Supergirl (TV Series)

A Few Good Women (2021)

Jason Behr: Zor-El

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• Zor-El : [after Phantoms attack Kara]  I take it you learned your lesson.

  Supergirl : I have to try again.

  Zor-El : Kara, I can't lose you again. Please, we can live safely here.

  Supergirl : And do what? Stare at cave walls day in and day out until time loses all meaning? The father I knew never would have accepted that.

  Zor-El : The father you knew was hollowed out and devoured slowly by the Phantoms. I'm trying to spare you that. You may think you are stronger than I, but strength doesn't matter here. The Phantom Zone isn't something you can fight.

  Supergirl : You're right. I can't beat it. But I am going to do everything I can to escape it. Even if it means I just get an inch further every day. And I'm sorry for everything you went through. But I would rather live through torture and do something than just exist for the sake of it. The House of El is meant for more than that.

  Zor-El : Well, I won't let my daughter go into the rocks alone. So if you're going to insist on trying...

  [putting a reassuring hand on her shoulder] 

  Zor-El : ...I'm going with you.

• Supergirl : [seeing Phantoms disappear through a portal]  Where did they just go?

  Zor-El : I have no idea. I've never seen a Phantom do anything like that.

  Supergirl : Well, if they use portals to get around, maybe we can use one to get out.

  Zor-El : It looks like the portals only open and close long enough for a Phantom to get through.

  Supergirl : Then I guess we're gonna have to catch a Phantom.

• Zor-El : My daughter alive, my wife alive... it's more than I ever dared hope for.

  Supergirl : Argo survived, because of your sacrifice. All this time, I thought I'd lost you forever.

  Zor-El : When I chose to stay on Krypton to activate Argo's shields, I knew there was no way I'd get off the planet in time. Sending myself here was a last-ditch attempt to save my life. A terrible mistake. There are things worse than death. And to think you were here, too, languishing, your pod trapped.

  Supergirl : Oh, this place is nothing like I remember. It's worse.

  Zor-El : Indeed. From the safety of your pod, you never faced the Phantoms. They got to you, didn't they? What did you see?

  Supergirl : I was in a cavern, a fortress of one of my enemies. She was dead... but so was everyone I ever loved, cut down while they were trying to save the world, and I... j-just s-stood there among their bodies... horrified. I couldn't save them. I couldn't wake up. I wanted to die there with them. But I couldn't do that, either.

  Zor-El : A terrible vision.

  Supergirl : Not a vision. A memory. One that I thought had finally stopped haunting me. But it was crystal clear. It felt like it would never end.

  Zor-El : That's exactly what will happen if you resist the Phantoms.

  Supergirl : You were a hero... and you didn't deserve this. But it's gonna be okay now. We're going to get out.

  Zor-El : Get out?

  Supergirl : Yeah, Mother once told me that Fort Rozz was rooted in space above the rocks by an anchor. The guards come and go through a portal at the base. If we can find the anchor...

  Zor-El : To try would only invite the Phantoms' wrath! But if we do not provoke them, they will leave us be. We are trapped here forever. We will never die, but we may yet survive. You must accept that, Kara, or you will go mad, and remain so for eternity.

• Zor-El : Calm down. There are no Phantoms here.

  Supergirl : Who are you?

  Zor-El : As if you don't know. You bear the glyph of my house. So you must be some sort of mirage, another figment of my own tortured mind.

  Supergirl : Your house? This is the glyph of the House of El.

  [recognizing him as he turns around] 

  Supergirl : Father?

  Zor-El : Kara?