02x06 - The Bloody Doors Off

[bunniefuu]

- HOMELANDER: Freedom...
- [GROANS]

...comes at a price.

- So, I'm down a point?
- ASHLEY: Nine and a half.

STORMFRONT: Bad day?

- g*dd*mn it.
- Hey, I'm with you.

But you know, there's a way to handle it.

I owe you.

[MOANS]

Thanks to the Church of the Collective,

I now know the kind of man I want to be.

- #BraveMaeve.
- MAEVE: This is Homelander.

He's f*cking with me. I can't protect you if you leave.

What are we gonna do?

CHERIE: You think, by saving Kimiko,

you can make amends

for those children

- that Lamplighter b*rned.
- FRENCHIE: f*ck you.

HUGHIE: You can't go through this

- on your own.
- We're all alone.

How do you think the world will feel when I tell them that you used to be Liberty?

Wow.

["CASQUETTE À L'ENVERS" BY SEXION D'as*ault PLAYING]

[WHIRRING]

[JAY AND CHERIE LAUGH]

Why are you laughing?

- You're ridiculous.
- Oh, no.

I am not, uh, ridiculous.

CHERIE: Okay.

- Then you are high.
- Well, beside the point.

- [CHUCKLES] Mm-hmm.
- Point is

I learned everything I know from those girls.

- "The Golden Girls"?
- [CHUCKLES]

I was alone in New York, you know?

Turning tricks.

Begging for the scraps.

Who do you think kept me company?

"The Golden Girls".

: a.m. to : a.m.,

they lit up the shelter's shitty TV.

JAY: And you're not talking about p*rn?

- "The Golden Shower Girls"?
- [CHERIE LAUGHS]

- That's disrespectful.
- CHERIE: Aw.

- He's so sensitive.
- [LAUGHS]

No. Those saucy ladies, they made their own family.

So I did what they did.

You are my Blanche.

- Blanche?
- And Jay?

You are...

- my Dorothy.
- CHERIE: Mm-hmm.

'Cause you're a little gay.

- Yeah.
- [LAUGHS]

- So, you're Betty White?
- Oh, what a f*cking question.

Of course I'm Betty White.

[SNIFFS]

Now...

Who wants to rob a bank?

f*ck, yeah.

[WHIRRING]

Will it get through my skin?

If it can't, nothing can.

HUGHIE: Okay, I-I just feel like I need to say something.

I don't think this is a good idea.

Stormfront knows I leaked the V.

Yeah, but she hasn't come after you.

Ye... But that makes it so much worse.

That means that she has some f*cked-up plan for me.

I need this chip out now.

I understand, Petit Hughie.

And though you've been covered with entrails of many a person, even a sea mammal... it's always harder when it's someone you love.

- What?
- L'amour.

No, no. No, I don't.

I mean, I-I do, of course.

It's just, it's a platon...

- We're-we're just friends.
- STARLIGHT: Okay, can we just do this already before I change my mind?

Please?

- [DRILL WHIRS]
- Okay, this is happening.

- Okay.
- Mm-hmm.

- This might sting a little.
- Okay.

[WHIRRING]

- [STARLIGHT SHOUTS, GROANS]
- Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Okay. [PANTING]

Okay.

[STARLIGHT GROANING]

Bonjour, my little spy.

- [HORN HONKING]
- [SIREN WAILING]

[PANTING]

Howdy ho, buckaroo.

[MAN SCREAMS]

sh*t!

I think you broke my hand.

[GRUNTING]

What do you want to do with him?

Well, hand him over to the police,

- of course.
- Well, of course. We are heroes.

That's what heroes do.

- Absolutely.
- But... he'll probably just be released tomorrow.

- Please, just take me to the hospital.
- Yeah.

Please.

That's a really good point.

[EXHALES] You know, sometimes it feels like... like the justice system just doesn't work anymore.

Everyone always recording on their phone all the time.

- Mm-hmm.
- It's like you can't even

- do your job anymore.
- Do your job anymore.

- [STORMFRONT LAUGHS]
- HOMELANDER: Mm-hmm.

Please, just take me in.
Just take me in, please.

[GRUNTS]

[HOMELANDER MOANING]

♪ I do ♪

♪ I think about you... ♪

It really speaks to the deterioration of good, God-fearing American values.

Help me!

STORMFRONT: Oh, what's this world

- coming to?
- Oh, f*ck.

[MAN GRUNTS]

[SCREAMS]

♪ And you say you belong to me ♪

♪ And ease my mind ♪

♪ Imagine how the world could be so very fine ♪

♪ So happy together ♪

♪ I can't see me loving nobody ♪

♪ But you for all my life ♪

♪ When you're with me ♪

♪ Baby, the skies'll be blue ♪

♪ For all my life. ♪

HOMELANDER: Don't be shy. Embrace it.

