History Recap / Supergirl2015S5E6ConfidenceWomen

*** The scene were Lena invites Kara to join her for lunch must take place in early season 2 but a news report refers to Cat Grant joining President Marston's team. This didn't happen until season 3.

* AdultFear: Andrea's fear that her father may be suicidal is what makes her willing to accept Leviathan's [[DealWithTheDevil offer]], and their continued threats against him are part of what keeps her TrappedInVillainy.

* DidYouActuallyBelieve: Invoked by the Levithan agent on whether Andrea never expected there would be a price to pay for her father's newfound success.

* WoundedGazelleGambit: Andrea and Lena fake at attack on the latter so Supergirl will come to her aid, at which point Lena uses a signal jammer to block any attempt to call Supergirl while Andrea takes Russel from the DEO.

* FreudianExcuse: This episode further explains Lena's distrustful nature, as her supposed best friend once took the medallion from her she had been chasing her entire life, without explaining why.

** Possibly also a {{Retcon}}, Lena had previously been established as being 4 years old in 1997. This would make her 11 in 2004. She is obviously at least 15 in the flashback to 2004 in this episode.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Coping with betrayal and descending into villainy has done a number on Lena, who now has no qualms about threatening someone's life to force cooperation out of an ex-friend, as well as showing no remorse about having Eve body-jacked by Hope despite realising that she likely did have no choice about betraying her.

* BaitTheDog: Lena seems to rekindle her friendship with Andrea....except that it was only a ploy to get the medallion and she even has no qualms threatening Russell's life to get it!

* {{Series Continuity Error}} Possibly also a {{Retcon}}, Lena had previously been established as being 4 years old in 1997. This would make her 11 in 2004. She is obviously at least 15 in the flashback to 2004 in this episode.

** The flashbacks in this episode are hard to reconcile with the shows timeline and contradict established canon. In addition to the above, it contains;
- Lena telling Kara, immediately after the events of 204, that she doesnt want to be friends and Kara pursuing the friendship. Season 2 showed that it was lena actively pursuing friendship and by 205 was calling Kara her only friend in National City.
- The flashback to Lena deciding to move to National City is said to be 4 years ago. The TV news at the time is the events of the season 1 finale and this would be 3 years ago (May 2016).
- The scene were Lena invites Kara to join her for lunch must take place in early season 2 but a news report refers to Cat Grant joining President Marstons team. This didnt happen until season 3.

** The flashbacks show how the moment Superman arrived, Lex was convinced he was a threat to the world and that only he could "save" humanity from a would-be alien conquerer.

* DidYouReallyBelieve: Invoked by the Levithan agent on whether Andrea never expected there would be a price to pay for her father's newfound success.

** The episode also shows how her father losing a key contract that ruined his company and drove him to suicide was what set Andrea on her own darker path.

* ThatManIsDead: What Russell tries to convince Kara of. However, it is later very clear that Russell is stil himself, he is just forced to do Leviathan's bidding.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Andrea tries to justiy her betrying Lena's trust with wanting to help her father and keeping Lena safe.

* TrappedInVillainy: This episode confirms Lena to be an unwilling pawn for Leviathan.

* WholeFlashbackEpisode: Most of the episode is flashbacks to Andrea and Lena's lives, going from boarding school to the present day.

* AllForNothing: Andrea's attempts to rescue Russell become useless when the old male Leviathan agent kills him.

* PsychicAssistedSuicide: To force Andrea to give her the medallion, Lena uses Malefic's powers to force Russell to put a scalpel in his neck.