QUEST review by Baudyhallee, OSCK Moderator,
Editing and additon of multi-media by Kate Blake, Admin OSCK
Serial television at its best carries the storylines forward in each episode. If it’s excellent serial television, each episode can stand alone in its own right. Quest, not filler, not exactly a stand alone episode, but it did carry the storyline straight into the season finale next week and it did continue Clark’s growth in APOCALYPSE. For THAT I am truly grateful. No backsliding this week for our hero. A major feat in itself.
This episode was written by Holly Harold (FIERCE).
My lame CW affiliate screwed up the first minute of the show by pausing on their local bozo’s plug for the CW. So I missed the introduction of Donnelly Rhodes character, the antiquities expert.
SV has some amazing actors come on the show to play these one shot vital parts. Tim Guinee (IRON MAN), Aaron Douglas (BSG), Robert Picardo (CB & ST), etc. I remember Donnelly Rhodes from the Young and the Restless and SOAP. He’s done Wonder Woman, X-files, Supernatural and BSG since then. Before that he did Maverick and Wagon Train (what was he, 12?) There’s a comfort level that’s achieved when you see him on screen. He’s taken you on a journey before and he made it believable.
Lex has “hired” this antiquities expert to examine the cryptograph (on this show you want to spell it ‘kryptograph’) he brought back from Zurich. Milasch, the expert, wants to take it with him to study it. Lex refuses saying it’s priceless. Milasch says, “If there is not way to decipher its meaning then your priceless heirloom has no value at all.” Good words to ponder. A security detail is assigned to the expert so he can examine the cryptograph further in his shop.
Lex is attacked in his own home and carved with a knife. A diamond with a cross is sliced into his chest. Very graphic. Queasy graphic. A minion calls an ambulance.

Smallville Medical Center. Lex is sewn up. Also very graphic, but we have to have a close up of these symbols. The assailant was the bank manager in Zurich, who presumably was guarding the safety deposit box. Lex realizes his attacker is after the cryptograph. Read more »
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