Yeah, how on earth did Lex find her???
Why would he even suspect she's still alive? Lake Superior in the middle of the night, a drugged swimmer... it's highly likely that a body might not be found for months, if ever. So what tipped him off? It can't be Jill, she's on our side. It can't be anyone from town, either-- can it? Nobody's seen her. Is it that simple, that her name showed up at a lab (maybe one Lex owns?), and an employee who knew she was presumed dead mentioned it? Yet why would a lab employee even notice a sample's name, or connect it to the person's being alive?
Lex couldn't possibly have known Clark's last name, since Clark never even told Lois his last name. And he wouldn't have known about Smallville, so it can't be that he had the place watched...
Hmmm... I'm stumped. You're just going to have to tell us everything you know about this, Wendy.
I, too, was just blindsided by Lex's appearance. So much for Clark thinking Lois might be attracted to him on the rebound. If she's willing to go back with Lex to an uncertain fate, just to protect Clark's secret, she must really love him.
I wonder how she's going to play the next few moments? Lex didn't pull any punches when he discovered her listening outside the door... He has to know she's aware that what happened was real-- that it wasn't some drug-induced dream.
Or actually-- if he can get a doctor to certify that she's dangerous or dangerously unstable, and needs to be institutionalized, he may not ever have to kill her at all. There's a drug, haloperidol, that's used (among others) as a major tranquilizer for agitation-- it's given to elderly dementia patients and to mental institution patients. (We used to call it "vitamin H" when we were in college, because so many nursing home patients were on it.) It causes profound tranquilization and lingers in the system for some time, so someone injected regularly with a too-high dose would be pretty much out of it most of the time. They'd be docile and unable to do much thinking for themselves. Now that would be a truly diabolical plot.
I hope Clark can follow along and track Lois down right away. Thanks to privacy laws, if he loses sight of her now, he may never find out where they've put her. (Besides which, the poor woman deserves a break here, Wendy.) I wonder how long the next story will be, since now you have to spring her from a mental hospital, THEN investigate Lex successfully, THEN end Lois' marriage to him.
I suppose it's too convenient for Lex to kick the bucket, huh? It'd be pretty cool if Lois inherited all that wealth-- she could rebuild the Planet, and who cares how good or bad sales are in the beginning? Doesn't matter if the paper's owned by the third richest person in the world!
I hope your definition of "soon" and my definition of "soon" are the same.
~Toc
