Gen V (2023) s02e03 Episode Script

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[OLIVIA RODRIGO SINGS "BRUTAL"]
♪
I'm so insecure, I think ♪
That I'll die before I drink ♪
And I'm so caught up in the news ♪
Of who likes me, and who hates you ♪
And I'm so tired that I might
quit my job, start a new life ♪
And they'd all be so disappointed ♪
'Cause who am I, if not exploited? ♪
♪
And I'm so sick of 17 ♪
Where's my fucking teenage dream? ♪
If someone tells me one more time ♪
"Enjoy your youth", I'm gonna cry ♪
And I don't stick up for myself ♪
I'm anxious and nothing can help ♪
And I wish I'd done this before ♪
And I wish people liked me more ♪
All I did was try my best ♪
[SMACKS LIPS]
Unrelentlessly upset ♪
Ah, ah, ah ♪
They say these are the golden years ♪
But I wish I could disappear ♪
Ego crush is so severe ♪
God, it's brutal out here ♪
[CHIMES]
[SIGHS]
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
[BREATH QUIVERING]
[PANTING]
Hi. Welcome to Jitter Bean,
what can I get for you today?
You think that's fucking funny?
[SIGHS]
[GROANS]
- I'm sorry
- [SNORTS]
[SIZZLING]
I'm taking this orange
cranberry scone, bitch.
[BREATHING SHAKILY]
Fuck.
[MARIE] I don't know
what any of this means.
I'm not Odessa.
Every single one of these birth records
except Marie's says they're dead.
But no cause of death
is listed on any of them.
Maybe all 25 of you were
in a cage fight till death
and you just murdered
some sweet baby ass.
I didn't get my powers
till I was a teenager.
How does that even make sense?
[POLARITY] Well, whatever Odessa is,
you're the only survivor.
- That could be good for us.
- No. It is not good.
Starlight said Odessa is a weapon.
You are Odessa. The math
is pretty clear here.
- Maybe we can use you as a weapon.
- I'm not a weapon.
Okay?
I'm not anything.
Why the fuck should we trust
anything Starlight says, anyway?
Why wouldn't we trust Starlight?
She tells Marie to go back to school
to find something called Odessa.
And then you're Odessa.
What are the fucking odds of that?
I mean, she had to have known, right?
She said we had to stop it,
though, so if she knew it was me,
why'd she save me from Dogknott?
- Just a big fucking coincidence, okay?
- [EMMA] Okay, either way, this is massive.
So, what do we do?
[MARIE] I guess I could
try and ask Pam.
- Who's Pam?
- Here.
In the photo.
- My Aunt Pam.
- You have an aunt?
Uh, not by blood. She
was my mom's best friend.
Like family to us.
I might have her number
from, like, ten years ago.
I can ask around Vought. There's
folks there that are still friends.
You guys should get back to campus
before they notice that you're gone.
Just be careful.
I was gonna skip.
Mental health day.
Let me put it another
way. Get the fuck out.
Oh, actually, Emma, if you could, uh,
hold on for a second. Um, I, uh
I just have to ask you about yesterday.
Oh! Oh, oh. Right. In the archives.
- Yeah.
- [QUIETLY] When I grew, and got naked,
and you saw my knockers and dockers
all big on display, like [WHOOSHES]
It's okay. No, really, I'm
it's that's really sweet.
God, no, no. No, no. I just mean
what happened after you grew.
Oh. You mean ?
Yeah. When you got small again.
When I filled up three
shredder bins with puke, yeah.
It's an emergency situation.
I'm fine. Really.
I don't normally have
to do that anymore.
These days I can just shrink
with crushing self-hatred.
[STAMMERS] I know it
doesn't sound like progress,
but it is, so
Yay.
[MARIE] I'm not Odessa.
I'm not any fucking chosen one, okay?
- Chosen ones are like
- Harry Potter.
- Neo.
- Fucking Frodo.
Fucking Frodo, exactly.
Baby-faced white dudes, not
someone who looks like me.
Maybe Pam can explain what the fuck.
