Top 600 Quotes From Lena Luthor

Alex: [needs password to open computer file] Okay... did Eve ever mention, like, a family pet?
Supergirl: Uh...
Lena: Here.
[types in her educated guess password]
Supergirl: "IloveLex"? Gross!

Supergirl: Access all Kryptonian knowledge on fifth-dimensional AllStone totems. Here we go.
[loading a crystal, she's surprised as a hologram of Vita appears]
Supergirl: Oh.
Lena: You know her?
Supergirl: Yeah, she's a Kryptonian witch.
Lena: [skeptical] A witch?
Supergirl: Well, the living memory of one. Her name is Vita.
Lena: Well, what does a Kryptonian witch got to do with a fifth-dimensional totem?
Supergirl: Well, fifth-dimensional energy is magic.
Lena: Is the term "magic" really accurate? I mean, it's energy. There must be a scientific logic to it. We just don't understand it yet.

Kara: Any sign of him?
Lena: I don't know. Look for the shiniest red dress, and I'm sure you'll find the mouth-breather Edge behind it.
Kara: [seeing the woman to whom Edge is talking] Well, you were almost right. Shiny red lipstick.
Lena: [spotting a security guard] I should have known about the earpiece.
Kara: Oh, I'll handle him.
[seeing Lena's expression]
Kara: I'm... professionally crafty.

Supergirl: Family isn't about blood or last names. It's about the people who love you for who you are and stand by you no matter what. And just as my sister Alex has always been there for me, so have my friends. They're my family, too. Anything is possible when you have family who love and support you.
Lena: It's so amazing to see and hear Kara. Feels so real. I mean, I know she's not here with us, but...
Alex: She'll be here soon. I know it.
Supergirl: We may not always agree, and at times that may break us apart, but in the end, we always come back together, stronger than ever.
Alex: Hold on, sis. We're coming.
[taking the crystal out and offering it to Lena]
Alex: The core of this crystal contains Kara's digital life force. I would like you to use it for the device.
Lena: What?
Alex: You said you need a piece of my sister to track her in the Phantom Zone.
Lena: Yeah, but if I extract that, you'll lose the recording forever.
Alex: Well, what matters most is that we get back the real Kara. And you said that life force can do that, right?
Lena: Yeah, I mean, I hopeful, but there's no guarantee.
Alex: [putting the crystal in her hand] I trust you.
Lena: Thank you. Um... I'll let you know when I'm done.
Alex: I'm gonna stay. I would like to help.
Lena: [giving her a pair of safety glasses] Well, suit up.

Supergirl: [fighting to keep her totem crystal from escaping] Do we have anything to contain this? To keep it here?
Lena: [putting a case on the table] This wasn't enough to hold its magic, but it should be able to contain the totem physically.
[Kara manages to put the crystal inside and Lena shuts the lid]

Samantha: [seeing herself turn into Reign] Oh, my god. Stop! Stop! No, make it stop!
Lena: I needed you to see it for yourself.
Samantha: [crying] All those people...
Lena: It wasn't your fault. You weren't in control. When you transformed, I was finally able to get some data on Reign's DNA, okay? We have knowledge now, and knowledge is power.

Adam: Okay. So you picked me because I don't care whether a spider lives or dies.
Lena: If this thing works, the last thing I want is a hero.
Adam: Then you have nothing to worry about. My brother, the one who passed, he was a hero. He was so perfect, it could be nauseating. Believe me, I've never been a hero.
Lena: Neither have I.
Adam: You ever lost someone, Dr. K?
Lena: Yeah. She was the only hero I ever had.

Kara: Surprise visit to CatCo?
Lena: No, I'm... I'm here to see you, actually.
Kara: You are?
Lena: Yeah. L-Corp is hosting a party this weekend. It's a gala fundraiser for the Children's Hospital after that horrific attack on their new building. I was hoping you'd come.
Mon: Gala? Is that like a party?
Kara: No. No, it's not.
Lena: You are literally my only friend in National City. Most people wouldn't touch a Luthor with a ten-foot pole. It would mean a lot to me if you were there.
Kara: Of course I'll come. I'm-I'm honored.
Mon: I love parties. Can I come, too?
Kara: No.

Supergirl: You ready for a road trip?
Lena: Are you sure me going is a good idea?
Supergirl: Of course. Why wouldn't it be?
Lena: I don't know. A Luthor in the Fortress of Solitude?
Supergirl: It's gonna be great. But you're gonna need a jacket.

Querl: I want to remind you again, this is liable to be quite painful. Until we calibrate the Phantom Zone projector to lock onto a Martian energy signature, regardless of the Martian's density, so they can't phase through it.
J'onn: I'm ready when you are.
Querl: Commence phasing at 25%.
[as Brainy turns it on, J'onn groans in pain]
Querl: [putting it down] Sprock, sprock, sprock.
J'onn: I'm okay. I'm okay.
Lena: What went wrong?
Querl: It was too much. Too much, too much.
Lena: I'm almost done reinforcing the psychic inhibitors, so I can help you, if you want it.
Alex: [entering] I heard the scream. What happened?
Querl: [muttering as he works] How, how...
Alex: Brainy?
Querl: Yeah, I'm... I'll figure it out, all right? I'll f... figure it all out.
Alex: I'm sorry, J'onn, we need all of our options on the table. I'm prepping the blaster.

Lena: A stroke, huh? You wanted to see me in person that badly?
Lex: What can I say, sis? I missed you.

Alex: Esme, these are my co-workers. This is Lena, and this is William, and this is Brainy. Everyone, meet Esme.
Lena: Hello, Esme. It's very good to meet you.
Esme: You're very pretty.
Lena: Thank you. So are you.
Alex: Hey, uh, I was wondering, Brainy, if you could spare a little bit of time to help me out. Um, Esme is a Dyralian, and Kelly and I are looking to get her to feel a little more comfortable with her mimic powers. Um, off the record.
William: Of course.
Brainiac: Well, lucky for you, I used to be old friends with a Dyralian. This one time, the Dyralian and I were socializing with a Winathian friend of ours, and the Dyralian unknowingly taps into the Winathian's ability to de-power the gravity in the room. It took us three hours to get down from the ceiling.
Esme: He's funny.
Brainiac: [leading her and Alex onto the elevator] Tell me, how familiar are you with Coluan quantum mechanics? Hmm? Have you been trained in hand-to-hand combat?

Lillian: I know chess with me is a good time, but the love of the game can't be the only reason I've seen you twice in as many days.
Lena: The truth? It's James and the looming indictment. It made me think about my life, how much of it I've spent living on an island. I wanna reconnect, rebuild the relationships that I've lost. And yes, that does include you. For better or for worse, you're still my mother. Things weren't always rosy, but there were some good times. Even with Lex.
Lillian: It made me sad when the two of you became enemies. If I were still vengeful, I'd blame Superman for tearing this family apart. Okay, I'm still vengeful.
Lena: I don't know if it was all Superman. In my opinion, it was his relationship with Bruno Mannheim that started him down the wrong path.
Lillian: That miscreant? They were business partners, sure, but Bruno was only in it for the money laundering. It's a shame how he used your brother's business and then dumped him.
Lena: I didn't know Bruno laundered money through LuthorCorp. Is there anything in my books I need to worry about, since you know where all the bodies are buried?
Lillian: I guess it's time I educated you.

Lena: Hey, I know you. You saved my life.
Alex: Yeah. Special Agent Alex Danvers, FBI.
Kara: She's my sister.
Lena: Oh. This city's smaller than I thought.

Lena: Why do I feel like I've been hit by a truck?
Kara: Um... you were poisoned.
James: It was the coffee. Kara reacted very quickly, and the paramedics came and they gave you an antidote. They said you need to rest.
Lena: It was Edge, wasn't it?
Kara: Yeah.
Lena: Has he been arrested?
James: No. He didn't do it himself; he hired a hitman. And now that hitman is dead.
Lena: So Edge is gonna get away scot free again?
Kara: For now.

Eve: [tasing Lena] I wish you didn't make me do that.
Lena: [slugging her, then revealing the cattle prod hit Kara's tape recorder] Thank you, Kara.
[looking down at Eve on the ground]
Lena: Snake on a plane.

Eve: Ms. Luthor. It's so nice to see you.
Lena: Eve Teschmascher, right?
Eve: [with a thrilled giggle that Lena knows who she is] Sorry. I'm a huge admirer of yours.
Lena: Thank you, Eve.
Eve: Oh, uh, can I get you a coffee? You take it black, right? I... I'm... I'm not stalking you. I e-mailed your assistant at L-Corp about all your favorite things.
Lena: Oh.
Eve: I hate salmon, too.
Lena: Well, thank you. Yes, a coffee would be lovely.
Eve: [turning to leave] Great.
Lena: Uh, Eve, why don't you just use this elevator? It goes straight to the ground floor.
Eve: Oh, no. Only the boss can use it.
Lena: [with an amused laugh] That's just silly. Anybody who needs it should be able to use it.

Supergirl: Did you reprogram the Fortress defenses to attack me?
Lena: Yes.

Lena: We need some water in here. Lex, just breathe, okay?
[a guard brings a glass of water]
Lena: Thank you.
Guard: [dropping it on the floor] He can lap it up like a dog.
Lena: How dare you!
Lex: It's okay, sis. I'm used to it. I'm not very poular in prison. What I was trying to say is... you were... wonderful. You always... wowed me. Always. Look at you. You made kryptonite. Even I couldn't do that. I'm proud of you. Let's get back to work. This sentimentality will kill me faster than the cancer.

Lena: [playing a recording for the D.A] My mother goes on to name five more shell companies owned by Mannheim. You're the District Attorney. Subpoena their books; you'll find enough RICO violations to send Mannheim away for as long as Al Capone.
District: So, does your mother know you played her?
Lena: She will soon.
[stopping Diaz as she moves to take the recorder]
Lena: No. And your other investigation?
District: Guardian who?

William: Lena, you were against this plan before. What changed?
Lena: You. You have to write about what's going on here, so people can't accuse us of operating in secret.
Supergirl: The time has come for full transparency. By shining a light on our actions, the people will be able to make up their own opinions about our methods.
William: If I agree to this, I tell the story my way. Nxyly's identification, her search for the totems, and the role of magic in all this. Those are *my* ground rules.
J'onn: All right, tell your story. I'll set the computers to search for Nxyly's ship and alert us if she, uh, shows up. I hope this works.
Supergirl: You wanted closer to the action, you got it.

Kara: I had no idea you were so cynical.
Lena: Of course you did. To be honest, though, I have to commend her for stepping down. You know? The last thing we need right now is a tumbling stock market or trade embargoes or whatever other chaos can come out of this thing.
Kara: Well, actually, the last thing we need is democracy descending into anarchy.
Lena: You are right. Neither of us need that. How are you doing?
Kara: It's hard. Seeing this many people fighting. But James is trying his best to manage it at CatCo. You know, telling both sides of the story.

Guardian: [stopping Edge as he tries to escape] I told you if I had to see you again, you wouldn't be walking out.
[he knocks him backwards with his shield; picking up the dropped audio recorder, Lena knocks him out with a kick to the face]
Lena: Ass.
Guardian: Now that's the understatement of the century.

Supergirl: So this is the team.
Alex: Yes, Lena has joined us.
Supergirl: Uh, so why are we in the 'burbs?
Lena: Well, I realized that Eve is in love with Lex.
Supergirl: Crazy Lex-girlfriend.
Alex: Which indicates her heart drives her actions.
Lena: And she spoke fondly of an elderly aunt, her only family in the city.
Alex: Mary Tessmacher. This is her house. Eve used to visit every Sunday.
Supergirl: So Eve might still be in contact with her. Good lead.

Lena: Kara. What a surprise.
Kara: Yeah, your new assistant let me in. She seems nice.
Lena: Let's hope she doesn't stab me in the back.

Lena: Good morning, sunshine. You're very chatty today.
Reign: How much longer do you think you can hold me?
Lena: Long enough.
Reign: Long enough. For Supergirl to return.
[noticing her reaction]
Reign: That's right. I see you, Lena Kieran Luthor. I see your anger, your fear, your distrust. Supergirl is your Hail Mary. You need her right now and she needs you, but when this is all done, will you still need each other?
Lena: Supergirl and I may not see eye to eye, but there's one thing we can agree on. And that's that you need to be stopped. So enjoy your moment in the sun, Reign. 'Cause we are gonna save Sam, and end you.
Reign: The only way to end me is to kill me. And Sam. And I don't think you have the stomach for that.

Alex: Well, this used to be my lab. I'm glad it's in good hands.
Lena: It's just for a couple of weeks. Unless you wanna change that combat suit for a white coat?

Brainiac: Am I late?
Nia: [taking the box he's holding] Thank you.
Brainiac: Did I miss it?
Nia: Nope, you're right on time.
[opening the box]
Nia: The cake is intact.
Brainiac: Where's Supergirl?
Lena: She's still under the sun lamps.
J'onn: Getting through the Phantom Zone to the Tower last night took all her strength.
Brainiac: You told me the clock was ticking.
Nia: Uh...
[glancing at Lena]
Nia: Uh... we thought you'd eat the cake.
Brainiac: You thought I would eat the cake? What am I, an animal? I would never! I want things to be perfect for when Supergirl wakes up.
J'onn: Let's not rush her. Hopefully, she's having the first restful night she's had in a while.

Lena: [seeing Eve reunited with her mother] In the last world, she betrayed us. We may never know what was driving her, but... I do know what was driving you. You didn't want to tell me who you really were because you didn't want me to get hurt. But I did get hurt. And I did what I always do when people hurt me. I... built a wall and I suffocated behind it. Makes it very difficult to see things from other people's point of view. But I see yours now. And I am very sorry it took me so long.
Supergirl: You know, when you showed up at my door this morning, I... I didn't wanna let you in. And I kept waiting for you to let me down. But at every turn, you came through. Building that suit, protecting my identity, supporting me. I wasn't ready to accept your apology. But maybe... *maybe* I am now.
Lena: [uneasy] Okay. What now?
Supergirl: Well, there's still one bad guy left to catch.
Lena: [offering a handshake] Let's go take my brother down.

Lena: This is impressive.
Supergirl: This is Juru.
[seeing Alex improvising spears from tree branches]
Supergirl: Are those for Sam and Julia?
Alex: It's for whatever might be around.
Lena: I don't even know if anything here can get injured.
[Alex pokes her with one of the spears]
Lena: Ow!
Alex: Yeah, we're good.

Lena: Kara Danvers is Supergirl.
Kara: Yeah.
Lena: I can't believe I was fooled by a pair of glasses.
Kara: Don't worry. A lot of people are.

Lena: Oh, my god.
Kara: What was Lex doing? Experimenting?
Lena: On aliens. He was trying to siphon and harness their powers.
Kara: He was torturing them.

Lena: You put children in danger just to get back at me.
Lex: Lena. Are you gonna shoot me? Again?
Lena: You know, I've thought about it, very seriously, but last time I did that, it didn't change anything. 'Cause look at us. Here we are, back in our same pattern, locked in this endless game of cat and mouse that you love so much.
Lex: You love it, too. You just hate losing.
Lena: Well, you can't lose if you don't play. I'm leaving LuthorCorp. For good.
Lex: You can't leave. Who'll "protect" this place from the "monster" that is Lex Luthor?
Lena: Honestly? Your own hubris. Left to your own devices, you'll self-destruct. You always do.
Lex: You're just upset about the kids. You're not thinking straight.
Lena: I've never been more clear. Fighting with you has brought me nothing but misery. And washing your toxic behavior out of my life, I'll be free. I can finally be happy.
Lex: I don't believe you. This is just another move.
Lena: I promise you, it's not. I'm done playing games. I called the D.A. and made a deal. I leave LuthorCorp and he'll drop the investigation.
Lex: You do realize you won't get a penny from the company after you leave. Everything you've worked for will be gone.
Lena: Goodbye, Lex.
Lex: You can't just walk away. You hate me too much.
Lena: I do hate you. I just love me more.

Lena: My mother's back.
Kara: Lillian.
Lena: She manufactured the disintegrating bullets. I just saw her. And as darkly twisted as Lillian is, she made me realize two things about myself. One, I very well may be a killer.
Kara: You're not a killer.
Lena: No, not as yet. But I do have the emotional range of Medea.
Kara: And what's number two?
Lena: I'm smart. Cunning. Strategic. I think steps ahead of most people.
Kara: And you needed your mother to remind you of that? Lena, come on, you're a chess prodigy. I've seen your trophies.
Lena: You know, I always confuse my cunning and my emotional insecurity, and thought of it all as something to be suppressed. And then when I saw Lillian, I had an epiphany. I can separate the two parts. My mother is gonna try and kill Edge. She's gonna do it tonight. I have an idea about how she'll do it, but I don't have the full picture. If we're gonna save him, I'm gonna need to use my wit, and I'm gonna need your help.
Kara: You got it.

Bold: Nice fireworks in D.C., Supergirl.
Supergirl: That wasn't me.
Angry: This place is for criminals, not terrorists.
Lena: Okay, keep walking. Stay strong.
Bold: Welcome to Stryker's, Supergirl.

Brainiac: [Lena sits in the captain's chair on the Legion cruiser] What are you doing?
Lena: Helping.
Brainiac: No, no. That's not how that works.
[seeing her effective use of the computers]
Brainiac: Actually, that's exactly how that works.
Lena: I know. Pull up 6,000 feet and vent the engines.

Lex: I was filing patents when you were in diapers. Why would I waste my time workshopping your faulty science fair project?
Lena: Because your little sister had created something that you needed. Something that you could never have come up with on your own.
Lex: You've never done anything on your own. You've always needed me.
Prosecutor: Objection.
Lena: You can't stand that I don't need you anymore.
Judge: [hammering her gavel] Sustained.
Lex: Without me, your precious Non Nocere would have never gotten off the ground.
Lena: And so you think you can just take credit for my work?
Lex: You're damn right I can! I have always taken the big swings that you never would. But I supported you because you're a Luthor. I kept you by my side when you were too timid and weak to do what was necessary.
[turning to the jury]
Lex: It takes guts to wield power. And I wield my power to make the world better. So did I help develop Non Nocere? Yes. And yes, Non Nocere failed. Boo-hoo, it happens. But instead of accepting that humbly, my sister blames me for it. It's no surprise that this entire case has fallen apart when every single charge hinges on the unsubstantiated hearsay of bitter women like my sister and Eve. Women who, mind you, could have committed these crimes themselves, as could any number of other suspects that the prosecutor has overlooked in her obsession with targeting me, and why? Because I am powerful! So let that be a lesson to you all. If you try to build a good life for yourself, there is always somebody waiting to tear you down and punish you for your greatness. But I accept who I am. I like power, and I have the guts to do something with it. I did not commit the crimes of which I stand accused. But if I had, who could blame me? If push came to shove, you'd have done it. The defense rests.

Kara: You know, this... this year has been really tough for me, but I did get two really great things out of it. And that's you guys.
Samantha: Aw.
Lena: I am not wearing waterproof mascara.
Kara: I've always been blessed. You know, my sister, I've always had her, and she has my back, but I've never had best friends. And I couldn't have gotten through what I've been through this year without you two.
Samantha: Okay, now you're gonna make me cry.
Kara: [laughing] Oh, no.
Lena: I am very grateful for both of you.
Samantha: Me, too. I love you guys.

Lena: Remember I told you about that stupid fight club last week?
[Kara nods]
Lena: Now it's my turn to ask for a favor.
Kara: Anything. Shoot.
Lena: I need to get in touch with Supergirl.

Kelly: William texted me last night that he was going after Eve Teschmacher. I haven't been able to reach him since.
Kara: William went after Eve alone?
Alex: No super-hearing.
Kara: Sorry.
Lena: Eve Teschmacher? She's back?

Lex: [under Lena's guidance, ferocious alien reptilian creature lives in harmony with a little pooch] Well... How cute. I wasn't aware that a Maledorian Dendroasp could show any restraint.
Lena: You two share a lot in common.
Lex: Hmm. Non Nocere does what God couldn't. Turns the most ferocious animal instincts into "do no harm." So far, all of your animal trials have produced perfect results.
Lena: Yes, but the human brain is far more complex. And I've yet to test it to see that it's working just as perfectly. I don't want critics pouncing on any mistakes.
Lex: Mm. That has a bit of a *personal* ring to it. Let me guess, your biggest critic is a Kryptonian?
Lena: Before Crisis, when I tried using Myriad, she assumed that I was trying to mind-control people. Her and her friends think I'm going down a dark path.
Lex: They think you turned into me, or at least, Mother. But you haven't. Tragically.
Lena: Can you imagine what it would be like if humanity didn't succumb to terror, rage and worry? We would be... the best versions of ourselves. Be... creative. Be free.
Lex: A utopia.
Lena: Exactly. Supergirl and her friends just can't accept that I don't want to puppet-master humanity.
Lex: Since I anticipated you being ready for the next phase of testing, I took the liberty of setting up a trial at that... cute little prison... we own. Willing subjects waiting for a chance to be better people. There's a car waiting for you downstairs.

Supergirl: Nxyly is overwhelmed with feelings. It's almost like all of the humanity she took from her victims had to go somewhere, and now it's going into her.
Lena: Wait, you said that Nxyly used the totem immediately. But that would mean that there's no gauntlet. And from all of our research, we know that there's always a gauntlet.
Dreamer: That could mean that using the totem itself is the gauntlet.
Supergirl: And we may be able to use that to our advantage.
William: How?
Supergirl: By repeating Lena's mistake at the botanical gardens and taking more humanity away from the original people that were affected at the arena in the first place. And in the same way that National City is overrun by chaos right now, if we flood Nxyly with emotions, it might be too much for her to handle. And-and... and it might force her to restore everyone's humanity and get rid of the totem.
Dreamer: It'd be sure to draw her out. We could capture the totems and Nxyly.
Supergirl: We can end this today.
Lena: Can't do it.
Supergirl: What?
Lena: I won't do it. It's wrong.
Supergirl: Lena, people need help now. This... this is for the greater good.
Lena: For the greater good? Do you hear yourself right now?
Supergirl: That's not what I meant.
Dreamer: Um...
[leading him out to give them privacy]
Dreamer: William, have I shown you the kitchen yet? We have a new coffee machine that is literally out of this world. Brainy picked it up from Corvon-4...

Querl: Secretary Lockwood chose to cope with his grief by going on a superpowered rampage.
Alex: So he injected himself with Harun-El?
Lena: Yeah, and he took our entire stock.
Querl: And then he came back to trash the place, to boot.
Lena: Wait. He's the key. And he's been in front of us this entire time.
Alex: Lockwood?
Lena: Lockwood must be connected to Lex.

Eve: The building's in lockdown.
Lena: Mercy's here.

Peggy: What can I get you? Well, looks like you could use something strong.
Lena: Yeah. Um... a whiskey. Neat, please. And some information, I hope. I already asked at the bed and breakfast, but they were decidedly unwelcoming.
Peggy: What, Dee-Dee and David? That's odd. Never met two warmer people.
Lena: Well, I was hoping that the owner of this pub could shed some light on why they got so upset. I mean, if she's around, Margaret Bishop.
Peggy: Most folks call me Peggy. Better than Margaret, Jr.
Lena: Well, in that case, I think our mothers were old friends.
Peggy: Really? What's your mom's name?
Lena: Elizabeth Walsh.
Peggy: [turning just as cold] Elizabeth Walsh was no friend of my mother's. And if you got any decency at all, you'll get the hell out of Fortune Bay. Haven't you folks caused enough pain?
Lena: I-I don't understand. I mean, maybe if I could just talk to your mother.
Peggy: You can't, 'cause she's dead. And your mom's the one who killed her.

Lena: Kelly opened a back door into the festival. It should help protect you from the kill switch.
Supergirl: Well, hopefully, we can get everyone out before Lex and Gemma hit it.
Lena: You will.
Supergirl: [putting her lenses in] Let's do this.
[entering the Obsidian VR]
Supergirl: Wow. This is amazing. I've never seen anything like this. No wonder so many people signed up.

Lillian: If this is so important, why don't you stay and help me?
Lena: Because I've got to find Lex. You don't happen to know where he is, do you?
Lillian: When you find out your child was plotting matricide, it tends to cast a pall over the relationship.
Lena: [feigning sympathy] Oh, did he hurt your feelings?
Lillian: Couldn't you just waterboard me like a normal person?

Hope: [preparing to launch Myriad] It's almost ready, Miss Luthor.
Lena: We are so close, Hope.
Hope: I'll finish consolidating the data.
Lena: [earnestly] We can save them. All of them.

Supergirl: What happened here?
William: I was following a lead. Got jumped. Ah, reporting 101. If you get kidnapped, you must be on the right track. Something Kara Danvers likes to say. She-she was working the case with me. I need to make sure she was all right.
Lena: Kara's fine. I spoke to her, she's in a safe place.

Lena: Sam, your blood cells have mutated. Before, they presented as human. But now, they are transforming back into their natural state, which is Kryptonian.
Ruby: Like Supergirl? Isn't that good?
Samantha: No, I don't feel stronger. I've never felt weaker.
Lena: That's because your blood cells are oxygen-deprived. They're shrinking. In fact, they look like they're becoming dormant.
Samantha: We need to fix this. I have not fought this hard to lose now.
Lena: We will.

Alex: Like I said, Governor, we didn't have a choice in this.
Governor: And like I said, if you won't take your dome down, the National Guard will.
Alex: This situation is above the National Guard, okay? This creature is from the dream realm. Bullets can't harm it. And from what we can tell, dream energy is very similar to nuclear energy. So if you take that dome down, it's gonna go straight back for the plant, making matters even worse.
Governor: Worse? Than trapping thousands of citizens in a bubble with some other-dimensional terror? My phone is ringing off the hook with people locked indoors, sheltering in place, not knowing when they're going to see their family again.
J'onn: Governor, I assure you, we're working on a device that will allow us to transport the creature back to where it came from.
Governor: And when will that be ready?
Alex: [glancing at Brainy and Lena at work] 24 hours.
Governor: You have 12.
Brainiac: [the call ends] Alex, we are not 12 hours away from completing this.
Alex: How long, then?
Brainiac: Uncertain. Restructuring Dream tech requires massive concentration.
Lena: Brainy's just distracted because there's no word from Nia yet.
Brainiac: I'm not distracted. I'm appropriately concerned.

Lillian: Lena, I wasn't expecting you. All the reports say you were knocked unconscious. You were always prone to migraines. Is your head okay?
Lena: Spare me the concerned mother act. Just tell me where Lex is.
Lillian: Do you have to be so emotional? It's disappointing. I know you're upset that Lex outsmarted you. He hurt your poor little heart.
Lena: Well, at least I have a heart.
Lillian: An overrated organ. Romanticized by poets and frivolous women. You're no better than simpering Eve Tessmacher chasing Lex like a lovesick puppy.
Lena: So Eve is in love with Lex.
Lillian: Your brother gave you every opportunity to work with him. To come back into the fold, and you turned him down.
Lena: I will never be on the same side as you and Lex.
Lillian: Of course not. The only side you'll ever be on is the side of your friends. The Danvers sisters, Jimmy Olsen. Oh, what those besties would think if they knew what you've really been up to. Ah. I can only imagine what went down. Weeks helping Lex. Re-crafting the drug you claimed would save humanity. To save him. The two of you working side by side. I can smell your fear, Lena. Doing everything in your power to make sure your friends never find our your complicity. They would hate you. And then you'd find yourself utterly alone. Again.
Lena: This is foolish. You don't know anything. Because Lex has deserted you.
Lillian: I may be in prison, but I'm not the one who's going to be deserted.

Lena: You don't know the first thing about pain. But I do. I can show you, make you feel what I feel.
Supergirl: I won't fight you, Lena.
Lena: Then you'll die screaming.

James: Hey, so, we're alive.
Lena: Yeah, well, thank god I was here.
James: You okay?
Lena: It's just my quarterly assassination attempt.
James: Yeah, about that. Who the hell is this guy?

Lena: You know, I knew this is how you'd react. But James Olsen convinced me that we were on the same side. He thought you'd actually be grateful.
Supergirl: You think I should be grateful that you learned how to make the one substance on this planet that can kill me?
Lena: Thousands of things can kill me, Supergirl. And everyone else on this planet. Fire, but we don't go around banning bonfires or candles. Cars kill people every day, and yet we still have the courage to get in them every morning and drive ourselves to work. There is one element on the planet that kills a Kryptonian, and you can't tolerate its existence.
Supergirl: [quietly] No.
Lena: You really do have a god complex.

Adam: The ad for this gig made a pretty big deal of secrecy of the whole thing. But, uh, seeing as how I'm putting my life on the line, well, I'd love to know what it's for. Well, you must know the scientist pretty well, right? Can you tell me what he's up to?
Lena: It's the advancement of science.
Adam: You're tough. But under all that ice, there's a heart. I can tell.
[she turns to leave]
Adam: So, will I ever get to meet the man behind all this?
Lena: You have met him. I'm the scientist.

Lena: Morgan, what is this?
Morgan: I don't know. Looks weird. What, are you re-branding? I mean, hey, it worked for Prince, right?
Lena: I know you're behind this. It's more fearmongering, more of the same. You're so predictable.
Morgan: Lena, Lena. Lena, come on, it's Christmas. Where's your Christmas spirit? It's my favorite time of the year. The only fires I'm lighting are the ones I'm gonna roast chestnuts over. And if you think I had anything to do with going after you, which you sure as hell can't prove, my line of attack would be much, much more effective. Is that why you brought your bodyguard?
James: I'm here just to make sure that you remain... civil.
Morgan: Jimmy, I get the feeling your dislike for me is more than just purely professional.
James: You get feelings?
Morgan: I, for one, have work to do, so if you wouldn't mind, it's time to go.
[she and James turn to leave]
Morgan: Oh, hey, come on, look. Hold up. What am I thinking? Where's my manners?
[offering them coffee mugs]
Morgan: Little parting gift. Company present. I like to spread the cheer.
James: Bah humbug.

Eliza: [seeing the canned cranberry sauce Alex bought] You didn't think about using real cranberries?
Alex: Well, like that's any better than this.
Kara: Well, it does look easier to digest. I'm still feeling queasy from hearing the audience cheer for Lockwood.
Alex: Look, don't beat yourself up, okay?
Lena: Yeah. It wasn't even supposed to be you up there.

Mxyzptlk: I get it. You don't trust me. Okay, but how's this? Ready?
[offering a tape recorder]
Mxyzptlk: Now, by Fifth Dimensional law, I am required to give you this recording of me saying my name backwards, in case you ever need to banish me to my Fifth Dimension, which I know that you...
[taking it, Kara immediately presses "play"]
Mxyzptlk: [on the recording] Kltpzyxm.
[he vanishes]
Lena: [on the TV] I'm not a villain. You shouldn't have treated me like one.
J'onn: [entering] Hey, girls. What's going on?

Alex: Lena, I'm so sorry this is happening, but you and I both know the limitations of modern medicine. I mean, even best case scenario would leave James paralyzed. Your serum could heal him entirely.
Lena: Or it can kill him. I can't summon a breakthrough through sheer force of will.
Alex: Then how is that every time I've seen you work under pressure, you have done exactly that? Lena, you have all of L-Corp and you have the DEO at your disposal. I mean, there must be some resource that you're not utilizing.
Lena: [getting an idea, but covering] Keep me updated.

Supergirl: We think that even if the courage totem seemed like an innocuous object before it was hidden...
J'onn: Because it's a magical power source, it could have evolved into a symbol of courage.
Alex: So, I have run searches on every known artifact having anything to do with courage, from early human history to present day.
Lena: And I've cross-referenced it with items that are still in existence. Coming to you... now, Brainy.
Brainiac: We apply my algorithm and we get... 64,427 possible totem locations.
Alex: Great. So even at Supergirl's speed, that would take us...
Brainiac: 32 days, two hours, and 38 minutes to check them all. Unless, of course, we hit the jackpot early.
J'onn: [Brainy's computer beeps] There's a partial facial recognition at the Museum of Science and Technology.
Brainiac: There's a potential artifact there. A slingshot. And not just any slingshot, the one David allegedly used to kill Goliath.
Supergirl: Jackpot.

Dreamer: We need to find the Crysalis before it fully hardens.
Brainiac: [a thought strikes him] Great Sprock. If we release the life forces from the Crysalis, M'gann will get her original soul back.
Alex: But then she'll lose her sensing power to find Supergirl in the Phantom Zone.
M'gann: Then we have to find Supergirl before that happens.
J'onn: No. Absolutely not. First, we need to focus on defeating Prime and releasing the captured life forces.
M'gann: But, J'onn...
J'onn: If we don't act now, not only will National City be lost... but the infection will reach a point of no return. A global pandemic. If we only go after Kara, she'll come back to find another Phantom Zone right here on Earth.
Alex: Okay, then we do both. We rescue Kara and we defeat Prime. Guys, we can do this. We can do anything if we just put our minds together. We always find a way.
Lena: Absolutely. There's got to be another way to find Prime's lair.
J'onn: There is still a way, if we combine M'gann's sensing power with and Dreamer's ability to astral project.
Lena: So I'll work on a way to try and copy M'gann's sensing power to track Supergirl. See, it's a win-win.
J'onn: You heard the lady. Let's go.

Lena: You're not buying this, Mother?
Lillian: Of course not. I've already poisoned his tea. If he'd stopped running his mouth long enough to take a sip, he'd be dead by now.

Brainiac: Now that the portal's up, the monster should be drawn here.
Sentinel: Do you see anything up there, J'onn?
J'onn: [in the sky, searching] No trace of the monster, but the National Guard is on its way.
Supergirl: [landing nearby] Any sign?
Brainiac: [hearing thundering footfall] I believe that is the creature.
J'onn: [as the creature turns visible, it heads towards the portal] It's working!
Supergirl: [seeing attack helicopters begin firing their weapons] No!
J'onn: Stop this now! You're drawing him away from where he needs to go.
Lena: [the helicopters' gunfire strafes the portal supports] The columns.
Sentinel: Yeah, I've got it.
Lena: [Alex and Brainy try to keep the columns from falling] Supergirl, I'm getting the portal back online. It's now or never.
Supergirl: Now!
[as the portal opens, she pushes the monster into it, and as it closes, Alex and Brainy let the supports collapse]
Lena: You did it.
J'onn: I'll talk to the National Guard.
Supergirl: [seeing the clock on Lena's tablet] Oh, no. I gotta go.
Brainiac: The interview.
Sentinel: We'll talk to the governor.

Mercy: Well, well, well. Love the reno, Lena. Although I'm a little surprised you put the whole building online. It's so unlike you.
Eve: [sarcastic] Well, she's fun.
Kara: Okay, so, what's the plan? Do we... do we split up?
Lena: Absolutely not. Safety in numbers.

Lillian: Why don't we have a cup of tea while Lex tells us why he summoned us here?
Lena: He summoned us here to gloat.
Lex: You think so little of me, Lena. It hurts. I'm a sentimental guy. I didn't do all of this for me, I did it for us. I mean, look, we all know if I wanted you two dead, you wouldn't be treading on the presidential seal having a tea party. Everything I've done has been strategic to lead up to this very moment. The Luthor name cleared. Our family poised to take its rightful place in history.
Lillian: And what exactly are we poised to do?
Lex: Revolutionize energy worldwide. I'm rounding up aliens and harnessing their power to be used and sold; sort of like supercharged disposable batteries.
Lena: That's vile!
Lex: Vile and viable. As another world leader once said, "I don't see why men shouldn't be as cruel as nature."
Lillian: Try not to quote Hitler in public, dear. It'll hurt the brand.

Lex: Don't be pedestrian. You're a Luthor.
Lena: I seem to remember some disagreement on that point.
Lex: Not from me. I swabbed your cheek the day after you moved in. I've always been interested in our genes. Strengths, weaknesses. Alcoholism.
Lena: So that's your plan. Come here to talk about our drunk father? What's next? You tell me you love me?
Lex: Love is valueless. I respect you.
Lena: No. You don't get to do that. You can't just come in here and take what you want.
Lex: Lena, I'm a hologram. I can't take anything.

Alex: Hey, thanks for coming. We need all hands on deck for this.
Kelly: Of course. I brought the Obsidian Neuro-Imager you asked for.
J'onn: Thank you, Kelly. Think of what we're about to do as a soul transfusion. First, we'll need a Sacred U'ra'er'run. It's used for spiritual rituals in Mars. This one's been in my family for centuries.
Lena: How does it work?
Brainiac: In theory, the U'ra'er'run will act as a conductor. A modified Fal-Tor-Pan, as it were.
[seeing Lena's blank stare]
Brainiac: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock? It'll allow us to re-fuse J'onn's piece of M'gann's soul to her body.
Alex: And, Kelly, you'll neuro-image M'gann, make sure she's safe during the transfer.
Kelly: Okay.
J'onn: Brainy will man the U'ra'er'run, while I cleave M'gann's soul from mine. I'll then transfer it into here to complete the process.
Alex: The transfusion has to happen at the exact moment M'gann's soul leaves her body, but before she starts to turn.
J'onn: If we miss this window, she will be lost.
Brainiac: [an alarm sounds and a window freezes over] The temperature inside the tower just plummeted.
Lena: It's the Phantoms. They must have followed the others here.
J'onn: I've got M'gann. You take care of those Phantoms.

