So it turns out the place with the furnace and the chain fence of obsession is in the basement of this building. Lois is trying to joke her way out of the situation by saying, "H.R. frowns on this sort of thing." In this economy? It's cheaper than paying a severance package. John quietly says that he heard Lois talking to the Blur. "Just tell me who he is and I'll let you go." He sort of sounds like he means it, but Lois doesn't have the information he wants. She looks at the pulsing green glow under his coat and wonders what happened to him. He takes off his jacket and shows her. She takes one look and decides she wants him to put it back on. I don't know, it's still a pretty nice looking upper body even with the gross crabby Jell-O machine. John keeps asking, very quietly and desperately, for the Blur's identity. Lois backs up and picks up a heavy wrench. Now John shouts at her: "Who is he!" She whacks him with the wrench but it does no damage. John backhands her and she goes flying into some pipes. She falls to the ground, unconscious.