- Previously on Supergirl: -Do what Lex Luthor failed to do.
Change the world.
Rip roar murdered my best friend, Russell Rogers.
The deo caught rip roar, we were able to ID him. It's Russell.
I sold catco to Andrea.
We go way back. Since boarding school.
Jack spheer and I, we used to be close.
- Until when? - Just before I moved to national city.
You have the ability to incept thoughts into people's minds.
I wanna study your brain so I can develop a technology that can do the same thing.
What just killed her?
Thank you for coming down here, William.
Kara said if anyone would be able to reach rip roar, it would be you.
Russell's still in there, I know it, but he must be acting against his will.
The man I knew could've never done those terrible things.
Yes, 18 assassinations plus one ecological terror attack.
- A thwarted terror attack. - We know rip roar's working for someone.
I'm going to find out who, and why they did this to him.
I can confirm his biotech is still shielding him from the power of our truth seeker.
- Can't we take that off? - Whoever did this to him
attached incredibly sophisticated technology to his nervous system.
If we remove it incorrectly, it may kill him.
We've been breached.
Initiate emergency protocol, secure the facility.
Brainy, I want that power back up.
Alex, the shadow.
Where'd she go?
I can't get her.
It's after rip roar.
Stay right here.
I don't know who or what you are, but this is my prisoner.
And if you touch him, I will light you up.
She's gone.
Andrea.
What do you want?
I need your help.
I need to break into the dec.
- What's the dec? - Stop it.
I know you've had government contracts with them before, that's why I'm here.
Okay.
Say we both know what the dec is...
Why does the head of a fortune 500 company need access?
I know who was behind the tidal wave that almost took out national city.
I know, because I work for them.
But if I tell you who they are, they'll kill me.
And you too.
The deo captured the agent that started the tidal wave.
The people I work for want me to kill him before he can talk.
Andrea, you come to my house and ask for my help to kill someone, are you crazy?
You know, I do know the director of the dec.
What's to stop me from calling her and reporting you?
Because I don't wanna kill him.
I wanna save him.
He's important to me.
I can breach the facility.
But Supergirl is guarding him personally, and I can't get passed her.
You've worked for her before.
- Maybe you can. - No.
- Sorry. - Lena...
I'm asking as a friend.
We're not friends.
We used to be.
Hey.
You're Lena, the new kid, right?
I'm Andrea.
- My parents didn't come for visitor day either. - Why didn't they come?
My father runs a very successful business, so he's, you know, busy.
Mother, on the other hand, is in Paris.
I don't interest her nearly as much as her friend, the baron.
What about your mom? Let me guess, she's off screwing a dude?
My mother's dead.
Hey, what do you say we go to a real party tonight?
Van horne's is my father's favorite drink.
It's top, top shelf.
- He didn't even card us. - Why would he? We're 21.
No, we're not.
Lena, the key to getting what you want is confidence.
Act like you already have it, and no one will question us.
Come on.
Favorite movie. One, two, three.
- Titanic. - Titanic.
- I saw it eight times in the theater. - Six times for me.
My brother mocked me relentlessly.
Screw the haters, we should all live like Rose.
Do you wanna meet your soulmate only to watch him die tragically?
No, Rose post Titanic. Rose Dawson.
She went out there, and grabbed life. Didn't waste a single moment.
That's my dream. Go everywhere, experience everything,
all while taking my dad's company to the next level.
- Those are lofty goals. - That's what makes it fun.
I have a dream like that.
Lofiy?
Impossible.
Well, now you have to tell me.
My mother used to always tell me this story about the medallion of the acrata.
It's about this girl whose village was being ravaged by darkness,
so she went into the wild in search of magic that could help.
What happens?
She finds the medallion of acrata and was bestowed a great gift,
so that she alone had the strength to bend shadow to her will.
- Did your mom make it up? - She found it in an old story book.
She was obsessed.
She'd talk about it like it was real.
She'd draw the symbol everywhere.
Is that what you were doodling in your notebook?
She said when I got older, when things were better...
That we would go on a quest to find it.
Together.
It's stupid, I'm sorry.
No, it's not stupid. Sometimes these legends are based in fact.
And if this medallion is real...
- I'll help you find it. - —you will?
Like Rose says, "you jump, ijump."
We just made first contact with an alien race.
And even apart from the existential threat that he poses to our entire species...
I mean, how can we measure up?
From now on, this is Luthor corp.
This is insane, your obsession with killing Superman.
We're supposed to help people.
I think spherical industries is hiring.
If I don't help you murder Superman, you're firing me?
I'm not gonna let you kill him.
