 Former tech-guy for the Torch, Gabriel Duncan, takes control of one of fifteen nuclear missile silos near Smallville. With the co-ordinates for Smallville locked in he starts the launch sequence with the intention of forever purging the town of the population of meteor freaks. Without his powers, Clark is put in an especially vulnerable position as he and Chloe frantically try to track Gabriel down before it s too late. Meanwhile, Lionel Luthor, still in a catatonic state, has scrawled symbols from the Kryptonian spaceship all over the walls of his padded cell.