Supergirl (TV Series)

It's a Super Life (2020)

Katie McGrath: Lena Luthor

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• Lena Luthor : Kara Danvers is Supergirl.

  Kara Danvers : Yeah.

  Lena Luthor : I can't believe I was fooled by a pair of glasses.

  Kara Danvers : Don't worry. A lot of people are.

• Lena Luthor : Let me guess. You're here to tell me once again that I should forgive you. Or maybe that I shouldn't work with my brother?

  Kara Danvers : Not this time. I recognize that I made a mistake in hiding my identity from you for so long. But the past is the past, and I can't change it. Forgive me or not, that's your choice. Just like it's your choice to work with Lex. I'm done blaming myself for your bad decisions.

  Lena Luthor : Then why are you here?

  Kara Danvers : To tell you that from now on you're accountable for your own actions. If you decide to forgive me, I will be there for you. But if you continue to work with Lex, if you go through with whatever it is the two of you are planning, I will do everything in my power to stop you. Just like I would any other villain.

• Samantha Arias : So, Kara is Supergirl?

  Lena Luthor : Yeah, I know. My head's kind of spinning. When you were Reign, and I made kryptonite to stop you... y-you know, in response well, Supergirl was so horrible. And then Kara was the same. She was so kind and supportive. But it made me think, which was the real Kara? And if the real Kara thought I was a villain... then maybe that's all I really am.

  Kara Danvers : [watching with Mxy]  No, Lena, no. How could you ever think that?

  Samantha Arias : Lena, you made kryptonite to split me from Reign and to save my life. You were never the villain. You were always the hero.

  Lena Luthor : Thank you. I really needed to hear that.

• Lena Luthor : My friend came to me. She was alone and afraid. I had to do something.

  Supergirl : That feeling of needing to protect your friend, no matter what the world thinks... I understand that more than you know. You once told me Kara Danvers was your hero.

  Lena Luthor : I never told you that. I told...

  Supergirl : It's me, Lena. I've always been Kara.

  Lena Luthor : Kara, how could you?

  Supergirl : I'm sorry I didn't tell you sooner.

  Lena Luthor : Three weeks ago, I found out that Sam, one of my closest friends, was a homicidal Kryptonian. I went through that terror alone. I risked my life day after day for weeks because I believed that I was the only one who could be trusted to protect her, to save her. I could have used your help. I would have used your help, if you'd bothered to tell me the truth before now. If you trusted me, then, I wouldn't have had to go through that danger alone!

  Supergirl : I'm so sorry, but I thought I was protecting you. But now, we can... we can move past it and work as partners.

  Lena Luthor : You expect me to be your partner after this? When all you've done is prove to me that you can't be trusted at all?

  Supergirl : [seeing the Worldkillers' solar eclipse begin]  Oh, no.

• Lena Luthor : To be honest, I didn't have much faith in politicians to begin with. I just don't think any of them can be trusted.

  [Kara looks around, realizing she's in her memory] 

  Lena Luthor : Don't look so scandalized, Kara. You know how cynical I can be.

  [seeing her look] 

  Lena Luthor : Is everything okay?

  Kara Danvers : You shouldn't have to be so cynical. You're good and righteous, and... and the tragedy is, the world has made you cynical because you've been betrayed so many times. By your mother, by your brother... and now, by me.

  Lena Luthor : What are you talking about?

  Kara Danvers : [moving to sit next to her]  I'm not who you think I am. I'm Supergirl.

  [taking off her glasses] 

  Kara Danvers : I never meant to deceive you. I just didn't know how to tell you.

  [an alarm sounds] 

  Kara Danvers : You stay here. I'll deal with this.

  [she speeds away; after a brief fight, she returns] 

  Supergirl : Lena?

  Kara Danvers : [watching with Mxy in her lot]  What happened? Where'd she go?

  Mxyzptlk : Ah. Events are unfolding differently now. Oh, boy. Um, I need to catch up.

  [snapping] 

  Mxyzptlk : Ah, there she is.

  Kara Danvers : She went to Metropolis.

