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Charmed:
Cuoco Joins Charmed
Kaley Cuoco (8 Simple Rules) is joining the cast of The WB's witch series Charmed in its upcoming eighth season, Variety reported. Cuoco will play a young witch under the tutelage of the Charmed ones (Alyssa Milano, Holly Marie Combs and Rose McGowan).
In addition to Cuoco, the upcoming eighth season of Charmed will feature Mark McGrath, who signed on to do a multiepisode arc, the trade paper reported.
Cuoco's credits also include the NBC miniseries 10.5 and ABC Family's original movie Crime of Fashion.
Julian McMahon .... Victor Von Doom/Doctor Doom (Also known as Cole)
Veronica Mars:
Ausiello: So what are these changes UPN president Dawn Ostroff wants you to make to Veronica Mars next season? I'm worried.
Rob Thomas: They're not major. She wants more presence from twentysomething characters in the show. She wants a bit more diversity in the cast. And she wants it sexier, which we feel we're accomplishing by playing up the Logan-Veronica-Duncan triangle in Season 2. They're not jamming us too hard on anything that hurts the integrity of the show.
Ausiello: What twentysomething characters? New ones?
Thomas: I know the Tara Reid rumor got out there, which really tended to freak people out. Per UPN's notes, they feel like, "We're putting you guys after our top show — America's Next Top Model — and we want you to retain some of the audience. So put somebody in there who represents that age group." Which was fine. I had planned on adding a sort of trophy wife/stepmother to Beaver and d**k Casablancas next season. And then we were just putting lists together of people who could play her and Tara Reid was on a list. I'm not sure how it got to the point that we had hired her, but that's not going to happen.
Ausiello: Tara Reid's not going to happen?
Thomas: Right.
Ausiello: Phew.
Thomas: But the character is — at least partially to address UPN's desire to get more of a twentysomething presence. They wanted us to have Veronica take some college classes to bring more twentysomethings into the show.
Ausiello: You're joking. Please tell me you're joking.
Thomas: It's not even creatively that I hated that note. I didn't. It's just that we're so stretched financially. And budgetwise, I don't have college sets; I don't have college actors. It would have been a huge budgetary problem, so we're trying to address the twentysomething note in a more financially prudent way.
Ausiello: Tell me a little bit more about the trophy-wife character.
Thomas: She'll be in her mid-twenties, a former Laker girl. Think Bonnie Bakley but with better looks.
Ausiello: The diversity thing kind of baffles me. Your cast is already pretty diverse.
Thomas: That's what I thought, too. [Laughs] They have asked for another African-American female in our cast, which we are going to do. She will be a student.
Ausiello: What about rumors of a new, older love interest for Veronica?
Thomas: That was just one of the things they threw up on the board. And it was all wrapped up in that "Veronica can take college classes and maybe she can become involved with an older guy" thing, which made me think, "Didn't we do that last year?"
Ausiello: Do they watch the show?
Thomas: They do watch the show. It's funny, following Top Model, they're really hitting us to appeal to that audience. And I'm happy to do that as long as the integrity of the show remains. The 28-year-old trophy-wife stepmother is sort of a traditional noir character, so I'm happy to include it. I think we can find a happy balance between art and commerce.
Ausiello: Is it true that you're killing off a major character?
Thomas: No. The thing I read was in Episode 6 we're gonna kill off one of our main characters, and that's not true. But in order to make the budget work, a number of actors on the show lost a few episodes in their contracts. I wouldn't have done that of my own volition. That was forced on me.
Ausiello: Were Logan or Papa Mars impacted?
Thomas: No, it's not Logan or her father. It's just about everyone else.
Ausiello: Are we talking drastic reductions? Like some characters are only gonna be in one or two episodes?
Thomas: No, no, no. Far from that. It's like one went from 22 to 16. One went from 16 to 12.
Ausiello: Weevill (Francis Capra)?
Thomas: He's gone from 16 to 12.
Ausiello: Deputy Leo (Max Greenfield)?
Thomas: Max has a new comedy [Modern Men] on WB next fall. Max is one of my favorite people to work with. He has said any day he has off he's willing to come down to San Diego and shoot Veronica Mars. I actually have him written into a scene in the first episode. The question is whether his schedule and our budget will allow it. But the scene won't be, "He's going away!" I think we could always go back to Deputy Leo. I like having him handy. I like Veronica having a relationship with somebody in the local sheriff's department.