STORMFRONT: Thank... I'm saying thank you.

HOMELANDER: Well, you're welcome.

MAN: Let's be honest for a moment here.

Who is the biggest prankster on set?

- [CHUCKLES]
- Ooh, I-I just... I don't think

we should get into that. I don't know, I... No comment.

[LAUGHS] I mean, he is right.

But, uh, you know, Black Noir has definitely got

- just the biggest ego.
- HOMELANDER: Such a diva.

They're f*cking.

STORMFRONT: ...under that helmet. [LAUGHS]

[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]

Did you get her chip out?

This is where you're living?

Yeah. You know, it has its charms.

The rats are, like, uh, Pokémon.

- With hep C.
- Oh, God.

Oh, so you're back?

Tired of k*lling people for money?

Uh, hi.

Remember me?

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Well, well, well.

What have we here?

HUGHIE: I know what you're gonna say, but we just took out her chip. Everything's fine.

Starlight, don't you just light up a room, eh?

- You're looking well.
- STARLIGHT: Yeah, no thanks to the . -caliber round that you pumped into my chest.

Well, what don't k*ll you makes you stronger.

Hmm.

What's she doing here?

Uh, she has a lead on Stormfront.

STARLIGHT: I broke into her laptop,

and I got a look at the inbox.

Dozens of e-mails from Stan Edgar.

Stan Edgar?

And what does Vought's big slapper have to say?

How they're close to a breakthrough at the Sage Grove Center.

It's a psychiatric hospital in Pennsylvania.

HUGHIE: Wait, wh-what kind of breakthrough?

She came in before I could see any more.

Well, we better have us a little dekko at this loony bin, eh, lads?

Starlight, would you be amenable to joining us on this little caper?

You want her to come?

Oh, most definitely.

If sh*t goes sideways,

who do you think Vought's gonna go after?

Us or their billion-dollar baby turned traitor who just ripped out her own f*cking chip?

Never go into shark-infested waters without chum.

♪ Give a little bit of love... ♪

MAEVE: This is who I am.

Who are you?

Brave Maeve Pride Bars.

Because you can't be proud on an empty stomach.

[KNOCK AT DOOR]

Come in.

You f*cking idiot.

You were supposed to call first. Did anyone see you?

I'm allowed to visit my friends.

Did you find it?

No, sorry. No black box.

But I told a couple of my contacts to keep an eye on the North Atlantic Current.

So, this school of halibut... I mean, these guys are, like, rowdy m*therf*ckers, right? They...

- Deep.
- [CLEARS THROAT]

Anyway, they found some of the wreckage that drifted up near Iceland.

And they found this.

[EXHALES]

I mean, I'm not sure it still even works, but...

You want back in the Seven?

Not a f*cking word of this to anyone.

♪ Here comes the A-Train, Mr. Fleet Feet ♪

♪ Savin' lives, takin' names, nice and easy ♪

♪ There ain't no day like a race day, what ♪

♪ Ain't no love like a raceway, what ♪

♪ I'm the best to ever do it, y'all crazy ♪

♪ Make way or you're pushin' up daisies, bring the heat ♪

♪ Now they're beggin' for some AC... ♪

Isn't it lit?

Your very own anthem.

[SONG CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY]

Yeah, it's dope.

Well, this is just the demo, of course.

We're going out to Lil Nas X for the official version.

Maybe you could bust out Prince's guitar for the video.

I had to sell Prince's guitar.

I'm going - .

Okay.

Ashley.

- What?
- I can't find her.

ASHLEY: Where the f*ck is Starlight?

Yo! Here comes the A-Train.

What, what? [CHUCKLES]

I'm right here, buddy. Over here.

- Yeah.
- What's up, buddy?

- Good to see you.
- What you doing here, man?

Oh, not much. Just here to see, uh, uh...

No reason, really.

But, hey, bro, I've been thinking about you lately.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

I see what they're trying to do to you. Yeah.

Talk about getting ass-f*cked with a soup can.

Am I right?

What do you mean?

I mean, come on.

If anyone knows what it's like to get bounced, it's me.

Yeah. Did some sh*t I'm not too proud of.

Some weird sh*t.

I'm good, man. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

Nike and Under Armour are already talking to my people, so, you know, this is actually gonna work out to be really fantastic for me.

- Oh, that's great.
- Yeah.

Yeah. Well, then, uh, I guess you don't need his help.

