Recaps

Solomon visited Vought’s underground research facility and harvested the abilities of all twenty-one Supe test subjects. He ordered the virus research shut down, then exposed Principal Shetty’s hatred of Supes and her revenge scheme, leaving Homelander suspicious of her.

• Solomon took the test-subject list from Cardosa and used Mind Control to defeat Sam, gaining Super Jump.
• Solomon defeated Becky and harvested the abilities of the remaining test subjects, including improved Super Hearing, Sonic Boom, Laser Eyes, and Teleportation.
• Solomon ordered Ashley to shut down the facility’s experiments and banned Vought researchers from developing viruses targeting Compound V.
• Cardosa panicked over the loss of his research project, while Principal Shetty pleaded with Solomon not to terminate it.
• Solomon told Shetty that he knew she hated Homelander and wanted to wipe out all Supes, exposing her concealed revenge plot.
• Shetty denied Solomon’s accusation, but Homelander trusted his judgment and grew suspicious of her.

Solomon exposed Shetty’s motive for developing a virus against Supes, and Homelander killed her before Solomon stopped him from killing Dr. Cardosa. As they left Godolkin University, Solomon ordered Ashley to replace its president and refocus the school on developing Supes’ abilities.

• Homelander accused Shetty of plotting genocide against Supes, and Solomon revealed that her name was Lily Shetty.
• Homelander connected Shetty to the deaths of her husband and daughter on Flight 37, then killed her when she denounced him.
• Homelander turned on Dr. Cardosa, but Solomon stopped him and ordered that Cardosa be given a new research project for Vought.
• Solomon left the Underground Research Facility with Homelander and Ashley, then criticized Godolkin University for prioritizing fame over developing students’ powers.
• Solomon instructed Ashley to hire a new president and establish a teaching system focused on helping every Supe grow stronger and hone their abilities.

Solomon learned that Soldier Boy had been freed from a Russian military base and ordered his people to track Soldier Boy and watch Crimson Countess. Homelander's hope of rescuing his father himself was dashed, while Solomon turned his attention to Neuman and prepared to leave Godolkin University.

• Solomon asked Ashley for progress on locating the first-generation Supes and the secret Russian base, but she reported that most leads had gone cold.
• Solomon told Ashley to prioritize finding Bombsight and to enlist the Russian gang leader Nina to help search for the base; Homelander insisted on going to Russia himself.
• Ashley received news that an unknown woman had raided a Russian military base, where soldiers were killed by precisely exploded heads, and escaped with a mysterious man.
• Solomon identified the woman as Neuman and concluded she had released Soldier Boy, then ordered Ashley to monitor Crimson Countess and alert him if Soldier Boy appeared.
• Solomon asked Ashley to compile information on Congresswoman Neuman, while Homelander grew furious that someone else had freed his father.

Mother's Milk and the others fled after Susan was killed in front of them, then received a photograph pointing to Soldier Boy's location. Butcher returned to the hideout, promising to take charge as the group faced the prospect of Soldier Boy and Homelander colliding.

• Mother's Milk told Susan about the smuggled Supe and the massacre, but Susan's head suddenly exploded, forcing the group to flee to their hideout.
• Frenchie's gang-connected friend delivered an anonymous photograph of Soldier Boy with a hotel address written on the back.
• Mother's Milk recognized Soldier Boy and prepared to hunt him, driven by the decades-old hatred stemming from his family's deaths.
• Frenchie tried to stop Mother's Milk, while Hughie warned that the anonymous lead might be a trap intended to pit Soldier Boy against Homelander.
• Butcher arrived at the hideout, examined the photograph, and declared that he was home.

Solomon confronted Neuman in her villa, where her blood manipulation failed against him. He used memory reading to uncover her role in Edgar’s plot and the schemes she had set in motion, while Neuman’s fate remained unresolved.

• Neuman returned to her villa and found Translucent, who was actually Solomon, waiting inside.
• Neuman tried to control Solomon’s blood, but her ability failed and caused her nose to bleed.
• Fearing for her child, Neuman surrendered and revealed that Edgar had sent her to free Soldier Boy and use him against Solomon.
• Neuman told Solomon she did not know where Edgar was because he contacted her through anonymous numbers.
• Solomon revealed that he could see her memories, exposing her dealings with Soldier Boy, Susan’s murder, and her use of Hughie and his companions.
• Solomon moved his hand from Neuman’s shoulder to her neck as her hidden schemes came to light.