Ausiello: Aaron Echolls (Harry Hamlin)?
Thomas: We actually have him in the budget for two episodes. Seeing Aaron again in Season 2 around the time his trial rolls around is something we're planning on; it's on our storyboard. But at the same time, we're going to introduce a couple new important sets of parents, in the same way we got to know the Kanes and Ackles in Season 1.
Ausiello: Whose parents?
Thomas: One will be the father of the new African-American character, who we have not cast yet. I think the name of the character is Terrence Chase, and his daughter is Jackie Chase. And then we're going to meet a character who's running for mayor named Woody Goodman, and he's going to have a daughter who goes to the high school, who we never met. We'll introduce her.
Ausiello: What about Amanda Seyfried, who played Lilly Kane? Will we see her again?
Thomas: There are no plans to see her. Again, we adore her. She was such a money character for us this year.
Ausiello: And Alyson Hannigan?
Thomas: She also has a new series [CBS' How I Met Your Mother]. But if we can work it into her schedule and we've got a story line that would work for her, we'd love to see her.
Ausiello: OK, I've got a couple story-line-related questions: Is Logan's mother really dead?
Thomas: Yes.
Ausiello: Will Veronica and Wallace become stepsiblings this year?
Thomas: I don't wanna give that away.
Ausiello: Who's at the door?
Thomas: [Laughs] This is what I will tell you: I feel like our audience will feel cheated if it's anyone other than Logan or Duncan. A lot of people online have made very valid cases why it would be Wallace, and that the reaction Veronica gives would only be for her true friend, and I understand that. And yet, we have set Logan-Veronica-Duncan up as the first leg of the romantic triangle of Season 2, and I feel like it would really disturb the fans if we copped out on that answer. And I'm not going to cop out on that.
Ausiello: What can you tease about this season's overriding mystery?
Thomas: It'll be significantly different from Season 1. It won't be, "A friend of Veronica's dies and she seeks justice." It will have a different flavor, a different motivation than that. And yet people can assume that we're not going to do a 22-episode mystery about insurance fraud. So it'll be big.
Ausiello: It all sounds great, but I have to admit: I'm troubled by the level of interference on UPN's part.
Thomas: Last year for four or five episodes they were in our grill, and it was a very difficult working environment. But once they started seeing the cut episodes and they started airing and getting feedback, they became incredibly supportive — the most supportive environment I've ever been in.
Ausiello: And now?
Thomas: They are nervous once again. They have given us their best time slot and they want this to work. So, again they're back in our... [pauses] the notes calls are taking a little longer and we're having a minibattle here on the first episode. But right now we're not shooting anything or writing anything that I'm not happy with, so they haven't tinkered us into silliness.
Question: Your Rob Thomas interview was great. Spoiler-y and enlightening just what I like in your columns. Now how about that scoop on the Veronica DVD?
Ausiello: OK, which do you want first — the good news, the bad news or the really bad news? The good news? OK. Warner Bros. is putting out Veronica Mars: The Complete First Season. Now for the bad news: It drops Oct. 11 — three weeks after Season 2 debuts. And now for the really bad news: The extras kinda-sorta blow. In addition to the never-before-seen alternate pilot, all you'll get are some deleted scenes and bloopers. So why is a cool show like Mars being so cheap on the bonus features? Allow exec producer Rob Thomas — aka The Coolest TV Producer on the Planet (Next to J.J. Abrams) — to explain:
"This is kind of a sad story. A couple of months ago, Warner Home Video gave us an option. They said, 'If you wanna do it up right with the bells and whistles and the commentaries, we can release it in January '06. If you wanna just get it down and dirty and just get the episodes out and do a few bloopers and some deleted scenes, we can get that out before the season starts.' Well, [exec producer] Joel [Silver] and I talked about it and we felt it was important to get the DVD out before the season started. That way, people who didn't watch it last year can catch up. So we made the decision to go with the early release — without the bells and whistles. We were hoping for the second week of September since we're returning in the third or fourth week of September. Anyway, they just told us [the DVD] is going to be out the second week of October, and it's because The O.C. and Desperate Housewives are coming out in September, and they just didn't want to fight that battle. But now I feel like we didn't get either of the things we wanted: We don't have the bells and whistles and we're not coming out before the season started. I'm not happy about that." Me neither. Sigh...