Or, uh... No, never mind.

Forget I even said anything.

But hey, it's great to see you, man. Always.

All right.

Whose?

Whose help?

Would you like a Fresca?

MOTHER'S MILK: Sage Grove, a proud subsidiary

of Global Wellness Services, which is

a subsidiary of...

I can guess.

Thanks.

Here.

This is what you bought with your blood money?

No one will believe you're an orderly with that, you know.

[EXHALES]

I should go in with them.

They can manage without one bony, blonde Supe.

You just get them in and get the f*ck back, yeah?

Okay, just...

[EXHALES]

If anybody recognizes your face in there, I mean...

Oi, Frenchie.

Don't get caught.

I never do.

[LOCK BUZZES, DOOR OPENS]

MALLORY: Weaponized Xanax.

The grenades you used on Behemoth during the bank heist.

You got a Supe activated by rage, so you simply take away his rage, turn him into a cupcake.

Clever.

I don't know what you are talking about.

And Cold Snap two months ago?

Malchemical a month before that?

You don't know about those, either?

What is this about?

Armed robbery, breaking and entering, aggravated as*ault on a Supe.

You're looking at to , minimum.

Or you can come work for me.

I could use someone with your imagination.

Madame... f*ck you.

That's a pity, for you... [INHALES]

...but even more so for Cherie and Jay, I believe?

ADX Florence is a supermax in Colorado.

They've got the Unabomber, head of the Aryan Brotherhood... all the greats.

And your friends, too. Maybe.

Or... they go free.

But that depends on you.

Right now.

You can't do that.

[CHUCKLING]

Wait.

[SOFT CHATTER]

What kind of work do you do?

Hey.

Um...

Come into my trailer for a second.

I have a surprise for you.

I have to stop by Vought Tower, see my social guys.

No.

Come on. Blow them off.

- [CHUCKLES]
- Come.

I will be back in minutes.

[QUIETLY]: And then...

I'll let you surprise me wherever you want.

Ooh.

Yeah, okay.

[CLOCK TICKING]

[SIGHS]

[SOFT GRUNT]

Hmm.

[SMACKS LIPS]

[SIGHS]

[INSECTS TRILLING]

You see 'em?

BUTCHER: Yeah.

I see 'em.

[EXHALES]

[FLIPS SAFETY]

♪ ♪

[WHISPERS]: Get in.

♪ ♪

[INSECTS TRILLING]

[GRUNTS]

Here.

Seriously?

What is your problem with me?

I ain't got no problem with you, love.

Really? That's why you won't even touch my hand?

Okay, guys, come on. Not the time.

You know what? No.

I think it's exactly the right time.

I think the time is long overdue.

You know that I hate Vought as much as you do.

You know that. But it doesn't even matter to you because what you can't stand is in my blood.

- I'm subhuman to you.
- [EXHALES]

Only good Supe is a dead Supe, right?

Your words, not mine.

HUGHIE: That's enough.

STARLIGHT: You know what?

Underneath all that swagger, you're just a bigot and a bully.

I know another guy just like that.

He's got a flag for a cape.

Annie, stop.

[WHOOSHING]

Oh, f*ck me.

Hughie, call them. Now.

[LINE RINGING]

[KNOCKING]

Open the door. We need help.

I have a patient that needs help.

Hurry up! Please!

What's wrong with him?

Just open the g*dd*mn door!

He's swallowing his f*cking tongue!

[LOCK CLICKING]

- What's wrong with him?
- Easy.

[SILENCED g*nshots]

[GROANING]

Holy f*ck.

[MOUSE, KEYBOARD CLICKING]

What the f*ck is all of this?

Vought is making more Supe t*rrorists?

MOTHER'S MILK: Who the f*ck knows?

g*dd*mn.

Brother's got a love sausage.

[SPEAKS RUSSIAN]

♪ ♪

[KEYS CLACKING]

Stormfront is here?

[KEYS CLACKING]

How you doing today?

[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]

Do you want to show us a little of what you've been working on?

- [PANTING]
- Hey. Hey.

You're okay.

You're all right.

It's okay.

That is very impressive, Tim.

That orderly Stormfront's with... he look familiar to you?

Je ne sais pas.

What about headaches?

Nausea?

No.

Well, that's promising.

I think we are getting close.

TIM: Ma'am, can I go home now?

I want to see my family.

STORMFRONT: Tim, you were admitted to Sage Grove

because you're suicidal.

You could be a danger to yourself.

Well, I'm not doing any more of these stupid pet tricks until I talk to my sister.

Okay. Okay.

We'll work something out.

