A young runaway, Ryan, has the power to read minds and flees his abusive stepparents. The Kents take him in and Clark soon discovers the boy's powers and that he's immune to them. But Ryan's stepparents have plans to use the boy's powers for financial gain against...Lex.
Season 1 Episode 16 of Smallville resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s01e01 - Pilot
s01e02 - Metamorphosis
s01e03 - Hothead
s01e04 - X-Ray
s01e05 - Cool
s01e06 - Hourglass
s01e07 - Craving
s01e08 - Jitters
s01e09 - Rogue
s01e10 - Shimmer
s01e11 - Hug
s01e12 - Leech
s01e13 - Kinetic
s01e14 - Zero
s01e15 - Nicodemus
s01e16 - Stray
s01e17 - Reaper
s01e18 - Drone
s01e19 - Crush
s01e20 - Obscura
s01e21 - Tempest (1)
Smallville tells the tale of a teenage Clark Kent in the days before he was Superman. It is the town where he came from where very strange things started happening with his arrival in a spaceship in the midst of a meteor storm of green rocks.
Clark must deal with a variety of individuals given powers by the green rocks, keep his powers a secret, cope with his friendship with a young Lex Luthor, and balance the two girls in his life, Chloe and Lana. The show also shows us how Lex Luthor develops from a friend of Clark's and kinda-okay guy to (presumably) the villain who will plague Superman in his later years.