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Season 3, Episode 8 — The Instant White-Hot Wild

Come on, Earving, me and the others

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have something to sh-sh-sh-show you.

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[grunting]

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- [shouting] - [grunts]

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Oh, fuck...

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[Homelander] Butcher and Soldier Boy,

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where are they?

#7

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[grunts]

#8

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Why do I always have to take the high road?

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M.M., Soldier Boy is gonna kill more people.

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- [Mindstorm] It wasn't my idea. - Oh, no, it was Noir's.

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- What the fuck is this? - Something we should've done a long time ago.

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No!

#13

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Why the long face, tiger?

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You're Homelander. Button your shit up.

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I'm proposing a strictly

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transactional relationship.

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Where's Ryan? I'm gonna find him

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sooner or later.

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I hate you.

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Ready, mon coeur?

#21

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Temp V is gonna kill you both.

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Jesus Christ.

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I was just in the lab.

#24

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It turns your brain into fucking Swiss cheese!

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- [retching] - You need to tell Hughie.

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Everything all right?

#27

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You, me and granny fucker are

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gonna finish this fucking job.

#29

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Is this really you?

#30

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I thought we should have a conversation.

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Vogelbaum made a kid.

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Bitch of it is...

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I'd have let you take the spotlight.

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What father wouldn't want that for his son?

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- [bird squawking] - [insects trilling]

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[Homelander] Whoa!

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I knew your fastball would come in sooner or later.

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- Stay away from him! - It's okay.

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I'm not here to cause trouble, hurt anyone.

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Just want to see my son.

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And I had a heck of a time trying to find you, buddy, I...

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Even had to get

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a big, important congresswoman to help me.

#44

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She been treating you all right?

#45

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Aunt Grace?

#46

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Yeah, she's nice.

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"Aunt Grace."

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Okay.

#49

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You know, she may be nice, Ryan, but

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she's not your aunt.

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She's not even your real family.

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I can hear those clumsy fingers

#53

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of yours slipping around on that screen.

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Get rid of it now.

#55

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Listen, Ryan.

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Your mom, she wanted what's best for you.

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And so do I.

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You have a real family.

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But aren't you mad at me?

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For what I did?

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You know it wasn't your fault, right?

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Son, when you're as strong as we are,

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accidents happen, uh, things break...

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and sometimes they are

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the things that you love the most.

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But-but that's all it is: an accident.

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And nobody on this earth knows that better than me.

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Nobody.

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That why I'm always gonna love you.

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No matter what happens, no matter...

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what you do.

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I'm not going anywhere.

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I will always be here.

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Homelander admitted on video he locked up Maeve!

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- Bullshit! - [crowd clamoring]

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Well, great news!

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We just heard the attorney general's office

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has a search warrant,

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and they're coming here to free Maeve!

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-[cheering, clamoring] - Free Maeve! Free Maeve!

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Starlight lies! Children die!

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[crowd] Starlight lies! Children die!

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[all shouting over each other]

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I really think we should've waited for Homelander.

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Well, I don't know where he is. Do you?

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But I do know the attorney general is an attention whore

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who loves to be on Don Lemon.

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And she's on her way here right now with a search warrant

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to look for her.

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[gas hissing]

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[coughing]

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[birds chirping]

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Where's Soldier Boy?

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You mean, ever since he told us

#95

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he was supposed to kill his own son?

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He locked himself in the bathroom

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with a bottle of Old Granddad.

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Well, Homelander ain't really his son, and he knows it.

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All right, let's be off then, eh?

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We'll swing by the office and grab some more V.

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And then Hughie will jump us to where the cunts are.

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We do Noir

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and Homelander.

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And we're finished.

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Right?

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[gas hissing]

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- [tires screeching] - [men shouting]

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[grunts]

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♪ ♪

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[Frenchie] Bonjour.

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I got you something.

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- Voilà. - Fuck is that?

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Oh, this is it.

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Cost three Bugattis-worth of Starlight's

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money, but...

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A dose of Novichok.

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Our weapon against Soldier Boy.

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And the only fucking dose on the eastern seaboard.

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You put the world's deadliest nerve agent

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in a ten-dollar bottle of Starlight's Wish?

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I must say, the smell has improved.

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Great.

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So you lost your temper and hit a man.

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Oh, this is nothing.

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You know, I once took a Spaniard's ear

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for jabbering at a screening of 27 Dresses...

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Frenchie, my whole point has always been

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to keep my fucked-up shit

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away from Janine.

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I lost control for one second,

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and for the rest of her life,

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she's gonna have an image of her daddy

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beating up her stepfather.

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I got to lock my shit down.

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I got to be stronger.

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[Frenchie] Out of all man's miseries,

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the most bitter is this.

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To know so much...

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And to control so little.

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I've read a fucking book, all right?

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You cannot keep the truth from your daughter that...

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that you are...

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a deeply...

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broken and fucked-up man.

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So am I.

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So are we all, no?

