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[first lines]
Kara Danvers : My name is Kara Zor-El. 24 years ago, my planet, Krypton, was in serious peril. My cousin, Kal-El, was sent to a planet called Earth for his own safety and protection. You may know his story. The story you don't know is that I was sent to protect him.
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Hank Henshaw : Your ship. We keep it here as a reminder of the day you crashed on Earth. You're the reason for all of this.
Kara Danvers : Me? But... My... But my cousin was here two dozen years before me.
Hank Henshaw : And it was his arrival that triggered the need for this organization. We realized we weren't alone in the universe and we might soon would be getting more... immigrants. Sure enough, you came along. And with you, Fort Rozz.
Kara Danvers : Fort Rozz?
Hank Henshaw : Krypton's maximum security prison. Banished to the Phantom Zone, same place your ship got stuck. But just like yours, it didn't stay there. We're not sure how your pod got loose. What we do know is this. You pulled Fort Rozz with you. When it crashed, the alien convicts, the worst criminals in the galaxy, they all escaped. And you brought them here. These beings, some of them have powers from your darkest nightmares. For over a decade, they've stayed hidden. But in the last year many have been emerging,
Kara Danvers : I can help you stop them.
Hank Henshaw : How? You couldn't even stop us from capturing you.
Kara Danvers : I... I'm still learning.
Hank Henshaw : Our job is keeping people in the dark about alien life on Earth, and nothing says "covert operation" like a flying woman in a red skirt.
Kara Danvers : They know about my cousin, they don't fear him.
Hank Henshaw : Plenty of people do, just not popular to admit it. You wanna help? Go back to getting somebody's coffee.
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Kara Danvers : I'm not flying around saving people in this thing. I... I wouldn't even wear it to the beach. Where's my cape?
Winn Schott : Capes are lame. You can tell your cousin I said so. Actually, never, never do that.
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Winn Schott : This one has the "S". For "Super", just like your cousin.
Kara Danvers : It's not an "S". It's my family coat of arms. The House of El.
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Kara Danvers : [on discovering that Cat dubbed her "Supergirl"] "Supergirl"? We can't name her that!
Cat Grant : *We* didn't.
Kara Danvers : Right, I'm sorry. It's just, uh... A female superhero. Shouldn't she be called Super... woman?
Cat Grant : I'm sorry, darling, I just can't hear you over the loud color of your cheap pants.
Kara Danvers : If we call her "Supergirl", something less than what she is, doesn't that make us guilty of, of being anti-feminist? Didn't you say she's the hero?
Cat Grant : *I'm* the hero. I stuck a label on the side of the girl. I branded her. She will forever be linked to CatCo, to the Tribune, to me. And what do you think is so bad about "Girl?" Huh? I'm a girl. And your boss, and powerful, and rich, and hot and smart. So if you perceive "Supergirl" as anything less than excellent, isn't the real problem you?
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Supergirl : People of this city will die because something I did. I started this. You have to let me stop it.
Hank Henshaw : Make sure you win.
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Winn Schott : Uh,if... If I believe the comments on the website, they mentioned a "female/reptilian boxing match in the desert".
Kara Danvers : I'll tell you all about it in our next crime-fighting lunch hour.
Winn Schott : Wait, so the Super-Friends are back?
Kara Danvers : We're not calling ourselves that.
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Kara Danvers : Things didn't exactly go according to my mothers plan. Krypton's destruction sent a shock wave that knocked my pod off course and into the Phantom Zone. A region of space where time doesn't pass. I slept there for 24 years until somehow I got here. When I arrived, I was still a 13-year-old girl. But in that same time, my cousin Kal-El had grown up and revealed himself to your world as Superman. The most powerful man in the universe. My cousin wanted me to have the same safe human-type childhood he did. So he placed me with my adoptive family, the Danvers. Scientists who once helped him understand his own super abilities.
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Kara Danvers : Pretty cool, huh?
Winn Schott : A plane saving lady? How is the world supposed to take her seriously if she can't even come up with a suit? What... Metropolis gets him and what does National City get? Some rookie superhero?
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Kara Danvers : Uh, there's something about me that for most of my life, I've run from it. But last night, I embraced who I am and I don't want to stop.
Winn Schott : Oh, my God, you're a lesbian. Oh, Kara, that's not why you're into me. This is... this is great news!
Kara Danvers : I'm not gay! I'm... I'm her! The woman who saved the plane!
Winn Schott : Okay. Yeah, okay. Right.
[Kara walks toward the ledge]
Winn Schott : Kara, what are you doing? Hey, Kara! Hey, get away from the ledge, you're gonna get hurt.