July 14, 2005
CHARISMA CARPENTER AND STEVE GUTTENBERG JOIN THE CAST OF VERONICA MARS
Charisma Carpenter ("Angel" wink and Steve Guttenberg ("The Poseidon Adventure" wink have joined the cast of UPN's VERONICA MARS, beginning with the critically acclaimed drama's second season premiere.
Carpenter will play Kendall Casablancas, a sexy trophy wife and stepmother to brothers d**k (Ryan Hansen) and Cassidy "Beaver" (Kyle Gallner) Casablancas, two of Veronica's (Kristen Bell) rival, affluent schoolmates. She will appear in at least six episodes. Meanwhile, Guttenberg will star as Woody Goodman, a charismatic major league baseball team owner and leading candidate in the local race for mayor of Neptune, Calif. To show his support for the community, his daughter will be transferring from her private school to Neptune High. He will appear in at least seven episodes.
Carpenter recently completed shooting the feature film "Voodoo Moon" opposite Eric Maibus. In television, she portrayed the character Cordelia Chase for seven years on the hit series "Angel" and "Buffy The Vampire Slayer," after originally being featured in a recurring role. Later, she returned to "Angel" for one episode as a guest star for the series' landmark 100th episode.
In television, Carpenter recently guest starred on "LAX" with Heather Locklear, as well as on several episodes of "Charmed." She also co-starred on "Miss Match" with Alicia Silverstone and Ryan O'Neal. In addition, Carpenter starred in the title role of the television movie "See Jane Date," based on the book by Melissa Senate. She has also appeared in several other television shows and feature films.
Steve Guttenberg, who has starred in a dozen films that earned in excess of $100,000,000 at the American box office, is the star of the upcoming television movie "The Poseidon Adventure." The actor starred in four successful series of films: "Police Academy," "Three Men And A Baby," "Short Circuit" and "Cocoon," as well as such acclaimed dramatic hits as "Diner" and "The Boys From Brazil."
His television credits include the mini-series "The Day After" and "Miracle On Ice."
He has a number of directorial efforts, including "P.S., Your Cat Is Dead," the film version of the respected James Kirkpatrick play, which Guttenberg also starred in, wrote and produced.
Any scoop from the Veronica Mars event?
I'm sure some of you have already heard that Percy Daggs III (Wallace) was not in attendance and are therefore having a requisite freakout that he's the one being written out. But you should know that he had every intention of coming, and then got the flu. TV diva's honor. Rob Thomas also gave the following dish: Keith (Daddy Mars) writes a book about the experience of cracking the Lilly Kane case with the reporter to whom he gave all the evidence in the season finale. He's going on a book tour, and they're currently in discussions with Larry King for him to appear (Keith would go on Larry King Live as part of the tour). He also confirmed there would be a season-long mystery.
Veronica Mars! Is Veronica going to be with Logan? Entertainment Weekly called him her "boyfriend." Are you not telling us something?
That was presumptive. I can only tell you that it is Duncan or Logan at the door, and that she will be dating an "oh-niner" in the season premiere. According to Rob Thomas, there's a scene in the premiere where Weevil confronts Veronica about dating an oh-niner and says something like, "How was your year of living dangerously?" There's going to be more of the class struggle this year, including a specific event in the season premiere that exacerbates the conflict.
Is Charisma a regular on Veronica Mars? And any news on the DVD?
Charisma Carpeter is slated to be in at least seven episodes. Steve Guttenberg will be in at least six. As for the DVD, it's coming out Oct. 11 and will have the original pilot that we critics saw (which I liked better) and deleted scenes.
Any more cast announcements for Veronica Mars?
Two big announcements are coming this week: (1) The casting of Veronica's new friend, who is presumably African-American; and (2) I am told that Dawn Ostroff will make a "very interesting" Veronica Mars announcement during her opening comments this coming Thursday at the TCA Press Tour.
Episode #2-1: "Urine Trouble"
Tentative Air Date: September 2005
- A young man named Kelvin was kicked out of the school's athletic teams for failing a drug test. The only problem is... he's been clean for ten months! He asks Veronica for help, but she tells him that she doesn't do the detective thing anymore.
- Kelvin makes a reference to Veronica being an "09er" now, with an 09er boyfriend. He says she slipped right back into the crowd.
