Previously: The Flash is adorable!
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The Myriad
Catherine: Alright so we decided to do something a little different and split up the last two episodes of Season 1 so we can open up the discussion more and make something more interesting for you guys to read.
Lol. Just kidding. We literally had to do this because we’ve now put off recapping the end of the season for A FULL YEAR and the new season is starting in a few days. Splitting these episodes up and taking less of each one was the only way for us to get through the last two vast wastelands of boringness that is this show. (M: None of this is inaccurate.) (S: Come back, Barry.)
And on that starter…
This episode starts at the DEO where Lucy (who is the head of the DEO now, due to Hank leaving to find Dean Cain and a heavy dose of contrivance) marches in creepily perfect formation with some other agents. She approaches the Giant Screen Of Crimes™ where Non’s big forehead is waiting to give her orders. She robots that they are gonna release all of the prisoners that are being held at the DEO except for the White Martian, per his instructions.
Lucy presses a button and the screen flashes about containment override as a montage of shots take us to a bunch of toilet-less glass cells around the DEO where various aliens are being kept. Some we have seen before and others that we haven’t. There are a lot of different shaped and freaky looking monsters. Shit, this must have blown out the special effects budget for the entire season. Unless Jim Henson is down on the floor with his hands up some asses.
Marines: Wow, thank you for that visual.
Samantha: Nope. I have still not recovered from that Angel episode. I can’t even look at the human puppets at work.
Catherine: None of us have recovered from that Angel episode. Don’t feel bad.
Lucy and her agents march into a particular cell where a very curvy, red-headed woman is being kept. She tells Lucy she doesn’t recognize her and that she is Maxima, Queen of the planet Almerac, killer of ships, destroyer of feminism. Oh sorry, maybe I added the last two.
In the comics, Maxima is the Queen of the planet of fucking or whatever and comes to earth to find a mate. She decides that she needs to mate with Superman because he’s the only one that can survive her killer vag. When he refused her she got all Gone Girl and became creepy-obsessed with him and tried to kill a bunch of people. Some times she’s kinda okay, since she does have super powers. Most times she’s an excuse to get a half-naked girl worked into the story and have her rubbing up on Superman. (S: Oh, neat.)
- Do I tell a lie?
This time she’s wearing such a bad wig she literally looks like a porno version of herself.
Mari: It’s got so much… volume?
Samantha: Why can’t they get a halfway decent wig on this show?
Catherine: Lucy opens her cell and Maxima rushes out and super punches the two guards. She pins Lucy against a wall and threatens her. Lucy tells her that Non has sent for her and she is to be a queen on earth. Maxima says that she is willing to pledge allegiance to Non since Superman refused to marry her. Gee, why don’t I like Maxima, again?
Mari: The wig.
Samantha: Okay where are the DEO headquarters? Did we know that Supes kept his baddies here as well? I just feel like I missed something.
Catherine: That’s a great point. Apparently Supes knows about the DEO, too now? Maybe he always did? Dunno.
Maxima, Lucy and some other agents walk back into the main room all high on their villain music when suddenly there’s a blast of cold air. Supergirl shows up and tells them that their parole has been cancelled. Yay! Patter! I lowkey live for superhero patter. (S: I love this term, I’ve never heard it before.) (C: The more you know!)
Kara and Maxima fight and they are evenly matched. Maxima tells Kara that they could have been family as she wanted Superman to be her mate and Kara is like “Ew, gross!” and throws her through the air. She manages to knock Maxima out but Lucy begins shooting Kryptonite bullets at her and Kara has to dodge. She begs Lucy to wake up and fight the hold that Myriad has on her, whatever that hold is, we still don’t know.
Lucy keeps shooting at her and Kara huddles over to her ship that the DEO keeps on display for some reason. She presses some buttons on it and the ship blasts Lucy and the other agent that she was shooting with back against a wall. Kara rushes over to smash the computer just as the containment breach is about to take effect.
