Recaps

On his eighteenth birthday, Lucian recovered memories of a past life and learned that a system had given him an upgraded ability to permanently copy superpowers through contact. After planning how to gain abilities and survive in the world of The Boys, he heard a violent disturbance in his neighbor’s apartment and armed himself with a hammer.

• Lucian finished his late-night convenience store shift and celebrated his eighteenth birthday alone with an expired cupcake.
• At midnight, Lucian recovered his past-life memories and saw the Multiverse Travel System’s interface, which listed his world as The Boys and his ability as an upgraded version of Copy.
• Lucian remembered that Vought had repeatedly injected him with Compound V as an infant, but he had shown no effects, and learned the system had consumed the doses to sustain itself.
• The system explained that Lucian could permanently copy one ability from anyone through direct contact, with stronger powers requiring longer contact.
• Lucian planned to seek out low-level supes first and wrote a list of powers he hoped to acquire, including flight, enhanced physique, healing, and mind control.
• A violent crash and a scream came from apartment 402, so Lucian took a claw hammer from his toolbox and moved toward the door.

Lucian pretended to be a fan of Quake while copying his Super Physique ability and avoiding a confrontation. After Quake left, he noticed bloody footprints leading into Lucian’s apartment and realized Lucian had seen him.

• Lucian recognized Quake outside apartment 401 and chose to copy his Super Physique ability rather than his sonic blast.
• Lucian feigned excitement and praised Quake’s old endorsements to keep him talking while the copy progress rose to 93%.
• Quake warned Lucian to stay inside because someone had broken into apartment 402 and the old woman was hurt.
• Quake left, then noticed Lucian’s shoe print in the blood at the threshold of 401.
• Quake turned back toward Lucian’s door and accused him of seeing what happened.

Lucian fought Quake after Quake discovered he had lied about seeing the bloodstains in 402. Lucian completed the Copy of Quake’s Super Physique, killed him, and saw three black SUVs arrive below as police sirens sounded.

• Quake burst through Lucian’s door and confronted him about lying after seeing the bloodstains in 402.
• Lucian struck Quake with a claw hammer, but Quake broke Lucian’s shoulder and hit his ribs while Lucian held onto his wrist.
• Lucian completed the Copy and acquired LV1 Super Physique, allowing him to withstand Quake’s knee strike.
• Lucian broke Quake’s fingers with the hammer and struck his head repeatedly until Quake died.
• Lucian looked out the window and saw three black SUVs parked below as police sirens wailed.

After Lucian killed Quake while defending himself, he was arrested and questioned by the police. Vought secured his release with a nondisclosure agreement and $30,000, leaving him free with a clean record and a bank balance of 62,847.33.

• Lucian chose to stay and wait for the police after killing Quake, and officers arrested him at the scene, where they also found his landlady dead.
• At the station, Lucian told the older officer that Quake had been on drugs and that he had struck her with a hammer in self-defense.
• A Vought lawyer offered Lucian $30,000 and a clean record in exchange for his silence, and Lucian signed the agreement.
• Lucian left the station that night with his belongings and a bank card, then checked his account and saw a balance of 62,847.33.

Lucian traced his origins to Vought’s secret Mercy Hospital and decided to infiltrate Godolkin University to access Vought’s network and test his limits. After applying for a student loan, he arrived at the campus for an evaluation and surveyed its young Supes as potential targets.

• Lucian watched Hughie Campbell’s livestream about A-Train killing Robin before Vought shut it down.
• Lucian recalled that Vought had experimented on him at St. Andrew’s Mercy Hospital and decided he needed access to Vought’s S-class database to find it.
• Lucian applied to Godolkin University, listing his power as “Body Enhancement” and accepting that he had no intention of repaying the student loan.
• Lucian received an invitation to an on-site ability evaluation and traveled to Godolkin’s upstate New York campus.
• Lucian entered the chaotic atrium and watched the young Supes, seeing them as potential material for his plans.

Lucian befriended Jordan at Godolkin and copied his Shockwave ability before taking the admissions test. After demonstrating the power, Lucian passed and qualified to apply to the Lamplighter School for Crimefighting.

• Lucian met Jordan, shook his hand, and began copying his Shockwave ability.
• Lucian invited Jordan to lunch, where Jordan described his parents’ pressure to remain in his male form and pursue a career with Vought.
• Jordan transformed into his female form to show Lucian, and Lucian encouraged him to use it to defy his parents.
• Jordan and Lucian exchanged TikTok details before Jordan left, and Lucian’s copy progress reached 100%.
• Lucian completed the physical tests, then used Shockwave to knock back three dummies and passed the admissions test.

