I should've known you'd make that ring connection.
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BTW, doesn’t Lois look adorable in that picture?
Glad you'll be back for Section III.
Of course!
Sheldon Bender has simply disappeared.
Did they find any traces of nutmeg scent in the air? Oh, right. You haven’t had a chance yet to watch Elementary, Season 3.
Henderson refused to comment on whether he was presumed dead or in hiding,
If someone hid his body, towards which does it count?
“Bender’s daughter is holding a press conference this afternoon.
Someone was willing to shag that guy?
It’s assumed she’s going public with the story that her father negotiated with the men who supposedly kidnapped her to trade himself for her safety.”
Huh. Yes. Now that you mention it, there might have been such an incident…
Inspector Henderson had been skeptical about her story, but Clark knew people reacted in different ways to stress.
To be fair, Lois would have done the same thing. Minus paying for dinner. That’s what she’s got a Clark for.
and that ‘the government is railroading’ him,
The government tied him to the railway tracks just before the 10:15 from Philly was about to arrive? Is that safe?
Give Luthor the benefit of the doubt. He may be innocent.”
They managed to replace Ralph?
“Sure. Sure, Morton,” Perry said, starting casually.
Funny how you used the redshirt to remind the readers of the first two sections of the story, while conveniently not mentioning Lois’s pregnancy from when she (supposedly not) boinked Clark in his hospital room.
“Then he had his secretary plant a bomb in our print department,
BETSY: Excuse *ME*! *SECRETARY*? That’s *PERSONAL ASSISTANT* if you please.
LEX: Yes, she did please me. On numerous occasions.
Yet, the body’s height was two inches shorter than the doctor’s was.
Couldn’t that be explained by the way the two women wore different hair styles? Maybe no one ever accurately measured Brandy’s height?
As the apartment where the woman’s body had been found had also been used as the place the Luckies went to get ‘lucky’ it had not been too surprising multiple fingerprints were found there.
Also, a comma after ‘lucky’?
Dr. Heller, the plastic surgeon to whom Luthor had taken Lois after being injured during the abduction attempt back in April, disappeared a week before Lois and Luthor’s wedding was supposed to have taken place. It was too much of a coincidence in Clark’s books.
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What if Lex shot Lois to get her under the care of Dr. Heller so he could measure and duplicate all her features, even those not normally visible when wearing way-wear?
Although, Clark knew in his heart that the dead body wasn’t Lois, he requested that the ankle of the body be double-checked for the healed fracture
Wouldn’t it have been fortunate if Lex had the double’s ankle broken, too, to make her indistinguishable from the real deal?0
The viciousness Luthor had shown in beating the woman to death after sexually assaulting her, and then setting her body on fire to further hinder identification of the remains was more than enough justification for Clark to agree with Henderson’s safe-house plan for Lois.
Lex doesn’t sound like a very nice person.
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Maybe they should isolate him from further contact with any female population?
The only question Clark had was why Luthor had set the fire in Lois’s duplicate apartment instead of tossing the body in the incinerator as had been done with Kirk Devlin, the physicist whom Nigel St. John had allegedly shot.
Because he didn’t have time.
LEX: That and normally I have a butler to do the house cleaning.
Some of us have already had it proven without a shadow of a doubt that he’s a – to put it nicely – liar, cheater, swindler, and corrupt psychopath.” He turned back to Clark.
So, in short, a politician?
Clark gave his boss a loaded look. “As I’ve said before, Lex Luthor being in jail won’t remove his influence outside of it.”
Maybe if they blinded him, plucked his eardrums, removed his tongue, crushed his voice box, cut off his hands? That way, Lex would be stuck in a mental prison with no contact to the outside world? Would that sufficiently dampen his influence for Lois to come out of hiding?
He didn’t even want to think of the time in early July when Lois turned off the video feed from the Space Station after Clark had informed her that he refused to ask Superman to bring her back, and that she would have to wait for the next available transport.
Aww, she threw the door in his face
but that didn’t make it Superman’s problem either.
Also, how would he have gotten her home? Would putting her in a space suit work?
