Episode 49 of "Smallville"
s03e05 Perry
Title: Perry
Original Air Date: 10/29/2003 on WB
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Mark Verheiden
Guest Stars: Patrick Gallagher (Bartender), Lorena Gale (Dr. Claire Foster)
Plot Outline:
Perry White, a once promising journalist whose career was destroyed by Lionel Luthor, arrives in Smallville in search of alien stories for a tabloid news show. In spite of being constantly inebriated, Perry believes he has witnessed Clark using his extraordinary speed, so he devises a dangerous scheme to expose Clark's superpowers. Meanwhile, Lex learns that Perry has powerful incriminating evidence of Lionel's shady past.