Supergirl (TV Series)

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2019)

Katie McGrath: Lena Luthor

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• Lena Luthor : I haven't been able to separate the drug's more curative properties from its... extra-normal ones.

  Lex Luthor : Super powers. Sounds less silly the more you say it. Try it.

  Lena Luthor : Its super powers is what makes this drug so lethal. Okay? The powers need to be isolated and dosed out. And you have more experience working with Kryptonite, in all of its forms, than anyone else. So, please help me.

  Lex Luthor : You trust me?

  Lena Luthor : Would you trust me if I did? But I need you, and that's enough.

  Lex Luthor : Lex and Lena Luthor, teaming up to save Superman's best pal. What would Mother think?

• Lex Luthor : They call this a mercy furlough.

  Lena Luthor : Thank you, officer. That'll be all.

  Lex Luthor : They never let me out of their sight. As if I'd run away like a dog set loose from his leash.

  Lena Luthor : Well, you would.

  Lex Luthor : Of course I would. But I can't. I'm numb top to bottom. My guts are in knots, there's blood in my...

  Lena Luthor : Okay, that's enough.

• Lex Luthor : I'm dying.

  Lena Luthor : I know.

  Lex Luthor : That's it? You know?

  Lena Luthor : Well, you've only mentioned it at the start and the end of every phone call for the last six weeks.

• Lex Luthor : I'm not used to needing help. It's weak, pathetic. I'm pathetic.

  Lena Luthor : Your white blood cell count has stabilized. You're not gonna die today.

  Lex Luthor : I won't die tomorrow either if you finish the Harun-El serum.

  Lena Luthor : I'm not risking human lives on an experimental untested drug.

• Alex Danvers : Lena, I'm so sorry this is happening, but you and I both know the limitations of modern medicine. I mean, even best case scenario would leave James paralyzed. Your serum could heal him entirely.

  Lena Luthor : Or it can kill him. I can't summon a breakthrough through sheer force of will.

  Alex Danvers : Then how is that every time I've seen you work under pressure, you have done exactly that? Lena, you have all of L-Corp and you have the DEO at your disposal. I mean, there must be some resource that you're not utilizing.

  Lena Luthor : [getting an idea, but covering]  Keep me updated.

• Lex Luthor : Miss Tessmacher!

  Lena Luthor : [Eve enters, holding a gun on her]  Eve!

  Eve Teschmacher : Sorry, not sorry.

  Lena Luthor : How long?

  Eve Teschmacher : Forever. It's nothing personal.

• Lex Luthor : "Against other things, it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death, we human beings all live in an unwalled city." Do you know who said that?

  Lena Luthor : Please, Lex, you don't have to do this.

  Lex Luthor : I'm doing this for us, for the entire human race. Listen down below. They're already cheering. And it was Epicurus, by the way. An aphorism 230 years old, and yet still as apt as ever.

  Lena Luthor : You sound like a freshman philosophy major, and you're gonna kill millions of people. The world can't live under a red sun.

  Lex Luthor : Neither can Superman. You see, sis, we as a people have become soft and fat, and stupid.

  [calls are made on a loudspeaker for him to surrender; he taps his watch, and an explosion is heard] 

  Lex Luthor : Where was I?

  Lena Luthor : My god, Lex, you killed them.

  Lex Luthor : Oh, that's right. Uh, we must put faith in ourselves, but instead, we look up to him, with big, glassy eyes because we think he's invincible. But it's my duty to dispel the world of that notion. And when he dies, they will finally wake up and see him for what he really was, a false god.

  Lena Luthor : At least he's a good man.

  Lex Luthor : HE IS NOT A MAN! I was the man of tomorrow, not him! Not him!

  Lena Luthor : So it's all ego, then?

  Lex Luthor : [surrendering as armed soldiers enter]  No, it's science. I want to see if the Kryptonian pretender can bleed. Even gods can die. You'll see. Everyone will see. And then, they're gonna thank me.

• Lex Luthor : What was the point of pulling strings to get you DEO resources if not to test your drugs on humans?

  Lena Luthor : I didn't ask for that. And if Colonel Haley knew you were behind it...

  Lex Luthor : She doesn't. No one does.

  Lena Luthor : Except the person whose strings you're pulling.

