- Supergirl makes a new ally. Lena and Lex battle for control of Luthor Corp.
- Supergirl loses Zor-El in the Phantom Zone, but finds a new ally. Meanwhile, a Phantom transforms Silas into one of its own and sets out to convert more humans to Phantoms, and Lex and Lena continue their game of cat-and-mouse as they try to trump each other.—Gislef
- Supergirl and Zor-El try to escape from the Phantom Zone by holding onto a Phantom as it slides through the portal. It doesn't work. In the process Kara injures her leg. The noise of their distress brings in Kryptonian criminals who grab Zor-El, hoping to sacrifice him to the Phantoms. As they are ready to grab Kara, too, a woman shows up warning that Phantoms approach. It is a ruse to save Kara. The woman explains that she is Princess Nyxly, a depowered, fifth-dimensional imp. She knows Mr. Mxyzptlk and was sent to the Zone by her father who was afraid she would usurp some of his power. As they converse, Nyxly manages to re-spark her powers to the point where she can remove a wrist fetter and fix Kara's leg. They rescue Zor-El, who reveals that Alura Zor-El built the Phantom Zone. The three agree to look for a possible exit point from the Phantom Zone where Alura had attached it. Maybe Nyxly's magic will spring them out? Meanwhile, a Phantom who has escaped into the world transforms Silas into one of its own and sets out to convert more humans to Phantoms. M'Gann disobeys J'onn's instructions and tries to go capture the Phantom. Instead, it is able to attack her and potentially transform her into one of its kind. J'onn is able to snatch her and transfer a piece of her soul into her before the Phantom escapes with hers. Lex and Lena continue to wrestle for control of LuthorCorp. Lena locks Lex out of the computer system and drains his funds into a large donation for the local children's hospital. Lex sends Otis to start a fire at the hospital and get the blame shifted to Lena. Brainy loses patience with Lex and offers to kill him. Lena says that would backfire on him. She decides she has had enough of Lex's shenanigans and quits her position in LuthorCorp. Alex has been despondent over the loss of Kara to the Phantom Zone. Kelly is able to rally a bit of combative spirit in her that jars her loose from her grief-caused paralysis.—Garon Smith
- J'onn and M'gann break into Cyrus' apartment, and find him dying on the floor. He tells them that a Phantom attacked him, and J'onn realizes that one Phantom got out of the Zone.
In the Zone, Supergirl grabs the robe of a Phantom entering the portal, and Zor-El hangs onto her. On the other side, the two Kryptonians fall to the rocky ground. Supergirl breaks her leg in the fall, and two prisoners net Zor-El and yank him away. Another prisoner, Scar, tells Supergirl to be quiet, and they're taking Zor-El the same place they're taking her. An older woman comes up and tells Scar prisoner that White Martians are nearby, and says that they got Az-Rel.
The prisoner runs off, and the woman smiles, and says that it was too easy. Supergirl realizes that the woman is lying, and the woman says that Az-Rel is fine. When Supergirl says that they need to rescue Zor-El, the woman says that they'll rescue him once they get Supergirl somewhere safe, extends her hand, and tells Supergirl to come with him. After a moment, Supergirl goes with the woman.
Brainiac-5 continues to use a computer to search the Zone for Supergirl, and overhears a newscast Lex is giving about how he's glad to be a free man. The hero says that Lex shouldn't have a future. J'onn and M'Gann bring Silas in and have Brainiac-5 bring thermo blankets, and a Phantom nested inside of Silas. Brainiac-5 starts researching Phantoms, and tells the Martian that Nia is at a CatCo investors' retreat while Alex went home to get some rest.
M'gann tells J'onn to go easy on Alex because she's lost a sister. He says that he made the mistake of letting his emotions get the better of him, and a Phantom escape into the world and won't make the same mistake again, and calls Alex.
At her apartment, Alex is watching the hologram that Supergirl made at the Fortress. As the hologram talks about how Alex taught her to be human, Kelly comes in and Alex says that she's accepted that Supergirl is gone. Kelly assures Alex that Supergirl isn't dead, but Alex figures that Supergirl is trapped in a cold hell and she couldn't save her. Alex wonders what the purpose is in trying anything else, and Kelly assures Alex that she'll stay at her side.
J'onn calls, and Alex says that there's no point in answering the phone. Kelly tells Alex that she gets to decide whether she gives up or keeps moving. She says that when things are dark, that's when they show up for those who need them the most.
Lena comes into her office and finds Lex waiting for her. He says that he's been locked out of all Luthor Corp accounts. Lena tells him that his time at Luthor Corp is over, and tells her to give him his access back. Lena says that she'll do everything in her power to protect the company and the world from Lex. Lex says that he's friends with DA Matthews, who was appointed when Lena's friend and previous DA was fired for losing the case. Matthews is issuing a warrant to have the cyber-attack ended, and Matthews is going to pursue a case against Lena and Non Nocere.
