Lex is hit with a surprise after his father closes the local Smallville plant to force him back to Metropolis, blaming the plant’s failure on his management. Meanwhile Clark prepares for his date with Chloe, reporter Roger Nixon gets wind of Clark’s alien origins after setting up an explosion, and Whitney joins the Marine Corps.
Episodes for season 1
After an explosion Lana finds herself getting visions of a serial killer…and his next target is Chloe. Meanwhile Lex and Roger look further into the meteor shower and determine that something besides meteors hit Smallville that day.
After being injured in a hit and run accident, a student loses the use of his hands but gains the ability of telekinesis.
Clark gets into a class election and one of his opponents is a krypto-mutant who can control bees. Meanwhile a reporter from Metropolis visits to do a story on Lex.
Tyler gains the power to destroy organic matter with a touch, and resolves to put the dying out of their misery…and Whitney’s father is his next target. Meanwhile Lionel and Lex spar over Lex’s rising success in Smallville.
A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy’s powers and that he’s immune to them. But Ryan’s stepparents have plans to use the boy’s powers for financial gain against…Lex.
A flower that comes from a reopened "Level Three" of the fertilizer plant brings strange reactions from several people, including Jonathan, Lana, and Pete.
A man from Lex’s past stalks him in conjunction with a mysterious death at Club Zero that Lex may have been responsible for. Meanwhile Chloe looks into Clark’s past as an adopted child.
Whitney falls in with some former jocks who have kryptonite tattoos that give them the power to walk through the walls. Meanwhile, Chloe is seriously injured and Lex has his own plans.
On a class trip, Clark and a fellow student named Eric are struck by lightning, and because Eric was holding a piece of kryptonite, Clark’s powers are transferred into him.