Papa, you almost ready? The car's waiting.
- This new t pixel 8 will excite shoppers. - Papa, you have to get dressed.
We have obsidian worldwide's new phone launch in an hour. The press is waiting.
No, they're not. Ha-ha-ha.
Lord industryjust announced a new t pixel 8.
The chip is four times faster than ours.
Four times? That's impossible.
We are going to lose billions.
We have to let go of 70 percent of the company...
By Christmas.
If my company is worthless...
My life is worthless.
Why is your life insurance policy out?
You promised you wouldn't do this again, papa.
You are the best thing in my life.
I refuse to ruin you.
Go and do something better, mi cie/ito.
Consider yourself fired.
Lena.
You're just the voice I needed to hear right now.
We won't know how bad things really are for us until next week
when the board decides to either push the launch of the phone, or kill it completely.
Papa's locked himself away in his lab until then.
I've seen him bad before, but never like this.
The way he looked yesterday...
It scared me.
Oh, how about you? How are things going in Luthor corp?
You're not the only one with family business problems.
Lex is completely unhinged.
His obsession with Superman is out of control.
He'll stop at nothing to kill him. And I'm very afraid that a lot of people are gonna get hurt...
- Or killed in the process. - Can't you stop him?
He pushed me out. Lex's latest plan is to seed the atmosphere with kryptonite.
What is kryptonite?
According to Lex, Superman's greatest weakness.
- Can he do it? - No, not yet.
First, he has to figure out how to sublimate it into vapor,
but he has this mad theory that this ancient alien element is gonna help him do that.
I mean, this element crash landed on earth millions of years ago.
All I need to do to save humanity from Lex's madness is...
Find the element first.
You already found it, didn't you?
Thanks to you. Okay, so, do you remember your anthropology dissertation
about the aztec village that lived in the shadow of the volcano,
but never got covered in lava no matter how much it erupted?
You think that's where the alien element is?
I did an intensive satellite scan of the area, and I found...
This.
It's that symbol you used to draw. The medallion of acrata.
What are the odds my mother's story leads to the one thing that I need to stop my brother?
- It's crazy. - It's fate.
This is where the signature is strongest, so we need to get to it.
"We"? No, no, no, I can't leave right now, my father needs me.
I know, but it's three days tops, I promise.
And you yourself said the board wasn't gonna be making a decision for another week.
Please, my brother is in a downward spiral,
and I'm the only one who can save him from himself.
But I can't do it alone.
You've studied this culture, you know the area and language.
Besides, isn't it what you always wanted?
To go out there, and grab life? Come on.
What would Rose Dawson do?
You jump, ijump, right?
Maybe there's a way around it or through it.
Wait.
"When the world around her turned to stone, impenetrable by hope,
the girl looked down to the core...
And was shown the winding way."
The snake, it's an arrow.
We go this way.
That's impressive.
Proverbial x must be around here some place.
Look, aztec serpent-headed flowers.
Didn't the girl from the book fight a head of a snake?
Andrea.
- Oh, my god, are you okay? - Yeah. Still in one piece... I think.
We'll make a rope ladder and get you out. Stay right there.
Lena, wait!
Andrea rojas.
Who are you?
I am a messenger.
Nothing more, nothing less.
Serpent-headed flowers, they have...
Psychedelic properties.
- I'm hallucinating, that's what this is. - Oh, this is very real, I assure you.
As are they who sent me, leviathan.
- What do they want? - Your father, Bernardo rojas...
- He's not well, is he? - How do you...?
He's a brilliant man. Things will turn around for him.
He's not as strong as you believe him to be, mi cie/ito.
He's on the brink of ending everything.
That is why you devote yourself to him.
What do you want from me?
Your happiness and your service, one for the other.
What does that mean?
What matters now is if you agree, your father will live and live well.
All you have to do is take this.
No, no, no, I can't.
My friend Lena, she needs this. This is all she's ever wanted.
You want to save your father or not? Take the medallion.
Accept your fate.
Keep it on you always.
Never speak of it, or all that you love will be lost.
And remember, there will come a day when we will call upon you.
Be prepared.
Andrea, I'll be right there.
- Are you okay? I was so worried. - Yeah, I just wanna get out of here.
This is it, Andrea, we found it. It's the medallion.
These etchings, they match the description in the story.
My calculations were right.
My mother was right.
But where is it? It looks like it should be here.
- Maybe someone got to it first. - No, it has to be here, it's supposed to be here.
There should be some kind of trace, the satellites...
Are fallible.
You could've been picking up anything.
Okay.
We'll keep looking, figure out who was here, and when, and...
