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"Labyrinth" is the twelfth episode in the sixth season of Smallville, and the ane hundred-twenty-second episode overall. Information technology aired on January 25, 2007.

1 Summary
2 Recap
3 Clark's "delusion"
four Bandage
- 4.ane Starring
- 4.2 Guest Starring
- 4.iii Co-Starring
five Featured Music
6 Championship
vii Notes
8 In Other Media
9 Trivia
x Continuity
11 Spoilers
12 Locations
13 Quotes
fourteen References

Summary

Clark is attacked and wakes up in a mental asylum where the attending physician, Dr. Hudson, tells him he has been there for five years due to his elaborate fantasy that he has alien superpowers. In this new world, Martha is married to Lionel Luthor, Chloe is deemed insane, and Lana chose Clark over Lex. Only ane person, some other patient named John believes Clark and urges him to fight.

Recap

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Clark wakes upward in a mental hospital.

Clark is finishing up his subcontract chores in his barn while waiting for Chloe when Shelby starts barking. He goes to cheque on him, but is of a sudden stricken by a sudden blast of force per unit area that sends him falling downwards to the befouled floor. He wakes up in a common surface area of a mental hospital, wearing white scrubs. He is suitably confused, merely when he asks how he got there, the other patients mock and tease him, asking if he got attacked by "krypto-freaks" once more. He gets upset and the guards come to carry him away. He tries to utilize his super-speed to go away, only it fails him. He is shocked when the guards overpower him and drag him to a small isolation room. When Clark calms downward, an older man, Dr. Hudson, comes in.

Clark thinks he's in Level 33.1 and that he has been captured past Lex Luthor. Dr. Hudson tells him that, in fact, he has been suffering from paranoid schizophrenia for over five years at present. He explains that Clark has created an elaborate fantasy in which he was an alien with superpowers, and during his freshman year of high school, began to live in this fantasy all the fourth dimension. He says Clark is getting worse, but he has developed a handling that will soon cure him. Clark tells him to tell Lex that he's non ownership it, just Dr. Hudson patiently says that he has been institutionalized in the Fairview Psychiatric Infirmary for 5 years and his whole secret identity and alien lineage is merely delusions.

Lana says she is waiting for Clark to get better.

Back in the common room, Clark is standing in line for medication when another patient whispers that he believes him, addressing him as Kal-El. He claims that he is from Mars. However, merely as he tells Clark not to trust anyone, the orderlies come backside him and taser him unconscious. Clark sees a janitor enter a broom closet and follows him in. He sneaks up on him, punches him out, and steals his compatible, escaping out of a side door. Clark heads to the barn to detect Lana in his loft. It is furnished with Lana's things and she is dressed up and delighted to see him. She runs into his arms, but Clark has to ask why she'south at that place. She says that she and Nell bought the farm after Jonathan'due south death and she lives there waiting for him. Clark is still dislocated, especially when Lana says they have been dating since freshman yr. Clark asks well-nigh Whitney, but Lana insists that he is the only person she has ever loved. She thinks Clark took Dr. Hudson'southward treatment and was released, just Clark admits that he escaped and says Lex put him in there. He says he doesn't intendance if they're engaged, but Lana says she hardly knows Lex. Clark thinks Lana is in on it and demands to know where his mother is. Lana says she is at the Luthor Mansion and Clark exits quickly.

Lex reveals that Clark acquired his car accident.

Clark finds Martha in the library and Martha says everyone has been looking for him since he escaped. Clark is shocked that his mother allowed him to be in there, but Martha tells him to calm down. She admits that following Jonathan's decease, she and Lionel are really married, and urges him to have the handling. She pushes an alarm and Clark runs away. Guards chase him through the grounds and but equally they are about to capture him, Chloe drives up and Clark climbs into the machine with her. Chloe seems to believe that everything is different and tells him that she has been in hiding because she knows the truth almost him. Clark says he wants to face up Lex, but Chloe doesn't concord. Clark insists and Chloe lets him infringe her machine. Clark arrives in Lex's office and accuses him of taking his powers. Lex is angry and frustrated with Clark and reveals that he has lost both legs in their first meeting and is at present wheelchair-leap. He bitterly recounts how Clark, in his delusion, jumped in front of his car and Lex swerved to miss him and wrapped his auto around a guardrail. He is extremely furious that Clark will not come out of his fantasy globe and bitterly wishes that he had but run him over. Clark is visibly taken ashamed by this turn of events.