She pulls the Kryptonite bullet out of her shoulder and rushes over to Lucy who is unconscious. She apologizes to her and then, ya know, leaves.
Next we see of her she’s flying to the Fortress of Suckitude. No, I’m kidding. I still love this fortress, but it does still look like the poorly painted set of a fifth grade play. (M: I think there is snow falling inside this cave.)
She calls out for Kal-Ex, the cute little robot from a few episodes ago. Yay! Kal-Ex is back. Favorite character, tbh. (S: Forever has my heart.) Kal-Ex asks how he may assist her and she asks where Superman is and says she can’t find him anywhere. Probably because he’s intentionally avoiding you, homegirl.
Mari: You think she would’ve gotten the hint after he ducked out of Thanksgiving…
Catherine: Kal-Ex tells her that Superman is attending to something off world. Convenient. (S: Why doesn’t Kara ever visit space? You’d think if you had the capabilities to visit space you would.) Kara asks Kal-Ex to tell her about Myriad. Kal-Ex robot warnings about avoiding the question and Kara tells him that he was programmed to obey the House of El and honor Krypton’s memory and all that.
I’m distracted by the fact that it is snowing in this scene. Did you guys know that it rarely ever actually snows in Antarctica? World’s biggest desert. Look it up.
Mari: SEE? Usually I would go back and delete my comment up there since you brought it up here, but this inside-a-cave snow in Antartica is weird.
Samantha: I did not know that! Damn US schooling fails!
Catherine: Uh, anyway. Kal-Ex has enough of Kara’s bullying and speeds off and Kara yells at the fortress to help her. Suddenly a hologram of Holomom appears. Holomom tells her that Myriad was created by Astra back on Krypton. It was created to help Krypton recover because the Kryptonians had global warming’ed the shit out of it and it was dying. The politicians couldn’t agree on what to do to help the planet so Astra created Myriad to force everyone to obey her. (M: Wow. That’s one way of doing it…) Using Myriad is what got Astra and Non thrown in the Phantom Zone. Kara flashes back to when Astra asked for her help in convincing the humans to let her mind control them and Kara realizes that Astra and Non have been trying to use Myriad to save the planet.
Hooooooold on, what? You’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me that mustache-twirling Non is trying to save us? Is he just naturally sinister or something? Secretly he’s trying to help us? I’m gonna assume that Kara is wrong here and go on.
Mari: “I’M GONNA HELP YOU TO DEATH.” — Non, probably.
Samantha: I had always gathered that they wanted to save the literal planet but not us? Like, to hell with the people lets just save the Earth? But maybe I was wrong?
Catherine: That could be it. Maybe they want to use it? Gonna be way underpopulated with how you guys fucked up that last one, yo.
Kara asks why everyone was so afraid to talk about Myriad. I can answer that one. Plot reasons, that’s why. Holomom tells Kara that Myraid can’t be stopped once it’s been started. GREAT.
Samantha: I bet there’s a way to stop it though.
Catherine: Ssh, you’re ruining the false suspense!
Next scene we’re taken to a bus and told it’s thirty miles outside of Midvale. Midvale is the name of the town in the comics where Supergirl originally landed back in her first ever issue in the 50’s. At the end of that comic Superman dropped her off at an orphanage so… I guess it could be worse, Kara. (S: Wow so he’s just always wanted nothing to do with her?) (C: Basically.)
Anyway, on the bus is a blonde woman and a small boy. The bus stops when it comes to a police barricade and the cops come on and tell the passengers that they are looking for a fugitive wanted for serious crimes. The woman puts on dark glasses and pulls a gun out of her bag. The cops show pictures of Alex and Hank to the bus and ask if anyone has seen them. The little boy leans into the woman and shuts his eyes.
The cop looks through the passengers and seems to pause at the woman but then says the bus is clear and leaves. The little boy turns to the woman and his eyes glow red.
