Originally aired February 25, 2004
Written by Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
Directed by Terrence O'Hara
While Jonathan awaits heart surgery, Clark befriends Garrett, a classmate who just lost his older brother, Vince. When Vince later shows up alive but then begins dying again, Garrett straps a Kryptonite bomb to his chest and takes the hospital hostage, demanding that the doctors help Vince.
Tropes present in the episode:
- Affectionate Nickname: Vince called Garrett "runt," a name Garrett claims he hated.
- Anti-Villain: Garrett is a Type III. His actions are motivated by desperation to keep his brother alive.
- Applied Phlebotinum:
- Pete mentions that Vince, who worked in demolition, used Kryptonite to enhance his explosives.
- Dr. Teng used Clark's Kryptonian blood to create a serum that can bring people Back from the Dead.
- Back from the Dead: Vince, thanks to Dr. Teng's serum. It doesn't last, though.
- Bittersweet Ending: Jonathan survives his surgery, but in the end both Garrett and Vince die.
- Body Horror: Vince goes through the same thing as Adam when his liver starts to deteriorate (his skin turns yellow and starts peeling, and Tears of Blood).
- Code Silver: Garrett takes the Smallville Medical Center hostage.
- Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Heroic example. When Clark finds out people have figured out how to use his blood to resurrect the dead, he feels like he might have a moral responsibility to out himself to the world so that this research can be properly continued and have a renewable supply.
- Event Title: The title refers to Vince coming back to life.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Garrett has quite a temper. He himself admits this.
- Man Hug: Clark gives Jonathan one after the latter agrees to have heart surgery.
- Mundanger: Garrett has no superhuman powers.
- Mythology Gag: Clark remarks he always thought of his father as a "man of steel."
- Promotion to Parent: Vince looked after Garrett after their parents died.
- Relocating the Explosion: Clark does this with the Kryptonite bomb using a lead vest from a nearby radiology lab.
- Strapped to a Bomb: Garrett straps a Kryptonite bomb to his chest and takes the hospital hostage.
- Tears of Blood: Happens to Vince when he starts to deteriorate.
- Villain of the Week: Garrett Davis, a boy desperate to keep his older brother alive.