Solomon spared Neuman after she offered to serve him, then used Mind Control to force her to inject her daughter with Compound V as a warning. He gained Blood Manipulation +1 and left Neuman terrified of his power and furious at Edgar.

• Solomon tightened his grip on Neuman’s neck and threatened to send her daughter to the Red River Institute.
• Neuman offered to help Solomon find Edgar and use her political position to support Vought, so Solomon spared her and ordered her to seek the presidency.
• Solomon gave Neuman Compound V for her daughter and secretly used Mind Control to take control of her.
• Neuman was forced to inject her sleeping daughter with Compound V, then regained control of her body when Solomon released the psychic restraint.
• Solomon gained Blood Manipulation +1, which doubled the ability’s power and precision and let him trigger blood explosions.
• Neuman realized Solomon had controlled her as a warning and cursed Edgar for concealing the danger and using her as a pawn.

Butcher and Hughie searched for Soldier Boy at a motel, then found him outside Legend’s apartment and tried to recruit him. As Soldier Boy began asking about their target, Homelander appeared and landed in front of them.

• Butcher and Hughie found Soldier Boy’s motel room empty and realized Neuman’s lead was outdated.
• Butcher decided to seek information from Legend, Vought’s former vice president, and drove Hughie to Legend’s apartment building.
• Butcher and Hughie spotted Soldier Boy leaving the building, and Soldier Boy mocked Hughie before dismissing them.
• Butcher followed Soldier Boy and offered to help him understand the current world and find whoever he was seeking.
• Soldier Boy asked Butcher who he was and whether someone had sent him, but Homelander descended before he could finish questioning him.

Homelander confronted Butcher and Soldier Boy, then attacked Soldier Boy after the latter mocked him. Solomon watched from hiding with Hughie as the fight began, leaving Soldier Boy struggling to withstand Homelander’s lasers.

• Homelander blamed Butcher for freeing Soldier Boy and threatened him, while Hughie hid behind a car and feared for their lives.
• Solomon appeared beside Hughie and assured him that Homelander and Soldier Boy would soon fight, since he had arranged their confrontation.
• Soldier Boy mocked Homelander as a cheap knockoff, prompting Homelander to declare himself his ultimate upgrade and attack.
• Soldier Boy broke Homelander’s chokehold with his shield and tried to punch him, but Homelander dodged and fired lasers at him.
• Soldier Boy blocked the lasers with his shield, which heated, blackened, and began to crack under the attack.

Homelander defeated the weakened Soldier Boy, who unleashed a devastating chest blast before collapsing from exhaustion. Butcher sent Hughie and Solomon away and approached Homelander, betting that Becca would keep him from being killed.

• Soldier Boy’s shield broke, but Homelander caught both of his punches and kicked him to the ground.
• Homelander realized Soldier Boy was weakened and offered to let him recover before they fought again, enraging Soldier Boy.
• Soldier Boy unleashed his chest blast, destroying a parked car, then collapsed unconscious from exhaustion.
• Homelander checked that Soldier Boy was alive while Butcher, Hughie, and Solomon watched in shock.
• Butcher ordered Hughie and Solomon to leave, then approached Homelander, gambling that Becca would restrain him.

Butcher confronted Homelander and revealed that he knew Ryan was his son, then tried to bargain for Becca’s freedom by offering to help Homelander gain Ryan’s acceptance. Homelander rejected the proposal and grew more enraged, leaving Butcher in mortal danger as Solomon and Hughie approached.

• Butcher provoked Homelander by suggesting that Ryan might be his own son, and Homelander admitted that Ryan was his child with Becca.
• Butcher reasoned that Becca’s influence over Ryan was why Homelander had spared him, then taunted Homelander about being a stranger to his son.
• Homelander seized Butcher by the collar and threatened him, while Hughie urged Solomon to flee.
• Solomon calmly walked toward Homelander, and Hughie chose to follow and stand beside him.
• Butcher offered to help Homelander win Ryan’s acceptance in exchange for freeing Becca, but Homelander became more furious and tightened his grip.