I mean, Alex isn’t even disguised that well but it took me half of this scene to realize that that was her. She’s only wearing a blonde wig and glasses. I don’t have great facial recognition, I think maybe. That would explain why strangers keep telling me to go fuck myself. (S: I’ll beat them up.) (C: I’ll hold your purse.)
CatCo. Supergirl flies in and walks through the offices where the people work at their desks, typing on computers like zombies. No one turns to look at her. So just a normal day in an office environment, amiright?
She goes up to a woman that she knows (but whom we’ve never seen before) and calls out to her. Kara realizes that the woman is typing in Kryptonian. She clearly has that Rosetta Stone app. Good for her. (M: I hear knowing Kryptonian is a good professional skill to have.) At one of the desks she sees Winn and tries to get him to realize that she’s there. I’m laughing because she’s all, ‘I need my friend’ but it’s pretty obvious she didn’t come here for him and sort of just remembered he existed. Or maybe that was just me.
Either way he doesn’t wake up. Kara goes to Jimmy’s office and sees him typing too. She monologues about wishing he would smile while he stares at his computer. Outside, General Lane (Lucy and Lois’ dad, if you remember) is on TV saying that the army has quarantined National City. (S: I wonder how they found out about all this if Supergirl is the only one awake.)
Kara calls General Lane and he immediately asks how Lucy is. She tells him that she’s safe but she is under Myriad’s spell. She tells him to keep keeping everyone out of the city and says that she knows they haven’t had the best working relationship but…
He tells her that he trusts that she will do her part and that he can do his and tells her good luck.
Kara hangs up the phone just as the elevator dings. She jumps because who would be coming up in the elevator when everyone around her is all zombiefied?
WHO FRIENDS?!?!
Mari: I am neither surprised by her being there or by the fact that she literally has no idea anything bad is happening. Also, LOL because:
Samantha: OMG it was an easy joke for them to make but I love it so much. Probably because I just found out about their marriage this year.
Catherine: Supergirl awkwardly clears her throat and Cat realizes who she was talking to. She takes off her sunglasses and asks her if they had a 9am meeting or something. Supergirl asks her if she noticed that everyone in town in a zombie and Cat’s like actually yeah, everyone is less annoying than usual. But she assumes that her reign of terror has reached it’s peak effectiveness. (S: Lol.)
Supergirl’s phone chimes and she looks to see a message from Clark saying he’s on his way. Which we know isn’t gonna work out because he doesn’t actually show up until the season premiere of Season 2 (Set your DVRs!) Cat notices that Supergirl has a cell phone and asks if she can cop those digits. Then Supergirl says that it’s Superman texting her and Cat is even MORE into getting his number because of a perfectly understandable thirst. (M: 💦💦💦💦)
Supergirl tells her that Superman is coming to help and Cat eagerly follows her out on to the balcony of feelings to wait for him. Cat sees the people on the street below zombie marching around and finally realizes that something is wrong with them.
Superman flies up just out of hiring an actor distance and then suddenly stops. He lands on the street below and falls in with the other zombies.
Mari: I cannot believe they just showed up Superman falling out of the sky in order to address him but not hire an actor. IS THIS REAL LIFE?
I CANNOT, I AM DYING OF LAUGHTER.
Samantha: OMG OMG OMG RIGHT? Actually cackling. Why would Superman be affected? LOLOL I CANNOT STOP WATCHING HIM FALL.
Catherine: It’s hypnotic, that gif.
Cat asks if any of them are safe if even Superman is being affected by this.
In strolls Carlisle Maxwell, casual as you please. He has a bluetooth headset over one ear that is blocking the Myriad signal. He smugs about not being Superman but having his moments.
Not!Commercial break.
Back in Cat’s office she tells Maxwell Carlisle that she’s not surprised he’s surviving the apocalypse since he’s a cockroach. Supergirl asks why he wasn’t affected and he tells her that he realized the Kryptonian’s plan a while ago and made the Bluetooth headseat to keep them out.
