In the ‘Supergirl’ recap, Kara tries to bust up an alien fight club, J’onn tries to get closer to Miss Martian and Mon-El tests his powers…
By Damon Martin — Editor/Lead Writer
Following the discovery that there is another green Martian living on Earth, J’onn J’onzz wants nothing more than to connect with her — it has been hundreds of years after all since he’s even encountered someone from his same race.
But after 300 years thinking she was the last living Martian, M’gann M’orzz wasn’t all that interested meeting or bonding with J’onn and of course there was that rather large secret she was hiding that was later revealed.
Elsewhere this week, Supergirl investigates an underground alien fight club headed up by a mysterious new villain named Roulette while she also struggles to deal with her own prejudices held against Mon-El while he’s trying to learn how to control his powers on Earth.
Add to that a growing attraction between Alex and Sawyer and this episode had a lot happening both on the surface and underneath it.
With that said, let’s recap the latest episode of ‘Supergirl’ titled ‘Survivors’…
You Do Not Talk About Fight Club
The central story this week focuses on a dead alien found inside a trunk in National City with Detective Maggie Sawyer and her new gal pal Alex Danvers on the case to investigate the murder. It appeared that the alien had scarring around its knuckles and a fragment of a bone lodged in its shoulder — a weapon from another notoriously tough alien race.
With help from some inside sources, Sawyer tracks down the location of an underground club where National City’s richest and most elite hang out and bet on fights involving aliens. The ring leader is a woman named Veronica Sinclair — a wealthy, powerful, gorgeous woman with a snake tattoo that wraps completely around her body — and she’s in charge of this fight club/gambling establishment.
The fights are rather barbaric with alien battling alien but there is one interesting participant involved — M’gann M’orzz aka Miss Martian — and she’s an undefeated cage fighter working with Roulette.
When it looks like Sawyer and Alex will be discovered, backup arrives in the form of Supergirl, who says she’s putting a stop to the fight club until Roulette summons a particularly nasty beast named Draga out of hiding to step into the middle of the cage. He promptly kicks the crap out of Supergirl, which forces Alex to pull her gun and break up the party to save the day.
Mars Attacks!
After meeting a fellow Martian a week ago, J’onn wants nothing more than to connect with her on a deeper level, which involves a process known as bonding. It’s a practice shared by green Martians as they mind meld together and share all of their secrets together but there’s one problem — M’gann wants nothing to do with it.
Back at the DEO when J’onn learns that she’s involved with the fight club, he immediately runs to confront her and she’s put off by his aggressive and accusatory tone. She explains that this fight club is her own personal penance after surviving Mars’ destruction following a White Martian showing her mercy and sending her off the planet before civil war destroyed everything.
J’onn still can’t profess to understand why she’s doing it but she does give up the name of the woman in charge of the fight club. Unfortunately when Supergirl encounters Roulette, she doesn’t get anywhere in stopping the alien cockfights because the charismatic woman behind it all says the aliens want this opportunity and most of them need it because there isn’t another alternative available to them.
Meanwhile, J’onn is angry about his encounter with M’gann but he soon realizes that he’s treating her like a suspect on a case rather than his equal. She lost her planet the same way he did and has been surviving on her own for 300 years so connecting with another Martian might just seem strange at this point. J’onn goes back to apologize but when he arrives, M’gann has sprung a trap and Roulette arrives to capture him for a special attraction later that night at the new fight club she’s set up across town.
The Last Daxamite
We get a little back story on Mon-El to start the episode this week — it turns out he was a security force working with the Daxam royal family and when pieces of Krypton started rocketing towards the planet, his job was to get the prince to safety. As it turns out, the prince ultimately saved Mon-El by making him pilot the Kryptonian pod and telling him that he belonged on the planet with his people.
Years later, Mon-El finally made it to Earth — although there’s no explanation why it took him so long to get there — and now he’s just trying to get a grip on these new powers he possesses. Winn and the rest of the DEO crew have been putting him through some testing and they’ve discovered that Mon-El has super strength but doesn’t have any of the other powers that Supergirl possesses.
Through all this training, J’onn has insisted that Mon-El stay inside the DEO for his own safety but he’s going a little stir crazy staring at the same four walls. So he convinces Winn to take him out and spend a night in National City where the two of them have a few too many drinks and Mon-El ends up accidentally breaking someone’s arm in an arm wrestling contest.
Winn quickly gets him out of there and he hears all about his massive mistake the next morning when J’onn admonishes him for such a foolish decision to take Mon-El out of the DEO. That’s when Mon-El realizes what was actually happening — he wasn’t being protected from humans, they were being protected from him.
To the Death
When J’onn goes missing, Alex figures out that it must have something to do with the other Martian and this underground fight club. Unfortunately, Roulette has moved locations and they have no idea where this next event is being staged. Thankfully, Kara asks Lena Luthor for a favor — the kind she’ll eventually have to pay back — and she finds out where Roulette’s fight club has moved.
Inside the club, Roulette announces that they have a special attraction for the main event — a little Martian on Martian violence pitting Miss Martian against J’onn J’onzz in a battle to the death.
When the fight starts, M’gann basically kicks the crap out of J’onn, who refuses to fight back. Just when it looks like she’s going to deliver the finishing blow, J’onn reminds her that she’s only doing this to stamp down the pain from her loss at home and somehow believes she deserves to go through all this. M’gann listens and decides she won’t kill him after all.
Roulette was ready for this and she releases Draga to kill both of them. It looks like the creature might get the job done, but Supergirl shows up just in time and uses a tip from Mon-El, who saw Draga fight on another planet while he was guarding the royal family, and she takes him down. Alex and Sawyer show up to arrest Roulette and the day is officially saved.
Sadly, justice doesn’t always go to those who deserve it most and Sawyer informs Alex that they are forced to let Roulette go thanks to some powerful friends who have worked their magic to get her released. Supergirl also takes her own advice after seeing the rift develop between J’onn and M’gann and decides to reach out to Mon-El to help him adjust to life on Earth. She explains that her own biases were getting in the way but now she can finally complete the mission she was sent to this planet for in the first place.
Kara was sent to Earth to protect her cousin Kal-El, but she never got the chance because her ship got sent off course. Now she has the chance to help Mon-El adjust to his new powers and he’s been released into her custody where they will work together so he can focus and realize his true potential.
Meanwhile, J’onn visits M’gann and they two of them come to an understanding about this new relationship where neither one of them are alone any longer. Except for one major problem.
After J’onn leaves, M’gann transforms and reveals her true self hiding underneath — she’s actually a White Martian!
Super-Bits
The Alex/Sawyer pairing got a little closer this week but ended on a sour note after Sawyer left with her girlfriend and planted a big kiss while Alex stood there shunned and a little jealous.
Kara got some more lessons on how to become a reporter — Snapper Carr is actually giving some good hints for those out there interesting in journalism — but in the end she accomplishes her goal after providing a piece of the alien fight club complete with quotes from Supergirl (convenient source, right?).
Next week it appears James Olsen will start to pursue his dream to join Kara on the battlefield as he begins to make his own mark as a superhero who will soon be known as the Guardian.
‘Supergirl’ returns with a brand new episode Monday night at 8pm ET on the CW