- Someone refers to Logan as Veronica's boyfriend. Logan comes up behind her and kisses her on the back of the next, right in front of Duncan, who Veronica is talking to at the time. Logan and Duncan aren't talking anymore. Guess those things happen when your best friend starts dating your ex, or his father kills your sister.
- Veronica, who turned down Kelvin's plea for help earlier in the story, has a change of heart. Seems Wallace has gotten into trouble too.
- This is Veronica's senior year of high school.
- Veronica and Meg are no longer friends, ever since Duncan broke up with her. Meg blames Veronica for the break-up.
Smallville:
Episode #5-1: "Arrival" Tentative Air Date: Sept. 22
Teaser:
- Out of the ship that Lana finds come what seem to be two Kryptonians - Nam-Ek, a "beautifully built black man," and a blond female named Aethyr. Sounds like they're naked, as all Kryptonians are when Smallville seasons begin. So much for that "suit that Clark was going to wear in Superman Returns" rumor, eh?
- Aethyr superspeeds in front of Lana. Lana notices a Kryptonian symbol on the small of Aethyr's back that is identical in look and placement to the one that Lana had on her back in Season 4.
- Lana asks the strangers who they are and where they're from. A military chopper approaches, and Aethyr sends it spiraling out of control, thanks to a burst of heat vision. Then, Nam-Ek uses his heat vision power to completely incinerate the chopper. Twenty armed soldiers approach in Humvees, and bullets bounce right off of the two strange visitors. They then incinerate all of their attackers with their heat vision.
- A Humvee charges full throttle at Aethyr, who grabs it by the bumper and flips the vehicle into the air. After all this commotion, Aethyr asks Nam-Ek where the girl has gone to. "She's of no use," he says. "We must find Kal-El." Lana hides and crouches in the bushes as all this is going on. End of teaser...
A few minutes later:
- Lex comes up from the rubble inside of the cave. His hand is bruised. He walks into the cave's inner chamber, and finds Chloe's cell phone laying on the ground. Lex spots the altar, where the octagonal key is resting. He examines the octagonal key, and hears a "You!" from behind. It's Nam-Ek and Aethyr, wearing fatigues stolen from the military people. Lex thinks they're really soldiers, and tells them that everything is under control, and that they're probably needed elsewhere. Nam-Ek asks Lex where Kal-El is. "Who?" Lex asks. "He possesses the octagonal key," Aethyr says, and in doing something that sounds like the Force in Star Wars, Nam-Ek lifts his hand and the key rockets into his palm. They ask Lex if he is Kal-El. "Who wants to know?" Lex asks. Aethyr grabs Lex by the throat and digs her nails into his skin. "Kal-El would not bleed," she says.
And then....
- We see the Arctic tundra, and there's a human figure laying face down in the ice. It's Chloe. We don't know for sure what happens next, but it's a pretty safe bet that by episode's end, or at least early in the season, Chloe and Clark will have to have a little talk, because she now knows everything about where his powers came from and he's not your average run-of-the-mill meteor freak.
Meanwhile, at the hospital...
- Lois visits the Kents to make sure they're all right. She makes a comment about how they let her have a home before, so the least she could do is to help out when it came crashing down. The Kents smile, and then a shattering explosion shakes the walls. In the corridor are Nam-Ek and Aethyr. "Tell us where Kal-El is, or suffer the fate of your brethren," they warn. The sheriff fires his gun at them and the bullets fly off. (The script says his, but hey, isn't Nancy a she?) Lois watches in disbelief. Nam-Ek approaches Jonathan. "Where is Kal-El?" Aethyr demands that they are taken to him, that Jonathan would know where he is. Jonathan is shocked to hear someone saying Clark's Kryptonian name.
- Aethyr reaches for Jonathan, when Lois intervenes. "I know where Kal-El is!" She tells them that Kal-El is at Fort Ryan and is waiting for them. "I'll take you to him right now. But you have to promise to behave yourselves. That means no blowing stuff up. Got it?" Lois asks. Nam-Ek and Aethyr each take Lois by an arm. Lois grins, trying to cover her fear.
And what of Lana?
- Lana wakes up on a couch in the mezzanine of Luthor Mansion. Her leg is bandaged up. She hears a scratching noise coming from downstairs. She looks down, and sees the Kryptonian symbol that she saw on the man and the woman, carved into the wood floor. Then it is revealed who is doing the carving - it's Lionel! "Mr. Luthor, what are you doing?" Lana asks.... and sadly, that's all we know right now.
