Supergirl (TV Series)

A Few Good Women (2021)

Jesse Rath: Brainiac-5

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• Dreamer : Hey. Sorry. I know, it was impossible to get away from William. He just could not understand what was more important than staking out the courthouse.

  Brainiac-5 : Now is not the time to worry about William. Or Lex's trial, for that matter. Now is the time to train.

• Dreamer : 911 from Andrea. I have to get back to CatCo.

  Brainiac-5 : Silas will keep us from being stuck in the Phantom Zone, but we're still nowhere on Supergirl's location. Once we're inside, you'll need to divine where she is and then lead us there. And that will be no easy feat with Phantoms circling. So you'll need to train.

  Dreamer : I'll be back as soon as I can.

• Silas : I wasn't going to hurt anyone. I'm not really a vampire.

  M'gann M'orzz : We know. Your name is Silas.

  J'onn J'onnz : You're an alien.

  Brainiac-5 : From Transilvane, to be exact.

  Dreamer : Which is apparently a real planet.

  Alex Danvers : You're where vampire stories come from.

  Silas : Great. Glad to see you've done your research. But you're under-emphasizing one tiny, important detail. They're just stories. I rob blood banks so I don't have to hurt people.

  J'onn J'onnz : We're not interested in the robbery. We'll let you go... if you help us.

  Silas : Help you with what?

  Alex Danvers : We want you to help us break into the Phantom Zone.

  Silas : Why in the hell would you wanna do that?

• Brainiac-5 : The Phantom Zone is an environment unlike one you've ever experienced. It will require the highest levels of your concentration to dream Supergirl's location in there. Accordingly, I give you my Phantom Zone simulation, meticulously crafted from all known data about the Zone. Sensors placed around the room will record your dream energy. Any fluctuations, distractions, emotional congruences will trigger the Phantoms I've populated this training exercise with to attack you, just as they will do in the Phantom Zone.

  Dreamer : I got it. Just like the holodeck on "Next Gen".

  Brainiac-5 : Now, hidden somewhere in this simulation is my simulated Supergirl. Please close your eyes... and try to divine her location.

  [Nia tries and is attacked by a Phantom] 

  Brainiac-5 : Kara and Alex in high school. What a surprising divination.

  Dreamer : It's not a divination. It's a distraction, Brainy.

  Brainiac-5 : Well, try again.

  Dreamer : I could barely find you when you were dying on the Leviathan ship. I mean, I thought maybe our relationship was what was clouding my powers, but maybe I just don't know what I'm doing. Without my mom or my sister, I don't have anyone to actually teach me how to interpret my dreams. And until I learn, I'm never gonna be the hero I want to be.

  Brainiac-5 : I'm from the Legion of Superheroes, where everything we did was through the lens of Supergirl. Her virtue, her accomplishments, her drive. But you and I have had the opportunity to actually know her. And so we know she's more than just Supergirl. She's Kara. She is our beacon through the darkness. She's the example we all aspire to emulate. So, yes, you may fear that you will fail to live up to Kara's example. But I am here to tell you, in no uncertain terms, that you are not a liability to this mission. You are the reason it's going to succeed.

• Silas : My husband was falsely accused of theft, and sentenced to six months in the Phantom Zone. They took Owen from me. It was so unfair. I had to get him back.

  M'gann M'orzz : But they caught you attempting to break him out.

  Silas : How do you guys know all this?

  J'onn J'onnz : My brother was in the Phantom Zone. He'd heard about you. We cross-referenced what he told us with your Fort Rozz file.

  Dreamer : You're the only person to ever break into the Phantom Zone. We need you to teach us how.

  Silas : You must understand, I failed. And you will fail, too.

  Brainiac-5 : I'm certain I can replicate your technology.

  Silas : The tech is the easy part. It's the Phantoms you have to face. People talk about the Zone as a place where time does not pass, but that isn't what makes it terrible. It's the creatures that give it its name. They feed on your fear by making you live it. They're like shadow spores that creep inside you and infect everything good and right and then turn it against the host. Eventually, you forget that the Phantoms are doing it to you at all. Your nightmare becomes your reality. That's when you go insane. Just like my husband did.

  Dreamer : I'm sorry that happened to you. But right now, you have the chance to help us save someone that we love.

  J'onn J'onnz : Supergirl is there. We're trusting you with this information because you're the only one who can help. And we think you're the kind of guy who would. Prove us right. Help us.

  Silas : [after a moment of indecision]  Okay, I need a pen.

  J'onn J'onnz : Good man.

• Brainiac-5 : The Phantoms disrupted the portal. We need to get it back online.

  Alex Danvers : On it.

  Silas : [taking cover]  Not again.

  Alex Danvers : Silas, we have to send the Phantoms back. I need you to help me.

  Silas : Please don't let them take me.

  Alex Danvers : These creepy bastards aren't gonna take any more of us. Okay? Do it for Owen.

• Lex Luthor : I'm just glad that I can return to making a difference as a free man.

  Brainiac-5 : [watching on TV and crumpling his computer keyboard in frustration]  These 21st-century keyboards suck!

• J'onn J'onnz : You sure this thing won't blow up?

  Silas : It won't blow up, but I can't guarantee it won't implode.

  Alex Danvers : Let's bring Supergirl home.

  Dreamer : [the portal opens]  It doesn't look like the simulations, Brainy.

  Brainiac-5 : [with a handheld scanner]  No. No, this isn't right. The Phantom Zone has been fractured somehow.

  [realizing] 

  Brainiac-5 : Of course. Crisis. When all the timelines converged into one, the opposite must have happened here. It's no longer one pocket dimension, but many. An interdimensional archipelago.

  Alex Danvers : Well, Dreamer should still be able to find her in there.

  Brainiac-5 : Every dimension has its own vibrational frequency. We would have to go to each one before Dreamer could even try. And it's moving in a randomized pattern. It would take years for us to make it to each of them.

  Alex Danvers : Supergirl is in there, okay? We are not not gonna go get her.

  J'onn J'onnz : Alex, wait.

  Alex Danvers : I won't give up on Kara.

  J'onn J'onnz : I'm not gonna lose you, too.