Supergirl (TV Series)

The Fanatical (2018)

Katie McGrath: Lena Luthor

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Quotes 

• James Olsen : You know how old I was the first time cops put cuffs on me? Seven. I was seven years old. My family and I were taking a vacation. And we were staying at this nice hotel, and, uh, my cousins and I, we decided to go out on the grounds and play hide and go seek. One minute, I'm-I'm trying my damndest not to be found, and in the next, I'm shielding my eyes from police lights. And these four huge cops, they came and they pulled us out of our hiding places. And-and the whole time we're saying "Wait, what are you doing? We're-we're-we're... we're staying here." But none of them believed that we were supposed to be there. None of them believed that we belonged. So my oldest cousin must have been about eleven, and I was... I was the smallest. But they slapped cuffs on all of us anyway, and my arms were so little they had to put 'em around my forearms. And then they marched us into the hotel lobby like a bunch of criminals. And my mom was there. And then they believed us. She kept yelling "Get those cuffs off my boys."

  [choking up] 

  James Olsen : "Those cuffs."

  Lena Luthor : James, that's horrible.

  James Olsen : Yeah. Racism is the oldest form of bullying.

  Lena Luthor : I'm so sorry that happened to you.

  James Olsen : But when I became Guardian, I put that mask on... it-it was strangely liberating. But it was the first time in my life that I had the opportunity to be judged on my actions and my heart, not how I look.

  Lena Luthor : You shouldn't have to wear a mask to be seen as how you really are, James. Just... it shouldn't be that way.

  James Olsen : But it is. And it's like that for every seven year old boy who looks like me, but it's not gonna be like that if I have something to do with it.

  Lena Luthor : You will effect change. You already are. Are you sure you wanna come out in the open?

  James Olsen : I don't think anybody likes to be backed into a corner, especially not me. And I don't know how people are gonna react when they realize that their neighborhood vigilante is black. But there's just too much at stake for me not to.

• Mon-El : What was that?

  Lena Luthor : It's a refractive scatter field. She can't see us now.

  Winn Schott : Well, even... even with the x-ray vision?

  Supergirl : [trying her x-ray vision, she winces and groans in pain]  Yeah. Even with x-ray vision.

  Lena Luthor : The wavelength interference of the force field hurts any Kryptonian that looks at it, and the shock seems to keep her in check.

• Supergirl : Have you started?

  Lena Luthor : No. The rock you brought us was drained of all its power.

  Winn Schott : Yeah, it all went to Olivia's transformation.

  J'onn J'onzz : How come the two of you don't seem too devastated by that news?

  Winn Schott : Because Ms. Luthor and I very intelligently recorded the radiation signature of the sacred stone during the cult's ritual. And with a little scan of the heavens, the heavens obliged.

  [showing them a computer monitor] 

  Winn Schott : Now, it is very rare, but the exact same rock is hurtling through space on a meteorite about five light-years away.

  Supergirl : J'onn, can your ship make it that far?

  J'onn J'onzz : Tuned up the FTL drive a couple of weeks ago. I could go with you.

  Supergirl : No, no, you have to stay with your father.

  Mon-El : I'll go. The Yuda Kal rock seems to have some kind of effect on Supergirl, but I can handle it fine.

• [first lines] 

  Lena Luthor : It's a biolistic delivery system. It's usually used for overwriting genes in crops, but... Reign's cells are closer to plant cells than you'd think.

  Supergirl : Part of how Kryptonians process sunlight. How does it work?

  Lena Luthor : You take particles of heavy metal, coat them in DNA, deliver the payload, and then overwrite Reign's DNA with Sam's.

  [a needle injects something into Reign] 

  Lena Luthor : Plasmid inserted.

  [the test fails] 

  Lena Luthor : I thought this would work. I just need the right vectors with the right metal. I just need more time.

