A lot happens in this episode, what with prison riots and prehistoric gods and everything, but the real question at the center of it all is: Will Kara and Lena finally be friends again?
Right around the time the giant squid was doing its giant squid thing, Stanford from Sex and the City was teaching a nice peaceful yoga class in prison and feeling oh-so-grateful to Lena Luthor for freeing him from fear.
He and a couple of other guys bring the yoga mats back to where they belong in an elevator for some reason. Why don’t the yoga mats just stay in the yoga room? Anyway, the power goes out and one of the dudes gets really claustrophobic and hulks out, knocking the other dude unconscious. Then I guess the doors open immediately and Stanford doesn’t get hurt yet because plot reasons.
Meanwhile, Lex and Brainy complain that they’re still not invited to the Leviathan ship. Brainy is mad at Lex for continuing to give them weapons, but Lex really doesn’t mind civilian casualties on the way to their endgame.
Oh and also Megan Morris from Mars is still … moving … more. She and Nia and Alex and Supergirl all stand around complaining about the Luthors for a while. Alex mentions that Kelly has a friend from the military who’s an iconography expert and for one brief, beautiful moment I’m sure it’s Robert Langdon and we’re about to get a Tom Hanks guest appearance, but it’s the next best thing, Samweis Gamdschie. Remember when he was Kelly’s friend from before, except he was actually a bad Martian in disguise? Well this time it’s really him.
The Luthors find the guy who freaked out in the elevator and decide they need to readjust his Q wave frequencies. I mean, that’s usually what I do when I’m in a bad mood.
Andrea is pushing something called the Obsidian World Wide Unity Festival, where basically you can hang with people in VR that you can’t be with in real life for some reason. I can’t imagine a reason why that many people would be that desperate to simulate contact with others though. Seems like something there wouldn’t be a ton of demand for …
Kelly throws a wet blanket on all the fun by reminding Andrea that the software is glitchy and probably compromised by hackers. Andrea, true to form, doesn’t seem to care.
Alex and Kara pop over to the US Congressional Library to meet up with Samweis, who turns out to – naturally – be a huge fan of Kara’s amazing journalism. He also notes that she has unusual syntax or something and wonders whether she grew up speaking a different language. On a better show, I would be interested to see him slowly get more and more suspicious of Kara’s provenance, but sadly I doubt that’s actually going anywhere.
Anyway, they show Samweis the Rama Khan symbol and ask him to help them track it down. Kara has to bail because William calls about an important reporting thing, and Alex gives Samweis some slightly-too-tough love about how they need to break the rules because this is an emergency.
But where is Rama Khan, you ask? He’s in handcuffs because Gemma is mad at him (yeah, yeah, I finally learned her name), but she’s giving him a second chance. This time he must not fail like the makeup person failed to color her lipstick within the lines. Lena’s looking pretty off as usual in this episode too. Seriously, what is up with this makeup department?
Back in prison, the Luthors are still working on the elevator guy. His eyes are all messed up from the Q waves, and Stanford tells them that that didn’t happen until after he hurt the other guy, so they infer that the claustrophobia threat triggered a self-preservation response and then he … evolved really quickly?
The guy who got hurt in the elevator also goes crazy and beats up the Jell-O man, instigating a full-on prison riot as the self-preservation instinct somehow spreads like a virus.
Meanwhile, John Jones fails to find the Leviathan hideout with his mind and feels bad about it. Megan Morris comforts him by rehashing the last 5 seasons of his character development quite clunkily. She reassures him that Mars is finally on the path to peace because of him and his brother, and then they almost kiss but Nia is hard at work dreaming on the other side of the room, so they decide not to.
Nia is dreaming about Rama Kahn and his card table, but Brainy is there! She yells at him to get out of her dreams and it works; she immediately knows the location of the secret Leviathan lair just like that.
