While his father is awaiting surgery, Clark befriends a young boy, Garrett, whose brother Vince just died from liver failure. However, everyone is shocked when Vince shows up at the hospital alive and seemingly well - until his liver starts failing again. In a desperate attempt to keep his brother alive, Garrett straps a kryptonite bomb to himself and demands that Vince be given Jonathan's liver or he will blow up the building. What made this episode interesting, was that Garrett wasn't presented as a villain. Instead, he was presented as a desperate young man who was trying to save his brother even if it meant using extreme ways to do so. I like it when every so often the guest star - particularly a meteor freak - is not presented as a villain. However, there are also different levels of villainy too.
While his father is awaiting surgery, Clark befriends a young boy, Garrett, whose brother Vince just died from liver failure. However, everyone is shocked when Vince shows up at the hospital alive and seemingly well - until his liver starts failing again. In a desperate attempt to keep his brother alive, Garrett straps a kryptonite bomb to himself and demands that Vince be given Jonathan's liver or he will blow up the building. What made this episode interesting, was that Garrett wasn't presented as a villain. Instead, he was presented as a desperate young man who was trying to save his brother even if it meant using extreme ways to do so. I like it when every so often the guest star - particularly a meteor freak - is not presented as a villain. However, there are also different levels of villainy too.
