wow! after watching wednesday night's episode of smallville, i must say that it is my favorite episode! i have been getting your emails and sorry it took me so long to post my review. but everybody i have talked to online and offline agree that this is one of the best episodes of smallville ever! i must have watched it four times! way better than last week's episode of "run"! you have to watch this episode if you missed it!

what happen? ( if you missed smallville this week, read this. if you saw the episode skip down to my review. i know what you are thinking and yes it is short. )

okay. basically the episode starts off with clark practicing ( football ) at the farm by himself then jonathan and jason walk up and jason tells him that a representative of metropolis university will be at friday's football game. just then clark hears a ringing identical to the sound the "key" makes and speeds off to find the source. his search leads him to the kansas state penitentiary in a visiting room with lionel and lex. lionel is asking for lex's forgiveness and is holding out his hand for lex to accept. clark uses his x ray vision and sees something in lionel's other hand and gets in between the two. lionel grabs lex and they switch bodies! clark lionel is taken away and lionel clark goes off with lex.

lex takes him back to the farm and is suspicious of clark's unusual behavior. lex takes off and jonathan asks clark to help by lifting up the tractor. lionel clark is suprised when he is actually able to lift up the tractor and lionel clark goes "of course. it all makes sense now." later lionel clark tries to liquidate the balance in one of his accounts but is unable to because the voice recoginition test failed. ( there is this one funny scene [ shades of spiderman ] where lionel clark pulls away his waistband and looks down ) martha walked in lionel clark can not hide his affection for martha and finds out about clark's superspeed and heat vision literally. jason shows up and clark brushes him off and announces that he has quit the football team.

meanwhile clark lionel meets lionel's cell mate ( forgot his name ) and expects to find lex in lionel's body. he is a genious mathmathican and is able to translate the kryptonian symbols. he tells clark that the artifact lionel had is a transference stone and it enables a person to switch bodies with someone else. clark lionel meets another prisoner who asks him about the money he owes him and clark lionel does not know what to say. ( this might have been a trap set up by lionel for lex but can not be sure... ) the guy tells him that he has a day to give him the money or else. ( you get the idea, it rhymes with hank. )

lionel clark then goes on a rampage. ( sort of ) he intimadates clark lionel into saying his account number and his password and totally embarassess chole and his super hearing leads him to jason and lana making out. lionel clark goes to the barn and finds out that his remaining account balance is two dollars and fifty nine cents! he is about fifty seven million dollars short thanks to lex. lionel clark is outraged and in walks lana. lionel clark and lana have a heated arguement and lionel clark makes a pass at lana. lana leaves and lionel clark speeds off to lex's mansion.

clark lionel then is able to convince martha that he is the real clark and lionel used a stone with a kryptonian symbol to switch thier bodies. martha goes out to find lionel clark.

lionel clark goes and starts talking to lex dempanding fifty seven million dollars. after much talk, lex is convinced that lionel has somehow taken control of clark's body. lionel clark is about to crush lex's throat when martha rushes in to save the day with a meteor rock but lionel clark and lex did not see it ( the meteor rock ). lionel clark speeds away.

martha calls jonathan who is in the kitchen and instructes him to get a meteor rock. just then lionel clark arrives and tosses jonathan around demanding to know what weakens him. the answering machine ( yes the answering machine ) saves the day. it is lionel's cellmate calling for lionel clark telling him that the transference is not permenant. lionel clark speeds away to the kansas state penitentiary. ( clark lionel and lionel's cellmate are in unison )

lionel's cellmate tells him that after studying the symbols further that the transference could reverese but theoretically if lionel clark kills clark lionel then there would be nothing to transfer back to and he would permenately stay in clark's body.

at this time clark lionel is overdue in his payment to the other prisoner and a fight ensues. clark lionel suprisingly fends off the other prisoner and a riot ensues with other prisoners and guards. lionel clark hears the alarm and speeds off to find clark lionel.

this is the coolest scene in all that is smallville! in my opinion it is even better than when kal-el took off into the sky! i am going to get this scene as my permenate avatar, i swear! ( a lot of people asked about this so i am going to address it now. the name of the song that played during the riot was "pain" by jimmey eat world. i went out and bought the cd after i watched smallville yesterday. the cd is "okay" but that song is awesome! )

you just have to watch this scene because it was so awesome! i could send most of the day talking about it ( i actually did ) but i will give you a very short summary. during the massiveness that was the riot, lionel clark finds clark lionel and is about to kill him and clark lionel gets clever and is able to switch back their bodies and speeds off.

clark askes his parents what kind of chaos lionel clark did and his parents say that chloe and lana came by and seemed really upset. lionel is being attended by a prison physician and explains that the illness that has completely disappeared and he is cured and it is a miracle. lionel seems to have some kind of life changing moment.

at the end clark's only friend is lex. clark finds out about jason and lana's relationship and lana demands that clark keeps it a secret. clark is devastated! and chloe wants nothing to do with clark and tells him that he needs help. basically clark is really screwed with everyone except lex and his parents.

last scene shows lionel's former cellmate cleared of his charges and walking out of prison a free man. ( i forgot to mention that lionel's cellmate was innocent and most likely framed for his federal charges ) he steps into a limo ( everybody thought it was lex for sure ) and bridgette crosby is in the limo and asks him if he retrieved it. he give her a metal box with the kryptonian transference stone inside.

the good:

what can i say? this episode was awesome! it blew "run" out of the water. the special effects were awesome! lionel clark interacting in clark's natural surroundings, at the farm and with other people were awesome! then the whole riot at the prison! best scene ever! you can watch it again and again for almost an hour. then how clark is screwed because of what lionel clark did in clark's body made for a great ending. i think it is safe to say that this episode is the best episode ever for a lot of smallville fans! lionel knows about all of clark's powers and the virgil swann foundation is in possession of the second kryptonian artifact that leads to the "ultimate treasure of knowledge." wow!

the bad:

there were a few mistakes in the episode but these did not really bother me except for one thing. okay there is a scene with lionel clark and lex where lionel clark tells lex "he is your only son!" what about lucas? lucas really needs to be put in another episode. i think it kind of left a void. do you know what i mean? but i can understand why this was the way it was. but this is what bothered me. i know that it was more dramatic and intertaining for lionel clark not to have a "real preexsisting knowledge" of clark's powers. it was better this way i agree. but how does lionel clark not know that clark is allergic to meteor rocks?!!! it is so obivious in season three and especially, especailly in season two! anybody remember "exodus"! clark was litteraly dying in front of lionel in the caves when lionel showed clark the kryptonite key! lionel closes the container containing the kryptonite key and clark instantly stops dying! come on lionel! what are you on? also clark could have told chloe that he and lionel switched bodies! she has seen enough weird things and she is not stupid. she would believe clark. the whole lana and her witch tattoo does not seem that interesting to me but then again it never did. lana and jason working together to solve this mystery? is it just me or do they seem to be way out of their league? but these thing make have no effect on my final review. this episode was to close to ultimate greatness to be discredited by a few mistakes that in the end do not really effect the quality of the episode.

favorite lines? ( there were too many to choose from. really. so i just picked some of the more memorable ones. )

chole to lionel clark at the torch.

"has the lionel luthor alert suddenly been lifted to orange?"

lionel clark with his arms out to martha in clark's loft

"i need a hug."

lex to lionel clark after lionel clark demands fifty seven million dollars from lex.

"that is an interesting number."

the ruben lb personal review: a plus plus

the ruben lb critic review: a plus

next week:

the inventor of crimson kryptonite himself mister mxyzptlk comes to smallville and clark and the football team are in a jinx.