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But you're also, perhaps, the best man

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I ever known.

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Let Janine see all of it.

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And get back on the fucking Lexapro.

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Homelander's shocking admissions on Starlight's

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Instagram live feed

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led to the largest single-day drop

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- in the history of Vought International stock... - [Ashley] Hey!

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There you are.

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Where were you?

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What do you want?

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- Come with me. - I'm walking.

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Um...

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so...

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while you were gone,

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Deep and I

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had to move

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- Maeve out of the Tower. - [Deep] That was your idea.

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- You were there. - [Deep stammering]

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[chirping]

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- [Ashley] We didn't have a choice. - Okay.

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- There was a search warrant. - I wanted to wait for you, Homelander.

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- But she insisted. - Can you just shut the fuck up?

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Where is Maeve now?

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Noir, hey.

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Bro.

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We're just gonna... we're gonna go.

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Yeah. This... Okay.

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Talk to you guys later.

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[both] Let's fuck up Soldier Boy.

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I knew you'd come back.

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[toilet flushes]

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Hey, uh...

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You really are the spitting image of my little brother.

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What?

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[reporter speaking indistinctly on radio]

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[groans]

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- Oh, there he is. - Where's the cum guzzler?

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[Butcher] You were spot-on about him.

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There I was, filling up the motor,

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I turn around, the little git had done a runner.

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We needed him to get near Noir.

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[Butcher] Ah, don't you worry about that, guv.

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I got it all worked out.

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♪ ♪

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Wake me when we get to New York.

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[indistinct TV chatter]

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Need a hand?

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- [sighs] - [turns TV off]

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More in the market for some legs.

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- What happened to you? - You'll never believe it.

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They gave me a new ticker.

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I'm gonna be able to run again.

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All the races and the endorsements.

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I'm about to get it all back.

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But it don't mean shit without you.

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I need you.

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Come coach me and you can still work

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with the kids at the broke-ass school.

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Hell, you'll make enough to fix the damn place up.

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I'm really fucking sorry, Nate.

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I'll spend the rest of my life making it up to you.

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Did you kill Blue Hawk?

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What?

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No, that was...

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Soldier Boy.

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Hmm.

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You did.

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- No, Nate... - I didn't want that!

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I wanted my kids to see his mugshot on the TV.

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And now he's...

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- Fuck! - I stopped him.

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For you.

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Don't say you did that for me.

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You've only ever been about yourself.

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- I'm sorry. I'll make it right. - How?!

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Every time you try, you make it worse.

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Reggie, just-just go, man.

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Just go, just get out, okay?

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Go sell your menthol vapes

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and your fast cash shops and all of that.

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But just stay out of my life!

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Nate.

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Come on, man.

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I said get the fuck out of my house!

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I don't want a murderer in the same house with my kids!

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- Shit! - Nate, I'm sorry.

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- Shit, Nate... - Don't touch me!

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Don't come back here.

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- [birds chirping] - [insects trilling]

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[vehicle approaching]

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Thanks for picking me up.

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Sure you want to tell me to go fuck myself.

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I'm not saying anything.

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'Cause if you did want to say that,

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I mean, you could.

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What happened?

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Uh... Butcher.

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Just out of nowhere, knocked me out.

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Did he tell you?

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Tell me what?

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That Temp V is fatal.

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If you shot up any more, you'd probably be dead right now.

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Oh, my fucking God, he didn't tell you!

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- That asshole! - Saved my life.

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Saved your life?

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It looks like he gave you a concussion.

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He stopped me from taking more V.

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H-Have you ever had Pizza Rolls?

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Like... middle school sleepover

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Pizza Rolls?

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Yeah, Dad bought them in bulk after Mom left.

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Every night, we'd have Pizza Rolls,

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watch Remington Steele...

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try not to touch her spot on the couch.

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And he never fought back for her or anything.

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Just sat there eating Pizza Rolls.

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I spent so much time thinking he was...

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sad and-and weak.

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Just a loser.

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But you know what? Dad...

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was there.

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Taking care of me during-during the worst days

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of his life, just trying to keep the lights on

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and a... [scoffs]

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...and a roof above our heads.

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He wasn't weak.

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I just, I-I didn't know

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what strength was.

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Annie, I'm-I'm so sorry.

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I've been an asshole.

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I never should have...

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I-I never should've put any of this onto you.

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Thank you for saying that.

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Literally every neuron in your brain

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is screaming "I told you so," so why don't you just say it

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- before your head explodes. - Oh, my God!

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- I fucking told you so. - Feel good to get that out?

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- So satisfying. Oh, my God. - [phone ringing]

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Hello?

#287

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Oh, my God, where are you?

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[sighs]

#289

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[indistinct chatter on TV]

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[door opens]

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Hey.

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[Hughie] Hey, Maeve.

#293

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Good to see you again.

#294

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Glad you're okay.

#295

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It's like you wear a neon sign

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that says, "Raw dog me, I'm a bottom."

