- Brainiac-5: We were only able to obtain a small sample of Supergirl's DNA. This will require all of it.
- Alex Danvers: So we'd better make it count.
- Kelly Olsen: Okay, the Q-wave interface is live.
- Lena Luthor: [seeing their captive react] Our Phantom's got Supergirl's scent. Once we get to the Phantom Zone, his Q-waves will lead us directly to Supergirl's position.
- Brainiac-5: Impressive. You guys did all this science stuff without me.
- Dreamer: But what if we run into less... tame Phantoms out there?
- Alex Danvers: The Tower's shields should cloak us, but it's still going to be dangerous.
- J'onn J'onnz: That's because we can't count on the same methods we used to fight the Phantoms here. Based on what I've learned from Silas and Malefic, the Phantoms' powers work differently in their native dimension. There, they attack with fear visions, your deepest dread brought to life.
- Brainiac-5: Like a Dementor.
- Dreamer: Or a Boggart.
- Brainiac-5: Or Harry's Dementor Boggart. You understand?
- Alex Danvers: Yes. Uh, yeah.
- Dreamer: So, uh, Kelly, you gonna teach us how to cast a Patronus to fight 'em?
- Kelly Olsen: Well, all my fear management strategies may not be magic, they are the next best thing. In therapy, we use grounding techniques to help people regain control in traumatic situations. You start by naming things that you can see, touch, hear, smell, that you know are real.
- Brainiac-5: Computer, electrons, filtered oxygen. Pizza residue.
- Kelly Olsen: [Alex swats his hand away, annoyed] Okay, that's a good example. And if one of your fears should suddenly show up and they're not one of those things...
- Lena Luthor: Then you'll be able to separate the visions from reality. Take back control from the Phantoms.
- J'onn J'onnz: [after a flash of turbulence] That was a bad one. Our shields took a hit, but it looks like they pulled through.
- [seeing the clock]
- J'onn J'onnz: But the last ten minutes are unaccounted for. What the hell happened?
- [getting an alert]
- J'onn J'onnz: Oh, no. The temperature's dropping. Alex. Double-check the Phantom's containment, make sure it's still in place. Alex?
- [seeing her eyes frosted over]
- J'onn J'onnz: Brainy?
- Brainiac-5: [momentarily frozen] Uh, I'm okay, but it-it seems like the rest of our team has been compromised.
- J'onn J'onnz: That electromagnetic turbulence.
- Brainiac-5: I-It caused a malfunction in the Phantom's containment unit. Right now, it's just enough for its power to leak out and affect our teammates. But the whole unit's compromised.
- J'onn J'onnz: Why aren't you and I affected?
- Brainiac-5: It's possible your Martian physiology and psychic powers have safeguarded you. Your psychic bond with Malefic might have conferred to you some measure of, uh... resistance.
- J'onn J'onnz: And your Coluan nature is doing the same for you?
- Brainiac-5: Well, sort of. My 12th-level intellect allows me to compartmentalize my fear. That and Kelly's coping mechanisms. But I assure you, I'm still... very much feeling it.
- J'onn J'onnz: You are?
- Brainiac-5: For me, this entire room is filled with balloons.
- J'onn J'onnz: Balloons?
- Brainiac-5: [balloons only he can see fall from the ceiling] Yes, balloons, J'onn. Balloon, balloon, balloon, balloon. Thin sheets of rubber holding in all that pressure, not knowing when to pop, balloon, J'onn! They must be stopped!
- J'onn J'onnz: Okay. I don't have time to unpack all that.
- Zor-El: [after a Phantom attack] Kara, are you all right?
- Supergirl: [with her eyes frosted over] No. No. Nothing is.
- Zor-El: No. You're just saying that because of what the Phantom did. We have to keep moving, get off this island. I know the mirror's broken, but your Earth family must be looking for you. If we get off this island, we just have to stay alive long enough for them to find us.
- Supergirl: No. You don't understand. If they try to save me, they're all going to die. And it'll be my fault.
- Brainiac-5: May I just say I'm quite glad to have you aboard this mission.
