CRUSADE
EPISODE NUMBER: 401
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 09/22/2004
WRITTEN BY: Al Gough & Miles Millar
DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

With Lois Lane arriving in Smallville to investigate Chloe’s alleged death, and Lana mysteriously altered while rubbing a floor carving of Countess Theroux in France, Clark emerges from the caves with newfound abilities. (Margot Kidder guest stars as Bridgette Crosby.)

GONE
EPISODE NUMBER: 402
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 09/29/2004
WRITTEN BY: Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders
DIRECTED BY: James Marshall

Lois and Clark work together to determine Chloe’s whereabouts just as Lois’ father Sam Lane shows up, apparently embroiled in the whole thing. (Michael Ironside guest stars as Colonel Sam Lane.)

FACADE
EPISODE NUMBER: 403
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/06/2004
WRITTEN BY: Holly Herold
DIRECTED BY: David Carlson

As Clark joins the high school football team, “Scabby Abby”—a homely misfit recently altered by kryptonite-enhanced plastic surgery—revels in her newfound popularity, resulting in ghastly hallucinations for anyone she kisses.

DEVOTED
EPISODE NUMBER: 404
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/13/2004
WRITTEN BY: Luke Schelhaas
DIRECTED BY: David Carlson

While Lex makes overtures to regain Clark’s friendship, the boyfriends of Smallville High’s cheerleaders turn into amorously infatuated slaves after consuming kryptonite-spiked energy drinks.

RUN
EPISODE NUMBER: 405
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/20/2004
WRITTEN BY: Steven S. DeKnight
DIRECTED BY: David Barrett

A young drifter named Bart Allen, with the gift of extraordinary speed, arrives in Smallville, while Lex finds a manuscript that appears to be some sort of Kryptonian map.

TRANSFERENCE
EPISODE NUMBER: 406
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 10/27/2004
WRITTEN BY: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
DIRECTED BY: James Marshall

Upon obtaining an artifact that enables bodily transference, Lionel mistakenly ends up in Clark’s body after attempting to switch places with Lex.

JINX
EPISODE NUMBER: 407
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/03/2004
WRITTEN BY: Mark Warshaw
DIRECTED BY: Paul Shapiro

A foreign exchange student from Eastern Europe uses his unusual abilities to manipulate high school football betting.

SPELL
EPISODE NUMBER: 408
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 1/10/2004
WRITTEN BY: Steven S. DeKnight
DIRECTED BY: Jeannot Szwarc

Partly as a consequence of her mysterious tattoo, Lana is possessed by an ancestral witch named Isabel, and sets about recruiting both Lois and Chloe into her coven.

BOUND
EPISODE NUMBER: 409
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 11/17/2004
WRITTEN BY: Luke Schelhaas
DIRECTED BY: Terrence O‘Hara

Lex’s world begins to unravel when he is implicated in the murder of a young woman—meanwhile, Lana meets Jason's parents and has a vivid flashback of her incident in Paris, leading her to suspect that Jason's mother has something to do with her tattoo. (Jayne Seymour guest Stars as Genevieve Teague.)

SCARE
EPISODE NUMBER: 410
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 12/01/2004
WRITTEN BY: Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson
DIRECTED BY: David Carson

After Lex accidentally releases a dangerous toxin in Smallville—which causes people to live their greatest fears before falling into a coma—Clark gives some of his blood to Lex in the hopes of creating a cure, and is then astonished at what Lex does with the antidote.

UNSAFE
EPISODE NUMBER: 411
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 01/26/2005
WRITTEN BY: Jeph Loeb & Steven DeKnight
DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

Alicia Baker reenters Clark’s life, claiming to be cured, until she places a red Kryptonite necklace on Clark and elopes with him to Las Vegas to get married.

PARIAH
EPISODE NUMBER: 412
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/02/2005
WRITTEN BY: Holly Herold
DIRECTED BY: Paul Shapiro

When Alicia becomes the prime suspect in a recent attack upon Lana and Jason, Clark begins to suspect his new girlfriend, leading her to trick Clark into unknowingly revealing his powers in front of Chloe. (Jayne Seymour guest stars as Genevieve Teague.)

RECRUIT
EPISODE NUMBER: 413
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/09/2005
WRITTEN BY: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmers
DIRECTED BY: Jeannot Szwarc

In an effort to recruit Clark for their football team, Met U sends their star player Geoff to show Clark the perks of attending Met U; but after one of Met U's players dies under mysterious circumstances and Lois is arrested for his murder, Clark discovers that Geoff has super powers and is using them to paralyze anyone who gets in his way, including Lois.

KRYPTO
EPISODE NUMBER: 414
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/16/2005
WRITTEN BY: Luke Schelhaas
DIRECTED BY: James Marshall

While driving, Lois accidentally hits a dog and brings it back to the farm to heal, whereupon Clark realizes this is no ordinary dog after the pup lifts up a car to retrieve a ball. (Jayne Seymour guest stars as Genevieve Teague.)

SACRED
EPISODE NUMBER: 415
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 02/23/2005
WRITTEN BY: Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders
DIRECTED BY: Brad Turner

After learning that Jason and Lex are in China searching for one of the mysterious kryptonian crystals, Clark and Lana follow in the hopes of obtaining it first, and upon doing so, find themselves in combat as Isabel the witch once again inhabits Lana's body in order to take the crystal for herself.

LUCY
EPISODE NUMBER: 416
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 03/02/2005
WRITTEN BY: David Sulzberg & Neil Sadhu, Teleplay by Neil Sadhu
DIRECTED BY: David Barrett

Lois Lane's younger sister comes to town and brings trouble along with her.

ONYX
EPISODE NUMBER: 417
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/13/2005
WRITTEN BY: Steven S. DeKnight
DIRECTED BY:Terrence O'Hara

A Luthorcorp experiment involving kryptonite splits Lex into two beings - "Lex" and "Alexander."

SPIRIT
EPISODE NUMBER: 418
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/20/2005
WRITTEN BY: Luke Schelhaas
DIRECTED BY: Whitney Ransick

After a stunned Chloe is nominated for Prom Queen, her rival Dawn – a wannabe Prom Queen – crashes her car into a ravine filled with kryptonite, releasing her spirit and enabling her to enter the bodies of others and make them act out of character.

BLANK
EPISODE NUMBER: 419
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 04/27/2005
WRITTEN BY: Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson
DIRECTED BY: Jeannot Szwarc

A young man has the power of making others forget recent moments causing Clark to loose his memory, Lex learns about the hidden chamber in the caves, and Lana makes a big decision about her future.

AGELESS
EPISODE NUMBER: 420
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05/04/2005
WRITTEN BY: Steven S. DeKnight
DIRECTED BY: Steven S. DeKnight

Clark and Lana find a baby on the side of the road; Genevieve gives Lionel an ultimatum.

FOREVER
EPISODE NUMBER: 421
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05/11/2005
WRITTEN BY: Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders
DIRECTED BY: James Marshall

The school year is about to end, and a young man named Brendan wants to keep the "Most Likely To’s” in a museum of his own; meanwhile, the Teagues take the Luthors hostage in their search for the stones.

COMMENCEMENT
EPISODE NUMBER: 422
ORIGINAL AIR DATE: 05/18/2005
WRITTEN BY: Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
DIRECTED BY: Greg Beeman

As the season's storylines merge together, Lana becomes free of Isobel after killing Genevieve, after which Lex helps her in a bid to get her stone; Lana instead passes her stone along to Clark, who now has two of the three pieces. Jason Teague goes after the Kents thinking they can lead him to the stones, whereupon their final merging creates a crystal that summons a meteor shower on Graduation Day.