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- I'm gonna, I'm gonna let you two catch up. - Me, too.

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Where were you?

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About 12 floors below you in the Tower

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- this whole time. - How did you get out?

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Your #FreeMaeve shit

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had every LGB-teen in the world

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up Vought's ass.

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You got me my chance.

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You know what would've been better, though?

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Actually busting me out.

#307

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I think that would've been way harder.

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[inhaling deeply]

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Merde! That hurt.

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You've been drowning yourself in this shit

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since Little Nina.

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I have done my part.

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-We're not finished, asshole. -Yeah, I am.

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-Asshole! -Nina was right.

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My papa, he put a chain around my neck.

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And all that fucking changes

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is who holds the other end.

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Our past is not who we are.

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I thought I'd always be broken.

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But you saw something in me.

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I see it in you.

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What do you see?

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I see mon coeur.

#324

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Soldier Boy is Homelander's fucking what?

#325

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Homelander's father.

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Biologically, at least.

#327

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[sighs] So put them in a room together,

#328

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- are they gonna fight or fucking hug? - We don't know.

#329

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Soldier Boy's been, uh, weird.

#330

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- But Butcher... - [Mother's Milk] If there's a snowball's chance

#331

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that Butcher can take down Homelander, he's gonna take it.

#332

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I don't care what your orders are, I'm Starlight,

#333

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and I'm telling you that you need to evacuate the Tower now.

#334

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Because Soldier Boy is alive and he's real,

#335

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and he's gonna f... oh, fucking, you fucking stupid...

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Fuck.

#337

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There are a couple thousand people in that building.

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I mean, if he pulls a Herogasm,

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he's gonna take the whole fucking place down.

#340

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Then we take down Soldier Boy before he gets to Homelander.

#341

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And save Butcher.

#342

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Y'all two fuck us over,

#343

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and now you want to be Motherfucking Theresa?

#344

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I know.

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- And-and I'm sorry... - [Starlight] Hughie.

#346

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Some people are just past saving.

#347

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He don't want to be saved.

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[Hughie] He could've dragged me

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down with him, but he didn't.

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There's still something good.

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Deep, deep...

#352

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- ...deep inside. - [Frenchie] Balls deep.

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Perhaps.

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Bonjour, Petit Hughie.

#355

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We save everyone.

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Even if they don't deserve it.

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Especially if they don't deserve it.

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Whoa... that brings me back.

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Used to sneak my dad's Manhattans

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when I was a kid.

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[Butcher] I didn't have to nick nothin' from my old man.

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He used to get me and me little brother

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lagered just for the hell of it.

#364

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Well, I got to admit, that does sound funny.

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[chuckles]

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- The old man still around? - [Butcher] Arse cancer.

#367

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[phone buzzing]

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Shitting his guts out as we speak, one hopes.

#369

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You ever see The Soldier Boy Story?

#370

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- Must've missed it. - It's a classic.

#371

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We lost Best Picture to An American in Paris that year.

#372

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At least I got to ass-fuck Jane Wyman in the coat check.

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About a poor kid from the streets of South Philly.

#374

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Discovers he's got

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incredible powers to match his...

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heart of gold.

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It's all bullshit.

#378

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Blimey, you don't say?

#379

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Actually my father owned half the steel mills in the state.

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I went to boarding school.

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Got kicked out of boarding school.

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Because I was a fuck-up.

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But he made sure I knew it.

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Use the belt, did he?

#385

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[Soldier Boy] Never laid a hand on me.

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He couldn't be bothered.

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Said I was a disappointment.

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Not good enough to carry his name.

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So I went to his golf buddies in the War Department,

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and they get me into Dr. Vought's

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Compound V trials.

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I became a superhero.

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Strongest man alive. Fucking ticker tape parades

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when I came home.

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And what did the old man say then?

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Ah.

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He said I took a shortcut.

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That a real man wouldn't have cheated.

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Mm. [clears throat]

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What about you, you got kids?

#401

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It's complicated.

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I always assumed I had a few out there.

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Somewhere.

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I always wanted 'em.

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'Cause I thought I could do it better than my father did.

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Homelander ain't yours.

#407

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Not really.

#408

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- He's the only blood I've got left. - It don't matter.

#409

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You didn't name him, didn't raise him.

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Vought grew him

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in a fucking test tube to take your place.

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He's the fucking reason they left you to rot with the Ivans.

#413

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Look, mate.

#414

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We had a deal.

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[clucks tongue]

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I'm gonna get some air.

#417

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[metal clanging]

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[Homelander] Sharpen it for a thousand hours,

#419

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still won't cut Soldier Boy's skin.

#420

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So... you were on his team.

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You knew him.

#422

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What was he like?

#423

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[exhales] Come on.

#424

⇓

Nobody's all bad.

#425

⇓

[marker clatters]

#426

⇓

He's my father.

#427

⇓

I didn't believe him at first.

#428

⇓

I ripped apart the company archives,

#429

⇓

and... it's true.