Solomon stopped Homelander from killing Butcher, and Butcher revealed his deductions about Solomon's powers and hidden strength. The chapter ended with Solomon confirming that Butcher had guessed correctly.

• As Homelander prepared to kill Butcher, Solomon ordered him to put Butcher down, and Homelander obeyed.
• Butcher accepted Solomon's help to stand and said Solomon was more mysterious than he appeared.
• Butcher told Solomon and Hughie that he believed Solomon was a Supe who could copy other Supes' powers.
• Butcher explained that clues involving The Female, Mesmer, Solomon's job interviews, and his custom stun baton had led him to suspect Solomon could foresee the future and was stronger than Homelander.
• Solomon asked what had first aroused Butcher's suspicions, and Butcher described how surveillance footage and Mesmer's account had exposed Solomon's copied abilities.
• Solomon admitted that Butcher's deductions were correct.

Solomon revealed that he had copied Soldier Boy’s powers and arranged a truce between Homelander and Butcher, offering Hughie a safe life. With his plans for this world complete, Solomon prepared to leave for another world and reviewed his abilities, including biological immortality and Soldier Boy’s radiation shockwave.

• Butcher asked Solomon whether he had come to copy Soldier Boy’s powers, and Solomon confirmed that he had already absorbed them.
• Solomon offered to help Butcher reunite with Becca, and Homelander agreed on the condition that Becca remain with Ryan until he was grown.
• Butcher and Homelander set aside their feud and discussed plans for Ryan and Becca.
• Solomon told Hughie that his wanted notices would be revoked and offered him a safe life and a place at Vought.
• Solomon decided his plans in this world were complete and prepared to travel to another world.
• Solomon reviewed his superpower panel and noticed that he had gained biological immortality and Soldier Boy’s radiation shockwave.

Solomon harvested abilities from Supes across the world, gaining new powers and strengthening existing ones as he prepared to leave The Boys world. The chapter ended with him attending the final full meeting of The Seven before his departure.

• Solomon reviewed Soldier Boy's powerful attributes and concluded that expanding Compound V was his best path to further growth.
• Solomon harvested abilities from the Red River Institute and a nursing home, but their weakened Supes yielded few gains.
• Homelander recalled the surviving Blood Debt Payback Squad to Vought International, allowing Solomon to absorb their abilities and improve his powers.
• Solomon gained Shield and Healing, strengthened several existing abilities, and acquired Super-Speed Time by upgrading his super speed through Mr. Marathon.
• Solomon prepared to leave the world despite being unable to find Bombsight, Torpedo, or Private Angel, then joined Homelander, Queen Maeve, Second-Generation Black Noir, Starlight, and A-Train at the final full meeting of The Seven.

Homelander introduced Soldier Boy as the newest member of the Seven, but Soldier Boy immediately confronted Solomon, intending to kill him. Solomon broke Soldier Boy’s arm with ease, revealing that he was stronger than Soldier Boy had expected.

• Homelander welcomed Second-Generation Black Noir and announced Soldier Boy as a new member of the Seven.
• Soldier Boy joined Vought after killing the remaining members of the Blood Debt Payback Squad, and agreed to kill Solomon in return for being rescued.
• Soldier Boy ignored Homelander’s welcome and demanded that Solomon give up his seat, insulting him and revealing his hostility.
• Homelander tried to defuse the confrontation, but Soldier Boy reached for Solomon’s shoulder.
• Solomon caught Soldier Boy’s wrist and snapped his arm, leaving Soldier Boy shocked by Solomon’s strength.

Solomon overpowered Soldier Boy and spared him after Homelander pleaded for his life. He revealed that Edgar had likely manipulated Soldier Boy into fighting him, leaving Soldier Boy furious and suspicious.

