- Brainiac-5: Why would anyone hurt her...
- Head Guard: He's done. On to the other one, boys.
- Brainiac-5: [rebooting like a computer] No. No! No! No, you can't! You can't! Little boxes. Boxes... eventually boxes get opened. There's a story about that, right? It's Greek?
- [he's zapped with energy and grunts in pain]
- Brainiac-5: [his voice changing back and forth] You're just primitives. And I have worked so hard to get back here. You people forget that time travel is also space travel, too. You see, Earth is moving at 67,000 miles per hour. And at different times, it's in different places, so you got to do the math or else you end up in space. And the math is not easy! My point is... my point is, my point is, I'm from the future.
- Head Guard: I think you knocked the dots off his dice.
- Brainiac-5: What I'm trying to tell you is that my *species* has ancestral memory. And my ancestors, very bad people. They were collectors, conquerors...
- [crying]
- Brainiac-5: I remember everything!
- [sounds of power increasing]
- Brainiac-5: Uh-oh. Don't want...
- [laughing, he shuts down, then powers back up]
- Brainiac-5: In short, you rebooted me. Aligned me with my more... emotionless ancestors. And that was a calamitous mistake.
- Querl Dox: Secretary Lockwood chose to cope with his grief by going on a superpowered rampage.
- Alex Danvers: So he injected himself with Harun-El?
- Lena Luthor: Yeah, and he took our entire stock.
- Querl Dox: And then he came back to trash the place, to boot.
- Lena Luthor: Wait. He's the key. And he's been in front of us this entire time.
- Alex Danvers: Lockwood?
- Lena Luthor: Lockwood must be connected to Lex.
- Lena Luthor: A copy was made when Supergirl touched the Harun-El. Her name's Red Daughter, and Lex has taught her to hate America.
- Querl Dox: This explains how Supergirl was framed for the White House attack.
- Lena Luthor: Right, so what do we do?
- Alex Danvers: I can hunt a rogue Kryptonian. I will find her. Brainy, go. Get J'onn and find those aliens.
- Querl Dox: I will bring Dreamer with. We will stop Lex from using them for his nefarious purposes. And I will tell Dreamer that I am in love with her.
- Lena Luthor: [taken aback] Great.
- Alex Danvers: [stunned, as well] Okay.
- Lena Luthor: Good luck.
- Alex Danvers: Hey, have you heard from Kara? She's not answering any of my calls.
- Lena Luthor: She went to tell the president what we found. Kara's okay.
- Supergirl: [sneaking into the DEO] I know you're trying to find Red Daughter.
- Alex Danvers: You can't be here. If the president finds out...
- Supergirl: He's working with Lex.
- Alex Danvers: What?
- Supergirl: Yeah. You need me, especially if we're gonna have to fight another me in the process.
- Eliza Danvers: Alex.
- Alex Danvers: It's okay. Mom, she's... she's okay. She's gonna be fine. It's just dark, so there's no sunlight, but there's... there's sunlight in everything. There's sunlight in the grass.
- [putting blades of grass in Kara's hand]
- Alex Danvers: So, Kara, just take it. Take the grass! Please. Kara, no.
- [crying]
- Alex Danvers: Please don't leave me.
- Eliza Danvers: [watching the energy] Alex, she's doing it. She's pulling the sunlight.
- Alex Danvers: [Kara gasps and wakes up] I'm here. I'm here.
- Supergirl: I've missed you so much.
- Alex Danvers: I really missed you.
- Young Kara: Hey, I... I've got an idea. Instead of going to college, how about not going to college?
- Young Alex: Kara, you'll be fine. You just need to make some new friends.
- [laughing, as Kara tries to clap in time to the music on her iPod]
- Young Alex: Maybe you can make some friends with rhythm.
- Young Kara: No one else gets me. No one else can get me.
- Lena Luthor: We went to Kaznia and we found Lex's lab. He's been experimenting on aliens, trying to harness their powers. And a lot of these aliens seem to come from a DEO facility in the desert.
- Querl Dox: Find the missing aliens, find Lex.
- Lena Luthor: But whatever we do, we better do it fast. Lex is planning on invading America.
- Querl Dox: What?
- Alex Danvers: You should've led with that.
- Lena Luthor: Well, then you're gonna love this. Lex has a clone of Supergirl.
- Alex Danvers: What?
- Querl Dox: You should've led with *that*.
