Genre: Action/Superhero/Sci-Fi
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Writer: John Malone
Based on DC Comics characters
Cast: Chloe Grace Moretz, Sean Penn, Frances McDormand, Skyler Gisondo, Gary Sinise, Radha Mitchell, Ted Danson, John Bradley
Plot: Kara (Chloe Grace Moretz) and her father Zor-El (Sean Penn) sit on the edge of a cornfield on the Kent farm on the outskirts of Smallville as the sun sets. Kara says that it is beautiful on Earth. Zor-El isn’t as impressed as his daughter, assuring her that the sunsets of Earth’s yellow sun are nothing compared to the red sunsets back on Krypton. He puts his arm around her and tells her that he will find a way for them to go back home again no matter what it takes. Kara doesn’t think much of her fathers’ promise and continues to watch the sunset. Marth Kent (Frances McDormand) comes outside and offers them some dinner. Kara runs toward the house with superspeed. Zor-El declines and heads into a barn on the Kent property. After dinner with Martha, Kara takes a plate of food out to the barn for her father. She finds him building something and she asks him what it is. Zor-El insists that if it works, it will give them a way back home. Kara doesn’t understand since Krypton was supposedly destroyed. Zor-El tells her that there's no way for her to understand until he's done.
Seeing the inherent good in Kara, Martha tries to come up with a way for her to experience real life on Earth. Martha invites a childhood friend of hers over for lunch, General Sam Lane (Gary Sinise), a high-ranking officer in the US military as well as the military liaison to the Department of Extranormal Operations. She asks him how his wife Ella is doing these days, and he regretfully informs her that Ella passed away recently after a battle with cancer. Martha apologizes for bringing up the subject. Lane says it’s okay and cuts to the chase, asking what made Martha invite him over after all these years. Martha then introduces Sam to Kara, telling him that she was hoping Sam could use his government connections to get her documents or something so she can live. Sam asks why she would need documents. Kara tells him that she is from the planet Krypton and recently came to Earth after hearing a message broadcast by Lex Luthor. Lane becomes suspicious, but Martha is able to ease his mind when she begins telling him about Kara's abilities and her desire to use them for good rather than just using them to help out around the farm. Sam tells Martha and Kara that he can't promise anything, but he'll see what he can come up with.
Sam arrives at the headquarters of the Department of Extranormal Operations. He meets with his aide, Eliza Danvers (Radha Mitchell), and asks her if Amanda Waller is around. She informs him that Waller is out of the country at the moment, overseeing a prisoner exchange in Kahndaq. Lane says that’s good and asks her to start entering information for Kara into all the necessary national databases. Eliza asks if it is for a cover identity for a new agent. He says it is something like that. Sam then calls Martha and asks her to bring Kara to National City so they can get fingerprints and a picture into the databases. Martha thanks Sam for everything he's doing and says they'll get on the next train. Kara tells Zor-El that she is going to National City so she can fit in better on Earth. Zor-El is angered by the idea that his daughter would want to be more like the humans - it is them that should want to be more like Kryptonians. Kara says she just wants to make the best of their new situation. Zor-El is vehement that he has no interest in making the best of their situation and will instead continue his work to bring them home.
In National City, Sam introduces Kara and Martha to Eliza, informing them that he has assigned Eliza to be Kara's handler while in National City and has had it arranged for Kara's new identity to be a niece of Eliza. Martha tells Kara that she needs to get back to the farm and reminds Kara to just ask if she needs anything. Kara gives Martha a hug goodbye.
Eliza takes Kara to see some wreckage that has been salvaged from Brainiac's ship. Eliza is wondering if Kara can help explain how some of the technology works. Kara is able to decipher some of the symbols and activate a device that she tells Eliza she is pretty sure is part of a Kryptonian terraforming device, but she expresses confusion as to why a being like Brainiac would have been in possession of it.
Sam takes Kara and Eliza to a large, empty penthouse apartment overlooking the city that he has arranged for them to use as part of their new cover story. Eliza looks around and asks Sam if he has anything furnished. Sam chuckles as he leaves the apartment. Kara goes out to the balcony and stands on the ledge, looking out over National City. Eliza sees this and rushes out to try to talk her down. Kara then steps off the ledge, but instead of falling she simply floats there. Kara tells Eliza that her cousin Kal-El - who Eliza may know of as the heroic Superman of Metropolis - told her that she would have extraordinary powers on Earth, but she’s still trying to figure out exactly what they all are. Eliza pulls up the DEO file on Superman and starts listing off his various known abilities to Kara
Kara is walking down the streets of National City enjoying an ice cream cone when billionaire trust fund kid Morgan Edge (Skyler Gisondo) is haphazardly riding a souped-up, top of the line motorcycle that he clearly does not have the skill to control down the streets of National City. Finally he falls off the of the bike, but his leg gets stuck under it just as a bus is coming toward him. Kara drops her ice cream and leaps into the street. With one hand she picks the motorcycle off of Morgan’s leg and with the other arm blocks the incoming bus, sending it safely to the side of the street. Morgan is immediately smitten with Kara. He smiles at her. Kara blushes, but panics and flies away when she sees a group of pedestrians staring at her and taking photos and videos of her with their phones.
