It finally happens. Lex bitterly confronts Papa Luthor about this whole "Traveler" business and asks for the key to the box in Zurich. Papa tries to cleverly convince Lex that his son is The Traveler, but Lex isn't buying that. He shoots out a window in Papa Luthor's office, the better to throw Papa out of it. Lex pushes him and Papa Luthor falls to his death, magnificently. In the aftermath, Chloe and Clark investigate and Lex pretends to be grief stricken even as his inner child, Li'l Lex keeps making him try to feel guilty for the murder. Meanwhile, on a whole other show, Lois and Jimmy team up and make a startling discovery. As Jimmy was taking weird photos of Lois sneaking around in Lex's Daily Planet office, he managed to snap a photo showing Papa Luthor falling out of the window and, fuzzily, the identity of the person who pushed him out. Lex, with the help of his assistant, The Baroness from G.I. Joe, finds the locket key, which Papa Luthor hid in Chloe's desk. Lex confronts Chloe about the hiding, but it's just pretext to fire her. Which he does. The Baroness discovers a wayward text message to Chloe from Jimmy and Lois and chases them down to track down the photographic evidence. She locks them in a giant freezer (yes, The Daily Planet cafeteria has a giant freezer). Chloe, who had the photo evidence sent to her at the Isis Foundation by Jimmy, clears up the image and sees Lex in the photo. But she's knocked out by The Baroness, who steals the photo and takes off. Then, in a surprising twist, The Baroness, who was earlier putting the moves on Lex, is killed by some hired thug on the street. We're left to guess that Lex wanted her out of the picture because she knew too much and was making him uncomfortable with all the heterosexual touching. Clark discovers a posthumous message from Papa Luthor (written in Kryptonian) warning him to stop Lex from getting that safety deposit box in Zurich, which will reveal a way to control him. Clark confronts Lex about all this murdering business and Lex accuses Clark of causing Bo Duke's heart attack by making him so stressed. That really bothers Clark. He finds Lois and Jimmy and frees them from the freezer. Lex, tired of hearing Li'l Lex whine, holds him in the fireplace and burns away the last good piece of his soul. Lex holds a very private funeral for one at his father's grave with no minister, no press and no friends. But Clark shows up anyway and the two of them just glare at each other over the grave. Aw, it's just what the Magnificent Bastard would have wanted.

-- Omar G. is a journalist and comic living in New Braunfels, Texas. You can find him on Terribly Happy, Space Monkeys! and at Videogamey.com.