How did I miss the clues?? The mid-season premiere foreshadowed some changes, which I really should have seen coming! Keep reading to see what you need to be aware of before tonights show!

Super Girl picked up right where it left off at the mid-season finale, except that there is no mention of Mon-El being kidnapped, he is simply back working at the bar and hanging out like he has always been. While, he and Kara are still at odds over what it means to have their powers, Alex continues to grow in her new relationship and what it means to finally be out as a gay woman with a girlfriend, while Winn copes with some minor post-traumatic stress after almost being shot on an outing with Guardian.

Then Kara starts to investigate some missing persons along with Mon-El and discovers a portal where young and healthy human beings are being taken to another planet with the nickname Slavers Moon. Although Kara does not have any powers on this planet because of their red sun, she still stands up for those who are being captured and of course her attitude leads them to realize (like they should have all along) that together than can overpower their captors.

Meanwhile Alex heads up a team to go and retrieve Kara and Mon-El and Winn overcomes his fears by facing up to them on an alien planet. But these are all just minor details to a typical episode. What is really important is what we find out about Mon-El! Although it hasn’t been revealed yet, there are several indicators in this episode that let us know that Mon-El is actually the Prince of Daxem! How did I miss this?? In Mon-El’s original story he says that he was the prince’s slave and that at the last moment the Prince sacrificed his life and sent Mon-El to earth in the spacecraft. Because they actually show the moment happening, we as the audience were kind of lured into a false security and never questioned its validity.

However, the slave-traders on Slavers Moon have a reverence and respect for Mon-El and don’t harm him, even as he escaping. They even specifically say “not this one. He is not to be harmed”. Earlier Mon-El has confessed to Kara that Daxem was known to take slaves from this planet, so their reaction to him helps the pieces to start to fall into place. Then at the end of the episode when two menacing beings in cloaks show up on Slaver’s Moon inquiring about Mon-El and showing a holographic image that has Mon-El it much different attire, we realize that Mon-El’s escape story was a cover. For no one would search for a slave across planets– but an escaped Prince? Now he is definitely worth tracking down.

We don’t know how this new information will affect Mon-El and Kara’s relationship. They have started to grow closer and at the end of the episode he tells her that he finally wants to be a Hero. He wants her to train him and he wants to do more with his life.

So far the rest of this season is not set up with an ultimate nemesis or any real plot structure, so we can only assume that Mon-El’s true identity and what he is really running from will add some fire to future episodes!