Lena, finding this place was hard enough.
Seeing who came before or after...
It's impossible.
I was so close.
I'm so sorry.
Papa?
No, no, I haven't.
Lord industries is blowing up the market, literally.
Their latest smart phone contains a faulty chip causing devices to explode.
But their loss is obsidian worldwide's gain.
- Their stock hit an all-time high today. - Papa.
That's incredible.
Now, back to you, Rick.
I think things are only gonna get better for us.
Miss Luthor.
- Why did your brother turn the sun red? - Superman.
Ms. Luthor won't be answering any questions without a lawyer present.
Jack, I was such an idiot.
I thought I could save him with, what, magical thinking?
You believed in the good in him.
That means something.
- Does it? - Let's get out of here, out of town for a while.
I have that conference in London.
Come with me.
You were right. I needed this.
It's nice to see you smiling again.
Go be charming, I'll get drinks.
Andrea.
Lena.
I had no idea you'd be here, I didn't know that you were in London.
Wait, what's that?
I knew it.
The medallion was there, you took it,
even though you knew how much it meant to me.
- —Why? - Look, there are things I couldn't...
- That I can't tell you. - You looked me in the eye and lied.
I trusted you, more than anyone in the world, and you made a fool out of me.
I expect this kind of betrayal from the Luthors, but not you.
- Lena, please. - There's nothing you can say.
We're done.
Since London, you've been different. You barely talk, now you're leaving Metropolis.
It's my responsibility to make up for the stain my brother left on the world.
- To do something good. - We were going to do something good.
Together. What about our company?
See this? This is why I need to be in national city.
People are doing good there, trying to help.
If I stay in Metropolis, I will always be the sister of the egomaniacal lunatic,
but if I go to national city, I can be the Luthor that shares her home with a Kryptonian,
that helps her put the world back together instead of tearing it apart.
You know I can't leave, Lena.
I'm not asking you to.
So you're choosing to redeem the Luthor name...
Over us.
Lena, please, talk to me. You can trust me.
I can't trust anyone anymore.
And the trial of Lex Luthor continues to shock the nation,
painting a vivid picture of just how far the once great name of Luthor has fallen.
I might be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure they call that a drink,
because that's what you're supposed to do with it.
I guess I'm not in the mood.
I usually do all my drinking when I feel the way you look.
Like you've just lost your last friend in the world.
Well, I'm sure you're very busy. Enjoy your drink.
Actually...
I've got nothing but free time right now.
- I've been stood up. - Ouch.
It's all right.
I was going to reject them anyway.
Then it all worked out.
I guess it did.
What about you?
What drove you to a day of heavy non-drinking?
I had a big meeting, and I completely forgot about it.
- It's so unlike me. I'm usually type-a, but... - But the friend thing got in the way.
- Okay, how do you know that? - I didn't, I just have a best friend too, that's all.
I'm Andrea, by the way.
Oh, I know. I'm Russell Rogers.
- You're the meeting I blew off? - Ha, ha.
How long did you know?
Only since you mentioned the business meeting.
I swear.
Wait, you said you were gonna turn down obsidian's offer?
Well, now this is awkward. I'm afraid I can't accept the position.
I'm starting my own company, focusing solely on cyber bionics.
- Oh. - Which is fortuitous on many levels.
But mostly because I'd like to ask you to dinner.
Which could've gotten very dicey if you were my employer.
So, what do you say?
Breaking news from national city. Lena Luthor,
national city's newest prominent resident, was rescued from an assassination attempt
by the krypton/an duo of Superman and Supergirl.
If it isn't national city's newest hotshot reporter,
- I was just reading your article. - That's actually why I'm here.
I have to say thank you for helping me find that fight club.
You've been in the city a month,
and you've already saved my job an embarrassing amount of times.
Well, I am sure you will return the favor when the time comes.
On that note, I also wanted to give you this.
Someone hacked into the e-mails at I-corp, and sent them to catco anonymously.
I was able to snag the data, there's some potentially embarrassing things in there,
but for the most part, it's not newsworthy.
I remember you saying you wanted to make a name for yourself outside your family, and...
I would hate for some jerk to ruin that.
I knew there'd been a breach, but I thought we caught everything.
Thank you, Kara.
You know how you could thank me?
We have this game night thing, and my sister and I dominate,
and we are in desperate need of a worthy adversary.
I'm sorry, Kara, when I said I wanted us to have a positive relationship,
it was because I thought we could help each other.
But let me be clear, I meant a business relationship.
I would hate for you to give me these e-mails out of some misplaced sense of friendship.