Supergirl: Still no results from Esme's blood test?
Alex: No. I'm gonna cancel the party tonight.
Supergirl: Alex, no. Are you sure you wanna cancel the party?
Alex: Yes, I'm sure.
Kelly: [coming in] We may not need Esme's blood test after all. I just got off the phone with her school again. There's a new alien in her class, a Tattamite.
Supergirl: I've read about them. They have powerful tempers and can manifest distinctive skin markings, which they use as camouflage.
Alex: Skin markings? Esme might have mimicked this student, which caused the rose tattoo on her neck.
Kelly: And that would account for her erratic powers and her anger.
Alex: [sighing in relief] Thank God.
Supergirl: So this means you guys don't have to cancel the party, and Esme doesn't have to miss the baking competition.
Alex: Yeah, but, I mean, are we gonna get there in time?
Kelly: If we leave now.
[as they leave, Kara wants to apologize, but doesn't know what to say]
Lena: [on comms] Hey, Kara, we just got a hit off Naxim's ship. Good thing your Kryptosuit's good for outer space.

J'onn: So, Reign is after Ruby and she started with Lena.
Alex: Where else might she look?
Lena: Sam's mother, Patricia, she's got a farm outside the city.
J'onn: Supergirl and I will go get Patricia to safety and then wait for Reign to attack. Anything you've discovered while studying Reign that you think we should add to our arsenal?
Lena: Electricity. It was how I was able to wake Reign up and force her back down.
Winn: Ooh, I can retrofit something.

Brainiac: If we can't restore Oscar's programming, we can give him a virus and shut him down completely. I know Kelex's operating frequencies, so we just need to get the virus within a few centimeters of his hard drive for it to take effect. I can deliver it with a drone.
Zor: But a virus will destroy Oscar.
Brainiac: If we don't destroy him, he will destroy us.
Zor: No! I can still fix him! He can still save Krypton!
[realizing he misspoke]
Zor: Earth. He can still save Earth.
Lena: My signal wave blast is nearly complete. Oscar should be de-cloaking any second.
Alex: Brainy, get that virus ready.
Zor: Wait.
Alex: No, we don't have time to wait. Y-You heard Lena. This thing could explode at any minute, killing hundreds of thousands of people. Now, look, I-I know that you wanted to help. I-I-I get that. But we have to shut this robot down now before he does any more damage. So... all due respect, but you either help Brainy with the virus or you step aside.
Zor: [reluctant] I altered Kelex's programming frequency when I made the upgrades. Let me show you. When Oscar re-appears, we need to be ready.

Nia: You ever just think how wild it is that you can, like, make a portable sun?
Lena: Says the woman who can see the future and wield dream energy.
Nia: Yeah, right.
Lena: Your gloves, by the way, are amazing. The way they convert your power into physical form, you know, how do they work?
Nia: Um... I... don't know. Brainy made 'em. I... honestly, I should probably know more than I do, but the one person who had answers is gone. Without my mom, all I have are questions. I'm sorry. I know you lost your mom, too. I didn't mean to...
Lena: Oh, no, no, no. It's okay, really. I get it. I miss my mom every day, too.
Nia: It really sucks, doesn't it?
Lena: Yeah, and it doesn't really get any easier. Especially in light of the family I have left.
Nia: Good thing this is our family now, right?

Lena: Reign's becoming immune to my Kryptonite. If Supergirl doesn't get back soon, she'll become stronger and break out, and then God knows what will happen. But I can still flood her system with the Kryptonite. It would work. She would OD, but... she would die.
James: So you lose Sam.
Lena: It's Sam or the world.

Lena: Let me guess, you're having the President tied up in the Treaty Room?
Lex: Puppets don't need to be tied up, Lena. You just hang them up by their strings.
Lena: Well, why don't you put a blond wig on the President, and you sell him and Eve as a matching set?
Lillian: Now, now. You two play nicely. This the first family gathering we've had in ages, and I'd like to enjoy myself.
Lena: Your murderous son has duped the world into thinking he's Earth's hero. This is hardly Thanksgiving dinner.

Lex: "Against other things, it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city." Do you know who said that?
Lena: Please, Lex, you don't have to do this.
Lex: I'm doing this for us, for the entire human race. Listen down below. They're already cheering. And it was Epicurus, by the way. An aphorism 230 years old, and yet still as apt as ever.
Lena: You sound like a freshman philosophy major, and you're gonna kill millions of people. The world can't live under a red sun.
Lex: Neither can Superman. You see, sis, we as a people have become soft and fat, and stupid.
[calls are made on a loudspeaker for him to surrender; he taps his watch, and an explosion is heard]
Lex: Where was I?
Lena: My god, Lex, you killed them.
Lex: Oh, that's right. Uh, we must put faith in ourselves, but instead, we look up to him, with big, glassy eyes because we think he's invincible. But it's my duty to dispel the world of that notion. And when he dies, they will finally wake up and see him for what he really was, a false god.
Lena: At least he's a good man.
Lex: HE IS NOT A MAN! I was the man of tomorrow, not him! Not him!
Lena: So it's all ego, then?
Lex: [surrendering as armed soldiers enter] No, it's science. I want to see if the Kryptonian pretender can bleed. Even gods can die. You'll see. Everyone will see. And then, they're gonna thank me.

Lena: Listen, I really believe that the three of us working together is our best chance of vindicating you and catching him.
Alex: Okay, so how did he do it? We know it wasn't Bizarro; I already checked.
Supergirl: Uh, shapeshifter, hologram? Image inducer...
Lena: No, that can't be right. The heat signatures don't match.

Alex: Hey, have you heard from Kara? She's not answering any of my calls.
Lena: She went to tell the president what we found. Kara's okay.

Lena: This is so odd. I would've thought Lex would have an army behind him.
[turning the power on]
Lena: Must have left days ago.
Kara: What about the lightning?
Lena: Automated system. It's very Lex.
Kara: Where did they go?

James: What the hell happened to you?
Morgan: I survived.
Kara: Survived what?
Morgan: An attempt on my life. How about this? Why don't you try 1,500 words on how this deranged trust fund baby hacked into my car and tried to steer me off the edge of this damn city?
Lena: Wait, wait. You're accusing me of trying to kill you? Oh, that's rich.

Lena: Okay, Sam, I need you to count to three, and then look at us.
Samantha: One, two, three.
[Lena activates the scatterfield]
Samantha: Yes, you're waving. Is that supposed to mean something?
[Lena deactivates the field]
Samantha: What? What's going on?
Lena: It's a refractive scatterfield. It's basically an eye test.
Alex: If your cells were expressing in a Kryptonian manner, then you wouldn't have been able to see us. I mean, your eyes would have hurt just trying to even look through.

Lex: What was the point of pulling strings to get you DEO resources if not to test your drugs on humans?
Lena: I didn't ask for that. And if Colonel Haley knew you were behind it...
Lex: She doesn't. No one does.
Lena: Except the person whose strings you're pulling.
Lex: But now I wonder if you didn't wanna just pull up a front row seat to watch me wither away and die.
Lena: I'm not the one who accidentally poisoned myself with kryptonite in a quixotic attempt to kill an invincible man. And while I do find the irony that you now need black kryptonite to cure yourself just delicious, you are my brother, Lex. I do want to save you. Besides, how can you pay your debt to society if you're already dead?

Alex: You almost got it?
Lena: Almost done, I think. Yes! Systems are a go. Calculating destination... destination set.
[sighing in relief]
Lena: Smart call with Galleon's theory.
Alex: Oh, lucky guess. But you're the real genius here, so...
Lena: Don't mistake us working together for friendship. I told you before, Kara and you showed me who you were, and I accept that. Now let's go help these people get on these ships.

Nia: Sometimes... being Dreamer just reminds me of what I've lost. How much I don't know. It's like...
Lena: Like there's a whole part of yourself you'll never understand.
Nia: I can't imagine how hard it must've been losing your mom so young.
Lena: It was. You know, the only thing I really have left of her is this book of folktales that she used to read to me. It's not a lot, but it's something to hold onto. Your powers... they connect you to your mother. You can hold on to that.

Morgan: Lena. Didn't recognize you without a .38 in your hand.
Lena: Maybe I should hit you over the back of your head and put you on a drone headed for the reservoir.

Supergirl: What is he up to?
Lena: I don't know. But we will find the truth and we will bring him down. All right? And to that end, I've got a lead. But it comes from my mother. She said that Lex's escape from Stryker's Island Prison wasn't his first. That he's been coming and going as he pleases for months.
Supergirl: So someone's been helping him.
Lena: The warden.

Supergirl: I crisscrossed the dome a dozen times and couldn't find that thing anywhere. Please tell me you had better luck.
J'onn: Unfortunately not. It appears that when the creature goes invisible, its energy signature does, too. My sense is it's either scared or hiding.
Supergirl: Well, better that than terrorizing the locals. And people seem to be staying inside, but who knows how long that'll last? We need to fix this now.
J'onn: Right.
Supergirl: How's it going over here?
Lena: Very slowly. When Brainy took Dr. Pavoni from the sleep lab to the hospital, he discovered that his device actually allows you to look into people's dream spaces.
J'onn: So Nxyly was able to piggyback on that to get back in the dream realm.
Lena: I'm hoping if we combine the doctor's device with our portal technology, we can create what Nxyly did so we can go in after her.
Supergirl: Nxyly tricked Nia to get out of the dream realm. Why would she want to go back in?
Brainiac: Because that's where the Dream totem is. Nia had a dream flash that led to her sister Maeve, who told her the Dream totem is in there. She texted saying that they're entering the realm now to go look for it.
J'onn: If Nxyly gets her hand on that Dream totem, she could access dream powers even without the other totems. That could make her unstoppable.
Supergirl: We need to get that portal up and running fast.
[her phone buzzes, and she sees it's William calling]
Supergirl: Uh, hey, William. Yeah, of-of course we're still on for the mock interview.
J'onn: Go. Go. Lena and Brainy can handle the portal. Alex and I will handle the creature. We'll call when we have something.

Colonel: You're not surprised to see me in your office.
Lena: I'm a Luthor. I've learned to expect the unexpected. Now, what can I help you with?
Colonel: I'm here on behalf of the President of the United States to offer you a government contract.
Lena: For what purpose?
Colonel: People are terrified after the turmoil created by that drug that gave humans super strength. The president understands your research is exploring this arena. Ms. Luthor, we need to make the U.S. military as powerful as our alien adversaries.
Lena: This is not what I had in mind when I started my research.
Colonel: [seeing a news report of their current case] This is precisely why we need you.
[standing to leave]
Colonel: I need to go. I'll e-mail you a proposal. Please think about it.

Eve: Sorry I'm late. My car was wet and these leaflets stuck to it like papier mâché
Lena: It's okay. I was just about to check the efficiency of the Harun-El treatment on the tumors.
Eve: They call themselves the Children of Liberty. I think these are the ones who kept calling Guardian a human hero. So creepy.

James: Ms. Luthor, um... you approved an advertorial on page six.
Lena: Is there a question coming?
James: Well, I... I just wish you would have told me first.
Lena: I didn't know ads were in your purview, Mr. Olsen.
James: Well, they're... they're not... they're not not in my purview. It's, like... it's not a big deal. It's just that if we're gonna disguise ads as articles, I think that it sends a bad message. I mean, people want to know what they're getting, you know? They... they expect integrity from us. Just a perception thing.
Lena: 70%.
James: Excuse me?
Lena: That's the deep discount on our print subscription rate, 70%. It's what it takes just to get people to read, so I think an advertorial here and now is a necessary evil.

James: I appreciate the fact that you're trying to help me; I do. But I-I don't need it. I'm gonna be fine.
Lena: Right, because you can handle it.
James: Yes, I can handle myself. I don't need you freaking out about every little problem that I have in my life! Now, take the D.A., for example. You got all worked up about that, and it turned out to be fine, okay? I'm going.
Lena: It was fine because I made it fine.
James: What are you talking about?
Lena: I talked to the D.A., James. I traded information on Bruno Mannheim, and she dropped the indictment.
James: You... you did what?
Lena: You heard me.
James: You lied to me.
Lena: I would do it again in a heartbeat. I love you, and there is no line in the universe I would not cross to keep you safe.
James: If that's what you think love is, I'm not sure if I want any part of that.

Patricia: Sam, no, this isn't you! I know you're in there. I know you are!
Supergirl: [Reign grabs Patricia] No.
Reign: You really thought you could stop me, Supergirl? You can't even protect this one pathetic human.
Patricia: Oh, Sam...
Lena: [zapping her in the back] But I can. Because this is the tool I use to bring Reign out and bury you down. Okay, come back to us, Sam.
Reign: [labored breathing] I will kill... you all!

Lena: Sam, all your blood tests came back, and they are normal. There is no trace of any Kryptonian DNA. You are a hundred percent human.

Lena: Kara, you okay?
Kara: [feigning shock of having gone through a crash landing, sits slumped in her chair, with glasses askew] I must have passed out. God, I hate flying.

Lena: [confronting her fear vision] I know what I have to do.
[the kelpie changes its form]
Lena: Mother.

Lena: [finding Lex sprawled on the floor] What's going on?
Guard: [indifferently] He's making a mess of your floor.
Lena: I'll have you arrested!
Lex: Don't blame him. He knows not what he does. He's on a government salary, after all.
Lena: Give me the keys.
Guard: You can't be serious.
Lena: Give me the keys now!
Guard: [handing the keys over] It's your funeral, lady.

Samantha: Good news. The antidote L-Corp synthesized is working. The kids are getting better.
Lena: Oh, thank god.
Samantha: [accepting a glass of wine] Thank you.
Lena: You guys, I need to say thank you for not giving up on me and not letting me give up on myself.
Samantha: Well, I think Kara and I made a pretty good team.
Kara: Uh, more than pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Lena: I... I probably also should apologize to you, I mean... I'm lucky you're still speaking to me.
Kara: Hey. When you're family, you can say what you need to say, and the people that love you still will love you.
Samantha: That's right.
Lena: I've never had anyone like that in my life.
Kara: That's because you've never had a sister.
Samantha: Two. Two sisters.

Nia: I can't believe it. CatCo's not gonna be the same without you.
Lena: Being a journalist is part of who you are.
Supergirl: I know, but with Nxyly still out there, I need to stay focused. She is the biggest threat we have ever faced, and there's no reason for us to always be one step behind. I want to draw Nxyly out and catch her off-guard.
J'onn: I like it. How do we do it?
Brainiac: We have a plan. Nia, Lena, Kelly, to the lab.
Supergirl: And I could use your help on disarming strategies.
J'onn: Sure.

Florence: Focus your mind, focus your energy. Speak what you want into existence.
Lena: [closing her eyes] Ignis...
[a flame erupts from the basin on the table and sets the wrist of Florence's sweater on fire]
Lena: Oh, Florence, I am so sorry. I... I could've hurt you.
Florence: [putting it out] Oh, it's fine. We'll try again.
Lena: [getting an alert on her phone] Hold on. I've gotta go. My friends are in serious danger. I gotta get home.
Florence: Lena, take this book. Don't deny who you are.

Supergirl: I mean, people actually believe that I attacked the White House. They think I'm a terrorist. Years of helping people just wiped away with one lie.
Alex: No, not one lie, it's lots of lies. And Ben Lockwood has been telling whoppers for months. He's just creating division. And then most of the country is just terrified and now they're looking for solutions to make any sense of it.
Supergirl: Shouldn't the truth matter more?
Lena: No, not when Lex is involved. He's an expert at perception. Consummate gaslighter. He can make you doubt things that you know are true.

Colonel: I was just informed that you're refusing to test my volunteers. Is this true?
Lena: Yes. The serum's purification level is still below 90%. At this point, human trials are too great a risk.
Colonel: I disagree.
Lena: Well, that's not your decision.
Colonel: Tensions in this nation are high. To keep the peace, I need my soldiers to be as strong and as fast as they can be. I need them super.
Lena: And I understand that, but rushing science is not the answer.
Colonel: Time is a luxury we do not have.
Lena: Don't you think I know that? I want this serum as quickly as you do, but I refuse to rush anything that may kill your agents.
Colonel: Soldiers take risks every day.
Lena: I just need more time.
Colonel: Fine. But remember, you were hired to do a job. Do it.

Lena: What I'm about to do is absolutely illegal. Any witnesses will be considered accessories to a crime.
Dr. Kaplan: Ms. Luthor.
Lena: Leave now before I fire you.

Lena: [seeing Guardian enter the fight at the fair] I can't believe he went.
Querl: [echoing her "feelings" exercise] Little boxes.

Lena: The hearts keep dying.
Eve: We shocked it three times, but it wouldn't revive.
Lena: Did you measure the tumor?
Eve: [checking her tablet] 3.6 millimeters.
Lena: The tumors are growing. The H-E radiation should be shrinking them completely.
Eve: Why don't we stay and adjust the protocol?
Lena: No. No, you go home to your family.
Eve: I don't really like them that much, anyway. No, we can figure this out.
Lena: No. We're not gonna come up with any solutions staying here today. Incinerate it.

Dreamer: One sample of Kara blood fresh out of Midvale.
Alex: Ah! Finally.
Brainiac: Why, yes. We did just traverse time and space to get this. No big deal.
Alex: And thanks to you, we now have the last piece of our rescue mission.
Brainiac: Ah.
Dreamer: Wait. How long we were gone?
Kelly: About three days.
Brainiac: Three days? Sprock! I am a terrible time traveler.
Lena: Well, we put the time to good use. We're now fully equipped for the Phantom Zone.
J'onn: And M'gann is already patrolling to protect National City in our absence. Everything is ready to go.
Brainiac: All right, well, give me a moment to update the Legion ship so we're not relying on parts 3D-printed in 2009.
J'onn: That won't be necessary.
[pressing a button on the side of a table]
J'onn: When I first acquired the Tower, I installed some... upgrades.
Dreamer: The Tower is a ship.
Alex: I love Martian technology.

Andrea: How's Newfoundland?
Lena: Full of charming coastline. And an easy journey, thanks to the CatCo jet.
Andrea: Oh, it was my pleasure. You know, I have to say, I think the last time you sounded this good was back in boarding school.
Lena: For so many years, thoughts of my mother caused me so much pain. But... you know, to finally have moved past that, to be in the town where she grew up... frankly, it's a relief. Oh, by the way, did you get that picture I texted you?
Andrea: I did. You are your mother's spitting image. But who are the others?
Lena: Well, based on the letters I found in Maine, they're her childhood friends, Florence Abbott and Margaret Bishop. If my research is correct, Margaret still lives in Fortune Bay. There's so much I don't know about my mother. I'm hoping she can fill in the gaps.
Andrea: Promise you'll let me know if there's anything else I can do.
Lena: Actually, there is. The other woman in the photo on the right, Florence, I haven't been able to locate her.
Andrea: If having a media empire is good for one thing, it's digging things up. I'll call you if I have something. Until then, happy hunting.

Supergirl: I can't believe you would not help.
Lena: Not if it means losing who we are in the process, because then we're no better than she is.
Supergirl: I know that you are still processing the fact that you can use magic, and I know that I have been pushing you out of your comfort zone. But that's only because I believe in you, and... I'm... I'm terrified. She makes me feel powerless. Nxyly's magic is unlike anything I've ever faced. I feel like I don't know how to beat her, and if she gets all seven totems, I won't be able to. You can do something I can't. I need your help, Lena.
Lena: From everything you've told me about Nxyly, she's more than just her magic. She is cunning and manipulative and cruel. And who does that remind you of?
Supergirl: [getting her point] Lex.
Lena: You've beat him before, and you will beat Nxyly, too, but not by doing whatever it takes to win. By doing the right thing. My mother hurt people with her magic. Unintentionally, but... she hid the truth of what happened, and that secret destroyed lives.
Supergirl: I'm so sorry.
Lena: Nxyly has caused so much pain. And I don't wanna hurt anybody with my magic or deceit.
Supergirl: You're right. Mm, you're right. We-we can't cross lines in darkness, however good the reasons.
Lena: Secrets are hard to hide in the light of day.
[getting an idea]
Lena: But maybe... but maybe the light of day is just what we need.

Supergirl: What's happening?
Lena: The suit's taking too much damage, so power's being diverted to life support.
Alex: I'll give you a jump. You're gonna wanna hold still.
Supergirl: [Alex shoots the suit, which increases its power] Thanks for the charge.

Lena: Listen, I've been where you are now, and believe you me, I have feelings. Right now, I'm feeling intense rage. I created this device for good. To save Earth. And once again, my technologies have been stolen and abused. I could murder someone right now.
Querl: Do humans feel like this all the time? It's intense and-and... disruptive. How do you get anything done?
Lena: My solution? Boxes.
Querl: Boxes. Yes. What variety? Cardboard? Wooden? Lucite?
Lena: Imaginary. I want you to imagine that you're full of tiny, itty-bitty boxes. And then I want you to take your feelings and I want you to shove them into those itty-bitty boxes. And then I want you to take those and shove them way deep down 'till you forget you even had feelings in the first place. Then you and I are gonna do science and get this air cleaned, understand?
Querl: [taking a moment to compose himself] Okay. I've done it. I feel much better. Excellent.

Alex: I have been tasked with tracking down Lex. And I'd like to ask you about Eve Tessmacher.
Lena: You're gonna use Eve to get to Lex.
Alex: I think she's the weak link.
Lena: I want in on the investigation.
Alex: Lena, you were just assaulted.
Lena: Yeah, and I'm not a cop, but I know Eve.
Alex: Okay. But you should know that I'm working with Supergirl on this.
Lena: Finding Lex is more important than any differences we may have.
Alex: Yeah.
Lena: I know just where to start.

Lena: I haven't been able to separate the drug's more curative properties from its... extra-normal ones.
Lex: Super powers. Sounds less silly the more you say it. Try it.
Lena: Its super powers is what makes this drug so lethal. Okay? The powers need to be isolated and dosed out. And you have more experience working with Kryptonite, in all of its forms, than anyone else. So, please help me.
Lex: You trust me?
Lena: Would you trust me if I did? But I need you, and that's enough.
Lex: Lex and Lena Luthor, teaming up to save Superman's best pal. What would Mother think?

Florence: Your mother visits me in my dreams, you know. She's told me all about you. Said you'd show up here one day looking for answers. Warned me to be precise. She says you're a scientist.
Lena: Why, it doesn't take a ghost for you to know that. A simple Google search would suffice.
Florence: Oh, I don't trust computers. I get my information from the source. Sit.
[Lena sits down]
Florence: I need a drop of your blood.
Lena: [scoffing] Look, it's like you said, I'm a scientist and I don't want to waste your time, but I don't believe in magic.
Florence: Let the truth persuade you.
[as Lena pricks her finger, Florence squeezes a droplet of blood into her basin; working her magic, images from the past appear]
Florence: I come from a long line of witches. Most people shunned me for it. But your mother and Margaret, they had the gift, too. They sought me out. Witchcraft requires a deep knowledge of the earth. Every leaf, seed, twig is as alive and unique as you or me. And learning the language of nature takes patience, rigor. And your mom committed herself to the work, like you with your science. Now, drawing power from nature, that part can't be taught. It takes a spark, and your mother's spark was powerful. We three worked quietly, content, until Margaret started showin' up with bruises on her face, a broken arm. Her husband Tommy was well-liked. No one believed he beat his wife. So... we took matters into our own hands. The truth is, we only meant to scare, but the magic got away from us. There's no denying that fire was unnatural. The town turned on us, threatened to stone us. They left Margaret to her shame. With my family history, they hunted me, wanted me dead. I had to hide.
Lena: And my mother?
Florence: She escaped to the States. And Lizzie called me once, said she'd taken up with Lionel Luthor. Said she was living under his control because she no longer trusted herself. Lena... your mother wants you to know she was only trying to protect Margaret. Her heart was pure. She didn't realize her own power.
Lena: Thank you for telling me this.
Florence: Believe me when I tell you, your mother sees you. And she's very proud of the woman you are.

Supergirl: You find anything in your mom's book?
Lena: Uh, yeah, there is this one spell. It's "finding which was lost." Which, if I understand my mother's writings correctly, uses the discharged energy of the humanity totem to track it.
Dreamer: So, we find the totem, we find Nxyly.
Supergirl: Like a homing beacon. Lena, this is great. Can you do it?
Lena: It's... it's a bit advanced, but we've been readying the lab. And the air within 30 feet of where Nxyly used the totem would have been hyper-ionized. I just need a sample of the particles.
Dreamer: I'm on it.
Supergirl: See? Maybe you can find science in the magic after all.

Samantha: When Ruby was first born, the nurse handed her to me in the hospital, and she wrapped her tiny hand around my finger, and I just stared at her in awe. And I swore that I would always protect her, no matter what. So, my greatest fear... is that something will happen to me and I won't be around to protect her. All Ruby has is me. So if I'm not here... if I'm not around, then what will happen to her? I'm *scared*.
Kara: But we're your family. And we're Ruby's family, too.
Lena: And that little girl has got the fiercest mama on the planet.
Alex: And you got to remember you're not alone.
Samantha: You have no idea what that means to me.
Kara: Well, good, because all we have to focus on now is getting you better.

Lena: That lightning wasn't natural. Someone brought us down on purpose.
Kara: Well, let's hope we didn't ruin the element of surprise.

Lena: [separating Reign from Sam] Sam? Can you hear me?
Samantha: [weakly] I need a... do you have some aspirin?

Supergirl: Why would Reign go after Lena?
Winn: Well, Lena, did imprison Reign and then, you know, experimented on her for a little bit.
Alex: But revenge isn't Reign's M.O.
J'onn: I agree.
Lena: You're right. Reign wasn't looking for me. She was looking for Ruby.
Alex: Is she...
Lena: Reign won't find her. Ruby's safe, I promise.
Supergirl: And are you okay?
Lena: Fine.

Eve: You know Kevin Oh?
Lena: Of course I know him. He's the chief programmer for our image inducers.
Eve: He's dead. He was found at his apartment complex this morning.
Lena: Oh, my god. That's horrible.
Eve: His laptop was missing, and cybersecurity just called to say that it's being used to log into the mainframe.
Lena: [heading to her desk] We're gonna have to block this hack before they can breach us.

Supergirl: You really went to great lengths to save Sam and her family.
Lena: Well, you're the one that went to outer space.

Supergirl: It's not working. There are too many people. They... they feel connected to their loved ones. It's... it's spiritual. I have no idea how to break through to them.
Lena: I think I can give you a way to talk to everyone at once.
[as she types on her keyboard, multiple Karas appear]
Lena: Try now.
Supergirl: I need you all to listen to me. You're in danger.

Lena: Someone just tried to kill me. I shouldn't be putting you and Ruby in danger.
Samantha: That woman is in custody. No one will be looking for you here. You're safe. So take your Louboutins off, relax, and chug this.
Lena: [Sam hand her a glass of water] This really isn't necessary.
Samantha: Stop it. You're dehydrated.
Lena: You could have been shot. You shouldn't be hiding me.
Samantha: You gave me a break when I needed it the most. Let me return the favor.
[they see Ruby enter carrying blankets and a pillow]
Lena: One night.
Samantha: Great. This is what friends are for.
Lena: If Ruby was sick, would you still be my friend?

Supergirl: [seeing Leviathan appear] Get William and Eve out of here. I'll deal with this.
Lena: Are you mad? They've got kryptonite.
Supergirl: Well, then you'd better get that suit here fast.
Lena: [taking out her phone] It's already on its way.

Lena: Is that a polyphasic quantum processor? They've long been theorized, but I had no idea one actually existed.
Supergirl: I think it is.

Nia: I would do anything to have another day with my mom.
Lena: I would do anything to just know my mom. You know my Phantom fear vision was about her?
Nia: The water monster? Did you conquer it?
Lena: Didn't we all? Isn't that how we defeated the Phantoms?
Nia: Right. But, I mean, how did you defeat it?
Lena: I let it overtake me, and... the kelpie turned into my mother.
Nia: What do you think it means?
Lena: [chuckling] I don't know. You're the dream expert here.
Nia: No, that-that's different. Th-this is personal to you. But you'll figure it out. And I'm here to help any way I can.

Kara: I'm not anxious. I think it would just be better, faster, if I flew alone.
[covering]
Kara: Commercial.
Lena: I designed this jet myself. There's no faster way to fly.
Kara: Right.
Lena: And if you want stealth, it's got military-grade cloaking.
Kara: Yeah, but you don't have to come with me.
Lena: I need to look Lex in the eye when we catch him. I need him to know it was me.

Adam: I assume you've read and considered the conditions of the experiment before you signed the contract.
[handing him a tablet]
Lena: Feel free to look it over, but I will need your thumbprint to make it binding.
Adam: Yeah, wait, by "conditions", you mean this part, right? "I, the subject, understand and acknowledge the full range of risks including, but not limited to, a 15% chance of expiration." "Experiation" as in death, right, lab tech? That makes me sound like a carton of milk.
Lena: If you're uncomfortable with the terms, you can just get dressed and leave.
Adam: No, no, no. I'm just messing with you. I... of course I understand the terms. It's just... why the soft pedaling? I mean, it's kind of like when everyone would say "I'm so sorry your brother passed." Passed what, gas? Passed his driver's test? No, he didn't pass, lady. He freaking died. Dead, as in a doornail. Anyways, I digress. It's a thing I do. I'm totally in.

Brainiac: Lex's obsequious devotion to Nxyly, his selfless behavior sacrificing the Love totem, all confirm what I just learned in my call with the 31st century.
Dreamer: You called the future?
Brainiac: So, in the future, Lex and Nxyly are quite the power couple.
Lena: It's hard to imagine Lex loving anyone as much as he loves himself.
Brainiac: Be that as it may, after obtaining all seven totems, Lex and Nxyly completed the AllStone and anointed themselves King and Queen of the universe. But for reasons still unknown, the AllStone began to fail. The Legion saw this as their chance to attack... and Nxyly died.
J'onn: That must be why Lex is so desperate to help her get all the totems in this time.
Dreamer: But the Hope and Love totems have been destroyed. There's no way to complete the AllStone without them.
Supergirl: Still, if he's in love, there's no telling what he'll do for Nxyly.
Lena: [her computer chimes] It worked. We tracked the LexoSuits and Naxim's ship to the waterfront.

Lena: What are you doing here? I thought you were on vacation.
Snowbird: [mimicking Kara's accent] I, uh... I had to help Alex with something.
Eve: [getting on the elevator as the doors close] Ms. Luthor. Ms. Luthor.
[to "Kara", then Lena]
Eve: Sorry to interrupt. You're needed in Lab C, and it can't wait.
Lena: I'm sorry, but when you get back, maybe a... a girl's night?
Snowbird: Big Belly Burger. Like your birthday, last year.
Lena: Sold.

Lena: I came to return Myriad for you to safeguard it 'til Kara gets back. I have to admit, though, I did use it one last time tonight. On Lex and my mother and everyone associated with them. I wiped their minds of Supergirl's identity. To protect you all. I understand now why keeping Kara's secret was meant to keep me safe. But, Alex, you really need to tell Kelly. She's your person. And you're gonna need someone to talk to through all of this. If you don't, you'll just end up walling yourself off, and trust me, that won't do you any good.
J'onn: Lena's right. Kara would want you to tell her.
[putting a reassuring hand on Alex's shoulder]
J'onn: We will get her back.

Kara: I had no idea your brother's history with Mercy went back this far.
Lena: Yeah. Mercy started out as his head of security, but over time she became his closest confidant and frequent dinner guest.
Kara: I knew Lex had a close relationship with her, but I-I had no idea you did.
Lena: Growing up, my mother was very critical of me, as you know. She wasn't very helpful with the life stuff. Then Mercy came into our lives and she kind of took me under her wing. She taught me how to act, how to dress, how to always reach for the biggest gun. She was almost like a big sister. Almost.
Kara: Was it hard for you after she left Lex?
Lena: Yeah. I felt abandoned. But I really can't blame her. Truthfully, I blame Lex entirely.
Kara: What happened between them?
Lena: Mercy grew frustrated because Lex was so hyper-focused on Superman. He lost sight of the bigger picture. She felt intelligence wasn't enough, that humans needed to develop even greater powers and abilities than aliens.
Kara: That sounds unhinged.
Lena: Yeah. But I don't disagree with her main point.
[seeing Kara's look of surprise]
Lena: Well, why can't humans be as powerful as aliens?

Lena: Mr. Olsen. Come to tell Kara "I told you so"? Another Luthor takes innocent lives, news at eleven?
James: Ms. Luthor, despite our differences, I would hope by now that you would recognize that I see you as more than just an extension of your brother. However, I... I do think that you should get ahead of this thing. Which, in my opinion, I think you should step down from CatCo; so whatever we report, good or bad, comes off as truthful.
Kara: No, that would look like an admission of guilt.
Lena: No, Kara, he's right. Whatever's happening, whoever's responsible, this is a public crisis, and the public deserves to be able to trust the reporting so that they can prepare themselves. They expect integrity from us. They deserve it, and they need it now more than ever. Mr. Olsen, you will run CatCo until this is resolved. And I think I should also step down from L-Corp.
Samantha: Lena, we need you. We need you to help guide the research.
Lena: No, no. L-Corp has a brain trust that is more than capable, okay? If I'm involved, I could be accused of... of covering things up, or even profiting from the sick. This can't be like Flint, Michigan, okay? Where... where bureaucracy got in the way. Helping people has to be the focus.

Lex: Be wary of opening with the Queen's Gambit, sis. It's such an obvious first move.
Lena: This isn't over.
Lex: It never is.

Supergirl: It's Nxyly. She's happy about something. Maybe she's already figured out how to pass the gauntlet. If you find a repel charm, maybe we should sprinkle some of that on the Hand of the Flower to buy me some more time.
Lena: I'm working on it.
Supergirl: [glancing at the news on TV] Well, that news is not helping me think of a way to pass the gauntlet.
Lena: [turning the monitor off] Maybe that's the answer.
Supergirl: What, turning off the news? I don't think so.
Lena: No, no, no, no. So, Supergirl does hopeful things, but it's people like Kara that help frame the news in a way that makes it not scary and helps get the message out. It makes people hopeful. Maybe it's time for Kara to try this gauntlet instead of Supergirl.

Brainiac: I found the scientist. Dr. Beatrice Lahr. She was working on Project Bolt, an attempt to harness lightning energy... until she lost her funding this morning.
Supergirl: It has to be her.
Brainiac: I've also dialed in on the epicenter of the storm. It's... it's right above the Tower.
Lena: No, Brainy, it's not. It's not even close. That's your fourth miscalculation today.
J'onn: Brainy! You give us flawless calculations every day. You're allowed to make mistakes from time to time.
Supergirl: No, he's not. You've been affected by the totem.
Brainiac: [snickering] That's ridiculous.
Supergirl: What's the one thing a Coluan doesn't have the courage to do?
Brainiac: Be wrong in his calculations.
[realizing she's right]
Brainiac: Oh... have I just spent all day guesstimating?
Supergirl: I-I'm... I appreciate your newfound courage, but we need to have a plan. Alex...
[looking around]
Supergirl: Where's Alex?
J'onn: She must have rushed out.
[proudly]
J'onn: That is just like her. Always thinking of others before herself.
Lena: I've located the epicenter of the storm. It's clustering over the waterfront.
Supergirl: Let's go. Hopefully, we can find Dr. Lahr and Alex there.

Lex: The recent fusing of the universes might have shifted what Andrea Rojas knows about Leviathan. If there was some way of finding out...
Lena: You want me to talk to Andrea? It won't do any good. She's not gonna tell me anything. We're not friends.
Lex: The Lena I know wouldn't let a little thing like friendship get in the way of saving the world. And as a thank-you, I can guarantee you a source of Q-waves by the end of tomorrow. Well, if you will excuse me, I have to get my beauty sleep; they're unveiling my new action figure at National City ToyCon tomorrow. I anticipate many photo ops.

Supergirl: Please don't let my mistake push you to do something terrible. You are a good person!
Lena: No, you don't ever get to tell me who or what I am again!

Brainiac: We were only able to obtain a small sample of Supergirl's DNA. This will require all of it.
Alex: So we'd better make it count.
Kelly: Okay, the Q-wave interface is live.
Lena: [seeing their captive react] Our Phantom's got Supergirl's scent. Once we get to the Phantom Zone, his Q-waves will lead us directly to Supergirl's position.
Brainiac: Impressive. You guys did all this science stuff without me.
Dreamer: But what if we run into less... tame Phantoms out there?
Alex: The Tower's shields should cloak us, but it's still going to be dangerous.
J'onn: That's because we can't count on the same methods we used to fight the Phantoms here. Based on what I've learned from Silas and Malefic, the Phantoms' powers work differently in their native dimension. There, they attack with fear visions, your deepest dread brought to life.
Brainiac: Like a Dementor.
Dreamer: Or a Boggart.
Brainiac: Or Harry's Dementor Boggart. You understand?
Alex: Yes. Uh, yeah.
Dreamer: So, uh, Kelly, you gonna teach us how to cast a Patronus to fight 'em?
Kelly: Well, all my fear management strategies may not be magic, they are the next best thing. In therapy, we use grounding techniques to help people regain control in traumatic situations. You start by naming things that you can see, touch, hear, smell, that you know are real.
Brainiac: Computer, electrons, filtered oxygen. Pizza residue.
Kelly: [Alex swats his hand away, annoyed] Okay, that's a good example. And if one of your fears should suddenly show up and they're not one of those things...
Lena: Then you'll be able to separate the visions from reality. Take back control from the Phantoms.

Kara: Lena?
Lena: [obviously drunk] Hey. Hey, look. I made a metaphor.
Kara: Are you here alone?
Lena: Sam's running my company, Ruby's at a friend's. What news from the front?
Kara: Nothing yet.
Lena: You know, you're terrible at hiding things from me.
Kara: [more to herself] I wouldn't be so sure of that.

