- Silas: [an attempt to get the portal working fails] You know this isn't easy for me.
- J'onn J'onnz: Silas, I do not have time. Fix it. Fix it right now.
- M'gann M'orzz: J'onn, can I talk to you outside?
- J'onn J'onnz: [to Silas] Get it done, and don't immolate anyone.
- 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.
- Andrea Rojas: I wanna talk to you about power. Specifically, the power of the press. It's the trial of the century and CatCo needs to be the culture's one-stop shop for all things Lex Luthor.
- William Dey: The trial hasn't even begun yet.
- Andrea Rojas: Well, we pre-write obituaries for heads of state, don't we? This should be no different. We all know he's getting convicted. We might as well just get a jump on it.
- [Nia tries to sneak in quietly]
- Andrea Rojas: Well, nice of you to join us, Ms. Nal.
- Nia Nal: I'm... I'm sorry. I was donating blood.
- Andrea Rojas: Oh, how heroic of you. Obsidian North died for Lex Luthor's sins. Now I want our smart, splashy coverage to bury him six feet under. So, assignments. Nia, with Kara still out of town with Cat Grant, I'm gonna need you down at the courthouse. The judge, the jurors, the witnesses, do literally whatever it takes to get interviews. I will pay your bail if it comes to that.
- Nia Nal: I'm sorry, me?
- Andrea Rojas: Yes. And William, of course.
- William Dey: We won't be able to get in. The courthouse is on lockdown due to threats against Luthor. I mean, they're even keeping the jury off-site to protect them.
- Andrea Rojas: Well, the two of you are sharks. You'll find a way to get in. Plus, if you run into trouble, I'm Supergirl will swoop in to protect you. She always does.
- 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: [watching Zor-El sleep] I'm so sorry you were lost here. I'm so sorry you've endured what you've endured. I'm going to help you find your way again. I'm going to get us out of here. I promise.
- 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.
- Lillian Luthor: The case against you is ironclad. The Tessmacher girl's testimony will be damning. And every day you spend fruitlessly shaking your fist at the sky is another day the Luthor name gets dragged through the mud.
- Lex Luthor: Mother, it almost feels as if you care more about the family name than freeing your son from bondage.
- Lillian Luthor: I do. Our family has always achieved selfish aims by appearing selfless. If you take the stand and make a mockery of yourself in the face of insurmountable evidence, the world will see us for what we really are.
- Lex Luthor: [angrily] Do you really have so little faith in me that you think I should agree to *rot* in prison? I will remind you, I have been in prison before. I have been shot and killed and risen from the dead before, and will not be subjugated again. You should know, I always have a plan.
- Otis Graves: Yeah, boss. Kablooey!
- Lex Luthor: A legal plan, you imbecile.
- Lex Luthor: Whereas I am now seeing the value of unvarnished truth.
- Lillian Luthor: Two words I thought I would never hear applied to a Luthor.
- 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?
- Lena Luthor: Let me guess. Now that the trial has turned in Lex's favor, you want me to relinquish my shares and step down from the company so mama's number-one boy can retain his rightful throne.
- Lillian Luthor: On the contrary. I'd like to sell you my shares.
- Lena Luthor: [suspiciously] Why?
- Lillian Luthor: Because LuthorCorp in your brother's hands is nothing more than a weapon. We both know it. My shares, coupled with yours, would form a majority Lex couldn't outvote no matter how hard he schemed. Think of what you could do with all that power.
- Lena Luthor: You're trying to bribe me.
- Lillian Luthor: Why in the world would I need to bribe my own daughter?
- Lena Luthor: Because you know I'm gonna testify against Lex.
- Lex Luthor: When I returned home after saving those kidnapped VR users, who was waiting for me?
- Eve Teschmacher: I was.
- Lex Luthor: That's right. You surprised me with a lavish candlelit dinner. Do you recall the entree?
- Eve Teschmacher: It was... beef Wellington.
- Lex Luthor: Mm. The meal was delicious, I might add. Succulent, tender.
- Prosecutor: Objection. It's his opinion.
- Lex Luthor: I was just as surprised at the quality as you, Ms. District Attorney. Which is why I asked Eve - Ms. Tessmacher - "what's the occasion?" And do you remember what you said?
- Eve Teschmacher: I...
- Lex Luthor: Have you not sworn to tell the truth today, Ms. Tessmacher?
- Eve Teschmacher: I have.
- Prosecutor: Objection.
- Lex Luthor: Then why did you cook me dinner?
- Eve Teschmacher: Because I was in love with you.
