Recaps

Lin Mo told Edgar that Maeve would make a capable, sane addition to The Seven, while Joanna grew jealous of his approval. He comforted Joanna, who nearly threw herself into his arms.

• Edgar asked Lin Mo for his opinion of Maeve as a potential member of The Seven.
• Lin Mo told Edgar he had no objections to Maeve joining, and Joanna reacted with visible jealousy.
• After Edgar ended the call, Joanna denied being angry until she admitted Maeve had looked at Lin Mo too often.
• Lin Mo offered to interact with Maeve normally, then gently ruffled Joanna's hair to comfort her.
• Joanna stiffened at the familiar gesture and almost threw herself into Lin Mo's arms.

Lin Mo reassured Joanna that Maeve would only be a future teammate, while Maeve investigated the students who had spread rumors about Lin Mo and Joanna. Her inquiry led her to suspect Godolkin was secretly screening students and to discover that Dean Seaver had ordered the rumor campaign, leaving her unsure whether she could trust anyone at Vought.

• Lin Mo comforted Joanna, promised to treat Maeve like any other teammate, and reflected on how his opinion could affect the future roster of The Seven.
• Maeve investigated the students who had started rumors about Lin Mo and Joanna and found that several had disappeared from Godolkin's records.
• Maeve searched school archives and noticed that many students had abruptly left Godolkin for reasons that suggested the school was screening them.
• Maeve pressured a student involved in the rumor campaign, who identified Dean Seaver as the person who gave the orders.
• Maeve walked alone across campus, feared the consequences of reporting what she had learned, and thought of Lin Mo.

Maeve tried to find a way to contact Lin Mo and realized his information was tightly restricted. At Godolkin’s practical training class, no one would spar with Lin Mo or Joanna until Reggie stepped forward.

• Maeve searched Vought’s school system for Lin Mo’s contact information but found only limited public details.
• First-year students gathered at Godolkin’s training hall for practical performance class and saw Lin Mo and Joanna on the matchup list.
• Lin Mo’s assigned opponents repeatedly forfeited, leaving him and Joanna without sparring partners.
• Reggie entered the arena and volunteered to face Lin Mo.

Lin Mo agreed to spar with A-Train after A-Train volunteered to challenge him, while Kevin stepped forward and was assigned Joanna as his sparring partner. A-Train’s attacks failed to surprise Lin Mo, and the match continued as A-Train circled him and probed for an opening.

• A-Train volunteered to spar with Lin Mo, and Kevin stepped forward to help share the burden.
• Lin Mo told Kevin to spar with Joanna, who gave him an ominous smile.
• A-Train charged Lin Mo, but Lin Mo caught his wrist and flung him away.
• A-Train kept circling Lin Mo at high speed and probing for an opening while Lin Mo tracked him easily.

Lin Mo easily knocked A-Train unconscious, then Joanna beat The Deep in a sparring match. The Deep surrendered and was left questioning the limits of his powers, while Lin Mo told him they had potential.

• Lin Mo caught A-Train's charge and slammed him into the ground, leaving him breathing but unconscious.
• Lin Mo called Joanna to spar with The Deep after A-Train was put to sleep.
• Joanna repeatedly punched The Deep across the training ground until he surrendered.
• Joanna kicked The Deep once more, explaining that it was for staring at Lin Mo earlier.
• Lin Mo teased the battered The Deep by telling him his sea-bound powers had plenty of potential.

Maeve told Lin Mo and Joanna that the online smear campaign against them had been arranged by Dean Cipher, and that the evidence pointed toward the school administration and possibly Vought. She sought Lin Mo’s help because she feared she could not investigate the matter alone, while Lin Mo resolved to keep Joanna safe if Thomas Godolkin was behind it.

• Maeve approached Lin Mo and asked to discuss the online messages, then joined him and Joanna in a soundproof lounge.
• Maeve explained that several students involved in spreading the messages had disappeared, their records had been changed, and their acquaintances denied knowing them.
• Maeve said the students had identified Dean Cipher as the person who arranged the smear campaign.
• Lin Mo considered whether Thomas Godolkin was behind the scheme and decided he would stop him if he threatened Joanna.
• Maeve admitted she had come to Lin Mo because the investigation might involve Vought, and she lacked the power and support to handle it alone.

Lin Mo agreed to investigate Doug Seaver after Maeve suspected him of wrongdoing at Godolkin University, and Maeve asked to join them. The three reached the administration building, where Maeve questioned Lin Mo’s decision to walk straight in without a plan.

