"The loss of your powers is undeniably traumatic." "You may feel confused, or even frightened they're lost forever." "Your battle with the android drained your Kryptonian cells" "You are now as vulnerable to your environment subject to pain, sickness, death." "But have faith, Kara." "Once your cells have reabsorbed sufficient radiation from earth's yellow star, your powers should return." "Do not be afraid." "And until you have fully recovered, lean on those you trust." "It is my deep regret that I am unable my beloved daughter." "As always, my collected knowledge is at your disposal for further analysis." "Thank you, mom." "This happens to Superman too, where he loses his powers for a couple days, right?" "Yeah, but it's been two days, and I don't" "You're just going stir-crazy because the deo has been" "Now you get to go out in the real world and see what it's like to be human for a day." "Hank henshaw:" "Might learn a thing or two about what" "How you feeling?" "Fine." "I guess..." "Kara is heading to work." "I was just going" "I'm off to deal with an unruly guest." "Might need your help with him when you're done." "Happy to, sir." "Nice." "I'd have no idea you suspect him of anything." "I have to play it that way until I find out whether or not he was involved in dad's death." "Do you really think he's involved?" "You've served with Hank for years." "And all that time, he never told me dad was an agent" "Or that they were together when dad died." "Ev..." "Everything Hank has said to me has been a lie." "I can't trust him anymore, Kara." "I..." "I know he's hiding something." "Sorry." "" "Hey, Kara." "Oh, there was a 10-year-old on the bus with a runny nose." "Okay, you're late, you took the bus and, what, you have..." "You have a cold?" "I blew out my powers fighting that android." "What?" "For how long?" "Oh, stupid red tornado." "Okay, I'm going to help you figure this out." "Oh, I still have the, uh..." "The Kryptonian bio-analytics" "Yeah, we've got to find some answers." "Did someone just sneeze?" "Who did that?" "Who among you sprayed my office with a million microscopic killers?" "I can already feel my throat closing up." "You, ker-rah?" "You never get sick." "That's the best part" "That's the best part?" "Cat:" "If I get sick," "I will underperform." "If I underperform, our stock prices will fall, thousands of people the sp will take a hit and you will personally have triggered the next recession." "Do you want to be the next lehman brothers?" "I guess I'll go home." "Don't exhale on the way out." "Worn yourself out yet?" "Bow your head when you approach me!" "I am jemm, master of the faceless hunters!" "Conqueror of..." "Twelve worlds." "Yeah, heard you the first 10 times." "It's not getting any more impressive." "Trying to use your psychic powers, aren't you?" "Take control of my mind, force me to let you out?" "Hate to break it to you, jemm, but your cell" "Your powers are useless." "Then deactivate it so that I may expose your true identity as a coward." "I will grind your loved ones to dust." "There are none left to grind." "Jemm's fish tank is in need of its monthly cleaning." "Copy that." "I'm on it." "Hey, hey." "Hi!" "Where are you headed?" "Uh, look at a rental." "Lucy and I are getting a place together actually." "That's... that's awesome." "Lost your powers." "Solar flare." "I did not know we were calling it that." "Well, he does." "Well, he likes to name them." "You know, heat vision," "freeze breath..." "He's such a nerd." "I don't know, today, I'm less girl of steel" "Oh, you'll be all right." "Just lay low and enjoy your time off, you know." "Yeah." "You're right." "The world can survive" "Kara!" "Initiating prisoner airlock." "We lost power!" "Switching to emergency!" "I need eyes on the prisoner!" "System is rebooting now." "Hostile is loose." "Seal the base." "I said seal the base!" "You okay?" "No, no." "Might be broken." "Oh, god." "Okay, all right." "Let's get..." "Oh, my god." "You've got to be" "Why don't you let me take you to the hospital" "No, it'll heal when I get my powers back." "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "Alex." "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "Liar." "Back at you." "Kara:" "Arm's broken here." "Which, by the way, a warning would've been nice about how much that hurts." "So, tell me what's wrong there." "We're on lockdown." "Wait, you're sealed" "It's standard procedure while we run safety protocols." "Don't worry." "Just keep yourself safe" "And if they do, call me." "I love you." "Love you." "Okay, so, is everyone okay?" "Anybody hurt?" "Good." "Sometimes it takes a shock to realize what really matters." "So, if you need