Supergirl (TV Series)

In Plain Sight (2019)

Katie McGrath: Lena Luthor

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• Eve Teschmacher : I believe I've isolated the problem, Ms. Luthor. Lex's journals helped us build the inception tuner to implement thoughts into the brain, but the specific Q-wave frequency is incorrect. Unfortunately, that leaves us with hundreds of thousands of variables.

  Lena Luthor : Well, I may have an expedited solution, Hope. Alex has just asked me to assist the DEO in apprehending a rogue Green Martian.

  Eve Teschmacher : The brother of J'onn J'onzz?

  Lena Luthor : Yes. Apparently, he has the ability to override another person's thoughts with his own.

  Eve Teschmacher : Mind control. Using Q-waves.

  Lena Luthor : If we were able to harness Malefic's abilities, we could use them to determine what frequency is needed to implant thoughts into the brain.

  Eve Teschmacher : The study and testing would require us to detain the subject. I doubt Supergirl or her friends would approve.

  Lena Luthor : No. I don't think they would.

• Querl Dox : Sprock. I seem to have made the beam more dense instead of less. Let's go again.

  J'onn J'onzz : Just give me a minute.

  Lena Luthor : Okay, J'onn, you can't keep putting yourself through this punishment.

  J'onn J'onzz : I'm fine.

  Lena Luthor : No. You're not, you can barely stand. And we need you at full strength for when we find your brother.

  J'onn J'onzz : I told you, I...

  Lena Luthor : I will help Brainy, so Alex doesn't have to use the blaster. Now go clear your head.

• Lena Luthor : Look, Brainy, I know you haven't asked for help, but you're getting it anyway.

  Querl Dox : No. I need my mind consumed with this problem so I don't think of Nia.

  Lena Luthor : What happened to your little boxes?

  Querl Dox : Little boxes prevented me from having a real relationship. Unfortunately, my unboxed self does not make a particularly good boyfriend. So I have been analyzing myself for days, searching for a way to modulate myself for the woman I love.

  Lena Luthor : Well, I'm not gonna give you relationship advice. But as a scientist, you seem to be stuck in an infinite loop, and unless you can escape, you're headed for a crash.

  Querl Dox : That would be cataclysmic.

  Lena Luthor : So change a variable. What's the one thing you haven't tried yet? Asking for help?

  Querl Dox : Will you he...

  [getting tongue-tied, he clears his throat and coughs] 

  Querl Dox : Will you help... me?

  Lena Luthor : Yes. And I think a small dose of that would go a long way with Nia.

• Querl Dox : I want to remind you again, this is liable to be quite painful. Until we calibrate the Phantom Zone projector to lock onto a Martian energy signature, regardless of the Martian's density, so they can't phase through it.

  J'onn J'onzz : I'm ready when you are.

  Querl Dox : Commence phasing at 25%.

  [as Brainy turns it on, J'onn groans in pain] 

  Querl Dox : [putting it down]  Sprock, sprock, sprock.

  J'onn J'onzz : I'm okay. I'm okay.

  Lena Luthor : What went wrong?

  Querl Dox : It was too much. Too much, too much.

  Lena Luthor : I'm almost done reinforcing the psychic inhibitors, so I can help you, if you want it.

  Alex Danvers : [entering]  I heard the scream. What happened?

  Querl Dox : [muttering as he works]  How, how...

  Alex Danvers : Brainy?

  Querl Dox : Yeah, I'm... I'll figure it out, all right? I'll f... figure it all out.

  Alex Danvers : I'm sorry, J'onn, we need all of our options on the table. I'm prepping the blaster.

• J'onn J'onzz : Where are we with the Phantom Zone projector and psychic inhibitors?

  Lena Luthor : Reconfigured and recalibrated.

  Agent Sloan : Supergirl, the Verdex Blaster is missing, and the armory's cleared out of anti-Martian artillery. It's all gone.

  Supergirl : We have to find Alex now.

  J'onn J'onzz : There is a way. I could try and find her psychically.

  Querl Dox : Malefic's mind is poisonous to all Green Martians. Melding with Alex's incepted mind would allow Malefic into yours. It could hurt you.

  J'onn J'onzz : All that matters is finding Alex.

• Malefic J'onzz : Where am I? This is not the Phantom Zone.

  Lena Luthor : By now you've realized you can't phase through these walls. But don't think of this as a prison. I'm not your enemy. In fact, I think we can help each other.

• Supergirl : We couldn't have done it without you.

  Lena Luthor : Please, I barely did anything.

  Supergirl : What? You fixed the inhibitors and the projector.

  Lena Luthor : It did feel good. You and me working together as a team. Now that I know who you actually are.

  Supergirl : Well, get used to it, because you are now officially a superfriend. We have T-shirts and a handshake, I'll teach it to you. It's not a big deal. It's a whole thing. We're going out to get drinks tonight; do you wanna come?

  Lena Luthor : Oh, I would love to, but I have been here all day, so I really should get back to L-Corp.

  Supergirl : Of course. No rest for the world-saving genius.