At the tower, Alex arrives and Brainiac-5 confirms that the Phantoms were originally Zullan Malletarians. They populate by possessing people and turning the possessed into mindless hive beings. The Kryptonians imprisoned them in the Zone and made them prison guards. The more a Phantom preys, the stronger it gets. First the Phantom attack psychically, then attack with their poisonous talons. The victim's life-force leaves the body and migrates to the Phantom's nest.
Silas convulses and his life force leaves his body, and he transforms into a Phantom and attacks J'onn. Brainiac-5 grabs power dampeners and manages to manacle the Phantom, while Alex freezes up. Afterward, they imprison the Phantom in a containment cell. M'gann arrives and joins J'onn in searching the city and scanning telepathically for the cold-energy signature. Brainic-5 will look for Silas' three missing roommates, and Brainiac-5 says that the new Phantom will be just as dangerous but also innocents. He'll build remote activated kinetic inhibitors to keep them from infecting them.
Alex goes out on the balcony and J'onn joins her. He says that they can't be ruled by their emotions and he needs Alex to focus. Alex asks how he can march on like nothing is wrong, and J'onn says that marching is the only way to get Supergirl back.
The woman, Myx, takes Supergirl to the cave where she lives and says that the prisoners will sacrifice Zor-El to a terrible creature that lives in Shadow Lake. They have time to make a plan, and Supergirl wants to rescue him despite her broken leg. When Myx figures that Supergirl is a criminal, Supergirl says that she isn't and was sent their by a madman. She explains who she is and how she thought her and Kal-El were the only two survivors, and everyone else including Zor-El was dead. She says that she can't lose Zor-El again, and Myx says that she thinks she can help. Myx takes out a glass sphere, says that it's a powerful tool from her dimension, and she smuggled it into the Zone.
Myx uses the sphere to show Supergirl an image of Zor-El. Supergirl wonder if Myx is an imp like Mxyzptlk, and Myx says that she knows him. Supergirl then asks for a splint for her broken leg.
M'gann says that they should find the Phantoms and contain them, but J'onn refuses to let her go out with the short-range inhibitors rather than Brainiac-5's longer-range devices. After he leaves, M'gann considers the inhibitors.
Brainiac-5 sends a hologram to Lena's office, after she texts him that she needs more help with Operation Vengeance. She tells Brainiac-5 that Lex was there, and that the Luthor Foundation is a shell company for Lex's weapons to Kaznia. Lena wants to transfer the money from Lex's secret cache of money to a children's hospital. He does so, then gets an alarm and drops the hologram.
At the tower, Brainiac-5 discovers that the transformed Silas keeps slamming himself into one wall of the cell as if he's being drawn to something. Alex gets a report on the police scanner about a warehouse being attacked by Phantoms. Brainiac-5 realizes that the roommates are attacking, and J'onn realizes that M'gann already went to the warehouse.
J'onn, Alex, and Brainiac-5 go to the warehouse, and Brainiac-5 picks up four cold signatures and one large presence. The Phantom is entering a portal that is' created, and J'onn finds M'gann unconscious on the ground, a Phantom's slash on her neck.
The trio take M'gann to the tower after they contain the Phantom progenies. M'gann's temperature is dropping faster than Silas', and Brainiac-5 warns that the stronger the Phantom get, the faster their victims transform. M'gann wakes up and J'onn says that he had a hunch Martians would be more vulnerable to the Phantom attacks.
Myx draws a map for Supergirl to Shadow Lake, and Supergirl insists on going alone. She asks why Myx was sent there, and says that she's Princess Myxlgsptinz, and she was banished to the Zone because her father the King was afraid that she would steal his power. First he killed his son, and considered Myx useless and not fit to sit on a throne so he banished her to the Zone. First he put a bracer on Myx to negate her powers. Supergirl tells Myx that she's not useless but resourceful, and they should both believe in each other. She then says that they're both going to save Zor-El in the morning.
Lex is on the phone to one of his weapon buyers, and discovers that the money is gone from his foundation. His butler Philippe comes in and says that the Gazette was hoping they could get a statement from Lex on his donation. Lex realizes that Lena drained the accounts, and tells Philippe that she's good taking something illegal and making it legal. She plans to negotiate with the buyer and then send Otis to the children's hospital to deal with Lena.
Lena brings an upgrade at Brainiac-5's request to refortify the cell. Lex calls Lena and tells her to watch the news. The newscast is about a fire at the children's hospital, and Lex has told the press that Lena was in charge of the upgrades. Lena is shocked that Lex set the hospital on fire to get revenge on her.
While Supergirl sleeps, Myx tries to break the bracelet free. She smashes it with the globe and removes it, and realizes that she has her power is back. Supergirl wakes up and Myx tells her that her magic is back. She heals Supergirl's broken leg, and says that she wasn't even trying and just remembered Supergirl's inspirational speech and she believed in herself. Myx says that she's starting to feel like who she thinks he was before she got there, and explains that when the Zone fractured, she had memories of her pre-Crisis lives. Myx says that she had a good feeling about Supergirl, and says that they should save Zor-El.
