Supergirl (TV Series)

Parasite Lost (2018)

David Harewood: J'onn J'onzz

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• [first lines] 

  Alex Danvers : [top of CatCo building]  You know, the last time I was on this rooftop, it was like an aerial junkyard. Shards of glass, rusty bikes, abandoned appliances.

  Kara Danvers : Apparently that was the last time anyone was up here, until yesterday.

  J'onn J'onzz : You mean you planted this garden by yourself in one day?

  Kara Danvers : Well, superspeed helps.

• Alex Danvers : Well, CatCo's newest addition. It's very nice to finally meet you.

  J'onn J'onzz : We've heard a lot about you.

  Nia Nal : All good things, I hope.

  Lena Luthor : Well, James said your passion for making the world a better place is matched only by the elegance of your prose, so...

  Nia Nal : I wish I could say I paid him, but I could not have made that up.

• Miles : One day last month, I woke up. I woke up, I brushed my teeth, and I decided "I don't feel like using my image inducer today." I walked down to my local diner to grab some coffee and, um, there was a new waitress. She was cute. Human. When she handed me my check, she had written a note; "I'm an alien, too." And she left me her number. I've seen Miranda every day since, and guess what. She stopped using her inducer.

  J'onn J'onzz : [applause]  That's an inspiring story, Miles. Thank you so much for sharing.

• J'onn J'onzz : I know it hasn't been easy, us continuing this group without Fiona, but, um... I, for one, am... I'm happy that we did.

• J'onn J'onzz : [seeing Amadei is sick]  My god.

  Cassian : I gave him tea, as always, last night before bed. I retired to my chamber. This morning when I came to wake him, the amulet was gone.

  Kara Danvers : [entering]  J'onn? I came as soon as I got your message. What happened?

  J'onn J'onzz : He's dying, Kara.

• Cassian : He cannot survive without the amulet.

  Kara Danvers : We should call the police.

  Cassian : No. Our community doesn't trust the police. There's too much prejudice against us right now, but... J'onn, I have been told by many people that you have a gift for solving crimes.

  J'onn J'onzz : Would it be all right if I tried to read Amadei's mind?

  Cassian : Of course.

  J'onn J'onzz : [seeing Amadei's memory]  Who was that girl?

  Cassian : No one I recognize.

  Kara Danvers : What does it mean, J'onn?

  J'onn J'onzz : It's possible that she was the last person who saw him. That she cut out the amulet.

  Kara Danvers : Well, how do we identify her?

• Querl Dox : Let me get this straight. You want me a facial recognition search... of you?

  J'onn J'onzz : Correct.

  Querl Dox : I fear something is getting lost in translation. You see, my satellite tells me the exact coordinates of your location at this very instant, so running a facial recognition search would be the very definition of red...

  [J'onn shapeshifts into the woman he saw] 

  Querl Dox : Oh. That's another matter entirely.

  J'onn J'onzz : Run the algorithm.

  Querl Dox : Yes, ma'am. Sir.

• Elizabeth's Mother : What the hell are you doing in my house?

  J'onn J'onzz : Don't be alarmed. I'm not here to hurt you.

  Elizabeth's Mother : Elizabeth! Call the police.

  Elizabeth Hawkings : Get away from my mother!

  Kara Danvers : No, he's not gonna hurt her.

  Elizabeth Hawkings : You know him?

  Elizabeth's Mother : And who are you?

  Elizabeth Hawkings : Both of you, get out.

• J'onn J'onzz : Elizabeth Hawkings, we have reason to believe you may have seen Amadei Derros last night.

  Elizabeth Hawkings : Amadei Derros? Why would I have seen him? I don't know him.

  Kara Danvers : He was attacked last night. Someone took an amulet that keeps him alive.

  Elizabeth's Mother : My daughter would never attack anyone.

  Elizabeth Hawkings : I was at work all night, and then I went home with my boyfriend.

  J'onn J'onzz : You were the last person on Amadei's mind before he was attacked.

  Elizabeth Hawkings : That's impossible. I promise you. Amadei Derros would never have thought about me. He's my father, and I've never even met the man.

• Kara Danvers : Amadei is your father?

