Smallville - Roulette - Season 9 Episode 5 - WB

This episode was almost entirely about Ollie. I was a little thrown off at the beginning because of what I know about the Roulette character from the DC Universe. I was expecting Ollie to become a part of some kind of 'fight-club' or something. But it ends up that she's got entirely different motivations for going after Ollie. Things just go from bad to worse for him . . right from the very beginning. First he loses all his money at craps. He's in the club, Roulette . . also the woman operators alias. Anyways, she slips him a roofie and he wakes up in a coffin. Luckily it wasn't underground, just in a warehouse next to another one that says 'Alexander Luthor' on top. He's attacked by rabid dogs, and when he tries to hide in an abandoned vehicle, it's almost immediately smashed into by a steam-rolling semi. From there he tries to go back to the club and find out what Roulette has put him in the middle of, but . . the people that are after him are also there. They end up running, getting shot at, and Roulette is killed. At least Ollie thinks she is. He's then arrested, and when the FBI takes over the case they tell him to check his accounts. He does, and obviously they learn his password. They immediately begin draining everything. Clark hears him yelling and breaks him out, but when he goes back to the club to shoot Roulette, he almost kills Lois. And, when Roulette escapes, she's trapped under some burning timbers. Ollie goes to save her, and that's when it's revealed that this was all just a test. It appears that Chloe set up the whole thing to help Ollie find himself. And, luckily, it worked. Of course she had the secret help of the rest of the League members. All except Clark that is. He wasn't in on it. Later when Lois confronts Ollie about all of this, she wonders why he never came to talk to her. He almost intentionally blew himself up with the Toy-Man. What was so bad that he couldn't come to her? She offers a great piece of advice, 'Was the mess so bad that cleaning it up seemed harder than throwing it all away?' A lot of people should think about that with their problems. In the end, Ollie ends up on a rooftop with Clark. He's dressed in his Green Arrow gear. Meanwhile, Clark's involvement in this episode was mostly about trying to sort out his relationship with Lois, and . . he sees the woman assassin that came after him and Lois in the video of Ollie's bomb scare. He thought she was dead. She has a Kryptonian tattoo on her shoulder. He finds out from Jor-El that it's from Kandor. Chloe does a visual satellite search of the entire planet for Clark, and she finds this woman's counterparts . . everywhere. Apparently there's dozens of these Kandorians running around the planet. The question now is . . what is Clark going to do about it. I really like how they've developed Ollie's character on this series. With this episode, taking him to the bottom of the barrel and back, we didn't have to do the whole ship-wrecked on the island thing. Something I was thinking about though . . it would be nice to see Bruce Wayne show up in Metropolis. I know they probably won't do the whole Batman thing, but . . I think it would be interesting to see Bruce show up. I wonder if they'll ever do it? Anyways, great episode, and fantastic series. I love it!