A/N: There is a big spoiler for the 4 second reveal in the last episode of The Prisoner (1968 version).

"Are you okay?" Supergirl asked as she gently placed Lena on the ground by Alex.

"I really hate flying." Lena complained, savouring the feel of solid ground beneath her feet. "From now on I am sticking with the ground."

"It wasn't as if you had a choice." Kara pointed out. "I mean it did kind of lift you up."

"Do aliens have their own quota?" Lena asked.

"Quota for what?" Alex asked.

"Assassination attempts? I mean I thought before it was just assassination attempts by anyone that made up my quota, but maybe aliens have their own system. I mean I can't blame them, I am a Luthor. But still-"

"I don't think you were actually the target this time." Alex said.

"So now the universe is conspiring against me so I get accidentally assassinated? That's not comforting. Out of interest does being attacked by an alien who slimed me," she started as she tried to flick off some of the goo attached to her arm, "before flying me up high and then dropping me qualify me for therapy? Or would your boss prefer me to unburden to a normal shrink?"

"I don't know. But we need to get you to the DEO to have that slime looked at. So you could always just go to his office."Alex said.

-00-

"How is Ms Luthor?" J'onn asked entering Alex's lab an hour later.

"Stressed, shocked, terrified, nervous..."

"None of those words tally with what I saw just now." J'onn said.

"She hides it well. But I think she should talk to someone." Alex said. "I mean she has been through a traumatic event." Alex said.

"So you want to unleash her on Landon?"

"She wants to talk to a professional. Something you assure me Landon is. She knows too much to see an uncleared therapist."

"Fine, I'll tell Landon to see her. But if this is part of your plan to discredit him there will be consequences." J'onn warned.

As J'onn left Alex commented to herself. "I thought that would be harder."

-00-

"Ms Luthor." Landon greeted.

"The infamous Dr Landon." Lena smiled as she entered the office.

"Infamous?" He asked. "I assume you have been talking to Alex and Kara."

"Of course I have. Kara is my best friend."

"A best friend who lied to you." Landon pointed out.

"With good reason." Lena replied. "But I'm not interested in unpicking my relationship with Kara. Trust me I have had several sessions with other therapists on that over the last year or so. We've fully covered my trust issues, paranoia, abandonment issues, lack of self-worth and deep rooted belief I don't deserve to be loved."

"Seeing you have your own team, why are you here?" Landon asked.

"As strange as it may seem, as my brother had major issues with Superman, I don't have a therapist trained in dealing with alien encounters on my payroll. And then today I was involved in a traumatic alien incident."

"I heard. But we both know that is an excuse. So why are you here?"

"You intrigue me. I have had therapy, a lot of therapy, and your methods are unlike anything I have come across. So are you some kind of genius or a fake making it up as you go along?"

"Tell me is there a numbering system?" Landon asked seemingly randomly.

"Numbering system?" Lena asked confused.

"Do the Danvers' sisters have a numbering system which you all follow. When it is your number you come here in order to test me?"

"Isn't this session meant to be about me, not you?" Lena countered.

"Indeed. But you just said you were here because I intrigue you. Ignoring that though, for you to get the most out of it I need to know why you are here."

"So you want to know if I am interrogating you or just interested in talking through my issues?" Lena asked.

"Indeed. Although I think we both know that you are here because of Kara. So is there a numbering system?" He asked.

"Like Spectre?"

"Or The Prisoner." Landon shrugged.

"No numbering system." Lena assured him.

"Say their was, what number would you be?" Landon asked.

"In which scenario?"

"You choose."

"Well seeing everyone associates L-Corp with a Spectre like institution, let's go for The Prisoner. Although in that scenario are you the big white ball, Rover I think, or would that be my mother?" Lena asked.

"Rover was there to keep people trapped. Am I trapping you?"

"Rover coerced and disabled prisoners to maintain control. So I guess that's not my mother, her methods are more brutal. You I'm not so sure about."

"So who would your mother be in this scenario?"

"You want me to say one so you can point out that one was in fact six and I am therefore my mother." Lena said. "But here is the thing about my mother, she'd sit outside the construct."

"But I don't?"

"Of course not. I am talking to you. Whether that is because you are a puppet, who knows?"

"Do you view me as the enemy?"

"Well I have spoken to your wife, she wasn't exactly complimentary. I would have thought that as a therapist whose job it is to listen to people you would have been better at listening to your wife."

"Approaching my wife was highly inappropriate."

"Why? I wasn't your patient and we always attend the same events. I can't ignore her forever. You were the one who practically insisted I found out about you just before meeting your wife."

"So why are you here? Is it just loyalty to a friend? A misguided belief that friendship is trading favours?"

"It's been a hard year. A year with lots of alien encounters. And it would appear that people would prefer me to talk through any issues I have rather than turn into my mother. If you don't think you are up to the task I can go else where."

"Very well then, shall we start with your family's relationship with aliens?"

"Why not? But I should warn you that my mother excels in psychological torture and manipulation." Lena said. "She probably wrote the book that you are about to use."

