- Querl Dox: You had a pet?
- Kara Danvers: Yeah. But if this is my subconscious trying to tell myself something, I don't get it.
- Querl Dox: Could be a random neuron firing. What's its name?
- Kara Danvers: Streaky. I, uh... I found him on our street right after I came to Earth, actually. He was a stray, too.
- Querl Dox: You felt an emotional kinship.
- Kara Danvers: Yes. Yeah. We were friends.
- [seeing a physical manifestation of the cat]
- Kara Danvers: I used to go out every night and feed him. I didn't wanna touch him. I was so strong, I... I could have hurt him. So I practiced being gentle. And then, one day, I pet him, and he purred. And everything was okay. I felt like an alien on Earth for so long, and he helped me feel like a human.
- [first lines]
- Querl Dox: [his knocking on her door woke her up, she opened her door] It's you.
- Kara Danvers: Can I help you?
- Querl Dox: Now you're talking to me. Supergirl is talking to me.
- Kara Danvers: [pulling him inside] Inside. Now.
- Kara Danvers: Reign is still out there. People are dying. I have to wake up.
- Querl Dox: I don't think you're listening to me.
- Kara Danvers: What?
- Querl Dox: Can we just, maybe, relax a little bit?
- Querl Dox: Well, the good news is her mind is active and alert.
- Alex Danvers: Oh, thank god.
- Querl Dox: Yes. The bad news is she is very angry.
- Winn Schott: [sarcastic] Well, I'm sure she loves being trapped inside a mind prison.
- J'onn J'onzz: You're speaking with her right now, even as you're speaking with us?
- Querl Dox: The crown connects to my internal AI core. It translates her brainwaves to English and sends electronic signals back to her.
- Imra Ardeen: These tanks have incredible healing power, so she just needs to rest and let it do its work.
- Ruby Arias: [playing in the house, Sam knocks over a side table] And you thought I was gonna break something.
- Querl Dox: In the year 2455, Earth experienced a third-degree extinction phenomenon.
- Imra Ardeen: Humanity came together, but Earth suffered catastrophic destruction. It wasn't just loss of life, it was its history, culture, art, music.
- Querl Dox: It was everything interesting.
- Imra Ardeen: Mon-El taught us everything we know. From Aristotle, Shakespeare, Bon Jovi.
- Mon-El: But we have some gaps. And unfortunately, even if we know the end result, we don't necessarily know how it happens.
- Querl Dox: It's starting to drain. She's ready.
- Alex Danvers: [banging on the tube] Kara, it's me.
- Querl Dox: She should be fine.
- Kara Danvers: [in her mind, struggling with the door] It's not opening.
- Querl Dox: You should be fine.
- Alex Danvers: [in real time] Why isn't she waking up?
- Mon-El: We have people counting on us in the future. We can't get involved.
- Imra Ardeen: You keep saying that. That this is not our fight. What about Tommy and Gina? Hmm? "You live for the fight when it's all that you've got."
- Mon-El: Bon Jovi.
- Imra Ardeen: Mm-hmm. Or was that all a lie?
- Mon-El: No. No, he speaks the truth.
- Imra Ardeen: I know we had a plan, but we are supposed to help people. We're sworn to helping people. And these people need our help right now. It's who we are.
- Querl Dox: Why are you cleaning? None of this is real.
- Kara Danvers: I don't know. I guess I just like putting things back in order. And my brain originally is like an empty little attic and you must stock it with such furniture as you choose. It's Sherlock Holmes.
- [a thought strikes her]
- Kara Danvers: This is the furniture I chose.
- Querl Dox: Hmm. Oversimplification. But, yes, go on.
- Kara Danvers: So there must be something in here my subconscious wants me to see.
- Querl Dox: Hmm. That's... that's actually not a bad idea. Why didn't I think of that?
- Alex Danvers: [sitting with the comatose Supergirl] I'm so sorry. I did this. I mean, I'm the one that pushed you into that fight. I told you that Kara Danvers was my favorite person, and then I told you to forget who you were. And now I'm... I don't know if we can do this without you.
- Querl Dox: For what it's worth, it looks like Supergirl had a pretty great life.
- Kara Danvers: These aren't Supergirl's things, they're... they're Kara's.
- Querl Dox: Your sister said something similar a few minutes ago.
- Kara Danvers: What?
- Querl Dox: Well, she said Kara Danvers is her favorite person.