#430

⇓

[laughs]

#431

⇓

It's true.

#432

⇓

They lied to me my whole life.

#433

⇓

Surprise.

#434

⇓

Thing I needed most as a kid and they kept it from me.

#435

⇓

Now, well, I...

#436

⇓

I'm not sure I want to.

#437

⇓

It's funny, you know, everyone thinks of you as this, uh...

#438

⇓

unreadable sphinx.

#439

⇓

A mystery. [laughs]

#440

⇓

Not me. I see through

#441

⇓

that mask.

#442

⇓

I mean, literally, I can see your face.

#443

⇓

Your battle scars.

#444

⇓

The crooked old smile of yours.

#445

⇓

I know when you're happy,

#446

⇓

sad, telling the truth.

#447

⇓

Lying.

#448

⇓

Did you know?

#449

⇓

That I had a father out there?

#450

⇓

Alive this whole time?

#451

⇓

[quiet sob]

#452

⇓

Fuck.

#453

⇓

Why didn't you tell me?

#454

⇓

[stammers]

#455

⇓

- [grunts] - [squishing]

#456

⇓

[whimpering]

#457

⇓

[gurgling]

#458

⇓

[gasps]

#459

⇓

[Black Noir gurgling]

#460

⇓

You should've told me.

#461

⇓

[gulps, gasps]

#462

⇓

Oh...

#463

⇓

[all crying]

#464

⇓

D-D-Don't worry, Earving.

#465

⇓

We are so proud of you.

#466

⇓

[all crying]

#467

⇓

Soon you'll be in the sweet embrace

#468

⇓

of C-C-C... [stammering]

#469

⇓

Christ the Lord!

#470

⇓

[knocking on door]

#471

⇓

[Butcher] Fuck me.

#472

⇓

I figured you was dead.

#473

⇓

You didn't think I knew where the blind spots

#474

⇓

were, motherfucker?

#475

⇓

Back up.

#476

⇓

Where's Soldier Boy?

#477

⇓

You on that Temp V shit, Butcher, huh?

#478

⇓

What happens if I pull this trigger?

#479

⇓

Go on, do it.

#480

⇓

Hey, M.M., M.M, stop.

#481

⇓

M.M.!

#482

⇓

If Soldier Boy goes through with this, thousands will die.

#483

⇓

Help us stop him.

#484

⇓

[Butcher] This ain't a bloody kinder care

#485

⇓

we're on about, son.

#486

⇓

Its Vought fucking Tower.

#487

⇓

Becca worked in the Tower.

#488

⇓

You shut your fucking cake hole, Frenchie.

#489

⇓

No.

#490

⇓

No!

#491

⇓

No, my cake hole

#492

⇓

will remain open!

#493

⇓

You will never command me again.

#494

⇓

- I am done with your cruelty. - [Hughie] Okay, Frenchie...

#495

⇓

[Frenchie] I deserve respect!

#496

⇓

And we all deserve paid vacation days, and a dental plan!

#497

⇓

We-we-we heard you.

#498

⇓

You could've let me die from the V, but you saved me.

#499

⇓

In the shittiest way possible, but still.

#500

⇓

I don't think you want to do this.

#501

⇓

I think you want me to pull you back.

#502

⇓

Like Lenny used to.

#503

⇓

- Maeve, no! - Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!

#504

⇓

[grunts]

#505

⇓

Butcher's right. Homelander needs to die.

#506

⇓

That's it. Whatever it takes.

#507

⇓

I really thought that deep down you were a hero.

#508

⇓

Well, you were wrong.

#509

⇓

There's no such thing.

#510

⇓

This is not gonna happen.

#511

⇓

Annie, I don't want to hurt you.

#512

⇓

[Soldier Boy] But I will.

#513

⇓

[Butcher] All right, you lot.

#514

⇓

In the safe.

#515

⇓

Whoa, whoa, whoa, hey.

#516

⇓

[Butcher] In the safe.

#517

⇓

Let's go.

#518

⇓

[scoffs]

#519

⇓

[Starlight] Hey, not now.

#520

⇓

Not like this.

#521

⇓

All right, well...

#522

⇓

Tinkerbell needs power for her powers.

#523

⇓

I'm Starlight and I'm telling you that you need

#524

⇓

- to evacuate the Tower now. - [guard] Why?

#525

⇓

Because Soldier Boy is alive and he...

#526

⇓

We ran it through the voice thing-a-ma-bob.

#527

⇓

It's really her, so, you know,

#528

⇓

I think we should probably evacuate.

#529

⇓

[Homelander] Nobody's evacuating anything.

#530

⇓

We have to project strength.

#531

⇓

Right.

#532

⇓

No, that's smart. Strength.

#533

⇓

Okay, so my Angel Fish-- that's what I call Analytics--

#534

⇓

we think Soldier Boy's coming for Noir,

#535

⇓

last member of Payback, right?

#536

⇓

So we should use Noir as bait.

