mrsMxyzptlk: Thank you for the long FDK.
So Lois is channeling Elizabeth Bennett!
Perhaps a little bit.
Lois is putting on a show for the microphones in her apartment, but how does she know that Perry's office wasn't bugged? In which case not only would Lex know which story and which "hack", but he would also know what Lois is up to. And what is preventing Perry from discussing her predicament with Jimmy, Cat, or Clark somewhere in the newsroom that is bugged?
When the Voyeur bugged the DP the previous summer, he only bugged Lois's desk. She is standing by the assumption that Lex is only interested in her personally and not the working of the DP. This assumption may be her downfall. Since Lois told Perry that Lex was the Voyeur, he is now on his guard and knowing that Lois's desk area was bugged in the past, and being that Lois has gone deep undercover, isn't likely to mention the fact on the newsroom floor.
In fact, how does Lex not know that they're on to him?
Would he really care if they were? His power is so overwhelming and over-arching would he not be able to defeat such a minor disruption to his plans?
And if Lex doesn't have Perry's office bugged, then how much effort would it take to find out who Lois is mad at in the newsroom?
Um... isn't Lois usually mad at her co-workers? Perhaps he'll review the tapes of the visitors to Toni Taylor and assume that Cat is the one to whom Lois is referring. Or someone else might be scapegoated by accident.
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Psst! Lois! Look for a man who wouldn't feel that you actually owed him anything for helping you.
This is part of her 'lies to Lex' monologue to convince him to do what she wants on her behalf, not how she truly feels.
How did she really expect him to react to what she told him? Once again she's expecting him to read her mind and know that she's investigating Lex when she has never given him any reason to believe that that's the case.
She expected him to hear her out before reacting.
Lois really treats Clark like garbage; I'm almost to the point of campaigning for him to go back home and try to patch things up with Lana. Or at least go back in time a few years and find his own Lois.
Maybe Lex isn't so bad after all.
Why do people in stories and TV and whatnot always cite talking to oneself as a sign of craziness? Everyone talks to themselves. Maybe some people don't actually do it out loud, but my guess is that it's rare for someone to never talk out loud to oneself.
Because they're always told in stories and in tv shows that this is a sign of insanity?
... Then wouldn't they want her on their side...?
LOIS: Reporters are a petty bunch.
So what happens when Lois's resignation is actually processed, and once she's done messing around at LNN, the DP board won't let Perry re-hire her because she's unstable?
If she brings in the goods on Lex Luthor, they might see her differently.
So at the end, she's still on the phone...? Or did she hang up before she yelled at Superman? It looks like she's still on the phone, so what is Lex going to make of her outburst? The way she phrased it, it doesn't quite fit in the conversation. Maybe that won't matter to him.
Answers to these questions, coming up! Maybe if Lex discovers that Lois is still in love with Superman, he'll just dump her and move on with his life, brushing that one failure under the carpet. Leaving Lois with no love or job prospects in the future and Clark wanting to head back to his old dimension. Or not.
