Supergirl - 'Exodus'

"What? No. You're being emotional."

It's all hands on deck as the DEO faces the fallout from the exposure of the alien registry(1), so of course Alex, Maggie, James, Mon-el and Winn are going down the pub.

While they're there, Cadmus make their move, kidnapping aliens across the county, including a raid on the bar in which they abduct Lyra. Kara wants to use her alias to put out a warning to the alien population, since the DEO can't do anything official, but Snapper Carr insists on two independent sources and all she has is Supergirl. She sets up an interview between Snapper and the Girl of Steel, but again he won't take her uncorroborated word. Lena instead urges her to blog her article, and with added moral support from Mon-el she does.

Meanwhile, J'onn disguises himself as Jeremiah to test Alex's loyalties and deems her compromised, removing her from duty, so she and Maggie track the abduction squads themselves and Alex sneaks into a Cadmus warehouse.  At the same time, Lena locates the same site for Kara, prompting her PA to contact Lillian and summon some heavies to put the frighteners on her. Their look of absolute consternation when the boss's daughter accidentally falls off the balcony is even more priceless than their shock when Supergirl catches her. Alex discovers that Cadmus is loading the captive aliens onto a ship, intending to send them off to be someone else's problem, despite the fact that many of them are refugees, and persuades Jeremiah to do the right thing and help her stop the ship. When Lillian tries to stop them she claims to have mines hidden around the base, and when the shi won't stop its countdown she detonates them, because you do not fuck with Alex Danvers.

 

"Please ensure your seat backs are in the upright position and your shackle
chains are tucked behind the seat cushion."

Alex tries to stop the ship from within, while Hank Henshaw subdues Jeremiah. Kara arrives in time to stop the ship reaching hyperspace launch altitude, but Jeremiah is still missing. Alex confronts J'onn, who admits that he, like Jeremiah, was acting to protect her, but he admits that he doesn't need to and promises to stop(2). Kara is fired for blogging her article, a breach of her contract with CatCo, and Carr reads her the riot act on journalistic responsibility.

"One wrong statistic about the stock market and suddenly we're in the Great Depression. One misattributed quote from a candidate and you put a fascist in the White House(3). The rules are there for a reason. To make sure you get the story right. That's not luck; that's being a good reporter."

I like this speech, because it's right, and shows that Kara may have a sound moral compass but she relies too much on her intentions, rather than on the potential consequences of her actions.

And then Mon-el comes around with potstickers(4) and sympathy. Kara explains that Supergirl is what she does, but Kara is who she is. She retracts part of this and apparently considers Mon-el a substitute for a career, but I'm going to assume unless proved otherwise that this was just sweet nothings rather than a sincere statement.

Ladies and gents, it's Terri 'Lois Lan' Hatcher and Kevin 'Hercules' Sorbo.

Finally, a ship moves into orbit as its occupants get all jazzed on yellow sunlight, and with all the highnessing going on, I'm pretty sure it's a Daxamite royal vessel, so that's happened. Also, I'm wondering if Mon-el is less bodyguard to a prince and more, you know, the prince.

I don't know where they're going with Kara's career, but hopefully not the dole queue or 'homemaker'. Possibly L-Corp is going to go media, or she'll become a full-time news blogger on a DEO half-salary. I continue to be dissatisfied with her drama arc, not helped by a frankly cursory appearance by James/Guardian, essentially to give Winn a hearty 'well done, my son!'

(1) This is all kind of familiar from Agents of SHIELD's Inhuman Register…

(2) Did I mention how much I like the evolving father-daughter dynamics in this series recently?

(3) Supergirl; not political at all.

(4) Oh, they're gyoza. I always wondered.