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Lionel is sentenced to prison for his parents' murder in [[Smallville (season 4)|season four]].<ref name="Gone">{{cite episode|title=Gone|series=Smallville|credits=Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson (writers) & Greg Beeman (director)|network=[[The WB Television Network|The WB]]|airdate=September 29, 2004|season=4|number=2}}</ref> Lionel attempts to switch bodies with Lex using a stone from Clark's homeworld of [[Krypton (comics)|Krypton]] but Clark intervenes and Lionel switches bodies with Clark instead. When he and Clark switch back, Lionel discovers his terminal liver disease is healed.<ref name="Transference ep">{{cite episode|title=Transference|series=Smallville|credits=Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer (writers) & James Marshall (director)|network=The WB|airdate=October 27, 2004|season=4|number=6}}</ref> Lionel is released from prison by Genevieve Teague ([[Jane Seymour (actress)|Jane Seymour]]), and begins searching for three stones of knowledge. During this quest, Lionel falls into a catatonic state after being uploaded with [[Kryptonian]] knowledge.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Commencement|series=Smallville|credits=Todd Slavkin, Darren Swimmer (writers) & Greg Beeman (director)|network=The WB|airdate=May 18, 2005|season=4|number=22}}</ref> Lionel recovers in [[Smallville (season 5)|season five]] when the Kryptonian [[artificial intelligence]] [[Jor-El]] takes over his body to speak with Clark.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Hidden|series=Smallville|credits=Kelly Souders, Brian Peterson (writers) & Whitney Ransick (director)|network=The WB|airdate=October 13, 2005|season=5|number=3}}</ref> With Jor-El guiding him, Lionel begins helping Clark by making excuses for Clark's behavior and unexplained disappearances throughout seasons five and [[Smallville (season 6)|six]].<ref name="Mercy ep">{{cite episode|title=Mercy|series=Smallville|credits=Steven S. DeKnight (writer) & James Marshall (director)|network=The WB|airdate=April 20, 2006|season=5|number=19}}</ref> [[Smallville (season 7)|Season seven]] revealed that Lionel and three other wealthy families formed the secret society Veritas to protect an alien visitor known as the Traveler (Clark). When the secret is uncovered, Lex murders his father, realizing he has been covering up the Traveler's existence.<ref name="Descent ep">{{cite episode|title=Descent|series=Smallville|credits=Don Whitehead, Holly Henderson (writers) & Ken Horton (director)|network=The CW|airdate=April 17, 2008|season=7|number=16}}</ref> [[Smallville (season 10)|Season ten]] reveals that [[Tess Mercer]] ([[Cassidy Freeman]]) is Lionel's illegitimate daughter fathered with Pamela Jenkins ([[Donna Bullock (actress)|Donna Bullock]]).<ref>{{cite episode|title=Abandoned|series=Smallville|credits=Drew Landis & Julia Swift (writers) and Kevin Fair (director)|network=The CW|airdate=November 10, 2010|season=10|number=8}}</ref>
Clark unintentionally visits the [[Earth-Two|parallel universe of Earth-2]] in season ten where Lionel found and adopted Clark's [[Clark Luthor|doppelgänger]] to be a murderer, and going by the alias of [[Ultraman (DC Comics)|Ultraman]] who kills anyone including that universe's Lex, escaping back to his own reality but is followed by Lionel.<ref>{{cite episode|title=Luthor|series=Smallville|credits=Bryan Miller (writer) and Kelly Souder (director)|network=The CW|airdate=December 3, 2010|season=10|number=10}}</ref> Posing as his own doppelgänger, the alternate Lionel tries to make amends when he attempts twice to bring [[Superboy (Kon-El)|"Alexander Luthor"/Conner Kent]] ([[Lucas Grabeel]]), a hybrid clone of Clark and Lex that develops Clark's powers, to his side but fails. Lionel also assumes control of LuthorCorp from Tess but loses the company when his doppelgänger's daughter proves he is an imposter. However, he has already embezzled a large amount of money from LuthorCorp. At his nadir, Lionel is approached by the evil alien entity [[Darkseid]].<ref>{{cite episode|title=Beacon|series=Smallville|credits=Don Whitehead & Holly Henderson (writers) and [[Michael Rohl|Mike Rohl]] (director)|network=The CW|airdate=February 1, 2010|season=10|number=13}}</ref><ref>{{cite episode|title=Scion|series=Smallville|credits=Al Septien & Turi Meyer (writers) and Al Septien (director)|network=The CW|airdate=March 4, 2011|season=10|number=16}}</ref> In the series finale, it is revealed that the alternate Lionel discovers that Lex is hiding beneath the Luthor mansion's remains after grafting various clones' vital pieces into himself. He then founded the genetic research company PreClox to assist Lex's scientists. A compatible heart could not be found among Lex's replicates and Lionel tries to give Tess's heart to Lex, but Tess shoots Lionel and escapes. Lionel then surrenders his soul to Darkseid, giving Lionel's heart for Lex's restoration. Afterward, Darkseid possesses Lionel's corpse to attack Clark,
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