Snapper Carr quotes from Supergirl

Snapper

In the venn diagram of things I care about, there is coffee and there is Danish. The manna from Heaven that keeps me barely, just barely, tethered to the mortal coil.

Snapper Carr

You don't get a chair, Ponytail.

Kara

That's fine. I like action better anyway. I can pound the pavement.

Snapper

You don't get a chair 'cause you don't work here.

Kara

But that's not your call. Miss Grant hired me.

Snapper

I don't care what Cat says. My office, my hires.

Kara

But this is the job I chose.

Snapper

Oh, you chose it. Well, you didn't earn it. You don't just become a reporter. This isn't a Facebook status update. You're a reporter because you went to journalism school or because you walked the beat. Either way, journals live to tell stories. To get to the truth. To get their hands dirty.

Kara

I'll admit I have a lot to learn, but if you just give me an assignment --

Snapper

No assignment. No job. Now get your entitled ass out of my office before I channel my last divorce and break you emotionally.

Snapper

You're supposed to be at the sanitation department, getting figures on pelican deaths at the trash dump.

Kara

I'm so excited about that, but I just overheard a report about a murdered alien on my NCPD scanner. They're calling it "alien on alien violence."

Snapper

An alien got killed. An alien did it. Where's the story?

Kara

I... I just told you the story.

Snapper

Really? So you got an actual NCPD source to speak on the record? Did you talk to the victim's family? Set up an interview with the DA's office to see if and when charges will be filed? Where's the medical examiner's report? Did you research economic and demographic indicators of vice in context of human-alien race relations?

Kara

All very good questions... Uh...

Snapper

You didn't give me a story, you gave me a half-baked idea. Go bake it fully, then I'll talk to you. [Kara shakes her head exasperatedly] Go! Bake, bake, bake!

Kara

I know that you want me to follow my head. But I would rather be wrong about a dozen leads than not follow the ones I believe in. That's the kind of reporter I wanna be. I'm always going to follow my heart.

Snapper

Your therapy bills.

Kara

Have a great day, Chief.

Snapper

[smiling, sotto voce] Atta girl, Danvers.

Kara

I'm not one to usually gloat or say "I told you so", but... doesn't seem like I was the one with confirmation bias.

Snapper

Yesterday, she was guilty. Today, she's not. It's not confirmation bias, Danvers. It's just the news game. Since you got enough time on your hands to stand around and look up at that TV, how 'bout you get out there, get an exclusive on Lena Luthor? This time... try to spell "exclusive" right.

Kara

You're firing me.

Snapper

Of course I am... Danvers.com. You deliberately published an article using CatCo resources on a competing social media platform, which is not only a conflict of interest, but also a direct and flagrant breach of contract.

Kara

But you refused to run the story. I thought what I was doing was right.

Snapper

What "right"? You were lucky. Next time, you might not be. One wrong statistic about the stock market, and suddenly we're in a Great Depression. One misattributed quote from a candidate, and you put a fascist in the White House. The rules are there for a reason: to make sure you get the story right. That's not luck. That's being a good reporter. Y'know, the worst part is... I was rootin' for you.

Kara

I heard Supergirl saved you.

Snapper

Yeah, she was there.

Kara

Did you say "Thank you"?

Snapper

Once, to a divorce lawyer. It was uncomfortable for everyone involved.

Snapper

What's this? More alternative "facts"?

Kara

It's all my research on Spherical. I thought I'd help your story.

Snapper

[considers] What's in it for you, Ponytail?

Kara

I know we've had our differences... but I've learned a lot from you. And the biggest thing I've learned is that, it's not the reporter that matters, it's the truth that matters. And CATCO will get the truth to more people. Also, I wanted to get the truth out so badly that I disobeyed you. I broke the rules. You were right. I was lucky when I posted my first blog on Cadmus without your permission. I let you down. And I apologize.

Snapper

.... Finally.

Kara

Yeah, I'll get out of here.

Snapper

Oh, so now that you share a byline with me, you're too good to work late?

Kara

But I thought...

Snapper

I just said that you did a good job, Danvers. You didn't give up, even when that whistle blower got killed. You weren't afraid to pursue the truth, no matter what the risk. And we need more reporters like that. More reporters like you, that care about the truth.

Kara

So I have my job back?

Snapper

Unless you're thinking of starting a food truck . [takes a bite of Kara's Danish] Don't start a food truck.