"Hello Catherine," Kara says greeting her the next morning in the lobby. Kara couldn't help but agree to the late night request for a tour this morning. In fact the thought of spending time with Catherine this morning seemed like a perfect balm for Kara's frayed nerves after another evening of arguing with Mala over everything and anything.

Cat smiles, she's never enjoyed being called Catherine before but she has to admit that with Kara's slight accent it sounds lovely.

"Good morning Kara Zor-El," Cat replies understanding that Kryptonian culture is more formal than what she is used to. "Thank you for agreeing to give me a tour this morning."

"Of course, and you can, um Kara is fine," she says with a smile. "My assistant will be right back with refreshments, would you like to come into my office to wait?" Kara asks with a dazzling smile.

Cat follows Kara into her office and is surprised to see multiple screens and computer monitors with an assortment of news stories. Cat smiles as it reminds her of her own office.

"I didn't realize there were that many different sources of news here on Krypton," Cat remarks.

"Well, the local Argo City News is actually just reported from The Gazette by Mala Z-Wu," Kara nods towards the screen in the middle.

"She's beautiful," Cat says and Kara blushes.

"She is," Kara agrees softly.

Ja-Ron chooses this moment to appear with their coffees and a small plate of scones.

"Thank you Ja-Ron, you can just leave those on the table," Kara replies moving over to sit on the chair beside the couch.

"Please Catherine, sit and have a scone before we begin the tour," Kara says gesturing to the couch beside her.

"I am usually just a coffee person, but here, I wake up every morning ravenous," Cat admits sitting down.

"Oh, you can eat whatever you want while you're on Krypton. You are burning twice the calories on this planet due to the stronger gravitational pull," Kara explains.

"That is the best news that I've heard since I arrived," Cat exclaims picking up a napkin and a scone.

Kara watches her nibble on the scone a moment and then smiles. Alex was the same way, when she found out that she could eat whatever she wanted here the way that Kara could on Earth, she ate every other hour.

"So, you haven't mentioned what brought you to Krypton, Catherine," Kara inquires.

Cat appreciates the woman's subtly and notes that she may be a better journalist than Cat was giving her credit for. "I am here on business, traveling with the CEO of my company," Cat remarks, not exactly lying. "James is here evaluating Krypton as a possible location for our first intergalactic office," she adds.

"Is that why you're here? Are you James' assistant?" Kara asks confused because Catherine doesn't seem like she would be anyone's assistant.

A smile plays over Cat's face at the thought of anyone thinking that she was James' assistant, then she laughs a bit.

"I said something wrong, I am so sorry Catherine," Kara apologizes immediately.

"No, it's fine. I did start out as someone's assistant, but that was quite a while ago," Cat admits.

"How did you start out Kara? Did you always want to work on The Gazette?" Catherine asks, hoping to get the focus off of her.

"As a child I wanted to be an explorer, then an artist. I never intended to be a writer, but after traveling to Earth, my grandfather asked me to write him a story about it. Then he edited it, brutally, I might add. And then he published it and it was very well received. He convinced me to become his intern and now here I am, ten years later, Editor-in-Chief," she says glancing over to where there's a photo array on the wall.

Cat follows her gaze, then walks over to look at the photos.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to tell you my life story," Kara says shyly looking down.

"You apologize entirely too often, Kara," Cat says a bit sternly. Although she turns back from the photos with a softer expression on her face. "And I did ask," she adds softly.

The softer tone causes Kara to bring her head up quickly, bright warm smile stealing across her face.

"You do realize that your smile works better than any apology?" Cat teases as they both turn away from the pictures and find themselves staring at the large white board. "Is this for your meeting?" Cat asks carefully as she surveys the board covered in Kryptonian writing.

"It is. And since I do have an editorial meeting in an hour, we should probably begin the tour," Kara says going over to turn the white board away from them. It was careless to leave it out for a tour, but at least Catherine doesn't read Kryptonian, she reminds herself.

"Lead the way," Cat replies, pleased that her curiosity inspired her to take a photo of it when she first entered the room.


Cat is impressed by the facility and though there is no actual printing press, it's still impressive that they still follow many of the same steps her Tribune team does before posting The Gazette on line.

"What type of press did your grandfather use, when he did print The Gazette?" Cat asks.

