3.22, Covenant

Lionel is meeting with his paid-off agent, Loeder who claims "I can't control some bleach-blond Pulitzer wannabe from dredging up evidence for a decades-old homicide." Meanwhile,Chloe's working in the Torch; Jonathan visits her with the tea cup that Kara used.  Jonathan asks her to run the prints as a personal favor; Chloe backs off her third degree and agrees, telling him it might take a little time.

She meets with Lex later that night; Lex reveals to her that his dad is sick and dying and she gives Lex an out to stop with the legal process.  Lex says he's not giving up; his father is a dying man with little to loose. However, he wants her to have all the facts of what's going on before she commits; she assures him that she's "not backing down."

I can't control some bleach blond Pulitzer wannabe from dredging up evidence for a decades-old homicide!

Chloe is at the Metropolis courthouse waiting for Clark to show up - in a pretty black suit.  She talks with Lex, questioning why Clark wouldn't show up at all - and notices Clark (in his standard 'Superman' SV outfit) through the crowd. Clark breezes past Lex and her; she takes off after him leaving Lex alone.

Before meeting up to go into protective custody, Chloe stops by the Kent farm to give Jonathan the information he asked for citing, "even for [her], the keeper of the Wall of Weird... it's extremely weird."   She and her father go into protective custody, where they are taken to a safe house on the edge of town which explodes seconds after they enter it.*

* In Iron Age Comics, Lois and her father were blown up by Lex Luthor; her father died and she survived.  Additionally in Birthright, Lois has already gotten several Pulitzers by the time Clark shows up in Metropolis.  In Lois and Clark, Lois wins the Kerth (their Pultizer equivelent) award three years running and had been nominated every years since she was old enough to be nominated before Clark shows up in Metropolis.