Supergirl (TV Series)

Far from the Tree (2017)

Carl Lumbly: M'yrnn J'onzz

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• M'yrnn J'onzz : I survived two centures of imprisonment and torture. Alone! So if you think exploiting the form of my dead son will break me, you are a fool! I will never tell you where the staff of Kolar is.

  J'onn J'onzz : Father, it's me, J'onn. I lived. I... I fled to Earth. I survived.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : You give yourself away, White. My son would never have fled.

• Supergirl : Look at me. I'm not a White Martian. You can sense that, can't you?

  M'yrnn J'onzz : You're a Kryptonian.

  Supergirl : Yes, that's right. I come from a dead planet. I come from a dead people, just like you.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : Krypton is gone, but my world remains. And every day for 200 years, I have been forced to remember the horror of what happened to my people.

  Supergirl : You're right.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : There is no future for Mars.

  Supergirl : Not for Green Martians, no. But this is bigger than you now. This is about your faith.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : What do you know of my God?

  Supergirl : I heard you earlier. H'ronmeer tests us. This is a test. You have a chance to save your planet. Not for your people, maybe, but for another people who want to do better than those that came before. I don't blame you for not wanting to believe that J'onn is actually your son. I don't blame you for not wanting to open your mind, because if it weren't true...

  M'yrnn J'onzz : It would be like losing him all over again.

  Supergirl : Yes. And whether or not you believe he is your son, he wants to save Mars. So please, M'yrnn, open your mind just a little bit. Just give him a chance.

• J'onn J'onzz : This is my favorite memory. This is our home, father. I haven't thought about this in a long time. Can you see it?

  M'yrnn J'onzz : I see it. I remember it. K'hym. T'ania.

  J'onn J'onzz : My daughters. Your granddaughters.

  Supergirl : They're beautiful, J'onn.

  J'onn J'onzz : They were excited about something. They were terrible at keeping secrets.

  Supergirl : What did they know?

  M'yrnn J'onzz : That I had left worship early to surprise J'onn.

• M'yrnn J'onzz : So this is Earth.

  Supergirl : This isn't even the nice part.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : I don't know. I rather like it.

• J'onn J'onzz : You know, I'm not sure I could have done this without you.

  Supergirl : Yes, you could have. You're the strongest man and Martian I've ever known, and I was glad I could be there to help you, anyway.

  J'onn J'onzz : I'll see you tomorrow.

  Supergirl : You got it, boss.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : [watching her fly away]  Can everyone on this planet do that?

  J'onn J'onzz : No. She's special.

• M'yrnn J'onzz : Mars was once a paradise. But H'ronmeer wanted to test his children, Phobos and Deimos. To be sure they were worthy of it. So he offered them two gifts.

  J'onn J'onzz : A book of sacred symbols on morals that govern Martian life, and the staff, a weapon.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : The symbols could be shared, but the staff wielded by only one.

  J'onn J'onzz : Deimos chose the symbols. But Phobos chose the staff. He was the first White Martian.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : H'ronmeer was furious that his son would choose destruction over knowledge. And so Phobos was banished to the underworld. But his descendants clawed their way back and slaughtered my people.

  J'onn J'onzz : Our people. I am your son.

  M'yrnn J'onzz : H'ronmeer buried the staff for a reason. The Whites disgraced his name by slaughtering my people. I will serve my God by refusing to let you use his staff to slaughter each other, too.