Recaps

Benjamin and Black Noir rescued the turtles from the Bigfoot Gang, but Splinter died protecting them. At Long Island Estate, the family took in the turtles and Joseph, uncovered Vought’s betrayal, and began exploring how Compound V might connect Supes to magic.

• Black Noir trained the turtles in the sewers, where they found Joseph after Pist dumped him there, and Joseph warned them that Vought planned to hunt Fantastic Beasts, and Benjamin promised to seek reinforcements.
• Benjamin learned that Edgar was assembling super-soldiers and recruiting gangs to hunt Lynn and his allies, while Lynn arranged to bring the turtles to Long Island Estate.
• Saitō led more than a hundred Compound V-enhanced Bigfoot Gang members into the sewers, where they overwhelmed the turtles and Black Noir and killed Splinter.
• Benjamin arrived, killed Saitō and the gang members with Black Noir, then took the grieving turtles, Joseph, and Splinter’s body to Long Island Estate.
• Lynn welcomed the turtles and Joseph, and John introduced himself as Homelander, and Raphael wanted to avenge Splinter, but Lynn urged the brothers to train before confronting the Bigfoot Gang.
• Thomas exposed Pist’s collusion with Vought, and the Ministry officials restrained Pist before defeating four Vought bodyguards and calling for an assault on Vought’s secret base.
• Joseph taught the household how wands revealed magical talent, and Lynn took the children and residents to Ollivander Wand Shop, where nearly everyone tested positive except Lynn.
• Lynn suspected Compound V had created magical genes and connected the possibility to Vought’s secret Project P, and Joseph began teaching Protego and Expelliarmus, while Buddy later woke alone with a sly gleam in his eyes.

Lynn uncovered the Old Minister’s complicity with Vought and forced him to provide intelligence for an assault on the company’s network. Lynn’s household and allies struck Vought’s assets, while Lynn and John cleared a Virginia plant and headed for the Pentagon to confront Edgar.

• The Old Minister secretly planned to use Joseph’s information, while Buddy infiltrated the Ministry and learned that the Minister knew Dark Magic and intended to train him.
• The Old Minister visited Lynn’s estate seeking an alliance against Vought, and Lynn exposed his political motives before forcing him to reveal what he knew about the company’s crimes.
• Lynn ordered the Old Minister to gather Vought’s locations and security details, then decided to destroy Vought despite the danger of provoking the United States and its allies.
• The Old Minister sent Lynn a map and dossiers, and Lynn divided his household and allies into teams to attack Vought’s gangs, warehouses, creature facilities, and biopharmaceutical plants.
• Benjamin and the turtles cleared the Viper Gang’s casino, while Annie, Black Noir, Tommy, and Kevin’s mutated goldfish helped free captives and defeat guards at a New Jersey warehouse.
• Lynn and John attacked Vought’s Virginia plant, where John destroyed the defenses and Lynn used Boundary to make the mutant soldiers fight each other.
• After Madelyn asked Lynn whether he would keep his promise, Lynn and John left the cleared plant for the Pentagon, and Edgar learned they were coming.

John defeated Edgar, but Lynn died protecting him, and John took control of Vought and the North American wizards while searching for a way to revive him. Lynn’s repeated deaths showed him alternate versions of John, while the surviving household and John carried on in a world shaped by Lynn’s memory.

• Edgar fled the Pentagon with Marge and the New Vanguard children, but Lynn and John caught up with him after defeating the mutant army.
• Edgar escaped by helicopter and threatened to detonate a bomb beneath the Pentagon, but Lynn revealed that the blast was an illusion created inside his Boundary.
• Marge stabbed Edgar as he died, and the Old Minister killed Lynn with the Avada Kedavra Curse before John slaughtered the Aurors and the remaining New Vanguard children.
• Marge took a vial of original Compound V from Vought’s laboratory, while John seized Vought’s assets and forced the Bureau and Joseph to help find her and Duke.
• John placed Lynn in a cryogenic chamber at Long Island Estate and vowed to bring him back with original Compound V.
• Lynn experienced repeated deaths in alternate lives, including one in which Homelander spared him briefly and shielded him from a nuclear blast.
• Black Noir and Lynn’s friends carried on without him, while John resumed his public role and executed Silver Lightning before a cheering crowd, believing Lynn would approve of a cleaner world.

Marge and Duke brought the Original Compound V to Homelander, who revived Lynn after ten years in cryogenic sleep. As Lynn returned to Vought, Neuman recruited Frenchie and Butcher into a campaign against Homelander, while Lynn began planning revenge on the powers behind Vought’s overseas abuses.

• Elena and Sophia decided to return home after ten years away, and Marge agreed to let them go despite the danger to her safe house.
• Marge planned to surrender to Homelander for Duke’s freedom, but she and Duke fought off Neuman and Mesmer before going to New York with the Original Compound V.
• Duke attacked Marge when Homelander arrived, then exploded after claiming she had poisoned him, leaving Homelander with the serum.
• Homelander injected the serum into Lynn, who woke and reunited with him after ten years, while Deadpool discovered a blood trail leading to someone.
• Lynn learned how John had kept Vought running in his absence and discovered that Vought had stopped producing Compound V and had extracted power from imprisoned people overseas.
• Neuman recruited Frenchie by erasing his memories of recovery and causing him to relapse, then Frenchie found footage showing Vought had staged the Brooklyn shootout that wounded Becca.
• Neuman showed Butcher evidence of Vought’s staged rescue, and Butcher agreed to consider joining their effort against Vought and Homelander.
• Lynn told Black Noir he would punish the overseas powers involved in supplying human materials, while suspecting the cracked Yasakani Blood Jade had blocked the Old Minister’s Killing Curse.