  [seeing who Lena is with] 

  Kara Danvers : Oh, my god. She went to see Sam.

• Kara Danvers : What could I possibly need your help for?

  [Mxy snaps his fingers] 

  Lena Luthor : [on the TV]  I killed my brother for you, for our friends! Don't you understand what you've done?

  Mxyzptlk : Your best friend thinks that she is your enemy. And the worst part... it's your fault. You hid the truth from her. You let her find out from that sadist, Lex, and now, you think, she could be capable of anything.

  Kara Danvers : What's your point?

  Mxyzptlk : My point, toots, is this.

  Kara Danvers : [he walks across the furniture]  Careful.

  Mxyzptlk : I am offering you a do-over. Hmm? I can send you back in time. Wouldn't you like to be able to tell Lena that you're Supergirl on your own terms? Wouldn't you like to see... what the world would look like if you controlled the narrative?

• Defense Attorney : And what is Supergirl's real name?

  Lena Luthor : I hardly see how that's relevant.

  Defense Attorney : Citizens have the right to know the name of the officer that arrests them. If Supergirl is gonna act like judge and jury, we should know her name, as well.

  Lena Luthor : [glancing at Kara]  I plead the Fifth.

• Kara Danvers : This was right before Lena and I really became friends. See, she's about to say...

  Kara Danvers , Lena Luthor : I didn't come here to make friends.

  Kara Danvers : She didn't wanna let anyone in, and then when she did, I made the mistake of not letting her in, too. This time, I'm gonna do it right.

• Kara Danvers : My dual identities made Lena think that she couldn't trust either side of me. I was a hypocrite.

  Mxyzptlk : Okay, so, when exactly did this kryptonite-fueled tete-a-tete happen?

  Kara Danvers : Ah... it was... it was, uh, just after we found out that Lena was housing Reign.

  Supergirl : [on the tape]  Lena, the Worldkillers are coming. We have to get you someplace...

  Kara Danvers : Mmm, skip forward.

  Mxyzptlk : Skip.

  [he fast-forwards through various scenes] 

  Kara Danvers : See, there? This fight...

  Mxyzptlk : Mm-hmm.

  Kara Danvers : ...is what I'm trying to avoid.

  Mxyzptlk : Okay.

  Kara Danvers : So, go back.

  [he rewinds, and she watches herself asking James to investigate Lena's kryptonite stock] 

  Kara Danvers : Ah, I never should have done that. Um... yeah, it has to be before this.

  Mxyzptlk : Yeah, hang on, before.

  Kara Danvers : We have to go back further. Here!

  Mxyzptlk : Yep.

  Lena Luthor : My friend came to me. She was alone and afraid. I had to do something.

  Supergirl : I need you to level with me. Do you have any more kryptonite?

  Kara Danvers : This is it. This is the moment that Lena started to distrust Supergirl. This is when I have to tell her.

• Mxyzptlk : I get it. You don't trust me. Okay, but how's this? Ready?

  [offering a tape recorder] 

  Mxyzptlk : Now, by Fifth Dimensional law, I am required to give you this recording of me saying my name backwards, in case you ever need to banish me to my Fifth Dimension, which I know that you...

  [taking it, Kara immediately presses "play"] 

  Mxyzptlk : [on the recording]  Kltpzyxm.

  [he vanishes] 

  Lena Luthor : [on the TV]  I'm not a villain. You shouldn't have treated me like one.

  J'onn J'onzz : [entering]  Hey, girls. What's going on?

• Lena Luthor : You don't know the first thing about pain. But I do. I can show you, make you feel what I feel.

  Supergirl : I won't fight you, Lena.

  Lena Luthor : Then you'll die screaming.

• Patricia Arias : Sam, no, this isn't you! I know you're in there. I know you are!

  Supergirl : [Reign grabs Patricia]  No.

  Reign : You really thought you could stop me, Supergirl? You can't even protect this one pathetic human.

  Patricia Arias : Oh, Sam...

  Lena Luthor : [zapping her in the back]  But I can. Because this is the tool I use to bring Reign out and bury you down. Okay, come back to us, Sam.