The Martians, Supergirl, and Dreamer whoosh over to Oregon where Leviathan has been hiding out. Rama Khan pulls his one move and makes an earthquake with his staff. For some reason the superfriends were not expecting this.
A DEO extra tells Director Brainiac about the Rama Khan thing and he decides that they should go back up the supers. They somehow get there, like, basically immediately. How is this possible? Is National City a lot farther north than I thought?
The Luthors are still in prison (not like that though) and Lena is desperately trying to fix the prison riot with Q wave adjustments. The problem is she needs science things on the other side of the prison. Why they aren’t already in the place with Lena’s stuff and why she’s spread her science stuff all over different wings of a prison like she owns the place I don’t understand. Wait, does she own the place? Was that a plot point a while back?
Stanford and the Luthors run through the riot to get to the science things. Stanford gets hurt but Lex and Lena save him for some reason and they all make it behind a locked door.
The superfriends eventually rein in Rhama Khan and then have a bit of a turf war over whether he should be taken to the DEO and whether they can trust Lex Luthor and blah blah blah. They compromise by letting Brainy bring him back to the DEO, but the superfriends get to tag along.
Brainy pretends to interrogate Rama Khan, but switches to another language and tells him that he’s actually on his side and can get him released. Rama Khan isn’t having any of that, though. It was a trap the whole time; he wanted to get captured so that he could explode the whole DEO. Supergirl and Rama Khan fight, but he has Kryptonite, so that isn’t going real well for her.
Alex and Samweis try to break into a locked part of the library and steal the Leviathan stuff that they need, but they get shot at so that doesn’t work. Samweis is like yo, Alex, we’re civilians now. We can’t keep playing this game; we gotta relinquish some power. Alex doesn’t like that. Alex’s sister is above the law so it’s not fair.
Back in prison, Lena eventually figures out what she was trying to figure out and the rioters immediately fall to the ground. This is good because the riot is over, but it’s bad because Stanford’s sense of inner peace is gone and he’s back to being an anxiety-ridden shell of a man stuck inside a building all day with nowhere to go and no sense of purpose. So really, pretty much like all of us right now. Honestly I don’t know what he’s complaining about. At least he’s already bald so he doesn’t have to worry about the awful state of his hairstyle after too much time under these conditions.
Back at the DEO, Megan Morris uses herself as bait to distract Rama Khan long enough for Supergirl to get away. Supergirl is all better pretty much immediately. She’s not even tired or anything, which I’m pretty sure is exactly how it works when you are exposed to poison.
Nia pouts at Brainy, but he still doesn’t reveal what’s going on with him because of his shaky pact with Lex and his other-dimensional selves.
Lena pouts because she couldn’t fix all of humanity’s flaws, and Lex is like yeah of course you can’t. Why would you think you could do that? I needed to let you fail so that you would see that you and I should just take over the planet and be monarchs over these idiots who need saving from themselves.
Kara pouts and John Jones comforts her as usual, but eventually she leaves and he gets a rare moment of his own storyline complete with make-out sesh with Megan. Finally!
Alex tells Kelly that she doesn’t like having to play by the rules and, like a completely rational person with order and safety at the top of her mind, Kelly suggests that Alex become a masked vigilante. I mean, I’d make a joke here about how everyone is wearing masks outside nowadays anyway, but I feel like my coronavirus references are already getting stale and we’ve got four more long, long episodes before this season is over.
Lex pouts because Lena doesn’t want to play with him anymore – the whole saviors of humanity thing was apparently a bridge too far for her – but Gemma cheers him up with an invitation to the Leviathan ship! This raises his spirits so much that he decides he needs his own calmly-walking-away-from-an-explosion shot, and so he sets the prison on fire.
Eve walks through some sketchy back alleys. William is following her but he’s not very good at, so she figures out that he’s there and leads him into an ambush. He gets captured and then it cuts away.
Lena shows up at Kara’s place in tears and tries to take back everything that’s happened this season. She tattles on Lex’s relationship with Leviathan and says she wants to work with the good guys now. Kara wonders why she didn’t bring any snacks.
