Sherlock Holmes. The Grey Ghost. Both had been called "The World's Greatest Detective", and Bruce had grown up idolizing both. Now he was jealous of them.

They would have had the mystery that is Smallville wrapped up long ago, and here I am still struggling with it. Every teacher, every lesson focused on the principle that my mind is my greatest weapon. What they don't tell you is that it'll still misfire on occasion. No! That's the wrong way to think. Focus, Bruce. Review the evidence. There's the meteor rocks. I still don't know why Luthor is so interested in them. Chloe has her wall of weird with all the unexplained events in Smallville. Then there's Clark. After seeing what he did to that spoon, I'd say he's a candidate for Chloe's wall. I wonder if Lex saw that spoon. Wait… Lex was there the entire time… watching Chloe and Clark. He may not know everything that I do, but he was watching those two for a reason. That's it. Clark is the key to this. Has to be. I need to know more about this kid.

Bruce called Lucius and asked him for any information he could get on Clark. Medical records, birth records—nothing would be deemed too insignificant. Bruce had planed on killing time by looking around the town again while he waited for Lucius to call back. He never even made out of his hotel room. Less than an hour after he had called Lucius, his phone rang.

"What do you have for me, Lucius?"

"Bruce are you sure you got this kid's name right?"

"Yeah. It's Clark Kent…. Why?"

"Because we couldn't find anything. He has no birth record. I mean, he has a birth certificate but it wasn't created until after he had been adopted by Jonathan and Martha Kent."

"He was adopted?"

"Yeah. That's not all. He apparently hasn't been to see a doctor in the last twelve years."

"So he's healthy and he's lucky. So am I."

"Yeah, Bruce, but you did get sick as a kid, just like all kids. Colds, flu, chicken pox, broken bones. Most kids get some combination of these things. He hasn't. It's not just that. Both his hearing and his vision are perfect. Something's not right here Bruce. He hasn't been to a doctor since the Kents took him shortly after they found him…"

"What? Did you say they found him?"

"Yeah. Apparently he had been abandoned. That's what I'm talking about, Bruce. This is too fishy. I mean, who abandons a toddler?"

"Lucius, when did they find him?"

"According to the police report they filed, it was right after the meteor shower. Why?"

The Wall of Weird. Lex's suspicion. The spoon. The kryptonite. The chunks of milled titanium.

"Oh my God…."