Smallville Season 9 Episode 11: Absolute Justice

This week’s two-hour episode of Smallville borrows elements from several well-established comic franchises: A dab of Watchmen here, a smidge of Marvel’s Civil War there, and of course, the JSA.  Things start off with Chloe blowing up Clark’s phone, telling him that they need to start taking their Super Clique more seriously when she runs into a man with a huge glowing staff named Sylvester Pemberton.  Pemberton tells her that they are both trying to put together a team and that he knows all about Watchtower.  He assures her that he’s a friend, right before he chucks her in a dumpster and fights off some sort of creature that sends atomic icicles everywhere, riddling him with holes.  When Chloe hops out of the dumpster, she tries to tend to Sylvester who manages to squeak out some cryptic last words to her: Check.    

Since it wouldn’t be an episode of Smallville without a trip to the hospital, Chloe is checked out and tells Clark what happened before she clones the data from Pemberton’s phone to her own Super Phone to get a bead on who Sylvester was. She discovers the last person he talked to (for 30 minutes… Sylvester must have a great calling plan!) was a Wesley Dodd.