Lillian and Lex in “Unfinished Business”

What was it then that brought you to me? Oh yes, you were shot coming out of a meeting with the man you hired to destroy Jonathan Kent's reputation, so you could become senator. How'd that turn out, by the way?

Lex

If you're really my dead mother, wouldn't you know?

It was a rhetorical question, Alexander; of course I know.