Supergirl – Strange Visitor From Another Planet

By: Jay Ruymann

“Do not throw away who you are.”

After last week’s fiasco with Maxwell Lord, Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) faces another anti-alien threat: Senator Miranda Crane (Tawny Cypress). Cat Grant’s newest topic of interest and next victim, James (Mehcad Brooks) attends a press conference to capture some of the senator’s less-than-flattering moments. Unfortunately, alien existence is tarnished with the return of yet another violent extraterrestrial: a white Martian with a history with Henshaw (David Harewood).

The attack is interrupted after the white Martian, a member of the race that destroyed J’onn J’onzz’s people, fled from Supergirl into the tunnels, leaving the senator behind and paralyzing Henshaw. With the DEO taking Senator Crane into their protection, they must come up with a plan and Henshaw’s struggle to become the Martian Manhunter reincarnates.

“If you’re not going to be here to handle my calls, Keira, then I suggest you just keep walking and throw yourself off the balcony.”

Meanwhile, Kara struggles with a difficult assignment at work: reuniting Cat (Calista Flockhart) with her long lost son, Adam (Blake Jenner). Kara’s meddling ways led to falsely finishing a letter that Ms. Grant started to her son, an apology for all that has happened over the last 25 years. When he shows up to town, Cat and Kara are both shocked, especially when he randomly shows up in Cat’s office.

Adam ‘s grudge comes to light in the wake of lunch, leaving Cat speechless and angry with Kara. With herself. However, Kara can’t stand to see anyone unhappy, so she reunites them, again, and offers her deck of wisdom cards to both parties in the hopes that they’ll gamble and connect over their pain with their relationship.

“I know you think your mom is this heartless, narcissistic monster. Some days I do, too. But when you get past that, there is this inspiring person in there. A hero.”

J’onn J’onzz struggles with concealing his identity when the white Martian is found disguised as the senator, who the DEO was protecting in their base. Demanding the hidden green Martian come out of hiding so the race can be properly exterminated, the Martian flees again, prompting the search for the real Senator Crane. Alex and Henshaw split up, leading Alex to the senator and Hank to an insect-like nest… with the senator. Shortly after, Alex realizes her version of the senator is the fraud, but it’s too late and she’s kidnapped.

At the office, Kara sets up a lunch for Adam and Cat to start working through their issues (issues that she can relate to with her own mother, i.e. abandonment and loss). Twenty-five years later and the inhuman Cat Grant finally sheds a tear for her beloved son – the key to any good relationship. But will it complicate things after Kara and Adam go on their first date?

Using their Martian telepathy, J’onn and the white Martian set up a meeting to exchange his life for Alex’s. But after a less-than-stunning fight, Supergirl and J’onzz take down the Martian, and he goes in for the kill to avenge his family. Kara and Alex plead with him, begging him to not become a killer – not to sink to that level. Kara’s very good at pulling on the right strings to manipulate someone’s emotions.

“Kara, you don’t need to save everyone, all the time.”

When the Martian is locked up, Henshaw’s identity is safe, but is Supergirl’s? It doesn’t seem so. Celebrating their victory, Alex and Kara sit on their couch eating ice cream, but their interrupting by live news coverage of Supergirl. But how could that be? It seems Maxwell Lord’s bizarro Supergirl is alive.