 On October 12, 1989, a meteor shower falls in the town of of Smallville, Kansas, killing numerous dwellers and destroying properties and plantations. Farmer Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) and his wife Martha Kent (Annette O Toole) are found by a baby boy in a destroyed cornfield after crashing their car. They find his spacecraft, and they adopt him. 12 years later, while in high school, the shy teenager Clark Kent (Tom Welling) has a crush on his neighbor Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), the cheerleader girlfriend of football player Whitney Fordman (Eric Johnson). Clark has two great friends, Chloe Sullivan (Allison Mack) and Pete Ross (Sam Jones III). He meets saves Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) from a car accident, in which the future super-hero and future super-villain become fast friends. Lex runs a fertilizer company under the guidance of his ruthless, megalomaniac, billionaire father, Lionel, who resides in the nearby city of Metropolis. Later, Jonathan tells Clark his origins from the outer space, and Clark finds his weakness with close exposure to meteor rocks (kryptonite), especially when Lana wears a meteor-rock necklace in remembrance of her parents who were killed during the meteor shower and she now resides with her aunt Nelle. Clark, weakened by kryptonite, gets beat up and humiliated by the jealous Whitney, which leads Clark to try to save his friends and enemies lives from a disturbed powerful electric man, who got his powers from exposure to meteor-rock radiation.