Line #31 Recap/SmallvilleS01E06Hourglass


1	Originally aired November 20, 2001
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3	Written by Creator/DorisEgan
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5	Directed by Creator/ChrisLong
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7	Clark volunteers at a retirement home and befriends Cassandra Carver, an elderly woman with the power to see the future of anyone she touches. Cassandra touches Clark and tells him someone he loves will die soon. Harry Volk, another resident of the home, falls into a nearby pond lined with Kryptonite and comes out young again. However, Harry inflicted a sin in his youth and wants to punish the people via descendants who helped ruin his dream and life.
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9	!!Tropes present in the episode:
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11	* AlliterativeName: '''C'''assandra '''C'''arver.
12	* BigNo: Clark's reaction when he sees a vision of himself standing in a graveyard surrounded by millions of grave markers, including ones for his parents, Lana, Pete, and Chloe.
13	* BittersweetEnding: Clark manages to save some people from harm predicted in Cassandra's visions but Cassandra dies from seeing Lex's future ([[spoiler:as the BigBad]]).
14	* BlindSeer: Cassandra was blinded by a meteor that crashed in her backyard during the 1989 meteor shower, but gained precognitive abilities.
15	* BluffTheImpostor: Harry pretends to be from the Kents' gas company, and Martha asks him what happened to their usual guy, Kurt. Harry says he's on vacation, and shortly afterward realizes that was a bluff that made Martha realize he's an impostor. Unfortunately for her, when she goes to discreetly call for help, the phone lines are dead.
16	* DisproportionateRetribution: Harry killed a professor's son because said professor didn't recommend him for the Metropolis Conservatory. After becoming young gain, he plans to kill the descendants of the jurors who sentenced him to jail.
17	* DramaticIrony: Cassandra fortells that someone close to Clark will die soon. It turned out to be ''herself''.
18	* EvilOldFolks: Harry, when he's actually old. But mostly harmless, until...
19	* FountainOfYouth: A combo of Kryptonite chunks and electricity turns the pond by the retirement home into one for Harry.
20	* {{Herald}}: Cassandra tells Clark she thinks his destiny is to save people.
21	-->'''Cassandra''': Clark, I've seen you. Before we ever met. More than once, I've touched people and I've seen such pain and despair, but then you were there and the pain was gone. I think that's your destiny, Clark--to help people, to save them from fear and darkness.
22	-->'''Clark''': How?
23	-->'''Cassandra''': Well, that's for you to figure out. [[CallToAdventure You can fear the future or you can embrace it. The choice is yours.]]
24	* JackTheRipOff: Clark thinks one shows up after Harry was believed to be dead. Chloe finds it unlikely one would show up so soon.
25	* MeaningfulName: ''Cassandra'' is the name of the Oracle at Delphi in [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Ancient Greece]] whose prophecies were ignored by others because of a curse placed on her by the god Apollo.
26	* PresidentEvil: Lex in Cassandra's vision at the end.
27	* RainOfBlood: In Cassandra's vision, Lex is drenched with the rain of the blood of those he will kill.
28	* {{Seers}}: Cassandra can see the future of anyone she touches.
29	* SinsOfOurFathers: Once he becomes young again, Harry targets the descendants of the jurors who sentenced him to jail, including Jonathan (though he settles for trying to murder Martha when he finds Jonathan isn't home).
30	* SkywardScream: Clark lets one out during a vision of seeing all his loved ones dead.
31	* TimeShiftedActor: George Murdock plays Harry as an old man, while Creator/EricChristianOlsen plays his younger self.
32	* VillainInAWhiteSuit: Lex is wearing a crisp white suit in Cassandra's vision of [[PresidentEvil him as President of the United States]].
33	* VillainOfTheWeek: Harry Volk, who becomes young again and targets the descendants of the jurors who sentenced him to prison.
34	* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Clark's vision of the future? Himself, surrounded by the graves of his friends and family.

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