PILOT
EPISODE NUMBER: 101
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/16/2001
WRITTEN BY: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
DIRECTED BY: David Nutter

October, 1989: A meteor shower rains down on Smallville, Kansas, bringing an infant child named Kal-El to Earth and wreaking havoc upon the inhabitants; several years later, a teenager named Clark Kent saves the life of a young Lex Luthor, altering both their destinies forever…

METAMORPHISIS
EPISODE NUMBER: 102
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/23/2001
WRITTEN BY: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
DIRECTED BY: Michael Watkins & Philip Sgriccia

As Clark begins to dream of flying, Greg Arkin—a dorky, insect-obsessed teen smitten with Lana Lang—is bitten by a swarm of his own insects, transforming him into a super-strong “bug boy.”

HOTHEAD
EPISODE NUMBER: 103
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/30/2001
WRITTEN BY: Greg Walker
DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

The Smallville Crows’ overzealous football coach has a temper problem that turns him into a “firestarter” and leads to the death of Principal Kwan; meanwhile Lex and his father Lionel clash over Lex’s refusal to fire workers at LuthorCorp.

X-RAY
EPISODE NUMBER: 104
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/06/2001
WRITTEN BY: Mark Verheiden
DIRECTED BY: James Frawley

As a girl who has developed shape-shifting abilities threatens Lana, Clark reels from his first flashes of X-ray vision, particularly when he witnesses a robbery apparently perpetrated by his friend Lex.

COOL
EPISODE NUMBER: 105
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/13/2001
WRITTEN BY: Michael Green
DIRECTED BY: Jim Contner

Thanks to Lex, Clark has a chance to share a night out with Lana, but the evening is interrupted when Clark faces icy enemy Sean Kelvin, who suffers from a Kryptonite-induced case of permanent hypothermia, forcing him to feed off the body heat of others.

HOURGLASS
EPISODE NUMBER: 106
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/20/2001
WRITTEN BY: Doris Egan
DIRECTED BY: Chris Long

After volunteering at an old folks home, Clark is plagued with nightmares when he meets an old woman who can see into the future; another resident from the home discovers a fountain of youth and reverts to a teenager seeking revenge against the descendants of jurors who put him in jail decades before.

CRAVING
EPISODE NUMBER: 107
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/27/2001
WRITTEN BY: Michael Green
DIRECTED BY: Philip Sgriccia

As Lex gets one step closer to the truth about Clark after funding a study on the green meteor fragments, Clark must save a friend from a ravenous classmate whose diet of Kryptonite-affected vegetables forces her to feed on anything to satisfy her craving for fat.

JITTERS
EPISODE NUMBER: 108
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 12/11/2001
WRITTEN BY: Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld
DIRECTED BY: Michael Watkins and Greg Beeman

A janitor at LuthorCorp's Smallville Fertilizer Plant comes down with a severe case of the "jitters" because of exposure to a contaminant on a secret level and takes Clark's high-school class hostage, forcing Clark and Lex to team up to rescue them.

ROGUE
EPISODE NUMBER: 109
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 01/15/2002
WRITTEN BY: Mark Verheiden
DIRECTED BY: David Carson

After Clark visits Metropolis and does a good deed, an unscrupulous police investigator learns that the teen has been around many "accident scenes" in recent months and decides to give Lex Luthor a call and force him to talk about what he knows of Clark.

SHIMMER
EPISODE NUMBER: 110
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 01/29/2002
WRITTEN BY: Michael Green & Mark Verheiden
DIRECTED BY: D.J. Caruso

A teen girl's obsession with Lex turns life threatening when invisible attacks in Luthor Mansion pits Clark against an undetectable enemy; Clark is thrilled when Lana looks to him for companionship after Whitney inexplicably pushes her away.

HUG
EPISODE NUMBER: 111
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/05/2002
WRITTEN BY: Doris Egan
DIRECTED BY: Chris Long

Clark is amazed when pesticide magnate Bob Rickman somehow convinces Jonathan to sell the family farm to make way for a new plant, and teams up with a local hermit whose mysterious past holds the key to saving the town.