"Oh, he and my father built one. Since we haven't had trees on Krypton in a very long time, our paper is nothing like what you have on Earth and our ink is different too," Kara informs her.

They enter the broadcast area and Cat's interest spikes. She notes the simple news stage with a desk and green screen behind it.

"Mala should be here somewhere," Kara replies glancing around the small group of people still milling about after the morning broadcast. A woman approaches Kara and murmurs to her in Kryptonian and Kara nods and replies back.

"Excuse me, I must go speak with Mala. It will just take a moment," Kara explains before ducking behind the desk and around the screen to a hidden exit.


"Who is that woman?" Mala asks when Kara enters her office.

"I told you she's here from Earth on business, I met her this week," Kara says going over to Mala and taking her hands. "She's just here for a tour, please come meet her."

"I don't like meeting aliens," Mala replies. "They are odd and socially inept," she adds.

"Mala, you realize that they feel the same way about us, right?" Kara teases to lighten the mood.

"Kara, please don't make me meet her," Mala replies. "You know that I don't like strangers approaching me," she adds.

"Mala, you're the face of Argo City News. You have to get more comfortable around people," Kara reminds her exhausted from this conversation that they seem to have at least twice a week.


"Sor-" Kara catches herself mid-apology. "Mala is indisposed, perhaps you can meet her another time," she adds wringing her hands nervously.

"Of course," Cat replies easily before following Kara out of the broadcast area.

"I just don't know why she acts like that. She usually comes out to meet people on tour," Kara admits still fretting over her girlfriend's refusal to meet Catherine. She stops short of the lobby in an alcove which is somewhat private.

Cat smiles, "Kara, I've been around a lot of on-air talent and I understand that they are different in person than who they pretend to be on air," Cat replies reaching a hand out to rest on Kara's arm to reassure her.

"It's more than that. Mala and I are together, but she can be so selfish sometimes," Kara spits out softly.

Cat removes her hand and places it on her own chin. "Ah, well now I understand even more," she says thoughtfully. Before adding, "Kara, my husband and I are separated, there are many reasons for it, but it usually comes back to the fact that he doesn't like that I'm more successful than he is," Cat remarks with a sad smile.

Kara runs a hand through her hair as she considers Cat's admission. "You're married to a man," she states. "I mean, well there's nothing wrong with that," Kara adds, then hoping to change the subject she asks, "Has leaving your galaxy helped?" Kara questions intently before smiling embarrassed, "Sorry that was not appropriate," she admits.

"No, it's a valid question," Cat replies as a slight smile plays across her lips. "And actually, last night was the first time in a long time that he seemed impressed with something I've done. I showed him the view from my suite. The Argo City skyline is breathtaking at night" she admits.

"The view from Arcadian Towers is one of my favorites too," she remarks with a wistful smile. "May I ask, was the separation at your request or his?" Kara asks carefully, not wanting to pry, but since Catherine mentioned it.

"It was mutual. We've grown apart so much, it seems our sons are the only thing keeping us together," she adds. "So, we're separated again. We have discovered that we get along better apart than we ever did when we were together," Cat explains.

"How did you meet him?" Kara inquires, though she knows that it's getting late and it's almost time for her meeting.

"That is a long story, but to make it brief. We met through business," Cat answers. "How did you and Mala meet?"

"Oh," Kara exclaims thoughtfully. "Mala and I grew up together and were best friends all through Academy," she explains. "Now we practically live together and have been working here for almost five years."

"My experience has been that in these times you either grow together or grow apart, my husband and I did both. As parents we grew together, but as individuals we grew apart," Cat explains.

Ja-Ron appears behind Kara and Cat nods. "I think that it is time for me to let you get back to work," she replies reluctantly as Kara turns to see her assistant.

"Yes," Kara admits. "Catherine, you have given me much to think about, perhaps we could meet for lunch next week to continue this conversation?"

"I'd like that very much," Cat replies brightly.

Kara leans in and gives her a light hug, "You are very kind," she says. Then feeling Cat stiffen in her arms she pulls back a bit. "Is it not customary on Earth to hug friends goodbye?" Kara asks suddenly afraid that she has done something wrong.

Cat softens and returns the hug. "Yes, it is. You, ah, you caught me by surprise,," she stammers a bit embarrassed.