- Lex Luthor: And when I did not reciprocate... ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you, what is more reasonable? Lex Luthor, philanthropist, entrepreneur and hero, committing these terrible crimes... or Eve Tessmacher, jilted lover hell-bent on revenge, setting up the man who would not have her, all to avoid punishment for her own crimes. She had the means, she had the motive, and she had an image inducer.
- Eve Teschmacher: You made me hack Obsidian. You made me impersonate people. You made me kill. You made me do all of it...
- Lex Luthor: I demand Eve Tessmacher's testimony be stricken from the record and her plea deal revoked. Oh, uh, and if feel like throwing in a charge of perjury, that'd be cool, too, Your Honor.
- M'gann M'orzz: I know you think of Kara as a daughter... when you've already lost two.
- J'onn J'onnz: I think of K'hym and T'ania every day. But with Kara gone, enduring all that alone... my memories take a different shape.
- M'gann M'orzz: I'm worried about Kara, too. But I'm also worried about you and Alex. You're running yourselves ragged trying to get her back and speed up the process.
- J'onn J'onnz: We've taken risks before.
- M'gann M'orzz: It's not risk I object to. This mission calls for methodical planning, without ego or emotion. But instead, you're just charging ahead without getting the lay of the land. You're... you're not acting like a soldier, you're acting like a father.
- J'onn J'onnz: I'd rather die trying to get her back than live with the guilt that I didn't do everything that I could. I hear your wisdom, M'gann. I do. But we need to do this our way.
- 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.
- Lex Luthor: I thought visitors were forbidden in this wing.
- Lillian Luthor: Well, the Luthor name still commands respect... and the occasional favor.
- Lex Luthor: Ah, favors. Is that how you secured me that plea deal? Admit to conspiracy and manslaughter, and go away for...
- [waving Otis away as he moves to sit down with them]
- Lex Luthor: Ah, ah. Go away for 25 years.
- Lillian Luthor: I'm sure your lawyer advised you to accept it.
- Lex Luthor: He did. Which is why I fired him.
- 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?
- Kelly Olsen: I know what it's like to lose someone. Someone you love more than anything in the world. But Owen being in the Phantom Zone is not your fault. You need to forgive yourself for what happened to him.
- Silas: I can't. The guilt is overwhelming.
- Kelly Olsen: Of course you feel guilt. Of course you feel shame. But those feelings are there to remind you that your love was real. And that is something that no Phantom can take from you. Look, I know you're scared, but you can do this. You can build that portal. You can make it work. And when you do, we will save Supergirl. And every life she saves from then on will be thanks to you. And thanks to Owen.
- Lena Luthor: Eve's testimony was the backbone of this case. Now that Lex has completely damaged her credibility, all her evidence is tainted. It's fruit of the poisonous tree. If I don't speak to the brainwashing charges, then he might go free.
- Lillian Luthor: So let him! Your brother nearly threw everything away and revealed his true colors to the world, but through cleverness and sheer force of will, he has convinced the jury that he's a good man framed by an evil woman. That perception is good for the entire family.
- Lena Luthor: The truth is good for the family.
- Lillian Luthor: The truth is you did nothing to stop Lex until it was nearly too late. If you take that stand, you'll have to accept your guilt for every single thing you did by his side. And then the world will not only think Lex is evil, but they'll think you are, too, and the Luthor name will be as good as worthless.
- Lena Luthor: It's time for a Luthor to do some actual good instead of just pretending to. If I have to risk my name to make sure my brother stays behind bars forever, then I will.
- Lillian Luthor: It's not a risk. It's a certainty. Lex won't hesitate to take you down with him. And he knows better than anyone how to get under your skin.
- Lena Luthor: Oh, I'm counting on it.
- 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.
- Andrea Rojas: So, will you be watching the trial?
- Lena Luthor: Of course. You don't think I'd miss an opportunity for the world to see my brother as he really is?
- Andrea Rojas: Well, what about who you are?
- Lena Luthor: What do you mean?
- Andrea Rojas: Well, you were there with Lex through everything. But you haven't spoken on the record and you haven't been asked to testify. Think of the good it could do if you aired your firsthand experience and asked for forgiveness publicly.
- Lena Luthor: I thought I was coming here to catch up with a friend, but you're lobbying for an interview.
- Andrea Rojas: Oh... please, Lena, I... I screwed up with Obsidian, and CatCo barely survived. It's all I have left, and it's in bad shape. If you go on the record, maybe we can help each other.
- Lena Luthor: I'm sorry for your troubles, I really am, but what happened by Lex's side, I will never speak of publicly. I thought maybe we could talk about it, especially after everything we've been through. But I see now that I was mistaken because, as ever, you're always putting yourself first.