[EXHALES]

[GRUNTS]

[SCREAMING]

[WHISPERS]: Lamplighter.

- That's f*cking Lamplighter.
- Shh...

FRENCHIE: I didn't recognize him without the mask and the hood.

f*cking Lamplighter. We have to k*ll him, of course.

No, no, no, no. No, we can't.

For Madame Mallory.
For her grandchildren.

Not right now.

First, we got to find out what the f*ck all this sh*t is.

- Come on.
- Listen, listen.

Stick to the plan, Frenchie.

[PHONE BUZZING]

- Hughie.
- There you are.

You guys okay? Stormfront's in there.

That ain't all who's here.

Okay, okay. She just left.
Get the hell out. Now.

All right, let's get the f*ck out of here.

♪ ♪

- [PANTING]
- [ALARM RINGING]

Hey. Cindy.

Let's be cool.

Okay?

You remember that extra helping of Kraft Shells & Cheese that I snuck you?

[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]

I like you.

You know that, right?

Who are your friends?

We ain't his friends.

Go ahead. f*ck his ass up.

CINDY: You're dressed like his friends.

I don't like liars.

[EXHALES]

[GROANS]

Oh, sh*t...

Let's get out of here!

[CREAKING]

[MURMURING]

[SHOUTING]

- [ALARM RINGING]
- [SHOUTING]

[LOCK BEEPING]

- Hey. Let go!
- [GRUNTS]

[LAMPLIGHTER GRUNTS]

Stay the f*ck back or I will burn your skin off, assh*le!

Oh, you won't get the chance!

- [POUNDS]
- Someone help me!

[SCREAMING]

[PANTING]

[SCREAMING, SHOUTING]

All right, listen up, man.

You can burn us, but she's a Supe.

All you're gonna do is piss her off.

So why don't we all just calm down

and live through this m*therf*cker?

[SCREAMING, SHOUTING]

- What's going on here?
- It's a lockdown.

No one's getting out of here, not even her.

MOTHER'S MILK: There's got to be an access code.

LAMPLIGHTER: There is, genius, at the front door.

And there is no f*cking way

I am telling you or taking you with me.

You do realize there's a whole army of Supes on the other side of that door that want to tear you apart, right?

She... can help.

I'm gonna take my chances.

[GRUNTING]

- [RETCHING]
- [SHOUTING]

[GRUNTS]

[RETCHES]

[SHOUTING, GROANING]

[GURGLING]

[ALARM CONTINUES RINGING]

Okay, you guys can come.

[ALARM RINGING IN DISTANCE]

[MUFFLED SCREAMING]

What the f*ck?

- Come on, M.M.
- [LINE RINGING]

Pick up, damn you.

FEMALE VOICE: Your call has been forwarded

to an automated voice messaging system.

MARVIN'S VOICE: Marvin.

- FEMALE: Is not available.
- Oh, hello.

At the tone, please record your message.

Easy does it, lad.

No trouble from us.

You just stroll on by, yeah?

I don't want them to hurt me again.

Oh, nah. N-No one's gonna hurt you, son.

Uh... we're all friends here, aren't we?

[WHOOSHING]

[ELECTRICAL RUMBLING]

[THREE g*nshots]

[BUTCHER PANTS LOUDLY]

Hughie.

Hughie.

[STARLIGHT GASPS]

[PANTING]

- Are you all right?
- Yeah.

Fine. Uh...

- [GASPS] Hughie? Hughie?
- Oh, sh*t.

Hughie! No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No.

Can you cauterize it?

- [HUGHIE GROANS]
- Uh...

- [HUGHIE GROANS]
- Oh, f*ck.

The kid must have fried everything.

- I need power.
- Well, you got a pretty shite superpower then, don't you?

We got to get him to a doctor.

- C... Where, how?
- I don't know, but not gonna just sit here and watch him f*cking well bleed out!

- All right?!
- Okay! Okay, okay, okay.

- Come on.
- Come on.

[GROANS]

What about the others?

They're on their own.

[CLOCK TICKING]

[CLOCK TICKING LOUDLY]

[TRUCK HORN HONKING]

[SIREN BLARING]

Ashley? Oh, my God. Are you okay?

Don't you dare tell me you haven't found Starlight yet.

[ASHLEY COUGHS]

- Here.
- [COUGHING]

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

[TRUCK HORN BLARING]

[WHOOSH]

I've been searching everywhere for you.

What happened to your trailer?

Electrical fire.

How was your meeting?

Sorry. It ran long.

No need to apologize.

All right, well, I got to go run lines with Noir.

Scene tonight. Real megillah.

Something wrong?

No. Nothing.

