"Okay," he said without hesitation. "I'll make some phone calls and then I'll call you back with the information, all right?" He paused. "Lucy, take a deep breath. It's going to be okay."

How many times had he told Chloe that over the last six months? he wondered. And it still wasn't okay. He was starting to feel like he was as big a liar as Lex Luthor had once been.