- Kelly Olsen: That's kind of you. I'm just trying to stay out of the way until it's time for me to help Supergirl.
- Brainiac-5: On the contrary, I've been challenged by my emotion of late. Okay, always. And given the imminent risk of a Phantom-induced response, I'd greatly value your expertise.
- Kelly Olsen: Well, hopefully, everything goes according to plan and you won't need it.
- Brainiac-5: Mm.
- Kelly Olsen: I'm good with never seeing a Phantom again.
- Brainiac-5: This is your first time back in the Tower since...
- Kelly Olsen: The Phantom attack on M'gann. Yeah. I'm not gonna lie. I feel a little out of my depth. I mean, you are all superheroes, and I'm just...
- Brainiac-5: The one keeping us all from losing our minds.
- J'onn J'onnz: We're under attack. Shields are being breached.
- Brainiac-5: Now that the Phantom's containment has been disrupted, it's attracting other Phantoms to us.
- J'onn J'onnz: We need to maneuver the Tower, see if we can lose them.
- Brainiac-5: No, you can't fly the ship and free everyone at the same time. And if we don't save our team, it won't matter if we make it to Supergirl. Let me do this. You just focus on the tiny job of saving everyone else. Computers, electrons, coconut shampoo, pizza.
- [balloons continue to fall]
- Brainiac-5: No, hmm, you're just rubber filled with air. I'm not frightened of you.
- Alex Danvers: [after being infected by a Phantom] This is all my fault. If I had just listened to J'onn and gone into containment in time, I...
- [getting an idea]
- Alex Danvers: But it's not too late. I am not gonna be the reason that Kara is trapped in here.
- Kelly Olsen: [seeing her head to the airlock] Alex. Alex, what are you doing?
- Alex Danvers: As long as I am on board, I am the problem. You could all die and we lose Kara forever.
- Brainiac-5: If you open that airlock, we'll lose you forever.
- Alex Danvers: I thought I was the one that was vital to rescuing Supergirl, but it's the opposite. I was so wrong. But I can draw the Phantoms away, and you can save her without me.
- Kelly Olsen: There has to be something else.
- Alex Danvers: There is no other way to save you... and Kara.
- Kelly Olsen: No, you can't leave me.
- Lena Luthor: Guys, there's some kind of alien creature aboard. I've locked it in the engine room, but I could do with some backup now.
- [getting on the elevator and hearing no response]
- Lena Luthor: Guys? J'onn? Alex?
- [returning to the bridge and seeing the others all dead]
- Lena Luthor: No.
- [hearing Nia choking]
- Lena Luthor: Dreamer?
- [Nia coughs up water]
- Lena Luthor: Dreamer? Hey. Hey, hey! Are you okay?
- Nia Nal: I think so.
- Lena Luthor: The creature? Right? Where is it? Where is it?
- Nia Nal: I don't know. I don't know.
- Lena Luthor: [seeing it form from a puddle of water on the ground] Run. Run! Run!
- Kelly Olsen: Hey, guys, you weren't answering. Is there something wrong with the unit?
- [seeing the color of their eyes]
- Kelly Olsen: Lena? Dreamer?
- Lena Luthor, Nia Nal: So glad you could join us.
- Kelly Olsen: Oh, no. Alex, the Phantom is trying to breach the containment unit. And it's possessed Lena and Nia. Alex!
- [they begin to advance on her]
- Kelly Olsen: Come on. Lena, Nia. Snap out of it! Remember what's real. Let me help you.
- [another flashlight spins around on the ground]
- Kelly Olsen: Alex?
- [seeing she's possessed, too]
- Kelly Olsen: Alex.
- Lena Luthor, Nia Nal, Alex Danvers: It's pointless, Kelly. Why bother trying? The Phantom will take us all.
- Kelly Olsen: [into her comms] J'onn, Brainy, the Phantom is trying to get loose. J'onn!
- Lena Luthor, Nia Nal, Alex Danvers: J'onn and Brainy are already gone. They couldn't fight it, and neither can you.
- Kelly Olsen: No. No! Alex... please. If you are still in there, please hear me.
