In the latest Supergirl recap, Kara goes up against Maxwell Lord’s latest creation — a doppelganger with all her same skills except in reverse….
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
Following up on the cliffhanger from last week’s episode, Supergirl is faced with a duplicate running amok in National City and ruining her good name and she’s convinced that Maxwell Lord is behind it all.
Given the fact that he’s been gunning for Supergirl since the day she first arrived on the scene, it’s a pretty good guess but she gets some early resistance from Hank and Alex, who aren’t sold on him playing Dr. Frankenstein in this case.
Still, Kara’s run ins with this doppelganger Supergirl prove that somebody is sending this creature after her with a mission to kill.
Also this week, Kara’s muddied love life gets even murkier while she gets closer to Cat Grant’s son while James Olsen gets drawn back into her web because he just can’t quit her — even while living with his girlfriend currently!
With that said, let’s recap the latest episode of Supergirl titled “Bizarro”….
Must Kill Supergirl
A few weeks back we first encountered Maxwell Lord’s experimentation on a Jane Doe, who he had hooked up to enough wires that she belonged in a Best Buy rather than a hospital, but it was clear by her blackened eyes that this mad scientist was doing more than bringing her out of a coma.
Maxwell was secretly cross engineering DNA he stole from Supergirl by way of the Red Tornado and essentially growing his own doppelganger that he trained to not only believe that her counterpart was evil but that she needed to be destroyed. This faux-Supergirl was resistant to Lord’s overtures once she saw the real thing in action, saving a group of passengers stranded in a high-wire tourist car.
But eventually Maxwell worked his magic and convinced his almost Supergirl that she was loyal to him and that the blue and red flash was nothing more than an alien menace that needed to be eradicated from National City and the entire planet.
Kara’s initial run ins with this duplicate have her convinced that it’s Maxwell Lord behind this entire plot because who else could engineer a Supergirl clone from scratch. Hank and Alex need more proof before pointing the finger at the evil tech genius but with each encounter with her doppelganger, Supergirl realizes that this creature has all her same strength with exactly the opposite powers — freeze ray eyes, fire breathing, and even a reverse “S” on her chest.
Considering the clone has all the same powers, Alex and Hank assume that she must also have all the same weaknesses — which means the clone can be taken down by kryptonite, right?
Enter Bizarro
Back at Cat Co., the newspaper is buzzing with word of a Supergirl flying around town causing havoc rather than saving people. Cat needs a good headline to draw people to the story about the events going on around town and while everyone else on the staff seems ready to bury Supergirl, it’s Kara who makes the not so subtle suggestion that maybe it’s not her at all. Maybe this isn’t actually Supergirl.
Cat eats it up and decides to dub the second Supergirl with a new name — Bizarro. Off the presses and the new terror to National City has a name.
Before Supergirl can even get used to calling her clone Bizarro, the two engage in another battle. Supergirl attempts to talk some sense into Bizarro but just when it seems like she’s getting through to her duplicate, the DEO shows up and pumps the creature full of kryptonite except there’s one big problem.
The kryptonite doesn’t kill Bizarro — it only makes her uglier and a whole lot stronger.
Bizarro flies away to meet up with Maxwell Lord after the latest encounter with Supergirl while Kara is pissed that her sister and boss decided to attack without telling her while she felt she might have actually talked some sense into the man-made monster.
This latest throw down does accomplish one thing, however, as Alex and Hank are finally on board with the idea that Maxwell Lord was behind this entire ordeal. When Alex visits him, he all but confesses to the deed but also divulges one more piece of information — it’s clear that he knows Kara is actually Supergirl and Supergirl is actually Alex’s sister.
Alex is rattled and wants to throw the book at Lord but there’s one big problem — the DEO is an off the books operation, which means they can’t actually arrest a private citizen so for all intents and purposes, Lord will go free.
