[Neuman, Edgar and the Boys find Sameer hiding in a barn after they are attacked by mutated sheep. They also find the dead body of Sameer's lab assistant, Henry.]
SSSameer Shah
Zoe’s not here, is she? Because… [Neuman shakes her head] No?
No, no. She’s okay. She’s okay.
SameerOkay, good.
Wait… Oh, my God, is that Zoe’s dad?
Dr. Shah was my top man at Vought R&D before he went behind my back and deflowered my daughter.
Okay, I was twenty–thoroughly deflowered–and this isn’t the time or the place. [to Sameer] What happened?
Sameer
We gave V to a hamster, so we could test the virus on it.
Oh, a V’d-up hamster was your first mistake, mon ami.
Sameer
It got loose. Trashed the lab. We ran, but the V had already leaked into the groundwater.
Sameer
…Yes.
Sameer
Except for, uh… [holds up a syringe filled with the virus] Except for one dose.
[Butcher anxiously stares at the syringe]
MSMother's Milk
Hey, how transmissible is that?
Sameer
Not very. Only through bodily fluid. Blood, saliva… semen.
MSMother's Milk
Okay, so we inject it into [motions at Henry's body] your dead buddy over here as bait, and then we put him outside to infect the crazy fucking flying sheep!
This man is in no condition to fuck a sheep.
Bollocks. That’s the only dose. I say we fuckin' leg it!
Butcher’s right, it’s too valuable.
Okay, we run, we don’t all make it.
Darwinism, love. Don’t gotta be the fastest, just not the slowest.
MSMother's Milk
Enough. Not now.
[to Neuman] I won’t be able to outrun them.
Oh, don’t you cry for that cunt! He’s just tryin' to nick Zoe from you. That’s his whole fuckin' plan, innit?
Sorry, Stanny. Just business.
MSMother's Milk
Guys, stop.
I should’ve fucking known.
M.M. could die, okay?! Or Frenchie! I mean, you really don’t care who you just throw to the wolves?
You’re a monster, and I’m not letting you do this.
Or what? You gonna go stark ravin' like you did with Firecracker? I got the head popper and you can’t even get it up!
MSMother's Milk
Enough! Enough! Look, look! [rolls up jacket sleeve] Y’all see this? Hives. And I got 'em because y’all motherfuckers are driving me the fuck crazy! Now, Annie, you can’t just go around fuckin' everybody up. And Neuman, do you really wanna risk Zoe growing up in a group home the way you did? [to Butcher] And you… Look. My little baby girl needs me, and I intend on seeing her. You’re not a monster, Butcher. You are a motherfucker, but you a motherfucker with a heart.
[Butcher and Kessler drive out to a deserted farm shed, where they have imprisoned Sameer while the rest of the Boys were escaping the Supe sheep. Sameer is chained up and missing his right leg.]
[chuckles] Now, see? That is classic Butcher.
Sameer
You get away from me! Get away from me!
Alright, take it easy. I ain’t gonna hurt ya. Well, not no more. It was just enough to convince people.
Sameer
You chopped off my fucking leg!
Yes, I did. I ain’t gonna sugarcoat it. Your football days are over, but don’t you worry. We’ll patch you up right as rain, and you’ll be back to work in no time.
Sameer
Work? What work?
Well, what the fuck do you think? You’re gonna make us some more of that virus.
[Butcher wheels in a cart full of chemistry equipment into the warehouse lab where Sameer is tied to a pole]
Well, looky here. Christmas came early, Sameer.
Nicked it off a French bloke. Should be enough to get you started.
Sameer
[coughs] I won’t do it.
Sameer
Do what you want to me, but I can't–I can’t do this for you.
Listen. One dose strong enough to top Homelander. And then, you can go back to what’s-her-name, and you don’t gotta see me no more. But this first.
Sameer
You don’t understand. I can’t. It’s what we realized in the lab. To make the virus strong enough to kill Homelander would evolve it into something unstable.
What d'you mean, unstable?
Sameer
Airborne, highly contagious, super lethal. No one with Compound V in their bloodstream would be safe.
A global fucking pandemic.
Sameer
We’re not just talking about killing Homelander. We’re talking about killing every Supe on Earth.
[appearing behind Butcher] That’s Annie, Kimiko…
Sameer
Vicky, Zoe. [shakes his head] I’m sorry. But when they say shit’s fallen into the wrong hands… they mean your hands.
This is beyond our wildest dreams, man. Dude just gave us the silver bullet. We can wipe them all out.
Billy, you cannot go along with this.
Listen, mate. No one ever said nothing about genocide.
Who was it that said, “They all gotta go? Every fucking last one of ’em?”
He’s talking about murder, Billy. Of thousands.
Think how much better the world would be.
And a lot of them are innocent, okay? I know you–
Shut your fucking cake hole, bitch!
[pause] Wait a minute… [stammers] You can see her?
[Kessler is revealed to be a figment of Butcher's imagination, just like Becca. Sameer watches Butcher talking to himself.]
…What the fuck’s that supposed to mean? You’re me?
I mean, out of all the fucking people that your festering fucked-up brain could’ve conjured up, you picked me. The real Joe Kessler? He’s dead in the Panjshir Valley, motherfucker. You never dragged me out. You left me to die.
[Butcher thinks back to his earlier encounters with Kessler. He slowly puts it together in his head that Kessler was never there and he was talking to nobody the entire time. He also realizes that he actually murdered Ezekiel.]
No. No, I’d remember that. I’d fuckin' remember that.
Unless of course you’ve got a big old, fat, V’d-up brain tumor, you cunt. Which is why you're seeing me in the first place. [pause; Butcher looks at Becca] I killed Ezekiel for you. I am inside of you. I am you… which is why when I tell you you wanna do this, I am literally telling you that you fucking wanna do this. So don’t you worry, Billy, my boy. [smiles] Daddy’s home.
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