- [putting her drink down]
- Lena Luthor: Keep the Scotch.
- 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.
- Lex Luthor: Ms. Tessmacher's testimony has been thrown out and the murder charges have been dropped, so perhaps we should be getting to closing arguments.
- Judge: If there's no objection.
- Prosecutor: Uh, actually, Your Honor, the People would like to call one more witness.
- Lex Luthor: What could one more witness possibly testify to?
- Lena Luthor: [entering] Everything else.
- Lex Luthor: I was filing patents when you were in diapers. Why would I waste my time workshopping your faulty science fair project?
- Lena Luthor: Because your little sister had created something that you needed. Something that you could never have come up with on your own.
- Lex Luthor: You've never done anything on your own. You've always needed me.
- Prosecutor: Objection.
- Lena Luthor: You can't stand that I don't need you anymore.
- Judge: [hammering her gavel] Sustained.
- Lex Luthor: Without me, your precious Non Nocere would have never gotten off the ground.
- Lena Luthor: And so you think you can just take credit for my work?
- Lex Luthor: You're damn right I can! I have always taken the big swings that you never would. But I supported you because you're a Luthor. I kept you by my side when you were too timid and weak to do what was necessary.
- [turning to the jury]
- Lex Luthor: It takes guts to wield power. And I wield my power to make the world better. So did I help develop Non Nocere? Yes. And yes, Non Nocere failed. Boo-hoo, it happens. But instead of accepting that humbly, my sister blames me for it. It's no surprise that this entire case has fallen apart when every single charge hinges on the unsubstantiated hearsay of bitter women like my sister and Eve. Women who, mind you, could have committed these crimes themselves, as could any number of other suspects that the prosecutor has overlooked in her obsession with targeting me, and why? Because I am powerful! So let that be a lesson to you all. If you try to build a good life for yourself, there is always somebody waiting to tear you down and punish you for your greatness. But I accept who I am. I like power, and I have the guts to do something with it. I did not commit the crimes of which I stand accused. But if I had, who could blame me? If push came to shove, you'd have done it. The defense rests.
- Alex Danvers: I couldn't... I couldn't get her back. I c... I couldn't save her.
- Kelly Olsen: Hey, that's more than anyone could have pulled off in a day.
- Alex Danvers: No, it's not just today. I mean, what if we never... what... what if she's really gone? I mean, how am I supposed to accept a world without Kara in it?
- Kelly Olsen: The only thing that you have to accept is that this could take a while. But you are going to keep fighting, and so is she.
- Alex Danvers: Yeah, but that's the thing. I don't know if I can. This isn't just a hard path. I don't see any path at all. We're nowhere, Kelly. We are nowhere, and she is alone and I might not ever see her again.
- Lena Luthor: Non nocere. It's "to do no harm." I mean, that was always my intention. To make the world a better place, to inhibit our desires to hurt each other emotionally and physically. But Lex corrupted my technology to turn every Obsidian user into his own mindless followers, essentially brainwashing them.
- Prosecutor: To what end?
- Lena Luthor: To get away with murder.
- Judge: Something funny, Mr. Luthor?
- Lex Luthor: Mmm. Not funny. Hilarious. My sister can couch her project in flowery language, "make the world a better place", but put plainly, she created a tool to brainwash the masses. Isn't that right, sis?
- Lena Luthor: Yes, I did. But I wasn't the one with the motive to use it that way.
- Lex Luthor: Well, it's your word against mine on that. On... well, pretty much all of it, for that matter. Now, by your own admission, you yourself would have had both the means and the opportunity to commit the brainwashing of which I stand accused, would you not?
- Lena Luthor: No. Because in the trial phase, it became clear that Non Nocere was irreparably flawed. I abandoned it.
- Lex Luthor: But then how could I have possibly used your creation to brainwash anybody if it didn't really work?
- Lena Luthor: I said it was flawed. Not that didn't work.
- 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.
- Jury Foreman: In the matter of National City v. Alexander Joseph Luthor, we the jury find the defendant not guilty on all counts.
- Otis Graves: [just as surprised as Lex] Wait, you actually won?
- 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.
- Andrea Rojas: Okay, enough of this farce. The trial may be over, but we are not. William, get out there and find me my next Lexposé. Back to work!
- Nia Nal: [running in] William! William, I am so sorry I didn't make it back to the courthouse.
- William Dey: It wouldn't have made a difference. I'm not sure any of this does anymore, really.
- Nia Nal: Of course it does. Look, Lex got acquitted, and there is nothing that we could have done about that. But when he tries something again tomorrow, that is something we can do something about. We can still make a difference. We just can't stop trying.