You sure?

Why would anything be wrong?

By the way, I went to the Tower,

and, uh, you weren't there.

No one had seen you.

So you're checking on me?

Wanted to see how your meeting went.

Hold on.

- Let me...
- Explain?

Come on now.

Why would you need to explain anything to me?

["ORINOCO FLOW (SAIL AWAY)" BY ENYA PLAYING]

♪ Let me sail, let me sail, let the Orinoco flow... ♪

Deep, your numbers among women have been ticking up quite nicely.

Did you catch Malala Yousafzai's tweet?

Called you a "sweetheart".

Well, she's the sweetheart.

♪ Far beyond the Yellow Sea... ♪

So, what's on your mind, A-Train?

Hmm. Um...

Deep invited me here, so, you know...

Yeah, I don't know. [CHUCKLES]

Just having a really nice lunch, I guess, here.

And Deep, what's on your mind?

Well, I think A-Train sabotaged me my entire career.

What?!

Well, you do think you're better than me.

You know, I fantasize about drowning you over and over again.

But I mean, I don't want to feel that way anymore.

I want to be clean.

Oh, boy.

Looks like we got ourselves a good old Truth Exchange.

♪ From Bissau to Palau... ♪

- Oh, hell, no.
- Please sit down.

No. Look, man, I seen that documentary about you guys.

It's not my type of sh*t.

For a man in seven-figure debt, a heart condition, and in heavy withdrawal, do you really think you have the luxury to get up and leave?

♪ Far beneath the Coral Sea ♪

♪ De, de... ♪

Who told you that?

Huh? Did he f*cking tell you that sh*t?

No. The church knows all kinds of things.

But don't worry. We also know how to be discreet, especially for our members.

They're gonna give Shockwave your uniform, you know that?

- Call him the next A-Train.
- No, they can't do that.

Why not?

"A-Train" is a trademark.

You are just another nobody from the South Side of Chicago.

[SCOFFS] Man, f*ck you, man!

ALASTAIR: I can help.

I can get you back in.

♪ Sail away, sail away... ♪

But first... sit down.

♪ Sail away, sail away, sail away... ♪

- Let Deep tell you his truths.
- ♪ Sail away, sail away ♪

- ♪ Sail away ♪
- ♪ From the North ♪

♪ To the South, Ebudae into Khartoum ♪

♪ From the deep sea of clouds to the island of the moon ♪

♪ Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never seen... ♪

[ALARMS SOUNDING]

Come on. In here.

[LOCK BEEPING]

[CHIMES]

[ALARM CONTINUES SOUNDING]

[DISTANT SCREAMING]

It's beautiful.

Oh...

Hey, what the hell is going on here? Huh?

You all are juicing people with m*therf*cking Compound V,

only to burn 'em alive? Why?

Maybe I just like watching people burn.

I remember you, you know.

You were tailing me the night that I torched those kids.

So why didn't you stop me?

Maybe you like watching people burn, too.

File de pute!

- No, no, no, no, no!
- [SPEAKING FRENCH]

- [SHOUTING IN FRENCH]
- Easy! Easy! Easy...

[YELLING]

Easy... Come on, man.

[FRENCHIE PANTS]

[PANTING LOUDLY]

Mon Dieu.

And I don't want to hear no bullshit about I'm gonna getting tired of the p*ssy.

I love this girl.

Like, this is the one.

Oh.

[LAUGHS]

All right, brother. All right.

- All right. All right.
- Congratulations, Marvin.

Thank you, Colonel. Check it out.

- It's beautiful.
- [LAUGHS]

Oh, the bachelor party I will throw you.

What's your thoughts about transgender strippers?

Strippers ain't really my kind of Hershey's, with or without nuts. But... you golf?

Thinking about doing a golf trip.

Oi.

[CHUCKLING]

[SNORTS]

[BUTCHER LAUGHS]

[SNORTING]

[MALLORY COUGHS]

- What?
- [QUIET LAUGHTER]

And what the f*ck are you laughing at?

Sorry, mate.

You just look like one of them poncy baton twirlers.

- A majorette.
- That's right.

A f*cking majorette.

[BUTCHER LAUGHS]

You look good in these.

So here's what happens now.

You're gonna tell us every single thing

you see and hear at the Tower.

Especially when it comes to Homelander.

[FLAME RUMBLING]

Please don't pretend like you have a choice.

I look forward to your call.

- Easy peasy.
- [g*n SAFETY CLICKS]

MALLORY: I don't like it.

You don't back an animal like that into a corner.

f*ck him.

We own the c**t.

Frenchie?

Don't let him out of your sight.

