“…And, lastly, the Luthor Conservatory of Music has sent over your season tickets for this month’s opera. They are for this Saturday evening’s performance of ‘Madame Butterfly’,”
That is sooner than I expected.
It would be nice to see Lois dressed up again;
I so wish she would turn him down on this, although I guess I do not have hope for her doing so.
“Well, you know the news business, Lex. It never waits for anyone. Anyway, since Clark up and quit yesterday to work at the Metropolis Star with his new girlfriend Linda King,”
Why is she telling Luthor this? Does she want him to get mad and try another hit on Clark for abandoning her?
He watched as Lois’s eyes widened as she realized she had never confirmed their date. “Dinner and conversation sounds wonderful, Lex,” she hurriedly interjected, to his delight.
I so hate all this undercover work.
“I could really use a night off.”
Which is exactly what she won't get with Luthor.
He couldn’t wait until he could feel it glide through his fingers.
I wonder if Lois would cut her hair from realizing what Luthor thinks of it?
“Will you be driving?” he inquired, running his finger down her neck to her cleavage on the monitor.
Now this is truly disturbing behavior.
She looked a bit skeptical about the ‘enjoying opera’ part.
Lois does not share Lex's tastes.
He would bend her to his will on this one fact.
Clark:If Lex thinks he can bend Lois to his will on anything he has a lot to learn.
Opera was essential to any good relationship. Opera was about passion, love, and triumph.
I more associate opera with defeat.
He had yet to go to the opera with a woman, who didn’t open her legs to him afterwards.
Well he is about to be severly disappointed.
The champagne in the limousine didn’t hurt either. Often, they never made it back to his penthouse.
Yes, this weekend will not go according to LEx's plans.
“Why not?” Lois said, relaxing back in her chair. “But you have to promise to spoil me.” She laughed. “The full ‘date’ experience.”
Lois, are you sure you want to say that to Luthor?
She then leaned back in her chair again with a very satisfied expression on her face.
I am not sure why she thinks this is getting her any closer to her actual goals.
and Lex clicked the volume button to hear her response,
If only there was a way to get him for this persistent breaking of the law.
“I’m not having dinner with Lex so that you can fill column inches,” Lois informed her co-worker.
Cat:Well, it is not like he is ever a source for anything you write. If he is a source, we should use him like one.
It wasn’t as nice as the one he had of Lois in his private study,
Lois:I hope I can find a way to get him extra time for having that photo. I feel violated that it even exists.
and was thankful that Cat hadn’t used any photos during the time Lois had pulled off his sunglasses.
I so wish she had.
One didn’t have to marry the exotic dancer; she would give it away freely.
I get more disturbed by Luthor with every line.
All it took was one good divorce lawyer.
Luthor is a true synic.
He chuckled, jotting himself a reminder to make sure that the new Mrs. Chow had received a business card from the divorce attorney at Bender’s firm. All was fair in love and war.
Which since Luthor considers everything to be one or the other, means all is always fair.
The truth of the matter was that Cat Grant had been in his limousine.
So is Cat just in denial, or does she not know?
Between marrying Arianna and some not-so-legal business moves, Lex had acquired enough wealth to buy the Daimler Limousine.
So he got money out of marrying Ariana? Interesting.
That night, he had wanted to treat himself to sex with a living woman, instead of his cold fish of a wife.
So this was before he divorced.
but she had slapped his face and told him directly that she wasn’t that type of woman.
someone gave Lex what he deserved. This makes Lex's disparaging remarks about Clark and Cat all the more ironic.
Clark:See, I told you we can tell he is lieing because his mouth is moving.
He never allowed a woman to slap him. Instead of forcing himself on her, as he had been tempted,
That would have lead to his going to prison, one would hope. OK, maybe I have too much hope of justice prevailing.
So, he had apologized and insisted that he hadn’t realized that she was engaged, even though it had been he who had slipped the cocktail waitress the twenty to distract Cat’s date.
He is way worse that I thought.
No point in getting himself on the wrong side of the press.
that Cat did not realize that Luthor needed to be destroyed then.
shortly after Cat’s engagement to Owen-the-philanderer had been announced in the Daily Planet, Lex had anonymously sent her a plain manila envelope of a series of photographs of her fiancé intimately involved with cocktail waitresses, socialites, and friends of Cat’s from parties Lex knew that Cat had attended as junior society journalist.