When he arrives at the Talon, he is shocked to see that it is still an abandoned picture palace. Lana appears and Clark asks if Lex's story is true. Lana but says that they can become through anything together. She says they've been together since kindergarten and shows him a plastic ring, challenge that he gave it to her when they were ten. Clark gives it back and runs up to the flat to notice Chloe. Chloe assures him that they aren't crazy and they take to hide out until he gets his powers dorsum.

Clark prepares to get out with her, simply Lana shows up and tells Clark that Chloe also escaped from the mental institution a few months early on. Lana begs Clark to come with her to get help and when he appears to be convinced, Chloe pushes past him. Clark begs her to stay, but she insists they will impale her when they take hold of her. Just and so, two guards show up to collect them. When Chloe draws a handgun, they shoot her in the chest. She dies in Clark's arms, muttering that she'southward not crazy. Upset over Chloe's death, Clark allows Lana and the guards to accept him dorsum to the institution.

Dr. Hudson proves to Clark that meteor rock can't injure him.

Dr. Hudson afterward tells him that he will be fine afterwards his handling. Clark insists he is non going to go through with information technology, merely Dr. Hudson begins to show Clark that all of the circumstances and people that Clark thinks makes up his Kryptonian groundwork have been taken from ordinary objects in his everyday world. He shows Clark a piece of meteor rock and Clark automatically jumps back in fear. When Dr. Hudson shows Clark that the rock is harmless to him, Clark seems to realize that Dr. Hudson is really telling the truth. He realizes Chloe is actually expressionless and slides to the ground in defeat.

Clark prepares to undergo Dr. Hudson'south handling.

Clark finds the patient from the medication line is his neighbor in the restraint room. He tells Clark that he must fight, but Clark is subdued and listless. He explains that Dr. Hudson is a Phantom Zone prisoner trying to gain command of Clark's body by controlling his heed unless Clark fights back. He says he is also in his mind trying to help; for Clark to regain consciousness, he must impale Dr. Hudson. He urges him to trust himself when the orderlies rush into his room. They terrorize him with a lighter and shell him up. Clark is taken to the treatment room where Lana is waiting. Clark again tries to resist, but Lana points out that she doesn't know why Clark is and then eager to return to a reality in which they are apart and he is an conflicting who has caused so much pain. She convinces him to accept the treatment and exist normal and with her for the rest of their lives. They strap Clark to a table and Dr. Hudson starts up a drill. Just as it advances towards Clark'due south caput, he starts to hear a barking and growling noise. Recognizing it as Shelby, Clark realizes he is withal in his barn and starts to struggle. He breaks loose and strangles Dr. Hudson.

The Martian Manhunter saves Clark again.

He wakes up in the barn with the other "patient" mysteriously continuing over him, holding a crystal that captures the phantom. Just equally Chloe arrives, Clark watches as he flies abroad in a streak of red light.

Chloe takes Clark back into his firm and says he was merely out for a second. Clark tries to explain his fractured dream-earth and tells Chloe how he was willing to surrender everything and everyone he loved for Lana. He says that fifty-fifty though she is with Lex, he must still exist in dear with her. She asks what her function was, but Clark refrains from telling her that she was institutionalized every bit well. He simply says that she was the only person who believed in him.

Clark and Lana converse in the Talon when Lex arrives.

