- Supergirl: I want you to disable the satellites. You do that, I'll give you what you've always wanted.
- Lex Luthor: What's that? And don't say hair; that's low-hanging fruit.
- Supergirl: Me.
- Lex Luthor: [his interest piqued] Well, that is tempting. I assume there's no strings attached, no trap, no attempt to outwit me. Or has the razzle dazzle of my immortality made you forget that I'm the smartest man alive? Do you really think I'd fall for something so prosaic?
- Supergirl: I'm wearing a Truth Seeker. I think your obsession with me outweighs your desire to kill half the world. I surrender. Name the place, and bring a way to disable the satellites.
- Lex Luthor: Any place?
- Supergirl: As long as no civilians get hurt.
- Lex Luthor: The Fortress. One hour. I hear it's beautiful this time of year.
- Supergirl: I'll send you the coordinates.
- Brainiac-5: Lena, I... I need you to know that I had no idea that this was Lex's plan. I thought that if... if I was... close to him, I-I would be able to know how and when to stop him, but I... I didn't. I was so worried that... by working with Lex I was becoming the villain, that... that I lost track of... of what he was up to. I thought... that by doing this I would help save the world, but... look what it's done.
- Lena Luthor: Brainy, you were willing to sacrifice everything to save your friends. On the other hand, I was the hypocrite who believed that she had the answers to all the world's problems. It's the closest I've ever come to seeing things through Lex's eyes. Self-pity and blinding hubris should be the Luthor family motto. So if anyone's gonna win the culpability award, I've got you by a landslide.
- Brainiac-5: What do we do now?
- Lena Luthor: Try and cope with the mistakes of the past and... appreciate that we have friends who still believe in us. Now let's go save the world.
- Alex Danvers: I'm gonna borrow this portal watch. I think it could come in handy.
- Supergirl: Yeah, as long as you return it.
- Alex Danvers: I always return the things that I borrow.
- Supergirl: Oh, yeah? Tell that to every graphic tee I owned from junior high on.
- Alex Danvers: It's really nice to see you working with Lena again.
- Supergirl: Yeah. Yeah, we've got a ways to go, but... it is nice.
- Alex Danvers: I love you.
- Supergirl: I love you. Always.
- Alex Danvers: Always.
- Lena Luthor: [entering with Myriad] We have to go.
- Alex Danvers: Right.
- [opening a portal]
- Alex Danvers: I will see you later.
- [Kara nods]
- Alex Danvers: [indicating the portal watch] With this. Maybe.
- Supergirl: I am Kara Zor-El. I'm entrusting a record of all my knowledge and experiences into the crystals you see before you in the hope that they will bring guidance to others, whenever they need it, now that I'm... now that I'm gone. This is my legacy download, audio/visual, volume one.
- Alex Danvers: Well, I haven't seen you this tense since... well, since the last time the fate of the world rested on our shoulders.
- J'onn J'onnz: Redirecting those satellites isn't as simple as melding minds. To engage on that level requires complete openness. M'gann will see everything about me. Memories of my daughter, my wife... every violent thought I've ever had... about White Martians... she will know things about me that I would never choose to share. What if... subconsciously, my apprehensions derail us? We might not be able to take those satellites offline, I could... kill both of us.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn, you have been through so much in your life. War, loss, and love. You've had to face some hard truths. But so has M'gann. You know, I... I know it's easier said than done, but at the end of the day, all you can really do is trust. And who knows, engaging like this, being this open with M'gann, it could lead to something really beautiful.
- Lena Luthor: I may be able to reinforce the anti-Luthor protocol. It won't kill Lex now that he's immortal, but it might slow him down...
- Supergirl: Lena.
- Lena Luthor: Kara, he's gonna try and kill you. All right? I won't let you turn this into a suicide mission. I can't.
- Supergirl: We've got no other choice. It's okay. I've come to terms with it. As long as you guys stop the satellites and help everyone with Myriad... it'll be worth it.
- Lena Luthor: When Lex comes, you're gonna wanna take the higher path, but you know him. He plays dirty. Mean.
