Smallville: Season 4

2004 · 22 episodes · ★ 8.3

What Season 4 of Smallville

Season four opens three months after the previous finale. Lois Lane arrives in Smallville to track down the killer of her cousin Chloe and finds Clark naked and without memory in a wheat field, after a lightning strike hit them both. Martha takes him to the farm in the hope that he will regain his memories, while Jonathan remains in a coma. The search for the Three Stones of Power and the return of Lana, with her new boyfriend Jason Teague, drive much of the plot. Lionel, jailed for the death of his parents, is freed thanks to Genevieve Teague, and Lex still doubts who he really is.

22episodes

Sep 22, 2004premiered

May 18, 2005latest episode

15.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 4 Episodes

4x01 Crusade
Sep 22, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Clark returns to Smallville as Kal-El - intent on fulfilling his destiny, he goes after a powerful kryptonian crystal that Lex has obtained in Egypt. Meanwhile, newcomer Lois Lane arrives in Smallville to look into the death of her cousin Chloe, and Lana returns from Paris with a new boyfriend. Jonathan lies in a coma after the events of last year's season finale and Lionel must deal with his new life in prison.
Directing: Greg Beeman · Writing: Miles Millar, Alfred Gough · Starring: Erica Durance, Ona Grauer, Margot Kidder, Alexandr Kalugin
4x02 Gone
Sep 29, 2004 · 41 min · ★ 8.6
After discovering that Chloe's body isn't in her coffin, Clark and Lois Lane investigate. Meanwhile, Lana's life in Paris catches up with her in Smallville. And Lionel sends a killer to determine if Chloe is alive and kill her for sure.
Directing: James Marshall · Writing: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders · Starring: Erica Durance, Michael Ironside, Colin Lawrence, Robert Wisden
4x03 Facade
Oct 6, 2004 · 41 min · ★ 8.2
Abigail, an ugly high school girl, gets plastic surgery from her surgeon-mother to boost her popularity. However, her beauty hides a dark secret - when she kisses someone they're inflicted with life-threatening hallucinations. When Lana sees Abigail with one of her victims, she becomes the next target.
Directing: David Carson · Writing: Holly Harold · Starring: Erica Durance, Eric Johnson, Brianna Brown, Michael Ironside
4x04 Devoted
Oct 13, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.3
Clark decides to join the football team over Jonathan's wishes and gets the starting quarterback position when his predecessor attacks Jason over a girl. Clark and Lois investigate and discover that the cheerleaders are using kryptontie in the team's water supply to turn them into obedient mindless boyfriends.
Directing: David Carson · Writing: Luke Schelhaas · Starring: Erica Durance, Amanda Walsh, Chelan Simmons, Moneca Delain
4x05 Run
Oct 20, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.7
Jonathan's wallet is stolen by a super-speed thief, Bart Allen, who is faster than Clark. Bart comes to the farm and becomes friends with Clark, but Bart returns to crime when he sees an ancient manuscript that Lex has. As Clark soon realizes, the manuscript holds a map to one of the kryptonian crystals and he must go up against Bart to recover it.
Directing: David Barrett · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Kyle Gallner, Ben Immanuel, Paul Lazenby
4x06 Transference
Oct 27, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.9
Clark is drawn to the state penitentery by one of the kryptonian crystals, which Lionel is using to switch bodies with Lex. Clark intervenes and Lionel enters his body instead. While Lionel uses his newfound super-powers to regain his lost fortune and alienate Clark's friend, Clark must convince his parents that he is the "real" Clark and reverse the processs, while avoiding murderous convicts.
Directing: James Marshall · Writing: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin · Starring: Terence Kelly, J.P. Manoux, Margot Kidder, Richard Faraci
4x07 Jinx
Nov 3, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Mikail Mxyzptlk, a foreign exchange student and bookie, has the power to control others and uses it to sabotage football games, including the one Clark is quarterbacking. Clark and Chloe figure out his secret, but he threatens to kill Chloe unless Clark throws the next game. Mikail came to Smallville via LuthorCorp, and Lex will do almost anything to learn his secret.