"If I work for your mother like Kara believes I do then I would hardly need the text book. Surely I would have had private tuition?"

"From my mother? I don't think so. You'd have to be special for that and you don't strike me as the special type."

"Are you trying to insult me?" Landon asked.

"Just stating facts. I mean you asked a very specific question earlier. 'What number am I?' But you didn't even notice I never answered."

"Perhaps the journey was more important than the answer." Landon countered.

"See that is the answer people give when they screw up." Lena countered.

"If I am not special does that mean you don't think I work for Cadmus?"

"I didn't say that. I'm a Luthor after all. We are ruled by paranoia." Lena shrugged. "We always assume the worse."

"And yet you are friends with Kara."

"She has an infectious personality." Lena shrugged. "Or maybe I am finally rebelling against my mother or maybe I am working with my mother. If you really are working for the DEO isn't it your job to rule out that possibility?"

"I've been asked to talk to you about the attack today. Nothing more."

"Yet you started probing my family and my friendship with Kara." Lena countered.

For a moment Landon said nothing before finally deciding on a new course and saying.

"You believe I may work for your mother so why are you prepared to talk?"

"If you did work for my mother you would presumably tell her everything I say. Ignoring the fact I have nothing to hide, I think she needs to hear some of what I have to say. And seeing she is in hiding it is not like I can pick up the phone and tell her."

"Regardless wouldn't I put my slant on it. I could give an unfavourable report."

"Your opinion means nothing to me. I have learned not to care what people think about me. Well apart from my friends and you are not one of those."

"So, let's pretend I am who Kara thinks I am, what would you like me to tell your mother?" Landon asked.

"Surely you can guess. Or are you not as good at reading people as you'd like to believe?"

"I don't know you."

"Everyone knows me. You know me enough to persuade Kara to reveal herself to me. Why did you do that? Was it to help Kara? Hinder Kara? Get to me?"

"You think my plan all along has been to get to you?"

"If you were working for my mother I'd have to consider it a possibility." Lena said.

"And there was I thinking Alex was the paranoid one." Landon smiled.

"I did say if. And I did tell you my mother trained me well. She taught me to see my weaknesses in every situation." Lena said before asking. "Should you be talking about Alex? Isn't that a breach of confidentiality?" Lena asked. "I'm a little disappointed. Does the Director know you have such loose lips?" She asked before glancing at her watch. "Well this has been liberating." Lena said noticing their time was up. "Same time next week?"

-00-

"Hey man." Winn greeted as Landon entered the kitchen.

"Agent Schott." Landon replied as he headed to the coffee.

"You have your 'I just had a session with Alex frown' going on." Winn commented.

"Not Alex, Alex I can cope with. Alex I understand."

"Those are big words." Winn commented. "If not Alex, then who or what got to you? Oh, wait wasn't Lena in today? You saw Lena."

"Isn't anything round here confidential?" Landon asked.

"Not really. So Lena? Yeah, you don't want to mess with her." Winn said. "You have no idea how happy I am that she is on our side."

-00-

"How did it go?" Kara asked.

"It was kind of fun." Lena replied confusing the trio.

"Fun?" Maggie finally managed to ask.

"Absolutely. Like mental sparring, only without a worthy opponent." Lena said. "He was a bit of a let down. I expected more. I'm not sure he noticed I didn't actually answer any of his questions. Although he had good knowledge of The Prisoner."

"What prisoner?" Kara asked.

"The TV show." Lena explained. "You know, freedom is a myth we are all prisoners to ourselves?"

"The big white floating ball." Alex added when she saw Kara's confused expression.

"Oh that one." Kara said before looking at Lena and asking. "So what do you think? Is he Cadmus?"

"If he does work for my mother her standards have slipped. Unless he was sent here as punishment."

"That sounds about right," Maggie commented. "Lilian Luthor sending her minions to the Danvers sisters for punishment and training."

"Hey." Both Kara and Alex protested.

"Of course he could be an incredibly good actor and he deliberately came across as not very good in order for me not to suspect him. I can get my people to see whether he was good at acting in high school and college."

"For a minute there you were doing so well. Then you jumped right on that crazy train." Maggie said.

"You don't believe he works for Cadmus?" Lena asked.

"J'onn, Winn and Alex have all done background checks on him." Maggie said. "In my session he acted like a shrink. Apart from being an ass he has not actually done anything wrong." Maggie said. "If he were Cadmus, isn't everything moving too slowly? I mean if they wanted Kara isolated they have failed, she is closer to Alex and you than she was. If they wanted Landon to give them info off the network he could have done that weeks ago. Working for Cadmus makes no sense." Maggie said.

"I tend to agree. But there is of course another possibility." Lena said. "Landon is a plant but for someone you haven't even considered as you are so focused on my mother."

"So Alex is right, Landon is up to something." Kara said.

"That's not what she said." Maggie pointed out.

"So we keep focusing on Landon and not get too caught up on Cadmus." Alex agreed ignoring Maggie.

TBC...

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