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Well, yes....I'm your mother, Clark.
~ Rachel's delusional claim to Clark Kent in Lineage.
Your father just killed you, Lex!
~ Rachel to Lex as she prepares to kill him with an axe.

Rachel Dunleavy is a one-shot villainess in the WB/CW television series Smallville, appearing as the main antagonist in the Season 2 episode "Lineage".

She was portrayed by Blair Brown, who also played Christine Penmark in The Bad Seed, Margie Winters in CSI: Miami and Nina Sharp in Fringe.

Biography[]

Past[]

Years ago, Rachel worked as a nurse for Lillian Luthor, whose heart condition had worsened. Over time, she had became intimate with Lillian's husband Lionel. Their affair produced a son, Lucas, whom Lionel forced Rachel to put up for adoption due to Rachel being mentally and emotionally unstable.

Lionel then paid Rachel a large sum of money to get her out of his life and cover up their affair, though he later placed Rachel in Dr. Friedberg's clinic, where she remained for eight years (c. 1985-1993) while Lucas was placed with a suitable family. Rachel was released seven years later and began searching for her son.

However, she didn't get anywhere until 2002, when Chloe Sullivan investigated Clark Kent's adoption and made contact with Rachel through an adoption website. As Clark's adoption had been handled by the same organization as her son, Rachel became convinced that Clark was Lucas, despite Clark being two years younger.

Lineage[]

In the present day, Rachel came to Smallville, seeking her long-lost son. She went to the Kent Farm and entered the empty house after the Kents left and looks fondly at their family pictures and picked one of Clark up. She believed that Clark Kent was Lucas, since Lucas' adoption was handed by Metropolis United Charities, the same agency that handled Clark's own adoption by Jonathan and Martha Kent.

Chloe posted a few notices on adoption websites to see if she could get a few hits while attempting to find information about Clark's biological parents - she and Rachel found each other and exchanged e-mail messages. She meets Clark at Smallville High School while he's at his locker and introduced herself as his birth mother, which startles Clark who denied her claim. His parents later meet with Rachel, and Jonathan firmly insists that she stay away from them. This causes Rachel to have a small mental breakdown.

Next, Rachel meets with Lex Luthor and tried to persuade him to speak to Clark on her behalf. When Lex refuses, she reveals her past affair with Lionel, and mentions the possibility that Lex and Clark are half-brothers. Later, she got a court order to have a DNA test to prove that Clark was her and Lionel's son. Clark was forced to give a sample of his saliva for testing.

When Clark switches the samples to keep his alien origins a secret, Rachel, believing Lionel to be responsible, confronted him, who denied any involvement. Lionel then mockingly flirts with Rachel before suggesting that she should return to Dr. Friedberg's clinic, causing Rachel to flee the mansion.

Sometime later, Rachel kidnaps Lex outside his company and holds him captive in a house for Lucas that she bought using the money that Lionel gave her. She then calls Lionel and threatens to kill Lex unless he publicly admits that Clark is their biological son. Sometime after that, Lionel held a press conference and refuses to yield to Rachel's demands, prompting an angry response from Rachel. Rachel grabs an axe and tries to kill Lex, who gets his feet free and knocks her back, only to end up knocking himself unconscious.

Rachel recovers and prepares to swing the axe, only for Clark to super-speed into the house and block the blow, causing the ax to shatter. Clark's invulnerability proves to Rachel that he isn't her son, and this revelation causes her to mentally break down in tears. Rachel was later mentioned to have been placed in a mental hospital, while her son Lucas was revealed to be alive after Lionel falsely tells Lex that the boy died before his first birthday. Lionel had a locket containing a piece of his hair.

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