- Supergirl: Mm-hmm.
- Lena Luthor: Maximizing the pain wherever he can.
- Supergirl: Well, I was stuck in the Phantom Zone replaying the destruction of my planet for nearly a decade. Bring it on.
- Lena Luthor: I came to return Myriad for you to safeguard it 'til Kara gets back. I have to admit, though, I did use it one last time tonight. On Lex and my mother and everyone associated with them. I wiped their minds of Supergirl's identity. To protect you all. I understand now why keeping Kara's secret was meant to keep me safe. But, Alex, you really need to tell Kelly. She's your person. And you're gonna need someone to talk to through all of this. If you don't, you'll just end up walling yourself off, and trust me, that won't do you any good.
- J'onn J'onnz: Lena's right. Kara would want you to tell her.
- [putting a reassuring hand on Alex's shoulder]
- J'onn J'onnz: We will get her back.
- Lillian Luthor: Are you all right?
- Lex Luthor: [crushing a metal tube] I'd say I'm more than all right.
- Lillian Luthor: [he telekinetically lifts and crushes a cinderblock] Now you're just showing off.
- Lex Luthor: Not yet.
- Lillian Luthor: [putting on a metal knuckle and firing a kryptonite beam into the wall, he inscribes the House of El sigil] To think you said you weren't obsessed with the Kryptonians.
- Lex Luthor: [firing the knuckle again and blowing the sigil up] I told Lena that she had it right. Aliens shouldn't be Earth's saviors. A Luthor should. And now I will be. Leviathan is gone. Next, I'll get rid of the Kryptonian and all her friends, and then the non-believers. And once I fix this planet, I'll do what the Anti-Monitor failed to do. Fix every other planet in the universe.
- Lillian Luthor: Uh, well, that sounds like a good plan. Please get back to the part about ridding this planet of the non-believers.
- Lex Luthor: Leviathan intended to use Obsidian Platinum to kill people in VR. Instead, I used Obsidian to upgrade people's brains in perpetuity. A little thing I like to call I Love Lexi.
- Lillian Luthor: That's very alliterative, dear.
- Supergirl: [Gammenae vanishes] Where'd she go?
- J'onn J'onnz: [bolts of electricity grab him] She's in the computer.
- Lillian Luthor: Your sister is still MIA. You shouldn't be celebrating. You should be out there looking for her.
- Lex Luthor: Can't, Mother. If I calculated correctly, we should be getting a call any moment.
- [a hologram emitter pulses on]
- Lex Luthor: Oh, see?
- [Kara appears]
- Lex Luthor: Ah, the maid of might. What a surprise.
- Supergirl: We know you've placed satellites around the world, and when they sync up, they'll send out a signal killing everyone you haven't brainwashed.
- Lex Luthor: What do you want? Gold star?
- Lillian Luthor: You aren't actually considering going to the Fortress, are you? Of course it's a trap.
- Lex Luthor: Ah, no. I'm taking advantage of an opportunity. Supergirl hasn't seen new, improved me in action yet. I will destroy her.
- Lillian Luthor: And while you're doing that, her friends will be busy undoing all your hard work.
- Lex Luthor: With Supergirl out of the way, her friends will be easy targets. And even if they're successful at stopping my satellites, I'm a god, Mother. I'll have plenty of time to fix what they mess up. Oh, uh... and silver lining, if Supergirl's friends go behind my back and take down my satellites, you don't have to worry about Lena. See? It is time to celebrate.
- Supergirl: I just got your signal.
- Alex Danvers: Where are Eve and the others?
- Kelly Olsen: William took her and her mom to CatCo. She agreed to go on the record, tell him everything she knows about Lex.
- Alex Danvers: Well, that's amazing, but does William really think any article about Lex is gonna help right now? How is that possible? Everybody thinks Lex is a hero.
- Lena Luthor: I think it's worse than that. The program I was developing was supposed to expand the human mind, to do no harm. It was on the Obsidian platform, but I think... I think Lex reworked it. Rewiring the human mind so that they adored Lex when they were in the Unity Festival.
