Supergirl (TV Series)

Call to Action (2018)

Katie McGrath: Lena Luthor

Photos 

Quotes 

• Eve Teschmacher : Sorry I'm late. My car was wet and these leaflets stuck to it like papier mâché

  Lena Luthor : It's okay. I was just about to check the efficiency of the Harun-El treatment on the tumors.

  Eve Teschmacher : They call themselves the Children of Liberty. I think these are the ones who kept calling Guardian a human hero. So creepy.

• Lena Luthor : Am I interrupting, Mr. Olsen?

  James Olsen : Always got time for you. Uh, what's in the bag?

  Lena Luthor : Why don't you take a look?

  James Olsen : [unzipping it and finding a sharp-looking blazer]  Wow. Thank you.

  [putting it on] 

  James Olsen : You spoil me.

  Lena Luthor : Yeah.

• Lena Luthor : I booked you to go on "Counterpoint Daily" today. I think you should go on TV and disavow the Children of Liberty. I know you moved away from that idea, but things have escalated, okay? Their manifesto was filled with hate speech.

  James Olsen : Yeah, I-I just wish that you would have checked with me first. I-I can't do that today.

  Lena Luthor : Well, why not?

  James Olsen : Well, after the mayor's event, I reached out to Ben Lockwood. And it-it took some time, but I got connected with some actual Children of Liberty. I-I'm meeting with them today.

  Lena Luthor : You're meeting with a domestic terror group?

  James Olsen : To learn who they are. And eventually get an interview with Agent Liberty himself. I mean, you said it yourself; these people admire me. Maybe I can use that to change minds.

  Lena Luthor : I said that before they dropped their hateful agenda on the world.

  James Olsen : All the more reason to go now, isn't it?

  Lena Luthor : Well, it's all the more reason to think they might resort to violence, especially if they've got their human posterboy in their midst.

  James Olsen : Human posterboy? You don't think I can do this, do you?

• Lena Luthor : Who are you meeting with?

  James Olsen : I don't know.

  Lena Luthor : Where are you meeting them?

  James Olsen : They're gonna call me fifteen minutes beforehand.

  Lena Luthor : So it's an undisclosed location with unknown contacts. This is how journalists end up dead, James.

  James Olsen : Most journalists are not me.

  Lena Luthor : So it doesn't matter what I think.

  James Olsen : Not about this. This is work.

  Lena Luthor : Oh, this is work. Well, then your boss has booked a major television appearance for you. So figure it out.

• Lena Luthor : The hearts keep dying.

  Eve Teschmacher : We shocked it three times, but it wouldn't revive.

  Lena Luthor : Did you measure the tumor?

  Eve Teschmacher : [checking her tablet]  3.6 millimeters.

  Lena Luthor : The tumors are growing. The H-E radiation should be shrinking them completely.

  Eve Teschmacher : Why don't we stay and adjust the protocol?

  Lena Luthor : No. No, you go home to your family.

  Eve Teschmacher : I don't really like them that much, anyway. No, we can figure this out.

  Lena Luthor : No. We're not gonna come up with any solutions staying here today. Incinerate it.

• Eve Teschmacher : The heart didn't burn up. Why didn't it burn up?

  Lena Luthor : That's impossible. Try again.

  Eve Teschmacher : [doing so; the heart remains intact]  Did the Harun-El do this?

  Lena Luthor : It must have. It made the heart invincible.

• Eliza Danvers : [seeing the canned cranberry sauce Alex bought]  You didn't think about using real cranberries?

  Alex Danvers : Well, like that's any better than this.

  Kara Danvers : Well, it does look easier to digest. I'm still feeling queasy from hearing the audience cheer for Lockwood.

  Alex Danvers : Look, don't beat yourself up, okay?

  Lena Luthor : Yeah. It wasn't even supposed to be you up there.

• Lena Luthor : You made it.

  James Olsen : Um, of course.

  Lena Luthor : I just thought you'd be sitting down to dinner with your new friends.

  James Olsen : Did you get my message?

  Lena Luthor : Yeah. Did you still go meet with them?

  James Olsen : Yeah.

  Lena Luthor : Well, there you go.

• Eliza Danvers : How did things go with your Children of Liberty contact? Doesn't seem very safe, James.

  James Olsen : I happened to meet with a regular guy named Tom who happens to be afraid of aliens and afraid of their capabilities, and he feels inferior.

  Kara Danvers : People can be powerful, too. You and Alex are examples of that, James.

  Lena Luthor : Yeah, but not as powerful as aliens. I mean, no matter how many weights you lift, you'll never be as strong as Supergirl.

  Alex Danvers : No, but with technology, we can hold our own.

  Lena Luthor : What if we could do more? What if we could make people super?

  Eliza Danvers : It's not possible. The biological processes that cause alien powers are incompatible with human DNA.

  Lena Luthor : Okay, but just say we could, right? If James is right and people feeling inferior is what makes them join these hate groups, then we could just... level the playing field.

  J'onn J'onzz : The last thing we need is a bunch of evil people running around with superpowers.

  Lena Luthor : Okay, but evil people wouldn't get powers.

  James Olsen : So only certain people qualify?

  Alex Danvers : And who would decide who gets them? They'd be playing God.

• Lena Luthor : That's a low-spectrum enhancer. You use it to see infrared.

  Alex Danvers : [taking it from Brainy]  Here, let me see that.

  [holding it up to her eye and looking out at the skyline] 

  Alex Danvers : Look, I see one right there.

  J'onn J'onzz : All right, so they're going to attack. Question is when?

  Querl Dox : Twilight's last gleaming. It's the title of their manifesto. Tells them when to strike.

  James Olsen : Twilight's last gleaming is sunset.

  Kara Danvers : Then we don't have much time.

• James Olsen : I appreciate the fact that you're trying to help me; I do. But I-I don't need it. I'm gonna be fine.

  Lena Luthor : Right, because you can handle it.

  James Olsen : Yes, I can handle myself. I don't need you freaking out about every little problem that I have in my life! Now, take the D.A., for example. You got all worked up about that, and it turned out to be fine, okay? I'm going.

  Lena Luthor : It was fine because I made it fine.

  James Olsen : What are you talking about?

  Lena Luthor : I talked to the D.A., James. I traded information on Bruno Mannheim, and she dropped the indictment.

  James Olsen : You... you did what?

  Lena Luthor : You heard me.

  James Olsen : You lied to me.

  Lena Luthor : I would do it again in a heartbeat. I love you, and there is no line in the universe I would not cross to keep you safe.

  James Olsen : If that's what you think love is, I'm not sure if I want any part of that.

• Eve Teschmacher : Ms. Luthor? Are you all right?

  Lena Luthor : It's getting more dangerous out there. Feels like we're on the verge of a civil war with the aliens. The people we love are gonna need our protection. I want to move forward with the Harun-El protocol. We're gonna need a human subject.