When was the last
time you talked to her?
I tried a few years
back, after my parents.
She wouldn't even talk to me.
She let me suffer at Red River
while she tried to adopt Annabeth.
It's shitty,
but I was almost happy when I
found out they wouldn't let her.
So, yeah, me and Pam?
Won't be awkward or horrible at all.
Should we talk about what I
said to you the other night?
Uh
Yeah, I just, uh
I don't know if-if now is,
uh, the right time, you know?
[CAR DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
[PHONE CLICKS]
You are not going to believe this.
The Queen herself has returned.
Excuse me, excuse me.
Hi, Cate! Oh, wow, I love the beanie.
Stop by tomorrow for a
special "Get Ready With Me."
Styling a beanie can be tricky.
Lick the like button if you think
I should shed my skin in solidarity.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
- We love you, Cate. God bless you.
- You kick ass!
- [MUFFLED SHOUTING]
- [HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Welcome back, little miss popular.
Look how much they love you. [CHUCKLES]
Oh, this arm feels so weird,
it's like a rubber baseball bat.
Cate, Cate, Cate!
Oh! Watch the stinger.
Watch the stinger. Hey!
Do you want to die? Neither do I.
[HIGH-PITCHED RINGING]
I can't hear anything.
- I can't hear anything.
- Well, now hear this:
Vought has commissioned a new wig
for you, fashioned with virgin hair.
Taken off the same Norwegian
twins they use for Beyoncé's wigs.
It's nice to know the Norwegians
are good for something, am I right?
Hey, Cate!
- What's all this?
- It's Thomas Godolkin Day.
The new dean thought reviving the
celebration would
lift spirits on campus.
History, music, barbecue,
and for some, the night they
let the Deep deflower them.
Right on that bench.
Hmm?
Oh, shit.
[EMMA] We're fucked.
- We're fucked, we're so fucked.
- Just stay cool.
Wow, a reunion! Heart
emoji, crying emoji.
Guys, isn't it wonderful
to have Cate back?
Right after getting Marie back?
Ugh, I'm in the presence
of so much greatness,
I-I can't even stand it.
Oh, and Little Cricket's here, too.
- Hmm.
- Cate. How are you?
[SIGHS] It is so terrible what happened,
but at least the perpetrators who
did this were brought to justice.
Yeah.
They were fucking animals.
I'm taking Cate to class,
but hey, you're all in Hero
Optimization so we can all go together.
Uh, ooh, I'm actually not in
that weird gladiator murder class,
but, like, you guys enjoy.
Great. This way, Guardians.
You don't want to keep the dean waiting.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUDDING]
Fuck!
[PANTING]
[BUZZING]
[CIPHER] Well done, Marie.
We have work to do.
[GROANS]
Fiona, disappointing.
See yourself out.
Here in this class,
we have some of the most powerful
superheroes ever to walk these halls.
It really boggles the mind,
and yet, Cate Dunlap
welcome back was overrun
by a mere handful of Starlighter thugs.
Not all of us are bulletproof.
Supes are outnumbered, what?
Ten million to one worldwide?
If humans ever get their shit together
and organize against us, let's face it.
We're fucked.
Okay. Think about that until the next
time we're together. Class dismissed.
Not you, Marie.
Let's talk.
[HEAVY DOOR CLANGS]
So, uh, Marie, tell me,
why cut yourself?
I'm sorry?
Why do you cut yourself to
gain access to your powers?
It's just always how I've done it.
Um, self-harm is kind of
a distasteful disorder.
It's very human.
It's not self-harm.
It's just how I fight.
Agree to disagree.
Uh, right now, you're Angelina
Jolie in Girl, Interrupted.
And what I'm hoping for
is Angelina Jolie in Salt.
You could be something magnificent
if you just believed it up here.
- [COOKIE CARTEL SINGING "WILDFIRE"]
- You know I'm like a wildfire ♪
[EMMA] She brainwashed
you. Wake the fuck up!
Sooner or later, you're gonna have
to face up to what you've done.
