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Vancouver, Canada :: Tom Welling films a scene for Smallville late last month, flying through the air as Clark Kent (with the gracious help of two steel cables latched onto his back). It’s for the Smallville episode "Fade" airing next Thursday, April 27. Inset :: Tom and Allison Mack (reporter and best friend Chloe Sullivan) smile on before the cameras roll.  More pictures in the gallery!

Tom Welling gets his hair and make-up done before filming a
scene where he has to bring an unknown character to safety.

"Mercy" Synopsis :: A masked tormentor (guest star Ian Tracey) takes Lionel (John Glover) hostage and orchestrates a series of elaborate games that Lionel must win in order to stay alive. After Clark (Tom Welling) tells Martha (Annette O’Toole) that Lionel knows his secret, she sets out to confront him, but inadvertently becomes a pawn in the tormentor’s game and ends up fighting for her life. The role of "Oni Demon/Lincoln Cole" is being cast, as is a "Limo Driver."

Smallville gods, please have mercy.  Why has your show been sucking donkeys so much lately?  I seriously don’t know why I watch anymore! Smallville episode "Mercy" airs on Thursday, April 20 @ 8/7c on The WB.  More episode stills in the gallery!

Tom Welling (wearing his wedding ring) really is Superman — at least for the April 13 episode, when he makes his directorial debut on his show.  "Going into it I was apprenhensive about what I didn’t know, but I knew I had a good team around me, says Welling (with costars Michael Rosenbaum and Kristin Kruek).  "Everyone was really fantastic and supportive."  Smallville episode "Fragile" airs on Thursday, April 13 @ 8/7c on WB.

Here are some candid pictures I found floating around the Internet of Smallville‘s Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) chillin’ with a few female friends.  Anyone know what his left bicep tattoo says?   Smallville is all new this week with episode "Hypnotic" airring this Thursday @ 8PM ET/PT on the WB.  In this episode, Lex recruits Simone (Nichole Hiltz) to put Clark (Tom Wellling) under her "supernatural spell"  to reveal Clark’s secrets and break Lana (Kristin Kreuk) and Clark up. Lex’s plan backfires, however, and Simone then hypnotizes Clark and sends him to kill Lex. Dun dun dun.  Bigger pictures in the gallery!

Lex Luthor (Michael Rosenbaum) travels to the Hondouran
jungles in search of Brainiac/Professor Fine (James Marsters).

Lex (Michael Rosenbaum) heads to Honduras to confront Brainiac (James Marsters) in the March 30 episode.  The scenes set in the Honduran jungle were really shot in Surrey, British Columbia, at the Green Timbers Urban Forest, where the crew brought in half a dozen truckloads of plants such as bamboo and gern to create the tropical look.

Smallville episode "Hypnotic" reveals Brainiac’s plan to release Zod from the Phantom Zone, enlisting an unwitting Lex Luthor in making the world kneel before Zod. Brainiac uses Lex’s fixation on the spaceship as a way to free General Zod. Smallville episode "Hypnotic" airs on Thursday, March 30th at 8PM/ET on TheWB. More pictures in the gallery!