All right! Now we have a culprit, if not necessarily a villain, behind these holes in reality. A scientific experiment - which is being funded by a number of governments whose decision makers apparently don't know a proton from a pronoun - is wreaking havoc over multiple dimensions. And it's going to be a race to see if the whole thing gets shut down before Lois has a chance to go back home with Clark, or even if Clark can get the plane and its passengers back home.

And surely Lois has - or soon will - realize that Clark isn't going to abandon her, even for shrimp. He went home and he came back to her! Won't Lois want desperately to go home with Lucy and see her parents? We already know that she longs for a place where she can feel at home, and there's no place like that for her in this world.

We're coming up to a photo finish, Shayne, as usual. Keep up the great work! And let Clark get the people and the plane back home in time.

Of course, he might not be able to round up all the technology left behind (computers, radios, CD players) which would prove the multiple-dimension theory - assuming that the evidence is allowed to be made public. Which it surely won't, given the mass panic it might generate.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing