Last week, a Lex superfan decided that she wasn't doing enough for Lex by offering up her naked, bald-headed, barely legal body to him and decided to try and kill Jonathan Kent. She failed, and it only served to help Jonathan in the polls. Combined with a hot cash injection from Lionel Luthor, his campaign is clicking on all cylinders. As for Lex, without Griff he has been unable to find the dirt on Jonathan Kent. The problem is that Jonathan is as far from being a dirty politician as Drew Barrymore is from a bra at an award show.

Just when you think things can't get worse, two officers from the Smallville sheriff office come buy and report that there is a bomb threat at the Luthor mansion. But wait, it does get worse. The officers aren't there for a bomb threat; they are there to take Lex hostage. The campaign manager decides that he won't settle for this, and throws the book at them, literally. This method works on an episode of Law and Order, but when you are throwing books to defend yourself against people with guns, usually you are going to have to be one great shot, and hope that you have something more than a paperback. Although his campaign manager was shot to death in the drama that ensued, Lex made it to the safety of his, uh, safe, and we are set for a little bit of a showdown.

Now, I absolutely loved the movie Panic Room. It combines two things that are marvelous: Jodie Foster and Jared Leto being shot in the head. Oh, and who could not like the sledgehammer?! So, the officers have some demands, namely a big, metallic object that came from outer space. No, it's not Skylab or the Hubble telescope, but the black spaceship that nearly fell on Lana. One of the officers actually survived the two Disciples of Zod who emerged from the thing and laid waste to the response team that arrived at the landing. While this officer lay nearly dead, he watched as Lex's team removed the ship without the slightest worry that some survivors may be around some place. Lex's security is tied up in the basement, has cut the hard lines used for communication, and is scrambling the wireless signals. But hey, Lex can wait things out, so why worry?