Phantoms
At the Luthor Foundation Bloodbank, a security guard encounters what appears to be a vampire who demands his keys. Brainy and the rest of the Superfriends show up to stop him, but he transforms into a bat. J’onn catches him. The guy is actually an alien from Transylvane. His name is Silas and this is the person that they think can help them break into the PHantom Zone. Meanwhile, in the Phantom Zone, Supergirl wakes up.
Silas explains that his husband was sentenced to prison in the Phantom Zone and he managed to break in — the only person who ever has. Silas tells them that the creatures there are the real threat there, making people trapped there go insane. It takes a little convincing, but he agrees to help. Brainy tells Nia that she will need to train in order to help locate Supergirl in the Phantom Zone. When Silas starts working on things, Alex gets overly excited and things that they’ll have Supergirl back that day. Silas says it needs more time than that. Kelly tries to work things out. J’onn also is struggling with Kara’s absence.
Court is in session
At CatCo, Andrea wants to bury Lex with their coverage of his upcoming trial. She assigns William and Nia to cover the courthouse and tasks them to do whatever it takes to get in. In jail, Lillian and Otis meet with Lex. Lex refuses to take a plea deal. Lex says he has a plan. At court, Lex’s trial begins with Lex representing himself, asserting that Eve Tessmacher won’t prove anything. Eve testifies against Lex, but he tries to discredit her, manipulating things to make it look like she’s just a jilted lover bent on revenge.
A reunion
In the Phantom Zone, someone finds Kara and she wakes up in what apepears to be a cave. The man who finds her is from the House of El. The man who finds her is her father. He’s stunned to find that Argo survived, as did Kara and his wife. Turns out, he sent himself to the Phantom Zone in a last ditch attempt to save his life. He’s horrified to learn that Kara had been there trapped before. Kara is determined to escape, but her father insists that she needs to accept her fate and not even try lest she go mad.
Kara is determined to find a way out of the Phantom Zone for both herself and her father. She heads back out is soon overwhelmed, and her father has to come save her, again. Zor-El has completely given up. Kara doubles down on escaping and he decides to help her.
Lena’s choice
Andrea and Lena chat and Andrea tries to get Lena to give her an interview about her brother. CatCo is in bad shape. She wants Lena to go on the record to try to save the company. Lena leaves, disgusted.
Lillian pays Lena a visit and offers to sell her her shares of the company to keep LuthorCorp out of Lex’s hands. She also doesn’t Lena to testify against her brother for the good of the business, reminding her that she will have to take credit for what she did while working with Lex. Lena still plans to go forward.
Lena shows up at the courthouse to testify, talking about Non Nocere. The questioning turns into Lena essentially playing Lex and getting him to reveal his true colors and admit his own guilt in front of the jury — and on television. He also reveals himself to be a misogynist.
A botched rescue
Nia struggles with her powers, not understanding them. Brainy gives her a pep talk as she trains to ready herself to find Kara.
Silas gets his device going and they access the Phantom Zone and Brainy realizes that Crisis damaged the Phantom Zone. It’s now many dimensions and could take years to search them all. As the team debates, Phantoms escape into reality, knocking the portal offline in the process. J’onn and Dreamer join powers and, after Silas gets the portal online, sends the Phantoms back.
Bad news all around
Otis disguises himself as a balif with a plan to take out the jury and the judge, but the jury finds him not guilty. William is disillusioned, but Nia gives him a pep talk and encourages him to not give up. Lex calls for the district attorney to press charges against Lena.
At home, Alex is confronted with the possibility that Kara may never come home. At Lena’s home, Andrea shows up to encourage Lena to use Lex’s strategies against him and keep going — even if it means going outside the legal system.
At Silas’ house, it becomes evident that one of the Phantoms managed to remain behind. In the Zone, Phantoms open a portal, Kara and Zor-El observe.