Supergirl asks why he didn’t warn the DEO if he had enough time to invent a damn headset and he tells her that with Alex (and Hank) gone he didn’t trust the DEO anymore. Did he ever?
Mari: And really what untrustworthy thing could they do with his bluetooth set? Not… give it to people…? Like he didn’t…??
Samantha: His logic is not of Earth or Krypton logic.
Catherine: Cat points out that obviously not everyone needs the blocker thing if she’s fine and she’s not wearing it. Carlisle Maxy notices her new earrings, which apparently he sent to her the night before. He included the ion blocker thing in them. He creepily feels up her face (S: Stop.) and says that he didn’t want to world to lose Cat Grant’s mind. I guess because he couldn’t find Alex this week and he has to flirt with someone or he’ll die.
Mari: OMG is he from Almerac too?
Catherine: Lol, burn.
Carlisle Maxwell asks where Kara is and Cat says that he shouldn’t be glib because Kara is probably in danger like everyone else. Omg my ship. It sails.
Maxwell Carlisle then says that Myriad affected Superman because he grew up on earth and it was nature versus nurture. Being raised by humans made his brain more human.
Oh come on! Seriously? That’s what we’re going with here? Why not just leave Clark off-planet? That was a fine explanation. His brain is somehow subtlety more human than Kara’s cause he was slightly more raised on earth than she was? So the cut-off for human brains is clearly 13 years old, then?
Mari: They aren’t even trying.
Catherine: Supergirl asks Maxy if he can just destroy the satellites that Non is using, since they’re his but he can’t because reasons. Cat says that she knows he must have a plan and Carlisle Maxwell says that of course he does. His plan is to kill them all.
Cut to the evil lair, where Non is looking at a hologram of the city. Indigo (the blue lady who can transfer herself through the internet from a few episodes ago) (M: wait, didn’t she go up in confetti or something?) (S: Yes but then Non put her on a table or something to rebuild her?) shows up and evil dialogues with him. Non says that not even Superman could escape Myriad which means that he KNOWS Superman is under his thrall and he’s doing… nothing with it? Bringing Superman into this is just getting dumber and dumber. Why would he not be using Superman for something? Like… anything?
Mari: Superpowered sexual favors! Wait, not what you were thinking?
Catherine: It is now.
Indigo reminds him that Kara is still out there trying to stop him and he tells her that she overestimates Kara’s abilities. Okay, so Non is just a dumbass. Again. In every adaptation. (M: Wow, much continuity!)
Indigo tries to convince him to kill Kara and he looks like he’s thinking it over while villain-y music plays.
Out at the Kent Far—oh, I mean, the Danvers house, Alex comes home and startles Helen Slater, aka 1984 Supergirl, aka Alex and Kara’s mom, Eliza. (S: *tries to smother all the Hamilton lyrics*)
After Eliza realizes that it’s just Alex and a strange little boy she starts asking questions. Alex is trying to figure out how to explain when Hank just decides to morph back in to his real/fake form of Hank. Eliza freaks out because she recognizes Hank as the alien that killed Dean Cain and denied her more of that sweet, Superman ass. Is that insensitive? He’s still alive so I think it’s fine. (M: It’s Dean Cain. He makes us say crazy things.)
Catherine: Alex tells her that the real Hank was the one who blackmailed Dean Cain into joining the DEO and that this is a Martian shapeshifter. So much better. Hank calms her down by telling her that he thought Dean Cain was a super awesome dude. (S: As do we all.) Alex tells her that they are on the run and Eliza asks how they even got out of National City. Off Alex’s confusion she tells them that there is something they have to see.
CatCo. Cat asks Maxwell what his plan is and he tells her that she’ll know in good time. This is why you’re not in the hero club, Max. Shit like this. Just then Non walks in and tells Kara that Superman is under his thrall and soon she will be too. Cool. Good update.
And on that note, my part is done! On to Mari for hers!
