In the latest ‘Supergirl’ recap, Kara travels with Mon-El to another planet where Roulette has set up shop to sell humans as slaves…
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
Following his directing stint on two episodes of ‘The Flash’, Kevin Smith turned his attention to ‘Supergirl’ the first of a pair of gigs he’ll lead during season two of the show.
This episode titled ‘Supergirl Lives’ — a nod to his script for the ill fated ‘Superman Lives’ film — contained a little bit of everything that makes these shows on the CW so great — heart, humor and spectacle.
Supergirl goes on a mission to find a missing girl while Mon-El finally faces up to want he wants out of life now that he’s been given a second chance on Earth. Meanwhile, Alex is falling for Maggie but then falls even harder into that old trap where she just can’t believe that the universe would ever allow her to be happy. Quite possibly the most relatable story that’s ever been told on ‘Supergirl’.
Add to that a brief aside with the Guardian kicking some ass on the streets of National City that nearly ends with Winn getting caught in the fray plus a surprising return of the Dominators — you know the aliens from the epic crossover event involving The Flash, Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow — and a clue about Mon-El’s true history.
With that said, let’s recap the latest episode of ‘Supergirl’ titled ‘Supergirl Lives’…
Missing in Action
It seems Supergirl hasn’t been all that excited about her job lately.
Despite chasing down some jewel thieves while dodging a couple missiles, Supergirl just doesn’t feel like she’s doing much to really save people these days. Add to that, Guardian has been continuing to interfere and gets the credit for stopping the bad guys after he wrangled up the last couple of thieves following Supergirl’s heroics to take down their getaway van in the first place.
Guardian has his own problems after one of the thieves nearly kills Winn, which has him questioning whether or not he wants to continue this sidekick role at all.
Back at Cat Co., Kara is still dealing her doldrums when she meets a mother who is asking the newspaper to run a story on her missing daughter Izzy (played by Kevin Smith’s daughter Harley Quinn Smith). While Snapper isn’t moved by the story, Kara decides to take it upon herself to find the girl and return her home to her mother.
Kara enlists some help from Maggie, who provides her with the police report on Izzy while also revealing that the number of missing persons in National City have sky rocketed recently but there’s no connection the victims much less any sign of where they’ve gone. Kara continues to investigate by handing the information over to Winn to find a link between the victims while Mon-El decides to pitch in a day after starting his new job at a bartender at the alien watering hole where everyone hangs out these days.
Winn finds out that all of the victims had recently given blood at a local National City clinic (apparently the cops couldn’t figure that out?) and Kara decides to turn her attention to this place to figure out what’s been going on and who’s been taking all these people.
When Kara and Mon-El arrive the encounter a creepy doctor who foregoes the blood tests and invites the two of them to join his “study”, which is actually an inter-dimensional portal to another planet. The doctor soon discovers that his latest “patients” are actually rather powerful aliens, he hops through the portal himself and Kara wastes no time revealing her Supergirl outfit and giving chase.
Before leaving she instructs Mon-El to contact Alex to send for help from the DEO. On the other side of the portal, Kara stops the aliens who attack her but not without a painful punch and a set of bloody knuckles. A moment later when it looks like another alien will get the upper hand, Mon-El appears and dishes out a similar beat down.
Sadly, he hopped through the portal to help Kara but failed to call for help and now they’ve got an even bigger problem — this planet revolves around a red sun, which means neither one of them have their powers. The portal soon closes, which means Supergirl and Mon-El are trapped without any powers and without a way to return home.
Happy Trap
The morning after spending the night together, Alex is over the moon with her new relationship with Maggie going so well. Instead of going to work, Alex prefers the option of just staying in all day with her new girlfriend in this blissful state.
Unfortunately both of them end up at work with Alex glowing after her night with Maggie.
Sadly, Alex’s happiness gets cut short when she figures out that Kara has gone missing while she’s been standing around smiling from ear to ear thinking about Maggie. When Maggie arrives to offer a helping hand, Alex brushes her off and says that their newfound relationship is over already because this distraction left her guard down and now Kara has gone missing.
Alex is convinced that the universe would never allow her to actually be happy — and Kara going missing is a direct result of her giddiness — so she decides to sabotage her relationship with Maggie to regain focus. Alex certainly isn’t the first person to feel this way and with Maggie gone, she quickly turns her attention back to finding Kara.
