"My name is Kara Zor-El." " 24 years ago my planet, Krypton, was in serious peril." " My cousin, Kal-El, was sent to a planet called Earth for his own safety and protection." " You may know his story." " The story you don't know is that I was sent to protect him." " Your pod's coordinates are interlocked with Kal-El's." "  You will follow him to Earth." "  I'm not afraid, Father." " The trip is long but you'll sleep most of the way and we'll be with you in your dreams." " You'll journey to Earth to look after your baby cousin, Kal-El." " Because of the Earth's yellow sun, you'll have great powers on this planet." " You will do extraordinary things." " I won't fail Kal-El or you." " I love you, Kara." " You must go, now." " Go!" " Things didn't exactly go according to my mother's plan." " Krypton's destruction sent a shock wave that knocked my pod off course and into the Phantom Zone." " A region in space where time doesn't pass." " I slept there for 24 years... until somehow I got here." " When I arrived, I was still a 13-year-old girl." " But in that same time my cousin Kal-El had grown up and revealed himself to your world... as Superman." " The most powerful man in the universe." " My cousin wanted me to have the same safe... human-type childhood he did." " So he placed me with my adoptive family, the Danvers." " Scientists who once helped him understand his own super abilities." " I know I'm not your mom, sweetheart." " But you're safe here." " They had a daughter, Alex." " And despite being born on different planets, we both shared one thing:" "we knew our lives would never be the same again." " My cousin... he didn't need my protection." " I didn't have a mission anymore." " But even though I had all the same powers he did..." "Sorry, sorry." " I decided the best thing I could do is fit in." " After all..." "Earth didn't need another hero." " I need two tickets in the Orchestra section for Wicked." " No, not for Ms. Grant, her mother wants to see it." " Yes, again." " Sure, I'll hold." " Charlie?" " I'm calling about the Correspondent's Dinner," "I need to make sure Ms. Grant doesn't end up next to Bill O'Reilly again." " I work at CatCo Worldwide Media." " An online and print empire built by my boss, Cat Grant." " The most powerful woman in National City." " At least... for the next few days." " Did you see this?" " There was an armored car robbery last night." " There were no witnesses except for this homeless guy who swears the perp had horns." " Like... on his head!" " I'm telling you, they're out there: aliens!" " Winn, there's no such thing as aliens." " Well, you might feel different if you read this website." "  You write that website." "  I..." "I contribute." " Hey, um, I was wondering if maybe you wanna..." "I don't know, go see a movie tonight." " I..." "I can't." " I'm sorry." " I have a date." "  Date, really?" "  Uhm." " That's great... fun." " Dating is fun." "  Who... who is that with?" "  It's an online date." " Says we are 82% compatible, so... should be good." " You know that you can't quantify emotions based on an algorithm?" " Winn, you are IT, isn't your whole life based on algorithms?" " Yes, so if there was an algorithm for love I think that I would know about it." " It's just that... you're gonna know when it hits you, Kara." " It'll be all: "pa-pow"." " Ugh, this elevator is a human petri dish, it's like standing up in coach." "  She's here." "  How do you do that?" " Good morning, Ms. Grant." " The only reason I bought this building was because it had a private elevator." " That way, I don't have to get soaked in cheap cologne every morning, getting to my office, find out who used it, have them reprimanded, or bathed, I don't care which..." "Here's your latte." " Hot." " That would be new and different." " I have a meeting with the Board today at lunch, so cancel sushi with my mother." " Oh, and cancel my therapist." " I won't be needing it if I'm not having lunch with my mother." " Got it." " Also..." "I've emailed a list." " Prepare termination letters for the Tribune employees as noted." " I realise that there are quite a few." " But it would be so nice if you handwrote them." " Use the lesser card stock." " You're downsizing the Tribune?" " But that was your first acquisition." " Go see if the new art director has the layout ready." " It's not that I don't see your frown, it's just that I don't care enough to ask why it's there." " All those