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* SecretSecretKeeper: At the end of the episode, one of Kenny's telescope images reveals that he knew Kara was an alien, and that he didn't care. When Kara learns this, she admits that if he were in front of her right now, she'd kiss him.
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* SecretSecretKeeper: At the end of the episode, one of Kenny's telescope images reveals that he knew Kara was an alien, and that he didn't care. When Kara learns this, she admits that if he were in front of her right now, she'd kiss him. Adult!Kara even calls him a "keeper of secrets".
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* RedHerring: Samuel Bernard, one of Kara and Alex's teacher's, is set up as the villain and while he's definitely guilty of statutory rape, he's not Kenny's murderer. That would be [[DirtyCop Sheriff]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Collins]].
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* RedHerring: Samuel Bernard, one of Kara and Alex's teacher's, is set up as the villain and while he's definitely guilty of statutory rape, rape (presumably, the age of consent in the state Midvale is in is 18), he's not Kenny's murderer. That would be [[DirtyCop Sheriff]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Collins]].
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* DrivesLikeCrazy: Kara, according to Alex.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Deconstructed as RealityEnsues and the teacher promptly goes to jail for statuary rape. Josie, the student in question, tried to justify the relationship to her soon-to-be-former best friend Alex by pointing out the age gap (ten years) isn't that large and that no one will care in five years when she's older. What she fails to realize is that in five years it's assumed she'll be mature enough to realize a guy that old having a relationship with a teenager is a sexual predator.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Deconstructed as RealityEnsues and the teacher promptly goes to jail for statuary rape. Josie, the student in question, tried to justify the relationship to her soon-to-be-former best friend Alex by pointing out the age gap (ten years) isn't that large and that no one will care in five years when she's older. What she fails to realize is that in five years it's assumed she'll be mature enough to realize a guy that old having that is willing to have a relationship with a teenager (his student no less) is a sexual predator.
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* AbsenteeActor: Samantha, Lena, James and for the first time in the series, Winn, are absent for this episode.
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* DisappearedDad: During their high school years, Alex's dad is still presumed dead at the time. Alex blames Kara for it.
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* RedHerring: Samuel Bernard, one of Kara and Alex's teacher's, is set up as the villain and while he's definitely guilty of statutory rape, he's not Kenny's murderer. That would be [[DirtyCop Sheriff]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Collins.]]Collins]].
** Earlier, Kara suspected the JerkJock since Kenny had something on him. It turns out he was smoking pot and only threatened to beat up Kenny if he tells anyone.
** She also briefly suspected Kenny's dad due to his behavior while being questioned.
** Earlier, Kara suspected the JerkJock since Kenny had something on him. It turns out he was smoking pot and only threatened to beat up Kenny if he tells anyone.
** She also briefly suspected Kenny's dad due to his behavior while being questioned.
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* ShoutOut: "[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark They killed Kenny!]]"
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* HumiliationConga: The JerkJock is overpowered by a girl half his size in front of his teammates, is forced to admit to using pot, and gets suspended for it.
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* TheGhost: Kara mentions Clark's friend Chloe, and is in contact with her during the investigation of Kenny's death, but is neither seen nor heard.
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* SecretKeeper: Chloe is implied to be this for both Clark and Kara.
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* AlmightyMom: Eliza is fair but firm with Alex and Kara.
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* FatalFlaw: Eliza points out that Kara's inability to show weakness to her loved ones in the face of tragedy is hers.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: Kara finally allows herself to intentionally be vulnerable with Alex and acknowledges that despite her brave face, she still misses Mon-El.
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* AsianAndNerdy: Kenny Li bonds with Kara with his stargazing hobby. He's even smart enough to store pictures of galaxies in his laptop.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Poor Kenny got killed over blackmail material of the sheriff dealing drugs.
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* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and a murderer and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school. The Lees are grateful though.
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* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and a murderer and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school. The Lees However, Mr. and Mrs. Li are grateful though.grateful, so they rewarded Kara and Alex with Kenny's favourite telescope.
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* BigBrotherWorship: Well more like big/little cousin worship, Kara is shown to idolize Clark/Superman as a teenager, and initially openly wishes she could live and fight evil with him and not the Danvers.
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* ContinuityNod: The girls borrow J'onn's car/ship for their trip home.
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* ContinuityNod: ContinuityNod:
** The girls borrow J'onn's car/ship for their triphome.home.
** J'onn is shown keeping an eye on Kara and Alex, taking the form of an FBI Agent identical to Alura to help her through her problems, honoring his promise he made to Jeremiah to watch over the Danvers.