[Kara jumps off]
Winn Schott : Kara! Hey!
[Kara flies back up and lands on the roof]
Winn Schott : You're... You're her.
Kara Danvers : Yup.
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James Olsen : Here. From him.
Kara Danvers : It's the blanket he was wrapped in when he was a baby.
James Olsen : He's really proud of you. Me too. Now, don't you have a city to protect? You now... Up, up and away?
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Vartox : On my planet, females bow before males.
Supergirl : This is not your planet.
Vartox : You look like Alura.
Supergirl : How do you know my mother's name?
Vartox : You don't easily forget the name of the woman who condemned you to prison.
Supergirl : Fort Rozz?
Vartox : She was our judge and jailer. Can't kill her. So, killing you will have to do.
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Kara Danvers : [seeing a picture of Superman flying through the air] I've seen this picture, like, a million times. It won a Pulitzer. Wow.
James Olsen : Yeah. Only because it was the first real shot of him. Little secret, he actually posed for that. Guess he liked me.
Kara Danvers : Oh, my god. You're Jimmy Olsen, the photographer from the Daily Planet.
James Olsen : James Olsen. Well, "Jimmy"'s reserved for my mom and the big guy. He's kind of stuck in his ways.
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Alex Danvers : I have a conference in Geneva and I need to be on a plane in two hours.
Kara Danvers : And I have a blind date in a half an hour and I need you to help me pick out what to wear. I win.
Alex Danvers : Why do you do this to me?
Kara Danvers : Because I'm your sister and you love me.
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Kara Danvers : You're downsizing the Tribune? But that was your first acquisition.
Cat Grant : Go see if the new art director has the layout ready. It's not that I don't see your frown, it's just not I don't care enough to ask why it's there.
Kara Danvers : All those people, they're going to lose their jobs. What's going to happen to them, their families? They don't have to downsize at the Daily Planet.
Cat Grant : Metropolis has a person who wears a cape and flies around performing heroic acts. The Planet puts this superlative man on their cover 54% of the time. You want to save the Trib? Go find me a hero, Kerah.
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Kara Danvers : [voicover] My cousin, he didn't need my protection. I didn't have a mission anymore. But even though I had all the same powers he did...
[walking down the sidewalk, she bumps into another pedestrian]
Kara Danvers : Oof. Sorry. Sorry.
Kara Danvers : [v.o] ... I decided the best thing I could do was fit in. After all, Earth didn't need another hero.
[on the phone]
Kara Danvers : I need two tickets in the orchestra section for "Wicked". No, not for Ms. Grant. Her mother wants to see it. Yes, again.
[exasperatedly]
Kara Danvers : Sure, I'll hold.
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Kara Danvers : Winn, there is no such thing as aliens.
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Winn Schott : Hey, um, I was wondering if, maybe, you want to... I don't know, go see... go see a movie tonight.
Kara Danvers : I'm... I can't. I... I'm sorry. I have a date.
Winn Schott : Date? Really. That's great. Fun. Dating's fun. Who... who's that with?
Kara Danvers : It's an online date. Says we are 82% compatible, so, should be good.
Winn Schott : You... you... you know that you can't quantify emotions based on an algorithm?
Kara Danvers : Winn, you're I.T. Isn't your whole life based on algorithms?
Winn Schott : Yeah, so if there was an algorithm for love, I think that I would know about it. Just like you're gonna know when it hits you, Kara. It'll be all...
[pantomiming a punch]
Winn Schott : ...wa-bow.
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Cat Grant : [with her superhuman hearing, Kara hears her arriving at the office] Ugh, this elevator is a human petri dish. It's like standing up in coach.
Kara Danvers : She's here.
Winn Schott : How do you do that?
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Kara Danvers : Ms. Grant sent me for layout, since she doesn't like to wait.
James Olsen : Well, she can wait a minute.
Kara Danvers : Have you met Ms. Grant?
James Olsen : Yeah, what's she gonna do, fire me right after hiring me? Her loss.
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James Olsen : [meaning Superman] Anyone ever tell you that you look a little like him, right here?
[gesturing to her eyes]
Kara Danvers : No. Uh, no. No. You're the first.
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Kara Danvers : I don't know. I feel like I'm not living up to my potential. I went to work for Cat Grant because I thought working in a media company run by a powerful woman who actually shapes the way people think would be the way that I could make a difference. But instead I just fetch layouts and coffee.
Alex Danvers : You always wanted to be normal, right? So having a crappy boss and absolutely nothing to wear, this is what normal looks like.