to go, if you want to go, go." "Go be with your families." "And you." "You, are you staying?" "Yeah." "Yes, ma'am." "Well, we need to get my station back online." "People are scared, they're looking and it is our duty to help them." "We're working on it, Ms. Grant." "But best estimate is four hours." "Think creatively and get us on the air." "Alura:" "The situation you face is dire." "Jemm was one of the most ruthless criminals ever to be" "His psychic abilities surpass any living species, able to read and control minds against their will." "Your only chance at survival is my daughter, Kara." "Humans cannot..." "Shut it off." "First order of business is making sure jemm does not read our minds in the field." "RD developed these, neural disrupters." "Portable versions of the energy shield we use to block jemm's powers when he's in his cell." "We only have three disrupters left so," "Let's go, come on!" "Sir, I have more field experience than Reynolds and tsung combined." "Which is why I need you to remain behind" "I have to know I'm leaving these people with someone" "Unless you're implying you and I have a problem." "No, sir." "Good." "Glad to hear it." "Hey, hey." "You want to see some magic?" "Winn, that's..." "Oh, my gosh." "Look." "Well, if I didn't have an issue with personal space," "I would give you a hug." "It wasn't me." "It was winn." "Who?" "Me." "Are you from the satellite company?" "No, he's from the desk right across from mine that you pass on your way to your office every day." "People need" "This city's a powder keg." "We can't wait around for the government to save us." "Or Supergirl." "Just when this city needed her the most," "The world's most unreliable superhero." "Let this be a lesson to all of us." "We need to rely on ourselves, not aliens in capes." "Look at Max." "Using the earthquake as a branding opportunity." "He's sticking it to Supergirl pretty hard." "Well, I'm not going to let that knock my creation down just to build himself up." "Whit." "That's close enough." "You've proven yourself" "Let's start a feed in my office." "We are going to counter Max's message about my girl." "If I'm not back in in half an hour, send... send help." "Max is spreading panic." "People are already scared." "What do you want to do?" "Go down there and stop him." "But you can't fly to..." "I mean, this guy is waist-deep in security." "Yeah, but he's also a showman who loves bragging with the press." "And luckily for Supergirl, she's friends with pulitzer prize-winning" "Approaching sector 12." "Danvers, you see anything?" "Nothing." "Cameras are clear." "Heat sensors, negative." "Yeah, we're getting some kind of interference on our end." "Earthquake may have damaged the circuitry." "On me." "Tsung:" "Lost the lights." "Head lamps on!" "Henshaw, are you here?" "We only see two of you." "Tsung:" "Where's" "Reynolds:" "I don't see him!" "He's gone." "Be advised, we lost visual." "Tsung:" "Hostile is in our sector!" "Reynolds:" "What's he doing out there?" "Tsung:" "It's like he's all around us!" "Two agents down." "What happened to director henshaw?" "Jimmy Olsen." "Thank you for shooting" "Of course." "I'd heard you" "Ah, well, I still break it out when the need arises." "You look familiar." "We've met." "Um, I'm cat Grant's assistant, Kara." "I..." "I have to say, i think what you're doing" "But, uh, I found what you said on TV a little" "surprising." "You mean about Supergirl?" "If you knew me, you wouldn't be surprised." "Oh, I know you." "But..." "But don't you think that..." "That people need a more positive message right now?" "Hope instead of fear?" "I just think that if Supergirl could be here today," "right now, she would be." " Why?" "Because cat Grant says so?" "She might as well be Supergirl's PR flack, slapping that s on everything just to make money." "What are you doing?" "I want everyone to know who's helping them a human being." "Supergirl lulls us into complacency." "She fools us into thinking she'll save us and renders us incapable of saving ourselves." "Like heroin, or the welfare state." "That's cynical." "It's realistic." "If anything, Supergirl should be thanking me" "Which is what?" "She lost her powers." "Explains why she's nowhere to be found." "I'm guessing she blew out her photovoltaic capabilities fighting that military android." "She's a dead battery now." "You can't be sure of that." "I've studied Superman." "It takes him roughly" "We're way past that." "If Supergirl hasn't gotten her powers back by now, there's a good chance she never will." "And that means" "we're on our own." "Woman:" "Help!" "Please!" "My dad needs help over there!" "We can't leave." "Director henshaw" "We