It stokes fear, animates political movements, and, in National City, forges a powerful new enemy.
Two years ago, Ben Lockwood was an NCU professor watching the world slowly change.
But then the Bravik hes protecting is injured and accidentally shoots one of his arm spikes into Bens chest.
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I didnt mean to!
the alien cries as Supergirl and Alex race in to stop the fight.
Alex patches Ben up and says his workers were lucky that Supergirl went easy on them.
Bens son chimes in to call aliens roaches but is interrupted whenQueen Rheaappears on the screen.
For example, homeowner insurance doesnt cover alien invasion damage.
This does not kindly Ben.
She says she didnt but shes not surprised that someone did.
Ben gets worked up, and then Kara Danvers appears to calm things down.
Its karaoke night, she says matter-of-factly when he asks why a humans there.
Kara keeps him from assaulting the student, so he calls her an Earth traitor and storms out.
In the melee, Ben finds his father in the Lockwood factory building, trapped under a beam.
This planet belongs to you.
At the funeral, Ben reads his fathers favorite quote, Winston Churchills Never Give In.
Lena attends and afterward, offers to establish a fund in Peters name.
But Ben wants nothing to do with an alien sympathizer.
Enraged, he picks up a length of pipe to finish what the fire started.
Bens charismatic, silver-tongued anti-alien proselytizing is starting to draw crowds now, including the dean who fired him.
Ben, with his expensive-life-coach delivery, invites her to his support group.
Then Mercy Graves pulls up and ushers him into her limousine.
Read a little 4chan, do you?
Then she gives him intel on Fiona, Jonns missing friend whose deathopened this season.
Ben ponders this offer at the old Lockwood factory, eventually unearthing a metal mask in the rubble.
And with that, were caught up.
So what of Supergirl?
Shes green-veiny and plummeting to Earth.
Brainy warns she wont survive the impact unless Jonn can catch her, which he does just in time.
In desperation, Alex calls Lena, who laments that people underestimate how much she really does care.
Just what are you up to, sexy masked professor of evil?
Snaps of the cape
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