Marines: Supergirl tells Stupid Non that this isn’t what Astra would’ve wanted. They forgave each other in her final moments. Non says of course this is what Astra wanted and it’s what everyone wants. Non is going to save them to death, it’ll be great! (S: Non, does this saving to death plan involve cookies?)
Non speeches on, getting in a burn about how Earth people are more interested in reality stars and political circuses (and political circuses starring reality stars!) (C: This fall on CBS!) than working together to solve problems. Maxwell Carlisle snarks that he should’ve thought of combatting global warming with mind control.
Catherine: Fact.
Mari: Supergirl stands up for humanity, telling Non that instead of helping humans to death (or whatever) he could work with them. Non huffs at that because Maxwell Carlisle and Cat are supposedly the best two people on Earth now (lol whut) and all they do is help people amuse themselves.
Suddenly, Winn and James start talking about how now all people are using their brains to help fight world suck. This really freaks Supergirl out and I can’t imagine that Cat doesn’t wonder how Supergirl is so close to stupid Winn and hey, doesn’t she look a little like…. but I digress. (S: The frustration. It’s so real.)
Supergirl begs Non to stop using her friends to say mean things about her. Knowing now that these people are her friends, Non says he has suffered loss and would like to return the favor. He makes James, Winn and Rando Kelly stand up and head in three separate directions, out to the balcony. They all jump and Supergirl goes after them, scooping up James and Winn, but running out of time before Kelly hits the ground. (C: KELLY NOOOOOO!)
I’m being generous there because what it actually looks like is that Supergirl doesn’t even TRY to save Kelly. Also, I’m not convinced that she wouldn’t be fast enough to catch all 3. BUT OKAY. Kelly died. RIP Kelly, we never knew ye.
Samantha: Isn’t Supergirl faster then the speed of light? And a speeding bullet? This is dumb.
Catherine: I’m so pissed, you guys. Kelly was my favorite character. I loved how she always did that thing where she sat at her desk and then jumped off of buildings. RIP.
Mari: On the ground, Supergirl is freaked out by what just happened (and inexplicability not withstanding, it was a tense few moments to watch) and Robo James says, “you missed one.” Everyone Supergirl loves or cares for will die. Robo James takes Supergirl’s face in his hands and tells her to accept defeat. Non has already saved National City to death and next is the world.
Back on the ranch, Hank J’onn is looking at a photo of Dean Cain, Helen Slater, Kara and Alex. Helen Slater catches him and he awkwardly says that it’s a nice picture. They are a lovely family. Helen Slater sadly corrects his tense. She wants to know if Hank J’onn was there when Dean Cain “died,” and Hank J’onn says that Dean Cain’s only thoughts were for her and the girls. He made Dean Cain a promise and has been trying to keep it ever since. Helen Slater thanks him.
Well, awkward Dean Cain is dead elephant out of the room, Helen Slater wants to know if J’onn is a little green man! And how he shape shifts! And wants happens to his organs and stuff when he does! Hank J’onn laughs at her curiosity.
Catherine: I thought this part was actually cute because she’s still a scientist and they have not been showing that like, at all up till now.
Mari: Things go back to serious because Alex enters the room and she’s got Supergirl on the line. Supergirl quickly recaps her no good, very bad situation, including the fact that the only person she can count on right now is Maxwell Carlisle. Alex doesn’t like that at all, but Supergirl says she has no choice and hangs up. Alex explains what just happened to Helen Slater and Hank J’onn. He decides to go back to National City, but orders Alex to stay behind because she would be exactly no help under Myriad’s control. (S: Barry should have left behind those magic scientific earplugs from last episode.)
Back at CatCo, Maxwell Carlisle wants to know if Supergirl is ready to get on with his murder plans. See, he’s been working on a Kryptonite bomb that will kill all Kryptonians in National City. Cat puts her call with (presumably) Anderson Cooper on hold to ask if that wouldn’t also kill Supergirl and Superman. Max Carl says not if Supergirl is the one to detonate it and then run away with her cousin. They just wouldn’t be able to come back to National City for 50 years. Cat laughs bitterly because OF COURSE.
