Supergirl (TV Series)

Crime and Punishment (2019)

April Parker Jones: Colonel Lauren Haley

Quotes 

• 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 : The root server containing the Alien Registry is located in a vault on sub-level five. Authorized personnel have to pass through a series of security checks. First, a voiceprint identification. Thankfully, Colonel Haley is good at talking, and I am good at recording.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : [imitating her voice]  Colonel Haley.

  Querl Dox : Next, a retinal scan. I can scramble the pattern of the retina in my image inducer to confuse the gateway computer. Then the most challenging step. The guarded elevator. From studying Ethan Hunt, master of the impossible mission, the obvious answer to bypass the guards would be subterfuge.

  [pretending to talk to Haley on his phone] 

  Querl Dox : Yes, Colonel Haley, I'm hurrying there as we speak.

  [to the guards as he passes] 

  Querl Dox : Colonel Haley, she's very impatient. Need something. Sub-level five.

• 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.

• Ben Lockwood : [unloading a weapon at the DEO]  Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. See if this won't work on Supergirl. Good.

  [handing it off] 

  Ben Lockwood : Don't be shy, gentlemen. This is the good stuff. Nobody fires without my direct order. And if she's smart, she'll come quietly.

  [to Haley] 

  Ben Lockwood : Okay. Summon Supergirl.

  [she presses the signal watch twice] 

  Ben Lockwood : So, h-how long is this supposed to take?

  Querl Dox : Normally less than a minute. But it would appear as though she's gone dark.

  Ben Lockwood : Okay. What did you do?

  Colonel Lauren Haley : I followed your orders.

  Ben Lockwood : [restraining his irritation]  Let's pack it up!

  [his agents begin packing up] 

  Ben Lockwood : Come on, pack it up. All of it. We'll just be taking the weapons with us.

• 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?