Eight years ago, Stillwell called me with quite an interesting challenge. Rebecca Butcher had come to her with a completely unprecedented medical condition.
What condition?
[In a flashback, Becca pulls up her hospital gown and her belly starts glowing. Stillwell and Vogelbaum look at her in shock.]
She was pregnant… with your child.
Pregnant? [pause; mutters in shock] But I–I thought I couldn't.
So did I. Apparently, nature is tenacious. The fetus was developing unnaturally fast. We told her we'd deliver the baby safely at a secure location, but she had to sign an NDA. Couldn't tell anyone; not even her husband. You can imagine the size of the potential scandal.
[In another flashback, Becca is wheeled into an operating room and goes into labor. She screams in pain as her baby rips her out from the inside, causing tremendous blood loss.]
The birth was difficult. The baby clawed its way out of her. The blood loss, no one could have survived. She died on the table.
And–And the baby?
Lived all of ten seconds. Drowned in its mother's blood.
Was it a boy?
Does it matter?
Why didn't you tell me?
To protect you. That's always job one at Vought, isn't it? Protect our most profitable asset?
So why are you telling me now?
You don't understand. The thing about cross-breeding dogs… you get the right genes, you can get a perfect creation. But it doesn't matter how perfect they are; it's not enough. When I raise subjects without their mothers, they become violent. Aggressive. Downright hateful. You should've been raised in a home with a family who loved you. Not in a cold lab with doctors.
And yet I turned out great.
When I think what it's done to you, and what you can now do to everyone else… [beat; sighs] I'm sorry.
I don't want your fucking apology.
All this is my fault.
[in a shaky tone] What do you want? What? What do you want, forgiveness? Now? After you raised me like a fucking lab rat? [shakes his head] No. Too little, too late.
I don't want anything from you, John. I'm just an old man thinking about his mistakes.
I'm the world's greatest superhero.
You're my greatest failure.
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