- Lex Luthor: I would like to congratulate the jury on coming to the right decision in spite of the clear prejudice in the media coverage of my trial. CatCo published a glorified hit piece painting me as guilty and then allowed the same biased journalist to single-handedly cover my trial.
- Lex Luthor: How does my narrative suit our beloved family name now?
- Lillian Luthor: Far better than your sister's.
- Lex Luthor: Hmm. From mass murderer to vindicated martyr in one fell swoop, and all I needed was me.
- [chuckling]
- Lex Luthor: I wasted so much time trying to buy, threaten, or brainwash people into doing what I wanted. But apparently, people love a guy who tells it like it is.
- Lillian Luthor: Hmm.
- Lex Luthor: The key is, if you can get them to buy it long enough, they stop being able to discern whether you're telling it like it really is or how you want them to believe it is.
- Silas: I'm sorry things were different than you expected and you couldn't save your friend. But just because you couldn't save her this time doesn't mean you won't.
- M'gann M'orzz: I think we all need to at least take a beat. It's been a rough day, but we will figure this out.
- Dreamer: [seeing a news report about Lex's acquittal] Guys, it's about to get a lot worse.
- Lillian Luthor: I admit I didn't expect your little performance to be so effective.
- Lex Luthor: You underestimated me even more than I did, Mother.
- Lillian Luthor: No one should have been able to Houdini themselves out of a situation like that.
- M'gann M'orzz: How are you guys doing?
- J'onn J'onnz: Brainy's still running analytics on the projector. It's slow going, but we're making progress on mapping the Phantom Zone.
- M'gann M'orzz: I wasn't talking about the job, I was talking about you.
- J'onn J'onnz: Oh. Right. I was just thinking how right you were, about methodical planning, without ego or emotion. If I hadn't been so reactive, rushing into a risky plan.
- M'gann M'orzz: Well, your plan would have worked if the Phantom Zone weren't fractured.
- J'onn J'onnz: Yeah, but if I had been more thorough, have Brainy map it before, we would've been prepared for that.
- M'gann M'orzz: Well, now we will be next time. But I know you're going through a lot. You can talk to me.
- J'onn J'onnz: But I almost lost you today... and Alex, everyone. I need to do what I must to get Kara back. Until then, I need to follow your advice. Stop thinking in terms of family and just be a soldier.
- Andrea Rojas: So much for not speaking about Lex publicly, huh? I owe you an apology. I was behaving selfishly earlier. You saved my life. I shouldn't have tried to use you.
- Lena Luthor: [accepting a bottle of wine] And I shouldn't have jumped down your throat. It was hypocritical. I'm intimately aware of how difficult it is to make amends.
- Andrea Rojas: Well, you did it in style, coming forward despite the difficulty. Honestly, I wish I was brave enough to confront my father like that.
- Lena Luthor: By giving him a platform to grandstand that backfires so disastrously that the D.A. ends up investigating you instead?
- Andrea Rojas: By using his own strategies against him. You pushed Lex right where you wanted him. No one could have expected the jury to sympathize. We'll keep going after Lex with everything CatCo's got.
- Lena Luthor: I will, too. And if the justice system doesn't stop him, then I will.
- Andrea Rojas: Well, I'll drink to that.
- Lex Luthor: Clearly I underestimated the value of just being myself.
- Otis Graves: [disappointed] No kablooey.
- Lex Luthor: Of course not, you idiot.
- Kelly Olsen: Figured you guys could use some lunch. So, how are things going here?
- Alex Danvers: I mean, with Silas' help and the nanobots to rebuild it, he can have Supergirl back by sundown.
- Silas: Whoa. By sundown?
- Alex Danvers: We should order in Dim Sum Delite's entire stock of potstickers because she's gonna be starving when she gets back.
- Silas: You're not listening to me. Sundown isn't possible. Next week might not be possible. The last time I built this portal, it took six months of testing to make sure I didn't burn to death when I stepped through it. It's just wonderful that you are all big, powerful superheroes, but I can't guarantee you won't burn to death, either. I already have not saving my husband on my conscience. I don't need your deaths, too.
- Prosecutor: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, for perhaps the first time in history, "crimes against humanity" carries literal weight. Lex Luthor stands accused of attempting to brainwash half of humanity into loving him and to murder the rest. And this, in addition to the actual murder and conspiracy charges. Any one of these should put him away for life. Through evidence provided by Eve Tessmacher, who was present for every terrible moment, we'll prove him guilty of every charge.
- Lex Luthor: [getting to his feet, simply] No, she won't.