- Kara Danvers: I was so close. I had him. I... now they've destroyed all my evidence, so I've got nothing. Lockwood walked, and people think Supergirl's an assassin, and the president is working with a man who's almost blown up the world more than once.
- J'onn J'onzz: Come on. Don't do this.
- Kara Danvers: I told myself, pen's mighter. "Let's do what Ms. Grant would do." And it all fell apart.
- J'onn J'onzz: Look, you'll find a way. You always do.
- Kara Danvers: Lex knows who I am. He wants me dead.
- [realizing]
- Kara Danvers: Which means Alex is in danger. I... J'onn, I have to tell her why. She has to know I'm Supergirl. That's... I... she has to know.
- J'onn J'onzz: You can't, Kara. Look, when I wipe somebody's mind, I close off neural pathways. Alex's psyche has already compensated for the missing memories. They're walled off. If you tell her the truth, it's like you're taking a sledgehammer to that wall, forcing two realities together. She could go insane.
- Kara Danvers: [crying] This can't be forever. There has... there has to be a way.
- J'onn J'onzz: I mean, maybe if she... finds out on her own, remembers on her own. Maybe.
- Kara Danvers: Is that possible?
- J'onn J'onzz: I don't know.
- Dreamer: Brainy, tell me the odds.
- Querl Dox: There is a 56.3% chance that faking our capture will lead to our actual capture.
- J'onn J'onzz: So, no Wookiee. Look, I'll fly the perimeter, see if I can find a safe place to get us in. You two stay here, watch the gate. Log anything important.
- Ben Lockwood: When you and your sister approached me, were you working for Lex then?
- Otis Graves: [laughing] Of course.
- Ben Lockwood: Luthor wanted me to become Agent...
- Otis Graves: Hey! Nobody told you to wear the mask. That was all you. But the rest of it, yeah. I don't see the problem, man. It's a win-win-win. Win-win.
- Ben Lockwood: I lost everything.
- Otis Graves: No. You get power, I get money, Lex gets more money.
- Ben Lockwood: Oh, so you're saying that everything that's happened, all of this, you're telling me that it's all about money?
- Otis Graves: And world domination.
- [Ben laughs nervously]
- Otis Graves: It's kind of his thing.
- Ben Lockwood: I get it, no. Supervillain, right. I get it.
- Young Alex: Oh, okay. Next clapping part coming up. Don't miss it.
- Young Kara: I didn't miss it. I was just doing, like, a jazz version.
- Young Alex: Uh-huh. Okay, ready?
- [they clap in time together]
- Young Kara: [happy] I did it.
- Kara Danvers: How long are you gonna keep me here?
- Secret Service Agent: Until the president tell us you aren't a problem anymore.
- Kara Danvers: You know, I don't really think that's gonna work for me.
- [shrieking]
- Kara Danvers: Ahh! A spider!
- [as he looks down, she stomps on his foot, dropping him to the floor; still strapped down, she uses her chair to knock out the other agent]
- Kara Danvers: [breaking out of her restraints] You picked on the wrong girl.
- Red Daughter: I'm supposed to kill you, you know.
- Kara Danvers: I see that. Kryptonite makes me soft. I bleed, you shoot me.
- [grunting in pain]
- Kara Danvers: I went to Kaznia. I saw those pictures you have of me, my sister.
- Red Daughter: Know thy enemy.
- Kara Danvers: Lex Luthor sent you here, right? So once you've done his bidding, what's he gonna do to you? You're a loose end. Everthing he's told you, he's lying. He hurts people. For god's sake, just look him up.
- Red Daughter: He did those things in service to the world. You are so... limited. Your life could mean so much, and yet you fly around in a cheerleader skirt. How did they do it? What did they say to make you believe? Look out the window and you will see fear, racism, strife. This country is a fatted heifer. I am here to cut its throat. But first... admit that you were wrong. Go on. That you defend the corrupt. The American dream is snake oil.
- [grunting in pain from exposure to the kryptonite]
- Red Daughter: Who sold it to you? Was it your Alex?
- Kara Danvers: You know, for saying that you want to know your enemy, you don't know me at all. For instance, that pain you're feeling, you've only felt it for the past couple of months. But me? I've been dealing with kryptonite for fifteen years.
- Lena Luthor: It's a baby Truth Seeker, and I need the truth.
- Lillian Luthor: You mean I can't lie?
- Lena Luthor: Nope. My middle school boyfriend, Taylor.
- Lillian Luthor: I paid him $14,000 to never speak to you again.
