- Supergirl: I know it can be addictive, to live in a perfect place where nothing hurts. But that's not reality. We all get hurt. But it's only by going through that pain that we're able to appreciate the good. Pain is what helps us grow. Without it, we'd never be able to... to evolve, to overcome. To forgive. Each of us came here because we're afraid. I'm afraid of getting hurt, just like you. And I do everything I can to escape pain, just like you. But the cost of escape is too great. We have to wake up now. We need to end the simulation once and for all. I believe in you.
- Lena Luthor: Talk about history repeating itself. Tracking Lex down through Eve... it's just like Kaznia.
- [Kara turns a cold shoulder]
- Lena Luthor: Please, Kara, I'm sorry. Okay, I truly believed what I was doing was helping people.
- Kara Danvers: I told you, I don't want to talk about the past.
- Lena Luthor: Oh, come on, you can scream at me if you'd like. I know I deserve it. I know now that working with Non Nocere was a mistake, that working with Lex was a mistake...
- Kara Danvers: This isn't about Lex. This is about J'onn and Alex and all the other people that could have been killed today because they're on my team. Don't you understand that?
- Lena Luthor: No, I do. Of course I do.
- Kara Danvers: No, you don't. You have never understood what it means to share a secret identity with someone. How much danger that puts them in. You... you never even understood that I kept my identity from you because I wanted to protect you. And I know, I know that I hurt you by waiting so long to tell my truth. But what about all the ways you hurt me? You pretended to be my friend for weeks. Just so you could manipulate me. You stole from me. You convinced me to steal for you. And then, then, you even...
- [laughing scoff]
- Kara Danvers: ...you... you used kryptonite on me. I made one mistake. *One* mistake that was only ever meant to protect you. And in return, all you did was hurt me in every way imaginable.
- Lena Luthor: I'm sorry.
- Kara Danvers: I know you are. But if you came to me looking for absolution, I can't give it to you.
- Lena Luthor: The medallion. You've been activated.
- Acrata: If I don't kill Supergirl, they'll kill my father.
- Lena Luthor: Killing for them, going down this path, it won't keep him safe.
- Acrata: How do you know?
- Lena Luthor: Because I've been down it before. I've done terrible things to protect myself and the people I love. But it has never kept me safe from pain. It's just brought me a new kind of misery. And I moved further and further away from the person I was, until one day I woke up and I was utterly alone. Years ago, we made a promise to each other. You jump, I jump. If you choose to go down this path... I will be there. If you want to get to Supergirl, you're gonna have to go through me.
- Lena Luthor: [seeing Eve reunited with her mother] In the last world, she betrayed us. We may never know what was driving her, but... I do know what was driving you. You didn't want to tell me who you really were because you didn't want me to get hurt. But I did get hurt. And I did what I always do when people hurt me. I... built a wall and I suffocated behind it. Makes it very difficult to see things from other people's point of view. But I see yours now. And I am very sorry it took me so long.
- Supergirl: You know, when you showed up at my door this morning, I... I didn't wanna let you in. And I kept waiting for you to let me down. But at every turn, you came through. Building that suit, protecting my identity, supporting me. I wasn't ready to accept your apology. But maybe... *maybe* I am now.
- Lena Luthor: [uneasy] Okay. What now?
- Supergirl: Well, there's still one bad guy left to catch.
- Lena Luthor: [offering a handshake] Let's go take my brother down.
- Alex Danvers: I have to show you something. Okay. Stay right there.
- [with a flick of her gauntlet, her new vigilante suit materializes]
- Kara Danvers: [shrieking] AHHHHH! Oh, my god!
- Alex Danvers: J'onn made it for me.
- Kara Danvers: She looks great!
- J'onn J'onzz: Oh, it was a scream of delight. Thank H'ronmeer.
- Lena Luthor: Thank you for letting me in, Kara. It's been a year, and I still haven't come to terms with what I did. Shot my brother and... I mean, I thought I was protecting everyone, but it really started all that...
- Kara Danvers: I don't wanna talk about the past. All that matters now is the threat ahead of us and how we're going to stop it.
- Lena Luthor: Understood.
- Alex Danvers: [bursting in with Nia, J'onn, and M'gann] Get down on the ground, now!
- Kara Danvers: No, Alex, no!
- Alex Danvers: You texted 911.
- Kara Danvers: Not about her. She's here to help us stop Lex. And Leviathan.
- Alex Danvers: [lowering her gun] Oh.
- Supergirl: The bullet went through and through, but we still need to get you to a hospital.