- Lena Luthor, Nia Nal, Alex Danvers: We hear you. We see you. Exactly as you are, Kelly Olsen. Weak. Human. We are heroes with unparalleled intellects, incredible strength. And yet we all succumbed. What chance do you stand?
- Lena Luthor: I saw it... it reminded me of... no, that's ridiculous.
- Nia Nal: What?
- Lena Luthor: A kelpie. A shapeshifter that drags people underwater. No, no, that's a myth. It's a story from my mother's book of folklore. It always gave me nightmares.
- Nia Nal: Well, I can see why. That thing's terrifying.
- Lena Luthor: No, that's not it. It's the drowning. My mother drowned. Right in front of me. I always blamed myself 'cause I didn't stop it. I would read the story over and over, punishing myself. But in my nightmares, it was always the kelpie who drowned me.
- Nia Nal: Lena... I'm so sorry. Did the story say anything about how to fight a kelpie? Because it is clearly not a myth.
- Lena Luthor: [a watery tentacle appears and Nia begins choking] Dreamer?
- [fleeing as the kelpie appears]
- Lena Luthor: This is my nightmare.
- [water seeps in under the door]
- Lena Luthor: This is my nightmare. Kelpies are a myth.
- [the kelpie re-forms]
- Lena Luthor: This is a fear vision! What did Kelly say? Remember what's real. Motor oil, Martian steel, the Tower, the lab, my friends.
- Supergirl: Oh, no. More Phantoms.
- Zor-El: [spotting a crack in the ground growing larger] And then there's that. What do we do?
- Supergirl: We fight. We never give up.
- Zor-El: [seeing the Phantoms vanish in a burst of yellow light] What was that? And why do I feel... stronger?
- Supergirl: That's yellow sun energy. Which means...
- Zor-El: What is it?
- Supergirl: [spotting the Tower] That's my family. They're really here!
- Zor-El: See? You were always right to hope.
- Supergirl: [taking his arm] Come on.
- [she flies up to the ship]
- Alex Danvers: [inside] Kara?
- [speeding in, Kara hugs her]
- Alex Danvers: I got you.
- Zor-El: [improvising a crutch] Kara, look. Look at this. I made this because we're going to go on. We have to keep moving.
- Supergirl: What's the point? There's no way out. You and Nyxly were right all along. And yet, I dragged you out of your one safe place and pushed you to hope... when there is none.
- Zor-El: There's always hope.
- Supergirl: Hope is naive. I was naive. And arrogant to think that I could ever actually fix anything. And worse... my friends think that they can, too. And they're just going to die because of it.
- Zor-El: You can fix things. You did. You fixed me.
- [brushing her hair out of her face]
- Zor-El: I cried so many tears here. I cried for you. For your mother. For Krypton, my brother, my entire life... I cried for everyone I ever lost, all the people I loved and would never see again. I cried a river, an ocean of tears, until there was nothing left in me. Until you came and you filled me up with your spirit, your love. And now I won't give up again. Even if your friends never find us, we'll find our way out. I know we can because we're together. And together, nothing can stop us.
- Brainiac-5: [entering the Phantom Zone] We may encounter some...
- [the ship rocks with a rumble]
- Brainiac-5: ...interdimensional turbulence. Glad our shields did their job.
- Alex Danvers: That was *with* the shields?
- Dreamer: One sample of Kara blood fresh out of Midvale.
- Alex Danvers: Ah! Finally.
- Brainiac-5: Why, yes. We did just traverse time and space to get this. No big deal.
- Alex Danvers: And thanks to you, we now have the last piece of our rescue mission.
- Brainiac-5: Ah.
- Dreamer: Wait. How long we were gone?
- Kelly Olsen: About three days.
- Brainiac-5: Three days? Sprock! I am a terrible time traveler.
- Lena Luthor: Well, we put the time to good use. We're now fully equipped for the Phantom Zone.
- J'onn J'onnz: And M'gann is already patrolling to protect National City in our absence. Everything is ready to go.
- Brainiac-5: All right, well, give me a moment to update the Legion ship so we're not relying on parts 3D-printed in 2009.
