Original release date: November 3, 2023
While Vought CEO Ashley Barrett meets with Godolkin University’s trustees on how to spin Luke’s suicide, Cate and Sam return to the Woods to free the remaining captives before leading them in killing non-Supes across campus. As Marie, Jordan, and Emma attempt to contain the chaos, Marie demonstrates increased mastery of her powers. Sam suffers hallucinations of Luke, who tells him to stop and reveals how he died, but Sam ignores him and allows Cate to destroy his ability to feel emotions. Andre learns that Polarity’s seizure was the result of brain damage caused by his powers before receiving the Polarity mantle to help fight the rampaging Supes. Cate tries to brainwash Jordan, but Marie detonates Cate’s arm before Homelander arrives and attacks Marie, accusing her of “attacking her own kind”. Sometime later, Marie, Jordan, Emma, and Andre awaken in a sealed hospital room at an unknown location and learn they were framed for Sam and Cate’s attack while the pair are hailed as the “Guardians of Godolkin”. Meanwhile, Billy Butcher investigates the Woods’ ruins.
* * *
[Marie] Fuck.
[Emma] Why didn’t I fucking help her?
Holy shit, she fucking killed her.
[multiple voices overlapping]
[Sam] She tortured us! She tortured us!
[Marie] Cate, holy shit!
She killed a guy. We all killed someone. Oh, my God.
[Jordan] She’s fucking crazy.
[Emma] Can we help her? What?
Why didn’t you let me save her?
[Marie] What the fuck did you do?!
[voices distort and fade]
Okay, look, let’s all just calm down a-and assess the situation.
The situation’s bleeding all over the fucking rug.
We just… we have to figure out what to do now.
You murdered her.
Marie, I did this for you.
I did this for all of you.
When I’m done, maybe eventually you’ll realize I’m being a hero.
I want to be a hero, too.
Of course, Sam.
Leave him alone.
Shetty sucked.
I’m not an experiment.
What are you gonna do, Cate?
We are gonna free The Woods.
Sam, don’t go with her.
[Sam] This is about you, too.
If they find out what happened here,
I’m not gonna be the only one they torture.
Maybe it’s time for me to save you.
You can beat me.
But do you really think you can beat him?
[tense music playing]
[door opens]
Fuck.
[door closes]
Who are you calling?
Campus security emergency line.
Yo.
Are you crazy? They’ll get Sam.
What about all the people in The Woods?
She lets them out, it’s gonna be chaos.
Yeah, but…
You, too?
Look, this is fucked up, but Godolkin and Vought are fucked up, too.
So, what, we just sit here?
No.
We stop them.
[dramatic music playing]
[heart monitor beeping]
[phone vibrating]
Okay, the MRI.
Yeah, yeah. Hey.
These shadows,
here and here and here,
indicate damage.
We believe every time your father uses his powers,
something like a micro-tear occurs in the neural pathways.
An accumulation over years.
Years. O-Okay, so can we, can we reverse
or-or brighten those areas with, like, some medicine or something?
We’ll… I’ll buy whatever it is that we need.
Brain matter is a finite resource.
Through physical therapy and the right drug cocktail,
we can mitigate or slow.
Not reverse.
Have you experienced any lightheadedness or spots in your peripheral vision?
Uh, me?
Maybe an uncontrollable tic in the ring or pinky finger of your left hand?
No. No.
I-I mean, m-maybe-maybe lightheadedness, but…
but doesn’t-doesn’t everybody get lightheaded sometimes?
Can we, can we focus on my dad?
I-I mean, I just… S-Sorry, it’s just a lot. I just…
Our recommendation is physical therapy,
figuring out the right anti-seizure medicine.
And no more using powers.
[exhales sharply]
[knocks on door]
What, they didn’t have any king-size hospital beds?
[chuckles]
How am I looking?
Like you’re made of steel.
Go through my phone.
The contacts for Heather are in there.
Heather… Heather PR or wardrobe?
Wardrobe.
We got to get the costume resized.
[stammers] The doctor. I’ll get the doctor.
So the Polarity costume fits you.
I’m sorry.
For…
…everything.
