Supergirl (TV Series)

Rather the Fallen Angel (2018)

Steve Byers: Tom

Quotes 

• Tom : I'm so sorry I got you involved in all this. They lied to me. I thought they were gonna give you an interview. I didn't know they were gonna use you.

  James Olsen : [Tom offers a neoprene wristband]  My gauntlet.

  [he activates it, revealing his Guardian shield, then deactivates it] 

  Tom : [tossing him a Liberty mask]  Come on. We don't have a lot of time.

• James Olsen : Shelley Island? I thought this place was shut down after President Marsdin resigned.

  Tom : Yeah, it was. That's why it's the perfect place for the Children of Liberty to gather.

• Tom : I was so wrong. I thought if I joined the Children of Liberty, I wouldn't feel so...

  James Olsen : Helpless?

  Tom : I guess this is what happens when we let fear guide us.

  James Olsen : Yeah. We both made choices that got us here, right? I mean, I asked for your help.

  Tom : No. If you stay, if you blow up that monument, then everyone's gonna think you're with them. That you're a Child of Liberty. You're gonna give them the face they've been dying for, the legitimacy.

  James Olsen : So what? That's what happens if I stay. But if I go and I preserve my reputation, you die. And then what, Tom? I'm lost. And you're dead. And then I am no better than him. And I'm stronger than that. I have spent my entire life building myself up into the man that I am today, and I have not given society one reason to doubt me. What is reputation? I mean, what is it? It's nothing. It's not who you are. So if the latest fringe group wants to tear that monument down, we will build it right back up. Agent Liberty can do whatever he wants with my reputation. I know who I am.