Clark runs into Lana at the Talon and she guesses that he has something on his mind. He tells her that he dreamed they were engaged when they were ten and Lana is amused. They have a friendly conversation and Lex arrives. Clark says it'south skillful to encounter him out and about and Lex says he appreciates the civility. Then as he and Lana go out together, she looks back at Clark with emotion.

Clark's "delusion"

While in the mental hospital, Clark notices several things that allude to his superhuman origins:

An antibacterial soap called Jorel.
Dr. Milton Fine existence chosen over the P.A. arrangement to written report to Level Three.
A book titled Fortress of Solitude which was near other books titled The Crystal Ship and a book title catastrophe with Labyrinth.
A magazine with the words The Phantom Zone on it.
Pictures of Victor Rock, Arthur Curry and Oliver Queen, merely the people pictured were non the same people he met before.
The nurse'southward name is Raya.
331 was actually the occupancy limit of the building.

Bandage

Starring

Tom Welling as Clark Kent
Kristin Kreuk as Lana Lang
Michael Rosenbaum as Lex Luthor
Erica Durance as Lois Lane (credit only)
Allison Mack every bit Chloe Sullivan
John Glover equally Lionel Luthor (credit just)
Annette O'Toole as Martha Kent

Invitee Starring

Phil Morris equally John Jones/Martian Manhunter
Matthew Walker as Dr. Hudson

Co-Starring

Aleks Paunovic every bit Orderly
Malcolm Scott as Patient #1
Grame Duffy as Patient #2
Dwayne Byshun as Janitor
Shawn Stewart as Security Guard
Mike Dopud as George
Candus Churchill as Prescription Nurse

Featured Music

"Yesterday" - Chris Heifner

Title

A labyrinth is "an intricate structure of interconnecting passages through which it is difficult to notice one's way/a maze."
In this episode, Clark is trapped by Dr. Hudson in a "labyrinth" in his mind.
In Greek mythology, the hero Theseus was able to find his way through the Creten labyrinth using a ball of string and the help of King Midas' daughter, Ariadne. In Clark's fantasy globe, Martian Manhunter serves as the guide that helps Clark discover the way out of his mental labyrinth.

Notes

Antagonist: Dr. Hudson
Martian Manhunter Abilities: Mind Walking, Flying
Lois Lane and Lionel Luthor do non appear in this episode. Martha Kent merely appears in Clark's delusion.
Pete Ross' fate in this alternate universe is not mentioned or explored. Information technology is not made clear whether or non Lois exists in the alternating universe.
Clark's fellow patient is Martian Manhunter, a DC Comics superhero. In Clark'south delusion, the Martian Manhunter is shown to be afraid of the guard's lighter flame. In the comics, burn is ane of his weaknesses. The Martian Manhunter currently wears a bluish outfit, represented hither past John's blue scrubs and afterwards, his blue leather jacket.
Although non in the broadcast, Martian Manhunter calls himself John Jones in a deleted scene on the Season 6 DVD box set. He explains that he worked with Jor-El as a compensation hunter and has dealt with the criminals from the Phantom Zone. He warns Clark of the last phantom and tells him that Clark is too preoccupied with living the life of a human being. Had this scene been included, Clark would have known the Martian Manhunter'southward identity halfway through season six, but since it was deleted, Clark doesn't get to know who the Manhunter is until the season finale, Phantom. The conversation between Clark and the Manhunter in Phantom re-uses some of the dialogue from this deleted scene.
In Clark'southward delusion, Oliver Queen is a security guard, Raya is a nurse, Milton Fine is a doctor, Arthur Curry and Victor Rock are patients, Jor-El is the name of a handsoap, and "Phantom Zone" and "Fortress of Solitude" are titles of books. 331 is the chapters of Clark's ward.
Shelby can exist heard growling throughout the episode. At some points, the phantom makes noises likewise. Shelby is the hero who saves Clark this fourth dimension, by making him realize that all this was non real and that he was actually nevertheless in the Kent barn. Also, throughout the entire delusion sequence, a constant, monotonous drone accompanies the soundtrack, which is perhaps meant to signify the Martian Manhunter'south attempt to remove the phantom from Clark's listen using the crystal.
Clark wears a lid for a third time in the series this episode. The kickoff was in Thirst and the second was in Lexmas.