- Supergirl: Hey. It's you. Are you shorter?
- Querl Dox: Are you suggesting that I augmented my height while I existed in your consciousness so that you might see me as a more stable and trustworthy figure and therefore work with me to help you?
- Supergirl: Uh... yeah?
- Querl Dox: Yes. I did do exactly that.
- Supergirl: [she laughs] Okay.
- Querl Dox: It's nice to meet you in real life.
- Kara Danvers: So, I just have to confirm that J'onn pretended to be me, but sick, and then he talked about kissing James with Lena?
- Alex Danvers: Yeah.
- [Kara cackles with laughter]
- Alex Danvers: Yeah. It's weird.
- Kara Danvers: I wish I could have seen that.
- Alex Danvers: I'm just glad you're okay.
- Kara Danvers: You know I'd come back.
- Alex Danvers: I was really worried about this one. Genuinely. But at least knowing that Brainy could communicate with you, I mean, that... that helped. What was that like?
- Kara Danvers: So weird. It was, you know, it was illuminating. I had to remember who I was in order to wake up. Made me think differently about the whole Mon-El situation.
- Alex Danvers: How so?
- Kara Danvers: I mean, it still hurts. A lot.
- Alex Danvers: Yeah.
- Kara Danvers: But... I'll be stronger for it. Whatever happens.
- Alex Danvers: Yeah. Well, I am totally happy for your newfound wisdom. Um... maybe you could avoid comas? In the future. That would be... I would really appreciate that, to be honest.
- Kara Danvers: You know what? I'll try.
- Alex Danvers: Thank you very much.
- Dark Kryptonian: You have done well, my child. You easily vanquished the daughter of the House of El. You left your mark on this city. But there is much yet to be accomplished.
- Reign: What would you have me do?
- Dark Kryptonian: This world needs to be cleansed. Not just of sinners, but those who harbor them. It is time to deliver the awakening.
- Reign: How?
- Dark Kryptonian: Those who would do evil operate in broad daylight without shame, for the righteous have cast their eyes to the ground. Force their gaze back to the light. Show them what justice really is.
- Lena Luthor: Why have you come here?
- Reign: To deliver a message.
- Lena Luthor: We are not your messengers.
- Reign: Yes, you are.
- [to a CatCo employee]
- Reign: You. Turn your camera on me.
- [he does so]
- Reign: This man was a thief, condemned by his own actions. You've allowed sin to take root and fester like a weed. And worst of all, you have looked away. Apathy is the greatest sin of all. From now on, it will be punished in kind. There will be mo more mercy. There will only be justice. I'm here to help.
- Alex Danvers: So we know that Supergirl lives, and we know that Reign leaves, eventually. But before she does, she could slaughter thousands.
- Winn Schott: Yeah, so what do we do now?
- J'onn J'onzz: The Sundown Protocol. A highly-clasified contingency plan to take down Superman if ever he turns against us. Red sun grenades, sound bombs, kryptonite darts. Everything we'd need to take down a rogue Kryptonian on the loose.
- Winn Schott: Sorry, we don't have any more kryptonite. Clark got rid of it all.
- Alex Danvers: Clark got rid of it for a reason, and a reason that Kara agreed to.
- J'onn J'onzz: That was before Reign. We still have the kryptonite from Coville's probe, right?
- Alex Danvers: Prep whatever you have to, but before you use it, there's someone I have to talk to.
- Alex Danvers: Ooh! Your eye. What happened to you?
- Thomas Coville: Oh. I was spreading the truth to my fellow inmates. They would have preferred I lied.
- Alex Danvers: Do you want to spread a little truth to me? I'll pass it along to Supergirl. You're her biggest fan, right? She said that you knew about the reign of the beast. What else do you know that can help us beat her?
- Thomas Coville: Beat her? She's already won.
- Alex Danvers: No. Supergirl's still alive.
- Thomas Coville: She was supposed to rise, find her faith, and deliver it. But Supergirl refused her faith and she failed the test.
- Alex Danvers: Supergirl will defeat her. You just have to help us stop her.
- Thomas Coville: Supergirl lost so that Reign can prepare us for what comes next.
- Alex Danvers: Never underestimate Supergirl.
- Kara Danvers: This is torture.
- Querl Dox: Out of all the 4,237,642 versions of our first meeting that I envisioned, you calling it "torture" wasn't one of them.