people... they're going to lose their jobs." " What's going to happen to them, to their families?" " They don't have to downsize at the Daily Planet." " Metropolis has a person who wears a cape... and flies around performing heroic acts." " The Planet puts this superlative man on their cover 54% of the time." " You wanna save the Trib'?" " Go find me a hero, Kira." " Kara." " Hello?" "  Hello?" "  I'll be just a minute." " Ms. Grant sent me for layouts and she doesn't like to wait." " She can wait a minute." " Have you met Ms. Grant?" " Yeah, what is she gonna do?" " Fire me right after hiring me?" " Her loss." " Hey." " I'm the new guy." " Oh, it's him!" " I've seen this picture like a million times." " It won the Pulitzer." "  Wow." "  Yeah..." "Only 'cause it was the first real shot of him." " Little secret: he actually posed for that." " I guess he likes me." " Oh, my God, you're Jimmy Olsen." " The photographer from the Daily Planet." " James Olsen." " Well, Jimmy is reserved for my mom and the big guy." " He's kind of stuck in his ways." " Uhm, I know what I've read, but..." "What's he like in real life?" " He is everything you want him to be and more." " I was scared to move out here, but he told me the biggest risk is never taking any, so..." " Take it." "  Uhm?" "  Take it." "  This?" " Really?" " Oh God, no, I can't." "  I can't..." " It's just a print." " Please, take it." " But first you have to tell me who you are." "  I never got your name." "  Oh..." "Gosh..." "Hi." " Kara." " Kara Danvers." " Kara..." "Anyone ever tell you that you look a little like him right here?" " No." " No, no you're the first." "  Thank you very much." "  Yeah, of course." " Uhm..." "Layouts." " Right." " Almost forgot them." " Bye." "" Pa-pow"." " I have a conference in Geneva and I need to be on a plane in 2 hours." " And I have a blind date in half an hour and I need you to help me pick out what to wear." "  I win." "  Why do you do this to me?" " 'Cause I'm your sister and you love me." " I don't know, I feel like I'm not living up to my potential." " I went to work for Cat Grant because I thought working in a media company run by a powerful woman who actually shapes the way people think would be the way that I could make a difference, but... instead I just" "fetch layouts and coffee." " You always wanted to be normal, right?" " So, having a crappy boss and absolutely nothing to wear..." " This is what normal looks like." "  I am not normal!" " I have the same powers he does." " I can lift a bus, stop a bullet," "Alex, I can fly!" " At least I think I can, I haven't done it in years." " Kara..." "You've got a good job, you're cute, and thanks to your alien DNA you can't get pimples." " Life is not so bad." " But, if you really wanna help somebody, you'll pick between one of these two so I can get on my plane." "  Yep." "  Good choice." " When in doubt, go with blue, it is your color." " All right..." "Text me every detail from your date and I will call you when I'm back from Geneva." "  I love you." "  Love you." " So, where are you from originally?" " Like where was I born?" " Uhm, north." " I gotta hit this back real quick." " Check please." " Make sure your number is on it." "  If you're just joining us..." " Turn that up!" " National City Airlines flight 237, bound for Geneva, is experiencing some loss of altitude." " The pilot seems to be circling the city after apparent engine failure." " Did he say Geneva?" " Alex." " We just lost another engine." " Mayday, mayday, mayday." " We are going down." " I repeat, we are going down." " Flight attendants, brace for impact." " We're leveling off." " Oh, come on!" " The passengers of flight 237 appear to have a guardian angel when what many report to be a female flying form rescued them from certain death." " Lena Winn is live at the scene." " Thank you, Rick." " Guardian angel or human wrecking ball?" "  What?" "  There is destruction all over Otto Binder Bridge." " And one quick..." "Well, you try saving a plane for the first time." " See if you don't make a mess." " Oh, my God." " I know!" " It's incredible!" " Oh, sorry." " That was too hard." " I'm just..." "I'm so excited." "  I still can't believe I did it." "  Yeah." " Neither can I. Are you okay?" " Me?" " Am I okay?" " Are you okay?" "  Yes, thank you." "  Were you scared?" " I mean, I was scared too, but you..." "You had to be terrified." " Because you had no idea I was coming to