- Lena Luthor: No, no, no, he's losing too much blood. There's no time.
- Supergirl: Okay. I can cauterize it, but it's gonna hurt.
- William Dey: Do it, do it.
- Supergirl: All right.
- William Dey: [groaning in pain as she uses her heat vision on the wound] Oh, don't do it.
- Querl Dox: Al's dive bar? This is where you summon me at a time like this?
- Querl Dox: It's the place where you first gave me this mission. Work with Lex Luthor. Defeat Leviathan. No matter the cost. Today, I will feel the full extent of that cost.
- Querl Dox: Querl, I-I know things spun out of control last time you disobeyed Lex. But you don't have to do this. You don't have to let your friends die.
- Querl Dox: I don't plan to. I don't plan on using Lex's mortality code on the gods, either.
- Querl Dox: But how will you defeat them?
- Querl Dox: [setting a glass container on the counter] By using this. Rather than kill the gods, and I shall reclaim the actions of our ancestors. For good. Instead of evil. I'll shrink them. I'll bottle them here in stasis, where they can harm neither this planet nor my friends.
- Querl Dox: But if you enter the ship without Lex's anti-radiation pin, you'll... you'll-you'll... you'll die.
- Querl Dox: I pushed away everyone I loved because you told me I must. You were right. This planet, my friends... it's worth it. I called you here simply because... I don't wanna die alone.
- Supergirl: What happened here?
- William Dey: I was following a lead. Got jumped. Ah, reporting 101. If you get kidnapped, you must be on the right track. Something Kara Danvers likes to say. She-she was working the case with me. I need to make sure she was all right.
- Lena Luthor: Kara's fine. I spoke to her, she's in a safe place.
- M'gann M'orzz: You can't fool a sidekick. I saw you hesitate during the fight. You dreamed something. And it terrified you. What did you see?
- Nia Nal: Brainy.
- M'gann M'orzz: You two were a couple, right?
- [seeing Nia react]
- M'gann M'orzz: You know J'onn. For a deeply serious man, he's got a big mouth.
- Nia Nal: [smiling in amusement] I know. It was more than a relationship. We were partners. We... protected each other. Turns out the one thing I couldn't protect him from was himself. I told him to take off those inhibitors. Maybe these dreams are because of my guilt.
- M'gann M'orzz: There may be more to what he's going through than you know. When J'onn discovered that I was a White Martian, he thought the worst of me. Until he finally saw my soul.
- Nia Nal: I'm not a telepath.
- M'gann M'orzz: No, you're a dreamer. And like it or not, you're dreaming now. You have to engage with it. It could have meaning far deeper than you realize.
- Nia Nal: I'm sorry, M'gann, I need to be keeping Brainy out of my mind, not letting him in.
- J'onn J'onzz: [uncomfortably, disguised as Supergirl] Ugh! I was right.
- M'gann M'orzz: [disguised likewise] I quite like it.
- Nia Nal: This is just like the beginning of "Deathly Hallows".
- Kara Danvers: Moody and Hedwig died.
- M'gann M'orzz: You lost comrades in battle? My condolences.
- Gamemnae: Welcome to Leviathan.
- Lex Luthor: You know... I pride myself on seeing things. Connections where others see only coincidence. Pathways where others see only walls. I anticipate everything, but I must admit, I did not expect you to live in a casino.
- J'onn J'onzz: So Lex and Leviathan are planning something using Obsidian's virtual reality platform.
- Lena Luthor: And my tech likely made that possible.
- Alex Danvers: That must be why Rama Khan went after the DEO's kryptonite.
- Nia Nal: To keep Supergirl from interfering.
- Kara Danvers: Well, the joke's on Rama Khan and his big, dumb gladiator outfit, because I've already defeated him once.
- J'onn J'onzz: Don't be rash, Kara. He's tied to the Earth. Which means he can track your slightest movements. If you use your powers even once, he will sense them, and attack.
- M'gann M'orzz: With all that kryptonite at his fingertips, he could kill you.
- Kara Danvers: You guys will protect me.
- Alex Danvers: Just like we protected the DEO?
- Lex Luthor: Well, now that the, uh... pleasantries are out of the way, don't you think we should discuss our plan to take out Supergirl and her friends?
- Rama Khan: These rings bought you a ticket to board our ship. So enjoy your photo op. But leave the slaughter of Supergirl to us.
- Lena Luthor: I haven't made Kara an anti-kryptonite suit in this world. But I could. Just need to get you safely to my lab.
- Alex Danvers: Your lab is across the city. And Kara can't use her powers.
- J'onn J'onzz: We could get her there. If we had the right distraction.
