Episode 4.15 - Sacred

 

Written By: Brian Peterson and Kelly Souders
Directed by: Brad Turner
Original Air Date: February 23, 2005

The WB’s Official Description - CLARK AND LANA HEAD TO CHINA IN SEARCH OF A KRYPTONIAN CRYSTAL - After learning that Jason (Jensen Ackles) and Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) are in China searching for one of the mysterious kryptonian crystals, Clark (Tom Welling) and Lana (Kristin Kreuk) follow in the hopes of finding it first. Clark finds an artifact that leads them to the crystal, but he must battle Isobel, the witch, who has once again inhabited Lana’s body in order to take the crystal for herself. Meanwhile, Lex has more information on the crystals than he is letting on.

 

 

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No songs were heard during this element stone-seeking episode.

Jonathan: Clark, Martha. I think you should see this.

[clark and Martha join Jonathan, as the television news broadcast explains...]

Anchor: We have breaking news from New York. Here is our correspondent Tom Florence.

Correspondent: Thank you, Carol.

[Dr. virgin Swann's picture appears on the TV screen.]

Correspondent: We have just confirmed that Dr. Virgil Swann
passed away this morning. No further details have been released.

[Clark is stunned.]

Correspondent: The reclusive billionaire will be remembered
as one of the leading philanthropists of his generation. Along with
starting the Virgil Swann Charitable Foundation…

Clark: I don’t understand. I just talked to him last week.

Jonathan: I’m sorry, Clark. I truly am.

Martha: We both are.

Clark: [feeling lost] There was still so much I needed to
learn from him about Krypton and Jor-El.

Martha: We can be thankful for everything he did pass on to
you.

Clark: [reading] “Kal-El, I wish I could continue this
journey with you, but now you must seek out your father… If I
sheltered you from him for too long, forgive me. Jor-El sent you on
a mission. He’s the only one who can help you finish it. I am
returning something that is rightfully yours. I know that it will
lead you to your destiny.” [The octagonal disk is back.]

Jor-El: I knew you would return, my son.

Clark: Why’d you send me to find this?

Jor-El: Because you may be the last survivor of a great
civilization.

Clark: A great civilization that destroyed itself!

Jor-El: [to Clark] You must find the other two stones. The
fate of your world lies in your hands — Kal-El.

Jason: [cell phone] Hello?

Lex: If I didn’t know better, I’d think you skipped town on
me.

Jason: Lex — Yeah, I was going to call you. Something came
up. I had to leave work early.

Lex: To what, catch the next flight to Shanghai?

Jason: [surprised] What?

Lex: Why don’t you turn around?

[Jason turns around to find Lex looking right at him. Lex hangs up
his phone, walking toward Jason.]

Lex: You didn’t really think I’d hire you, bring you into my
life, and not follow every step you take, did you?

Jason: Lex…

Lex: I know my father gave you a map, Jason. And I know you
figured out that it leads to a temple just outside the city, but if
you think you’re gonna find that stone without me, you’re mistaken.

Jonathan: Even if you were to find the stones, Son, we have
no idea what’s gonna happen if– if you bring them all together.

Clark: I know, Dad. But if I don’t find them, someone else
will.

Lionel: [to Lana] I’m sorry. I-I thought Jason would’ve told
you what’s happening, considering you were the one born right into
the middle of all this. You should know, Miss Lang, how thoroughly
Jason and Lex have been studying Isobel Theroux, your rebellious
ancestor.

Lionel: [to Lana] Your kinship with Isobel may not be a
secret, but are you aware that Jason is a direct descendent of the
duchess, Gertrude?

Clark: Lana, what’s going on?

Lana: Which part? The immaculate tattoo, the fact that I seem
to be a harboring a 16th century witch, or that Jason and Lex took
off with a map to uncover it all behind my back?

Clark: Why would they do that?

Lana: I don’t know, but Jason said that we were gonna figure
this out together. But it turns out he has a rather limited
definition of “we”.

Clark: Well, maybe he has a good reason why he’s not being
open with you. Don’t you think you owe him a chance to explain?

Lana: Clark, you know I don’t give up on someone that easily.
[At this, Clark lowers his eyes.] But I’m not gonna just let him lie
to me, even if it is for a good reason.