Okay, look, I don't know
what's going on with you,
but you need to get your shit together.
She was right. [STAMMERS]
I've done things.
You know you're kind of
coming apart right now, right?
- What the fuck?
- [JUSTINE] I hope you don't think
that I'm gonna be the
one to hold you together.
- That's good shit.
- You've heard the saying,
"If you love someone, set them free"?
Well, I think that's true, too,
if you're only mildly
interested in them, Sam,
so we're done, okay?
- Yeah, sure.
- Okay, look.
Uh, I didn't sign up for this.
Plus, I didn't get much of a follower
bump when we hooked up anyway, so
Okay.
I gotta go.
[CARTOONY VOICE] Of course she left.
She thinks you're a fucking monster.
- And she's right.
- No.
- You are a monster.
- No.
Remember that woman that you grabbed?
She was screaming for her boyfriend,
but you just dragged her away.
Hey, shut up.
- Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
- Anything that Homelander
- or Vought wanted, you did.
- No.
The most fucked-up
- summer internship there ever was.
- Uh-uh.
You make me sick. [RETCHES]
- Fuck that.
- Oh, fuck.
[STAMMERING]
Let go of me!
Put me down, you sack of shit!
- Fuck you!
- You're garbage!
[LAUGHS]
[WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[HIGH-PITCHED VOICE] Hey, Sam, up here.
JFK Junior faked his death.
Seriously, listen.
5G causes cancer.
- For real. Sam!
- No, no, fuck this.
9/11 was an inside job. Come back!
He just said, "Be stronger, like
Angelina Jolie in Salt" or some shit.
A cliché spy in a mediocre movie?
Why is he being so
fucking creepy with me?
I-I don't know. Uh, maybe you're
the chosen one and he knows it.
Will you fuck off with that?
And what the fuck with Cate?
[QUIETLY] Did she tell
Cipher what we did or not?
- I don't know.
- You don't know.
You could fill a book with
the shit you don't know.
Whoa. Where the fuck
is that coming from?
I don't know.
I [SIGHS]
I was a virgin.
A virgin what?
A virgin virgin.
Before you and I
You know, I was, technically,
I guess, a virgin.
- Technically?
- I mean, yeah.
I got fingered by Eddie Fineman
behind the slide at Red River once,
but I never had the actual, um
genital-to-genital intermingling that
you and I
You can't say "I love you" to the
first person you have sex with.
That's your response?
[GRUNTS]
I'm sorry, it's the truth.
There's a lot of other truths you
could have picked besides that one!
- What the fuck?
- You tell me what the fuck.
No. There.
Can you lift this a little
higher, please? Higher. Higher!
- What the hell is happening?
- [STACEY] Do you love it?
Because you better love it.
It's just like those posters of
Homelander when you walk by,
Jesus appears over his
shoulder. Two blessed saviors.
Okay, why are there pictures
of me all over the place?
You two haven't been
checking your phones?
The new rankings are out.
Jordan, you're number one!
[LAUGHS]
Okay. Come with me.
There's a lot to go
over before the ceremony.
[PHONE CHIMES]
I know, the new rug looks like a
Dairy Queen's afterbirth, but I like it,
it ties the room together.
So, what can I do for you, Cate?
Tell Vought the truth.
I love it. What truth?
That Emma, Jordan and
Marie tried to kill me.
I don't think that's a very good idea.
Tell them or I will.
Telling Vought means telling Homelander.
And if you tell him what happened,
you've got to tell him everything.
Hey, let's just play that out.
[MIMICS HOMELANDER] Hey, howdy,
Cate. It's me, Homelander.
Oh, you got attacked, you say?
Half your skull got blown clean away?
What a fucked-up situation.
And then what happened?
Wow. You're broken?
Your powers are totally fucked-up?
You're no better than a human?
[SIGHS]
[CLEARS THROAT]
You've got a special
place at Vought right now.
Why risk that?
They left me for dead,
and I'm just supposed to
pretend like we're besties?
- Fuck that.
- You're supposed to focus
on getting better.
