Supergirl (TV Series)

The Bottle Episode (2020)

Jesse Rath: Querl Dox, Brainiac-5

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Quotes 

• Alex Danvers : I know I'm gonna regret asking this question, but which of you is my Brainy?

  Querl Dox , Querl Dox : How can you seriously ask that?

• Querl Dox : My good man, I'm, uh, picking up a to-go order for Barney Fife. If anyone asks...

  Querl Dox : Halt.

  Querl Dox : Oh, my.

  Querl Dox : What? What is the meaning of this?

  Querl Dox : Meaning? I don't...

  Nia Nal : Who are you?

  Querl Dox : I'm Brainiac-5.

  Querl Dox : What? Liar!

  Querl Dox : You, sir, are the larcenist and pretender. How did you accomplish this ruse? Could it be an image inducer?

  Querl Dox : The question of pretending is to you, sir! What are you, huh? Martian, Durlan? Is your face made of clay?

  Querl Dox : Unhand me, you charlatan!

  Querl Dox : Okay, that's it. I'm taking you to the DEO for questioning.

  Querl Dox : Okay, that's rich. Guess what, I'm taking you into the DEO for questioning.

  Querl Dox : Oh, that's rich.

  [they struggle and, standing up, are handcuffed to each other] 

  Querl Dox , Querl Dox : Citizen's arrest!

• Querl Dox : I want you to know I'll be doubling my efforts to calibrate my emotions with my actions. Uh... to wit, your favorite breakfast smoothie. And, uh, despite every urge in my corporeal being, I ordered only two.

  Nia Nal : Thanks, Brainy.

• Kara Danvers : I know you lost your whole world, your friends, your home. I miss what I had too. I know what you're going through. How responsible you must feel.

  Brainiac 5 (Earth-TUD15 : You don't know anything!

  Querl Dox : But I know everything because I am you. I feel the darkness, too. You've made some bad choices, but they don't have to define you.

• Querl Dox : [re incident from his youth]  That anger terrified him. He feared that I, too, could hold such... darkness within me. That I could become my mother.

  [shakes his head] 

  Querl Dox : So he placed three... personality inhibitors on me. The same ones I wear to this very day.

  Supergirl : Your three dots.

  Querl Dox : When I wear them, I'm not fully calibrated with the Coluan network of minds, the... Big Brain.

  [shakes his head] 

  Querl Dox : If I hadn't been wearing them, that Bad Brainy...

  [exhales] 

  Querl Dox : wouldn't have been able to fool us.

  Supergirl : So you're afraid to take them off.

  Querl Dox : Because I might be worse. And Nia, she... she might not care for me.

  Supergirl : Brainy, you are good to your core.

  [shakes her head] 

  Supergirl : You will never be your mother.

  Querl Dox : How could you be sure?

  Supergirl : Because you're loved. And the people that love you will *always* fight for you.

  Querl Dox : Thank you, Kara.

  [wipes away a tear] 

  Querl Dox : Your ability to instill hope and comfort with your words is nothing short of magic.

• another Brainy : Oh, dear... Are those...?

  [points at the three Kryptonian witches] 

  Supergirl : *Don't* make any sudden movements. Those are the witches that created Reign.

  Querl Dox : And tried to terraform my entire planet.

  Al : Wait, wait. Those aren't your witches. They... come from my world. They came to National City as tourists, and never left. They run a little side hustle out of the bar.

  Dark Kryptonian : Come forth, my children. Have your fortune read.

  [Supergirl looks at her disdainfully] 

  Querl Dox : I prefer to avoid such unreliable forecasting mechanisms.

  Vita : [elbows the other charletan out of the way]  Crystal balls...

  [scoffs] 

  Vita : are no more real than fool's gold. Allow me... to read your... stones.

  Selena : Please, forgive my sisters. Palm reading is the fastest path to your fate.

  [going all out to sound enticing:] 

  Selena : Five dollars, ten minutes.

  Supergirl : [looks both sceptical and creeped out]  Hmm. No, thank you.

  Selena : Gmph. Suit yourself.

  [turns away] 

  Vita : Typical.

  Dark Kryptonian : No one on this Earth values our gifts.

  [walks away in disgust] 

  Querl Dox : Everyone in this bar came from an Earth that was destroyed.

  Supergirl : They're all orphans. That's terrible!

  [shakes her head] 

  another Brainy : No, Supergirl! The entire multiverse was destroyed... an accident of fate kept us and these people alive. This isn't a tragedy. You know, it's a miracle.

  Supergirl : Okay, we need to divide and conquer. And please try to blend in, because there is still a murderer out there, and both of you are still in danger. Okay?

  [the other multiverse Brainy acts all overtly nonchalant, but as they waltz away, both are clearly not the types to ever fit in anywhere]