When Winn’s mother reappears, so does another Toyman, wishing to fill the original villain’s shoes.
Supergirl – “Schott Through the Heart”, Season 3, Episode 14
Airdate: April 16, 2018
Writers: Caitlin Parrish and Derek Simon
Production Company: Berlanti Productions / Warner Bros. Television
What You Should Know:
Winn Schott has very deep emotional scars from having his father be the crazed villain The Toyman and having his mother abandoned him at an early age. He’s thankfully created a supportive and loving pseudo-family with fellow DEO agents Supergirl, Alex, J’onn, and James Olson.
What You’ll Find Out (Spoilers):
The DEO team take a night off by living it up at the meta-human bar’s Karaoke Night. Various team members, including J’onn’s father M’yrnn, sing various songs (some good, others not so good) as they are cheered on by their friends. When it’s time for Winn to go up, he and the others notice a news story being shown on a nearby television screen. It’s then that they discover that Winn’s father has died in prison. Overcome, Winn goes outside for some air. He is quickly followed by James, who lends a sympathetic shoulder to lean on.
Winn and his friends attend his father’s funeral. The rather somber event is broken when Winn sees that his mother (Mary Schott, played by actress Laurie Metcalf) has arrived. She attempts to reconcile with her son, but his anger shuts her out. Just then, Supergirl hears that there is a device in the casket ready to explode. She warns the others to get down just before the explosion happens. They then take Mary back to the DEO and give her a physical to make sure she wasn’t hurt. When some DEO members suggest that perhaps the Toyman is really alive, Winn shoots down their hypothesis by telling them that before the funeral the body had a full range of tests. The tests confirmed that the body belonged to his father and that he was indeed dead.
Mon-El tells Kara (aka Supergirl) that he’s sorry for previously lying to her in the past, and for not telling her that he was a prince. After she accepts his apology, he tells her that he only recently discovered that Saturn Girl and Brainiac 5 have lied to him as well. He tells her that he hopes to talk about it with her later when they have more privacy. Kara hesitantly agrees to meet with him.
Attempting to reconcile again with her son, Mary tells Winn that the reason why she hasn’t seen him in so many years is because his father threatened to kill Winn if she ever tried to see him again. Winn doesn’t believe her. He instead reminds her that the day the federal police came to take his father to prison, they held him at the station, telling him that they’ve contacted his mother and that she should be arriving to get him soon. She never showed up. Because of this, he says he doesn’t forgive her.
Hearing a commotion outside, Winn and Mary see various DEO agents heading to a skylight window. They follow and see a squadron of mechanical flying monkeys spelling out “Surrender Mary” in big letters across the sky. The monkeys then begin attacking the DEO. They are neutralized after a few minutes, leaving the DEO a huge mess of destruction in their wake.
Across town, J’onn has invited Alex to have dinner with him and his father. Things go perfectly until Alex notices that M’yrnn is displaying signs of oncoming dementia. He even forgets that he had two granddaughters. When they are alone, Alex tells him that he needs to tell J’onn what is happening. M’yrnn gets very defensive and asks Alex to leave.
Mary helps Winn examine the now broken mechanical flying monkeys in the hopes of finding out who sent them. Winn doubts her technical knowledge, but Mary tells him that she knows more than he thinks. She then reminds him of a past trip to Disneyland. Winn tells her that he remembers that they left in the middle of the night so that they can arrive as soon as the park opened, but that they never actually made it Disneyland because she crashed the car in a ditch on the way there. Mary tells him that they weren’t really going to Disneyland, that Disneyland was just a story she told him to keep him from knowing the truth. She tells him that she was really trying to escape with him from Winn’s father in the dead of night. They were really headed to a domestic abuse home, but that his father found out about it and ran them off the road. It was then that her husband told her that if she ever tried to see Winn again that he’d kill him. Stunned by her story, Winn begins to break down the wall he’s put up against her.
When J’onn asks Alex what happened at dinner the prior night, she says that she had a good time, but that if he wants to know more to ask his father.
Mary sees that there is a company brand inside one of the flying monkey mechanical pieces that she recognizes. She excuses herself and makes her way there to confront whoever it is that’s threatening her son. When she arrives, she finds a woman working on a toy alone. The woman captures Mary and sends a warning video to the DEO. She reveals that she was a maintenance worker at the prison The Toyman was being held. She befriended him and eventually became his protege. She promised him that she would carry out his wishes if anything should happen to him. Once she realized that Mary had made contact with Winn, she made it her goal to kill Winn as The Toyman had promised Mary he would. The new Toywoman sends various killer toys after the DEO team, but they persevere and capture her instead.
Regrouping at the meta-human bar’s Karaoke Night again, Winn makes amends with his mother by singing a song together with her. J’onn learns about his father’s condition and is consoled by Alex. Mon-El confides in Kara that his ship didn’t coincidentally arrive back in her time by accident. He tells her that Saturn Girl admitted that she and Brainiac 5 planned their arrival specifically because the world killer Reign will eventually grow and evolve into a supervillain in the future named Blight. They planned to stop Reign in the past before she could evolve into Blight.
After several days attempts to contact Lena Luthor, James finally manages to have a call go through. He expresses a concern for her, but she says that she’s fine, just busy with work. We then see that she’s really in a large warehouse. In one corner are various medical equipment units connected to a hospital bed. In the bed is Samantha Arias.
What Does This Mean for the Future?
Winn is finally reunited with his mother, which means that she may show up for more cameo appearances in future episodes.
Now that Supergirl knows the Legion’s real agenda, there is a bit more mistrust issues to sort through, but also a lot more firepower working on her side to defeat Reign. We also don’t know how Kara and James will take Lena keeping a secret like Sam’s dual identity to herself.
And after hundreds of years away from his family, J’onn is finally able to reconnect with his father, only to now lose him again to a brain deteriorating disease. Pretty sad.
Rating: 8/10
Final Thought: Finally, after many many episodes are we able to see more story plot revolving around Winn and his father The Toyman. Strange that he’s no longer living, but interesting that Winn was able to get his mother back in the end.
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