[gentle music playing]
I knew about The Woods.
I played along.
I stayed quiet.
To protect you.
But school’s done now, kid.
It’s your time.
Dad.
Our powers,
they’re killing…
You’re the big man now.
You follow the straight and narrow.
Do whatever they tell you.
No one gets through life without regrets.
But goddamn I don’t regret being able to take care of my family.
And I know you’re gonna do the same.
You have to.
Your family’s counting on you.
[Ashley] I’m missing a farm to table fuckfest
at Ina and Jeffrey’s to be at this board meeting,
but someone has to save this fucking place.
All right, I don’t know where the fuck Indira is,
so let’s just start this fucking meeting.
Golden Boy is fertilizing the lawn.
Application rates are down.
Neuman’s town hall was a shit show.
We need a big fucking distraction.
Let’s send someone straight to The Seven.
Let’s just go in order.
GPA: fucking terrible.
IQ: surprisingly good.
Additional skills: British accent?
All right, who is pushing for this kid?
Anyone?
Focus tests show him in the lead
with the 12 to 18 demo.
They think he seems like, quote, “a real one.”
His on-screen skin color tests read a bit dark.
Then we’ll get Annie fucking Leibovitz to shoot him, you racist shit.
Polarity brand is consistent, though.
All right, we will come back to him.
Who’s next? And seriously, where the fuck is Indira?
[haunting music playing]
[whimpering]
[elevator beeps]
Cate?
I haven’t seen you down here in a while.
Greg.
Uh, I’m Bob.
Oh, God. No, no!
[door creaking]
Unlock the cells.
Okay.
[alarm blaring]
[breath hissing softly]
When’s the last time you saw sunlight?
Is “Gangnam Style” still a thing?
Let’s go outside.
[ominous music playing]
[Luke] Hey, Sam.
Luke.
What you doing?
Helping supes.
Hurting humans?
Same thing.
That’s what you wanted.
Nah, man.
I hurt one person once.
Then I killed myself from guilt.
And what about your tiny friend Emma?
She’s not here.
Yeah, and neither are you.
You killed yourself.
Leaving me in this cell!
Sam, I know you don’t want to do this.
Sam. Sam.
Sam!
[somber music playing]
Who is that?
[Sam] That was Andy.
He was hilarious.
And then really sad.
He was bipolar.
[Cate] They got him sick on purpose?
This is what they do.
This school
thought they could torture you.
Why? Because they said you were all crazy?
Inferior?
But you’re not inferior.
You are superior to them.
And it’s time we showed it.
[ominous music playing]
Eat your own fucking hands, you monster.
Right.
[bones crunching]
[guard screaming]
[♪ Rihanna: “Desperado”]
♪ Desperado ♪
♪ Sitting in a…
Fuck.
[music stops]
♪ Desperado…
Excuse me.
♪ I’m not trying to go against you ♪
Hey. Excuse me.
♪ Actually, I’m going with ya…
Hello? Excuse me.
Come on.
I’m recording a reaction video.
Now I got to listen to fucking “Desperado”
all over again.
Are you a supe?
No shit, asshole.
Are you a supe?
No, I’m an adjunct professor, marketing.
[sizzling]
[screams]
♪ We could be runaways ♪
♪ Running from ♪
[people screaming]
♪ Any sight of love ♪
[elevator beeps]
♪ Yeah, yeah, there ain’t nothing ♪
♪ There ain’t nothing here for me ♪
♪ There ain’t nothing here for me anymore ♪
♪ I don’t wanna be alone…
Oh, Jesus.
Emma, you clear the Performing Arts center.
Okay, teachers, administration.
Jordan, you sweep the student union.
There’s a panic button in Shetty’s office.
Under her desk. It’ll lock down pretty much everything.
Okay, that’s where I’m going.
Yo, yo, yo, fam, what up?
It’s your fave social media adviser, Jeff Pitikarski.
As all you Jeffsters can see,
no crutches, no cast, leg’s finally healed.
Hashtag “Hot Jeff Summer.” It’s something…
[man] Oh, God. Please. Somebody fucking help me!
Run!
Oh, fuck.
