Originally posted by John Lambert:
It just dawned on me that there seems to be more going on with Harrington than Lois and Clark suspect. Nothing they know would explain why Luthor would need to pay him for silence. Evidently Harrington knew something about Luthor. Very interesting.
Lex didn't want it spread around that a Luthor Technologies' defense system was weak to sabotage. Harrington wanted to confess to the Pentagon what Rourke was going to do, and Luthor convinced him to take the money and run (i.e. avoid prosecution) instead, telling him he would take care that the tidal wave wouldn't happen. But Harrington worked with Rourke to make Luthor Technologies look bad, so he couldn't survive to make the same mistake twice.
