Alex successfully makes everyone leave and she drowns her sorrows in wine and enters the virtual reality of Obsidian Platinum. She enters a world where she is Supergirl instead. A bit on the nose but she’s going through something. Alex gets used to the world and meets other participants like Bonnie, a woman using VR to escape her life and a guitarist she saves from a loose dragon in a mall, who doesn’t realize that the world isn’t real and the audience sees that he is trapped in a room with other VR players, the same room Richard Bates was taken too in the previous episode.
Alex is clearly her newfound power and freedom. She meets Bonnie again at a diner but when they talk, Bonnie seems to have no recollection of her real world. Alex is concerned but still leaves her when VR J’onn calls her from the DEO. He calls her in when missiles go missing. It turns out that Hank Henshaw has kidnapped her sister, Kara and demands that she bring more warheads to him or he’ll kill her. Alex does it without question and Hank attempts to blow up the DEO but she captures him. Apparently in her world, this is all wrapped up rather quickly.
However, when Alex is taken out for celebration by J’onn and Brainy, it becomes clear she has forgotten she is in a virtual reality. It’s only when she sees another Supergirl that she remembers that it’s not the real world. It seems like she pulled herself out but it turns out that she’s still stuck in this virtual world and J’onn tells her that Psi launched a psychic attack to make everyone doubt their reality. Suffice it to say, she’s definitely stuck and Alex refuses to see the truth because of her grief.
During this, Kelly has decided to give Alex space to grieve in hopes she’ll change her mind about going to the funeral. William comes to her and asks her help about what Lex could be doing with Obsidian Platinum and satellites. After looking into it, she does learn that no one patched the glitch that keeps players stuck inside VR. She immediately goes to Andrea about this who isn’t overly concerned and says she’ll deal with it. Kelly is with William on Lex being behind this and together they make calls about the participants who have been in the VR for more than 48 hours. However, everyone has been accounted for. So she thinks.
Kelly comes home and finds Alex with her lenses almost red. Adrenaline doesn’t work to bring her out so Kelly goes into the VR. She finds Alex and tries to get her to eject herself from the simulation but she doesn’t believe her and goes on another mission.
Kelly leaves the VR and on advice from Andrea, she creates a non player character of Alex when she was a teenager. Teenage Alex makes her face the truth that she couldn’t have changed anything. The non player characters attack them to stop Alex from leaving but she finally realizes the truth and ends the simulation. That was certainly intense but Kelly tells her she should go to the funeral first and foremost which she does.
Andrea realizes that some virtual reality participants can’t be reached and she tells an associate that a patch work needs to be started now before anything else. It turns out that associate is Eve. So no dice there.
William uses a contact at the NSA who tells him he traced the Obsidian Platinum users who couldn’t be located to a warehouse. He goes there but is unable to see any of them because the elderly lady has somehow made them invisible.
William and Kelly both believe that Lex is involved as well as Alex and the others. However, it seems that Leviathan has more of its hands in Obsidian, no doubt because of Andrea’s “mentor”. It does leave the question if Lex is so invested in Obsidian and Leviathan is too, could he be trying to work with them rather than against them like Brainy thinks? This episode brought more questions to hopefully be resolved soon.
Written by Carly B., SUPERGIRL Beat Writer
Comments
Post a Comment