Lucian chose Godolkin's high-interest superhero loan because it granted access to Professor Brink's Crimefighting Class, which he saw as a route to The Seven. He left campus with his enrollment materials and a plan to rise in the hero rankings while avoiding repayment.

• Lucian visited Godolkin's payment office after passing the entrance test and learned that annual tuition was seventy-seven thousand dollars.
• The administrator explained the federal loan and the special private loan, whose interest could be reduced or erased through hero rankings and Vought employment.
• Lucian learned that the special loan automatically sent his file to Professor Brink and enabled enrollment in the Crimefighting Class.
• Lucian signed the special loan contract, received a temporary campus card and textbook list, and was told to attend a physical fitness reassessment the following week.
• Lucian left the administration building planning to use Godolkin to reach The Seven and expecting his abilities to grow stronger, while intending not to repay the loan.

Lucian moved into his Godolkin dorm room and found his roommate, Rufus Miller, masturbating with the door unlocked. He knocked Rufus unconscious and finished copying his mind control ability, leaving Rufus still unconscious on the floor.

• Lucian collected his room key, bought supplies, and entered Building D, room 317.
• Lucian recognized Rufus Miller from warnings on Godolkin's internal forum and decided to copy his mind control ability.
• Lucian blasted Rufus with a shockwave when he left the bathroom, knocking him unconscious.
• Lucian held a hand to Rufus's head while keeping a charged shockwave ready in case he woke.
• Lucian completed copying Mind control LV3 after thirty minutes.

Lucian used his newly acquired Mind Control ability to alter Rufus’s memories and drive him out of their dorm room. After meeting Jordan, Lucian spotted Cate and went with him to the freshman party, where the crowd’s powers and revelry put him in his element.

• Lucian read Rufus’s memories, implanted a false memory about deciding to change rooms, and buried the suggestion that nothing unusual had happened.
• Rufus woke, complained about the dorm, packed his belongings, and left without suspecting Lucian.
• Lucian received Jordan’s message, met him, and noticed Cate leaving the administration building while they headed downstairs.
• Lucian and Jordan ate at the cafeteria, heard students discuss a freshman party, and decided to check it out.
• Lucian and Jordan arrived at the crowded lawn party, where students danced, floated, and showed off their powers.

At a Godolkin party, Lucian copied Chloe’s and Sophia’s Super Physique through casual contact, then fused their abilities with Quake’s to strengthen his own physique to LV2. He realized the Supes around him offered a steady supply of abilities, and resolved to keep growing beyond Godolkin.

• Lucian met Chloe while helping her move a speaker, and copied her LV1 Super Physique through their contact.
• Jordan urged Lucian to challenge Sophia in a strength contest, where Lucian used his power to resist her before she threw him onto the lawn.
• Lucian copied Sophia’s LV2 Super Physique after she helped him up, triggering a powerful surge through his muscles.
• Back in his dorm, Lucian saw that Quake’s, Chloe’s, and Sophia’s Super Physique abilities had fused into a stronger LV2 version.
• Lucian recognized the party as an easy opportunity to copy abilities through social contact and decided that Godolkin was only the beginning.

Lucian tested the limits of his LV3 Super Physique, then used his Super Senses to avoid a suspicious party invitation. After sizing up Golden Boy and Andre, he decided to use his memory-erasing ability to get close to Translucent and copy his abilities.

• Lucian shot himself in the thigh with a Glock 19 and found that his LV3 Super Physique could withstand a small-caliber bullet, though it still caused pain and injury.
• At a party, Lucian detected signs that Megan had been with several other people and turned down her invitation to her room.
• Lucian saw Golden Boy and Andre arrive at the cafeteria and considered how difficult it would be to get close to them.
• Lucian reviewed his abilities and planned to approach Translucent during the incident involving Butcher, copy Carbon Skin and Invisibility, then leave Translucent alive.

Lucian used mind control to plant a lead in Hughie's memories and a warning in Annie January’s mind as she prepared to debut as Starlight. Hughie was left with a number to call, while Annie went onstage unsettled by the vision Lucian had implanted.

• Lucian encountered Hughie outside a convenience store as Vought’s lawyer pressured him to sign a $45,000 settlement over Robin’s death.
• Lucian implanted a memory of an anonymous contact called “Queens Ghost” and the number 646-555-0199, then left Hughie to find the number branded in his mind.
• At Vought Tower, Lucian entered Annie January’s dressing room posing as an equipment technician and discovered her Super Physique and Light Energy Manipulation abilities.
• While adjusting Annie’s microphone, Lucian planted a vision of Deep threatening her and Homelander overpowering him, along with a warning not to fear Deep.
• Annie hurried out to make her live debut, while Lucian remained calm in the dressing room.

