‘Supergirl’ Season 3 Spoilers: EP Differentiates Morgan Edge From Maxwell Lord

Although both are leaders in their respective industries, Morgan Edge and Maxwell Lord couldn’t be more different from one another.

In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, “Supergirl” executive producer Andrew Kreisberg said that Season 3 character Morgan (Adrian Pasdar) isn’t a rehash of Maxwell (Peter Facinelli), who appeared in the freshman run of the CW series.

“With [the character played by] Peter, what we were going for was, you’re not quite sure if he’s good and you’re not quite sure if he’s bad. Morgan Edge is just bad,” Kreisberg said. “And Adrian is crushing it. Based on episode 1, we’re actually having him for more episodes because we’re so in love with him and his performance. A lot of his scenes are with Katie McGrath [who plays Lena] and just watching the two of them go toe to toe as titans of industry is really exciting.”

As announced during the show’s San Diego Comic-Con panel last July, Pasdar’s Morgan is a ruthless real-estate developer who has big plans for National City. According to the character breakdown, Morgan is pushing through a huge redevelopment project for the city’s waterfront, and he doesn’t care if he has to uproot the entire indigenous immigrant population just to implement his money-grubbing scheme.

In fact, Morgan employs the services of a madman to blow up the waterfront with an underwater nuke during a special ceremony in Supergirl’s (Melissa Benoist) honor. As previously reported, that madman is ex-military man Robert Dubois. Now known as Bloodsport, Robert infiltrates his former base and steals a variety of articles that he uses to cloak the underwater nuke.

Aside from Morgan and Bloodsport’s debut appearance in Season 3, episode 1, the season premiere also sees Kara dealing with the loss of Mon-El (Chris Wood) by focusing all her energy on being Supergirl.

“When we pick Kara up, she’s feeling like being Kara Danvers was a mistake, that pretending that she was human, and having human goals, and trying to have a boyfriend, that those are all human things and all it’s done is break her heart,” Kreisberg said. “So the one thing that she’s great at is being Supergirl. She just saved the world in the finale last year, and when we pick her up in the premiere, she is kicking butt and taking names. It’s a little bit of a metaphor for any one of us — when our personal lives are going to hell, we throw ourselves into work. But that’s not the Kara that Alex (Chyler Leigh) knows, that Lena knows, that James (Mehcad Brooks) knows, that J’onn (David Harewood) knows. The first episode is a little bit of Kara finding her way back to Kara Danvers, not just Kara Zor-El.”

“Supergirl” Season 3 premieres on Monday, Oct. 9 at 8 p.m. EDT on The CW.