Supergirl: I don't like this tension between us, Lena. And I know it's my fault. I know James told you what I asked him to do, and... look, I feel terrible about it. I made a huge mistake, and I'm sorry.
Lena: Well, it's easy to admit your mistake when you've been exposed.
Supergirl: That's fair. I just don't want one mistake to ruin our friendship, that's all.
Lena: It won't.
Supergirl: Good.
Lena: We don't have a friendship, Supergirl. All this time we've been working together, it's been about work. We have a mission to complete. And I am not about to let any tension between you and I get in the way of that. Are you?
Supergirl: Of course not. I-I just hope, um, when we solve this, we can work to rebuild our trust.
Lena: Why is it so important to you that we're friends? I have friends, Supergirl. Friends that don't scheme behind my back or lie. Given my family history, they know how painful that would be. They also know I would never enter into a friendship with anyone who's already breached that trust.
Supergirl: Understood.

Morgan: Lena. You look horrible. Those sick kids really got you tied up in a knot, huh?
Lena: Acre Lee.
Morgan: Acre what? Acre Lee. Acre Lee, that's where the coyote gets all the stuff he's gonna use to kill the roadrunner from, right?
Lena: It's a company you own. I remembered it from due dilligence before I invested in your buildings. Established in 1982, manufactures hydrogen gas and sodium hydroxide, and also simple chlorine used for swimming pools. Acquired by Edge Global seven years ago.
Morgan: I'd have to check my records, you know.
Lena: You used it to poison kids in swimming pools in order to drag my name through the mud.
Morgan: [laughing it off] Come on. That's it? That's what you're bringing? That's what you got? I say you did it, you say I did it? I expected better out of you.
[she pulls a gun]
Morgan: Now that's a disappointment.
Lena: When that mom shot at me, I knew she was doing the right thing. Because whoever was responible for this, they deserve to die. No trial, no jury. Just erased from the world.
Morgan: You need help, Lena, 'cause you're not... you're not thinking clearly.
Lena: I'm thinking like a Luthor.

Alex: If only there was a way to use Prime to make a new tracking device. I mean, i-if he was part-human like the progeny.
J'onn: I tried searching his mind, trying to convince him to look for Kara, but all I could sense was thirst and misery. He has no humanity, only instinct.
Lena: [getting an idea] Instinct. The... t-the Phantom, he-he tracks by instinct. He's a bloodhound.
Brainiac: If we can get our hands on more of Kara's DNA...
Lena: Then he'll track her by instinct.
Alex: It's a good idea, but the hologram crystal is broken. How are we gonna get more of Kara's DNA?
M'gann: We can collect DNA from a Kryptonian after a solar flare.
Lena: Or kryptonite poisoning.
J'onn: Alex, can you remember all the times Kara blew her powers out?
Alex: It's only happened a handful of times. Uh, uh... once was in a fight with Red Tornado, and then another was all the way back in high school.
Brainiac: Back in Midvale?
Alex: Y-Yeah.
Brainiac: Nia.
Nia: Cassandra, this is what my dreams have been about. If we want to bring Kara home, we have to go back in time... to Midvale High. I just hope we're not too late.

Alex: Oh, my god.
Supergirl: What?
Alex: That's Grace.
Lena: Who?
Supergirl: She's the human form of one of the Worldkillers.
Lena: Sh-she's dead.
Alex: Which means that we are running out of time with Sam and Julia.

Nia: Try reversing the totems' energy signatures. That should create a baseline to repel the Dream totem.
Lena: Yeah, she's right. That should theoretically work.
Brainiac: Sure. Yes, theoretically. What if Lex is using some other technology from the 31st century? Sprock. I should have known. The 31st century is a technology nirvana. Of course Lex would have been drawn to that time. I just... I just wish we knew what he was doing in the future.
Lena: Well, what's the Legion say?
Brainiac: Uh, I haven't contacted them yet.
Nia: What? Brainy, they would know what Lex is up to, and we need all the information we can get.
Brainiac: I know. But knowing things about the future could have major consequences on the...
Nia: Space/time continuum.
Brainiac: And the last time I acted on information from the future, I teamed up with Lex, betrayed my friends, and nearly destroyed half the world. I don't wanna go down that path again.
Lena: I understand.
Nia: All right. Well... I'll try to dream the location of the Love totem. But if you guys should have a need of my genius again, give a whistle.

Lena: [finding Lex in her office] What a thoroughly unpleasant surprise.
Lex: Morning, sis. I promise this'll be quick. When I woke up this morning, I could not wait to get back to work. So I opened my computer and, wouldn't you know it, I have been locked out of all LuthorCorp accounts. Even my own Lex Foundation. Isn't that funny?
Lena: You may be a free man, Lex, but your time at LuthorCorp is over.
Lex: [sarcastic laugh] Ah-ha-ha! See, I had a feeling it was you. Uh, the firewalls were spectacular, by the way. Uh, and how did you change my bioscan? Ah, let me guess, the Coluan helped you out with that? Cute prank, sis. Now undo it.
Lena: Maybe I wasn't clear. I will do everything in my power to protect this company and the world from you. Do you think my testimony was some kind of a mistake?
Lex: Hmm. I thought you might be feeling stubborn. I had very expensive coffee this morning with my new friend ADA Matthews, uh, now District Attorney Matthews. He was freshly appointed after your friend, District Attorney Diaz, was fired for losing my case. Anyway, uh, Mr. Matthews was so grateful at his good fortune that he's willing to do me a favor. He's issuing you a court order to undo your little cyber attack within the hour. Oh, uh, and I also had a very nice chat with him about his investigation in you and Non Nocere. Just wanted to make sure he was giving it his full attention. It's now his number one priority.

Lena: I thought the spell would locate the humanity totem by amplifying its energy signature. But Latin can be interpreted in a lot of ways. I mean, I got it wrong. The spell amplified the energy's potency.
Supergirl: So the people already affected were made more callous and vicious?
Lena: Yes. My spell backfired, and it drained the humanity from more people in the arena, and now those people are running wild in National City, and it... it's my fault. I'm responsible.
Supergirl: Maybe... maybe you can undo it.
Lena: How? I don't even know how the magical abilities I *can* harness will interact with fifth-dimensional energy.
Supergirl: Maybe there's a-another spell in your mother's book you can try.
Lena: You want me to try more magic?
Supergirl: Nxyly already has two totems. She's probably close to getting a third. Science has gotten us nowhere. Your magic is our only option.

Supergirl: Lena, I thought we talked about this. You said if you developed any weapons that could hurt Kryptonians, you would put them on my radar.
Lena: This isn't a weapon.
Supergirl: It might as well be.
Lena: I told you about Kryptonite. And I will tell you if I make it again, 'cause I agreed to that. But with regards to other things I work on, this may come as a shock to you, but I don't think about you while I'm doing it.

J'onn: Dreamer, you'll be on Phantom detection duty. If they attack the ship, Lena's got a surprise for them.
Lena: [showing them a yellow sun bomb] I cooked this up from the DEO's yellow sun grenades. It has enough firepower to disperse any Phantoms nearby and recharge Supergirl's powers. But it's a one-shot thing, so we have to use it wisely.
Brainiac: I'll be the getaway driver, ready to make a quick exit.
J'onn: And it will need to be quick. The Tower shields can only withstand the Phantom Zone for two hours before the ship will start to degrade around us.
Dreamer: [sarcastic] Great. No pressure.
J'onn: That power level meter will keep track of how strong our shields are. If it drops into the red, we'll be in trouble. And we'll have to abandon the mission.
Alex: Well, we're not gonna let that happen, because we're ready, and we can do this together. Now, we only have one shot.
J'onn: Well, let's be sure to get it right. Everyone take your positions.

Supergirl: Lena, you're back. How was Newfoundland?
Lena: Um... very quiet.
Supergirl: Did you find anything else about your mom?
Lena: Honestly, it was kind of a lot to process, so I'd prefer it if we could just jump back into work and maybe you could bring me up to speed?
Brainiac: We're in a race against a vengeful fifth-dimensional imp named Nxyly to find seven totems before she can use them to wipe us out of existence.
Lena: I assume it's this Nxyly that's responsible for the giant cat I saw on the news?
Supergirl: She was, and we have to stop her. I was just gonna go to the Fortress to see what info I could find. Do you wanna come?
Lena: Sure. Have portal, will travel.

Kara: That was my source at NCPD. They just salvaged Edge's car and there's no sign of tampering.
Lena: You think Edge did this himself? Why? To frame me?
James: No, Edge is crazy, but he's not suicidal.
Kara: Well, whoever hacked his car, it's above and beyond anything the NCPD has ever dealt with.
James: What about the guy who hacked Maxwell Lord's limousine and tried to drive him off a cliff?
Kara: Yeah, I... I thought of that guy, too, but there's no connection to Edge.

Dreamer: And that brings us to the end of our Tower tour.
Lena: Thanks, Nia. First days always make me feel like an awkward schoolgirl, so thanks to you all for making me feel so welcome.
J'onn: I'd like to say on behalf of us all how great it is to have you with us in the trenches.
Brainiac: Finally.

Lena: So, what are you working on? I thought the issue went to print at 5:00.
James: Uh, that did, but, uh, now I'm trying to track down a... a gunman by using the weapon that he used. Clark did a, uh, an exposé on the gun epidemic for the Daily Planet years ago. And I'm trying to figure out how he was able to track a private sale of an assault weapon without a registry. So...
Lena: People don't like the government keeping track of the guns they own.
James: I-I never really understood that argument, that someone's right to own an assault weapon is more important than someone's right to go to school safely.
Lena: I have a gun for self-defense. I have used it for self-defense.
James: You're not telling me that you're one of these people that thinks that having a gun makes everybody safer, right?
Lena: We disagree, but I can see your side, and hopefully you can see my side, too.
James: I-I'm open to listening.
Lena: Good, 'cause things get done when we listen to each other.
James: Speaking of which, I can hear that pizza talking. That is a lot of pizza.

Supergirl: [after the Fortress identifies Lena as an intruder] Sorry. I... I had no idea Superman would... would take such extreme measures.
Lena: No, if Lex knew about this place, he would do anything or kill anyone to get in here, so...
Supergirl: Well, you are not Lex.
Lena: And you are not your cousin. We are miles beyond those boys with their sticks and their stones.
Supergirl: Yes, we are.

Alura: Years ago, when I sentenced Jindah Kol Rozz to prison, she spouted about vengeance. One fountain gave infinite strength. The other brought weakness. She spoke of a woman born of the fountain with the power of destruction.
Supergirl: Reign was created in the Dark Valley, and she doesn't get her powers from the yellow sun. Maybe she got them from this fountain.
Samantha: Then it's settled. I'm going back to the Dark Valley.
Alex: Sam, you're too weak.
Mon: We don't have Brainy to get you there.
Samantha: Lena was able to do it.
Lena: That was using electric shock, and in your current condition, Alex is right. I don't know if you'd survive.
Samantha: Well, that's a risk I'm willing to take if it means ending Reign and saving the world. And I have to do it for my daughter. I promise you, I am not dying today.

Lena: You know, Edge, you act like a bully, but underneath it all, you are scared to death of a powerful woman you can't control. You're so terrified, you would sacrifice kids, poison our water, do just about anything to kill me and get rid of the problem.
Morgan: And you got it wrong, Lena. I like powerful women. Nay, I love powerful women. But you're not a powerful woman. You're wasting away in that ivory tower. Posing as Cat Grant, hoping that the gleam of liberal media is gonna somehow magically rub off on you. I don't have to kill you, Lena. You're already dead.
[Lena scowls]
Morgan: Enjoy the eggs, kids. They're mediocre; you'll fit right in.
Lena: Burn in hell, Edge.
Morgan: I hear the company is fantastic.

Lena: Kara. I was worried. I heard the president tried to silence you.
Kara: I'm okay.
Lena: Thank god. And then Supergirl?
Alex: She's alive, and she's ready to fight.

Lena: Begin Harun-El extraction trial 7.5. Object is at 180 BPM, device is set to 350 megahertz.
[the heart begins to turn black]
Lena: Mark five. Tumors emerging. Heart volume expanding to 30%.
[the heart is overtaxed and explodes]

Supergirl: You took a great risk, Ms. Luthor. Why didn't you tell me what you were up to?
Lena: I doubt you would've believed that a Luthor just wanted to see justice done.
Supergirl: Well, I couldn't have stopped them without you. Thank you.
Lena: Who would've believed it. A Luthor and a Super working together?
[they share a small laugh]
Lena: I hope we can work together more in the future.
Supergirl: Me, too.

Samantha: Reign was there, in the dark valley.
Lena: What valley?
Samantha: I just thought it was in my dreams, my nightmares, but it was real this time. And I remember everything. She was talking to me like I'm talking to you.
Lena: It's a parallel dimension. It's where you go when Reign takes over. It's why you can't remember anything. When your body transforms into Reign, your mind literally goes there.
Samantha: Well, we were both there this time.
Lena: I mean, I've been repressing Reign's consciousness. She couldn't... she couldn't manifest fully in this world, so she existed in that one with you, together.
Samantha: She said they were coming for us.
Lena: Who's coming?
Samantha: I don't know. Did you find what triggers the transformation?
Lena: Not yet. I need to increase the voltage. I need more time to observe Reign.
Samantha: [sighs] Okay.

Lena: Honey, are you okay?
Ruby: I'm fine.
Lena: Sweetheart, what happened?
Ruby: I turned around, and she was gone.
Lena: Honey, I'm so sorry. Your mom's just... she's going through a lot. It's gonna be okay.
Ruby: This is not okay. She was so excited to hang out today. And then she just disappeared. It's like, a few months ago, she was planning on going on this big trip, and something wonderful was gonna happen. And when she got back, she acted like she hadn't been anywhere.
Lena: She didn't remember?
Ruby: There's something wrong. I don't know what, but there's something. It's like, sometimes, she's a completely different person.
Lena: Ruby, I know it's scary, okay? But something you've got to know about me is that when there's a problem, I always find an answer.

Supergirl: Are you gonna try to kill me?
Lena: No. Supergirl, I'm not gonna kill you. I'm not a villain. You shouldn't have treated me like one.

Lena: I thought I made myself clear. Our business is done. Now get of my office before I call security.
Rhea: I'm the one who hasn't made myself clear, Lena. And I'm sorry for that. You're right. I lied to you. I pretended to be of this world, but only because I know how much your mother loathes aliens. And I presumed you'd be the same.
Lena: That's what people do when they hear I'm a Luthor. They presume.

Kara: Mm!
Lena: [with an amused laugh] I know, right? This plane makes its own coffee, cleans its own toilets, and flies itself.
Kara: [tensing in alarm] There's no pilot?
Lena: Well, humans make mistakes. My technology doesn't. Speaking of mistakes, I should have told you about Lex from the beginning. Trust is still a learned skill for me. It doesn't come naturally.
Kara: Well, no matter what, we are always on the same side.

Florence: This one's my favorite. It was rare to catch Elizabeth in front of the lens, so enchanted with the world around her, she often forgot herself.
Lena: Have you shown this to Peggy? I mean, it could bring her some peace. She deserves that much.
Florence: By the time I worked up the courage, she wouldn't hear it.
Lena: But your... your stone could show her the truth. Got me to question my cynicism. I'm sure it can reach anyone.
Florence: For Peggy, Elizabeth and I will always be the reason her parents are dead. Magic can do a great deal of good, but it cannot reach everyone. For you, it's different. You have your mother's gift.
Lena: No, that's absurd. Look, I said I questioned my cynicism. I didn't say I dropped it. Florence, I believe what you showed me, but I also believe that there's a scientific explanation for it. I just need to find it.
Florence: The laws of witchcraft work on a different plane than the laws of science. Like two parallel lines, you'll never find a point where they intersect. You would not have been able to use the stone if you didn't have the spark, Lena. You have the gift, should you choose to embrace it.

Andrea: So much for not speaking about Lex publicly, huh? I owe you an apology. I was behaving selfishly earlier. You saved my life. I shouldn't have tried to use you.
Lena: [accepting a bottle of wine] And I shouldn't have jumped down your throat. It was hypocritical. I'm intimately aware of how difficult it is to make amends.
Andrea: Well, you did it in style, coming forward despite the difficulty. Honestly, I wish I was brave enough to confront my father like that.
Lena: By giving him a platform to grandstand that backfires so disastrously that the D.A. ends up investigating you instead?
Andrea: By using his own strategies against him. You pushed Lex right where you wanted him. No one could have expected the jury to sympathize. We'll keep going after Lex with everything CatCo's got.
Lena: I will, too. And if the justice system doesn't stop him, then I will.
Andrea: Well, I'll drink to that.

Lillian: How did you manage this?
Lena: Well, the nice thing about for-profit prisons is that you can buy them.
Lillian: You bought a prison to get me out?
Lena: Just for the weekend, which is long enough for what I need.

Lena: [on the phone] I am so sorry, Alex. You just keep monitoring Sam, and I'll keep you posted on my end. Okay. Bye.
Eve: More bad news?
Lena: Yeah. Sam's no better. And there are three people in National City with the same powers as Supergirl that just murdered somebody.
Eve: Oh. That is not good. And my news is no better. I re-worked the Harun-El to try and jump-start Sam's blood cells like you asked, but they're not responding. They're getting weaker.
Lena: Well, maybe I can adjust the ratio of the solution we used and re-inject Sam.
[putting Sam's sample on a slide and putting it under the microscope]
Lena: This should still have the blood of Reign and Sam on it.
[seeing the results on the monitor]
Lena: I think I know what's wrong with Sam.

Kara: [noticing Sam's pamphlet] Where did you get this?
Samantha: Oh. Some weirdo at Ruby's soccer game. She came up to me and tried to enlist me in some self-help meeting.
Lena: I hate those things. They're like a waste of trees and of our time.
Kara: You mind if I keep this?
Samantha: No. Go ahead.

Eliza: How did things go with your Children of Liberty contact? Doesn't seem very safe, James.
James: I happened to meet with a regular guy named Tom who happens to be afraid of aliens and afraid of their capabilities, and he feels inferior.
Kara: People can be powerful, too. You and Alex are examples of that, James.
Lena: Yeah, but not as powerful as aliens. I mean, no matter how many weights you lift, you'll never be as strong as Supergirl.
Alex: No, but with technology, we can hold our own.
Lena: What if we could do more? What if we could make people super?
Eliza: It's not possible. The biological processes that cause alien powers are incompatible with human DNA.
Lena: Okay, but just say we could, right? If James is right and people feeling inferior is what makes them join these hate groups, then we could just... level the playing field.
J'onn: The last thing we need is a bunch of evil people running around with superpowers.
Lena: Okay, but evil people wouldn't get powers.
James: So only certain people qualify?
Alex: And who would decide who gets them? They'd be playing God.

Supergirl: I owe you an apology, for being so hard on you. Without your kryptonite, we wouldn't have stopped her. You just have to understand when it's kryptonite, to me that's more than a gun or any of the other dangers you were talking about. It's personal.
Lena: It's personal to me, too. It was a way to help my friend.
Supergirl: I do trust you, Lena.
Lena: Good.
[noticing her share a look with Mon-El]
Lena: If you'll both excuse me, I'm gonna work on a cure.

James: Should've never let Tanya go.
Lena: Wait. Wait, wait. If they use the rock, then it will give off an energy signal.
Winn: Which we can scan for.
James: Wouldn't that get us there after they've already made a Worldkiller?
Supergirl: Don't worry. There's a reason we sent Mon-El with her. He's smart, tactical, he's a Legionnaire. If anyone can find us a signal, it's him.

Kara: I was wondering if you could help me with an article I'm writing about Mercy Graves.
Lena: Mercy's complicated. But her work with LuthorCorp is well-documented. I'll get you the files.
Kara: Great.
Lena: But, burgers first.
Kara: Yes, burgers always first.

Lena: Do you mind if I stay here and work with you? I've got a ton of reading to do.
James: Anybody who brings a mountain of pizza into this office can stay for as long as they want.

Ben: [after his father's funeral] Well, you certainly have some nerve coming here.
Lena: I just wanted to pay my respects.
Ben: You had the chance to give respect when I asked for help. But now my dad's gone, so we don't need it.
Lena: Okay, Ben, listen, this isn't about your factory. This is about you and your family and your father's workers. Times are tough, and I wanted to set up a fund in your father's name...
Ben: Oh, absolutely not.
Lena: I'm just trying to help.
Ben: You work with the things that killed him. Nth metal, alien technology? Oh, I hear you've got some new image device, lets them hide what they are. It makes me sick.
Lena: I understand that you're angry, okay? But you can't go down this path. Blaming other people for your problems, you will end up just like my brother.
Ben: They're not people.

Lena: A copy was made when Supergirl touched the Harun-El. Her name's Red Daughter, and Lex has taught her to hate America.
Querl: This explains how Supergirl was framed for the White House attack.
Lena: Right, so what do we do?
Alex: I can hunt a rogue Kryptonian. I will find her. Brainy, go. Get J'onn and find those aliens.
Querl: 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: [taken aback] Great.
Alex: [stunned, as well] Okay.
Lena: Good luck.

Lillian: The disappearing bullets were an inspired breadcrumb, don't you think? Worked like a charm.
Lena: What are you doing here, mother?
Lillian: What do you think? A man has been trying to assassinate my daughter. I came back to kill him.
Lena: [sarcastic] Oh, how sweet.
[normally]
Lena: Now what are you really doing here?

Adam: I've gotta say, I'm surprised you haven't kicked me out yet.
Lena: For what?
Adam: Assuming the scientist was a man. I was raised better than that. Sorry.
Lena: Apology accepted.
Adam: Can you at least tell me your name? Doctor...
Lena: Kieran. Dr. Kieran.

Lex: [looking at a portrait of Lillian] Have you ever noticed that her eyes seem to follow you everywhere?
Lena: Lex... Lex, it's worse than I thought. If we don't help him, James is gonna die.
Lex: Why do you even care about Jimmy? I thought you two broke up, and good riddance.
Lena: I pushed James away because if he found out about us working together, it would destroy our relationship.
Lex: And-and now you're asking me to work with you to save him? You were right, the irony is delicious.

Kara: Where's Lex?
Eve: I saw what he was doing to those poor aliens, and I just couldn't stand by him anymore.
Lena: Cut the crap, Eva Braun. You're a backstabber and a liar.
Eve: You're right. I am lying. But I really do love you guys. I just love Lex more. I'm always gonna be on his side.
Lena: You're going to jail. But whether it's an American prison or a Siberian hole in the ground is up to me right now. So you're gonna tell us what we wanna know. Now.

Lena: Are you here to arrest me during the apocalypse, or to try and kill me because you weren't successful the other day?
Alex: I wasn't trying to hurt you, Lena. I was trying to stop you from using Myriad.
Lena: Right. Is that why you had a Claymore satellite aimed at me? And I didn't use Myriad, that was Eve Teschmacher.
Alex: You and I both know that that isn't true.
[the ground rumbles]
Alex: The reason the sky is red, and the planet feels like it's falling apart is because it is. There is an anti-matter wave that is tearing through the universe right now, and it will destroy Earth if Kara and the other heroes don't stop it. Now, I am working with J'onn to hedge our bets and mount an evacuation, but in order to do that... we need your help. Look, I am sorry that I lied to you. And not just me, and not just Kara. It was all of us. J'onn and Brainy and Nia.
Lena: You know, you actually had me believe that you hated Supergirl.
Alex: I wasn't pretending about that. And that is a... long story. Listen, I... I know that you feel burned by us. And that there is nothing that I can say in this moment that is gonna change that. But if you could please just put your feelings aside, J'onn and I really, really need your help.
Lena: I don't want your apology, Alex. 'Cause you will never again have my friendship or my trust. I've learned my lesson from all of you. But if the world is at stake, then of course I'll help. It is hubris of you to think that I wouldn't, but then, you've made it perfectly clear how little you've thought of me these last few years, so... what do you need me to do?

Samantha: Hey.
Lena: Hey.
Samantha: What's up?
Lena: Nothing. Is everything okay?
Samantha: Yeah. TYK Labs branch, I'm gonna have to replace a few people there.
Lena: Oh, I can handle that. I've been away from L-Corp too long. I'm looking forward to getting back in and getting my hands a little dirty again.
[seeing Sam's concern]
Lena: Sam, this has nothing to do with the way things have been running, believe me.
Samantha: But it's because I'm sick, though. You don't think I'm up for the job anymore?

Lena: You want me to use my magic with Lex still around?
Supergirl: Just to protect me from the blowback of the Humanity totem. If I use it to give Lex and Nxyly more humanity, I run the risk of losing some of my own. Unless your magic can protect me.
Lena: Kara, I told you that my magic can't be trusted with Lex involved.
Supergirl: When the Dream totem hit me... it sent me into a nightmare. Where I was... surrounded by Phantoms. And I was becoming a Phantom, too. Cold. Emotionless. But then I realized... this nightmare is showing me what I could become without my humanity. And I thought that nightmare would make me even more afraid to use the totem, but you know what? I'm not afraid to become that Phantom. I've been letting Nxyly convince me that if I stoop to her level, I'd become a monster just like her. But you know what? I have something she doesn't. This team, this family. And no matter what happens, I know you all will pull me back from the edge, which is why I need your help now.
Lena: If I use my magic, I could end up hurting you.
Supergirl: You've been afraid to become the worst version of yourself because for so long, Lex was the only family you had. He wanted you to be a monster, and there was no one around to pull you back when you went too far. But he's not your family anymore. We are. Focus on the good. On your real family. Use that to fuel your magic... and you won't lose control.

Kara: [looking through Lex's files] Wait. This is Kopy. He attacked that carnival last fall. I wrote an article about him.
Lena: Yeah, he could clone himself.
Kara: Not exactly. He could split himself like a cell. And, uh, each copy was more powerful than the original. But the longer they were separated, the dumber they got.

Lex: It really is a remarkable substance.
Lena: It started with mice.
Lex: Sure, a supraprimate. It's like you're running a lab out of a Wikipedia handbook. No wonder you're so behind schedule.
Lena: Are you going to taunt and provoke me the entire time?
Lex: This is how we've worked together ever since we were kids. You propose a theory, I tell you how wrong you are, and it drives you to be better.
Lena: And you call that working together?

Lex: Did I ever tell you about my dog, Ignatius? Before you joined our family, he was my closest companion. And when I was seven, he had to be put down.
Lena: If you're gonna continue to compare James to your dying dog, I'm not sure I'm gonna be amenable to your point.
Lex: I wanted to be there for the procedure. But Mother insisted that I go on a business trip with Father. She thought I was being too sentimental.
Lena: That's our mom.
Lex: That's my mom. A trip with Father, that sounds like something that ordinarily would've pleased me. But on this particular trip, he brought a woman with him, and insisted that she go everywhere with us.
[coughing]
Lex: So, here I was, seven years old, dog dying, Father ignoring me.
Lena: Is there a point to this story?
Lex: At first, I swore to loathe this woman. How dare she take my father from me at the moment I needed him most? But I couldn't keep my promise. Because she was wonderful. She was so kind to me. On the day they put Ignatius down, she embraced me, and sang me this beautiful Irish song. By the end of the trip, I wished that she was my mother.
Lena: But she wasn't your mother.
Lex: She was yours. I want you to know with certainty that while I came from poison, you came from love. And if the rest of this family stands steadily in darkness, you will always fall into the light. I knew that from the moment I met her.

Alex: Hey, there you are. I went to look for you at the hospital, but they said you already left.
Lena: I got better. I thought the FBI had already gone through this. Have you changed your mind about me?
Alex: No, of course not. I came to ask for your help.
Lena: I'm sorry. It's been a day.

Kara: This was right before Lena and I really became friends. See, she's about to say...
Kara: I didn't come here to make friends.
Kara: She didn't wanna let anyone in, and then when she did, I made the mistake of not letting her in, too. This time, I'm gonna do it right.

Andrea: You shouldn't underestimate me, Lena. Do you really think that I don't know when someone is trying to steal my IP?
Lena: You put trackers in the lenses.
Andrea: And you shattered it, along with the Lumus pixellator. But you already knew that. That's what you were trying to anatomize, wasn't it? You know, I really thought more of you, Lena. Caught trying to steal my technology? How embarrassing for you. What would your shareholders think? Or the world? Oh, and I ran diagnostics before you... shattered these. I know how valuable they are to you. How many hours you've spent in them. You're cut off. You won't get another pair from me. Keep screwing with me, and you won't just owe me a story. You'll be the story.

Lena: The medallion. You've been activated.
Acrata: If I don't kill Supergirl, they'll kill my father.
Lena: Killing for them, going down this path, it won't keep him safe.
Acrata: How do you know?
Lena: Because I've been down it before. I've done terrible things to protect myself and the people I love. But it has never kept me safe from pain. It's just brought me a new kind of misery. And I moved further and further away from the person I was, until one day I woke up and I was utterly alone. Years ago, we made a promise to each other. You jump, I jump. If you choose to go down this path... I will be there. If you want to get to Supergirl, you're gonna have to go through me.

Kara: [surprised to see Alex and their friends in her loft] What are you guys doing here?
Alex: It's game night, remember? We thought that it would cheer you up.
Kara: Oh, that's... guys, that's really sweet. I-I... I just figured with Nxyly still out there, we would cancel our plans.
Kelly: We all need to relax and decompress. You most of all, Kara.
Kara: Yeah, but there's still no sign of Nxyly and she already has one totem.
Alex: Brainy is on the Legion ship and he's scanning for Nxyly's ship. So if she or Mitch pop up anywhere, we'll know.
J'onn: Besides, the mental tether you share with Nxyly could be a benefit to us.
Kara: Yeah, but I... I can't read her mind. I-I can only sense her extreme emotions. And it's not like a light switch I can just turn on and off. I feel like I'm constantly just waiting for it to happen. I can't think of anything else. We have to find her.
Lena: Well, I might have something that can help. My mother's book of spells.
Kelly: Have you found anything useful?
Lena: Not yet. I'm trying to figure out the underlying scientific logic, but I'm beginning to think magic is mainly just instinct and intuition.
Nia: Honestly, that sounds a lot like dream interpretation. Maybe I could help you try to sort some of that out?
Lena: I'd really like that. Maybe we could start tomorrow.

Warden: There's nothing here. The FBI already checked his cell.
Supergirl: They also checked you. So maybe they missed something else.
Warden: You expect me to march America's most wanted past my guards? The DOD will be all over us in no time.
Lena: Well, then you can give them a distraction.
Supergirl: And while we search Lex's cell, you'll have time to call your husband before you're both arrested.
Warden: My husband had nothing to do with this. He doesn't know anything about the account.
Lena: Fine. So you give us access to Lex's cell, and we'll leave your husband out of it when we contact the authorities.
Warden: I could clear the guards out of D block for two hours.
[cut to the guards leaving]
Warden: Lex's cell is through that door.

Lena: How can you choose to save anyone else over your own sister?
Alex: Because if I don't, countless lives will be lost. Kara would always choose saving others; that's just who she is. And how do you think she would feel if we rescued her and she found out that we let thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of people die just so we could have her back? Supergirl relies on... on those that she loves to follow her example. So please don't make this any harder than it already is. Give me the device.
Lena: Alex, I hear what you're saying, but... I have to bring Kara back. You see, it's my fault. It was my brother who sent her to the Phantom Zone, it was my experiments that empowered him. It was my war with Supergirl that started all of this. So if this is my only chance to make it right, then I have to do it.
Alex: Okay, Lena, listen to me. Nobody blames you for this. Kara doesn't blame you for this. You two already forgave each other for everything that happened in the past, so it's time for you to forgive yourself. And all that really matters is that you do the right thing today. So please give me the tracking device.
[using her Martian wristband to summon it]
Alex: I'm sorry, but I can't take no for an answer.

Lena: Thank you for seeing me today. I wanted to apologize to you, for how I treated you after you took my mother's medallion.
Andrea: After all these years? Why now?
Lena: Andrea, I know about Leviathan.
Andrea: [gasping] Oh. Lena... I wanted to explain everything to you for so long.
Lena: I know how dangerous Leviathan is, and how terrified you must've been. And I understand now that you never wanted to betray me.
Andrea: No. It's been so hard. I knew I had to protect you. I'm so relieved that you know the truth.
Lena: So am I. And anything Leviathan has asked you to do, we will figure it out together.
Andrea: They've never asked me to do anything.
Lena: All these years, and not a word?
Andrea: They said they would call on me, but they never came. I'm so sorry.
Lena: Hey, it's you and me again, okay? You jump, I jump. If Leviathan calls you, you come to me, okay? I can't lose you again.

Supergirl: I've had your back so many times. When the rest of the world was ready to pass you off as the new Lex Luthor.
Lena: My friend came to me. She was alone and afraid. I had to do something.

Martian: Dreamer, can you close the dream portal?
Dreamer: I'm trying!
Brainiac: [removing the totem from Nxyly's gauntlet] I got the Dream totem.
Nxylgsptinz: No!
[sucked through the portal, the Super Friends enter the Dream Expanse, and Nia manages to portal them back to the Tower]
Supergirl: Fast thinking, Dreamer.
Lena: Naxim's ship, it's gone.
Martian: [Brainy shows her the totem] But we have this.

Kara: Red Daughter, is she still here?
Lena: Eve. Where is she?
Eve: [laughing, as she enters] With Lex, obviously.
Lena: [surprised] Eve? But the Harun-El can't duplicate humans.
Kara: [realizing] He used Kopy.
[Eve taps her watch, which triggers an alarm, and rubble begins to fall]
Eve: The two of you shouldn't be here. But as long as you are, stay a while.
Lena: [pulling Kara to her feet] We've got ten minutes before this building comes crashing down. Come on.

Lena: Get Myriad online and operational. Non Nocere launches within the hour. And, Hope, excellent work preparing the move.
Hope: Our Q-wave generator is ready to integrate with Myriad.
Lena: [an alarm beeps] Supergirl?
Hope: Don't worry. The bunker is lead-lined. She can't find us.
Lena: Well, these are Lex's countermeasures.
Hope: [ion cannons appear and take aim at Kara] What do we do? Ms. Luthor?
Lena: Deploy.
[the cannons fire, knocking Kara backward]
Lena: That should keep her at bay.
[seeing another alert]
Lena: What's happening now?
Hope: It appears to be re-arming the cannons with kryptonite.
Lena: Well, cancel it.
Hope: It's on an automatic override.
Lena: Shut it down.
Hope: [trying] It's not responding.
Lena: Shut it down now!
Supergirl: [seeing the cannons turn green, she raises her arms in surrender] Lena, d... don't do this.
Lena: [overriding and disarming the cannons] We must stay true to our mission. We don't kill people, no matter how much they've hurt us.
Supergirl: [exhaling in relief] I'm not gonna give up on you.

Kara: How's William's article?
Lena: Well, it's fantastic. I saw J'onn reading it earlier on, but I couldn't tell if he liked it.
Kara: Yeah, he likes to play it close to the vest. But it's out there now. There's no turning back.
Lena: I just hope people will understand why we did what we had to do.
Kara: Some will. Others will accuse us of abusing our power. But at least we can debate about it in the open.
Lena: Yeah. You know, I wanted to thank you for helping me get outside my comfort zone and embrace my magic.
Kara: And thank you for reminding me that it's important to have clear boundaries with friends. Potsticker me.
Lena: [offering a food container] Here, take it. I don't wanna use my fingers.
Kara: I'm going to.
Lena: Oh, that's classy.
Kara: Mm-hmm. You know me.

Morgan: What is that, some sort of a weapon? A bomb? You gonna try to kill me in public?
Lena: No. I'm actually here to save you.
Morgan: From who, yourself?
Lena: My mother. She's the one that hacked into your car, and she's gonna try and kill you tonight unless I stop her.
Morgan: Lillian Luthor. The world's most wanted terrorist came out of hiding to kill Morgan Edge? I'm impressed. But why?
Lena: Because you screwed with her daughter.

Morgan: Lena. Twice in my office in as many days. People are going to start
[sing-song]
Morgan: talking.
Lena: Morgan, you have all of the charisma of a Michael Douglas movie from '90s.
Morgan: You didn't come all this way just to flatter me, did you?

[first lines]
Lena: [device beeps as she stands next to comatose Sam lying on hospital bed] Start recording. This is day three with the subject. My preliminary findings show a karyokinetic anomaly, confirming my initial hypothesis that she has been transforming. Mutating into the other. Subject remains in a medically induced coma, however, further testing will require consciousness. So I will now end sedation on the subject. Stop recording.
[device beeps again, and she looks wistfully at bedside photograph of Sam and daughter Ruby]
Lena: When you wake up, please be Sam.

Lena: I am going to rid humanity of its instincts to hurt each other.
Hope: But you cannot reprogram organic creatures.
Lena: The VR lenses create a link between what we want and what we see, constructing a blank slate in the brain on which a new world can be projected. If I can find the source of that link, I can redirect the blank slate to have one single rule.
Hope: Non nocere. Do no harm. Is there anything I can do to assist you in this endeavor?
Lena: You will eventually, but right now, I need more resources.
Hope: The subject is gaining consciousness.
Lena: Good. I'm ready for her.
[approaching a cell in which Eve is contained]
Lena: How did you sleep?
[as Eve comes to, she looks dazed and confused]

Lena: Someone's put a Trojan horse into the system. It's trying to take down the entire image inducer platform. The first user's already been compromised.
Kara: Brainac-5?
Lena: If I don't delete the Trojan, then every user will be exposed, worldwide.

J'onn: The chaos is spreading out from the arena to the waterfront.
Supergirl: Have the satellites picked up anything?
William: Spy satellites?
Supergirl: [covering] We, uh... we borrowed some satellites to track Nxyly's ship.
J'onn: Yeah, that's off the record. And, uh, no, nothing.
Supergirl: No Nxyly, no totem. We're still at square one.
Lena: [coming in] Maybe not. The seeds we used came from a big-box store. They'd been packaged, processed, and made dull. That's not how they would've been gathered when my mother wrote the spell. We need seeds from the wild. Sheep Laurel is a flowering shrub from the Limestone Barrens of Newfoundland. Here, it would have to be grown under the right conditions.
J'onn: The Botanical Gardens. That's close to the arena. Ground zero for the violence.
Supergirl: I'll go get you some.
Lena: No. I need to come with you. The effective particles are unstable and diminishing in potency. I need to be on site to make the spell work.
William: I'm coming, too.
[Supergirl looks at him curiously]
William: I was a war correspondent. Closer I am to the action, the better my reporting.

