Smallville - S6E6

Fallout
First Aired: Thursday November 2, 2006

Another Zoner makes itself known as Clark is reunited with Raya. Lana is again caught in Lex's world of secrecy.

This episode begins with showing one of the Zoners possess a young man in California. He requests the location of Kal-El and begins his trek to find him. In Metropolis, Lana meets secretly with the scientist working on Lex's box. He wants out and gives Lana the box for safe keeping. Jimmy Olsen takes picture of the meeting from the shadows of an alleyway. Chloe brings news to Clark that one of the Zoners was possibly coming for him, feeding off of nuclear power plants along the way. As she leaves, Clark is surprised by the appearance of Raya. They discuss Jor-El and Krypton. At the Daily Planet, Jimmy lets Chloe in on his "scoop" but she brushes him off. He then goes to Lex's mansion and confronts him with the pictures. Lex is none too pleased and has Jimmy removed, but not before Jimmy snaps from photos of the stuff on Lex's desk. He shows these to Chloe, who recognizes them as Kryptonian symbols. At the Kent farm, Clark and Raya meet Barren face-to-face and fight briefly. Barren has to leave when he loses his pent up power, though. Clark and Raya then go to the Daily Planet where Chloe tells them about Jimmy's pictures. Raya recognizes the symbols as belonging to BRAINIC which she says Barren can absorb for untold power. At that same time, Barren breaks into Lex's mansion, fending off Lex and Lana, and absorbs the box. Eventually, Clark and Raya go to the Fortress and face off against Barren. He is able to kill Raya, but Clark uses Jor-El's crystal to absorb first all of Barren's power and then suck Barren back to the Phantom Zone. Clark is able to take the young man back to Smallville General where he doesn't remember anything over the past six weeks. Lex and Lana reconcile as best as they can and Clark reveals to Martha that he will begin Jor-El's training as soon as he returns or kills all of the Zoners. The episode ends with the Fortress being revived.

This was a good episode. I liked the idea that Raya had a little more screen time than see did in the first episode, though she was a bit overbearing with Kal-El's destiny. That is expected, since she was an aide to Jor-El and saw first hand what will happen if he doesn't. Barren was an interesting villain, but like Gloria before him, he was a powerful Zoner but dispatched pretty easily the second encounter. I think it was good to give Clark a goal (to find the Zoners and then train) instead of his aimless track he has been on for the year(s).

Score: 3 / 5