  Reign : Yes. Give Lena more time. She doesn't have much left. Because when I'm free, I'm gonna rip out her spine. And when that's done, I'm gonna crack this planet in half, and you'll hear every scream...

• Supergirl : Lena, I thought we talked about this. You said if you developed any weapons that could hurt Kryptonians, you would put them on my radar.

  Lena Luthor : This isn't a weapon.

  Supergirl : It might as well be.

  Lena Luthor : I told you about Kryptonite. And I will tell you if I make it again, 'cause I agreed to that. But with regards to other things I work on, this may come as a shock to you, but I don't think about you while I'm doing it.

• Supergirl : I don't like this tension between us, Lena. And I know it's my fault. I know James told you what I asked him to do, and... look, I feel terrible about it. I made a huge mistake, and I'm sorry.

  Lena Luthor : Well, it's easy to admit your mistake when you've been exposed.

  Supergirl : That's fair. I just don't want one mistake to ruin our friendship, that's all.

  Lena Luthor : It won't.

  Supergirl : Good.

  Lena Luthor : We don't have a friendship, Supergirl. All this time we've been working together, it's been about work. We have a mission to complete. And I am not about to let any tension between you and I get in the way of that. Are you?

  Supergirl : Of course not. I-I just hope, um, when we solve this, we can work to rebuild our trust.

  Lena Luthor : Why is it so important to you that we're friends? I have friends, Supergirl. Friends that don't scheme behind my back or lie. Given my family history, they know how painful that would be. They also know I would never enter into a friendship with anyone who's already breached that trust.

  Supergirl : Understood.

• Lena Luthor : I just finished analyzing that residue that you found. What killed the girl wasn't a bomb at all. It was caused by a heavy metal reaction.

  Winn Schott : A heavy metal not found on Earth.

  Supergirl : I... I've seen this before.

  [flipping through Coville's journal] 

  Supergirl : Here. The Rock of Yuda Kal. He says he found a statue of her in Addis Ababa made of Kryptonian stone.

  Mon-El : Yuda Kal, isn't that the Kryptonian goddess of life?

  Lena Luthor : I don't know anything about a goddess, but this is the exact inverse of what I need to cure Sam.

  Supergirl : We were wrong. They weren't using the rock to make a bomb, they're making a new Worldkiller.

  Lena Luthor : Well, if the Rock of Yuda Kal can be used to make a Worldkiller, we could just reverse the process and use it to unmake one. We could turn Reign back into Sam permanently.

  Supergirl : We can cure her.

• Lena Luthor : James, if you're doing this, I'm coming with you. I wanna stand beside you.

  James Olsen : I really appreciate that. But you should continue working. Sam's life depends on it, right?

• Lena Luthor : I know this is scary, but maybe it's a good thing, you know, you coming out.

  James Olsen : It's a little more complicated than that.

  Lena Luthor : Why?

  James Olsen : [leading her into an empty room]  For one, I'm a black man.

  Lena Luthor : But everyone knows that Guardian's a hero.

  James Olsen : Yeah, but not everyone knows that Guardian is black.

• James Olsen : Should've never let Tanya go.

  Lena Luthor : Wait. Wait, wait. If they use the rock, then it will give off an energy signal.

  Winn Schott : Which we can scan for.

  James Olsen : Wouldn't that get us there after they've already made a Worldkiller?

  Supergirl : Don't worry. There's a reason we sent Mon-El with her. He's smart, tactical, he's a Legionnaire. If anyone can find us a signal, it's him.

• Winn Schott : [seeing Reign free from her restraints]  She's out of bed. She-she broke the chains.

  Supergirl : How'd she do that? The kryptonite's supposed to keep her weak.

  Lena Luthor : Her-her body's adapting, like Pestilence to the anti-virus. She's becoming immune.

  J'onn J'onzz : How long 'till you won't be able to keep her contained?

  Lena Luthor : I don't know. A couple of days.

  Mon-El : Then we better get a move-on.