- Alex Danvers: So, tomorrow Maggie and I are gonna go do the tasting for the wedding. Uh, three hours of hors d'oeuvres, and nothing but hors d'oeuvres. There's potsickers and oyster shooters, pigs in blankets. Did I mention the potstickers? Do you wanna...?
- Supergirl: Uh, if I'm not busy, sure.
- Alex Danvers: Well, we're all gonna meet at the bar beforehand, too, so if you want to...
- Supergirl: I'll try.
- Winn Schott: [watching her leave] I mean, I thought it was bad when she skipped pizza night, but skipping free apps? I mean, come on. These are, like, the beginning of the dark days.
- J'onn J'onzz: Hey, come on. Grief doesn't have a deadline.
- Winn Schott: Look, I know, but I mean she goes from being little miss sunshine to... well, Alex, basically.
- Alex Danvers: What? I'm not like that.
- J'onn J'onzz: Come on, Alex. Your unrelenting seriousness is one of your best qualities.
- Alex Danvers: I'm not like that. I'm not!
- Supergirl: I should have cuffed him.
- Alex Danvers: You knocked him a hundred yards into the roof that SUV. Not to mention saving my fiancée and I.
- Winn Schott: Yeah, and that truck was full of aluminum tubing, right? Which doesn't really seem like much until you use it to build an illegal nuclear centrifuge.
- J'onn J'onzz: This is a big win, Supergirl.
- Supergirl: It's not a win until they're behind bars. Let's get this guy.
- Winn Schott: Cool car chase. Very fast. Very furious.
- Supergirl: [without any trace of emotion] Any luck IDing the one that got away?
- Winn Schott: Oh, still running facial recognition. So far nothing.
- Morgan Edge: Little bit of business advice, Lena. Guilt is not a good business strategy.
- Lena Luthor: No?
- Morgan Edge: No.
- Lena Luthor: Neither is exploitation.
- James Olsen: I knew Ms. Grant was meant for great things, but National City's gonna miss her.
- Kara Danvers: Best press secretary since Robert Gibbs.
- James Olsen: Yeah, she makes Gibbs look like a hall monitor.
- Kara Danvers: Yeah. With Ms. Grant in D.C. and Snapper on sabbatical, it's going to be oddly congenial around here.
- Winn Schott: Hey, how much longer do we have to keep giving her space?
- Alex Danvers: I don't know how much more space I can give.
- J'onn J'onzz: As frustrating as this is...
- Alex Danvers: Beyond.
- J'onn J'onzz: ...we're not the ones who lost someone. I think patience is the least we can offer her.
- Alex Danvers: I have kept my distance, I have given you time to grieve without prodding, without making you talk about Mon-El.
- Kara Danvers: There's nothing to talk about.
- Alex Danvers: Without forcing you to go game nights or come to the bar.
- Kara Danvers: There was a burglary.
- Alex Danvers: There's always a burglary! But I have let it slide. Your pity party has gone on uninterrupted.
- Kara Danvers: My... my pity party?
- Alex Danvers: Who are you right now? Kara Danvers doesn't quit.
- Kara Danvers: She quits the things that aren't important.
- Alex Danvers: CatCo is important. You help people there.
- Kara Danvers: Not like Supergirl does.
- Alex Danvers: Kara Danvers...
- Kara Danvers: Kara Danvers sucks right now! Supergirl is great. Supergirl saved the world. So if I could choose to be her, why would I ever choose to be the sad girl whose boyfriend is gone? I don't like that girl, Alex.
- Alex Danvers: You've always been like a father to me, and, J'onn, I... I choose you to be my family. And I want, if you will, to have you walk me down the aisle.
- [he chokes up and tears start to well in his eyes]
- Alex Danvers: Stop. Don't cry. If you cry, I'm gonna cry, and then everybody here's gonna know that we actually can cry. So...
- J'onn J'onzz: Uh... Alex, it would... it would be my honor.
- Lena Luthor: [learning Edge plans to buy CatCo] I hate that sentient bottle of cheap cologne. Did you know?
- Kara Danvers: No. James was blindsided, too. He thinks it's his fault for getting in Edge's face.
- Lena Luthor: You don't spend that kind of money on a grudge.
- Kara Danvers: Cat had to put her shares in a blind trust when she became press secretary. But I did some digging; Edge has been quietly buying up shares until today, when he put a tender offer to the majority shareholders.
- Lena Luthor: Hey, no more free press.
- Kara Danvers: You've invested in his portfolio, though, so I figured if you could talk to him, you might be able to be persuasive.
- Lena Luthor: Edge doesn't respect any opinions that aren't his own, especially not a woman's.
- Kara Danvers: Lena, you helped Supergirl save the world. How hard could one stubborn sexist be?