- Lionel tells Lana that Nam-Ek and Aethyr are disciples of Zod and must be stopped. Yes... he said it... ZOD!
- Lionel gives Lana a green Kryptonite rock so she can stop the two aliens. Lana looks down at the rock, and seems to start to put the situation together as to what she needs to do...
Clark Finds Out What's Happened
- Clark, wherever he is, sees a television news broadcast on a television that's up on a wall. Smallville's second meteor shower is international news. The number of casualties in this second meteor shower is revealed. Clark stares in horror at the news report. We're assuming his next step is to return to Smallville. He's with someone else in the scene, but we can't really tell you who, because we don't know who.
Clark and Lex Confrontation
- "I don't have time for an interrogation," Clark tells Lex, maybe referring to the events that happened at the end of season 4. "Then be straight with me," Lex challenges him. "If you're my friend, you'll tell me the truth. Why were you in the caves when the meteors hit?"
Clark and the Kents Reunited
- Clark eventually makes his way to the hospital where the Kents are at. Jonathan tells Clark that they're looking for Kal-El. "I'll make it easy for them. Where are they?" he asks.
- Jonathan tells a police officer that Fort Ryan must be notified immediately. The officer turns around with a bloody face, his eyes dazed.
At the military hangar....
- Lois gets Aethyr and Nam-Ek to the military hangar and is stalling them with chit-chat. "Conversation? Don't they do that where you come from?" Lois asks. Aethyr reveals that the place they come from doesn't exist anymore. Nam-Ek gets angry. He realizes that Kal-El is not there. Lois tells him that Kal-El is right around some metal trunks in the corner, that that is "where he likes to hang out." The two walk toward the trunks, which are labeled "Lead Munitions." Behind them is nothing but a rat, but it buys Lois the time to pick up a rocket launcher. Yes. A rocket launcher. Lois fires and it blasts towards the duo. Nam-Ek catches the rocket, but it still explodes, engulfing the both of them. The Kryptonians emerge from the blast. Lois is terrified. "Whoops..."
Somewhere in Act Four...
- Lionel slumps toward the ground, unconscious. Lex gets up, out of breath, with a stream of blood trickling like a tear down his cheek.
- Nam-Ek and Aethyr are not pleased with Lois's ruse. "It was just a little prank," Lois babbles nervously. "Don't you guys have a sense of humor?" They hold her up in the air. "Guess not." Aethyr throws her 20 feet into a shelf of supplies. Things, and Lois, crash into the floor. Suddenly, Clark blurs out in superspeed, grabs both Nam-Ek and Aethyr by the hand, and throws THEM 80 feet, slamming into a cargo jeep. Yay for Smallville and the throwing around gag. They stand from the wreckage, unfazed. "We are not your enemies, Kal-El. We mean you no harm," says Nam-Ek. Nam-Ek explains that they three are the last survivors of Krypton, and that together they can do what their forefathers envisioned. "I saw what you did at the hospital," Clark tells them. "That's not utopia. It's murder."
- Aethyr tells Clark that some must be sacrificed for the sake of the many."
- Clark challenges her. "Then you'll have to sacrifice me, because I won't allow you to kill anyone else."
- Aethyr takes off her metallic bracelet and hurls it onto the floor. The bracelet mushrooms into a vortex of wind and black-purple light. "We cannot destroy you, Kal-El, but we can put you in a place where you cannot stop us," Nam-Ek tells him. Clark struggles as he is dragged toward the inferno.
- Clark uses some new skills he learned at the Fortress of Solitude earlier in the episode (obviously material we don't yet have spoilers for). He musters all of his strength to break free, and....
- Clark's new skill learned from Jor-El in the Fortress has him leaping backward in the air in a perfect backflip. His feet ram into Nam-Ek's chest, sending him flying 30 feet. Aethyr rips a wing off of a plane's fuselage and swings it at Clark. It misses. Twin shimmers of heat vision blast after Clark. Clark blasts back with his own rays. This goes until Aethyr fires a blast into the axis of criscrossing beams up above. All three of them are flown back from the inevitable blast. Clark falls on the ground, near the vortex, and Nam-Ek grabs him by the leg. "Goodbye, Kal-El," Nam-Ek says, ready to give him the final blow, when his own knees start to weaken.
