After tea—which was rather delightful, it was sugar plum fairy flavored—Matt went off to read about pirates and Lex went to make some phone calls. While Lex was on the phone with Mr. Schlaebel from Detroit he got a message from his secretary saying that a Mr. Clank Bent was on his way up to the office.
"Can I call you back Mr. Schlaebel?" he asked and without waiting for an answer, hung up. Then he said into the intercom, "Jennifer, tell Clank to wait five minutes and then tell Mr. Murdock to come to my office immediately."
"Alright Mr. Luther," she said.
When Matt walked into Lex's office Lex told him to wait in the closet and come out and get rid of Clark when he gave the signal. "What's the signal Mr. Luther?" Matt asked.
"Oh, I'll say 'unicorn.'"
Just as the closet door shut on Matt, Clark stepped into the room. He said, "Surprise!"
"Oh!" said Lex, sarcastically, "It's you. I was so fooled by your ingenious pseudonym."
"I came to tell you that the Talon has closed, that's terrible isn't it."
"Terrible…yes…" Lex smiled, "It's really to bad it had to be closed, but, you know, people can't just ignore building code violations."
"There were no building code violations."
"Oh did I say building code violations? I meant bribes. People can't ignore bribes."
"You mean you're behind it all?"
"I didn't say I bribed the proper officials."
"Oh. You didn't then?"
"Oh no, I did. You see Clark, you need to learn a valuable lesson."
"And what's that?"
"Don't get on my bad side. Actually, I'm surprised you hadn't figured out that that was the lesson by now, I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me. But then, you never were very smart."
"Oh really..."
"Yes. Now, I'd like you to please leave before I call the police. They are, after all, on my side."
"Oh you!" said Clark, angrily and bizarrely shaking his fist.
Lex wasn't at all moved by the fist shaking and was only glad that Clark had left. He went off to get some more paperwork done.
***
The next morning Lex walked into his office and heard the sound of someone singing coming from his closet. He went over to investigate and saw that it was Matt Murdock. "Matt!" he said, "Why didn't you leave the closet?"
"I never heard the signal."
"Oh come on! You're a pretty intelligent guy but that's got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.