Clark: Well, then I’m going with you.

Clark: [to Lana] I’m not letting you go alone.

Lex: Then why does this stone even matter to you?

Jason: ‘cause until I find it, Lana’s not gonna be safe.

Lex: Safe from what?

Jason: From my mom. From Lionel, from you. I don’t know, Lex,
you tell me.

Lana: Clark, um, I’m sorry. I– I feel like you’re the only
person in my life right now who doesn’t have an agenda.

Clark: Lana, whatever their motives are, I’m sure they still
care about you.

Lana: That still doesn’t change the fact that everybody seems
to know more about me than I do.

Clark: It must be scary to think that someone out there has a
plan for you, but you don’t know what it is yet.

Lana: [to Clark] It’s funny. The two people I ended up
trusting are Lionel Luthor and you.

Lex: Come on, Jason. You wouldn’t have lied to Lana and come
all the way here unless you knew the secret to reading that map.

Jason: No, I lied to Lana to protect her.

Lex: Oh, right, I forgot — Lana’s new self-appointed hero.
She seems to have a way of attracting them.

Jason: Yeah, it looks that way.

Professor: There’s a myth that claimed an all-powerful god
that came from another world and hid a treasure there. The god left
some kind of map to it. But the map was stolen centuries ago by
European bandits. As far as we know, they never found the treasure.

Guard: [to Lex] There are people who have more money than
you.

Isobel: [to Clark] You put up a better fight last time.

Isobel: [angry, to Clark] Nobody has sacrificed as much as I
have for these stones.

Clark: They don’t belong to you.

Isobel: And you think they were meant for you? They were left
for nobody. The god of this temple hid them for his return.

Clark: Seeing you speak Latin and throw those guys around the
room like toothpicks is kind of weird. And even when Isobel’s gone,
sometimes I look at you and there’s a part of you I don’t recognize
anymore.

[Lana smiles, laughs softly.]

Clark: What?

Lana: I’m sorry, it’s just that… Do you know how funny that
sounds coming from you?

[Clark smiles.]

Clark: [to Lana] I get the feeling that our lives are a lot
less random than we think.

Lex: Come on, Dad. You stole copies of my map and gave them
to Lana and Jason. You used them.

Lionel: No, Lex, it was you who was using them. And you’ll do
far worse to find those stones.

Lionel: You have a ferocious desire to find all the answers,
son, but don’t let you search for those stones turn into your
personal Tower of Babel.

Lex: I’m not trying to get closer to God, Dad. I’m trying to
solve the riddles He’s laid out for me.

Lionel: Did you ever think there might be a reason why we
weren’t given the answers?

Lex: To challenge us?

Lionel: Or maybe to humble us. Knowledge comes from finding
the answers, yes, but understanding what the answers mean is what
brings wisdom. Men who didn’t understand the difference have been
the ruin of some of the world’s greatest civilizations.

[Sincere, Lex puts his hand on Lionel's shoulder...]

Lex: Is that why you stopped looking for the stones? [Lionel
laughs, does not answer.] Because you’re afraid?

Lionel: No. No, I stopped because I realized that even if I
find the three stones, I’m not gonna find what I’m really looking
for. Neither will you.

Jason: [to Lana, after gifting her the stone element] I got
it for you. All I care about is protecting you, okay? You’re the
only one in my life that matters to me.

Martha: Clark, I don’t understand. If these stones were
intended for you to find, why would they be surrounded by
kryptonite?

Clark: It makes me wonder if they really were meant for me.
But right now we have another problem. Before he died, Dr. Swann
sent me one last e-mail. He said he’d been searching for the stones
for years, and even with the vast resources at his disposal, it was
futile. I was his last hope. That’s why he asked Bridgette Crosby to
give me the one stone he did find.

Martha: Which stone?

Clark: That’s the thing. I called her numbers. They were all
disconnected. No one even claims to have known her. It’s like she
never existed.

Voice of Dr. Swann: Kal-El, you must write your own destiny.

 
 

Quote of the week:

Clark: It’s hard to believe we were driving by cornstalks
this morning.

Lana: We are definitely not in Kansas anymore.