  Lex Luthor : But now I wonder if you didn't wanna just pull up a front row seat to watch me wither away and die.

  Lena Luthor : I'm not the one who accidentally poisoned myself with kryptonite in a quixotic attempt to kill an invincible man. And while I do find the irony that you now need black kryptonite to cure yourself just delicious, you are my brother, Lex. I do want to save you. Besides, how can you pay your debt to society if you're already dead?

• Lex Luthor : Did I ever tell you about my dog, Ignatius? Before you joined our family, he was my closest companion. And when I was seven, he had to be put down.

  Lena Luthor : If you're gonna continue to compare James to your dying dog, I'm not sure I'm gonna be amenable to your point.

  Lex Luthor : I wanted to be there for the procedure. But Mother insisted that I go on a business trip with Father. She thought I was being too sentimental.

  Lena Luthor : That's our mom.

  Lex Luthor : That's my mom. A trip with Father, that sounds like something that ordinarily would've pleased me. But on this particular trip, he brought a woman with him, and insisted that she go everywhere with us.

  [coughing] 

  Lex Luthor : So, here I was, seven years old, dog dying, Father ignoring me.

  Lena Luthor : Is there a point to this story?

  Lex Luthor : At first, I swore to loathe this woman. How dare she take my father from me at the moment I needed him most? But I couldn't keep my promise. Because she was wonderful. She was so kind to me. On the day they put Ignatius down, she embraced me, and sang me this beautiful Irish song. By the end of the trip, I wished that she was my mother.

  Lena Luthor : But she wasn't your mother.

  Lex Luthor : She was yours. I want you to know with certainty that while I came from poison, you came from love. And if the rest of this family stands steadily in darkness, you will always fall into the light. I knew that from the moment I met her.

• Lena Luthor : A stroke, huh? You wanted to see me in person that badly?

  Lex Luthor : What can I say, sis? I missed you.

• Lex Luthor : [looking at a portrait of Lillian]  Have you ever noticed that her eyes seem to follow you everywhere?

  Lena Luthor : Lex... Lex, it's worse than I thought. If we don't help him, James is gonna die.

  Lex Luthor : Why do you even care about Jimmy? I thought you two broke up, and good riddance.

  Lena Luthor : I pushed James away because if he found out about us working together, it would destroy our relationship.

  Lex Luthor : And-and now you're asking me to work with you to save him? You were right, the irony is delicious.

• Lex Luthor : It really is a remarkable substance.

  Lena Luthor : It started with mice.

  Lex Luthor : Sure, a supraprimate. It's like you're running a lab out of a Wikipedia handbook. No wonder you're so behind schedule.

  Lena Luthor : Are you going to taunt and provoke me the entire time?

  Lex Luthor : This is how we've worked together ever since we were kids. You propose a theory, I tell you how wrong you are, and it drives you to be better.

  Lena Luthor : And you call that working together?

• Lex Luthor : You're...

  [coughing] 

  Lex Luthor : You're brilliant and driven and defiant. Always were. You just needed someone to defy.

  Lena Luthor : Wait. Are you actually taking credit for my success?

  Lex Luthor : You were always driven to impress me. Always.

  [coughing and wheezing] 

  Lex Luthor : And if I would've given you an inch, if-if I would've thrown you a "good job" or cried out "that's wonderful" every time you showed me one of your toys, do you think you would've been as successful as you are...

  [he coughs blood into his handkerchief] 

  Lex Luthor : Oh, well, that's unfortunate.

• Lena Luthor : We need some water in here. Lex, just breathe, okay?

  [a guard brings a glass of water] 

  Lena Luthor : Thank you.

  Guard #2 : [dropping it on the floor]  He can lap it up like a dog.

  Lena Luthor : How dare you!

  Lex Luthor : It's okay, sis. I'm used to it. I'm not very poular in prison. What I was trying to say is... you were... wonderful. You always... wowed me. Always. Look at you. You made kryptonite. Even I couldn't do that. I'm proud of you. Let's get back to work. This sentimentality will kill me faster than the cancer.

• Lena Luthor : Eve, what's wrong?

