Recaps

Chen Mo raided Vought’s underground laboratory, killed its guards and experimental superhumans, and absorbed their abilities. After collecting the remaining Compound V, he faced The Deep and Translucent as the two members of the Seven arrived to stop him.

• Chen Mo broke into the hidden laboratory and slaughtered the guards who tried to stop him.
• Chen Mo drank two vials of Compound V and defeated Sky Lord and Flame Demon, then absorbed their bodies and gained wings and energy blasts.
• Chen Mo vaporized the fat supervisor and packed the remaining Compound V into a backpack.
• The Deep and Translucent arrived, threatened Chen Mo, and attacked after he mocked them.
• Chen Mo spread his wings and formed energy spheres, preparing to test his new move on The Deep and Translucent.

Chen Mo killed Translucent, blasted The Deep, and fought Homelander in the ruins of an underground laboratory. After injuring Homelander and terrifying him into flight, Chen Mo took a backpack of Compound V samples and left.

• Chen Mo killed and consumed Translucent when he tried to attack from behind.
• The Deep surrendered, then ran, and Chen Mo blasted him into the ruins.
• Homelander arrived and attacked Chen Mo with Heat Vision, but Chen Mo blocked it and countered with an energy sphere.
• Chen Mo and Homelander fought in the sky, and Chen Mo eventually struck Homelander with a point-blank energy blast that made him bleed.
• Homelander fled in fear, and Chen Mo collected the Compound V samples before leaving the wrecked laboratory.

After Homelander returned injured from the battle with Chen Mo, Vought’s executives debated how to control the powerful mutant and ordered A-Train placed under surveillance. Meanwhile, Chen Mo celebrated his victory at Charlotte’s apartment, expecting Vought to make him an offer and planning to exploit the coming meeting.

• Homelander crashed into Madelyn’s office injured and terrified, and she comforted him while trying to learn what had happened.
• At a Vought meeting, Madelyn reported the destroyed laboratory and severe losses, while Edgar dismissed her plan to attack Chen Mo and proposed recruiting him to learn how he absorbed powers.
• Edgar ordered Vought to place A-Train under maximum surveillance because he might have concealed crucial information about Chen Mo.
• At the Female’s apartment, Chen Mo—wearing A-Train’s face—relaxed with Charlotte and celebrated his victory over Homelander.
• Chen Mo anticipated that Vought would offer him an enormous surprise and considered how to toy with its executives at their meeting.

Chen Mo returned to Vought Tower and taunted Ashley, Annie, and Homelander while Vought concealed the deaths and injuries from the water treatment plant attack. After Homelander ordered the incident kept secret, Chen Mo suspected Edgar had made a move.

• Chen Mo refused Ashley's endorsement deals and teased her about losing her hair.
• Chen Mo teased Annie in the hallway, then followed her into a tense meeting with the remaining members of the Seven.
• Homelander announced that Translucent had died and The Deep was critically injured after a supervillain attacked a water treatment plant.
• Chen Mo feigned grief and angered Homelander, who ordered everyone to conceal what had happened.
• After Homelander, Maeve, and Black Noir left, Annie warned Chen Mo that Homelander had nearly killed him, and Chen Mo suspected Edgar was behind the attack.

Chen Mo suspected Vought had sent him away from New York to test him, so he created an A-Train double and flew toward Flight 37 to save its passengers. He watched Homelander tear open the plane door, leaving the passengers exposed to the violent airflow.

• Ashley told Chen Mo that Edgar had ordered him to provide ground support for the rescue of Flight 37.
• Chen Mo provoked Homelander by warning that New York might be attacked while he and Maeve were away, then agreed to go to the coast.
• Chen Mo concluded Vought was testing him, made an A-Train double at the radar base station, and flew toward the hijacked plane.
• Chen Mo hid in the clouds and watched Homelander tear open Flight 37's door, sucking a hijacker out into the sky.