• Maeve told Lin Mo she believed he could help her investigate Doug Brightbill, and Lin Mo agreed to look into it.
• Lin Mo warned Maeve not to tell anyone else, explaining that Vought or the university could bury the story and that keeping quiet would protect her.
• Maeve asked to accompany Lin Mo and Joanna, and Lin Mo agreed despite Joanna’s hostile glare.
• Maeve told Lin Mo that Doug Seaver’s office was in the administration building, and the three headed there together.
• At the building, Maeve stopped Lin Mo and Joanna and challenged them for planning to walk in without investigating quietly or making a plan.

Maeve, Lin Mo, and Joanna searched Dean Cipher's office after learning he was away, and Lin Mo found evidence of experiments on children. The discovery suggested the records were tied to superhuman research, though Maeve did not yet understand their significance.

• Joanna dismissed Maeve's fears about confronting a powerful suspect, arguing that she and Lin Mo were no longer ordinary students.
• Maeve learned that Dean Cipher had left campus, but Lin Mo insisted they search his office anyway.
• Maeve searched the office while Lin Mo told Joanna that Doug's dangerous ideas made him a likely threat.
• Maeve found a document containing student records and medical data, with nearly every name marked as dead.
• Lin Mo recognized the document as research reports on multiple children and pointed Maeve to entries about experiments, ability awakening, and superhuman blood testing.

Lin Mo and Maeve discovered a file suggesting that Doug was involved in Marie Moreau’s birth, while Joanna dismissed the idea of investigating him without killing him. In his hidden laboratory, Doug watched them and found that the baby girl he had created no longer showed any powers, leaving him searching for an explanation.

• Lin Mo identified a file as evidence of a recently born test subject and suspected Doug was watching over Marie Moreau.
• Maeve was disturbed that Vought might be experimenting on newborns, while Lin Mo said the subject had potential but withheld what he knew about Marie.
• Joanna asked whether they should kill Doug, and Lin Mo told her that not every problem needed to be solved that way.
• Doug watched Lin Mo, Joanna, and Maeve from a hidden laboratory and recalled that the Odessa Project had produced two unexpected variables.
• Doug tested the sleeping baby girl in his laboratory and became furious when the instruments reported that she had no powers.
• Doug compared the baby’s results with Joanna’s and began searching for an explanation, then wondered whether Joanna’s use of Soldier Boy’s genetic cells as a carrier mattered.

Doug realized Marie’s powers had been suppressed because her infant body could not withstand them, then checked on her and found Thomas Godolkin alive in a life-support pod. Meanwhile, Lin Mo, Joanna, and Maeve left Doug’s office after finding a hidden camera, with Lin Mo deciding to wait for Doug to approach them.

• Doug concluded that Marie’s powers had hidden themselves because her newborn body was too weak to withstand them, and Marie smiled at him through her incubator.
• Doug watched Lin Mo’s group on the monitors, considered changing his plans, and visited the barely living Thomas Godolkin in a life-support pod.
• Maeve finished searching Doug’s office but found no evidence beyond Marie’s research file and routine evaluations.
• Lin Mo and Joanna prepared to leave, and Joanna told Maeve that what they had found was enough.
• Lin Mo revealed a concealed surveillance camera and explained that Doug already knew what they had seen, so they should wait for him to come to them.
• Maeve worried that Doug was the dean and worked for Vought, then asked what would happen to her.

Lin Mo reassured Maeve that she was protected while investigating Doug, then told Joanna that Doug treated students as disposable products and that infant Marie was part of a secret Vought program like Joanna. The chapter left Joanna furious over the experiments on Marie.

• Lin Mo reminded Maeve that Doug would have to contend with him and Joanna if he targeted her, and the three exchanged contact information.
• Joanna warned Maeve not to contact Lin Mo without a reason because he was hers, and Maeve left after agreeing to report anything she learned.
• Joanna told Lin Mo that she knew he had concealed part of the truth about Doug, and he reminded her of the underground experimental facility he had destroyed.
• Lin Mo explained that Doug viewed students as products, kept those with commercial value, and likely drove weaker students out of school.
• Lin Mo revealed that infant Marie came from a secret Vought program and had potential almost identical to Joanna's, leaving Joanna furious that Doug had targeted a baby.

Lin Mo warned Joanna that Doug might eventually try to control her, and she agreed to wait for Lin Mo to draw him out. Meanwhile, students mocked The Deep’s gills until he stood up for his powers by repeating what Lin Mo had told him.

• Lin Mo warned Joanna that Doug wanted to control powerful supes and might target her, and he promised not to let Doug get the chance.
• Lin Mo and Joanna walked through campus and heard students discussing A-Train’s and The Deep’s losses in practical combat class.
• Students mocked The Deep after his gills were exposed, and A-Train stepped in to defend him.
• When students jeered at A-Train and The Deep, The Deep asked whether they had finished laughing and said Lin Mo had told him his powers had great potential in the right environment.
• The Deep defended his trust in Lin Mo when a student questioned why he believed him.

