Recaps

A campaign to discredit Homelander escalated into a massacre at Godolkin University, where Neuman revealed her power and fought John. The arc ended with John facing a powerful blond clone as panic spread around the ruined campus.

• Godolkin opened the Cultivation Pod beneath the university while Lynn traveled to Brazil under a false identity to investigate a trafficking network.
• A staged protester detonated a bomb at Vought Tower, and Frenchie leaked footage exposing Vought’s role in the attack.
• As accusations against Vought spread, John met Frenchie, learned that Butcher had been manipulated, and agreed to address the public.
• At John’s press conference, Becca revealed that she was alive and said the man who impersonated Butcher had been sent to frame Homelander.
• John exposed Neuman and Mesmer as conspirators, but Lamplighter and Marathon began killing people at Godolkin University while Neuman attacked Marge and slaughtered students.
• John fought Neuman, discovered that she needed to see her targets, and blinded her with Heat Vision while Mesmer found the real Godolkin hidden beneath the ruins.
• Neuman repaired the real Godolkin, while John battled a blond clone above the campus and a panicked crowd overwhelmed the military cordon.
• John faced the charging clone, recalling Black Noir’s combat lessons as he assessed his opponent’s inexperience.

John defeated Godolkin’s conspiracy with Lynn’s help, while Clark’s testimony and Lynn’s global broadcast exposed the forces behind Vought’s experiments. The broadcast shifted public debate toward Supes, and the story ended with John and Lynn confronting the surviving Mesmer as Benjamin and the turtles set out for Siberia.

• John stopped the panicking crowd by killing the demonstrators and journalists driving the crush, while Marcus ordered agents to clear the streets.
• Neuman, the Clone, and Mesmer overwhelmed John until Lynn appeared, defeated them, and helped John regain his memories.
• Lynn destroyed Godolkin’s consciousness, but John killed Godolkin in the basement, and Lynn then killed Neuman within her mental world and arranged medical care for the Clone.
• Clark testified on live television that the boys who accused Homelander had attacked him and lied, and the bullies confessed that a woman had paid and threatened them to follow a script.
• Lynn broadcast confessions from leaders who had supplied people for Vought’s experiments and helped suppress reports, then killed the guilty captives and revealed John had stopped Compound V production ten years earlier.
• As public outrage turned against Supes, Reggie, Tommy, Kimiko, Kevin, and Annie described their lives and defended John and Lynn, who urged viewers not to judge all Supes by Vought’s worst actions.
• Benjamin and the four turtles flew into a Siberian blizzard to confront groups spreading false information about John.
• Lynn helped recover the dead from the ruins and sent Marge for medical care, while John confronted Mesmer, who begged them to spare him and offered to become their dog.

Lynn and John uncovered Deadpool’s plan to bring alternate Homelanders to their world, then gathered original Compound V and prepared their family for the coming attack. The arc ended with Deadpool hunting Bombsight and Little Headliner after stabbing Bombsight.

• Mesmer’s attempt to read Lynn’s memories triggered thousands of memories of John killing Lynn, and Mesmer died as they returned.
• Lynn and John celebrated John’s birthday with their family at Long Island Estate while Deadpool crossed a wasteland and began searching for Homelander.
• Lynn corrected Butcher’s belief that John had killed his squad, sent Butcher and Becca to Vought’s Australian branch, and assigned Frenchie to find Kimiko in Japan.
• Lynn told John that Deadpool planned to bring alternate Homelanders to their world and use their Lynns as leverage, so they began seeking ways to strengthen themselves.
• Lynn recruited Marcus to find Torpedo and Private Angel, then persuaded Little Headliner and Bombsight to provide the last dose of original Compound V.
• Lynn told his family about the coming threat and assigned them to learn Buddy’s Avada Kedavra Curse while he and John planned a trip to Huaxia.
• Black Noir warned Lynn that Deadpool would have to enter their world to film John’s family, and Lynn and John realized they could intercept him first.
• Deadpool stabbed Bombsight through a door, but Bombsight escaped with Little Headliner, and Deadpool pursued them after examining his blood.