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Then he stilled as another thought occurred to him. Taken advantage of an opportunity... or created an opportunity?

The explosion at the Planet had been arson. Clark remembered reading about it; a young employee by the name of Jimmy Olsen had been convicted, the motive allegedly revenge. Olsen had been recently demoted from a newsroom junior to an odd-job role in the print department.

Luthor had owned the Daily Planet at the time of its destruction; he’d bought it, so the media had reported, to prevent it going under financially. Was it just possible that he’d destroyed the paper to stop good money going after bad? It could be that the insurance payout, even with deductions for arson, was more than the paper was worth as a going concern. And perhaps Luthor had calculated that one consequence of its destruction would be that Lois would be separated from everything that had given her fulfilment - and that she would naturally turn to him.