Hi Evie!
If he didnât know he was being recorded, itâs inadmissible.â
Doesnât that change if Lois is no longer able to testify personally?
LOIS:
CLARK:
You know, if she were dead?
CLARK:
DA Clemons:
My office doesnât usually work with reporters.â The way the woman said âreporterâ made it sound like a four-letter word.
Oh, look, whoâs already whetting her claws. Maybe someone should tell Lois that The Blonde doesnât like vigilantes?
âIs she for real?â
The man smirked. âThis is Lois Lane,â he said laconically.
âThat doesnât hold much stake with me,â replied the assistant district attorney,
âSheâs on the level,â Henderson said, this time with no trace of a smirk.
Indeed. If you canât trust Supermanâs paramour, whom can you trust?
MAYSON: First, being the tightmanâs illicit lover doesnât instill much trust. Second, I donât trust tights-wearing vigilantes, which invalidates the supposed trust root. You could even go as far as to say sheâs trying to pander an apple from a rotten tree.
Honestly, what was it with this woman?
Sheâs ticked off that The Superman Groupie got her boy toy killed.
But she wasnât going to let a snippy civil servant get to her tonight. Tonight â or, well, this morning â she and Clark would finally be writing their page 8 story. She hoped. And she had a feeling sheâd need all her reserves of patience for that potentially life-changing endeavor.
I had no idea that the Daily Planet reprints dear-playboy letters on page eight.
Iâm only here now to let you get your ducks in a row so that you arenât caught with your pants down after missing the biggest criminal in Metropolis.â
Like Lois was caught with her wedding dress up?
âItâs got less alliteration than a lot of our headlines.â
She wrinkled her nose. âPerryâs pedantic penchant for snappy soubriquets sometimes suggests sensationalism.â
Oh you had fun with that one!
âClever,â he said drolly.
Clark thought so too.
This is the second billionaire in a year that decided he was above the law and above the rest of us, too,â
Maybe they *should* investigate the vigilante playboy billionaire and his clepto catamour.
Chow pushed an entire country toward civil war and economic collapse for money that would have only marginally supplemented his current millions!
Heâs probably only just building up his weapons programs so he can also support larger nation state warfare. Give him time.
The better this story reads, the bigger difference it can make. The title canât be campy.â
âDr. No wannabe and butler caught by Nancy Drewâ?
And as much as she loved what the spandex did for his figure, nowadays she was always eager to see him in anything else.
See? Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. And we wouldnât want Lois to establish a fascination with Hawaiian prints or kevlar-reinforced latex, now would we?
LOIS: if he doesnât like civilian clothing, he can always sit there in his undies. Or without them.
Plus, she supposed, it wouldnât hurt for him to be wearing Clark Kentâs clothes right now, since she was about to dig her heels in about bringing Clark Kent back.
CATWOMAN: I once dug my heels into Batmanâs back. He decided he preferred dates instead of fights after that.
(Also, Iâm so glad autocorrect did not suggest âdates instead of figsâ here.)
âDid we just make Bruce Wayne the richest man in the world?â
Iâm not sure. Just because heâs arrested doesnât mean Chow looses his money. Also, Batmanâs gonna be insufferable now.
GREEN LANTERN: I donât see the difference.
âThen we can ask him where he went all those times he disappeared on you. I donât trust millionaires anymore. Theyâre always hiding something.â
Makes you wonder, isnât Superman strictly speaking also a millionaire, what with the whole foundation? Plus, thereâs the whole crown estate thing heâs got going on.
LOIS: And when did I say Superman isnât also hiding a naughty little secret?
MAYSON: I distrust Superman, too.
TRASK: /passes business card/ We meet every Tuesday on Bessolo Blvd. Thereâs free coffee and tin foil.
. âI think you mean ârackedâ here, not âwrackedâ with a âw.ââ
âNo, Clark,â she said, her voice quietly resolute.
âYou meant âwracked?ââ he asked, pausing his hands over the keys and re-reading the screen.
âNot that,â she said with frustration.
Are you sure she isnât racking her brain on whether she should wreck his brains?
âI am not submitting this story without your name on the byline.â
And on page seven: talking to the dead. A beginnerâs lesson by Lois Lane. Bring your Ouija board!
She went on, ignoring his interjection, ââand I knew that you were alright. I even knew that you were going to Africa.â
PERRY: yodelidado!
heartbreak like the one heâd experienced by giving up Clark Kentâs terrible ties.
CLARK: But I *loved* them. They attracted so many blondes!
Her lips curved in a moue of distaste at the thought before she said, âA bullet-proof vest.â
Or a Zippo lighter.
And why exactly was I wearing a vest on that particular night?â he asked skeptically.
He was out with Lois. She tends to get shot at.
âWouldnât you wear a bullet-proof vest on all your investigations with the notoriously danger-prone Lois Lane?â
Iâm so sorry! I swear I did not read ahead.
Burrows died two months ago.â
Yes, his frog ran out.
âBut there is no vest.â
What about the one Lois was wearing when Clark wasnât around. It got a bunch of use.
Also, strictly speaking, vests are the same as helmets, youâre supposed to replace them after they have been used.
I just â I canât risk my parents. They gave me everything. I canât repay them this way, by taking chances with their safety.â
He does not remember the baseball bat, does he?
âHave you asked them?â she asked, watching his face carefully.
No, because he doesnât agree with their expected answer.
In fact, this long after the start of their usual argument, sheâd be standing over her kitchen sink, cursing Clarkâs name into a carton of rocky road.
Did you ever tell us what Lois is wearing tonight? Maybe heâsâŚdistracted?
After all, just because sheâd learned caution over the last year didnât mean that extended to patience with her boyfriend when he was behaving with the IQ of an absolute walnut.
You made the choice for all of us last time. Donât we get to decide, now that we have another chance?â
*****
Plus, he gets to see Lois naked. Does that help?
CLARK:
Two more parts! And oneâs already up
Michael