- J'onn J'onnz: That's half the world's population.
- M'gann M'orzz: What about the other half?
- Lena Luthor: Eve told me about an experiment that Lex did on two mice. One had gold eyes and it adored him, and the other... Lex emitted some radiation from a Q-wave antenna onto it and it exploded.
- Kelly Olsen: I saw people's eyes flash gold when they were coming out of the VR.
- Supergirl: That's why he launched those satellites during his world tour.
- Alex Danvers: This is Martian nanites laced with potassium iodide. It's gonna give your system a chance to repair itself now that you're out of that room. But it's not gonna be fun.
- Brainiac-5: [bolting upright with a gasp] Gamemnae. I know how to stop her. The Anti-Life Equation. Leviathan were ancient aliens, but Gamemnae's a technological being, which is exactly what the Anti-Life Equation was designed for. All we need is a method of uploading it into that center console, which has to be the ship's command hub.
- Alex Danvers: [conjuring a compatible device] Like this?
- Lena Luthor: I know it wasn't easy to trust me again. Especially with Myriad, but...
- Supergirl: You're the only person in the galaxy I know would do right by it.
- M'gann M'orzz: If we only knew how to make Lex mortal again. We need his kryptonite.
- Brainiac-5: Not kryptonite, Jarhanpurium. Fragments of that planet must have made it to Earth. It would be toxic to Lex, just like kryptonite is to Supergirl.
- J'onn J'onnz: But finding it would be like finding a needle in a haystack.
- Dreamer: That's what my dream was about. There was a green bottle, kryptonite green.
- Lena Luthor: I could invert the energy in the bottle, run it through the machine I used to make kryptonite.
- Brainiac-5: Sprock. It could work.
- Dreamer: The monument Supergirl was trapped in on Shelley Island was also in my dream. The bottle must be there.
- Brainiac-5: It's the same energy station Lex used last year on Earth-38. I'll go.
- Dreamer: No, you're still too weak. I'll go.
- Alex Danvers: And I'll go with you. Brainy, you and Lena work on Myriad and her kryptonite machine for when we bring you back that bottle.
- Supergirl: I'll get Myriad from the Fortress. And there's gotta be something there we can use to weaponize the Jarhanpurium. That way we can strip Lex of his powers and make him mortal again.
- J'onn J'onnz: But let's not forget, Lex still wants to kill us all. And he has Leviathan powers, which means he can sense us, especially Supergirl. He'll strike as soon as we try to make a move. We need another diversion.
- Supergirl: I can buy you guys time by offering myself up.
- J'onn J'onnz: We're not gonna let you do that, Supergirl. It's too risky.
- Supergirl: If that's what it takes to save half the population and stop Lex, I'm willing to take that risk.
- Kelly Olsen: Andrea? What happened?
- Andrea Rojas: [crying] My father, he... he blames me for everything.
- Kelly Olsen: What do you mean?
- Andrea Rojas: Just... Leviathan hijacking our technology, destroying our company. He said I destroyed his legacy.
- Kelly Olsen: I'm so sorry.
- Andrea Rojas: I sacrificed everything for him. I sold my soul... to make Obsidian North a success. Once the market opens tomorrow, I... I'll be bankrupt. Not just Obsidian, but CatCo, too.
- Kelly Olsen: Your father... is a selfish narcissist. You are a brilliant woman, who built this place from sheer force of will. The mistake was doing it for him.
- Brainiac-5: I meant what I said before. I truly am so sorry for everything.
- Dreamer: You hurt me, Brainy. You abandoned us. I know it was to save the world, but... what's the point of saving anything if it means you have to hurt the people who love you?
- Brainiac-5: Yeah. You're right.
- [giving her his Legion ring]
- Brainiac-5: Take this. It's a loaner while I'm recovering. And the first step in trying to... make up for everything I've done. Who knows, it might be of service.
- J'onn J'onnz: I've located Lex's satellites. Twelve of them orbiting the Earth. Each armed with Claymore cannons to fire on hard targets should any one of them be tampered with. It would appear the only way to shut them down would be to shut them all down at the same time.