** The girls borrow J'onn's car/ship for their trip
** J'onn is shown keeping an eye on Kara and Alex, taking the form of an FBI Agent identical to Alura to help her through her problems, honoring his promise he made to Jeremiah to watch over the Danvers.
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Eliza never found out that J'onn was a Martian until the end of season 1 fully believing him to be Hank Henshaw, so J'onn was most likely staying nearby to honor his promise to Jeremiah to look after his daughters.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Not a character, but the first episode in a long time to fully focus on Kara and Alex's sisterhood.
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* SeriesContinuityError: When J'onn [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E7HumanForADay first revealed his true identity to Alex]], he told her she was only the second living person on Earth who knew who he really was (the other being Superman). It's implied in this episode that Eliza called him in to talk to Kara, meaning she knew who he was as well.
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* TookALevelInKindness: Alex ditches her AlphaBitch personality by the end after learning just how horrible her "[[KidsAreCruel friends]]" truly are.
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* MythologyGag: Kara mentions [[Series/{{Smallville}} Clark's friend Chloe, who's into weird tech stuff and has a "Wall of Weird"]].
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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** Kara mentions [[Series/{{Smallville}} Clark's friend Chloe, who's into weird tech stuff and has a "Wall ofWeird"]].Weird"]].
** Superman once foiled Lex from selling PoweredArmor and was pretty angry about the affair. This is more or less the plot of the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', which ended with Superman giving Lex a DeathGlare and a stern warning.
** Kara mentions [[Series/{{Smallville}} Clark's friend Chloe, who's into weird tech stuff and has a "Wall of
** Superman once foiled Lex from selling PoweredArmor and was pretty angry about the affair. This is more or less the plot of the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', which ended with Superman giving Lex a DeathGlare and a stern warning.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: J'onn disguises himself as an FBI Agent that looks exactly like Alura so Kara can open up about her struggles more than if he were Hank.
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* BookEnds / FramingDevice: BookEnds: The episode opens with the sisters going to their childhood home to help Alex cope with her breaking up with Maggie and ends with them heading back to National City. Outside of that, the episode is entirely a flashback.
* ContinuityNod: The girls borrow J'onn's car/ship for their trip home.
* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: J'onn disguises himself as an FBI Agent that looks exactly like Alura so Kara can open up about her struggles more than if he were Hank.
* MatchCut: The first scene of the flashback transitions from the last scene of Kara and Alex going to sleep, and does the same in reverse when it ends.
* MundaneUtility: Kara uses her SuperSpeed to get first dibs on the bathroom before school.
* MundaneUtility: Kara uses her SuperSpeed to get first dibs on the bathroom before school.
* WatchThePaintJob: J'onn texts Kara at the end of the episode, warning her not to scratch his car.
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* WouldHurtAChild: Sheriff Collins murdered Kenny, and is perfectly fine with trying to do the same to Alex.
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* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Other than the BookEnds, the majority of the episode is a flashback to 10 years prior.
* WouldHurtAChild: Sheriff Collins murdered Kenny, and is perfectly fine with trying to do the same toAlex.Alex.
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* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: J'onn disguises himself as an FBI Agent that looks exactly like Alura so Kara can open up about her struggles more than if he were Hank.
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* RealityEnsues: Kara tries to be there for Alex in the wake of her broken engagement, but Alex cruelly throws the six months Kara spent distancing herself from her and her friends over Mon-El.
-->'''Kara''': You want to talk, it might help?\\
'''Alex''': ''(defensively)'' You don't get to do that.\\
'''Kara''': What!?\\
'''Alex''': You don't get to shut down for six months after Mon-El goes and sit there and tell ''me'' to talk!
-->'''Kara''': You want to talk, it might help?\\
'''Alex''': ''(defensively)'' You don't get to do that.\\
'''Kara''': What!?\\
'''Alex''': You don't get to shut down for six months after Mon-El goes and sit there and tell ''me'' to talk!
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* SeriesContinuityError: When J'onn [[Recap/Supergirl2015S1E7HumanForADay first revealed his true identity to Alex]], he told her she was only the second living person on Earth who knew who he really was (the other being Superman). It's implied in this episode that Eliza called him in to talk to Kara, meaning she knew who he was as well.
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* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and a murderer and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school.
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* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and a murderer and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school. The Lees are grateful though.
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* BookEnds / FramingDevice: The episode opens with the sisters going to their childhood home to help Alex cope with her breaking up with Maggie and ends with them heading back to National City. Outside of that, the episode is entirely a flashback.
