Important Continuity Warning: This movie completes the timeline divergence of Smallville begun in Season's One & Two of WiS. This represents an alternate Smallville Season Four cliffhanger/Season Five opener, and all events from those seasons are invalidated and replaced by what goes on here.
Lionel’s experiments in Grizzly Peak unleash a kryptonite powered plague that turns the citizens into the walking dead. Isabelle Theroux comes out to play one more time to acquire a lost Kryptonian artifact from the lab. Clark is rendered powerless by the airborne kryptonite particles. The Gang separates the witch from the girl with the help of Clark and black kryptonite, and Lana winds up shooting her in the head before she can kill them all. The damage is done and the bloodied artifact calls the Disciples of Zod to Grizzly Peak which is destroyed in the ensuing meteor shower. Kei uses the Scythe to kill one of them, much to the arrogant superbeings surprise. Clark uses their own Phantom Zone gateway to imprison the remaining survivor.
The gang recovers what they can from the wreckage of their former homes and have to decide where to go from here. The gang turns over evidence proving Lionel intentionally ignored the government mandate, and Lionel is arrested for federal crimes. LuthorCorp collapses, and Lex purchases what he can as the company goes under and re-opens under the name LexCorp. Many of the LuthorCorp assets are taken by Vorschlag Industries and New Canaan Technologies, as well as a newcomer, SeraphCo. LexCorp starts off with a much weaker position than its former incarnation. The gang settles on moving to Seattle, where Alex buys a new club, and the others transfer to the University of Seattle to continue their degrees. Matt abandons his old identity, and changes his name to Deveraux.
Several months after the destruction of Grizzly Peak, Lex goes to Lexa with a video revealing that the newly formed LexCorp has had war declared on it by a mysterious man Dante recognizes as his deceased father, claiming some kind of ancestral feud. A few days later, the city of Minneapolis is destroyed by the grief of a young, yet powerful, uncontrolled necromancer. While investigating the ruins, seeking the teenage boy responsible, Lexa and her mother meet for the first time, face to face. The woman is obviously changed, and everyone can tell she's undead, yet neither Lexa nor Alex feel she is a vampire.
Across the globe, Willow and the Coven are attacked by a cloaked figure using long range assault weaponry, killing them before they could defend themselves. Meanwhile, Lexa chases her mother across the empty city, until they come to the boy. He tells Lexa of how his family labored under an ancient curse, made by a pact between his ancestor and a demon. His mother went to end the bargain and never returned. Without her, his power was running out of control. He asks Lexa to kill him before anyone else dies, and the young Slayer obliges him, tears in her eyes.
At that precise moment, a mysterious robed figure enacts a powerful necromantic ritual in the city of Chicago with the reluctant help of Julia Delaney, which tilts the world towards death and entropy, empowering not only vampires and necromancers, but the Slayers as well. Dahlia goes leaping off, and a silent, almost feral Lexa gives chase.
Unable to keep track of her apparently quite powerful mother, Lexa takes the boy's story and tracks the demon down to a nearby cemetary. She kills the demon responsible for the boy’s curse, just as a series of black SUVs pulls up. Out comes Dahlia, flanked by a middle-aged man in suit and a red-haired woman Dante recognizes as HIS mother, Tamara. The man introduces himself as Michael Forelli, head of the Office of Supernatural Investigations (OSI). They are a black-bag agency so off the books, most don't even know they exist. They had Dahlia raised, and inadvertently got Tamara as a freebie. They were in town for the demon, but Lexa obviously beat them to it.
The gang refuses to let them just leave, and reluctantly, Forelli invites them along on a raid on one of Warren Townsend's safehouses. No one is surprised to hear he's been behind several of the mysterious attacks and thefts that have plauged them for the last year or so, and that Dahlia has been hunting him since her death. It seems he and his brother, Samuel (Lexa's father), had learned that Dahlia could be used as a kind of mystical battery and were in a private struggle for that power. The drain on her had left her with terminal cancer, which became irrelevant seeing as how Warren was responsible for the accident that killed her, albeit that hadn't been his plan. He merely wanted Samuel dead, and the struggle with the assassin sent the plane down. Now was her chance for revenge, and she intended to take it.
