Supergirl (TV Series)

I Believe in a Thing Called Love (2021)

Jon Cryer: Lex Luthor

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• Lex Luthor : You can't just tell a woman how you feel. It scares them off.

• Lex Luthor : Nxyly is the love of my life.

  Otis Graves : I'm sorry, what?

  Lex Luthor : I know. Me? In love? I've always shouldered this world alone. I've-I've never known what it meant to have a true partner. Who could possibly match my wit, my flair, my unfiltered genius? But when I met Nxyly, I knew. She was the one. This was supposed to be so easy. Come to this time, help Nxyly get the Love totem before the Super Friends find it, and then return to the future where my Nxyly would still be alive. I can't save her if she doesn't trust me. And she won't trust me if she doesn't even like me. And if she doesn't like me now, how will she love me in the future?

  Otis Graves : I did not understand a word of that. But if she loved you before, why don't you just do that again?

  Lex Luthor : You big, beautiful idiot. That's exactly what I should do.

• Mitch : What is Lex Luthor doing here?

  Nxylgsptinz : You're Lex Luthor, the madman who sent Supergirl to the Phantom Zone.

  Lex Luthor : That was some of my best work.

  Nxylgsptinz : Do you know what I really, really loathe?

  [raising a blaster] 

  Nxylgsptinz : Men who send women to the Phantom Zone. I know exactly what you are, Lex Luthor. I've had to deal with men like you my entire life. Arrogant, narcissistic, manipulative. And I can assure you that we are not and we will never be friends.

• Lex Luthor : Now, at the risk of breaking the rules of time travel, you need to know that I am also from the future. Well, technically, I'm from this time...

  Nxylgsptinz : Oh, this is terribly boring.

  Lex Luthor : But in that future, you and I are partners. And very good friends.

  Nxylgsptinz : I don't have any friends.

  Lex Luthor : You have one friend. Me. And together, we are two of the most powerful beings in the universe.

  Nxylgsptinz : That sounds like I got the AllStone, then.

  Lex Luthor : You did. But you didn't do it in the right way. And that turned out to be a grave mistake. As in fatal.

  Nxylgsptinz : I died?

  Lex Luthor : But lucky for you, I was there. I preserved your consciousness and came back here to help you succeed this time in a way that will make you invincible.

• Lex Luthor : Nxyly. What a surprise.

  Nxylgsptinz : The Love totem disappeared. Do you know where it went?

  Lex Luthor : Are you asking for my help?

  Nxylgsptinz : Yes. Will you help me?

  Lex Luthor : It would be my honor, ma cherie.

  Nxylgsptinz : Uh, still... never going to be friends, you and I. This is strictly business.

• Nxylgsptinz : You really think you fixed my crystal ball without magic?

  Lex Luthor : This is technology from the future. With your own future self's help, I was able to blend technology and magic.

  Nxylgsptinz : I helped you build that?

  Lex Luthor : I told you, we were quite a pair. We made many beautiful things together.

  Nxylgsptinz : What was I like... will I be like... after I got the AllStone? Did I get my revenge?

  Lex Luthor : Oh, yes. I didn't know you then, but it must have been magnificent. Every time you talked about it, you glowed. Maybe... that's why you were more responsive to befriending an arrogant man such as me. You no longer carried the weight of your unfulfilled vengeance.

  Nxylgsptinz : [her crystal ball glows]  I know where the Love totem is.

• Lex Luthor : She was unimpressed with my heroics. She balked at my surveillance drones. You know, we used to have matching tracking devices. She got them for our anniversary. Said nothing was more romantic than knowing where her Lexie was at all times.

  Otis Graves : It's so sweet to see you like this, you know, smitten.

  Lex Luthor : Smitten? If I ever hear you say that word ever again, I'm going to implant a nano-Sun Eater into your skull.

• Nxylgsptinz : You had a clean shot at the Love totem. And you abandoned it to save me. Why?

  Lex Luthor : Did I? I must not have seen it.

  Nxylgsptinz : Tell me the truth. What do you want from me?

  Lex Luthor : You want the truth? The truth is I love you. I love you so much that when you d... died, part of me died, too. And you don't understand; I don't love anybody. In fact, I hate everyone. From a very young age, I knew I would move through this world alone, riding that solitary high-speed train towards progress and greatness all by myself. But there you were. This radiant, powerful being, vibrating with your own brilliant madness. I never thought anyone could match my ambition, my genius, but... then I met you. In all the timelines, in all the dimensions, in all the universes, you... were the only one that could match me. But of course, you don't know any of this 'cause you weren't there. Yet. You haven't met me yet, and I sound insane.