Maeve and Homelander killed the hijackers in the passenger cabin and celebrated the passengers’ rescue, but Homelander destroyed the cockpit’s controls while killing the final hijacker. With the plane diving toward the sea, Homelander told Maeve their mission was already complete.

• Maeve entered the damaged cabin and killed a hijacker who fired at her.
• Homelander killed the surrendering hijacker with Heat Vision, shut the cabin door, and received the passengers’ cheers alongside Maeve.
• Maeve and Homelander opened the cockpit and found the captain dead, the copilot held at gunpoint, and the final hijacker threatening them.
• The hijacker shot the copilot, and Homelander killed him with Heat Vision that also destroyed the plane’s instruments and electronic controls.
• Maeve failed to control the diving plane and asked Homelander what they should do, but he said their mission was already complete.

Homelander abandoned the passengers aboard the failing airliner and fled with Maeve, while Chen Mo raced beneath the falling plane to catch it. The chapter ended as A-Train warned Homelander that the black-armored monster had appeared directly below him.

• Homelander refused Maeve's pleas to save the passengers, including two little girls, and threatened the passengers who tried to reach him.
• Homelander seized Maeve and flew away, leaving more than a hundred people aboard the plunging airliner.
• Homelander watched the plane fall toward the Atlantic and planned to conceal his actions with a public statement.
• Chen Mo dove through the clouds and positioned himself beneath the airliner to hold it up.
• A-Train warned Homelander over their communications channel that Chen Mo had appeared beneath the plane.

Chen Mo transformed a falling airliner into a flesh-and-blood dragon and carried its 123 passengers to safety. Homelander abandoned his plan to destroy the plane and retreated with Maeve as the passengers hailed Chen Mo as their savior.

• Chen Mo covered the airliner in Blacklight Virus tissue, replaced its wings with enormous biological wings, and stopped its fall.
• The passengers panicked at the dark red flesh surrounding the cabin until they realized Chen Mo was protecting and carrying them.
• A-Train alerted Homelander to Chen Mo, and Homelander considered attacking the plane to eliminate witnesses.
• Chen Mo taunted Homelander, who suppressed his anger and left with Maeve rather than risk fighting him.
• The passengers celebrated Chen Mo as an angel while he flew the airliner toward the coastline.

Chen Mo saved Flight 37 by carrying it to the coast in his Blacklight dragon form, leaving the survivors praising the Blood Angel while he slipped away. He returned to Vought Tower, where Ashley hurriedly told him that something major had happened.

• Chen Mo landed Flight 37 safely on the coast, and the passengers emerged unharmed, thanking the Blood Angel.
• Chen Mo left the runway unseen and absorbed his Blacklight double at the remote radar station, recovering its memories and confirming nothing unusual had happened there.
• Chen Mo reflected that Vought International's attempt to send A-Train away had backfired and imagined Homelander raging at Vought Tower.
• Chen Mo encountered Ashley outside the top-floor conference room, and she demanded to know where he had been before urgently calling him along.

After Homelander’s role in the plane disaster was exposed, he faced fury and criticism in a Vought conference room. When Annie challenged him, Homelander attacked her, leaving Chen Mo to decide whether to intervene.

• Chen Mo entered the wrecked conference room and mocked Homelander with suggestions for managing the scandal.
• Homelander suppressed his anger at Chen Mo because he was unsure what A-Train knew and feared the crimson angel might appear again.
• Annie stood up and demanded to know why Homelander had not tried to save the passengers and children.
• Homelander grabbed Annie by the throat, lifted her off the floor, and called himself a god while dismissing the passengers as expendable.
• Chen Mo watched Annie struggle for air and wondered whether to intervene.

Chen Mo watched Edgar and Madelyn stop Homelander from killing Starlight, then saw Vought fabricate a cover story for the Flight 37 scandal. Edgar later uncovered evidence that the person posing as A-Train was an impostor, leaving Chen Mo’s identity exposed to Vought’s suspicion.