♪ Yeah, yeah, there ain’t nothing…
[electronic hum growing louder]
[screaming]
Shit. Escaped meth head, east campus quad.
Fuck me. There’s more than one!
All units, alpha protocol!
[panicked screaming]
♪ Runaways running from ♪
♪ Any sight of love ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, there ain’t nothing ♪
♪ There ain’t nothing here for me…
[electronic hum]
[pained groaning]
You were safer inside, dummy.
[screaming]
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪♪
My cover’s blown.
I think our rehab might be unlocked.
Let’s do a livestream.
[Kyle] Ever since Translucent died,
there’s been a gaping empty hole in The Seven.
That’s why I’m proposing number 27: Maverick.
Who better to replace Translucent than Translucent’s son?
If he’s gonna be as much of a perv…
Jeff? Jeff?
Jeff, can you hear me? Jeff?
…as his father, then we just can’t do this.
[Kyle] He wasn’t that bad.
Uh, um…
What is it?
Uh, there’s an issue on campus.
What?
[Cate] Stay right there.
I’m just waiting for a couple more people to hop on.
[Justine] Holy fucking shit.
Harper, are you watching this?
[ominous music playing]
Eat it.
[panting sharply]
Now.
[people screaming]
Oh, my God. [gasps]
Where the fuck is Shetty?!
[panicked chatter]
[screaming]
This country was founded on a single truth:
All men and women were created equal.
If this is going to be the dawn of The Seven,
we have to first…
…get through dusk.
No, no, just me.
Now, that right there
is how you fucking audition.
[chuckles]
Don’t touch my knuckles.
That’s how you choose a monologue
to compliment your director without explicitly saying,
“Hey, I love you.
I’m a needy little shit. Please give me the job.”
No, you do it through the work.
You play it on the fucking line.
I’m sorry, can I help you?
Kid, we’re having a breakthrough here.
Look, if you’re here to audit the class, just have a seat.
[tense music playing]
Okay, remember when I talked about stage presence, everybody?
That is not it.
Josh Hartnett has more stage presence than this man here.
And I can say that because we are close personal…
[gags] I was kidding.
[panicked chatter]
Sam, stop!
[coughing]
[door closes]
What are you thinking?
Why are you here?
Because you’re here.
So, what?
So…
[stammers] We…
We share things, our…
our feelings, our privates,
and now you’re just throwing all that away?
No, no.
Emma, it’s my choice.
Yeah, but, Sam, you don’t want to hurt people.
People hurt me!
Yeah, I didn’t ask for you to rescue me, Emma.
You did that for you.
And you never asked what do I want.
You just came in, and, “Fucking Sam, do this.”
“Sam, don’t kill people.”
Okay, that’s pretty normal. That’s not weird…
I’m normal, Emma!
This is what normal looks like when you’ve had my fucking life!
You know, while you were worrying about,
oh, maybe starring in a reality TV show,
I was having a needle shoved in my fucking spine.
Okay, that is not what I meant! No!
Sam, I want what’s best, and you know that.
You want what is best…
…for you.
I risked everything for you.
[somber music playing]
Emma, you would do anything
for everyone to like you.
You’re not a hero.
I know you don’t mean that.
You don’t mean…
[door opens]
[door closes]
[crying softly]
[sobs]
[sniffles]
What the fuck?
[gasping]
What the fuck?
[phone vibrating]
You don’t even know.
[Cate] Don’t be mad.
I freed The Woods. Shetty’s dead.
How…? What did you do, Cate?
It’s not too late.
Come be with me.
I love you.
We can be together.
[tense music playing]
[zapping and screaming in distance]
[Luke] What are you doing?
You’re not real, you’re not real, you’re not real.
Hey, is Emma the only girl that ever let you bust a nut?
No. No.
I mean inside of her.
Sam. What’s happening?
Is this right?
Holding humans accountable?
Killing innocent people.
[stammers] Aren’t some of these people innocent?
[Cate] What we’re doing is so hard.
Do you want my help?
Sam, listen to me.
Who’s actually you, imagining me.
This is it. This is your fucking moment.
You are not defined by what’s happened to you.
You are what you do.
Yeah?