  Eve Teschmacher : I understand you wanting to save your dying brother, no matter what he did. But now we're giving him full access to everything in order to save Mr. Olsen. Look, I care about James, too. But I-I just wanna make sure that you're not gonna let your sympathy jeopardize everything that you've been working toward.

  Lena Luthor : Eve, I know what my brother's capable of more than anyone. But I truly believe his lone scheme right now is just to live. I don't think he can imagine the world without him in it.

• Lena Luthor : [finding Lex sprawled on the floor]  What's going on?

  Guard #2 : [indifferently]  He's making a mess of your floor.

  Lena Luthor : I'll have you arrested!

  Lex Luthor : Don't blame him. He knows not what he does. He's on a government salary, after all.

  Lena Luthor : Give me the keys.

  Guard #2 : You can't be serious.

  Lena Luthor : Give me the keys now!

  Guard #2 : [handing the keys over]  It's your funeral, lady.

• Lex Luthor : BMP's 92 and rising. What was that tutor's name?

  Lena Luthor : Krinick.

  Lex Luthor : Yes. Yes, that's right.

  Lena Luthor : Okay, injecting now.

  Lex Luthor : If I misquoted my Salutati, 124 and rising, she would make me stand in a corner and repeat "I do not like myself" in perfect Latin.

  Lena Luthor : [saying the phrase in Latin]  No wonder you became a sociopath.

  Lex Luthor : Well, if the Latin fits.

• Lex Luthor : 143 and rising. Uh, pull back on the drip just a touch.

  Lena Luthor : No, that's how we lost the last one.

  Lex Luthor : That was a tad, not a touch.

  Lena Luthor : Oh, you call that scientific?

  Lex Luthor : Do you want this to succeed or not?

  Lena Luthor : Pulling back a touch.

• Lena Luthor : We're so close. At this point, it's 99% non-lethal. It doesn't matter now. James is in surgery.

  Lex Luthor : So why are you still here?

  Lena Luthor : I can't help James now.

• Lena Luthor : What I'm about to do is absolutely illegal. Any witnesses will be considered accessories to a crime.

  Dr. Kaplan : Ms. Luthor.

  Lena Luthor : Leave now before I fire you.

• James Olsen : I only got shot once. You didn't have to come all this way.

  Kelly Olsen : Aw, you never invite me to visit. How else was I gonna meet your friends? They're pretty great, by the way. One of them even saved your life.

  James Olsen : Yeah, about that. Thank you.

  Lena Luthor : I'm just glad you're okay. Besides, Supergirl was the one that found you. You should be thanking her.

• Lena Luthor : You know, most bad kids burn ants using a magnifying glass. But not you. No, you would build ant hills out of mud and twigs, to scale. It would take you hours, sometimes days. And then you would trick the ants to thinking they were going home. They would follow the maze you laid out and walk right into an open flame.

  Lex Luthor : I'm sorry, exactly what are you accusing me of?

  Lena Luthor : The power in the hospital didn't go off because of the attack on the dam. You did that. And I know because the L-Corp Foundation has its name on every scalpel, bench, and backup generator in the place.

  Lex Luthor : Hmm. Quite the philanthropist you've become.

• Lena Luthor : You took advantage of the attack on the dam to kill the power while James was on the operating table. You risked his life and the lives of countless others just so I would be forced to test the Harun-El.

  Lex Luthor : Aw, you figured it all out. Well, mostly. You missed one big thing.

  Lena Luthor : Yeah, the story about my mother was just another lie to manipulate me.

  Lex Luthor : No, that was true. That's what made it so effective. But I also had Jimmy shot. Unfortunately, that wasn't as effective a cattle prod as I'd hoped.

  Lena Luthor : You are sick.

  Lex Luthor : Exactly. I'm dying. This horrible cancer is eating me up, and you are sitting pretty on the very thing that could cure me, and you wouldn't even *TEST* it! And God knows I'm not going to test an experimental, lethal drug on myself, so you needed a nudge, and a test dummy.

  Lex Luthor : Well, it worked. James is gonna live, and you're gonna rot. Because I will never, never give you the cure.

  [to his guard from the DOC] 

  Lena Luthor : Take him away.

  Lex Luthor : Lena. Lena, Lena, uh... I-I'm disappointed that this is your reaction, but I'm not surprised. Which is why I had someone give me the cure ten minutes ago.