I so hope Cat has a part in bringing Luthor down.
She didn’t recognize him as the same man whose face she had slapped all those years earlier, and flirted with him outrageously.
that Cat did not see through Luthor's lies.
He could have brought her home that night or any night since, and done as he pleased with her, but he had decided the best revenge was letting Cat Grant know the sting of rejection as she had dealt it to him.
Cat:I would have to actually want him to feel any rejection.
it had been Lex who had slipped a quarter ounce bottle of one-percent Revenge to the exotic dancer Arthur Chow was seeing on the side,
Very intriguing development. He just has to hope that marrying that lady was not too out of the ordinary doe Chow, otherwise there might be an investigation into why revenge is still floating around.
Clark was only thankful that nobody had needed Superman for anything that emergency services couldn’t handle.
Maybe he will now realize he does not need to run off on Lois at highly important times.
It only made him miss and appreciate Lois even more for giving him and Superman his personal space.
Now maybe he will stop being such a lunkhead and actually welcome her presence.
If he had, and if they were anything like Linda, it would have given him second thoughts about coming to this dimension to try to partner up professionally with Lois.
But knowing it worked for Lois and Clark in the other dimension would have probably made him ignore any negative partner experiences.
Of course, Lois wouldn’t be Lois if she had acted like Linda, now would she be?
Lois:I would not have a job at the daily planet if I acted like Linda. Perry does not tolerate reporters who try to get jobs by using their body.
Linda had told him at the Omir Embassy’s Orani Jewels press conference, after Carpenter’s phone call but before Lois caused that over-the-top scene,
This is the closest to Lois and Clark interacting we have come to this whole part.
that if Clark hadn’t come to work at the Metropolis Star, she, Linda, would have considered going elsewhere. Apparently, Preston Carpenter was consistently hitting on Linda and had even asked her out to dinner yesterday evening at the Press Club, just the two of them.
Lois:And Linda would mind this why? She always enjoyed the privilages and power that came from a "personal"connection with the boss.
It wouldn’t do his undercover assignment any good if Clark were canned for dating the new boss’s girlfriend.
But they could bring all sorts of inappropriate business structure charges against the Star.
If he had been human, it probably wouldn’t have done his health any good either.
Become bait for a knock off attempt and get Carpernter sent to jail for attempted murder.
He was only relieved that Linda let him go home yesterday evening without tagging along after work, because she had to get ready for her dinner date with Carpenter.
Lois:See, I told you she did not mind Carperter's advances. If she did she would not actually go on that date.
Perry was meeting Clark at his apartment for a progress report on his assignment, so Linda being present would have let the cat out of the bag.
Nah, Perry would have just had to come in disguise.
Clark had been surprised and reassured to learn from Perry that Lois had guessed all about his undercover assignment at the Met Star.
Stop under-estimating the power of her visions Clark.
Clark had been beginning to wonder if the coffee in the face incident had been out of jealousy of Linda,
Of course it was out of jealousy of Linda. Not that Lois is really afraid that Linda has any chance moving in on Clark. If she was afraid of that, she would probably tell Clark what she is really doing with Luthor.
especially after the screaming match between the two of them at the embassy press conference.
I am surprised Lois pulled that off knowing that Clark has not really abandoned ship. She is doing good at covering his work though. No one would suspect that he is a plant.
Perry:I don't know, she is almost doing too good.
He alerted security and told them that while lying in front of the closet door he heard the cocking of guns and someone trying to enter the room.
This Clark is so much less wrong than canon Clark, actually explaining how he knows things.
He had no idea how else he could have stopped the heist without drawing attention to himself.
Well, Lois made sure there was attention on Clark.
Perry:Lois, we want our stories syndicated across the country, not the Chicago Tribune and the LA Times running articles on the antics of our reporters.
When Clark asked Perry why Lois hadn’t accompanied him to their meeting since she knew the truth,
I was so hoping Lois would show up. She could have told Perry not to tell that she knew, and gone through the whole looking for Linda act.
the Chief had told him that Lois was miffed because Clark hadn’t informed her about the story in advance.
See, I knew that was a really stupid plan on the part of Clark.
It wasn’t as if they didn’t have separate stories. She had been working on at least the Harrison murder and the Daitch EPRAD Nightfall Disaster without conferring with him about it.
