- Kara Danvers: Any sign of Malific?
- Alex Danvers: No. He doesn't seem to have any psychic signature, either. But we'll find him, we have to.
- [notices that Kara is gorging herself with junk food]
- Alex Danvers: Oh... are you all right?
- Kara Danvers: [shrugs] Maybe I'm a little nervous about having lunch with Lena. The first time we're hanging out since I told her I was Supergirl.
- [sighs]
- Kara Danvers: I was just lying to her for *so* long.
- Kara Danvers: Lena forgave you... okay? But you're gonna have to let go of the past.
- Kara Danvers: I just want things to be great between us. I... I want this lunch to be...
- Alex Danvers: Perfect.
- Kara Danvers: The best.
- Alex Danvers: And it will.
- [nods]
- Alex Danvers: Look, Lena wants your relationship back on track too. Look, I have to get back to the DEO. You go be perfect somewhere else.
- Kara Danvers: I'll try.
- Alex Danvers: Okay.
- Querl Dox: [waxing poetic] Graceful arcs across her brow / I'm left forever to wonder how / a being as perfect as my Nia Nal / could ever love someone...
- [but he startles her, and she drops her hair dryer]
- Nia Nal: [softly by herself] Put up with this all?
- Querl Dox: ...as small?
- [he heard her]
- Querl Dox: What was that?
- Nia Nal: [with wet hair] Um... Just, thank you, for... poem one hundred and...
- Querl Dox: One hundred and twenty-seven.
- Nia Nal: [dismayed tone] One hundred and twenty-seven.
- Querl Dox: I almost mastered the sonnet.
- Nia Nal: Oh, I think you've got it. But... you don't wanna overdo it.
- Querl Dox: Oh, you're right. "Brevity is the soul of wit," as Polonius said to Hamlet.
- Lena Luthor: [another failed attempt] Damn!
- Eve Teschmacher: The transmitter you duplicated from the Obsidian contacts uses an ocular interface. Since you modeled this directly into the brain, may I suggest you lower the frequency another 7.32 percent?
- Lena Luthor: It's not that, Hope. In theory, Q-waves should allow me to rewrite portions of the human brain.
- Eve Teschmacher: To rid the world of lying, all manipulation and violence.
- Lena Luthor: Yes, but no matter how I manipulate the frequency, the transmitter will only allow me to read information from the brain. If I try to augment it,
- [shakes her head]
- Lena Luthor: I get a zombie effect.
- Eve Teschmacher: And you don't want a world of robots, you just want better people.
- Lena Luthor: Right.
- [looks sad and so alone in her quest, and Eve 'Hope' places her arms around her neck]
- Eve Teschmacher: [Lena rejects the hug, pushes her away] I am sorry, Ms. Luthor. It must be uncomfortable, with me in this form, for you to trust me.
- Lena Luthor: I don't... trust people, Hope. I believed I could, once, I had friends who made me believe I could, but who betrayed me, like everyone else.
- Eve Teschmacher: Your brother, Lex... was the worst of them, but I believe he could help you now. I have access to Eve Teschmacher's memories. Lex was working with Q-waves. It was part of his plan to get past Superman's invulnerable skin. He left detailed records in his private journals.
- Lena Luthor: His journals?
- Eve Teschmacher: There are three of them. They are currently in a Level-5 secure facility at Fort Summit.
- [shakes her head]
- Eve Teschmacher: However, upon further analysis, retrieving them would be impossible.
- Lena Luthor: For me, maybe, but not for everyone.