While Kara deals with personal pressures as both office assistant and superhero, General Sam Lane arrives in National City to field-test his new anti-insurgent android, Red Tornado... and to tell James that he's not good enough for his daughter Lucy. Meanwhile, Alex and Kara ask Winn to hack the DEO mainframe to find out how Jeremiah died, and Cat deals with her domineering mother.

Astra calls Supergirl out to fight, but soon loses. However, Hank and Alex suspect that the Kryptonian general lost too easily. Meanwhile, an email hack threatens Cat's position as CEO of CatCo, and Kara learns that someone is trying to force her boss out of the company.