Separate stories is one thing, faking a defection without telling your partner is totally different.
Anyway, Lois had worked with him, slightly, on the elevator cable sabotage story, so technically it was their story…
All the more reason he should have told her.
so she shouldn’t have had any problems coming to the story meeting at his apartment.
Lois:But when you defected without warning me, you showed you wanted to do this story on your own Chuck. So fine, I will let you do it on your own. You don't want my advice and help, I won't bother you with it.
Of course, he now realized, it also meant that he should’ve told her about his undercover assignment.
Yes, that would have been the right decision.
Once again, things seemed to circle back around to Clark having not told Lois what he should have.
Like that CK=SM.
Regularly keeping someone apprised on his activities was a new skill he hadn’t quite, or at all, mastered.
Didn't he tell Lana what he was up to, or did he mainly try to keep her in the dark?
He wasn’t deliberately trying to withhold information from Lois,
So this is why she knows CK=SM. Oh, that's right Clark, you have withheld that information from her, so somehow I don't buy your weak defense.
they just hadn’t been able find the time to discuss things properly.
Because you refused a date with Lois in favor with going out with Linda.
It seemed as if whenever they were alone together, work or his secret was the last thing on their minds… well, the last thing on his mind.
If he had gone out with Lois instead of Linda it would be different.
Linda had told Clark that morning in the taxi that when Carpenter made another pass at her at dinner the night before, she had informed him that they should keep their relationship strictly business.
Luthor:Ah, another woman who likes to play hard to get.
She had then slipped her hand onto Clark’s and told him straight out that Preston Carpenter wasn’t the type of man she was interested in.
Lois:Well, Linda, Clark is not the type of man who is interested in you.
Clark had pulled his hand away
he puled out of the slut's trap.
and reassured Linda that she wasn’t the only reporter on the Met Star’s payroll who Carpenter called to check on her whereabouts. Clark had failed to mention, however, that the other reporters’ ‘scoops’ had also happened directly after receiving calls from their ‘hands-on’ publisher.
Linda:But he told me I was special to him.
Linda had reacted as if it had been a personal insult that she wasn’t the only reporter Carpenter called.
I see why Clark does not find Linda's claims of not being attracted to Carpenter convincing.
To Clark, it had validated his theory there was something not right going on at the Daily Planet’s rival, but he doubted that Linda was personally involved.
Lois:Of course she is personally involved. Putting her personal touch into a matter is the only way she has ever gotten a job.
The way Linda reacted when she got the phone calls from her boss seemed to be more in the realm of annoyance than anticipation.
Lois:That is because Linda is very bad at math, and unable to put two and two together.
He had finally been able to duck out of the Met Star offices with the double excuse to go get him and Linda some decent coffee while meeting a skittish source who would only meet with him.
Clark:Well, it is true, Lois will only come to the planned meeting if I talk her into it. Even then it is iffy, but with Linda along, we could never talk her into it.
Time to face the Mad Dog and call his true partner for her assistance and advice.
he still recognizes who his real partner is.
that you cut us off just before Lois and Clark talk. Couldn't you have done less scenes with Lex?
someone who had wanted to keep their relationship hush-hush.
Lois:That is just what Monique told her friends. Maybe she was delusional. I mean, she did jump off a building, maybe the dating was all in her head.
No big surprise there. Cat had already learned about Monique’s secret boyfriend when she had gone through Clark’s desk to look at his story notes on the woman’s gruesome murder.
Lois:Doesn't Clark know how to keep anything safe from prying eyes?
What had been a surprise though, was the man had given Monique a silver Gucci watch.
Sloppy of Lex to use the same watch.
Not conclusive, or concrete evidence, but definitely something to look into.
Even if they could trace it back to Luthor, it would prove little. It is not a crime to give people watches.
Was it possible that Lex Luthor had been handing out silver Gucci watches with tracking devices hidden inside of them to some of the women with whom he was friendly?
So why not give Lois a Gucci too? Why give her the LoLEx instead?
She took an extra close look at Miranda’s wrist, where she found a silver Gucci watch.
Intriguing that Luthor left it there.
‘At least one of Lex’s former paramours is still alive and well,’ Cat thought. ‘Let’s see if she’s willing to talk.’
Why would she talk when Luthor has his agents all over the place?
