Superboy/Rebirth (1)

Rebirth (1)
Season 3, Episode 17
Airdate	February 9, 1991
Written by	Paul Diamond
Directed by	Richard J. Lewis
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Superboy — Season Three

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Rebirth (1) is the seventeenth episode of the third season of The Adventures of Superboy, and the sixty-ninth episode overall.

Gerard Christopher (Clark Kent / Superboy), Stacy Haiduk (Lana Lang)

Also Starring: Peter Jay Fernandez (Matt Ritter) (credit only), Robert Levine (C. Dennis Jackson) (credit only)

Guest Stars: Stuart Whitman (Jonathan Kent), Salome Jens (Martha Kent), Gregory Millar (Llewellyn)

Featuring: Keven Benton (Desmond), Michael Owens (Mayall), Joseph Pinckney (Winston), Bob Sokoler (Reporter), Robert M. Rodriguez (Hector), W. Paul Bodie (Lemont), Paul Darby (Capt. Quentin), Steve Raulerson (Sergeant), Rita Rain (Woman), Michael Balin (Lt. Fulton)

Plot Overview

Superboy undergoes a crisis of faith when he learns his actions led to someone's death.

Arc Advancement

Happenings

• A gang of San Afron immigrants attempt an arms robbery, but are stopped by Superboy. In order to avert a truck from killing the drivers/guards, he blows it into a parked car. It's then revealed that the gang's leader was inside with an eyewitness stating that he saw the man and heard his cries. It's later revealed that Nweylln, who butted heads with Winston and has ruthlessly seized power in his absence, paid off the witness.

• Superboy turns away from his powers and returns to Smallville.

Characters

• Superboy and Lana nearly kiss, but are interrupted.

Quotes

• Clark: Everywhere I go, somebody needs me.

Jonathan: That's because you are who you are.

Clark: Who am I? I didn't ask to be like this. And I can't help everybody. That's why I had to turn off the news. I turn it on and hear about some people in Canada stuck in an avalance. Sure, I could fly up there in a few minutes and rescue them, but while I'm doing that, there's some firefighters in the north sea in an oil rig who are dying in a fire. Or a little girl's fallen down a well.

Martha: No one expects you to do it all.

Clark: Don't they. Do you realise what it's like to have so much going on around you all the time and not be able to stop it all? To always have to choose? I don't think I can do it anymore.