After Hughie learned that A-Train had mocked Robin’s death, he agreed to plant a bug in Vought Tower and draw Translucent to the electronics store. Lucian confronted the invisible supe and took his first punch, then challenged him to keep fighting.

• Butcher showed Hughie a recording of A-Train joking about Robin’s death and urged him to resist Vought’s settlement.
• Hughie told his Queens ally he would plant the bug, and Lucian promised to watch from the shadows.
• Hughie planted the bug in Vought Tower, and Translucent tracked him to the electronics store and attacked him.
• Lucian entered the store and challenged Translucent, using his senses to anticipate the invisible supe’s movements.
• Translucent struck Lucian in the temple, but Lucian recovered and asked whether that punch had been his full strength.

Lucian fought Translucent in the electronics shop, using water to reveal him and overpowering him with a choke. Butcher arrived with a flashbang before Lucian could finish Translucent, and sized up the teenager.

• Lucian selected Carbon Skin from the System Panel as Translucent attacked him.
• Lucian used Super Senses to dodge Translucent's blows, then splashed him with water to reveal his outline.
• Lucian pummeled Translucent and pinned him against a wall in a rear naked choke.
• An electromagnetic pulse and flashbang interrupted the fight, allowing Translucent to escape Lucian's hold and leaving Hughie stunned.
• Butcher entered the shop with a crowbar and greeted Lucian, who told him he had arrived just before Translucent was killed.

Lucian and Butcher defeated Translucent in an electronics shop and took his body away. As they drove through Queens, Lucian’s ability began copying Translucent’s Carbon Skin.

• Lucian exposed Translucent with red paint and beat him down with a barrage of punches.
• Lucian kicked Translucent into a high-voltage distribution box, electrocuting him until he stopped moving.
• Butcher and Lucian joined forces to carry Translucent to Butcher’s car while Hughie watched in shock.
• Butcher drove away with Hughie and Lucian, and Lucian’s ability began extracting Translucent’s power.

Butcher’s group took the unconscious Translucent to their underground hideout, where Frenchie tried several ways to break his Carbon Skin while Lucian copied the ability. The copy completed, and Lucian proposed killing Translucent from the inside.

• Butcher brought the unconscious Translucent to the underground hideout and ordered Frenchie to cut off all signals.
• Lucian sat beside Translucent with a live wire and kept him unconscious whenever he stirred while his Carbon Skin copy progressed.
• Frenchie tried liquid nitrogen and a sledgehammer, then an ultrasonic oscillator, but Translucent’s skin remained unharmed.
• Frenchie used an ultrahigh-pressure waterjet cutter, which left Translucent’s skin intact and convinced him it had no external weak spots.
• Lucian completed the Carbon Skin LV5 copy and told Butcher they should destroy Translucent from the inside.

Lucian stopped Frenchie from using explosives and chose hydrofluoric acid to kill Translucent without alerting Homelander. After Translucent was dissolved, Butcher regarded Lucian as a skilled and dangerous ally.

• Frenchie used an X-ray flaw detector and discovered that Translucent’s organs were soft beneath his carbonized skin.
• Frenchie proposed planting C4 inside Translucent, but Lucian rejected it because the blast vibrations could reach Homelander through the sewers.
• Lucian chose high-concentration hydrofluoric acid, and Hughie protested that killing Translucent that way was sick.
• Butcher confronted Hughie, warned him that Translucent would threaten Hughie and his father, and told him to accept that they were at war.
• Frenchie poured the acid down a hose into Translucent’s throat, and the acid dissolved his body, leaving scraps of Carbon Skin.
• Butcher praised Lucian’s skill and asked what sort of work he was accustomed to doing.

Lucian discovered Homelander searching above the abandoned processing plant and went outside to distract him while the others escaped. Homelander saw through Lucian’s act and confronted him, leaving Lucian in immediate danger.

• Lucian spotted Homelander hovering over the neighborhood and realized the group risked being discovered by his senses.
• Lucian told Frenchie to create a disturbance elsewhere and went outside to draw Homelander away from the hideout.
• Lucian disguised his fear as he approached Homelander and claimed that several men had robbed him and fled west on Route 278.
• Homelander questioned Lucian’s story and detected that his heartbeat was being controlled.
• Homelander’s eyes turned scarlet as he confronted Lucian about not being an ordinary student.

Lucian survived Homelander by livestreaming their encounter, then returned to the factory and helped Butcher and Hughie dispose of Translucent’s remains. He left a tracking chip behind so Vought would discover the murder and the conflict with The Boys would escalate.