Cat sits at her desk looking out over Argo City. She hasn't gotten much done since she returned from the tour. She is waiting to talk with James about The Gazette. They should work out a deal with Kara to preserve it instead of put it out of business. He's going to think she's going soft, but she's done this before in small markets, this wouldn't be the first regional paper that she's saved.

A light knock on her door startles her, James usually knocks and then enters, but when the door doesn't open, Cat goes over to it and opens it herself. No one's there, but there's a small parcel on the floor, so she gently nudges it inside and shuts the door again.

"Kal-X, would you ask James Olsen to come to my suite ASAP?" Cat asks out loud, unsure if the robot works that way. A slight whirring sound behind her indicates the robot's presence.

"Yes, Cat Grant would that be all?" Kal-X asks.

"That's all," Cat replies. Then a moment later she realizes the robot didn't call her Catherine Foster.

"Hey Cat, what's going on?" James asks a few minutes later entering her suite.

"Kal-X would you please leave the suite?" Cat asks the robot.

"Kal-X does not have range outside of this suite," the robot replies.

"Fine," Cat grumbles and motions for James to follow her out to the enclosed patio.

"Cat?" James questions again.

"That box was left on my doorstep, addressed to Cat Grant and the robot is calling me Cat Grant. James, someone is not so subtly telling me they are on to me," she points out.

"Hmm," he replies worriedly. "Uh, Do you want me to open that?" He asks gesturing to the box.

"Yes," Cat snaps, because there is no planet where she opens mysterious boxes by herself.

James sighs and then reenters the suite to retrieve the parcel and bring it out to where they are.

"I'll just step back in there," Cat says moving away from him and sliding the door closed as James tears open the small parcel.

"It's just a thumb drive," James says holding it up for her to see. Then looking inside the small box again, he reaches in and pulls out a folded piece of paper, "Oh and here's a note."

Curious, Cat slides open the door again.

"I know who you are and what you want. Take this and leave Krypton by the end of the week and your secrets are safe." James reads the note out loud, then reads it again to himself. "Cat, let me have this checked out," he says still looking at what appears to be a thumb drive like the many that they use at CATCO. "This looks like one of ours," he points out.

"This may be related to my meeting today and my call to Lucy," Cat remarks.

"You called Lucy Lane today?" He asks curiously.

"She is still my general council and she still has contacts at the Pentagon," Cat reminds him.

"Yes, yes she does," he replies keenly aware that Lucy dated someone at the Pentagon after their last break up.

"Well, you find out what's going on with that and I'll look into this other issue," Cat replies.

"Uh, Cat, I think that we should have Winn look into this, if there's a breach, he'll find it," James replies confidently. It was his idea to bring the IT consultant on the trip, knowing that he would jump at the chance to travel to another planet.


"This is one of our thumb drives, but it's full of private documents from the judicial council. They appear to be prisoner records, but they're mostly in Kryptonian. I have contained them on the private server that I set up to keep your work documents secure," Winn explains.

"Any chance that one of those documents is a manifest for a prison ship?" Cat asks.

"I've only been able to identify a few of the documents, so anything is possible. It would really help if we had a Kryptonian to help us," Winn points out.

"I don't think that we should risk that," James answers.

"I still don't understand how someone could have discovered my identity. I traveled here on my personal passport and I used my alternate press credentials yesterday at the Judicial Council office," she replies idly tapping her reading glasses against her bottom lip. "There is nothing here to identify me as Cat Grant," she add adamantly.

"But you went from The Gazette to the Judicial Council," James points out.

"Yes, I came back here between and changed clothes," Cat replies quickly.

"Is there a chance that The Gazette is also investigating this story?" James asks the next obvious question.

"If they are, then it would have been on the editorial storyboard in Kara's office," Cat explains, then adds, "Winn, here is a photo of it, can you get it translated?" She asks as she pulls her phone out and sends him the photo.

"Cat, really?" James just shakes his head. "I can't believe that you did that. That's corporate espionage," he points out.

"No," she replies defensively. "I wasn't snooping, it was right there in front of me," she adds.

"But does Kara Zor-El know that you took a photo of it?" He asks.

"No, but she knows that I saw it. She turned it away from me," Cat points out.

"Fine, so what if this tells us that she knows about the prison ship, are you going to suggest that we work with her on the story that will expose her mother's negligence?" James asks.

"Well, if she is investigating her mother, don't you think that she may already suspect it?" Cat counters.