“Star-Crossed” is episode sixteen of season two of Supergirl.
Kara and Mon-El are watching Game of Thrones and eating ice cream. Since Kara got fired in the previous episode, “Exodus”, she has got caught up with a lot of television. Funemployment, she calls it. Mon-El would like to watch a musical next. Kara is happy. Then, a transmission breaks through on the television. A woman announces, to Mon-El’s captors, that they demand he be turned over. They know where he is harboured and will take Mon-El by force if he isn’t relinquished by dawn.
At the DEO, J’onn tells them that an unknown spacecraft – the one seen at the end of the previous episode – is hovering over National City. Alex asks what they’d want with a Daxamite guard. Mon-El says he doesn’t recognise the ship design. J’onn shouts for Winn, who isn’t present. He’s with Lyra, who convinces him to break into the National City Art Museum (after she breaks open a lock). For, you know.
Kara plans to go and welcome the newcomers, and Mon-El wants to go with her. She thinks he should stay behind, given Mon-El is the person they are after. He wants Kara to be careful then., She says she always is. Mon-El’s opinion differs on that. The ship is a bit battered, but this doesn’t stop it from firing a missile at Kara. It’s also protected by a forcefield. After Kara breaks free of a bubble fired at her, and more guns are pointed, Mon-El tells the invaders to stand down. He is relinquishing himself. Mon-El is going to be teleported onboard – but Kara jumps into the beam as well.
Mon-El tells Kara that perhaps he wanted to be by himself. She wonders why he would want to be alone on an unknown spaceship. Because stuff. Which is not an answer. Then Kara notices that people are kneeling around them. Mon-El is greeted by a man and a woman. Who he greets as father and mother. This is not a huge shock.
Mon-El thought his parents were dead. They are Queen Rhea (Teri Hatcher, who played Lois Lane in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) and King Lar Gand (Kevin Sorbo, Andromeda‘s Dylan Hunt). Of Daxam. In “Survivors”, Mon-El stated he was a royal guard. He’s actually the prince. Rhea would like to know more about Kara. Kara would also like to know more.
Winn is at work singing when Maggie calls, wanting him to come to the police station. He promises to bring doughnuts, which he then eats. Winn is uncomfortable in police stations., as his father had a thing with law enforcement. Maggie wants to know if Winn was at the art museum last night. And if he recognises a painting – Van Gogh’s Starry Night. Which was stolen. And the CCTV footage shows Winn there by himself. Which is not good. Winn would like a phone call.
Kara is having a meal with Mon-El’s parents. It’s a bit uncomfortable. They heard the beacon Mon-El used in “Welcome to Earth” and they heard from their Dominator ambassador on Slaver’s Moon in “Supergirl Lives” that Mon-El was freeing slaves. Which causes some discussion over slavery; Rhea assists they were giving those they purchased a better life. Kara does not agree. Mon-El’s parents want him to return to Daxam, now that the atmosphere is habitable again. They want to know how Mon-El escaped. The story is a little different this time. It involves Mon-El abandoning a woman he was in bed with and his guard shooting the Kryptonian emissary and stealing his pod. Kara is not happy. She thought Mon-El was simply born on a cruel planet, not that he ruled and befitted from it. She doesn’t take it well.
Although Maggie believes Winn, Lyra seems to be in the wind. Winn had called Alex and Maggie. Maggie agrees to release Winn into Alex’s custody for a day, not the two Alex asked for, because she thinks Winn was set up. She still needs proof that Winn wasn’t involved, or the crime will be pinned on him. Alex comments that Winn definitely has a type – his last relationship was with Siobhan Smythe, aka Silver Banshee. Lyra is also a type of alien that doesn’t appear in photos or security cameras. That type is presumably not a vampire.
Kara is upset with Mon-El, and Alex talks to her. Perhaps Mon-El is an evil prince, or perhaps he’s simply a guy who’s ashamed of his past. And Mon-El does seem to be genuinely ashamed of his past and how his people acted. That may not be enough, given he lied to Kara. Things with Lyra are also far more complicated than they seem.
A bit of a muddled episode, story-wise, with Lyra and Winn and the museum theft – which was one of several – and Kara and Mon-El, which is more of a relationship thing.
A new thread opens at the end, leading into The Flash episode “Duet”.