Recaps

Soldier Boy rejected Stormfront’s attempts to seduce and recruit him, insisting that Homelander was his son rather than a tool for her Nazi ambitions. Homelander overheard Soldier Boy call him his pride and joy, while Soldier Boy planned to run the Seven and kill Edgar without Stormfront’s help.

• Stormfront flirted with Soldier Boy, but he insulted her and pulled her hand away.
• Stormfront asked to meet Homelander and argued that he was stronger than Soldier Boy, who said he was proud of his son.
• Homelander overheard Soldier Boy call him his pride and joy and felt touched by his father’s affection.
• Stormfront proposed using Homelander to help them rule the world, but Soldier Boy warned her not to treat his son as a tool or advance her Nazi ideals.
• Soldier Boy said he planned to run the Seven and kill Edgar, refused Stormfront’s offer of help, and teased her by claiming she had invented the words “Internet” and “Bluetooth.”

Stormfront persuaded Soldier Boy to introduce her to Homelander as a candidate for The Seven. Their meeting left Homelander humiliated after Stormfront exposed his secret milk drinking, while Soldier Boy threatened to seize Vought and fire Madelyn.

• Stormfront insisted that she wanted to help Soldier Boy take control of Vought, and he agreed to bring her to meet Homelander before she could join The Seven.
• Homelander panicked about hiding the shattered baby bottle and spilled milk in his room before Soldier Boy arrived with Stormfront.
• Soldier Boy entered Homelander's room, insulted Madelyn, and declared he planned to kill Edgar and fire her; Homelander weakly asked him to be kinder to his friend.
• Stormfront found the broken baby bottle under the table and mocked Homelander for secretly drinking milk, prompting Soldier Boy to ridicule him.
• Stormfront interrupted the confrontation, and Homelander changed the subject by asking why Soldier Boy had come.

Homelander approved Stormfront joining The Seven, and Stormfront proposed expanding Vought’s hero teams. Soldier Boy insisted the heroes must genuinely save people, while Annie January applied for The Seven’s tryouts and triggered a system alert that Starlight had entered the main storyline.

• Stormfront announced that Soldier Boy wanted her to join The Seven, and Homelander approved her while Madelyn left angrily.
• Homelander suggested canceling the tryouts, but Soldier Boy decided they should continue, and Stormfront proposed creating additional hero teams.
• Soldier Boy suggested making Homelander joint captain of the teams, then demanded that The Seven focus on actually saving people.
• In Ohio, Annie January applied for The Seven’s tryouts with her mother, Donna, encouraging her.
• Soldier Boy received a system notification that Starlight had entered the main storyline.

Soldier Boy learned that his interventions had changed the original timeline, but he accepted the uncertainty and continued shaping Vought's plans. After Annie registered for The Seven's auditions, Soldier Boy arranged for her to join directly, and Homelander announced that Vought would establish a second Seven.

• Soldier Boy learned that the current Fate Deviation was 17 percent and decided that changes to the original timeline did not concern him.
• Annie completed her registration for The Seven's selection competition, and Soldier Boy called Vought staff to have her admitted directly.
• The Seven announced nationwide open auditions and a new superhero team initiative, while Soldier Boy told reporters he had been away for forty years because they would understand when they were his age.
• Three days later, Soldier Boy called The Seven together to plan a welcome party for Annie, and Homelander confronted A-Train about pretending his broken leg was still in a cast.
• Homelander announced that Vought would establish a second Seven.

Soldier Boy helped welcome Starlight to The Seven, then secretly intervened when The Deep tried to coerce her. The chapter ended with The Deep recoiling in terror as Soldier Boy emerged from beneath the conference table and approached him.

• Stormfront proposed forming a second Seven team and named Homelander joint captain and supreme commander of both teams.
• Ashley Barrett brought Starlight to the Vought Tower welcome event, where Homelander and The Seven greeted her.
• Soldier Boy received a mission to prevent Starlight from being bullied by The Deep.
• The Deep led Starlight to The Seven's private conference room, removed his pants, and threatened her when she tried to leave.
• Soldier Boy crawled out from under the conference table and confronted The Deep as Starlight watched.

