SMALLVILLE (Fridays, 8/7c, The CW) Pam Grier’s stealthy Amanda Waller, the ruthless recruiter for clandestine government organization Checkmate, returns to Smallville on April 9, continuing her campaign to round up superhero types to fight off upcoming alien attack. But extraterrestials aren’t her only worry. Maxwell Lord, a rival within her own organization and another classic DC Comics antihero, shows up in the April 23 episode (“Charade“) with a plan to get rid of all these so-called meta-humans. Played by Ally McBeal alum Gil Bellows, Lord is especially fixated on the Blur, the superspeeding crimefighting alias of Clark Kent (Tom Welling). “He is collecting anyone who has gotten a glimpse of the Blur and, through all of their memories, is trying to patch together a mosaic of the Blur’s actually identity,” says executive producer Brian Peterson, making his Smallville directorial debut on this episode. “He has the power to get into people’s minds, [which he uses] to extract all these memories to patch together a cool 3-D model of what the Blur actually looks like.”
Lord isn’t the only person closing in on Clark’s identity in “Charade.” “The whole double relationship that he has built up with Lois [Erica Durance], as Clark Kent and as the Blur, comes to a head and has a really significant outcome,” Peterson says. “Everything we’ve been building this year about Lois and Clark kind of explodes in that episode.” – Rich Sands
Source: TV Guide
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