Directing: Paul Shapiro · Writing: Mark D. Warshaw · Starring: Trent Ford, Rob Freeman, Kevan Kase, Adam Thomas
4x08 Spell
Nov 10, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Lana reads a spell book belonging to her 17th century ancestor, the witch Isabelle, and becomes possessed by her spirit. Isabelle resurrects her other two witches and together they seek out the kryptonian crystals, using their magic to render Clark powerless.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Erica Durance, Mark Acheson, Lara Gilchrist, Melanie Papalia
4x09 Bound
Nov 17, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 8.0
Lex is accused of killing a young woman and Clark turns to Lionel for help. Meanwhile, Lana has a dream of her ancestor and a mysterious second woman - a dead ringer for Jason's mother Genevieve, who arrives to visit her son and his new girlfriend.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Luke Schelhaas · Starring: Mark Acheson, Cobie Smulders, Claudette Mink, Jane Seymour
4x10 Scare
Dec 1, 2004 · 40 min · ★ 8.3
A Luthorcorp experiment is released into the atmosphere - a toxin that causes its victims to hallucinate their worst fear. Chloe, Clark, Lana, and Jason all fall fictim to the toxin, and Lex, desperate to find a cure, takes a dangerous antidote. Meanwhile, Lionel is released from prison and his conviction overturned thanks to a mysterious benefactor.
Directing: David Carson · Writing: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders · Starring: Samantha Ferris, Malcolm Stewart, Jerry Wasserman, Wendy Chmelauskas
4x11 Unsafe
Jan 26, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Alicia (from "Obsession") is supposedly cured and returns to Smallville to start things back up with Clark. When she pushes for more and he turns reluctant, Alicia expoess him to red kryptonite, and the two go off to Las Vegas to get married. Meanwhile, Lana questions whether sex may prove the key to winning Jason back.
Directing: Greg Beeman · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight, Jeph Loeb · Starring: John Pyper-Ferguson, Sarah Carter, Moneca Delain, Ron Selmour
4x12 Pariah
Feb 2, 2005 · 41 min · ★ 8.9
When a mysterious killer strikes at both Lana and Jason, Alicia is the leading suspect and even Clark comes to doubt her innocence. Feeling betrayed, she secretly tricks Clark into revealing his powers in front of one of his friends. And Genevieve returns to town with an offer for Lex, who in turn has an offer for Jason.
Directing: Paul Shapiro · Writing: Holly Harold · Starring: Erica Durance, Derek Hamilton, Sarah Carter, Jane Seymour
4x13 Recruit
Feb 9, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 8.2
Clark is approached by Met U for recruitment and meets Geoff, a former Smallville resident. It soon becomes apparent that he is using his powers to paralyze anybody who gets in his way...including Lois.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Writing: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin · Starring: Erica Durance, John Novak, Amanda Crew, Chris Carmack
4x14 Krypto
Feb 16, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
Lois accidentally hits a dog and brings it back to the farm to heal, but Clark quickly realizes it has super-strength. He investigates and discovers it was part of an aborted LuthorCorp experiment...and that robbers are using the dogs to help them steal money. Meanwhile, Lana wonders what Jason is up to with his mother, and Jason is forced to ask Genevieve a few questions of his own.
Directing: James Marshall · Writing: Luke Schelhaas · Starring: Erica Durance, Nolan Gerard Funk, Diego Klattenhoff, Jane Seymour
4x15 Sacred
Feb 23, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.1
After Clark receives a message from the recently-deceased Dr. Swann, he and Lana follow Jason and Lex to China in search of one of the kryptonian crystals. Lana is tortured, causing Isabelle to emerge and wreck havoc in her search for the crystal.
Directing: Brad Turner · Writing: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders · Starring: Michelle Goh, Byron Mann, Terence Stamp
4x16 Lucy
Mar 2, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 7.6