• Soldier Boy admitted Stormfront, whose real name was Clara, had been his old flame and said he wanted to avenge her.
• Homelander tried to stop Soldier Boy from fighting Solomon, fearing Solomon would kill him.
• Solomon immobilized Soldier Boy, lifted him by the neck, then threw him to the floor and warned him to grow stronger before challenging him again.
• Solomon mocked Soldier Boy for letting Edgar use him as a weapon and said Edgar had arranged for the woman who rescued him to find him.
• Soldier Boy realized Edgar had manipulated him again, while Solomon ordered him to sit down and behave.

Solomon announced that Vought would publicly distribute Compound V and revealed that Congresswoman Neuman would support the plan while improved success rates made mass production possible. He told the Seven they would suppress rogue Supes and become genuine heroes, leaving them to face the consequences of his decision.

• Soldier Boy abandoned his defiance and silently took his seat after Solomon overpowered him.
• Homelander introduced Solomon, who announced plans to bring Compound V into the open and produce Supes in large numbers.
• Ashley warned that revealing Compound V would trigger a public relations crisis, but Solomon ordered her to manage the risks.
• Starlight and Maeve warned that widespread injections could kill people and destabilize society, while Solomon cited Neuman's support and improved success rates.
• Solomon told the Seven they would control rogue Supes and use the opportunity to become real heroes.

Solomon ordered Vought to proceed with making Compound V widely available, putting Homelander in charge while he prepared to leave. After reflecting on what he truly wanted, Solomon activated the World Traversal Function and disappeared from the world.

• Solomon overruled Maeve, Starlight, and the others, ordering them to plan the public release of Compound V under Homelander's supervision.
• Solomon told Homelander he would leave for three to six months and grant him full authority over Vought's affairs.
• Homelander assured Solomon he would increase the number of Supes tenfold, and Solomon agreed to delay his departure for a few days.
• Solomon spent several days relaxing in New York, then realized he was driven by curiosity about other worlds and the pursuit of greater power.
• Solomon settled the remaining arrangements with Homelander, activated the World Traversal Function on Vought Tower's rooftop, and vanished as his Clone collapsed.

Solomon arrived in an unfamiliar, ordinary world and used his psychic abilities to investigate a group of muggers. After reading their memories, he learned it was June 1962 and found no evidence of supernatural forces.

• Solomon emerged from a dark alley and realized the city seemed technologically underdeveloped.
• A gang of thugs surrounded Solomon and tried to force him back into the alley to rob him.
• Solomon used Mind Control to immobilize the leader and read his memories, learning the date was June 1962.
• When a thug threatened him, Solomon hurled him into a wall with Telekinesis and read another man's memories.
• Solomon immobilized the remaining thugs and searched their memories, finding no signs of supernatural abilities or unusual events.
• Solomon concluded that the world was most likely an ordinary human world without supernatural forces.

Solomon investigated the world’s hidden powers, traced strange police reports to Xavier Mansion, and confirmed he was in the X-Men world in June 1962. He identified the coming Cuban Missile Crisis and assessed that Charles and Magneto were stronger than him in their respective abilities.

• Solomon trapped the thugs’ consciousnesses in the Mind Stone Prison and decided to investigate New York’s elites for information.
• Solomon searched wealthy New Yorkers’ memories, found no clues, then read the New York police chief’s memories and discovered reports of unexplained supernatural incidents.
• Solomon used the clues to identify 1407 Graymalkin Lane and confirmed the mansion was Xavier Mansion in the X-Men world.
• Solomon determined the timeline was June 1962, four months before the Cuban Missile Crisis, and learned that Charles and Mystique were still in Britain.
• Solomon concluded that mutants were this world’s only supernatural system and judged Charles’s Mind Control and Magneto’s magnetic powers stronger than his own.

Solomon left the deserted Xavier estate and decided to build Vought International in New York, using it to bring mutants into public life and draw them to him. One day later, Vought Tower opened as the company’s headquarters, and its recruitment announcement offered mutants highly paid hero positions.

• Solomon considered following the existing plot or seeking out mutants himself, then decided to make mutants come to him by building his own organization.
• Solomon planned to establish Vought International, present mutants as superheroes, and recreate Cerebro to locate mutants around the world.
• Solomon left Xavier estate and sped toward New York City to begin his plan.
• One day later, the Empire State Building was renamed Vought Tower, and Vought International established its headquarters there.
• Vought International announced an open recruitment drive, including a high-paying hero position available only to mutants.

