- Supergirl: Alex, there's a dragon on Main Street.
- Alex Danvers: That's what I get for making a Harry Potter reference.
- Supergirl: [confronting a group of Children of Liberty, their dog takes off] That's weird. Dogs usually love me.
- Supergirl: The Children of Liberty announcing themselves to the world.
- Alex Danvers: Agent Dox is already working on identifying Agent Liberty, and trying to find if there's a deeper message in the manifesto.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Why? I mean, these are the rantings of a human hate group. The FBI will deal with it.
- Alex Danvers: But this could be dangerous. There's precedent. From the White Rose in-in Germany to the CIA in Guatemala in 1954. Leaflets like this, they were used to activate uprisings.
- Alex Danvers: Hey, have you found anything?
- Querl Dox: Nothing on the identity of Agent Liberty. However, I was able to find 10,011 codes within the leaflet. It is literally littered with codes. For example, if you scramble every seventh letter, it clearly indicates a common phrase in the Raolian language. "Ham sandwich." On a holiday celebrated exclusively with turkey, that is just a slap in the face.
- Alex Danvers: And that's the most promising code?
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Agents, a briefing on your current work, please.
- Alex Danvers: Um...
- Querl Dox: Oh... no. Uh, you caught me, Colonel. I must confess, your sweet potato pie is so delicious that it inspired me to search for a recipe and make one of my very own. For Thanksgiving. I apologize for allowing your masterful baking to distract me from important DEO business.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Back to work, Agent Dox. Director Danvers.
- Alex Danvers: Yes, ma'am.
- Querl Dox: [Haley leaves] You see, Alex, some human behaviors require experiential learning. Now I can add "covering on the spot" to my skills of mastery.
- Supergirl: I don't think I can find them all.
- Querl Dox: Never fear. I'm also on the streets removing markers.
- [spotting an infrared "A"]
- Querl Dox: [removing it] In fact, I see one right now.
- Col 5: Hey, what are you doing?
- Querl Dox: Return to your homes. Or else.
- Col 5: Or else what?
- Querl Dox: Or else I'll be required to beat you up. With physics.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Where were you when you found this?
- Supergirl: I was stopping an attack on two aliens by men in masks.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: But where?
- Supergirl: Midtown Park.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Were you ordered to patrol there?
- Supergirl: I went because I heard...
- Colonel Lauren Haley: Were you ordered to patrol there?
- Supergirl: No, ma'am.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: I know you've had free rein in the past, but things are different now. If you want to intervene in muggins, join the NCPD. This is the DEO. We swim in deeper waters. Our resources will not be used to investigate this manifesto. You tell Agent Dox to return to his other assignments, is that clear?
- Supergirl, Alex Danvers: Yes, ma'am.
- Colonel Lauren Haley: I may not be the Woman of Steel, but if you push me, you will find I do not bend. Dismissed.
- [Alex and Kara turn to leave]
- Colonel Lauren Haley: And one more thing. I brought some sweet potato pie today. It's in the cafeteria. Happy Thanksgiving.
- Alex Danvers: [leaving a meeting with Haley] She's completely dug her heels in here. She has all of the power.
- Supergirl: So we're just gonna listen to her?
- Alex Danvers: What? No way. No, we're still investigating this.
- Supergirl: Yeah.
- Alex Danvers: And if she gets any more Dolores Umbridge-y, I'm going full Weasley twin.
- Supergirl: Yeah, and who would eat that pie? It's for sure poisoned.
- Alex Danvers: Absolutely.
- Querl Dox: [approaching with a slice of pie in hand] Mm. I've located the drones that dropped the manifesto. Unfortunately, they're untraceable. No prints, no serial numbers.
- Alex Danvers: Brainy, I'm sorry to say that Colonel Haley officially ordered you to stop the investigation.
- Querl Dox: Okay.
- Alex Danvers: [stopping him as he tries to leave] What? No, no, no. You understand what I'm saying, right?
- Querl Dox: I assure you, our communication difficulties are in the past. Consider my investigation terminated.
- Supergirl: No, no, Brainy, we want you to keep looking into it.
- Querl Dox: Okay, I'm confused.
- Alex Danvers: It's... it's why I winked.
- Querl Dox: [understanding] Ah, yes. I shall continue my investigation in
- [raising his voice]
- Querl Dox: complete secrecy.
- Alex Danvers: [handing him the Agent Liberty mask and manifesto] For you.
- [he hands her his plate of pie]
- Alex Danvers: I don't...
- [Kara snickers]
- Alex Danvers: I swear that he's going to get me fired by the end of the day.
- 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.
- Supergirl: By the way, Eliza texted. You're on cranberry sauce for Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow.
