Supergirl · Season 1
How are you capable of this?
When you broke into my mind to stop me from killing the Lockwood brood, you opened up a motorway. It goes both ways. So whenever you poke around in my mind, I can poke around in yours. So I did. And looky what I found. Your people's most powerful weapon.
You don't know what you're toying with.
Oh, but I do. I dug deep into your mind. And the ground. You call yourself a man of peace, Martian, but your god was one of wrath!
Wow. Nice prison you got here.
It's for conjugal visits. But still, after this, it's back to concrete and iron.
Sounds lonely.
Stryker's is a petri dish. Bottle city. I've even managed to teach some of the inmates chess. I like mentoring.
It's a waste. You're a once-in-a-generation mind, and the only man standing between us and total annihilation.
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?
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?
Money, as discussed.
Not as liquid as he used to be.
I warn you, you are only a consultant.
Cross my heart.
You've read that one more than the others. Gatsby. Why?
It's beautiful. Lush. I, uh... I think that's the word. The language... it's hard to even imagine the world that way.
I didn't give it to you because it's pretty. This is a book about vapid, profligate fools. Money is always acquired at someone else's expense.
But you have money. You must. The way you come and go...
I do. Because it is their weapon. The way their world works. Read it again.
So what's the play?
Paper tigers.
[confused] Uh...
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.
So you wanna help them?
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.
I think I know just the guy, Mr. Luthor. Name's Ben Lockwood, seems smart.
I'm glad someone does.
Wait. Where you going?
Back to Stryker's. Prison's the best alibi the world has yet devised, and I'm about to need a lot of alibis.
I just realized, you haven't asked me why I need the black rock.
I assumed homicide.
Just the opposite. I'm dying.
I, uh... I come offering donuts and my help. Lex usually attacks within the first 48 hours of escaping. Now, I know we've had our differences, but I think we should team up to catch him.
While I appreciate a good cinnamon cruller, Supergirl, the President has ordered to redirect manpower to Washington, D.C.
For security. In case of any unrest after the repeal vote.
So, who's looking for Lex?
FBI, CIA, US Marshals. I believe SEAL Teams one through six. Everyone but us.
I have been tasked with tracking down Lex. And I'd like to ask you about Eve Tessmacher.
You're gonna use Eve to get to Lex.
I think she's the weak link.
I want in on the investigation.
Lena, you were just assaulted.
Yeah, and I'm not a cop, but I know Eve.
Okay. But you should know that I'm working with Supergirl on this.
Finding Lex is more important than any differences we may have.
So what's the answer?
H'ronmeer save me. This again?
I need guidance. Why won't you save me?
Why should I? I'm not the one who failed as the one task I have. Or was it another Green Martian who erased the mind of the DEO colonel, who reached into Manchester Black's brain to inflict pain upon him, and opened a channel for him to access your mind so he could defile my grave site and steal the Staff of K'hollar, which he could've used to destroy planet Earth?
Everything I did, I did in the name of peace.
You killed him.
He was a killer.
Then so are you.
Well, what would you have me do? Sit around and pray all day while the world around me burns like you did on Mars?
At least I didn't run.
I have been trying to make up for that. By protecting this planet.
Trying and failing.
If I'm such a failure, why did you trust me with the Symbols?
Because you said you could handle it. You insisted...
I shouldn't have! I tried to you, Father, but I can't! And you should never have asked me. I'm not a man of peace! And if that means I have to give up the Symbols, and Martian religion has to die, then so be it. At least I will know who I am!
And who are you?
I'M THE MARTIAN MANHUNTER!
So this is the team.
Yes, Lena has joined us.
Uh, so why are we in the 'burbs?
Well, I realized that Eve is in love with Lex.
Crazy Lex-Girlfriend.
Which indicates her heart drives her actions.
And she spoke fondly of an elderly aunt, her only family in the city.
Mary Tessmacher. This is her house. Eve used to visit every Sunday.
You tricked me into getting angry.
You were angry already. Just pushing it down. And you were right to be angry with me, J'onn. I wasn't clear. I said I wished for your to promote peace, but I never intended for you to become me. I meant only that your should help the world in whatever state is true to you. When I found you again, I was so proud of the Martian you had become. I never meant to make you feel you had to change, J'onn. I'm sorry. I failed to impart my unconditional love for you.
I'm so sorry I couldn't be the keeper of the Sacred Symbols, Father.
Hmm. You were able to keep the Symbols alive a little longer. That brought comfort to an old Martian. The important thing is, you know who you are.
Maybe there's another way. H'ronmeer gave us the Symbols in the heart of the desert of T'ozz. I could return them there.
A hard journey. And if you succeed, they will lie dormant until someone worthy comes to claim them.
Maybe somebody will.
Hmm.
Thank you, Father, for all your help.
You know, J'onn, I'm just an extension of your memory of me. Any answers you found, they came from inside you.
Yeah, I know. But it was still really good to see you.
It was good to see you, too... Martian Manhunter.
I mean, people actually believe that I attacked the White House. They think I'm a terrorist. Years of helping people just wiped away with one lie.
No, not one lie, it's lots of lies. And Ben Lockwood has been telling whoppers for months. He's just creating division. And then most of the country is just terrified and now they're looking for solutions to make any sense of it.
Shouldn't the truth matter more?
No, not when Lex is involved. He's an expert at perception. Consummate gaslighter. He can make you doubt things that you know are true.
Lockwood.
"Secretary Lockwood" now, of the Cabinet-level Department of Alien Affairs.
Should be inmate 42053 of the National City prison.
[sarcastically] So good to see you, too.
Mr. Secretary, how can we help you?
I am here to requisition any alien technology or weapons that may assist in containing Supergirl. And then you'll summon Supergirl here.
So you can ambush her?
So we can serve justice.
Even if we could summon Supergirl, I would need a presidential order to comply with your request, as per paragraph four, subsection A of the DEO charter. Isn't that correct, Colonel?
That is the protocol.
Okay, let me ask you a question. Are you absolutely certain that you want to waste my time?
We may not know each other well, Mr. Lockwood, but I do things by the book, even for Secretaries.
My commanding officer and I both agree that we think that something suspicious is going on at the Department of Alien Affairs, and I am trying to tell her that we can't just follow their every order, but she insists on the chain of command. And I don't know how to reach her.
Well, uh... can I take a stab?
Please.
You need to stop getting angry and get smart. Okay, now I had a real jerk of a C.O. We were stationed at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Bashur. And one day, a man pulled up in this decrepit pickup, his pregnant wife in the back, and he's just trying to get to the only midwife in the region. Just a half mile across town. And the C.O. doesn't care. Rules are rules and he doesn't have the right papers.
So what did you do?
I yelled and screamed about doing the right thing and got nowhere. But my sergeant convinced the C.O. that it would be safer for his unit not to risk the life of the man's wife and child. He knew what the C.O. cared most about; his men. You can't change people. But you can appeal to who they are. Even the toughest C.O.s care about something. [silence, as Alex mulls things over] Let me guess, right now you're wishing that you never called me.
Actually, it's quite the opposite. I'm really glad you didn't leave.
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