Oui, Madame.

[BIRDS SINGING]

Hey, what's the trouble, miss?

Sir, I need you to get out of your car.

Well, what are you talking about?

FBI. Need to commandeer your vehicle.

- Bit of an emergency.
- Jesus.

- What happened to him?
- Long story, that.

- Uh, can I see some ID?
- Left it in me other pants.

Too busy saving this one, but you can call my boss.

Yeah, okay. Uh, look, I'll... I can get you... get you guys to the hospital, but we're out in the middle of nowhere.

I'm not gonna give you my car.

Have it your way.

Butcher?

[GROANS]

Butcher?

Don't.

[g*n CLICKS]

- Stay back.
- Whoa! Okay.

- MAN: I said, stay back.
- That's not necessary.

- Let's just talk.
- The FBI?

Yeah, really. You're not even American.

What, is-is he even hurt?

What is this? Some kind of a scam?

If I wanted to boost some wheels, it wouldn't be a f*ckin' Hyundai, you daft c**t.

This is a stand-your-ground state. You stay back!

Oh, you can stand wherever the f*ck you want.

- I'm taking your keys.
- Butcher, stop.

Buddy, just put the g*n down.

- I said stay back.
- I said... put it down!

[SOFT CLICK, CAR ENGINE STARTS]

[STARLIGHT SIGHS]

[SIGHS]

You couldn't just listen to me and stay back?!

BUTCHER: Come on.

Cauterize it!

[GRUNTING]

[ENGINE STARTS]

[HUGHIE MOANS]

[GRUNTING]

It won't hold long.

Come on.

[HUGHIE GRUNTING]

Is this the right time to go shopping?

FRENCHIE: One, why not?

And deux... this is good news.

What do you mean by that?

Some aerated propofol... some other odds and ends, I'll make a knockout b*mb.

Even for Supes.

MOTHER'S MILK: Okay.

Why are we still alive?

- Dumb luck?
- FRENCHIE: No.

I mean that night.

We went underground for months.

But you never came for us.

Not you, not Homelander.

Why?

You're disappointed we didn't k*ll you?

I thought the Seven always retaliates, no?

You're nobody.

Not worth it.

You didn't tell them, did you?

Why wouldn't you tell them?

Who says I didn't?

I figured you'd boast about it

to Homelander, must've been thrilling for you.

I'm not a f*cking animal.

FRENCHIE: Only a f*cking animal would do what you did.

Drop it.

- You m*rder*d innocent children.
- Shut the f*ck up.

You watched them burn alive, crying for their mama.

If that's not an animal, then what is, huh?

I didn't know!

I didn't know they were gonna be in that bed.

It was supposed to be your boss.

Then they started screaming.

But it was too late.

So what, are we supposed to feel bad for you now?

f*ck you.

LAMPLIGHTER: I don't want anything from you.

But you...

I saw you following me that night.

And then you disappeared.

I keep asking myself, why... why didn't you stop me?

Why didn't you?

Good question.

[CROWD CHEERING, CLAMORING]

All right, all right.

[PHONE BUZZING]

Cherie, this is not...

CHERIE: He's dying!

- Quoi ?
- Jay!

He's OD'ing.

I-I don't know what he took.

- Take him to the hospital!
- Please, come now!

Come!

Serge, you f*cking come right now.

Cherie!

Hello...

[SMACKS LIPS, MUTTERS]

CHERIE: No.

FRENCHIE: Come on!

Come on, mon ami!

- [GASPS]
- Oh!

Look at me, look at me, you went out.

Okay, can you sit?

Come on!

Come on, mon ami, come on.

He's okay.

Okay, you stay with him.

- You keep him talking, okay?
- What?

Where are you going?

Don't let him fall asleep.

- What...?
- I told you I have something.

Something more important than this?

More important than us?

Cherie, I cannot do this right now.

Okay?

Please, stay with him!

Fine, you want to go...

go.

[CRYING]: We don't give a sh*t.

Serge?

I'll be back.

Je te promets.

- [MOANING]
- He's burning up.

I'm going as fast as I can.

I appreciate what you done back there.

Oh, thanks.

Your approval means everything to me.

And some sarcasm to stick the landing.

Nice one.

You didn't have a choice.

You know what I was thinking, when I was looking at him?

"Why'd you pull a g*n, you stupid f*ck?"

That's all.

Maybe once I would've cried over him, but... now he was just another person in our way.

No.

- No what?
- No to that f*cking look of quiet respect or approval or whatever that is.

I don't want it.

We're nothing alike.

Nothing.

[MACHINERY WHIRRING]

You really think that's gonna work?

