- The subsequent complications from the Crisis leave Supergirl to face a chaotic threat.
- Supergirl and Alex watch a commercial of Lex and Supergirl promoting the DEO, and Alex notes that she's relief John gave her back the memories of the pre-Crisis world. Kara isn't happy that everyone is praising Lex, and Andrea is sending Kara to cover Lex receiving a Man of Tomorrow award. She's wants to talk to Lena, and Alex says that Lena not having her memories might be a good thing. Kara figures that she owes it to Lena to tell her the truth.
Lex wakes up Lena, who reveals that she remembers the pre-Crisis. Lex tells her that he's back and forgives her, and says that there was a Crisis. Lena remembers the antimatter wave and Lex says that a powerful person brought him back to life but Lex insisted that Lena remember the original reality. He tells his stepsister that to the outside world their billionaire philanthropist, and warns her that Kara will always work against her. Lex insists that the world is theirs and Lena needs a partner, and suggests that they give it a go. Lena tells Lex that he was Leviathan's puppet before, and Lex has no idea what Leviathan is.
Querl and Nia go walking by the river, and Querl takes Nia to his favorite smoothie cart. Another Querl is there, and the two Querls both insists on arresting each other and taking their counterpart to the DEO.
As Lena goes over her computer, Supergirl flies in and Lena tells her that she knows about the Crisis and what Lex and Supergirl did. When Supergirl promises that she'll never Lena again and asks her to think of how they could help people together, Lena says that Lex gave her the same pitch. Supergirl tells Lena to be careful and leaves.
Querl and the other Querl enter the DEO and Querl tells Querl-2 to confess. They both have the same memories and think they're the real Brainiac. A woman comes in and says that she's Brainiac-5, the director of the DEO. Alex tells the woman, Kor-El, that she's the director of the DEO, and two more Querls appear. One of them is wearing an eyepatch, flickers in and out of existence, and warns that they're all in great danger and can't open a bottle before collapsing dead.
The agents take the eyepatch Querl to the med center and confirm that someone killed him, and the others could be next. The other four Brainiac-5s are there, and their DNAs all match. The dead Brainiac-5 was killed by a biosynthetic virus, and the Brainiac-5's recognize it as the Anti-Life Equation, a techno-organic poison transmitted through the big brain. Alex says that Querl is their Brainiac-5, and Querl-2 and Kor-El figure they stumbled through a wormhole from their dimensions. Kor-El suggests that they try to find the nexus point of their arrival and figure out what the "bottle" is. Querl says that the multiverse is dead and they can't return, and then apologizes for being too blunt.
Lex calls and orders Alex and Supergirl to report to the conference room. When they arrive, Lex seals the door and says that he wants peace. He suggests that that they play a comfortable game of chess. They'll keep an eye on each other while they stand against threats together. Lex asks about Leviathan, and Alex says that they haven't found a trace of the organization. He opens the door and says that if they choose peace, he'll want Supergirl to stand at his side for the award ceremony.
Andrea is talking to her staff about getting Obsidian into every American household, and Gemma comes in. Kelly is among the staff and listens as Andrea welcomes her old college mentor, and then ends the meeting.
Querl and the other Brainiac-5s trace the nexus to Al's bar, and Angst-Querl flickers and collapses. Querl-2 manages to stabilize Angst-Querl, while Querl stares and admits that he doesn't know how to deal with the virus. Once Angst-Querl leaves, Querl-2 pats Querl sympathetic ally on the shoulder and goes to get Supergirl.
That night, Supergirl arrives at the bar and finds the Querls and multiple Als. Querl-2 figures that whatever caused the wormhole dragged all of the Al's Bars in the multiverse there. Querl spots the witches that created Reign, including Selena, and Al explains that they're from his world and work in the bar as fortunetellers. The three sisters argue about how to read Supergirl's future, but Supergirl refuses and all three witches walk off.
