The latest Supergirl episode, Back from the Future — Part Two, sees the conclusion of the Toyman story which began two weeks earlier. In the first part, so that he could clear his name, we saw Winn Schott (Jeremy Jordan) return to present-day from the thirty-first century.

With the Toyman threat seemingly prevented, before heading back to the future, Winn spends a few days with his friends. It’s Supergirl. Nothing is really what it first appears. There is always an underlying current of deceitfulness permeating episode narratives. This is especially true of episodes featuring the Luthors. Naturally, not that most people in the post-Crisis world would believe it, Lex Luthor (Jon Cryer) is a significant threat.

Back from the Future — Part Two opens with a bar scene showing Kara Danvers / Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), J’onn J’onzz (David Harewood), DEO Director Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh), and Winn hanging out. Kara gets Winn, after doing a passable Querl Dox / Brainiac-5 (Jesse Rath) impression, to reveal his Legion. It’s Computer Lad. There are worse names one could be given.

When William Dey (Staz Nair) shows up, something Alex is clearly excited about, an opportunity for Kara to demonstrate her vocal talents presents itself. It’s karaoke night and Kara and William regale everyone with a rendition of Toto’s Africa. It’s a fun scene. People around in the early 1980s, specifically 1982, might recall the song Africa. Even back then, whilst I was only nine years old at the time, I knew exactly what it was that drew my attention to the American rock band Toto. William and Kara, singing the song as a duet, do a fairly good job with the song.

Whilst William and Kara do their thing on stage, Alex and J’onn talk about Lex and what he’s doing. Alex, even though she’s not completely wrong, believes Brainy has her back. Brainy’s recent behaviour suggests Alex might not be in possession of all the facts.

Elsewhere, at the DEO, we see Brainy conversing via a cell phone call with Lex. Lex directs Brainy to deal with “the Alex problem.” Shortly after Lex asks if there had been any technical difficulties at the DEO, Brainy is attacked by drones.

Back at the bar, whilst William and Kara conclude singing Africa, Alex receives a call from Brainy seeking help. Alex and J’onn head over to the DEO. William asks Kara out on a date. Winn, almost revealing Kara’s secret identity to William, interrupts their conversation. Even though Kara manages to make something up on the spot, reminiscent of what occurred with Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath) and how badly that went, she’s not too thrilled with having to lie to the British journalist.

It doesn’t take long for Supergirl and team to take out the drones. When a piece of music starts playing over the comms, something Winn instantly recognises, there is an immediate connection to Toyman. It’s a song the original Toyman, Winn’s father, used to play in the workshop.

Initially, Brain thought the drone incident was caused by bad code in DEO surveillance software. It was something far more sinister. It’s a rogue AI (artificial intelligence) and it’s looking for a way out of the DEO and onto the internet. Once on the internet, this AI could achieve untold damage, death, and destruction.

This new Toyman, as Brainy correctly observes, was wearing Obsidian North’s new Platinum Lenses when he faced off against Winn in the previous episode. Toyman used the lenses to download himself into a laptop. It’s that same laptop DEO agents transported to headquarters. There is a fix for whatever it is Toyman is planning. Winn believes he can reverse engineer his father’s code and create something that would shut down Toyman permanently.

Toyman takes control of the DEO’s defences and turns them against facility personnel. Brainy manages to knock Toyman out of the command centre. As Alex directs her people to round up all technology Bluetooth enabled, something that throws everyone for a loop, a sound indicative of early twentieth-century communications devices can be heard. It’s an old-style landline telephone. When Alex answers the incoming call, she finds it’s Lex on the other end. He wants to know why the DEO is on lockdown.

Lex tells Alex that there are no anti-Kryptonite safeguards in place on this Earth to protect Supergirl. All DEO weaponry is designed with Kryptonite. With Alex out of earshot, something which suggests that he still working closely with Lex, Brainy calls the boss. During their brief conversation, Lex tells Brainy he wants Toyman’s code so that he can use it against Leviathan.

Elsewhere, as a lobster dish is placed in front of her, we see Andrea Rojas (Julie Gonzalo) preparing herself to enjoy a fabulously well-made meal. Even though Andrea had never previously been allergic to lobster, given her reaction to the dish, it looks like that’s changed. The reality, or rather virtual reality, is there is an issue with the new Obsidian North Platinum Lenses. Lena visiting Andrea, given what just happened with the lobster, doesn’t seem like a coincidence. Is there something there we have yet to learn?

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Lena had apparently dropped by because she was hoping Andrea would give her a preview of the new lenses. Andrea tells Lena there is a small issue with a biolink algorithm. Naturally, even though she seems to have her own agenda, Lena offers Luthor Corp resources. For the sake of their friendship, especially considering what occurred the first time they collaborated, Andrea declines the offer.

