30 Best Supergirl, Season 4, Episode 3 Quotes

Peter: We lost the Luthor Corporation contract last week.
Ben: What?
Peter: I had to shutter two blast furnaces. Takin' on statue commissions just to make ends meet.
Ben: What if you retrofitted the factory to process Nth metal? You could re-train your employees.
Peter: This town was built on steel. American steel. You rip out that foundation, and everything will crumble around it. You mark my words.
Ben: People thought textiles would be the end of modern society, but the Industrial Revolution, it created unprecedented opportunities...
Peter: I'm not one of your students, Ben. And I'll remind you, it was called a revolution for a reason. And I'll also remind you that steel is what paid for that fancy college education of yours that you only wanna use when you wanna condescend to your old man.
Ben: Worth every penny. Right, dad?
Peter: Not so much.

Peter: The FBI are supposed to work for the people.
J'onn: Indeed, we work for the American people, and per the Alien Amnesty Act...
Peter: Alien. Alien?
J'onn: The man your workers just attacked is an American. He has just as much right to work here safely as you.
Peter: He impaled my son with a freak spike.
J'onn: I think you're talking about his biological defense mechanism.
Peter: Biological what? It was an assault!
J'onn: [gesturing around] What do you call this?

Alex: What is that?
Querl: It's a Kryptonite contamination alarm.
Alex: Find out where.
[into her comms as Brainy searches]
Alex: Supergirl, we've got a Kryptonite alert somewhere in National City.
Querl: Director Danvers.
Alex: You're gonna need to stay back until we figure out what we're dealing with.
Querl: Alex.
Alex: What?
Querl: It's not just National City. It's everywhere.

Ben: What are you doing home?
Peter: I shut it down.
Ben: Oh, not another blaster.
George: Whole factory.
Ben: What?
Lydia: He went to the bank for the loan. They said no.
Peter: Hell with them and everyone else.
Ben: Oh, god, dad, uh... I am so sorry.
Peter: Spare me. This is what happens when you're too soft, when you don't stand up and fight.
Ben: Fight... dad, fight who?
Peter: You know who.
George: The roaches.
Ben: George!
George: Sorry.

Alex: Supergirl was just attacked with stolen alien weaponry on Fig and 8th. Winn said that she's okay, but...
J'onn: All right.
[to the DEO agents at large, then to Alex again]
J'onn: Let's move it out! Let's go.

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.

Peter: Ooh! Look at that. Gin rummy.
George: Okay, I'm a hundred percent sure you're cheating.

J'onn: What did he mean "Jensen"?
Alex: We had a security breach. The president's attackers, they escaped custody, and one of our DEO recruits, he helped them. J'onn, I can fix this. I can fix her. I am not losing my sister today.

Dean: We've had another complaint about your class, Ben.
Ben: Uh-oh. Millennials.
Dean: Still. It sounds like your lectures are extreme.
Ben: My own history is extreme. Truth is extreme. The classroom isn't a safe space where everyone gets to hear a fairy tale version of the facts, and if students can't handle perspectives that are different than their own, I don't know. Maybe they don't belong here.
Dean: The tenure board would disagree.
Ben: Uh... wh-what are you saying?
Dean: You've been warned multiple times about the rhetoric in your class. Now we think you should take a leave of absence without pay.
Ben: You know what my family's going through. I can't lose this job.
Dean: You're passing on your own prejudice to our students, Ben. We're a university, a diverse one. Look, I'm sorry. I've always liked you. But you brought this on yourself.

Ben: [hearing a commotion at the alien factory] Thack, what the hell is going on here?
Thack: We're not gonna let them kill this town, Ben.
Ben: What? No!
Thack: We won't let them.

Alex: [seeing the condition Kara is in] Oh, no, no. We need to get to a clean room, stat.
Querl: It won't do any good. The entire atmosphere was irradiated in an instant. Nowhere is safe.
Alex: We have to do something.
J'onn: Yellow sun radiation should help.
Alex: Yeah, okay, let's do it.