Alex tracks down the clinic where Kara and Mon-El were last seen and inside she finds the portal that travels to another planet, which is clearly where they have gone but why haven’t they returned? Winn tracks the portal’s signal and discovers that it links to a planet known as ‘Slaver’s Moon’ and if that’s not bad enough, J’onn informs them that it revolves around a red sun, which means neither Supergirl or Mon-El have powers there.
To add to everybody’s growing misery about this situation, J’onn also reveals that due to some sort of element in the air on Slaver’s Moon, Martians are unable to travel there, which means he can rush in to save the day.
So Alex gathers a team — including a very reluctant Winn — along with an extra weapon courtesy of J’onn and she mounts up to travel to this planet to save her sister.
Roulette Returns
On Slaver’s Moon, Kara and Mon-El encounter an alien named Joe — who is actually a Thanagarian snare beast, another nod to Smith’s ‘Superman Lives’ script — tells them about the activities on this planet. It seems a new warlord has emerged who is bringing humans over from Earth and then selling them off to the highest bidder as slaves.
Without their powers to break in, Kara decides ‘plan B’ is in order — so she just surrenders to the slavers alongside Mon-El, who quickly put them in the same cell as all the other captive humans. Among them is Izzy, who is excited to see Supergirl, but not so happy when she finds out that she has no powers on this planet.
A moment later the leader behind this new slave trade is revealed and it’s none other than Roulette. It seems she took up residency on this planet after Supergirl ruined her alien fight club business and this is her newest endeavor.
Now she’s got a new buyer ready to purchase the lot of human slaves and it’s one of the Dominators!
Now remember this is Earth-23, so these Dominators aren’t the same ones from the crossover episode, but clearly the aliens still don’t have the friendliest of dispositions anywhere in the multiverse. When it’s finally time to gather the humans for transport on the slave ship, Supergirl stands up to Roulette and her guards despite not having powers.
So the guards zap her down but that leads Mon-El and all the others to rise up and by shee force take out Roulette and her alien army. They lock up Roulette in the cell and proceed to escape from the prison before meeting up with Alex and the DEO soldiers, who have just arrived to pitch in a hand.
After knocking out an alien, a very exuberant Winn gets the portal open and starts sending the humans back to Earth. A wayward slaver is able to recapture Izzy, but that’s when Alex unleashes her special weapon — a ‘sun-bomb’ that infuses Supergirl with powers like she has on Earth before dishing out a final beat down and rescuing Izzy again.
Everybody leaps through the portal before destroying the gate on the other side on Earth.
Back home, Izzy is reunited with her mother and Kara turns in a killer story on the slave trade being run by Roulette on the other world. She also admonishes Snapper for telling her to ignore this story when it turned out to be a massive conspiracy. After she leaves, Snapper smiles and applauds Kara for following her journalistic instincts.
Meanwhile, Winn tells James that he’s back on board to help the Guardian after getting his mojo back by punching the alien on Slaver’s Moon.
And finally, Mon-El goes to visit Kara later that night and tells her that he’s ready to commit to a new life as a superhero. Kara tells him that it’s hard work but Mon-El is finally convinced that his job on Earth should be to help people and thus the training begins.
Super-Bits
— Following a brief break up, Alex and Maggie reunite. Alex admits that her bad instincts kicked in when she finally felt truly happy for the first time and Maggie gives her a pass — this time and only this time.
— Back on Slaver’s Moon, Mon-El was holding off the aliens while Supergirl and the others escaped when the Dominator showed up and stopped one of the guards from shooting him. The Dominator actually bowed to Mon-El, which may prove a long standing theory that he wasn’t the lead security guard for the Prince of Daxam — Mon-El is actually the Prince of Daxam.
— Lending even more proof to Mon-El being Daxam royalty, the same aliens on the ship that were seen searching for him in the mid-season finale show up on Slaver’s Bay looking for him as well. When the evil doctor tells them that Mon-El was there and now he’s back on Earth, the aliens eviscerate him and make plans to find him. It’s clear that Mon-El is a very important person and his new friends are probably going to figure that out sooner rather than later.
‘Supergirl’ returns with a brand new episode next Monday night at 8pm ET on the CW
