Do I think Moira had a right to ask to see some evidence (like proof that the escapee was indeed a violent psychopath) before deciding Lex was sincere in his goals? Certainly...but she never bothered to ask. She clearly didn't care about seeing proof. She didn't care about innocent people getting hurt. She was perfectly prepared to let a psychopath roam the countryside, killing at will, rather than lift a finger to help -- and when Lex verbally pressed her on that point, she did her best to have him killed -- despite the fact that Lex had used no lethal force, and had threatened no lethal force. The worst he had done was to respond to her repeated lies and probable assault (via Chloe) by letting someone bat her around, just a little, and scare her a little more. (There's no doubt in my mind that the mutant Lex put her in with had already been ordered not to hurt her badly. There would, after all, be no point in killing her, especially if she could still be recruited.)
As for the initial offer Lex made Chloe, it was essentially a gift. Chloe has no right as a reporter to print a story for which she has no proof. She also has no right as a person to endanger the entire human race in order to settle a personal grudge. Lex has as yet done nothing worse to her than to reunite her with her mother, which was exactly what she'd wanted. (The fact that her mother slipped back into catatonia afterwards is not Lex's fault; he would have provided the medicine to keep her conscious if Moira had chosen to be even slightly cooperative.) Yet, for purely petty reasons, Chloe is willing to undermine Lex's efforts at readying the world for Armageddon -- and, yes, I do hold her responsible for that, even if she's too blind to see that that's just what she's doing.
In short, Lex tried to recruit a woman who could have been of great assistance in saving the Earth, but she turned out to be dangerously unbalanced and homicidal, and he was unable to convince her that protecting not just herself and her daughter, but everyone else as well, was more important than her personal anger with him for daring to ask her to step up and fulfill her responsibility to the rest of the human race.
If Lex does, at some point, have to eliminate Chloe and/or Moira, I will not blame him -- he tried his best to save them, but he has greater responsibilities. Or, to put it another way, when you can't fit everyone into the life boat, you get in as many as you can, and let the rest take their chances, because it's better that way than by overcrowding and sinking the boat and letting everyone drown.
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Do I think Moira had a right to ask to see some evidence (like proof that the escapee was indeed a violent psychopath) before deciding Lex was sincere in his goals? Certainly...but she never bothered to ask. She clearly didn't care about seeing proof. She didn't care about innocent people getting hurt. She was perfectly prepared to let a psychopath roam the countryside, killing at will, rather than lift a finger to help -- and when Lex verbally pressed her on that point, she did her best to have him killed -- despite the fact that Lex had used no lethal force, and had threatened no lethal force. The worst he had done was to respond to her repeated lies and probable assault (via Chloe) by letting someone bat her around, just a little, and scare her a little more. (There's no doubt in my mind that the mutant Lex put her in with had already been ordered not to hurt her badly. There would, after all, be no point in killing her, especially if she could still be recruited.)
As for the initial offer Lex made Chloe, it was essentially a gift. Chloe has no right as a reporter to print a story for which she has no proof. She also has no right as a person to endanger the entire human race in order to settle a personal grudge. Lex has as yet done nothing worse to her than to reunite her with her mother, which was exactly what she'd wanted. (The fact that her mother slipped back into catatonia afterwards is not Lex's fault; he would have provided the medicine to keep her conscious if Moira had chosen to be even slightly cooperative.) Yet, for purely petty reasons, Chloe is willing to undermine Lex's efforts at readying the world for Armageddon -- and, yes, I do hold her responsible for that, even if she's too blind to see that that's just what she's doing.
In short, Lex tried to recruit a woman who could have been of great assistance in saving the Earth, but she turned out to be dangerously unbalanced and homicidal, and he was unable to convince her that protecting not just herself and her daughter, but everyone else as well, was more important than her personal anger with him for daring to ask her to step up and fulfill her responsibility to the rest of the human race.
If Lex does, at some point, have to eliminate Chloe and/or Moira, I will not blame him -- he tried his best to save them, but he has greater responsibilities. Or, to put it another way, when you can't fit everyone into the life boat, you get in as many as you can, and let the rest take their chances, because it's better that way than by overcrowding and sinking the boat and letting everyone drown.