Smallville 8x03 Toxic

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First Aired: Oct. 02, 2008 on The CW

Summary: When Oliver Queen is stricken by a slow-acting poison during a charity event, he remembers back to when he was stranded on a deserted island, learned how to use the bow and arrow... and met Tess.

Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Marcos	played by Ron Selmour
Megan	played by Andrea Lai
Adrianna	played by Barbara Kottmeier
Cab Driver	played by Peter Grasso

Episode Quotes

Davis Bloome: You must be Lois.
Lois Lane: You must be the one who's actually qualified to do this.
Davis Bloome: He's dying. I'm sorry.
Lois Lane: Here is what's gonna happen, Dimples. You are going to reach into that handy little tackle box of yours and pull us out a miracle. Oliver Queen does not die today.
Davis Bloome: The best I can do is keep him alive a few minutes longer.
Lois Lane: Then do it.

Lois Lane: [talking to Oliver, who has been poisoned and is unconscious]... Look at us, the noble couple. I let you go and in turn you were supposed to save the world. This Ollie, this isn't saving the world. Is it? This is you backing out on your end of the deal. You know maybe... maybe we had it wrong... Maybe our... story ends and neither of us our heroes... because you're not the only one who couldn't hold up his end of the deal. The truth is...

Lois Lane: sometimes I wonder if I should have ever let you go...

Davis Bloome: You know, there's nothing wrong with being smart.
Chloe Sullivan: When the seating chart at your wedding looks more like a Euclidean algorithm than a dining hall, you know you've got something seriously wrong.

Trivia

Elements of this episode, such as Oliver's green hood he wore while on the island, were taken from the recent comic series Green Arrow: Year One.
Tess's license plate reads NO MERCY.
Tess references the projects that Lex has named after constellations. This would include Project Ares, the super-soldier experiments that were made to house the abilities he had harvested during the Level 33.1 experiments, and Project Gemini, the LuthorCorp project dedicated to human cloning, accelerated growth, and memory implantation.
Lois refers to Oliver as "an icon; the man of tomorrow," and herself as "Lois Lane, the girl who writes about him," a reference to her role in the comics and films as Superman's primary love interest/reporter.