Mon: Can you imagine if we had Reign to deal with?
Lena: Unfortunately, I think we do.
Alex: Sam, you should be in bed.
Samantha: I need to be here. This involves me.

Lillian: I'd hoped this time would be different between us.
Lena: It was different, mother. For the first time, I could own the parts of myself that were similar to you without resorting to evil. You did make me wake up, though. There's so much I wanna do. I'm gonna need my Luthor smarts to do them.
Lillian: Well, at least it wasn't a total waste. You should've let me kill him.
Lena: You know, one day you'll understand there's a different way of doing things.
Lillian: Maybe you can enlighten me when you visit me in prison. If I'm still there.

Kara: Lena, welcome to CatCo.
Lena: [Kara hands her a gift] You didn't have to do that.
Kara: It's a Danvers family tradition. First day of school, you get a... a planner.
Lena: Well, it's lovely. In the Luthor house on the first day, we'd hire a private investigator to make sure our teachers' credentials are up-to-date.

Ben: I was just, uh... my table's in the back.
Lena: I doubt we're seated at the same table.
James: And this event is for members of...
Ben: The mainstream media? Yeah, that's probably why they seated me in the back.

J'onn: Lex is building a LexoSuit army?
William: Apparently, it's a gift to help ingratiate himself with Nxyly and help defeat you guys and get the totems.
Supergirl: And Otis told you this in an alley?
William: I convinced him to meet by offering to keep whatever he said on deep background, but he wanted to go on the record. I got the impression that his bromance with Lex is rocky.
Dreamer: What if Otis spilling the tea is just another one of Lex's tricks?
Lena: Then we just use that to our advantage. I can create a data interception program to track Lex through the LexoSuits. We'll know where he is soon.
Alex: That's great, Lena.
Lena: And listen, I know the timing's not ideal, but I got a call from my friend at Club Rialto, and she said that her VIP suite is available for your bachelorette party if you want it.
J'onn: [Kara gaps excitedly] Nice.
Lena: Tonight.
Alex: Tonight? Uh, I...
Supergirl: Alex! Life is unpredictable. The world is unpredictable. There will always be a threat. You have to seize the joy when you can. Come on. I can keep everyone safe.
J'onn: [chanting] Do it! Do it! Do it!
Alex: Oh, my god. Oh, my god, stop. Okay, okay, okay. Let's do it. Let's do it.

Ruby: So the sunlamps aren't working?
Samantha: Okay, so what's next?
Lena: Well, environmental factors can influence gene expression, turning it on and off. Maybe this Harun-El can rewrite the process. I could take this blood back to the lab and see if the Harun-El will rejuvenate your cells.
Alex: [Lena leaves] We're gonna figure this out. I promise, okay? Stay strong.

Lex: I'm not used to needing help. It's weak, pathetic. I'm pathetic.
Lena: Your white blood cell count has stabilized. You're not gonna die today.
Lex: I won't die tomorrow either if you finish the Harun-El serum.
Lena: I'm not risking human lives on an experimental untested drug.

Alex: J'onn?
J'onn: This is real. You are free of the Phantom's powers. You did it. You all did it. We have the Phantom back in full containment, but this trip's not over yet.
Brainiac: [getting an alert] We're close. We have a lock on Supergirl.
Alex: Are you sure this is real?
J'onn: Yes, but we're still being swarmed by Phantoms. We'll have to get as close as we can to Supergirl. And have that yellow-sun bomb ready.
Lena: On it.

Ruby: If she's Kryptonian like Supergirl, can't you fix her with the sun?
Alex: Yellow sun lamps.
[a thought strikes her]
Alex: She's right.
Lena: The sun lamps should heal you.
Alex: We're gonna supercharge you.

Lena: James, we're frolicking on our roof garden, sipping mojitos. Could you try not to look so miserable?
James: Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just reading the Internet. There's so many people tweeting hate at the same time praising Guardian.
Lena: Okay, well, the Internet's a cesspool. You shouldn't read it.

Kara: I came to let you know that I'm not done. Not by a long shot. Until we know for sure, I will turn over every rock, and...
Lena: Just stop.
Kara: You are one of the strongest women I know. Why aren't you fighting?
Lena: Because I did it! Kara, I... I did it. You know, all I ever wanted to be was good. My whole life, I was a pariah; first because I was rich, and then because of my brother, so... and then then, finally, I did just... just one thing... one thing that was good, and now I'm the monster that poisons children. You know, even... even Lex Luthor never did that.
Kara: Anyone who knows you knows that you would never...
Lena: Maybe I'm the same. People are sick, and it's my fault.
Kara: There's still a chance it wasn't you.
Lena: And I know that you believe that everything is good and kind, and that... that is one of the things I love about you. But that's not the real world. In the real world, my last name's bin Laden, and everything I do hurts people. Hey, you know, it's... it's in my DNA, okay, so please, just... just... just stop. Stop believing me, okay? I am not worth it.

Supergirl: Lena.
Lena: Supergirl. I have something for you. But don't be alarmed, it's in a lead-lined case.
Supergirl: Is that Kryptonite?
Lena: To help you fight Reign.
Supergirl: Oh, wow. You have gall, lying to my face.
Lena: You know, I did not lie. This isn't Lex's, it's mine. I figured out how to make it, and I did. And I supercharged it just for Reign.
Supergirl: You what? You are going to turn over the formula to Alex. You are going to take any Kryptonian elements from your lab and bring them to the DEO, and you are never going to make Kryptonite ever again.

Lex: 143 and rising. Uh, pull back on the drip just a touch.
Lena: No, that's how we lost the last one.
Lex: That was a tad, not a touch.
Lena: Oh, you call that scientific?
Lex: Do you want this to succeed or not?
Lena: Pulling back a touch.

Lena: You okay?
James: Yeah, I'm just thinking about everything we heard at the media summit today.
Lena: Yeah. So hateful. I didn't realize how deep it went, or how ugly it was. You were right to want to disavow it.
James: I'm not sure disavow is the right move. Something Ben Lockwood said stuck with me.
Lena: What?
James: Maybe you can't change people's minds by slamming doors in their faces. And as a reporter, I need to get to the bottom of the story to figure out who these people are, find their leader. I mean, you told me yourself, these people are interested in Guardian, so maybe they'll listen to me. That's the way forward.
Lena: Sounds dangerous.
James: You kidding me? With you as my co-pilot?

Lena: [when Morgan Edge takes credit for himself] Let's not forget about Supergirl.
Lena: Literally none of the heavy lifting could have been done without her.

Eve: Mercy's taken out our whole security team and got control of the whole building. But how?
Lena: When Mercy was head of Lex's security, she designed the whole system.
Kara: [turning to leave, to get into superhero mode] Okay.
Lena: Kara, wait, wait, wait. You-you can't go out there. We're on lockdown. There's no going in or out.
Kara: Uh... d... well, should I hide somewhere? Is there, like, a closet or somewhere where I can lay low?
Lena: Kara, the safest place for you to be right now is with me. I know Mercy's dangerous, but I know how to handle her.
Kara: [reluctantly going along] Okay.

Supergirl: Lena, I can't tell you how much it means to me that you were there tonight, that-that you're even willing to talk to me at all.
Lena: Thank you for telling me the truth, but, Kara, things can't be like they were before. Do you understand? There can be no more secrets between us. I have to be in on everything.
Supergirl: You will be. That's actually why I'm here.
[giving her James' signal watch]
Supergirl: You know everything now. If you ever need me, all you have to do is call.

Lex: BMP's 92 and rising. What was that tutor's name?
Lena: Krinick.
Lex: Yes. Yes, that's right.
Lena: Okay, injecting now.
Lex: If I misquoted my Salutati, 124 and rising, she would make me stand in a corner and repeat "I do not like myself" in perfect Latin.
Lena: [saying the phrase in Latin] No wonder you became a sociopath.
Lex: Well, if the Latin fits.

Eve: Could I get either of you anything?
Lena: You know, Eve, I could really do with a cup of coffee. This article on spontaneous fishing is seriously dry.
Eve: Is that the one by Forrester? "Scientific Universe Journal"?
Lena: Yeah.
Eve: You need to check out Jen Steinmetz-O'Grady's work. I studied with her at Yale. Her brain is...
[pantomimes the "mind blown" gesture]
Eve: ...beyond. I'll be right back with that coffee.
Lena: Did you know Eve studied nuclear physics?
James: There is nothing that surprises me about Eve anymore.

Morgan: You are gonna regret, so regret, the day you screwed me. I sure hope you enjoyed yourself, because now you have all of my attention.
Lena: Oh, Edge, like every woman who's ever had all of your attention, I couldn't care less.

Supergirl: You wanted to see me?
Lena: Yeah. Thank you for coming. I wanted to invite you to my party.
Supergirl: Kara Danvers told me you were going on with the fundraiser. You can't. It's definitely going to be a target for this gang.
Lena: Well, that's why I need you there to protect it. With Supergirl in attendance, I know my guests and I will be safe.
Supergirl: You like to take risks, don't you? When Corben was after you and now this. Why?
Lena: Well, you can't live in fear. You, more than anyone, must understand that. Time and again, you risk everything to see justice done. Is it so hard to believe that I feel the same way? Or are you one of those people that thinks there's no such thing as a good Luthor?
Supergirl: I believe everyone should be judged on their own merits.
Lena: Then judge me on mine. This party must happen, and I am asking you for your help.
Supergirl: I guess I have no choice.
Lena: Thank you. So Kara and I will see you tomorrow night?
Supergirl: Right. Yes, Kara and I will both be at your party.
[heading to the balcony to fly away]
Supergirl: Crap.

James: Ever think about getting your own place? I mean, you're kinda slumming it here at the moment.
Lena: When I first moved to National City, I didn't know if I was gonna stay. Lex was in prison, the company was in shambles. I didn't know if I was gonna put down roots, settle down, in case the city rejected me.
James: Well, it's been two years. I think it's safe to say that you can sign your own lease.
Lena: Even with Supergirl thinking the worst of me?
James: What does she know?
Lena: Asking you to spy on me?
James: What do I know?

Judge: Something funny, Mr. Luthor?
Lex: Mmm. Not funny. Hilarious. My sister can couch her project in flowery language, "make the world a better place", but put plainly, she created a tool to brainwash the masses. Isn't that right, sis?
Lena: Yes, I did. But I wasn't the one with the motive to use it that way.
Lex: Well, it's your word against mine on that. On... well, pretty much all of it, for that matter. Now, by your own admission, you yourself would have had both the means and the opportunity to commit the brainwashing of which I stand accused, would you not?
Lena: No. Because in the trial phase, it became clear that Non Nocere was irreparably flawed. I abandoned it.
Lex: But then how could I have possibly used your creation to brainwash anybody if it didn't really work?
Lena: I said it was flawed. Not that didn't work.

Lena: There's something between us, something good. But in my life, in my work, there are people who count on my discretion. So I won't always be able to share everything with you.
James: If you think a secret needs to be kept, then it needs to be kept.
Lena: Well, I appreciate that.
James: Tell me it's going well, at least?
Lena: Not yet. But it will.

Supergirl: You were able to synthesize Kryptonite. Can you make more of the Black Rock?
Lena: Possibly. Why?
Supergirl: It's called Harun-El. The meteoroid we found it on is inhabited. It's a precious resource there, but they sacrificed some to help us.
Lena: I'll get to work on it immediately.

Lena: [putting down Kara's article about her] It's a good article. You flatter me.
Kara: I only wrote the truth. I'm learning to keep digging, even when all the evidence points one way. There's always another side.
Lena: Even when it's hard to find.
Kara: Especially when it's hard to find.
[pause]
Kara: So my office is overflowing with flowers...
Lena: Really?
Kara: Yeah.
[both smile]
Kara: You didn't have to do that.
Lena: Yeah, I did. Supergirl told me that it was you who sent her. I don't know how to thank you.
Kara: Well, that's what friends are for.
Lena: Yeah, never had friends like you before. Come to think of it, I've never had family like you. No one's ever stood up for me like that.
Kara: Now you have someone who will stand up for you, always.
Lena: Well, Supergirl may have saved me, but Kara Danvers, you are my hero.

Mercy: I have to hand it to you, this suit is such an exquisite instrument of death. This creation could really move humans into a new phase of physical excellence.
Lena: I know. That's why I made it.
Mercy: Well, then join me. Once we destroy the image inducers, then the aliens are gonna go crawling into the light, and then we'll know exactly who we're fighting.
Lena: I don't wanna fight them, Mercy.
Mercy: Well, isn't that what L-Corp is all about? Your fight for control and superiority?
Lena: No, it's about doing good for the world and helping clear the Luthor name.

William: Supergirl brought me up to speed. So, Lena Luthor can do magic.
Lena: That's off the record.
William: Of course. You can trust me.
Lena: I'm not sure how accurate that statement is, anyway.
William: So, what else are you working on?
Lena: It's a spell from my mother's book. I'm trying to track the humanity totem's energy, and hopefully, Nxyly as well.
William: This is your mum's book? Reminds me of a family recipe book.
Lena: Yeah, I guess you could call it that. Except I have followed this spell's recipe to a T, I have checked all the directions. I have measured all the ingredients twice, and... all I managed to do was break Dreamer.
William: Hmm. I remember when I was a kid. Every Sunday, I'd wake up and my dad was already in the kitchen tossing something together. Muffins, scones, the occasional pie. You name it. After he died... I would try to recreate his pastries, but they always came out... off. What I eventually realized was that I was being too technical. I was so focused on the exact measurements, I'd forgotten the ingredients. Berries he'd picked from our garden. The crust he'd make by hand. And he wasn't just baking. He was creating. Put his heart into it. When I stopped comparing my skills to my dad's, and I began to trust myself to make his recipes my way... I finally became the baker I'd always hoped to be. Next time you try one of your mum's spells, put your heart into it. Maybe you'd be surprised at the result.

Kara: Sam, I'm so sorry you've been going through this.
Lena: I wish you'd have come to us sooner. You shouldn't have had to go through this alone.
Samantha: I know. I'm... I'm sorry I didn't. I... I've always had to take care of myself, you know, and I guess I was just afraid that if I let you in, you know, let myself feel vulnerable, I would completely fall apart.
Kara: Yeah, but falling apart is okay. 'Cause you'd have us to pick up the pieces.

Lena: [encountering a patch of turbulence] Don't worry. It's just a lightning storm.
Kara: Is lightning usually purple?

Lena: It just should've been a discussion.
James: What did you expect me to do, just sit here?
Lena: What if you'd have been sent to prison?
James: Yeah, about that. I talked to my lawyer. It's weird. I... no new charges. No indictment. The cops might even deputize Guardian.
[snickering at her expression]
James: I know, it's, uh... it-it worked out better than I could have imagined.

Kara: That's Supergirl.
Eve: Lexie calls her Ryzhaya Dch.
Lena: That's "Red Daughter".

Alex: Hey, are you okay?
Lena: [still groggy] I think so.
Alex: Look at me.
Lena: [weakly] Alex. Alex, I've got to tell you about Lex.
Alex: He escaped from prison, he attacked you, and he stole your research, we know.
Lena: No, that's not the whole story. It's...
Alex: Hey, uh-uh, don't move. And yes, we now that Eve was his spy.
Lena: Yes, but I gotta tell you...
Alex: You've been through trauma. So, please, just try to relax.
Lena: I'm sorry.
Alex: You have nothing to apologize for. Supergirl is searching for Lex. She will find him.

Hope: I'm sorry I failed. I wish there was more I could do for you, Ms. Luthor.
Lena: [giving her a revolver] There is.
Hope: [seeing armed agents approaching] I see.
Lead: Don't move! Lena Luthor, hands in the air.
Hope: [pretending to take Lena hostage] It wasn't her. It was me. I did all of it.
Lead: Drop the gun. You're surrounded.
Lena: [feigning fright] Eve, please.
Lead: [she lets Lena go and surrenders] Take her away.

Kara: Sam and I are at this pool, and all the kids who got sick have been here.
Lena: I thought I told you to stop.
Kara: It wasn't you.
Lena: What?
Kara: There's a synthetic chemical, when it touches water, it becomes toxic to the body. It mimics the same symptoms as lead poisoning.
Lena: Well, how... how did it get in the swimming pool?
Kara: It's in the chlorine containers. They've been using it instead of chlorine. Sam and I are gonna try to track down the manufacturer. Acre Lee Chemical.
Lena: Acre Lee Chemical?
Kara: Yeah. You know it?
Lena: [covering] No. No. Thank you. Both of you.

Vita: [Lena activates her crystal hologram] Back to this, then.
Lena: Vita, we need your help containing the fifth-dimensional energy from the broken totem.
Vita: [laughing] You mean fifth-dimensional magic.
Lena: Whatever you wanna call it. It's coming from the totem, and you have the knowledge to help me stop it.
Vita: I'm not the only one here with access to magic. Relax, child. Your secrets are safe with me. But I'm afraid I can't help you. I don't have command over fifth-dimensional magic. However, there are powerful witches who do. Even those oblivious to their abilities. If a reluctant Earth witch was to accept her gift and harness her magic, her powers could be strong enough.
Lena: So, you mean, she could protect herself from the courage totem and help defeat the fifth-dimensional imp?
Vita: Depends on how powerful the witch, and how far she's willing to go.
Lena: Magic is unreliable. There are safer alternatives like science.
Vita: Magic tramples universal laws of science. You saw it with your own eyes. Now, where is that Coluan? Oh, I'd love another trip into a body.

Lena: Let me guess. You're here to tell me once again that I should forgive you. Or maybe that I shouldn't work with my brother?
Kara: Not this time. I recognize that I made a mistake in hiding my identity from you for so long. But the past is the past, and I can't change it. Forgive me or not, that's your choice. Just like it's your choice to work with Lex. I'm done blaming myself for your bad decisions.
Lena: Then why are you here?
Kara: To tell you that from now on you're accountable for your own actions. If you decide to forgive me, I will be there for you. But if you continue to work with Lex, if you go through with whatever it is the two of you are planning, I will do everything in my power to stop you. Just like I would any other villain.

Lena: [releasing Eve from her containment cell] Eve, I've decided that it's time to fill you in on what I've been doing.
Eve: You will not regret this, Ms. Luthor. You can count on me. For real this time.
Lena: I must admit, I had my doubts. But now I know that there are aspects of your brain that I need. And now that I know that I can trust you, I believe you and I are gonna do great things together.

J'onn: Where are we with the Phantom Zone projector and psychic inhibitors?
Lena: Reconfigured and recalibrated.
Agent: Supergirl, the Verdex Blaster is missing, and the armory's cleared out of anti-Martian artillery. It's all gone.
Supergirl: We have to find Alex now.
J'onn: There is a way. I could try and find her psychically.
Querl: Malefic's mind is poisonous to all Green Martians. Melding with Alex's incepted mind would allow Malefic into yours. It could hurt you.
J'onn: All that matters is finding Alex.

Lena: I had the strangest dream. You were flying, and you were carrying me.
Kara: I... I was? Like Supergirl? That's... I wish.

Lena: Hard to believe a small piece of wood from the bodhi tree can cause so much chaos.
Supergirl: Well, now that Nxyly's back to her old self, she'll no doubt be on the hunt for another totem.
J'onn: And now that she's lost the humanity totem, she'll be angrier than ever.
Alex: When William publishes his article, everyone in National City's gonna know about her and the totems.
Dreamer: And that the Super Friends have evened the score.
Supergirl: It's time we get a head start on Nxyly. Any ideas how?
Lena: I still have some of those ionized particles left. They're still active. Each of the totems has the same energy signal, so we could use the particles to track another one. There's just enough left for one, though.
Alex: Okay, so, which one do we go after?
Dreamer: Well, there's the Dream totem. Sounds like something I might be able to help with.

Lena: [Kara covertly blocks bullets fired at them] Kara, are you okay?
Kara: Yeah. Mercy must have hired terrible marksmen. They totally missed me.

Hope: The file was ready to upload. Why didn't you send it, exposing Supergirl's identity to the world? Did you forgive Kara Danvers?
Lena: She betrayed me. It broke my heart. I could never forgive her.
Hope: Then I don't understand.
Lena: How could you? You're not a Luthor. We're scorpions. When someone betrays us, we sting. But I have a calling, Hope, and it's to fix mankind. I never thought Supergirl would tell me who she was, but now that she has, I have an opportunity, and I can use Supergirl to achieve my ends. That is easier to do if she believes there is trust.
[putting in the Obsidian contact lenses]
Lena: Load the simulation.
Hope: Yes, Ms. Luthor.

Alex: Brainy just updated us. You're chasing a nightmare monster?
Supergirl: Yes, and it's headed toward a nuclear plant.
Lena: Bringing up the coordinates now. If it attacks the plant and the core is compromised, that entire area will be exposed to radiation.
Alex: J'onn, can you calm the creature?
J'onn: [trying, it swats him away] Nothing I can do is stopping it. It's almost at the power plant.
Supergirl: Lena, what about something from your mother's book of spells?
Lena: Magic doesn't work that way. It's a process and I'm still learning. I could try something old-school. When Lex was at the DEO, he developed a satellite-based force field that could wall off an entire city. I could bypass the satellite's security and re-route Dreamer's adaptors to the feed, and I could put up a dome that not even that creature could get through.
Alex: Okay, but that'll trap that thing in with half the city.
Lena: Do we have a choice?
Alex: Supergirl?
Supergirl: Do it!
[the force field activates, and the creature tries to get through]
Supergirl: We did it. We trapped it.
J'onn: [it disappears] Now it's invisible.

Brainiac: Once I induce transmission, your minds will be immediately beamed into this dark valley.
Alex: Is it gonna hurt?
Brainiac: The chances are better than 50%.
Alex: [sarcastic] That's comforting.
Brainiac: Really? I didn't think so. Would you like me to count to three?
Lena: Will it help?
Brainiac: No, not at all.

Alex: Hey, thanks for backing me up.
Lena: No, of course.
Alex: Okay. So, what are you thinking?
Lena: Q-waves. I used them to replicate Malefic's powers. I think I can do the same with M'gann's sensing abilities.
Alex: And the nanobots?
Lena: I'm gonna task them to map the brains of the progeny in containment to create a device, but even if I'm able to do that, I'm gonna need a piece of Kara's DNA to calibrate the device to the right frequency in order to track her.
Alex: I know where we can find some.

Lena: [at Kelly and Alex's bachelorette party] Okay, well, I'm gonna go dance. Because what's the point in saving the world if you don't get to enjoy it sometimes?

Lena: Thank you for letting me in, Kara. It's been a year, and I still haven't come to terms with what I did. Shot my brother and... I mean, I thought I was protecting everyone, but it really started all that...
Kara: I don't wanna talk about the past. All that matters now is the threat ahead of us and how we're going to stop it.
Lena: Understood.
Alex: [bursting in with Nia, J'onn, and M'gann] Get down on the ground, now!
Kara: No, Alex, no!
Alex: You texted 911.
Kara: Not about her. She's here to help us stop Lex. And Leviathan.
Alex: [lowering her gun] Oh.

Dee: I'm Dee-Dee, your innkeeper. And may I say we are honored to have you in our town. In our inn! Do you have bags?
Lena: Yeah.
Dee: David!
David: [tipping his cap] Hello, ma'am.
Dee: So, what brings you to our corner of the island? Luthor business?
Lena: Oh, it's not business at all. It's personal. My mother grew up here.
Dee: Your mother? How wonderful. Six degrees of separation and all. What was her name?
Lena: Elizabeth Walsh.
[a thud is heard; they turn and see David dropped Lena's suitcase]
Dee: [going and whispering to him] She was just a dirty witch.
Lena: Excuse me?
Dee: We're sorry, Ms. Luthor, but it seems your room's double-booked.
Lena: What?
Dee: Sadly, we don't have a room for you after all. You need to go.

Lena: This is the Harun-El your daughter asked me to make. And the recipe to make more.
Supergirl: Thank you.
Alura: With this Harun-El, Argo will survive. Though I hate to depend on it. There's so many things that we don't know about it. Its uses, its powers, its dangers. I'm so glad that none of it will be left on Earth.

Mon: What was that?
Lena: It's a refractive scatter field. She can't see us now.
Winn: Well, even... even with the x-ray vision?
Supergirl: [trying her x-ray vision, she winces and groans in pain] Yeah. Even with x-ray vision.
Lena: The wavelength interference of the force field hurts any Kryptonian that looks at it, and the shock seems to keep her in check.

Lex: They call this a mercy furlough.
Lena: Thank you, officer. That'll be all.
Lex: They never let me out of their sight. As if I'd run away like a dog set loose from his leash.
Lena: Well, you would.
Lex: Of course I would. But I can't. I'm numb top to bottom. My guts are in knots, there's blood in my...
Lena: Okay, that's enough.

Lena: Why are you trusting me with such a big secret? You barely know me.
Kara: Because I know that what you want more than anything is to do good. And I know it's hard for you to trust people, but I need you to know now, without a doubt, I trust you. My cousin, your brother, they got it wrong. Imagine what we could do together. A Luthor and a Super, working together as a team.
Lena: If we were partners, we could change the world.

Supergirl: So I have to pass my gauntlet before Nxyly passes hers.
Brainiac: [possessed by Vita's consciousness] It will not be easy. You'll pay a terrible emotional price. And if you fail, the totem's erratic magic will surge in everyone who was near the totem when it broke.
Nia: [trying to comfort Kara] Hey... we're gonna help you.
Brainiac: Ha! Yeah, right. Rubbish! She who broke the totem must run the gauntlet... alone. Oh, dear.
Lena: [he chortles and laughs] Got it. I've got it!
Nia: [Vita's consciousness is removed] Brainy, are you okay?
Brainiac: What... what happened? Where am I?
Nia: You okay?
Brainiac: That wa... I did not like that.
Lena: I will go and make sure that Vita can't make any more unscheduled appearances.
Supergirl: Nia, go help Alex and J'onn try to find Nxyly. I'll go... pay my emotional price.

Adam: What's this?
Lena: It's your payment. We're shutting down the experiment. You're free to go.
Adam: Wait, why? W-Was it something I did?
Lena: No. No, we're just... not moving forward, okay? I changed my mind. It's not worth the risk.
Adam: Well, of course there's risk. There's no progress without risk.
Lena: I just can't have another death on my hands, okay? It's not worth it.
Adam: I've never done anything meaningful in my life, and what you're doing here is... is miraculous. If I can be a part of this, my life will finally make sense.
Lena: Good people don't let other people take this kind of risk.
Adam: I have a 15% chance of my kidney transplant not working. I live with risk every day. I-I mean, people risk their lives for the things they believe in all the time; they enlist and go to war to protect their country, they become firefighters to save other people. The risk I'd be taking is worth it to me. And you are a good person. You said it yourself, you could save hundreds of millions of people. How many people can say they have the ability to do that? So you made one very human mistake when you were practically a baby; that was not your fault. And look at all the good you're doing now. Please don't take this gift away from me. Please let me do something good.
Lena: [considering; into her recorder] Subject 0331, trial one commencement.
Adam: Thank you.

James: Look, whatever happened to you, Lena had nothing to do with it.
Kara: Yeah, so why don't you just turn around and go accuse one of the other fifty people who despise you in this city.
Morgan: She shows up where I have breakfast, hangs out at the valet stand just a little bit too long, tells me to go, what was it, "burn in hell"? And then somehow, mysteriously, my car steers itself off the road, explodes into the water. Coincidence? I don't think so.
Lena: I don't put hits on people, no matter how much I despise them.
Morgan: That's right, you like to do the dirty work yourself. Here I am, sister. Why don't you man up and finish the job?
James: Why don't you find the exit, or I'll find it for you?
Morgan: You better get ready to finish what you started, because you wound me up, and I'm not gonna rest until it's over. And I never lose.

Alex: It's really nice to see you working with Lena again.
Supergirl: Yeah. Yeah, we've got a ways to go, but... it is nice.
Alex: I love you.
Supergirl: I love you. Always.
Alex: Always.
Lena: [entering with Myriad] We have to go.
Alex: Right.
[opening a portal]
Alex: I will see you later.
[Kara nods]
Alex: [indicating the portal watch] With this. Maybe.

Kara: You sold CatCo without telling any of us?
Lena: To be honest, Kara, I only bought the company because I knew how much it meant to you, and it's frankly left me strapped for capital, which I desperately need for a new venture that I'm working on. When Andrea called, it was just too good of an offer to pass up.
Kara: I... I had no idea. I completely understand.
Lena: Andrea and I go way back. I mean, since boarding school. And she is a brilliant businesswoman. I would not have sold her CatCo if I didn't think she would do a great job.
Kara: Oh, of course. Why didn't you tell me beforehand?
Lena: I was a coward. And I hope that you don't feel like I made you out to be too much of a fool by keeping you in the dark.
Kara: No.
Lena: You're my best friend, and here I go, once again proving that you are more virtuous than I am. But I never did purport to be a saint.

Lena: Guys, there's some kind of alien creature aboard. I've locked it in the engine room, but I could do with some backup now.
[getting on the elevator and hearing no response]
Lena: Guys? J'onn? Alex?
[returning to the bridge and seeing the others all dead]
Lena: No.
[hearing Nia choking]
Lena: Dreamer?
[Nia coughs up water]
Lena: Dreamer? Hey. Hey, hey! Are you okay?
Nia: I think so.
Lena: The creature? Right? Where is it? Where is it?
Nia: I don't know. I don't know.
Lena: [seeing it form from a puddle of water on the ground] Run. Run! Run!

Lena: My friend came to me. She was alone and afraid. I had to do something.
Supergirl: That feeling of needing to protect your friend, no matter what the world thinks... I understand that more than you know. You once told me Kara Danvers was your hero.
Lena: I never told you that. I told...
Supergirl: It's me, Lena. I've always been Kara.
Lena: Kara, how could you?
Supergirl: I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner.
Lena: Three weeks ago, I found out that Sam, one of my closest friends, was a homicidal Kryptonian. I went through that terror alone. I risked my life day after day for weeks because I believed that I was the only one who could be trusted to protect her, to save her. I could have used your help. I would have used your help, if you'd bothered to tell me the truth before now. If you trusted me, then, I wouldn't have had to go through that danger alone!
Supergirl: I'm so sorry, but I thought I was protecting you. But now, we can... we can move past it and work as partners.
Lena: You expect me to be your partner after this? When all you've done is prove to me that you can't be trusted at all?
Supergirl: [seeing the Worldkillers' solar eclipse begin] Oh, no.

Mercy: You don't deserve the Luthor name, Earth traitor.
Supergirl: [speeding in and restraining her] You've got that backwards. The Luthor name doesn't deserve Lena.
Lena: Supergirl. I'd ask how you bypassed a lockdown, but...
Supergirl: But you're in a crisis and you're happy to see me?
Lena: Yes. Thank you.

Lena: I just finished analyzing that residue that you found. What killed the girl wasn't a bomb at all. It was caused by a heavy metal reaction.
Winn: A heavy metal not found on Earth.
Supergirl: I... I've seen this before.
[flipping through Coville's journal]
Supergirl: Here. The Rock of Yuda Kal. He says he found a statue of her in Addis Ababa made of Kryptonian stone.
Mon: Yuda Kal, isn't that the Kryptonian goddess of life?
Lena: I don't know anything about a goddess, but this is the exact inverse of what I need to cure Sam.
Supergirl: We were wrong. They weren't using the rock to make a bomb, they're making a new Worldkiller.
Lena: Well, if the Rock of Yuda Kal can be used to make a Worldkiller, we could just reverse the process and use it to unmake one. We could turn Reign back into Sam permanently.
Supergirl: We can cure her.

Lena: [waking from her coma, Sam finds herself floating above her bed] It worked.
Ruby: Mom, you're super.
Samantha: [climbing off the bed] Where are they?
Alex: They went after Reign and the witches
Samantha: Don't worry. I got this.
[she super-speeds out of the room]

Lena: Kara, I think I know what's going on.
Kara: What do you mean?
Lena: You rushing in and out of the office, not focused on work.
Kara: I don't know what you're talking about.
Lena: I grew up in a house of the most deceptive people in the world. I can tell when someone's lying to me. You don't have to hide from me, Kara.
Kara: I...
Lena: It's about Mon-El, isn't it? So if you need to take more time, just take it.
Kara: I appreciate it, Lena, but that is not what's going on with me.
Lena: Okay. Then what is? You can tell me, you know?
Kara: It's personal. And I don't want to talk about personal things at my job. I have work to do.
Lena: Okay. Then let's talk about work. This is unacceptable behavior for an employee. You ran out this morning when I gave you an assignment, you missed a staff meeting, and now, when asked to do a job by your boss, you act like it's an inconvenience. I did not spend $750 million on a company as a favor to a friend, nor do I plan on being an absentee landlord. I'm a businesswoman, and this is an investment. I plan to get out of it everything I can.

Lena: You're also not responsible for your brother's death. There are hundreds of things that could've caused what happened on that operating table. We know one thing that wasn't responsible, and that's you. You didn't cause it, you couldn't have stopped it. It was just... bad luck. Bad luck doesn't make you a bad person. Bad choices do. And I would know, because I am a much worse person than you.
Adam: Is this about the person you lost? Who was she?
Lena: My mother. My real one, not my adoptive, who is very much alive and kicking.
Adam: How old were you?
Lena: Four.
Adam: You don't have to tell me what happened.
Lena: No, I know. It's fine. I want to. We were visiting family, she said. Somewhere by the water; a lake, I think. It was... it was so green. You know, it wasn't a very bright day; it was overcast, but my mom said that's where the magic was. It was the rain that made the green. So, of course, she went swimming. She didn't come back.
Adam: I'm sorry.
Lena: No. See, I was there. I was with her on the shore, when she went in, and when she went under and I did nothing. I didn't run, I didn't cry. I just stood there.
Adam: You were four.
Lena: What kind of child doesn't run to their mother or doesn't scream for help? I... I knew. I knew something was wrong, but I did nothing. I just watched her die. And afterward, I was brought to this... terrible family. And I have spent my life fighting their legacy, and their crimes and their evil deeds, but... I've always known that... that deep down inside, that I belonged with them.

Kara: You were about to tell us about the aliens. What does Lex do to them?
Eve: Lex likes to keep his plans compartmentalized.
Kara: Even from the love of his life?
Eve: You think I'm the love of his life?
Lena: [advancing menacingly] Oh, I think you're...
Kara: [restraining her] He trusted you for a reason. You were helping him experiment on DEO prisoners. How did he get access to them?
Eve: Someone inside helped him.
Lena: You're saying this was an authorized prison transfer?
Eve: Yes.
Kara: Who authorized it?
Eve: I'm not sure. Someone in the government. Someone high up.
Kara: What do you keep looking at?
[seeing claw marks on the floor]
Kara: These claw marks lead somewhere.

Lena: Who are you meeting with?
James: I don't know.
Lena: Where are you meeting them?
James: They're gonna call me fifteen minutes beforehand.
Lena: So it's an undisclosed location with unknown contacts. This is how journalists end up dead, James.
James: Most journalists are not me.
Lena: So it doesn't matter what I think.
James: Not about this. This is work.
Lena: Oh, this is work. Well, then your boss has booked a major television appearance for you. So figure it out.

J'onn: The talks broke down completely. The Corto Maltesian prime minister said he felt threatened.
Supergirl: [looking at the news on TV] This morning, I was so hopeful. Thinking about Esme, about... a future that was so much brighter than yesterday, and now this. This is what lies ahead of us. I can't have it. I won't have it.
J'onn: If they launch those missiles, we will stop them.
Supergirl: We have to do more than that, J'onn.
Lena: Didn't you say you weren't supposed to interfere?
Supergirl: I did, but someone is interfering with human history who doesn't care about humanity or hope. And I will do whatever it takes to protect this planet, including disarming those countries, so that the people don't have to fear tomorrow or the next day or the next.
J'onn: You'll inspire a hope that burns longer and brighter than the sun. And get that totem.
Brainiac: I'm accessing Kaznian and Corto Maltese military data and downloading the location of their missile silos, so Lena can direct you to them over comms. I calculate you should have all the missiles removed and the Hope totem in your hands with several minutes to spare before Nxyly's clock runs out.
Lena: And then you can use the totems against Nxyly.
J'onn: No. No, absolutely not. Even if Supergirl can wield the totems' power, it's too risky. Every time a totem's been used, we've had untold consequences.
Lena: But trading the totems for William... my protective charm isn't enough to stop Nxyly from using it for herself.
Supergirl: Your charm may be weak, but it could be what we need to turn the tide.
Brainiac: Unfortunately, the tide did just turn. Corto Maltese just fired the first missile.

Lena: You're doing great.
Ruby: You look better already.
Samantha: You're such a bad liar. But I am grateful for that.

William: Okay, I won't publish anything until after you succeed. But how exactly is this plan gonna work?
Supergirl: After conferring with the Kryptonian witch hologram, we've deduced the next totem Nxyly will go after. The Love totem.
Lena: Using my magic, I'm gonna mimic the energy of the totems we already have, thereby creating a fake Love totem, which will be indistinguishable from the real one.
Brainiac: And when Nxyly picks up on that signature, she'll come for the totem, right to the secure location we've chosen.
Dreamer: Where our team will be staked out waiting to contain Nxyly the minute she shows her face.