  Elizabeth's Mother : Deadbeat father. He's never even seen her. He and I had a one-night stand a million years ago. I thought we had a connection, but when I told him I was pregnant, he shut the door in my face. He said he'd never even acknowledge the child.

  J'onn J'onzz : But he did think about her.

  [to Elizabeth] 

  J'onn J'onzz : You were at the forefront of his mind.

  Elizabeth Hawkings : Well, it must have been somebody else. I wrote him every year. Sent him... photos, drawings. Even a... a stupid book report in the ninth grade. He never responded. I'm no one to him.

  Elizabeth's Mother : Look what you've done. Dredging him up. I want you out.

  J'onn J'onzz : I'm sorry.

  [to Elizabeth, as he turns to leave] 

  J'onn J'onzz : He was thinking of you. Somehow, you're connected to what's happened to him.

• J'onn J'onzz : Word has spread about Amadei's attack. There's a vigil forming outside his home.

  Alex Danvers : [entering with pizza in hand]  All right, I've got pepperoni and mushroom.

  Kara Danvers : Alex, what are you doing here? What's going on with Jensen?

  Alex Danvers : Um... he's gone quiet. Which is unsettling, I know, but it gave me enough time to get some sustenance for you both. Kara texted me about what happend, and I'm sorry about your friend, J'onn.

• Kara Danvers : I made a tactical mistake in my reporting.

  Alex Danvers : What are you talking about?

  Kara Danvers : I was so certain Amadei was a great man. I published this glowing article making him out to be a saint. But if I dug a little deeper, I may have discovered how flawed he is.

  J'onn J'onzz : How would that information have changed anything, Kara?

  Kara Danvers : My portrait of him as immaculate may have put a target on his back. I always try to believe of the best in people, and so much of the time, it just seems to make things worse.

  Alex Danvers : Kara, I usually expect the worst in people, and... I mean, that's no better. I was convinced for sure that Haley was gonna be a monster, but instead she's been very reasonable and deeply supportive.

• Kara Danvers : We started with the assumption that Amadei was spotless. Let's retrace our steps.

  J'onn J'onzz : Amadei hasn't given an interview in over twenty years. But let's see what he said the last time he did speak to the press.

  Kara Danvers : [running a search on her laptop]  Okay... Alexis Nexus. Wow, Amadei gave lots of interviews then, over the course of many years. And look who's next to him in all of them.

  J'onn J'onzz : [recognizing pictures of Elizabeth's mother]  A woman who claimed to have met him only once.

• Elizabeth's Mother : You two. You ruined my daughter. She read your article. Amadei's goal was to heal the human heart. You mean the alien heart, because I'm human, and he broke mine.

  J'onn J'onzz : And you took it out on your daughter by keeping them apart.

  Elizabeth's Mother : I never wanted her to know about him. But then she found out from my sister and started writing him. Yes. Yes, I made sure that she never got a response. You think that I would let him get into her head after he ruined me?

• J'onn J'onzz : The image in Amadei's mind came from Elizabeth's letters to her father. He wrote back, didn't he?

  Elizabeth's Mother : After you two left, she tore the house apart, found where I hid his letters. She said that I betrayed her. I made her deny the alien part of her, which made her feel like even more of an outcast. The Children of Liberty are right. All roaches do is bring misery.

  Kara Danvers : What are you saying? Who are the Children of Liberty?

  Elizabeth's Mother : A group of people who know our country is overrun with aliens, and it's time to fight back. They needed help online, I answered.

  Kara Danvers : We need the amulet. You will only hurt your daughter more if you let her father die.

  Elizabeth's Mother : No, I-I gave it to a Child of Liberty.

  J'onn J'onzz : For what?

  Elizabeth's Mother : To give it to a human who can take away a roach's power. Turn it into a husk.

  Kara Danvers : [quietly]  Jensen.

• Querl Dox : Jensen has overloaded the dome. I'm re-configuring the power transits, but our matrix will collapse in two minutes, 47 seconds.

  J'onn J'onzz : I need to make sure Amadei is protected.

  Kara Danvers : Go.

  [J'onn leaves] 

  Kara Danvers : Alex. Alex, people are on the verge of stampeding.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : Supergirl? Are you inside that dome?

  Kara Danvers : [covering]  I... was in the neighborhood.