Supergirl (TV Series)

Will the Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up? (2019)

Katie McGrath: Lena Luthor

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Quotes 

• Lena Luthor : Kara, brace yourself. We're gonna make an emergency landing.

  Kara Danvers : [getting into superhero mode]  Yeah. That's gonna be a huge "nope" for me.

• Lena Luthor : Kara, you okay?

  Kara Danvers : [feigning shock of having gone through a crash landing, sits slumped in her chair, with glasses askew]  I must have passed out. God, I hate flying.

• Lena Luthor : Oh, good. You found my plane.

  Eve Teschmacher : [crackling a cattle prod]  I hoped it wouldn't come to this.

  Lena Luthor : Really?

  [drawing a collapsible baton from her boot] 

  Lena Luthor : 'Cause I did.

• Kara Danvers : I'm not anxious. I think it would just be better, faster, if I flew alone.

  [covering] 

  Kara Danvers : Commercial.

  Lena Luthor : I designed this jet myself. There's no faster way to fly.

  Kara Danvers : Right.

  Lena Luthor : And if you want stealth, it's got military-grade cloaking.

  Kara Danvers : Yeah, but you don't have to come with me.

  Lena Luthor : I need to look Lex in the eye when we catch him. I need him to know it was me.

• Lena Luthor : [encountering a patch of turbulence]  Don't worry. It's just a lightning storm.

  Kara Danvers : Is lightning usually purple?

• Kara Danvers : [looking through Lex's files]  Wait. This is Kopy. He attacked that carnival last fall. I wrote an article about him.

  Lena Luthor : Yeah, he could clone himself.

  Kara Danvers : Not exactly. He could split himself like a cell. And, uh, each copy was more powerful than the original. But the longer they were separated, the dumber they got.

• Kara Danvers : Where's Lex?

  Eve Teschmacher : I saw what he was doing to those poor aliens, and I just couldn't stand by him anymore.

  Lena Luthor : Cut the crap, Eva Braun. You're a backstabber and a liar.

  Eve Teschmacher : You're right. I am lying. But I really do love you guys. I just love Lex more. I'm always gonna be on his side.

  Lena Luthor : You're going to jail. But whether it's an American prison or a Siberian hole in the ground is up to me right now. So you're gonna tell us what we wanna know. Now.

• Kara Danvers : What is this place?

  Lena Luthor : [seeing a tray of test tubes]  This is Harun-El.

  Kara Danvers : [recoiling as Lena opens a case]  Kryptonite.

  [Lena closes it] 

  Kara Danvers : This is all equipment to hurt Kryptonians.

• Lena Luthor : Looks like Lex is helping the Kaznians to invade America.

  Eve Teschmacher : That's the plan.

  Lena Luthor : But a Kaznian invasion on American soil would be like a child throwing rocks at a tank.

  Eve Teschmacher : Lex has a tank. Tank. Tank. Tank.

  Lena Luthor : Eve?

  Eve Teschmacher : Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank. Tank.

  Lena Luthor : All right.

  [catching her and sitting her down] 

  Lena Luthor : Lex must have done something to her. Trigger word.

• Kara Danvers : That's Supergirl.

  Eve Teschmacher : Lexie calls her Ryzhaya Dch.

  Lena Luthor : That's "Red Daughter".

• Kara Danvers : Supergirl would never work with Lex.

  Lena Luthor : It's not Supergirl. She's a blank slate. Or, at least she was.

  Kara Danvers : What are you saying?

  Lena Luthor : It's a question of nature versus nurture. She's been tested, trained, and indoctrinated by Lex in a prison in one of the most oppressive regimes in the world.

  Kara Danvers : But she has to have good in her.

  Lena Luthor : There was good in Sam. And Reign was a monster. Lex has created the very thing he fears the most. A Kryptonian weapon trained as a killer. And in Lex's hands, it's more dangerous than an atomic bomb. And he has it pointed right at America.

  Kara Danvers : She is not an "it". Lex may have molded her, but there has to be some part of Supergirl still in her.

• Kara Danvers : Red Daughter, is she still here?

  Lena Luthor : Eve. Where is she?

  Eve Teschmacher : [laughing, as she enters]  With Lex, obviously.

  Lena Luthor : [surprised]  Eve? But the Harun-El can't duplicate humans.

  Kara Danvers : [realizing]  He used Kopy.

  [Eve taps her watch, which triggers an alarm, and rubble begins to fall] 

  Eve Teschmacher : The two of you shouldn't be here. But as long as you are, stay a while.

  Lena Luthor : [pulling Kara to her feet]  We've got ten minutes before this building comes crashing down. Come on.

• Eve Teschmacher : [tasing Lena]  I wish you didn't make me do that.

  Lena Luthor : [slugging her, then revealing the cattle prod hit Kara's tape recorder]  Thank you, Kara.

  [looking down at Eve on the ground] 

  Lena Luthor : Snake on a plane.

• Kara Danvers : Mm!

  Lena Luthor : [with an amused laugh]  I know, right? This plane makes its own coffee, cleans its own toilets, and flies itself.

  Kara Danvers : [tensing in alarm]  There's no pilot?

