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Insurgence is the 12th episode of the second season of the WB original series, Smallville. The episode was written by Kenneth Biller and Jeph Loeb and was directed by James Marshall. It originally aired on January 21, 2003.

Plot
After Lex is defeated in a takeover bid by Lionel, he discovers that his mansion is full of listening devices. At Clark's house, the rift between Martha and Jonathan grows over Martha's job with Lionel. After a fight, Martha decides to go with Lionel to Metropolis over an anniversary picnic with Jonathan. Lex, meanwhile, starts a plan to bug LuthorCorp's headquarters but aborts the plan when he finds out that Martha and Lionel are unexpectedly going there as well. The abort is botched when the workers turn out to be moles who want to steal from the LuthorCorp vault; they take Lionel and Martha hostage. During this event, Martha finds out that Lionel had files on Clark and was doing an investigation on him. In addition, Jonathan and Lex decide to put aside their differences to try to save the ones they love.

Quotes

 * Jonathan: Clark! I don't suppose you have any idea why there's a helicopter parked in our front yard, do you?