- J'onn J'onzz: [one the phone] And just when exactly were you going to notify us that you had a Damaxmite warship in your possession? Alien artifacts are the DEO's purview. You can rest assured I will talk to the president, General Lane. And if anything happens as a result of your overreach, you mark my words, she'll have your stars.
- Winn Schott: Respect.
- J'onn J'onzz: Whilst I appreciate the nod of confidence, Agent Schott, do you have any words that might actually help me?
- Winn Schott: Words, no. Pictures, definitely.
- J'onn J'onzz: That's a high-pressure regulator. Aluminum rods were just a cover. That was his real target.
- Alex Danvers: What would DuBois need it for?
- Winn Schott: Well, he also stole a cloaking device from the Daxamite ship.
- J'onn J'onzz: And how exactly do those two things go together?
- Alex Danvers: With the regulator, he could stabilize the internal pressure of an F-18 or a B-52 to withstand the force emitted by a cloaking shield.
- Winn Schott: Wait. Able to retrofit it into a fully-cloaked aircraft. Our... our equipment would not be able to detect that. Not even Supergirl's x-ray vision could pick it up.
- Alex Danvers: He could drop a nuke from the sky and nobody in National City would even know he was overhead.
- Winn Schott: Until it was too late.
- Alex Danvers: You're not letting yourself feel anything. You're just bottling it up inside, and you are making bad decisions, and I am worried...
- Kara Danvers: If it were Maggie, what would you be doing? If the woman you are about to marry was gone forever, what would you be doing?
- Alex Danvers: I...
- Kara Danvers: You'd be at the bar, every night. You'd be a wreck at work. You'd be broken.
- Alex Danvers: I would. I would be. And it's okay if you are.
- Kara Danvers: I'm not. That's what humans do. And I'm better than that.
- Kara Danvers: Clark said it himself. The decision I made, he couldn't have made that sacrifice. But me, I couldn't have lived with myself if I hadn't. I will always make the decision I made. I am not a human. I tried to be, but I'm not. Kara Danvers was a mistake. So, uh, if you have an update about work, I'd love to hear it. Otherwise, uh...
- Alex Danvers: Bloodsport has the capability to cloak a nuke. We're thinking that he's gonna hit the statue unveiling at the waterfront. J'onn wants everyone there.
- Kara Danvers: I'll be there.
- Alex Danvers: [quietly] Yeah.
- [turning to leave, she stops at the door]
- Alex Danvers: Kara Danvers is my favorite person. She's saved me more times than Supergirl ever could, so just... think about that while you're trying to get rid of her.
- Supergirl: J'onn, can you locate DuBois telepathically?
- J'onn J'onzz: I'll try.
- [his eyes turn red as he searches]
- J'onn J'onzz: I can't sense DuBois' mind.
- Winn Schott: I don't get it. They're... cloaking device should not be able to cloak a missile.
- J'onn J'onzz: Then what just hit us and where did it come from?
- Supergirl: [looking out at the waterfront] The pressure regulator wasn't meant for high altitude. It was meant for low altitude. They're underwater.
- Lena Luthor: I spoke to Edge.
- Kara Danvers: Please tell me you convinced him not to buy CatCo.
- Lena Luthor: Well, you can't convince a bully like that of anything.
- Kara Danvers: So, what, CatCo's gone?
- Lena Luthor: No... I bought it.
- Kara Danvers: You're kidding. Are you kidding?
- Lena Luthor: Pretty badass, right? I'm just trying, in my own small way, to be more like Supergirl.
- Kara Danvers: [impressed] Lena!
- Lena Luthor: And I was hoping maybe you could break the story.
- Kara Danvers: Oh, um... I actually quit.
- Lena Luthor: Well, then un-quit. I can't do this without you. I literally know nothing about running a media empire.
- Lena Luthor, James Olsen: [when Morgan Edge takes credit for himself] Let's not forget about Supergirl.
- Lena Luthor: Literally none of the heavy lifting could have been done without her.
- Kara Danvers: What's wrong? Why'd you use the signal watch?
- James Olsen: You didn't get that article in.
- Kara Danvers: You... you beepered me for a deadline? That watch is for emergencies only.
- James Olsen: I know what the watch is for, but th... this feels like an emergency.
- James Olsen: I'm worried about you, Kara. A-at a certain point in time, I have to be your boss.
- Kara Danvers: No. Don't ever - *ever* - do that again.
- James Olsen: What, ask you to do your job?
- Kara Danvers: I am doing my job!
- James Olsen: No, Supergirl's doing her job. Kara Danvers has been completely off the radar.
- Kara Danvers: Oh, I'm sorry, James. I've... I've been a little busy, you know. The world's not gonna save itself.
- James Olsen: But you still have a life. Okay? You still have a job, as a reporter. And that life makes you you.