Lucy Lane, Lois' younger sister, comes to Smallville but Clark catches her stealing money from the Talon to pay off a European crime syndicate. Lex offers to help but everything is not what it seems. Meanwhile, a thief breaks into Lana's apartment and steals the crystal, and Jason suspects Lionel.
Directing: David Barrett · Writing: Neil Sadhu, Daniel Sulzberg · Starring: Erica Durance, Dayna Devon, Erica Cerra, Kaleena Kiff
4x17 Onyx
Apr 13, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.8
A black kryptonite explosion splits Lex in two and his evil side - Alexander - is released. Alexander imprisons Lex in the mansion then gives full vent to his evil side - he threatens to evict Lana from the Talon unless she becomes his mate, jousts with Lionel, and tries to kill Clark and Chloe when they figure out his secret.
Directing: Terrence O'Hara · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Malcolm Stewart, Rekha Sharma, Craig Lapthorne, Carra Maureen
4x18 Spirit
Apr 20, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.2
On the eve of the Smallville High School Prom, stuck-up candidate for Prom Queen Dawn Stiles is pulled into a coma when she is involved in a car crash into a ravine filled with dozens of chunks of kryptonite. While her body lies in a coma, Dawn finds her spirit allowed to possess the bodies of others, where she can continue her quest to become Prom Queen. As a result, Martha, her body possessed by Dawn, flirts with Clark and asks him to the Prom, Lana attempts to electrocute the ex-boyfriend who dumped Dawn, Lois goes all-out to ensure she and Clark go to Prom together, and Chloe attempts to set fire to the school on Prom night.
Directing: Whitney Ransick · Writing: Luke Schelhaas · Starring: Erica Durance, Veena Sood, Kandyse McClure, Jesse Hutch
4x19 Blank
Apr 27, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.5
When a boy who can make people lose their memories robs the Talon, Clark goes after him but gets total amnesia. Chloe finds out what happened and has to tutor Clark in the use of his superpowers and make sure he doesn't accidentally reveal his secret. While Clark, Chloe, and Lois try to track down Kevin, Clark takes advantage of his "new life" to ask Lana on a date. And Lex tries to turn Clark's memory loss to his advantage by getting him to reveal the secret of the caves.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Writing: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders · Starring: Erica Durance, Tom Butler, Jonathan Bennett, Heather Doerksen
4x20 Ageless
May 4, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
Checking out a crater in a cornfield, Clark and Lana discover a baby with no parents and take him back to the Kent farm. However, when the baby, Evan, ages from a newborn to a 7-year-old in less than a day, it becomes clear he is aging at a rapid rate and they turn to Lex for help. Meanwhile, Genevieve suspects Lex has the Chinese Kryptonian artifact and orders Lionel to either recover it...or risk putting Lex in danger of his life.
Directing: Steven S. DeKnight · Writing: Steven S. DeKnight · Starring: Colin Ford, Frank C. Turner, Matt Ellis, Pascale Hutton
4x21 Forever
May 11, 2005 · 42 min · ★ 8.3
Clark must stop the school photographer after he sets up a fake high school and uses his ability to petrify people to kidnap students - including Chloe and Lana - to keep the glory days of high school going forever. Meanwhile, Lex and Lionel are kidnapped and tortured by the Teagues in an effort to find the Kryptonian artifact, revealing that...Lana has it.
Directing: James Marshall · Writing: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders · Starring: Erica Durance, Veena Sood, Steven Grayhm, Chad Krowchuk
4x22 Commencement Season Finale
May 18, 2005 · 52 min · ★ 9.3
After a nightmare, Clark goes to the cave to confront his father Jor-El. Jor-El warns that the crystals have fallen into human hands and have triggered a new meteor shower which will annihilate the Earth unless he reunites the three crystals. Meanwhile, Lex helps Lana, who has apparently commited murder, but then turns against her to get possession of her Kryptonian stone. As disaster looms, Chloe and Lois try to find Lana while Clark attempts to reassemble the stones, and Jason returns to make things unpleasant for the Kents.
Directing: Greg Beeman · Writing: Darren Swimmer, Todd Slavkin · Starring: Erica Durance, Jane Seymour, Craig Veroni, Anthony Harrison