  Reign : [labored breathing]  I will kill... you all!

• Lena Luthor : Why are you trusting me with such a big secret? You barely know me.

  Kara Danvers : Because I know that what you want more than anything is to do good. And I know it's hard for you to trust people, but I need you to know now, without a doubt, I trust you. My cousin, your brother, they got it wrong. Imagine what we could do together. A Luthor and a Super, working together as a team.

  Lena Luthor : If we were partners, we could change the world.

• Supergirl : You did it! You saved Sam.

  Lena Luthor : Yeah, and I did it without kryptonite.

  Supergirl : [catching Lena as she's hit in the back by a heat vision beam]  No!

  Reign : Fool! I am a Worldkiller. And I cannot be stopped!

• Ben Lockwood : You knew my father, Peter Lockwood?

  Lena Luthor : You're Ben. We were sourcing our steel from his factory, and then he abruptly closed it.

  Ben Lockwood : No, he-he didn't close it. He converted it to a church.

  Lena Luthor : The Cult of Rao. I'm so sorry, Ben. If Supergirl and I can do anything to help your father...

  Ben Lockwood : You can't. Because he's dead. My father, my wife, my only son, George, they jumped off a roof because they believed... that she would save them. And she didn't.

  Lena Luthor : I'm so sorry, Ben. If there's anything I can do to help...

  Ben Lockwood : Well, you could tell me who Supergirl is. She parades around as a god, but she hides in plain sight as a human. Ms. Luthor, if... if people knew who she was, if they knew that she bought a coffee in the morning or that she rode the bus or that she worked a job just like the rest of us, then they would stop worshipping her. So, I have to know who she is. And you are going to tell me.

  Lena Luthor : It's never gonna happen. And if you have issues with the Cult of Rao, I suggest you take it up with Coville.

  Ben Lockwood : Oh, uh...

  [opening a van door, revealing Coville tied up inside] 

  Ben Lockwood : I already have.

• Kara Danvers : This is the timeline where I truly do no harm to Lena, and the world sees her for the hero she really is.

  Lena Luthor : [on the phone on the TV]  Oh, of course, I'm more than happy to donate. Okay.

  Ben Lockwood : [approaching as she hangs up]  Ms. Luthor.

  Kara Danvers : Oh, no. Is that Lockwood?

• Supergirl : Lena? It's me. It's Supergirl. It's Kara.

  Lena Luthor : Who's Kara?

  Supergirl : Just a friend. You don't know me. Not really. But you and I want the same thing, to do no harm.

  Lena Luthor : Supergirl wants a world without harm. That's rich. Where were you when my brother blew my helicopter out of the sky? When my mother dragged my broken body to a laboratory and experimented on me instead of fixing me? Where were you when this world was ripped apart by the seams? Where were you?

  Supergirl : I'm sorry I wasn't there when it mattered.

  Lena Luthor : So am I.

  [as she opens her coat lapel, Kara begins feeling the effects of her kryptonite heart] 

• Lena Luthor : People of National City, I regret to inform you that the terrorist known as Supergirl is at large.

  Supergirl : Terrorist?

  Lena Luthor : She's working with a Fifth Dimensional being capable of mass destruction. H.O.P.E. robots have been deployed throughout the city for your protection. Please report to them any and all suspicious activity. And remember... my goal is, as it has always been, to protect you from harm.

• Ben Lockwood : Thomas Coville wants you to believe that National City's resident Kryptonian is someone worth worshipping, worth dying for. Is Supergirl a god? I'm not sure about that. Not sure about that. When she goes home at night, did you know that she lives a secret human life? Until today. Until today, because today, Supergirl will reveal her identity to the world, or... Coville and Ms. Luthor will die.

  Lena Luthor : No. Supergirl, don't do it!

  Ben Lockwood : So, Supergirl, one hour of breathable oxygen. The, uh, clock starts now.

  Mxyzptlk : [watching with Kara]  What are you gonna do? Uh... no spoilers. I'm loving this.

  [she looks at him in horror]