I didn't come here to make friends so, by all means, publish the e-mails.
I would never do that, Lena.
But if you change your mind, the invite always stands.
Every Friday night.
How can a vegan restaurant not identify itself?
It's cruel.
I know. Our six month anniversary ruined.
You know, I vote for a do-over.
Barbeque?
Stop talking so sexy.
- See you tonight? - Yes.
He's very handsome.
Sorry, I don't have any cash on me.
I don't need your money, just what you promised.
Your service.
You knew there would be a time when leviathan would call on you.
What do you want from me?
Go to this location.
Find the man on this card...
- I'm not a killer. - You are what we say you are.
You weren't successful, and then we said you were.
Your father was suicidal, and now he's not.
Did you really think all of this didn't come with a price?
I won't do it.
You can refuse us, but...
A day from now your father will be accused of insider trading,
stocks will tumble, the company will be decimated.
One night, while awaiting trial, your father will put on his striped pajamas,
he will take the elevator to the roof.
When he steps up on the ledge, his last words will be:
"I failed you, mi cielito."
Listen to me very carefully.
Take the medallion, tap it three times.
You'll know what to do.
Governor Harper?
Last month, cat Grant joined the marsdin administration
and since her appointment, she's made a big impact.
- Toda y in technology... - Lena.
-Kara.
- Hi, it's really good to see you. - Are you waiting for someone?
Not today, I have a hot date with some spread sheets.
I'm actually meeting my sister here, she loves it.
She makes us order every appetizer on the menu.
Actually, I'm lying, I'm the one that orders all the appetizers.
- Sounds like fun. - Yeah.
Look, I heard you when you said you didn't wanna connect with anyone,
but I've been the new girl in town, and I put my guards up too...
But I was miserable.
And if I hadn't let someone in, my sister, actually...
I think I would've drowned in it.
And...
I guess my sister has to work.
You do too. I'm sorry, I'll leave you alone.
Kara.
Don't be ridiculous, you can't eat all those apps on your own.
Why don't you join me?
Really?
Okay, but I'm warning you,
people have been underestimating how much I can eat for years.
Oh, game on.
- You all right? - Russ.
Hey, you're home early.
What's going on?
Something's been off with you for weeks.
I'm worried you're into something bad, something dangerous.
It's just...
A private family thing.
Look, I'm exhausted.
I'm gonna go take a shower.
What are you doing? No, stop!
You know leviathan require complete discretion.
You're careless. He got too close. Our secrets are more important than any life.
No, no, no, he's a good person.
This isn't his fault, please.
- Finish it, make it look like a home invasion. - No, wait.
He can help you.
This is Russell Rogers, he's working on medical advancements.
He has a prototype that can bring soldiers back from the brink of death and then some.
He can be very useful to you.
It's okay.
Your friends...
Have been lying to you from the start.
Every last one.
Ueponefl we have an update on the Lex Luthor story.
Lex Luthor and his master plan to manipulate the kaznians...
The girl of steel saves the day again, Supergirl saved...
Obsidian worldwide announced this week that they will be opening a new branch
to be spearheaded by ceo Bernardo rojas' daughter, Andrea rojas.
Obsidians entrance into the north American market marks a turning point for the company
which has avoided the American market.
I never needed them.
Any of them.
That doesn't mean they can't be useful.
I was glad to get a call from you, Lena. I've missed you.
It's been a long time.
I thought I'd never hear from you again.
Well, I was thinking...
You and I have too much to offer each other to let ancient history
- get in the way of a potential partnership. - Okay, I'm listening.
Well, I'm sure you've heard of Lex's latest misdeeds.
He's left me with quite a mess to clean up.
Financially.
So I'm selling catco.
- That's a shame. - I'm glad you think so.
Because I believe I found the perfect person to take it over.
I already run a tech company.
Tech gets you money, but media gets you control of the markets.
And catco would be the perfect advertising platform for obsidian.
That's an interesting thought, I honestly never considered it.
You should, and I know you've been looking for a place
for obsidian north's new headquarters,
- I think national city could be a good fit. - It would be nice to be in the same city again.
Just like old times.
Why don't we discuss the details?
Every time I look at you, I'm reminded of all the horrible things I've done.
Funny, every time I look at you, all I remember is pain.
Lena, for so long I've wanted to tell you the truth, but...
I was scared.
That medallion was the only thing that could've stopped my brother, you knew.
Everything I did...
Every decision was to save my father's life.
My brother was a homicidal maniac.
A lot of innocent people are dead because of him, because of you.
I am well aware of how much blood there's on my hands.
