/raises hand to add to chorus/
Lois spotted Jimmy cleaning out Clark’s desk. There was already a box on Lois’s desk. Her nameplate stuck out of the box at an angle, as though it was the last thing packed. She didn’t see Perry anywhere.
Poor Lois. Kept waiting for her to appropriate the nameplate.
“Let’s call what I’m about to tell you ‘deep background’,” she began.
“I wasn’t the target,” Lois said. “Perry White was. Of course, that raises the questions of who wants him dead, and how they knew Mister White was here.”
What now? How did she reach *that* conclusion? And those are some great actors that got hired. Unless whomever hired them simply expected Perry to make a fuss and incite the wrath of a pair of particularly dimwitted brutes.
“Are you all right, Mister White?” Lois asked. “I saw that thug pull his gun on you.”
“I’m fine,” Perry answered. “But I know I shouldn’t be. How the Sam Hill that gun failed at just the right time… it was almost like…”
Umm... did you already tell us if Perry knows? ... okay, answered further down
“Still working on it,” Jimmy said. “I will say this, though. Mendenhall doesn’t live the lifestyle you’d expect of the head of a world famous hospital. Hasn’t taken a vacation in years, drives an old car, lives in an old house with two mortgages on it and not in one of the better neighborhoods.”
What's up with that?
“A man in my position doesn’t get to be a man in my position by just knowing how to yodel,” Perry said. “Why did you lie to the police, and why is Henderson letting you get away with it?”
“You don’t think Clark’s dead?”
“Oh, I know he’s dead. There’s no doubt of that. I’m just wondering why you told the police you saw him die when you can’t have.”
Okay, he knows something. But how much. If he actually knew all, he wouldn't talk about it at all in front of company. So...
“I admit, the Planet’s been on the mayor’s case for a while,” Perry said. “But I doubt she’d resort to actual murder.”
Okay, why do I suddenly suspect the mayor.
Part 16?
Michael