• Chen Mo warned Homelander that killing Starlight would worsen the headlines, while Edgar and Madelyn persuaded Homelander to release her.
• Maeve helped the injured Starlight as Edgar ordered Ashley to invent a biological-weapons cover story and suppress the Flight 37 reports.
• Edgar ordered everyone, especially Chen Mo, not to speak to the media, and Chen Mo noticed Edgar’s growing suspicion as he left.
• Edgar reviewed reports on A-Train and watched warehouse footage showing a wounded young man healing and producing black flesh from his arm.
• Edgar noted that the man in the footage looked nothing like A-Train.

Edgar used a supposed Sage Grove Center transfer to test whether Chen Mo was really A-Train, while Chen Mo decided the high-risk superhumans could feed the Blacklight Virus. Butcher also set out to find Flight 37 survivors and challenge Vought’s cover-up.

• Edgar reviewed footage of Chen Mo’s healing and living black flesh, then arranged for transfer details to reach him as a test.
• Vought’s news questioned the Flight 37 survivors’ memories and portrayed Homelander as a hero, while Chen Mo dismissed the propaganda and noticed the Sage Grove alert.
• Chen Mo suspected Edgar had planted the transfer information but found the chance to consume the patients too tempting to ignore.
• Butcher ordered Mother’s Milk to check the survivor list and said they would speak with the victims.
• At nine twenty, Chen Mo kept A-Train’s face, saw the Sage Grove alert again, and drove off toward the transfer.

Chen Mo ambushed Vought’s convoy and discovered that one of the imprisoned men had been tortured for his connection to Mia. After killing the man and absorbing his telekinesis, Chen Mo received a call from Edgar.

• Chen Mo attacked the convoy, tore open the transport van, and killed two of its superpowered captives.
• The emaciated captive used telekinesis against Chen Mo and spoke about finding Mia, prompting Chen Mo to kill him and absorb his power.
• Chen Mo recovered the man’s memories of Vought torturing him and using him as a control subject linked to Mia.
• Chen Mo destroyed an armored vehicle, cleaned up the scene, and answered Edgar’s encrypted call.

Chen Mo rejected Edgar’s offer to cooperate with Vought after learning how the company had abused Mia’s father, and Edgar sent a force of superhumans to confront him. The chapter ended with Chen Mo facing Homelander and the others, ready to fight and calling them a buffet.

• Edgar offered Chen Mo resources and hunting targets in exchange for helping Vought eliminate unstable assets.
• Chen Mo refused to work with Vought and condemned its experiments on Mia’s father.
• Edgar ended the negotiation and illuminated the wasteland with searchlights as Vought’s forces arrived.
• Homelander, Stormfront, Black Noir, and other superhumans surrounded Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo crushed the phone, stepped out of his car, and prepared to face the assembled superhumans.

Chen Mo fought Homelander and Vought’s assembled Supes on the old highway, matching Homelander’s strength and enduring attacks from Stormfront, Black Noir, and Lamplighter. After emerging from Lamplighter’s fire in heavier Blacklight armor, Chen Mo unleashed his virus and declared that they were all too weak.

• Chen Mo and Homelander exchanged blows in midair, and neither could overpower the other.
• Chen Mo dodged Homelander’s Heat Vision, wounded him with a sonic blade, and kicked him through an armored vehicle.
• Stormfront attacked Chen Mo with electricity, while Black Noir stabbed him from behind; Chen Mo resisted both and struck Black Noir into a concrete barrier.
• Lamplighter engulfed Chen Mo in a sea of fire as Stormfront and Homelander cut off his escape, but Chen Mo walked out protected by regenerating armor.
• Chen Mo spread tentacles across the highway to seize several superhuman soldiers, then expanded his Blacklight armor and challenged the assembled Supes.

Chen Mo devoured Lamplighter and gained control of his fire, then used his stolen abilities to overwhelm Homelander and Stormfront. Homelander fled into the night sky, but Chen Mo stopped him with a net of flaming tendrils.

