Supergirl quotes

Eliza

[comes to Alex who is working on the computer] So, what is it?

Alex

I've got the mainframe breaking down the virus on a molecular level.

Eliza

No, I mean I know you've been trying to tell me something.

Alex

Oh, no. No. [collects herself] How?

Eliza

Keeping a secret disagrees with you, sweetie.

Alex

This isn't like that, Mom.

Eliza

Does it have anything to do with Maggie? You mention her a lot. Oh, my beautiful Alexandra, why is it so hard for you to tell me?

Alex

I feel like I'm... letting you down. Somehow.

Eliza

Why would your being gay ever let me down?

Alex

You always wanted me to have a regular life.

Eliza

Alex, look at the life our family has led. Look at me, look at your sister. I don't think you believed that I ever expected you to have a regular life. You were always gonna be different, Alex, because you were always exceptional, and I love you however you are. Come here! [hugs Alex]

J'onn

[joins Kara on the balcony] I like this view much better than the stalactites of our last office. Here, the lives we are charged to protect are always in view.

Kara

Kind of reminds me of the view from my room on Krypton. I could see the whole city from that window. All the lights, pods zooming by. But then again, I guess I didn't truly see anything. All my life, I thought my parents were the good guys. And now the more I learn, the more I see things, how they really are. And more... that I'm ashamed to be their daughter.

J'onn

Kara, your parents tried to protect the planet, they tried to save lives.

Kara

I'm sure Lex and Lillian Luthor thought their intentions were good, too. Is this their legacy? Death and destruction across the universe?

J'onn

Your parents' legacy is not death and destruction, Kara Zor-El. It's you.

Lena Luthor

[smiling] You know, that door's not really an entrance.... You know, actually, I just wanted to thank you for earlier on. Not only did you save the lives of countless numbers of my employees, but mine as well.

Supergirl

Now I need your help.

Lena

Anything.

Supergirl

I need help finding your mother.

Lena

My mother?

Supergirl

Your mother is behind Cadmus. She's their leader.

Lena

You're lying.

Supergirl

I'm not. She kidnapped me, and now she possesses a virus that she could wipe out the entire alien population in National City. I need you to help me find her, so that she doesn't hurt anymore innocent people.

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 her 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

You can leave the same way you came in.

Maggie

[arrives at Alex's apartment with a pizza] Hey. Hungry?

Alex

Yes. Come in, please. Ignore the pajamas.

Maggie

No, they're cute.

Alex

It's late. You got a case or something? Oh God, I could really use a good old-fashioned murder right now.

Maggie

I didn't come here for work. I just really needed to see you and talk to you.

Alex

Is everything okay?

Maggie

Umm... Well, here's the thing: I– I almost died.

Alex

Uh... Yeah, no I would not have let that happen.

Maggie

I know that, but um... It got me thinking that I– I was so stupid. I thought that, and I guess it was kinda right, that you came out for me, and that scared me. Umm.. but umm... Life is too short, and we should be who we are, and we should kiss the girls that we want to kiss. And I really just... I– I want to kiss you. [kisses Alex]

This better be the right place. 'Cause if this isn't the right place, someone's about to be real confused.

Kara

Barry!

Barry

Hey.

Kara

I knew it. I knew that was you. I knew that it was you and that weird space portal thing! [hugs Barry] Hi.

Barry

Yeah. I'm sorry. It took a couple tries to get here. This is my friend Cisco.

Well, "friend" is a loose term. We work together. Hi. I have to say it, this is a nice universe you got here.

Kara

Thank you.

Barry

Okay, do you remember last year, when I helped you out and you promised to do the same for me?

Kara

What are we up against?

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.

Mon-El

So we're stuck on the most dangerous planet in the galaxy, we don't have our powers, and you're optimistic how?

Kara

Because they (the kidnapped humans) need us to be.

Mon-El

See, this is what I've been telling you, Kara. You know, if you go looking for trouble, you will always find it. You do. You're, like,... you're, like, the winner at it.

Kara

'Cause that's what heroes do. They fight. They don't sit and hide in a bar because it's easier than getting involved.

Mon-El

I am not hiding. I'm being smart. It's a dangerous universe. And why do you have to be the one who saves everyone every time?

Kara

Because our worlds may have been destroyed, but we were spared for a reason.

Mon-El

Uh, luck.

Kara

I refuse to believe that. I believe you keep fighting. Whether you're stuck on another world. whether or not you have your powers, you never give in. It's the difference between you and me.

Winn

I'm scared

Alex

You don't think I was afraid the first time I went out in the field? Dude, I was terrified. But nobody gets better by running away.

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.

Alex

My parents always relied on me to watch over my sister, so the few times that I ever did anything for myself, it ended badly. And then Supergirl went missing and I just blew a gasket...

Maggie

Because Supergirl's your sister.

Alex

What are you talking about?

Maggie

Come on. Look, I know you. The only person you get that torn up over is Kara. Plus the glasses don't help.

Alex

I always said that too. It's kind of ridiculous.

Alex

If anyone can help her, J'onn, it's you. I know how you feel about White Martians --

Hank

Don't ask me to do this, Alex.

Alex

You have shown them mercy before --

Hank

NOT THIS!! I will not give her my people's memories! I will not give her my daughter's smiles! Her kind has taken enough from me. From us. If she dies, she dies. She deserves it a thousand times over. Let her drown in her own sins.

Kara

I... I am... I'm losing my mind right now. Livewire's just out there right now roaming the streets, and I don't know where she is or when she'll strike. I just know... she's out there somewhere and she's gonna hurt people.

James

The city's not defenseless, Kara.

Kara

I hate having a nemesis. Clark always makes it look so much fun, like... like you have a deadly pen pal you see once a year. But having a nemesis is stressful.

Kara

You are never going to be strong enough for this (being Guardian).

James

You do not get to decide who is a hero. And who are you to tell me how to be? Or who to be? I am meant for this.

Kara

If you don't stop, I'll stop you.

James

You're welcome to try.

Alex

When I needed her (M'gann) -- when you needed her -- she opened up a vein for you. I mean, she had to know that there was a chance saving you would reveal her a White Martian. She did it anyway. She said she tried to help your kind.

Hank

I suspect that's true.

Alex

Then what's the harm in the Bond? I mean, if you can see into her past, maybe you can find some good in there.

Hank

I don't want to forgive her.

Alex

Why?

Hank

Hate becomes your reason for living when you've lost everything that you love. If I find that there was some good in her kind... I don't hate her.

Alex

Forgiveness isn't something that you give to somebody who's hurt you. Forgiveness is something that you give to yourself.

I hid who I was. I said I was a Green (Martian). I wanted....

Hank

Tell me.

M'gann

To be your friend. I couldn't bring your people back to life, but I could make you feel less alone. I'm so sorry.

Hank

I'm here with you. I see you. You are my friend. M'gann M'orzz... you are forgiven.

M'gann

J'onn...

Hank

It's time to come home