don't even know if he's still alive, Donovan." "These people are relying on us." "We're going." "All right." "Do not open this door until you get an all clear from me." "Mind lowering that weapon?" "What happened?" "We lost visuals." "That was interference from jemm's psychic powers." "He ambushed us." "Tsung and Reynolds, they're gone." "I'm loaded." "I'm ready to go." "You can't." "Only one disrupter left." "Jemm destroyed the others." "Donovan, get back to your post." "Look, I need you to do what I say when I say it, because our situation just got a whole lot worse." "I found burn marks on Reynolds' skull." "Jemm read his mind and now knows everything" "Reynolds was head of security." "Which means jemm knows how to open every cell" "He could use the combined powers of the inmates to break" "I'll cover the cell block." "But I can't have you" "So, I'm ordering you to stay here." "Alex, you got to trust me." "Woman:" "Over here." "Help." "Please, please, he's right here." "No." "He's got a tension pneumothorax." "You're a doctor?" "Did med school in a year." "He needs to get to the hospital." "I called 911, but they haven't come yet." "Paramedics are swamped." "I once saw a clip of Supergirl in the news." "She flew someone over there to the hospital." "Unless you know where she is, we're your dad's only hope." "Damn it." "It's a venous bleed." "What?" "He must've lacerated another vessel." "So we find..." "We find the vessel," "He's got 100,000 miles of vessels." "We'll never" "Unless you have an X-ray machine." "Please." "Please!" "He's exsanguinating into his chest." "He'll bleed out, and go into shock" "No." "No." "Please do something." "No." "Come on." "Come on." "Come on." "Please." "Please." "Come on, come on." "Come on!" "Kara." " No." "No, no, no." "Kara, look." "Kara." "Please stop." "Just..." "Do something!" "Come on!" "This can't be it!" "We can't save him." "No!" "Sorry." "No." "Damn it!" " No, no, no." "James:" "It's okay, it's okay." "It's only a matter of time before jemm finds us in here." "You don't think director henshaw" "I don't think relying on him is in our best interest." "You don't trust him?" "This isn't the first time that he's been the sole survivor" "And the details of that story were just as sketchy" "So what do we do?" "We go out there." "But we don't have any neural inhibitors left" "I'm in." "Okay." "This is why I'm not nice to people." "One compliment, and now you're coasting." "What is taking you so long?" "Hey, I'm a TI guy, you know." "I just... the last time i hooked up a live feed was for the high school av club, okay?" "Well, the last time i did a live broadcast was to end my award-winning talk show." "So, you and i are both returning" "I broke something." "I'm so sorry, Ms. Grant." "Normally, I would fire you and replace you instantly," "So instead I will inspire you." "Even I was like you once." "Before all of this, i was, well..." "I was a, um, sought-after media pundit and a celebrated magazine editor." "But..." "That's like me because..." "Because before that," "I was a humble wannabe journalist with the heart" "Now, there are" "real stories out there..." "Um, that's not gonna help." "...and they're not getting reported sucking up all the air with his negativity." "And Supergirl's not here to lift everyone's spirits." "So I will." "And you, humble it guy, will rise to the occasion" "Oh, oh, I did it!" "I did it!" "You see, wyck?" "That's the story." "Ordinary people like you, used to doing finding themselves in the midst of a crisis doing something extraordinary." "Heroes." "Now, go find someone to do my makeup." "Chop, chop." "For the... got it." "Yeah, okay." "Kara." "I couldn't save him." "You did everything that you could." "But Supergirl could've done more." "These past few weeks have been the best of my life." "I was starting to make a difference." "I was helping people the way that" "Do you know what that's like, to just have that ripped away?" "Can't say that I do." "But I..." "I do know that you're the same girl that you were before." "Losing your powers has not changed that." "It's changed everything." "I..." "I feel..." "I feel so helpless." "What you're feeling is human." "What if Max lord..." "What if what he said" "What if mine never come back?" "And what kind of a hero does that make me" "I couldn't even save one man." "No hero can save everyone." "Not even Superman." "But a real hero never stops trying." "Hey, hey." "What?" "No, no." "Hey!" "What are you doing?" "Like you said, i can't stop trying." "Yes, when you get your powers back." "But that's a mob scene." "They could have guns." "You could get shot." "I can't do nothing." "You being killed is