Supergirl (TV Series)

Fight or Flight (2015)

Chyler Leigh: Alex Danvers

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• Kara Danvers : It wasn't supposed to be this way. This is the reason my mother and father sent me to Earth.

  Alex Danvers : They wanted you to live.

  Kara Danvers : No, it's more than that. I was supposed to be the one saving him, not the other way around. How am I supposed to really become a hero if Superman has to keep saving me?

  Alex Danvers : Your story... Your story is just starting. And some day you're gonna be the one saving him.

• Kara Danvers : [arguing over dinner with Alex]  If that pot sticker is not in my mouth in two seconds, I'm gonna melt your face.

  Alex Danvers : [handing over the container]  I hope you get fat.

  Kara Danvers : Not on this planet.

• Alex Danvers : So, what does the Girl of Steel do to celebrate after saving the day?

  Supergirl : Um... how about the Danvers sisters take in a movie tonight?

  Alex Danvers : Or... how about you go find a certain ex-photojournalist with a penchant for tight shirts who makes you smile more than anyone else I've ever seen do.

  [seeing Kara's smile] 

  Alex Danvers : Yeah, that.

• Kara Danvers : So what are you saying? We just sit back and do nothing?

  Hank Henshaw : Reactron, whoever he is, is human. Which means this case falls out of the DEO's jurisdiction.

  Kara Danvers : This man flies and shoots nuclear fireballs! How is that not extra-normal?

  Alex Danvers : He's using advanced biomedical tech. Man-made tech.

  Hank Henshaw : I can't risk exposing this organization every time some human criminal shows up in National City.

  Kara Danvers : And I can't just let the man run wild.

  Hank Henshaw : Call your cousin. Superman fights for truth, justice and the American way. Last time I checked, National City was in America.

• 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.

• Winn Schott : Hey, this isn't on you, Kara.

  Kara Danvers : I have to find this man. How am I supposed to do that?

  Alex Danvers : [entering]  With my help. Do you have someplace private we can talk?

• 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.

• Alex Danvers : So, guess what I picked up on the way.

  [she shows Kara the CatCo magazine with Supergirl on the cover] 

  Kara Danvers : Did you actually read the article? Because she says horrible things about me.

  Alex Danvers : Very well crafted horrible things. Deep beneath that seething disdain, she respects you.

  Kara Danvers : Really?

  Alex Danvers : Mm-hmm. Supergirl, I mean. Her assistant, no. She couldn't give a riff about you.

• Alex Danvers : You should be proud of yourself. I mean, you're doing things that Superman couldn't even do.

  Kara Danvers : Well, I may not need Superman to be a hero, but I will always need you.

• Alex Danvers : You like Jimmy Olsen.

  Kara Danvers : Stop it. Um, first of all, he prefers "James".

  Alex Danvers : Oh.

  Kara Danvers : Mm-hmm.

  Alex Danvers : Okay.

  Kara Danvers : Second, we're just friends. Just friends.

  Alex Danvers : Please. You were looking at him like he was one of your sticky buns. And seriously, you have got to stop telling people who you really are. The less people know about Supergirl, the better.

• Agent Vasquez : Sir, we have a code gray. It's coming from the NCH. Looks like a multiple car collision. Highway Patrol officers and medical personnel are en route. No sign of alien activity. We're clear.

  Hank Henshaw : Run a thermal scan to be sure. And Ms. Danvers, next time you're thinking of talking to the press...

  [turning around, he sees Supergirl is gone] 

  Alex Danvers : She's excited. It's her first pile-up.

• Supergirl : I have to be at Cat's party, like, now. Like... like, "ten minutes ago" now. I don't have my dress.

  Alex Danvers : Yes, I figured you would not have the time, so... I borrowed one from the DEO closet. Not that you really need it, but... it is bulletproof.

• Hank Henshaw : Agent Danvers, what are you doing?

  Alex Danvers : I'm helping Kara. To stop Reactron.

  Hank Henshaw : It's been increasingly difficult for you to follow orders since your sister flew onto the scene.

  Alex Danvers : When you asked me to join the DEO, I didn't hesitate, because you told me that together, we were gonna save the world. Except saving the world means everybody; aliens, humans, I can't... I can't separate them anymore. Especially when my little sister's life is at stake.

• Alex Danvers : Kara, we may have a way for you to stop Krull.

  Hank Henshaw : Krull's chest unit is powered by a demon core, a subcritical mass of plutonium.

  Alex Danvers : If you can remove it from his suit, it should shut down his weaponry.

  Hank Henshaw : But the core will melt down the very moment it's freed from its containment matrix.

  Supergirl : There has to be some way to stop him without nuking the city.

  Alex Danvers : You need to encase the core in lead before you rip it free.

• [last lines] 

  Supergirl : Do not watch Homeland until I get back.

  [out the window] 

  Alex Danvers : [as her sister flies off]  There's no promises.

• Alex Danvers : Isn't that your cue?