Supergirl (TV Series)

The Gauntlet (2021)

Peta Sergeant: Nxylgsptinz

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Quotes 

• Nxylgsptinz : What took you so long?

  Mitch : The shipment was delayed. But it arrived.

  Nxylgsptinz : It did? The courage totem is in National City.

  Mitch : Everything is in place. You'll enter the museum by this lab, undetected. There's a gap in their security when the shift change happens. That's your opening. Your target time is 12:52 p.m. on the dot. You'll have exactly eight minutes to steal it.

  Nxylgsptinz : Eight minutes? What an annoyingly small window. Do the people of Earth have to go through these... ridiculously elaborate plans every time they want something? Hmm?

  Mitch : [scoffing]  People.

  [indicating a blaster rifle nearby] 

  Mitch : You know, I could always use one of these bad boys and, uh...

  Nxylgsptinz : No! I need to do it quietly. The only chance Supergirl and her friends have of finding the totems is if I give the game away. But thanks to my Mxy-powered crystal ball, the courage totem is within my grasp. And once I have it, my revenge will be only a few totems away.

• Supergirl : Nxyly, hand the totem over.

  Nxylgsptinz : [chuckling in amusement]  No. This one's mine. Better luck next time.

  [seeing she's surrounded] 

  Nxylgsptinz : Cgrzyx.

  [the totem activates] 

  Bryxly : [a flash appears in her mind]  The rest of the troops are in the armory, sister.

  [Kara uses her heat vision to split the totem in half] 

  Nxylgsptinz : What have you done? Mitch, now!

  [as Kara speeds forward, Nxyly is teleported away] 

• Nxylgsptinz : [stealing the totem from its case, an alarm rings]  Mitch, you miscalculating moron.

• Nxylgsptinz : I don't understand. I know what this test is asking of me. In real life, I didn't have the courage to kill my father when he betrayed me. But this time, I did. So why didn't it work? Why force me to go through this horrid moment if I can't even have control of this bloody totem?

  Mitch : Well, maybe you killed the wrong guy. Maybe you... you-you should've killed your brother.

  Nxylgsptinz : What? How dare you.

  Mitch : I-I'm sorry. I just thought... but didn't you say he betrayed you, too?

  Nxylgsptinz : [remembering, her emotions stir]  He did... but I could never kill him.

  Mitch : Well, maybe that's the test. You know, killing the thing you hate is hard, but not nearly as hard as killing the thing you love the most.

• Nxylgsptinz : Cgyrzyx.

  Totem Oracle : [her half of the totem activates]  Face your past... face yourself... face the moment you lacked true courage.

  Bryxly : [in her mind, she finds herself in the Fifth Dimension]  The rest of the troops are in the armory, sister.

  Nxylgsptinz : [realizing where she is]  It's the day of the coup.

  Bryxly : They await our command.

  King Brpxz : Are you so sure about that?

  [the guards raise their staffs defensively] 

  King Brpxz : I don't think these traitors are in any condition to fight.

  [he snaps, and the guards fall to the ground unconscious] 

  King Brpxz : You... thought you could pull off a coup? You know what that makes me? Proud, son. You've got spine.

  [to Nxyly] 

  King Brpxz : But you... for a daughter to betray her father like this? It's unforgivable. Throw her in the dungeon.

  [Bryxly isn't sure what to do] 

  King Brpxz : Now, son.

  Nxylgsptinz : Father!

  [drawing a dagger, she stabs him] 

  Nxylgsptinz : I should have killed you when I had the chance.

  Totem Oracle : [her memory ends]  You have failed.

• Nxylgsptinz : I trusted you. And you betrayed me. You were my baby brother. There's nothing I wouldn't have done to protect you. I raised you. I wasn't just your sister. I was your most loyal friend. And this is how you repay me? You're going to just turn away from me? I would never have betrayed you. I would never have hurt you. I would never, ever have turned my back on you. Especially for him. I would've died for you. I did die. Right here. You destroyed everything. You destroyed me.

  Mitch : [her vision ends]  What? What-what happened?

  Nxylgsptinz : I broke down and told my brother how his betrayal destroyed me. I failed.

  Mitch : Must've been hard.

  Totem Oracle : [the totem shapeshifts into a red crystal]  You have performed admirably.

  Nxylgsptinz : That was it. The test. That was what they meant by courage. The courage to be vulnerable.

  Supergirl : [at the Tower, her half of the totem glows red]  Nxyly passed her test.

• Nxylgsptinz : Why does she not suffer? My gauntlet brought me nothing but unfiltered pain. Supergirl went through the same trials, and yet she's hopeful, happy. Why?

  Mitch : Perhaps you suffer most because you passed your test. She didn't.

  Nxylgsptinz : You're right. I won. My pain is the price of the power... and with it, I will find the rest of the totems.