Kara flies all the way back to the Kent farm to check on her father. She is greeted by Martha, who tells Kara that Zor-El has hardly left the barn in the few days Kara has been gone. Kara says that her father has always been a private man who retreats from the outside world into his work. Kara thanks Martha for all of her help, but mentions that she is going to ask her father if he wants to come back to National City with her. She knocks on the barn door, but there is no answer. Kara enters the barn, but Zor-El is nowhere to be found.
National City media mogul Vincent Edge (Ted Danson) sits in his office when his son Morgan enters and meekly sits down. Vincent chastises his son for nearly getting hit by a bus out of sheer stupidity. Morgan tries to explain what happened, but Vincent turns on a television where commentators are making fun of Morgan and suggesting he take a note or two from Gotham City’s Bruce Wayne on how to look the part of a billionaire playboy. Vincent shuts off the television in disgust and warns Morgan that he needs to get his act together if he’s going to take over the family empire. Morgan apologizes to his father and leaves the office.
Zor-El breaks into the DEO vaults using his own newfound Kryptonian powers. He easily takes out each and every guard in his way as he steals the supposed Kryptonian terraforming device. He then escapes the building in a superspeed blur just as more guards arrive.
Kara is still exhilarated from rescuing Morgan and asks Eliza if she could get an costume made to look like Superman’s. Eliza isn’t sure that her bosses would like her to encourage Kara’s sudden desire to become a superhero. Kara asks what the point of her powers this world has given her is if she doesn’t use them to help those on Earth. Eliza promises Kara that she’ll see what she can do.
Morgan watches the footage of Kara saving her repeatedly before finally pausing on the best image he can find of her face, which is still quite blurry. He decides to head down to one of his father’s many companies, Galaxy Communications, to try to get help getting a clearer look at his savior to try to find her. He is finally able to track down the name and address Eliza previously entered. Morgan saves the information into his phone and leaves the building.
Back in the Kent barn, Zor-El activates the device, which becomes sentient and attaches itself to Zor-El. Now calling himself the Eradicator, Zor-El flies the machine he’s been building up into the sky. The device beams a massive red laser back down to the ground, which begins killing the plant life around the impact point as it begins burning a hole through Earth’s crust.
Eliza presents Kara with her own Superman-inspired costume, jokingly calling her National City’s new Supergirl. Kara doesn’t laugh though, instead saying she likes it. She quickly puts on her new costume in a blur. She gives Eliza a hug, taking her off guard, before launching herself off the balcony and flying through the city.
Meanwhile, Michael Miller (John Bradley) sets fire to an apartment building before heading down the block to the National City Bank. With the police and fire departments heading to the apartment to assist in emergency efforts, Miller - with a flamethrower as his weapon of choice - enters the banks and demands the manager load up several bags of cash or he’ll burn the bank down and everyone in it alive. Frightened, the manager follows the order and lets Miller into the vault and has the bank tellers begin loading up bags. Supergirl notices the smoke off in the distance and flies in the direction. She notices that the firefighters are having a difficult time extinguishing the blaze. Supergirl takes a deep breath, then uses her super breath to blow a massive gust of wind through the building to put out the flames. As the police and firefighters thank her for the assistance, Supergirl hears a scream from the street. She bursts into the bank and sees the robbery in process. Miller fires his flamethrower at her, but she once again uses her super breath to put out the flames before they can reach her. Supergirl throws Miller into the bank vault and locks him in it. Miller angrily comments that he didn’t know Superman has a little sister. Supergirl looks at Miller and matter-of-factly tells him that she’s not Superman’s sister… she’s his cousin.
Martha is feeding some chickens when the Earth suddenly begins shaking. She goes out into an open space and notices Zor-El’s red laser blasting the ground off in the distance - the laser is now much bigger than it was before. Martha gets into her truck and begins driving down the road away from the laser, but the earthquake causes a tree to fall and hit the front of her truck. Martha slams on the steering wheel in frustration.
