Daily Planet. It's all sunny and bright outside. Inside, it's kind of dim. Oh, wait. That's just Lois. She picks up John's nameplate off his desk and chucks it in the trash. "Heartless bastard," she says. OK, so he kidnapped you and tried to kill you, but the heartless part wasn't his fault. She opens her desk drawer and pulls out Clark's nameplate. She sighs. Clark is watching her from across the room, unbeknownst to her. "I'm going to be needing that," he says. She turns around with a big grin and runs into his arms. "Clark Kent, you're back! I was beginning to think your family lived on some distant planet." Nah, the planet's gone now. Clark teases her about missing him. She pulls away from him. "Only because the guy at your desk was a certifiable psychopath." "Missed you, too, Lois," he says. Clark takes his spot at his old desk and asks if anything exciting's been happening. Lois says she helped the Blur catch "a homicidal maniac." Clark, just eating this up, says he would love to hear all about it. Lois scampers over to sit on the edge of Clark's desk and gleefully recounts the story. Lighthearted, romantic music plays. So, no one's sympathetic for John, whose life was taken from him and turned him into a monstrous killing machine against his will? No? All right, then.