LEECH
EPISODE NUMBER: 112
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/12/2002
WRITTEN BY: Tim Schlattman
DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

When Clark rescues his classmate Eric from harm during an electrical storm, they are both struck by lightening, resulting in all of Clark's superpowers transferring to Eric, who relishes—then begins to abuse—his new life as "Superboy."

KINETIC
EPISODE NUMBER: 113
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/26/2002
WRITTEN BY: Philip Levens
DIRECTED BY: Robert Singer

Lex grows desperate after the Luthor mansion is robbed by burglars who seem to have the ability to walk through walls, and who steal evidence of his secret project, leading Clark to wonder if his dad was right about Lex's deceit all along.

ZERO
EPISODE NUMBER: 114
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 03/12/2002
WRITTEN BY: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, teleplay by Mark Verheiden
DIRECTED BY: Michael Katelman

Lex faces the consequences of his shady dealings in Metropolis years ago after an old enemy comes to Smallville intent on destroying his life, inadvertently putting Clark and Lana in harm's way; Clark has his hands full as he tries, not only to protect Lex from the past, but also to keep Chloe out of his own after she discovers a mystery surrounding his adoption.

NICODEMUS
EPISODE NUMBER: 115
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 03/19/2002
WRITTEN BY: Greg Walker, teleplay by Michael Green
DIRECTED BY: James Marshall

Clark must solve the riddle of the mysterious Nicodemus flower and Lex's shady involvement after it infects the residents of Smallville—Jonathan becomes a couch potato, Lana puts the moves on Clark as the town Lolita, and Pete tries to kill Lex—then puts them into a deadly coma.

STRAY
EPISODE NUMBER: 116
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/16/2002
WRITTEN BY: Philip Levens
DIRECTED BY: Paul Shapiro

The Kents take in a young boy after Martha accidentally hits him with her car, but they are unaware that he can read minds and has unlocked the secret thoughts of Lex, Lana, Jonathan and Martha; Lex has to decide if he wants to accept his father's job offer and move back to his old life in Metropolis.

REAPER
EPISODE NUMBER: 117
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/23/2002
WRITTEN BY: Cameron Litvack
DIRECTED BY: Terrance O'Hara

Clark must stop a kryptonite-infected man who seeks to relieve the suffering of the elderly and sick by turning them into ashes – and Whitney’s ailing father may be his next victim; Lex is furious after his father sends someone to look into LuthorCorp's financial records who then reveals Lex's secret investigation into Clark and his family.

DRONE
EPISODE NUMBER: 118
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/30/2002
WRITTEN BY: Philip Levens & Michael Green
DIRECTED BY: Michael Katelman

Clark sees the election for class president as an opportunity to be a “normal kid,” but after his running mates are systematically attacked by a swarm of bees, Clark suspects someone is eliminating the competition one by one and that he will be next on the list.

CRUSH
EPISODE NUMBER: 119
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05/07/2002
WRITTEN BY: Philip Levens, Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
DIRECTED BY: James Marshall

Clark faces an unexpected foe when a gifted art student seeks revenge after a hit-and-run accident robbed him of the use of his hands but also gave him the gift of telekinesis; Lana becomes jealous after watching Clark with Chloe and begins to question her relationship with Whitney.

OBSCURA
EPISODE NUMBER: 120
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05/14/2002
WRITTEN BY: Greg Walker, teleplay by Mark Verheiden & Michael Green
DIRECTED BY: Terrance O'Hara

Lex comes in contact with a crop-duster who witnessed Clark's crash in 1989, the day of the meteor shower, while Lana begins to see visions of the future, and together with Chloe finds herself in a little trouble that requires Clark's help.

TEMPEST
EPISODE NUMBER: 121
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05/21/2002
WRITTEN BY: Alfred Gough & Miles Millar
DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

As a tornado hits “Smallville,” a shady reporter discovers both Clark’s abilities and the spaceship; Lex's father closes the fertilizer plant and orders Lex to go home to Metropolis.