And remember
that your value in this world
comes and goes with your powers,
and without them, you are nothing.
So let's try and get
them back, sound good?
Have a nice day, Cate.
[MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
Need help finding your way out?
[DOOR OPENS]
[THE NAH SINGS "ITZ EAZY"]
Watch this ♪
All yours.
It's a hybrid, like you.
We're shipping a second to
your parents as we speak.
Holy shit.
Yeah.
- This is
- Only a portion of what God U
and its boosters can offer.
So, you can be here and be you.
Hey, uh, can I take a selfie with you?
Uh, sure. Yeah.
- [CAMERA CLICKING]
- Mm.
- Hey, can you switch?
- Fuck off.
I've got a dynamite speech for you,
harkening back to God U legends of old,
and then bravely looking to the future.
I also put some stuff in there
about the struggles of being
a trans person in the world
and how God U has welcomed
you with open arms.
Oh, and I worked in a word
"transtastic", which
I came up with myself.
I'm not trans. I'm bigender.
Oh, and I'm bi-golly shocked
that you would be so ungrateful,
but maybe it's just
a generational thing.
What if I say no to this?
Oh. Well, unlike you, there's only one
side to this coin, and there is no "no".
You're telling me this isn't
everything you've ever wanted?
Elmira was that fun?
Learn the fucking speech,
say it with a smile,
and the next time a
fan asks you to switch,
tuck the junk, inflate
the fun bags and do it.
[SIGHS]
Hey, Emma.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
- Hey
- Hmm.
What would you do if you had to see
the person who tried to kill you
and left you for dead, every day?
Just smile at them
like nothing was wrong?
Technically, Jordan
and Marie did it, so
[WHISPERS] Fuck.
Hey, welcome to Jitter Bean.
What can I get for you today?
Oh, where to start.
I'd like 17 muffins, please.
You, uh, you-you want 17 muffins?
Yes, 17.
Any kind will do, load me up.
Oh, it's not all for me.
I'm having, like, a party.
A muffin party, as one does.
Muffin party.
Got it.
[WHOOSHING]
Goddamn it.
- Wait, hey, can I see that for a sec?
- It was not me!
Okay? It was not fucking me. It was
I-I-I didn't mean to upset you.
- [HYPERVENTILATES]
- Hey, hey.
What's going on?
Every day it is another asshole
who says he's going to punch me,
or rape me or just fucking kill me,
because they think I'm
putting these stupid flyers up.
My hair is falling out and I've had,
like, four or five panic
attacks in three days, so
- Can't you just quit?
- If I could get another job I would, but
Hey, some of us actually do
give a shit, believe it or not.
So I need you to help me figure
out who's doing this, all right?
I-I have no clue.
We have cameras, but
they-they don't catch anyone.
Like, I-I-I tear it down,
it's back up a second later.
Well, it could be someone invisible.
Maverick is more into bestiality
than social justice, so
People surprise you, fuck.
Speedster
Teleporter
Could be a camouflage Supe.
Do you, do you want anything
else with your 17 muffins?
Oh, fuck the muffins. Black coffee.
With a straw.
Okay.
Oh, shit.
Speedster!
Thank you!
[EXCITING MUSIC PLAYING]
Got you.
Oh, sorry. My bad, my bad!
Oh, sorry. Sorry.
Hey, I just want to talk!
Oh, s-sorry.
Wait! Come back!
♪
Wow.
- Hey, what's good?
- You just gonna stand there, or ?
Sorry.
- Excuse me. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.
- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
- Cricket in here? Nice.
- [LOCKER DOOR SLAMS]
- Is she okay?
- Guess what doesn't shrink.
[QUIETLY] Mazel tov.
- No, you don't!
- Hey, hey.
Sorry. Mm.
[GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
Oh, fuck.
[ATMOSPHERIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
[RAPID KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
- Go away.
- [SAM] Cate?
Cate, it's me. Please let me in.
[KNOCKING CONTINUES]
- Cate?
- [KNOCKING CONTINUES]
Hey, I need your help.