Soldier Boy stopped The Deep from assaulting Starlight, then Homelander punished The Deep and warned him to stop. After leaving Vought Tower, Soldier Boy paid to locate Private Angel and learned she was hiding in a men's restroom stall at a nearby bar.

• Soldier Boy punched The Deep into a wall and bullied him until Starlight warned that he seemed to be dying.
• Soldier Boy criticized Starlight for letting The Deep blackmail her, then left as Homelander and Maeve arrived.
• Homelander questioned Starlight, then hurt The Deep and warned him that another offense would get him expelled from The Seven.
• Soldier Boy spent 50 Exchange Points to locate Private Angel and learned she was in the second stall of a nearby bar's men's restroom.

Soldier Boy reunited with Private Angel and recruited her for his new team, while Homelander intercepted information about Soldier Boy’s former teammates and began killing them. Homelander then spotted Baltimore’s mayor aboard a private jet and realized the mayor had been involved in threatening Madelyn over Compound V.

• Soldier Boy found Private Angel at a bar, and the two old teammates reunited after decades apart.
• Soldier Boy told Private Angel that Homelander was his son and asked her to join a second team; she agreed to join the Blood Debt Repayment Team.
• Homelander intercepted Ashley Barrett’s information about Soldier Boy’s former teammates and killed Scarlet Earl while recording the attack.
• Homelander wiped out the Blood Debt Repayment Team and flew back toward Vought Tower to show Soldier Boy the footage.
• Homelander recognized Baltimore’s mayor aboard a private jet and recalled overhearing the mayor threaten Madelyn with information about Compound V.

Homelander spared a mayor and his son, then bonded with Soldier Boy after learning why he had intervened at the Super Infant Laboratory. Three days later, a massive snake-like shape appeared in the clouds and headed toward a civilian airliner.

• Homelander reconsidered killing the mayor and his son and let their plane pass.
• Homelander visited Soldier Boy, who explained that he had gone to the Super Infant Laboratory because he hated seeing his son used by Vought.
• Homelander gave Soldier Boy a recorder of his revenge against Soldier Boy's old teammates, and Soldier Boy thanked him, earning 100 Exchange Points.
• Homelander stayed up drinking and listening to Soldier Boy's war stories, then became noticeably calmer over the following days.
• At a Seven meeting, Soldier Boy refused to attend, and Homelander began the meeting without losing his temper.
• Ashley Barrett showed footage of a huge snake-like shape moving through the clouds toward a civilian airliner, with a collision projected in ten minutes.

Homelander and Maeve flew to intercept a gigantic, serpent-like creature approaching an airliner, while Vought planned to use the rescue to gain a place in national defense. In a secret laboratory, Edgar prepared the creature as a test subject in a plan involving Soldier Boy, and Vogelbaum gave in after Edgar threatened his family.

• The Seven examined satellite images of a 200-meter creature in the clouds, and The Deep suggested it was a legendary Jiaolong.
• Maeve warned that the creature was about to hit an airliner, and Homelander agreed to help after learning 123 passengers were aboard.
• Madelyn relayed the White House's request and Edgar's plan to send Homelander toward the creature, and Homelander and Maeve flew out to meet it.
• At a top-secret laboratory, Edgar ordered the staff to record Homelander's approach to the V Plan test subject, which he said was the only thing that could hurt Soldier Boy.
• Vogelbaum confronted Edgar and urged him to stop, but Edgar showed him surveillance records of his family, forcing Vogelbaum to ask how much Red V had been used.

Homelander and Maeve fought a giant king cobra created by Red V while it attacked a passenger plane. Homelander killed it, but falling venom damaged the plane, leaving him focused on saving its passengers and fearing Soldier Boy's reaction.

• Edgar showed Vogelbaum an image of a king cobra transformed by Red V and wondered what would happen if a supe were injected.
• Homelander and Maeve confronted the enormous flying cobra, which attacked them and sprayed corrosive venom toward the ground.
• Homelander fought the cobra, then cut it in half with his heat vision and destroyed its head when it continued trying to attack.
• Edgar's researchers reported that the cobra was dead and Homelander seemed injured, but Vogelbaum said the experiment had not overcome Homelander's defenses.
• Venom burned through the passenger plane's exterior and control console, sending it into a dive as Homelander panicked about saving the passengers and facing Soldier Boy.

