Supergirl (TV Series)

Fight or Flight (2015)

Mehcad Brooks: James Olsen

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• James Olsen : [shows his signal watch]  Kara, he gave me this a long time ago. If I ever got in trouble, I could contact him.

  Supergirl : But you weren't in trouble. When did you even call him? The second I left?

  James Olsen : Kara, I made a promise to your cousin. If... if anything ever happened to you...

  Supergirl : My cousin didn't have a "get out of jam card" when he first started. Neither should I. It feels like you don't believe in me.

  James Olsen : Of course I believe in... I wouldn't even be here if I didn't believe in you.

  Supergirl : Maybe you shouldn't be here at all.

• James Olsen : I'm just trying to keep you safe.

  Kara Danvers : And, yes, I appreciate that. But of all the things the "S" stands for, safety is not one of them.

• James Olsen : You might consider calling your cousin on this one. I've seen what Reactron can do.

  Kara Danvers : James, if I call for help now, I'm done. We're done. Every villian out there will think of National City as an easy target.

  James Olsen : He nearly killed Clark once.

  Winn Schott : Clark?

  [seeing James' expression, realization dawns on him] 

  Winn Schott : Clark... Clark Kent is Superman.

• Kara Danvers : Alex, you remember, um... James Olsen, my friend from work.

  Alex Danvers : Yeah.

  James Olsen : [quietly]  How's the covert alien hunting business?

  Alex Danvers : Not as covert as we would prefer.

  Kara Danvers : I didn't tell him.

  James Olsen : Look, it's okay. I can be trusted with a big secret.

  Alex Danvers : Well, I hope you'll extend the same courtesy to my sister.

  James Olsen : Always.

• James Olsen : [Kara leaves Cat's office]  She's pretty tense working on that article, huh?

  Kara Danvers : Yeah, you could say that.

  James Olsen : She always get like this when she's writing?

  Kara Danvers : People have been known to schedule their vacations around it.

• Kara Danvers : I'm... I'm still trying to figure out what being Supergirl means. Who I am. And now I know, I'm not Superman's cousin, I'm Supergirl. And if I'm gonna be defined, it's gonna be by my victories and my losses, no one else's.

  James Olsen : I guess stubbornness runs in the family.

• Alex Danvers : I used the DEO satellite to scan the highway where you fought Reactron, and I was able to isolate the nuclear signature of his weapons system. It's powered by thorium 232, which can only be found in one place.

  Kara Danvers : Bakerline Nuclear Power Station.

  Winn Schott : I remember this. Uh, terrorists tried to start a full-on meltdown, like... like, five years ago. But then...

  James Olsen : Superman stopped them.

  Alex Danvers : Yeah, he prevented the core from going into overload, saved millions of people. But two reactor engineers were killed when the facility was flooded with radiation. Ben and Alyssa Krull. They were married.

  Kara Danvers : [recognizing Krull's picture]  Ben Krull is Reactron.

  Alex Danvers : Yeah. He somehow survived the radiation exposure.

  Kara Danvers : That's why he hates my cousin. He blames him for the death of his wife.

  James Olsen : But Superman still managed to prevent an American Chernobyl.

  Winn Schott : [a thought strikes him]  Chernobyl. That gives me an idea how we might find Krull.

• James Olsen : Just get Lord out of there. You don't have to take on Krull, too.

  Kara Danvers : Krull is not some crazed alien. He is a human being, who's been hurt enough. And that's something my cousin never knew, and that's why I'm gonna go talk to him the way I would want someone to talk to me.

  James Olsen : And if he doesn't want to talk?

  Kara Danvers : Then I'll punch him real hard until he falls down. That always seems to work.

• James Olsen : Look, I don't like how we left things.

  Kara Danvers : Yeah, neither do I.

  James Olsen : Me pressing that button on my watch had nothing to do with you. It was me. I call him when things get tough; I always have. It's part of the reason I left Metropolis. My safety net became my reflex. I press that button when I get scared, and I was scared that I was going to lose you.

  Kara Danvers : I really like that you care about me. You have to care enough to let me fly my own path, separate from his. Trust that I'm going to save the day.

  James Olsen : Kara, you are amazing. You leap into the sky headfirst into danger. And you don't seem scared of falling.

  Kara Danvers : Well, what's so bad about falling?