1x01 Pilot - Smallville Episode Guide

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Smallville

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: Pilot
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 475165
First Aired: Oct. 16, 2001

Season 1 » Episode #01 - Pilot

Summary: A meteor shower rains destruction on the small town of "Smallville", Kansas. Twelve years later, a young Clark Kent learns his true origins from his protective foster parents. As his powers start to emerge, Clark struggles to fit in among his peers. It is up to him to finally learn more about his past and the secret that surrounds him.

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Clip: Clark Kent Arrives in Smallville (3:01)

Clip: Lex Rescues Clark (2:18)

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Guest Stars:

Nell Potter	played by Sarah-Jane Redmond
Jeremy Creek	played by Adrian Mcmorran
Young Lana Lang	played by Jade Unterman
Young Clark Kent	played by Malkolm Alburquenque
Young Lex Luthor	played by Matthew Munn
Bill Ross	played by Dee Jay Jackson
Dale Ross	played by Alvin Sanders
Garage Worker	played by Steve Bacic
Teen Jostled by Whitney	played by Justin Chatwin

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Episode Quotes

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot

Lana: Nietzsche? I didn't know you have a dark side, Clark.
Clark: Doesn't everyone?
Lana: So what are you: Man or Superman?
Clark: I haven't figured it out yet.

Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot

Jonathan Kent: Kids just don't fall out of the sky, Martha.
Martha Kent: Then where did he come from?
Jonathan Kent: I don't know. But he must have parents.

Martha Kent: Well, if he does, they're definitely not from Kansas.
Jonathan Kent: Sweetheart, we can't keep him. What are we gonna tell people? We found him out in a field?
Martha Kent: We didn't find him... he found us.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: In the pilot episode Lionel calls his company Lexcorp, just like in the comics, however in subsequent episodes it was renamed to LuthorCorp.
CONT: When Lex is about to hit Clark with his car, Clark alternates between facing the car and facing the bridge.
CONT: Closeups and wide shots on the Wall of Weird show different things next to each other. Watch the objects surrounding the finger article and the Wall of Fire article in the wide shot on Chloe, then look again at the closeups.
CONT: After the meteor shower, the bit of hair that Mr. Luthor finds in the cornfield changes in his hands from stretched straight to curled.
CREW: When Clark finds Lex in the Luthor mansion, they walk down the hall and into a new room. As they enter, as Lex is saying "So, how's the new ride?" if you look in the bottom left of the screen you can see a white tape marker on the floor, where Lex will walk over to subsequently.

TRIVIA

Chloe hands Pete Ross a wad of cash. Most likely an in-joke from the Canadian production crew, if you look carefully, you can see a Canadian $5 bill sticking out of it.
Lex Luthor was 9 years old at the time of the meteor shower (1989), making him 21 as of this episode.
This Pilot Movie includes the episodes Pilot & Metamorphisis edited together as a 2 hour movie.
Lionel Luthor is reading a newspaper which shows a headline about "Queen Industries" which, in the D.C. Comics, is owned by Oliver Queen, a.k.a. the Green Arrow. In the sixth season, Justin Hartley joined the cast as Oliver Queen.
Cynthia Ettinger was originally cast as Martha Kent. Before the pilot was broadcast, the role was re-cast with 'Annette OToole (I) and her scenes were edited into the existing footage.