- Lena Luthor: I knew it. Don't worry, I'm not gonna ask you if you love me. I already know the answer.
- Lillian Luthor: Where are you going?
- Lena Luthor: To confront Ben Lockwood.
- Lillian Luthor: If he's taken the Harun-El, you should wait until I finish.
- Lena Luthor: Oh, are you worried about me?
- Lillian Luthor: Of course. I love you.
- [soffing, as she realizes what she just said]
- Lillian Luthor: There. You have gotten me to say it.
- Lena Luthor: I know you're working with Lex. I need to know where he is.
- Ben Lockwood: Why do you people keep insisting that I know him?
- Lena Luthor: 'Cause you're running around with Otis and Mercy Graves, and they're his henchpeople. Come on, Benjamin. Last year you were an out-of-work history professor and now you're a Cabinet member with superpowers. Do you expect me to believe that just happened?
- Ben Lockwood: The President of the United States made me a Cabinet member.
- Lena Luthor: The president works for Lex.
- [seeing his surprise]
- Lena Luthor: You really didn't know.
- Lena Luthor: Lex played you. He gave you the training, the weapons, the fancy job, and now you've served your purpose. Did you never stop to think that this was all a little too easy?
- Ben Lockwood: Oh, easy. You think this was...
- [rubbing his head, he notices whips of hair in his fist]
- Ben Lockwood: Okay, listen to me. This was my idea, this was my vision, this was my work!
- Lena Luthor: You wanted to save the human race. Instead, you handed its future to a psychopath.
- J'onn J'onzz: This is where the latest Alien Affairs raid took place. Three aliens were taken. I can feel their fear.
- [finding a keychain with a unicorn fob]
- J'onn J'onzz: Does this mean anything to you, Brainy?
- Querl Dox: What?
- [glancing at the keychain indifferently]
- Querl Dox: I... I don't know. Where's Nia? She should be here by now. There's something very important I have to tell her.
- J'onn J'onzz: Okay, but shouldn't we try and save the world first?
- Querl Dox: No! No, that's exactly why I have to tell her now. I need to get this out of my system before all the punching and exploding starts. Causality be damned. If I tell her how I feel, normal function will resume.
- J'onn J'onzz: I'm not sure that's how love works.
- Querl Dox: How does it work?
- Dreamer: [appearing behind him] How does what work?
- Querl Dox: [covering] Uh, tacos.
- J'onn J'onzz: All right. Private security cameras everywhere, power-dampening clubs. They're guarding something important.
- Dreamer: I have an idea to get us in. We do a Wookiee Gambit.
- J'onn J'onzz: Absolutely not.
- Querl Dox: A Wookiee what?
- J'onn J'onzz: You haven't seen "Star Wars"?
- Querl Dox: I believe I've been adequately shamed for that in the past, thank you.
- Dreamer: Basically, J'onn shapeshifts as a guard and pretends to bring us in as prisoners. It's the best way to get in.
- J'onn J'onzz: Why does everyone always think getting captured is the best plan?
- Ben Lockwood: [really Brainy] It is I, Secretary...
- [clearing his throat]
- Ben Lockwood: Secretary Benjamin Lockwood. I have captured the alien outlaw Dreamer. Open the gate and allow us entry.
- Dreamer: [the guard signals to open the gate] It's working.
- Ben Lockwood: Obviously.
- [their guard dog begins barking]
- Ben Lockwood: Dog. How many times do I have to tell you, we cannot keep enslaving these animals for our own, uh, nefarious purposes.
- Guard 1: Sorry, sir, but we have to check.
- [he waves his wand, canceling Brainy's image inducer and ending the façade]
- Brainiac-5: Our odds of being captured just went up.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Supergirl!
- Alex Danvers: Colonel. I thought you were in Washington.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Are you insane? You brought an enemy combatant into the DEO?
- Alex Danvers: No, she's here because the real enemies are on the way. We were right.
- Supergirl: A copy of me attacked the White House. A clone, more or less.
- Alex Danvers: The president knew, too. Baker's been working for Lex Luthor. And now Luthor is planning on attacking the U.S.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Then I guess that's why we should work together on this.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Project Claymore. You remember it?
- Supergirl: I remember every secret government space laser I've blown up.
- Ben Lockwood: Otis, what's he planning?
- Otis Graves: Fun time in Kaznia. Paper tigers, man. Paper tigers.
