Supergirl (TV Series)

Stand and Deliver (2019)

Sam Witwer: Ben Lockwood

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• Ben Lockwood : It is with great humility that I accept this presidential appointment as your new Director of the Bureau of Alien Affairs. This appointment will signal a new dawning of a new day. A day in which human beings need no longer live in fear of aliens or their random acts of...

  [pandimonium as an energy blast hits the podium] 

  Manchester Black : Say cheers to my little friend.

  Ben Lockwood : [to his bodyguard]  How's it looking out there?

  [Kara lands and blocks an incoming blast with her cape] 

  Quentin : Supergirl. You saved our lives.

• Querl Dox : Supergirl left us a present. And a note. Says "You're welcome."

  Alex Danvers : Well, she did manage to take down one of the Elite and stop Lockwood's assassination in a day.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : Then it sounds like you've got some breathing room. Which is a good thing. The president asked me to reassign you to a security detail.

  Alex Danvers : Security? Whose?

  Ben Lockwood : Mine. But please don't worry, Director Danvers. I, uh... I come in peace.

• Alex Danvers : Guard Ben Lockwood? You can't be serious.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : The president doesn't joke.

  Alex Danvers : Lockwood is a murderer. The only ones that should be watching over him are prison guards.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : Director, you swore to keep this country safe. Protecting Ben Lockwood does just that. Now, extremists are out to kill him. And if they succeed, we will have a revolution on our hands.

  Alex Danvers : There are other qualified agents.

  Colonel Lauren Haley : No one has more experience dealing with hostile extraterrestrials than you. And the president knows it. If you've got an issue doing your job, you need to take it up with him.

  Ben Lockwood : [approaching as Haley leaves]  Well, looks like you're stuck with me. Press conference at 10:00. Shall we?

• Alex Danvers : So, we have teams set up at your D.C. and Collinwood residences, and I should be getting an update every hour.

  Ben Lockwood : I have to say, it is so great to finally have a human in charge of the DEO. I mean, the idea that an alien would be running the very department in charge of policing aliens.

  Alex Danvers : Did you hear that from the DEO agent that you turned into a terrorist?

  Ben Lockwood : Uh, no, from the president.

  [noticing her reaction] 

  Ben Lockwood : Okay. I know that you think that I'm a monster. But half of England said the same thing about Winston Churchill before World War II. So, I guess we'll just wait and see. History will prove me right.

• Ben Lockwood : Listen, I, uh, don't really want to talk about the Elite or their assassination attempt on me last night. Instead, I would like to discuss with you what I was prevented from announcing. My drive to repeal the Alien Amnesty Act. Because, for too long, alien criminals have come down to this planet, and they have been given amnesty. They've been given protection, when we are the ones that need protecting. We are the ones who have been suffering, not them. With the repeal of the Alien Amnesty Act, I propose that we send these invaders back to the planets that they came from, allowing us to finally live in peace. I would like to invite you to a rally tomorrow in the main concourse of this very building, where I will share with you what I intend to share with Congress.

  Kara Danvers : [watching on TV]  He can't do that. Tell me Ben Lockwood cannot repeal a congressional act.

  J'onn J'onzz : No, but he can try and sway the will of the people.

  Kara Danvers : Well, he's just begging the Elite to take another whack at him.

  J'onn J'onzz : Which is why we have to find them before his rally. If only we knew where to look.

  Dreamer : [waking up]  The balcony. Across from the Alien Affairs building.

  Kara Danvers : The same place as last night?

  Dreamer : I saw it in my dream. And returning to the scene of the crime is a classic bad guy move.

• Ben Lockwood : Amnesty is not the same thing as empathy. Allowing these aliens to come to our world is not an act of kindness. It is an act of species-wide self-sabotage. If we do not repeal the Alien Amnesty Act, they will not be our undoing. We will have done that to ourselves!

  [seeing the alien protestors approaching] 

  Ben Lockwood : You see? Right there. Us or them!

  [the crowd starts chanting "us or them"] 

  Ben Lockwood : What are they doing? They have come to take your planet from you. Well, today... today we say no! Today, we take our planet back from them!

  Querl Dox : [a bottle is thrown at the protestors]  Stay peaceful.

  Supergirl : Don't stoop to his level.

  Ben Lockwood : Us or them!

  Alex Danvers : [ushering him away]  We need to get you off the stage now.

  Ben Lockwood : Where's the threat?

  Alex Danvers : You are the threat.