Daytime, Stately Luthor Mansion exterior. It's got that rusty blood color up at the top that always freaks me out. Inside, someone throws down a copy of the Smallville Ledger with the headline, "State senate candidates neck and neck." I bet the Smallville Ledger is just happy anyone would get worked up enough about their newspaper to throw it down on a table. Lex tells his main aide that this isn't the kind of headline he was hoping for before the election. Oh yeah. Lex and Bo Duke are running for office. I almost forgot all about that. The aide tries to make Lex feel better by saying that nobody can be that squeaky-clean. Wait. Did they just take a shower together? Aide-Man insists they'll find something to use against Bo Duke. He says the word "against" using the Sydney Poitier pronunciation handbook. Lex says it's obvious the aide has never met Bo Duke. He is a man without taint. You could run your finger up and down and all around Bo Duke, and you're unlikely to find even the hint of a taint. Some say it's a birth defect.

Two sheriff's deputies enter the room. It's a tall guy and a shorter woman, both in uniform. The main sheriff's deputy is the third African-American character we've had on the show recently (including Lex's aide and Wayne Brady Lite), which has to be some sort of record on this show (and, perhaps, the entire WB). Deputy Revenge as we'll come to know him, tells Lex that they've got to get him out. There's been a bomb threat on the mansion. "A bomb?" Aide-Man asks. That's what they said, dude. Lex says his security team should have alerted him to this. Your security team? Security? Really, Lex? If somebody called in a bomb threat, your security team would think it was a balm threat and wait out front expecting a nice gift basket from Sephora. Lex goes to the phone to check on that and the deputies bust out their guns. Aide-Man goes, "Uh…Lex?" Deputy Revenge and his partner, Deputy Sidekick, start stepping forward. Revenge says Lex always has to do things the hard way. If there's one thing we've learned, it's that the limp way is not acceptable to Lex Luthor. Lex says, "Let me guess. You're not a cop." "Not anymore," Revenge answers. Lex's aide makes the dumbest and last move of his life by throwing some sort of flimsy folder at two people with guns thinking it's going to magically disarm them by three-ring-binding them to death. Then he runs away. It's therefore not all that tragic when Deputy Revenge shoots him right the fuck in the back. Lex, watching, has a remote control in his hand. He pushes a button and before you know it, he's diving into a panic room. Wow, that's convenient. I wish I had one right now: