Tonight’s episode begins with various characters getting ready for their day — Alex and Maggie, Kara, Samantha and Ruby.
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Samantha (Odette Annable) is waiting to drop Ruby off at school and Ruby begins questioning her mom about her tremendous feat of strength at the waterfront in last week’s episode. Samantha explains it just as a rush of adrenaline.
Lena walks into CatCo and starts talking to James about the daily operations. Lena says she’ll be at the media conglomerate every day, a fact that rubs James the wrong way.
At the DEO, Alex and Maggie are having a huge argument which J’onn has to break up — and they reveal that can’t decide on whether to have a live band or DJ at their wedding.
Kara flies in because she’s received an alert. Winn and J’onn reveal that a criminal has been breaking into banks with no weapons whatsoever, and those in the bank still cower in fear at her presence. Winn shares that a silent alarm has been tripped and Kara flies off to confront the criminal.
Inside the vault, the criminal, who we know from casting news as Psi, begins using her powers — which are to make people see their worst fears — on Kara and she’s able to get away.
Act II
At the DEO, the group tries to decide on how to stop Psi. Kara says she was taken off guard the first time and Psi’s powers won’t work on her again.
Samantha’s at work and she gets a call — Ruby got into a fight at school.
Kara hurries into CatCo, where she informs James they have a newsroom meeting that Lena called without informing him. When approached, Lena and James have a tense interaction.
Kara tracks down Psi, who begins using her powers on the Kryptonian. J’onn is able to delay the powers remotely, but only for so long until Psi is able to fend him off. Psi continues her attack on Kara, who’s having a vision of being launched off Krypton as a child.
Act III
J’onn informs the group that Psi is the strongest psychic he’s ever encountered — he instructs Winn to start developing some tech to stop the psch attacks.
Kara pulls Winn off to the side, and informs him that Psi’s using her powers to make her victims live their worst fears. Kara tells him that he needs to be the one to solve it, and J’onn and Alex can find out. Kara gets a message from Lena and has to rush off.
Samantha confronts Ruby about the fight. Ruby tells her mom that she got into a fight because a bully called her a liar after she said her mom had superpowers. Samantha gets upset and reminds her daughter that she doesn’t have superpowers and she needs to let the issue go.
Lena talks to Kara at CatCo, she doesn’t seem too thrilled about Kara’s increased absence. Lena informs her that she knows when people are lying, and let’s her known that if it’s about Mon-El, she can take however much time off she needs. Kara tells her she doesn’t want to talk about her personal life at work, to which Lena gets upset and starts “putting on her boss hat.”
Alex calls Kara and tells her that Psi has robbed another bank. Kara’s about to leave CatCo when she starts having a panic attack in the elevator. She busts through the ceiling and flies out the roof before someone on their comm system informs her that Psi has gotten away.
Act IV
After running her through some diagnostic tests, Winn lets her know that Kara simply had a panic attack and there’s no lasting damage. Alex enters the room and Kara leaves, a skittish Winn starts shoving his foot in his mouth as Alex approaches him about what’s going on.
Samantha has pizza delivered and when she calls Ruby down for dinner, the latter is nowhere to be found. We see Ruby at a pizzeria ignoring her mom’s text messages.
Kara is in her apartment doing Kryptonian meditation practices when Alex walks in. Alex lets her know that Winn told her about the fear-inducing attacks. The sisters have a heart-to-heart about Supergirl’s place in the world and Kara keeps talking about her own vulnerabilities.
Two security guards are walking to an armored truck when they instantly fall to the ground, being attacked by imaginary bees. Psi walks up and steals some bags of money.
Cops speed to the scene and Psi starts showing them their fears; the pizzeria that Ruby is at happens to be right by the commotion and she texts her mom to come save her.
Act V
Back at the scene, mayhem has broken out as Psi’s striking fear into the workers at a nearby construction site, allowing their cranes and wrecking balls to run amok.
Ruby trips on some concrete and as the wrecking ball breaks off the crane, Kara flies in the carry it away. The Girl of Steel confronts Psi with some new tech developed at the DEO, but Psi is able to still use her powers, blowing Kara away from the scene of the robbery. This time, Kara sees Mon-El’s pod disintegrating in space.
Alex runs up and reassures Kara that Mon-El is still alive and after a pep talk, Kara flies back to Psi. Kara is able to brush off Psi’s ensuing attacks and renders the criminal unconscious with a headbutt.
Act VI
Alex walks up to Samantha and Ruby in the back of an ambulance and remembers them from the waterfront in last week’s episode. Samantha asks Ruby why it’s so important that she has superpowers, letting her know that if she had super powers, she would have been the one to save Ruby and not Supergirl.
At CatCo, Kara approaches Lena about her assignment, she’s writing a story on Morgan Edge and his banker. Kara apologizes for her behavior earlier in the day, admitting she has more baggage than she thought and the two hug. Lena introduces Kara to Samantha.
Samantha’s watching Ruby sleep at their house, then she sits down with a glass of wine. As she goes to turn a lamp on, the light bulb flickers out. She goes out to the garage to find a light bulb when she sees a crowbar on the workbench. She picks it up, trying to bend it — hinting that she thinks she may have superpowers, even though telling Ruby otherwise.
Kara and Alex are watching Wizard of Oz. J’onn is having a beer alone at a bar when M’gann shows up and warns him that he must return to Mars immediately.