- Kara Danvers: [seeing him rummaging in her couch] What are you doing?
- Querl Dox: Checking for brain damage. In simulacra, like the one we're in now, brain damage could present itself in any number of ways; mildew, mold. Rats indicate neurological issues. It's just to prepare you for reality re-entry.
- Kara Danvers: Reality re-entry?
- Querl Dox: If you're not properly prepared when we wake you up, you could go into shock. Some people die immediately.
- Kara Danvers: Yeah.
- [a thought strikes her]
- Kara Danvers: Wait, though. Does... does that mean I'm ready to wake up?
- Querl Dox: Did I bury the lede again?
- Kara Danvers: [triumphant laugh] Yes! Okay, do I need to do anything?
- Querl Dox: Well, your loft is the manifestation of your subconscious. And that door seems to be the only way in or out. My assumption... walk through it.
- Kara Danvers: Why won't this open?
- Querl Dox: Your body is fine. We drained the tank, you suffered no ill-effects from the hibernation.
- Kara Danvers: Then why am I still stuck in my brain?
- Querl Dox: [making a pot of tea] There's nothing wrong with your brain. We've ruled that out.
- Kara Danvers: Well, you're the twelfth-level intellect. Why don't you figure it out?
- Querl Dox: [taking a sip] Well, that rules out the physical. So, barring another explanation, I would have to say the only thing keeping you here is you.
- Kara Danvers: Well, that doesn't make any sense, 'cause I'm the one that wants to get out of here. Then why won't this thing open? It opened for me earlier.
- Querl Dox: To let me in. Going out... different story.
- Querl Dox: Is there some reason your subconscious might be... preventing your escape? Self-preservation, perhaps?
- Kara Danvers: I'm not afraid.
- Querl Dox: [she tries her heat vision on the door] You were badly beaten. Fear is a logical response to that stimulus.
- Kara Danvers: I am not afraid!
- Alex Danvers: Come on, Kara, snap out of it.
- Mon-El: Brainy will figure it out.
- Querl Dox: Don't overpromise. I've never seen anything like this before.
- [seeing Alex's look of concern]
- Querl Dox: I'm sorry. Insensitive.
- Alex Danvers: What happens if she stays like this?
- Querl Dox: The longer she remains unconscious, the more likely it is that it will become permanent.
- Mon-El: So, 1,000 years from now, this farming planet, Winath, goes dark. And our friend, Ayla, she's from there, so she goes to check it out.
- Imra Ardeen: Winath was a paradise, but Ayla made planet-fall and found it...
- Mon-El: Decimated. It was completely dried out.
- Imra Ardeen: The creatures that did this, we call them the Blight. They consume everything in their path.
- Mon-El: And Brainy found a way to stop them, but they were on us before we could use it.
- Imra Ardeen: So we hid the information in the safest place we could: our DNA. Where it can't be lost, can't be stolen. It's written in our genes.
- Mon-El: So if we die, our DNA never makes it to the future. And everything's lost. You have no idea how badly I wish we could help.
- Alex Danvers: Just make sure my sister wakes up.
- Winn Schott: James just called.
- J'onn J'onzz: I fail to see the relevance.
- Winn Schott: Well, it seems that he might have put Kara into, like, a little bit of hot water with Lena Luthor. And since we have an hour...
- J'onn J'onzz: Oh, no, not again.
- Lena Luthor: Can you believe what's been going on out here?
- Kara Danvers: Yes, I, uh, have been keeping up with it. I am a reporter at a national news organization.
- Lena Luthor: Yeah, I... I know. You work for me. That fever is really going to your head.
- Kara Danvers: You have no idea how much I am not feeling like myself.
- Imra Ardeen: Are you okay?
- Alex Danvers: Considering my tibia's been snapped in half?
- Mon-El: And what about Reign?
- J'onn J'onzz: She shrugged off that kryptonite like it was nothing.
- Alex Danvers: [Brainiac tightens a leg brace] Ahh! Yes, thanks. That's good.
- [to the others]
- Alex Danvers: The same amount incapacitated Kara.
- Mon-El: So why was Reign resistant?
- J'onn J'onzz: Maybe she's more than just Kryptonian.
- Alex Danvers: No, the soil did hurt her, just... not enough.
- J'onn J'onzz: You have a plan?
- Alex Danvers: Concentrate it. We'll put it straight in her bloodstream. Jugular should work.
