Krista Allen) arrives in Smallville, Clark Kent gets excited in her presence and his hormonal surge sets off a new ability: heat vision. Lex Luthor meets and falls for Atkins and they decide to get married. Meanwhile, Clark's heat vision causes another fire at The Talon when Clark is talking with Lana, leading Clark to get briefly jailed on suspicions of arson. Lex invites Clark to be his best man, but when Desiree tries to seduce Clark, he realizes that she is a meteor freak with the power to seduce men.

When Dr. Steven Hamilton, physically sick from repeated exposure to meteor rock radiation, causing constant Parkinson-like twitches, becomes a liability to Lex Luthor, he terminates their contract. Dr. Hamilton leaves the mansion and drives down the road like a lunatic and causes a serious accident with a truck driven by Ray Wallace. The truck overturns in a cornfield near Clark Kent's spacecraft and, while trying to rescue Ray, Pete Ross sees the UFO. The next morning, Pete asks Clark to help him to bring the object to his workshop. When Dr. Hamilton steals the spacecraft, Pete believes Clark has taken it, so Clark discloses his secret to his friend. Meanwhile, the now blind Lionel Luthor moves into Lex's mansion forcing Lex to care for him. Also, to Lana's dismay, her aunt Nell Potter is in love with a new boyfriend named Dean.

Clark gets his Smallville class ring, but these rings contain RED KRYPTONITE making him turn into DARK CLARK.

A woman appears in Smallville claiming that Clark is her biological son by Lionel Luthor, and she kidnaps Lex to force a confession from Lionel. Clark demands that his parents explain what role Lionel Luthor played in his adoption.

Clark falls into an underground cave system where Native American teen Kyla Willowbrook is researching her ancestor's cave paintings and believes Clark may be the answer, while her grandfather attempts to save the caves from LuthorCorp.

Whitney Fordman returns to Smallville unannounced and receives a hero's welcome from all but Clark who fears his return will put strain on his relationship with Lana. However, all is not as it seems as Whitney begins behaving erratically.

When Lex discovers that his father had surveillance devices planted in the mansion, he hires a group of criminals to do the same to LuthorCorp Plaza in Metropolis, unwittingly putting both Lionel and Martha's lives in danger.

Attempting to hide the key to Clark's ship in the farm's storm cellar, Martha unknowingly breathes in toxic meteor rock spores and falls ill. To make matters worse, the Disease Control Agency wish to conduct a full search of the farm.

When Clark feels compelled to insert the ship's key into the slot on the cave wall, he is suddenly able to understand the cave's strange symbols and is contacted by Dr. Virgil Swann who may hold the answers he seeks about his home planet.

As Lex and Helen prepare for their imminent wedding, Clark and Lana navigate their blossoming romance. Meanwhile, linguist Dr. Walden awakens from his coma and sets out to kill Clark Kent, believing him to be a threat to mankind.

Clark is contacted by his biological father Jor-El who tells him he must leave Smallville to fulfill his destiny, just as everything is going right for him. Torn between his heritage and his upbringing, Clark must make a difficult choice.

Three months after Clark left Smallville, he is living in Metropolis under the name Kal and committing crimes under the influence of the red kryptonite ring. Back home, Clark's friends and family search for him and Lex is presumed dead.

Jonathan uses Jor-El's powers to face Clark and bring him home but Clark's actions as Kal in Metropolis come back to haunt him and the Kents. Lex returns to Smallville and comes to terms with Helen's involvement in the attempt on his life.

Lex escapes an assassination attempt and comes to Clark for help but when Lionel suggests Lex is mentally ill, it becomes increasingly unclear whether Lex is actually crazy or if it's another one of Lionel's infamous cover-ups.

Lex attempts to escape from Belle Reve Sanitarium where three of Clark's old foes are also being held. Clark wishes to use his powers to break Lex out but Jonathan disagrees, fearing that Lex cannot be trusted to keep Clark's secret.

Clark is forced to reveal his powers to his classmate Alicia Baker to save her from a falling elevator but discovers that she has powers of her own. The pair begin dating but Clark is concerned when Alicia becomes increasingly obsessive.

Clark receives a call from Lana telling him she is in danger but when he arrives at the Talon, she is alive and well. With Chloe's help, the pair determine the call has yet to happen and that Adam will shoot Lana. Can Clark change destiny?