not gonna help anybody." "I have to." "Kara, the bullets are not gonna bounce" "They don't know that." "Kara!" "Clear." "This neural inhibitor is still functional." "Henshaw said they were destroyed in the fight." "He lied." "Check the one on Reynolds." "This one's working, too." "Oh, man, this isn't good, is it?" "No." "No, it's not." "Put that inhibitor on, now." "Jemm's voice:" "Donovan!" "Alex:" "We've got to move, now." "Donovan, you still with me?" "Donovan, you still with me?" "He's in my head." "I can fight him." "Go!" "Go!" "Get behind the counter!" "Don't do this to my store!" "Shut up!" "Don't make me shoot you." "No, no, no." "I wouldn't do that" "That's not going to work on me." "Stay back." "Don't come any closer." "You don't want to hurt these people." "People of national city." "This is cat Grant, coming to you" "We've just, minutes ago, restarted our" "Look." "We're all suffering through a major disaster." "Now, you could react to this crisis by being petty and divisive or preying on other people's fears." "And after all, it is human to be selfish." "But isn't it also human to face our weaknesses" "Act like a superhero, even if you aren't one?" "Kara:" "I know you're scared." "We all are." "You want to save yourself, your family." "But don't you see that we are all in this together?" "It's true." "Supergirl has not been located yet." "But her spirit stays with us, her insistence on seeing the best in people, a call for us to heed our better angels." "There's about a dozen ways that I could stop" "But I don't think I have to." "Supergirl has faith in us." "Because this is not you." "It isn't any of you." "So let's have a little faith in her." "Supergirl will return when we need her most." "Until then, we need to help each other." "I believe that we are better than this." "Call us, share your stories of heroism." "Let's show the world what we're really made of." "And, no, we can't do what Supergirl does, but..." "We choose who we want to be." "We must choose to do what we can." "Kara:" "And I know you're gonna choose to be a better man." "What are you doing here?" "Donovan and i were looking for you." "Where is he now?" "You lost him." "Damn it, that's why I told you" "You also said that the inhibitors" "You lied to me." "Because I didn't stupid like this!" "Donovan:" "Agent danvers, come in!" "Copy, Donovan." "What's your status?" "Donovan:" "I'm okay." "But I'm out here all on my own." "I thought I'd lost you." "Not getting rid of me that easy." "All right." "Rendezvous with me..." "Don't." "It's not Donovan anymore." "Jemm, I know it's you." "I will free the prisoners and break through" "There's no escape for you." "We have to move to a secure location" "Back away from the door." "Drop your weapon." "Alex." "Now!" "Alex, what are you doing?" "I am not the enemy." "So, is that why you didn't tell me" "I found out he was deo." "And that you blackmailed him to serve under you." "Your father believed in me." "He was a great man..." "You don't get" "You chain yourself." "Alex, come on..." "To those bars there." "Come on." "Now!" "Jemm, this is agent danvers." "I know you want those blast doors open." "You don't need to release the prisoners to do that." "All you need is me." "I have the access code." "I'll be waiting for you in the control room." "Because one way or another, this ends now." "Alex!" "Alex!" "Kara:" "Oh, man." "That was better than flying." "That was... that was better than catching a plane." "You know what, that was better than the time" "I stopped the hold-up at the pizzeria and the owner" "That was good pizza." "Uh, yes." "You know, I've seen so many pictures of myself recently," "I'm kind of on a me overload." "But this one feels different." "Well, they say the best photographs express how you feel about what" "And I know you." "What's the first picture you ever took?" "My dad." "He gave me a camera right before he left for the Gulf war." "It was better than what my family but, uh, still wasn't a very good one." "And then he didn't come home." "And I just..." "I never put that camera down." "You look like him." "Yeah." "When you take a picture of someone, it's permanent." "And you've captured the truth of them in that moment, and that you can keep forever." "And..." "The truth of this moment" "is that you don't even need powers to be a hero." "I love it." "I..." "I accessed the deo file on Superman..." "And i ran a differential analysis, uh, on the rates at which you might" "Winn..." "You know, is basically that you might get your powers back if, um..." "If they are reignited by a Kryptonian version" "Just..." "Winn." "Stop." "I know what you think you saw, but..." "I didn't..." "I