NEXT TIME: Lex is gonna kill Supergirl himself. It’ll be fun.
He and a couple of other guys bring the yoga mats back to where they belong in an elevator for some reason. Why don’t the yoga mats just stay in the yoga room? Anyway, the power goes out and one of the dudes gets really claustrophobic and hulks out, knocking the other dude unconscious. Then I guess the doors open immediately and Stanford doesn’t get hurt yet because plot reasons.
Meanwhile, Lex and Brainy complain that they’re still not invited to the Leviathan ship. Brainy is mad at Lex for continuing to give them weapons, but Lex really doesn’t mind civilian casualties on the way to their endgame.
Oh and also Megan Morris from Mars is still … moving … more. She and Nia and Alex and Supergirl all stand around complaining about the Luthors for a while. Alex mentions that Kelly has a friend from the military who’s an iconography expert and for one brief, beautiful moment I’m sure it’s Robert Langdon and we’re about to get a Tom Hanks guest appearance, but it’s the next best thing, Samweis Gamdschie. Remember when he was Kelly’s friend from before, except he was actually a bad Martian in disguise? Well this time it’s really him.
The Luthors find the guy who freaked out in the elevator and decide they need to readjust his Q wave frequencies. I mean, that’s usually what I do when I’m in a bad mood.
Andrea is pushing something called the Obsidian World Wide Unity Festival, where basically you can hang with people in VR that you can’t be with in real life for some reason. I can’t imagine a reason why that many people would be that desperate to simulate contact with others though. Seems like something there wouldn’t be a ton of demand for …
Kelly throws a wet blanket on all the fun by reminding Andrea that the software is glitchy and probably compromised by hackers. Andrea, true to form, doesn’t seem to care.
Alex and Kara pop over to the US Congressional Library to meet up with Samweis, who turns out to – naturally – be a huge fan of Kara’s amazing journalism. He also notes that she has unusual syntax or something and wonders whether she grew up speaking a different language. On a better show, I would be interested to see him slowly get more and more suspicious of Kara’s provenance, but sadly I doubt that’s actually going anywhere.
Anyway, they show Samweis the Rama Khan symbol and ask him to help them track it down. Kara has to bail because William calls about an important reporting thing, and Alex gives Samweis some slightly-too-tough love about how they need to break the rules because this is an emergency.
But where is Rama Khan, you ask? He’s in handcuffs because Gemma is mad at him (yeah, yeah, I finally learned her name), but she’s giving him a second chance. This time he must not fail like the makeup person failed to color her lipstick within the lines. Lena’s looking pretty off as usual in this episode too. Seriously, what is up with this makeup department?
Back in prison, the Luthors are still working on the elevator guy. His eyes are all messed up from the Q waves, and Stanford tells them that that didn’t happen until after he hurt the other guy, so they infer that the claustrophobia threat triggered a self-preservation response and then he … evolved really quickly?
The guy who got hurt in the elevator also goes crazy and beats up the Jell-O man, instigating a full-on prison riot as the self-preservation instinct somehow spreads like a virus.
Meanwhile, John Jones fails to find the Leviathan hideout with his mind and feels bad about it. Megan Morris comforts him by rehashing the last 5 seasons of his character development quite clunkily. She reassures him that Mars is finally on the path to peace because of him and his brother, and then they almost kiss but Nia is hard at work dreaming on the other side of the room, so they decide not to.
Nia is dreaming about Rama Kahn and his card table, but Brainy is there! She yells at him to get out of her dreams and it works; she immediately knows the location of the secret Leviathan lair just like that.
The Martians, Supergirl, and Dreamer whoosh over to Oregon where Leviathan has been hiding out. Rama Khan pulls his one move and makes an earthquake with his staff. For some reason the superfriends were not expecting this.
