Supergirl (TV Series)

Crime and Punishment (2019)

Chyler Leigh: Alex Danvers

Quotes 

• Supergirl : Someone's in trouble. I have to go.

  Alex Danvers : Well, you heard the president, it isn't safe.

  Supergirl : If the government wants to stop me from helping people, let them try.

• Supergirl : I mean, people actually believe that I attacked the White House. They think I'm a terrorist. Years of helping people just wiped away with one lie.

  Alex Danvers : No, not one lie, it's lots of lies. And Ben Lockwood has been telling whoppers for months. He's just creating division. And then most of the country is just terrified and now they're looking for solutions to make any sense of it.

  Supergirl : Shouldn't the truth matter more?

  Lena Luthor : No, not when Lex is involved. He's an expert at perception. Consummate gaslighter. He can make you doubt things that you know are true.

• Lena Luthor : Listen, I really believe that the three of us working together is our best chance of vindicating you and catching him.

  Alex Danvers : Okay, so how did he do it? We know it wasn't Bizarro; I already checked.

  Supergirl : Uh, shapeshifter, hologram? Image inducer...

  Lena Luthor : No, that can't be right. The heat signatures don't match.

• Colonel Lauren Haley : Lockwood.

  Ben Lockwood : "Secretary Lockwood" now, of the Cabinet-level Department of Alien Affairs.

  Alex Danvers : Should be inmate 42053 of the National City prison.

  Ben Lockwood : [sarcastic]  So good to see you, too.

• Colonel Lauren Haley : Mr. Secretary, how can we help you?

  Ben Lockwood : I am here to requisition any alien technology or weapons that may assist in containing Supergirl. And then you'll summon Supergirl here.

  Alex Danvers : So you can ambush her?

  Ben Lockwood : So we can serve justice.

  Alex Danvers : Even if we could summon Supergirl, I would need a presidential order to comply with your request, as per paragraph four, subsection A of the DEO charter. Isn't that correct, Colonel?

  Colonel Lauren Haley : That is the protocol.

  Ben Lockwood : Okay, let me ask you a question. Are you absolutely certain that you want to waste my time?

  Colonel Lauren Haley : We may not know each other well, Mr. Lockwood, but I do things by the book, even for Secretaries.

• Colonel Lauren Haley : Alpha Team, to the armory, now.

  Alex Danvers : Colonel, why are you capitulating? We just got him to back off.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : If the president sent him, he'll be back with the order in no time.

  Alex Danvers : We both know that Supergirl is innocent.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : It's not our job to question, Director, which is why I need you to hand over the signal watch Supergirl gave you. If we are in possession of a way to summon Supergirl, we have to use it. Orders are orders.

  Alex Danvers : [reluctantly handing the watch over]  Press it twice, she gets the alert.

• Querl Dox : You told Colonel Haley to press the signal watch twice.

  Alex Danvers : Yes. You know the code. Push it once, she comes; push it twice, it's a trap, don't come.

  Querl Dox : Thus keeping her safe. Brilliant. Yet Supergirl isn't the only one at risk. Since Benjamin Lockwood has come for her today, there is a high probability that next week he'll come for the entire alien registry.

  Alex Danvers : Yeah.

  Querl Dox : After which he'll start rounding up aliens without discrimination, ergo I propose... we scrub the alien registry from our database.

  Alex Danvers : If that's what you think, and until I can get Haley to listen to reason, then we need to do whatever we can. But please, Agent Dox, be clandestine.

  Querl Dox : Of course.

  [a little too loudly, as she turns to leave] 

  Querl Dox : As you well know, no one is more clandestine than I. No one.

• Alex Danvers : Thank you for meeting me.

  Kelly Olsen : Any time. So, what's up?

  Alex Danvers : I wanted to get your advice on something, being a therapist. Uh... I'm sorry, I hope that's not weird that I asked.

  Kelly Olsen : I can make a one-time exception for a friend.

• Alex Danvers : My commanding officer and I both agree that we think that something suspicious is going on at the Department of Alien Affairs, and I am trying to tell her that we can't just follow their every order, but she insists on the chain of command. And I don't know how to reach her.

  Kelly Olsen : Well, uh... can I take a stab?

  Alex Danvers : Please.

  Kelly Olsen : You need to stop getting angry and get smart. Okay, now I had a real jerk of a C.O. We were stationed at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Bashur. And one day, a man pulled up in this decrepit pickup, his pregnant wife in the back, and he's just trying to get to the only midwife in the region. Just a half mile across town. And the C.O. doesn't care. Rules are rules and he doesn't have the right papers.

  Alex Danvers : So what did you do?

  Kelly Olsen : I yelled and screamed about doing the right thing and got nowhere. But my sergeant convinced the C.O. that it would be safer for his unit not to risk the life of the man's wife and child. He knew what the C.O. cared most about; his men. You can't change people. But you can appeal to who they are. Even the toughest C.O.s care about something.

  [silence, as Alex mulls things over] 

  Kelly Olsen : Let me guess, right now you're wishing that you never called me.

  Alex Danvers : Actually, it's quite the opposite. I'm really glad you didn't leave.

• Alex Danvers : You've spent your life in service. Everything you do is-is for the good of our country. You see that as a moral imperative. But some orders are immoral. And following them does not make you a good soldier, it makes you complicit.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : That is enough, Director Danvers.

  Alex Danvers : Ben Lockwood wants to ambush Supergirl. He wants to execute her. While you and I both know that she's been falsely accused. Look, I know that it's risky to defy orders, but you have much more to consider than just yourself here. What about your daughter?

  Colonel Lauren Haley : You leave my daughter out of this. In all my months here, I've revealed to you exactly one piece of personal information. One piece... and now you wanna use that as leverage against me?

  Alex Danvers : Colonel...

  Colonel Lauren Haley : Not to mention lying about the signal watch. Yes, I know more than you think. One click, she comes. Two clicks, she stays away. You're pushing your luck here, Danvers, and one day you're going to push it too far. Dismissed.

• Alex Danvers : You pressed twice.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : I didn't do it for you. My daughter had a panic attack last night. She is scared of martial law and the curfew, and the fact that her favorite teacher has gone missing. He's an alien. And presumably in hiding. But I can't promise her that, can I?

  Alex Danvers : No, you can't.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : I don't like being manipulated by you, or that power-hungry snake.

  Alex Danvers : Well, you made the right choice.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : I prided myself on my loyalty to this country. What I wanted didn't matter; it was about serving the greater good. Now I-I wonder about the few; the ones left behind. Will my daughter be one of them? She is looking to me for help and moral guidance, but how can I protect her if I'm party to this?

• Alex Danvers : [watching the news about Stryker's]  Attempt to free prisoners? That's ridiculous.

  Lena Luthor : It's always a joy to see the new and creative ways people find to hate the good guys.

  Supergirl : That prisoner, Steve, he wasn't wrong. I did make things worse. How many prisoners almost died today because of me? I put you in jeopardy at the prison. And you were in jeopardy at the DEO. It's clear I am doing more harm than good right now. So I think it's time Supergirl lay low. There are other ways to get to the truth.