- Sam, I can't
- [GROANS]
[EXHALES FORCEFULLY]
Everything that we
did, right? The people?
They just keep fucking ooh!
They keep coming back, and I
just want to make them go away.
So just, here, please [EXHALES]
Make them, make them go away.
Sam, I can't.
The doctors don't want me
using my powers right now.
Doc-Doctors?
No, Cate, it's just one time.
It's just one time, right? You've
done this a million fucking times!
I know, I know!
- Then just fucking do it.
- I know Hey! Don't! Don't.
You're right, okay? We've hurt people.
I hurt Luke when I pushed him too much.
And I can't do that to you
anymore, okay? I'm sorry.
Right.
[PULSING MUSIC PLAYING]
- Holy shit!
- Did you see that?
Whoa!
[JORDAN] Move. Get out
of the way. Move. Move.
- [GRUNTING]
- [OBJECTS CRASHING]
[YELLS]
[STUDENT] Cut it out!
Sam! What are you doing? Stop!
- Sam, stop!
- Get the fuck out of here, Jordan!
[YELLING]
Calm the fuck down!
[PANTING]
[POP MUSIC PLAYING FAINTLY]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[PANTS, GRUNTS]
[SAM YELLS]
[MUFFLED VOICE] What the fuck was that?
Two people just broke
through your wall, man.
[SQUISHING]
Ah, fuck.
[PANTING]
Oh, Sam, just fucking stop!
You've got to quit going aggro
on people that want to help you.
No. No one, no one can help me.
Give me a chance.
[EXASPERATED GROAN]
I just want to I just want to forget.
You and me both.
Luke had the right idea.
[MIMICS EXPLOSION]
No.
Hey.
[GRUNTS]
No, he didn't.
Your brother was wrong.
He wasn't thinking straight.
And he loved you,
you know that.
I mean, if you ever tried to
hurt yourself, he
he'd fucking kill you.
[CHUCKLES]
[GENTLE MUSIC PLAYING]
There's been enough death.
I'm fucking sick of it.
Aren't you?
[SIGHS]
Hi [CLEARS THROAT] Aunt Pam.
It's me.
I know you fucking hate
my guts or whatever,
but maybe you want to
help me solve a mystery,
blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah, blah, fuck me.
[SIGHS]
[INTRIGUING MUSIC PLAYING]
[BUZZES]
[BEEPS]
[PAM] Yes?
Uh, hi.
It's me, Aunt Pam.
[SIGHS] Just
Just don't call me that.
[LOCK BUZZES, LATCH CLICKS]
Your place is really nice.
- Thanks. I've been here a few years.
- Huh.
- Can I get you a drink or something?
- No, thank you so much.
I'm good.
I, um, I read about your jail stuff.
I was worried about you.
Yeah. No, um
That's over now, thank God.
Afterwards, I
I spent a lot of time
looking for Annabeth.
Have you heard from her at all?
No. I don't know where she is.
So how, so how are you?
Look, I've got a book club
Zoom thing in, like, 30 minutes.
Yeah. Yeah.
Do you remember this picture?
Yes, it was taken the
day after you were born.
I found it in a file called "Odessa".
- Does that mean anything to you?
- No, I've never heard that.
But this was taken in the clinic.
What clinic?
The fertility clinic.
Where you were conceived.
I'm sorry. [SCOFFS] I
was conceived at a clinic?
At Godolkin University.
Jackie and Malcolm tried
for years to get pregnant.
IVF was too expensive.
Vought came along, and
it seemed like a miracle.
All expenses paid.
They never told me.
Well, I think I have a
few pictures from that day.
Wait, if they couldn't get
pregnant, then what about Annabeth?
No medical intervention needed there.
Turns out Annabeth was the real miracle.
Here you go.
[MOURNFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
Would you mind ?
Can I have these?
- I can make copies.
- It's fine. Keep them.
Wh-Why is he holding me?
That's Dr. Gold. He delivered you.
[DISORIENTING MUSIC PLAYING]
Do you know him?