#537

⇓

And that way it draws Soldier Boy directly to the...

#538

⇓

Hey, is everything, is everything okay with Noir?

#539

⇓

He was keeping secrets from me.

#540

⇓

You know, when the company first

#541

⇓

rolled me out in front of the cameras,

#542

⇓

they told me...

#543

⇓

I was gonna get my very own team.

#544

⇓

I wanted so badly for that team

#545

⇓

to be the family that I never got.

#546

⇓

And then I got you.

#547

⇓

I've, I've always tried to help, sir.

#548

⇓

What, like when you ran away from Herogasm?

#549

⇓

Or maybe when you fucked an octopus?

#550

⇓

You really want to help?

#551

⇓

[Homelander whispers indistinctly]

#552

⇓

Sir...

#553

⇓

[chuckles]

#554

⇓

That's sort of treason.

#555

⇓

Big word.

#556

⇓

Anything you need, Homelander.

#557

⇓

Sir.

#558

⇓

[exhales] Ashley, take off that wig.

#559

⇓

What wig?

#560

⇓

[Homelander] Hmm.

#561

⇓

And then there's you.

#562

⇓

How could you kill one of your own kind

#563

⇓

in cold blood?

#564

⇓

You are going to tell the world

#565

⇓

that we are the one and only

#566

⇓

true justice.

#567

⇓

Noir was worth more than all of you put together.

#568

⇓

You're not my family.

#569

⇓

I don't need any of you.

#570

⇓

Remember that.

#571

⇓

[water splashing]

#572

⇓

On the record?

#573

⇓

If Dakota Bob taps me for VP, I'd be honored.

#574

⇓

Off the record?

#575

⇓

I'm expecting good news at the Prayer Breakfast.

#576

⇓

[gasps]

#577

⇓

[whispers] Fuck.

#578

⇓

- [Starlight grunting] - [thudding echoes]

#579

⇓

[panting]

#580

⇓

Ooh.

#581

⇓

They got a really big head start, but...

#582

⇓

I know a way in.

#583

⇓

[Mother's Milk] Then what?

#584

⇓

'Cause from where I'm standing,

#585

⇓

we're fucked with no grease.

#586

⇓

No plan and no knockout gas.

#587

⇓

- Where do we get some more? - [Mother's Milk] We don't.

#588

⇓

That was the only one.

#589

⇓

[inhales sharply]

#590

⇓

There is one lab in New York... [exhales]

#591

⇓

...that might be stocked with the things I need.

#592

⇓

And as fate would have it, we are headed there, so...

#593

⇓

- You're joking. - We're gonna break into Vought Tower, while you go

#594

⇓

to the lab crawling with armed guards

#595

⇓

and you're gonna cook up

#596

⇓

the world's most dangerous neurotoxin

#597

⇓

with, what, a little moxie

#598

⇓

and a little Mr. Wizard know-how

#599

⇓

while we hold off Homelander and Soldier Boy?

#600

⇓

Uh... oui.

#601

⇓

[scoffs softly]

#602

⇓

It's good enough for me.

#603

⇓

Hmm.

#604

⇓

Me, too.

#605

⇓

Monsieur Lait de Mère?

#606

⇓

The most important shit of my life,

#607

⇓

and I'm counting on coked-out Eurotrash.

#608

⇓

Shit's baffling.

#609

⇓

♪ ♪

#610

⇓

[newsreel music playing]

#611

⇓

[interviewer] The prisoners you liberated here,

#612

⇓

most of them were nearly dead.

#613

⇓

They owe you their lives.

#614

⇓

I'm not here to take credit.

#615

⇓

These boys here, they're the real heroes.

#616

⇓

What the Jerries did here is unforgivable.

#617

⇓

But I promise you, I'm gonna serve them up

#618

⇓

some good old-fashioned American justice.

#619

⇓

Scorched earth, eh, William?

#620

⇓

Scorched earth.

#621

⇓

Where's Noir?

#622

⇓

He's dead.

#623

⇓

I killed him.

#624

⇓

Why?

#625

⇓

Because he didn't tell me about you.

#626

⇓

I'm alone.

#627

⇓

I just want to talk.

#628

⇓

I know what it's like to have your team

#629

⇓

betray you.

#630

⇓

But with you and I together...

#631

⇓

...they wouldn't stand a chance. Nobody would.

#632

⇓

Unless we kill each other first.

#633

⇓

[Homelander] That's true. But why?

#634

⇓

What, because he says so?

#635

⇓

He's nothing.

#636

⇓

[chuckling] He's human.

#637

⇓

Don't you listen to this fucking twat.

#638

⇓

He ain't your kid.

#639

⇓

Yes, I am.

#640

⇓

I am your son.

#641

⇓

I am your blood.

#642

⇓

That's all that matters.

#643

⇓

Maybe.

#644

⇓

[door opens]

#645

⇓

Ryan.

#646

⇓

[Homelander] This is my son. Ryan.

