Ep 3.16 - Crisis

[yellowqueen22]

A call from the future warns Clark and friends that Lana may soon be in danger. The truth about Adam Knight is revealed, and he is desperate for more serum to keep himself alive. Also in this episode, we learn Lionel Luthor is dying of a rare liver condition, and the FBI closes in on the Luthors after the murders in "Resurrection."

[red-K glory]

this is an amazing episode. and plus it was the first episode i saw of season 3 since that is when i started watching the show. the whole phone call from the future idea i liked very well, and Adam dying and Lionel sticking the gun in his mouth before the episode ended was crazy!

[MBCorp]

Eh, the ending scene of Lionel sticking the gun in his mouth was the only really good part of this episode.

[OutlawAngel]

I liked the whole episode. But I must say that was an amazing recovery for Jonathan after just having a triple by pass.

But no really it was an exciting and interesting episode.

[UpandAtom]

this was probably the only episode of the series that kept me in suspense. i never knew what was going to happen next.

[red-K glory]

I remember when this episode originally aired, they put it on 30 minutes early so I only caught the second half of the episode. This is one of my all time favorite episodes!

[Hurricain]

Ok, so this episode is entertaining. Still kills me how easily Lana can just brush off the fact that Clark got across town in a SPLIT SECOND and she never questions what happened to the bullet? So, I don't know kinda lame.

[LuthorDynasty]

While the main story lacked any sort of logical coherence, it made up for in closure with the blood storyline, decent special effects, and one of the most shocking endings I have every witnessed.

[Krypton935]

Originally posted by Hurricain
Ok, so this episode is entertaining. Still kills me how easily Lana can just brush off the fact that Clark got across town in a SPLIT SECOND and she never questions what happened to the bullet? So, I don't know kinda lame.

Well she did ask and he said it had something to do with the time warp thing. I know you are probably like "why would she believe that" But if I was in her shoes I would belive him.

Anyways I think that she may have just been happy that she was still alive. I would care less how he did it
I would just be like " You saved my life thank you so much I don't know how you did it but you did it thank you.":D


I would never say"You saved my life Great whatever How did you do it, it is not possible blah blah blah....":confused:

[Hurricain]

Ok, mabey you wouldn't care, but I would at least wonder. I mean the man didn't even have his car there. But I understand your point.

But again, it is Lana, she could be the most clueless person on Smallville.

[Welling_is_pretty]

I didn't care much for Crisis. While the mystery was somewhat interesting (how they got from here to there, as it were), mostly I was just waiting for something to happen. Not one of the better eppies.

[Shadowlord367]

FAVORITE EPISODE! Every time I watch it it creeps me out. Great climax to the Adam story arc. ver dark, similar to reckoning.

[Keldaz]

I liked this episode, its okay.

In the end i was like DO IT LIONEL, DO IT!!! PLEASE!

[Shadowlord367]

lol! hes a great actor, but i hate his character

[tallville]

I loved this episode. it was not something i had seen before and it had one of the best endings.

I loved this episode. it was not something i had seen before and it had one of the best endings. Kristen acted her best on this episode IMO.

[GinnyWeasley]

I love this episode! The begining freaked me out so bad! It its great :D

[Shadowlord367]

Favorite episode of all time.!

[JayByrd]

Originally posted by Hurricain
Ok, so this episode is entertaining. Still kills me how easily Lana can just brush off the fact that Clark got across town in a SPLIT SECOND and she never questions what happened to the bullet? So, I don't know kinda lame.

If Adam fired, and neither her or Clark were hit (of course Clark did get hit but Lana didn't see that) I guess she would have assumed that Adam missed.

[dave73085]

Originally posted by JayByrd
If Adam fired, and neither her or Clark were hit (of course Clark did get hit but Lana didn't see that) I guess she would have assumed that Adam missed.

but if Adam missed, then Clark didn't really save her, so what would she have to thank him for?