- M'gann M'orzz: Or the right decoys.
- J'onn J'onzz: [seeing her wink, he gets what she's implying] N-No, no, no way. Absolutely not. I can tell those pants will chafe.
- Rama Khan: [as Lex got struck down by the protective shield] Lex Luthor. The fabled man of tomorrow. At least you have the decency to bow before the gods.
- Gamemnae: I told you to disable the shields.
- Rama Khan: As long as he knows where we live, it stays on. At all times.
- Gamemnae: On whose orders?
- Rama Khan: Whose do you think?
- Gamemnae: The ship's defense mechanism. A proto-focused radiation shield. This pin will protect you.
- Lex Luthor: Wow, you really know how to make your guests feel welcome.
- Rama Khan: There's no place I can't find you.
- Supergirl: That's where you're wrong.
- [as J'onn shifts back into his own form, he's joined by Dreamer]
- Dreamer: M'gann, you're off the hook. We've got Rama Khan.
- Supergirl: Copy that. We're on our way.
- [sensing something]
- Supergirl: Wait. There's someone else. Another element-bender.
- [said earth-bender appears from a cloud in the sky, and shoots her with lightning from her staff]
- M'gann M'orzz: [shifting back to her own form] Gotcha.
- Dreamer: Did someone call for backup?
- Supergirl: Now it's a fair fight.
- M'gann M'orzz: Couldn't let you have all the fun.
- Dreamer: Can't believe you left to play earth, wind, and fire without us.
- Lena Luthor: It's Eve's location.
- Kara Danvers: I'm going.
- Lena Luthor: No, Kara, your suit isn't ready yet.
- Kara Danvers: I don't care. Protecting people is what I do. You should know that by now.
- Lena Luthor: Then I'm going with you.
- Gamemnae: Tezumak managed to injure one of the Martians. But Supergirl never even joined the fight, and the others got away. I've gambled everything on this Unity Festival.
- Lex Luthor: Then we have to make sure it goes off without a hitch.
- Andrea Rojas: [approaching] Lex, Gemma. It's time.
- Lex Luthor: [as Andrea leaves] So? Shall we begin ending the world?
- Eve Teschmacher: Now that you're up, you better start talking. Why were you following me?
- William Dey: I'm pursuing a story on Lex Luthor. I know he's up to something criminal. I don't know your involvement. But I believe you've been working for him.
- Eve Teschmacher: You have no idea what you've gotten yourself into. You should have stayed out of it. Now I have no choice.
- William Dey: [getting to his feet] I'm a journalist. Okay, I can read people. You're a good person who looks trapped. It's clear you're not a killer. What does he have on you? Did he threaten someone you care about?
- Eve Teschmacher: My mother.
- William Dey: [trying to keep her calm, as she raises her gun] I am so sorry. But you don't have to fight this alone. I can help you and your mother. We can bring the truth to light.
- Eve Teschmacher: If the truth comes to light, my mother is dead.
- William Dey: [she raises her gun again] Eve, please.
- Eve Teschmacher: I really am so sorry.
- [she shoots him in the shoulder]
- Kara Danvers: If this Eve is working with Lex, William has no idea the danger he's in. I... Alex, I have to do something. I can't just sit here. I have to help him somehow.
- Alex Danvers: Okay, listen to me. Stop. I know how hard it is for you to sit on the sidelines. Okay, but Kelly and I, we will handle this. Okay? W-We'll access Eve's files at Obsidian North and we'll see what she's up to. And if she has gotten to William...
- [seeing the concern in Kara's face]
- Alex Danvers: ...hey. We will find him. You just need to stay safe until Lena finishes your suit.
- Kara Danvers: Okay, all right, fine. But please, be careful.
- Alex Danvers: You know me.
- Kara Danvers: Yeah, exactly. That's what I'm worried about.
- Kelly Olsen: William texted me last night that he was going after Eve Teschmacher. I haven't been able to reach him since.
- Kara Danvers: William went after Eve alone?
- Alex Danvers: No super-hearing.
- Kara Danvers: Sorry.
- Lena Luthor: Eve Teschmacher? She's back?
- Supergirl: [seeing Leviathan appear] Get William and Eve out of here. I'll deal with this.
- Lena Luthor: Are you mad? They've got kryptonite.
- Supergirl: Well, then you'd better get that suit here fast.
- Lena Luthor: [taking out her phone] It's already on its way.
- Kelly Olsen: I just said a mask, but... wow. Bummer we have to get straight to business.
- Alex Danvers: Yeah, I guess you inspired me.
