Supergirl Recap with Spoilers – We Can Be Heroes

The episode starts with Mon-El and Supergirl training at the DEO. Although Mon-El loses one of the cardboard cutouts he was supposed to protect, Supergirl admits that Mon-El is getting a lot better. She tells him she thinks “it’s time”, probably to get his own suit.

Maggie and some other police find a bunch of thugs beat up and tossed into a pile of trash, each with drugs on their person. She comments that Guardian must have been working the night shift. When Jimmy gets back to the van, Winn notices that Jimmy has a bullet wound in his suit, because he got “kind of” shot. Winn mentions to Jimmy that he has to fix his suit in addition to making Mon-El a suit and asks Jimmy to tell Kara about what they’ve been doing at night.

M’gann, still stuck in her containment suit, starts hearing chants in her head. She starts chanting “Death, Blood, Beautiful War” over and over. When J’onn runs into the room, she screams and breaks the glass in the containment center and then passes out. J’onn gets her to sickbay, where Alex says that she’s physically fine.

A psychologist is talking to Livewire in prison, asking if she wants to try to return to her life from before. Instead, Livewire vows that she’ll kill Supergirl when she gets out of prison. As Livewire rants about how powerful she is, a guard and another prisoner unlock her cell and shocks the psychologist as Livewire smiles.

Maggie and Alex examine Livewire’s cell as Kara barges onto the scene. Kara’s all worked up about Livewire, as she’s somewhat of a nemesis to Supergirl.

Back at the DEO, Winn gets Mon-El pumped to fight Livewire (you’ll recall that Winn had his own run-in with Livewire last season), but Supergirl warns them both that Livewire is a threat. Alex tells J’onn that M’gann is dying and asks her to perform a mind meld. J’onn refuses, though, and says to let him die.

Livewire shows up at the National City Police Department.

Kara vents to Jimmy about Livewire, but Jimmy reminds him that she doesn’t have to fight Livewire alone. Kara brings up Mon-El, but Jimmy questions Mon-El’s commitment to being a hero. Their talk gets interrupted by a news report about Livewire attacking the police department.

When Supergirl and Mon-El arrive, she discovers that Livewire’s accomplices now both have her powers. Supergirl orders Mon-El to help the cops to safety and tries to fight the pair alone, but she quickly gets overwhelmed. Mon-El abandons the cops to help Supergirl, and Guardian arrives to protect the cops instead. Guardian gets zapped while protecting the police, while the pair escape into the lights before Supergirl can short them with water. When Supergirl finds Guardian on the ground, she pulls off his helmet and discovers that it’s Jimmy.

Alex patches Jimmy up at the DEO and Supergirl discovers that all her friends knew that Jimmy was Guardian beforehand. She asks everyone to leave the room so Jimmy can explain himself. Supergirl says that the problem is that Jimmy is a human and that one human error will get him killed, but Jimmy brings up all of Mon-El’s errors in the field. Supergirl gives Jimmy an ultimatum: stop or she’ll stop him. Jimmy says that he’s welcome to try.

Alex tries to convince J’onn to help M’gann and points out that M’gann saved J’onn’s life. But J’onn doesn’t want to mind meld with M’gann because he doesn’t want to think of the White Martians as anything other than monsters that he can hate.

Kara catches up to Mon-El and says that he can’t be trusted in the field. Kara asks Mon-El why he wants to work with her and asks if it’s because he “likes” her. Mon-El can’t give a straight answer, but Supergirl says that she needs to find Livewire because she’s the only one who acknowledges how dangerous the supervillain is.

There’s only one problem: Livewire might need to be saved instead of stopped. We see screaming and tied up to a gurney with wires hanging from her as a scientist looks on.

Back at the DEO, Winn shows Supergirl the prison footage that proves Livewire was taken. Winn claims he can’t track Livewire’s energy, but it turns out that he was lying so that Jimmy has a chance to show Supergirl what he can do as Guardian.

J’onn brings Supergirl into the Medbay and says that he’s going to meld with M’gann. He asks both Supergirl and Alex to stay for moral support. J’onn enters their mind and finds M’gann watching the White Martians gathering up Green Martians. M’gann explains that she set a guardtower on fire because the other White Martians wanted him to kill a child. M’gann then apologizes for hiding her identity and says that all she wanted was to be his friend. J’onn says they are friends and he pulls her out of her memories.

The scientist holding Livewire explains that he’s making supersoldiers and staged the attack to advertise his “goods” to various countries. Guardian shows up to rescue Livewire and Mon-El arrives just moments later. After Guardian takes out the two “knockoffs”, the lead scientist says that he experimented on himself first.

Winn calls Supergirl and says that both Jimmy and Mon-El got captured by the scientists. The scientist plans to turn the pair into more electric supersoldiers, but Supergirl shows up and frees them. Supergirl orders the pair to take care of the scientist’s goons while she rescues Livewire. When Supergirl frees Livewire, she convinces Livewire not to attack her and go after the scientist instead. When Livewire tries to kill the scientist, Supergirl offers to give Livewire a head start before Supergirl chases after her. Livewire agrees and leaves, but warns her not to bring backup next time.

J’onn berates Winn for lying to him, but admits that he and Jimmy makes a good team. Meanwhile, Supergirl explains to Alex that Livewire still has some good in her, which is why she let her go. She then tells Jimmy and Winn that she won’t stop them from being Guardian, but she can’t support it either. So, Jimmy and Winn walk away and that’s the (probably temporary) end of their friendship.

J’onn tells M’gann that she was psychically attacked by the White Martians. They know where she is and they’re coming for her.

Mon-El comes to Supergirl’s apartment and says he remembers kissing her. Mon-El admits that he saved her at the police station because he cares about her, but that he understands she doesn’t feel the same way. All Mon-El asks is that he gets to keep working with her, and then awkwardly hi-fives her and leaves. Supergirl seems pretty taken aback and that’s how the episode ends.