Kelly: Hey, guys, you weren't answering. Is there something wrong with the unit?
[seeing the color of their eyes]
Kelly: Lena? Dreamer?
Lena: So glad you could join us.
Kelly: Oh, no. Alex, the Phantom is trying to breach the containment unit. And it's possessed Lena and Nia. Alex!
[they begin to advance on her]
Kelly: Come on. Lena, Nia. Snap out of it! Remember what's real. Let me help you.
[another flashlight spins around on the ground]
Kelly: Alex?
[seeing she's possessed, too]
Kelly: Alex.
Lena: It's pointless, Kelly. Why bother trying? The Phantom will take us all.
Kelly: [into her comms] J'onn, Brainy, the Phantom is trying to get loose. J'onn!
Lena: J'onn and Brainy are already gone. They couldn't fight it, and neither can you.
Kelly: No. No! Alex... please. If you are still in there, please hear me.
Lena: We hear you. We see you. Exactly as you are, Kelly Olsen. Weak. Human. We are heroes with unparalleled intellects, incredible strength. And yet we all succumbed. What chance do you stand?

Eve: I believe I've isolated the problem, Ms. Luthor. Lex's journals helped us build the inception tuner to implement thoughts into the brain, but the specific Q-wave frequency is incorrect. Unfortunately, that leaves us with hundreds of thousands of variables.
Lena: Well, I may have an expedited solution, Hope. Alex has just asked me to assist the DEO in apprehending a rogue Green Martian.
Eve: The brother of J'onn J'onzz?
Lena: Yes. Apparently, he has the ability to override another person's thoughts with his own.
Eve: Mind control. Using Q-waves.
Lena: If we were able to harness Malefic's abilities, we could use them to determine what frequency is needed to implant thoughts into the brain.
Eve: The study and testing would require us to detain the subject. I doubt Supergirl or her friends would approve.
Lena: No. I don't think they would.

Supergirl: [seeing the artwork in Lex's cell] Wow.
Lena: It's "Hannibal Crossing the Alps." So pretentious.

Samantha: Explain it to me again.
Lena: When Reign is triggered, your genome is re-written. It's why you can't shoot heat beams out of your eyes whenever you want.
Samantha: So you think there's an enzyme in my body that triggers a change.
Lena: Yes. And if we can isolate it, we can eliminate it. And no more Reign. But in order to find it, I need to study you while you're her.
Samantha: And the only definite way to turn me into her is to electrocute me.
Lena: The pain response brings her out.
Samantha: How much is it gonna hurt?
Lena: We're gonna start with 500 volts.
Samantha: That's not what I asked.
Lena: A lot. If we had more time, we could find another way. But we don't. So we have to do it.
Samantha: Okay.
Lena: Okay.

Lena: James, if you're doing this, I'm coming with you. I wanna stand beside you.
James: I really appreciate that. But you should continue working. Sam's life depends on it, right?

James: [restraining Ben from killing Otis] No, no, no, no, Lockwood. We need him to find Lex.
Lena: [as he throws Lockwood aside, his superpowers overstimulate him] James!
Otis: Now you're dead.
[as his suit powers up, Ben rips out the kryptonite core]
Otis: Harsh, bro.

Lena: Of course she would come here.
Kara: Where is "here"? What is this?
Lena: It's where I keep all my experimental prototypes. Don't print that.
Kara: Reporter's honor.
[seeing a suit of armor on a table]
Kara: Your mother's Lexosuit.
Lena: Yeah, it's in pieces.
Kara: Shouldn't there be another arm here?
Lena: [realizing] Mercy took the bigger gun.

Lena: Those are DEO power-dampening cuffs. All of the test subjects here were prisoners of the DEO desert facility. That's why Lex was spying on it.
Kara: What is he building?
[they jump as they hear a loud bang nearby]
Kara: Is someone there?
Lena: [grabbing a cattle prod for self-defense] Come out now and we won't hurt you.
[Kara opens the door]
Lena: [surprised] Eve?
Eve: [her old bright and chipper self] Kara. Lena. You found me. I was so scared.

Lena: [swirling ingredients in a test tube] Invenire res amissa.
[the power goes out, then comes back on]
Lena: Was there just an energy spike?
Dreamer: Let me check.
[turning to leave, she bumps into a tray, knocking beakers to the floor]
Lena: Dreamer!
Dreamer: Uh... I can't... I can't tell my lefts from my rights.
Lena: Okay, I am so sorry. I will... I will fix this.
Dreamer: I mean, it's kind of hilarious. Um... it's not permanent?
Lena: No, no, no. It... I just must have miscalculated the ingredients. It should wear off in about an hour.
Supergirl: [coming in] Any luck with that spell?
Dreamer: [turning to face a wall behind her] Not yet. But...
[realizing her error and turning back around]
Dreamer: Lena broke my brain.

Lena: Where are we with filtering the Kryptonite out of the air?
Querl: Nowhere. We're wasting our time, because I've got nothing.
[knocking the dispersal device off the table in frustration]
Querl: We're sprocked! The best case scenario is that Supergirl spends the rest of her life confined in a life support suit. Unless, of course, you've been hiding some sort of giant vacuum that can suck every particle of Kryptonite out of the atmosphere.
Lena: Okay. Wha...
[noticing something]
Lena: Wait, are you crying?
Querl: No.
[wiping a tear away]
Querl: That's unanticipated.
[seeing her expression]
Querl: What? I'm not a robot. I'm techno organic. I have feelings. You should be crying, too. These are tears of logic.

Andrea: We won't know how bad things really are for us until next week when the board decides to either pitch the launch of the phone, or... kill it completely. Papa's locked himself away in his lab till then. I've seen him bad before, but never like this. The way he looked yesterday... it scared me... Oh, how about you? How are things going at Luthor Corp?
Lena: You're not the only one with family business problems. Lex is completely unhinged. His obsession with Superman is out of control. He'll stop at nothing to kill him. And I'm very afraid that... a lot of people are gonna get hurt... or killed in the process.
Andrea: Can't you stop him?
Lena: He pushed me out. And Lex's latest plan is to seed the atmosphere with Kryptonite.
Andrea: What is Kryptonite?
Lena: According to Lex, it's Superman's great weakness.
Andrea: Can he do it?
Lena: No, not yet. First, he has to figure out how to subliminate it into vapor, but... he has this mad theory that an ancient alien element is gonna help him do that. I mean, this element crash-landed on Earth millions of years ago. All I need to do to... save humanity from Lex's madness is... find the element first.
[smiles]
Andrea: You already found it, didn't you?
Lena: [big smile] Thanks to you. Okay, so, do you remember your anthropology dissertation about the Aztec village that lived in the shadow of the volcano but never got covered in lava no matter how much the volcano erupted?
Andrea: You think that's where the alien element is?
Lena: I did an *intensive* satellite scan of the area, and I found...
[produces envelope from which she removes a report]
Lena: this.
Andrea: It's that symbol we used to draw. The Medallion of Acrata.
Lena: What are the odds that my mother's story would lead me to the one thing that has the property that I need to stop my brother?
Andrea: It's crazy.
Lena: It's fate!

Samantha: The people I killed are coming.
Supergirl: Reign killed, not you.
Lena: We are gonna make sure Reign never hurts anyone again.
Supergirl: But Sam, you have to wake up. You have to go back to your body and send us a message, tell us where the Worldkillers are.
Samantha: Don't let them in. They want me. I killed them.
Supergirl: Hey. Hey, you are not a murderer.

Lena: Eve, what's wrong?
Eve: I understand you wanting to save your dying brother, no matter what he did. But now we're giving him full access to everything in order to save Mr. Olsen. Look, I care about James, too. But I-I just wanna make sure that you're not gonna let your sympathy jeopardize everything that you've been working toward.
Lena: Eve, I know what my brother's capable of more than anyone. But I truly believe his lone scheme right now is just to live. I don't think he can imagine the world without him in it.

Morgan: You know, you can take the Luthor logo off your name; people still aren't going to trust you. And that's a really easy sentiment to reinforce once I have CatCo's editorial under my control. People love to believe what they read.
Lena: Using CatCo to defame your enemies and promote your own agenda. That's despicable.
Morgan: Oh, no. That's good business.

Lena: The world is full of liars. People who hide things from us. People who manipulate and control us. I should know. Some of the best liars in the world are members of my own family. But in my life, there was someone who always reminded me that truth was the better way. And she is the person we are here tonight to celebrate. Kara Danvers.
[applause]
Lena: The truth isn't easy. It's certainly not for the faint of heart. But it is something that Kara, as a journalist, has pursued relentlessly every day. And because she's so good at it, she makes it look easy. We sometimes forget that she's just like us. But forging a path to the truth isn't a piece of cake. It's more like climbing a mountain. It's arduous and painful at times, and just like us, Kara can sometimes slip. But she always gets back up and pulls through in the end. And we're always better for her efforts. So, thank you, Kara, for reminding us that the truth is important. Even when it's not always easy to accept.

Otis: Good morning, Cell Block D!
Lena: Is that...
Supergirl: Otis Graves.
Otis: Coming to you live from WLEX. We have a giveaway for one lucky caller. First person to apprehend Supergirl gets a lifetime of not being in prison anymore. Good luck. Lines are opening... now.
[pushing a button, he unlocks all the cell doors]

Lena: I'm coming with you.
Supergirl: Not a chance. It might not even be possible.
Brainiac: Oh, no, it's possible.
Lena: Listen, I spent the last month working with Sam and Reign, every day. I know what makes them tick. I know their DNA sequence better than my own phone number. What's more, I know Sam, and you don't. If anyone can get through to her, it's me. I get that you may not trust me right now, but trust that I want to get Sam back.
Alex: Sam's my friend, too. And with the sun darkening, your powers are gonna weaken. You might not have any powers in that valley/mind realm thing. You're gonna need somebody to watch your backs.
Supergirl: Well, I guess we're all in this together.

Samantha: You know, if you wanted, you could pull James Olsen right underneath that mistletoe.
Lena: James? Don't be ridiculous.
Samantha: I mean, I think he likes you.
Lena: I'm his boss.
Samantha: Mm. Yes, because that's never happened before.
Kara: Hi.
Samantha: Hi.
Kara: And I don't mean to eavesdrop, but I've been noticing chemistry between you two for weeks now.
Lena: There is no chemistry, all right?
Kara: [skeptical] Okay.
Samantha: It's off the charts!
Lena: Okay, I'm gonna have to kill both you, all right? But then I wouldn't have either of my best friends, so that wouldn't work. So I'm just gonna have some more Scotch.

Lena: Eve, meet Hope. You two are going to be working closely together.
Eve: How so?
Lena: Well, first, Eve, we need to evolve you, and you yourself said that you wanted to be better. I promise you, you will not feel a thing.
Eve: [glancing at a screen behind her, then feeling the diode on her temple] You've been mapping my mind?
Lena: I needed to locate and highlight the centers of your brain that trigger honesty and loyalty.
Eve: Why?
Lena: So Hope knows where to go.

Lena: Talk about history repeating itself. Tracking Lex down through Eve... it's just like Kaznia.
[Kara turns a cold shoulder]
Lena: Please, Kara, I'm sorry. Okay, I truly believed what I was doing was helping people.
Kara: I told you, I don't want to talk about the past.
Lena: Oh, come on, you can scream at me if you'd like. I know I deserve it. I know now that working with Non Nocere was a mistake, that working with Lex was a mistake...
Kara: This isn't about Lex. This is about J'onn and Alex and all the other people that could have been killed today because they're on my team. Don't you understand that?
Lena: No, I do. Of course I do.
Kara: No, you don't. You have never understood what it means to share a secret identity with someone. How much danger that puts them in. You... you never even understood that I kept my identity from you because I wanted to protect you. And I know, I know that I hurt you by waiting so long to tell my truth. But what about all the ways you hurt me? You pretended to be my friend for weeks. Just so you could manipulate me. You stole from me. You convinced me to steal for you. And then, then, you even...
[laughing scoff]
Kara: ...you... you used kryptonite on me. I made one mistake. *One* mistake that was only ever meant to protect you. And in return, all you did was hurt me in every way imaginable.
Lena: I'm sorry.
Kara: I know you are. But if you came to me looking for absolution, I can't give it to you.

Kara: I don't get it. I-I-I always try to be courageous. I don't understand why I can't pass that trial.
Lena: I don't get it, either. You've sacrificed yourself for so many people. You literally went to the Phantom Zone to save humanity.
Kara: And yet there was still something I was doing wrong.
Lena: Well, I may have a way to fight Nxyly without your needing to pass the gauntlet.
Kara: How?
Lena: So, you know I went to Newfoundland to learn more about my mother.
Kara: Yeah.
Lena: Well, it's complicated, but it turns out... that... that she's a witch, and apparently, so am I.
Kara: [taken aback] What? That's... seriously?
Lena: Yeah. I mean, as you can imagine, this is hard for me. I'm a scientist, but... and I'm not sure I'm ready to talk about it yet. But there are things beyond rational law. And apparently, my bloodline is one of them. Science might not be able to defeat what we're up against, but maybe a combination of science and magic can. And I feel like I owe it to everyone to learn as much as I can. And I thought I could start with seeing if I could untether you from Nxyly.
Kara: Well, I-I will take all of your help with magic, but, um... but I wanna stay connected to her. It... it could be an asset. If I can sense how Nxyly's feeling, maybe I can sense what she's planning.
Lena: I mean, it could be painful and dangerous.
Kara: Nxyly is unlike any villain we've ever faced, and if it gives us an advantage, I'm willing to take that risk.
Lena: I don't know what that gauntlet was about, 'cause you are the epitome of courageous.
[with a sharp inhale, Kara pinches the bridge of her nose in pain]
Lena: Kara? Kara, are you all right? Is it happening again?
Kara: [the pain subsides] She's angry. Nxyly's angry.

Kara: Brainy, what's up?
Querl: Definitely not me. I was grounded by Director Danvers. But while I was chained to my desk, not literally, I stitched together various images from surveillance at Vose's lab and ran them. The images were rudimentary and brought up 754,231 potential suspects. I checked each image with known associates and narrowed identification down to two. Otis and Mercy Graves. A brother and sister team.
Kara: Do you have a location?
Querl: Negative. However, I was able to identify an ex-employer who might be able to help you with an address.
Kara: Who's that?
[cut to her arriving at Albatross Bay as Supergirl]
Supergirl: [surprised] Lena.
Lillian: Oh, dear. I hope I didn't have that same expression when you showed up this afternoon.
Lena: No, mother. Your face was a mask of enigma, as usual.

Hope: Good morning, Ms. Luthor.
Lena: Is it morning? I lost track of time. I had an epiphany last night. There's something in these lenses of the Obsidian technology that's going to allow me to change the course of humanity.
Hope: That is an exciting agenda. What is your scientific hypothesis?
Lena: Hope, could you hurt someone?
Hope: I am incapable of causing pain. It is against my prime directive.
Lena: Exactly. Because you were built in the very image of perfection. You have no selfish inclinations. Your base code is morality, empathy, and logic. Humans and aliens, however, are flawed. They are driven by their emotions. They lie, cheat, and hurt each other to protect themselves. But it's not their fault, it's just how they're programmed. I am going to make them better with Project Non Nocere.
Hope: Do no harm.

Lena: Remember when we went to Kaznia and the jet was crashing? And I was frantic to try and save us, I was desperate to save my friend before myself; little did I know that that friend could actually fly.
Supergirl: I'm so sorry I put you through that.
Lena: No, it was impressive, how often you saved me without me realizing. I mean, you're an excellent actress.
Supergirl: Telling you the truth was such a relief, and I'm so glad that now we can be honest with each other and all of that is behind us.
Lena: Me, too.

James: So?
Lena: He had no idea. The look he gave me, he hadn't even considered it.
James: So everything he believed in is a lie?
Lena: And there's another thing. I think he's deteriorating because of the Harun-El.
James: That's not gonna happen to me, is it?
Lena: No. Ben injected the untested serum. And by tomorrow, it won't matter anyway. I'm working on an extraction.
James: [seeing Lockwood's car peel out] Is it just me, or is that a man who needs answers?
Lena: Maybe this wasn't such a dead end after all.

Lena: You know, you're really wonderful with Ruby. You're gonna make a natural mother.
Alex: Yeah, and yet I haven't made any steps to, uh, make that a reality. It took me forever to find Maggie. So what am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to hope that I fall in love again with someone who wants to have kids? Or do I try and do this on my own? And if so, how? I mean, it's not like my job is conducive to being a single parent. But then again, if we don't stop Reign, I guess this all just a moot point.
Lena: Well, that's true. But you've identified what you want, and that's half the battle. People like you and me, we do what it takes to get what we want. And when we defeat Reign, I have no doubt you'll figure it out.

Nia: Hey, Lena, is everything okay?
Lena: Yeah, everything's actually good. I just got off the phone with Kara, but I wanted to call you. I finally understand what the kelpie means.
Nia: Y-You did? What's it mean?
Lena: That I don't have to feel guilty anymore. I've spent my entire life feeling responsible for my mother's death, even though I know it's not true, but... every time I thought about her, I would just be drowning in guilt. Facing that Phantom allowed me to break through and finally let go.
Nia: That's great.
Lena: It also made me realize that all of that guilt was keeping me from knowing who my mother really was. So... I've decided to change that. I'm gonna go home.
Nia: Uh, to Luthor Mansion?
Lena: No. To where I was born.

Supergirl: So, what did you want?
Lillian: My daughter has a way to save us.
[Lena and Lilian lead Supergirl and Superman inside]
Lena: [showing them the box Lilian gave her] It's a device my brother invented to keep humans safe while irradiating the atmosphere with kryptonite. It would have made the planet uninhabitable for both of you.
Supergirl: Well, lucky my cousin put him in jail before he could make it work.
Lillian: And lucky for you, I found it.
Lena: I've been studying it, and I think I can convert it to irradiate the atmosphere with lead rather than kryptonite.
Lillian: Just a trace amount. Harmless to humans, but the atmosphere would become toxic to Daxamites. The aliens would be forced to leave, or stay and die.
Superman: All of them?
Lillian: Mm-hmm.
Lena: And they could never return. Even Rhea's son.
Supergirl: [more to Superman] Mon-El would have to leave Earth.
Lena: Did you know he was dating Kara Danvers?
Supergirl: Start working.

James: Okay, where exactly are we going?
Lena: I told you, this guy has access to Edge's bank records. If Edge has been buying technology that can make those Kryptonian marks, this will lead us to him.
James: That's great, but I mean, literally, where are we going?
Lena: Jimmy Olsen, are you scared? Don't worry, I'll protect you.

Lena: You know, Reign was right. Scumbags like Edge need to be put down, okay? He wants a war, then he has got one. I'm the only one who can protect myself.
Kara: Lena, no, you are not a killer.
Lena: Yeah, Kara? Maybe you don't know what I am.
James: Well, hey, I know you. You're not thinking clearly right now, okay? We're not out of options. We have a lead, okay? We weren't able to find any fragment of the bullet, no exit wound, no shrapnel, nothing, no casings.
Kara: So it just vanished?
James: Yeah, it's some really weird futuristic technology. But if we can find out who can manufacture a bullet like that, we can find the shooter.
Kara: Lena, I give you my word, Edge will not get away with this again.

Supergirl: That's the DEO desert facility.
Lena: What are you up to, Lex?

Lena: 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: Oh, easy. You think this was...
[rubbing his head, he notices whips of hair in his fist]
Ben: Okay, listen to me. This was my idea, this was my vision, this was my work!
Lena: You wanted to save the human race. Instead, you handed its future to a psychopath.

Kara: What could I possibly need your help for?
[Mxy snaps his fingers]
Lena: [on the TV] I killed my brother for you, for our friends! Don't you understand what you've done?
Mxyzptlk: Your best friend thinks that she is your enemy. And the worst part... it's your fault. You hid the truth from her. You let her find out from that sadist, Lex, and now, you think, she could be capable of anything.
Kara: What's your point?
Mxyzptlk: My point, toots, is this.
Kara: [he walks across the furniture] Careful.
Mxyzptlk: I am offering you a do-over. Hmm? I can send you back in time. Wouldn't you like to be able to tell Lena that you're Supergirl on your own terms? Wouldn't you like to see... what the world would look like if you controlled the narrative?

Lex: Miss Tessmacher!
Lena: [Eve enters, holding a gun on her] Eve!
Eve: Sorry, not sorry.
Lena: How long?
Eve: Forever. It's nothing personal.

Lena: Supergirl, that last strike was 800 megajoules. At this rate, we're minutes away from a strike that could electrify the whole harbor and anyone nearby.
Supergirl: [looking around at the chaos] Lena, release the totem.
Lena: You can still pass the test.
Supergirl: But if I fail, it will get worse. I need my team functional. I need Dr. Lahr helpful. And none of that will happen unless the totem was restored.

Lex: Lena. Just the Luthor I was hoping to find.
Lena: Did you look for me in my office? Where I said I would be, working on Non Nocere, waiting for you.
Lex: Ooh, right, sorry. Something came up.
Lena: This new universe has shifted the frequency of Q-waves. I'm back at square one. I needed your help.
Lex: I understand, but we have bigger problems, like Leviathan. You undersold them, sweet Lena.
Querl: He's right. Leviathan is the greatest threat of our time.
Lena: Brainy.
Lex: Agent Dox is assisting me with a project.
Lena: You know he's friends with Supergirl, right?
Querl: There's no need for concern. Since I removed my personality inhibitors, I run on logic only. My calculations tell me that, at this time, Lex Luthor is on the right side of history.
Lena: Can you promise me no one will get hurt?
Querl: I promise no one will be harmed.

Kara: Supergirl would never work with Lex.
Lena: It's not Supergirl. She's a blank slate. Or, at least she was.
Kara: What are you saying?
Lena: It's a question of nature versus nurture. She's been tested, trained, and indoctrinated by Lex in a prison in one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.
Kara: But she has to have good in her.
Lena: There was good in Sam. And Reign was a monster. Lex has created the very thing he fears the most. A Kryptonian weapon trained as a killer. And in Lex's hands, it's more dangerous than an atomic bomb. And he has it pointed right at America.
Kara: She is not an "it". Lex may have molded her, but there has to be some part of Supergirl still in her.

Lena: How's it coming?
Brainiac: Kelly was able to access Lex's code at Obsidian. Thus far, it's been easy enough to reverse-engineer, but the sequencing, the control flow... the way Lex was able to override free will with a few keystrokes... it's quite terrifying.
Lena: The code was my design. Are J'onn and M'gann in position?
Brainiac: Affirmative. And we're ready to trigger Myriad as soon as they take down all the satellites.
Lena: Hopefully, Supergirl will keep Lex busy long enough so we can stop him.

Lena: I'm just tired of this cycle of violence, okay? I just want these threats, these attacks, these recriminations... you know, I've seen it ruin my mother's life, and my brother's. I just want it to stop.
Kara: Well, that's what we're here for. Let your friends help you.

Lena: After sequencing her DNA and comparing Sam's blackouts to the Reign's attacks, I came to the conclusion that Sam and Reign were one and the same. Sam is Reign.
J'onn: So, for three weeks, you've been harboring and abetting a mass murderer.
Lena: I helped a friend.
J'onn: And you didn't think to bring this to our attention?
Lena: The attention of a clandestine organization that has never formally acknowlegded its existence to me? No. I am not your employee. I have not signed a contract, nor sworn an oath. I conducted an L-Corp experiment, using L-Corp technology on L-Corp property.
Supergirl: What did you discover?
Lena: I was hoping to isolate the spark that turned Sam into Reign, but I didn't get a chance to finish.

Kara: I'm writing an article about Lex. I wanna expose him. I want to take him down and put an end to all of this.
Lena: An exposé on Lex. That's quite an Everest.
Kara: Uh, there was actually something I was hoping you could answer. Has L-Corp done business with AmerTek? Maybe on a-a military project?
Lena: No, of course not.
[sitting down]
Lena: Look, I'm sorry I can't help you with this right now. I'm... I'm trying to help James. You know, Alex is here. You haven't been around. Supergirl's been there for me. Person who judges me on the very premise of my last name, but my best friend hasn't.
Kara: Lena, I'm... I'm sorry. I was... I was trying to catch Lex. For you. That's why I'm doing this. Of course I care about how you feel.
Lena: You just care about me a little less than you do as a source for your story.
Kara: No, no, it's not like that. I... I wish I could explain, but... but maybe it's better if I just go.

Lena: [William gets an alert on his phone] Everything okay, William?
William: Turn on channel 2.
Dana: [he turns the TV on] Y'all are not gonna believe these love poems from billionaire Lex Luthor.
Derek: "I will make oceans burn. The skies above turn black. We shall rule together, my love, cruel deaths to any who attack." It seems CatCo reporter William Dey has leaked Lex's private journal.
Dana: How'd he get his hands on it?
William: [mortified] I need to go.
Derek: Who knows? But in it, the Man of Tomorrow professes his love for Nxyly, the Fifth-Dimensional imp...
Mitch: [watching on his ship] Hey, they're talking about you.

Clark: [to Kara] Hey. You're never gonna guess who wants to see us.
[in costume, they arrive at Lena's office]
Lillian: Of course the two of you would make an entrance.
Lena: Unfortunately, this is her on her best behavior.

James: I was gonna leave this here for you. I didn't think I'd run into you.
Lena: You brought me dinner.
James: Yeah. Um... look, I-I know your work's really important. It's "saving the world" important, but I-I happen to have a few friends who make a habit of that. And I-I know when they get really deep into it, they... they forget to eat, so, uh... I didn't want that to happen to you.
Lena: Well, that is... incredibly thoughtful. And I haven't eaten all day.
James: Well, I'll leave you to it, then.
Lena: Well, since there's enough food here to feed an army, why don't you join me?

Brainiac: Sorry it took me so long to get here. There's a bit of an emergency at the Tower.
Lena: You're hologram-multitasking again.
Brainiac: Your text said you need more help with Operation Vengeance. I'm at your service. How did Lex take our systems lockout?
Lena: Poorly, as expected. He mentioned Lex's Foundation this morning, so I did some digging. Turns out the foundation is just a sham to buy experimental weapons from Kaznia, but you and I are going to funnel the money directly to the Luthor Wing of the National City Children's Hospital instead. Do you think you can hack into this account and make that happen?
Brainiac: I'm not exaggerating when I say that nothing would delight me more.
[doing so]
Brainiac: It's done. Lex should be receiving lavish thank-you calls from the hospital any minute.

Querl: Thank god for selfie culture. Because of this generation's constant need to live stream everything, we've got a clear image of your attacker. And I knew I had seen that face before. Do you recall Antioch, 526 AD?
Lena: It was an earthquake. It was the eighth-largest natural disaster in modern history.
Querl: Precisely. It's good to have you back, Lena. A myth was born that this man was the cause. Now, of course, scientists insisted that the natural disasters were natural, but in an ironic twist of history, they were wrong, and the fearmongers were right. Several reliable sources place this man at the scene of the crime throughout history. Pompeii, the Yellow River flood of 1887, the Bhola cyclone, even as far back as Noah's flood, this Earth-Bender has been spotted.
Alex: Excuse me, did you say "Earth-Bender"?
Querl: How else would you describe him? He... he literally manipulates the earth.
Supergirl: But wait. Pompeii, Noah's flood? I mean, what is he, thousands of years old?
Querl: Correct. Which means he's an alien with powers of longevity this civilization has never conceived of.
Alex: No wonder people thought he was a myth.
Lena: With all this destruction, his existence is still shrouded in mystery. He's managed to convince the world he doesn't exist.

Lena: Andrea, I was just gonna call you.
Andrea: Well, I hope it was to pencil some thank-you drinks when you get back, because I found the woman in your photo, Florence Abbott. It took some digging. She gives new meaning to "off the grid." But rumor is she disappeared because she was connected to a suspicious death, Margaret Bishop's husband.
Lena: Listen, I appreciate the help, but I'm heading home.
Andrea: What? So soon?
Lena: This trip was a mistake. I'm done.
Andrea: Lena, if you found some messy family history, you know that's nothing new.
Lena: Yeah, well, I would have expected it from the Luthors, but I should have known my mother's side would have been just as awful.
Andrea: But what did you find out?
Lena: It's hearsay, but I've heard enough. I just don't wanna put myself through it.
Andrea: This has been a gap in your life for so long, and this is your chance to fill in the blanks. The unknown is always scarier than the truth.
Lena: Unless the truth really is bad.
Andrea: You can't deal with the past until you face it. I e-mailed you the files on Florence. Just take a look at them. At least think about it. Information doesn't hurt people. Secrets do.

Lena: Sam Arias is Reign. Supergirl knows, and... and so do the appropriate authorities.
James: So when you were telling me about your employee that-that couldn't accept her problem...
Lena: I was working to rid Sam of Reign, to free her.
James: But she put Supergirl in a coma. How-how did you keep her under control?
Lena: The last of Lex's Kryptonite. And... and don't worry, Supergirl knows about that, too.
James: And you're telling me this now, why?
Lena: Because I gambled everything. My reputation, Supergirl's trust in me, my relationship with you, on fixing Sam. And I failed. I really needed to hear your voice today, and I didn't want you to look at me like I was a Luthor.

Mercy: Do you remember when you were afraid to show Lex your little inventions? That you would hide them from him until they were absolutely perfect. Do you remember what he would do?
Lena: Yeah. He'd say they were cute and I should make them in pink.
Mercy: This is exactly what he was afraid of. That you would outshine him. I know that you wanna resist, but you are just like me. You don't just wanna be the best, you are the best.
Lena: Oh, I know I'm the best. You're the one not living up to your full potential. You've chosen a side. I'd never do that.
Mercy: All you care about is lining your pockets.
Kara: Yeah, also she's not a murderer, so...
Mercy: Maybe that's just because she hasn't tried it yet.
[Lena activates the other arm of the Lexosuit and fires a blast at her]
Mercy: You missed.
Lena: I wasn't really aiming.

Lillian: Where are you going?
Lena: To confront Ben Lockwood.
Lillian: If he's taken the Harun-El, you should wait until I finish.
Lena: Oh, are you worried about me?
Lillian: Of course. I love you.
[soffing, as she realizes what she just said]
Lillian: There. You have gotten me to say it.

Hope: If the virus spreads, the DEO will be able to deactivate our security defenses in twenty minutes. We need a workaround before then. We could manually unlock the arrays.
Lena: No, Lex has booby-trapped this entire place. There'll be a lethal failsafe if I try to tamper with the dishes.
Hope: Then I'll go.
Lena: No, you can't. You're too great an asset.
Hope: Ms. Luthor, one of my prime directives, as you programmed, was to ensure the success of Non Nocere. If that means self-sacrifice...
Lena: No. Even if you could manually reset it, there's no telling the extent of the virus's damage. All right, we may need you. It'd be short-sighted to lose you now. If we could replicate the virus, we could reverse-engineer it and override the shutoff remotely, okay? I just... I'll-I'll need some help.
Hope: Very well. Accessing files.

Supergirl: Do you really not believe in magic?
Lena: I believe in you. And in all of us. We'll defeat this, no matter what it's called. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go interrogate a Kryptonian witch.
Supergirl: Have fun.

Lena: Non nocere. It's "to do no harm." I mean, that was always my intention. To make the world a better place, to inhibit our desires to hurt each other emotionally and physically. But Lex corrupted my technology to turn every Obsidian user into his own mindless followers, essentially brainwashing them.
Prosecutor: To what end?
Lena: To get away with murder.

Lex: I'm dying.
Lena: I know.
Lex: That's it? You know?
Lena: Well, you've only mentioned it at the start and the end of every phone call for the last six weeks.

Lena: I never thought I'd see the day. Obsidian Platinum, the most popular VR platform ever created.
Supergirl: And not a single person's using it.

Samantha: Where's Ruby? Your text said you picked her up.
Lena: She's fine, okay? She's at my apartment. She's sleeping. She called me when you disappeared. She thought you'd come into work, but you... you hadn't.
Samantha: My god, how could I do this to her? What if I'd been driving at the time?
Lena: She's safe, all right? She did the right thing. She called for help.
Samantha: Was she scared?
Lena: Yes. We all are.

Supergirl: Warden! Sorry to interrupt.
Warden: Supergirl. I assume you're here with Ms. Luthor to turn yourself in.
Lena: [he moves to pick up his landline] You might want to rethink that. Bribery and tax evasion are felonies.
Supergirl: So is helping a criminal like Lex Luthor. Where is he?
Warden: Don't be ridiculous.
Lena: Account number 832591290 in the Cayman Islands.
Warden: [putting the handset down] Okay. I may have taken some money. But I don't know where he is.
Supergirl: You let him come and go.
Warden: He never told me where he went.
Supergirl: You never thought to ask?
Warden: All I did was turn a blind eye, and that was after he threatened to kill me.
Lena: Oh, please. He does that to everyone.

Eve: The heart didn't burn up. Why didn't it burn up?
Lena: That's impossible. Try again.
Eve: [doing so; the heart remains intact] Did the Harun-El do this?
Lena: It must have. It made the heart invincible.

Supergirl: [seeing the trash monster that Oscar has evolved into] My god. You said he bonded with the trash, but this...
J'onn: He's picked up a Teallian along the way. Lex must have brought one to the DEO. It's a parasitic creature that forces even inanimate objects to adapt to survive. And it's impossible to remove once it's attached to a host.
Supergirl: So now Oscar's protecting the garbage.
Lena: [at the Tower] His Coluan energy core is spiking. If that detonates, the atomic blast is going to spread inland.
Sentinel: Copy that. Dreamer and I will evacuate the civilians. Brainy, launch that drone, now.

Lena: That eclipse was like someone grabbed on the moon and pulled. The Earth and the moon turn on an axis, and no amount of technology can change that.
Supergirl: That's because this isn't technology.
Alex: You should be in the med bay.
Supergirl: I'm fine. This is older than science.
Lena: Please don't say "magic".
Supergirl: Dark magic. Reign, Purity, Pestilence, they were all created by Kryptonian witches to do one thing. Kill the world. And now that they're together, they're doing that.
Lena: How do you know that?
Supergirl: There's no apocalypse in the Book of Rao, but there are parables about witches joining hands to create a blessed darkness.
Lena: So whatever ritual the Worldkillers are doing, it's creating the eclipse. The world can't live without sunlight.
Alex: Nothing can, including Supergirl.

Kara: What is this place?
Lena: [seeing a tray of test tubes] This is Harun-El.
Kara: [recoiling as Lena opens a case] Kryptonite.
[Lena closes it]
Kara: This is all equipment to hurt Kryptonians.

Lena: Hope?
Eve: Good morning, Ms. Luthor.
Lena: Well, since Andrea Rojas took my lenses, we need a new plan. Luckily, she confirmed my hypothesis about the interworking of her technology.
Eve: This pleases you.
Lena: We don't need Andrea's tech. With your help, I can build my own. And together, we can rebuild humanity.

Lena: Oh, good. You found my plane.
Eve: [crackling a cattle prod] I hoped it wouldn't come to this.
Lena: Really?
[drawing a collapsible baton from her boot]
Lena: 'Cause I did.

Lena: What was that?
Brainiac: Main thrusters are damaged.
Winn: How?
Brainiac: Some sort of sound wave interference.
Winn: Purity.
Brainiac: It's fine. We have secondary thrusters.
[explosion]
Brainiac: Which also just blew up. Excuse me a moment.

Lena: Where is she?
Alex: She's this way. Hey, listen, I know that you and Supergirl, you don't always see eye to eye on everything, but it means a tremendous amount to us, to... to me, that you're always here when we need you the most.
Lena: People underestimate me, but I care. I really do.

Lena: I'm really glad I can tell you my secrets now.
James: Of course you can. Me, too.
[her window suddenly shatters]
Reign: Where is the child? Where is Ruby Arias? Where is she...
Lena: [repelling her with a Kryptonite aerosol] You'll never find her.

Mercy: I always wondered what the House of Lena would look like. But this is more innovative and imaginative than even I expected.
Lena: You underestimated me. It's insulting.
Mercy: You have a gift. And I don't intend to sqaunder it.

Supergirl: Please, just hear me out.
Lena: Save your breath. You showed me who you really are, and I believe you.
Supergirl: You have every right to say that, but don't do this.
Lena: Do what?
Supergirl: W-Whatever it is you're planning on doing with Myriad and Malefic's Q-waves.
Lena: Did it ever occur to you that I was gonna do something good for the world?
Supergirl: But with Myriad, people won't understand.
Lena: Of course, you assumed the worst. I'm not the bad guy.
Supergirl: I know. You spent years trying to be open and trusting, even when everyone expected you to be like your family. Even when everyone in your life let you down.
[crying]
Supergirl: Even when I was weak and lied to you, knowing that all you ever asked for was the truth, you were always better. Lex took advantage of my weakness and he used it to manipulate you. He wanted my mistakes to change you. He wanted you to become him. But you are nothing like him. Nothing. Don't let my mistakes turn you into something you're not.
Lena: I am good. And I always was. Lex didn't change me, and you didn't change me, either. You just exposed me to the ugliness of humanity. You did me a favor, Kara. I learned what kind of deceitful person you are, and that's what inspired me to do this.
Supergirl: Lena...
Lena: Your words mean nothing to me anymore. Spare us both the drama. Leave me alone.

Supergirl: I never used you.
Lena: Do you remember when you finally told me you were Supergirl? You were weeping. Big crocodile tears. Well, I wept real tears. Bitter tears over you weeks before.
Supergirl: What? I... I thought... how long had you known?
Lena: I found out the day I killed my brother.

Andrea: So, will you be watching the trial?
Lena: Of course. You don't think I'd miss an opportunity for the world to see my brother as he really is?
Andrea: Well, what about who you are?
Lena: What do you mean?
Andrea: Well, you were there with Lex through everything. But you haven't spoken on the record and you haven't been asked to testify. Think of the good it could do if you aired your firsthand experience and asked for forgiveness publicly.
Lena: I thought I was coming here to catch up with a friend, but you're lobbying for an interview.
Andrea: Oh... please, Lena, I... I screwed up with Obsidian, and CatCo barely survived. It's all I have left, and it's in bad shape. If you go on the record, maybe we can help each other.
Lena: I'm sorry for your troubles, I really am, but what happened by Lex's side, I will never speak of publicly. I thought maybe we could talk about it, especially after everything we've been through. But I see now that I was mistaken because, as ever, you're always putting yourself first.
[putting her drink down]
Lena: Keep the Scotch.

