"You never told me Kara was... Supergirl, right?"
Cobblepot struggled around a heap of rubble and found Li Jie sorting supplies.
"Supergirl?"
Li Jie wiped the dust from his face and asked in confusion, "She's not Supergirl, is she? But you've put on a lot of weight lately. Aren't you worried about fatty liver disease?"
"My checkup didn't show any problems... wait, that's not what I wanted to talk about!"
Cobblepot answered reflexively, then immediately realized he'd been sidetracked. "How can she not be Supergirl? She just..."
He tugged at his collar. "Grabbed me like this... and whoosh! God!"
He shuffled a step closer to Li Jie. "Jay, we're friends. You can't keep hiding things from me."
"Really, she's not Superwoman." Li Jie stacked a salvaged case of drinking water on top of the supplies and had the officer beside him log it.
"She's Supergirl."
"So she's... isn't that the same thing?!" Cobblepot's face fell. "Fine. Why did you have her haul me over here?"
"The difference is that it makes her sound younger."
Li Jie wiped the sweat from his forehead with his cuff and looked Cobblepot up and down. "You killed them?"
"Ah! What... what are you talking about?"
A muscle twitched in Cobblepot's face. He glanced cautiously to either side and raised a hand to his chin.
"Okay..." he said, lowering his voice. "O'Brien. But how did you know?"
"Don't forget I'm a cop, Oz." Li Jie gestured with his eyes toward Cobblepot's hair, which looked either greasy or wet, and said quietly, "There's still blood you haven't wiped off. Judging by the shape and direction of the spatter, it came from somewhere very close to your face. At that distance..."
He made a small gesture with his hand. "Bullets leave a mist of blood. A blade