• Chen Mo dragged in and devoured several superhuman soldiers, growing stronger as Homelander ordered the others to kill him.
• Chen Mo fought off Homelander, Stormfront, and Black Noir, then crushed Lamplighter's lighter and devoured him.
• Chen Mo gained control of Lamplighter's flames and used fire, lasers, and other abilities to repel Homelander and Stormfront.
• Homelander recognized Chen Mo was evolving and fled, but Chen Mo's flaming tendrils caught his cape and halted him midair.

Chen Mo defeated Black Noir and forced Homelander and Stormfront to flee, then consumed the surviving superhuman soldiers. A Vought drone contacted him with Edgar’s offer to discuss a second deal.

• Chen Mo dragged Homelander into a crater, but Stormfront and Black Noir attacked to help him escape.
• Black Noir held Chen Mo in place while Homelander broke free, but Chen Mo punched through Black Noir’s abdomen and began devouring him.
• Missiles struck the highway, allowing Homelander to rescue Black Noir and Stormfront and flee with them into the sky.
• Chen Mo stopped the escaping group with telekinetic force, then let Homelander, Stormfront, and Black Noir disappear into the night.
• Chen Mo consumed the remaining superhuman soldiers and realized Vought had witnessed his powers and would likely send a much larger force.
• A Vought drone contacted Chen Mo, and Edgar said they could discuss the second offer.

After Vought’s attack failed, Edgar offered Chen Mo a place in the company, using resources and help with Starlight and The Female to persuade him. Chen Mo refused to sign for now but told Edgar to keep improving the offer, and Edgar agreed.

• Chen Mo mocked Edgar for calling Vought’s missile attack a stress test, while Edgar argued that Homelander was only one of the company’s products.
• Edgar offered Chen Mo a role in Vought’s management, resources, food, and a partnership in disposing of unwanted products.
• Edgar brought up Starlight and The Female, offering to address their problems and suggesting that Chen Mo’s concern for them made him valuable.
• Edgar argued that Vought could help Chen Mo manage the media, law, and aftermath of his actions, and said the company would keep making offers until refusal cost more than acceptance.
• Chen Mo said he would not sign the offer yet but told Edgar to keep raising it, then engulfed the drone as Edgar agreed.

After returning from a devastating fight, Chen Mo evaded Mia’s questions about the violence while Allen showed him Vought’s cover story. Homelander and Vought made plans to counter Chen Mo, while Butcher obtained footage of the monster saving Flight 37 and questioned whose side he was on.

• Chen Mo returned to the safe house, where Mia sensed fire and blood on him, and he brushed off her concerns with jokes.
• Allen showed Chen Mo a news report falsely blaming the wasteland destruction on a gas pipeline explosion, and Chen Mo dismissed the threat of Vought’s response.
• Homelander admitted to Madelyn that Chen Mo had beaten him, and she urged him to become stronger through another experiment.
• Edgar ordered Project Team Two to prepare samples and combat records so Vought could study Chen Mo.
• Butcher and Mother's Milk questioned a Flight 37 survivor, and Butcher watched footage showing a black-and-red creature stopping the plane’s fall.
• Butcher concluded that the creature was not working for Vought and wondered whose side it was on.

Starlight learned that A-Train had left The Seven and Black Noir was undergoing rehabilitation as Stormfront joined the team. After overhearing suspicious conversations and finding a warning that A-Train was an impostor, she watched footage of the Blood Angel saving a plane and suspected the supposed monster was the real hero disguised as A-Train.

• Edgar announced that A-Train had left The Seven for health reasons, Black Noir was in long-term rehabilitation, and Stormfront had joined the team.
• Stormfront took charge at a press conference, while Homelander stayed subdued and Maeve kept to herself.
• Starlight overheard medical workers say Black Noir's injuries looked like they came from a punch, possibly Homelander's.
• Starlight heard Stormfront dismiss the Blood Angel and order someone to suppress the term online.
• Starlight found a warning on Stormfront's phone labeling the A-Train impersonator a maximum risk, then watched footage of the Blood Angel saving a plane and suspected he was the one disguised as A-Train.

