Blu Mankuma credited as playing...
Franklin W. Stern
- Clark Kent: Uh, Miss Lane is an acquired taste. I-It's just that ever since Tess went away, we've gone through a lot of editors.
- Franklin W. Stern: Well, not for long. The board just launched a global search for the next editor-in-chief. And I intend to make their decision very easy.
- Lois Lane: And you decided to start your campaign by downsizing the desk inventory?
- Franklin W. Stern: I told you to find the story, not be the story. One of you wanna tell me what happened?
- [both are reluctant to speak up]
- Franklin W. Stern: Let me guess. You two have a lovers' spat?
- Lois Lane: Clark and I don't spat. There was no spatting.
- Clark Kent: What Lois is saying is that we try not to let our personal lives get in the way of our jobs.
- Franklin W. Stern: Well, you don't have to try anymore. Because you're both fired.
- Franklin W. Stern: I've been, uh... reading through the personnel files, to identify any red flags. And I understand you two are entangled in an inter-office relationship?
- Lois Lane: [simultaneously] Heh. No.
- Clark Kent: No, sir.
- Franklin W. Stern: [skeptical] Yeah. Right. Well, for whatever reason, it seems you're both spending so much time out of the office trying to reel in the big fish, you're not delivering the daily catch.
- Clark Kent: To be fair, sir, we've both turned in some pretty big stories.
- Franklin W. Stern: Here's a bigger one. Our fair city's disgraced D.A., Ray Sacks, just had his life sentence reversed. He gets out of prison today.
- [holding their desk nameplates]
- Franklin W. Stern: Only one of these stays on the desk at the end of the day. May the best reporter win.
- Lois Lane: [after an intense make-out session in the elevator] Sometimes I swear you have more than two hands.
- [seeing the hustle and bustle around them]
- Lois Lane: Either that kiss altered my sense of time and space, or this place is busier than usual. It's a big news day.
- Clark Kent: I think it has something to do with our new editor.
- Lois Lane: Another editor? They should just install a rotating door up there. Obviously our illustrious owner has just spun some big wheel of fortune in the sky to see who'd be steering the ship this week.
- Franklin W. Stern: Well... I guess I pulled the lucky number this week. Franklin Stern. And this live wire must be the lovely and charming Ms. Lane, I presume.