Lionel Luthor sat in his jail cell as he thought about what had brought him here in the first place. His only son had betrayed him. It was a betrayal he could never forgive. He had to hand it to Lex though: this was quite an accomplishment. Lex was turning a corner, one he could never come back from. Lionel smiled at the idea of his son becoming the man he always had envisioned him being. Lex was then escorted in by a guard.
"Speak of the devil." Lionel said in surprise.
"No that's you Dad. Are you surprised?"
"About what?"
"The fact that I'm not dead."
"I don't know what you're talking about son."
"You hired Miguel to kill me and Chloe. You're going to rot in jail for all you have done."
"Sooner or later, you will pay for what you have done, Ms. Sullivan too."
"You're still under the deluded assumption that you have any power left."
"I still have supporters at Luthorcorp. You will have a hard time running the place."
"I have big plans for the company. I'm expanding on some of your projects. It's my company now Dad and its going places."
"That's very ambitious Lex. Tell me are you familiar with the story of Adam and Eve?"
"And the Serpent said to Eve: You will not surely die, for God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened….." Lex recited getting cut off by his father.
"And you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Genesis three, verses four and five."
"I never pegged you as the religious type." Lex stated.
"Adam was overly ambitious. He did not think any harm would come from eating the apple his wife took from the forbidden tree. God punished him for it. Adam was banned from paradise." Lionel said.
"One thing you forgot Dad. You're not God." Lex said as he bent the cell bars with his bare hands.
"But maybe I am."
"How did you do that?"
"I did it with the power I earned. You know I see everything so clearly now. How you wasted my time with those lectures and displays of humiliation. I'm so far above you now."
"You're not above me Lex you're the same." Lionel said standing up to his son.
"I am nothing like you!" Lex yelled as he threw his father across the cell.
Lex walked up to his father's body and leaned down next to it.
"What are you going to do kill me?"
"Why not? What possible reason do I have for keeping you alive?" Lex said as he began choking his father to death.
"I was wrong about you son, we're not the same. You're a weak pathetic off spring. You have too much of your mother in you."
"Don't talk about her!" Lex yelled as he punched his father's face again and again.
Lex looked down at his father's bloody face and couldn't believe what he was doing. He then ran out of the prison.