Warren's retreat was a small complex in the mountains of Washington. OSI storms the facility and together, Warren's scheme is stopped, and the strange demonic ally that was offering him protection and power abandoned him to his fate. Before he can unleash another magical attack, Dahlia triggers the device she stole last season and renders him mystically impotent forever. Forelli is impressed by everyone's performance and offers them all jobs with OSI, since they already know about the organization and work towards the same goals. After some debate, everyone accepts.
While clearing out Warren’s mountain hideaway, Dante is killed by a demolition charge and Kei is dropped into a coma. Lexa decapitates the helpless Warren in a rage as he gloats over having hurt her as he has been hurt. Once back in Seattle, the gang tries to help Lexa cope with her grief, but she just withdraws from the world. Matt leaves after a tearful Lexa demands to know why he didn’t get a vision warning them of this. Dante’s wake brings her somewhat out of her shell as she is forced to say goodbye to him. Jack says goodbye one last time, as he rejoins the Atlantis expedition. As the gang seems on the verge of fracturing, Dawn steps up and holds everyone else together.
A week later, Alex and Lexa are preyed upon by a psychic skilled in illusions who traps them in a false world for most of the episode, tormenting them with visions of their dead loved ones, before being given a fictitious offer of gaining higher perception in an attempt to keep them out of the game for a while. They eventually see through the deception and break free. The psychic is captured and revealed that she was hired by Wolfram and Harte. She is given over to OSI custody.
Matt returns battered and bloodied, and baby Jessica is abducted by the same cloaked figure that attacked the coven. The figure is revealed to be an agent of a deadly figure who is known as “Uriel” or "the Angel of Death”. The gang goes to work for OSI full-time, and manages to arrange a trap for one of these cloaked figures, after tracking one of them to an arms dealer in Buenos Aires. Once capture, it's some kind of skinless automaton with a direct psychic link to their master. The mysterious Uriel is revealed to be the same man who has gone after LexCorp: Dante’s father, resurrected by the same wild surge that restored Dahlia and Tamara. He assures Lexa that the child will be raised in safety, but that it will be by him, not her. To add icing to the cake, Matt reveals that he’s lost his visions from the PTBs.
Alex’s latest acquisition, Club Trinity, in Seattle, picks up with its grand re-opening. Kei has taken over as singer for Dante’s band. At their first concert, a group of lycanthropes attack Alex and Lexa, believing them to be responsible for a rash of lycan murders over the last few months. Oz shows up and gets everyone to play nice. The gang investigates the deaths and learns of the other major players in the city: a relatively young vampire named Bishop who operates more like a mafia don; Rudolfde Laurentis, an old world coven leader like the master; Viktor, a German native who heads the local werewolves; and Rachel, a twisted psycho of a werecougar who runs the red light districts. Danika moves to town and vamps Alex. The killer is revealed to be a hitman acquaintance of Julia. Fortunately, he fills his contract before the gang is forced to confront him directly. Alex assures the lycan communities that the deaths have ceased. They aren't pleased but take no further aggressive action.
Hoping to get away for the holidays, the gang goes on a little Caribbean cruise that turns out to be very haunted. Alex stops a woman possessed by the ghost from randomly murdering one of the yeomen, but the spirit winds up in Lexa instead, drawn to her grief over having lost her daughter. The gang drives it out of Lexa, but it then moves into Kei, determined to carry out its mission of vengeance. The ghost is after the husband who murdered her on this very ship 5 years earlier and the crew members who were responsible in covering it up as an accident. Matt decides to kill the ghost’s husband, before either of the Slayers is forced to do it against their will. Lexa stops him and does it herself, saying she's the Slayer. This is her calling. Matt lets her, surprised by her willingness to do this: Lexa had always found killing defenseless opponents abhorrent. Dawn witnesses the two arguing over who gets to kill the man and flees the deck. Matt and Lexa wind up bonding while he and Dawn try to reconcile his actions.