  Nxylgsptinz : No one has ever selflessly sacrificed something for me like you did tonight. So, no, I wasn't there. But... if what you say is true and you really are here to help me succeed... well, I don't see why we can't be friends.

• Lex Luthor : One hour until the Super Idiots find the Love totem for real.

  Otis Graves : You gonna crash their party again, rescue Nxyly?

  Lex Luthor : No. I think this time, I'm just going to have to let the girl come to me. But that does not mean that I am just going to let her fail.

  [going into another room, where he has Mitch tied up to a chair] 

  Lex Luthor : Hello, courier minion. I need you to deliver some highly sensitive intel to Nxyly for me. But do not tell her where you got it from.

• Nxylgsptinz : Thank you for fixing this. But what does it matter if we find the rest of the totems? I can't build the AllStone without the Hope totem.

  Lex Luthor : You mean...

  [showing her a crystal] 

  Lex Luthor : This Hope totem?

  Nxylgsptinz : I thought Supergirl destroyed that.

  Lex Luthor : The thing about these totems, you can destroy the shell, but the essence flows into something new. Oh, also the Love totem... the Super Friends destroyed it.

  Nxylgsptinz : So you think that one will reconstitute itself, as well?

  Lex Luthor : I know it will.

  [at Kelly and Alex's loft, a tattoo in the shape of rose forms on the back of Esme's neck] 

• Lex Luthor : Otis, my good man, forcing a woman into loving you is the underpinning of a toxic relationship.

  Otis Graves : But you love toxic relationships.

• Nxylgsptinz : You're the key to my success?

  Lex Luthor : That's right.

  [transferring his gauntlet to her] 

  Lex Luthor : There you go. All-in-one and in working order. Also, I'm going to help you get the AllStone.

  Nxylgsptinz : [laughing in amusement]  Right. A man dressed like a fancy banker is going to help me collect seven magical Totems, one of which has already been destroyed, by the way.

  [laughing again] 

  Nxylgsptinz : Yeah, thanks for the assist with the suit, but I'm good.

  Lex Luthor : Your own future consciousness used the Dream totem to manifest me here. Surely you trust your own opinion of me.

• Nxylgsptinz : [blocked by Lena's protective barrier]  That gibberish might be able to suppress my totem's powers, but you can't suppress this.

  [she fires a blast of energy at Lena, then engages the other Super Friends in battle] 

  Supergirl : [eventually gaining the upper hand]  Take her to containment.

  [they're knocked backward by an explosion, and Lex jumps down from a nearby tree] 

  Brainiac-5 : No!

  Lex Luthor : Well, this is a familiar scene.

  Nxylgsptinz : I had them.

  [Lena magically crushes the totem; burning her hand, she drops it] 

  Nxylgsptinz : A trick totem. You'll pay for that.

• Otis Graves : Oh, I missed you, boss.

  Lex Luthor : [ducking a hug]  Now, why couldn't Nxyly have given me that kind of reception?

  Otis Graves : Ah, so what if she rejected you? You're Lex Luthor. And your timing couldn't be better. LuthorCorp's returns are through the roof this quarter. Your mom gave me a board seat. And the way you left everything covered, I think I'm the only one who noticed you were gone. My-my point is, you don't need that imp.

  Lex Luthor : See, the thing about that imp is she's the only thing I want.

• Nxylgsptinz : What the hell was that? Your sister? How could she imitate a totem and fool my crystal ball?

  Lex Luthor : I can take a look at that for you. Make it so it can't be tricked. I don't mind.

  Nxylgsptinz : Just because you waltzed in at a very convenient moment doesn't mean that you... . wait. How did you know where I was?

  [off his glance, she looks in the air behind her] 

  Nxylgsptinz : What is that? Is that a surveillance drone? Are you stalking me? Creep.

  Lex Luthor : I was protecting you. If I hadn't shown up when I did, you would be powerless in a prison right now.

  Nxylgsptinz : You claim to be on my side. But I am no closer to finding my totems. So get out!

  Lex Luthor : Uh, this is my home.

  Nxylgsptinz : Fine.

  Lex Luthor : [opening a portal, she leaves]  I... I love you.

• Lex Luthor : [to Lena]  Miss me, sis?