“Supergirl” Episode 605 Recap: 2000 and Late

Alex, Kara, and Nia are in the car on the way home when they almost get hit by a careening gas truck. Nia astral projects into the cab of the truck and realizes that no one is driving it. What they don’t know is that this truck is being controlled by the Glam Rock Aliens as a trap for the littlest Kryptonian.

Alex starts to pedal to the metal after it, but when it’s clear they still won’t catch up that way, Kara flies into the truck, Nia dream-lassoing in after her. Nia tells Kara to use her freeze breath on the axel and they eventually stop the truck, just missing a Glam Rock Alien beam.

“That was SO not rock and roll.”

Nia gets a dream flash about the pink panther again, and Brainy shows up and spots a cloaked ship with his scanner; outnumbered and outsmarted, the Glam Rock Aliens retreat…for now.

Alex drives up and warns that CJ is hot on their heels, so they all hop in and flee the scene. Nia, tormented by her pink panther dream and not knowing what it means or how to even figure it out, finally breaks down and calls her mom…

This is why Nia and Brainy should have had a crash course in Time Travel from the Legends before taking this trip.

Luckily she gets her mom’s voicemail and when she realizes what she almost did, she hangs up instead of leaving a message.

When Alex and Kara get home, Alex is FURIOUS. She thinks they need an adultier adult, but Kara begs her not to tell Eliza. But Alex points out that they might be in over their heads! They have two sets of aliens on their hands, plus a reporter breathing down their necks, and also they just committed a small crime that could get the Best Mom Ever fired!

Alex says they need help and weapons, and that Eliza could at least get them in contact with the DEO, but Kara snaps at her, saying just because Alex was in college for two years doesn’t mean she knows everything. But Alex has been out in the real world, she’s seen how hard it can be, she’s felt its cruelty. And she gives us a hint as to exactly what her time in college so far has been like when she tells Kara you can’t just “risk the truth of your identity” and that sometimes you have to make sacrifices to keep yourself safe.

This is the face of someone whose closet walls are closing in on her.

However we all know she doesn’t come out to Kara until years later, so instead she tells Kara about how Kara’s powers and secret identity don’t just affect her. Mom sacrificed her career, Jeremiah sacrificed his life, Alex skipped her trip to Europe because Eliza was worried about Kara.

She’s even got that classic Kara eyebrow scrunch down!

Alex tells Kara her powers don’t give her free reign to do whatever she wants, and it’s okay that she’s messed up before because she’s still a kid, but that’s just it. She’s still a kid. Kara lashes out and insults Alex’s lack of a dating life, and Alex lashes back about how Kara still hasn’t told Kenny about college. Because sisters are like that sometimes.

So Kara storms off and slams a door behind her. To prove how mature she is.

Brainy goes back to the ship to do some research on the Glam Rock Aliens and realizes that they’re a race that is building a cosmic menagerie, which explains Nia’s dream. But as they read the future report, they see something happen that Sara and Ava know plenty about: the future changes right before their very eyes. For the worse.

Kara and Kenny go on a walk, and Kara fully intends to tell Kenny about college, but before she can, Kenny shows her the super base he made for them. And suddenly Kara’s heart is torn.

On the ship, Brainy is spiraling…both literally in his spinny chair and also emotionally. When I was in college and felt this overwhelmed and didn’t know how to cope I used to stand on my chair to try to get physically above the emotional feeling of drowning, so I GET sweet Brainy in this moment.

Nia starts to blame herself about the future changing because she called her mom, though she promises she didn’t leave a voicemail.

BRAINY LET HER DO WHATEVER SHE WANTS. FUCK THE TIMELINE. FUCK ALL THE TIMELINES. I’D DO ANYTHING TO MAKE HER SMILE AGAIN.

Brainy starts rapid-fire trying all the coping mechanisms he learned from teens today but none of them are working, so he asks Nia how she coped when she was younger. And so she shows him. By singing Dolly Parton’s 9 to 5.

Could Nia Nal be any more perfect? Because I don’t think she could be, I think she’s peak adorable.

It’s the cutest shit ever. It works to cheer them both up and also pass the time until the tracker finds the Glam Rock Alien ship.

Kenny shows Kara around the bunker be built, complete with the ACTUAL LOG on which they shared their first kiss and OMG PROTECT THIS BOY. He looks around proudly and tells Kara about the future he dreams of sharing with her, and you can see Kara’s whole heart break when she realizes she’s going to have to break his.

Wherever Kenny is now, I hope he’s so happy. I hope Kara sends his babies presents. PS. If he dies in Part 2, we riot!

Brainy and Nia find the Glam Rock Aliens, but it turns out they walked right into a trap, and soon they find themselves trapped in a cage, just like the pink panther in Nia’s dream.

And friends, I’ve never been so excited to see a “To be continued…” slide in my life. Not that I wanted the episode to end with my precious babies Nia and Brainy in peril, but because I love love love Midvale episodes and I’m thrilled this one is a two-parter.

See you back in Midvale next week!