Supergirl (TV Series)

Magical Thinking (2021)

Nicole Maines: Nia Nal, Dreamer

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• William Dey : [in the Tower]  This place is incredible. How do you fund an operation like this?

  Dreamer : Not easily. You would be amazed how much these suits cost to dry clean.

• Kara Danvers : William Dey is going to be embedded at the Tower, covering all of us for CatCo.

  Lena Luthor : A reporter? At the Tower? Are you sure that's such a good idea?

  Alex Danvers : We think that it would be good for the mission. We need the public support. Especially if things continue to spiral with Nxyly.

  J'onn J'onnz : But still, he'll have to work within our parameters. Which means keeping your identity and your connection to us off the record.

  Kelly Olsen : Well... good luck tomorrow.

  Nia Nal : You won't be at the Tower?

  Kelly Olsen : I have a home check with an alien orphan named Esme. I met her at Joey's group home. And she was placed with a foster family last week. Hopefully, she ends up with a family where she can really blossom.

  Alex Danvers : [Kara inexplicably starts laughing]  Why are you laughing?

  [she starts laughing more hysterically] 

  Alex Danvers : Like that?

  Kara Danvers : It's Nxyly. I can sense her and she's... she's really happy.

• Alex Danvers : We do have some ground rules.

  William Dey : I don't let my sources dictate what I write. I'm sorry.

  Supergirl : No, it's... it's nothing like that, William. We're never gonna ask you to lie. Only that you help us protect the people of National City by keeping private some things that may jeopardize our missions. Trust me, I believe in a free press more than you know.

  William Dey : Good to hear. So, how does this work?

  Alex Danvers : Well, you can't disclose the location of the Tower, and you can't ID the Super Friends or even try to learn their identities. Not even my sister Kara knows.

  J'onn J'onnz : If you do, I'll wipe your mind.

  Dreamer : [William chuckles, not sure if he's serious]  He'll do it.

  Alex Danvers : Yeah.

  Supergirl : Oh, and before you file any story, just run it by one of us, please.

• Kara Danvers : [surprised to see Alex and their friends in her loft]  What are you guys doing here?

  Alex Danvers : It's game night, remember? We thought that it would cheer you up.

  Kara Danvers : Oh, that's... guys, that's really sweet. I-I... I just figured with Nxyly still out there, we would cancel our plans.

  Kelly Olsen : We all need to relax and decompress. You most of all, Kara.

  Kara Danvers : Yeah, but there's still no sign of Nxyly and she already has one totem.

  Alex Danvers : Brainy is on the Legion ship and he's scanning for Nxyly's ship. So if she or Mitch pop up anywhere, we'll know.

  J'onn J'onnz : Besides, the mental tether you share with Nxyly could be a benefit to us.

  Kara Danvers : Yeah, but I... I can't read her mind. I-I can only sense her extreme emotions. And it's not like a light switch I can just turn on and off. I feel like I'm constantly just waiting for it to happen. I can't think of anything else. We have to find her.

  Lena Luthor : Well, I might have something that can help. My mother's book of spells.

  Kelly Olsen : Have you found anything useful?

  Lena Luthor : Not yet. I'm trying to figure out the underlying scientific logic, but I'm beginning to think magic is mainly just instinct and intuition.

  Nia Nal : Honestly, that sounds a lot like dream interpretation. Maybe I could help you try to sort some of that out?

  Lena Luthor : I'd really like that. Maybe we could start tomorrow.

• Supergirl : J'onn stayed back at the arena to get things under control.

  Dreamer : Sentinel and Guardian did, too.

  Lena Luthor : What happened, exactly?

  Supergirl : Nxyly got ahold of another totem and activated it like it was nothing. And then... and then she used it. And it turned people depraved. Not cold or unfeeling, but they're actually gleeful. They're taking joy in theft and violence and destruction.

  Lena Luthor : Humanity is everything we think of as compassion and empathy. Exactly the things that Nxyly drained from her victims.

  Dreamer : So the humanity totem is probably the one Nxyly got.

  Supergirl : There had to have been at least 10,000 people in the blast radius of the arena. But luckily, it seems to have only affected a couple hundred.