- Alex Danvers: When am I supposed to go to the grocery store?
- Col 1: [with Manchester in a headlock] Take a step and I break his neck.
- [Supergirl uses her heat vision to break his bat, and Manchester takes the man down]
- Manchester Black: Thanks, but I had it under control.
- Supergirl: Manchester, right? We... we've met.
- Manchester Black: Yeah, I remember.
- Supergirl: So, what are you doing here?
- Manchester Black: Ah, you know, just out for a walk when I saw this lot harassing a nice alien couple.
- Supergirl: Huh.
- Ben Lockwood: Why were the Children of Liberty out there patrolling in the first place? Petrocelli could blow this whole thing.
- [he listens for a moment]
- Ben Lockwood: Just make sure they all lay low until the time comes.
- Ben Lockwood: Sorry it took so long. It was a zoo, but I got everything. I got the sweet potatoes, I got the rolls, and I... think I got the allspice.
- Lydia Lockwood: My hero.
- Lydia Lockwood: Well, I have some good news. It looks like we're gonna be able to make our mortgage payment again this month.
- Ben Lockwood: Oh, well, when you sign up for "richer or for poorer", you kinda hope it's not alway for poorer.
- Lydia Lockwood: Is it "for poorer"? Isn't it just "for poor"?
- Ben Lockwood: You know, I don't remember. I wasn't actually paying attention.
- Sean Chui: Most were surprised by this Children of Liberty manifesto. However, former history professor Ben Lockwood had a little more foresight. Take a look.
- Lydia Lockwood: Did you know about this?
- Ben Lockwood: [on TV] Throughout history, the downtrodden have found ways to make their voices heard before the mainstream forgets about them. But the irony in this case is that the mainstream, humanity, are the downtrodden.
- 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.
- J'onn J'onzz: Hey.
- Manchester Black: My favorite Martian. Sorry, you probably hear it all the time.
- J'onn J'onzz: You didn't reply to my invitation.
- Manchester Black: Right, uh, yeah. Pilgrim Day. I'm just not up for it, man.
- J'onn J'onzz: Right. It's just that I was worried that those leaflets might stir up some bad feelings for you.
- Manchester Black: Nothing I can't handle.
- J'onn J'onzz: Well, maybe a turkey dinner will help. It's a small gathering; we'd love to have you, although I can't promise there won't be Charades.
- Manchester Black: As much as I love Charades...
- J'onn J'onzz: [amused laugh] I understand. I understand.
- [writing down Kara's address]
- J'onn J'onzz: Well, look, man, if you change your mind, here's my friend's address.
- Manchester Black: [J'onn turns to leave] J'onn. Thanks for thinking of me.
- Manchester Black: [after talking to J'onn] Right, where were we?
- [revealing Officer Petrocelli chained up in his bathtub]
- Manchester Black: [unfurling a belt of torture tools] Oh, yeah. You were about to start talking.
- Kara Danvers: Everything okay?
- James Olsen: Yeah. Uh... Lena booked me on this round-table thing.
- Kara Danvers: That's great.
- [seeing his expression]
- Kara Danvers: Isn't... isn't that great?
- James Olsen: Um... she should have told me first, you know? Okay, so, I made plans to meet with somebody from Children of Liberty, and now she wants me to go on a TV show and denounce them.
- Kara Danvers: Well, she... so she's worried about your image as Guardian.
- Kara Danvers: I know Lena can be forceful, but she protects the ones she loves.
- James Olsen: She's not always right.
- Kara Danvers: She's right most of the time.
- James Olsen: Whose side are you on?
- Kara Danvers: I'm on both of your sides.
- James Olsen: But I'm still not doing the round-table.
- Kara Danvers: I can do it.
- James Olsen: No. No, no, no. No, it's-it's only in a few hours, and there's a lot of preparation that needs to be done, and half the newsroom is gone 'cause of the holiday. I mean... No.
- Kara Danvers: Well, that's fine. I'll-I'll just ask Nia to help me. Where...?
- James Olsen: [seeing Nia at her desk] You-Y-You mean Nia Nal, the one who's literally asleep on the job?
- Kara Danvers: No, she's not asleep...
- [seeing Nia facedown]
- Kara Danvers: Oh.
- Nia Nal: [jerking awake at her desk] Chocolate-covered espresso beans!
- Kara Danvers: Nia? You feeling all right?
- Nia Nal: Oh... oh, no... Oh, no. Please don't fire me.
- James Olsen: Oh, no, no, no. No, no one's gonna fire you. I mean, you do amazing work, when you're... awake.
- Nia Nal: Uh, I'm sorry I didn't say anything before, but I have that sleep thing. The one that causes you to fall asleep at random times.