[POLARITY] I know, you're
all asking yourselves,
what the hell does this old-ass
Supe know about marketing?
Am I right?
Well, how about 17% first dollar
gross on my electric grills,
brand ambassador for Vought Gym,
and my fragrance Magnétique surpasses
Tom Ford's Tobacco Vanille in sales?
So I'd say nine figures in the bank
means I know a shit ton about marketing.
So you need to pay attention.
About to drop some science on you, okay?
Now, this is the way it goes.
- When you get out of this school
- [QUIETLY] Holy fuck.
you need to be able
to make money for yourself
'cause not all of you
are gonna be superheroes.
Like, nobody in here is
probably gonna make The Seven,
I'm just telling you right now.
You're not gonna make The Seven.
So, how do we expand
Um, ow?
our brand? That's the question.
[QUIETLY] It was you.
What is your problem?
You're the spray painter.
I don't know what you're talking about.
[POLARITY] is the message.
What do you stand for? What do
you want to say to the world?
That's the question.
[DOOR OPENS]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
It was you, Harper. I literally
caught you red-yellow-handed.
- You're crazy.
- Bullshit.
Bullshit. You're a secret
Starlighter, admit it.
[SHUSHES, MUTTERS]
So I'm right?
- Fuck.
- I knew it.
Justice never fucking forgets.
Emma, please don't tell anyone.
Harper, what the fuck?
You're a mimic? I
thought your power was
tail?
My powers are chameleon.
So I can copy anyone else's
power for, like, 60 seconds.
The tail is just a pain in the ass.
You're blowing my mind right now.
Come on.
Do me.
Oh, shit!
No shit.
You do my power better than I do.
Huh.
That is fucking invalidating.
- Yeah.
- Oh, my God.
- I'm so sorry. Wow.
- God.
Jesus, how do you deal with this?
This is, God, so inconvenient.
Yeah, you kind of get used
to the public nudity stuff.
- Okay?
- Mm-hmm.
Harper, what the fuck?
You spent all last year
sucking Justine's dick and now
you're a spray painter activist?
Like
Hey, you're not gonna
tell on us, are you?
I'm not a fucking narc.
Who's "us"?
[SENTIMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]
[GASPS SOFTLY]
Oh.
I think you look like her.
You think so?
[CHUCKLES]
I didn't know she smoked.
[PAM] Oh, we all smoked back then.
Just being young and stupid.
[CHUCKLES]
You've got your, um
your, uh, book thing.
- Right. Right.
- Right.
Uh, would you mind if I use
your bathroom before I go?
- It's a long drive.
- Of course.
It's just right there. On the right.
I thought it was for the money.
- What?
- I thought Mom and Dad got paid.
For shooting me up with Compound V.
But that's not why they did it.
They did it because they
wanted a baby to love.
And they loved you more than anything.
[TOILET FLUSHING]
[HAUNTING MUSIC PLAYING]
You should go.
Aunt Pam, what the fuck is this?
- She lives here?
- No. Not anymore.
How? Why was she here with
you? Why didn't you tell me?
- I couldn't!
- Bullshit!
All these years you kept her from me?!
Do you know how fucked-up that is?!
Marie, we were afraid of you!
You massacred your parents!
She didn't want to see you.
It took two years after she
got put into foster care.
But they finally let me have her.
I tried to give her a good
life, and I think I did.
- I want to talk to her.
- I can't let you do that.
Yes, you fucking can. Where is she?
She doesn't want to see you,
It's her choice.
I didn't have any choice.
My parents put a drug in me.
They decided that for me.
- I know
- No, no. You don't.
Because you just stood there
and said that I massacred them!
You don't know anything!
I was a girl who got her period.
That is it.
And you make me feel
like a monster for it,
and you let my sister
think that I'm a monster!
You let her believe that it's my fault!
I loved my parents.
But they did this.
Not me.
Just tell Annabeth
And remember, kids, a super mind is
just as important as a super body.
So get your extra-large
Vought-a-Burger Kids' Meal.