Back at the DEO, as Winn reviews facility blueprints, he tells Alex and Supergirl there is only one place the Toyman AI could be hiding. Holding a Van Eck Radiation Scanner, Brainy enters the conference room. He believes the device would help them with locating the AI. Whilst it is Brainy’s intent to locate the AI, Supergirl insists he remains in the command centre with Alex. Winn talks Supergirl into allowing him to accompany her.

Before leaving the conference room, being along with Brainy, Winn confronts him and asks if this is another step in one of Lex’s plan. Brainy tells Winn that Lex helped manipulate Toyman’s digital re-emergence. Winn tells Brainy that he’s trusting him.

At Luthor Corp, in Lena’s lab, we see Lex offering his half-sister a Doppio espresso to cheer her up. Lena needs a distribution device for her grand plan to eliminate violent thoughts from people. When Lex learns Andrea declined Lena’s offer of help, he tells her that he’s willing to pull a few strings to get the ball rolling in the right direction. Lena is surprised her half brother would bother to ask her permission to do anything. She accepts his offer of assistance.

Meanwhile, as Supergirl and Winn search for the AI, there is a revelation we should have seen coming. The original code wasn’t something Toyman devised. Winn created it because he thought being inside a video game would be far cooler than merely playing one. Whilst Alex and her team comes under attack from flying monkeys, Supergirl and Winn track the AI down to a subbasement corridor. It is here that they encounter a virtual version of Winn’s father.

Winn’s father tells them that he’s trying to help. Given their history, understandably, Winn doesn’t initially believe him. The AI father wants to help Supergirl and Winn defeat the new evil Toyman. This other Winn is planning to do things Winn’s father wouldn’t do. The three flying monkeys we saw earlier go after Supergirl and Winn. Supergirl easily destroys them.

Seated alone at a restaurant, as Lex approaches her, is Gamemnae (Cara Buono). Gamemnae believes her cover as Gemma Cooper is still intact. It’s not. Lex knows he’s dealing with Gamemnae. When Lex mentions business opportunities, Gamemnae’s curiosity is seemingly piqued. Lex talks about the kind of business opportunities that can satisfy both Obsidian North and Luthor Corp.

There is an issue with the Obsidian Platinum Biolink. Even though Lena offered help fix the problem, a problem Lena created, Andrea rejected the offer. Later, Gamemnae gets Andrea on board with Lena providing Obsidian North with the help it needs. Andrea places a call to Lena and informs her that she has reconsidered her generous offer.

Back at the DEO, Supergirl talks to Winn about his father. Winn doesn’t trust his father. Elsewhere at the DEO, whilst dealing with technology issues, Alex discovers Brainy has been in her account and had deactivated the spyware software she had installed on her tablet. She immediately confronts Brainy about the issue. Brainy tells Alex he was trying to protect her from Lex.

When Winn and Supergirl finally arrive at the server, something we should have seen coming, there is no way for them to upload the kill code manually. The only viable option remaining for them is someone enter the server digitally so that the code can be activated. Winn takes it upon himself to enter the server. As that happens, elsewhere in the facility, the Toyman AI takes over Lexosuits.

Shortly after Winn enters the digital space, he finds himself face to face with the digital version of his father. The AI father tells his son that he can’t accomplish his goal alone. The new Toyman attacks them.

Winn battles Toyman AI. In the real world, with the Lexosuits firing weapons at DEO personnel, Brainy makes himself the primary target. Ultimately, as Winn fights the AI, he comes to realise his father is right. Winn’s father takes AI Toyman down. This gives Winn the time he needs to enter the kill code. Even though Winn successfully kills the AI, it also kills his father.

Winn, having returned to reality, accepts that his father was trying to help him defeat the AI. Elsewhere, Lex reveals he knew Lena was the one that sabotaged Andrea’s lenses. Meanwhile, we see Gamemnae meeting with Leviathan operative Margot (Patti Allan). Even though they believe they have the Luthors where they want them, there is nothing to suggest Leviathan is aware Lex is onto them.

Alex quits the DEO to work with J’onn. Brainy remains with the DEO because he feels that’s the best place for him. Lex promotes Brainy to DEO director. In a previous article, when I referenced DEO Director Brainiac 5, I was talking about Meaghan Rath’s character. She’s obviously too busy with Hawaii Five-O. Brainy gives Lex the code he wanted.

Winn tells Supergirl to give a relationship with William a chance. Later, at CatCo, William gives Kara a jigsaw puzzle for her “grandmother.” Kara, not taking Winn’s advice, shuts down any possibility of a relationship with William. Whilst William states he understands, there is a modicum of hurt in his voice which suggests that’s not entirely true.

The episode ends with Kara receiving an unexpected visitor. Mxyzptlk (Thomas Lennon), not the one we saw in a previous Supergirl episode, shows up at Kara’s apartment front door.

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