Homelander struggled to decide whether to save the passengers on a damaged plane, then tried to support it but only worsened its condition. With the plane still descending, Maeve urged him to rescue the passengers one at a time.

• Homelander hesitated as Maeve and the passengers pleaded for help, weighing the damage to his reputation against letting them die.
• Homelander remembered Soldier Boy condemning him as a coward and decided to try saving the plane.
• Homelander braced himself against the plane’s nose, but dented it and realized more force could tear it apart.
• Homelander pushed up on the left wing, broke off half of it, and accelerated the plane’s destruction.
• Homelander admitted to Maeve that he could not stop the crash, and Maeve urged him to carry the passengers down one at a time.

Ashley told Soldier Boy that a giant flying creature had appeared and a passenger plane was about to hit it. Soldier Boy rushed to help, while Homelander began ferrying passengers to the ground and realized he could not save them all in time.

• Ashley defied Madelyn and called Soldier Boy to report the giant creature and the endangered plane.
• Soldier Boy hurried to the conference room and ordered A-Train to get rescue cushions and Clara and Starlight to help, but A-Train was injured and Starlight could not fly.
• Homelander killed King Cobra, damaging the plane, then began carrying passengers down in small groups while Maeve watched from the ground.
• Homelander stopped a panicked passenger from pulling a child away and threatened the crowd with his laser eyes before continuing the rescue.
• As the plane neared the ground, Homelander realized there was not enough time to save everyone and thought of Soldier Boy as a possible lifeline.

Soldier Boy coordinated a desperate effort to rescue passengers from a crashing plane, using Private Angel to heal A-Train and pushing Starlight to discover whether she could fly. As Homelander struggled to save people, Soldier Boy called him while Starlight faced the screen and tried to unlock her potential.

• Homelander repeatedly flew between the plane and the ground but saved only a few dozen people, while Soldier Boy watched the crisis unfold at Vought Tower.
• Private Angel healed A-Train, restoring his speed and curing his injuries, and Soldier Boy ordered him to find a rescue air cushion and support Homelander.
• Stormfront flew out to assist Homelander, while Starlight despaired that she could not fly and Soldier Boy urged her to use her light energy to propel herself.
• Starlight failed to fly after releasing her light, so Soldier Boy pressured her by describing the passengers who would die and called Homelander.
• Homelander told Soldier Boy that he feared he was going to fail, and Soldier Boy began to answer him.

Homelander, Stormfront, A-Train, and Starlight rescued passengers from a damaged plane, though one person died and Starlight passed out. Homelander stayed to face the media, while a New York newspaper prepared to condemn him over the death.

• Soldier Boy sent A-Train and Stormfront to help Homelander rescue passengers, and Homelander slowed their falls before they hit the rescue cushions.
• Homelander ordered Stormfront to catch the passengers while he threw everyone aboard the damaged plane to safety.
• Soldier Boy revealed that Starlight had unlocked flight and flown off to help, and Starlight reinforced the rescue cushions with light energy.
• One passenger missed the cushions and died, while Starlight passed out from pushing herself too far.
• Homelander stayed with A-Train to speak to the media, while Stormfront carried Starlight away and Maeve took an injured girl to the hospital.
• A New York newspaper editor ordered reporters to publish the photo of the dead passenger and condemn Homelander.

After a plane rescue left twelve people dead and twenty-three seriously injured, Homelander worried that he had failed and faced public backlash. Soldier Boy reassured him, and Homelander began a press conference the next day by saying he had done everything he could.

• Homelander returned to Vought Tower upset by reports blaming him for the deaths after the plane rescue.
• Soldier Boy told Homelander that saving over a hundred people was a success despite the casualties and promised to attend his press conference.
• Homelander felt reassured and became more dependent on Soldier Boy, while Ashley Barrett and Vought's PR department worked through the night.
• At the next day's press conference, reporters questioned Homelander about the twelve deaths, and he said he had done everything he could.