Mmm-mmm!
And we'll see you
under the sea tomorrow.
Ready, set, go for a fun-filled hour ♪
- [BONG GURGLING]
- Where learning is your superpower ♪
Your living room's
your own Vought Tower ♪
Down at Avenue V ♪
- Avenue V, Avenue V ♪
- [VOCALIZING]
Just wait and see ♪
You know, I thought you were weird
as fuck to want to watch a kids' show.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- On Avenue V ♪
- [GURGLING]
- Starting to make sense now.
- [SNORTS]
I feel vindicated.
Thank you.
You know, Luke and I used to
watch this when we were kids.
He was a little too old for
it by then, but [SNIFFLES]
he was always the first one up,
pulling me out of bed
every Saturday morning.
It makes me feel safe.
I get that.
I talk to him, you know.
Like, in my head.
And I just, like, tell
him about my day and
I ask him for advice.
Does he have anything to say?
Hmm, no.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
But it's nice to
imagine.
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
I would give anything
for five more minutes.
What would you say to
Andre? If you could?
I don't know.
"I love you" sounds like cliché.
I'd probably just play Madden with him.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
And tell him I loved him.
Should've said it more.
'Cause you never know
what's gonna happen, huh?
Hey, you want to watch another one?
Hey, boys and girls, welcome
to the Avenue V show
This makes me miss home.
- where everybody's super.
- Yay!
Why don't you go?
My mom.
My mom, she's
scared of me.
You're her kid.
I'm her kid who destroyed the house.
The car. The school.
[LAUGHS]
Yeah, but, Sam
you're not that scary.
Ready, set, go for a fun-filled hour ♪
Where learning is your superpower ♪
Your living room's
your own Vought Tower ♪
Down at Avenue V ♪
Avenue V ♪
[CROWD CHATTER]
[DOOR OPENS]
Hey, so I brought someone new.
Uh, so that's Ally.
Hey. Emma.
Holy shit.
You used to be Little Cricket.
Yeah. Yeah.
YouTube demonetized me, though, so
- Can we trust her?
- Probably.
Definitely.
Okay. Okay.
Secret meeting. Let's go.
What's the plan?
- The plan?
- Okay.
Harper's gonna spray-paint
the word "fascist"
on the Homelander
statue tomorrow at lunch.
Acid yellow, super hard to remove.
[HARPER] And then flyers
on the cars in the faculty lot.
[ALLY] Mm-hmm, and then
red "Fuck Homelander"
on the Vought-a-Burger truck on Friday.
[WHISPERING] Is that it?
[REGULAR VOICE] Wait. Are you joking?
Sorry. Why are you here?
Oh, no. Listen, I-I-I-I
admire your balls.
I mean, you guys could get killed
if you guys got caught, but
and I mean this constructively
what you're doing is stupid and useless.
- Okay. Fuck off.
- No. Sorry.
What I'm saying is that you
guys could be doing so much more.
Let's not fuck around vandalizing shit.
Uh uh
I mean, what else can we do? We're
Hit 'em where it hurts.
They can clean up paint.
What we should be doing is sabotage.
Disrupt. Break shit.
Right?
Are you with me?
We're not like that, Emma.
- Yes, you are.
- [ALLY] We're in Performing Arts.
She's two steps away from
a tail fetish OnlyFans.
Um, bitch?
[ALLY] We're not
heroes.
I used to think like that.
But somebody believed in me.
And he thought I was a hero.
And
And 'cause he believed it
[WHISPERING] I started to.
[LAUGHS SOFTLY] And now I'm
telling you the same fucking thing.
You can be heroes.
And fuck shit up. [LAUGHING]
[HARPER LAUGHS SOFTLY]
No, but for real.
- [CHAPPELL ROAN SINGS "SUPER GRAPHIC ULTRA MODERN GIRL"]
- Uh-huh ♪
I'm through ♪
With all these hyper
mega bummer boys like you ♪
Oh, yeah, I need ♪
A super graphic
ultramodern girl like me ♪
We're hot, we're drunk, wow ♪
Look at her moving,
baby, she's the one ♪
Oh, yeah, I need ♪
A super graphic
ultramodern girl like me ♪
- Hey, have you seen Jordan?
