To what do I owe the pleasure?
Well, you never come up to 99, so figured I'd pay you a visit.
What a lovely idea.
Right? After all, you run a superhero company and you never check in with your superheroes, do you? Like–oh, I don't know–about the hiring of that girl, for example.
You wished to be consulted on Stormfront.
Well, why not? I signed off on all the rest. I'm the leader of The Seven.
For which you have my undying respect.
See, I don't think I do. No. Not even Madelyn would've dared to try and pull this kind of shit.
Well, of course, you know how important you are to everyone at Vought.
No. No, Stan. I am Vought. You show my photo to some illiterate fuckin' camel jockey in the middle of the Sahara, he's gonna turn around and say, "Homelander," in perfect American. [sits down in a chair] You know what? My contract's up at the end of this year. [props his feet on the coffee table] Maybe it's time I move on. How do you think your shareholders would feel about that?
[Edgar stares down Homelander for several moments. The smug look on Homelander's face quickly disappears as it occurs to him that Edgar is not falling for his threats.]
What do you know about Frederick Vought?
Excuse me?
Frederick. Vought. [gestures to a portrait of Vought] Our esteemed founder.
Well, I don't know. Um… not a lot, probably. I only read his autobiography… five times?
Not the self-serving bullshit that we peddle to the shareholders. The real story.
Enlighten me.
Got his doctorate from Munich. Ahead of his time in genetics. Such the rising young star that in '39, Hitler appointed him chief physician at Dachau, where he enjoyed a ready supply of human subjects on which to test his earliest iterations of Compound V. For which we condemn in the strongest of possible terms. Early in '44, he felt the winds change, got spirited away to the Allies. When Oppenheimer was flailing with the bomb, Dr. Vought already had practical applications of Compound V tested in the field. Heroes like Soldier Boy, killing Germans by the dozen. So Roosevelt pardoned him, and he became as Wonder Bread American as Disney and Edison.
Well, this is a truly fascinating–if not slightly condescending–lecture, but um... I don't think I see the point, Stan.
The point... is that you are under a misconception that we are a superhero company. We are not. What we are, really, is a pharmaceutical company. And you are not our most valuable asset. That would be our confidential formula for Compound V. Which you, manchild that you are, released into the wild.
[slight scoff] I don't know what you're talking about.
Well, let me remind you. You slipped Compound V to terrorists all over the globe to get you and your cronies into national defense. But maybe at the cost of destroying the whole company.
[slams table and approaches, venom in his tone] I don't think I appreciate your tone, sir. Not much at all.
And I don't appreciate that the FDA now knows about Compound V, or that it's only a matter of time before the public finds out. While you're preening at the Golden Globes, we're busy running around like maniacs trying to clean up the mess you made. I don't have to consult you about Stormfront or anything else. Now... I believe you have a premiere of Tek-Knight Lives to go to?
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