- Lena Luthor: [eavesdropping] "Paper tigers". It's a false flag operation. Lex convinces Kaznia to invade the U.S., betrays them...
- James Olsen: And then he stops it himself.
- Lena Luthor: Lex becomes the hero he always thought he was.
- Otis Graves: You know the rules; now that I told ya... I gotta kill you.
- [removing his shirt, revealing his Metallo armor]
- Otis Graves: Kind of fits. Seeing as I'm the one who picked you. Boring old Ben Lockwood.
- Ben Lockwood: Otis, the, uh... the name...
- [grabbing Otis in a headlock]
- Ben Lockwood: ...is Liberty.
- James Olsen: [restraining Ben from killing Otis] No, no, no, no, Lockwood. We need him to find Lex.
- Lena Luthor: [as he throws Lockwood aside, his superpowers overstimulate him] James!
- Otis Graves: Now you're dead.
- [as his suit powers up, Ben rips out the kryptonite core]
- Otis Graves: Harsh, bro.
- Alex Danvers: Why does this place look so much like my sister's apartment?
- Supergirl: Alex... I know that... this is all very strange.
- Alex Danvers: [looking out the window] Oh, my god. I can see Kara's loft from here. It's like she's stalking her.
- Supergirl: Kara's gonna be okay. You don't have to worry about her.
- Alex Danvers: Unless you have a sister, you don't understand... this feeling.
- Supergirl: I had one.
- Alex Danvers: Oh. Well, then... then you know, it... it's like a piece of my heart is out there and it's just wandering around in the world, and it's on its own and I-I can't protect it. I can't protect her. And no matter what, I mean, there's always gonna be danger. But I can't always be there for her, and this is...
- [crying]
- Alex Danvers: This is not...
- [Kara takes her hand, and Alex calms down]
- Supergirl: Eliza?
- Eliza Danvers: Kara.
- Supergirl: Don't hurt her, please.
- Red Daughter: I've been here for hours. You have all these... things. You think they will make you whole? I had none of it.
- Supergirl: You can still have it.
- Red Daughter: I don't want it.
- Supergirl: Then why do you have an apartment in the city? I know you have doubts about Lex...
- Red Daughter: His name is Alex!
- Red Daughter: You protect individuals. That is weakness. I serve the collective.
- Supergirl: And what about Mikhail? I know he's important to you.
- Red Daughter: Interesting that you should bring Mikhail up. Americans killed him.
- Supergirl: Luthor will betray Kaznia. And he will betray you.
- Red Daughter: No, he fights for...
- Supergirl: Himself!
- [punching her down]
- Supergirl: That's all he's ever done.
- Red Daughter: Not everyone is as selfish as you.
- Supergirl: Hope, help, and compassion for all. That's what I stand for.
- Red Daughter: You will not be able to stand at all when I am done with you.
- Supergirl: How do you think this ends? We have the same powers.
- Red Daughter: Not exactly. I am evolved.
- Alex Danvers: No. No, no, no. No. Hey.
- [as she listens for a heartbeat, Red Daughter watches from the sky]
- Alex Danvers: No. You can't go now. I remember... everything. Kara, we're here, we're here. We're here together. And I-I know... and I know you. I know you better than anybody knows you. And I know that you don't quit. So you can't go now!
- [crying]
- Alex Danvers: Kara, you can't go!
- Kara Danvers: Please don't do this. We are the same. We have the same genes, the same...
- Red Daughter: Ugh. I seen we've come to the part where the villain says "We are not so different, you and I."
- Kara Danvers: I am not a villain.
- Red Daughter: The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
- Kelly Olsen: You okay?
- Alex Danvers: That was a weird dream or a memory or... I don't know. It was about, um... it was about my sister.
- Kelly Olsen: Your sister who was adopted?
- Alex Danvers: Yeah.
- Kelly Olsen: An adoption falling through is a big deal. And stuff like that isn't just emotional. It can make physiological changes to your brain and to the connections that it makes.
- Alex Danvers: It's weird, 'cause the last time I felt like this, I was, uh... I was being questioned at the DEO. It was a security sweep. Something just feels off, and I think... I think it has to do with Kara somehow.
- Kara Danvers: Jeez. This is America. You can't just kidnap a reporter.
- Secret Service Agent: And you can't publish state secrets when it's a matter of national security.
- Kara Danvers: My editor already has all my evidence.
- Secret Service Agent: We scrubbed the CatCo servers.
- Querl Dox: J'onn, I need your help.