- J'onn J'onnz: That won't be necessary.
- [pressing a button on the side of a table]
- J'onn J'onnz: When I first acquired the Tower, I installed some... upgrades.
- Dreamer: The Tower is a ship.
- Alex Danvers: I love Martian technology.
- Nia Nal: Sometimes... being Dreamer just reminds me of what I've lost. How much I don't know. It's like...
- Lena Luthor: Like there's a whole part of yourself you'll never understand.
- Nia Nal: I can't imagine how hard it must've been losing your mom so young.
- Lena Luthor: It was. You know, the only thing I really have left of her is this book of folktales that she used to read to me. It's not a lot, but it's something to hold onto. Your powers... they connect you to your mother. You can hold on to that.
- Kelly Olsen: You are Alex Danvers. And you love morning hikes and... and-and knock-knock jokes and-and dumplings and lavender soap. We met in the hospital and we butted heads. And I knew right then that you were passionate and fiery and that you would do anything for people you love. And I wanted to be one of them. Last week, you brought me flowers and you asked me to move in with you. It was... it was one of the best things that has ever happened to me. You said I was your rock. Let me be that now. Remember what's real! Come back to me!
- Alex Danvers: [freed from the Phantom's influence] Kelly?
- Kelly Olsen: Alex?
- Alex Danvers: You have to go. Get off this ship while you still can.
- Kelly Olsen: Where? We're in the Phantom Zone.
- Alex Danvers: [the ship rumbles] He's out for blood. Go, go. There's an escape pod. Just take it.
- Kelly Olsen: There's only room for one.
- [getting the implication]
- Kelly Olsen: No, I am not leaving you. And I know you won't leave them.
- Alex Danvers: Kelly, look. Look at me. You have seen war, okay? You know that there are some battles that you just can't fight. Sometimes you have to retreat and you have to protect yourself. The rest of us, we're... we're too far gone.
- [the Phantom breaks open its containment unit]
- Alex Danvers: I am not strong enough to protect you. Please.
- Kelly Olsen: No.
- Alex Danvers: Please, go.
- Kelly Olsen: No.
- Alex Danvers: Now!
- Kelly Olsen: [the Phantom regains its control of her] Alex!
- J'onn J'onnz: Are you hurt?
- Alex Danvers: I'm fine.
- J'onn J'onnz: [seeing the scratches on her neck] Damn it, Alex!
- Alex Danvers: Look, I can handle it, okay? I-I-If-if we just can slow the progression of the infection, we can... we can buy enough time.
- J'onn J'onnz: [firmly] No. We need to get you into containment, 'til we can treat you when you get back home.
- Alex Danvers: Okay, well, unless you want to get home without Kara, then you need me out there.
- J'onn J'onnz: You're not the only one at risk here. If you turn Phantom, you could jeopardize all of us. And Kara.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn...
- J'onn J'onnz: Come on, Alex.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn...
- J'onn J'onnz: Come on! I'm sorry.
- [leading her to a containment unit]
- J'onn J'onnz: Look, you're making the right decision.
- Alex Danvers: I know.
- J'onn J'onnz: [she kicks him in and locks the door] Alex, what are you doing?
- Alex Danvers: Whatever it takes. Look, I'm sorry, J'onn, but if I'm not out there for it, the whole mission will fail.
- J'onn J'onnz: [straining to fight the Phantom's influence] Not today. I'll show you what it's like to be afraid.
- Brainiac-5: [finding the Phantom safely in its containment unit] Everything seems to be under control here. What exactly did you dream?
- Nia Nal: The containment unit was empty. Except for...
- Brainiac-5: What?
- [hearing a crash, J'onn then calls on the intercom]
- J'onn J'onnz: That's the hull integrity sensor. There's some kind of breach. Brainy, you and Dreamer have to find it.
- Nia Nal: [reacting as a piece of wall panel is torn away] Brainy!
- Brainiac-5: Nia! Sprock! Our shields must have been breached! The pressure could tear this whole ship apart! We have to seal that airlock, now!