#647

⇓

Your grandson.

#648

⇓

Hi, Grandpa.

#649

⇓

[Homelander] You see?

#650

⇓

You have a family.

#651

⇓

You have him.

#652

⇓

And you have me.

#653

⇓

[chuckles softly]

#654

⇓

It's a shame that I've missed...

#655

⇓

...so much.

#656

⇓

I wish I could've raised you...

#657

⇓

...and taught you,

#658

⇓

father to son.

#659

⇓

Me too.

#660

⇓

That's okay.

#661

⇓

We're not alone anymore.

#662

⇓

We have each other.

#663

⇓

Maybe if I'd raised you...

#664

⇓

...I could've made you better.

#665

⇓

And not some weak,

#666

⇓

sniveling pussy,

#667

⇓

starved for attention.

#668

⇓

But there's no fixing that now.

#669

⇓

Weak?

#670

⇓

I'm you.

#671

⇓

I know.

#672

⇓

You're a fucking disappointment.

#673

⇓

- [grunting] - Leave him alone!

#674

⇓

- [Butcher] Get out of here, Ryan! - Please, stop!

#675

⇓

- Get out of the building! Now! - Butcher, stop!

#676

⇓

- Please! [grunts] - You can't.

#677

⇓

- You can't do this. - Stop! Please!

#678

⇓

[Homelander] Don't do this.

#679

⇓

Don't do this. Don't.

#680

⇓

[groans]

#681

⇓

Ryan, get back upstairs.

#682

⇓

Right now.

#683

⇓

[Homelander] Ryan!

#684

⇓

You little shit.

#685

⇓

♪ ♪

#686

⇓

Ryan.

#687

⇓

Hey.

#688

⇓

♪ ♪

#689

⇓

[groans]

#690

⇓

What the fuck are you doing?

#691

⇓

Not the kid.

#692

⇓

Oh, I thought you said blood didn't matter.

#693

⇓

Thought that was the whole fucking point.

#694

⇓

He's my wife's son.

#695

⇓

Wait, Homelander fucked your wife?

#696

⇓

And you want to save the brat?

#697

⇓

The hell's wrong with you?

#698

⇓

I made a promise.

#699

⇓

So this is it.

#700

⇓

Everything you wanted-- he's right fucking there--

#701

⇓

and now you blink?

#702

⇓

Stand down.

#703

⇓

Fuck you.

#704

⇓

You're weaker than he is.

#705

⇓

Hey.

#706

⇓

Dad.

#707

⇓

Yeah. I'm right here.

#708

⇓

You're okay.

#709

⇓

[Maeve] Hey, asshole.

#710

⇓

Not now, Maeve. We have bigger fish.

#711

⇓

I don't.

#712

⇓

I said not now.

#713

⇓

Maeve, stop.

#714

⇓

Maeve...

#715

⇓

♪ ♪

#716

⇓

[Soldier boy shouts]

#717

⇓

C'est le paradis.

#718

⇓

[Hughie] Testing, testing, testing.

#719

⇓

Okay, that's loud. Uh... [clears throat]

#720

⇓

Attention. There has been a terrorist threat

#721

⇓

- [alarm blaring] - called into the building.

#722

⇓

Please leave as quickly as you can.

#723

⇓

This is not a drill, this is not this is not a test.

#724

⇓

- Please evacuate quickly. - Where are you going, Ashley?

#725

⇓

With you, Ashley. To the helipad?

#726

⇓

Yeah. So, the Sikorsky's actually reserved

#727

⇓

for SVPs and higher.

#728

⇓

[Hughie] Do not trample anyone on the way out.

#729

⇓

Sorry, Ashley.

#730

⇓

[Hughie] Leave as quickly as you can. Thank you.

#731

⇓

[♪ Michael Sembello: "Maniac"]

#732

⇓

Freeze! Show us your hands!

#733

⇓

♪ It can cut you like a knife ♪

#734

⇓

♪ If the gift becomes the fire ♪

#735

⇓

♪ On the wire between will ♪

#736

⇓

♪ And what will be ♪

#737

⇓

♪ She's a maniac ♪

#738

⇓

♪ Maniac on the floor ♪♪

#739

⇓

Aah! Aah! [grunts]

#740

⇓

Aw, fuck!

#741

⇓

[shouting]

#742

⇓

♪ She's a maniac ♪

#743

⇓

♪ Maniac, I sure know ♪

#744

⇓

♪ And she's dancing like she's never danced before ♪

#745

⇓

♪ She's a maniac ♪

#746

⇓

♪ Maniac I sure know ♪

#747

⇓

Aah!

#748

⇓

♪ And she's dancing like ♪

#749

⇓

♪ She's never danced before ♪

#750

⇓

♪ Maniac, maniac, I sure know ♪♪

#751

⇓

[groaning]

#752

⇓

[chuckles] I've got the Novichok. Huh?

#753

⇓

Now... go.