  Lena Luthor : Well, humans make mistakes. My technology doesn't. Speaking of mistakes, I should have told you about Lex from the beginning. Trust is still a learned skill for me. It doesn't come naturally.

  Kara Danvers : Well, no matter what, we are always on the same side.

• Lena Luthor : That lightning wasn't natural. Someone brought us down on purpose.

  Kara Danvers : Well, let's hope we didn't ruin the element of surprise.

• Lena Luthor : This is so odd. I would've thought Lex would have an army behind him.

  [turning the power on] 

  Lena Luthor : Must have left days ago.

  Kara Danvers : What about the lightning?

  Lena Luthor : Automated system. It's very Lex.

  Kara Danvers : Where did they go?

• Lena Luthor : Oh, my god.

  Kara Danvers : What was Lex doing? Experimenting?

  Lena Luthor : On aliens. He was trying to siphon and harness their powers.

  Kara Danvers : He was torturing them.

• Kara Danvers : Paper files? Seems so low-tech.

  Lena Luthor : She always said you couldn't hack paper.

  [opening a file folder] 

  Lena Luthor : It's Eve. This is her handwriting. Let's start reading.

• Lena Luthor : Those are DEO power-dampening cuffs. All of the test subjects here were prisoners of the DEO desert facility. That's why Lex was spying on it.

  Kara Danvers : What is he building?

  [they jump as they hear a loud bang nearby] 

  Kara Danvers : Is someone there?

  Lena Luthor : [grabbing a cattle prod for self-defense]  Come out now and we won't hurt you.

  [Kara opens the door] 

  Lena Luthor : [surprised]  Eve?

  Eve Teschmacher : [her old bright and chipper self]  Kara. Lena. You found me. I was so scared.

• Kara Danvers : You were about to tell us about the aliens. What does Lex do to them?

  Eve Teschmacher : Lex likes to keep his plans compartmentalized.

  Kara Danvers : Even from the love of his life?

  Eve Teschmacher : You think I'm the love of his life?

  Lena Luthor : [advancing menacingly]  Oh, I think you're...

  Kara Danvers : [restraining her]  He trusted you for a reason. You were helping him experiment on DEO prisoners. How did he get access to them?

  Eve Teschmacher : Someone inside helped him.

  Lena Luthor : You're saying this was an authorized prison transfer?

  Eve Teschmacher : Yes.

  Kara Danvers : Who authorized it?

  Eve Teschmacher : I'm not sure. Someone in the government. Someone high up.

  Kara Danvers : What do you keep looking at?

  [seeing claw marks on the floor] 

  Kara Danvers : These claw marks lead somewhere.

• Kara Danvers : Is she a clone?

  Lena Luthor : No. Not exactly. All these biometrics have been affected by Harun-El. We know it duplicates Kryptonians. It split Sam from Reign. Supergirl must have come into contact with it.

  Kara Danvers : But how does Lex fit into this?

  Lena Luthor : The Kaznians brought him in. He's helping them control her.

• Kara Danvers : Well, thank god for Eve's paper fetish.

  Lena Luthor : [Kara hands her a tape recorder]  Thanks.

  Kara Danvers : [picking up a file]  The DEO prisoner transfers.

  [turning to the last page] 

  Kara Danvers : Signed and authorized by Sarah Walker.

  Lena Luthor : The president's Chief of Staff?

  Kara Danvers : She is the mole in the government. She's working with Lex.

  Lena Luthor : [seeing Eve run by]  Eve. I'll get her, you get the evidence.

• Lena Luthor : Lex was only using you, you know.

  Eve Teschmacher : Lex loves me.

  Lena Luthor : The only person Lex loves is himself.

• Kara Danvers : [after escaping an explosion]  I'm okay. Everything's fine.

  Lena Luthor : [hugging her, relieved]  Oh, god. Come here. Oh, god. Thank god you're all right.

  Kara Danvers : Did you find Tessmacher?

  Lena Luthor : Yeah.

  [cut to them boarding the jet; they see Eve shimmer and disappear] 

  Lena Luthor : It wasn't the real Tessmacher.

  Kara Danvers : Maybe it never was. But it's okay. Now we know what Lex has been up to and who was helping him. Now we know everything.

• Lena Luthor : I'm so sorry I left you alone back there. Put you in danger.

  Kara Danvers : I was fine. I... I am fine.

  Lena Luthor : When I saw Eve, I just saw red. Shot me right back to the initial betrayal. I... wasn't thinking clearly.

  Kara Danvers : You don't have to explain anything to me. I know how much she hurt you.

  Lena Luthor : Kara, please. I'm trying to apologize to you. That explosion could have killed you.

  Kara Danvers : It... it wouldn't have.

  [taking off her glases] 

  Kara Danvers : Lena...

  Lena Luthor : I don't let my guard down, ever. And I did with Eve, and she betrayed me. I let her in and she lied to me. Every day to my face. About who she was. And that's what hurts. I don't... I don't know if I'll ever recover from it, but... I know there is no way I could ever trust anyone ever again if it wasn't for your friendship and your integrity.

  [behind her, Kara puts her glasses back on] 

  Lena Luthor : It just... it means the world to me, Kara.

  Kara Danvers : I'm always gonna be here for you.