[JayByrd]

Well, he still put himself in danger to help her. But yes, I guess if Lana believed Clark didn't get hit by Adam's shot, then from her POV he wouldn't have actually saved her.

[fresh prince]

one of my favorite episodes of all time I just love the future call and the fact that this episode was quite chilling everything aboult this episode was great and the ending when he puts the gun to his mouth with the opera superb

[Jill]

Yeah, I agree with Fresh..
This is deffo one of my all time favorite episodes, I liked the whole plot and the ending with Lionel and the gun was just AMAZING.

[genvillewars92]

this was such a cool episode adam kind of freaked me out though

[tibbit78]

What did I think of Crisis?


What I liked about Crisis was Clark super-speeding to save Lana Lang from Adam Knight. He shot a few bullets and they hit Clark, and bounced off of him. Clark was trying to protect Lana from being hit by the bullets. That was the best part of Crisis. Clark asks Lana if she is okay. Adam Knight witnesses Clark Kent taking the bullet to protect Lana.

Adam says to Clark, "You took the bullet." And as usual, Clark plays dumb and answers Adam, "That's impossible."
Adam disagrees with Clark and says to Clark, "I saw you. Now I know why Lionel sent me to watch you. I guess I found out what I was looking for...just a little too late." Adam goes on to say to Clark, "He's not going to stop, Clark. I couldn't escape him. How long do you think you can?" Then Adam dies. (I felt so sorry for Adam. I really liked Adam at the beginning of Asylum, when he first met Lana at physical therapy. He was one of my favorite characters from the 3rd Season of Smallville. Lana and Adam were a cute couple).


I loved this Clark and Lana scene at the end of the episode. It was a nice conversation between Clark and Lana. This was my favorite part of the episode, Crisis:

Lana: "Clark, there's sometthing that I don't understand. How did you get from the Teen Crisis Hotline to the storage unit in a split-second?"

Clark: "It took me more than a few minutes. Maybe it had something to do with the weird time anomaly. You know, there's something that I don't understand, either. Why did you call the hotline instead of the police?"

Lana: "Because I knew you'd be there. Looks like we cheated fate."

Clark: "Barely. I was so afraid that I wouldn't get to you in time."

Lana: "I know. I spent the last 24 hours terrified of what might happen. But it all turned out okay. It made me realize how many decisions I make because I'm scared of how things will end up."

Clark: "We both do our share of that."

Lana: "Maybe it's time to stop being so afraid. I've always thought that my life was so mapped out for me, but...you know, maybe we have more control of the future than we think."

[kp1984]

This was a good one. I was thinking Adam might be weak to green K sense we had Clark blood in him. What I don't get is why Lana waited until she was alone to fight the dude. Why did'nt she fight him in front of Clark house. This way Chole and Jhonathan could have back him. Yeah Lana kick ass in this eposide. I saw this eposide for the frist time last night. Wonder if Lana will ever get to kick Lex ass like she did Adam

[e-µ-i]

I don't understand one thing about this episode. For several episodes there is this Adam character, that is actually resurrected and has to take a serum shots every 12 hours so he could live. Vince and him died of a liver disease. And taking the fact that Lionel financed the project, I assume he 'resurrected' those guys so he could cure himself. Am I right or have I misunderstood ???

[vyperman7]

I re-watched S3 a few weeks ago and there is one thing that really bugs me about this episode. The second time around, Lana knows that she dies from getting shot. When she is trying to escape near the end of the episode, Lana knocks Adam down twice. Both times she has more than enough time to grab the rifle and run away with it. Why didn't she just grab the rifle so that Adam couldn't shoot her??!! Both times she knocked him down and ran away without getting the rifle, I wanted to scream out "Just grab the gun you moron!"..LOL

[Nimkong]

This episode was good.I liked how it was a flashback(or flashforward),adam knight ending is pretty tight and liked the cliffhanger

[SGuthrie27]