- Winn Schott: Ah. One... one small hiccup. Uh, who would be strong enough to hit her with the syringe?
- Thomas Coville: Heir of Juru, architect of the renewal, I submit to you. For Rao is the light, but he was born of fire.
- Reign: How do you know those words?
- Thomas Coville: I... I was awoken to them.
- Reign: People are quick to claim salvation when faced with death. Do you think that is enough for me to spare you?
- Thomas Coville: You don't have to spare me. You just have to let me serve you.
- Lena Luthor: Do you ever sleep?
- James Olsen: Yeah, well, Supergirl just woke up from a coma just in time to save a bunch of convicts who were about to be wrongfully executed by a murderous alien. So, would you rather I be sleeping or working?
- Lena Luthor: Working.
- Kara Danvers: [signing Alex's cast] And it's my masterpiece.
- Alex Danvers: Wow. That's something.
- Kara Danvers: [leaning over to add more] Wait, let me... do that. What's this one? 100101...
- Alex Danvers: Brainiac-5.
- Kara Danvers: Oh. Yeah.
- Alex Danvers: That's code.
- Dark Kryptonian: What happened?
- Reign: Supergirl stopped me. She had friends I didn't expect.
- Dark Kryptonian: You have friends, too.
- Reign: What do you mean?
- Dark Kryptonian: There are others like you.
- Reign: Why didn't you tell me?
- Dark Kryptonian: You hadn't proven yourself. But now you have. You just need to know how to find them.
- Thomas Coville: [approaching] I can help you with the path.
- Dark Kryptonian: El mayarah.
- Thomas Coville: Stronger together.
- Querl Dox: I am Brainiac-5. Half computer, half organic lifeform, all Coluan, and, not to brag, but a twelfth-level intellect. My name is Querl Dox, but the Legionnaires just call me Brainy.
- Kara Danvers: Legionnaries? Did Mon-El send you?
- Querl Dox: Yes, yes. To make sure that your neural pathways are clear and intact. Your brain is in truly remarkable health for someone languishing in a coma.
- Kara Danvers: Uh... I'm... I'm sorry, did you say coma?
- Querl Dox: Mm, did I bury the lede? You've been in a coma for two days.
- Kara Danvers: I'm in my loft.
- Querl Dox: Wow. Oh! You mean the physical manifestation of the place in which your subconscious feels most comfortable. That loft?
- Kara Danvers: If I'm in a coma, how are you here?
- Querl Dox: Mon-El woke me up from hypersleep to communicate with you on behalf of him and your DEO compatriots. 31st century technology. It's also what's keeping you alive.
- Kara Danvers: Alive?
- Querl Dox: Reign defeated you. Don't you remember?
- Alex Danvers: You're from the future. Did you know this was gonna happen?
- Mon-El: No, but she's through the worst of it. She'll live.
- J'onn J'onzz: But when will she wake up?
- Mon-El: We don't know.
- J'onn J'onzz: Well, Reign is stil out there. I don't like our odds without Supergirl by our side.
- Winn Schott: I mean, Reign's been quiet. Maybe she got injured, too.
- Alex Danvers: Let's hope so. It's only a matter of time before she strikes again.
- Samantha Arias: You're making me dinner tonight, right? It's your turn.
- Ruby Arias: Any dietary restrictions I should know about?
- Samantha Arias: I'm allergic to bad food.
- Ruby Arias: Okay. Well, save up for dinner. Don't eat too much.
- Lena Luthor: It's been two days since the world saw Supergirl be brutalized, and still not a word about her whereabouts or well-being.
- James Olsen: She'll turn up.
- Lena Luthor: I hope so. And Kara's the only reporter who had a knack for tracking her down. Is she in yet?
- James Olsen: Kara? She... no, she's, um... no, she's not, actually.
- Lena Luthor: James, I was thinking, when Kara gets in, maybe we should all have a little... a little talk about what happened.
- James Olsen: Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Okay.
- Lena Luthor: Yeah?
- James Olsen: Yes, we should. Yeah.
- Lena Luthor: It's just that, you know, we all work together, and we're Kara's two best friends, and you guys used to date, so she should know that we kissed.
- James Olsen: Definitely.
- Lena Luthor: I come from a family that lies, and we all know that turns out, so...
- J'onn J'onzz: She's declaring war on criminality in National City.