- Not yet.
[CROWD CHEERING]
[CIPHER] Thank you.
Thank you.
This year we celebrate
the 60th anniversary
of Godolkin University.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
The genius and foresight of
Thomas Godolkin is evident
in each and every one of you.
And as we continue to evolve
into our ever more perfect selves,
remember your history.
Even as we look forward to the future,
we must hold on to our traditions.
Godolkin University's
ranking system is vital to our survival!
[CHEERING]
[JORDAN] Marie!
Marie!
[CIPHER] The rankings,
they let us each know
- Hey.
- How was Aunt Pam's?
Um fucking terrible.
- But also enlightening.
- I love you.
Oh.
I I love you.
Even though that freaks the fuck
out of me to say it, and I do not
want to get hurt, and I have never
said it to anybody
before, not like this.
You know, and what I-I-I realize now is
that we just don't know what's
gonna happen tomorrow or next week
or next year, and I don't
want to regret anything
[HOPEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[CIPHER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
[JORDAN AND MARIE LAUGH]
[CIPHER] May I introduce to you someone
who understands the
value of the rankings?
Your new number one and perhaps
the greatest number one yet, Jordan Li.
[CHEERING AND APPLAUSE]
[CHANTING] Jordan!
Jordan! Jordan! Jordan!
Jordan! Jordan! Jordan! Jordan!
Jordan! Jordan! Jordan!
[CHEERING]
Um [CLEARS THROAT]
I want to thank God U for letting me
live my truth out loud on this stage.
Today we can unite behind
a common ideal as Supes.
We were all
assigned awesome at birth.
It's trans-tastic!
[CHEERING]
I'm proud to be here,
exonerated after so many months
of being wrongfully imprisoned that
Sorry.
[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
Andre Anderson is dead.
[CROWD MURMURING]
[SOLEMN MUSIC PLAYING]
He died in that prison,
and if he were here today,
he would want me to be honest.
- About everything.
- [MURMURING CONTINUES]
His powers killed him.
They don't want people to know that.
Vought doesn't want you to know that.
But I want you to know
that Andre died a hero,
trying to get us free.
Vought wants you to believe that
Cate was attacked by Starlighters.
- Jordan, no.
- But those people were innocent.
♪
They were scapegoats,
and Vought murdered them.
[OVERLAPPING SHOUTING, BOOING]
Starlighters didn't attack Cate.
I did.
[CROWD JEERING]
[ST. VINCENT SINGS
"BIG TIME NOTHING"]
Don't blink, don't wait,
don't walk, you're late ♪
Don't fall from grace,
behave, don't trip, sashay ♪
Okay, sashay ♪
Don't kid, don't blame,
don't snap, insane ♪
Don't class, don't act your
age, don't change your name ♪
It's all the rage ♪
Do ask, but don't tell,
don't laugh, but do smile ♪
Don't have a glass,
don't stay a while ♪
Don't take a pic ♪
Don't feel so sick ♪
Big time nothing ♪
I look inside, I look
inside, I look inside ♪
Nothing ♪
I look inside, I look
inside, I look inside your ♪
Eyes ♪
One, two, one, two ♪
Don't show, don't
flake, go hard, debase ♪
Don't make a dishonest
mistake, don't be so sure ♪
I need a cure ♪
One more score ♪
Big time nothing ♪
Just like a ♪
Big time nothing ♪
I, I, I ♪
I look inside, I look
inside, I look inside ♪
Nothing ♪
I look inside, I look
inside, I look inside ♪
Your ♪
I look inside, I look
inside, I look inside ♪
Nothing ♪
I look inside, I look
inside, I look inside your ♪
Eyes ♪
- Big time nothing ♪
- Big time nothing ♪
Big time nothing ♪
- Big time nothing ♪
- Big time nothing ♪
Big time nothing ♪