Querl: L-Corp owns a nano-tech subdivision, yes? Formerly Spheerical Industries.
Lena: We just have to reprogram the nanites so that they can detect and filter the kryptonite out of the atmosphere. We don't need a giant vacuum cleaner.
Querl: Just trillions of small ones.

Lena: You wanna know why I'm not a killer? Friends.
Kara: Well, that's what friends are for. We get each other through the dark times, like you did with Mon-El.
Lena: Yeah, Kara... I saw Mon-El. He... he was here with Supergirl...
Kara: Yeah. It's complicated. I'll... I'll tell you about it.
James: [approaching] You guys okay?
Lena: Yeah, yeah. I'm actually better than I have been in months. You missed all the fun, Jimmy Olsen.

President: My fellow Americans, it has been a day since Supergirl's attack on the White House, in apparent retaliation for our repeal of the Alien Amnesty Act. While she and those with whom she conspired remain at large, I have an obligation to ensure the safety of all citizens. So, at 1900 hours today, I am imposing a sundown to sun-up curfew.
Mackenzie: [watching on TV at CatCo] They better catch her.
James: Supergirl did not do this.
President: Humans caught loitering will be cited. Aliens will be stopped by any means necessary. And to Supergirl, turn yourself in. We do not want a war with you, but we vow to use every asset in our power to see that justice is done.
Lena: [watching with Alex and Supergirl at L-Corp] Justice? What a crock.

Lena: I haven't figured out the extraction yet, Brainy.
Querl: That's why I came up. Urgency is no longer required. James has successfully completed his mind palace. With his trauma unblocked, the Harun-El seems to have stopped attacking his PTSD and is regulated throughout his body. His long-term prognosis with your drug in his system is good.

Lena: [an L-Corp drone roughly puts a case on the ground] Could you please not blow up my lab?
Reign: So it's explosives they're carrying. Your wall doesn't work anymore. Neither does your Kryptonite. I'm getting stronger.

Lillian: Why didn't you let me kill him?
Lena: I found another way.
Lillian: There's no other way. You're a Luthor. You should be proud of it.
[a drone appears and turns into an advanced exo-suit]
Lillian: You're three steps ahead? I'm four.
Supergirl: [landing next to Lena] Suit's a bit much, don't you think?
Lillian: Says the girl in the cape.

Defense: And what is Supergirl's real name?
Lena: I hardly see how that's relevant.
Defense: Citizens have the right to know the name of the officer that arrests them. If Supergirl is gonna act like judge and jury, we should know her name, as well.
Lena: [glancing at Kara] I plead the Fifth.

Lena: [looking through Lex's journals] These are just monthly expenses. Payoffs to half the guards and all of the inmates.
Supergirl: This one's all about Superman and his supposed failings. It's infuriating.
[seeing Lena's look]
Supergirl: What is it?
Lena: It's from my childhood. It's an inventory of all the faults and mistakes I've made since I was four. This is how he operates. I get flooded with emotion and he wins. I don't think I can do this.
Supergirl: [noticing another inmate spying on them] Uh... we have a peeping tom across the way. You think he knows anything?

[last lines]
Samantha: You told a twelve year old her mother has a disease no one can diagnose?
Lena: I reassured her that you didn't abandon her...
Samantha: You had no right to tell her anything. Just because you're my boss does not mean you can make decisions for my family.
Lena: No, it wasn't like that. It was...
Samantha: No one makes those decisions but me.
Lena: Sam, your blackouts are coinciding with something. I just need to ask you a few...
Samantha: Silence!
[in her fit of anger, Sam's eyes briefly flicker red]
Lena: Sam? Sam? Sam, did you just have a blackout?
Samantha: Yeah.
Lena: You don't remember anything you said?
Samantha: No.
Lena: Sam, honey, it's okay, all right? I know what's wrong with you. I'm gonna make you better.

James: [entering Lena's office] Slept here again, huh?
Lena: I don't really have much choice.

Lena: You can come out now.
Margot: [emerging from the shadows, gun in hand] Give me the medallion.
Lena: I don't think so.
[Margot fires her weapon, which deflects off an energy barrier]
Lena: I have the most intricate security system in the world. I know all about Leviathan.
Margot: No one knows all about Leviathan. Leviathan is unknowable.
Lena: I'm not afraid.
Margot: [turning to leave] You will be.

Lena: I'm sorry I was so short with you. You were just trying to do your job.
Kara: Friendship is the most important job, and I was so focused on my article, I forgot what really matters.
Lena: No, Kara. The truth is, even if you'd been standing right next to me when Lex escaped, I really wouldn't have let you be there for me.
Kara: What do you mean? Why?
Lena: Because I'm the one that's keeping secrets. Eve wasn't the only one working with Lex. I...
[as she talks, her emotions begin to overwhelm her]
Lena: I was working with him, too. He contacted me four months ago. He knew I had the Harun-El. He had cancer and he was afraid to die. He's my brother. And in my heart, I knew he was manipulating me, but I believed him, and I helped him and he betrayed me. And I was weak, and I will never forgive myself for that. I can only imagine what you think of me, Kara. I don't blame you.
Kara: [hugging her as Lena cries] No, no. You are not weak. You are a brilliant, kind-hearted, beautiful soul. Your brother asked you for help, and in life and death situations, you help family. No one can judge you for that. I'm so sorry you felt like you couldn't tell me.

J'onn: Prime will have his progeny protecting his lair. We'll have to be careful around those talons.
Lena: I may already have a fix for that. I couldn't wait to get started, so I stayed up all last night and made this.
[taking a weapon out of its case]
Lena: I merged a DEO protogun and L-Corp's portal energy.
Dreamer: What is it?
Lena: Well, I call it a Prototrap. It's designed to trap Prime Phantom and his progeny hands-free and transport them directly to containment.
Brainiac: Just like in "Ghostbusters."
Lena: Except that's a movie.
Brainiac: It's the perfect movie.
Lena: The Prototrap is real.
Brainiac: Okay.
Alex: Rescuing Supergirl and stopping the Phantom infection. I was afraid it was never gonna happen.

Lillian: They should be dead. All aliens should be dead. You. You switched out the isotope. You made the virus inert.
Lena: I did. And I called the police.

James: The way you pushed the president about her alien delegation selection was perfect. A reporter's job is to demand transparency. And with that said, I'd like you to talk to the cub reporters who are starting today about that.
Kara: Sure.
James: Yeah. And didn't Cat Grant recommend one to you?
Kara: Yes, her name is Nia Nal.
James: Well, Nia Nal's gonna need a mentor like you.
Kara: You're incredible, you know that? Everything you're going through right now, the D.A. possibly indicting you for being Guardian, and here you are worrying about cub reporters.
Lena: [waiting in his office as they enter] That's because he leaves the worrying about the D.A. to me.

Lena: Do I smell chocolate chip cookies?
William: Actually, chocolate roulade, Jaffa cakes, and hobnobs, my Aunt Millicent's specialty. And they're not for you. They're for Alex to give to Esme.
Brainiac: Oh, yes, the young liege. Tell me, do either of you have any sense what her preference for building block sets might be? Castle, theme park, or train?
Lena: [Kara flies in at just the right moment] Train.
Supergirl: Sorry. Super-hearing.
Brainiac: Was the answer really that obvious?
Lena: Well, the castle and the theme park are great, Brainy, but once she builds the train, she can take it on any adventure she likes.
Supergirl: The words right out of my mouth.

William: I did not come here to report on the Tower's kitchen appliances.
Alex: Excuse me?
William: Why did you even allow me in here if you won't let me report on what's really going on?
J'onn: You agreed to our ground rules.
William: The situation has changed. The violence in the city is getting worse. You guys have no plan.
Supergirl: [coming in with Lena] Yes, we do. Lena is going to amplify the totem's power... so that everyone who was within Nxyly's blast radius at the arena will lose their humanity, too.
Lena: We believe that Nxyly is being infused with the compassion that she's drained from her victims. With more people affected, we think she'll get overwhelmed and then use the totem again to restore everyone's humanity.
Alex: Okay, but doing so will cause even more chaos and destruction throughout the entire city.
Supergirl: So, we'll have to spread out and try our best to keep the city safe.
Alex: Until when?
Lena: Until Nxyly's drawn out.
J'onn: If she comes out. She might not. And the longer people are affected by the totem's power, the less they seem to care about anything. This is a dangerous situation.

Winn: [seeing Reign free from her restraints] She's out of bed. She-she broke the chains.
Supergirl: How'd she do that? The kryptonite's supposed to keep her weak.
Lena: Her-her body's adapting, like Pestilence to the anti-virus. She's becoming immune.
J'onn: How long 'till you won't be able to keep her contained?
Lena: I don't know. A couple of days.
Mon: Then we better get a move-on.

Mon: Ms. Luthor, glad to see you're okay.
Lena: Yeah. I could say the same about you.

Ben: I am so sorry to ambush you like this. You're not exactly an easy person to reach.
Lena: Well, that's by design, but...

Supergirl: Do you know what it's like to walk into a room and your skin feels like it's going to be seared off your bones? Or like nails are running through your blood? That's what Kryptonite feels like.
Lena: I don't know, it sounds like exactly what you need to subdue Reign.
Supergirl: I need to be the only person in control of Kryptonite on this planet. Even if I did trust you, even if we were on the same side, this substance is so lethal to me that I can't risk encountering it by mistake.
Lena: Trust is hard for me, too, Supergirl. But since we seem to need each other, we're just gonna have to figure it out.

Lena: Sam, do you remember when we first met? It was three o'clock in the morning. We'd just acquired your company, and I was in charge of the takeover. You were a junior VP, and your light was the only one on in the office. I walked by, and I saw your head down over spreadsheets.
Samantha: Cross analysis report. God, I was good at those.
Lena: You were so focused. And I thought "Her. I wanna work with her." Everyone knows how good you are at your job, Sam. You don't have to keep on proving it. With everything that you're dealing with in your life right now, I just wanna give you as little stress as possible.
Samantha: [shakes her head] Lena, I can't take time off right now.
Lena: Yeah, you can. In fact, I am ordering you to take today off. There is nothing here I can't handle, so go. Be with your daughter.

Lena: It's a baby Truth Seeker, and I need the truth.
Lillian: You mean I can't lie?
Lena: Nope. My middle school boyfriend, Taylor.
Lillian: I paid him $14,000 to never speak to you again.
Lena: I knew it. Don't worry, I'm not gonna ask you if you love me. I already know the answer.

Alex: [running tests on James at the DEO] Heart rate is 186. His ICP at 22 mil, and his BP is 160/30 and rising.
Querl: EKG now erratic. Pardon me for stating the obvious, but I do not believe the extraction process is working. You're pulling plasma, not Harun-El, and you're exacerbating his symptoms.
James: It's okay. Keep going.
[Lena taps her tablet; James grunts in pain as his hearing is overloaded with stimuli]
James: Oh, god... okay. I'm fine.
Lena: I'm sorry. I thought this would work. I took this AmerTek technology straight from Lex's cell and I followed the instruction plans from Eve's lab exactly.
Querl: In the interest of science, was that super hearing you just experienced?
Kelly: Super-hearing now, too?
Alex: It seems every panic attack is bringing out a new ability.
Lena: I will fix this. I just... need to better understand this.

Lex: You're...
[coughing]
Lex: You're brilliant and driven and defiant. Always were. You just needed someone to defy.
Lena: Wait. Are you actually taking credit for my success?
Lex: You were always driven to impress me. Always.
[coughing and wheezing]
Lex: And if I would've given you an inch, if-if I would've thrown you a "good job" or cried out "that's wonderful" every time you showed me one of your toys, do you think you would've been as successful as you are...
[he coughs blood into his handkerchief]
Lex: Oh, well, that's unfortunate.

Lena: We had a deal.
Andrea: That's right. CatCo Worldwide Media for $1.3 billion. A little more than my board thought it was worth, but I'm a softie for an old friend in need.
Lena: I'm talking about the deal to keep the CatCo sale secret until tomorrow. Instead, you were upstairs measuring the drapes.
Andrea: Well, I'm sorry I ruffled your feathers. I didn't think a few hours would make a difference.
Lena: Look... I want us to start off on the right foot here. CatCo isn't the end-all of what we can offer each other.
Andrea: I agree.
Lena: If we're to have a relationship again, and I ask you not to disclose something for 24 hours, I expect you to take me at my word. Everything I do has a purpose.
Andrea: Understood.
Lena: Just no more surprises.
Andrea: And that big story you promised me, the one that would draw every eyeball in the world to CatCo's website? So long your hands were kept clean of it.
Lena: You'll get it tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. as promised. I keep my word.

Lena: So, Brainy's drunk.
Kara: Oh!
Lena: He thought the mojitos were a vegetable juice.
Nia: [entering] Did someone say mojitos at brunch? Sounds like my kind of party.

William: What's your takeaway from today's encounter with Nxyly and Lex?
J'onn: I'd say it's a huge win. They no longer have a ship, no LexoSuit army, and no totems.
Supergirl: [flying in] And we also have five totems secured at the Fortress of Solitude, but don't print that.
Alex: [coming in with Kelly, Esme, and Lena] Great job, guys. Lena just filled us in.
Kelly: And more importantly, please give a big round of applause to the new school baking champion.
Supergirl: [Esme holds up her stuffed zebra with a blue ribbon on it] Hurray!
William: [high-fiving] Put her there.
Lena: That's a perfect kickoff to the big party tonight.
Kelly: About that, our sitter just called out sick with the stomach flu, so you'll only have Alex.
William: Oh, don't be ridiculous. I'll take care of Esme. She and I have a baker's bond, right?
Alex: William, we wanted you at the party.
William: Please, I'm... I'm happy to help. See it as a part of a wedding gift.

Lena: Andrea knows nothing. Seems on this Earth, post-Crisis, Leviathan hasn't activated her yet. But don't worry. If they do, I'll be the first person she calls.

Lena: It's been two days since the world saw Supergirl be brutalized, and still not a word about her whereabouts or well-being.
James: She'll turn up.
Lena: I hope so. And Kara's the only reporter who had a knack for tracking her down. Is she in yet?
James: Kara? She... no, she's, um... no, she's not, actually.

Lena: Okay, you have got to stop listening to this dreck. Is that Ben Lockwood?
James: Do you know him?
Lena: Well, when I reorganized L-Corp, I took my business away from his father's steel shop and gave it to an Nth metal producer. Who the hell gave him a platform?
James: The People's Veritas, some sort of syndicated fringe website.
Lena: Oh, okay. Well, there you go. "Fringe" being the operative word.
James: Well, the last time I saw Ben Lockwood, he was a sad, angry man begging me to write his story. And now he and every lunatic like him is praising Guardian as if I'm one of them.
Lena: Well, I don't think the mayor would invite James Olsen to be the keynote speaker at his annual Media Summit if he thought he was some kind of fringe lunatic.
James: Wait, what?
Lena: The invitation just came in. That is what I came to tell you. Now, you need to stop obsessing about these trolls and start writing your speech.

Lena: That's a low-spectrum enhancer. You use it to see infrared.
Alex: [taking it from Brainy] Here, let me see that.
[holding it up to her eye and looking out at the skyline]
Alex: Look, I see one right there.
J'onn: All right, so they're going to attack. Question is when?
Querl: Twilight's last gleaming. It's the title of their manifesto. Tells them when to strike.
James: Twilight's last gleaming is sunset.
Kara: Then we don't have much time.

Supergirl: J'onn stayed back at the arena to get things under control.
Dreamer: Sentinel and Guardian did, too.
Lena: What happened, exactly?
Supergirl: Nxyly got ahold of another totem and activated it like it was nothing. And then... and then she used it. And it turned people depraved. Not cold or unfeeling, but they're actually gleeful. They're taking joy in theft and violence and destruction.
Lena: Humanity is everything we think of as compassion and empathy. Exactly the things that Nxyly drained from her victims.
Dreamer: So the humanity totem is probably the one Nxyly got.
Supergirl: There had to have been at least 10,000 people in the blast radius of the arena. But luckily, it seems to have only affected a couple hundred.
Dreamer: Patching into the NCPD's CompStat technology, we can track real-time crime incidents represented by the blue dots.
[seeing their looks]
Dreamer: Well, don't look so surprised. I'm smart, too. You guys are just showoffs.

Lena: So, the computer said we need to look for something that will hurt Kryptonians. Seems to be a lot of that in here.
[seeing the Myriad device]
Lena: What's this?
Supergirl: That is Myriad. My... my family created it.
Lena: I think I was still in Metropolis when Myriad hit. The news footage, though, it was pretty horrific.
Supergirl: And reality was even worse. My aunt Astra and her husband turned all of humanity into mindless zombies in less than a second. If there was one weapon in this room I could destroy, it would be that one.
Lena: [picking up another weapon] Oh, well, this could be the ticket. It's a sonic cannon. It sends concentrated blasts of high-frequency ultrasonic waves at whatever you aim it at. With a few slight adjustments, we can maybe use it to destabilize Rama Khan. I mean, at least long enough to put the power-dampening cuffs on him. It was designed for evil, but perhaps we can use it for some good.

Lena: At the base of the nearest dish, there should be an access panel.
Hope: It's locked, and the keypad's rigged to blow.
Lena: Damn it, Lex. We only have three minutes.
Hope: Well, it's a group of satellite dishes aimed at the sky. Lex loved symbolism. Perhaps the code has something to do with Heaven.
Lena: Or Hell.
Hope: John Milton.
Lena: What was Lex's favorite quote from "Paradise Lost"?
Hope: "Arise or be forever fallen."
[as she enters the phrase on the keypad, a panel opens, revealing a joystick]
Hope: It worked. Manually positioning the dishes. Elevation, 14.9. Azimuth, 253.1. Ms. Luthor, we are locked and ready to launch Myriad.
Lena: Amazing, Hope. You've done it.
[reaching for the launch button]
Lena: And now, so will I.

Kara: Alex tells me that you're helping Supergirl fight Reign. I'm sure she's so grateful for your help.
Lena: Well... frankly, I am only working with Supergirl to save Sam because I have no other choice.
Kara: What do you mean?
Lena: Well, it's that old adage. "Never meet your idols", you know, "it'll only lead to disappointment"?
Kara: Oh. Yes.
Lena: Supergirl's not all truth and justice like she pretends to be. You know, she had James break into L-Corp and search my private vault?
Kara: I'm sure she had a really good reason.
Lena: Of course, James didn't do it.
Kara: Really?
Lena: Well, no. We've been dating each other for months. He knows me, and he trusts me, and I trust him. Supergirl went behind my back, and used my personal relationships against me. That's something my mother would do. She crossed a line. I can never trust her again.

Lena: When do Esme and Kelly get back from Calvintown?
Alex: After the weekend. Kelly wants to give Esme the full Olsen family experience. So, catching fireflies, climbing trees, the enormous chili bowls. So if things stay as calm as they have been, I think I'm just gonna go back and join 'em.
Supergirl: Yeah, I guess destroying the Hope totem and having Brainy hide the rest was the right move. And now I even have time for my interview.
Lena: What interview?
Supergirl: Well, you know Kaznia and Corto Maltese agreed to a truce last week. Well, now Prime Minister Perez and President Zakharov are in town negotiating the official treaty. And my sources have told me that things are getting tense. But then I remembered this interview Larry King did years ago with three Middle Eastern leaders.
Lena: Yeah, that was Arafat, Rabin, and King Hussein of Jordan.
J'onn: They called it "World Diplomacy Live." I remember that. Were you on Earth back then?
Supergirl: No, I-I was actually in my pod, but I saw it. I just remember being so moved that a reporter could be a part of something so momentous. So I went out on a limb and asked Cat if she'd be willing to introduce me to the president and prime minister and she said yes.
[cut to her in Andrea's office]
Kara: And now CatCo has the chance to do something just like that. A once-in-a-generation interview that will show that even in these contentious times, two enemies were able to cross the divide and come together and help the Super Friends, by eliminating both countries' threats and, most importantly, how when people really set their minds to it, real peace is possible.
Andrea: Wow. That is inspiring. But not really interesting, is it?
Kara: What?
[stammering]
Kara: This could be historic.
Andrea: Oh, I know. We'll hype it as our version of Oprah and the Royals. "Kara Danvers and the heads of state." We'll put it on all the platforms. Our foreign markets will boom.
Kara: Okay, but I-I really think you're not getting this.
Andrea: Oh, but I am. Tomorrow at the Civic Center, we will have a full crew to support your broadcast. Anything you need before then, you let me know.

Ben: For twenty years, Lockwood Steel has been used in some of Luthor Corp's most successful products.
Lena: Well, yeah, that is true, but in case you weren't aware, we are re-branding. And in order for L-Corp to remain successful, it has to stay current. Steel made with Nth metal is the future.
Ben: Shouldn't the past matter, too?
Lena: Look at it this way. This is an opportunity for your father to modernize the plant, and his work force.
Ben: Well, yeah, but those machines cost millions of dollars.
Lena: Your father is a businessman, and a good one. Just because it's the march of progress doesn't mean he has to be left behind.

Lena: What's the matter?
Samantha: I'm just screwing up. I'm... not with work. With Ruby. All she wanted to do was to practice her song with me, and I kept saying "No, later" and "Later, later", and... I mean, look at her. I just feel like the worst mother.
[Lena grins]
Samantha: Why are you smiling?
Lena: Because I actually had the worst mother, objectively speaking. So I find your self-appraisal a little funny.
Samantha: I mean, my kid fell asleep on my couch in my office. It's not great.
Lena: She fell asleep watching her mom work hard. She may not understand the ins and outs, but she knows it's important and you're the only one who can fix it. That is how you raise a girl to be a badass.
Samantha: Yeah. She already is a badass.
Lena: Yeah, 'cause she's loved. And she knows it.

Nia: Hey, Lena, have you seen Kara? I know Zor-El asked her back here, but Andrea's asking about her article and she's not picking up her phone.
Lena: That is because she and Zor-El went to the Fortress of Solitude.
Nia: [a little jealous] That's really great that they get to share that.
Lena: Wait, Nia. How are you doing?
Nia: I'm fine.
Lena: I-I know Kara and her father coming back must be hard.
Nia: Oh.
Lena: After everything we talked about on the way to the Phantom Zone, I know how much you must miss your mother.
Nia: I'm really happy for Kara. Really, I am, i-it's just...
Lena: Reminds you of all the things you missed out on?
Nia: Yeah.

Alex: Have you seen Mercy yet?
Kara: Only on every monitor in the place.
Alex: Where are you now?
Kara: Uh... Lena, where are we?
Lena: Uh, east wing, third floor, corridor B.
Alex: Brainy's gonna find a place for you to change.
Kara: Great.
Querl: There's a broom closet 27 feet to the west. Uh, wait, no. There's a 78% chance that Mercy's mercenaries will approach from that direction.
Kara: Okay. Any other options?
Querl: A proto lab. Unoccupied. Forty feet behind you. Wait.
Kara: What is it? Is Mercy there?
Querl: Uh, yes. Yes. Oh, rather, no. No, uh... there's a 76.8% chance that she'll be using that corridor to reach the server room. Uh... 67%.
Kara: Brainy, which is it?

Lena: Am I interrupting, Mr. Olsen?
James: Always got time for you. Uh, what's in the bag?
Lena: Why don't you take a look?
James: [unzipping it and finding a sharp-looking blazer] Wow. Thank you.
[putting it on]
James: You spoil me.
Lena: Yeah.

Lena: You killed Superman's cousin, took over the country. What makes you think he's gonna sit idly by on Argo and allow this to happen?
Lex: Ah, I was hoping you'd bring up the Man of Yesterday. The first batch of depleted aliens will charge the satellite weapon that will turn Argo into a blazing inferno, and Superman into, well, ash.
Eve: May I speak with you privately?
Lex: Excuse me for a moment. Please enjoy the view of the South Lawn, famous for its egg-rolling contest.

Lillian: Twice in one day. It's almost like we have a real mother-daughter relationship.
Lena: The Medusa virus. That's why you sent your goon here. For Isotope 454. You're in charge of Cadmus.
Lillian: Is this the part where you lecture me, like you'd lecture Lex?
Lena: No. What you said before, there was truth in that. Ask me for your help and I'll give it to you.
Lillian: It's that easy?
Lena: It's that easy.
Lillian: I didn't think you believed in the cause.
Lena: Then it's time to get to know your daughter a little better.

Lena: [watching Sam in her medbay bunk] She's gonna come through this, right? She's gonna be able to fight Reign.
James: No doubt in my mind.

Lena: You know, today was the second time you've saved my life. Beginning to be some kind of a hobby.
James: Right place, right time.
Lena: Yeah, well... I owe you a drink.
James: I wouldn't say "owe", but I'll... I'll take it.

Kara: William Dey is going to be embedded at the Tower, covering all of us for CatCo.
Lena: A reporter? At the Tower? Are you sure that's such a good idea?
Alex: We think that it would be good for the mission. We need the public support. Especially if things continue to spiral with Nxyly.
J'onn: But still, he'll have to work within our parameters. Which means keeping your identity and your connection to us off the record.
Kelly: Well... good luck tomorrow.
Nia: You won't be at the Tower?
Kelly: I have a home check with an alien orphan named Esme. I met her at Joey's group home. And she was placed with a foster family last week. Hopefully, she ends up with a family where she can really blossom.
Alex: [Kara inexplicably starts laughing] Why are you laughing?
[she starts laughing more hysterically]
Alex: Like that?
Kara: It's Nxyly. I can sense her and she's... she's really happy.

Lena: [intercut between court testimony] One disagreement over his obsession and he shut me out. Threw me out of the company and himself into his crusade. He killed people.
James: Luthor kept offering Superman a place in his organization. Of course, Superman knew who he was. And Luthor didn't take the rejection well.
Lena: He used to say we were "burdened with excellence", and it was just me and him against the world. And if I'm honest with myself, I believed him. I was blind enough to think that he wanted a partner...
James: But he wanted a pet Kryptonian.
Lena: ...but he wanted a sycophant.
James: He kidnapped me. And I have sixteen scars from the torture.
Lena: I have submitted our every correspondence into evidence. Enough smoking guns for an army. Plus, when he turned the sun red, I was wearing a wire.

Lena: You lost a radioactive Kelex?
Alex: Oscar. Supergirl and J'onn are out scanning for him right now. We're looking for anything that he might have absorbed that would corrupt his programming and make him disappear.
Zor: [his tablet beeps] The DEO had Daxamite tech?
Alex: Yeah.
Zor: That might explain his new cloaking abilities.
Lena: Well, I have some experience with that. I should be able to de-cloak him by sending out a signal wave blast.
[Brainy yields his chair to her]
Lena: Zor-El, you used Coluan shrinking tech. Smart. I did something similar with a high-pressure energy compactor at L-Corp. It's an attractive idea, but a delicate process. Shrinking energy doesn't get rid of it. It still has to go somewhere.
Zor: That energy is what powers Oscar. He's self-sufficient.
Lena: Unless he's been compromised by one of my brother's unholy experiments.

Lex: Peace at last. It took a bit of persuading, but the prisoners have been pacified and neutralized. They're ready for the next round.
Lena: [smashing a hard drive on the floor] Non Nocere is dead. It doesn't work. It can't. It never could. Pain is a necessary part of being human, of... of life. And I was delusional to think that I could save people, or fix it. Humanity will always try to protect itself, to evolve. You can't stop that. You saw Steve, how helpless he was, all because of me.
Lex: I was rooting for you, Lena. But I have to agree. Humanity can't be fixed. They need to be controlled. Leviathan may be our biggest threat, but they were right about one thing. Humanity needs to firm hand to guide it. To lead it. And not some arrogant alien. It needs to be human.
Lena: You mean a Luthor.
Lex: Think of all that we could accomplish together, if we just take our rightful place as humanity's saviors.
Lena: Saviors? Of course. You never change. This was always all about you, your megalomania. You... knew my plan wouldn't work, that it was doomed. You were counting on it.
Lex: HOW DARE YOU? I GAVE YOU THE WORLD! EVERYTHING! I supported you. I sabotaged *nothing*, touched *nothing*. I set aside my own goals for you. Because you needed to see your little project fail with your own eyes. To know the true depravity of humanity. To know that my way was the *ONLY WAY*!
Lena: You're a monster. But that doesn't mean I have to be one, too.

Supergirl: I've been looking for you.
Lena: Here I am.
Supergirl: So, uh, there's something I... I have to tell you. I know you think Lex is a good man, that he's your partner...
Lena: Save it. I already know.
Supergirl: What exactly do you know?
Lena: Crisis, what Lex did. What you did.
Supergirl: Lex.
Lena: That you took the punch. What did you think would happen when you came here? That you'd tell me everything in a fit of selflessness, even if it meant that I knew how you betrayed me, and then I'd just keel over and forgive you?
Supergirl: Lena, I hurt you. I... I know I hurt you. And I'm never, ever going to do it again. I know how much good you want to do in the world. Just think of what we could do together to help people.
Lena: Funny. Lex gave me the same pitch.
Supergirl: He asked you to help him? You're not seriously considering, are you?
[seeing her look]
Supergirl: Please, just be careful.

Lena: To saving the world.
James: Hear, hear.
[his phone rings]
James: Mm. Excuse me.
[answering the call]
James: Yeah. Oh, I have a comment. I'm the Guardian.

[first lines]
Lena: It's a biolistic delivery system. It's usually used for overwriting genes in crops, but... Reign's cells are closer to plant cells than you'd think.
Supergirl: Part of how Kryptonians process sunlight. How does it work?
Lena: You take particles of heavy metal, coat them in DNA, deliver the payload, and then overwrite Reign's DNA with Sam's.
[a needle injects something into Reign]
Lena: Plasmid inserted.
[the test fails]
Lena: I thought this would work. I just need the right vectors with the right metal. I just need more time.
Reign: Yes. Give Lena more time. She doesn't have much left. Because when I'm free, I'm gonna rip out her spine. And when that's done, I'm gonna crack this planet in half, and you'll hear every scream...

Supergirl: You sure you want to be out in the open to do this?
Lena: I've gotta get out of my head, and I can't do that in a lab.
Supergirl: Okay. We'll keep people from getting hurt when your spell hits them.

Lena: [seeing Edge on the news] What is that scumbag doing in my hospital?
Morgan: It was a nightmare. We would have given anything for it to end, am I right? Then the Daxamites, the ships just up and left. Do you know why they left? It was a lead dispersal bomb that drove them away. I have a colleague whose son was sick, brought him here. There were other children in this hospital with the same symptoms. The doctors told me there were other children in still other hospitals all displaying the same symptoms: lead poisoning. You know, it's fitting that we're here in this hospital. Lena Luthor built the bomb that poisoned these boys and girls.

Alex: Where did you grow up, Nia?
Nia: A small town up north called Parthas.
Lena: Doesn't that mean "paradise" in Irish? It's a pretty high bar.
Nia: Paradise is an understatement. The town's not just beautiful, but aliens and humans have lived together in harmony for decades.

Eve: Please, if they even think that I told you, they will kill me, and they will kill you, too.
Lena: Why should I believe anything you say?
Eve: Because it's true! They recruited me when I was 16. The same year my parents died. I was already in college, I had so much debt. They said they could fix everything. All I had to do was work for them.
Lena: And betray me.
Eve: No! I hated doing it. It hurt me every time.
Lena: Eve, I asked you a question. My mother always said actions speak louder than words. And I was there, Eve. I was on the other side of that gun you pulled, and I looked down the barrel, and I knew that you would've shot me. So don't tell me that you didn't have a choice. There is always a choice, and you always chose the same thing. You betrayed me because you wanted to. You liked the power that it gave you, so if you want me to trust you, try telling the truth for once.

Supergirl: Weeks with Reign. Do you have any way of tracking the Worldkillers?
Lena: No.
Supergirl: Anyone else?
Mon: They've gone to ground. They're not coming up again until they have something big to do.
Imra: The future's fate is more precarious than ever.
Brainiac: Would you like to know our odds of defeating Pestilence at this juncture?
Mon: No.
Imra: No.
Supergirl: How did you keep her contained?
Lena: Lex kept a vault in the lab. When I took over L-Corp, I inherited all of its assets, for good or for ill. I used kryptonite.

Lex: I just realized, you haven't asked me why I need the black rock.
Lena: I assumed homicide.
Lex: Just the opposite. I'm dying.

Lex: Perhaps there's something I can do?
Lena: I don't need anyone murdered, Lex.
Lex: I have other skill sets.

Lena: We're so close. At this point, it's 99% non-lethal. It doesn't matter now. James is in surgery.
Lex: So why are you still here?
Lena: I can't help James now.

Kara: What are you doing back here?
Lena: Okay, you caught me. It was supposed to be a surprise, but I'm the one who's gonna introduce you. I couldn't miss an opportunity to tell the world how wonderful you are.
Kara: Oh, no, no, no... I... Lena, I can't let you do this. I don't deserve it.
Lena: Are you kidding me? Me more than anyone knows how much you deserve it. I saw how you risked your life to expose Lex's crimes.
Kara: [blurting it out] I'm Supergirl.
[taking off her glasses]
Kara: [her emotions overwhelming her as she talks] I've always been Supergirl. I should've told you so long ago, I know that. But I just kept making excuses because you've been hurt so many times, and... I convinced myself that I was protecting you. And then one day, you were so angry with me, with-with Supergirl. But you still loved Kara. And I just kept thinking... if I could be Kara, just Kara... that I could keep you as a friend. I was selfish and scared, and I didn't wanna lose you, so I kept pretending, and I never stopped. Every time I kept my secret from you, I wasn't... protecting you, I was hurting you, just like everyone else, and I am so, so sorry. I am so sorry. Please say something.
Attendant: Ms. Luthor, you're on in two minutes.
Kara: Lena...
[tears roll down her cheeks as Lena leaves without a word]

Supergirl: You did it! You saved Sam.
Lena: Yeah, and I did it without kryptonite.
Supergirl: [catching Lena as she's hit in the back by a heat vision beam] No!
Reign: Fool! I am a Worldkiller. And I cannot be stopped!

Kara: Knock knock.
Lena: Kara! Oh, my god. I am so glad to see you. Wait, wait, wait, wait. Is that Big Belly Burger? Have I ever told you you're my favorite person?
Kara: James said you've been working through lunches and dinners.
Lena: I have. Sales for the image inducers have been skyrocketing ever since the revelation that the president is an alien.
Kara: Yeah, how do you feel about that? It's kind of like the whole world changed overnight.
Lena: To be honest, I didn't have very much faith in politicians to begin with. I don't think any of them can be trusted.

Alex: Well, she's alive. It's only a matter of time before she's conscious.
J'onn: She's strong.
Querl: Emotionally, maybe. But her pulse is erratic. She's sick.
Lena: The suit is still filtering the Kryptonite out of her system.
Alex: Well, then we do what we can while we wait. Starting with the atmosphere. Lena, I want you and Brainy to work on getting the air clean. It's the only way we're gonna get her out of that thing.
Lena: Will do.
Querl: [to Kara] If you're in your mind palace, tell Streaky I said "Hi".

Lena: If you do this, it's genocide. The public will find out the truth, and when they do...
Lex: The truth is meaningless. The people of Earth believe I am their savior. They needed a human hero, and I fulfill that need. Nothing will ever change their minds. Facts are irrelevant. All that matters is spin. People are so stupid, they don't even read. And even when they do, they certainly don't think. I am the leader of this nation now, and nothing can stop me.

Lena: [seeing the Fortress] Wow. This is... breathtaking.
Supergirl: It's our Krypton on Earth.

Lena's: Excuse me, Ms. Luthor, this came for you.
Lena: Thank you.
Alex: What is it?
Lena: It's an invitation to the White House. From Lex.
Kara: Lena, you can't possibly be thinking of going.
Lena: If I don't go, Lex'll come after the people I care about, and I can't have that happen. Besides, if I see Lex, I'll be able to get some stellar quotes for my best friend's article. Speaking of which, Kara, you better start typing.

Lena: I booked you to go on "Counterpoint Daily" today. I think you should go on TV and disavow the Children of Liberty. I know you moved away from that idea, but things have escalated, okay? Their manifesto was filled with hate speech.
James: Yeah, I-I just wish that you would have checked with me first. I-I can't do that today.
Lena: Well, why not?
James: Well, after the mayor's event, I reached out to Ben Lockwood. And it-it took some time, but I got connected with some actual Children of Liberty. I-I'm meeting with them today.
Lena: You're meeting with a domestic terror group?
James: To learn who they are. And eventually get an interview with Agent Liberty himself. I mean, you said it yourself; these people admire me. Maybe I can use that to change minds.
Lena: I said that before they dropped their hateful agenda on the world.
James: All the more reason to go now, isn't it?
Lena: Well, it's all the more reason to think they might resort to violence, especially if they've got their human posterboy in their midst.
James: Human posterboy? You don't think I can do this, do you?

Lena: [Alex sits with Sam] Any changes?
Alex: No. Her vitals are weak, but they're steady.
Lena: We just have to hope she's strong enough to make it to the Fountain.
Alex: I know she will be. She's warrior for Ruby.