save you." "  I need a drink." "  Right!" " Yeah, we need to celebrate." " It has been so long..." "I almost forgot how to fly." " Well, not so much "how", but more... more how it feels, like... scared, but good scared." " Like..." "like that moment right before you kiss someone for the first time." " And now... now it's like..." "I'm not sure what comes next." " Or maybe I am sure and I'm just afraid of what it means..." " and if it means what I think it means." "  What were you thinking?" " You exposed yourself." " To the world." " You're out there now, Kara." " Everyone will know about you and you can't take that back." " I don't want to." " This is what I was talking about, Alex." " I've always felt the need to help people, and tonight I finally got that chance." " I didn't travel 2,000 light years just to be an assistant." " What if people figure out who you are?" " What you are?" " It's just... _" "It's not safe for you to do anything like that." " Ever again." " I'm kind of tired, I just... carried a plane on my back." " I'm gonna go to bed." " You should go." " Don't say I didn't warn you." " Good morning, National City." " Our top story, the only story anyone's talking about:" "who is the mystery flying woman who saved the plane?" " Despite extensive efforts, no one has been able to identify who or rather what she is." " Oh, my God, Kara." " You're a life saver." " Thanks for doing those comps for me." " Cat said I did great work." " Oh, sure, Hayashi." " No big deal." " Her timing, seriously, she is..." " Pretty cool, huh?" "  A plane-saving lady?" " How is the world supposed to take you seriously if you can't even come up with a suit?" " Metropolis gets him and what does National City get?" " Some rookie superhero?" " _" "  I know many of you... are used to being second best but it's new to me." " The most incredible event in the history of National City and yet we have no exclusive of any kind." " We don't have much to go on." " The image we're working off is low res." " I guess she's around 5'9"." " It's tough to gauge with her height measured against an airplane." " Hair color brown." " Or... black." " Or maybe her hair is just dirty." " You know, from soot." "  The plane exhaust." "  James, you make an excellent point." " Do you think there's any connection between this hero" " and..." " To my friend in blue?" " I don't know." " I mean, not that he mentioned, but... if she's anything like him, she's a hero." " Saving people's what they're born to do." " She'll be back." " She better be." " This girl is the answer." " She is exactly what I need to save the Tribune." " Besides fatty foods, there is nothing people love more than a hero." " We are going to blow her up." " We will feature her online and in the paper, but we need images, we need video, we need an interview, an exclusive content." " So go." " Go get me that girl." " And Kara..." "Go get me a lettuce wrap." " It's funny." " That was the first thing he did." " Save a plane, I mean." " Winn, I need to talk to you on the roof." " The roof?" " Kara?" " Hey, uh, just whatever you have to say, can you make it quick?" " I'm not really into being this high up." " Okay, uhm..." "Winn..." "I'm going to tell you something about me that only three people in my life know." " Can I trust you?" "  Yeah, yeah, of course." "  Good." " I just... really want someone to be excited for me." " And I, uhm..." "Right, how do..." "There's something about me... that for most of my life, I've ran from it." " But last night I embraced who I am and I don't wanna stop." " Oh, my God, you're a lesbian." " Oh, Kara, that is why you're not into me." "  This is... this is great news!" "  No." " I'm not gay!" " I am..." "I'm her!" " The woman who saved the plane!" " Okay." " Yeah, okay." " Right." " Kara, what are you doing?" " Hey, Kara!" " Hey, get away from the ledge, you're gonna get hurt." " Kara!" " Hey!" " You're... you're her!" " Yep." " More reports coming in to last night's plane rescue." " The big question: is there a connection between this mysterious flying woman..." " More coffee." " ...  