Paradise Lost tells the story of the fall of humanity, thanks to a silver-tongued Satan tempting Adam and Eve to eat from the forbidden tree of the knowledge.
Tonight’s Supergirl episode, Parasite Lost, tells the story of the possible fall of James Olsen thanks to a silver-tongued “humans-first” zealot tempting him with some hypnotically rational-sounding discourse.
Fittingly, we open in a lush, green rooftop garden that, just 24 hours previously, was an aerial junkyard. Kara transformed it so she could host brunch for “her people,” which includes Alex, J’onn, Lena, James, Brainy, and now Nia.
Brainy, in particular, is a delightful brunch guest. He gets momentarily drunk on 12 mojitos, then gives a stalkery rundown of Nia’s daily routine, pointing out that she told him to find her, not call her. Aww, those two!
James stews about the new fans he attracted after his heroics last week and Lena warns him that, “The internet’s a cesspool, you shouldn’t read it.” Truer words, truer words.
Kara caps off the event with a toast to “health and happiness and basking in the sunshine,” and my bucket list now starts and ends with receiving an invite to just one Kara Danvers party.
Jensen, meanwhile, writhes in a dank cell, struggling to adjust as Parasite’s host, which will allow him to temporarily absorb an alien’s powers, withering the alien to a lifeless husk in the process. In short, he’s on track to become Agent Liberty’s most valuable asset.
He takes his new powers for a spin at the National City Promenade, where he menaces a crowd watching an entertaining shapeshifter perform. When Supergirl arrives with the DEO at her flank, Jensen touches her and absorbs an iota of her powers, which weakens her and allows him to escape, draining the shapeshifter in the process.
At the DEO, Alex and her coldly efficient new boss Col. Haley (April Parker Jones) brainstorm ways to stop Jensen. Plutonium worked last time, so Haley sets out to find a supply while Alex explains to Kara why Supergirl has to stay benched. After all, imagine the chaos if Jensen killed her and absorbed her powers.
This frustrates Kara, who’s back up to full strength thanks to sunlamps, but at least she can turn to her other superpower: the printed word!
She’s scored an interview with the reclusive Amadei Derros, an alien with the power to heal other aliens who hasn’t spoken to the media in 20 years. When Kara and Nia arrive to interview him and his acolytes, Amadei explains that he broke his silence in order to help fight the rising anti-alien prejudice. His healing abilities don’t work on humans, but this might help further his goal of healing the human heart.
At first, Kara’s pleased by the reception her story has online — until she reads some of the hateful, violent comments. Kara. Girl. Never ever ever read the comments. Unfortunately, Kara’s story elevated Amadei’s profile, and during the night, someone breaks in and steals his healing amulet, leaving him close to death.
J’onn reads Amadei’s mind and sees a woman there, so he transforms into her, allowing Brainy to run facial recognition. She’s Elizabeth Hawkings, and Kara knocks on her door and asks to interview her about an obviously made-up story while J’onn creeps around inside.
Elizabeth’s mother catches J’onn (because let’s be honest, he and Kara didn’t hatch the greatest plan here), and they explain that Elizabeth is Amadei’s daughter, the product of a one-night stand he refused to acknowledge. Elizabeth reached out over and over, but he never responded. “I’m no one to him,” she says, although J’onn reiterates that Amadei was, in fact, thinking about her.
Blaming herself for putting Amadei on the public’s radar, Kara looks up his press clippings from two decades earlier, which she ABSOLUTELY SHOULD HAVE DONE BEFORE EVEN CONDUCTING THE INTERVIEW. Look, I love the increased focus on Kara’s journalism, but oh my God, show. At least make her minimally competent at this reporting thing.
Anyway, he appears in multiple photos with Mama Hawkings. A return trip to the Hawkings house confirms that Amadei broke her heart, so she retaliated by keeping Elizabeth from him, even intercepting all of his letters to her.
“All roaches do is bring misery,” Mama H. spits before confessing that she stole the amulet and gave it to the Children of Liberty, who took to the dark web to request help for Jensen when his new Parasite powers started killing him.
Not only does this introduce our heroes to the existence of the Children of Liberty, but it gives them a heads up about Jensen’s next target: Amadei’s vigil. Just follow the trail of alien corpse husks! (That’s way less fun than following the yellow-brick road, BTW.)
Haley located uranium, which yields a bigger explosion, so she and Alex pull together plans for an improvised ionic containment dome, plus a blast gun, all of which Brainy can knock together quickly. Alex and Haley really do make an efficient team. Haley runs the op from the van with Brainy, while Alex’s team heads inside the dome to try to take Jensen out. (Next page: Alex Danvers, hero and friend)
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