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Lena Luthor : Mr. Olsen. Come to tell Kara "I told you so"? Another Luthor takes innocent lives, news at eleven?
James Olsen : Ms. Luthor, despite our differences, I would hope by now that you would recognize that I see you as more than just an extension of your brother. However, I... I do think that you should get ahead of this thing. Which, in my opinion, I think you should step down from CatCo; so whatever we report, good or bad, comes off as truthful.
Kara Danvers : No, that would look like an admission of guilt.
Lena Luthor : No, Kara, he's right. Whatever's happening, whoever's responsible, this is a public crisis, and the public deserves to be able to trust the reporting so that they can prepare themselves. They expect integrity from us. They deserve it, and they need it now more than ever. Mr. Olsen, you will run CatCo until this is resolved. And I think I should also step down from L-Corp.
Samantha Arias : Lena, we need you. We need you to help guide the research.
Lena Luthor : No, no. L-Corp has a brain trust that is more than capable, okay? If I'm involved, I could be accused of... of covering things up, or even profiting from the sick. This can't be like Flint, Michigan, okay? Where... where bureaucracy got in the way. Helping people has to be the focus.
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Lena Luthor : Someone just tried to kill me. I shouldn't be putting you and Ruby in danger.
Samantha Arias : That woman is in custody. No one will be looking for you here. You're safe. So take your Louboutins off, relax, and chug this.
Lena Luthor : [Sam hand her a glass of water] This really isn't necessary.
Samantha Arias : Stop it. You're dehydrated.
Lena Luthor : You could have been shot. You shouldn't be hiding me.
Samantha Arias : You gave me a break when I needed it the most. Let me return the favor.
[they see Ruby enter carrying blankets and a pillow]
Lena Luthor : One night.
Samantha Arias : Great. This is what friends are for.
Lena Luthor : If Ruby was sick, would you still be my friend?
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Kara Danvers : I came to let you know that I'm not done. Not by a long shot. Until we know for sure, I will turn over every rock, and...
Lena Luthor : Just stop.
Kara Danvers : You are one of the strongest women I know. Why aren't you fighting?
Lena Luthor : Because I did it! Kara, I... I did it. You know, all I ever wanted to be was good. My whole life, I was a pariah; first because I was rich, and then because of my brother, so... and then then, finally, I did just... just one thing... one thing that was good, and now I'm the monster that poisons children. You know, even... even Lex Luthor never did that.
Kara Danvers : Anyone who knows you knows that you would never...
Lena Luthor : Maybe I'm the same. People are sick, and it's my fault.
Kara Danvers : There's still a chance it wasn't you.
Lena Luthor : And I know that you believe that everything is good and kind, and that... that is one of the things I love about you. But that's not the real world. In the real world, my last name's bin Laden, and everything I do hurts people. Hey, you know, it's... it's in my DNA, okay, so please, just... just... just stop. Stop believing me, okay? I am not worth it.
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James Olsen : Ms. Luthor, um... you approved an advertorial on page six.
Lena Luthor : Is there a question coming?
James Olsen : Well, I... I just wish you would have told me first.
Lena Luthor : I didn't know ads were in your purview, Mr. Olsen.
James Olsen : Well, they're... they're not... they're not not in my purview. It's, like... it's not a big deal. It's just that if we're gonna disguise ads as articles, I think that it sends a bad message. I mean, people want to know what they're getting, you know? They... they expect integrity from us. Just a perception thing.
Lena Luthor : 70%.
James Olsen : Excuse me?
Lena Luthor : That's the deep discount on our print subscription rate, 70%. It's what it takes just to get people to read, so I think an advertorial here and now is a necessary evil.
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Lena Luthor : [seeing Edge on the news] What is that scumbag doing in my hospital?
Morgan Edge : It was a nightmare. We would have given anything for it to end, am I right? Then the Daxamites, the ships just up and left. Do you know why they left? It was a lead dispersal bomb that drove them away. I have a colleague whose son was sick, brought him here. There were other children in this hospital with the same symptoms. The doctors told me there were other children in still other hospitals all displaying the same symptoms: lead poisoning. You know, it's fitting that we're here in this hospital. Lena Luthor built the bomb that poisoned these boys and girls.
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Lena Luthor : Where the hell do you get off?
Morgan Edge : [he gives her the "one minute" gesture, then hands some paperwork to an orderly] Thank you.
[turning to Lena]
Morgan Edge : That was me, paying the end of the medical expenses at your hospital.
Lena Luthor : So this is what your revenge looks like.
Morgan Edge : Have you ever heard of the cobra effect, Lena? Colonial India, the British government, they realized there were snakes all over Delhi. They wanted them gone. So they offered a bounty for dead snakes. And then they realized people were breeding snakes for income; they thought everything was going really well. They realized they got slithering snakes all over Delhi. The whole thing backfired. Turns out they made the problem worse. You understand?
Lena Luthor : You're a toxic predator.
Morgan Edge : Unintended consequences. You wanted to be a hero so bad, you didn't care who you hurt. Now people are gonna die.