“Yeah” you want my help?
[Luke] Right now.
Be a hero. Stop Cate.
Sam?
Sam, what’s happening?
I love you.
But you said you were me.
And trust me…
…I hate myself.
Sam, do you want my help?
No.
Yeah.
Okay, help me.
You fucking crazy fuck.
[Cate] Feel nothing.
[exhales deeply]
I feel so empty.
It feels good.
[dramatic music playing]
[panicked shouting, screaming]
[grunting]
[alarm blaring]
[clanging]
[Justine] Guys, guys,
these big-ass doors just locked me in my dorm room!
There’s some maniac loose on campus.
[loud electronic humming]
[groans]
[pained groan]
[exhaling sharply]
Oh, my God.
[frantic knocking]
[Bourke] Open the fucking door!
Who the fuck is that?
[Bourke] I can hear you, Ashley.
Now, you open this door or I swear to God I’m gonna tell everyone what you and I did
in the bathroom at the pediatric cancer fundraiser!
All right, open, open, open, open, open, open.
[Bourke] I’m gonna tell them what you did!
All right, we’re opening the door!
Stop fucking talking, my God.
Holy shit, Ash.
I prayed the fucking Shema.
I swear to God I thought I was gonna die.
Calm down. Just breathe. Shake it out.
Everything’s fine. Look.
Someone turned on the sonic whistle. We’re good.
[Bourke] Holy fuck.
[electronic humming continues loudly]
[people screaming]
[grunts]
[roaring loudly]
[screaming]
[glass crackling]
[Bourke] Oh, fuck no.
Fuck, please.
[zapping in distance]
[man screaming]
What the fuck? Don’t just stand there.
Block the fucking door.
Find fucking Homelander.
Radio the helicopter now. Go.
All right, everyone, grab one and make a call right now.
Whoever kills these rogue supes gets in The Seven.
[phone vibrating]
Hello?
[Ashley] Marie Moreau? Ashley Barrett.
Vought. We are considering you for The Seven.
Congratulations. We’re so excited.
We just need you to take out some, uh, escaped, um,
students.
Cancel them. Cancel them from planet Earth.
Oh, Miss Barrett, thanks, but… [chuckles]
Jesus fucking Christ, Marie, the entire board of trustees is up here.
You do this, and I will get you a meeting with your sister.
Get…
[line clicks]
Oh, my God.
I just lost Wi-Fi.
[gasps]
There’s no signal.
LTE?
No. No, nothing.
Harper!
Who’s gonna know if we die?
What the fuck?!
[dramatic music playing]
[panicked screaming]
Oh, hey, hey, hey!
Hey! Hey!
Hey, we’re here! Come on!
Oh, shit, shit, shit.
Cate, stop!
[gasps]
[gasps]
[panicked screaming]
[Andre straining]
[helicopter thuds]
[panting]
[grunts]
I’m gonna go stop Cate.
No, I’ll talk to her.
I mean…
Guardians of Godolkin.
We do this together.
Am I right?
[breathes deeply] Let’s go.
Hey, Cate.
[Marie] Jesus, Cate.
How are you pushing so much?
Shetty’s medication.
I thought she was helping me.
[sighs] She was limiting me.
[Marie] Cate, you have to stop this.
They want me to kill you.
Is that what you’re gonna do?
No.
Of course not.
[Maverick] Cate, shit.
I got this call from Vought about kill…
Stop her.
[Maverick] You got it.
Oh, shit.
Okay, bro. Bro?
Maverick?
We’re on the same side, Cate.
Do you really want to be like your dad?
[blow lands]
[grunts]
Stop her.
I got this. [grunts]
[blow lands]
[Andre] Cate?
[blows landing]
[both grunting]
Maverick.
Just hold on.
Can’t you, like,
find the real you or something?
[grunts]
Like, dig deep or whatever?
[blows landing]
Let go!
[Maverick grunts]
[panting]
[tense music playing]
Okay, asshole!
[breathes deeply]
[faint heartbeat]
[heartbeat growing louder]
[blood flowing]
What the fuck?
[panicked screaming]
We need to get everybody back inside right now.
