Otis Graves quotes from Supergirl

Mercy

People love you, Ben. You have a rare gift of communication, like Franklin Roosevelt or Mussolini. The people I work with, they don't have such gifts. But I think if we could all work together, we could make this country a much better place.

Lockwood

How?

Mercy

We're gonna expose the president as a liar, a fraud, and an alien.

Lockwood

Read a little 4chan, do ya?

Mercy

I can understand why you wouldn't believe me. But can you imagine if we proved it was true? How that would change the world?

Lockwood

Well, that's a nice dream, but, um, I don't even know who you are.

Mercy

Mercy Graves. And that's my brother, Otis.

Otis Graves

[rolling down the limo's driver partition] What's up?

Mercy

[offering Ben a folder] And most importantly, this is Fiona. Part-time bartender, full-time alien rights activist. Don't be fooled by the lipstick. Beneath the disguise, she's a monster. One who is organizing other monsters to defend themselves against us. But that's okay. Because some of these creatures have skills we can use. So what do you say? Besties?

[freeing two aliens from custody] Okay. Make it look convincing.

Mercy

It's gonna look real convincing. [shoots Taylor]

I thought we didn't kill humans.

Otis

He wasn't human. He was loose ends.

Lockwood

I seem to recall you telling me that Supergirl was dead.

Otis

We never said it was official.

Mercy

We'll make her dead. The plan still stands.

Lockwood

Well, your plan is small.

Mercy

Excuse me?

Lockwood

You want to show people that aliens are monsters. That's good, but you don't do that by attacking their protectors, the police, the DEO. Yeah, that will make them afraid. That'll make them feel fear, up here, in their mind. What you need to do is make them feel it in their bones.

Mercy

And how do you plan on doing that, exactly?

Lockwood

You show them that they need to be afraid for their children.

Lex

I can show her how to master her powers and help you contain her.

I know you're the man for the job. Lex Luthor; foremost specialist on everything Krypton. You will make her Kaznia's weapon, hmm?

Lex

She'll hate whomever you want. Operant conditioning is a specialty of mine. But you'll need to follow my instructions to the letter. Can't break a Kryptonian, but maybe we can bend one.

And for this?

Lex

Money, as discussed.

Otis

Not as liquid as he used to be.

I warn you, you are only a consultant.

Lex

Cross my heart.

Otis

So what's the play?

Lex

Paper tigers.

Otis

[confused] Uh...

Lex

Chinese idiom. Paper tigers threaten, but are destroyed easily. Kaznia wants to move on the U.S. They're crazier than Russia. They wanna bring back the glory days of the Soviet Union.

Eve

So you wanna help them?

Lex

I don't care about their politics. Regimes change. Kings die. But if Kaznia attacks America, and I foil the attack, America will hail me as a hero. To do that, I'm gonna need patsies in both the East and the West. So, Otis, fetch your sister and find me a real American. Someone charismatic, a radical.

Otis

I think I know just the guy, Mr. Luthor. Name's Ben Lockwood, seems smart.

Lex

I'm glad someone does.

Otis

Wait. Where you going?

Lex

Back to Stryker's. Prison's the best alibi the world has yet devised, and I'm about to need a lot of alibis.

Otis

Where'd Supergirl go?

Kara

I don't know, but I... I saw a red blur go through that door.

Otis

[moves to leave, then stops] Wait a minute. D Block's for guys only. What are you doing here?

Kara

[trying to hide her kryptonite-infected hand] I, uh... I'm a reporter. I was doing an interview in the dining hall when the guards rushed us out. The article's on prison reform. Maybe you'd care to comment?

Otis

I don't trust the press. They always parachute into crises like this without any context for the larger systemic issues at play.