- Nia Nal: [remembering her dream] Of course. The thimble! It had a picture of the Tower, cracked. That's why it was in the containment unit. It was telling me to contain the problem, protect the Tower.
- Brainiac-5: Well, help me fix it now! You dreamt this. Help me stop it.
- Nia Nal: A thimble means sewing. Sewing... maybe I need to use my powers to sew this shut.
- Brainiac-5: [she tries] That's it. That's it, you're doing it!
- Nia Nal: [losing her grip, the whole panel is torn away] Brainy!
- Brainiac-5: [hanging on to a pillar] We're too late! The breach is already too big! If we had gotten here sooner...
- Nia Nal: We wasted too much time. I wasted too much time. Because I couldn't interpret my dream right.
- Lena Luthor: [confronting her fear vision] I know what I have to do.
- [the kelpie changes its form]
- Lena Luthor: Mother.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn?
- J'onn J'onnz: This is real. You are free of the Phantom's powers. You did it. You all did it. We have the Phantom back in full containment, but this trip's not over yet.
- Brainiac-5: [getting an alert] We're close. We have a lock on Supergirl.
- Alex Danvers: Are you sure this is real?
- J'onn J'onnz: Yes, but we're still being swarmed by Phantoms. We'll have to get as close as we can to Supergirl. And have that yellow-sun bomb ready.
- Lena Luthor: On it.
- Nia Nal: [waking from a dream] What was that?
- Brainiac-5: That last patch of turbulence damaged the Phantom's containment, allowing it to briefly slip out of its bonds and affect all of us. Terrible fear visions for everyone.
- [she glances at the Phantom Zone map]
- Brainiac-5: You okay? Containment unit's back online and Phantom's locked down tight. Everything's back on track.
- Nia Nal: Are you sure? I had a vision there was something wrong with the containment unit.
- Brainiac-5: [checking] Everything seems to be fine.
- Nia Nal: Something's wrong. I know it. It's the containment unit. We have to get down there. Now.
- Brainiac-5: [following her to the elevator] Are you sure? I can run a full system diagnostic...
- Nia Nal: There's no time. It was in my dream. There is something wrong with the containment unit. The Phantom's gonna try to get out. I know it.
- Brainiac-5: Nia, look, I... I don't want to say this, but...
- Nia Nal: You think I'm wrong?
- Brainiac-5: Not "wrong". Of course I believe in you, but perhaps we shouldn't jump to conclusions. Remember your dream about Midvale? And then in Midvale... sometimes your interpretations aren't always...
- Nia Nal: I may not always know exactly what's going on in my dreams, but I know this is something we need to pay attention to, Brainy.
- Brainiac-5: Look. I know you're doing the best you can. But you know you never got the full training before your mother...
- Nia Nal: I *can* do this. You'll see.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn... I think we have a problem.
- J'onn J'onnz: [seeing the Phantom isn't in its containment unit, they go to investigate] Brainy, double-check the command center. See if he...
- [Alex shoves him out of the way as the Phantom attacks; after a brief fight, they manage to re-contain it]
- Alex Danvers: See? You need me out there.
- J'onn J'onnz: You make a strong argument.
- Brainiac-5: I don't understand. We should be cloaked from Phantom detection. Unless...
- Kelly Olsen: Guys, what's going on? The Phantom Q-waves went nuts.
- Brainiac-5: Alex, your neck.
- [she covers the scratches]
- Brainiac-5: And you're shivering.
- Alex Danvers: I, uh...
- Brainiac-5: You've been infected by the Phantom.
- Kelly Olsen: Alex, no, that's not po...
- Alex Danvers: [backing away] Just...
- Brainiac-5: It's your transformation, it's drawing the other Phantoms here.
- Alex Danvers: We'll outrun them. We'll fight them off.
- Brainiac-5: No, there's too many of them, and we've taken too much damage.
- Alex Danvers: Well, we can't stop now, right? Not when we're this close.
- J'onn J'onnz: Dreamer, you'll be on Phantom detection duty. If they attack the ship, Lena's got a surprise for them.