  Dreamer : Patching into the NCPD's CompStat technology, we can track real-time crime incidents represented by the blue dots.

  [seeing their looks] 

  Dreamer : Well, don't look so surprised. I'm smart, too. You guys are just showoffs.

• Supergirl : Nxyly is overwhelmed with feelings. It's almost like all of the humanity she took from her victims had to go somewhere, and now it's going into her.

  Lena Luthor : Wait, you said that Nxyly used the totem immediately. But that would mean that there's no gauntlet. And from all of our research, we know that there's always a gauntlet.

  Dreamer : That could mean that using the totem itself is the gauntlet.

  Supergirl : And we may be able to use that to our advantage.

  William Dey : How?

  Supergirl : By repeating Lena's mistake at the botanical gardens and taking more humanity away from the original people that were affected at the arena in the first place. And in the same way that National City is overrun by chaos right now, if we flood Nxyly with emotions, it might be too much for her to handle. And-and... and it might force her to restore everyone's humanity and get rid of the totem.

  Dreamer : It'd be sure to draw her out. We could capture the totems and Nxyly.

  Supergirl : We can end this today.

  Lena Luthor : Can't do it.

  Supergirl : What?

  Lena Luthor : I won't do it. It's wrong.

  Supergirl : Lena, people need help now. This... this is for the greater good.

  Lena Luthor : For the greater good? Do you hear yourself right now?

  Supergirl : That's not what I meant.

  Dreamer : Um...

  [leading him out to give them privacy] 

  Dreamer : William, have I shown you the kitchen yet? We have a new coffee machine that is literally out of this world. Brainy picked it up from Corvon-4...

• Lena Luthor : [swirling ingredients in a test tube]  Invenire res amissa.

  [the power goes out, then comes back on] 

  Lena Luthor : Was there just an energy spike?

  Dreamer : Let me check.

  [turning to leave, she bumps into a tray, knocking beakers to the floor] 

  Lena Luthor : Dreamer!

  Dreamer : Uh... I can't... I can't tell my lefts from my rights.

  Lena Luthor : Okay, I am so sorry. I will... I will fix this.

  Dreamer : I mean, it's kind of hilarious. Um... it's not permanent?

  Lena Luthor : No, no, no. It... I just must have miscalculated the ingredients. It should wear off in about an hour.

  Supergirl : [coming in]  Any luck with that spell?

  Dreamer : [turning to face a wall behind her]  Not yet. But...

  [realizing her error and turning back around] 

  Dreamer : Lena broke my brain.

• Supergirl : You find anything in your mom's book?

  Lena Luthor : Uh, yeah, there is this one spell. It's "finding which was lost." Which, if I understand my mother's writings correctly, uses the discharged energy of the humanity totem to track it.

  Dreamer : So, we find the totem, we find Nxyly.

  Supergirl : Like a homing beacon. Lena, this is great. Can you do it?

  Lena Luthor : It's... it's a bit advanced, but we've been readying the lab. And the air within 30 feet of where Nxyly used the totem would have been hyper-ionized. I just need a sample of the particles.

  Dreamer : I'm on it.

  Supergirl : See? Maybe you can find science in the magic after all.

• Lena Luthor : Hard to believe a small piece of wood from the bodhi tree can cause so much chaos.

  Supergirl : Well, now that Nxyly's back to her old self, she'll no doubt be on the hunt for another totem.

  J'onn J'onnz : And now that she's lost the humanity totem, she'll be angrier than ever.

  Alex Danvers : When William publishes his article, everyone in National City's gonna know about her and the totems.

  Dreamer : And that the Super Friends have evened the score.

  Supergirl : It's time we get a head start on Nxyly. Any ideas how?

  Lena Luthor : I still have some of those ionized particles left. They're still active. Each of the totems has the same energy signal, so we could use the particles to track another one. There's just enough left for one, though.

  Alex Danvers : Okay, so, which one do we go after?

  Dreamer : Well, there's the Dream totem. Sounds like something I might be able to help with.

• Dreamer : This job just gets weirder and weirder.