When Kara returns to the apartment, she finds Eliza and Morgan waiting for her. Kara is surprised to see him. He tells her that he just wanted to thank her for saving his life the other day by taking her out for a cup of coffee or something. Kara mentions that she’s never had coffee before and would like to try it. Morgan is surprised that she’s never had it before and suggests a place right around the corner. Eliza interjects and warns Kara that Morgan’s father is a shady businessman under investigation for multiple corporate crimes. Morgan asks that both Eliza and Kara don’t hold who his father is against him and insists that he’s nothing like his father, much to his father’s chagrin. Kara tells Eliza that she believes that Morgan means well. Eliza gives up trying to talk her out of it, commenting that Kara can obviously take care of herself.
While getting coffee, a television in the cafe mentions the earthquake in Smallville. Kara tells Morgan that she needs to go make sure her family is safe. Morgan asks her to take him with her. She gives him a look like she doesn’t know what he means. Morgan then comments that he’s seen her fly into a high rise penthouse, lift a motorcycle over her head and block a speeding bus with one hand - he’s pretty sure she can figure out a way to bring him with her. Kara smiles and grabs his hand. She warns him to hold on tight. She then flies away, pulling Morgan along with her.
Once reports go beyond the earthquakes and start describing the giant laser cutting a whole into the Earth’s crust outside of Smallville, Vincent Edge orders his news company to send every available camera operator and reporter to the scene immediately.
Arriving at the Kent farm, Kara sets Morgan down. She asks him to find Martha for her while she goes to find a way to stop the mysterious laser. Kara enters the barn, but there is no sign of her father and his machine is gone too. With a worried look, Kara starts flying toward the laser in the sky. When she reaches it, she finds Zor-El manning the machine that is firing the laser. She asks her father what is going on. He tells her that he promised her he would find a way to bring her home. She expressed confusion. Zor-El explains that he has merged with the Eradicator, a Kryptonian device he created many years prior that can recreate Krypton by eradicating the life on another planet and replacing it with the seeds of Kryptonian life. Kara tells her father that it is wrong to wipe out the life of an entire planet. Zor-El's eyes glow red. He angrily tells her that he is doing it for her sake. She pleads with him to stop, but he ignores her and turns up the power on the device, creating a massive earthquake.
Morgan is running down the road when he finds Martha's crashed truck. He checks to make sure she is okay. She asks who he is, and he says he is a friend of Kara's. Martha smiles, happy that Kara is already finding herself in the world.
With her pleas to her father falling on deaf ears, Kara fires a heat vision blast at her father, knocking him away from the controls. Zor-El tells Kara that he doesn't want to fight her. She tells him that he isn't giving her any choice right now. He calls her a child and fires back with a heat vision of his own. As the two focused beams of heat collide, Kara tells her father that he could have searched for another way to save their people without sacrificing an entire planet, but he simply chose not to. Kara stops firing her heat vision and instead starts punching her father's machine. Zor-El grabs her arm, telling her that Earth's destruction and resurrection as a new Krypton is the will of Rao. Kara slips out of her father's grasp and punches him with all her might, sending him flying right through his machine's engines. The blow disables the machine, killing the laser, and sending it falling to the ground - landing on top of Zor-El. Kara flies down to the surface and digs the debris off of her father. She finds him incapacitated, but still alive.
General Sam Lane and Eliza arrive with a convoy of DEO trucks. They have Zor-El's unconscious body placed in a containment unit lined with Kryptonite. They assure Kara that they have no plans to kill her father, and that there is only enough Kryptonite within to power him down to the strength of an average human. Kara looks around her and finds Morgan and Martha watching from the distance. Martha comments that Kara is a lot like Clark and she can't wait to tell him about how she saved the day when he eventually returns to Earth. Kara thanks Morgan for finding Martha. Once the news footage from Smallville starts coming in, Vincent is shocked to see his son in the video talking to Supergirl. He quickly pulls out his phone to call Morgan. When Morgan sees his father’s name pop up on his phone’s caller ID, Morgan decides to ignore the call. Kara asks Morgan if they can finish getting coffee some time. Morgan says he would like that more than anything. Kara then kisses Morgan as the DEO starts cleaning up any sign of Zor-El's attempt at eradicating Earth. General Lane pays Vincent Edge and offers to make some of his criminal charges go away in return for him handing over any footage of the "Eradicator incident" and helping cover up the events. Vincent thinks about it for a moment before agreeing.
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