Supergirl (TV Series)

Truth or Consequences (2021)

Jesse Rath: Querl Dox, Brainiac-5

Photos 

Quotes 

• Nia Nal : I'd ask how you're holding up.

  Brainiac-5 : Never thought I'd say this, but... I could really use my personality inhibitors. All this happiness is making me quite sad. I can't stop thinking that soon I'll have to leave everyone. Especially you.

  Nia Nal : Don't think about that. Right now, you're here with me. See?

  [taking his hand and putting her head on his shoulder] 

  Nia Nal : Do you feel your hand in mine?

  Brainiac-5 : I do.

  Nia Nal : And my head on your shoulder?

  Brainiac-5 : Yes.

  Nia Nal : That's all that matters. Tonight's not the night to be Debbie Downer. We're here to celebrate Alex and Kelly.

  Brainiac-5 : You're right. I do not intend to be this... Debbie with a sad surname. You know, actually, I am grateful... to feel so much love and loss... because then I know... it all truly meant something. And that you'll always be with me, Nia Nal... no matter where I go.

  [leading her to the dance floor] 

  Brainiac-5 : Come. I'll show you how they dance in the future.

• Dreamer : You're going back to the future?

  Brainiac-5 : How'd you know?

  Dreamer : I just saw it. Why didn't you tell me? I thought we said no more secrets.

  Brainiac-5 : Legion only informed me that... I am to return when our conflict with Lex and Nxyly concludes. I was gonna tell you, Nia, I swear.

  Dreamer : Why you? Why can't somebody else go?

  Brainiac-5 : If I don't go... it will mean the end of all Coluans.

  Dreamer : Well, then let me go with you.

  Brainiac-5 : You know that's not an option.

• Brainiac-5 : Your intel has been most informative, Winn. What was this personal matter you wish to discuss?

  [his computer warbles] 

  Brainiac-5 : Yes. Yes, I understand.

• Brainiac-5 : Lex's obsequious devotion to Nxyly, his selfless behavior sacrificing the Love totem, all confirm what I just learned in my call with the 31st century.

  Dreamer : You called the future?

  Brainiac-5 : So, in the future, Lex and Nxyly are quite the power couple.

  Lena Luthor : It's hard to imagine Lex loving anyone as much as he loves himself.

  Brainiac-5 : Be that as it may, after obtaining all seven totems, Lex and Nxyly completed the AllStone and anointed themselves King and Queen of the universe. But for reasons still unknown, the AllStone began to fail. The Legion saw this as their chance to attack... and Nxyly died.

  J'onn J'onnz : That must be why Lex is so desperate to help her get all the totems in this time.

  Dreamer : But the Hope and Love totems have been destroyed. There's no way to complete the AllStone without them.

  Supergirl : Still, if he's in love, there's no telling what he'll do for Nxyly.

  Lena Luthor : [her computer chimes]  It worked. We tracked the LexoSuits and Naxim's ship to the waterfront.

• Supergirl : How does Nxyly have the Hope totem? I threw it into the Sun.

  Brainiac-5 : Evidently, the totems' powers are so potent and elemental in nature, they can't be destroyed. They only reconstitute in a new form.

  Dreamer : I can use the Dream totem to help me pinpoint the ship's location while Lena re-tracks the LexoSuits.

  J'onn J'onnz : Brainy, can you find out anything else from the future that might help us... speed things along?

  Brainiac-5 : [dryly]  Yes, of course. Should want to speed things up.

• Brainiac-5 : You seem distressed, Querl. Didn't the Legion give you the information you needed on Lex Luthor?

  Querl Dox : Yes. But... I was also told that the Big Brain suffered extensive damage in the AI plague. I have orders to return to the 31st century to help.

  Brainiac-5 : You always knew you'd have to return to your own time eventually.

  Querl Dox : There's more. In order to save the Big Brain, I have... I've been called upon to merge with it. If I do so, I will cease to exist. So will you.

  Brainiac-5 : We will exist. Maybe not as ourselves, but as part of something greater...

  Querl Dox : I am a part of something greater! Here, in this time. I... I have a family. I... I'm in love. I cannot abandon them. I will not abandon her!

  Brainiac-5 : If you...

  Querl Dox : I know, I know! I-I risk jeopardizing the entire space/time continuum, but... t-there must be another option.

  Brainiac-5 : I'm running calculations on alternate outcomes as we speak, and just... they're not viable.

  Querl Dox : I have to remain here long enough to ensure that Lex and Nxyly are vanquished, to at least know my friends are safe.

  Brainiac-5 : Truly am sorry, Querl. It is unfortunate that you are burdened... with feeling so much.

• Martian Manhunter : Dreamer, can you close the dream portal?

  Dreamer : I'm trying!

  Brainiac-5 : [removing the totem from Nxyly's gauntlet]  I got the Dream totem.

  Nxylgsptinz : No!

  [sucked through the portal, the Super Friends enter the Dream Expanse, and Nia manages to portal them back to the Tower] 

  Supergirl : Fast thinking, Dreamer.

  Lena Luthor : Naxim's ship, it's gone.

  Martian Manhunter : [Brainy shows her the totem]  But we have this.