Kara woke up to a dull throbbing pain in her body, and someone wrapping her ribs carefully. As she slowly came to, she was able to make out a semblance of conversation.

"Alex, I managed to plant some explosive devices throughout the building." He then pointed to a remote in his hand. "This switch can make them all go off. We can either use them as a distraction or bring the building down. It's on a five minute switch. What were you thinking about doing?"

"I think we should first use it as a bluff. A power play or something. We can use it as leverage to get out of here, and last resort, we can bring this place down." She looked around. "There's nothing good here anyways..."

Kara felt a sharp stabbing pain in one of her ribs and instinctively flinched back.

Alex yelped, "Hunter, be careful! If even one of those ribs heals out of line, it'll be horribly painful for her, and it will be irreversible unless she undergoes corrective surgery."

Hunter nodded. "Okay, okay. It's fine. No pressure or anything."

Alex looked over and scooted towards the cell where her two roommates resided. "Kara, how you doing over there? You took a pretty bad beating..."

Kara met her eyes and nodded. "I'm fine now. Just a little bit of pain..." When she was met by a glare from Alex, she corrected. "A lot of pain. But at least the solar emitters are on. My powers aren't back but I think my healing is at least going faster than a normal human's."

Hunter hummed in agreement. "Yeah, your bones seem to slowly be fusing together. You'll probably be in a lot of pain for awhile, but at least it will heal correctly." He finally sat up as he finished. "Your ribs are all set and good to go. Try not to aggravate them, okay?"

Kara nodded. "Won't be able to move properly for a while anyways. I think my leg is still a little messed up too. I don't feel the stab wound healing. I think shards of kryptonite might have broken off in my leg when she pulled the knife out." She looked down to confirm, and indeed, there was a huge bloody wound still seeping through her pants.

Alex bit her lip in concern. "You won't be able to heal fully until those chunks are out, and Hunter is not trained enough to remove them. I had to walk him through wrapping a piece of glorified tape around you, so I'm thinking high profile surgery is a bit out of his depth."

He gasped in mock offense. "Excuse me? I'll have you know that I'm in fact, a master. Do you see how good those ribs turned out? That was all me. No help from you whatsoever. So you don't get to criticize me, when I'm clearly superior."

Kara chuckled, but the movement hurt her ribs. Hunter sobered up at the sight. "Okay, but really, we have to get you out of here as soon as possible. You won't heal until the DEO can get the kryptonite out of your leg, so we need to make our move... And we have to do it soon."

Alex nodded in agreement. Then she saw something flash on the security camera monitor. "Hunter! Go back to your post. They're coming back right now, and if they catch you helping us, they'll kill you."

Hunter hurriedly stood and locked Kara's cell door, after making sure she successfully was able to put her top on over her freshly taped ribs. He then ran towards the door, and just barely made it, when Lillian and her usual entourage reentered the room. She was holding a tablet of some kind.

And she did not look like she was in the mood for games.

"Alexandra, today, I have a tablet here." She flashed the screen towards Alex. "As you can clearly see here, it's already set and ready for the code of Captivus 0-11 to be entered." Lillian then motioned for Hank to step forward. He pulled out a gun and pointed it towards Kara. "If you don't give it to me in the next thirty seconds, I'm putting one in her heart."

Alex immediately felt panic flood through her body. "But you can't... You still need her solar energy to power your weapon or whatever. You still need her. You can't kill her... You can't. You need her..."

Lillian smirked. "If the energy were still a problem, then I wouldn't be threatening to kill her, now would I? We have figured out that problem, and found a solution. Now, if you give us the solution to our last problem, we won't have to create another little problem." She gestured towards the gun. "Ten seconds, Alexandra. Clock's ticking."

She looked at the fear behind Kara's carefully crafted bravery, and nervously blurted out. "Please! Please don't shoot her. Shoot me instead."

Kara instantly stared lasers into Alex. This was not part of the arrangement. This was not part of the promise. Alex wasn't supposed to get hurt.

Lillian had noticed the day before that Kara had reminded Alex of a "promise." It kept happening. Seeing this interaction, it only solidified the theory in her head. Alex had promised Kara that she wouldn't give up the code. She had realized it. Finally found out how she was going to get the code.

"Oh, Alexandra... I was hoping you'd say that." She motioned for Hank to switch his targets. He swiftly aimed at Alex's arm and shot her.

Alex screamed in agony as the bullet tore through her flesh. It had been shot directly into her already dislocated arm, and the pain was searing through her. Alex's arm never got a chance to properly heal after the car crash, and it surely wouldn't now.

Kara yelled out, infuriated with Hank for shooting Alex instead of her. Lillian watched the scene unfold with a malicious smile.

"Kara, girl. You have an hour. We'll leave for an hour. When we're gone, you're either going to figure out the code from her and tell us, or convince her to give it to us. Either way, you'll save her life. Because God forbid we don't have the code when we come back, the next one is going in her head."

Kara immediately refused. "No. You can't have the code. We're not giving it to you..." She tried to keep her voice steady, but as she looked at Alex writhing in pain, even she could hear her own voice falter.

Lillian just laughed. "Then you can watch your sister bleed out in front of you. And you just don't have the heart."

With that, she turned and left the room, almost as quickly as she had come in.

Kara's eyes were back on her sister as soon as Lillian left. "The game has changed now, Lex. They were never supposed to hurt you. This wasn't... This wasn't supposed to happen."

Alex looked at her with as much reassurance as she could muster. "It's not your fault, Kar. It's fine. I'm fine. Don't worry. She shot me in the arm, it's just a flesh wound. I'll live."

Kara was torn. She had been the one to convince Alex not to say anything, but that was only when her own life was on the line. Now that it was Alex's instead of hers, it changed the game completely for her.

"Alex, you heard her. If we don't give her the code, then you won't be alive for long. She's going to kill you."

Her big sister locked eyes with her. "Then it'll be a good death. Just yesterday, you were willing to die to keep her from finding out. Why can't I do the same? I refused to keep it in at the beginning because it was you. Your life on the line. But you were right then, and are still right now. We can't give her the code. And plus, realistically, she can't kill me. She knows only I have the code. If she really wants it that bad, she'll at least have to keep me alive."

Kara shook her head. "It doesn't matter. She'll make you suffer, and that might just be worse. I don't... I can't lose you." Kara's eyes pooled with unshed tears.

Alex let a single loose tear roll down her cheek. "You won't, I promise."

Hunter interjected as peacefully as he could. "Sorry to interrupt, but I need to wrap that wound. She's losing a lot of blood, and we need her if we want to escape."

Kara nodded and he unlocked Alex's cell. When he started wrapping the wound, she asked the question on everyone's mind. "Are we doing it today?"

He nodded gravely. "Kind of looks like we're out of time. It's now or never, as they say."

Alex blanched. "Do you mean like now now? Because that is way too sudden. We don't even have a plan. What kind of escape from Cadmus is unplanned? How are we even going to transport Kara? She can't even walk. We need time to plan this. Now is not an option, Hunter. I'm serious. We need at least another thirty minutes, or maybe even an hour. How do you even plan to-"

She was cut off by abruptly by Lillian walking back into the room. "Almost forgot my tablet..." Her eyes landed on a very guilty looking agent, frozen in fear while wrapping the arm of her enemy. "Agent Pearson, care to tell me what the hell you're doing?"

Alex reached over with her good arm and grabbed the remote. "You know, Hunter? On second thought, there's no time like the present. Guess we're going with now now, after all."

With that, she pushed the button, and the five minute countdown began.