Supergirl (TV Series)
Crime and Punishment (2019)
Jesse Rath: Querl Dox, Brainiac-5
Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Querl Dox : [preparing to delete the Alien Registry] What if my actions are discovered? And the powers that be retaliate by coming down even harder on aliens. Then again, if I don't delete it, Alien Affairs will immediately target my friends for deportation. And if I do delete it, well, then what's to stop the government from finding a new way to target them? Ah, sprock! There is a perfect 50/50 chance that what I am about to do is... absolutely wrong. Well... if there is no mathematical solution, then perhaps I should find a more... creative one.
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Querl Dox : Ben Lockwood is trying trap Supergirl. His next step will be obtaining the Alien Registry. We could delete it right now, avoid that possibility, but that could backfire and bring the government down twice as hard. The odds are a perfect 50/50.
Nia Nal : Well, what does your gut tell you?
Querl Dox : That decisions should be made based on facts and not intestinal inclinations. Now, please tell me, what do I do?
Nia Nal : Well, if you want my opinion, uh...
Querl Dox : No, I do not. I... I want you to literally tell me what I do. Dream the future of the Registry. Does it exist? Does it not? If you tell me that, then you tell me what I did so that I could do it.
Nia Nal : So, when I want to know about my descendants' superpowers, it's all "you'll destroy the fabric of space and time." But when you want to know the future, it's...
Querl Dox : There is no other way! I...
Nia Nal : Fine.
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Nia Nal : You don't destroy the Registry.
Querl Dox : That's ridiculous. Of course I-I have to destroy it.
Nia Nal : [snickering] Exactly.
Querl Dox : What?
Nia Nal : That's the answer. You have to destroy the Registry.
Querl Dox : But you just dreamt the opposite.
Nia Nal : I didn't dream anything. Sometimes hearing the wrong answer shows you what the right one is. Intestinal inclination. Not so bad, is it?
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Nia Nal : Brainy, I was wrong. You can't delete the Registry.
Querl Dox : Oh. Uh... I didn't.
Nia Nal : Thank god. Oh, I had a dream they came for you.
Querl Dox : I should clarify. I did, in fact, erase the list from the DEO servers, but seeing as how there may come a time when we need it, I downloaded a copy. To my brain.
Nia Nal : Why-why would you do that? Now you could be a target.
Querl Dox : Well, that's just the cost of being a hero.
Nia Nal : Oh, uh... Brainy, that's, um... that's actually very heroic.
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Nia Nal : You were right. I-I should've looked into the future like you'd asked.
Querl Dox : I have... evolved my views on this topic. The consequences of seeing the future under consideration, doing the right thing is an imperative. Besides, the odds of my arrest are actually quite low, seeing as how you're not very good at interpreting your dreams. I give it 40/60 at best.
[seeing Lockwood enter]
Querl Dox : Make that 60/40.
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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.