- Reveal Lana right behind him, clutching a glowing green rock of Kryptonite. Clark tries to hide his own gripping pain. Aethyr rushes across the warehouse, getting weaker as she gets closer to the green rock. Weakened, Aethyr lets out a burst of heat vision which sears Lana's arm. Lana screams and slams back, knocking over some shelves, right behind those trunks labeled "lead munitions." Clark is back on his feet. The vortex continues to whirl. "Your human friends are of no use to you now, Kal-El," Nam-Ek tells him. Clark remembers Jor-El's words inside the Fortress and superspeed leaps into the air, ands ends up in the rafters, hidden from Nam-Ek and Aethyr. Aeythr searches for him, frustrated, when Clark comes back down from up above and pounces her, propelling her into the vortex. She digs her fingers into the floor when she is sucked inside. Nam-Ek struggles and tries to grab her arm and pull her out. As Nam-Ek struggles, Clark hurls a cannon at him, and....
....That's all we've got so far! See you in September! Stay tuned for more Season 5 spoilers as they become available!
Episode #5-2: "Mortal" Tentative Air Date: Sept. 29
Teaser:
- Lex has had Lionel admitted into Belle Reve. He's still in a "Kryptonian trance." The scene sounds like a complete reversal of "Shattered," where Lionel was looking in on Lex. This time, the tables are turned.
- Four armed guards are moving three patients along. There's a "hulking, tattooed badass" named Tommy Lee. He's with a pair of eerily gaunt twins. (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen maybe? Kidding.)
- Tommy Lee apparently has a power to control electricity flow and uses it to make his escape. The two twins he is with slam their fists together which leads into a white hot glow that fuses them together into a rippling force field. They ask Tommy Lee where their next destination will be. He tells them it will be Smallville.
- The twins have a habit of finishing each other's sentences.
A little bit later, in Act Two:
- The Kent house is being repaired after the effects of the meteor shower. Half of the walls are stripped to the studs. (Did someone say stripping? It's early Season 4 all over again) This information we have apparently is somewhere around the middle of the scene, because Clark is being tossed into a wall. Lana rushes to him and tells the people who did it to "Stop it!" Reveal the twins and Tommy Lee.
- "You're a legend in Belle Reve," Tommy tells Clark. "Half the freaks are in there because of you," he says, right in front of Lana. Lana asks what he's talking about. Clark claims he's got the wrong guy. Tommy yanks Lana up, holding her by her "porcelain neck." (Their words, not ours) He licks the side of her face, which enrages Clark. Clark heads towards him and Tommy draws power from the exposed wiring to electrocute Clark. Clark goes down, in pain. Tommy and the twins think they have the wrong person.
And in the caves...
- Chloe is down in the caves looking at the symbols on the wall and the damaged altar in the open chamber room. She tries to let go of the memory of being transported across the world in a flash of light.
- The next scene we know of, which is a little later, has Lex talking to Chloe... possibly in the caves. "I think you know more than you're telling me, Chloe," Lex tells her, warning her that she's getting involved in a "dangerous game" by covering up for Clark.
- "Like covering up the spaceship Lana said crashed during the meteor shower?" Chloe retorts. Lex claims Lana was hysterical and didn't know what she was talking about. "Stop asking questions, Lex, or I'll start asking my own," Chloe threatens.
And even later than that...
- Tommy Lee apparently isn't so much of an enemy to Clark anymore, or at least now they're talking rather than throwing each other across the room, because they're talking inside the Kent kitchen. Clark learns that Tommy Lee spent a few weeks inside of Level Three.
- Tommy jokingly refers to the two gaunt twins as "the Wonder Twins."
- Tommy needs Clark to break into Level Three to get him and his friends some kind of "serum." The serum, a "nifty green cocktail," amped up Tommy and the twins' powers, and became addictive. Then, they were moved from Level Three into Belle Reve, and boom, no more cocktails. "If the stories I heard about you are true, you shouldn't have any problem" with getting in, Tommy Lee tells Clark. The Kents approach, and Tommy Lee apparently makes himself scarce.
- Jonathan and Martha return home and find Clark alone. Martha notices Lana's SUV there but doesn't know where she is; Clark says she wasn't feeling well and was laying down. Clark's shirt is inside out - probably from something having to do with the fight with the FOTW's - but it's likely that the Kents think something else was happening there. Clark tries to get his parents to leave and go to the hardware store; when that tactic doesn't work, he tries something else. Seems like he thinks his parents will be in danger.