- Supergirl: But only four of us can fly.
- Brainiac-5: Synchronizing our movements, too, could prove impossible.
- M'gann M'orzz: We could shut it down with the Dorkri Surth-Uh.
- Alex Danvers: The what?
- M'gann M'orzz: A Martian ritual which translates to "the binding".
- Supergirl: And you could use this on the satellites?
- J'onn J'onnz: It would require M'gann and I to join our minds, synchronize our thoughts. We could create a web of psychic energy that we could literally bind onto things and move them in unison.
- M'gann M'orzz: We can do it.
- Alex Danvers: Okay, but even if you stopped the satellites, half the people out there are still gonna be brainwashed by Lex.
- Supergirl: Lena, if you had the code Lex used, could you reverse it using Myriad?
- Lena Luthor: Myriad. Y-Yes, but... you'd trust me? Even after everything?
- Supergirl: You want to help people. Whatever else has happened, I know what's in your heart.
- Dreamer: Let me in!
- Brainiac-5: [weakly] Can't.
- Dreamer: Yeah. Yes, you can. There's a panel. You can hit it.
- Brainiac-5: Radiation.
- Dreamer: I'm not gonna let you die.
- Brainiac-5: Nia, you should hear this. You have to work with Lex to destroy Leviathan. Pushing you away, hurting you, it was to protect you. I love you.
- Dreamer: No, you're not getting off the hook that easily.
- Alex Danvers: What am I gonna do with Kelly? I mean, how... how am I supposed to explain all this?
- Lena Luthor: Kelly doesn't know that Kara is Supergirl?
- [Alex shakes her head, and Lena gives her a comforting hug]
- Lex Luthor: [playing around with the various weapons in the Fortress to "We Are the Champions"] Well, if you're here to save the Girl of Steel, you're one glam-rock hit too late.
- Supergirl: [landing with Alex, M'gann, and Dreamer] Are we?
- Lex Luthor: [surprised she's alive] How?
- Supergirl: You're predictable. You can thank your sister for proving that.
- Lex Luthor: You still think you can beat me? I'm invincible.
- Dreamer: [raising the Jarhanpurium weapon] Not if we have anything to say about it.
- Supergirl: Welcome to mortality, Lex.
- Lex Luthor: [the weapon jams] Oh, that's just embarrassing.
- Lena Luthor: How's it coming?
- Brainiac-5: Kelly was able to access Lex's code at Obsidian. Thus far, it's been easy enough to reverse-engineer, but the sequencing, the control flow... the way Lex was able to override free will with a few keystrokes... it's quite terrifying.
- Lena Luthor: The code was my design. Are J'onn and M'gann in position?
- Brainiac-5: Affirmative. And we're ready to trigger Myriad as soon as they take down all the satellites.
- Lena Luthor: Hopefully, Supergirl will keep Lex busy long enough so we can stop him.
- Lex Luthor: What, no pleading, no hopeful pontification about how I can change and learn to be a better person...
- [blabbering]
- Lex Luthor: That's your problem, Kara. You, Leviathan, you're all the same. Pushing an agenda, trying to make humanity bend in ways that it just doesn't want to.
- Supergirl: Yeah, like you tried to bend Lena, pitting her against me? You're a man with alien DNA coursing through him, thinking he knows what's best for this world. Sound familiar?
- Lex Luthor: Sounds like someone willing to do whatever it takes to save humanity.
- Alex Danvers: Brainy's intel was spot-on. Let's find that bottle.
- Otis Graves: [taking the bottle out of a safe] Hey, little guys, Uncle Otis is gonna protect you no matter what.
- Alex Danvers: Otis?
- Dreamer: Hand over the bottle.
- [behind them, Lillian powers up an energy weapon]
- Dreamer: Guys. I found recording crystals.
- Lex Luthor: Ah, yes. When I arrived, she was in the middle of a missive. Sort of a last will and testament. Very dry. You're lucky I cut her off when I did.
