Supergirl (TV Series)

Battles Lost and Won (2018)

Chris Wood: Mon-El

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• Brainiac-5 : Killing Pestilence saved the future from the Blight. Millions of people were spared. Including my... extremely distant relative. The evil one, who has created a plague to wipe out all AIs other than himself. In short, all AIs are in danger. And I can no longer stay there. The future needs heroes. The future needs leaders.

  Mon-El : The future has leaders.

  Brainiac-5 : The future needs you, Mon-El. To fight. And it needs Winn to take my place in the Legion and save the AIs.

  Winn Schott : Uh... what? No. Okay, rewind. First of all, you've told me hundreds, literally hundreds of times, that I am far below a twelfth-level intellect. And... and... how could I possibly be your replacement?

  [Brainiac places a thin plastic case on the table, which contains an aged piece of paper with the drawing Winn showed to Demos] 

  Winn Schott : How'd you get this? What... what is- what is this?

  Mon-El : That's from the National Archives.

  Brainiac-5 : You're right. And it's Winn's design.

  Winn Schott : The Nat... no. This... they... it... it didn't work! No, it didn't... it couldn't save Demos...

  Brainiac-5 : Regardless of what happened with your friend, this design is the foundation of some of the future's most groundbreaking technology. It has saved countless lives. And this, this dirty piece of paper, is an artifact, treasured centuries from now.

  [sliding the case to Winn] 

  Brainiac-5 : The future needs you.

  [to Mon-El] 

  Brainiac-5 : Both of you.

• Brainiac-5 : You're smiling. That is not good.

  Mon-El : No, actually, Brainy, smiling is, uh... it's a good thing.

  Brainiac-5 : Yes, I know what smiling indicates. But in your case, I ran a simulation, and there is a zero percent chance that you would be smiling after what Imra was supposed to have told you, so...

• Mon-El : Well, thank you for being here. I know the circumstances weren't what you were expecting. And I'm sorry.

  Imra Ardeen : Don't be. These things happen for a reason. It's important that we both have our closure. The distance has made me realize our marriage was never what it should have been. I mean, the fact that I didn't feel I could tell you about the Pestilence mission. The fact I lied to you... I'm sorry.

  Mon-El : Yeah, but we were still pretty good partners in the Legion, huh?

• Winn Schott : Hey, Brainy. J'onn said that you, uh, want to talk to me.

  Mon-El : Hey, sorry, Winn, just, uh... could you give us a moment? We're just talking about some Legion...

  Brainiac-5 : Oh, no. This involves Winn, as well.

  Winn Schott : [simultaneously with Mon-El]  It involves me?

  Mon-El : It involves him?

  Brainiac-5 : Oh, yes. The Legion needs the both of you.

• Mon-El : Well, you did it. Just like a Greek myth, you went down to the underworld, and slayed the three-headed monster and saved Persephone.

  Supergirl : Uh, I think in the myth, Persephone eats pomegranate seeds, and is confined to the realm of Hades forever.

  Mon-El : Yeah, well, that just strengthens my point, because the Greek gods have nothing on you.

  Supergirl : I couldn't have done it without you.

  Mon-El : No, that's not true. This, uh... this victory was yours. It was flawless.

• Mon-El : What's on your mind?

  Supergirl : Before we went to Argo, I... I just had this thought that I could be Kara Zor-El, ordinary citizen. That I would feel like I was home. But when we were fighting Reign and the witches, I had this moment, this realization that Argo City's not my home anymore. National City is. Earth is. And my mission is to protect it. I mean, my whole life is here.

  Mon-El : Yeah.

  Supergirl : Messy, complex. Balancing Kara and being a hero, that's... that's who I am.

• Mon-El : I have loved fighting by your side. Being there through all of it, the ups, the downs, the particularly tough days. You know, for a moment there, I thought that... that maybe this was my... my place. My time. But I learned some troubling things today, uh, about the future. I need to go back. I can't abandon the Legion. Or the world that I swore to protect, right when they need me most.

  Supergirl : I know you can't. You wouldn't be the man you are if you did. The man I admire so much.

  Mon-El : Well, I guess we've both got some saving to do.

  [he turns to leave, then stops] 

  Mon-El : And hey.

  [tossing her his Legion ring] 

  Mon-El : It's about time you had one of your own.

• J'onn J'onzz : Saturn Girl. Thank you for coming back when you did. The city would've been lost without you.

  Supergirl : How did you know to come back?

  Imra Ardeen : We got Mon-El's signal. The message from the, uh... the time beacon.

  Alura Zor-El : Mon-El said it broke on Argo.

  Mon-El : It did. Uh, the... the beacon must've had a... a fail-safe, to send a message even if it powered down.