A DEO extra tells Director Brainiac about the Rama Khan thing and he decides that they should go back up the supers. They somehow get there, like, basically immediately. How is this possible? Is National City a lot farther north than I thought?
The Luthors are still in prison (not like that though) and Lena is desperately trying to fix the prison riot with Q wave adjustments. The problem is she needs science things on the other side of the prison. Why they aren’t already in the place with Lena’s stuff and why she’s spread her science stuff all over different wings of a prison like she owns the place I don’t understand. Wait, does she own the place? Was that a plot point a while back?
Stanford and the Luthors run through the riot to get to the science things. Stanford gets hurt but Lex and Lena save him for some reason and they all make it behind a locked door.
The superfriends eventually rein in Rhama Khan and then have a bit of a turf war over whether he should be taken to the DEO and whether they can trust Lex Luthor and blah blah blah. They compromise by letting Brainy bring him back to the DEO, but the superfriends get to tag along.
Brainy pretends to interrogate Rama Khan, but switches to another language and tells him that he’s actually on his side and can get him released. Rama Khan isn’t having any of that, though. It was a trap the whole time; he wanted to get captured so that he could explode the whole DEO. Supergirl and Rama Khan fight, but he has Kryptonite, so that isn’t going real well for her.
Alex and Samweis try to break into a locked part of the library and steal the Leviathan stuff that they need, but they get shot at so that doesn’t work. Samweis is like yo, Alex, we’re civilians now. We can’t keep playing this game; we gotta relinquish some power. Alex doesn’t like that. Alex’s sister is above the law so it’s not fair.
Back in prison, Lena eventually figures out what she was trying to figure out and the rioters immediately fall to the ground. This is good because the riot is over, but it’s bad because Stanford’s sense of inner peace is gone and he’s back to being an anxiety-ridden shell of a man stuck inside a building all day with nowhere to go and no sense of purpose. So really, pretty much like all of us right now. Honestly I don’t know what he’s complaining about. At least he’s already bald so he doesn’t have to worry about the awful state of his hairstyle after too much time under these conditions.
Back at the DEO, Megan Morris uses herself as bait to distract Rama Khan long enough for Supergirl to get away. Supergirl is all better pretty much immediately. She’s not even tired or anything, which I’m pretty sure is exactly how it works when you are exposed to poison.
Nia pouts at Brainy, but he still doesn’t reveal what’s going on with him because of his shaky pact with Lex and his other-dimensional selves.
Lena pouts because she couldn’t fix all of humanity’s flaws, and Lex is like yeah of course you can’t. Why would you think you could do that? I needed to let you fail so that you would see that you and I should just take over the planet and be monarchs over these idiots who need saving from themselves.
Kara pouts and John Jones comforts her as usual, but eventually she leaves and he gets a rare moment of his own storyline complete with make-out sesh with Megan. Finally!
Alex tells Kelly that she doesn’t like having to play by the rules and, like a completely rational person with order and safety at the top of her mind, Kelly suggests that Alex become a masked vigilante. I mean, I’d make a joke here about how everyone is wearing masks outside nowadays anyway, but I feel like my coronavirus references are already getting stale and we’ve got four more long, long episodes before this season is over.
Lex pouts because Lena doesn’t want to play with him anymore – the whole saviors of humanity thing was apparently a bridge too far for her – but Gemma cheers him up with an invitation to the Leviathan ship! This raises his spirits so much that he decides he needs his own calmly-walking-away-from-an-explosion shot, and so he sets the prison on fire.
Eve walks through some sketchy back alleys. William is following her but he’s not very good at, so she figures out that he’s there and leads him into an ambush. He gets captured and then it cuts away.
Lena shows up at Kara’s place in tears and tries to take back everything that’s happened this season. She tattles on Lex’s relationship with Leviathan and says she wants to work with the good guys now. Kara wonders why she didn’t bring any snacks.
NEXT TIME: Lex is gonna kill Supergirl himself. It’ll be fun.