Wow, I just rewatched this episode for the third or fourth time today and I STILL love it. It was a very unique premise, and I liked how elements of the phone call continued to play out as the episode continued. Granted, the whole "telephone lines falling into a meteor-rock-filled puddle" element was rather contrived, but "Crisis" was still full of pulse-pounding excitement, lots of fun little twists, and provided a nice resolution to the Adam Knight storyline while also moving Lionel into a different direction that would move things forward to the season finale, and put him even more at odds with Lex by framing him for Dr. Teng and the lab technicians' murders. I liked how Clark, Chloe, Lana, Pete, Lex, and the Kents all worked together to try to solve the mystery and save the day, too. GREAT episode!!!!

[Supsfan]

Wow, I just rewatched this episode for the third or fourth time today and I STILL love it. It was a very unique premise, and I liked how elements of the phone call continued to play out as the episode continued. Granted, the whole "telephone lines falling into a meteor-rock-filled puddle" element was rather contrived, but "Crisis" was still full of pulse-pounding excitement, lots of fun little twists, and provided a nice resolution to the Adam Knight storyline while also moving Lionel into a different direction that would move things forward to the season finale, and put him even more at odds with Lex by framing him for Dr. Teng and the lab technicians' murders. I liked how Clark, Chloe, Lana, Pete, Lex, and the Kents all worked together to try to solve the mystery and save the day, too. GREAT episode!!!!

The plot was to contrived for my tastes(the time travel thing) and I don't think I can use the words "nice resolution" and "Adam Knight" in the same sentence(one of my peeves with S3 was that storyline, it just seemed rather pointless). I do get a good chuckle how whenever Lana seems to volunteer her time stuff goes wrong, and it always seems like Pete is the second most generous person with his time.

[SGuthrie27]

The plot was to contrived for my tastes(the time travel thing) and I don't think I can use the words "nice resolution" and "Adam Knight" in the same sentence(one of my peeves with S3 was that storyline, it just seemed rather pointless). I do get a good chuckle how whenever Lana seems to volunteer her time stuff goes wrong, and it always seems like Pete is the second most generous person with his time.

That's true -- Pete and Lana were always up for helping out with various things, such as the blood drive in "Shimmer," the raffle in "Fever," and, in this case, the Crisis Hotline. Haha, you kind of have a good point about the Adam Knight deal not being the best resolution. It did seem they came to a pretty quick conclusion after doing pretty much nothing with his character for "Velocity" and "Obsession" other than have Lana get more and more suspicious of him. Lionel's plan for spying on Lana and Clark through Adam was pretty flawed from the get-go, looking at it in hindsight.

[Supsfan]

That's true -- Pete and Lana were always up for helping out with various things, such as the blood drive in "Shimmer," the raffle in "Fever," and, in this case, the Crisis Hotline.

I totally forgot about the raffle, but you forgot helping old people in hourglass. I honestly wish the producers went out of the way to make Lana and Pete's good willness a bit more believable(like maybe have them mention doing it once or twice in a few episodes before it happened). In the case of the Crisis hotline who the hell would be ok having 16 year olds dealing with suicidal teens.

[Raistlin]

I really liked the shot of the stormy sky over the Kent farm.

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I re-watched S3 a few weeks ago and there is one thing that really bugs me about this episode. The second time around, Lana knows that she dies from getting shot. When she is trying to escape near the end of the episode, Lana knocks Adam down twice. Both times she has more than enough time to grab the rifle and run away with it. Why didn't she just grab the rifle so that Adam couldn't shoot her??!! Both times she knocked him down and ran away without getting the rifle, I wanted to scream out "Just grab the gun you moron!"..LOLThe first time she went for the gun, Adam grabbed her and landed some pretty serious blows. When she hit him the second time, the rifle flew behind Adam which would have made Lana have to step over him to get it. He'd already stopped her once when trying to make the same move, and he wasn't unconscious, so grabbing the phone and hauling ass makes sense to me.