Smallville - S6E5

Reunion
First Aired: Thursday October 26, 2006

Lex attends a reunion at the Excelsior Board School and, along with Oliver, is confronted with a dark secret. Chloe begins to research the other Zoners who came to Earth with Clark.

The episode begins with a flashback of Lex and his time at the Excelsior school, where he was classmates with the bully Oliver Queen and his gang. Lex's sole friend, Duncan, is also the object of ridicule because his family is poor and he is there on scholarship. In the present, Lex and Lana are attending the school's reunion for business socialization and meets up with his tormentors. During a "freak accident", one of them is impaled with a sword. Another flashback shows Lex and Duncan talking about helping the poor when they notice Oliver and his friends stealing some mid-term answer keys. Back in the present, Chloe tells Clark about sightings of possible Zoners (creatures that escaped from the Phantom Zone) and how she would like to use Oliver's satellites to see if she can find out where they all landed. Oliver and Lois start to leave after identifing their dead friend, but Oliver's other friend is blown up. Clark visits Oliver to request the satellite information and Oliver agrees as long as he tries to find out how Lex is killing off his friends. Lex and Lana are the next victims, however, but they both survive with Lana having a concussion. Talking with Lois in the hospital, Clark learns about Duncan and confronts Oliver about the boy. Oliver reveals that Duncan was going to turn the boys in, but Lex wanted to use the information for blackmail so Oliver's group would accept them. When Duncan refuses, Lex beats him up severely and when Duncan tries to get away, he gets hit by a car. He apparently dies, though Lionel Luthor tried his best to save the boy. Clark goes to Lionel and finds out that Duncan actually is not dead. Lionel had paid off his mother in order to use Duncan as a guinea pig. It turns out the treatments have begun to work and it is involves meteor rock. As Clark and Lois, who is on the trail of a story for the Inquisitor, go to Duncan's hospital room, Lex goes to Olivers and they get into a fight. It turns out Duncan is astral projecting himself and he tries to take out Lex and Oliver, using arrows on the the latter. Clark shows up just in time to stop an arrow from killing Oliver, but it is an EMP one that somehow ends up killing Duncan. In the end, Lex tells Lana everything and Oliver gives Chloe the information she wants. Chloe tells Clark she found handfuls of craters so far and shows Clark the picture of one. Clark recognizes it as Raya.

This was a pretty uninteresting episode that showed exactly what happened between Oliver and Lex. I figured it out from the beginning that it was Duncan, though I thought it was his ghost first. It is amusing to see the writers/directors trying to hide secret identities, such as when Lex conveniently gets knocked out before Duncan opens Olivers Green Arrow cache. I started to like Oliver a little bit more with this episode because you can see he is trying to atone for his mistake.

Score: 2 / 5