- There's a confrontation where police cruisers are headed toward the house and Tommy destroys a police cruiser with an energy blast. The blast sends the sheriff flying. Jonathan, outside on the porch, gets in a scuffle that results in Tommy Lee elbowing him in the face. Tommy Lee tells the twins "to get the field up" which is likely to be their escape route. Indoors, Lana is working her Lana Fu on the twins, kicking them. She also nails Twin #2's hand to the wall with a nail gun. Ouch!
New Chlark!
- Clark goes to Chloe for help in getting into the vault that holds the serum inside. They're happy to see one another, because they greet with a hug, and Chloe says "Let's not do that again, okay?" which implies they may have been in danger before this scene. They need fingerprint access. Chloe says she'll need a week, or Lex's thumbprint.
- It seems like no conversation happens at all in the premiere, since Clark is still playing unpowered and Chloe is still dropping hints. Chloe pulls out a flashlight that Lex handled and hands it to Clark, and gives Clark a knowing look that he'll know what to do with it. Clark is puzzled.
Also...
- Jonathan, Martha, and Lana are tied up by the baddies, who are "waiting for that Kent kid to come back." So he's not there...
Episode #5-3: "Hidden" Tentative Air Date: Oct. 6
Teaser:
- The episode starts with two corporals who it sounds like are guarding a "horned lava mutant." One of the two is attacked by someone with a camoflauging power, who materializes like pixels out of the air. It's a young man named Gabriel. He takes the corporals' keys and gets to type in a security code, which reveals another panel, which reveals two key holes. He then makes a call.
And then the action moves to outside of the Talon...
- Where we see Chloe's VW with a "Met U" bumpersticker. Her car is filled with all of the things she'll need to relocate for college - computer, clothes, lamps, and that sort of thing. She answers her cell phone... and the caller is Gabriel, the guy you saw in the previous scene. He calls Chloe and warns her to get out of town. He says "How much time did I spend at the Torch helping you chase 'the' big story?... In one hour, you're going to get it."
- Gabriel sets down his phone. A digital clock ticks down, and behind it is a large Plexiglas window. Beyond the window is a cylindrical metal form. There's a painted American flag on its tubular structure, with the words "United States of America" beside it. It's an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. I smell trouble...
Later...
- Clark and Chloe discuss the call she received from Gabriel. He tells her that her approach to journalism apparently got someone's attention. "Either way, he trusts you. Maybe we don't have to search every silo," Clark tells her.
- Chloe improvises, and calls Gabriel pretending she has had car troubles. We learn that Sheriff Adams wasn't able to trace the number for some reason. Clark pushes the VW Bug off to the side of the road into the gravel. The script bits say "Clark strains with all of his human strength," which implies that his powers may still be gone.
In a Luthorcorp warehouse...
- We see the black spaceship! But that's all we know about that!
Lex Confronts Lionel
- Lex demands that Lionel tells him what the Kryptonian symbols mean. Lex accuses him of playing games, like he did when he did the "blind routine" or when he was pretending to be "born again."
- "You can never open it," Lionel tells Lex. "Only he can open it."
And then...
- Chloe and Gabriel meet up. Gabriel offers to take Chloe with him. Clark tackles him, but gets elbowed in the face, which makes him bleed. A gunshot rings out. Clark has been shot, right in front of Chloe. Gabriel takes Chloe, shoves a gun to her side, and demands that she comes with him.
In Act Three...
- Gabriel's taken Chloe with him and we learn that the second meteor shower has left behind 10 times "more rock" than the first meteor shower did. It sounds like Gabriel wants to destroy Smallville so there will be no more meteor freaks. We also learn Gabriel's dad had always warned him about "the meteor freaks in this town."
At Smallville Medical Center...
- Lana visits the hospital as soon as she hears Clark has been shot. "They found Chloe's car in a ditch and Clark had been shot," Jonathan tells her.
 A "Spike" In Season Five?
No, we're not referring to Emma Nelson's mother... but fan rumors have started circulating that James Marsters of Buffy and Angel fame might soon be making a Smallville appearance.
 marshjazz · Thu Jun 30, 2005 @ 05:34pm · 0 Comments |
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