Supergirl and Querl realize that everyone there is an orphan. Querl-2 says that an accident of fate kept the people from the other dimensions alive, and it's a miracle. Supergirl tells the Querls to blame in because there's still a murderer, and they need to discover the source of the virus.
At the Luthor Foundation, Lena finds Lillian working in her own office. Lillian says that Lex told her everything but didn't have her memories restored, and Lena suggests that she could use a partner in her goal to fix people at their core. Her stepmother says that Lena's ideology is of no use to her, and Lena says that she's considering Supergirl's offer to partner with her. Lillian tells Lena that she won't risk her emotions if she partners with Lex because she knows she can't trust him.
Alex complains to John about how she now works for Lex, and she doesn't know how she can do it. She wonders if she should leave the DEO, and John talks about an early DEO case when he dealt with a human criminal. He tells Alex that she has to listen to the truth inside of her.
After Lex leaves his DEO office, Kor-El comes in and hacks his computer. Later, she meets Querl at the bar and wonders why he's intellectually behind the rest of them. Querl drops his hologram design and says that he wears personality inhibitors. He explains that he wears them to protect himself, and Kor-El notes that they stop him from accessing the Big Brain and his true happiness. Querl says that he wears the inhibitors to protect others from his rage. Kor-El says that she lost her lover, but she's still with her through the Big Brainiac. She tells Querl that love makes him more capable and compassionate, and the people who love him don't want it for him. Querl says that he's capable as he is, and Kor-El shuts off her hologram and disappears.
Nia finds Angst-Querl in a DEO storage room and says that she had to see the other Querls for himself. Angst-Querl is holding a glowing bottle with a shrunken Earth behind his back, and Nia sees it. Angst-Querl calms down and says that Nia caught him in the act, and he's glad because the act was emotionally exhausting. He says that the bottle contains the seven billions of soul from his dimension, and he put them there before the antimatter wave came. Angst-Querl insists that he saved his world and prevented genocide, and says that there is only life and death. He explains that he killed the Querl that tried to stop him from opening the bottle, and once he finds the device to open the bottle then he'll use it. Nia spots the device on a shelf, and Angst-Querl sees her look and knocks her out. As Nia goes down, she yells to her Querl.
Querl and Supergirl both hear Nia and go the store room. Supergirl uses her heat vision to destroy the device before Angst-Querl can use it, and he teleports away as Querl runs to Nia's side.
Supergirl and Querl take Nia to the med center, and Kor-El explains that Angst-Querl piggybacked off of Querl's personality inhibitors to disguise his true intentions. Kor-El says that the shrinking of worlds is Coluan, and if he releases his Earth then it will destroy theirs. The bottle can only be opened using the device, an Argonium Saber, and Supergirl destroyed it buying them some time. Querl abruptly walks out as Nia stares after him.
Gemma tries the VR goggles and Andrea says that they're making progress. The older woman says that progress is every household being in Obsidian, and asks what Andrea would want to be if she didn't work with her father. Andrea immediately says that she wants to be an anthropologist, and Gemma tells her that she can be an anthropologist in a virtual world. She suggests that damaged people could live in a true virtual world and eventually stay there eventually, and they could double their share prices.
Supergirl finds Querl in the storage room, and he says that when he was 8, his family took him on a vacation. He saw snow for the first time, and his mother saw how much he loved it and wanted to stay there. She bottled the planet for him. Querl's father freed the planet and was furious at what happened, then feared that Querl could turn out like his wife. Querl's father put three personality inhibitors on Querl, keeping him from fully accessing the Big Brain which is the Coluan collective intellect. Querl is afraid to take them off because he might be worse, and Nia might not care for him. Supergirl assures Querl that he's loved and the people that love him will always fight for him. Querl thanks her for her hope, saying that it's magical, and Supergirl figures that Angst-Querl will use the three witches' magic to open the bottle. Querl tells her that he has to deal with Angst-Querl himself but tells Supergirl to come with him, and she agrees.