Chen Mo met Edgar in Vought Tower, where Edgar offered him criminal networks and a private island as gifts to secure Vought’s survival. Chen Mo questioned why he should spare Edgar and keep Vought around.

• Chen Mo entered Edgar’s office disguised as a security guard and took the CEO’s chair while Edgar calmly welcomed him.
• Edgar offered Chen Mo Samaritan’s Embrace, a criminal church tied to trafficking and illegal trials, as a first gift.
• Edgar offered access to Superhuman Orgy Island and its heroes, sponsors, buyers, and unwanted company assets as a second gift.
• Edgar argued that Vought could provide Chen Mo with resources and a way to feed without unnecessary harm, rather than trying to control him.
• Chen Mo accepted that the gifts were appealing but asked why he should not kill Edgar and swallow Vought whole.

Chen Mo rejected Edgar’s attempt to secure a long-term arrangement with Vought, but learned that Edgar had funded charitable projects to institutionalize Chen Mo’s goodwill. Chen Mo devoured Edgar, absorbed his memories, and left a copy of him in charge of Vought, with orders to continue the projects.

• Edgar offered Chen Mo Vought’s resources and warned that killing him would trigger corporate procedures and a wider response.
• Chen Mo broke Edgar’s leg, then found a third document detailing Vought-funded aid projects and media coverage.
• Edgar explained that Vought could turn Chen Mo’s goodwill into lasting, large-scale projects.
• Chen Mo devoured Edgar and absorbed his memories.
• A new Edgar emerged, and Chen Mo ordered him to remain Vought’s CEO and continue the charitable projects.

Chen Mo sifted through Edgar’s memories, ordered his clone to track down V1 subjects and summon the supes to Carnival Island, then killed Black Noir and The Deep. He left Vought Tower and headed out to kill Samaritan.

• Chen Mo told his clone to keep acting as Edgar, locate the old V1 subjects, and gather every available supe for Carnival Island.
• Chen Mo went invisible and entered Vought’s medical department, where Black Noir and The Deep were recovering.
• Chen Mo used Blacklight tendrils to kill Black Noir and The Deep, reclaiming what remained of The Seven.
• Chen Mo left Vought Tower and set off to kill Samaritan.

Chen Mo raided the underground Samaritan's Embrace church, punished its corrupt priests, and captured Ezekiel. The Boys arrived hoping to question Ezekiel, but Chen Mo dismissed them as too weak and called them NPCs.

• Chen Mo broke into the underground church, impaled the priests with Blacklight tendrils, and let the janitor escape.
• Chen Mo recognized a priest from Mia's father's memories, nailed him to the cross, and set a small fire beneath him.
• Ezekiel tried to flee using his stretching powers, but Chen Mo restrained and captured him.
• Ezekiel offered money and Vought secrets, but Chen Mo said he already knew them and planned to kill him for entertainment.
• Butcher, Mother's Milk, Frenchie, and Kimiko entered the church and tried to find common ground with Chen Mo.
• Chen Mo rejected Butcher's offer, called the group too weak, and described them as four NPCs.

Chen Mo massacred the people in the church and the third-rate supes who arrived, then revealed to Butcher that his wife was alive and raising Homelander's son, Ryan. He arranged for Homelander and other supes to be lured to Carnival Island and received the location of Soldier Boy's hibernation pod before heading home to see the kid.

• Chen Mo devoured Ezekiel, told Butcher that his wife was alive and raising Homelander's son Ryan, then knocked out Butcher and the rest of the Boys with telekinesis.
• Chen Mo slaughtered the people in the church and consumed them, destroying the hall as he left.
• Chen Mo killed three third-rate supes who confronted him outside the church and absorbed their power.
• Chen Mo called his clone and told him to lure Homelander and as many supes as possible to Carnival Island; his clone said the plan was underway and shared Soldier Boy's pod coordinates.
• Chen Mo asked his clone to keep the church massacre from the media, then headed home to see the kid.