Oh, brother, that would be a mistake.
At least hes a good man, Lena spits, and Lex doesnt like that.
Iwas the man of tomorrow.
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NOT HIM, he shouts.
His fault for trying to, you know, kill Superman.
He asks her to finish the Harun-El serum, but she refuses to endanger any lives to test it.
Then Eve runs in with news about James.
(Lex gives her his coffee order because of course, he does.)
James shooter activated hisSupergirlwatchiiiiiinteresting that s/he knew about thatand she found him bleeding out in his office.
After all, she does own the hospital.
Brainy stops her with a reminder about managing her emotions: Little boxes, comrade.
Um,thats not what happened, though?
Anyway, she needs Lexs help to separate the Harun-Els healing powers from its superpowers.
Although hes not thrilled to be saving Supermans best pal, they get to work.
Their lifelong dynamic is…testy.
He belittles her, which drives her to work harder.
Naturally, that allows him to lay claim to all of her success (eye roll).
He does finally tell her that hes proud of her; even he couldnt create Kryptonite, after all.
Jonn, meanwhile, is convinced that Manchester shot James and uses their psychic link to track him.
Jonn realizes Manchester only knows about that because their psychic link works both ways.
I cannot emphasize enough how cool and collected Kelly is here.
If it were my sibling, Id be a snotty mess on the floor.
We later learn why: Shes a military psychologist whos visited James in the hospital a dozen times.
What are you going to do?
Are you going to interview him?
Worried, stressed Alex is funny when shes being mean.
By the end of the trip, he wished she was his mother.
But she wasnt his mother; she was Lenas.
While I came from poison, you came from love, he concludes.
Lena wipes a tear and touches her brothers shoulder before leaving.
Corpse-ified Alex attacks him in his vision, and then the real Kara breaks through to wake him up.
Kara says she didnt like standing around feeling helpless, but shes back to wait with her friends.
Brainy also isnt doing well.
(Microaggressions are their own form of trauma!
True, true, true.)
Then the lights flicker and fail all over town.
Its Manchester, causing problems at the dam that powers the whole city.
Supergirl explains, which made me laugh.
He comes to with a gasp.
Jonn screams in rage, puts on his hunter face, and psychically pulls the staff from Manchester.
He poofs out of existence, leaving behind Brainys flight ring.
He gives Kara the ring and walks out.
The wise man is Keanu Reeves, he confirms.
Whatever you say, Wildcat.
At Luthor manor, Lenas starting to see some things clearly.
After all, hes dying of cancer, and well, hes asurvivor.
In fact, he was administered the cure ten minutes ago.
At this point, the mean guards image inducer shuts off to reveal Otis Graves!
And thenand then AND THEN, yall, he bellows MISS TESCHMACHER!
Sorry not sorry, she tells Lena before shooting a guard.
Otis chloroforms Lena and leaves her cuffed to Lexs chair.
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