- Alex Danvers: [Nia moves to insert the crystal] No. No, no, no. We are not watching those, 'cause Kara is not dead. We are bringing her home. And you are going to wish that you were dead while you are rotting in that cell.
- Lex Luthor: Hmm. About that... I'm not going anywhere near a cell. Unless you want me to reveal Supergirl's identity. She may be gone, but she still has an awful lot of enemies out there. It would be tragic if Mama Danvers or your lovely Kelly Olsen were to become the target of one of...
- Lena Luthor: [slugging him, hard] Sorry. Did you want to do that?
- Alex Danvers: No. Family first.
- Lex Luthor: Careful. I bruise easily. I'm not immortal anymore, remember?
- J'onn J'onnz: Brainy, what's taking so long with that projector?
- Brainiac-5: The data's been wiped. I don't know if it's recoverable, and the projector itself...
- Lena Luthor: No, we don't need it. I'll just open a transmat portal like I did during Crisis.
- Brainiac-5: No, no, no. Even if that were to work, without the coordinates of where he sent her, she could be anywhere in the Phantom Zone.
- Lex Luthor: A Phantom Zone projector.
- [as he summons it, Kara kicks the Jarhanpurium to Alex, who loads the weapon, and the two discharge simultaneously]
- Alex Danvers: [seeing Kara de-materialize] Kara! No!
- Lex Luthor: I won.
- Nia Nal: [returning Brainy's Legion ring] I think this belongs to you. Came in handy. Thanks.
- Brainiac-5: I should have protected Kara. I failed. I failed everyone.
- Nia Nal: You didn't fail, Brainy. You defeated Leviathan.
- Brainiac-5: Supergirl is gone. Lex Luthor lives. I should have let the other Brainiac-5s take on Leviathan, because clearly, I was too stupid to get it right.
- Nia Nal: Brainy, stop! You are not stupid. You were put in a no-win situation and you did the best you could.
- Brainiac-5: I hurt you. That... was not the best.
- Nia Nal: You did. But I still care about you.
- Brainiac-5: How can you be so kind after... after everything? It's not logical.
- Nia Nal: The heart isn't logical. When we thought you were dying on the Leviathan ship, you said that you loved me. If that's still true and... you want to fix us, you need to start engaging with me honestly, no matter what. Even if you think you're protecting me. Because, Brainy, I am not a woman who needs to be protected.
- Brainiac-5: Of course. You're a woman who stops tidal waves... and who dreams impossible things.
- Nia Nal: And loves you, too.
- [offering a pinky swear]
- Nia Nal: No more secrets?
- Brainiac-5: I promise.
- Lex Luthor: Volume two? I suppose brevity was never in your arsenal of superpowers.
- Supergirl: Did you bring it?
- Lex Luthor: [holding a hand-held device up] Behold... my remote controller, preloaded with the key codes to deactivate every one of my birds in the sky.
- [he tosses it off the side and blasts her with kryptonite from his metal knuckle]
- Lex Luthor: You didn't actually think I was gonna give you the real key codes, did you?
- Supergirl: [infected with kryptonite] No.
- Lex Luthor: A word of advice: next time you land on somebody else's planet, try one where the sun boosts your brain and your brawn. Oh, but I just remembered... for you... there won't be a next time.
- Mackenzie: I can't believe it. Lex Luthor, a bad guy?
- Andrea Rojas: Believe it, Mackenzie. Lucky for us, our very own William Dey has the inside scoop. This firsthand account Eve Teschmacher gave you, it's going to earn CatCo another Pulitzer.
- Hari: You mean we're still in business? After what happened with Obsidian?
- Andrea Rojas: Sadly, Obsidian North has folded. But that is my father's problem. He bought all my shares right before the company crashed this morning. I realize in retrospect, I was undervaluing CatCo. We could be a beacon, the crown jewel of investigative journalism. We certainly have the talent. And reporting in-depth, real news, we can change hearts and minds. We'll start our relaunch with unparalleled news coverage on Lex Luthor, thanks to William.