didn't see anything." "You know he has a girlfriend, right?" "What?" "Lucy is coming back." "Okay, and so are your powers." "You're never gonna have the normal boy-meets-girl." "You've really given thought to my romantic future," "Look, hey." "I'm sorry, but after today, you..." "You're not... you're not gonna be human anymore." "You... you live on, like, a different level" "Everybody okay?" "Yeah, yeah, we're okay." "That wasn't an aftershock, that was an explosion." "It's got to be the gas line." "I'll check the stairs." "Please let nobody be up there." " Yeah." "Hello." " Of course" "Hi, hi, yes." "We're just a few floors below you." "Help is on the way." "Um, I just lied to an entire floor of trapped people in a burning building," "what's our next move?" "The stairwell's blocked" "We have to at least get everyone on this" "So, what about the people upstairs?" "Man on phone:" "...The floor above you." "The elevator shaft." "Show yourself." "Let us see if you die with more honor than your fallen friends." "It will take more than that to kill me, human." "I told you, Alex." "I'm not the enemy." "Yeah, yeah." "Go to the elevator." " I..." "I got it." "Where are they?" "Winn:" "Here, here." "Oh... oh, god." "Why'd I do that?" "Uh, problem." "They can't get their elevator door open." "All right, I'm gonna have to climb up and open it" "James, no, we are 23 floors up." "I didn't say i was excited about it, okay?" "James." "Be right back." "I promise." "Tell them I'm coming." "He's coming." "Get us out!" "Okay." "Okay." "Grab the ladder." "Here you go." "Watch your step." "Hug the wall." "Anybody else here?" "Kara:" "Careful." "Winn:" "Here we go." "Here we go." "Here we go." "You're here." "You're here." "I got you." "Come on." "James!" "James!" "Go!" "Go get help!" "Hurry!" "Go on!" "Come on!" "Jeez!" "I thought I panicked under pressure." "James!" "Reach for the ladder!" "Reach!" "You almost gave me a heart attack." "Well, I guess that's what you needed." "There's a city out there that really needs you." "Go get 'em, Supergirl." "Kara, it's me." "I see that you're busy." "So, that's good." "Uh, I just want to let you know that" "We'll talk soon." "You're wondering how I got out of a pair" "For starters." "There's only one other living person who knows" "You sure you want to hear this?" "You can't share this with anyone." "Not even Kara." "You're the one who taught me to keep secrets from her." "I am not Hank henshaw." "He died the same night as your father." "The deo had been pursuing an alien for months." "Not one of the fort rozz prisoners, but an innocent one stranded on this planet." "With the help of your father, the deo tracked the alien" "Henshaw led the squadron sent to" "terminate him." "My father would never have been part of a mission like that." "You're right." "Jeremiah danvers was a good man." "He realized the alien they were hunting wasn't a threat." "He was a refugee, like your sister." "Sole survivor of a lost world." "Your father tried to stop the mission, but henshaw was obsessed." "He'd finally trapped the alien he'd been hunting for so long." "So, Jeremiah made the ultimate sacrifice." "He gave his life to save that alien." "Your father died a hero." "That alien..." "Is that you?" "But how are you him?" "I am a shape shifter." "When Hank henshaw died, i assumed his identity" "But I also made your father a promise, that I would take care of his daughter." "I recruited you so that I would honor that promise and protect you as if you were my own child." "If you're not Hank henshaw, who are you?" "I am the sole survivor of my planet." "The last son of Mars." "My name is j'onn j'onzz." "Winn." "Nice job today." "Hey, you want to come over and, uh, help me eat before it spoils?" "Power's still out." "I'm not that hungry." "But, uh, you know, thanks." "Please." "I know you're disappointed in me with James," "Supergirl should be better than that." "I'm never disappointed in Supergirl." "I was disappointed in you." "I heard your amazing broadcast today." "Thank you." "Thank you for the compliment." "Now, where the hell were you?" "How could you up and leave in the middle of the worst" "I didn't mean to scare you." "Oh, no." "You didn't scare me." "But regular people, they're starting" "It's easy for them to feel abandoned." "You have to understand that most people out there spend most of their lives" "And when a tragedy strikes, they look to their heroes." "Not only for rescue," "and consistency." "That's why I'm glad" "You gave them hope today." "I know that you inspired them, because you inspired me." "Who are you?" "They're with me." "Astra." "My dear niece." "Did you really think this was over?"