Butcher and Vogelbaum in “Unfinished Business”

What was he like?

Who?

Homelander, growin' up as a lad, what was he like?

I'm sure you don't wanna talk about this–

Oh, there is nothing I wanna talk about more. And who knows better than you?

When he was a little boy, five or six, he was quite sweet. He'd cuddle up to me. He loved stories about Davey Crockett, Teddy Roosevelt, loved the idea of the woods, the forest. Manifest destiny. But, you know, I needed him to be the strongest man in the world. So I went to work on him. He didn't even want it. It was for me.

Hmm. And that wasn't your only sin, was it? It weren't Homelander who hid my wife away all them years. It ever occur to you, the pain you cause sorry bastards like me?

At the time, it was barely a blip on my radar.

Tell me, Doctor... What's your radar tellin' you now?

Do what you want to me, but I can't help you. My family would be in−

Your family's already in trouble. 'Cause I'm about to go into that room next door, to your daughter, and I'm gonna bash her brains out. And then, I'm gonna find your two sons, and their wives, and their little kiddies. Your whole fuckin' family dies today. Or... you help me. What's it gonna be, Doc?