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Synopsis
J’onn J’onzz reveals the details of meeting Kara and Alex’s father, Dr. Jeremiah Danvers, and assuming Hank Henshaw’s identity. Also, Kara debates trusting someone new with her secret identity and Siobhan plots against Kara.[2]
Plot
Kara is watching footage of herself thwarting a bank robbery. However, when she arrived, everyone fled--proving that she still has to win back the city's trust.
Cat is worried about National City's spiraling crime rate. She is also concerned for Kara, who has called out sick. Winn offers to take over answering the phones, but gets a text from Siobhan asking to meet for lunch. James takes over in Winn's stead.
At Noonan's, Siobhan tells Winn that she has been blacklisted; she can't even get an interview once she reveals who she is. She blames Kara, but Winn believes Siobhan will be back on her feet.
Meanwhile at the D.E.O., Alex visits J’onn, who warns her to cut back on her visits given the near-certainty of a government investigation. J'onn's warning proves accurate; Alex is summoned to the main room to find a battery of soldiers have taken over headquarters. Their commander, Marine Colonel James Harper, is leading an investigation into J'onn's infiltration of the D.E.O. Lucy Lane has returned to the JAG Corps as a legal assistant in the investigation. The two take J'onn to a interrogation room that is so alien proof that Kara can't listen in.
Inside the room, J'onn tells the two about what happened when he befriended Jeremiah Danvers ten years earlier in Peru. The real Hank Henshaw led a D.E.O. team to Peru to hunt down a dangerous alien fugitive they have been hunting for years. Jeremiah was against this; he thought they could learn something from the Manhunter. However, Hank wouldn't hear of it.
During the mission, a snake attacks Jeremiah, but J'onn saves him. That night, the two bonded and became friends. Jeremiah realized that J'onn is an alien refugee--just like his adopted daughter, Kara. J'onn explained that he had a family as well until they were killed on his home planet of Mars, leaving him the sole survivor. Jeremiah promises to help him and inform the D.E.O. that he wasn't a threat. Just then, Hank appears and shoots J'onn. Jeremiah comes to J'onn's defense, leading to a scuffle between Jeremiah and Hank. As they fight, Hank stabs Jeremiah, mortally wounding him. Jeremiah throws Hank over a cliff to his death. Before he dies, Jeremiah asks J'onn to watch over his daughters--prompting J'onn to assume Hank's identity.
Harper, who was close friends with Hank, doesn't believe J'onn, even when J'onn emphasizes that he helped protect Earth from numerous alien threats. Harper orders J'onn taken into custody over Alex' vociferous objections. Harper tells Alex she is next.
Siobhan sneaks into Cat's office and slips behind Kara's desk. She then sends a nasty email to Cat, on Kara's account. that evening so she can set up Kara. Later on,
Alex is grilled by Lucy and Jim. She explained how J'onn as Hank approached her to join the DEO after she was arrested and jailed, saying that she was special, and that she owed it to her father to be the person he knew she could be. Alex even passes her lie detector test, but Lucy doesn't believe her. After Kara discovers earphones so she can listen in, she is stunned that Lucy and Jim are taking the two to Project Cadmus.
When Kara tells James about what happened and about Project Cadmus, James tells her that the secreted location is a genetic engineering facility, and even Superman is against using the place, which is why he won't work with the government. This left Kara with no choice but to have James bring Lucy over to the apartment. When Lucy arrived, Kara reveals to her that she is Supergirl, but Lucy is still distrusting of aliens, believing they lie. This is when Kara explained to Lucy why she kept her powers a secret for which she had no choice, as she explained that in her past as a teen she heard a explosion from a burning car and springs into action, rescuing a woman and her baby before it blew up, injuring Alex, who chased after her. Afterwards, Jeremiah gives Kara a pair of glasses lined with a little lead to suppress her vision powers and tells her not to use her powers, lest she endanger people. Years later, Kara starts her job at CatCo, and convinces Cat Grant to hire her for the assistant's job, saying that she’s not special, she just wants to be useful and is willing to sacrifice everything, as Kara tells Lucy.
Cat confronts Siobhan and tells her that Winn helped her figure out it was her who wrote the e-mail and not Kara. Cat tells Siobhan she will answer to the police if she ever comes back.
After a moment of clarity, Lucy agrees to help Kara. Later that night, as the vehicle is en route, they are surrounded by motorcycles that throw the truck off course. One of the cyclists is Supergirl, who disarms the guards, while the other cyclist, Lucy, help Alex and J'onn escape, but not before J'onn erases Harper's memory of having remembered meeting him, but discovers that Harper now remember that Danvers is alive at Cadmus. Alex tells Kara that she will go with J'onn to find Cadmus while she stays with Lucy to help take care of the guards. Later on at the DEO, Lucy, who now in charge, informs Kara that Harper has resigned. Upon being informed that a bank robbery has taken place, Lucy encourages Kara to earn back the public trust by stopping the criminal activity in progress.
That night on the balcony, a drunk Siobhan is furious at Winn for turning on her, even as he tells her that being a criminal and manipulating people isn’t a way to get what she wants. Suddenly, Siobhan loses her balance and stumbles off the roof. Unfortunately, her sonic scream somehow stops her from falling inches from the ground, thus the beginning of her persona as Silver Banshee.
Trivia
- J'onn is shown to like Chocos (a trademark-friendly version of Oreos), which is taken from the comics.
- Cat talks on the phone with a certain "Kate" who has an influential grandmother-in-law.
- The Flashbacks featuring Kara was originally filmed for the Pilot but cut for time. [1]
- Jim Harper in the comics is a superhero called the Guardian.
- Project Cadmus has a long history with Superman in the comics.
References
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