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Get in the head of the main characters
Rcwilkinson12310 December 2007
Warning: Spoilers
A deadly explosion at a LuthorCorp lab causes citizens of the little town to relive their worst nightmares in this interesting tenth episode of the fourth season.

Lex Luthor is conducting yet another experiment concerning DNA construction when something goes terribly wrong: the lab explodes. The toxin released into the air from the explosion affects people mentally, to imagine their worst nightmare. This is very interesting to see. Lana fears that everybody close to her will die, like her parents did. Lex fears that he will become worse than his father, power-hungry at the cost of others' lives. Clark fears that another meteor shower will hit with similar repercussions as before- that it will hurt those he loves (the first meteor shower killed Lana's parents), and that Lana will discover his secret, realize that he is largely the reason for her parents' death, and that she will hate him for it. In addition, the Kent parents get sick, the hospital is riddled with sick citizens, and the only way these people will survive is if they can have the antidote from LuthorCorp. Problem is, the antidote requires heating to be potent, and there might not be enough time.

This is one of the stronger episodes of the first ten of the season. It is so interesting to get in the minds of the main characters at their very core.
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9/10
Nightmare at Luthor Corp.
claudio_carvalho31 May 2006
After having a scary nightmare, Jason Teague is interned in Metropolis Health Center with risk of death. Clark Kent and Chloe Sullivan decide to investigate, and find that Jason had had a meeting at Luthor Corp. a couple of hours before. They go to the plant, and Chloe has the same trouble. Sooner, many dwellers of Smallville have the same mysterious disease, and Clark finds that it is caused by an experimental bacteria released from Luthor Corp.'s laboratory after an explosion in the facility, and the team of scientists is working in an antidote. Meanwhile, Lionel Luthor is released from prison.

"Scare" is an episode that recalls "A Nightmare on Elm Street", where Luthor Corp. would be the Freddy Krueger. The story is excellent, and the nightmare of Lex Luthor recalls a scene of "Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines". I have a guess of who set Lionel Luthor free from the prison. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Susto" ("Scare")
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