'Smallville' Season 10 Returns September 24th, Will Clark Finally Become Superman and Fly?

Zod (Callum Blue) has the Kandorians attack important locations around the planet and Chloe (Allison Mack) and Watchtower leads Earth's superhero to stop them.

Tess (Cassidy Freeman) battles Zod at the Fortress of Solitude to save Clark (Tom Welling) but Zod uses his heat vision to burn and destroys the Fortress console. Clark finds her and takes her to the hospital and tells him about a second console that can be used to activate the book.

Zod pretends to be as the Blur to convince Lois (Erica Durance) into getting him the Book of Rao, which he claims will help the Kandorians build the solar towers but really wants it for his own gain. The Red Queen aka Martha Kent (Annette O'Toole) had previously procured the book from Tess. Martha gave Clark the book after telling him it would send all Kryptonians to another planet to start over again. Then Lois took the book from Clark when she hugged him because he wasn't completely honest with her. Lois doesn't believe Zod is the Blur and keeps the artifact from him, which angers him and he proceeds to attack her. Clark shows up to stop him. Afterwards, Clark retrieves the book from Lois and after he kisses her, she realizes Clark is the Blur.

After the Kandorians destroy all of the watchtower satellites, Oliver (Justin Hartley) tells Chloe that he had a backup satellite built. Oliver goes to his satellite station to activate the transponders and allow watchtower to download from the satellite. While working in a satellite air duct, he is attacked by unknown beings who are not Kandorians.

As a last-ditch effort, Clark plans on opening the doorway to a New Krypton with the Book of Rao and taking the Kandorians with him. Zod shows up with the Kandorians to stop Clark. Clark argues with Zod, who inadvertently says that he murdered fellow Kandorian, Faora (Sharon Taylor) and her unborn child. The Kandorians overhear Zod and agree to Clark's plan to send them all to a New Krypton to live in peace. After the doorway is opened and the Kandorians are transported to the new planet, Zod plans on stabbing himself with blue kryptonite, which would allow him to remain behind on Earth to conquer it while his people are stuck on the new planet. Clark and Zod battle and Clark stabs himself with the blue kryptonite as he falls for the building and Zod is forced to teleport to new planet as well.

Unanswered Questions

The season 9 finale left us with several questions.

How will Clark recover from his fall and blue kryptonite stabbing?

What will Lois do about her newfound knowledge that Clark is the Blur?

Did Tess really die or will she recover and how? Will it be at the hands of the mysterious woman who entered her hospital room? If she recovers, will she still have allegiance to Clark?

Who are the beings that attacked Oliver in the satellite air duct whom Oliver said were are not Kandorians? Are they New Gods who are allies of Apocalypse?

What is Chloe going to do this season?

Might Perry White (Michael McKean) return this season in some capacity?

What role will Clark's superhero friends play this season?

Will Jor-El (Terence Stamp) play a big role this season?

Will we be seeing any of these characters this season? Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk), Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum), Lionel Luthor (John Glover), Jonathan Kent (John Schneider) or Pete (Sam Jones III).

Season 10

Season 10 will show the classic romance between Clark and Lois and Clark passes his final tests before taking his Superman's iconic identity.

Episode Synopses

Episode 1 Lazarus

"Lois finds Clark lifeless on the ground and removes the blue kryptonite dagger, leaving before Clark wakes up. Chloe continues to try and find Oliver, and Tess wakes up, resurrected in a LuthorCorp lab. Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent arrives to give Clark a message."

Episode 2 Shield

"Clark becomes involved in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse as he tries to protect Lois' replacement at the Daily Planet, who is being targeted by an assassin named Deadshot. Meanwhile, Hawkman introduces Lois, who currently resides in Egypt, to his wife, Shayera."

Character/Actor Spoilers

Cassidy Freeman returns as Tess Mercer as a regular.

Erica Durance returns for all 22 episodes

Justin Hartley returns for 17 episodes.

John Glover returns as Lionel Luthor for at least two episodes. At the end of season 7, Lex pushed him out of a window to his death, so he needs to be resurrected somehow.

John Schneider will returns as Clark's dead father, John Kent.

There are a few returning guest stars, such as Laura Vandervoort as Kara.

Allison Mack will not be a regular but will appear in a number of episodes to have a chance to tie up loose ends.

Callum Blue is gone.

Rumors

Clark Kent will most likely fly by the end of this season.

Darkseid will most likely be the super villain with the Apocalypse.

Parademons or Intergang might appear.

The CW has already decided to end Smallville with season 10 but Tom Welling hinted that Smallville might not be over if the fans want it.

Tom Welling really wants Lex Luthor and Lana Lang (Kristin Kreuk) back to return.

Michael Rosenbaum might return as Lex if enough fans ask them to.

Season 10 of Smallville returns Friday, September 24th at 8:00 PM Eastern on The CW.

Sources: buddytv, TV.com