- James Olsen: Narcolepsy?
- Nia Nal: Yes! That's it. Narcolepsy.
- Kara Danvers: Oh, good... well, Nia, that-that's a serious illness. Have you seen a doctor?
- Nia Nal: Yeah. Yeah, back in D.C. I haven't found anyone here yet.
- Tom: Your work as Guardian has inspired so many of us to stand up and fight for justice.
- James Olsen: Thanks, man.
- Tom: Yeah.
- James Olsen: What's your name?
- Tom: Oh, yeah. Sorry, I'm just, uh... I'm a little nervous. Tom.
- James Olsen: Tom, nice to meet you, brother.
- 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.
- Kara Danvers: Most aliens want to live peacefully, just like humans do.
- Ben Lockwood: Okay, and where's the proof of that? Because there have been numerous alien attacks, human lives have been lost.
- Kara Danvers: But there are also aliens making extraordinary contributions. Every one that I interviewed for my "Aliens in National City" series was exceptional.
- Ben Lockwood: Okay, but for a second, let's just talk about human exceptionalism. For example, um... your own editor in chief, James Olsen. He was supposed to be here tonight, was he not?
- Kara Danvers: Uh, y-yes.
- Ben Lockwood: Okay, so, Guardian, if the Children of Liberty are such a problem, why hasn't Guardian renounced them? In fact, rumor is he's meeting with them right now, which seems to indicate that James Olsen understands that these people have something of value to say.
- Kara Danvers: There is a very clear difference between having something to say and the hate speech in these leaflets. This manifesto will only incite violence and fear, and as Americans, we are better than that. On Thanksgiving; tomorrow is Thanksgiving. It is a day for family, for our community. It is about welcoming different cultures and celebrating a gratitude for life together. That is what liberty is about.
- Sean Chui: [the studio audience applauds] Maybe that's a good place to end this conver...
- Ben Lockwood: [interrupting] That's a really good point. I'm sorry, I just need to respond to that. Um, I think it's very interesting that we are here, having this debate the day before Thanksgiving Day. I mean, American history, it has this nasty habit with this holiday particularly to just wrap it all up in a neat little bow, when the truth is in the years following the indigenous Wampanoag people inviting the pilgrims to a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, the European invaders slaughtered their hosts. So if we do not learn from American history, is it possible that a hundred years from now, the aliens will have their own wonderful, thankful holiday about how they slaughtered us?
- 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.
- Nia Nal: Well, if it isn't my stalker.
- Querl Dox: Nia Nal. I didn't realize you were going to be here.
- Nia Nal: So those flowers aren't for me?
- Querl Dox: Uh, no. They're for Kara. I was once told to always show up not empty-handed.
- Nia Nal: Sounds like your mother raised you right.
- Querl Dox: No, she most definitely did not.
- Kara Danvers: Brainy, I'm so glad you made it.
- [taking the flower bouquet]
- Kara Danvers: These are lovely.
- Querl Dox: Mm-hmm. They're not real.
- Kara Danvers: Oh.
- Eliza Danvers: I hope you don't mind, but Kara told me about your narcolepsy.
- Nia Nal: Oh. It's really not that big of a deal.
- Eliza Danvers: My friend, Dr. Mosier, is a specialist in sleep disorders, right here in National City.
- Nia Nal: Oh, my gosh. What an... unexpected coincidence.
- Eliza Danvers: I already texted her. She can get you in any time next week.
- Nia Nal: No! No, thank you. Um... I already have a doctor here.
- Eliza Danvers: Oh. Who? Maybe... maybe I know them.
- Nia Nal: Uh... doc... Doctor, uh... Smith.
- Eliza Danvers: Gene Smith?
- Nia Nal: No. Um... uh... uh, Minsky. Dr. Minsky Smith.
- Eliza Danvers: [to herself] Minsky...
- Nia Nal: He's really young. I'm sure you don't know him. Well, not that you don't know young people.
- 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.
- James Olsen: Hey, I saw you on "Counterpoint Daily". I-I'm really sorry to put you out there like that last minute.
- Kara Danvers: I just worry that this manifesto really is a harbinger of something terrible.
- Querl Dox: In the text, we found numerous hidden messages, but even the most threatening was about charcuterie.
- Nia Nal: It seems scarier now that they've trained dogs to identify aliens.
- James Olsen: They have?
- Kara Danvers: Yep. Actually, the guy Supergirl fought the other night had a dog.
- Alex Danvers: What are you thinking, James?
- James Olsen: Tom and I were walking his dog yesterday, and-and the dog kept barking at certain houses.
- Nia Nal: Alien houses.
