Squee!!! Thank you for posting this!!  Where did that ticket come from? Are time travel shenanigans involved, or did Claude leave it behind, or did Lois really just forget buying it and the universe felt sorry for her? I explain it in the second part. I think an early version (I think) had Claude leaving it behind and Lois figuring that it was just desserts to claim it. I'm pretty sure that's not the version I went with (more the pity, anything to get back at Claude).
CLARK: No. I'm just worried I'm a jinx.
JONATHAN: A jinx?
CLARK: Yeah. Let's face it, ever since she's known me, Lois's been kidnapped, frozen, pushed off buildings, almost stabbed, poisoned, buried alive and who knows what else, and it's all because of me.
-"Contact" (You're not her jinx, you're her blessing.)
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