Supergirl Season 4, Episode 6 recap: A Danvers Thanksgiving

Supergirl celebrates Thanksgiving this week, meanwhile the Children of Liberty are on the hunt.

In this week’s Supergirl, Colonel Haley has decided the Children of Liberty are not a priority for the DEO. Of course, Alex and Kara disagree, and tell Brainy to continue his research. Brainy, still working on picking up on human queues, doesn’t quite understand at first, but catches on. Watching Brainy adjust to life on Earth is honestly one of the most entertaining parts of this season.

Lena surprises James at Catco with a new suit and tells him that she has arranged a TV interview for him so that he can publicly disavow the Children of Liberty. James gets upset that she didn’t ask him first and says he can’t do it because he’s arranged a meeting with one of the Children of Liberty. His plan is to try to find a way to meet Agent Liberty himself and hopefully interview him. Disavowing them publicly would kill any chances of him doing that.

What started out as a cute moment quickly turns uncomfortable as James refuses the interview and Lena pulls the boss card.

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James vents his frustrations to Kara, who counsels him that Lena is often right and maybe he should listen to her. Kara ends up volunteering to take the interview and wants Nia to help. Unfortunately Nia seems to be falling asleep more and more often lately and when confronted by James and Kara she tells them she has “that sleep thing”, aka narcolepsy.

This is obviously a set up for her eventual rise as the superhero Dreamer so it should be interesting to see how it develops.

James meets up with one of the Children of Liberty, a man named Tom, and he clearly is hiding something from James as he keeps looking at his phone and claiming it’s his “wife”. He also has a dog with him that tends to act strangely around certain houses, which James seems to notice.

While James is at this clandestine meeting, Kara is attempting to debate none other than Ben Lockwood in James’s place. It starts off well for her, but goes downhill at Ben’s closing remark. Ben draws a parallel between how Thanksgiving was rooted in the fact that the settlers killed most of the indigenous people who were here before them, and questions whether this could happen again but this time between aliens and humans. As the crowd cheers his statement Kara is left feeling dejected.

Kara hosts a friendsgiving dinner with the whole gang, including Lena, Brainy, Nia, and even Manchester Black who was invited by J’onn. Kara and Alex’s mom Eliza is there too, and she attempts to talk to Nia about her supposed narcolepsy problem but Nia seems to panic and claims she already has a doctor helping her. She even provides a name she clearly made up on the spot.

What’s interesting is that she told Kara earlier that she didn’t have a doctor in town yet. So why is she lying and why doesn’t she want to go see a doctor for her condition? Is she already aware of her superpowers?

During the Thanksgiving dinner James and Lena have another confrontation over his plans to get reach out to the Children of Liberty, he plans to continue and she’s none too pleased about it. Things get interesting when Nia lets slip that they now have dogs that can identify aliens. Kara mentions she encountered one earlier too and James realizes that the dog he saw during his meeting was being used to mark the houses of aliens who were later going to be attacked.

The gang sets off into motion to try to prevent the Children of Liberty from conducting widespread attacks on aliens, and Kara uses the excuse of giving Alex a ride to make her exit. As James prepares to leave, Lena tries to stop him and in her frustration reveals that she intervened with the DA on his behalf to drop the guardian charges.

James is furious that she lied to him and when Lena tells him that she loves him and there isn’t any line she wouldn’t cross for him he tells her he wants no part of that and leaves. Lena is of course heartbroken and it’s not inconceivable that this could be yet another notch on her path to eventually becoming Supergirl’s enemy. It’s also very revealing about her character that she outright admits there are no lines she wouldn’t cross.

Kara and Brainy manage to wipe off many of the marks the Children of Liberty placed on alien homes but one home they didn’t get to ends up being the home of a family with a pet who can turn into a dragon. Yes, you read that right, a flying dragon. The dragon attacks the Children of Liberty with fire and Supergirl begins to fight it, but when Alex meets the little girl and realizes it’s her pet Kara is able to calm the dragon down and have it turn back into a small lizard.

James went to meet up with his contact from the Children of Liberty and tries to stop him from joining the attack with the others. This ends up saving the man’s life and James meets up with him again later only to be seemingly kidnapped by a group of the Children of Liberty.

Lena-there’s no line I wouldn’t cross-Luthor will likely be none too pleased about the fact that her boyfriend has been taken. In fact we see her in her lab with Eve saying it feels like there’s going to be a war between humans and aliens soon and the ones they love will need their protection. She’s been experimenting with the Harun-El from Argo City in an attempt to cure cancer, but instead seems to have found a way to make hearts indestructible.

Now she wants to enter the next phase and start human trials. How many bets that this won’t end well?

Do you think Lena’s experiments with the Harun-El will end badly or end up helping? Do you think James is going too far in with the Children of Liberty? Let us know!

Supergirl airs Sundays at 8pm EST on the CW.