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Nano-Swarms And Ex-Boyfriends – Supergirl Returns

This article contains spoilers for the Supergirl episode – Ace Reporter.

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In the episode Ace Reporter, the writers spend some time on characters that have been put aside for a few weeks (not counting the three week hiatus). It starts with nothing happening in National City, giving Kara (Melissa Benoist) time off… which quickly gets tapped by Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath). Lena's ex is back in town with a big announcement and she wants Kara to be her wing-woman for the press event. While there, Kara sees her old boss, Snapper Carr (Ian Gomez), who takes jabs at her for not being a real reporter. Kind of a journalist vs blogger thing. At the event we meet the ex, Jack Spheer (Rahul Kohli) and his CFO Beth Breen (Claudia Doumit) as the introduce a new nanotech break through for medical treatment. Something Jack and Lena had been working on before the broke up. Lena pushes Kara to ask a question only to have Snapper try and interrupt her, but she gets the question in anyways.

Jack tries very hard to get Lena to have dinner with him while Kara is approached by a former Biomax employee that wants to meet her in secret later. But when she meets him, a nano-swarm appears and blows up the car they're in. Kara is of course okay, but her source is dead. When Snapper goes to meet someone that was supposed to be part of the human trials of Biomax, the nano-swarm attacks there too. Supergirl is able to save Snapper, but not his source. This is my one big problem with the episode. We never find out how Biomax discovered either meetings were taking place, so how did the nano-swarm get sent to either?

Jack continues to try and woo Lena while Kara continues to dig and is not liking what she is finding. Her and Mon-El interrupt Jack and Lena's date and Mon-El does some pretty good work in the scene, lifting Jack's security card which allows them to sneak into Biomax and see a video where Jack uses the nanobots on himself. We learn that he is the Biomax nano-swarm. Now this is something that comic fans may have already guessed was going to happen since in the comics Jack Spheer is a villain named Biomax… pretty much the same thing except for the swarm part really.

Kara shows Lena the video and makes her promise to stay away from Jack. Lena of course ignores the warning and goes to see Jack and we discover that he's not in control of himself. Beth controls him and is using him as a weapon. She's about to have Jack inject Lena with the same thing so she can control both Biomax and Lexcorp… when Supergirl comes to the rescue, except she is swarmed by the nano-swarm and Lena has to save her… but it kills Jack. Lena is shaken by this and is left feeling cold and alone. Kara tries to be there for her, but I think we've seen Lena take a very bad step here.

During the episode, Kara had gone to Snapper and gave him her notes and information on the Biomax story. She did it because the truth needed to be told and CatCo could reach far more people than Kara could with her blog. She also admitted she was wrong about blogging the Alien story. By the end of the episode, Snapper ran the story with a shared bi-line and hire Kara back as a reporter.

There is a subplot in the episode which features James Olsen / Guardian (Mehcad Brooks), Wynn Schott (Jeremy Jordan) and Lyra Strayd (Tamzin Merchant) trying to work together as a team of crime fighters. Except James and Lyra don't get along and Wynn get stuck in the middle. They work it out by the end of the episode with Guardian taking her under his wing… but we are left with one major question: Does Lyra eat cats?

And we end with Reya (Teri Hatcher) showing up to talk with Lena. Which can't be good.

Overall the episode was strong. Directed by the visual effects supervisor, Armen Kevorkian, the episode has a good flow and played to some strengths that haven't been touched on in a while. Sometimes a show gets so wrapped up in the main season plot that it forgets to have some good, stand-alone episodes. This was a good episode about relationships and Kohli really shined in his guest appearance. The producers need to figure out how to un-kill Jack.

Alex Danvers doesn't show up much at all in Ace Reporter, but they make up for it next week in an episode called Alex where Kara's adopted sister is kidnapped and used as ransom to get someone out of prison. This forces Supergirl to work with Maggie Sawyer and the two have very different approaches to fighting crime.

https://youtu.be/UIFlR8YIhgI

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