and the Man of Steel?" "  Hey!" "  Sorry about that, sir." " Can you believe it?" " A female hero." " Nice for my daughter to have someone like that to look up to." " Yeah, real nice." " What happened with the plane, Vartox?" " You were ordered to bring it down." " Our trap worked." " The DEO agents were on board and the bomb detonated." "  Then why aren't they dead?" "  The female..." "She flew into the sky and caught the plane." " Who is she?" " Jor-El saved his child before Krypton's destruction." "  Alura's daughter." "  She's working with the humans." " 12 years." " We've been forced to hide in the shadows." " But the General's arrival is imminent." " Nothing must interfere." " You are instructed to continue your orders to eliminate the human operatives." "  You can add this girl to the list." "  Can't promise her death won't be public." "  And messy." "  Human casualties are irrelevant." " Good." " And if she is Alura's Zar-El's daughter... then she will pay for her mother's debts." " And so will her city." " So, how is it?" " Huh?" " How does it fit?" " I'm not flying around saving people in this thing." " I..." "I wouldn't even wear it to the beach." " Where's my cape?" " Capes are lame." " You can tell your cousin I said so." " Actually, never, never do that." " You look really pretty without your glasses." "  Winn..." " So..." "To be a superhero you need a crime." " I hacked into the NCPD." " There's a car chase on the 112 freeway." " I can do a car chase!" " A cape aids with aerodynamics, I should have thought of that." " West National City Bank reporting a 432 at 6th and Spring." "  Suspects are armed and dangerous." "  You, uh, you're sure you're bulletproof?" " Hope so." " All right, the new cape is made from a structured polymer composites, much sturdier than..." "And..." "This one has the "S"." " For "Super", just like your cousin." " It's not an "S"." " It's my family's coat of arms." " The House of El." "***" " I'm assuming you can't catch on fire." " Made of low grade Kryptonite." " Radioactive mineral from your home planet." "  It weakens you." "  Where... where am I?" "  Who are you?" "  My name is Hank Henshaw." " And I believe you already know" "Agent Danvers." " She doesn't need this." " Welcome to the DEO, the Department of Extranormal Operations." " The DEO monitors and protects Earth from extraterrestrial presence and or... invasion." " That means you." " Your ship." " We keep it here as a reminder of the day you crashed on Earth." " You are the reason for all of this." " Me?" " But..." "My..." "But my cousin was here two dozen years before me." " And it was his arrival that triggered the need for this organization." " We realised we weren't alone in the universe and we might soon be getting more... immigrants." " Sure enough, you came along." " And with you..." "Fort Rozz." " Fort Rozz?" " Krypton's Maximum Security prison." " Banished at the Phantom Zone, same place your ship got stuck, but just like yours it didn't stay there." " We're not sure how your pod got loose." " What we do know is this:" "you pulled Fort Rozz with you." " When it crashed, the alien convicts... the worst criminals in the galaxy, they all escaped." " And you brought them here." " This beings..." "Some of them have powers from your darkest nightmares." " For over a decade they've stayed hidden." " But in the last year many have been emerging... making themselves known." " They're planning something." " We're just not sure what it is yet." " Your plane." " That wasn't an accident." " They were trying to kill you." " I can help you stop them." " How?" " You couldn't even stop us from capturing you." " I..." "I'm still learning." " Our job is keeping people in the dark about alien life on Earth, and nothing says "covert operation" like a flying woman in a red skirt." " They know about my cousin, they don't fear him." " Plenty of people do, just not popular to admit it." " You wanna help?" " Go back to getting someone's coffee." " I know you're mad and you're hurt." " I wanted to tell you every single day..." "Instead, you told me every single day not to be who I really am." "  You have to listen to me." "  I can't!" " This just kind of feels like one big coincidence, doesn't it?" " You working here, hunting down aliens, me being one?" " I can't help but think the real reason that you were recruited was because of me." " They recruited me because my background in bioengineering makes me an expert in alien physiology." " And, yeah, it helps that I shared a bathroom with one." " I'm leaving now." " Unless you wanna try and stop me." " Which I wouldn't." " I know you don't wanna hear this, Agent Danvers, but she's dangerous." " You above all people should know that." " Of course leave it to media magnate Cat Grant to put a name to her face." " Ms. Grant dubbed National City's new female here "Supergirl"." " And if Twitter is any indicator, the name appears to be catching..." ""Supergirl"?" " We can't name her that!" "" We" didn't." " Right, I'm... sorry." " It's just..." "I don't want to minimize the importance of this." " A female superhero, shouldn't she be called Superwoman?" " I'm sorry, darling, I just can't hear you over the loud color of your cheap pants." " If we call her "Supergirl", something less than what she is, doesn't that make us guilty of being anti-feminist?" " Didn't you say she was a hero?" " I'm the hero." " I stuck a label on the side of this girl, I branded her." " She will forever be linked to CatCo, to the Tribune... to me." " And... what do you this is so bad about "girl"?" " I'm a girl." " And your boss, and powerful, and rich and hot and smart." " So if you perceive "Supergirl" as anything less than excellent, isn't the real problem you?" " And if you're so smart, Kara, could you please give me one reason why I shouldn't fire you?" " I printed it." " And it's an even higher resolution than you hoped for." " James..." "You are interrupting a very craftily worded termination." " Kara wanted to surprise you, but she had to tell her friend that works at West National City Bank." "  The branch that got robbed." "  Right!" " Right, yes, I went there." " You know, it took me a while to park my car in the... streets." " The one-way streets are so confusing." " You tell it so much better..." "Kara convinced her source to allow us to use a photograph that she captured." " You got a clean image of Supergirl?" " Kara, if you can't take credit when you do something well, you are gonna be at the bottom of the pile forever." " But mazel tov." " You bought yourself another day." "  I was handling the situation." "  Oh, yeah?" " What was your plan?" " To get yelled at and fired?" " 'Cause that was working." " I don't need you or anyone else fighting my battles for me." " I'm communicating at 50,000 Hz." "  If you can hear this," " You okay?" " you were not born on this Earth." " Yeah, I..." "I have a headache." " I need some water." " Painful, isn't it?" " The humans of National City will suffer ten times this pain if you don't face me." " Meet me at the National City power plant." " How many innocent people are going to die until you prove that you are not a coward?" " Daughter of Alura." " Clever." " Picking a spot lined with led." " But I can still hear your heart beat." " On my planet, females bow before males." "  This is not your planet." "  You look like Alura." " How do you know my mother's name?" " You don't easily forget the name of the woman who condemned you to prison." " Fort Rozz?" "  What does that have to do with her?" "  She was our judge." " And jailer." " Can't kill her... so killing you will have to do." " Just because you wear that symbol in your chest doesn't mean you're him." " Fighting him would be an honor." " Fighting you is just exercise." " You actually think that you could stop me?" " That you'd be able to stop any of us?" " Now you know what is like to bleed." " Soon, your whole city will bleed." " *** -1, pursue the hostile." "  Copy that." " Hey, hey, I'm here." " I got you, I got you." "  You're gonna be okay." "  I never felt pain like that before." " I never felt pain." " You're not indestructible, Kara." " Nice move nearly letting that alien cut you in half." " If we can ID his weapon, it might give us a way to defeat him." " Look at that..." "You did help." " Did you know about my mom?" " That she was the one who locked up all those aliens?" " It's why I didn't want you going out there." " Showing yourself, showing this." " The Fort Rozz escapees would give anything to get revenge on your mother and the only way that they can do that now... is to hurt you." " I'm trying to protect you." " You were right." " The world doesn't need me." " Kara, it's me." " Can we talk?" " I know you can see me." " I know what you're thinking." " That this is all your fault." " But it's not." " Before you came to live with us..." "I was the star." " And then, I mean..." "How could I compete with you?" " With someone who could touch the stars?" " And I was happy when you decided not to use your powers." " You know, you... feeling like less somehow... made me feel like more." " Now..." "The world needs you to fly, Kara." " I can't, Alex." "  I can't do it." "  Yeah, you can." "  Your family believes in you." "  I know you do." " Oh, I don't mean me." "  That's Kryptonese writing." "  Yeah." " Hank and his old team recovered it from the pod that brought you to Earth." "  Mom." "  Kara, my brave daughter." " By now you have become the woman I knew you would grow up to be." " And though you were sent to Earth to protect young Kal-El, your destiny is not tied to his." " There is no correct path in life." " You will lose your way many times." " What's important is that you find your way back to the brave girl you always were." " Be wise, be strong... and always be true to yourself." " So, what do we do now?" " First thing first." " You need to change." " It's Agent Danvers and her sister from another planet." "  She's here to help us fight Vartox." "  I told you I don't trust aliens." " There's no one I trust more." " Like her cousin, she was sent here too, to help us." " And if you want anymore of my help," " we're gonna let her." "  I found Vartox." " Sir, ma'ams..." "Where?" " The sliver of metal you extracted from Supergirl's arm." " Vartox's axe has a unique nuclear thumbprint." " Satellites picked him up heading towards the city." " Vartox said he was ready to start killing humans." "  Looks like tonight's the night." "  Order strike team to intercept." "  Your men will not be able to stop him." "  Thank you for your opinion, Ms. Danvers." " Director Henshaw..." "People of this city will die because of something I did." " I started this." " You have to let me stop it." " Make sure you win." " Do you have eyes on the target?" " I got him." " You never should have come back for more." " She's not strong enough." " Why?" " Because she's just a girl?" " It's exactly what we were counting on." " I analyzed the metal on the axe." " It's powered by a self-generating atomic charge reaching temperatures up to 2500 degrees." "  How does that help?" "  If it gets any hotter than that... it's gonna explode." " She just has to get close enough to do her thing." " Stop..." "I give up." "  I don't wanna die." "  Give your mother my regards." " Kara, do it now." " It's not working." " I can't do it!" " It's why you were sent here." " I believe that now, you have to believe it too." " It's over." " You think I'm the threat?" " You have no idea what's coming." " She followed your orders." " She won." " Yeah." " This time." " Director Henshaw..." "I wasn't only recruited because of my sister, was I?" " Yeah, she's why you got in." " You are why you get to stay." " If..." "If I believe that comments on the website, they mentioned a "female/reptilian boxing match in the desert"." " I'll tell you all about it at our next crime-fighting lunch hour." "  Wait, so the super friends are back?" "  We're not calling ourselves that." " James." "  Do you have time to grab lunch?" "  You must be hungry." " Probably burned a lot of calories fighting an axe-wielding alien." " Meet me on the roof." " You knew?" " This whole time?" " He told you?" " Well, he knew that I was trying to expand my own horizons, so, as a favor, he asked me to expand them here, National City." " Hang out." " Be near you." " So, wait a minute." " He..." "He wanted me to do this?" " Why didn't he just tell me?" " Because he wanted you to choose it for yourself." " The same way he did." " That's what makes a hero, Kara." " Here." " From him." " It's the blanket he was wrapped in when he was a baby." " Apparently this cape won't shred." " Thank you." " He's really proud of you." " Me too." " Now, don't you have a city to protect?" " You know... up, up and away?" " I was sent here to protect my cousin." " Turns out he didn't need my protection." " But there's a whole planet full of people who do." " Earth doesn't have just one hero anymore." " Now it has me." " Now it has Supergirl." " General, Vartox is dead." " He chose death over capture." "  Typical of his race." "  He did accomplish one thing." " The identity of the girl." " It seems... she is Alura's daughter." " My dear little niece." " Of course." " She escaped with her cousin." " And much less of a threat than he is to our endeavors." " You're wrong." " If she's anything like her mother, she will be just as formidable." " It was my right to lead Krypton, I will lead Earth." " We all will." " Find her and kill her." " Are you certain, General?" " After all..." "Kara Zor-El is your blood." " No one can be allowed to stand against us." " Not even my niece."