Lin Mo encouraged The Deep after students mocked him, though he later admitted to Joanna that he had been messing with him. Maeve called Lin Mo to report that Dean Cipher had invited her to talk and acted as if nothing was wrong.

• The Deep stood up to students who mocked his gills, drawing support from A-Train after Lin Mo’s earlier encouragement.
• Joanna asked whether The Deep really had potential, and Lin Mo admitted he had only been messing with him.
• Lin Mo and Joanna returned home, where Maeve called and said Dean Cipher had come to see her.
• Maeve explained that Dean Cipher had invited her to his office and behaved normally despite learning she, Lin Mo, and Joanna had searched it.
• Dean Cipher asked Maeve what she and the others had wanted to check, and she avoided revealing their suspicions about missing students.

Maeve told Lin Mo and Joanna that Doug had denied knowing about the Forum rumors and wanted to meet them. Lin Mo agreed to see him the next morning, while Joanna watched him with a familiar, mischievous look.

• Maeve told Doug she was investigating rumors about Lin Mo and Joanna, and Doug claimed he knew nothing about them.
• Doug offered to investigate the school administration and asked to meet Lin Mo and Joanna.
• Maeve recounted the conversation to Lin Mo and Joanna, and Joanna dismissed Doug's innocent act.
• Lin Mo agreed to meet Doug the next morning, eager to hear what Dean Cipher planned to say.
• After the call ended, Joanna stared at Lin Mo as if she were about to pull something.

Lin Mo refused Joanna’s plan to confront Doug that night and agreed to let her sleep in his room after she claimed she was afraid Doug might sneak in. Joanna repeatedly broke his rules once they went to bed, and the chapter ended with her leg draped over him.

• Joanna urged Lin Mo to go after Doug immediately, but Lin Mo insisted they wait until tomorrow.
• Joanna asked to sleep in Lin Mo’s room, claiming she felt unsafe because Doug might sneak in, and Lin Mo agreed with rules.
• Joanna initially lay still with her hands above the covers, then gradually shifted closer after Lin Mo turned off the light.
• Joanna ended up with one leg draped over Lin Mo and pretended not to know how it got there.

Joanna spent the night clinging to Lin Mo, then teased him about finding another chance to share his bed. The next morning, Maeve arrived to accompany them to meet Dean Cipher about Doug, but felt like a third wheel as Joanna stayed close to Lin Mo.

• Joanna repeatedly leaned against and wrapped herself around Lin Mo during the night, while he gave up trying to sleep.
• In the morning, Lin Mo told Joanna she had to sleep in her own room from then on, but she pointed out he had not said when they could share a bed again.
• Maeve called to say she was waiting outside Lin Mo's villa, and Joanna took time to fix her hair because she wanted to look pretty when killing Doug.
• Maeve felt envious of Lin Mo and Joanna's luxurious Vought-provided villa compared with her own student apartment.
• Lin Mo, Joanna, and Maeve set off for the administration building to meet Dean Cipher, while Joanna stayed close to Lin Mo and made Maeve feel like a third wheel.

Maeve confronted Dean Cipher about arranging the posts targeting Lin Mo and Joanna after tracing the messages back to him. Doug acknowledged her investigation with a brief compliment, leaving the accusation hanging between them.

• Maeve, Lin Mo, and Joanna went to Dean Cipher’s office, where Doug welcomed them calmly.
• Doug apologized to Maeve for the school forum incident and said he had ordered an investigation.
• Maeve told Doug they had not come to hear the school’s response and asked whether he had arranged the posts against Lin Mo and Joanna.
• Maeve explained that her investigation and conversations with students had led the messages back to Doug.
• Doug realized that his associates had targeted Lin Mo and Joanna despite his instructions to choose less protected students.
• Doug looked at Maeve with a hint of admiration and said, “Not bad.”

Maeve confronted Doug about orchestrating forum harassment and driving vulnerable students out of Godolkin, but he calmly defended the abuse as a way to screen students for Vought. The chapter left Maeve pressing him to explain where the students who disappeared had gone.

• Doug praised Maeve, Lin Mo, and Joanna, then apologized for allowing his students to target them.
• Doug said he would stop the students involved, remove the posts, and consider a public apology and discipline.
• Maeve challenged Doug over the other students who had been bullied and driven out of the school.
• Doug admitted those students had been eliminated because he considered them lacking in potential and commercial value.
• Doug defended the bullying as screening, and Maeve demanded to know where the disappeared students had gone.

Doug defended Godolkin’s unequal treatment of students, arguing that the strong deserved more resources and the weak could be discarded. He offered Maeve control over the students who had harassed her, but she refused and accused him of shirking responsibility.

