Lex Luthor was reviewing the following email message during Tempest on his computer. The author of the message is not known, but it was written during the time Lex was attempting to orchestrate the employee buyout of the LuthorCorp Plant in Smallville. The text in bold received a close up during the episode. The rest of the message was taken from a still frame. The title of the message was "Crisis". The page breaks reproduce what was seen on the screen.