News that Vought International was recruiting mutants reached Charles and Raven in England, prompting Raven to head to New York while Charles stayed to defend his dissertation. At Vought Tower, Solomon’s mutant screening had been thrown into chaos by ordinary applicants using tricks, though some genuine mutants had begun to apply.

• Charles read the newspaper report about Vought International recruiting mutants and realized there might be many others like him and Raven.
• Raven proposed traveling to New York to investigate while Charles stayed in Oxford for his dissertation defense, and he agreed.
• Raven packed and flew to New York that day as mutants around the world were drawn toward Vought’s recruitment.
• Solomon set up a screening rule requiring applicants to demonstrate mutant abilities, but ordinary applicants used magic tricks to fool the human interviewers.
• A handful of genuine mutants applied to Vought Tower amid the growing crowds and confusion.

Solomon welcomed weak mutants to Vought International, hiring Angel Salvadore as its first official superhero and planning to make the company a sanctuary for mutants of every power level. The chapter ended with visibly mutated mutants conducting interviews openly inside Vought, demonstrating the acceptance Solomon wanted to offer.

• Angel Salvadore applied to Vought International, revealed her wings and corrosive saliva, and became its first official superhero.
• Vought hired several other mutants with weak abilities, whom Solomon considered for support roles rather than superhero positions.
• Solomon outlined six mutant power levels, from epsilon to omega, and recognized that low- and mid-level mutants made up most of the population.
• Solomon decided to welcome mutants of every strength and appearance to make Vought a sanctuary for their kind.
• A four-armed delta-level mutant and a blue-skinned epsilon-level mutant conducted interviews without concealing their appearances.

Raven Darkhölme discovered that Vought International employed other mutants and welcomed her after she demonstrated her shape-shifting ability. She learned that mutants could receive ordinary jobs or qualify for dangerous, high-paying hero positions, and asked what hero work involved.

• Raven waited in a long line of applicants at Vought Tower and entered the interview room when her number was called.
• Raven saw that her interviewers were mutants and transformed into her blue, scaled form, confirming her own mutant identity.
• The Four-Armed Man and the Blue-Skinned Woman welcomed Raven, and she concealed Charles's existence while admitting she had thought she was the only mutant.
• The Blue-Skinned Woman explained that Vought offered stable ordinary positions to mutants without combat abilities and reserved hero jobs for exceptionally gifted fighters.
• Raven asked what a hero position involved, and the Four-Armed Man prepared to explain Vought's job details.

Raven demonstrated her shapeshifting ability during her Vought interview and qualified for a contracted hero role, then went to the mutant-only thirtieth floor to meet other mutants. There she met Angel Salvadore, Vought’s only official hero, who was waiting for training and missions to begin.

• Raven chose to pursue a public hero career and showed the interviewers that she could perfectly replicate people she had seen.
• The Four-Armed Man praised Raven’s talent, recorded her information, and gave her an access card for the mutant activity area on the thirtieth floor.
• The Four-Armed Man directed Raven to leave through a rear exit to avoid attracting attention from the waiting applicants.
• Raven took the elevator to the thirtieth floor and found Angel Salvadore waiting alone in the banquet hall.
• Angel told Raven that she was Vought’s only contracted hero and was on standby because the company lacked enough heroes to begin specialized training and mission assignments.

Raven met Anqi, Vought International’s first contracted hero, and learned about her wings and corrosive-acid abilities. Anqi encouraged Raven about her shapeshifting power, and the chapter ended as Sandra and Hirna arrived with another mutant, Sean Cassidy.

• Anqi welcomed Raven and explained that joining Vought had transformed her life after years of hardship.
• Anqi demonstrated that she could fly with her wings and said she could also spit highly corrosive acid.
• Raven revealed her shapeshifting ability by copying Anqi’s appearance, and Anqi praised its potential as a hero power.
• Raven suggested the aliases Morph or Mystique, while Anqi chose Angel as her own hero name.
• Raven and Anqi talked together for hours until Sandra and Hirna arrived with Sean Cassidy, a newcomer whose powerful ability might qualify him to become a contracted hero.