J'onn: Humanity, Hope, and Courage.
Lena: We now have three of the seven totems in our possession, and Nxyly has none.
Supergirl: We keep doing the same thing over and over again. Going from totem to totem, trying to beat Nxyly at her own game. Maybe that's a mistake. Today, we were able to keep the totems safe from Nxyly, but we might not be so lucky next time. And she's never gonna give up. As long as we hold on to these totems, we run the risk of her eventually being able to assemble the AllStone.
Brainiac: Certainly it's a risk, but what alternative do we have?
J'onn: Destroy the totems, just like we did the nukes.
Lena: The totems possess an ancient, deeply ingrained magic that we don't really understand. But what we do know is that each totem is related to an element. It's Courage, Hope, Humanity. If we destroy the totems, that could affect the elements in the real world.
Brainiac: That may be true, but we don't have to destroy all three totems. So long as we destroy one, the AllStone will never be complete. But how do we decide which to risk, courage, humanity, or hope?
Lena: We've seen what happens when humanity's compromised. That is not an option.
J'onn: And watching those diplomats today, with their courage stripped away. I don't want to see what that looks like on a global scale.
Supergirl: It has to be hope. We proved that... even when the world has lost all hope, we can be the example to bring it back. Even if there are consequences to destroying the Hope totem, we can do it again.

Lena: Listen, I am less concerned with CatCo's response to this than who's doing this and why. The first appearance of this symbol, the crop circle, was on L-Corp property.
James: So you think this is personal?
Lena: I think it's Morgan Edge. That man has a vendetta against me, and believe me, he will go to any lengths. Plus, he's the only man who has the tech and the resources to pull something like this off. It's gotta be Edge.
James: Oh, I think it's time we pay that Don Johnson wannabe a visit.
Lena: No, I was gonna go on my own.
James: Not a chance.

Kara: You're back. Oh, how was Metropolis?
Lena: Oh, well, I am very happy to report that Sam is doing amazing at L-Corp Northeast. She has made two acquisitions that are already turning a profit. She's coaching Ruby's soccer team.
Kara: Oh.
Lena: Apparently, they're playing a 4-3-3 with the Gegenpress, and Ruby's playing as sweeper keeper.
Kara: I have no idea what that means.
Lena: I think it means they're living happily ever after.

J'onn: M'gann, you should be resting.
M'gann: I had a vision of Prime Phantom's lair. I think I'm still connected to the hive mind of Prime and his progeny.
Dreamer: How is that even possible?
Brainiac: When J'onn transfused his piece of M'gann's soul back into her, it was just that, a piece, and not the original soul in its entirety. I estimate M'gann is still about 18% Phantom.
J'onn: I hate that you're still linked in any way to his kind.
M'gann: But don't you see? It's good news. Phantoms have the power to sense a person's life force. That means that I have that power, too. I can use it to hone in on a specific life force anywhere, even in the Phantom Zone. I can find Supergirl.
Alex: Are you serious?
Lena: We're gonna bring Kara home.
Brainiac: It also means that M'gann can use her power to sense the life forces held captive in the Prime Phantom's lair. There's a 99.999% probability that once we find and release them, they'll immediately return to their rightful owner, thus restoring the progeny.

Lena: You bastard.
[picking up one of Lex's journals]
Lena: "Father lost his temper again. Lena stole his prized fountain pen for me. The one presented to him by the King of Jordan. Lena craves my attention. Pathetic. If she knew how brilliant she was, she wouldn't need it."
Young: [flashback] What if he finds us?
Young: Don't worry, he can't climb when he's drunk. When I grow up, I'm gonna have all the money in the world. And I'm gonna build a house and I'm gonna keep us safe forever. I'll build it right there.
Lena: [return to the present; looking at Lex's engraving] Those aren't the Alps. What are you playing at, brother?
[standing on a chair for a closer look, she finds a hidden button; she presses it, and a secret corridor opens]

Alex: Okay, we need to contain them before they get to J'onn and M'gann.
Brainiac: The kinetic inhibitor isn't ready. We can't get close enough to restrain them. It's too risky
Lena: My portal watch, I can re-route the exit coordinates to transport the Phantoms to a sub-containment unit from a safe distance. I just need something to draw them all to the same point.
Alex: Or someone.

Lena: I have made a terrible mistake. I was hurt. I was so hurt. And... I thought I could get rid of the hurt. I thought that I knew better, that I could make the world a better place. But I was wrong. That hurt, um, took me down a dark, dark path, where I was blind to what I was really doing, to what I'd become. You were right. This whole time I became a villain, and then... I'm not looking for forgiveness. I'm... I know what I said and I know what I did, but I am... I am really hoping that you will believe me right now. Okay? Lex is working with Leviathan, and they are going to use Obsidian to do something terrible... using the system that I made with my project. I didn't know I was helping them, but I did. And... now I want to help stop them, so... please, okay? I want to help stop Lex and Leviathan.
Kara: [pulling out a chair] Sit down.

James: Patricia Arias is dead. And Reign killed her. And she absorbed Purity and Pestilence's powers, so she's now more dangerous than ever. Lena, you are going to have to tell Supergirl that you know how to make Kryptonite.
Lena: Oh, no, no. James, you know I can't do that.
James: Lena, you have to. Okay, Reign is out there killing innocent people, and you are the only one with the means to stop her.
Lena: You know what happened when I told Supergirl I had Kryptonite. Years of goodwill vanished in an instant. I became the enemy.
James: That's not true.
Lena: You're not being realistic, James, okay? We both know that Supergirl sees Kryptonite as a personal assault. She sees it as a hostile attack on her very nature, and she will do everything in her power to stop me from making it, even if I'm using it for good. I just, I can't... I just can't allow that to happen.
James: You're right. Supergirl has seen Kryptonite in a certain way, but that's only because your brother tried to use it to kill Superman. But this is different. The world's biggest enemy happens to have the same weakness as Supergirl. So if you come to her as an ally with this, to try to help her catch Reign, believe me, she will be grateful.

Samantha: She said she was gonna kill Ruby.
Lena: No, no, she can't kill her. Ruby's safe.
Samantha: Did you find the trigger?
Lena: No.
Samantha: Then Ruby is not safe. We need to stop Reign.
Lena: That is what we are doing, Sam.

James: I have my shield on me. I can help you find Mercy and Otis.
Lena: No. If you go out as Guardian, you'll be arrested.
Alex: She's right. We already have enough boots on the ground.

Supergirl: Where is everyone?
Lena: Oh, uh, downstairs. Alex is using Brainy to help Esme get used to her powers.
Supergirl: Oh. I see you have your mother's grimoire out. Does that mean you're getting more comfortable with it?
Lena: I just pretend it's Newton's "Principia", and that makes it slightly easier to open. There's still no luck in finding Nxyly or that ship, so I thought maybe, in the meantime, I could try and find a charm that could help secure the Humanity totem against any magic that Nxyly still may have access to, just in case she comes to find it here.

Supergirl: Lena, you didn't kill Lex. I... that was me. I... I watched him... I saw him fall.
Lena: You saw him fall, but did you see him land? Did you see him die? I did, and let me tell you, it wasn't pretty.
Supergirl: That's impossible.
Lena: Anything's possible when you're a Luthor. Lex used his transmatter portal watch. I knew exactly where he'd go. The cabin we loved when we were children, so I was there waiting for him. I had the gun ready, loaded. I could feel the weight of it in my hands. Every fiber in my being rebelled, but I... I didn't want to do it, but I knew I had to because if Lex lived, the world wouldn't be safe, my friends wouldn't be safe. So I forced myself to pull the trigger. I shot my own brother in the chest. His final words to me were that I was a fool, that my best friend, that every friend I had was lying to me. With his dying breath, he told me that you were Supergirl.

Brainiac: [Lena tries to create a protective spell for the humanity totem] The charm is very short-term. Am I correct in assuming that wasn't your intention?
Supergirl: [flying in] I tried the articles. I couldn't get the totem. I saved cats from trees and people from crime. I flew over Kaznia and Corto Maltese, telling the people I wouldn't let them down. Couldn't get the totem. I have no idea if trying and failing is making things worse for Secretary Brown. The situation at the Hague is devolving. We need to find Nxyly, or come up with some way to save William without giving her either totem. Please tell me you two have some good news.
Brainiac: I'm sorry, Kara. I wish I did, but... I haven't been able to locate Nxyly, William, or Naxim's ship anywhere.
Lena: And my protective charm is more of a practice zap at the moment. It's not gonna be enough to protect either the Humanity of the Hope totem from Nxyly.

James: Lena Luthor calling me. What's up?
Lena: I really needed to hear your voice.
James: Everything okay?
Lena: I owe you an apology.
James: What for?
Lena: For ghosting you. For keeping secrets. But it's time to be honest.
James: About?

Otis: Don't worry, Mr. L. I got it all under control.
Supergirl: [watching the surveillance feed] Oh, no. Otis.
Otis: Yes, I am in your cell. And it looks great. Stand in the middle? Yeah, sure.
Supergirl: We've got to get out of here.
Lena: We can't leave all this stuff. We need it to find Lex.
Supergirl: [punching an escape in the wall] There's no time.
Otis: And by "This is what you get", you mean what?
[his kryptonite suit explodes; Supergirl escapes with Lena just in time]

Samantha: Before we started this, Alex was trying to figure out what was wrong with me. Or maybe Supergirl. You can call Supergirl. You can...
Lena: Sam.
Samantha: You can find her, right?
Lena: Sam. Sam, okay? Reign is the most wanted criminal in the world. If I go to Supergirl or the government before I can prove I can turn her off, they will treat you like you are the same, all right? They will lock you up, they will dissect you...
Samantha: It wouldn't be any worse than this, Lena. We need to get help.
Lena: Shh. Okay. I swear I am the only one who knows how to do this. I promise you, I will do it. I'm not gonna let her hurt Ruby. Ever.

Alex: Can I ask you something?
Lena: You want to know why I didn't come to you when I found out what Sam really was.
Alex: I'm the one who did the first tests on her. And I'm the one that told her to come to her friends about her illness. So why not just tell me the truth?
Lena: Same reason you didn't tell me you were really DEO.
Alex: You knew.
Lena: My mother's DEO enemy number one. Of course I knew. But it was your secret to keep. Just like Sam's true nature is hers. It wasn't my place to say anything.
Alex: Fair enough. Just tell me one thing. Is Ruby safe?
Lena: Yes.

Lena: James, I really wish you'd call first.
James: Yeah, I tried that for a week. I just, uh... figured maybe I had better luck in person.
Lena: Listen, I'm sorry, I'm in the middle of an emergency.
James: Oh. I'm sorry. Is everything okay, or...?
Lena: An employee of mine asked for help with a problem. And now that I've diagnosed a solution, they don't want to accept it.
James: Sounds like they need an intervention.
Lena: Tried that. It's not going well.
James: You know, I had a roommate in college. Great guy, but he-he started taking something, I'm not sure what it was, but he would come home all hours of the night and just... just tear the place apart. You know, I-I-I tried to tell him that... that he had a problem, but-but he never wanted to hear it. So I just kept cleaning up after him.
Lena: Did he ever acknowledge what was wrong with him?
James: See, that's the thing. No matter how bad you wanna help somebody, all you can really do is hold up a mirror.

James: You know how old I was the first time cops put cuffs on me? Seven. I was seven years old. My family and I were taking a vacation. And we were staying at this nice hotel, and, uh, my cousins and I, we decided to go out on the grounds and play hide and go seek. One minute, I'm-I'm trying my damndest not to be found, and in the next, I'm shielding my eyes from police lights. And these four huge cops, they came and they pulled us out of our hiding places. And-and the whole time we're saying "Wait, what are you doing? We're-we're-we're... we're staying here." But none of them believed that we were supposed to be there. None of them believed that we belonged. So my oldest cousin must have been about eleven, and I was... I was the smallest. But they slapped cuffs on all of us anyway, and my arms were so little they had to put 'em around my forearms. And then they marched us into the hotel lobby like a bunch of criminals. And my mom was there. And then they believed us. She kept yelling "Get those cuffs off my boys."
[choking up]
James: "Those cuffs."
Lena: James, that's horrible.
James: Yeah. Racism is the oldest form of bullying.
Lena: I'm so sorry that happened to you.
James: But when I became Guardian, I put that mask on... it-it was strangely liberating. But it was the first time in my life that I had the opportunity to be judged on my actions and my heart, not how I look.
Lena: You shouldn't have to wear a mask to be seen as how you really are, James. Just... it shouldn't be that way.
James: But it is. And it's like that for every seven year old boy who looks like me, but it's not gonna be like that if I have something to do with it.
Lena: You will effect change. You already are. Are you sure you wanna come out in the open?
James: I don't think anybody likes to be backed into a corner, especially not me. And I don't know how people are gonna react when they realize that their neighborhood vigilante is black. But there's just too much at stake for me not to.

Lena: I may be able to reinforce the anti-Luthor protocol. It won't kill Lex now that he's immortal, but it might slow him down...
Supergirl: Lena.
Lena: Kara, he's gonna try and kill you. All right? I won't let you turn this into a suicide mission. I can't.
Supergirl: We've got no other choice. It's okay. I've come to terms with it. As long as you guys stop the satellites and help everyone with Myriad... it'll be worth it.
Lena: When Lex comes, you're gonna wanna take the higher path, but you know him. He plays dirty. Mean.
Supergirl: Mm-hmm.
Lena: Maximizing the pain wherever he can.
Supergirl: Well, I was stuck in the Phantom Zone replaying the destruction of my planet for nearly a decade. Bring it on.

Lena: Nice work back there.
Supergirl: Yeah, you weren't so bad yourself.
Lena: Yeah, we couldn't save Sam.
Supergirl: But we saved Julia. And if Julia can overcome the demons inside of her, then Sam has a chance, too.
Lena: I hope you're right.

Lena: Uh, if you have a parking ticket, I can have it validated for you.
Kara: No, no, no, that's fine. I flew here.
[hasty: ]
Kara: On... on a bus.

Kara: Well, thank god for Eve's paper fetish.
Lena: [Kara hands her a tape recorder] Thanks.
Kara: [picking up a file] The DEO prisoner transfers.
[turning to the last page]
Kara: Signed and authorized by Sarah Walker.
Lena: The president's Chief of Staff?
Kara: She is the mole in the government. She's working with Lex.
Lena: [seeing Eve run by] Eve. I'll get her, you get the evidence.

Lena: Can you believe what's been going on out here?
Kara: Yes, I, uh, have been keeping up with it. I am a reporter at a national news organization.
Lena: Yeah, I... I know. You work for me. That fever is really going to your head.
Kara: You have no idea how much I am not feeling like myself.

James: He's gone. And security knows better than to let him in again.
Lena: He's not gonna come back and try again in person. This was an uncharacteristic outburst. I've never seen him so angry. He's gonna come back at me twice as hard. This is never gonna stop.
Kara: But you're not the one who's trying to kill him.
James: No. He's tried to kill Lena plenty of times and she's never retaliated.
Kara: So someone out there is trying to kill him.
James: He's got no shortage of enemies, but like you said, this is uncharacteristic for him. Edge is too good at covering his tracks to have somebody build a case against him.
Kara: Yeah, I mean, we don't even have enough for a damning story.

Nia: And that's when their bodies started to reform like out of a horror movie.
Alex: Yeah, but that means...
Kelly: They're indestructible.
M'gann: Immortal.
Supergirl: This isn't about defeating them anymore. They want us to fight until we drop. So they can distract us from whatever Lex is planning.
Lena: Do we even know what that is?
Supergirl: I'm gonna go find out.

Lena: Checkmate.
Lillian: You just love saying that to me, don't you?
Lena: I've let go of my anger, too, mother. I can't waste my energy on it.
Lillian: Right. You need all your energy to focus on saving the world. Although, all I've seen are the commercials for your image inducer. Making a mint hiding aliens in plain sight.
Lena: It's not political mother, it's just business. It helps fund my other research; the important kind.
Lillian: Ever the pragmatist.

Lena: [healing Kara from kryptonite poisoning] Oh, you're awake. Thank god. How are you feeling?
Supergirl: I'm fine. I'm fine. Are you okay?
Lena: I'm not the one who just got blasted by her greatest weakness.
Supergirl: Lena, we just faced off with Lex. I saw your decoy totem catch fire. What happened?
Lena: I thought I was done with all that venom he brought into my life, but... when he turned up yesterday unexpected and unannounced... all that rage, it came... came back all over me. Magic is so tied to emotions, and... if I feel out of control or-or angry, then my magic reflects that.
Supergirl: Your rage started the fire?
Lena: It's what happened to my mother. She lost control and people got hurt.
Supergirl: I'm so sorry.
Lena: Just while Lex is in play and getting in my head, I-I think it's safer if I don't do magic. You know, God knows who I could hurt.
Supergirl: Yeah, I understand. And-And you bring so much more to the team than magic. I mean, look how you just healed me.
Lena: Well, that was science.

Lex: Careful. I bruise easily. I'm not immortal anymore, remember?
J'onn: Brainy, what's taking so long with that projector?
Brainiac: The data's been wiped. I don't know if it's recoverable, and the projector itself...
Lena: No, we don't need it. I'll just open a transmat portal like I did during Crisis.
Brainiac: No, no, no. Even if that were to work, without the coordinates of where he sent her, she could be anywhere in the Phantom Zone.

Lena: A Lex who cares about the emotional state of others. This really is a whole new world.

Samantha: [on the phone with Ruby] I don't want you to worry about me, okay? I just have to stay in the hospital for a little while. I miss you, too. Yeah, the doctors are saying it's contagious, so I don't want you getting sick. Lena is gonna check up on you, and I will be home as soon as I'm better. I love you so, so much, baby.
[she hangs up]
Lena: Don't worry about Ruby. I'll take her to...
Samantha: Don't tell me where she is. You keep her away from me until I'm cured.

Samantha: So, Kara is Supergirl?
Lena: Yeah, I know. My head's kind of spinning. When you were Reign, and I made kryptonite to stop you... y-you know, in response well, Supergirl was so horrible. And then Kara was the same. She was so kind and supportive. But it made me think, which was the real Kara? And if the real Kara thought I was a villain... then maybe that's all I really am.
Kara: [watching with Mxy] No, Lena, no. How could you ever think that?
Samantha: Lena, you made kryptonite to split me from Reign and to save my life. You were never the villain. You were always the hero.
Lena: Thank you. I really needed to hear that.

Lena: It's Eve's location.
Kara: I'm going.
Lena: No, Kara, your suit isn't ready yet.
Kara: I don't care. Protecting people is what I do. You should know that by now.
Lena: Then I'm going with you.

Lena: James, I was thinking, when Kara gets in, maybe we should all have a little... a little talk about what happened.
James: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
Lena: Yeah?
James: Yes, we should. Yeah.
Lena: It's just that, you know, we all work together, and we're Kara's two best friends, and you guys used to date, so she should know that we kissed.
James: Definitely.
Lena: I come from a family that lies, and we all know that turns out, so...

Kara: Okay, I mean, I love him, I do. I... I love him, but... Come on! JT has got to be the only one holding up the reunion right now!
Lena: Oh, obviously! But, here, lemme ask you this, right? Would you rather have an NSync reunion... or JT and Britney back together?
Kara: Oh! My OTP!
[both chuckle]
Kara: That's an impossible question to answer, and you're cruel for asking!
Lena: Yeah. Yeah, well, you know, sometimes my Luthor genes just shine through.

Lena: [watching Edge's press conference] Sociopathic cockroach.
James: He'll get what he deserves. Guys like him always do.

Lena: No more superpowers for you.
Lex: Lena. What a surprise.
Lena: What can I say, Lex? You've become predictable.

Morgan: You know these charges are never gonna stick, right? You better run. 'Cause when I get back, I'm gonna crush you.
Lena: Well, you know where to find me. My name's on the building.

Lena: Will you truly be on your best behavior? No homicides?
Lex: No unnecessary homicides.

Lena: Kara, brace yourself. We're gonna make an emergency landing.
Kara: [getting into superhero mode] Yeah. That's gonna be a huge "nope" for me.

Lena: Start recording. This is day three with the subject. My preliminary findings show a karyokinetic anomaly, confirming my initial hypothesis that she has been transforming. Mutating into the other. Subject remains in a medically-induced coma, however, further testing will require consciousness. So I will now end sedation on the subject. Stop recording.
[to the unconscious Samantha]
Lena: When you wake up, please be Sam.

Supergirl: When you found out, why didn't you come... to me right away, so I could explain...
Lena: Explain? Yeah?
Supergirl: If you hate me so much, why... why not out me at the Pulitzer party? Why pretend to still be my friend this long?
Lena: 'Cause I wanted you to experience what you did to me. Feel what I felt.
Supergirl: I understand your pain and your fury, and... and you're right. I made a big mistake, maybe the biggest mistake of my life, but please... Lena, please don't leave the Fortress with Myriad.

Lena: You know, you're terrible at hiding things from me.
Kara: [chuckles] I wouldn't be so sure of that.

Lena: You know, I thought you were different. You wear that symbol on your chest and everyone thinks you're good. How many times did your cousin put on that high-and-mighty costume and come after Lex? My mother is no saint, but you come in here and accuse her of being the Devil incarnate? How long before you come after me?
Supergirl: I know what it's like to be disillusioned by our parents. But I'm a pretty good judge of character. And you are not like your mother. She is cold and dangerous. And you are too good and too smart to follow in her path. Be your own hero.
Lena: [turns away] You can leave the same way you came in.
[ignores Kara]

Alex: It's not just Rama Khan out there. There's three of them. Each with a different element-bending power.
Lena: Where are the others?
Alex: J'onn was injured. M'gann and Dreamer took him back to the Tower.
Kara: I should have been there, fighting alongside you. I'm sorry.
Alex: Kara, it's okay. We all still have our ears.

James: What's that?
Lena: Game night training.
[he laughs]
Lena: What? Okay, listen, some couples need to work on their communication skills, and others need to work on their competitive trivia skills. You and I are deeply connected, Mr. Olsen. We just need our game night performance to reflect that.
James: And you hate to lose.
Lena: And I hate to lose.

Morgan: Well, well, well. I thought Vironique's had a hard "no liberals" policy.
James: But apparently, they're fine with murderers.
Morgan: You know, Mr. Olsen, for a newspaper man, I'd like to think you'd be a little bit more considerate with your words. My lawyers can bury you alive for defamation of character.
Lena: I don't know.
[smirks]
Lena: Don't you have to have a character to defame?
Morgan: Ooh.
[grins]
Morgan: And the pot calls the kettle black.

Lex: You should have known the moment you decided to steal from a Kryptonian that Non Nocere was doomed. Kara Danvers will never see things your way. She'll always work against you.
Lena: Oh, right, so you'll be my friend now?
Lex: The world is ours now, Lena. You don't need a robot, and you don't need friends. You need a partner. Imagine what we could accomplish together. Why not give it a go?
Lena: You think this is your world now? You were a puppet on a string for Leviathan before. What makes this time any different?
Lex: What the hell is Leviathan?

Lena: This is incredible. Whatever the totem is, it's radiating concentrated fifth-dimensional energy. I mean, that can't be good.
Supergirl: Well, maybe Vita can tell us more.
Brainiac: [bringing over a metal contraption containing Vita's crystal] All right. How does this work, exactly?
Nia: [as he touches the crystal, purple beams zap his eyes] Brainy?
Brainiac: [in a different tone of voice] Hush, child. The Coluan... is fine.
Supergirl: Vita, did you possess Brainy?
Brainiac: Hmm. It's quite refreshing to be embodied. Don't fret. I-I'll put him back the way I found him.
[touching the circular lights on Brainy's suit]
Brainiac: What are these? His nipples?
Nia: We need to get that witch out of him now.
Lena: Yeah, I'm on it.

Lena: Do you ever sleep?
James: Yeah, well, Supergirl just woke up from a coma just in time to save a bunch of convicts who were about to be wrongfully executed by a murderous alien. So, would you rather I be sleeping or working?
Lena: Working.

Lena: Andrea, hi. I'm a little busy right now.
Andrea: Do you think I'm a callous, narcissistic monster?
Lena: Does this have anything to do with CatCo publishing my brother's journals?
Andrea: You're one of my oldest friends. Tell me the truth. Did I cross an ethical line?
Lena: Stealing my brother's journals and publishing them under William's byline isn't your finest hour.
Andrea: So I am a monster.
Lena: No, I didn't say that. Look, I am all for taking my brother down, but you have to be careful that you don't fall back into bad behaviors. We know you can act with a certain... single-mindedness, but you can't betray someone like William just to promote yourself.
Andrea: That's not why I did it.
Lena: Then why did you do it? When we feel like our back is against the wall, we can go into survival mode and damn the consequences. But only you can be the judge of whether that's who you wanna be. And if it's not, then... change it.

Lena: Out of over a hundred applicants, all but twelve were acceptably risk-tolerant.
Adam: Okay. But why did you pick me?
Lena: I have my reasons.
Adam: Oh, come on. Dr. K, I have never been picked for anything. So you have to tell me.
Lena: Nagel's spider in the shower conundrum.
Adam: The spider thing? That was a multiple choice question.
Lena: There's a spider in a shower, and it's been there for days, trapped. And every time you turn the water on, it tries to run for its life to escape, but it can't get out. So what do you do? Do you move it to safety, do you kill it?
Adam: Nothing. You don't know what the spider wants. You leave it the hell alone.
Lena: Yeah.
Adam: Was I the only one who picked C?
Lena: Other than me.

James: I'm Guardian.
Lena: Why are you telling me this?
James: Because I did something I'm not proud of. I broke into your lab. To determine if you had more Kryptonite.
Lena: Why would you do that?
James: I had to. For Supergirl; she asked me to.
Lena: She did?
James: She did, but I am the one who said yes. So this is on me. But when I got in, I couldn't go into your vault. I mean, I-I could. I didn't want to. I didn't need to. I trust you. And I really hope that you can trust me.
Lena: Yes.
[she holds him for comfort]
Lena: There's something else you need to know.
James: Hit me.
Lena: That wasn't Lex's Kryptonite. I figured out how to make it.

Lena: It took some work, but it's finished. With this, we will be able to find Kara in the Phantom Zone. We'll finally be able to bring her home.
Alex: Not today. Look, in less than an hour, the Crysalis will harden over, trapping all of those souls inside of it forever. Plus, more people are getting infected by Phantoms every minute. It's spreading like a plague. Now, I know how hard you worked on making a device that can track Kara. But now we need to recalibrate it so that we can find the Crysalis instead.
Lena: But if we recalibrate it, we'll overwrite Kara's DNA. We'll lose our only chance to save her.
Alex: We'll find another way. There's always another way. She taught us that.

Lena: I just have to sign some papers, and then we can get back to work.
Kara: Yeah, no problem. But my boss really doesn't like when I'm late, so...

Hope: She's gone. I've reactivated heightened penthouse security. You were right as always, Ms. Luthor. Leviathan will attempt to retrieve the medallion at all costs. But why would you provoke them over something of no value?
Lena: It has value to me. The medallion was special to my mother, and the fact that Leviathan wants it makes it useful. Lex theorized that Superman kept every weapon that was ever used against him in a special facility. A fortress. And although he never found it, I think Lex was right. I think the perfect dispersal device for Project Non Necere is hidden there, gathering dust. And Leviathan is gonna help me find it.
Hope: Please don't underestimate the danger of Leviathan. You should cancel the L-Corp event at the park. They will come after you.
Lena: Let them come. Supergirl will save me.

Lena: When I came to this city, I promised myself that I would never trust anyone again, and... then I met you. And you chipped away at my armor with your warmth and your earnestness, and you convinced me to trust in people and friendship again, and against my better judgment, I did, all the while telling you about my Achilles heel, betrayal. I confided in you that everyone in my past had betrayed me. About how much it hurt to have someone you love lie to you and betray you. I spelled it out to you over and over again, essentially begging you not to violate my trust, begging you not to prove that, once again, that I was a fool. You reassured me ad nauseum that you would never lie to me, that you'd never hurt me. And all the while, there wasn't a single honest moment in our friendship.

Lena: Where the hell do you get off?
Morgan: [he gives her the "one minute" gesture, then hands some paperwork to an orderly] Thank you.
[turning to Lena]
Morgan: That was me, paying the end of the medical expenses at your hospital.
Lena: So this is what your revenge looks like.
Morgan: Have you ever heard of the cobra effect, Lena? Colonial India, the British government, they realized there were snakes all over Delhi. They wanted them gone. So they offered a bounty for dead snakes. And then they realized people were breeding snakes for income; they thought everything was going really well. They realized they got slithering snakes all over Delhi. The whole thing backfired. Turns out they made the problem worse. You understand?
Lena: You're a toxic predator.
Morgan: Unintended consequences. You wanted to be a hero so bad, you didn't care who you hurt. Now people are gonna die.
Kara: Even if all of this were true, Supergirl would be just as much to blame. She made the call to use that device.
Morgan: Supergirl may have pushed the button, sure. But that tech was all Luthor.
Lena: You're a bottom feeder.
Morgan: But I didn't poison children. That was you.

Lena: I tried to kill Edge.
Kara: What? When?
Lena: After he poisoned the children and tried to frame me. I went to his office with a loaded gun and the intent to kill. Only reason he's still alive is he outsmarted me.

Lena: I use a Q-wave broadcast to remotely access patients' brain activity. It's being interrupted by an overlapping signal.
Lex: How could someone suppress Q-waves?
Lena: I recognize the signature of this interruption. It's Myriad. Yesterday, I thought I had an honest conversation with Supergirl, and today I find out that she's using Myriad to interrupt my experiments? The very device she told me was too dangerous for anyone to use.
Lex: You saw Supergirl yesterday? I could always just go to the Fortress, if you told me where it was, and turn off Myriad before she interferes again.
Lena: No, you'll set off the El protocol.
Lex: This is a new world. One where Luthors and Kryptonians work together. The fortress security won't be programmed to attack us.
Lena: If she's using Myriad, I wanna see it for myself. Besides, you at the Fortress sounds apocalyptic.

Adam: I'll bet your other lab rats haven't offended you this much, Dr. Kieran.
Lena: I don't offend easily. And there are no other subjects.
Adam: What? I'm the only one?
Lena: That's right.
Adam: What, was I the only one crazy enough to risk my life for something unknown?

Lena: [another failed attempt] Damn!
Eve: The transmitter you duplicated from the Obsidian contacts uses an ocular interface. Since you modeled this directly into the brain, may I suggest you lower the frequency another 7.32 percent?
Lena: It's not that, Hope. In theory, Q-waves should allow me to rewrite portions of the human brain.
Eve: To rid the world of lying, all manipulation and violence.
Lena: Yes, but no matter how I manipulate the frequency, the transmitter will only allow me to read information from the brain. If I try to augment it,
[shakes her head]
Lena: I get a zombie effect.
Eve: And you don't want a world of robots, you just want better people.
Lena: Right.
[looks sad and so alone in her quest, and Eve 'Hope' places her arms around her neck]
Eve: [Lena rejects the hug, pushes her away] I am sorry, Ms. Luthor. It must be uncomfortable, with me in this form, for you to trust me.
Lena: I don't... trust people, Hope. I believed I could, once, I had friends who made me believe I could, but who betrayed me, like everyone else.
Eve: Your brother, Lex... was the worst of them, but I believe he could help you now. I have access to Eve Teschmacher's memories. Lex was working with Q-waves. It was part of his plan to get past Superman's invulnerable skin. He left detailed records in his private journals.
Lena: His journals?
Eve: There are three of them. They are currently in a Level-5 secure facility at Fort Summit.
[shakes her head]
Eve: However, upon further analysis, retrieving them would be impossible.
Lena: For me, maybe, but not for everyone.

Lillian: You know, you really hurt me, Lena. No matter how hard I try to show it, you still doubt my love for you. Do you know of any other mother who would kill for her daughter?
Lena: [sarcastic] No, I don't. It's probably a good thing for society.
Lillian: Speaking of society, I've risked everything to come back here, but it was worth it. That man has picked on the wrong family.
Lena: I don't need your help, mother. If I wanted him gone, I would just do it myself.
Lillian: Oh, I'm well aware. I'll never forget the time Cindy Ryan stole your boyfriend. Took you months of planning, but you exacted your revenge. You outed her diary, publicly humiliated her, ruined her life. It was fantastic.
Lena: It was also the fifth grade, mother.
Lillian: There you go again, devaluing yourself. You know, Lex was brilliant, but he was a hothead. You're equally as fiendish, but savvier. You have a cold-blooded talent. You can plot three moves ahead. Use your brain. When you finally own that, you'll be great.
Lena: Other than Edge's obsession with me, I am great.

Lena: I know why Sam's sick.
[showing them her tablet]
Lena: Okay, these are Sam's blood cells, and these are Reign's. Sam's blood cells are getting weaker, while Reign's are getting stronger. They share a symbiotic, non-local entanglement. Reign and Sam are still connected. Reign's back and she's getting stronger by the minute.
Supergirl: But I destroyed the Worldkillers' blood.
Winn: Demos gave his life to stop them.
Lena: Well, I don't know how, but they have it.

Lena: Brainy and I refortified the hiding place of the Courage and Humanity totem using Coluan science and Earth magic. So even with the Dream totem, she won't be able to create the AllStone.
Alex: Well, that's good. That helps on one battlefront. Now if we could just do something about the negative press.
J'onn: People just disagree with us sometimes.
Alex: Well, this is true, but if we're gonna take on a threat as powerful as Nxyly, we're gonna need the public on our side.
Lena: [seeing Kara on the news] Speaking of.
Supergirl: Citizens of National City, I come to you tonight with an apology. I know you have always placed your hope and trust in me. But now, as we face the alien you know as Nxyly, I fear I haven't always been able to deliver. And for that, I am sorry. But I give you my word... Nxyly will be stopped. No matter the cost. Because for me and my friends, failure is not an option.

Supergirl: Oh, it was awful. Oh, the look on Esme's face, the fear in her eyes only hearing this... frightening, horrible stuff. If I can't help inspire hope in one little girl, how am I supposed to do it for the whole world and pass the Hope gauntlet?
[indicating the news on TV]
Supergirl: And-And this world? How is any of this hopeful?
Lena: Things escalating at the Hague, maybe you should just wipe those countries of their nuclear weapons. That'll bring out lasting peace and hope.
Supergirl: Yeah, I wish I could, but unfortunately, I am forbidden from interfering in human history.
Lena: Weren't you the person that convinced me to use magic to make people just a little bit violent in order to draw out Nxyly and the Humanity totem?
Supergirl: Yeah, but that was different. That was in pursuit of stopping a villain. And it was temporary. Unilaterally changing the world stage, getting involved at that level, that is not for me to do. People, nations should be self-determining; that's freedom. That's what we're fighting for.

Adam: So, are you ever actually gonna tell me what it is we're doing here?
Lena: In success, which I'm counting on, you'll need to know. We're attempting to cure everything.
Adam: Like, cancer?
Lena: Everything that makes men weak.
Adam: Are you telling me if this had happened a year ago, that my brother might still be here?
Lena: Not only that, but if this works, we'll cure not only all human ailments, but you'll get... abilities.
Adam: What, like superpowers?
Lena: Something like that.
Adam: But you didn't want a hero.
Lena: I wanted someone responsible. Somebody who wouldn't think that they knew what was best just because they had powers.

Lena: If this works, the world won't need heroes.

Supergirl: It was Nxyly. I don't know how...
Alex: [helping her sit up] Here.
Supergirl: ...but I could feel her emotions. She was... she was triumphant, yet still vengeful. Determined more than ever to get her hands on the next totem.
Lena: I couldn't begin to explain it, but it is possible that restoring the totem created a psychic connection between you and Nxyly.
Alex: Well, I can't find anything wrong. And your vitals are normal.
Lena: Really? She just fainted due to a psychic bond with a fifth-dimensional imp.
Alex: Exactly. So whatever's happening between you and Nxyly, our monitors can't detect it. So, do you think Nxyly senses you, too?
Supergirl: I think so. And I think to fight her, I'm gonna need every bit of power I can find, and then some.

Brainiac: Lena, I lost the drone with the virus in it. Can you recall it?
Lena: Stand by.
[trying as more trash bonds with Oscar]
Lena: Brainy, I'm trying, but I can't control it.
Supergirl: I think we can grab the drone.
J'onn: Wait. I did a psychic scan. Oscar is protected by a force field. He must have acquired it from the DEO tech. Trying to breach it could cause a backlash.
Lena: Brainy, that force field is keeping me from accessing the drone.
Zor: You have to find a way to get close enough to the drone to release the virus manually.
Brainiac: On it.
Supergirl: How will you get close enough?
Brainiac: I need to get him to think I'm trash.
[turning to the monster]
Brainiac: Kelex! Kelex, you stupid idiot! Can you hear me? Wow! Look how big and dumb you are!
[a metal chain rattles nearby]
Brainiac: A junkyard? Come on! You sorry excuse for a Roomba! I know you know the truth. Without that Coluan power core, you're nothing!
[grabbing hold of the chain as it flies toward Oscar]
Brainiac: I regret nothing!

Samantha: I told you this before, if I had hurt people, I would remember.
Lena: You're right. You would remember. On some deep level, you would feel what you had done.
[showing her a news still again]
Lena: When you look at this, do you remember what it was like? Attacking Morgan Edge? What I wouldn't have given to see that one up close. No? No recollection?
[showing another one]
Lena: Supergirl? I mean, that's a difficult one to forget. Having your fist connect with something so solid, so powerful.
Samantha: This is insane.
Lena: How did it feel to obliterate? You tore those men apart. You ripped the limbs from their body and you dragged them across the beach!
Samantha: Why are you doing this? Why? I just wanna go home to my daughter!
Lena: Like I'd let someone like you near Ruby.
Samantha: How dare you.
Lena: What did it feel like? Living in that house day in, day out, pretending to be her mother? Watching her sleep, so vulnerable. Knowing that any minute you could rip her apart with your bare hands. You're not a mother, you're a monster. And I will make sure you never see Ruby again.
Samantha: Enough!
[her eyes flicker red, and she fires her heat vision]

Lena: 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: Find the missing aliens, find Lex.
Lena: But whatever we do, we better do it fast. Lex is planning on invading America.
Querl: What?
Alex: You should've led with that.
Lena: Well, then you're gonna love this. Lex has a clone of Supergirl.
Alex: What?
Querl: You should've led with *that*.