- J'onn J'onzz: Did they mark them somehow?
- James Olsen: I mean, he-he kept texting somebody who he claimed to be his wife, but I... I guess he could have been texting somebody else to-to mark those addresses for later.
- Alex Danvers: The only reason they'd want to identify alien homes is to target them.
- James Olsen: Yeah, but if-if they were marking houses, we would see that, right? I mean, we-we would notice that.
- Manchester Black: The marks might not be visible to the naked eye. The mask had some kind of night-vision tech in them.
- Kara Danvers: [Brainy retrieves a Liberty mask from his bag] Why did you bring that to dinner?
- Querl Dox: Oh. Uh... I figured if things got boring, I might just do a little work.
- [popping a piece out from the eye-hole]
- Querl Dox: Oh, look at that.
- 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.
- Alex Danvers: Sunset is in twenty minutes. I gotta get to work, so can you give me a ride?
- Kara Danvers: Yep.
- Alex Danvers: [leaving the apartment] Haley won't back us up, but I'll do what I can at street level.
- Kara Danvers: I'll get rid of as many markers as I can, so they won't know where to attack.
- 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.
- Nia Nal: [helping Kara prep for "Counterpoint Daily"] As a reporter for CatCo, what role do you think the media should be playing in the rising anti-alien sentiment?
- Kara Danvers: The goal of the media is to ensure that every voice is heard. Ignorace breeds fear, so the more factual dynamic news stories we write, including about aliens, the less we will...
- [seeing Nia is asleep]
- Kara Danvers: Nia!
- Nia Nal: [jerking awake] I'm listening.
- Kara Danvers: Nia, we have got to get you help. Hey, you know, you should come to my place on Thanksgiving. My mom will be there, and-and she knows all the top doctors in then city. She can help you.
- Nia Nal: You're gonna do great. You are passionate, you are intelligent. Your hair looks amazing. Did you get highlights?
- Kara Danvers: [quietly, taken aback] Yeah.
- Nia Nal: Go get 'em.
- Kara Danvers: I thought I was the mentor.
- Sean Chui: Thank you so much for joining us on the show.
- Kara Danvers: Oh, thanks for having me.
- Sean Chui: And this is your counterpoint.
- Ben Lockwood: Hi. Ben Lockwood. It's very nice to meet you.
- James Olsen: So, when do I get to meet Agent Liberty?
- Tom: You're talking to him.
- James Olsen: You're Agent Liberty?
- Tom: We're all agents of liberty.
- James Olsen: I mean the big guy, the guy who signed the leaflet. I was hoping to get to interview him.
- Tom: Oh, that's above my pay grade. I was just asked to show you what we do, answer some questions.
- James Olsen: And this is what you do?
- Tom: We patrol the streets, keep them safe for humans. Just like you do with Guardian. But this week is special. And we don't want any roaches crashing people's Thanksgiving dinners.
- James Olsen: Roaches? That's pretty heavy langugage, and I would really appreciate it if you didn't call aliens "roaches" in my presence.
- Tom: Well, that's what they are.
- James Olsen: Or do you just classify them that way so you don't have to deal with the fact that they're living and breathing beings just like you and I?
- Manchester Black: Children of Liberty. Well, that's a stupid name, innit? What's with the mask? Too cowardly to show your face, eh?
- [trying the mask on]
- Manchester Black: Weird lenses. Right. I'm gonna ask you once more.
- [as he turns the shower on, Petrocelli groans under the cold water]
- Manchester Black: Who is Agent Liberty? And where can I find him?
- [holding up a pair of jumper cables]
- Manchester Black: Don't give me a reason to have to use these.
- Officer Petrocelli: Please, it's like I said. I just got the mask; I'm supposed to patrol the streets and scare roaches. That is all I know.
- Manchester Black: [sucker-punching him in the stomach] Well, I tried to save you some suffering, but it seems like some blokes are just masochists. If only I could see into this big, ugly head of yours.
- [getting an idea]
- Manchester Black: Actually, maybe I can.
- James Olsen: Do not do this.
- Tom: These are choices everyone has to make. It is my family first!
- James Olsen: Do not let your anger become violence. There are lines that we do not cross.
- Tom: Get out of my way!
- [they get into a physical brawl, which ends with Tom on the ground in an armbar]
- Tom: I just wanna protect my family. You'd do the same thing.
- James Olsen: Not like this, I wouldn't.
- Mask 1: Get out here, you filthy roaches!
- [the keyhole opens, and a Liberty mask appears; taken by surprise, the Children of Liberty retreat as Manchester reveals himself, raising his pistol]
- Manchester Black: Sorry, Fi. I've got to do it my way.