Supergirl (TV Series)
Dark Side of the Moon (2018)
Melissa Benoist: Kara Danvers, Supergirl
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Quotes
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Mon-El : You okay?
Supergirl : Yeah. Just thinking how ironic this is. Donning disguises across the solar system seems to be my karma.
Mon-El : It's necessary for survival.
Supergirl : So is Kara Danvers. I just wish my day to day life didn't have to have a disguise. It's exhausting.
Mon-El : In the future, I just live in the open. All Legionnaires do. There's no secret identities, no disguises. 24/7, I'm just me, Mon-El from the Legion of Superheroes. And it's still exhausting.
Supergirl : What we do, the responsibilities we have... there's always a trade-off, isn't there?
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[first lines]
Mon-El : I always forget how beautiful it is this far out in space.
Supergirl : It's perfect. Out here, with just you, I don't have to pretend. I can just be me.
Mon-El : [the ship's instrumentation beeps] We're coming up on it.
[they revert to normal space, and see what looks like a domed city in front of them]
Supergirl : What is that?
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Mon-El : [their ship's systems go down] It's a tractor beam.
Supergirl : Everything's locked up.
Mon-El : Thrusters, roll, yaw and pitch. Nothing's responding.
Supergirl : What if we're not us?
Mon-El : What?
Supergirl : This ship can turn into other things.
Mon-El : Brainy's gonna be so mad he missed this.
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Alura Zor-El : Stand down, caretakers.
Kara Danvers : [stunned] Mom.
Alura Zor-El : Kara? Is that you?
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Supergirl : I remember this flower. This is a Dar-Essa. You kept one in my room when I was little.
Alura Zor-El : It was a gift from Grandmother for your first birthday.
Supergirl : Yeah, you used to measure it to see how tall it was. It was, um... wasn't it supposed to...
Alura Zor-El : Grow as you grew? Yes, I got it for you when you were so little, but you outsped the Dar-Essa. You grew so tall so fast.
Supergirl : I can't believe it survived the fall.
Alura Zor-El : It's strong, like you.
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Alura Zor-El : So, tell me about your life. I've missed so much.
Supergirl : Uh... okay. Uh... I was taken in by this amazing family. Jeremiah, Eliza, um, a sister, Alex.
Alura Zor-El : A sister?
Supergirl : And she's so much more than that. She's a friend. She's... she's amazing. Um... Fort Rozz crashed on Earth.
Alura Zor-El : Fort Rozz was my deepest shame. The prisoners, they all survived?
Supergirl : Astra survived. Non, too.
Alura Zor-El : I've thought of her so much. I should've listened to her, but the way she did things was so...
Supergirl : Wrong. Yeah.
Alura Zor-El : Yeah.
Supergirl : Her and Non tried to bring terror to Earth for a while, but she changed. Well, she was changing. Before she died. We gave her Kryptonian burial rites.
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Supergirl : Your point is well-made that Krypton is dead. But its legacy lives on. For good and ill. My own mother sentenced prisoners to Fort Rozz. Prisoners who broke free and took their anger out on Earth, many of whom we're still trying to apprehend. There are people on Earth who work every day to solve the mistakes of Krypton's past. People who are trying to make Earth fairer. Or just better. These people dedicate their lives to this work, and some have even given their lives to it. This planet, these... these people, they took me in. An alien immigrant from a world they knew nothing about. A world whose legacy threatened their way of life, and their safety, again and again and again. And now they deserve it in kind, because their very existence is threatened by this Worldkiller of Kryptonian making. My mother tells me Argo City has changed, that it has learned from the mistakes of Krypton's past. So I beg you. Give us the gift of Harun-El. We don't need very much. And this bit of charity, it will save Earth.
Jul-Us : Well said, Kara Zor-El. But my concern is for those of us you left behind. I'm afraid we cannot spare the Harun-El.
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Alura Zor-El : It's amazing that something so small and unremarkable could hold the key to so much survival.
[offering Kara a small box]
Alura Zor-El : For you.
Supergirl : The last time I left you, I thought I'd never see you again. I know better now.
Alura Zor-El : Now go save your friend. Earth is waiting for its hero.
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Supergirl : There's an entire city here. How did we miss this?
Mon-El : We're on our own.
Supergirl : And powerless.
Mon-El : Well, we expected that.
Supergirl : That's the only thing we've been right about.
Mon-El : [turning on a holographic map with his Legion ring] Looks like the Black Rock is about a mile into the city.
Supergirl : We better get moving before they find us.
Mon-El : [dodging incoming blaster bolts] Watch out!
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Kara Danvers : "And on Earth, the soul is lost in destruction. May their flames forever burn in Rao's light." It's a Kryptonian memorial.
Mon-El : This is Krypton.
Kara Danvers : [realizing] No. Argo.
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Kara Danvers : How are you alive?
Alura Zor-El : Your father created a shield to protect Argo when Krypton exploded. We would never have sent you away if we had known it'd work. I thought you were dead.
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Alura Zor-El : I don't understand. I-I saw your pod get knocked into the Phantom Zone.
