Supergirl (TV Series)

Parasite Lost (2018)

Mehcad Brooks: James Olsen, Guardian

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• James Olsen : Brainy, how many of those have you had to drink?

  Querl Dox : The ginger juice?

  James Olsen : Uh-huh.

  Querl Dox : Twelve. You see, James, the ginger root kicks the booty of the immune system. It also strangely makes the roof spin.

  [falling over, about to pass out] 

  Querl Dox : Long live the Legion.

• Lena Luthor : James, we're frolicking on our roof garden, sipping mojitos. Could you try not to look so miserable?

  James Olsen : Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm just reading the Internet. There's so many people tweeting hate at the same time praising Guardian.

  Lena Luthor : Okay, well, the Internet's a cesspool. You shouldn't read it.

• Lena Luthor : Okay, you have got to stop listening to this dreck. Is that Ben Lockwood?

  James Olsen : Do you know him?

  Lena Luthor : Well, when I reorganized L-Corp, I took my business away from his father's steel shop and gave it to an Nth metal producer. Who the hell gave him a platform?

  James Olsen : The People's Veritas, some sort of syndicated fringe website.

  Lena Luthor : Oh, okay. Well, there you go. "Fringe" being the operative word.

  James Olsen : Well, the last time I saw Ben Lockwood, he was a sad, angry man begging me to write his story. And now he and every lunatic like him is praising Guardian as if I'm one of them.

  Lena Luthor : Well, I don't think the mayor would invite James Olsen to be the keynote speaker at his annual Media Summit if he thought he was some kind of fringe lunatic.

  James Olsen : Wait, what?

  Lena Luthor : The invitation just came in. That is what I came to tell you. Now, you need to stop obsessing about these trolls and start writing your speech.

• Ben Lockwood : I was just, uh... my table's in the back.

  Lena Luthor : I doubt we're seated at the same table.

  James Olsen : And this event is for members of...

  Ben Lockwood : The mainstream media? Yeah, that's probably why they seated me in the back.

• Ben Lockwood : Listen, I owe you two an apology. I wasn't in the best place when last our paths crossed, but, uh... well, things... things are much better.

  Lena Luthor : Excuse me. I'm gonna get a drink.

  [to James] 

  Lena Luthor : See you in a few minutes.

  James Olsen : Make that two, please.

• Ben Lockwood : You know, I was just talking about you on my show recently.

  James Olsen : So I heard. And just to be clear, you and I do not represent the same things.

  Ben Lockwood : Hmm. Far be it for James Olsen to listen to an opinion that is not his own.

  James Olsen : I listen to opinions that are not my own. But what I heard in your show was full of discrimination and hate, and that's when I stopped listening.

  Ben Lockwood : I see. So this is the part where you and others like you start making crass generalizations based on ignorance and stereotype.

  James Olsen : And you forgot the part where people like me walk away.

• Ben Lockwood : People are concerned, James. People have alien whiplash. I mean, I understand the Super cousins. They protect us, kind of. But look, the last three disasters this country has seen have all been of alien origin. Now, Guardian... Guardian, that's what I want to talk to you about. That is a symbol of human hope.

  James Olsen : I want no part of that.

  Ben Lockwood : Do not shut these people out, James. Can't you see people who think this way, they're not crazy? They're scared. And they need those fears acknowledged, and when they are not, when they get shut down, like you're doing right now, it just... it drives them deeper into darkness.

  James Olsen : Let me be very clear about something, Professor. You will not lay this at my feet.

• Lena Luthor : You okay?

  James Olsen : Yeah, I'm just thinking about everything we heard at the media summit today.

  Lena Luthor : Yeah. So hateful. I didn't realize how deep it went, or how ugly it was. You were right to want to disavow it.

  James Olsen : I'm not sure disavow is the right move. Something Ben Lockwood said stuck with me.

  Lena Luthor : What?

  James Olsen : Maybe you can't change people's minds by slamming doors in their faces. And as a reporter, I need to get to the bottom of the story to figure out who these people are, find their leader. I mean, you told me yourself, these people are interested in Guardian, so maybe they'll listen to me. That's the way forward.

  Lena Luthor : Sounds dangerous.

  James Olsen : You kidding me? With you as my co-pilot?

• [last lines] 

  James Olsen : Did I catch you at a bad time?

  Ben Lockwood : No, you just caught me in the middle of some car trouble.

  James Olsen : Look, I've been thinking about what you said. Do you have time to talk?

  Ben Lockwood : Do I have time to talk? Hey, for you, friend, I got all the time in the world. What's on your mind?

  [his Agent Liberty mask hanging nearby comes into focus]