OSI gives the gang an assignment to steal an artifact from a display at a Vegas casino. They discover the new casino owner is possessed by a demon she inadvertantly released from the artifact before they could acquire it, and have to kill her. Realizing her duties as Slayer will never allow her to become a doctor as she had hoped, Lexa gives up on her medical degree and decides to pursue a career in business instead. She calls in her favor with Lex and convinces the gang to cobble the resources to buy the highly leveraged casino for a song. She then returns control of the casino to its extremely competent staff. She intends to use the influx of money from the casino to expand into other enterainment businesses, which she can then turn towards non-profit ventures like medical research.
As the weeks pass, OSI sends them on more artifact recovery missions, hoping to lure our Uriel's soldiers, if not the man himself. The latest one is in the possession of a French information broker who just happens to be hosting a party that weekend. Alex discovers another puma totem warrior named Li Dei, and gets sucked into her quest for revenge (what was there, a special on vengeance this year?) when she storms the party and threatens some of the guests. He helps her escape, but almost blows the operation, which pisses Lexa off, as she sees. Lexa and her mother bond, and Lexa discovers her sex drive and tantric focus abilities are apparently a family trait.
The next lead takes them to Athens where Li shows up again. The man who murdered her family is attending a gala event along with some major celebrities and heads of industry. Li seems intent on making sure he doesn't get away and plans to blow up the entire event, not caring who else dies in the process. Lex Luthor discovers Lexa working the party undercover, and she persuades him to help her evacuate the guests, before the bomb goes off. Alex manages to talk Li Dei down, and they track the man back to his hotel where she finally gets her revenge. Suffice to say, Alex seems smitten again. Kei's band, Temptation, signs a record deal, and is sent on tour as opening act.
Episode Ten: Hot Asian Action
Kei, Matt, and Tamara go on a recon op in Tokyo, looking for another artifact the believe SeraphCo is pursuing. only to get pulled into an old family squabble. Her father was not the Watcher she thought, but actually an oyabun who used her to eliminate supernatural rivals throughout Japan. Her cousin holds the item they seek and will only give it over in exchange for her. They try to take it from him, and he reveals himself to be hengeyokai. Realizing that this is something she must do along, Kei challenges him to a duel. The two fight it out, and Kei comes out the victor, but now the Eurasian woman is forced to question everything she ever believes about her childhood and her family.
Episode Eleven: Specters of the Past
SeraphCo finally makes good its threat and Uriel arranges for a doppelganger of Lex to sign over all LexCorp holdings to his company before resigning. Insane with frustration, he’s approached by the ghost of Isabelle Theroux, who offers him the power to crush his enemy in return for helping her return to life. Lexa and the gang stop him from looting an ancient Kryptonian lab hidden in France. The First torments Alex in the form of Dante, driving him to nearly kill Lex in an attempt to gain Lexa for himself. Lex fights off Isabelle and he and Lexa appear to be growing close as a couple. No one seems to notice Alex' brush with the dark side, and he pushes it aside. Lex's lawyers tie up the transfer of assets in court, which only holds his problems in limbo. Lexa invites him to move into the mansion and stay with her.
Episode Twelve: Pornography Killed the Cat
Meanwhile, Alex and Lexa get drawn into another local problem. The werecougar, Rachel, has been making snuff films on the side, and OSI asks them to take care of her, permanently. Viktor agrees to provide information on her and her habits in exchange for the gang doing it quickly and quietly. They track her down to at her favorite club, but the nimble little minx gets away clean. The next day, Lexa and Matt are en route to case some of her "holdings" in the red light district when they are hit, literaly, by an armored car.