In Other Media

In Clark's delusion, Lex is shown in a wheelchair. The super-villain, Ultra-Humanite, was originally a bald man in a wheelchair.^[1] Information technology may also be an innuendo to Lex being forced to dismember his arm in the comics due to kryptonite poisoning.

Trivia

This episode is very similar to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Normal Again", in which Buffy Summers was drugged into assertive that she was in a mental establishment for dreaming up her life every bit the Slayer. The main difference is that Clark believed that he was in a mental institution at all times, while Buffy merely suffered flashes back and along between the real globe and the hallucination, whereas the main similarity was that they both were superpowered heroes, and a main character around their friends, in a perfect world.
The proper noun of the Fairview Psychiatric Hospital in the episode is likely inspired by the Fairview neighborhood of Vancouver's Due west Side, where the Vancouver Full general Hospital is located; and the celebrated Riverview Hospital, a now-demolished psychiatric infirmary in Coquitlam, British Columbia, the outside of which was later used as Dr. Curtis Knox'south clinic in the Flavor 7 episode Cure.
The 2019 DC movie Shazam used a similar plotline of a boy causing a car crash which made another person lose his legs, and being considered insane ever since. The person crippled was besides a billionaire, played past John Glover, the same actor who played Lionel Luthor in the series.

Continuity

Martian Manhunter saved Clark from the Zoner Aldar in Static.
This is the first time that Whitney Fordman has been seen or mentioned since Façade. Information technology is likewise the final episode of the series in which he is referenced.
Lana references Chloe's family history of mental affliction, touched on in Scare and Tomb.
The song that plays at the stop, "Yesterday," past Hefshill, during Clark and Lana's conversation at the Talon is the same one playing in the Season Two episode Lineage when Clark and Lana have a conversation in his loft and Clark urges her to try again to become to know her biological father.
Shelby was last seen in Vessel.
This episode marks the 48th appearance of Clark's scarlet jacket & blue shirt outfit, which he wears frequently throughout the serial.

Spoilers

Chloe coins the term "Martian Manhunter" in the next episode, Scarlet.
When Clark tells her how much she means to him, Chloe makes a joke about "Barry Manilow" music, a reference to the American singer-songwriter famous for his emotional soft-stone love songs.

Locations

Smallville
- Kent Farm (barn, loft)
- Luthor Mansion
- Talon

Metropolis
- Luthorcorp Plaza

Quotes

Dr. Hudson: For the terminal five and a half years, you lot've been a resident of the Fairview psychiatric hospital. Everything else-- your superpowers, your alien lineage, your underground identity-- it's all a mirage.

Dr. Hudson: When the man mind has faced tremendous emotional pain, it has no option but to protect itself. You've taken $.25 and pieces of your surround and created an alternate universe where you feel safe and secure. Clark, in a world where you truly have no power, you chose to give yourself superpowers.

John : You're not crazy, Kal-El. Nosotros don't have much time, so listen to me closely. I believe you're from some other planet.

Clark: What makes you say that?

John : Considering like yous, I'one thousand not from here. I come from Mars. You can't trust anyone.

Clark: I don't know what I'd do without y'all, Chloe.

Chloe: Oh, is this when I'm supposed to cue the Barry Manilow music?

Clark: No, seriously. You mean a lot more to me than y'all know.

John: Y'all can't give in, Kal-El. You must resist. None of this is real!

Martian Manhunter: Welcome dwelling house, Kal-El.

Clark: I know who I am!

Dr. Hudson: I'm not sure yous do. Your proper name is Clark Kent, not Kal-El. And Jor-El isn't your begetter.

Clark: Shelby. Thanks buddy, y'all saved my life.

References

↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-humanite

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