BWW Recap: SUPERGIRL Must Find a Way to Keep Her Hope Alive in 'Parasite Lost'

"The internet's a cesspool; you shouldn't read it" are words by Lena Luthor that we should probably all follow. Unsurprisingly, just like the general population finds it difficult to heed that advice, James can't stop himself from reading posts by bigots using the Guardians name as a symbol for hate. We've all been there, James. Who hasn't had their words twisted on social media, amiright? The all press is good follow-up might not be the best consolation, though.

Of course, a toast about basking in the sunshine, health, and happiness is going to cut to the insertion of Parasite into ex-DEO member Jensen. His shiny new powers - as we've seen before - include absorbing alien powers as he kills them in the process. 'Alien powers are too dangerous so let's make a human who can use them all at once...' Makes sense.

In a shiny plot twist, Colonel Lauren Haley (the President's choice to survey Alex's work after disobeying an order) comes in strong with praise for how Alex has revamped the DEO to work more efficiently. Most of the time, if a newly-appointed power figure starts waxing poetic about a job well done, they're not to be trusted. Call me a pessimist, but shakeup characters aren't generally brought in to spread sunshine and rainbows.

Kara manages to get an interview with Amadei, a reclusive healer alien who enables a wheelchair-bound boy to walk again as she enters the room. He is troubled by the divisiveness and discrimination between aliens and humans and states, "If we want to fight prejudice, people need to know about who we are as aliens and what we do - to lead as an example for others." Amadei's healing only works on aliens, but his deepest wish is to "heal the human heart."

Street performance would be a whole lot more interesting in New York if we had alien shapeshifters walking among us, but I expect they'd receive the same vitriolic hate and fear that brought on by someone like Jensen. The fear would likely then spread like wildfire to the enraptured people who were eating it up five seconds ago.

Supergirl gets whammied with Jensen's attempt to strip her of her powers and Alex comes in hot, saving her life, but not before he can murder the friendly street performer as a child watches.

Naive optimist that she is, SUPERGIRL is shocked when she reads the negative, homicidal comments against the peaceful alien she interviewed. Slowly but surely, she's being forced to harden up and accept the worst in people - a direct contrast to her hopeful persona. It's quite difficult to see her resolve slowly dim as she continues to see humanity at its worst.

J'onn embraces his comic book roots as a detective as he works to find out who stole Amedei's amulet, which he needs to stay alive. Jansen turned Parasite embraces the prospect of combatting the snaphoo that Parasite can only keep the stolen alien powers for a short while, as a scorned lover handed off the amulet to Agent Liberty's creepy posse, the Children of Liberty.

Boom goes the dynamite. We're used to a "no casualties are an acceptable number of casualties" from our ragtag group, but Colonel Haley is willing to sacrifice a mass number of people within the self-made dome the DEO created to take Jensen down. Guardian is forced to play into Agent Liberty's hand as he suits up after Liberty publicly proclaims that National City needs its "human superhero." Never one to back down from a fight, James begrudgingly follows despite knowing that it will be more FODDER for anti-alien rhetoric.

Alex appeals to Jensen's "humanity," (if you can call it that,) asking him to take a look around at all of the humans he put in danger when his supposed mission was to help them. As Jensen does the right thing, he mutters, "even if I give up, he'll still be out there." Because that's not ominous at all...

Colonel Haley praises Alex for her handling the situation without the high body count of her proposed plan. It's hard not to see ulterior motives when just five minutes ago she was screaming to fire the kill shot that would have decimated the entire area, though she does call Alex out for ignoring orders. I mean why not chew out someone for having and acting on a better, safer plan?

The levee breaks once more as Haley talks down about J'onn being an imposter, claiming that he was trying to erode the DEO's mission. Her anti-alien rhetoric is showing just a tad. She's quick to put Alex in her place after she defends J'onn, pulling out the rank card and insisting that things be done by the book moving forward and forcing Alex to salute her on the way out. Talk about a shot to the ego...

On the bright side, it looks like we'll be seeing more detective work from J'onn as he dons his cap and is crowned "the guy that aliens can go to when they don't TRUST the police." Meanwhile, James is considering some undercover work of his own as Guardian, hoping that he can get through to the very people warping their name.

Kara decides to keep on hoping as she devises a segment for CatCo called Aliens of National City. She cites that telling their stories - all sides of them can help heal THE DIVIDE in this city.

The credits roll on James making a phone call to Agent Liberty and despite his proposed plan to use his platform to sway people, it feels a bit menacing.

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