Supergirl asks if the bomb would effect humans at all and Maxwell says that you know, maybe a few lots of people would die or something. 8% of the population, which is about 300,000 people. Cat believe that Supergirl is considering this. Maxwell says of course she is because it’s either 300,000 people or the seven billion on Earth. They have no other plans. Supergirl asks if maybe they can tell Non about the weapon and make him see reason. Maxwell says to suggest that to Kelly, The Office Skydiver. LOW BLOW, MAN. (S: What did Kelly ever do to you, asshole?) (C: *sobs* Too soon.) There is a small chance Supergirl really couldn’t save her, you don’t know.
Anyway, Maxwell Carlisle continues his push to kill some people and save the world and asks Supergirl if she’s ready to do that.
After a very dramatic cut to black, we pick back up again in Cat’s office. Carlisle is Skyping with General Lane, who got Presidential approval for Max to Kryptonite bomb National City. (S: President Bartlet would never agree to this!) General Lane hopes God has mercy on them all and Max says that if there were a God, she wouldn’t have let this happen to them.
I will give him 0 “credit” for calling God a girl because I feel like this is just a dig at Supergirl. (S: NO SOUP FOR YOU, MAXWELL!) (C: Everything sounds like a dig when he says it. He’s so smarmy.)
He flips the tablet down and there is Supergirl, staring at him. She asks how he got this way and he starts to tell her about how he got turned into a vampire in the late… Oh, wait, no.
He tells her about how his parents were killed because of faulty hazmat suits that Maxwell Carlisle warned them about. No one listened to him, though, and they died. (C: What a fucking weird way to die, vampirents. Your son is a freak, btw.) From that moment he promised that if he could save people, he would also definitely save them to death and not wait for anyone’s permission to do it. He acts, just like Supergirl every time she jumps out of a window. He tells her they are more alike than she thinks. Her eyes kind of misty, Supergirl says she sure hopes not. Maxwell Carlisle says he’ll be in his room working on his bomb.
Samantha:
Marines: Evil Lair. This scene is so boring, if I actually make it through recapping, I expect a prize. Non reports back to Indigo about how he totally didn’t kill Supergirl but it’s okay because it’s better to allow her plenty of opportunity to save the world make her suffer by seeing people she loves die. (C: Yeah, no, totally.) There is another part here where Non is like, next up, other cities! And Indigo is so bored with his small time goals. Non declares himself Lord of Earth and Indigo yells about how he could be Lord of the Universe. Her hair is also very distracting. It’s all braids that move as a single piece when she moves her head. It’s weird. What was I saying? Oh, yeah, now Non has idea face about conquering the whole entire universe.
Hey! I made it! Instead of a prize, I’m just going to pass it on to Samantha now. I think this means I recapped the smallest piece of the episode, but, uh, bye!
Samantha: I see you there Mari, I see you. You’re battling a hurricane right now though, so we’ll cut you some slack. (C: NO EXCUSE.) (M: WTF. It’s AN ACT OF GOD.)
Eliiiiiiza’s House. She wants to know if Hank and Alex are in trouble with the DEO. Man, they are really only giving her random pieces of their story. Alex interrupts this with a dramtic gun cock because there is no way she’s getting left behind. Alex, wtf do you think you’re going to do? Your gun is usually ineffective when you’re not being mind controlled. She speechifies about how awful it was to watch her dad walk out the door without being able to do anything. Apparently, Hank J’onn should be able to guard her mind with his telepathy, which you’d think is something he’d have thought of. Alex hugs her mom and promises to try to come home. She goes to also tell her that her husband is probably alive but Hank forcefully interrupts her. Why are we not telling Eliza? What is the non logic here?
Catherine: There isn’t even any at all. I guess they don’t feel like they have the time right now? TV logic.