- Kara Danvers: No, what makes me me is Supergirl. That's who I am at my core. And... and you're one to talk, Guardian.
- James Olsen: Okay. Guardian means a lot to me. But so does James Olsen. And he runs CatCo, and that job's important.
- Kara Danvers: If I'm expected to put Supergirl on hold just to write this article for you, then maybe being a reporter isn't a good idea.
- James Olsen: What are... what are you saying?
- Kara Danvers: I'm saying I have important things to do, but not here at CatCo. Not as a reporter, not as Kara Danvers.
- James Olsen: Kara, don't do this.
- Kara Danvers: I quit.
- Morgan Edge: Lena. Twice in my office in as many days. People are going to start
- [sing-song]
- Morgan Edge: talking.
- Lena Luthor: Morgan, you have all of the charisma of a Michael Douglas movie from '90s.
- Morgan Edge: You didn't come all this way just to flatter me, did you?
- Morgan Edge: You know, you can take the Luthor logo off your name; people still aren't going to trust you. And that's a really easy sentiment to reinforce once I have CatCo's editorial under my control. People love to believe what they read.
- Lena Luthor: Using CatCo to defame your enemies and promote your own agenda. That's despicable.
- Morgan Edge: Oh, no. That's good business.
- Alex Danvers: You quit?
- Kara Danvers: James has been making the rounds.
- Alex Danvers: He's worried about you. I'm extremely worried about you. Since when do you quit?
- Kara Danvers: CatCo isn't the point for me anymore.
- Alex Danvers: You spent years working your way up to be a reporter.
- Kara Danvers: And it was a waste of time.
- Alex Danvers: I would love to see you tell Cat Grant that.
- Alex Danvers: I know it hurts right now.
- Kara Danvers: No! No! You don't know anything. You've never had to make a decision like this.
- Alex Danvers: Okay, then tells me what it feels like. Please, just let... let me help. Let me help you get over him.
- Kara Danvers: "Get over him"?
- Alex Danvers: That's...
- Kara Danvers: He didn't dump me. I sent him away. And for all I know, he's...
- Alex Danvers: What?
- Kara Danvers: Doesn't matter.
- J'onn J'onzz: You know, I rarely flew on Mars. It was for battle, not pleasure. When I first came to Earth, I spent hours up in the sky. It was the only place I could feel... empty.
- Supergirl: Well, that's not what I'm doing up here.
- J'onn J'onzz: Forgive me for saying, but you seem to be courting emptiness of late, and that's not you.
- Supergirl: I tried to be Kara Danvers for fifteen years, but I'm not supposed to be her. I'm not supposed to be human.
- J'onn J'onzz: But you have a human heart now. It aches, it scars, but it keeps on beating. If you try and cut it out, you will lose something essential.
- Supergirl: I can't help people if I'm broken.
- J'onn J'onzz: You are not broken. You're the strongest person I know. You saved me, remember? You taught me that my loss made me stronger. That was Kara Danvers, not Supergirl.
- Morgan Edge: You are gonna regret, so regret, the day you screwed me. I sure hope you enjoyed yourself, because now you have all of my attention.
- Lena Luthor: Oh, Edge, like every woman who's ever had all of your attention, I couldn't care less.
- Supergirl: The attack on the waterfront, I know it was you. To clear the way for your development. You're the only person who had anything to gain from it.
- Morgan Edge: Yeah, well, you can't prove anything.
- Supergirl: Not yet. But I see you, Edge. National City's my town. And now you've got all my attention.
- Maggie Sawyer: [seeing a news report about Supergirl saving the day again] She does know that the cops are occasionally capable of doing their jobs, right?
- Morgan Edge: You ready?
- Robert DuBois: We are. They'll literally never see it coming.
- Morgan Edge: That's the idea.
- Maggie Sawyer: Do you not want to marry me?
- Alex Danvers: Of course I do. Look, I... I want to be your wife. I... I want to have a dog, I want to have a house, all of it. I just... I just don't want a big wedding.
- Maggie Sawyer: Why?
- [Alex is reluctant to elaborate]
- Maggie Sawyer: Talk to me, please. You have to tell me what's going on.
- Alex Danvers: Because my dad won't be there. He can't come. He can't walk me down the aisle.
- Maggie Sawyer: You could have told me that.
- Alex Danvers: I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. I... you're already dealing with family issues that I can't imagine, so I just... I hoped that I would just... let it go.
- Maggie Sawyer: Look, I've had more practice at choosing my family because I've had to. And I think if you take a deep breath, you're gonna find your way out of this. You have so many people who love you. Just think how they can make our day good, and tell me how I can help.
- Alex Danvers: Okay. I can do that.
- Maggie Sawyer: Okay. I love you.
- Alex Danvers: You, too. Forever.