Homelander imagined killing the reporters who blamed him for the plane disaster, but Soldier Boy defended him at the press conference and Stormfront revealed the giant snake that had attacked the plane. A young survivor and Queen Maeve also spoke in his favor, leaving the reporters without an easy rebuttal.

• Homelander imagined using his Heat Vision to kill the reporters questioning him, then came back to his senses as the press conference continued.
• Soldier Boy arrived and challenged the reporters for condemning Homelander after he had saved more than a hundred passengers.
• Stormfront showed satellite footage of the giant flying snake and explained that Homelander had acted to save the passengers from an otherwise fatal threat.
• A young girl who had survived the plane crash said Homelander and Miss Maeve had saved her and asked why the reporters were speaking badly about him.
• Homelander thanked the girl and imagined having a child of his own.
• Queen Maeve said Homelander had tried every possible way to save the passengers and declared that she would stand by him.

After Soldier Boy defended Homelander at the press conference and presented footage of his rescue attempts, the team left the reporters behind and celebrated their solidarity. They returned to find Private Angel and the others had prepared a surprise party, though the heroes were too stunned to react.

• Maeve stood up for Homelander, and Soldier Boy struck a reporter who challenged him before ordering Stormfront to show the rescue footage.
• The footage showed Homelander trying to save the plane and carrying passengers to safety, and Soldier Boy led the supes out while Stormfront stayed to face the reporters.
• Soldier Boy reassured Starlight and the others that they did not have to keep explaining themselves, easing Homelander's worries about Vought's reaction.
• Homelander's mindset change earned him a Super Speed upgrade, raising it to Level 3.
• Soldier Boy led the team back to his room, where Private Angel, Translucent, and The Deep revealed a surprise party.

Soldier Boy held an informal victory party for The Seven and gave Homelander a model airplane as a heartfelt gift. The party remained tense because the others were wary of Homelander, so Soldier Boy urged him to mingle with them.

• A-Train searched for cameras, but Soldier Boy told the team to relax and enjoy the food and music at their private celebration.
• Maeve and Starlight joined the party, while Homelander stayed in the doorway, quietly taking in the scene.
• Soldier Boy gave Homelander a model airplane based on the plane they had saved, and Homelander treasured it as a sign of fatherly affection.
• The Seven acted guarded around Homelander, while The Deep unsuccessfully asked Private Angel to heal his injuries.
• Soldier Boy noticed the party's strained atmosphere and told Homelander to take his drink over to A-Train and mingle.

Homelander tried Soldier Boy’s advice to ease tensions at the party, shared a milkshake with A-Train, and began enjoying the company of his teammates. The gathering ended with Soldier Boy leading a toast to Homelander for saving more than a hundred plane passengers.

• Homelander swallowed his criticism of A-Train’s milkshake and asked for one himself, then thanked A-Train for helping with the rescue.
• A-Train joked that he had thought Homelander absorbed sunlight like a god, making Homelander laugh genuinely and drawing Maeve into their conversation.
• Private Angel started dancing, and Soldier Boy danced with Starlight before passing her to Private Angel as the party grew livelier.
• Homelander watched his teammates relax and realized that smiling and spending time together felt good.
• Soldier Boy raised a toast to the hero who had saved more than a hundred survivors, and the gathered teammates joined him in honoring Homelander.

Soldier Boy unlocked and struggled to master Super Flight, then rampaged through unfinished buildings as he tested his new power. Meanwhile, Homelander treasured Soldier Boy’s model airplane and resisted Madelyn’s attempts to touch it, leaving their relationship tense.

• Soldier Boy spent 300 Exchange Points to unlock level-one Super Flight, then crashed into the street after jumping from Vought Tower.
• Soldier Boy discovered that a Superman-style crouch and fist-to-ground launch let him fly, though he moved only as fast as a high-speed train.
• Soldier Boy flew through unfinished buildings, causing widespread damage and complaints across New York.
• Homelander carefully displayed the model airplane while Ashley Barrett reported that his approval rating had fallen by two percent and Klee’s remarks were spreading online.
• Madelyn arrived in Homelander’s room, reached for the model airplane, and was stopped by Homelander.
• Madelyn told Homelander that Soldier Boy had blinded him, and Homelander asked what she meant.