- Kelly Olsen: I could have never gotten past security. My girlfriend's a badass.
- Alex Danvers: Breaking into a tech corps, that's easy. What I battled earlier today...
- [showing Kelly her phone]
- Alex Danvers: These are gods.
- [indicating the wristband J'onn gave her]
- Alex Danvers: I mean, I finally got this baby working. But compared to what those guys are packing... I might as well have brought a slingshot. I've never felt so... human.
- Alex Danvers: It's not just Rama Khan out there. There's three of them. Each with a different element-bending power.
- Lena Luthor: Where are the others?
- Alex Danvers: J'onn was injured. M'gann and Dreamer took him back to the Tower.
- Kara Danvers: I should have been there, fighting alongside you. I'm sorry.
- Alex Danvers: Kara, it's okay. We all still have our ears.
- Lena Luthor: Kelly opened a back door into the festival. It should help protect you from the kill switch.
- Supergirl: Well, hopefully, we can get everyone out before Lex and Gemma hit it.
- Lena Luthor: You will.
- Supergirl: [putting her lenses in] Let's do this.
- [entering the Obsidian VR]
- Supergirl: Wow. This is amazing. I've never seen anything like this. No wonder so many people signed up.
- Supergirl: It's not working. There are too many people. They... they feel connected to their loved ones. It's... it's spiritual. I have no idea how to break through to them.
- Lena Luthor: I think I can give you a way to talk to everyone at once.
- [as she types on her keyboard, multiple Karas appear]
- Lena Luthor: Try now.
- Supergirl: I need you all to listen to me. You're in danger.
- Alex Danvers: There's still no sign of them. Guess they didn't take the bait.
- Dreamer: Maybe you should have been meaner.
- J'onn J'onzz: Yeah...
- [hearing a rumble of thunder and seeing lightning in the sky]
- J'onn J'onzz: No. I was just mean enough.
- Querl Dox: Place your hand on the central terminal. You'll be able to upload the shrink code.
- [struggling, Brainy makes his way to the panel and takes out the stasis bottle]
- Querl Dox: Now, you can't move your hand, or else you'll have to start over.
- Querl Dox: The upload will take ten minutes. I don't know if I can last that long.
- Querl Dox: You can. I'll be with you the whole way.
- Nia Nal: And that's when their bodies started to reform like out of a horror movie.
- Alex Danvers: Yeah, but that means...
- Kelly Olsen: They're indestructible.
- M'gann M'orzz: Immortal.
- Supergirl: This isn't about defeating them anymore. They want us to fight until we drop. So they can distract us from whatever Lex is planning.
- Lena Luthor: Do we even know what that is?
- Supergirl: I'm gonna go find out.
- Supergirl: All right, so what do we do about Leviathan?
- J'onn J'onzz: We'll fight 'til our last breath.
- M'gann M'orzz: J'onn, are you sure?
- J'onn J'onzz: With you by my side, 100%.
- Nia Nal: Well, we'll need to do something to draw Leviathan out.
- J'onn J'onzz: I'll send them a message.
- Supergirl: What are you gonna say?
- J'onn J'onzz: Something to get their attention.
- [his eyes turn red; cut to the Leviathan ship]
- Rama Khan: That arrogant Martian thinks he can speak to me like that? I'm a god!
- [leading the others out]
- Rama Khan: Once we're done with this world, I'll turn to Mars next.
- Andrea Rojas: We are nearing two billion simultaneous users. Our dreams are finally a reality.
- Gamemnae: Not just our dreams, Andrea. Your father's.
- Andrea Rojas: Hmm.
- Gamemnae: And Leviathan's.
- Andrea Rojas: [alarmed] Leviathan? How do you know that name?
- Gamemnae: Because I am Leviathan.
- Andrea Rojas: What does that mean? All I know is that Leviathan rescued me that day in the cave.
- Gamemnae: It was I who rescued you. And I've been looking out for you every day since. But now I need your help.
- Andrea Rojas: Yes. Yes, of course, anything.
- Gamemnae: There is great power in you. I know you feel it. The power of shadows. I need you to use that power... to kill Supergirl.
- Andrea Rojas: What? No. I don't... I can't.
- Gamemnae: Yes, you can. And when you do, you'll have power beyond your wildest dreams. And your company will be untouchable. If you don't, your company will collapse. You will lose everything. Your father will be crushed. We both know he won't be able to survive the blow.
- Kelly Olsen: There's nearly a billion people logged into the Unity Fest already.
- Alex Danvers: Can we shut down the system?