- And I'm so sorry. - Just because you say you're sorry
it doesn't make everything better. Okay, how am I supposed to believe you now?
Because you were right all along.
It was magical.
Lena.
"She had the strength to bend shadow to her will."
It wasn't a metaphor about overcoming darkness. It was literal.
It came with the ability to move through shadows.
And you've had this ability the whole time.
It's not a gift. It's a curse.
I never wanted to betray you.
But my father, he... he was gonna die.
So I did what I had to do.
But it cost me the love of my life and my best friend.
Taking this from you was the biggest mistake of my life.
I know I've done terrible things,
but this is my chance to do something good.
Please, you have to believe me.
I believe you.
I'm tired of people hurting each other.
Doing harm.
So you'll help me?
You jump, ijump, right?
- Did brainy say anything? - Not yet.
But there is an old piece of cadmus tech in the vaults that could help us remove his biotech
and force an answer out of him.
I'll go get it.
William told me about you. Well, he told me about Russell.
How good a friend he was, how devastating it was to lose him.
William sacrificed everything,
and dedicated himself to finding out what happened to Russell.
- So I guess he must've been pretty special. - The person William knew is gone.
I don't agree. I think you're working for someone,
and they're forcing you to do these things.
I know you feel you've gone too far to ever be Russell again, but you're wrong.
It is never too late to try to make things right.
Or at least better.
Who did this to you?
I can keep you safe.
They're called leviathan.
Here's how this will go. I'll handle Supergirl...
I have to go.
Thank you.
Lena.
- Lena? Lena. Oh, Lena. - Kara.
Thank god you're here, it was horrible,
it was here one minute and gone the next, just like a shadow.
I 'ii jam all incoming signals.
I recently developed a device that can incept a single thought into the surrounding area.
Do no harm.
Plant it at the dec.
It'll disable all agents that get in your way.
I 7! Control it from here, and then the deo is yours.
- J'onn, is everything okay? - I felt a psychic attack at the deo.
- It felt like my brother. - That's impossible.
- It must be something else. - I just have a bad feeling.
We still have the psychic inhibitor buds.
- I'll be careful. - Okay, see you soon.
Supergirl, I think we have a bit of a situation here.
Supergirl, do you copy?
Director Danvers.
Agent dox, someone incepted the deo. We're the only two unaffected.
That is an erroneous assumption.
You must do no harm.
Sorry, brainy.
- I knew I felt something. - Where's Supergirl?
Oh, hell, no. Make sure the shadow doesn't get to rip roar.
Right.
Supergirl!
Alex is in trouble. Stay here.
If you think you can hurt my friends to get me out of the way, you got another thing coming.
Please don't fight. I want to help you.
Lena, I honestly don't know how I can ever repay you.
- You can start by giving me the medallion. - I can't.
You'd incept me to give you this?
Much worse.
Russell, pick up the scalpel.
Now hold it to your carotid artery...
And press, slowly.
- Please, Lena, don't do this. - Then give me the medallion.
- This is what you wanted this whole time. - I helped you save Russell,
now I want what I deserve.
I was desperate, my father was weak, he was going to die,
everything I did, I did for love.
That's what hurt the most.
I cared about you more than anyone else in the world, and I never would've betrayed you.
I told you this thing is a curse.
Our friendship was the curse.
Russell, put the scalpel down.
Now go. Both of you.
Malefic must've been working with the assassin.
How else could he have incepted everyone?
I want to know who is responsible, but malefic did not do this.
So we're back to square one.
We're not, I got something from rip roar.
A name.
- Leviathan. - We'll start gathering intel immediately.
Okay, but I have to break some bad news first.
Russell got away.
The same operative that attacked yesterday came again,
they worked as a team, and now he's gone.
I'm so sorry.
I was wrong about him all along.
No, I don't think you were.
Supergirl told us he's been working against his will.
I don't think he ever meant to betray you.
I'm sorry, if it weren't for me they never would've come for you.
You saved my life. Even before that, you made it worth living.
No. Russ, no. No, Russ.
No, no, no.
Somebody help, please.
Please, somebody, help.
You can't escape us. No other powers will be bestowed upon you.
I don't even have the medallion anymore. What do you want?
The powers never came from the medallion.
It activated them, but they came from the darkness within you.
That is something you can never escape.
Not so fast, Lena.
I'm gonna get you. I got you.
I found it, mother.
End simulation.
Miss Luthor, preliminary tests confirm
any properties the medallion may have had are gone.
Doesn't matter. Can you translate these markings?
Now access the memories of Eve Tessmacher
and tell me everything she knows about leviathan.