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Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
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| Title: | Witness |
| Episode Number: | 14 |
| Season: | 1 |
| Season Episode #.: | 14 |
| Production Number: | 455310 |
| Original Airdate: | Sunday January 09th, 1994 |
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Vincent Winninger, a world renowned scientist and infamous ladies’ man, summons Lois to interview him. In the interview he expresses concern about the upcoming appointment of Barbara Trevino to lead the Rainforest Consortium. When Lois presses him, he offers a cryptic comment about “increased male potency,” and a journal as explanation. Then he accidentally spills tea all over her, and she goes to the bathroom to clean up. While she’s there, a man enters the house and kills Dr. Winninger! Lois sees the man, and in fact barely escapes his notice. Later, she sees the same man among those present at the crime scene – but he has an airtight alibi! Lois, with a little help from Superman, must discover who killed Winninger and why before the killer zeroes in on her.
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| Jimmy Olsen: Lois, be careful! Vincent Winninger is a notorious
Cat Grant: Wolf. Womanizer. Mayyyyybe I should go with you.
Lois: Mayyyyybe you shouldn’t.
| Barbara Trevino: I need you to see to it that he’s in no condition to talk to anybody about anything.
| Lois: Is this...?
Vincent Winninger: Yes. Barbara Trevino. She’s come a long way – from radical hippie to...
Lois: ...Chairperson of the Rainforest Consortium.
Vincent Winninger: Well, not until Tuesday. And we’re going to change all that.
| Lois: This is Lois Lane. I want to report a murder!
| Lois: (to Clark) I just spent five hours with the police, and they didn’t mention me needing a bodyguard. And if I did need one – and I mean this in the nicest way – you would not be my first choice.
| Lois: (spotting Dr. Hubert) That’s him! That’s the killer, Inspector! Don’t let him go!
Dr. Hubert: What?
Lois: The man that killed Dr. Winninger! I saw you! I was in the powder room!
Inspector Henderson: This is Dr. Hubert, Dr. Winninger’s associate.
Lois: I don’t care who he is! I saw him kill Dr. Winninger this morning.
Dr. Hubert: I was in Washington, D.C. this morning.
Inspector Henderson: Did anybody see you there?
Dr. Hubert: The thirty or forty men and women who attended the National Science Council meeting, and heard my presentation. Including the Vice President of the United States.
| Lois: (after Superman leaves) He reads my work.
| Perry White: Oh, and, uh, Jimmy?
Jimmy Olsen: Yeah?
Perry White: There’s nothing wrong with a... little sucking up.
Jimmy Olsen: Right... Chief!
Perry White: (smiling) Better...
| Lois: I couldn’t breathe... that nice Mr. Tracewski...
Clark: No, no, it wasn’t him. It must have been somebody else. I saw the real Mr. Tracewski leave.
| Lois: Apparently the killer can find me anywhere and can look like anyone, so I’m probably safer around a lot of people I know.
| Lois: Maybe you’ll talk to the police.
Sebastian Finn: Not likely. Superman may be the Man of Steel, but I have a will of iron.
Lois: Ach! I hate actors!
| Lois: I just talked to the Dean of the Philosophy Department at Metropolis University. He used to be a member of the Elemont Commune. He knew Winninger, Finn, and Trevino way back then. Apparently, it was a regular Peyton Place. Winninger and Trevino used to be a couple, then he dumped her.
Clark: Why?
Lois: He felt that she wasn’t living up to the ideals that they all believed in. But then, Finn and Trevino got together. They eventually split, but they still keep in contact.
| Dr. Hubert: During the time Vincent spent in the Amazon, one of the discoveries he made was a rare plant which, when correctly harvested and processed, increased male potency.
Lois: So his prowess with the ladies wasn’t all God given?
Dr. Hubert: Correct.
Clark: Better sex through science.
| Lois: Anything on Hobbs Mining?
Perry White: Ah, they’re being pretty closed mouthed – what Ben Bradlee used to call “non-denial denials."
| Lois: Jimmy. How about a cup of coffee?
Jimmy Olsen: (misunderstanding completely) Sure. I’d love one.
| Barbara Trevino: I knew Winninger was about to expose my true motivation in wanting to be appointed chairperson of the Rainforest Consortium. Because from there it would be easy for me to grant Hobbs the exclusive strip-mining licenses they needed to exploit the area. So I called on our old friend Finn to eliminate him, but Finn left a loose end.
Lois: Me.
| Cat Grant: It would be nice, for once – just, just for once, that you could admit you have bad days, and problems, and fears just like the rest of us.
Lois: Cat... I was a lot scared...
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| The killer fires three times at Lois as she stands on the steps of her apartment building. Clark catches the bullets. Moments later, when he drops them, he drops far more than three bullets.
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| Harold Stein, King of the Airwaves, and Harold’s cohost Rowena are parodies of (at that time) CBS air personality (and so-called shock jock) Howard Stern who is the self-proclaimed King of All Media and who has a co-host Robin Quivers. Stern’s morning show was immensely popular, so much so that he parlayed it into a $500 million, 5 year deal with Sirius radio.
| Lois tells Clark and Jim that Winninger, Finn and Trevino were a regular Peyton Place. She’s referring an evening soap opera famous for gossipy characters and frank discussions of morality. Quite a number of eventually famous actors appeared on this show early in their careers. The term “Peyton Place” has long outlasted the series, and generally refers to any morally ambiguous, potentially scandalous set of interpersonal relationships.
| Lois at one point tells Clark he can drop the Kevin Costner protecting Whitney Houston bit. She’s referring to a 1992 film, The Bodyguard in which pop singer Rachel Marron (Whitney Houston) hired former Secret Service agent Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) to protect her. In the film, Farmer eventually fell in love with Marron and she with him, complicating their professional relationship.
| Perry mentions Ben Bradlee in a conversation with Lois. Ben Bradlee was Executive Editor of the Washington Post for nearly three decades beginning in 1965; in 1991 he retired from the editorship but continues to serve as vice president. Bradlee’s name became a household word when he directed two young reporters, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, whose use of a covert source exposed corruption in the Nixon administration, specifically, the events surrounding a break-in at the Watergate Apartments. Later, Bradlee defended the right of the Washington Post to publish articles based on portions of the infamous Pentagon Papers obtained by one of its reporters.
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| Barbara Trevino took an awful chance calling Lois late in the episode. She as much as admitted to sending Sebastian Finn after Lois – since Finn had made several attempts on Lois’ life, it was at least possible that Lois had a police tap on her phone for her own safety. Trevino also warned Lois that she’d be seeing her “very soon” – a clear threat that would cause most people to contact the police. Considering what she had to lose if Lois unraveled her plan or the authorities caught her, Trevino acted rashly for no gain. She’d have been better off arriving by surprise.
| This episode incorporates one of the reasons often cited for preservation of jungle biodiversity, the possibility of discovering new drugs and remedies among that wealth of varied life. It uses one of the “holy grails” of commercial medical research at that time, a cure for impotence. Ironically, less than four years later Pfizer would begin selling sildenafil as Viagra, the first effective oral treatment for the condition.
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