Supergirl (TV Series)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2019)

Azie Tesfai: Kelly Olsen

Quotes 

• Kelly Olsen : Jell-O really is the perfect hospital food. It's a metaphor for trauma. If you shake it, it wobbles, but it still holds its form. If you dig in too deep, it's never the same.

  Alex Danvers : You don't seem to be wobbling very much, given the circumstances. Military?

  Kelly Olsen : Psychologist, yeah.

  Alex Danvers : Mm.

  Kelly Olsen : I have pretty much seen it all. Plus, this is the... twelfth time that I have visited James in the hospital.

  Alex Danvers : Wow.

  Kelly Olsen : You know, my brother, he's always running off and diving into something dangerous. It was the way he coped when things got hard at home.

  Alex Danvers : If you just keep running, then you don't have to stop and feel how much you're hurting.

  Kara Danvers : [approaching]  That sounds familiar.

• Dr. Kaplan : Mr. Olsen is stable. We were able to remove a significant amount of shrapnel from around his cervical vertebra, but I have never seen a normal bullet cause this much damage. We've placed him in a medically-induced coma.

  Alex Danvers : To reduce swelling, of course.

  Dr. Kaplan : There are going to be some decisions to make. Who is next of kin?

  Alex Danvers : Well, there's... there's no family present, but I can act as next of kin.

  Dr. Kaplan : We need a family member.

  Alex Danvers : Look, I'm FBI, and I have extensive medical training...

  Dr. Kaplan : Sorry, without a court order...

  Kelly Olsen : [approaching]  I'm next of kin. Sorry, I just got off a red-eye. I'm Kelly Olsen, James' sister.

• Alex Danvers : How's he doing?

  Kelly Olsen : Still unconscious, but that means he's healing, so I'll take it.

  Alex Danvers : Thank you for giving us access. James means the world to us.

  Kelly Olsen : Of course. James has always been more of a "chosen family" kind of guy. Speaking of, where is your sister?

  [alarms beep and James starts to convulse] 

  Kelly Olsen : We need help in here!

• Dr. Kaplan : Your brother's bleeding internally. Surgery poses a great risk to James' spinal cord, but if we don't operate, he'll continue to bleed out.

  Kelly Olsen : He might die?

  Dr. Kaplan : Correct.

  Kelly Olsen : Yeah, let's do the surgery.

  Dr. Kaplan : We'll prep him right away.

• Alex Danvers : Lena's working with the government on an experimental drug that could heal James entirely.

  Kelly Olsen : Okay. Why does that sound too good to be true?

  Alex Danvers : Because it's not ready yet. But I spoke to her, and she said that she just needs a few more hours to render the drug non-lethal.

  Kelly Olsen : You're proposing that we hold off on James' surgery, risking his life for hours, only to administer a drug that might still kill him?

  Alex Danvers : The operation is gonna be invasive, and it's gonna be traumatic to James' entire system. He will be lucky if paralysis is his only after-effect. You haven't seen Lena work. I have watched her do incredible and impossible things.

  Kelly Olsen : I understand that you trust this woman, but I don't know her. All I know is that she and James had a messy break-up, and that her family has done some terrible things, many of them to my brother.

  Alex Danvers : Those things have nothing to do with Lena.

  Kelly Olsen : That doesn't mean I'm willing to put my brother's life in her hands.

  Alex Danvers : I just want what's best for James.

  Kelly Olsen : So do I.

• Alex Danvers : I'm sorry about before. I was out of line.

  Kelly Olsen : You care about James. That's nothing to apologize for.

• Kelly Olsen : I picked the safe option. This isn't supposed to happen when you pick the safe option.

  Alex Danvers : Kelly, look, no one could've predicted that this was gonna happen. You made the best decision that you could for your brother, and Lena's drug wasn't ready then. But it's ready now.

  [seeing she's still reluctant] 

  Alex Danvers : Now, look, I-I know you have a thousand reasons to not trust Lena Luthor, but I'm not asking you to trust her. I am asking that you trust me.

  Kelly Olsen : Let's do it.

• James Olsen : I only got shot once. You didn't have to come all this way.

  Kelly Olsen : Aw, you never invite me to visit. How else was I gonna meet your friends? They're pretty great, by the way. One of them even saved your life.

  James Olsen : Yeah, about that. Thank you.

  Lena Luthor : I'm just glad you're okay. Besides, Supergirl was the one that found you. You should be thanking her.

• Kelly Olsen : I know you just came back from the dead, but you're about to wish that you didn't, because I called mom.

  Kara Danvers : I think that's our cue.

  James Olsen : No, she... don't leave me alone. Guys.