I think so.

You know, they're not trying to make Supes here.

These people are test subjects.

They're trying to stabilize the V.

Explain.

Infants handle it best, but adults?

I mean, you saw what happens... sometimes you get powers, sometimes you get a freak, sometimes you just explode.

Vought is trying to stabilize it, so that you put the V in any adult arm, anywhere, anytime, you get a solid Supe, solid powers.

Putain.

Okay, so... a thousand more Supes... , ?

Why? Why would Vought do that?

It's gonna f*ck up their movies, their merchandising...

They don't tell me.

They just make me burn the evidence.

Okay?

My, uh... my best friend

OD'd and I left to save him that night.

Why I didn't stop you.

You were at a party.

I was away for minutes.

Came back, you were gone.

Did he live?

Your friend?

Oui.

But I never saw him again, and... then, uh, he d*ed a few months later.

Another overdose.

Are you serious?

Frenchie, wh...?

Why didn't you ever tell us?

What difference would it make?

After all these years, man?

We would've let you off the hook.

What makes you think I want to be let off the hook, huh?

[THUMPING]

[GRUNTING]

Get it off me!

Get this thing off of me!

[THUD]

Was that...?

It's okay.

That's his f*cking d*ck.

Don't be so closed-minded.

♪ ♪

I thought you said that sh*t was gonna work.

I said I thought it would.

[DOOR OPENS]

[CREAKING]

[SCREAMING]

Lamplighter?!

Lamplighter!

I'm here.

I just k*lled six subjects out there like a f*cking teddy bear picnic.

What the hell happened?

Dr. Carlton got the propofol dose

wrong again.

So Cindy got loose, freed some of the others.

I'm sure some of them got out before lockdown.

Where's Dr. Carlton?

LAMPLIGHTER: Uh, he's in the cafeteria and the hallway and... some of the walls.

[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

STORMFRONT: Clean up this mess.

I'm gonna go see if anyone else got loose.

Yes, ma'am.

We need help!

What'd they say?

Just needs a couple of days for the Cefazolin to kick in, but...he should be all right.

We don't have a couple of days.

Well, we're gonna have to risk it.

Jesus.

What?

Just...it's the kids' shampoo he uses.

I can smell it.

L'Oréal for kids, strawberry smoothie.

I seen the bottle.

Hateful sh*t.

And his Axe Body Spray.

Ugh! I mean... that's how Vin Diesel must smell.

You know, every morning he slathers his bum

- with creamy Desitin.
- No.

I f*cking swear to God.
He's got rashes down there.

I don't want to know that!

f*cking mental, that's all I'm saying.

STARLIGHT: Hmm.

But he really just...

[INHALES] never gives up on you, does he?

Aye.

And he follows you around like a right little pup.

He's too good for either of us.

Mm.

Yeah.

ELENA: I'm gonna Postmate Sugarfish.

[SHOWER RUNNING]

MAEVE: What?

I'm gonna Postmate Sugarfish.

- Where's your phone?
- I can't hear you.

Where's...?

Homelander and Queen Maeve.

Oh, my God, they're leaving us.

[SCREAMING]

- WOMAN: What's gonna happen?
- MAN: It's okay, everybody.

- It's okay.
- Hey, did you say Sugarfish?

WOMAN : Please save us!

- MAEVE: Take these two!
- HOMELANDER: No, no.

- Just these two! Please!
- No! What, so they can tell the world we left the rest of them to f*cking die?

- No.
- Elena.

- WOMAN : Take my daughter!
- MAN : Help us!

- You got to help us!
- MAN : Don't leave us!

WOMAN : Please!

[CRYING]

I love you.

[SHUDDERING] Tell the boys I love them.

[PASSENGERS SCREAMING]

I'm gonna show that to Homelander.

And... he's either gonna leave us alone or I'm gonna put it on CNN.

Elena.

Elena.

This is our out.

I was scared. I...

I know I should have stood up to him.

I know that.

Elena, I watched a plane full of people die.

Why are you looking at me like that?

[EXHALES]

[BIRDS CHIRPING]

Yeah. Right.

Yo.

Close stitch, but Hughie's okay.

Oh, bien.

Hey, tell Butcher about the thick penis around your neck.

[WHISPERS]: f*ck you.

Nah, nah, nah, it's just Frenchie being Frenchie.

I am sorry.

For a long time,

I was trying to save you.

I thought, uh, if I did, somehow, that would make up for the things I've done.

You never asked to be saved.

You cannot absolve my, uh, sins.

[EXHALES] No one can.

I know this now.

So...

I leave you alone.

