Alex Danvers quotes from Supergirl

Maggie

Are you sure you want to give up on this? Sure you want to do this, give up on something tangible and real? Some... us, it's us. For some notion of being a mom?

Alex

It's not some notion. Ever since I was little, when I would see a mom and her kids, this thing would happen to me, this recognition that I would be a mom too. And it wasn't some you know... "I want that" or "I hope someday that I have that". It's just something that I've always known. Even when everything else, when it was boyfriend, girlfriend, whatever, when that was blurry... The part of me being a mom, that's always been crystal clear. And if I deny that, I'm gonna feel it forever. I wish I could change the way I feel, but I can't.

Alex

What's the point of all this?

Kara

[sighing] I dunno. We need to sleep. We always slept well here.

Alex

So I'll stay for, like, three days, and Mom will cook tons of food, and I'll gain, like, five pounds, and then walk back into an empty apartment.

Kara

Do you wanna talk about it? It might help.

Alex

You don't get to do that.

Kara

What?

Alex

You don't get to shut down, what, for six months after Mon-El goes, and now sit here and tell me to talk.

Kara

It will get better.

Alex

Yeah? [leans forward, looks Kara right in the eye] Are you better?

Young Alex

Where were you?

Young Kara

None of your business.

Young Alex

It is if I'm the one who would get in trouble for whatever dumb thing you were doing.

Young Kara

I am so sick and tired of you blaming me for every bad thing that's happened to you.

Young Alex

Really? Because my mom wasn't constantly on my ass before you came along. I didn't have to act like some Earthly ambassador to the teenage underworld before you came along, and I'm pretty sure my dad wasn't gone before you came along.

Young Kara

How is that my fault?

Young Alex

Before you crashed in that pod, I had a great life. With two great parents. Now all I have is you. And you are not worth it.

Young Kara

This thing looks water-damaged.

Young Alex

After being outside all night, I can't believe it's even on.

Young Kara

Um, Clark has a friend named Chloe who might be able to help. She really loves weird tech stuff like this. She even has this whole wall of weird.

Young Alex

Okay, I have no idea what any of that means, but send her a zip drive of everything we find.

Young Alex

Kenny saw you.

Should've kept that telescope up in the sky. He was such a smart kid, good kid.

Young Alex

He was my friend.

Look, I didn't want to hurt him.

Young Alex

What did you want?

Little compensation, maybe. Get paid like a dog protecting spoiled rich folks. Drugs come over the border from Canada, hardly even hiding, must think I'm a joke. And the government wants me to burn it. Why not get a little something back for myself? That's all.

Young Alex

Yeah, real heartbreaking. You're a scumbag who kills kids to cover his own ass. You're pathetic!

You're real brave. Not even screaming. Not that anyone could hear you.

Young Alex

Someone's listening right now. Someone who can hear every single word you say. Every time you breathe. Can you feel it? She's coming. [shouts] Here! I'm down here!

Young Kara

Are you okay?

Young Alex

Duh, I knew you would come.

Alex

Ooo. Your eye. What happened to you?

Oh, I was spreading the truth to my fellow inmates. They would have preferred I lie.

Alex

Do you want to spread a little truth to me? I'll pass it along to Supergirl. You're her biggest fan, right? She said that you knew about the Reign of the Beast. What else do you know that can help us beat her?

Beat her? She's already won.

Alex

No. Supergirl's still alive.

She was supposed to rise, find her faith, and deliver it. But Supergirl refused her faith and she failed the test.

Alex

Supergirl will defeat her. You just have to help us stop her.

Supergirl lost so that Reign can prepare us for what comes next.

Alex

Never underestimate Supergirl.

J'onn

No Supergirl. No cavalry. Reign is strong. But she doesn't know what we're capable of. Let's show her.

Alex

You ready? [tosses J'onn a gun]

J'onn

I just had a conversation about James Olsen's extraordinary kissing ability. This'll be a Sunday picnic.

Alex

Well, I'm... I mean, I'm not doing anything. So I'm happy to have Ruby here with me.

Samantha

No, I couldn't ask you. Look at your leg.

Ruby

Come on, Mom, let me stay with Alex. At the Christmas party, she promised to teach me how to punch without breaking my thumb.

Alex

Full disclosure: I am not a good babysitter.

Kara

Yeah. You should listen to her 'cause one time, she made me watch The Shining, and I had nightmares for weeks.

Alex

Um, okay, she was fifteen --

Kara

So?

Alex

So... you were the one who wanted to watch it.

Samantha

Um, so I looked up my symptoms. Memory loss, headaches. It could be really bad. Like, brain tumor bad. ALS.

Alex

You know what else causes memory loss. Caffeine withdrawal. Yikes.

Kara

Alex, wait, listen to me. I am used to you being pragmatic, but since when have you become so hard and cynical?

Alex

Well, not all of us are bulletproof, Kara!

Kara

I know.

Alex

So cynicism... that's what's keeping the rest of us alive.

Kara

Seems like it's killing you. My sister, the sister I know, she has compassion for others.

Alex

You've chosen to live as a black man in America. Which is a harder existence, in and of itself. Why?

J'onn

You know, I was... I was forced to become Hank Henshaw out of desperation, but now I, I choose this face. I like it. And I wouldn't want to live in a world where I need to change the color of my skin to feel safe, to feel seen, to feel like... I'm not a target. I'd rather change the world.

M'yrnn

And whatever my son's fight may be, I choose it as well.

Alex

And I have your backs.

Alex

[drawing her gun] Hey! Stop right there.

Mon-El

Whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Guys, it's Brainy.

Brainy

Oh, of course. I'm wearing a personal image inducer. [touches his forehead, regains his alien appearance] I had to purchase some apple cider vinegar and I nearly caused a riot at the Piggly Wiggly.

Kara

Huh.

Brainy

[resuming his illusory disguise] I thought this would, uh... help me fit in better.

Winn

[walking in] Hey, guys. I just got word from City H-- [sees the disguised Brainy] .... Hi, Brainy

Kara

Wait, you-you recognize him?

Winn

Yeah. What, is that an image inducer? Eh? Ah, so our brains just think we're seeing a human, but nooo. Hey, can I borrow that for Halloween?

Well, if you're sure it's not contagious, then I need the quarantine lifted and the patients transferred to the nearest trauma facility.

Alex

We have a lead on a treatment.

You do? Already?

Winn

Well, we work very fast on account of being really smart. [smiles goofily]

Some people find humor charming during stressful circumstances. I find it's a mask for a lack of confidence.

Winn

Well, I find that... I have no retort.

Kara

I'm just tired. Brainy said it would be hard for me to carry both of you in here. Is this what it's like when humans exercise? This is terrible! Why would you ever exercise?

Alex

One foot in front of the other.

Lena

What I did wasn't personal.

Alex

You had a stash that kills Kryptonians, Lena. It's personal.

Lena

I would never use it for that. You know that.

Kara

I thought I knew everything I needed to know, but you have secrets. It changes things.

Lena

Ah, right. You don't like secrets.

Kara

Nope, I don't.

Lena

Good. What's your real name?

Kara

That's not a great question for a Luthor to ask someone in my family.

Lena

You have secrets? I can get on board with that. I have secrets, too.