Captain Martin only received a censure for his behavior.
You know, considering the cost per kilo to be in the lower 5 digit figures, 50 extra days would mean a 100 liters of water plus at least 20 kilos of dried food? That’s north of two million bucks of cost the good captain caused. Is EPRAD going to charge him for those?
one weekly phone call with Lois to make sure, as their boss delicately put it, “she hadn’t killed anyone.”
The lead lining of the Space Station, to protect the colonists from solar flares and other cosmic radiation, made it difficult for Superman to check on Lois’s sanity as well.
Like he does on his nightly flybys of her apartment.
He loved her, but knew that one often needed invulnerable skin to spend hours, let alone days or weeks, with an irritated Lois.
Isn’t that what they have the quarantine station for?
to see what had been found at LexLabs’ unauthorized laboratories.
Nuclear materials. Frog DNA. Amber. Plans for giant cages, with 10 meter high fences.
O…kay. Jimbo looked at him skeptically. That request came out of left field. He hadn’t known that CK was covering the Japanese space program.
It’s important.
CK had been unusually serious. One might even hazard a description of quiet or contemplative.
How’s that different from his normal demeanor?
Jimbo was still T-ed that he hadn’t received an invite to the wedding, but evidently, it was a spur of the moment decision.
So, he got her pregnant and her father owns a gun collection?
Mr. White had gotten him a job down in the Daily Planet mailroom.
Isn’t that how things got started the first time?
Jimmy had once told Jimbo it was because CK was worried about Lois, always worried about Lois, obsessively worried. Of course, with her track record for getting into trouble, fearing for Lois’s safety made total sense.
Mr. White had given Jimbo a desk between Lois and CK’s, which meant he worked directly for the two of them and acted unofficially as their buffer.
Is that safe?
He was thrilled by the vote of confidence Mr. White had given him by letting him have Jimmy’s old job. He would do everything in his power not to let any of them down.
Also, institutionalized Jimmy Interuptus.
LOIS: What do you mean we can’t go at it like bunnies in the middle of the newsroom anymore?
“Inspector Henderson just went on vacation to Alice Springs,” CK replied as if that explained anything.
Despite EPRAD only having slapped Captain Martin’s wrist for what they called his practical joke, Commander Norton lodged a formal complaint barring Captain Martin from ever visiting the Space Station in the future.
Wouldn’t it have been…unfortunate…if word had leaked out and Lex had managed to shoot the shuttle down upon reentry?
Sadly, the only politics and gossip most of them were interested in happened aboard the Space Station
Hey! It’s just like in the L.U.C.!
Her anger had lasted only until she discovered that he had tucked a Superman figurine sculpted out of chocolate into her duffle bag as a going away gift.
She is quite easy to distract, isn’t she?
Lois had even shared some of the cape with Captain Angelo, being that the red and yellow parts of Superman’s uniform had been made with dyed white chocolate.
She had decided to save Superman’s shorts to stuff in his mouth the next time he did something lunkheaded, such as volunteer her to be the first reporter in space.
He had done that? I thought that had been her idea…
Twenty-two was a nice day? Right. Celsius. She wondered if he knew what that translated into in Fahrenheit. Probably not.
Now, but he could tell her that it’s 295°K.
If this was winter, what did summers feel like here?
Umm…I’ll go with ‘hot’.
All she had to do was not get lost.
So, a challenge?
Lois had no idea what privacy felt like anymore.
So, Ms. Lane, what are you going to do next?
LOIS: Visit Big Brother.
He held a Daily Planet newspaper and beamed at her.
Awwwwwwwww!
Inspector Henderson, her jailer, had come to fetch her.
So much for privacy.
Great. She’s in a prickly mood.
How long did you think I would force Lois to stay in space? Was I close?
Hmmm…/checks part 192 FDK/ I went with 3-4 weeks, considering your hiatus plans. Turns out, it wasn’t actually real time after all, or she’d have been gone for four months instead of two. Now, that would have been fun. But I guess she’d be showing by then had you put her up there for so long. And then she’d not have fitted into her space suit.
Michael