Lena says that she wants Lex dead, and Brainiac-5 says that he can do it but should make it slow. Shocked, Lena tells him to stop and says that they can't kill Lex, and when she killed Lex it turned her into the darkest version of herself. She says that Brainiac-5 can't turn to the dark side, and he says that since removing his emotion inhibitors he's been overwhelmed by his rage. Brainiac-5 says that he needs to destroy Lex, and if he can't then he wonders how he makes the feelings go away.
Lena says that they have to embrace their rage, and let it out and then let it go. Brainiac-5 paces back and forth, then yells in frustration that he hates Lex and breaks into tears. He tells Lena that he misses Supergirl, and Lena takes Brainiac-5's hand and says that she does as well.
J'onn paces around the medbay, and Alex tells him that the transfusion they've given M'gann has slowed the transformation. The Martian says that M'gann's transformation is inevitable, and her life-force will be lost. He says that he still made mistakes when he shielded his emotions, and put M'gann in danger. When he sits down, despairing, Alex sits with him and says that earlier she couldn't get out of bed because she didn't want to live in a world without Supergirl. She tells J'onn that he has to try, for M'gann's soul.
Alex point out that J'onn bonded with M'gann to stop Myriad, and he might be able to use that fragment to keep her life-force in his body. She convinces J'onn to take the risk despite the fact that he might lose the small fragment of M'gann that he has, and J'onn realizes that he might know the thing they need.
Kelly brings the Neuro Obsidian-Imager that J'onn requested. J'onn has brought the U'ra'er'run, a Martian artifact that is used for spiritual rituals. It will allow them to restore M'gann's soul, and Brainiac-5 will monitor the artifact while J'onn cleaves M'gann's soul from himself and transfer it into M'gann. They have to do it when M'gann's life-force leaves her body, but before she turns. If they miss the window of opportunity, M'Gann will be lost forever.
The temperature in the tower plummets, and they realize that the remaining Phantoms followed M'gann there. Brainiac-5, Alex, and Lena go to hold off the Phantoms, and Lena suggests that they use her portal watch to send the Phantoms to a containment cell. They need to draw them to the same point, and Alex asks Brainiac-5 to be her wingman. He readily agrees, and Lena reprograms her portal watch while Alex and Brainiac-5 gear up to fight the Phantoms coming through the elevator.
The five Phantoms break in, and Alex and Brainiac-5 hold them back while J'onn and Kelly perform the transfusion. Lena sets the new coordinates. One Phantom goes for them, and Kelly tries to hold them off. J'onn blasts him back, and Brainiac-'s blaster overheats. Lena tosses Brainiac-5 the programmed watch, and he teleports them into the containment cell. The Prime Phantom escapes through a portal, while M'gann wakes up and J'onn hugs her.
That night, Lex finds Lena waiting for him in his office. She says that he endangered children to get back at her, and says that the last time she shot him it didn't change anything. Lex figures that she likes their games of cat-and-mouse, and Lena says that she can't lose if she doesn't play. Lena says that she's leaving Luthor Corp, and figures Lex will self-destruct if led to his own device.
Lena says that fighting with Lex has never brought her anything but happiness, and washing him out of her life will free her and she'll finally be happy. Lex figures that she's making another move, and Lena tells him that she's done playing games. She says that she's called Matthews and he'll drop the investigation if she leaves Luthor Corp. Lex says that everything she has worked for will be gone, and she says goodbye. Lena admits that she hates him, but she loves herself more.
J'onn promises M'gann that he will never hide his feelings from her again, and from now on they're a team. M'gann says that they already is, and she had a hunch that he'd be a good one to bind with. The two of them hug, while Alex watches them and smiles.
Alex goes home and gives flowers to Kelly. She thanks Kelly for being her "rock" earlier, and says that Kelly saved her by reminding her that she needed to get up and face the hard things, because life is worth it. When she saw J'onn losing hope, it was like looking in a mirror and then she remembered what Kelly told her earlier. None of them gave up, and they did the impossible. Alex asks Kelly to move in with her so she can tell her every morning that she loves her. Kelly accepts and they kiss.
Lex is looking at an article on Lena. Philippe comes in and asks what's next for the Man Who Has Everything. Lex says that he's going to get more and uses a portal to teleport out.
The prisoners are sharpening their knives to kill Zor-El. Myx teleports in with Supergirl, and sends the prisoners away. Supergirl frees Zor-El and he asks who Myx is. He thanks Myx for her help, and Myx figures they're going back to where they came from. Supergirl says that they should find their way out, and there's an anchor somewhere in the Zone. Myx figures that she could come with them and get out of the one, and smiles.
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