Christina: 
Thanks for reading.
That was a close circumvention of "The Prankster." In the back of my mind, I recall him breaking out, but I son't remember if it was during the first arc (ep) or the second of his story in the series.
When I re-watched the Prankster episode before working on this arc, I recall Kyle telling his minion, Victor, that he *hadn't* been released early for his good behavior. (This line is delivered much better by Bronson Pinchot than by me.) It makes sense that since the Prankster Returns is only 11 episodes later that THAT was when he busted out of jail to get his (second) revenge against Lois, Clark, Superman, etc. I figured the only way Kyle Griffin could have been released from jail (early or not) would be if Lois had been distracted and didn't know it was happening. This is why I had Clark look into it after the terrorists who took them captive during FlyHard mentioned Kyle Griffin by name. He, therefore, heard that Kyle was up for parole and alerted Lois. In canon, Clark doesn't learn of Kyle's existence (surprising that he didn't read all of Lois's career breaking articles) until Kyle starts to stalk her. Glad you liked my take on keeping Kyle Griffin caged, so to speak.
