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Smallville Fracture (2001–2011) Online
2001–2011 Tom Welling Michael Rosenbaum Kristin Kreuk James Marshall
Original Title :
Fracture
Genre :
TV Episode / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Sci-Fi
Year :
2001–2011
Directror :
James Marshall
Cast :
Tom Welling,Michael Rosenbaum,Kristin Kreuk
Writer :
Jerry Siegel,Joe Shuster
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
42min
Rating :
8.4/10

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Smallville Fracture (2001–2011) Online

Tracking the amnesiac and powerless Kara to Detroit, Lex is shot by Kara's jealous fellow diner employee Finlay, whom now holds both Kara and Lois hostage. When Lex falls into a coma, Lionel helicopter lifts him back to Metropolis and uses his last dose of a drug developed for experimental mind penetration so as to retrieve life-saving information from uncooperative terrorists. The program was abandoned because it wrecked the interrogator's central nerve system, but Clark feels confident his Kryptonian brain must withstand it in order to find Kara. Once he enters Lex's mind, Clark meets the key characters, but Lex is split into his dark side and the young Alexander, a good kid traumatized by his mentally abusive parents heading for divorce, eager to help Clark escape his evil counterpart and desperate for his friendship. In this state Clark has no superpowers, murderous dark Lex is the strongest, and the scientific operator can't separate their brain waves again. When they seem bot ...
Episode cast overview:
Tom Welling Tom Welling - Clark Kent
Michael Rosenbaum Michael Rosenbaum - Lex Luthor
Kristin Kreuk Kristin Kreuk - Lana Lang
Allison Mack Allison Mack - Chloe Sullivan
Erica Durance Erica Durance - Lois Lane
Aaron Ashmore Aaron Ashmore - Jimmy Olsen (credit only)
Laura Vandervoort Laura Vandervoort - Kara
John Glover John Glover - Lionel Luthor
Alisen Down Alisen Down - Lillian Luthor
Corey Sevier Corey Sevier - Finley
Connor Stanhope Connor Stanhope - Young Lex Luthor
David Orth David Orth - Doctor
Robert Gauvin Robert Gauvin
David Patrick Green David Patrick Green - Lex's Doctor

Amnesiac Kara goes by the name "Linda," which may be a nod to "Linda Lee Danvers," one of Supergirl's personae from the comics.

In Supergirl (1984), Kara went by the name of Linda Lee on Earth. When Kara Kent is found by Lex in the diner, she tells him that her name is Linda.

This is the first time in which the term "Veritas" is actually spoken when Lilian confronts Lionel about it in one of Lex's flashbacks. The Veritas symbol can also be seen on the shield of one of young Lex's toy soldiers in the same flashback.

At the end of the episode when Clark questions Lex about Kara, you can see the stained glass window behind Lex's desk in the mansion has changed. Up till now it was the Luthor coat of arms, now it's the coat of arms with the Varitas emblem.

It is likely coincidental, but this episode uses the same transition sound between scenes as many episodes of Torchwood, but different from what most Smallville episodes have used. Some reviewers have compared this episode's structure and tone to Torchwood, a similarity which the subtle use of a different transition serves to accentuate.

Lex's personality is shown as being split in two: a young good Alexander, and an older evil Lex. It also shows how Lionel and Lillian's parenting fractured Lex, and started the young good Alexander down the path towards becoming the older evil Lex.

When Clark is entering the mind of Lex, there's flashes of memories going by. One flash is actually a glimpse of the next episode "Hero". It's a quick flash of the word "Stride"...the next episode "Hero" takes place in a Stride gum plant where the gum is exposed to Kryptonite and gives Pete Ross super stretch abilities.

The premise of this episode is very similar to the plot line of the movie "Cell" (2000) in which technology is used to enter a persons subconscious.


User reviews

Gunos

Gunos

Clark takes a less-than-normal journey than he may be used to taking in this interesting 12th episode of the season.

When Lex goes to Detroit to retrieve Kara, who is suffering from amnesia, a jealous co-employee of Kara's at a restaurant pulls the gun on Lex. Lex falls under extreme conditions, and goes into a coma. With options getting slim on being able to save him, Clark must revert to a technology created by Lionel that allows someone to interrogate a mind of anyone in a comatose state, a method put to practice on terrorists in the past. While not a guarantee to enter the mind and come back out, Clark takes the risk to save Lex but discover what he has been thinking, leading to dramatic and interesting situations within his mind.

There is a lot to like about this episode: the exploration of the psychi of someone who is already extremely mentally unstable, the situations that Clark faces within Lex's mind, and the conflict that Lionel faces when both of his "sons"- Lex and Clark- face a fatal situation late in the episode, a threat of fatality that only someone like Chloe could step in and stop. The storyline also serves to weave Kara back into the threads of this season, as Lex claims that he can help her regain her memory. What is his true ulterior motive? We all know he can't be trusted by what he says on the surface...
Kadar

Kadar

Clark must enter the mind and memories of Lex in order to find out where Kara and Lois have disappeared to. This is a more surreal episode than we usually see from Smallville. It's essentially an examination of Lex's psyche, with extreme versions of an evil Lex and a young "good" Lex portrayed as characters inside of Lex's mind. Just like in season 3's "Memoria" and season 6's "Reunion" the flashback scenes involving young Lex are dramatic and very effective, particularly the scenes between young Lex and Lionel. "fracture" at times feels more like an episode of Torchwood than Smallville, and the episode is much darker than the rest of the season, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. One just shouldn't expect a fun action story.
Malojurus

Malojurus

This is a bold episode. Lex gets shot in the head! Right in the head. And Clark jumps into Lex's mind with some Fringe machine and rummages around in Lex's memories to try and find out who shot him and where Kara and Lois are being held prisoner. Lex's evil self tries to stop Clark from seeing anything and Lex's good self tries to help. Some memories are trite, like a memory of his dad being abusive, some advance the Kara-search-and-rescue plot. But one memory, the memory of Lex and Lana having sex that evil Lex forces Clark to watch, is just perfect.

Chloe uses her meteor power to heal Lex's bullet in the head, and it leaves her dead longer than the last time she used it. It's getting pretty dangerous. How long until her meteor power corrupts her? She's probably searching for Hitler's grave on the internet right now.

Lex, alive again, has built a relationship with Kara while she was in Detroit. And now that she's back Lex promises to hold no secrets from her and help her recover her memories and find out who she really is. We've heard the "no secrets between us" spiel before, with Lana. Oh Lex, just a typical guy, using the same move on all the ladies.