Supergirl: Why do you have Myriad?
Lena: Well, you caught me. I have Myriad because I'm using you, like you used me.

Lena: Looks like Lex is helping the Kaznians to invade America.
Eve: That's the plan.
Lena: But a Kaznian invasion on American soil would be like a child throwing rocks at a tank.
Eve: Lex has a tank. Tank. Tank. Tank.
Lena: Eve?
Eve: Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank.
Lena: All right.
[catching her and sitting her down]
Lena: Lex must have done something to her. Trigger word.

Margot: No one knows all about Leviathan. Leviathan is unknowable.
Lena: I'm not afraid.
Margot: You will be.

Florence: Who are you?
Lena: I mean you no harm.
Florence: My God! You look just like...
Lena: Elizabeth Walsh. I'm her daughter. I came here to...
Florence: I know why you're here. I've been waitin' for this day a long time.

Brainiac: Lena, I... I need you to know that I had no idea that this was Lex's plan. I thought that if... if I was... close to him, I-I would be able to know how and when to stop him, but I... I didn't. I was so worried that... by working with Lex I was becoming the villain, that... that I lost track of... of what he was up to. I thought... that by doing this I would help save the world, but... look what it's done.
Lena: Brainy, you were willing to sacrifice everything to save your friends. On the other hand, I was the hypocrite who believed that she had the answers to all the world's problems. It's the closest I've ever come to seeing things through Lex's eyes. Self-pity and blinding hubris should be the Luthor family motto. So if anyone's gonna win the culpability award, I've got you by a landslide.
Brainiac: What do we do now?
Lena: Try and cope with the mistakes of the past and... appreciate that we have friends who still believe in us. Now let's go save the world.

Kara: My dual identities made Lena think that she couldn't trust either side of me. I was a hypocrite.
Mxyzptlk: Okay, so, when exactly did this kryptonite-fueled tete-a-tete happen?
Kara: Ah... it was... it was, uh, just after we found out that Lena was housing Reign.
Supergirl: [on the tape] Lena, the Worldkillers are coming. We have to get you someplace...
Kara: Mmm, skip forward.
Mxyzptlk: Skip.
[he fast-forwards through various scenes]
Kara: See, there? This fight...
Mxyzptlk: Mm-hmm.
Kara: ...is what I'm trying to avoid.
Mxyzptlk: Okay.
Kara: So, go back.
[he rewinds, and she watches herself asking James to investigate Lena's kryptonite stock]
Kara: Ah, I never should have done that. Um... yeah, it has to be before this.
Mxyzptlk: Yeah, hang on, before.
Kara: We have to go back further. Here!
Mxyzptlk: Yep.
Lena: My friend came to me. She was alone and afraid. I had to do something.
Supergirl: I need you to level with me. Do you have any more kryptonite?
Kara: This is it. This is the moment that Lena started to distrust Supergirl. This is when I have to tell her.

Kara: Is she a clone?
Lena: No. Not exactly. All these biometrics have been affected by Harun-El. We know it duplicates Kryptonians. It split Sam from Reign. Supergirl must have come into contact with it.
Kara: But how does Lex fit into this?
Lena: The Kaznians brought him in. He's helping them control her.

Lena: I know you're working with Lex. I need to know where he is.
Ben: Why do you people keep insisting that I know him?
Lena: '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: The President of the United States made me a Cabinet member.
Lena: The president works for Lex.
[seeing his surprise]
Lena: You really didn't know.

Samantha: Tell me, what's wrong with me?
Lena: Most of your blood tests came back as normal. But I also studied your salt replication process. There's trace evidence that your cells have undergone a mitotal mutation that I've only seen in insects. It indicates metamorphosis. When you black out, your body seems to be changing on a cellular level.
Samantha: Changing? To what?
Lena: To her. Reign.
Samantha: I'm not an alien. I don't have special powers. I bleed. I get sick. My adoption papers say I'm from Scranton. Look, I know you mean well, but I don't have the patience for this. I have to go see my daughter.
Lena: Wait. I thought this might be hard for you to accept, so I also compiled a timeline of the blackouts so you could remember.
[showing her various stills from news reports on Reign's attacks]
Lena: This is the first one. And the next. And the next. And the next.
Samantha: This was a mistake. I need to go see my daughter.
[climbing out of her bed, she moves to leave, but runs into an invisible force field]
Samantha: Lena, are you kidding me? Let me out.
Lena: I can't. You asked me to help you.

Lena: You're dead.
Lex: So, you remember everything?
Lena: Of course I remember everything! I killed you!
Lex: Yes, that's right, you killed me. But that is in the past. Because I'm back now, and I forgive you.
Lena: What are you talking about? What is happening?
Lex: Well, it was, uh... sort of a Crisis.
Lena: It was an... antimatter wave.
Lex: Ah, yes.
Lena: Alex and I worked together.
Lex: Mmm-hmm.
Lena: We built a portal... The wave still came.
Lex: Yes, and billions were lost and the multi-verse collapsed, and it was all every interesting. What matters now is that a very powerful person brought me back to life to help. But I refused to do so, unless he promised that you would make through okay, and you have, with your noggin intact.
Lena: You gambled the fate of the entire multi-verse to get your own way?
Lex: It gets better. In this new world, we work side by side as Luthor Corp and the DEO to make the world a better place.
Lena: So I'm in hell.
Lex: No, no, you're in a new reality. To the outside world, we're billionaire philanthropists. It's the perfect cover.
Lena: I want nothing to do with you.

Lena: Left arm.
Adam: Back to treating me like a number. I guess you've finally seen the error of your ways. I don't deserve to be here.
Lena: You're not a bad person, Adam.

Supergirl: We've got about thirty seconds before there's a riot. I'm gonna find Otis.
Lena: Wait, I'm coming with you.
Supergirl: No, no, the whole cell block was just set free; it's too dangerous.
Lena: But that numbskull's our best hope of finding Lex.
Supergirl: Which is why I will go. You need to find out what Lex is hiding. I'm gonna weld that outside door so Otis can't get in.
Lena: Before you go...
[handing her a small device]
Lena: It's a kryptonite shield. If Lex did bring Otis back as Metallo, you're gonna need it.
Supergirl: [putting it on] Thanks. Good luck.
Lena: You, too.

M'gann: I remember following this life force when I felt this tremendous force pushing at me. It was like a part of me was draining away, and then I saw I was turning into a progeny again.
Brainiac: The double-soul dilemma. M'gann's original soul is with the others in the Prime Phantom's lair. When she flew too close to it, the piece that is her transfused soul sensed the original and they repelled each other like magnets.
M'gann: That's why I was turning again. I was close to having no soul in me.
Brainiac: Based on the rate of Prime's accelerated growth and disembodiment, he'll soon reach full maturity.
Lena: What happens after that?
Brainiac: He'll become unstoppable, and it will be impossible to release the life forces held in his lair.
M'gann: That's what happened on Planet Dheron. A Phantom was released there, too.
Brainiac: And just like Prime, he grew with every life force he took until he became completely disembodied. A small band of brave Dheronians found the Crysalis holding the captured life forces. But its shell had hardened when the Phantom reached full maturity. Even with their most powerful weapons, they were unable to breach it. The souls were locked in forever.

Lex: I left the journal for you, paired it with the mural, hoping you would remember this place and show up when I needed you. You know, it just comes down to this, sis. You can only count on blood. Come on, give me a hand.
[she draws a revolver]
Lex: Come on, Lena, this is no time for theatrics. We both know no matter how much you despise me, you're not ruthless enough to pull that trigger...
Lena: [shooting him] The world will never be a safe place with you in it.
Lex: Oh, brava! You did it, Lena. You killed me. You finally proved that I've been underestimating you all this time. But when I'm gone, who will be left to be proud of you? What, your friends? The joke's on you. It's always been on you.
[turning on a monitor]
Lex: Your friends have been lying to you from the start. Your boyfriend Jimmy, Alex, J'onn, that little alien runt Brainy. Even your own mother. They've mocked you, humiliated you, betrayed you. Every last one. Denial's a very powerful thing, isn't it? It's been standing right in front of you all this time. And you chose not to see it. Kara Danvers is Supergirl. I'm about to die, but at least I lived without ever being a fool. You're left with no one and nothing.

Lena: I spoke to Edge.
Kara: Please tell me you convinced him not to buy CatCo.
Lena: Well, you can't convince a bully like that of anything.
Kara: So, what, CatCo's gone?
Lena: No... I bought it.
Kara: You're kidding. Are you kidding?
Lena: Pretty badass, right? I'm just trying, in my own small way, to be more like Supergirl.
Kara: [impressed] Lena!
Lena: And I was hoping maybe you could break the story.
Kara: Oh, um... I actually quit.
Lena: Well, then un-quit. I can't do this without you. I literally know nothing about running a media empire.

J'onn: So Lex and Leviathan are planning something using Obsidian's virtual reality platform.
Lena: And my tech likely made that possible.
Alex: That must be why Rama Khan went after the DEO's kryptonite.
Nia: To keep Supergirl from interfering.
Kara: Well, the joke's on Rama Khan and his big, dumb gladiator outfit, because I've already defeated him once.
J'onn: Don't be rash, Kara. He's tied to the Earth. Which means he can track your slightest movements. If you use your powers even once, he will sense them, and attack.
M'gann: With all that kryptonite at his fingertips, he could kill you.
Kara: You guys will protect me.
Alex: Just like we protected the DEO?

Lena: Do you remember any...
Samantha: No. I don't, I... same as always.
Lena: Ruby told me about the other times.
Samantha: What? No. She doesn't know.
Lena: Sam, she's a smart kid. She knows something's wrong. She knows that you go places and then you don't remember where you've gone.
Samantha: You told her I was sick?
Lena: I told her that we didn't know what was wrong yet.

Lena: Have you thought about what I told you?
Samantha: I get squeamish whenever Ruby asks me to kill a spider. How could you possibly think I could kill people?
Lena: I don't think you could.
Samantha: So you think I have a split personality?
Lena: Essentially, yes. Reign is a completely separate entity. When she takes over, you lose all awareness, all control. Your DNA re-writes itself. Please, Sam, understand that I would not tell you this if I wasn't sure.
Samantha: So this is what I get for asking for your help?
Lena: What's that supposed to mean?
Samantha: You ask an oncologist, they'll say cancer. You ask a surgeon, they'll cut you open. You ask a Luthor, they'll tell you you're a supervillain.

Lena: It turns out that you were right about the chemistry. Uh... James and I kissed.
Kara: Congratulations.
Lena: Well, yeah. James is an amazing kisser, as I'm sure you know. It's just, this morning, he started acting really odd.
Kara: Olsen can be... enigmatic.
Lena: Yeah, well, I know what it's about. I mean, my brother is Lex, James is Superman's best friend, and, you know, for a minute there I forgot my last name was Luthor. That's a mistake I won't be making again.
Kara: Oh, I'm sure that's not the case. Olsen likes you. A lot. I assure you if James was being awkard, it is not because of your last name.
Lena: And here I was coming to make you feel better. I should go back to work. You should rest.
Kara: Yes, boss.
[Lena leaves]
Kara: [with J'onn's voice] Agent Schott, don't ever make me do that again.

Supergirl: What are you doing here?
Lena: Funny, I could ask you the same question.
Supergirl: [to Lillian] I need to find Mercy and Otis Graves. They worked for Lex. And then for you. Cadmus.
Lena: Mercy was Lex's head of security.
Supergirl: And then turned state's evidence on him, betrayed him. Put him behind bars.
Lillian: So you think I'd help you as some sort of revenge? I'm not vengeful anymore. My heart's grown several sizes in here.
Lena: Says the Grinch who stole Christmas.

Lena: You were a puppet on a string for Leviathan before. What makes this time any different?
Lex: What the hell is Leviathan?
Lena: You see, that's the thing about narcissists. You're so focused on yourself, you can never see that you're the mark. Your little fangirl was working for Leviathan the entire time she was working you.
Lex: Ms. Tessmacher. And what exactly does Leviathan want?
Lena: No one knows. They're behind seismic catastrophes, earthquakes, floods, plagues. They're alien, ancient, and all-powerful. If it wasn't for your hubris, you would've seen that they were playing you.
Lex: All right, Lena. You've had your fun letting me know I let my eye off the ball. I'll admit this Leviathan is... irritating.
Lena: And what are you gonna do?
Lex: Exterminate them.

Supergirl: Well, people who used to admire me now think I am an American traitor. And the people that hate me are reveling in my downfall.
Lena: Okay, this is not your downfall, Supergirl, it's a glitch. You didn't do it. We both know Lex is behind this, and soon everyone else will, too. Okay? I know better than anyone what it's like to be falsely accused of a crime you didn't commit, okay? It's not fun.
Supergirl: No, it's not. But neither is reading through your murderous brother's journals and re-living traumatic memories.
Lena: Just looking at Lex's handwriting is like needles in my eyes. Maybe this is a wild goose chase. Maybe there's no clue trail, just Lex torturing me like he always does. Let's just get out of here.
Supergirl: No, Lena, wait. People like you and me, we don't give up. So we will find something and we're going to stop him.

Lena: He's a maniac. I mean, this is just sport to him. It's just another way to beat me. I hate him. So much. I hate his face. I hate his voice. I hate his suits, I hate his never-ending games of depravity. I wish he would just die. I wish we could kill him.
Brainiac: We should kill him. We can craft the perfect murder. First, with just the tiniest re-wiring of his home, we can deliver a near-fatal electric blow. He'll be paralyzed, but he'll still be aware of what's happening to him. From there, we'll finish him. You choose the method, he's your brother. But just make it slow, okay? After that, we'll dismember the body and scatter the pieces across the universe. I know exactly which planets have atmospheres with pressures high enough to decompose carbon in an instant. This time, there will be no Lex resurrection.
Lena: Brainy, stop. Okay? We can't kill Lex.
Brainiac: Why not? You... you just suggested it. Lena, you've already done it.
Lena: Brainy, it turned me into the darkest version of myself. I know it's hard, but you-you can't go down this dark path, okay? You're a good person.
Brainiac: Then what do we do? What do we do? What am I supposed to do? Ever since I removed my personality inhibitors, I... I have been overwhelmed by the depth of my emotions. The rage? It's... it's always there. Seeping out, burning me like acid, and... all I want to do is help you destroy him, Lena. I... I need to destroy him. And if I can't do that, then... how do I make these feelings go away?
Lena: Brainy, we were wrong. You-you can't put your emotions into little boxes. They'll eat away at you until there's nothing left. And I know it's hard, but you have to embrace that. It's okay to feel rage. You just gotta let it out and then let it go.
Brainiac: [trying to work, he angrily throws his tablet to the ground with a scream] I hate him! I hate him! And I'm... I miss her.
Lena: [taking his hands] Hey. Me, too.

Lena: You are using Myriad.
Supergirl: Lena, what are you doing here?
Lena: Question is, what are you doing here, Supergirl? I thought it was forbidden to use Myriad, but forbidden for anyone but you.
Supergirl: There are people missing, dozens of them stuck in Obsidian's VR. I have to find them.
Lena: There are other ways to find people than Myriad. I can think of four off the top of my head, but you, you do what you want.
Supergirl: What I'm doing is finding people your brother disappeared.
Lena: Do you have any proof that it was Lex?
[seeing the answer in her face]
Lena: No, I didn't think so. You just return to your default position of blaming a Luthor. You did tell me you'd treat me like a villain.
Supergirl: If you acted like one, yeah, I did say that. And right now, you're trespassing, and I don't have time for this. You need to go.
Lena: I'll leave when you stop using Myriad.
Supergirl: That's not gonna happen.
Lena: To think that I was sincere with you yesterday. Then I guess you're used to being two-faced.

Malefic: Where am I? This is not the Phantom Zone.
Lena: By now you've realized you can't phase through these walls. But don't think of this as a prison. I'm not your enemy. In fact, I think we can help each other.

Lena: Hey, is everything okay at CatCo? I have six missed calls from James.
Kara: Actually... Andrea Rojas showed up in his office about a half an hour ago saying she bought CatCo?
Lena: Why would she do that?
Kara: Oh, thank god. I told James and Nia there must have been a huge mistake.
Lena: It's not a mistake, Kara, I... sold CatCo to Andrea. She wasn't supposed to show up 'til tomorrow after you and I had had lunch.

Lena: James, I'm worried about this thing with the D.A.
James: Mm-hmm.
Lena: Listen, I know you have your strategy, but I was speaking to my friends in the mayor's office, and they said the only path out of this is to use some leverage. They think the D.A. can be swayed, so I was thinking that maybe I...
James: Lena, please, I don't want you pulling any strings for me. You've tried really hard to separate yourself from the criminal element in your family. Don't get mixed up in this. We'll handle the D.A. Look, I love the fact that you want to fight for me. I do. But the only thing that I need right now is you by my side.

Lillian: That chess board's been in the Luthor family for generations.
Lena: Did you come here to yell at me for not treating the family heirlooms with respect or to blame me for what's happening outside?
Lillian: How could you let that woman deceive you? I taught you to be a scientist; to question everything.
Lena: No, what you taught me was to doubt myself, to look for validation elsewhere. So much that I was willing to take it from the first mentor that offered it to me.
Lillian: I'm sorry.
[Lena scoffs]
Lillian: I am, Lena. When you came to visit me in jail, I honestly wanted to be a better mother to you. And every time I've had the opportunity to choose you over something else, I've chosen something else.
Lena: Well, congratulations on saying the first honest thing in your life.

Lena: You're a bottom feeder.
Morgan: But I didn't poison children. That was you.

Dreamer: Guys. I found recording crystals.
Lex: Ah, yes. When I arrived, she was in the middle of a missive. Sort of a last will and testament. Very dry. You're lucky I cut her off when I did.
Alex: [Nia moves to insert the crystal] No. No, no, no. We are not watching those, 'cause Kara is not dead. We are bringing her home. And you are going to wish that you were dead while you are rotting in that cell.
Lex: Hmm. About that... I'm not going anywhere near a cell. Unless you want me to reveal Supergirl's identity. She may be gone, but she still has an awful lot of enemies out there. It would be tragic if Mama Danvers or your lovely Kelly Olsen were to become the target of one of...
Lena: [slugging him, hard] Sorry. Did you want to do that?
Alex: No. Family first.

Lena: I haven't made Kara an anti-kryptonite suit in this world. But I could. Just need to get you safely to my lab.
Alex: Your lab is across the city. And Kara can't use her powers.
J'onn: We could get her there. If we had the right distraction.
M'gann: Or the right decoys.
J'onn: [seeing her wink, he gets what she's implying] N-No, no, no way. Absolutely not. I can tell those pants will chafe.

Lena: I hear your foundation had a very charitable day.
Lex: Turn on Channel 5.
Brainiac: [as she searches on her tablet, they see a news report about a fire at the children's hospital] Oh, my god.
Reporter: Preliminary reports indicate that the cause of the fire was faulty wiring. When asked for comment, Lex Luthor noted that his sister, Lena Luthor, was in charge of all recent upgrades to the wing.
Lena: [mortified] He set fire to the children's wing of the hospital just to get revenge on me.

Querl: Sprock. I seem to have made the beam more dense instead of less. Let's go again.
J'onn: Just give me a minute.
Lena: Okay, J'onn, you can't keep putting yourself through this punishment.
J'onn: I'm fine.
Lena: No. You're not, you can barely stand. And we need you at full strength for when we find your brother.
J'onn: I told you, I...
Lena: I will help Brainy, so Alex doesn't have to use the blaster. Now go clear your head.

Adam: I don't think this is a good idea. I'm not a good person. You know I lied to you about my scar?
Lena: Yeah, it's not from a hockey stick. Looks like a surgical incision. Maybe from a kidney transplant?
Adam: That kidney is the reason my perfect, selfless brother is dead. I needed a kidney and he volunteered. And the whole thing was supposed to be routine, but he died on the operating table to save me. You know what the worst part is? If the roles had been reversed, I wouldn't have given him my freaking kidney! No way! I was too selfish. I was the one dying, I am the one who's supposed to be dead!
Lena: Is that why you signed up? Because you don't care if you're gonna live or die?

Eve: Lena, I could have called for help, and all of this would have been over in one minute. But I didn't. Because I meant what I said. You can trust me.
Lena: [looking at a computer monitor] Yes, it appears that I can.

Lena: I want to give you elevator access, so you can come up to this floor without an escort. Security just needs your thumbprint and then they'll issue a badge.
[Rhea puts her thumb on the scanner, which then beeps red]
Rhea: Is that good?
Lena: I was looking through your designs, and there's a small problem. It requires an element that doesn't exist on Earth. You see, we have 118, and this would be categorized at 260.
Rhea: I don't know what you mean.
Lena: I think you do.
Rhea: It was when I thanked the gods at dinner, wasn't it?
Lena: You're an alien. And this device just proved it.
Rhea: Red is never good on this planet.
Lena: I don't know who you are, but I am not helping you build anything. You talk about betrayal and people hurting you and then you do it in spades. I want you out of my office. And there are several heavily armed guards coming if you have trouble finding your way out.

Lex: I'll be direct. Black Kryptonite. The Harun-El. You have it, and I need it.
Lena: You know it doesn't grow back hair.

Querl: Oh, my. A radiation-controlled proto-environment housed in a vacuum-sealed, mechanical exoskeleton contained in a spring-loaded two-millimeter disc.
Lena: Supergirl is gonna have to stay inside this until we figure out how to detoxify the atmosphere.
Querl: Which we have no idea how to do.
J'onn: So this is indefinite confinement?
Alex: We have no other choice, so, do it.

Lena: Any luck with your trials?
Supergirl: Oh. No, not even a little. How about you and Brainy? Have you managed to contain the totem's energy?
Lena: Not exactly. I'm actually on my way to talk to our friend Vita.
Supergirl: Hmm. Well, at least you two haven't been affected by the totem. I wish we had an explanation for why I can't pass this gauntlet. The test wants me to overcome a moment where my courage failed. It's the night I made my first save as Supergirl, when I saved Alex's plane.
Lena: That doesn't sound like a moment where you lacked courage.
Supergirl: Right? I feel like I was the most courageous then. There's gotta be something more. I mean, what do I do? If I try again and fail, people could get really hurt. But then if I don't try...
Lena: The imp could get the totem and all the magic it contains.

Supergirl: [in Fortress of Solitude] This gun is so tiny.
Lena: Yeah, Lex designed that to fit under his many human hair wigs, so...
Supergirl: [putting it down quickly] Ugh!
Lena: Yeah.

Samantha: You're here.
Lena: Of course we're here. You think I'd forget about you?
Samantha: Lena. Alex. Supergirl. I killed you, too. I'm sorry.
Supergirl: Sam, no.
Samantha: I'm sorry.
Alex: No, Reign didn't kill us. We're here to help you.
Lena: We're gonna get you out of here.

Lena: You were right about the Crysalis. I'm sorry I fought you on it.
Alex: I understand why you did. That's a decision I didn't wanna have to make.
Lena: But you still made it. Listen, I am so grateful to be part of the team here in the Tower, but I don't think I belong.
Alex: Why would you say that?
Lena: Well, it's like you said. I need to stop atoning for the sins of the past. And I am determined to do good in the world, but... you and J'onn, Brainy, and Nia, I'm not like you. You're true heroes. I know how much your sister means to you, Alex, and yet today, you made the most painful sacrifice because it was the right thing to do, and... I don't think I could do that.
Alex: Every moment I was running towards the Crysalis, I wanted to turn around. I didn't care if that Phantom took over the whole city or the whole world. I wanted nothing more than to drop everything and go after my sister. You know, I had to rely on my years of training as a soldier to help me push those feelings aside so that I could do what had to be done. You have a huge heart, Lena. And wanting to save Kara, that doesn't make you any less of a hero.
Lena: Yeah, maybe not. But I still don't think like you.
Alex: Neither does Brainy. Or J'onn or Nia. I mean, we all have different life experiences and perspectives and strengths. It's our willingness to hear each other out, that's what makes this a great team. And if it weren't for your brilliance in making that device, we all would have failed. You belong here, Lena. You always have and you always will. And besides, you are the only one with a decent taste in Scotch.

Supergirl: The bullet went through and through, but we still need to get you to a hospital.
Lena: No, no, no, he's losing too much blood. There's no time.
Supergirl: Okay. I can cauterize it, but it's gonna hurt.
William: Do it, do it.
Supergirl: All right.
William: [groaning in pain as she uses her heat vision on the wound] Oh, don't do it.

Lena: Well, it's not a dream. The valley's real. When I was working with Sam, she told me of this place. It's, uh... an alternate dimension that she would go when Reign would take over.
Alex: But how could Supergirl see it?
J'onn: On Mars, my people would share memories, emotions, experiences. Sometimes you would experience a particularly strong mind wholly by accident.
Alex: Like picking up a radio broadcast?
Winn: But Supergirl just picked up an alternate dimension.
Lena: It's possible. And if we could go in there, maybe we could wake Sam up and she could send us a message to say where the Worldkillers are.
J'onn: There's still one big hole in this plan. How do we send Supergirl back to this valley?
Supergirl: [getting an idea] We fight fantasy with sci-fi.

Alex: So, you are... reducing mitophagy and... increasing mitochondrial efficiency at the same time. That would give muscle cells the potential to...
[realizing]
Alex: Okay, wait. That conversation at Thanksgiving, that wasn't theoretical? You're giving people powers.
Lena: Management is such a waste of your talents.
Alex: Lena, this is huge. And it's dangerous. I mean, we need to up your security. We need to make sure that your reports are put on a protected server.
Lena: I'm not going to be writing any reports.
Alex: What do you mean you're not? You made a deal with the government.
Lena: The deal was non-reciprocal. It's for products, not procedures. Which is a good thing, because I don't trust governments as a rule.
Alex: I'm the government.
Lena: Well, I sure hope that's not true.

Hope: The DEO has sent another warning. In nine minutes, our defenses will be disabled. Do you want me to...
Lena: Delete it.
[surprised by the ground rumbling]
Lena: What was that?
Hope: That felt like a residual aftershock. Yes. A 5.4-magnitude earthquake right in the heart of National City.
Lena: It's knocked the entire satellite array offline. There's no way I can reverse-engineer anything now.
Hope: I can still try a manual override. I can reposition the dishes myself.
Lena: We discussed this. Absolutely not. You could be killed. Both Hope and Eve gone, forever.
Hope: But it would be worth it for both of us, because I believe in you. Eve did, too. I have seen the depravity of humans. I have seen the betrayal and the pain. Let me help, so that we can stop them from committing any more of these horrible acts once and for all.
Lena: No. I will not allow it. We will find another way. Your partnership has meant the world to me, Hope. You're the only friend I can count on.
Hope: But, Ms. Luthor, I'm not your friend. I'm something you created to serve a purpose.

Morgan: Little bit of business advice, Lena. Guilt is not a good business strategy.
Lena: No?
Morgan: No.
Lena: Neither is exploitation.

James: I only got shot once. You didn't have to come all this way.
Kelly: Aw, you never invite me to visit. How else was I gonna meet your friends? They're pretty great, by the way. One of them even saved your life.
James: Yeah, about that. Thank you.
Lena: I'm just glad you're okay. Besides, Supergirl was the one that found you. You should be thanking her.

Alex: Well, CatCo's newest addition. It's very nice to finally meet you.
J'onn: We've heard a lot about you.
Nia: All good things, I hope.
Lena: Well, James said your passion for making the world a better place is matched only by the elegance of your prose, so...
Nia: I wish I could say I paid him, but I could not have made that up.

Alex: What am I gonna do with Kelly? I mean, how... how am I supposed to explain all this?
Lena: Kelly doesn't know that Kara is Supergirl?
[Alex shakes her head, and Lena gives her a comforting hug]

James: Everything okay?
Lena: Well, now that you're here, with a very large present...
James: I took this on our last morning at the lake house together. Open it, please.
[opening it, she finds a portrait of herself sleeping]
James: This is how I see you when we're away from everything else and it's just you and I. When it's perfect.
Lena: Let's go to Paris. Tonight. For Valentine's weekend, away from everything else.
James: You're serious?
Lena: Have you ever known me to joke?
James: [amused laugh] No. Um, no. But I've never known you to offer spontaneous trips, either. Are you sure everything's okay?
Lena: James, we never just live in the moment. You know, we should do that more. Because we never know what tomorrow's gonna bring.
[seeing he's still reluctant]
Lena: Come on, all right, listen. If your billionaire girlfriend cannot whisk you away for a romantic holiday, then there really is something wrong with the world.
James: The lady has a point.
Lena: The lady usually does.

Ben: Listen, I owe you two an apology. I wasn't in the best place when last our paths crossed, but, uh... well, things... things are much better.
Lena: Excuse me. I'm gonna get a drink.
[to James]
Lena: See you in a few minutes.
James: Make that two, please.

J'onn: Hey!
Kara: Yay!
Kelly: Hi!
Alex: There she is.
J'onn: James will be here soon, and then the whole family will be together.
Querl: Huzzah!
Kara: Where've you been?
Lena: [after an awkward silence, she takes out a bottle of wine] I didn't know what to bring, so I brought red and white.
Alex: Yes!
Kara: Nice.
J'onn: Well, now that you're here, we can divide up and play "Catch Phrase".
Kara: Yeah, J'onn is making us switch up the usual teams.
J'onn: My house, my rules.
Kara: But, uh, you're with me, right?
Lena: Always.

Adam: Um, look, Dr. K, you're obviously doing something great here, and I don't wanna mess this up for you. I mean, you said that this could save, what, millions?
Lena: Hundreds. Hundreds of millions.
Adam: Yeah, well, everything I touch is cursed.
Lena: If you've had a change of heart and wanna drop back, that's... that's okay.
Adam: That's not it at all. You deserve someone way better than me to help you achieve this.
Lena: Out of a hundred applicants, I chose you.
Adam: What if you chose wrong?
Lena: Well, I'm a very smart woman. I stand by my choice.

Morgan: How in the hell did you get past my security?
Lena: I don't know, it's almost as easy as poisoning a cup of coffee. You know, that was low, even for you. At least crashing a plane had a certain kind of elaborate elegance, but poisoning? That's just a coward's method.

Alex: I'm sure that Alura would be overjoyed to know that you're still alive.
Lena: Yes, you must be anxious to get back to Argo City.
Zor: I am, of course. But before I go, I'd like to see what my daughter's been up to here on Earth.
Supergirl: I think that can be arranged.

Kara: Brainy, the president had the Secret Service wipe all of CatCo's servers, and I lost all of my evidence. Can you recover it?
Querl: [calling it onto Lena's plasma] It's already done.
Kara: Yes. Yes! This proves that Lex has been working with Kaznia, and he used Red Daughter to attack the White House.
Lena: It also proves that the government gave Lex alien prisoners from the DEO desert facility.
Querl: Not just the aliens from the DEO facility. J'onn J'onzz, Dreamer, and I have discovered that Lex has been transferring aliens rounded up by Ben Lockwood and bringing them to a private facility, where he's been siphoning their powers.
Kara: My god! Well, where is this facility?
Querl: That information is forthcoming.
Alex: Is that where J'onn and Dreamer are?
Querl: Hopefully. They have been abducted.
Lena: What?
Kara: Why didn't you tell us that?
Alex: Are you serious?
Querl: That is a rather strong emotional reaction for such an insignficant detail. Our plan is to save the aliens. Those aliens will simply include J'onn and Dreamer.

Hope: Myriad is ready to launch. Ms. Luthor, this is your moment. Shall I activate?
[Lena nods]
Hope: Three. Two.
Lena: One.
[Hope presses a button, but nothing happens]
Lena: What's happening?
Hope: It won't lock onto the satellite. Something's interfering with the dishes' ability to move. It's a virus. It's working through our mainframe. Ms. Luthor, the hologram.
Lena: It was a Trojan horse. Of course. How could I be so naive to think that Supergirl wanted to talk?

Vita: You seek the AllStone totems? I advise you to stay away from them. Seeking them on Krypton led to the demise of many in my coven.
Supergirl: Well, we don't really have a choice. So, how do we find them?
Vita: Oh, if you choose to seek the totems, there are a few rules you must know. Rule one, there is a prescribed order to the totems. The courage totem is first.
Supergirl: That must be the one Nxyly's after.
Vita: Rule two, the totems have been concealed as artifacts, hidden over time. Three, you must activate the totem before you can wield it. To do so, you must speak the word "Cgrzyx." Four, to fully control the totem, you must submit yourself to a test of character. This trial will take a deep emotional toll. It will not be pleasant.
Supergirl: Yeah, but we don't want to control the totems. We just wanna protect them. How did the witches in your coven start their search?
Vita: On Krypton, we discovered that over the eons, these magical artifacts had an effect on the cultures that grew up around them.
Lena: An artifact? That could be anything.
Vita: Correct. The totems are formidable. May you survive your quest.

Kara: I think I need to apologize for my behavior earlier. And you're right. I have a lot more baggage about Mon-El than I previously thought. It's not knowing what happened to him that's the hardest.
Lena: I know it can't be easy.
Kara: You were just trying to be a good friend to me and I bit your head off, and I'm...
Lena: This is new for me, too.
Kara: Working with friends?
Lena: No. Having friends. Luthors don't have friends, we have minions. And also, I... think there's gonna be a... a learning curve for both jobs.
Kara: No. No, Lena. Today you were a really good friend, and a great boss. Honestly.
Lena: Thank you. I'd really like to give you a hug, but I'm afraid I'll show favoritism.
Kara: Uh, screw that. Come here. Bring it in.

Hope: Supergirl caused you a great deal of pain. I can see it in your eyes.
Lena: After my family and after Andrea, I knew better than to trust in friendship anymore.
Hope: All of the anguish that you're going through, it doesn't seem worth it.
Lena: It inspired Non Nocere. It inspired you. Who needs friends when you can save the world?

Kara: Okay, come and get your eggnog.
Alex: Uh, yeah, but be warned, this is not your grandmother's recipe. No, this is highly potent, intoxicating deliciousness.
James: Ooh. Danvers' famous eggnog?
Lena: Um, sounds tempting, but you know, I think I'll stick with the Scotch.

Lena: My mother will kill you tonight unless you give me a confession.
Morgan: I have nothing to confess to.
Lena: Such a small thing for your life. I mean, granted, you will spend the rest of it in prison, but let's not sweat the details.

Alex: Okay, so, all the test results came back clear. No tumor, no blood disorders, nothing. You as healthy as an Olympic athlete.
Samantha: [mildly depressed] Really?
Kara: Sam, this is a really good thing. All of the worst possibilites have been ruled out.
Samantha: No, I know. I know. It's just... I mean, if it's nothing, then what's happening to me?
Alex: We'll figure it out, okay? I promise. But for right now, just take the good news.
Lena: Alex is right. Go home to Ruby, enjoy the now. Every second of this is important to you, and it's important to your daughter.
Samantha: Okay. No, yeah, you're right. Um... thank you, guys. I honestly... I don't know how I lived my life without you guys. Thanks.
Alex: [Sam leaves] I'll figure it out.
Lena: We all will.

Lena: I saw it... it reminded me of... no, that's ridiculous.
Nia: What?
Lena: A kelpie. A shapeshifter that drags people underwater. No, no, that's a myth. It's a story from my mother's book of folklore. It always gave me nightmares.
Nia: Well, I can see why. That thing's terrifying.
Lena: No, that's not it. It's the drowning. My mother drowned. Right in front of me. I always blamed myself 'cause I didn't stop it. I would read the story over and over, punishing myself. But in my nightmares, it was always the kelpie who drowned me.
Nia: Lena... I'm so sorry. Did the story say anything about how to fight a kelpie? Because it is clearly not a myth.
Lena: [a watery tentacle appears and Nia begins choking] Dreamer?
[fleeing as the kelpie appears]
Lena: This is my nightmare.
[water seeps in under the door]
Lena: This is my nightmare. Kelpies are a myth.
[the kelpie re-forms]
Lena: This is a fear vision! What did Kelly say? Remember what's real. Motor oil, Martian steel, the Tower, the lab, my friends.

Lena: James, this really isn't a good time.
James: Winn and Alex are sick.
Lena: I'm so sorry.
James: Lena, you have the largest pharmaceutical company in the country. I-I really need you to put your people on this.
Lena: I'm already working on it.
James: [surprised] You are?
Lena: Yeah.
James: Well, that-that's great news, right? Have you told Supergirl?
Lena: Listen, I-I can't really say anything, and-and please don't say anything to her. I don't want to overpromise, but... I'm really close to a breakthrough. I'm really sorry I can't be there with you.
James: Yeah, it's just, uh... it's just tough being here with him like this and not being able to do anything.

Eve: Ms. Luthor, the subject's here.
Lena: He's early.
Eve: Well, he's eager to get started. He's a real nice guy. He's got nice green eyes, like yours.
Lena: Eve, doing experiments of this nature on a human subject is extremely serious. I've had qualms about even proceeding. You are not making this any easier.
Eve: I'm so sorry. Of course. You have to proceed. My cousin's in hospice. Metastasized cancer; she's got two little girls. You give those kids their mother back, and just imagine all the other families that you'd rescue. Not to mention saving our country. If you level the playing field and make humans super, you could be preventing another civil war.

Supergirl: Lena?
Lena: I'm here.
[Kara enters the secret passage and closes the entrance; after a moment in the tunnel, she finds Lena]
Supergirl: What is this place?

Lena: Have you prepared the subject?
Eve: Yes. His name...
Lena: No. No, don't tell me his name. We'll refer to him as subject 0331.