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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maerdwyn" data-source="post: 1555624" data-attributes="member: 835">Lionel Luthor:  Lionel's three main goals this season were 1) Find a cure for his liver disease 2) Prevent Lex from learning that he'd killed his parents, and 3) Find out as much as he could about Clark Kent.1)Lionel tried lots of things to cure his liver disease, but the most elaborate plan was finding those who had recently died of various liver diseases and injecting them with a serum made from Clark's blood.  The receipients came back to life, but only as long as they were administered regular doses of the serum.  He sent one of his subjects to befriend Lana with the purpose of spying on Clark.  As stated above, the whole plan fell apart, and Lionel had to shut down the program and had to have everyone working on the project killed or deported.  He pinned the murders on Lex by making him the new director of the lab building where the experiments had been located.   Another plan seems to have involved cloning - but the clone he had created was of a dead childhood friend of Lana's.  The clone went homicidal (in two different episodes) and the project was shut down before it benefitted Lionel.  He is, as far as we know, still dying. 2) Lionel's parents were apparently nere-do-wells, and the family lived in a tenement in Metropolis.  In order to get the money to start LuthorCorp, he purchased insurance on his parents, and paid a crime lord named Morgan Edge to torch the tenement while his parents were inside.  Lex discovered as much, leading to the electroshock thereapy described above.  This covered the secret for a while, and he had Morgan Edge blown up (it is actually likely that he survived, but Lionel thinks him dead), which covered that loose end.  A superpowered Chloe (she temporaily had the power to force people to tell the truth) forces Lionel to admit the whole thing, and captures his confession on tape, leading to his eventual arrest. 3) Lionel has been keeping tabs on Clark ever since he learned that Lex had been keeping tabs on Clark. Lionel, however, has put a few more pieces of the puzzle together than has Lex.  He knows that Clark has a secret, and knows that he has something to do with an octagonal key made of a metal that did not come from this planet.  He believes that Clark is a very remarkable person, and this was said in context that suggested that Lionel believed that a few people have special powers.  He believes a UFO crashed in Smallville on the day of the meteor shower.  He is convinced that if he can learn the Clark's secret, he will gain power - certainly enough to defeat his illness.   To this end, Lionel has been showing up in Clark's life more often.  He also has made some sort of deal with Dr. Swann (Christopher Reeve), who knows Clarks secrets, can read Kryptonian, and has been giving Clark advice.  Swann probably hasn't told Lionel too much, but Swann did manipulate Clark into doing a couple things Lionel wanted him to do ******************* Lana Lang Lana has decided that Clark is bad for her.  At one point, after a horse broke her legs while she was watching over the paranoid Lex Luthor in a stable,  she decided that even being friends would be to much.  For her, Clark telling his secret to her has become a pre-requisite of having any sort of a close relationship with him.  However, in a couple episodes, she seems like she's heading back towards wanting a romance with him (They kiss briefly in one episode), only to turn him away when he begins to reciprocate.  She has growing feelings for Lex, who is her main source of advice lately.  Near the end of the season, she announced plans to attend an art school in Paris for at least a year.  Lex first was supportive, then sold the Talon out from under her, then became supportive again, giving her an upgraded, open ended plane ticket so that she could come back whenever she wanted. There were several Lana-in-distress episodes this season, including the Adam (resurrected corpse) arc -- he becomes more and more unstable, and then downright homicidal when his supply of serum is exhausted.  As he was living in the loft over the Talon, Lana was his obvious intended victim.   Clark repeatedly saves her - from Adam, from her cloned childhood friend Emily, etc., but this has no effect on either's feelings for the other.</blockquote>

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