[VEHICLE APPROACHING]

Got to go.

[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]

[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]

MOTHER'S MILK: Colonel.

Marvin,

where is he?

This way.

Madame Mallory.

Uh, I know I wasn't welcome at the funeral, so, all these years, I couldn't offer my condolences...

Where is he?

[EXHALES] Why isn't this man restrained?

No need. I wanted to come.

I don't want to hear a single g*dd*mn word from you.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

[WHISPERING]: I thought this was behind me.

But it's not.

It never is. [CRYING]

Then let's both be done with it.

[SHUDDERING]

I know what you have to do.

Do it.

You'd be doing me a favor.

Do it.

Madame, please.

If I may?

Besides you, no one wanted him dead more than me, but I am begging you for his life.

I have no choice.

It won't help you.

All you'd be doing is ending his torment.

You cannot punish him as much as he punishes himself.

Trust me.

So... what exactly are you proposing we do with him?

Hey.

I'm so glad you're here.

I want to apologize.

Please, just let me explain.

Flap, flap, flap goes that little mouth of yours.

You remember you told me that you don't break easily?

Well, I've been thinking about that.

A lot.

I will never lie to you again.

I will tell you everything.

[EXHALES]

Starting with this.

Your grandmother?

My daughter.

Chloe. She d*ed of Alzheimer's a few years ago.

How old are you?

I was born in .

In Berlin.

Is that you with...?

Heinrich Himmler.

He was a lovely dancer.

And that's Goebbels.

And... the most important man in the room...

Frederick Vought.

He gave me the first successful V injection.

He taught me everything.

And then we fell in love, and he gave me a daughter.

He made me, and his genius made you.

Frederick didn't care about all the fans or stardom or any of that shallow bullshit.

We are in a w*r for the culture.

The other races are grinding us down and taking what is rightfully ours, but we can fight back. [EXHALES]

With an army of supermen, millions strong.

Because that is Vought's true destiny.

And you will be the man who will lead us.

You are everything that we dreamed of.

So I love you with all of my heart.

How could I not?

Everyone I have ever loved is in the ground.

And then I found you.

We found each other.

And now neither of us has to be alone ever again.

And that... is the truth.

["THE GOLDEN GIRLS" THEME PLAYING]

♪ Thank you for being a friend ♪

♪ Traveled down a road and back again ♪

♪ Your heart is true ♪

♪ You're a pal and a confidant ♪

♪ And if you threw a party ♪

♪ Invited everyone you knew ♪

♪ You would see the biggest gift ♪

♪ Would be from me ♪

♪ And the card attached would say ♪

♪ Thank you for being a friend. ♪

♪ Okay ♪

♪ Word ♪

♪ And ready, set, go ♪

♪ Here comes the A-Train, Mr. Fleet Feet ♪

♪ Savin' lives, takin' names, nice and easy ♪

♪ There ain't no day like a race day, what ♪

♪ Ain't no love like a raceway, what ♪

♪ I'm the best to ever do it, y'all crazy ♪

♪ Make way or you're pushin' up daisies ♪

♪ Bring the heat, now they're beggin' for some AC ♪

♪ Only place I will lose, in your daydreams ♪

♪ Ain't no actor, you can get that action, though ♪

♪ Takin' back my title like the Alamo ♪

♪ They be tryin' to play me like a saxophone ♪

♪ But I'm 'bout to knock 'em down ♪

♪ Like I'm playin' Whac-a-Mole ♪

♪ Y'all won't ever touch me like an isotope ♪

♪ Presto, yeah, he's gone in a flash ♪

♪ Skrrt off, zoom, you all gettin' passed ♪

♪ Leave 'em in the dust when I dash ♪

♪ Can't be caught, too fast, Gingerbread Man ♪

♪ Yeah, A-Train, second to none ♪

♪ If you're lookin' for the best, I'm the definition ♪

♪ And if anyone play, I leave 'em under the dust ♪

♪ I'm in love with the crown, we gonna never split up ♪

♪ I'm-a do it all my way ♪

♪ Pickin' up the pace, y'all will never stop me ♪

♪ Put me in the wind, fly away ♪

♪ Slipstream, we're takin' off ♪

♪ Why wait? When I'm... ♪

♪ Faster than the speed of light ♪

♪ Watchin' as your dreams take flight ♪

♪ As your dreams take flight ♪

♪ I think I should stand and fight ♪

♪ Then disappear into the night ♪

♪ Faster than the speed of light ♪

♪ Watchin' as your dreams take flight ♪

♪ I think I should stand and fight ♪

♪ I think, I think I ♪

♪ Then disappear into the night. ♪