Kara Danvers : I'm not normal. I have the same powers he does. I can... lift a bus, stop a bullet. Alex, I can fly. At least I think I can. I haven't done it in years.
Alex Danvers : Kara, you've got a good job. You're cute. And thanks to your alien DNA, you can't get pimples. Life is not so bad. But if you really want to help someone, you'll pick between one of these two so I can get on my plane.
[she holds up a red and blue shirt; after a moment of indecisiveness, Kara points to the red one]
Alex Danvers : [handing her the blue shirt] Good choice. When it doubt, go with blue. It is your color. All right, text me every detail from your date, and I will call you when I'm back from Geneva. I love you.
Kara Danvers : Love you.
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Leyna Nguyen : [reporting on the plane Kara saved] Guardian angel or human wrecking ball?
Kara Danvers : [indigntantly, watching on TV] What?
Leyna Nguyen : There is destruction all over Otto Binder Bridge. And one...
Kara Danvers : Well, you try saving a plane for the first time. See if you don't make a mess.
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Alex Danvers : What were you thinking? You exposed yourself to the world. You're out there now, Kara. Everyone will know about you, and you can't take that back.
Kara Danvers : I... I don't want to. This is what I was talking about, Alex. I've always felt the need to help people, and tonight I finally got that chance. I didn't travel 2,000 light years just to be an assistant.
Alex Danvers : What if people figure out who you are? What you are. It's just... it's not safe for you to do anything like that ever again.
Kara Danvers : [hurt] Oh. I'm kind of tired. I... I just... carried a plane on my back. I'm gonna go to bed. You should go.
Alex Danvers : Don't say I didn't warn you.
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Winn Schott : So, uh, to be a superhero, you need a crime. I hacked into NCPD. There's a car chase on the 112 freeway.
Kara Danvers : I can do a car chase.
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Supergirl : Did you know about my mom? That she was the one who locked up all those aliens?
Alex Danvers : It's why I didn't want you going out there, showing yourself. Showing this. The Fort Rozz escapees would give anything to get revenge on your mother, and the only way that they can do that now is to hurt you. I'm trying to protect you.
Supergirl : You were right. The world doesn't need me.
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Alex Danvers : [knocking on Kara's door] Kara, it's me. Can we talk?
[Kara x-rays the door and sees her outside]
Alex Danvers : I know you can see me. I know what you're thinking, okay? That this is all your fault. But it's not. Before you came to live with us, I was the star. And then, I mean... h... how could I compete with you? With... with someone who could touch the stars? You know, I was happy when you decided not to use your powers. You know, you... feeling like less, it somehow, it... made me feel like more. Now the world needs you to fly, Kara.
Kara Danvers : [opening the door] I can't, Alex. I can't do it.
Alex Danvers : Yeah, you can. Your family believes in you.
Kara Danvers : I know you do.
Alex Danvers : No, I don't mean me.
Kara Danvers : [Alex hands her a metallic box] That's Kryptonese writing.
Alex Danvers : Yeah. Hank and his old team recovered it from the pod that brought you to Earth.
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Kara Danvers : Do you have time to grab lunch?
James Olsen : You must be hungry. You probably burn up a lot of calories fighting an ax-wielding alien.
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Kara Danvers : You knew. This whole time. He told you.
James Olsen : Well, he knew that I was trying to expand my own horizons, so as a favor, he asked me to expand them here, in National City. Hang out. Be near you.
Kara Danvers : So... so... wait a minute. He... he wanted me to do this? Why didn't he just tell me?
James Olsen : Because he wanted you to choose it for yourself. Same way he did. It's what makes a hero, Kara.
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Alex Danvers : I know you're mad and you're hurt. I wanted to tell you every single day.
Supergirl : No, instead, you told me every single day not to be who I really am.
Alex Danvers : You have to listen to me.
Supergirl : I can't. This kind of just feels like one big coincidence, doesn't it? You working here, hunting down aliens, me being one? I can't help but think the real reason you were recruited was because of me.
Alex Danvers : They recruited me because my background in bio-engineering makes me an expert on alien physiology. And, yeah, it helps that I shared a bathroom with one.
Supergirl : I'm leaving now. Unless you wanna try and stop me. Which I wouldn't.
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Kara Danvers : [supporting falling airplane, upside down, sees bridge structure rushing towards her] Oh, come on!
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Kara Danvers : I was handling the situation.
James Olsen : Oh, yeah? What was your plan? To get yelled at and fired? Cause that was working.
Kara Danvers : I don't need you or anyone else fighting my battles for me.