• Lucian livestreamed Homelander, forcing him to hide his anger and fly away while maintaining his public image.
• Lucian kept streaming until an explosion Frenchie caused drew Homelander away, then hurried back to the factory.
• Butcher and Hughie used hydrofluoric acid to dissolve Translucent’s body and prepared a zinc box for the remains.
• Lucian spotted Translucent’s tracking chip but chose not to tell Butcher and Hughie, hoping Vought would trace it and discover the murder.
• Lucian helped Butcher weld the zinc box shut, and the three loaded it into a car and drove away.

Lucian left Butcher and Hughie to clean up after Translucent’s death, then encountered Starlight stopping two drunks from assaulting a nurse. Starlight told Lucian how she had confronted Deep with Queen Maeve’s help, and he welcomed her to the real world.

• Lucian left Butcher and Hughie to dispose of the evidence, saying he had class the next morning and reminding them not to leave traces.
• Lucian heard a woman cry for help near a subway exit and found Starlight defeating two drunks who had cornered a night-shift nurse.
• Starlight spotted Lucian and recognized him, then asked how he had known Deep was a creep.
• Starlight told Lucian that Deep had tried to force himself on her, but she threatened to expose him and persuaded Queen Maeve to intervene.
• Lucian told Starlight that survival at Vought required ruthlessness, and welcomed her to the real world.

Lucian comforted a disillusioned Starlight, then used the chance to copy her light energy manipulation ability. By morning, he had permanently acquired the power and stood by the motel window, sensing the electricity around him.

• Starlight told Lucian that Vought had rejected her objections and designed a revealing new uniform for her.
• Starlight described her hopes of joining The Seven to save people, then drank until she fell asleep.
• Lucian carried Starlight to a motel and held her wrist to begin copying her light energy manipulation.
• Lucian waited through the night as the copying progress advanced to completion.
• Lucian acquired Starlight's LV4 light energy manipulation and sensed the current flowing through the motel's walls.

Starlight thanked Lucian for looking after her and returned to Vought Tower determined to face Madelyn about her costume. Later, Lucian kept his light manipulation secret and won a combat demonstration against junior Jason Walsh with his shockwaves.

• Starlight woke in a motel with her clothes intact and thanked Lucian for staying with her and warning her earlier.
• Starlight decided to face Madelyn about her new costume, gave Lucian her private number, and left for Vought Tower.
• Lucian tested his light energy manipulation, then planned to conceal it because Vought could connect it to Starlight.
• At Godolkin University's combat demonstration, Lucian fought junior Jason Walsh and used two shockwaves to send him out of bounds.
• The teaching assistant declared Lucian the winner, silencing the students who had laughed at him.

Lucian impressed the observers at a combat demonstration and was summoned to Professor Richard Brink’s office. Brink saw commercial potential in Lucian’s strength and background, then invited him to join the Crimefighting College under his personal mentorship.

• Lucian defeated Walsh in the combat demonstration and caught the attention of the university’s observers.
• A teaching assistant brought Lucian to Professor Richard Brink’s office.
• Brink reviewed Lucian’s footage and file, speculating that Lucian’s strength was growing and that he could become a profitable star.
• Lucian claimed that better food and training had made him stronger since arriving at Godolkin University.
• Brink offered Lucian admission to the Crimefighting College and promised to mentor him personally.

Lucian signed Brink’s predatory private contract and used the training and database access Brink provided to copy more abilities. Meanwhile, Deep searched New York Bay for Translucent’s tracking chip as Vought focused on a PR crisis involving Starlight.

• Brink offered Lucian a private twenty-year agreement giving Brink ninety percent of his earnings, and Lucian signed while secretly planning to exploit Brink’s resources.
• During a week of training, Lucian copied Marcus’s Partial Metallization ability and gained access to the Crimefighting College’s internal database.
• Deep searched a polluted outlet in New York Bay for Translucent’s tracking chip but found no sign of it.
• Deep saw that Vought’s attention was on the online backlash over Starlight’s use of force, leaving Translucent’s fate a low priority.

Butcher tried to recruit Mother’s Milk after revealing that he and Hughie had killed Translucent, but Mother’s Milk refused. At Godolkin, Lucian searched for the Woods facility, rose to thirteenth in the campus rankings, and considered how to get close to Cate Dunlap and copy her power.

• Butcher confronted Mother’s Milk outside the detention center and told him that he and Hughie had killed Translucent.
• Mother’s Milk refused to rejoin Butcher’s plans, citing his wife, daughter, and new job, while Butcher insisted he would return.
• Lucian used his high-level access to search Godolkin’s records and found an encrypted file for Codename: Woods marked with the keyword “behavioral correction.”
• Lucian defeated the electrically powered mohawked student in tactical training, bringing his campus ranking to thirteenth.
• Luke praised Lucian’s progress and suggested he could soon enter the top ten.
• Lucian watched Cate Dunlap and considered how to earn her willing, prolonged skin contact so he could copy her mind-control power.