- Title: Smallville – Shimmer
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Smallville Saturday takes us back to the time Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) had a stalker and an invisible attack roamed the halls of Smallville High School and the Luthor Mansion. Amy Palmer (Azura Skye) was the daughter of Lex’s maid and butler with a major crush on Lex. Awkward and lonely, Amy doesn’t take well to Victoria Hardwick‘s (Kelly Brook) addition to the household and throughout the episode we’ll see attacks on Victoria and those at the school who give Amy a hard time. Our invisible attacker, however, is revealed not to be Amy but her even creepier and overprotective brother Jeff (Birkett Turton) who discovered he extract the oil from meteor-infected roses to create a cream which could make him invisible.
The episode is notable for the invisible attacks which increase in frequency and violence including Jeff nearly drowning Victoria in a bath tub (in the episode’s creepiest scene). When not helping out Lex, and eventually saving him from Jeff’s wrath after sending the family away, our B-story involves Clark (Tom Welling) choosing to take his shot with Lana (Kristin Kreuk) after our show’s walking buzzkill Whitney (Eric Johnson) becomes distant leading to not one but two almost kissing moments between the pair. Once discovering the truth behind Whitney’s behavior, Clark pumps the breaks on his advance and, as a friend, informs Lana she needs to talk to her boyfriend about the health issues of his father which he’s been keeping from everyone.
Other notable aspects of the show include some subtle reminders of Chloe (Allison Mack) carrying a torch for Clark, Victoria’s snooping revealing Lex has his hands in Cadmus, and the inconsistent effect of the Kryptonite cream in Jeff affecting Clark, sometimes slowing him down and messing with his powers but other times not preventing his X-ray vision from seeing his skeleton or his invulnerability from kicking in when fighting Jeff in the Luthor Mansion at the end of the episode. It’s also the first, and with their dismissal the last, appearance of any member of the Palmer family (they were really good at being invisible wait staff, weren’t they?).
