BWW RECAP: Everyone Must Choose a Side on This Week's SUPERGIRL

It's hardcore awkwardness in the first few minutes of SUPERGIRL after Alex refers to Kara as a human and later stumbles over the mention of Lena to James. Meanwhile. Brainy, er, Barney, sports a suave "undercover look" with sunglasses a bright blue shirt that says, "don't hassle me I'm local". The subtlety is remarkable.

Supergirl takes Brainy and Nia to the Fortress of Solitude where the former displays his #robotissues when introduced to Kalex, who apparently has his own nickname as "Kleenex."

It didn't take long for SUPERGIRL to cue into Menagerie's untimely lack of demise when she clues into the newly-formed alien equivalent of the Children of Liberty. Manchester Black has recruited a group of morally-ambiguous aliens to start a video series of putting speciests in their place - through murder. He calls it the Era of Elite.

Via coded message in a video, Manchester Black invites SUPERGIRL to meet in Manchester, England (read that sentence without bursting into a Hair medley, I dare you).

Manchester proposes a compromise that SUPERGIRL can keep all of the run-of-the-mill baddies if he and his team get dibs on the Children of Liberty and their merry band of racists. Obviously, she doesn't take him up on his offer because, yaknow, murder is bad.

Supergirl pops into the Oval Office to chat with the President, going head-to-head on the ethicality of blowing up any spacecraft that enters Earth regardless of threat (or lack thereof) level.

Shoutout to Alex who is standing next to SUPERGIRL and doesn't realize that she's her sister. The mind sees what it wants? After seeing a pretty shadesville Alex since her memories were wiped, it's good to know that she opposes to direct alien slaughter, though that's a pretty low bar to set. That being said, she doesn't care enough to use her position at the DEO to stop it.

With a sleight of hand, the Era of Elite switch the launch of the missile to the White House. Alex throws a shielded suit at SUPERGIRL to help her redirect the launch. Meanwhile, Manchester gets his hands on Brainy's ring, which definitely doesn't bode well for the universe. A vengeful man on a mission of destruction should not control an object that powerful.

Supergirl destroys the satellite and Alex asks her to keep her involvement a secret, but extends an arm toward the prospect of working together in the future. SUPERGIRL flies off after the President's insistence that she could have saved the White House without destroying the satellite. To make matters worse, even the ever-scheming Haley wasn't alerted to the President's plan for the satellite. He's even more corrupt than we were led to believe - defying protocol for a weapon of mass destruction. After making Ben Lockwood Deputy Director of Alien Affairs, it's clear that there's no going back for the President.

The episode concludes with the Children of Liberty beginning to question the authority of their leader and his commitment to action when he firmly shuts down the notion with his fists.

This episode felt very filler-y in many regards, but despite the many flowery plots, it was needed to set up the rest of the season. The alien vs human war is coming to a head, despite Supergirl's hope that everyone finds common ground, and after this episode, the lines of where everyone stands are clearer than ever.

Photo Credit: Sergei Bachlakov/The CW

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