“For the Girl Who Has Everything” is episode thirteen of season one of Supergirl.
At the end of the previous episode, “Bizarro”, Kara had come home to find a strange organic item on the table. As she turned around, something with tentacles had leaped at her.
This episode begins with Kara waking up to be greeted by a flying robot that asks how she’s feeling. It says it is Kara’s medical attendant and suggests she gets dressed. The clothes it indicates Kara recognises as her mother’s and she asks the robot where it got them. To which Kara’s mother – as Alura is somehow there – responds that she gave them to Kara. Kara asks Alura how she got there and her mother says she stayed home every day whilst Kara recovered from Argo Fever. When Kara says that Krypton was destroyed, Alura replies that she must have had terrible hallucinations from the fever. But not to worry, for she is safe, awake and home.
At CatCo, Cat demands to know from Winn why Kara is not answering her phone. Winn suggests that maybe she can’t, for the worst solar storm in history is affecting the networks. Cat says that she knows why Kara isn’t there. She’s avoiding Cat because she’s afraid Cat will retaliate for driving away her son when they were in the middle of repairing their relationship. For in the previous episode Kara told Adam she couldn’t see him any longer. Cat says that she is a professional and that Winn can tell Kara it is safe to resume her duties. From Cat’s expression and tone, that really doesn’t look to be true.
Winn speaks to James who has also not heard from Kara. So they decide to call Alex and all three head to Kara’s place. When Alex is asked if she brought a key she says yes – and kicks in the door. Inside, Kara is on the floor, unconscious, with a strange tentacled flower thing on her chest.
Alex calls in for help and Kara is taken to the DEO. As are James and Winn. Hank is not happy to see them, and essentially chucks them out. James tells Hank that if anything happens to Kara, he is coming back for him. Hank tells him that if anything happens to Kara, Hank won’t stop him. Kara is unresponsive to external stimuli but her brain activity is normal. Which is a bit odd. They have no idea what it is, but Alex thinks Maxwell Lord does. Who she arrested and brought to the DEO in the previous episode. Alex accuses Lord of trying again to kill Kara, but he insists he doesn’t know about it. Alex is, by the looks of it, ready to kill Maxwell but Hank tells her Maxwell is a survivor and if he knew anything he would tell it to save his own neck.
Non is telling Astra that the humans are unaware of their plans and the solar storm is wreaking havoc on the satellite network. Astra tells Non that he shouldn’t underestimate her niece. He replies that Supergirl will not be a problem. Astra responds that she told Non that her niece was to remain unharmed and he says she is. She is at peace, which is more than she deserves, and has everything her heart desires. Non would have preferred to kill Kara but Astra realises he has used something called a Black Mercy. They are also apparently ready to implement the next phase of Myriad. Astra tells Non that there is always another way than what he did. He tells Astra her sister thought that. And look what happened to her.
At the DEO an attempt to pull of the Black Mercy is called off as Kara starts crashing. Removing it by force will kill her. Inside her hallucination, Kara thinks she is being manipulated using her own memories.
Winn and James are worried; Winn especially, as he says that he and Kara were not in a good place before this happened. Cat asks Winn where Kara is and he tells a rather incoherent story about her being bitten by a tick. Cat says that Winn covers for Kara day after day, and for what, and that Kara must be back at her desk within an hour or she will lose her job.
Hank is not happy that the satellite signal is down as they can’t monitor for alien activity without it. Alex tells him that they need to ensure Kara has a job at CatCo when she wakes up. Hank agrees and asks what he can do. Well, he’s a shapeshifter. Guess.
At CatCo Hank – as Kara – tells Winn and James that he is a highly trained agent and can deal with Cat Grant. Well.. perhaps that’s a bit optimistic. After his first meeting with Cat, Hank says Cat makes him wish he was back in his alien prison.
The recording of Kara’s mother has no information that can help and it seems that Kara’s memories of reality are starting to fade. Then Astra approaches Alex. She really wasn’t happy with what Non did and wants to help. So tells Alex how. The Black Mercy is a telepathic parasite and Kara must reject it herself. So Alex needs to enter Kara’s vision using VR. So Maxwell Lord is tapped for assistance with this. Given that he doesn’t exactly like the aliens, he agrees – enemy of my enemy as Alex points out. What Maxwell Lord is eventually going to be is still not clear. He’s been to evil genius, but is he going to stay there?
Whatever Non and Astra are up to will, in Astra’s words, bring humanity to its knees and save the planet. When Kara meets Non again, she is really, really unhappy with him.