Recaps

John trained under Black Noir, then led the children in rescuing civilians from a magical beast and confronted Aurors who tried to erase their memories. At the Manor, the children grew closer as Buddy began speaking and John took on ordinary chores to save for a scarf for Lynn.

• Lynn arranged for Black Noir to train John and guard the estate, and John gradually improved his fighting technique while the children trained their powers.
• Grace Mallory and a wizard entered the Manor grounds to question Lynn about Vought’s experiments, but Lynn used Boundary to overpower them and ordered them away.
• During a trip to Manhattan, a Poison-Horned Lion appeared and attacked the city, and John chose to save the civilians while Lynn encouraged him to act.
• John and the children rescued civilians and defeated the Poison-Horned Lion, but Aurors tried to erase witnesses’ memories, prompting John and Reggie to break their wands before Lynn stopped them.
• Stan Edgar negotiated with the Magical Congress over the Aurors and the creature’s corpse while planning backup options in case John or Lynn turned against Vought.
• Kevin learned to control Charlie’s transformations, and Buddy surprised the family by speaking, then joined them at dinner and urged John to cherish the home Lynn had given them.
• Lynn gave the children paid chores, and John saved his earnings toward a cashmere scarf for Lynn by cleaning windows and sweeping leaves.

John and Lynn built a warm family life at the Long Island Estate while Vought reshaped the New Vanguard children and Stormfront targeted Lynn. The arc ended with Stormfront breaking Lynn’s neck in front of John.

• John saved his wages to buy Lynn a cashmere scarf, and Lynn wore it with delight.
• Stan Edgar hired Stormfront to train Vought’s child recruits, and she killed several children before subjecting the survivors to brutal training.
• Lynn recognized Stormfront as a threat to his household and intensified Reggie’s training, while John and the other children shared playful moments at home.
• Stormfront attacked the estate, and John broke both her legs before Lynn sent the recruits back to Vought.
• After the children rebelled, Edgar offered them better living conditions and used care to make them loyal to Vought.
• John considered rescuing the children but chose to prioritize protecting Lynn and the family, while a blizzard left them sharing a candlelit night at home.
• Stormfront persuaded Edgar to arrange a meeting with Lynn, and Edgar learned from Grace Mallory that Soldier Boy was held in Siberia before Duke killed her.
• Edgar delivered Lynn to Stormfront, who carried him above Manhattan, and John offered to obey her before she broke Lynn’s neck.

John defeated Soldier Boy but spared him, while Lynn and the family returned home and left Soldier Boy to face his choices. Soldier Boy eventually came to the estate seeking food, where Lynn made him earn breakfast by clearing snow, and he joined the family at the table.

• John recognized the fake Lynn as an impostor and attacked Stormfront, but stopped short of killing her when Lynn intervened.
• Black Noir killed Stormfront on Stan Edgar’s orders, and Edgar arranged to recover the original Compound V from her remains.
• Edgar freed Soldier Boy from his Russian prison and told him that Vought had used his genes to create John.
• Soldier Boy returned to America, learned Black Noir worked for Lynn, and headed for Long Island to confront him and John.
• Black Noir tried to stop Soldier Boy at a bridge, but Soldier Boy beat him down before Reggie and John intervened.
• John fought Soldier Boy, threw him into the sea to avert his energy blast, and spared his life before Lynn and the family took Black Noir home.
• Rejected by a nursing home and hungry in the sewers, Soldier Boy accepted pizza from four turtles and a rat, then went to the Long Island Estate seeking food.
• Lynn made Soldier Boy clear the snow for breakfast, and he worked beside John before joining Lynn, Annie, Reggie, Tommy, and John at the table.

Benjamin struggled with his grief over Stormfront and left Lynn’s estate, but Lynn found him and revealed Edgar’s schemes, bringing him back to the family. Meanwhile, Vought used a new Compound V formula to win a military contract and began hunting magical creatures, while Edgar coerced Joseph’s allies and Joseph was killed by Pist.

• Soldier Boy endured Lynn’s chores and the children’s hostility, then apologized to Black Noir and slowly began earning a place in the household.
• Edgar arranged for a toxin-laced Compound V to be distributed in Queens and Brooklyn, where Benjamin killed transformed victims while Duke secretly filmed him.
• Edgar used footage of Black Noir killing Stormfront to provoke Benjamin, who unleashed a blast in an abandoned district and withdrew to the Queens sewers.
• Edgar secured a huge military contract for a pure version of the compound, then pressured Joseph by exposing his family and threatening his granddaughter.
• Lynn found Benjamin in the sewers and explained Stormfront’s plot and Edgar’s use of the new monsters, persuading Benjamin to return to the Manor and arranging for Black Noir to train the Mutant Turtles.
• Vought’s Supe Soldiers captured and killed magical creatures, impressing the general and prompting Edgar to expand the hunts around New York.
• Joseph sent his family toward London and prepared evidence against Vought, but Edgar enlisted Pist to betray him.
• Joseph gave Pist a transfer order and pension, but drank Pist’s drugged coffee and died, after which Pist promised Edgar Joseph’s maps and lists.