“Supergirl Lives” is episode nine of season two of Supergirl.
The episode opens at night with a can swerving amongst cars. Inside are three men, and one asks if the others see her. ‘Her’ being Kara, and one of the men hits her directly with a SAM. To no great effect. Kara uses her heat vision and causes the van to crash. She asks the driver if he didn’t have friends. He did, they have run off. To be caught by James – Guardian. James takes one out and tells Winn the other is heading to him. Winn opens the door into the thief but, whilst Winn is celebrating, the thief gets up and punches Winn to the ground. Then points a gun at him but James turns up in time to stop him from shooting Winn.
At the DEO Kara complains to Alex about the Guardian – Kara still doesn’t know who he is. Alex does. Alex wants to know what’s really bothering Kara – she has a crinkle. Kara attempts to divert the subject to getting Botox. If a needle could penetrate her skin. What’s actually wrong is that Kara is in a funk. She feels she’s protecting jewels and money more than she is people currently.
At work, Kara corners Snapper as he comes out of the lift. She has written a story about the jewel heist. So has James, but about the Guardian. All Snapper cares about at the moment are his coffee and Danish. A woman approaches Snapper and says she needs his help. Her daughter, Izzy Williams, disappeared three days ago after a fight. No-one knows where she is and the police think she’s just another runaway and there’s nothing they can do (although if Izzy is young enough, that may not be correct). It was Mrs Williams’ birthday yesterday, and Izzy would have called. Kara promises they will find her daughter. Afterwards, Snapper is less than impressed. Teenage runaways are clichés.
Kara’s next place is the alien bar, where Mon-El is now working. After the “Medusa” incident, they are a bit short staffed. Kara orders a club soda and Mon-El offers her some advice, as she looks sad. Kara considers the advice useless and tells him the drink isn’t a club soda. Mon-El doesn’t actually know what a club soda is. Perhaps he should have a bit more training. Kara is actually meeting Maggie, who gives her a flash drive and says that there has been a spike in missing persons’ cases. Serial killers have patterns and kidnappers have motives. The missing are all over the place in terms of type and there have been no ransom demands. Kara wonder where the missing are. Elsewhere, a man dressed as a doctor tells another to stand about there. Two other grab the man and the doctor says that the man is a perfect candidate. To Roulette, last seen running an alien cage fight in “Survivors”.
At the DEO, Kara asks Winn – who is wearing sunglasses – to look for links between the missing. Kara notices that Winn is hiding a black eye and he says that he was mugged. Alex arrives and, now that she and Maggie are dating, Alex says she looks as if she’s been hit with a love ray. Winn has found a connection. All the missing had bloodwork done a few days before they disappeared.
Kara is heading out to follow up on this when Mon-El arrives and wheedles his way into accompanying her. The place where the bloodwork was done is run by the doctor seen earlier. They are interested in the cash the place is offering but they refuse bloodwork on the grounds of religion. Not the grounds of not being human or needles not penetrating the skin. The doctor thinks they look healthy enough, so takes them to another room. Uncovering something that looks like a portal. The doctor is not human and the goons try grabbing Kara and Mon-El. This doesn’t work well for them. The so-called doctor goes through the portal and Kara follows, telling Mon-El to contact Alex.
On the other side is a red-tinged rocky land (it looks like a BBC Quarry seen through a red filter). Two aliens jump Kara and, when she punches one of them, she hurts her hand. The other has a gun but Mon-El came through as well. The portal vanishes afterwards. The red-tinge is from a red sun. Kara and Mon-El get their powers from a yellow sun. Therefore, no powers. And no-one knows where they are. Mon-El hears a transport and it’s heading for something he describes as a Murder Castle. So naturally that’s where Kara heads.
Back at the DEO, Winn is not taking nearly getting shot very well. He tells James he quits. Then Alex asks if they’ve heard from Kara, as she isn’t answering her phone (probably no phone towers where Kara is). She asks Winn to send her the details on the missing persons cases. On the planet, Kara is telling Mon-El that her parents took her to the pretty planets. This does not qualify. Then Mon-El gets caught in a trap and another alien points a gun at them.
The DEO team arrive at the place with the portal and Hank has seen something like it before. It’s a transmatter portal, that allows the users to travel instantly to other planets. Winn says it’s Stargate. And they realise Kara has gone through.
The alien – Jo – who caught Kara and Mon-El proves reasonably friendly. He tells them that carbon forms are brought through the portal to the red fortress where they are sold as slaves. The planet is Maaldoria, and Mon-El has heard of it. It’s known as Slaver’s Moon. He says they have to leave. Kara says they have to enter the fortress. Jo tells them that the fortress is bad. Many weapons, no way in or out. Kara replies that there is one way. Mon-El will probably not like it.
On Earth, the DEO are tracking Kara’s location. Hank has also heard of Maaldoria. Winn is suffering a crisis of confidence, especially when Alex takes him into the field to make the portal work from the other side. Very much like Stargate. Winn’s mantra is saying that he isn’t a redshirt. Although beating the stuffing out of an enemy alien with a rock works better for restoring confidence.
Kara encounters a Dominator – having just gone up against them in the “Invasion!” crossover, not something she is happy to see. And there’s something about Mon-El.