- Lena Luthor: [showing them a yellow sun bomb] I cooked this up from the DEO's yellow sun grenades. It has enough firepower to disperse any Phantoms nearby and recharge Supergirl's powers. But it's a one-shot thing, so we have to use it wisely.
- Brainiac-5: I'll be the getaway driver, ready to make a quick exit.
- J'onn J'onnz: And it will need to be quick. The Tower shields can only withstand the Phantom Zone for two hours before the ship will start to degrade around us.
- Dreamer: [sarcastic] Great. No pressure.
- J'onn J'onnz: That power level meter will keep track of how strong our shields are. If it drops into the red, we'll be in trouble. And we'll have to abandon the mission.
- Alex Danvers: Well, we're not gonna let that happen, because we're ready, and we can do this together. Now, we only have one shot.
- J'onn J'onnz: Well, let's be sure to get it right. Everyone take your positions.
- Nia Nal: You ever just think how wild it is that you can, like, make a portable sun?
- Lena Luthor: Says the woman who can see the future and wield dream energy.
- Nia Nal: Yeah, right.
- Lena Luthor: Your gloves, by the way, are amazing. The way they convert your power into physical form, you know, how do they work?
- Nia Nal: Um... I... don't know. Brainy made 'em. I... honestly, I should probably know more than I do, but the one person who had answers is gone. Without my mom, all I have are questions. I'm sorry. I know you lost your mom, too. I didn't mean to...
- Lena Luthor: Oh, no, no, no. It's okay, really. I get it. I miss my mom every day, too.
- Nia Nal: It really sucks, doesn't it?
- Lena Luthor: Yeah, and it doesn't really get any easier. Especially in light of the family I have left.
- Nia Nal: Good thing this is our family now, right?
- Dreamer: Kara's been in the Phantom Zone this whole time. What if she can't tell what's real anymore? I mean, when she sees a giant spaceship version of the Tower flying, won't she just assume it's another delusion?
- Kelly Olsen: If so, she'll need a touchstone. A deeply personal memory or connection to bring her back to herself.
- J'onn J'onnz: I could do that. Once we land on the right fragment of the Phantom Zone, I'll go out and get Supergirl alone.
- Alex Danvers: Wait, what? No. No, I'm her sister.
- J'onn J'onnz: The fewer of us exposed to the Phantoms, the better. We'll need your leadership here defending the Tower. While I find Supergirl, you'll be the one making sure she has a way home.
- Alex Danvers: Kelly, are you sure that you want to come with us? I mean, stepping into a new dimension, that isn't something you signed up for.
- Kelly Olsen: For Kara, for you... I'll do anything.
- Alex Danvers: J'onn, I'm going out there with you to get Kara.
- J'onn J'onnz: No, it's too dangerous.
- Alex Danvers: If she needs a touchstone, I'm the best shot that we have at reaching her, and you know that.
- J'onn J'onnz: So I can shapeshift, making it you she sees first.
- Alex Danvers: No, that'll make it worse. She'll know that it isn't real. It has to be me.
- J'onn J'onnz: I'm not risking losing both of you.
- Alex Danvers: I am not risking losing our one shot at getting her back. We can't afford to play it safe, J'onn. I've always done whatever it takes to protect my sister, and I sure as hell am not stopping now.
- Nia Nal: [in a dream, seeing the Phantom's empty containment unit] No. Where's the Phantom?
- [touching the door handle]
- Nia Nal: It's just a dream. Just figure out what it's all about.
- [opening the door and seeing something on the floor]
- Nia Nal: Is that a thimble?
- [picking it up and seeing a mini-model of the Tower]
- Nia Nal: What does that mean?
- J'onn J'onnz: I can't fight their battles for them, but maybe I can make it easier. Give the Phantom something else to fight against. Split his focus.
- Brainiac-5: Yes. If you could force the Phantom back into containment, then everyone else can find their own way back to reality.
- [J'onn heads to the elevator]
- Brainiac-5: J'onn, there's still a chance that the Phantom can overpower you.
- J'onn J'onnz: Not when I have this much to fight for.