At Al's, the three witches are manipulating the bottle. When Supergirl, Brainiac-5, and Dreamer come in, one of the witches immobilize them with a spell. The witches explain that Angst-Querl has agreed to return them home. Querl says that opening the bottle isn't worth the risk, and Angst-Querl wonders why Earth-Prime should live when every other one died. Supergirl says that it's the only one they have. The witches attack the heroes, and Querl grabs the bottle as it falls. Angst-Querl attacks him, while Supergirl and Dreamer fight the witches.
Supergirl yells that they can't undo the past, and two of the witches blast her back. The two Querls fight and Angst-Querl slams Querl into the wall, breaking his hologram projector. Nia goes to him and he says that it's all his fault.
The witches snag the bottle and surround themselves with a force field. As Supergirl tries to break through it, Dreamer tells Querl that he can do it by shutting off the inhibitors. When Querl worries that if he turns evil, Nia says that she'll love him no matter what. After a moment, Querl removes the inhibitors and turns fully Coluan. He breaks through the weak point in the force field and avoids the mystical blasts.
Angst-Querl grabs the bottle, and Supergirl tells him that she knows what he's going through. Querl goes over and says that he's Angst-Querl, and he feels the darkness as well. He tells his counterpart that his bad choices don't have to define him. Angst-Querl sobs, saying that he lost everything, and Supergirl tells him that it's not too late to make a different choice. Querl says that they can find a safe place to open the bottle, and Selena among the witches agrees that they shouldn't risk the danger. She says that they'll wait with Angst-Querl, and Angst-Querl screams in frustration and then gives the bottle to Querl. Querl pulls first Angst-Querl and then the witches into the bottle to wait with Angst-Querl.
The next day at Al's, Supergirl and Dreamer take the bottle to the Fortress. The three remaining Querls wait and the other two note that the Big Brain remains where they can relinquish their corporeal forms and live among the Coluan knowledge aggregate. Kor-El assures Querl that living in the Big Brain will feel like going home. Querl thanks them both, and Querl-2 thanks him. he then gives Querl his life projector, and enters the collective. Kor-El tells Querl that she's discovered that Lex has been trying to find Leviathan. She warns that the timelines of their worlds are closer than any others, and Querl can't make the same mistakes she did. Kor-El fought against Lex and it endangered the entire world. If Querl is going to save his world, he has to work with Lex. She warns that no one can know what Querl is doing, and he has to give up Nia until the world is saved. Kor-El assures Querl that he'll never be alone, gives him her life projector, says that she'll be with him, and enters the collective.
Lex returns to Lena's office and tells her that he always wanted to share his victories with her. Lena isn't impressed, and says that she doesn't know what it's like to die. It made Lex want to lash out and hurt her, but death changed him. The new Lex can see how pathetically pedestrian revenge is, and he's ready to be a true partner. Lena wonders how she can believe him, and Lex takes out a Truth Seeker, puts it on him, and asks Lena what she wants to know. Lena questions him and Lex says that he can help her with Non Nocere. Lex admits that he'll turn on Lena when he no longer needs her, and figures she'll do the same. Lena asks why he needs her, and Lex says that he doesn't want to be alone. The two siblings shake hands.
Querl visits Nia at her apartment, who hugs him. She says that she always wanted him to be himself. Querl says that he is, and now some things are going to have to change. When Nia says that they'll work it out together, Querl tells her that he can't be with her anymore. He says that he's himself for the first time and leaves.
Kara goes to the award ceremony and finds William, who says that he doesn't trust Lex because he thinks Lex killed Russell. He applied at CatCo to get close to Lex, and now he needs Kara's help. Kara says that Lena is in much dinner as everyone else. Kelly introduces Lex, and Lillian secretly tells Lex that Lena was leaning toward Supergirl and the two of them should be partners in the real world.
Later, Lex is in his office when Querl visits him. Querl says that they both know his friends are working against Lex, but they're short-sighted and the real threat is Leviathan so he wants to help Lex. When Lex says that he needs knowledge of the future to find out about Leviathan, and says that find a multiversal doppelganger of Winslow who has been arrested, they can bring the future to them.
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