J'onn: What could do something like this?
Alex: The lead dispersal device. The one that we used to knock out the Daxamites?
Querl: Yeah, unlikely. That device is here under lock and key. Only a DEO agent could...
[realizing]
Querl: Jensen.
J'onn: What about Astra's anti-Kryptonite shield?
Querl: You have an anti-Kryptonite shield?
J'onn: Winn adapted it for moments just like this. It can leech the Kryptonite out of her system. Vault 97.
Querl: I'll get it.

Alex: The atmosphere was just seeded with kryptonite.
J'onn: What?
Alex: Look, I'm not sure how it happened, but Supergirl was flying back from D.C., and now I can't get her on her comms. But she's way out in the atmosphere, J'onn, and the last known signal from her was in Nevada.
J'onn: I'm on it.

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.

Ben: Is Supergirl dead?
Otis: Well, it's nothing official yet, but it looks scary.
Mercy: Just one more thing.
[she grabs Jensen and holds a knife to his throat]
Ben: Hey, hey! Stop! What are you doing?
Mercy: Tying up loose ends.
Otis: It happens.
Ben: No! No, not here. We do not kill our own.
Mercy: Oh, please. He's a nobody.
Ben: Are you sure? All right. You're from the DEO, right? You got these fine people out.
Jensen: [weakly] Yeah.
Ben: Good. Well, then I'm gonna assume that you can get us all back in.

J'onn: [fighting a Daxamite on the Lockwoods' property] You're safe now.

Ben: Why in the world is the FBI working with Supergirl?
Peter: The real question is why are they working against us?

Dean: Look, Ben, I'm sorry for what happened with you and the university.
Ben: Oh! No...
Dean: It was wrong throwing you out on the street like that. I don't think any of us understood what you were going through, but now...
Ben: Now a lot of people are going through the same thing. Well, what's happening is happening to us, and that gives us power. That means that we can fight back. As a matter of fact, me and some friends, we are, uh, putting together something like a support group, and I would like very much for you to join us.

Ben: Nativist. A term often used in a derogatory fashion to describe those who fear the other. Question for you. What's wrong with those who wish to protect their homes from the outsiders?
Alien: Well, America is a country of immigrants.
Ben: Yes, but that's always been controversial. You see, in 1775, Benjamin Franklin himself writes of his own fears of immigrants, whom he warned "The immigrant will never adopt our language or customs any more than he can acquire our complexion."
Alien: Franklin was talking about German immigrants back when America was still a British colony. I don't see how it applies to anything.
Ben: Oh, I can see why this, uh, point of view would be problematic, especially since we are talking about human immigrants; human immigrants who, in the past 200 years, made America great no matter what their complexion. But now, we welcome immigrants not only from outside our borders, but from beyond our atmosphere, so let me just ask you, how does the human worker compete? Anyone? How does the human worker compete against an alien who could lift two tons of steel over its head without even breaking a sweat? How does the human worker compete against an alien that can fly goods from one coast to the other, leaving our trucks to rust away in the sand?
Another: [confused] Sorry, professor, what page are we on?
Ben: Ben Franklin's fears have come to pass. The modern immigrant cannot assimilate, and it's not a question of desire, it's not a question of culture. It is a question of biology, and from that context...
[an alien student, insulted, stands and leaves]
Ben: From that context, I should be proud if you were to call me a nativist.
Alien: This... isn't nativism. It's xenophobia.
Ben: Well, I can't say I'm surprised to hear that from someone with your complexion.

Ben: I'm gonna get us out of here.
Peter: You can't.
Ben: Okay. You're right. You're right. I'm gonna lift this up, and you just slide out from under it, okay? One, two, three!
Peter: [Ben strains to lift a steel beam] You're not Supergirl.

Dean: How are you?
Ben: Oh, I'm good. I-I'm... I'm very good. Um... how are you?
Dean: Wish I could say the same. Classes are overcrowded, budget's being cut. Minnie and I lost the house, too.
Ben: Oh, no. No.
Dean: That genesis event.
Ben: Terraforming.
Dean: Right. We're in student housing now.
Ben: Oh, I'm sure Minnie loves that.

