Episode 3.15: Resurrection

Jonathan needs open heart surgery. Garrett needs to get his brother a liver transplant. But his brother has already died once and Garrett ain't willing to let it happen again. So he holds the hospital hostage. Meanwhile, Clark tracks down the laboratory that the brother was taken to, before he rose from the dead, in hopes of finding a cure. What he finds is Lex talking to the scientist that had worked for Lionel on Adam, whom she keeps alive in her lab, against Lionel's wishes. When Clark steals a vial that may contain the cure for Garrett's brother, he comes to realize that it is made from his own blood.

The kid they get to play Garrett isn't the best actor. He is either stone faced or shouting. They appear to be his only 2 settings. It doesn't help me warm to the guy. Neither does the character's justification for wanting to take Jonathan's liver. Especially after how good the Kent's have been to him.

I love the sheriff. She really does approach every situation as though she's back in the wild west.

The episode does pose an interesting dilemma for Clark. If his blood is the key to unlocking the secrets to regenerating dead tissue, surely he could save countless lives if he just came forward with his blood. I think an interesting answer to that quandry would be to say that we are simply not meant to live forever. That it is our sense of mortality that makes the time we've been given all the more important. Instead, we get a wishy washy response from Jonathan that doesn't really satisfy in this instance.

Also, how is it that Clark was unable to turn and catch the bullet that kills Garrett? We've seen him do it before where he hears a gun go off and then time slows down as we see Clark go into superspeed mode. Hell, he does it right here just moments later when he sees Garrett hit the trigger. I guess one could argue that Clark was just under a lot of stress due to his dad being worked on at that very moment, but it seems like a bit of a cop out to me.

Otherwise this is actually a fairly solid episode with a good story. I think better casting could have greatly improved it though.

7/10