Otis, Lex and others in “Unfinished Business”

Otis

So what's the play?

Lex

Paper tigers.

Otis

[confused] Uh...

Lex

Chinese idiom. Paper tigers threaten, but are destroyed easily. Kaznia wants to move on the U.S. They're crazier than Russia. They wanna bring back the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Eve

So you wanna help them?

Lex

I don't care about their politics. Regimes change. Kings die. But if Kaznia attacks America, and I foil the attack, America will hail me as a hero. To do that, I'm gonna need patsies in both the East and the West. So, Otis, fetch your sister and find me a real American. Someone charismatic, a radical.

Otis

I think I know just the guy, Mr. Luthor. Name's Ben Lockwood, seems smart.

Lex

I'm glad someone does.

Otis

Wait. Where you going?

Lex

Back to Stryker's. Prison's the best alibi the world has yet devised, and I'm about to need a lot of alibis.