Matters are only made worse by this latest encounter with a now irritated and damaged Bizarro vowing to dismantle Supergirl where she lives and breathes and thanks to a suggestion from Lord, the plan is to go after the ones she loves because that will hurt her more than anything.
Love Conquers All
Back in Kara’s personal life, she’s drawing closer and closer to Cat Grant’s son Adam, who is swooning over her big time. The two end up on a couple of dates, while Cat is becoming remarkably nice to Kara as a result. Cat even brings Kara a latte to work, which is just about the oddest occurrence to ever happen.
Kara is very much into Adam (and the chemistry is real considering that’s Melissa Benoist’s real life husband playing the part) but even after a heated kiss and a lot of back and forth flirtation, she can’t commit because every time they get close, disaster strikes and Supergirl is called into action. At one point, Kara even has to explain away a Bizarro attack, which results in two things — one she now knows for certain that Maxwell Lord has figured out her true identity and second, she’ll never have a normal relationship with Adam because her secret superhero life will always drive a wedge between them.
Kara finally calls it off with Adam, which sends him packing and puts Cat back into employer mode, clearly peeved that her son scrammed when he got rejected by her assistant.
Meanwhile, Bizarro’s attack against Kara’s loved ones doesn’t strike at Alex or Winn or even Hank — but instead it’s James Olsen who gets kidnapped and held captive by the backwards Supergirl clone.
All episode long, James has been lamenting while watching Kara get close to Adam and since he’s already regretting the decision to move in with Lucy and watch her take a job next to him at Cat Co and now he’s feeling even worse that he didn’t make a move on Supergirl when he had the chance.
Once he gets kidnapped by Bizarro, he finally admits his true feelings — he’s in love with Kara and has been for quite some time. He tries to use this to his advantage but talking to Bizarro about love and affection but just when it looks like he’s making a crack in her creepy veneer, she lashes out and literally blows fire in his direction as a result.
Back at the DEO, they’ve figured out a way to reverse engineer kryptonite that will hopefully stop Bizarro and thanks to James’ distress call, Kara knows where to find him — if she can get there in time.
Thankfully she does make it and while Supergirl battles Bizarro, it gives James time to get away while Alex and the DEO get there to execute their kryptonite plan — and it works to perfection. Bizarro goes down in a heap, Supergirl saves James and all is right with the world again.
Creepy Crawly
Despite her lack of authority, Alex has had enough with Maxwell Lord’s taunts and threats against her sister so she arrests him and tosses him in a cell underneath the DEO headquarters. Hank is furious but at this point they don’t have much of a choice but it’s clear Maxwell was behind Bizarro — an experiment that cost seven girls their lives as part of his experimentation to ‘get it right’ and because he has already threatened to expose Supergirl’s secret, they don’t have much of a choice but to keep him captive.
Lord is no dummy though and when Supergirl comes to visit, he pushes one final button — Eliza Danvers — her adoptive mother on Earth. Does Maxwell have something on her? Did he have a backup plan to go after her in case he got captured? Whatever the case may be, Supergirl finally leaves him alone after Alex pulls her away before she does something really bad.
Kara also spends a few moments with Bizarro before she is put into a medically induced coma while the scientists at the DEO attempt to figure out what exactly Lord did to her.
It’s a job well done — or as well done as it could be considering Maxwell Lord knows her secret and nearly exposed it to the world courtesy of his creature feature.
Kara returns home after hard day’s work but when she arrives, there’s a strange alien like egg laying on her coffee table, hatched open with some kind of slime decorating the edges. She’s confused as to what this thing is exactly but before she can react, the insect like alien that crawled out of that egg, leaps from the ceiling and onto an unsuspecting Supergirl.
From the tease of next week’s episode, it looks like the creature is some kind of parasite, who invades Kara’s mind and attempts to trap her there by giving her the utopian life she always wanted at home on Krypton with her parents. Will Kara survive and wake up from this never ending nightmare?
Tune into Supergirl next week to find out!
