The two-part season-three opener of
Smallville picks up three months after the cataclysmic events that brought season two to a close. Feeling responsible for the series of disasters that culminated in the death of his adoptive mother Martha's (
Annette O'Toole) unborn baby, troubled teenager Clark Kent (
Tom Welling) has bolted Smallville and exiled himself in Metropolis, still under the influence of the dangerous, addictive red kryptonite. Under the alias "Kal" (as in Kal-El, which had been his name when he was born on the planet Krypton), Clark is living the life of a rebellious street punk, and has fallen in with criminal boss Morgan Edge (
Rutger Hauer). Following the leads given him by Clark's high school friend Chloe (
Allison Mack), the boy's human adoptive father, Jonathan Kent (
John Schneider), armed with temporary superpowers bestowed on him by Clark's real dad, Jor-El, is determined to bring his adopted son back to Smallville -- and back to normal. Meanwhile, it seems that Lex Luthor (
Michael Rosenbaum) did not die in that plane crash at the end of season two -- but he may wish he had. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide