Supergirl 3x04
Written by Paula Yoo & Katie Rose Rogers
Directed by Jesse Warn
This week’s Supergirl was a question of faith. Supergirl has been very busy since she donned her cape so it’s no surprise some people think of her as a god as she has saved them from certain death. One takes it to an extreme and worse still convinces others forming a cult so to speak. This is troubling as these things never end well.
With Chad Lowe guest starring as the leader I certainly felt it would be entertaining, however, I think it gave us more than we could have hoped for even teaching Supergirl something, who seems to be having her own crisis of faith of late.
We kick this off with a drunken guy on a flight who seems to have a tone of troubles which of course get worse when the plane looks like it’s going to crash, however, it doesn’t and when we see Alex you click this is Kara’s first save and which leads to her being Supergirl. Our drunken guy is saved and he looks out and see's a girl fly off.
Back to the present and Samantha is juggling watching her daughter Ruby at a soccer match and running L - Corp from the sidelines. A woman approaches saying Ruby is special and gives Samantha a leaflet with an interesting symbol on the front.
At Catco and Winn and James are at a loose end, seems no crime to fight. They notice Kara is still there and when she tells them of her plans to go to the place mentioned in the leaflet, The symbol on the front of it means Rao the Kryptonian god.The boys say they are coming, of course, she doesn’t need back up, so I found this a bit pointless I guess they were just bored.
At the DEO Winn joins the dots as Kara can’t remember saving the leader, Thomas Coville is his name. Winn traces him back to flight 237, Alex’s flight, the save that started it all for Kara.
At Kara’s apartment, its girl’s night and Lena is telling what seems to be an embarrassing story. Kara reveals she is getting over someone to Samantha and Alex seems uncomfortable when once again kids are mentioned. They all agree to be Aunts to Ruby which touches Samantha. Hearing sirens in the distance Kara makes an excuse to leave.
Arriving as Supergirl at a burning building she just saves a guy in time, he wanted to be saved putting his faith in her. Turns out he started the fire on purpose knowing Supergirl would save him. As the police and Maggie arrive, (I guess girls night ended when Kara went for ice and never came back) Maggie tells Supergirl she can’t arrest the leader of the religious group, Coville until he breaks the law as there no proof the guy didn’t act on his own will.
Samantha and Ruby are in the L Corp office Samantha is clearly busy, but all Ruby wants is to practice her song with her mother. Samantha gets called away when there is trouble with the merger caused by Morgan Edge. Again, he is featured in the background, but we haven’t seen him since the first episode of the series.
Kara goes back to the community center where she went to meet the group and confronts Coville, but he sees through her glasses that she is Supergirl and thinks it’s a test of his faith. She orders him to cease. He gives her a Kryptonian artifact but as she leaves he has something much larger hidden.
At the DEO, Kara asks Winn to look for a certain energy signature, seems the probe was powered by a Betahedron (similar to the Omegahedron but smaller). Unfortunately, it's deteriorating and to make matters worse it’s not at the community center but in a stadium full of hockey fans.
Coville believes Supergirl will save them all but in a twist, it seems the probe holds some Kryptonite. Supergirl shows them all she can bleed and while the others run Coville tries to disarm the probe, but it won’t work. Luckily Alex arrives but it’s impossible to evacuate the stadium in time. She finds Supergirl and gets a capsule out the probe containing Kryptonian soil and kryptonite. However, Supergirl is too weak to fly it out of there but she manages to use her laser vision to burn a hole in the ground deep enough to contain the probes explosion. Coville doesn't appear all bad and helps Alex shove the probe in the hole.
Later Kara visits Coville in prison. He tells her he will keep her secret and still believes she is a savior but can sense she has lost her way.
As the haunting song Hallelujah plays in the background Kara is praying with the hologram of her mother, J’onn prays with his father, Alex climbs into bed with Maggie and weeps. Coville is in his cell praying.
Samantha runs her bath but has a shock as she looks in the mirror to see her face is covered in symbols and a voice and then figure appears saying:
‘From Rao’s fire, she is born’
‘One day soon you will Reign’
Ruby sees her mum huddled on the floor but now Samantha sees no symbols.
The episode isn't done with us yet another shocker is revealed as we go back 22 hours to the explosion, remember the ship we saw in the rocks in the first episode well it seems to come online after being shaken by the blast before it cuts off we see a hand shape appear.
This weeks episode was all about faith and worship. It's not impossible to believe Supergirl will have inspired a type of religious belief in those she has saved. The woman clearly approaches Samantha knowing Ruby had been saved by Supergirl. Speaking of Samantha this week we get a glimpse at what may be starting to happen with her character, one we are growing to like. I feel this is purposely done as it will be harder to deal with the fact she will become Reign. Her costume was revealed this week’s, so it appears it will happen sooner than we thought.
Like I mentioned at the beginning this episode surprised me with its depth and gave us a lot to think about. Blind faith turns to the point of becoming dangerous willing to kill or in this case endanger others to prove your beliefs are real. Another focal point was interactions between certain characters and the girls night was a lovely touch. The Danvers sister working together and once again being there for each other sensing when things are not right with the other. This week it was Kara's turn to be there for Alex and our collective hearts broke as Alex confessed how much she wants a family. Chyler Leigh once again not leaving a dry eye as we all moan a little for the upcoming end of this relationship we have seen onscreen.
As for our heroine, she isn't back to her sunny self, we are seeing her a little more raw of late. Kara praying near the end shows Coville was right she is feeling a little lost despite all her saves she herself needs saving at the moment.
So what were your thoughts on this weeks episode?
Any ideas what or who is on the ship?
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