Matt is rushed to the hospital, whereas Lexa is taken captive by Rachel's minions. Alex and Dahlia decide to try and infiltrate her operation but the lycan continues to be one step ahead of them. They too are captured, and Rachel decides to have them be the stars of her next "special feature." Dawn and Kei manage to track down their location, and Alex even manages to free himself with a little anonymous help from Danika, but neither is in time to prevent some farily... unsavory things from taking place. Afterwards, Lexa and Dahlia come to terms with the fact that they aren't really mother and daughter, not after all thats happened. Lexa confesses that she's been sliding down a long dark tunnel since Dante died, and that she's felt the recent increase in Slayer power tearing at her core. Dahlia tells that their sexual gift is one of life, and that what fuels their physical prowess is one of death. The two powers are mutually exclusive and possibly never intended to exist inside a single person. All she can advise is that Lexa find some way to come to terms with the light and darkness within her, as she once did, before it destroys her.
Episode Thirteen : Fallout
No enemies to smite this week: just cleaning up the mess of the last few days. Matt and Dawn talk about Matt’s new feelings for Kei. Kei then shows up to make sure she’s not dead. Lexa confronts Dahlia about what happened. She becomes more and more concerned about her walk down the dark side, as she puts it. Finally, on the advice of Dahlia and Tamara, she takes him aside and shows him what she's becoming, what she wants deep down in the darkest corners of her heart. Lex stares her beast in the eye and realizes that as much as he cares for her, he doesn't belong in her world, and she wouldn't fit into his, and he moves out the next morning.
Episode Fourteen: Save Yourself
Some powerful force has corrupted the ley lines in Chicago, and a rash of baby abductions draws OSI Seattle to help out their Chicago counterparts, headed up by one Alexander Trepkos. The cult of Mammon, lord of Decay, is trying to unleash their master by offering up sacrfices, one of whom turned out to be Trepkos' infant daughter. The distraught OSI head lets Forelli and his team take charge, realizing he's too close to do this properly. One city-wide cult hunt later, they dispath Mammon back to the hell he crawled out of before he can gain his full strenght on our plane.
Episode Fifteen: How the Other Side Lives
Alex and Lexa are confronted by the demon lord Malpheas, who orchestrated Mammon’s attempted release. He's marked them for some kind of punishment and then vanishes. With the help of an exorcist named John Constantine, they track down his cult (where do all these cults get their members, anyway?) and attempt to thwart his scheme. Instead, Lexa is cast into an alternate dimension and is replaced with an Immortal by the name of Soran. Lexa wakes up back in Grizzly Peak to find that Dante is alive and she’s married to Alex.
Episode Sixteen: Home Again
Lexa is apparently in Alex's perfect world, as the two of them are recently married. Dawn isn't here, but a goth witch is, and she's jonesing for Dante. Apparently, the huge melodramatic events of her life never happened, and she isn't even the Slayer here. A sudden visit from an angel informs confused people in both worlds that Malpheas' spell has somehow thrown her across time and space into the past of an alternate earth. The angel, Barachiel, and Dawn concoct a spell to right things before the gaff between the timelines does irrepairable damage. While there, Lexa helps the other Alex, Dante, and their friends work out some problems. Heck, she even helps take out a vampiric Buffy that had been running loose. Once back, the gang tracks down Malfeas, and, with one well placed spell from Dawn, brings his entire plan down around his ears, literally, dispatching another demon back from whence it came.
Episodes Seventeen - Twenty: Sorry Guys I Lost My Episode Notes
At long last, the investigation into SeraphCo finaly pays off. The gang locates what appears to be Uriel's home and make plans to assault it. The place turns out to be one gigantic death trap, and everyone gets separated. Lexa finds herself in his study, where her father-in-law asks for a sample of her blood. She, of course, refuses, and winds up trying to fight off a horde of his skinless minions. Eventually, the blood is taken from her forcibly. When she finally asks him why he's doing all this, he says its because he wants his wife back. Floored, Lexa starts to tell him that Tamara is alive when Dante forms from mist flowing out of the air vents, a vampire of Dracula's lineage, and rips Daddy Dearest's head off. With his demise, a sudden burst of dark power flows into Dante, and a mocking laughter tells her that things may have just changed for the worst.
