Smallville 8.03 Recap: Toxic

Smallville Episode 8.03 “Toxic” Recap

Air Date: Oct. 2, 2008

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Things start at a very swanky Metropolis charity get together. Chloe remarks on how much time Lois and Clark are spending together. Those crazy kids, everyone can see the attraction but them.  Ollie passes out, saying he’s been poisoned and only has 12 hours to live. He’s emphatic that his friends must not take him to a hospital.  Clark isn’t happy about it but goes with his friend’s wishes. The girl that was with Ollie got poisoned too, so Clark starts following those bread crumbs.

At the Daily Planet, Tess Mercer quips that she can’t believe she hasn’t fired Lois Lane. Lois reminds us that she’s the best reporter on the staff. Tess mentions Ollie falling down drunk at a party and isn’t sure Lois can be objective about the story. She’s Lois Lane – does anyone think she’s not getting the story? Lois and Clark are the only two writers on the Daily Planet staff, aren’t they?  

We flashback to Ollie stranded on a deserted island trying to find food. He figures out he’s not fast enough to catch a wild pig.  Queen takes up archery and we see the genesis of a hero! Ollie comes across some other people on the island but can tell they’re up to no good. He accidentally gets pricked by an exotic plant and passes out.

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When Ollie wakes up, Tess is standing over him and heals him with leeches.  Um, eww? She tells him a hospital would have pumped him full of adrenaline which would kill him instantly. Tess says she and her friend have been kidnapped and are being held hostage. The kidnappers killed most of the people on Tess’ boat.

Making matters worse, the crooks know exactly who Oliver Queen is and plan to ransom him. That makes the two girls useless by comparison and the group’s leader kills one immediately. He’s about to do the same to Tess but Ollie, the “golden goose,” throws himself in front of Tess. He correctly gambles the criminals won’t kill their new meal ticket.

Back in real time Clark goes to the hospital and sees that Adriana, the girl Ollie was with is now fine. Davis said that’s proof that Ollie was too sick to know what he was talking about and goes to get him. But they gave the poor girl adrenaline so she flatlines.

Chloe has traced the plant that hurt Ollie using her new computer powers. Clark wants to know what’s up with her. When he see Chloe surfing the web at superhuman speed, he realizes this has something to do with her Brainiac encounter. They’ll talk again, but Chloe has found that LuthorCorp has the plant that can save Ollie.

Clark talks to Tess and she seems unconcerned until she finds out the friend is Ollie. But she tells Clark the lab working with that plant has been relocated to Brazil. Even if she makes the call, it would never get there in time. She has no idea who she’s talking to though. Davis is back at Ollie’s bedside and tells Lois all he can do is keep Ollie alive for a few minutes. Lois tells him to do it.

Back to Flashback Island as Tess mourns her dead friend. Ollie makes a weapon out of a trinket her friend wears. He incapacitates the lead kidnapper with a throw Brett Favre would envy.  They leave him on the island to die. Hey, Ollie’s new to this hero thing.

In real time Clark, of course, shows up with the cure in the nick of time. Ollie says whoever did this will go after Tess too. It’s our boy from the island and the new, evil Tess beats him pretty bad but the crook gets the upper hand.  Clark heat visions down a piece of the Daily Planet’s building rigging to knock the bad guy out and leaves at superspeed. Tess, or “Mercy,” as Ollie calls her looks around as if she knows something strange just happened.

Tess and Ollie have an argument and it’s clear they didn’t part on good terms. She does give him a folder that he says proves Lionel Luthor killed his parents.

Clark asks Lois about her feelings for Ollie and she says she could never date a man with a “hero complex.” She jokes that Ollie is an icon, the “Man of Tomorrow.”  Davis talks to Chloe about her brilliance and he asks how her fiance feels about it. Then he realizes Jimmy doesn’t know. Davis tells her that we all some part even under the surface that we hide. No joke, Mr. Transform Into a Monster in Alleyways Guy. Ollie tells Clark what he found out about Lionel and Clark knew what Lionel did but never told Ollie. Ollie said he would have controlled his emotions and not killed Lionel.

Ollie tells Clark that in spite of all his powers, he’s scared of everything. He tells Clark that his island is still out there. And our kidnapper is on his way out of town in a cab then he gets pricked. Yeah, you know it’s Mercy. She poisons him and makes sure the cab driver takes him to the hospital. Nice work, Mercy. Lex left the company in truly evil hands.