• Doug told Maeve that powerful students like her, Lin Mo, and Joanna deserved more resources than weaker students.
• Joanna condemned Doug’s view that the weak were worthless and challenged him by asking whether she could dispose of him if she were stronger.
• Doug gave Maeve a list of students involved in the Forum campaign and offered her authority to choose their punishments.
• Maeve refused to decide their futures and accused Doug of putting them up to the campaign and abandoning responsibility for them.
• Doug’s patience visibly wore thin when Maeve continued defending the students he considered unimportant.

Maeve confronted Doug and announced she was there to arrest him, but Doug used her lack of evidence and threatened her chances of joining The Seven to silence her. Lin Mo then backed Maeve and Joanna, asking Doug what he would do if all three wanted him arrested.

• Doug offered Maeve an apology and a chance to forget the previous day, but she rejected his offer and said she had come to arrest him.
• Doug challenged Maeve’s evidence and pointed out that she was not yet a member of The Seven, then threatened to damage her grades and Vought evaluations.
• Maeve fell silent under Doug’s pressure while Joanna restrained herself from attacking him, remembering Lin Mo’s instructions to wait.
• Lin Mo intervened and asked Doug what he would do if Lin Mo and Joanna also wanted him arrested.

Lin Mo rejected Dean Cipher’s attempt to defuse the conflict with apologies and promises of Vought support, insisting that he and Joanna wanted to know what Doug planned to do next. Doug was left without threats or rewards that could sway them.

• Lin Mo asked Doug whether Vought would side with him or with Lin Mo and Joanna, making Maeve realize Doug had little leverage over them.
• Doug argued that the incident involving Lin Mo and Joanna was an accident and offered to support Lin Mo’s path to The Seven.
• Lin Mo said he did not want recommendations, ratings, or a place in The Seven, and Joanna agreed that she wanted none of them either.
• Lin Mo asked Doug what he planned to do next, and Doug fell silent after realizing he had no cards left to play.

Doug tried to save his position by abandoning his threats and offering Lin Mo favors and support, but Lin Mo rejected his changing tactics. Lin Mo made clear that Doug’s retreat would not end the matter.

• Doug decided that losing his Dean of Godolkin University identity and its influence would cost too much, so he softened his approach to Lin Mo.
• Doug admitted he had handled things badly, promised to change how he dealt with students, and offered Lin Mo his full support in exchange for being let off.
• Lin Mo mocked Doug for cycling through threats, offers, and apologies, while Maeve worried that Lin Mo might accept the deal and leave her exposed.
• Lin Mo told Doug that his laughter did not mean the offer was good or that the matter was over, and said he had already given Doug too much leeway.

Lin Mo confronted Doug about the body he was using and revealed that he knew about Marie, making Doug wonder if Lin Mo could read minds. Maeve also suspected Lin Mo had heard her thoughts, and the chapter ended with her demanding to know how he knew she had been overthinking.

• Lin Mo told Doug that he knew Doug's body was not really his and that Doug was calm because he could replace it.
• Doug asked how Lin Mo had discovered his secret, suspecting that Lin Mo could read minds.
• Lin Mo questioned Doug about the screening at Godolkin University and asked where Marie was.
• Doug jumped up and demanded to know how Lin Mo knew Marie's name, while Maeve tried to make sense of the revelations.
• Lin Mo reassured Maeve that she was overthinking, then remarked that she had had a lot on her mind.
• Maeve challenged Lin Mo to explain how he knew what she had been thinking.

Maeve feared Lin Mo could read minds, but he explained that he had only guessed from her expression while leaving open the possibility of gaining the ability someday. As Lin Mo asked Doug where Marie was, Doug inferred that Lin Mo knew about his borrowed body but had not discovered his hidden real self, easing his fear.

• Lin Mo told Maeve he had guessed her worries from her expression, and Joanna said she would be glad if he knew how much she liked him.
• Joanna asked Doug where Marie was, explaining that she was asking because Lin Mo had asked.
• Lin Mo told Doug he could not currently read minds or memories, though he might gain that ability later.
• Doug reasoned that Lin Mo had asked about Marie because he did not know her current location, so he likely had not found Doug’s real self.
• Doug concluded that his real self remained hidden and felt less certain that his life was in immediate danger.

Lin Mo confronted Doug with the secrets he knew, but Doug insisted that Lin Mo could not reach his real body or locate Marie. When Joanna urged Lin Mo to act, he promised to find a way and demonstrated his power by freezing Doug’s glass of water.

• Doug regained his composure and asked Lin Mo how he had learned his private secrets.
• Lin Mo refused to explain, and Doug argued that knowing about his hidden body and Marie could not let Lin Mo harm him.
• Maeve realized that the dean’s body was only a puppet, while Joanna asked Lin Mo to find a way to reach the real Doug.
• Lin Mo agreed to stop Doug from hiding, and Doug challenged him to reveal how he would find him.
• Lin Mo blew toward Doug’s glass and froze the water inside it solid.