- M'gann M'orzz: Or destroy it somehow?
- Lena Luthor: No. The Luthor power core has an indestructible failsafe.
- Nia Nal: So, you're saying we need to convince potentially billions of people to log out of a virtual reality paradise of their own free will. Hope you've got one of those classic hope speeches handy.
- Supergirl: I mean, I've done it before, but never on this level.
- Alex Danvers, Lena Luthor: Oh, if anyone can do it, it's you.
- Alex Danvers: Jinx.
- J'onn J'onzz: If you and I can fan out to the side, we can draw their fire.
- M'gann M'orzz: [to Alex and Dreamer] While you attack through the middle. Sound good?
- Alex Danvers: Why not? You ready?
- Dreamer: Nope.
- Alex Danvers: Me, neither. Let's go.
- Lex Luthor: What's wrong?
- Gamemnae: Supergirl. She's inside the Unity Festival. We need to hit the kill switch. Wipe out as many people as possible before she has a chance to interfere.
- Lex Luthor: There aren't enough people logged in yet. We need to hit 50% saturation. What good is wiping out one-quarter of the world if the other three-quarters rise up against us?
- Gamemnae: We'll worry about that problem tomorrow.
- Lex Luthor: This is about tomorrow. You told me you answer to a higher power. How will she feel when you give in on the mission before it's complete? And if Supergirl is in the Unity Festival, then her physical body is vulnerable.
- Gamemnae: Rama Khan, Tezumak, and Sela might be able to make it back in time.
- Lex Luthor: They need to take out Supergirl's friends.
- Gamemnae: Then what do you propose?
- Lex Luthor: Send another assassin. Someone who won't fail you.
- Kelly Olsen: Alex called. Leviathan has disappeared.
- Eve Teschmacher: You did what you said you would.
- Supergirl: Almost. I still have one promise left to keep.
- Lex Luthor: Who do you think you are? We had a plan. Leviathan kills Supergirl, and you kill Leviathan. And then together, we save this planet from the invulnerable aliens who think they know what's best for mankind. Why couldn't you just wait for Supergirl to die?
- Querl Dox: [laughing weakly] Underestimated me. My friends. I'd never let you kill them.
- Lex Luthor: No, Brainiac 5. Uh, I underestimate nothing. I knew you would decide to shrink the gods instead of kill them due to your precious moral code. I planned for that. I just didn't think that you would kill yourself. Well... Supergirl lives. But, I have the ball.
- Querl Dox: No...
- Lex Luthor: You gave me exactly...
- [taking the stasis bottle]
- Lex Luthor: ...what I needed. I'm just gonna kill Supergirl myself. It'll be fun. And you... can die alone. Just like you intended.
- Eve Teschmacher: Is the reporter okay?
- Supergirl: Yes. He told us everything.
- Eve Teschmacher: Please understand... I was just trying to protect my mom. Now Lex is gonna kill her.
- Supergirl: I know you must feel like there's no way out. But it is when things feel their most hopeless that we have to dig down deep to do what's right. Otherwise, the bad guys win. Help us, Eve. Help us fight. And I promise I will do everything in my power to keep you and your mom safe.
- Eve Teschmacher: Gemma Cooper is not who she says she is. Her real name is Gamemnae. She's a member of Leviathan, just like Rama Khan. Tonight, they're planning to attack the Unity Festival. Once all four billion subscribers are inside... Gemma will kill them all.
- Lena Luthor: I never thought I'd see the day. Obsidian Platinum, the most popular VR platform ever created.
- Supergirl: And not a single person's using it.
- Querl Dox: Did you get the ship's location?
- Lex Luthor: Indeed. But it has a nasty defense mechanism. They gave me something to protect from it.
- Querl Dox: Give it to me.
- Lex Luthor: Not yet.
- Querl Dox: We've come all this way... we-we've done all those terrible things so that I can sneak aboard the Leviathan ship and upload the mortality code so that I can kill the immortals.
- Lex Luthor: And we shall. But first, Rama Khan and his element-bending goons need to eliminate Supergirl's friends one by one. And when she has nothing left... they'll slay her, too. After that, you kill the gods.
- Querl Dox: You think I-I'm just going to sit back while Leviathan murders my friends?
- Lex Luthor: Former friends. And yes, I think you will. Because if you get on that ship any sooner, you'll die with them.
- Querl Dox: Leviathan is the enemy, Lex. Not Supergirl, not J'onn J'onzz. Not Dreamer.
- Lex Luthor: You're right. They're heroes. They would happily sacrifice themselves to save the world. Maybe they'll even thank us.