Adam Knight is first seen as a fellow patient of Lana’s at the Smallville Medical Center; he assists Lana get through her physical therapy after she was trampled by a horse. The two develop a friendship, which starts to grow deeper when Lana offers to rent Adam the apartment above the coffee shop. Adam’s actions—specifically his injection of an unidentified drug—begin to arouse suspicion in Lana and her friends. It is revealed that Adam died of a rare liver disease, and the injection of a drug given to him by LuthorCorp resurrected him, and is the only thing keeping him alive.