Clark glanced up at her approach and leaned back in his chair. “Hi, Lois. I see you closed the kidnappings investigation without me. Thanks for letting me know.”
He’s not happy. And Lois is currently under cover, so she can’t make it up to him in a marital kind of way.
“I thought we were partners, Lois. Would a telephone call have been too much of an inconvenience?” he replied.
Yes.
and by time I returned home
/whispers/ ‘the’ is missing.
“You really had no idea it was missing?” Lois said, speaking her thoughts aloud.
Oh my. He doesn’t know about his safety deposit box, does he?
She had S.T.A.R. Labs double check to make sure it lacked Kryptonite after Lex had given it to her the previous day at brunch.

Michael