Recaps

Lin Mo, secretly growing stronger inside Vought, became Joanna’s trusted companion and taught her to control her strength and consider others. Vought used their bond to influence Joanna, while Lin Mo began to suspect its growing kindness was part of a test.

• Lin Mo was struck by lightning and reborn as a baby in The Boys universe with a sealed Kryptonian bloodline, then Vought took him in and tested him with V5.
• Lin Mo’s body resisted Vought’s tests, and sunlight began strengthening him, and he concealed his true abilities as Vought raised him underground.
• Vought introduced Lin Mo to Joanna, the girl who would become this world’s Homelander, and she cautiously tested his strength before learning to handle him gently.
• Lin Mo and Joanna grew close through games, shared time, and her blue blanket, while Lin Mo taught her to control her strength and question instructions that could harm others.
• Joanna began relying on Lin Mo, and Vought expanded their time together while using her desire to see him as leverage to secure her cooperation with tests and training.
• Lin Mo taught Joanna that strong people should protect the weak and that she should not kill people who upset her, and she agreed because she trusted him, though she said she would protect him first.
• Edgar and Vought’s researchers decided Joanna’s dependence on Lin Mo made her behavior predictable, and they approved revealing some of Vought’s plans to him while preparing a staged assault to test them both.
• Lin Mo noticed Vought’s unusual freedom and kindness toward him and wondered whether the company was setting him up.

Lin Mo discovers Vought’s betrayal of Soldier Boy, while he and Joanna grow closer and prepare to leave the Research Center. After the Dimensional Shuttle System awakens and Vought considers recruiting them for The Seven, Lin Mo meets Stan Edgar and challenges his assumption that he will submit to negotiation.

• During a staged security drill, Joanna badly injures a guard who approaches Lin Mo, and Lin Mo stops her from continuing the attack and explains why he will not let her kill him.
• Lin Mo overhears Vought covering up Soldier Boy’s handover to the Soviets, then watches the company publicly announce that Soldier Boy died a hero, and Joanna questions whether the story is true.
• Six years later, Lin Mo sees Vought training Joanna to become Homelander, and he turns eighteen, awakening the Dimensional Shuttle System and learning how to earn and spend energy points.
• Stan Edgar argues to Vought’s board that Lin Mo must be included in The Seven because Joanna depends on him, then decides to offer them status, freedom, and a chance to leave the bunker.
• Joanna makes an advance on Lin Mo after watching an uncensored romance movie, and Lin Mo stops her, and she later demands he promise never to leave her behind at Vought.
• Lin Mo meets Edgar, who offers him and Joanna places on The Seven in exchange for their service, and Lin Mo accuses Vought of treating them as products, and Edgar warns that Vought will not let its assets leave.
• Lin Mo challenges Edgar’s claim that he will avoid an all-out conflict if he refuses the offer.

After destroying the Bunker, Lin Mo and Joanna secured freedom and enrollment at Godolkin University, where their power and popularity quickly drew attention. When Lin Mo uncovered a student-run smear campaign, Maeve and Vought took over the investigation, while the school prepared tougher tests for him.

• Lin Mo destroyed the Bunker, spared researchers who had helped him, and negotiated with Edgar for freedom, identities, and enrollment at Godolkin University alongside Joanna.
• Lin Mo and Joanna arrived at Godolkin, where students and Supes noticed the newcomers and Vought arranged their private housing, accounts, and public promotion.
• At the semester’s ability tests, Joanna broke school records and Lin Mo surpassed A-Train while showing little of his strength, drawing attention from Maeve and the other students.
• Lin Mo and Joanna entered the top ten in the school rankings, while Edgar quietly adjusted their standing and Vought amplified their test footage.
• As students flocked to Lin Mo, Joanna grew jealous, and Maeve began investigating accounts behind rumors and smear posts about the pair.
• Lin Mo and Joanna broke into Derek’s room, found recordings and dossiers, and uncovered chats showing a group had harassed prominent students with fabricated scandals.
• Derek admitted targeting Lin Mo out of envy, and Joanna broke his wrist before Maeve arrived to take him into custody and pursue the rest of the group.
• Edgar told Lin Mo that Vought and Margaret would handle the smear campaign, then explained that Godolkin would raise the difficulty of Lin Mo’s practical combat tests.

Maeve, Lin Mo, and Joanna investigated the campaign against them and uncovered Godolkin’s brutal screening practices and Doug’s research on Marie. When they confronted Doug, Lin Mo exposed that the dean was a puppet and vowed to find his hidden real body.

• Lin Mo agreed Maeve could join The Seven, while Joanna showed jealousy over Maeve’s attention toward him.
• Maeve traced the smear campaign to Dean Cipher and found records suggesting Godolkin had driven out students it considered lacking in potential.
• Lin Mo, Joanna, and Maeve searched Doug’s office and found research files on children, including infant Marie, whose hidden powers Doug was investigating.
• Doug met with Maeve, Lin Mo, and Joanna, admitted that he had eliminated weaker students, and threatened Maeve when she tried to hold him responsible.
• Lin Mo rejected Doug’s offers of support and revealed that Doug’s body was not his real one, then asked where Marie was.
• Doug realized Lin Mo did not know his real location and argued that Lin Mo could not harm him through the puppet.
• Lin Mo promised to find Doug’s real body and froze the water inside Doug’s glass.