Supergirl (TV Series)

Schott Through the Heart (2018)

Mehcad Brooks: James Olsen

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• James Olsen : So, Imra's telepathic?

  Mon-El : Uh, no, it's kinetic. You know, she moves stuff, not reads minds.

  James Olsen : Ah. That's kind of a cool party trick. Can she move you?

  Mon-El : [amused laugh]  Yeah, she's, uh... she's pretty impressive.

  James Olsen : Well, she's gotta be. You never were into wallflowers.

• Mon-El : So, what about you? Huh?

  James Olsen : You know, same old. You know, work's work.

  Mon-El : You seein' anybody?

  James Olsen : No, not really.

  Mon-El : Why are you checking your phone every fifteen seconds, then?

  James Olsen : Fair point. Yeah, there's somebody. But we haven't, like, you know, really figured out what we're doing yet, so...

  Mon-El : You happy?

  James Olsen : Working on it.

  Mon-El : [raising his beer bottle]  To working on it.

• Winn Schott : [learning his father died]  Hey, I'm... I'm okay. It's-it's... it's okay. Just...

  James Olsen : Do you mind if I stay out here for a second with you?

  Winn Schott : Like, he's just gone, right? That-that's all. I mean, it's not like anything's gonna change. I never talked to him, I never saw him, I...

  James Olsen : That doesn't mean you never felt him.

  Winn Schott : What's that... I'm supposed to be feeling something, right? I don't feel... anything. I don't think. Um... just go inside.

  James Olsen : I'm not going back in.

• Supergirl : I hate to ask, but I have to.

  Winn Schott : He's dead, Kara.

  Supergirl : Are you sure?

  Winn Schott : He's dead! Look, I had the warden and two separate medical examiners sign off on the body. I had them cross-check his dental records and his fingerprints, just to be sure. The dude in the box was my father, okay?

  Supergirl : So why blow himself up at his own funeral?

  James Olsen : Maybe for the headline.

  Winn Schott : Yeah. "Toyman's last trick." Sounds about right.

  J'onn J'onzz : I still think we should run a full mass spectrometry on the explosive residue, Winn. It may tell us who's helping your father.

  Winn Schott : No one is helping him! Seriously, he was a crazy person. Crazy people do crazy things. Like, oh, I don't know, mass murder.

• James Olsen : Well, your mom's right. Somebody is definitely helping your dad out.

  Winn Schott : I just honestly just wish she would leave. Like, who the hell does she think she is, anyway, huh? Like, she doesn't just get to walk back into my life after twenty years. No, I did not get a say in her walking out. I definitely get a say in her walking back in.

  James Olsen : It's a fair point.

  Winn Schott : Yeah. You-you think that I should?

  [James shrugs] 

  Winn Schott : No! Dude, no. Don't... don't think that I should.

  James Olsen : Brother, it doesn't matter what I think. It matters what you need.

• Winn Schott : Even if, even *if*, my dad had threatened to kill me, she could have done a thousand other things. Gone to the police, the FBI. No. Instead, she decided to abandon me. And you know what? She has to deal with the consequences. I don't... you know, if-if she'd have stayed, then, maybe, you know, we could have had a... you know, a great relationship.

  James Olsen : Let-let me stop you right there. That is a dangerous thought exercise designed purely to just piss you off.

  [Winn continues to tinker in silence] 

  James Olsen : When my dad died, my mom did everything for me and my sister. She worked night and day, she busted her ass, and I still blamed her. Because she was the only one there. And that was rough. We got over it, though. You know, took a long time, and a lot of forgiveness, and me taking responsibiity for my part in that. You can't change what happened, but she's here now. It's up to you what you wanna do with that.

• James Olsen : Any luck on figuring out who's behind the Toyman attacks?

  Mary McGowan : No, but we've discovered a thousand ways how not to make a flying monkey.

  Winn Schott : And also a few ways to make better flying monkeys.

  Mary McGowan : Oh, the wiring on these is amateurish, at best.

  Winn Schott : Alas, we are no closer to finding out who actually built them.

• Jacqueline Nimball : I have your mother, but you can trade your life for hers. She's hanging around at the old Wiggins Game Company factory. But hurry, Junior, the pressure is on.

  Mary McGowan : Winn, don't come here.

  Supergirl : I'll go.

  Mon-El : Me, too.

  Winn Schott : Not without me.

  James Olsen : That's exactly what she wants.

  Winn Schott : I've spent my entire life trying to fight off the part of me that's like my dad, but now... now I can use it. Let's go.

• James Olsen : What is that?

  Mon-El : It's a plane.

  Winn Schott : No, it's not. It's a bomb!

• Winn Schott : [being chased by a toy car]  We got a thing on our twelve.

  James Olsen : That's our six.

  Winn Schott : I'm very stressed right now!

  [a small flamethrower mounted on top fires] 

  Winn Schott : Literal Hot Wheels!

• James Olsen : What the hell is that?

  Mary McGowan : It's a message. For me.

  [they see a skywriting message reading "Surrender, Mary"] 

  James Olsen : Is that a wicked witch?

  Supergirl : No. Is it flying monkeys?

• Supergirl : [the DEO is besieged by flying monkeys]  I'll take the big one, you take the little ones.

  James Olsen : I am so glad I don't work here.

• [last lines] 

  James Olsen : I've been trying to reach you for a couple of days now.

  Lena Luthor : I know. It's just, I didn't realize how massive the workload would be back at L-Corp. Sam and I have been swamped.

  James Olsen : You guys have been at work this entire time?

  Lena Luthor : Holed up in a conference rom, pulling all-nighters like it's a start-up. It's okay, though. The-the work's important. Just, time got away from us.

  James Olsen : I've been worried about you.

  Lena Luthor : [entering a containment suite, where Samantha lies in a hospital bed]  There's nothing to worry about. Everything's fine.