Wait a moment! Michael Rosenbaum is wearing a Talkville shirt! Is he allowed
to do that? I know that for rock groups it's considered bad style for band
members to wear their own group's shirt on stage, but what's the etiquette for
podcasts?
There's something I should have done long ago, but I've neglected it until
now. This is a gallery of the Smallville opening credits:
The only change from the opening credits in season one is that Eric Johnson
(Whitney Fordham) has been replaced by John Glover.
Now to "Duplicity" itself, the third episode of season two. It begins with
Dr. Hamilton visiting Lex Luthor in his mansion. Lex has summoned him because he's
been causing problems at Cadmus Labs, starting fights with the employees.
Dr. Hamilton is obviously ill. His hand is shaking violently, as if he has an
acute case of Parkinson's Disease. Lex fires him, but promises to pay his
medical treatment.
Dr. Hamilton drives home, but on the way he drops his pills and tries to pick
them up off his car floor while he's driving. A van has to swerve to avoid him
and falls off the road. Dr. Hamilton drives away when he sees another car arrive.
It's Pete Ross. Pete finds the
van overturned in the cornfield. Pete drags him out, but he also sees a
spaceship in the field, the ship that crashed in
the season's first episode.
The next day Pete shows Clark the spaceship. The police haven't visited the
crash scene yet, so Pete says they should take the ship away before anyone
else sees it. Pete wants to borrow Clark's father's truck. Pete insists on
taking it back to his own house, despite Clark's protests.
In the hospital the injured van driver, Ray Wallace, has been babbling about
having seen a spaceship. Dr. Hamilton goes to the field and finds nothing, so
he visits Ray in the hospital. Ray tells him that he was rescued by Pete Ross.
In a town as small as Smallville everyone knows everyone. Ray recognises
Dr. Hamilton as the man who ran him off the road, so Dr. Hamilton panics and
increases Ray's morphine dosage, killing him.
Clark and his father drive to Pete's house at night to steal the spaceship,
but it's already gone. Dr. Hamilton has taken it. Pete sees the Kents drive
away, so the following day he accuses Clark of having taken it. Clark denies
it, but Pete accuses him of lying and says their friendship is over. Pete
drives away angrily, so Clark overtakes the car and stops it, revealing his
speed and strength. He tells Pete that he's an alien and arrived on Earth in
the spaceship. Pete freaks out at Clark having kept this secret from him his
whole life and wants nothing more to do with him.
Dr. Hamilton can't open the spaceship, but he sees a space where the octagonal
key fits. He goes to Luthor Mansion to ask Lex for the key, but Lex says it
was lost in the tornado. Dr. Hamilton goes to Pete's barn to search for the
key. Pete interrupts him, but Dr. Hamilton overpowers him. Pete says that the
ship belongs to someone powerful, almost giving away Clark's secret.
Dr. Hamilton ties up Pete and takes him back to his own home. He can't get
Pete to give any more details. He says that his shaking is the result of too
much contact with the meteor rocks, so he'll inject Pete with a serum made of
the meteor rocks if he doesn't talk. Clark arrives just in time and saves
Pete, but he's weakened when the serum runs out. Dr. Hamilton quickly realises
what's happening and tries to pour a beaker with the serum onto Clark, but
Pete knocks him over and Dr. Hamilton pours the serum on himself.
Dr. Hamilton's shaking becomes so bad that he dies.
A subplot is that Lana's Aunt Nell wants to marry an insurance agent called
Dean Winters. Lana doesn't like this, so she makes excuses to stay away from
her house. She sleeps in the Talon, telling her aunt that she had a sleepover
at Chloe's house.
The episode's title comes from the multiple deceptions in the episode. Clark
lies to Pete, Lana lies to her aunt, Clark keeps secrets from Lana, Lionel has
been lying to Lex for years. In the podcast Michael Rosenbaum counts the
deaths and saves every episode, but he should also count the lies. Who lies
most? Is it Clark or Lex? I don't know, but it must be close.
Lana Lang's words are wise beyond her years. She knows that Clark is keeping
secrets from her, but she has no idea what they are. If Clark had been honest
to her, they could have become lovers long ago. She has feelings for Clark,
but she can't trust him.
I couln't help finding Chloe extremely attractive in this episode. Maybe Clark
is interested in the wrong girl. He could have carried on with her after the
spring formal.
What do you think? She's beautiful, isn't she?
In the podcast Michael Rosenbaum confesses that he can't remember the episode
at all. He can only remember that he was happy to work with the director Steve
Miner. Steve signed Michael's DVDs of "House", "House 2" and "Lake Placid".
Michael claimed that Steve directed all three films, but he didn't direct
"House 2".
Tom Welling doesn't remember much about the episode, but he remembers playing
basketball with Sam Jones.
One interesting thing came up in the conversations. Tom Welling quoted the
famous words of Ben Parker,
"With great power comes great responsibility", and Michael didn't
recognise the quote. I thought these were words that everyone would know.
Michael said that he's never watched the Spider-Man films; none of them. He's
missing out. Even if he's not a Marvel fan, he should watch the Sam Raimi
Spider-Man films. I want to hear what his rose'n'bomb ratings for the films
are. If he doesn't give them three roses, I'll be very disappointed.
The Talon is shown twice in the episode. Someone should really help Lana with
her spelling. I'm an open Mike, never duplicitous, but you don't use me for singing. You use an
open mic. It's a big difference.
But at least the Talon has the best cappuccino in Smallville. I won't argue
with that. Probably the best espresso as well.
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