#754

⇓

- [grunting] - Aah!

#755

⇓

Yeah! Fuck your shield, bitch.

#756

⇓

♪ ♪

#757

⇓

[grunts]

#758

⇓

Oh, no.

#759

⇓

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

#760

⇓

No.

#761

⇓

♪ ♪

#762

⇓

[grunts]

#763

⇓

[muffled shouting]

#764

⇓

You ain't no hero.

#765

⇓

You're just another racist piece of shit

#766

⇓

we can't seem to get rid of.

#767

⇓

This is for my family.

#768

⇓

[groans]

#769

⇓

I'm not going back

#770

⇓

in that fucking box!

#771

⇓

You'll kill everyone.

#772

⇓

[grunts]

#773

⇓

♪ ♪

#774

⇓

[muffled grunting]

#775

⇓

♪ ♪

#776

⇓

Shit.

#777

⇓

[grunts]

#778

⇓

[roars]

#779

⇓

[sirens wailing in distance]

#780

⇓

[car alarms honking]

#781

⇓

[Butcher] Are you hurt?

#782

⇓

Ryan, look at me.

#783

⇓

Dad...

#784

⇓

I want to go.

#785

⇓

Let's leave. Please.

#786

⇓

I want to leave.

#787

⇓

Ryan.

#788

⇓

Please.

#789

⇓

- ♪ ♪ - [announcer] She was one of America's

#790

⇓

greatest superheroes.

#791

⇓

A role model for little girls everywhere.

#792

⇓

A strong, proud lesbian who pioneered the way

#793

⇓

for others to show the world

#794

⇓

who they really are.

#795

⇓

And she made the ultimate sacrifice

#796

⇓

when she stopped Russian- radicalized Soldier Boy

#797

⇓

and saved us all.

#798

⇓

[muffled, indistinct speaking]

#799

⇓

We drained the fluid, but, uh...

#800

⇓

Mr. Butcher?

#801

⇓

- Sorry. - Attempting further treatment

#802

⇓

would significantly impact

#803

⇓

your quality of life without

#804

⇓

necessarily extending the time you have.

#805

⇓

Uh, sir, no smoking.

#806

⇓

Uh...

#807

⇓

- How long I got? - Months.

#808

⇓

Twelve. Eighteen, on the outside.

#809

⇓

Hmm.

#810

⇓

Well...

#811

⇓

you can kindly fuck off, then.

#812

⇓

[Mother's Milk] You know, for the longest time, Janine, I...

#813

⇓

I didn't want to bring you into this.

#814

⇓

But you know what?

#815

⇓

There's nothing to be ashamed of.

#816

⇓

Truth is,

#817

⇓

superheroes aren't always good.

#818

⇓

One of them, Soldier Boy...

#819

⇓

...killed a lot of our family members a long time ago.

#820

⇓

It makes me sad.

#821

⇓

Sometimes it makes me mad when I think about it.

#822

⇓

But... [clicks tongue]

#823

⇓

your granddaddy,

#824

⇓

he spent his entire life

#825

⇓

fighting to get justice.

#826

⇓

And now I do, too.

#827

⇓

I just want you to know that you should be proud.

#828

⇓

Your granddaddy--

#829

⇓

now, he was a real hero.

#830

⇓

You're my hero, Daddy.

#831

⇓

Thank you.

#832

⇓

Hello?

#833

⇓

It's me.

#834

⇓

Are you there?

#835

⇓

Oh, God.

#836

⇓

Well, you, uh...

#837

⇓

you look like shit.

#838

⇓

Fuck off, Smurfette.

#839

⇓

[chuckles]

#840

⇓

You gonna be okay?

#841

⇓

Yeah, slowly, painfully,

#842

⇓

like every other powerless schmuck in America,

#843

⇓

thanks to Soldier Boy.

#844

⇓

Question: should I get a pirate patch

#845

⇓

or the Sammy Davis glass eye?

#846

⇓

Oh, the pirate patch, no question.

#847

⇓

[Elena] You ready?

#848

⇓

- Hey. - Hey, Elena.

#849

⇓

Where will you guys go?

#850

⇓

I don't know, somewhere Homelander won't find me.

#851

⇓

A farm, ideally.

#852

⇓

She's from Modesto.

#853

⇓

She was a Future Farmer of America.

#854

⇓

- Great. - Mm-hmm. [chuckles]

#855

⇓

Thank you.

#856

⇓

For everything.

#857

⇓

First time your prissy ass

#858

⇓

- showed up at the Tower, - [Starlight chuckles]

#859

⇓

crying in that bathroom...

#860

⇓

You saved me.

#861

⇓

Truth is, you... you don't need me anymore.

#862

⇓

I could jump.

#863

⇓

But you can fucking fly.

#864

⇓

[chuckles softly]

#865

⇓

Oh.

#866

⇓

You're like a walking Hallmark card. Enough.

#867

⇓

Bye.

