I'm glad I've finally caught up with this one <g> Though, Chris, it wasn't quite what I expected -- from comments on that poll thread, I thought this one might be mostly a-plot, but you've got a *lovely* b-plot going, too smile

I'm still curious about all those people who've mysteriously disappeared -- I don't think they're dead, I think they've gone underground, with Luthor's help.

Oh, and thanks for getting a mistrial in the Allen case <g> That really bothered me...

PJ

"You told me you weren't like other men," she said, shaking her head at him when the storm of laughter had passed.
He grinned at her - a goofy, Clark Kent kind of a grin. "I have a gift for understatement."
"You can say that again," she told him.
"I have a...."
"Oh, shut up."

--Stardust, Caroline K