- [seeing Kara is there]
- Querl Dox: Kara. You're hurt.
- Kara Danvers: I-I was, but I'm fine now. Where's Alex?
- Querl Dox: She's looking into the Supergirl clone; Red Daughter. Lena told us everything.
- Kara Danvers: She's gonna get herself killed.
- J'onn J'onzz: Don't do this.
- Querl Dox: [she speeds out] Now, I could use your help finding some aliens.
- Lillian Luthor: How did you manage this?
- Lena Luthor: Well, the nice thing about for-profit prisons is that you can buy them.
- Lillian Luthor: You bought a prison to get me out?
- Lena Luthor: Just for the weekend, which is long enough for what I need.
- Lena Luthor: If you had 24 hours, would you be able to extract the Harun-El from Ben Lockwood's system?
- Lillian Luthor: Yes. Why? You don't think you can do it?
- Lena Luthor: Lex has figured out how, and I haven't cracked it yet. But your mind works like his.
- Lillian Luthor: Well, as much as I love a challenge, we both know who this is really for. And why would I ever do anything for Jimmy Olsen?
- Lena Luthor: Oh, because your lunch was laced with an exotic neurotoxin, and no, I'm not gonna tell you which one.
- [holding up a vial]
- Lena Luthor: I have the antidote, and you have 24 hours. I've just given you the gift of focus.
- Lillian Luthor: If this is so important, why don't you stay and help me?
- Lena Luthor: Because I've got to find Lex. You don't happen to know where he is, do you?
- Lillian Luthor: When you find out your child was plotting matricide, it tends to cast a pall over the relationship.
- Lena Luthor: [feigning sympathy] Oh, did he hurt your feelings?
- Lillian Luthor: Couldn't you just waterboard me like a normal person?
- Ben Lockwood: [running into Lena] If you've, uh, come for your super-sauce...
- [crushing a handrail]
- Ben Lockwood: Too late.
- James Olsen: So?
- Lena Luthor: He had no idea. The look he gave me, he hadn't even considered it.
- James Olsen: So everything he believed in is a lie?
- Lena Luthor: And there's another thing. I think he's deteriorating because of the Harun-El.
- James Olsen: That's not gonna happen to me, is it?
- Lena Luthor: No. Ben injected the untested serum. And by tomorrow, it won't matter anyway. I'm working on an extraction.
- James Olsen: [seeing Lockwood's car peel out] Is it just me, or is that a man who needs answers?
- Lena Luthor: Maybe this wasn't such a dead end after all.
- Dreamer: I just had a vision. That keychain; an alien girl was riding that unicorn. She was being chased by a wolf.
- J'onn J'onzz: Wolves are symbols of danger.
- Querl Dox: Uh... phone.
- J'onn J'onzz: [handing his phone over] Sure.
- Querl Dox: [data interfacing] Wolf. Chordata, Mammalia, Carnivora. Uh, no, no. Um... the archaic word for wolf in Irish is Faol... Faolan Shipping, maybe? They're a subsidiary of a subsidiary... of Lex Luthor's favorite shell company. AmerTek.
- Querl Dox: Now that we have a moment alone, I have something to say to you. These past few months, I've really...
- Dreamer: [spotting something] I can't believe it.
- Querl Dox: What?
- Dreamer: That's her. The girl from my vision. The keychain must have belonged to her. Brainy, something terrible's gonna happen to her in there.
- Querl Dox: You know what? 56.3 isn't that bad, by our standards. Let's go get her.
- Dreamer: Image inducer?
- Querl Dox: Yes. I'll have to be someone they can't say no to.
- Alex Danvers: How does it feel to... to burn sunlight?
- Supergirl: Warm. Fuzzy. I feel it in my toes first. Is it working?
- Alex Danvers: I think so. She's gotta convert solar radiation the same as you, so I am having the satellite scan for your solar signature and eliminate every place we know you've been. The rest must be her.
- Brainiac-5: Where is she? If you hurt her...
- Head Guard: You'll what? Everyone else in here, they've got these crazy powers. You, as far as I can tell, are blue. The girl, on the other hand...
- Brainiac-5: Please. Please, do... do whatever you want with me, but do not hurt her.
- Head Guard: Don't worry, she's next.
- Brainiac-5: [forcefully] You will not hurt her!
- J'onn J'onzz: [seeing a group of Alien Affair agents unconscious] What happened?
- Brainiac-5: I'm free.