#868

⇓

[♪ Elton John: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"]

#869

⇓

♪ When are you gonna come down? ♪

#870

⇓

♪ When are you going to land? ♪

#871

⇓

♪ I should have stayed on the farm ♪

#872

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♪ I should have listened to my old man ♪

#873

⇓

♪ You know you can't hold me forever ♪

#874

⇓

♪ I didn't sign up for you ♪

#875

⇓

♪ I'm not a present for your friends to open ♪

#876

⇓

♪ This boy's too young to be singing ♪

#877

⇓

♪ The blues ♪

#878

⇓

♪ So goodbye yellow brick road ♪

#879

⇓

♪ Where the dogs of society howl ♪

#880

⇓

♪ You can't plant me in your penthouse ♪

#881

⇓

♪ I'm going back to my plow ♪

#882

⇓

♪ Back to the howling old owl in the woods ♪

#883

⇓

♪ Hunting ♪

#884

⇓

♪ The horny-back toad ♪

#885

⇓

♪ Oh, I've finally decided ♪

#886

⇓

♪ My future lies ♪

#887

⇓

♪ Beyond the yellow brick road...

#888

⇓

You don't know the real Kevin.

#889

⇓

Mm.

#890

⇓

And you wouldn't like him if you did.

#891

⇓

♪ ♪

#892

⇓

- [song ends] - [sniffles]

#893

⇓

You sure you want to do this?

#894

⇓

[exhales]

#895

⇓

I don't need it.

#896

⇓

I don't. The suit never gave me any power.

#897

⇓

And Vought sure as shit didn't.

#898

⇓

It's always just been me.

#899

⇓

[Mother's Milk clears throat]

#900

⇓

- Uh, Annie? - Mm-hmm?

#901

⇓

You know, we're in a historic building.

#902

⇓

- You need to double-knot... - Okay.

#903

⇓

and bag your trash,

#904

⇓

if you're gonna be working here.

#905

⇓

Butcher isn't gonna like it.

#906

⇓

Butcher can suck my shit.

#907

⇓

Oh, from now on, this is a democracy, huh?

#908

⇓

I say you're one of The Boys.

#909

⇓

Me too.

#910

⇓

[slurping]

#911

⇓

[Hughie chuckles]

#912

⇓

[ice rattling]

#913

⇓

[Hughie] Oh, fuck.

#914

⇓

After the tragic drowning

#915

⇓

of presumptive VP candidate Lamar Bishop,

#916

⇓

we go live to the Singer campaign

#917

⇓

in Sioux Falls, where Dakota Bob

#918

⇓

just announced his new running mate.

#919

⇓

What would you like to say to the American people?

#920

⇓

As the next vice president, I will work hard

#921

⇓

to provide a safe and secure future

#922

⇓

for all citizens, on both sides of the political divide.

#923

⇓

And that's why I am so proud to have her on my team.

#924

⇓

[cheering]

#925

⇓

[crowd chanting] Singer! Singer! Singer! Singer!

#926

⇓

Singer! Singer! Singer! Singer! Singer!

#927

⇓

Well...

#928

⇓

...that bitch

#929

⇓

has definitely got to go.

#930

⇓

- [crowd cheering, clamoring] - Let's go!

#931

⇓

- Come on! - Fuck you. Yeah!

#932

⇓

- Hey, there he is, there he is. - Hey, hey!

#933

⇓

Fuck you and your lies!

#934

⇓

Fuck Starlight! Fuck Starlight!

#935

⇓

- [all] Fuck Starlight! - Homelander!

#936

⇓

[cheering wildly]

#937

⇓

[chuckles]

#938

⇓

Hi. Good to see you.

#939

⇓

I love you guys.

#940

⇓

You are America.

#941

⇓

True patriots.

#942

⇓

Hey, do you want to meet someone?

#943

⇓

Someone very special to me?

#944

⇓

- Yes. - Yeah?

#945

⇓

- Yes! - All right.

#946

⇓

Come on down here, buddy.

#947

⇓

[man] The kid!

#948

⇓

All-righty, everyone.

#949

⇓

This little guy here

#950

⇓

is my son, Ryan.

#951

⇓

- [man] You have a son?! - [woman] That's so awesome.

#952

⇓

[cheering]

#953

⇓

- [man] Yeah, he's a chip off the block. - Fuck you, fascist!

#954

⇓

[crowd gasps]

#955

⇓

- What the fuck? He's a kid! - Who did that?

#956

⇓

- What the fuck, libtard?! - Fucking idiot!

#957

⇓

[crowd gasps]

#958

⇓

Yeah...

#959

⇓

Yeah!

#960

⇓

Yeah! [laughs]

#961

⇓

- Fuck yeah! - [cheering]

#962

⇓

- Fuck that piece of shit. - [laughing]

#963

⇓

- That's how Americans do it! - All right.

#964

⇓

♪ ♪

#965

⇓

♪ ♪

#966

⇓

♪ ♪

#967

⇓

♪ ♪

#968

⇓