[frantic shouting]
[Bourke] What the fuck is he doing?! Holy…
Get to the helicopter.
No, it’s fucking grounded!
It’s fucking enclosed. Get in. Do you want to stay here?
No!
Go!
[screams]
Go, go.
Go, go, go!
[overlapping shouting]
[Bourke] Hurry, hurry!
Cate? Cate? Hey, hey, hey.
What side are you on, Andre?
Whatever side gets us out of this shit.
Yeah, that’s your real superpower, isn’t it?
Acting like you’re doing something when really you’re doing nothing.
Cate, whenever either one of us does something on their own,
shit gets screwed up big-time.
But I know we do some amazing shit together.
Whatever’s happening right now, let’s just, let’s just figure it out.
Both of us.
Please.
[gentle music playing]
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Cate!
Dude, stop. We loved Luke.
He was like my brother.
[grunting]
[electricity crackling]
[Andre gasping]
You’re right. Okay?
I agree. Fuck Shetty. Fuck our parents.
Marie, they asked you to kill me.
So if you don’t, what’s gonna happen?
They’ll still try to kill you.
And they’ll try to destroy me.
Then what choice do we have?
I don’t know.
I just wanted to be a hero.
Someone my sister could be proud of, but I don’t give a shit anymore.
I just want to be a good person.
But, Marie, you’re not a person.
You’re a product to them.
A freak.
I’m trying to save you.
[fierce yelling]
[Jordan shouts]
Fuck.
And fuck you.
[pained groaning]
My heart.
[Jordan grunting, panting]
Get us the fuck out of here!
[panicked shouting]
The helicopter!
[exhales sharply]
[dramatic music playing]
Fucking Christ!
[panicked shouting]
I’m putting that in my next movie!
[exhales sharply]
[panting]
[hopeful music playing]
See? We’re good together.
[ominous music playing]
[gasps] No.
[screaming]
[sonic boom in distance]
[triumphant music playing]
[people chattering quietly]
Sir, I, uh…
[sighs] What… kind of animal are you?
What?
Do you like attacking your own kind?
No, I, um…
[tense music playing]
Stay back.
[screams]
It’s happened yet again in America.
Tragedy on campus.
Four Godolkin students went on a brutal murder spree.
At least 12 people are now dead.
Many more undoubtedly would have been killed had it not been for the Guardians of Godolkin…
excuse me… the New Guardians of Godolkin,
Cate Dunlap and Sam Riordan.
Proving once again that all Americans are safer with heroes like Sam and Cate protecting us, our values and our way of life.
The hell?
[Jordan] Hey.
You’re awake.
What happened?
You took that blast like a fucking champ.
Anyone else would be in the ground.
[haunting music playing]
There’s no doors.
Where are we?
[♪ The Muffs: “Kids in America”]
♪ Looking out a dirty old window ♪
♪ Outside, the cars in the city ♪
♪ Go rushing by ♪
♪ I sit here alone ♪
♪ And I wonder why ♪♪
[suspenseful music playing]
What a bunch of cunts.
[scoffs softly]
♪ Friday night and everyone’s moving ♪
♪ I can feel the heat, but it’s soothing ♪
♪ Heading down ♪
♪ I search for the beat in this dirty town ♪
♪ Downtown the young ones are going ♪
♪ Downtown the young ones are growing ♪
♪ We’re the kids in America ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ We’re the kids in America ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Everybody live for the music-go-round ♪
♪ Bright lights, the music gets faster ♪
♪ Look, boy, don’t check on your watch ♪
♪ Not another glance ♪
♪ I’m not leaving now ♪
♪ Honey, not a chance ♪
♪ Hotshot, give me no problems ♪
♪ Much later, baby, you’ll be saying, “Never mind” ♪
♪ You know life is cruel, life is never kind ♪
♪ Kind hearts don’t make a new story ♪
♪ Kind hearts don’t grab any glory ♪
♪ We’re the kids in America ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ We’re the kids in America ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Everybody live for the music-go-round ♪
♪ We’re the kids in America ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ We’re the kids in America ♪
♪ Whoa ♪
♪ Everybody live for the music-go-round ♪♪