Samantha: CatCo. Supergirl is out on the Brooding Balcony when Cat comes out. She talks about watching kids playing in the park down below and wonders which of them will die in Carl Max’s bomb explosion. She tells Supergirl to come up with a better plan. Supergirl agonizes and says that when her mother was faced with the decision to act or do nothing, she chose wrong. Krypton died. Cat says that they’re all scared, Non and Max included, but someone has to be bigger than the fear. Because of Supergirl, Cat has started opening herself up to people, like Kara, and now she has a relationship with her son. Hope should be stronger than fear. They have a very sincere hug so powerful that Supergirl gets an idea. (M: Hug-spiration!)
Catherine: 
Samantha: Hey, is Cat’s young son part of the trance crowd? Have we seen any children and I missed them? What are infants doing right now?
Catherine: I *think* her younger son lived in a different city, didn’t he? Or am I mis-remembering that because we’ve taken so long to do these recaps?
Samantha: I can’t even pretend to remember. Sure, yes, he lives in another city.
Evil Lair. Indigo senses Hank J’onn’s return.
Alex and Hank land in National City. Hank says that the signal is very strong and it’s taking up a lot of his energy just to shield her. She tells him to sacrifice her if he needs to. Really glad we brought Alex along, so far. (M: It makes TOTAL sense!) She wants to know why he didn’t let her tell Eliza about Dean Cain’s alive status. Hank says she didn’t need to worry about that right now. Suddenly, a rogue Indigo slams Alex into the ground. Hank uselessly fires bullets at her, like a newb. She villains at him for awhile, taunting him for being the only on of his people to survive. He punches her in the back and then throws her into a tiny building that then explodes? She re-forms and stabs him in the stomach with her elastic arms. Then she grabs Alex and tells Jonn to stand down or Alex dies. It doesn’t really matter though because Jonn drops to his knees and presumably dies? IDK. I’m not feeling any feelings because I don’t buy it yet. It looks like Alex goes under the Myriad Trance. So. Useful.
CatCo. Supergirl and Cat walk into a room where Maxwell is fiddling with his bomb. (M: Not a metaphor for anything.) They tell him that they’re going to use hope instead and he rightfully is like “…….that’s not a plan, that’s an abstract concept.” Good god, tell him the whole actual plan already. (C: The writers are allergic to clarity.) Instead, she urges him to make another choice without giving him any information about that choice. But, whatever, Carlisle is inspired and listening.
Evil Lair. Non tells Alex that he’s going to kill her for killing Astra. Alex tries to talk him out of all this by telling him that Astra saved Kara when she was infected by that hallucination drug. Astra didn’t want all this destruction anymore. Indigo sees Non considering it and jumps in because she knows how to hurt Alex and Supergirl.
Old TV Station. We’re at Cat’s very first stomping grounds to broadcast something hopeful and recognizable. Those Golden Arches? (M: Like a beacon on the horizon.) Max gets to work making it so that they can piggyback on Myriads signal, with the old broadcast technology instead of digital. Cat asks Max how he knew that she would wear the special earrings. He says that he didn’t, he just had hope. Gag. No thanks, I don’t feel like a little bit forgiving Maxwell Carlisle today. (C: Ugh. Same.) There’s a noise outside so Supergirl goes to check it out.
Lo and behold Alex, all decked out in kryptonite. Non has sent her there to fight Kara. Either Supergirl kills her or Alex kills Supergirl. Just, really swell that Alex bullied her way into coming. I’ve never liked her more. She pulls out her kryptonite sword, the same one used to kill Astra. The episode ends with them jumping really high at each other. I’m not sure how Alex got that high.
Well, it’s kinda cool that we decided to do the last two episodes as split recaps before we even knew they were a two parter.
Catherine: Ssh, it was intentional. We planned this.
Mari: We planned it all! See you Monday for the season 1 finale and season 2 premiere! So well-planned!
Next time on Supergirl: Supergirl has to fight to the death in the Season 1 finale S01 E20 – Better Angels.
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