Homelander confronted Madelyn over her lies and her suspected role in the giant king cobra incident, while Madelyn decided to use Starlight to appease Roger. Madelyn tried to force Starlight out of The Seven and into Roger’s clutches, but Starlight unleashed her powers on them.

• Homelander accused Madelyn of treating him like a tool and lying about the king cobra, then ordered her to leave his room and Vought.
• Roger threatened to pull his investments unless Madelyn arranged for him to get Starlight, so Madelyn agreed and planned to exploit Starlight’s low approval rating.
• Ashley told Starlight that Madelyn wanted to see her, and Starlight tried unsuccessfully to call Soldier Boy before going to Madelyn’s office.
• Madelyn showed Starlight a video of her beating two men and said she could lose her place in The Seven unless Roger helped her.
• Madelyn claimed Soldier Boy had approved the plan and was unreachable, but Starlight rejected her story and flashed her eyes and hands at Madelyn and Roger, burning their eyes.

Starlight attacked Madelyn and Roger after Madelyn tried to force her to sleep with Roger, then struggled to find help as she feared Vought’s retaliation. Meanwhile, Homelander filmed a publicity segment blaming the White House for the air disaster and prepared to meet two survivors.

• Starlight blinded Madelyn and Roger with a burst of light, then called Madelyn a “madam in a suit” and left the office.
• Madelyn threatened to ruin Starlight’s reputation and have her removed from The Seven, while Roger demanded medical help.
• Starlight called Soldier Boy for support, but he did not answer because he was flying around after resolving the disturbance at the Fried Chicken Shop.
• Starlight called Donna, but hung up when her mother focused on advertisers instead of asking how she was doing; she then considered turning to Homelander.
• Homelander filmed a segment blaming the White House for the air disaster, complained about needing public support to join the National Defense System, and agreed to meet the two survivors.

Homelander gave Klee a limited-edition figurine after filming a promotional video, then listened as Starlight reported Madelyn’s actions. He promised to deal with the situation and protect Starlight, while insisting that Soldier Boy must not hear about it.

• Homelander filmed a promotional video with Klee and gave her a limited-edition figurine.
• Starlight told Homelander that Madelyn had arranged for Roger to have her punished.
• Homelander used his X-ray vision to see Roger receiving medical treatment and asked Starlight what outcome she wanted for him.
• Homelander told Starlight he now called the shots at Vought and asked her not to tell Soldier Boy about the incident.
• Homelander took Starlight to the vice president’s office and promised her a satisfying outcome, leaving Roger and Madelyn stunned.

Homelander forced Roger to jump from Vought Tower after Roger had angered him, while Madelyn failed to stop him and learned that Homelander would not let her leave. Stormfront arrived afterward, misunderstood Starlight’s explanation of Roger’s death, and praised Homelander to Soldier Boy.

• Homelander cut through the office window and ordered Roger to jump, ignoring Madelyn’s pleas to stop.
• Homelander shoved Madelyn aside after she asked whether Soldier Boy had returned, and Roger fell to his death.
• Stormfront spotted the broken window and flew into Madelyn’s office to ask what had happened.
• Starlight told Stormfront that Homelander killed Roger because his heart was black, but Stormfront misheard her and assumed Homelander had killed a Black man.
• Stormfront laughed and told Soldier Boy that his son was pretty good.

Homelander confronted Madelyn over her betrayals and killed her when he realized she was still lying. Soldier Boy found him grieving, took him away from the office, and helped him shift his attention to spending time together.

• Homelander sent everyone out and accused Madelyn of betraying him, lying about his father, and arranging Starlight's ordeal in Soldier Boy's name.
• Madelyn insisted she had acted for Vought and Homelander, but Homelander used his Super Hearing to detect her lie and killed her with his heat vision.
• Homelander collapsed in grief, while Starlight told Stormfront what had happened and Soldier Boy learned that someone had fallen from the Vought building.
• Soldier Boy found Homelander beside Madelyn's body, pulled him to his feet, and told him to relax instead of discussing Edgar.
• Homelander followed Soldier Boy out of Vought Tower, where they noticed Roger's body and Soldier Boy mocked its appearance.