Kara Danvers : Even if all of this were true, Supergirl would be just as much to blame. She made the call to use that device.
Morgan Edge : Supergirl may have pushed the button, sure. But that tech was all Luthor.
Lena Luthor : You're a bottom feeder.
Morgan Edge : But I didn't poison children. That was you.
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Lena Luthor : Good afternoon. I'm... I'm Lena Luthor. I know a lot of you here are angry. I... I hear you; I would be myself if I felt someone had poisoned my children, so... my thoughts go out to everyone who's afflicted. I heard what Morgan Edge told you this morning, and I wish I was up here to say something different, but the truth is I don't know if my device hurt children. And until I do, I realize that none of you can have faith in me.
[with her superhuman hearing, Kara hears a gun cock]
Lena Luthor : Your faith is something I harder than you may realize to keep, and the fact that I may have lost it breaks my heart. And so, until the investigation into the poisonings is concluded, I shall be stepping down from...
[gunfire begins; after a brief panic, the perpetrator is caught]
Lena Luthor : [tending to James' gunshot wound] Help! Somebody help me!
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Kara Danvers : Lena?
Lena Luthor : [obviously drunk] Hey. Hey, look. I made a metaphor.
Kara Danvers : Are you here alone?
Lena Luthor : Sam's running my company, Ruby's at a friend's. What news from the front?
Kara Danvers : Nothing yet.
Lena Luthor : You know, you're terrible at hiding things from me.
Kara Danvers : [more to herself] I wouldn't be so sure of that.
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Kara Danvers : Sam and I are at this pool, and all the kids who got sick have been here.
Lena Luthor : I thought I told you to stop.
Kara Danvers : It wasn't you.
Lena Luthor : What?
Kara Danvers : There's a synthetic chemical, when it touches water, it becomes toxic to the body. It mimics the same symptoms as lead poisoning.
Lena Luthor : Well, how... how did it get in the swimming pool?
Kara Danvers : It's in the chlorine containers. They've been using it instead of chlorine. Sam and I are gonna try to track down the manufacturer. Acre Lee Chemical.
Lena Luthor : Acre Lee Chemical?
Kara Danvers : Yeah. You know it?
Lena Luthor : [covering] No. No. Thank you. Both of you.
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Morgan Edge : Lena. You look horrible. Those sick kids really got you tied up in a knot, huh?
Lena Luthor : Acre Lee.
Morgan Edge : Acre what? Acre Lee. Acre Lee, that's where the coyote gets all the stuff he's gonna use to kill the roadrunner from, right?
Lena Luthor : It's a company you own. I remembered it from due dilligence before I invested in your buildings. Established in 1982, manufactures hydrogen gas and sodium hydroxide, and also simple chlorine used for swimming pools. Acquired by Edge Global seven years ago.
Morgan Edge : I'd have to check my records, you know.
Lena Luthor : You used it to poison kids in swimming pools in order to drag my name through the mud.
Morgan Edge : [laughing it off] Come on. That's it? That's what you're bringing? That's what you got? I say you did it, you say I did it? I expected better out of you.
[she pulls a gun]
Morgan Edge : Now that's a disappointment.
Lena Luthor : When that mom shot at me, I knew she was doing the right thing. Because whoever was responible for this, they deserve to die. No trial, no jury. Just erased from the world.
Morgan Edge : You need help, Lena, 'cause you're not... you're not thinking clearly.
Lena Luthor : I'm thinking like a Luthor.
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Lena Luthor : Mr. Olsen, I didn't expect you to be here.
James Olsen : Well, the news never sleeps.
Lena Luthor : How are you, really? I was worried about you.
James Olsen : Well, I'm kind of a hard man to keep down, Ms. Luthor.
Lena Luthor : You know, I have a rule. Whenever anyone take a bullet for me, they get to call me Lena.
James Olsen : [he laughs] Okay. Well, Lena it is. And, uh, my friends call me James. Or Jimmy.
Lena Luthor : [turning to leave] Well, feel better, Jimmy Olsen.
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Samantha Arias : Good news. The antidote L-Corp synthesized is working. The kids are getting better.
Lena Luthor : Oh, thank god.
Samantha Arias : [accepting a glass of wine] Thank you.
Lena Luthor : You guys, I need to say thank you for not giving up on me and not letting me give up on myself.
Samantha Arias : Well, I think Kara and I made a pretty good team.
Kara Danvers : Uh, more than pretty good, if I do say so myself.
Lena Luthor : I... I probably also should apologize to you, I mean... I'm lucky you're still speaking to me.
Kara Danvers : Hey. When you're family, you can say what you need to say, and the people that love you still will love you.
Samantha Arias : That's right.
Lena Luthor : I've never had anyone like that in my life.
Kara Danvers : That's because you've never had a sister.
Samantha Arias : Two. Two sisters.
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Lena Luthor : You're a bottom feeder.
Morgan Edge : But I didn't poison children. That was you.
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Lena Luthor : You know, you're terrible at hiding things from me.
Kara Danvers : [chuckles] I wouldn't be so sure of that.