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* TragicKeepsake: Kenny's telescope, which was left as a gift for the Danvers' and still remains in their home.
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* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and murder and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school.
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* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and murder a murderer and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school.
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* AlphaBitch: Alex was revealed to be this in high school. After her adventure with Kara in solving Kenny's murder, however, she takes Kenny's place on the totem pole as a social outcast -- not that she really minds, in the end.
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* DirtyCop: Sheriff Collins.
* DirtyCop: Sheriff Collins.
* SecretSecretKeeper: At the end of the episode, one of Kenny's telescope images reveals that he knew Kara was an alien, and that he didn't care. When Kara learns this, she admits that if he were in front of her right now, she'd kiss him.
* ShipTease: Kara and Kenny shared an AlmostKiss, and it's implied that Kara's awkwardness was ''not'' because she didn't return his feelings for her. Unfortunately, Kenny's death means nothing ever comes of it.
* ShipTease: Kara and Kenny shared an AlmostKiss, and it's implied that Kara's awkwardness was ''not'' because she didn't return his feelings for her. Unfortunately, Kenny's death means nothing ever comes of it.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: Deconstructed as RealityEnsues and the teacher promptly goes to jail for statuary rape. Josie, the student in question, tried to justify the relationship to her soon-to-be-former best friend Alex by pointing out the age gap (ten years) isn't that large and that no one will care in five years when she's older. What she fails to realize is that in five years it's assumed she'll be mature enough to realize a guy that old having a relationship with a teenager is a sexual predator.
* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose theJerkJack JerkJock quarterback is using pot, that the history teacher is a sexual predator, and the sheriff as corrupt and murder and what's the reward? Being social outcasts in the school.
* UngratefulBastard: Kara and Alex expose the
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* CorruptCop: The sheriff who's on the take from a local gang -- and killed Kenny to keep him quiet.
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* ContinuityCameo: J'onn uses his powers to disguise himself as a FBI agent who looks like Kara's mom in order to try to dissuade her from using her powers. He changes back when nobody's looking.
* CorruptCop: The sheriff who's selling drugs on thetake from a local gang side -- and killed Kenny to keep him quiet.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Sheriff Collins sure seems like a friendly, helpful, and considerate small town lawman at first, doesn't he? Turns out he's anything but.
* DirtyCop: Sheriff Collins.
* DirtyCop: Sheriff Collins.
* RedHerring: Samuel Bernard, one of Kara and Alex's teacher's, is set up as the villain and while he's definitely guilty of statutory rape, he's not Kenny's murderer. That would be [[DirtyCop Sheriff]] [[BitchInSheepsClothing Collins.]]
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* WeHardlyKnewYe: Kenny Lee, Kara's high school friend.
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* StarterVillain: Chronologically, Sheriff Collins is this to both of the Danvers sisters.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Kenny Lee, Kara's high schoolfriend.friend.
* WouldHurtAChild: Sheriff Collins murdered Kenny, and is perfectly fine with trying to do the same to Alex.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Kenny Lee, Kara's high school
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* AlmostKiss: Kara and Kenny nearly kissed, but she felt awkward and pulled away.
* JerkJock: Kara flat out states that she ''hates'' the school's football players. They hardly do much to invalidate such an opinion.
* JerkJock: Kara flat out states that she ''hates'' the school's football players. They hardly do much to invalidate such an opinion.
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* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Kenny gets badmouthed in his death by his classmates, some even seeming to be happy he's dead. Kara is very justifiably pissed.
* WeHardlyKnewYee: Kenny Lee, Kara's high school friend.
* SpeakIllOfTheDead: Kenny gets badmouthed in his death by his classmates, some even seeming to be happy he's dead. Kara is very justifiably pissed.
* WeHardlyKnewYee: Kenny Lee, Kara's high school friend.
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* MythologyGag: Kara mentions Clark's friend [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe]], who's good with computers.
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* MythologyGag: Kara mentions Clark's friend [[Series/{{Smallville}} Chloe]], Clark's friend Chloe, who's good with computers.into weird tech stuff and has a "Wall of Weird"]].
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* SiblingRivalry: As teens, Alex and Kara had a very ''frosty'' relationship.
* SiblingRivalry: As teens, Alex and Kara had a very ''frosty'' relationship.
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In the wake of Alex's break up with Maggie, the Danvers return to their hometown and the history between the sisters is revealed.
* OriginStory: The beginning of Kara and Alex's sisterhood is the focus of the episode.
* OriginStory: The beginning of Kara and Alex's sisterhood is the focus of the episode.
