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Apr 17, 2008 · "Descent" is the sixteenth episode in the seventh season of Smallville, and the one hundred-forty-eighth episode overall. It aired on April 17, 2008. The secret of Veritas leads Lex in a dangerous direction that puts Clark and Lex in each others' crosshairs. → see also Category:Screencaps from episode 7x16 At LuthorCorp, Lionel enters his office to find Lex there waiting for him. Lex asks ...
Apr 17, 2008 · Descent: Directed by Ken Horton. With Tom Welling, Michael Rosenbaum, Kristin Kreuk, Allison Mack. Despite his father's warning, Lex still finds himself in a power struggle from within over the secret to The Traveler...with some deadly results.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Ken Horton
- 2008-04-17
Lex wrestles the locket (with the second key for the strongbox in Zurich) from Lionel's neck and pushes him down the Luthorcorp skyscraper to his death. Clark believed Lionel protected the secret for his Kryptonian sake, and finds confirmation. There are more murderers at work, notably Lex's assistant Gina who is specifically after the secret.
Apr 18, 2008 · "Descent" was a fantastic episode and we'd love to see Smallville maintain this level of excellence over the course of the rest of the season. With Gough and Miller departing, I expect the end of ...
The fact is despite "Descent" including possibly the greatest openings scene in Smallville history, the episode just keeps getting better as the story progresses. Lex continues his journey to the dark side, which includes it's most dramatic shift in this episode, and will come to it's climax in the season finale.
Descent was so good! Lex once said that kings and queens would come to Lionel funeral whereas Jonathon Kent would have a funeral attended by his friends. Lionel has cast aside the kings and queens for a pursuit of good, yet he wasn't good enough to have friends attend his funeral.
There's a lot to laugh about when it comes to Smallville, it's obviously a mid-2000's CW teen show with all of the associated cheese... but the characterization of Lex was prestige television. I genuinely believe his descent into evil over the course of six seasons is the best of its kind on TV.