Kara Danvers : I... I-I was stuck there for years, but somehow, my pod got loose, and I fell to Earth with Kal-El.
Alura Zor-El : Kal made it. He's... he's alive.
Kara Danvers : He got there first. If I had known... if I knew Argo was here, if I knew you were still alive, I never would have stopped searching for you.
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Alura Zor-El : If you didn't know I was alive, and you weren't searching for me, what brought you here?
Kara Danvers : Earth. Earth is in trouble. When Krypton exploded, the followers of Yuda Kal sent three pods after me, each with a Worldkiller.
Alura Zor-El : A Worldkiller?
Kara Danvers : I stopped two of them, but one remains. Reign. And she's terrorizing Earth. She's hurting people I love, murdering indiscriminately. And we think we found something that could stop her, and we followed its radiation signature here.
Alura Zor-El : [understanding] Harun-El. The Black Rock of Yuda Kal.
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Alura Zor-El : After the fallout, ashes and destruction poisoned the air. We had nothing to protect us as we hurtled through space. The young and the old were the first to become sick. They struggled in our new atmosphere, their lungs more vulnerable, more weak. But after the fallout passed, the shield kept our atmosphere more hospitable. It is what your father gave his life for. There was no more time. Argo was in constant darkness. We were running out of air. We were dying. Your father re-purposed his unfinished research to create a livable environment. He believed that the Harun-El could act as a shield for the city, and he was right. His legacy keeps our air breathable, and shields us from invaders. It keeps us hidden.
Mon-El : That's why we didn't detect you in our scans. Why there were no signs of life.
Kara Danvers : And why we can't get in touch with Earth. No signal can get out.
Alura Zor-El : Exactly. We mined all the Harun-El left. All of it is here. And every ounce of it means one more moment of life. Because of that, we have none to spare.
Kara Danvers : There's gotta be a way. We only need a little bit.
Alura Zor-El : It is not mine to give. But I will call a meeting with the High Council.
Kara Danvers : Thank you.
Alura Zor-El : It'll take a few hours to gather the members. In the meantime, I was hoping to get to know my daughter.
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Alura Zor-El : I feel as though I've let you down.
Supergirl : Mom...
Alura Zor-El : No, please. I... I shouldn't have accepted that you died. I had always taught you to hope. But I gave up.
Supergirl : I could say the same. I gave up hope. I thought you had died with Krypton.
Alura Zor-El : But here I am, and here you are.
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Alura Zor-El : On Argo, we learn from Krypton's mistakes. We look to our past for edification. My mistakes were the biggest of all. I sent so many to suffer at that prison without a second thought.
Supergirl : You just... you did what you thought was right.
Alura Zor-El : So did Astra. But I was wrong. It took losing you, losing everything, to learn that. Can you forgive me?
Supergirl : Of course I do. Of course.
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Alura Zor-El : As you may know, Zor-El and I came up with a plan to save Kara during the dark days before Krypton's destruction. We didn't know that Argo could survive, and so we put Kara, our only child, into a pod and we sent her to Earth. Its people took her in. They saved her. And in exchange, she serves the people of her adopted home. She's a hero that embodies our greatest ideals. But unfortunately, Kara was not the only Kryptonian to travel to Earth.
Supergirl : A Worldkiller followed.
Jul-Us : You must forgive our skepticism. You've been away a long time. Here on Argo, Worldkillers are the stuff of children's stories.
Supergirl : I, too, was hesitant to believe that such a thing could be real, but I faced it. She is real. And she calls herself Reign. I traveled here from across the stars because I could not defeat her myself. And Earth is in grave danger.
Selena : An unfortunate situation if true, but how can Argo be of help?
Jul-Us : Indeed. We are a recovering city. Still limping wounded from the trauma of destruction. We can't communicate outside our protective dome, let alone send troops or aid beyond its borders.
Supergirl : It isn't troops we need.
Selena : Then what is it you seek?
Supergirl : A gift. Of Harun-El.
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Jul-Us : You would have us give away our most precious resource, our only lifeline, to an alien species?
Supergirl : The people of Earth share our ideals. They're more like us than you realize.
Jul-Us : Or perhaps you've become more like them than you realize.
Alura Zor-El : With all due respect, Councilman, the danger currently facing Earth is of Kryptonian making.
Jul-Us : And I need not remind you, Alura, that Krypton is dead. Argo City is all that remains.
Alura Zor-El : And yet the sins of Krypton live on in this Worldkiller. Can you abide this as our legacy?
Jul-Us : This council does not concern itself with legacy, only survival.
Alura Zor-El : And what is the point of survival if there's no soul to save?
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Selena : Argo was spared the fate of the rest of Krypton. But what value is our civilization if we don't use our stolen time to right the sins of the past? We must set an example for future generations. Or else our survival means nothing.
Supergirl : Thank you.
Selena : May Rao's light shine upon you.
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Supergirl : Lena, we're here.
Lena Luthor : Did you get the rock?
[Mon-El holds up the bag containing the Harun-El]
Reign : [breaking free from her cell] Just in time.