- William Dey: Well, it wasn't just me, Andrea. That story has a shared byline. Kara Danvers, she's been with me following every lead on Lex since I got to National City.
- Andrea Rojas: Oh. Well, where is Ms. Danvers? I'd like to thank her.
- Nia Nal: She's with Cat Grant on a story. She said it was supposed to be the biggest of her life.
- William Dey: Kara left town?
- Nia Nal: I guess when Cat says "jump", you jump.
- Andrea Rojas: Well, since Kara is exclusive to CatCo, whatever story Cat's pulled her away to do will be our front page soon. Let's hope it's a doozy. Tick-tock. Everyone back to work. We've got a paper to put out.
- Lillian Luthor: I want it on the record that I'm resisting the urge to say I told you your obsession with the Kryptonians would end like this.
- Lex Luthor: [sarcastic] I'm glad you held your tongue, Mother.
- William Dey: Did you speak to Kara yourself? I just can't believe she left without telling me.
- Nia Nal: Alex told me. I'm sure she would have called you if she could have, William.
- Alex Danvers: Did Malefic have any advice about getting her back?
- J'onn J'onnz: Unfortunately not. He was only able to find Midnight in the Phantom Zone because he knew her exact location. He did tell me about someone who once mounted a rescue mission there, though.
- Alex Danvers: Well, we need to get to them, now.
- J'onn J'onnz: M'gann's already looking for him.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn, I need my sister. Hey, the people out there... the... Nia covered for her at CatCo, but everyone else, they need to know that she's still around, that she's protecting people.
- J'onn J'onnz: You are not your sister, but you're every part a hero as she is. I've seen that every day I've spent with you. And I saw it today, when you summoned the strength and belief in yourself to take down Lex Luthor. In fact, you remind me of a colleague I once had on Mars called N'orr Cott. We were a team. Every time I put criminals away, she would always stand guard in case of a surprise escape or an ambush. She had patience, courage and commitment, just like you. We called her Sentinel. I want to show you something.
- [showing her a stamped bar of silver]
- J'onn J'onnz: This was her symbol, and now I think it should be yours.
- Alex Danvers: [trying it out] Sentinel. I like that.
- J'onn J'onnz: We will get her back. Until then, together we will keep this city safe.
- Lillian Luthor: I'm afraid we haven't time for any last words, Dream Girl...
- Dreamer: It's "Dreamer".
- [she kicks the weapon out of Lillian's hands]
- Alex Danvers: [tasering Otis] Who's got the headache now?
- [Lillian portals them away]
- Alex Danvers: [handing the bottle to Nia] Here. Let's hope we're not too late for Kara.
- M'gann M'orzz: We have to make sure that all the satellites are in exact alignment to start the binding.
- [seeing something is on J'onn's mind]
- M'gann M'orzz: What's wrong?
- J'onn J'onnz: You realize, after this, win or lose, everything will be different between us.
- M'gann M'orzz: Well, then we'd better make this count.
- Lex Luthor: I knew that fixing this planet would require big moves that not everyone would appreciate. So I took the advantage of Lena's delivery system to make sure that everyone in VR would always appreciate me, no matter what I do.
- Lillian Luthor: And what about the people who were not in VR? The ones unenlightened to the goodness that is my son?
- Lex Luthor: The satellites I launched during the Obsidian world tour are armed with sonic weapons poised to obliterate the minds of anyone who didn't get the I Love Lexi upgrade. My satellites will be aligned to beam the kill frequency in about five hours.
- Lillian Luthor: I assume I will be safe without being brainwashed to love you, since I already do.
- Lex Luthor: 'Course, Mother. There's a special doohickey with your name on it.
- Lillian Luthor: And your sister. You can't kill her, either.
- Lex Luthor: Why not? She killed me first.
- Lillian Luthor: If you hurt your sister in any way, I will turn on you. And no amount of brainwashing will stop me. You'll be all alone, save for the sycophants you detest. Think of how tragic your father's demise was. Is that how you want to end up?
- [giving him a firm slap on the cheek]
- Lillian Luthor: Save your sister.