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...

Ben: Sometimes things happen in life that we can't explain. Like a good man being sent to an early grave. And when, not if, these things happen, it can make us feel like we want to give up. So, I'm very happy to, uh, read to you my father's favorite quote. Well, it's the only quote he knew. Winston Churchill. "Never give in."
[momentarily taken aback seeing Lena]
Ben: "Never give in. Never, in nothing, great or small, large or petty, except in considerations of honor and good sense. Never yield to force, or the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy that confronts you. Never. Never, ever, give in."

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.

Mercy: Professor Lockwood.
Ben: Well, that depends on who's asking.
Mercy: Someone who knows that you and your friends have been harassing alien immigrants for the last couple of months. Hurting them, killing them. Get in.

Peter: Remember how I raised you, kid. And you raise Georgie the same way.
Ben: Yes, sir.
Peter: All right? You stand tall. Stand proud. You're a Lockwood. You're human. This planet belongs to you. Stand up and fight for what's yours.
Ben: [crying] Dad!
[with a rumble, a steel beam falls down nearby]
Ben: I love you, dad.
Peter: Love you, too. Now, go. Go be the man I raised you to be.

Ben: [learning his father closed his steel mill] Okay, we might not have much, but we still have the house. We can... we can get a second mortgage. I'm gonna go talk to the bank.
Peter: Talk. That's mostly what you do, right? Talk, talk, talk. When what you should be doing is go out there...
Ben: Hey.
Peter: ...and be a man.
Ben: Dad, calm down, all right? You're drunk.
Rhea: [they hear static on the television, and Rhea appears] People of Earth, do not be afraid. We come in peace. We have crossed a sea of stars in order to bring you a new way.
Peter: You were saying?

Lydia: You're a good man, Ben Lockwood.
Ben: You're not so bad yourself.

James: What can I help you with?
Ben: Well... uh, I'll just ask you. Why doesn't CatCo cover the impact of extraterrestrial attacks on your average citizen?
James: I'm surprised to hear you say that, because we make our best effort to cover every side of every story, and our coverage on the Daxamite invasion and its aftermath did win us a Pulitzer.
Ben: I'm aware of that; it's a very beautifully written article, but it treats the story like it's over and done with. Uh, in my neighborhood, people have lost their jobs, people have lost possessions, people have lost... people have lost their homes. Um... I'm sorry, it's been a hell of a week. Let me just blow your mind here, okay? Home owner's insurance. Did you know that it doesn't actually cover alien invasion? Who knew?
James: We did, because we covered that in our Business section.
Ben: Right, and that's all the way in the back, and it turns the common person into numbers and statistics. I am here to tell you there are people behind these numbers. People who are hurting, and it would be so very helpful if you would just tell their stories, too.
James: Professor Lockwood, I appreciate your position, and I'm very sorry for what you've been going through.
Ben: Did you hear anything that I... this isn't about just me.
Eve: [entering] Uh, Mr. Olsen, I have Lena Luthor on the line for you.
James: I have to cut this short, but, um, you make some valid points, and I'll bring them up to Ms. Luthor.
Ben: Lena Luthor... what the hell does she have to do with any of this?
James: I'm not sure if you've heard, but she runs this place now.

Earl: Hey, thanks for hiring us to patch up your place, Ben. Jobs have been scarce since the factory shut.
Frank: Jobs are scarce 'cause of the roaches.
Thack: Damn right. Remember what your old man said, Ben? "Never give up."
Frank: The fact that monstrosity is still standing while this place has been left to rot, it's an insult to us all.
Ben: What if we did something? Seriously, what if we did something? I mean, it's like dad always said, "You can talk, talk, talk. Sooner or later, a man's gotta stand up and be a man! And he's gotta fight."
Earl: That's all well and good, but what can we do?
Ben: I don't know.
[thinking for a moment, an idea comes to him]
Ben: What if we burn it down?