- Alex Danvers: And not just against the criminals, it's against the entire justice system. We have to stop her.
- J'onn J'onzz: Without Supergirl?
- Winn Schott: I mean, we have a literal legion of superheroes here.
- Mon-El: I owe you all my life. And I hope you know that I would do anything I could for you. But unfortunately, this can't be our fight.
- Imra Ardeen: Surely we can help them somehow.
- Mon-El: If we die now, we will endanger the future.
- J'onn J'onzz: What do you mean?
- Mon-El: We're on a mission.
- Querl Dox: Careful.
- Mon-El: Our involvement here could jeopardize that. I can tell you what we do know. We know that Supergirl lives. And we know that eventually, Reign will leave.
- Alex Danvers: So, that's... that's all you can give? That's all you got?
- Imra Ardeen: We really don't know much at all.
- Mon-El: Reign's attacking again.
- Querl Dox: I'm getting us a feed. She attacked a meth lab. The cops arrived; she attacked them, too. I'll run another scan on Kara.
- Imra Ardeen: [he leaves] Mon-El.
- Mon-El: We can't risk it.
- Alex Danvers: Risk what?
- Lena Luthor: It turns out that you were right about the chemistry. Uh... James and I kissed.
- Kara Danvers: Congratulations.
- Lena Luthor: Well, yeah. James is an amazing kisser, as I'm sure you know. It's just, this morning, he started acting really odd.
- Kara Danvers: Olsen can be... enigmatic.
- Lena Luthor: Yeah, well, I know what it's about. I mean, my brother is Lex, James is Superman's best friend, and, you know, for a minute there I forgot my last name was Luthor. That's a mistake I won't be making again.
- Kara Danvers: Oh, I'm sure that's not the case. Olsen likes you. A lot. I assure you if James was being awkard, it is not because of your last name.
- Lena Luthor: And here I was coming to make you feel better. I should go back to work. You should rest.
- Kara Danvers: Yes, boss.
- [Lena leaves]
- Kara Danvers: [with J'onn's voice] Agent Schott, don't ever make me do that again.
- J'onn J'onzz: No Supergirl, no cavalry, and Reign is strong. But she doesn't know what we're capable of. Let's show her.
- Alex Danvers: You ready?
- J'onn J'onzz: I just had a conversation about James Olsen's extraordinary kissing ability. This'll be a Sunday picnic.
- J'onn J'onzz: Reign is finding bigger targets. She wants to teach us an abject lesson.
- Alex Danvers: She's gonna cleanse the sinners of society locked away. The ones she feels were granted mercy. She's gonna hit Albatross Bay.
- Mon-El: [an alert sounds] No, she's already there.
- Alex Danvers: She's gonna kill everyone. Prisoners, guards, it won't matter.
- J'onn J'onzz: They'll be fish in a barrel. I'll go.
- Alex Danvers: No, you can't. Not alone. She's too strong.
- Mon-El: [sharing a look with Imra] You know, we have been asleep for many years.
- Imra Ardeen: And we ought to get some exercise.
- Querl Dox: You're being facetious?
- Mon-El: [amused] This guy.
- Querl Dox: Engaging cannons. Aloian attack formation.
- Kara Danvers: Are you fighting?
- Querl Dox: Oh! Sprock! Did I say that out loud?
- Kara Danvers: What's going on out there?
- Querl Dox: Little... little, tiny baby battle. Actually, let's keep talking. It'll help get my mind off this life or death scenario.
- Kara Danvers: Your mind should be on the life or death scenario.
- Querl Dox: I'm perfectly capable of multitasking. I'm actually working on your Sunday crossword right now. Six down is "Anguilloform". Mon-El, evade!
- Kara Danvers: Don't be here, go help them.
- Alex Danvers: [seeing Kara wake up] Oh, my god. Kara. Hey.
- Supergirl: [weakly] I have to help them.
- Alex Danvers: No, they're using kryptonite.
- Supergirl: I don't care if it makes me vulnerable. I'll use it against her. Reign won't see it coming.
- Supergirl: Hey. We beat her, for now. Thanks for fighting alongside us.
- Imra Ardeen: It was an honor.
- Lena Luthor: I'm used to people reflexively hating me because I'm a Luthor, and I turned you being awkward about Kara into you being awkward about me, so I pushed you away. And I don't want to do that anymore.
- James Olsen: Good. Because I really like you, Lena Luthor.