Lex considers whether to turn an operative loose to obtain or fake damaging information against Jonathan to upset his Senatorial race. But when Lex is shot, he falls into a coma and is visited by the ghost of his mother, who shows him what his life could be like if he frees himself from his father. Meanwhile, Clark helps deliver Christmas presents.
Season 5 Episode 9 of Smallville resulted in a 0.00 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s05e01 - Arrival
s05e02 - Mortal
s05e03 - Hidden
s05e04 - Aqua
s05e05 - Thirst
s05e06 - Exposed
s05e07 - Splinter
s05e08 - Solitude
s05e09 - Lexmas
s05e10 - Fanatic
s05e11 - Lockdown
s05e12 - Reckoning
s05e13 - Vengeance
s05e14 - Tomb
s05e15 - Cyborg
s05e16 - Hypnotic
s05e17 - Void
s05e18 - Fragile
s05e19 - Mercy
s05e20 - Fade
s05e21 - Oracle
s05e22 - Vessel
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.