Supergirl

Previously on Supergirl...

I don't want to kill any more.

Be my partner. In return, I promise I'll protect you.

How could I not love you?

You sad, silly woman.

I told you your obsession with the Kryptonians

- would end like this. - The program I was developing

was supposed to expand the human mind.

But I think Lex reworked it.

Kara, no!

Without the coordinates of where he sent her,

she could be anywhere in the Phantom Zone.

Kara is not dead.

We are bringing her home.

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Keys...

Thank you.

This is going to suck for you.

No pun intended.

Boo.

Keep dreaming, Dracula.

Got you.

Please! I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I wasn't going to hurt anyone.

I'm not really a vampire.

We know. Your name is Silas.

- You're an alien. - From Transilvane, to be exact.

Which is apparently a real planet.

You're where vampire stories come from.

Great. Glad to see you've done your research.

But you're under-emphasizing one tiny, important detail.

They're just stories. I rob blood banks so I don't have to hurt people.

We're not interested in the robbery.

We'll let you go...

...if you help us.

Help you with what?

We want you to help us break into the Phantom Zone.

Why in the hell would you want to do that?

No, no, no, not again!

My husband was falsely accused of theft, and sentenced

to six months in the Phantom Zone.

They took Owen from me.

It was so unfair.

I had to get him back.

But they caught you attempting to break him out.

How do you guys know all this?

My brother was in the Phantom Zone. He'd heard about you.

We cross-referenced what he told us

- with your Fort Rozz file. - You're the only person

to ever break into the Phantom Zone.

- We need you to teach us how. - You must understand, I failed.

And you will fail, too.

I'm certain I can replicate your technology.

The tech is the easy part.

It's the Phantoms you have to face.

People talk about the Zone as a place where time does not pass,

but that isn't what makes it terrible.

It's the creatures that give it its name.

They feed on your fear by making you live it.

They're like shadow spores that creep inside you

and infect everything good and right

and then turn it against the host.

Eventually, you forget that the Phantoms are doing it to you at all.

Your nightmare becomes your reality.

That's when you go insane.

Just like my husband did.

I'm sorry that happened to you.

But right now you have the chance

to help us save someone that we love.

Supergirl is there.

We're trusting you with this information

because you're the only one who can help.

And we think you're the kind of guy who would.

Prove us right.

Help us.

Okay, I need a pen.

Good man.

911 from Andrea. I have to get back to CatCo.

Silas will keep us from being stuck in the Phantom Zone,

but we're still nowhere on Supergirl's location.

Once we're inside, you'll need to divine where she is

and then lead us there. And that will be no easy feat

with Phantoms circling.

So, you'll need to train.

I'll be back as soon as I can.

I want to talk to you about power.

Specifically, the power of the press.

It's the trial of the century

and CatCo needs to be

the culture's one-stop shop for all things Lex Luthor.

The trial hasn't even begun yet.

Well, we pre-write obituaries for heads of state, don't we?

This should be no different.

We all know he's getting convicted.

We might as well just get a jump on it.

Well, nice of you to join us, Ms. Nal.

I'm sorry. I was donating blood.

Oh, how heroic of you.

Obsidian North died for Lex Luthor's sins.

Now I want our smart, splashy coverage

to bury him six feet under.

So, assignments.

Nia, with Kara still out of town with Cat Grant,

I'm going to need you down at the courthouse.

The judge, the jurors, the witnesses,

do literally whatever it takes to get interviews.

I will pay your bail if it comes to that.

- I'm sorry. Me? - Yes.

And William, of course.

But we won't be able to get in.

The courthouse is on lockdown due to threats against Luthor.

I mean, they're even keeping a jury off-site to protect them.

Well, the two of you are sharks.

You'll find a way to get in.

Plus, if you run into trouble,

I'm sure Supergirl will swoop in to protect you.

She always does.

I thought visitors were forbidden in this wing.

The Luthor name still commands respect...

and the occasional favor.

Ah, favors.

Is that how you secured me that plea deal?

Admit to conspiracy and manslaughter, and go away for... Ah, ah.

Go away for 25 years.

I'm sure your lawyer advised you to accept it.

He did. Which is why I fired him.

The case against you is ironclad.

The Tessmacher girl's testimony will be damning.

And every day you spend fruitlessly

shaking your fist at the sky is another day

the Luthor name gets dragged through the mud.

Mother, it almost feels as if you care more about the family name

than freeing your son from bondage.

I do.

Our family has always achieved selfish aims by appearing selfless.

If you take the stand and make a mockery of yourself

in the face of insurmountable evidence,

the world will see us for what we really are.

Do you really have so little faith in me

that you think I should agree to rot in prison?

I will remind you, I have been in prison before.

I have been shot and killed and risen from the dead before,

and I will not be subjugated again.

You should know, I always have a plan.

Yeah, boss. Kablooey!

A legal plan, you imbecile.

Well, let's hope this plan is better than the last.

Calm down.

There are no Phantoms here.

Who are you?

As if you don't know. You bear the glyph of my house.

So you must be some sort of mirage, another figment

of my own tortured mind.

Your house?

This is the glyph of the House of El.

Father?

Kara?

My daughter alive, my wife alive...

it's more than I ever dared hope for.

Argo survived, because of your sacrifice.

All this time I thought I'd lost you forever.

When I chose to stay on Krypton to activate Argo's shields,

I knew there was no way I'd get off the planet in time.

Sending myself here was a last-ditch attempt to save my life.

A terrible mistake.

There are things worse than death.

And to think you were here, too,

languishing, your pod trapped.

Oh, this place is nothing like I remember.

- It's worse. - Indeed.

From the safety of your pod, you never faced the Phantoms.

They got to you, didn't they?

What did you see?

I was in a cavern, a fortress of one of my enemies.

She was dead...

but so was everyone I ever loved,

cut down while they were trying to save the world,

and I just stood there among their bodies...

horrified.

I couldn't save them. I couldn't wake up.

I wanted to die there with them.

But I couldn't do that, either.

A terrible vision.

Not a vision.

A memory.

One that I thought had finally stopped haunting me.

But it was crystal clear.

It felt like it would never end.

That's exactly what will happen, if you resist the Phantoms.

You were a hero...

and you didn't deserve this.

But it's gonna be okay now. We're going to get out.

"Get out"?

Yeah, Mother once told me that Fort Rozz

was rooted in space above the rocks by an anchor.

The guards come and go

through a portal at the base. If we can find the anchor...

To try would only invite the Phantoms' wrath!

But if we do not provoke them, they will leave us be.

We are trapped here forever.