Dante leaves, listening to the voice in his head: that of the First Evil. He has become her unwitting new pawn, replacing his father, and she guides him to the place where all her schemes will finally come to fruition. Lexa manages to get free of her little prison, and a thorough search of the mansion reveals baby Jessie in a crib, no worse for wear. Searching through "Uriel's" notes, they learn that he was taken by the First and promised power, revenge on the Luthor family, and the return of his wife if he served her willingly. Aside from strength, she blessed him with invulnerability: he could only be harmed by bloodkin, which was why he took custody of his granddaughter.
After Lexa informs the rest of the gang of Dante's new state of being, she and Alex realize there was only one person who would have somehow rescued Dante and turned him into a vampire: Danika. The twisted little bitch probably did it just to fuck with their heads. As soon as they got back to Seattle, the pair stormed Danika's penthouse suite just after dawn, and quickly dispatched her werewolf bodyguard. Danika fled off the balcony, and the two gave chase over the downtown rooftops. Eventually, they catch up with her in the park and Danika loses her head, unable to shift into mist to escape thanks to the morning sun. The vampire's death does little to comfort Lexa whose world has now been thrown into a tailspin yet again.
Back at OSI, Tamara suddenly turned on everyone, eyes jet black, apparently possessed by the First. She lets Uriel's grunts into their headquarters. They Dahlia, nearly killing her, and abduct Dawn. Even Matt falls trying to stop them, but Alex manages to stop Tamara from escaping but not before she sets off explosives which badly damages the building. The injured are rushed to the infirmary while Forelli calls Lexa in and they finally fill her in on the prophecy regarding her mother. Apparently, the legendary figure Methuselah had written a series of prophecies regarding the First Evil and a great battle that was to come. A woman described, including several physiological characteristics pointed to Dahlia as being the chosen warrior, but Methuselah also mentioned that this woman and her daughter would have to come together or the world would be destroyed. Alex worked further on the translation and confirmed this with the book they acquired back in Season Two. His copy was a bit more complete, however, and more light was shed on matters.
It seemed that mother and daughter would have to join together, not as a team, but physically and spiritually. Only then would they have the power to fight the First's Champion, who appeared to now be her undead husband. At Dawn's instruction, Lexa went to Dahlia's hospital bed. She took the Scythe and touched Dahlia's bracelts, Tsalmaveth, with the Slayer weapon. Suddenly Dahlia seemed to dissolve into a stream of energy and flowed into her daughter. The world went white and the two shared one final goodbye as Dahlia's power joined with hers, releasing her soul to its long overdue rest. The two mystical weapons merged and Lexa found herself wearing two bracelets that had extended a pair of red and chrome curved blades, wearing some kind of leather armor, made of nothing but overlapping leather strips.
Stronger than ever, Lexa followed the subconscious call of the First's arcane machine. Over the year, she had Uriel gathing innocuous artifacts, each of whom contained a piece that was ultimately meant to build this great device, and at long last, she had its power core: Dawn Summers. It lay in the outskirts of the Seattle wharf, spinning and churning, drawing in more and more of the dark power that had spent centuries building up and channeled through the young sorceress with the ability to cross dimensions. In a matter of minutes, the First would finally be able to manifest on this plane as something much more tangible than the shadows it played with.
Having arrived, Lexa and Dante fought a brutal battle, not just with swords, but words as Lexa tried desparately to push through the First's brainwashing to reach her husband. At that moment, the two were immensely powerful and their battle soon destroyed not just the building they stood in but several nearby ones as well. Eventually, Dante manages to throw off the First's influence and steps into the machine and pulls out Dawn, saving her but mauling himself in the process. Lexa rushes to his side and offers him her blood, allowing him to heal from the gruesome damage. The First is dispatched screaming back into the ether with the doorway once inadvertantly opened by Buffy Summers slammed shut in her face.
The ganga goes home triumphant if weakened by the losses suffered. Lexa is reunited with her husband and daughter, and finally at peace with all that had happened. When they arrive, they find a young woman getting out of a taxi just outside their front gates. She introduces herself as Arianna Dawes, and she's come looking for the man she believes to be her father: Alex Hanover.
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