[Robert Singer holds up a vial of green liquid that looks similar to the blue Compound V]
V24, huh?
Marketing is still testing the name, but it's the future, Bob. One dose of this temporary V gives a soldier 24 hours of powers. Give or take. And then, they return right back to normal.
How stable is it?
Still ironing out the kinks.
And if it's temporary, that means the DoD has to keep buying doses. At how much a hit?
Two million, roughly.
So over the course of a month-long operation, that's sixty million per soldier. Six hundred million per squad.
Campaign going well, is it?
I appreciate your contribution to my super PAC.
People do love a cowboy in the White House. I hear they're even calling you Dakota Bob. So how would it look if you pass up the opportunity to give our brave soldiers superpowers?
Supes in the Army are an unmitigated shitshow. What Black Noir did to that Hard Rock Café in Lagos should be brought up on war crimes.
[closes the conference room doors] You're right.
I'm sorry?
You are absolutely right. The problem, of course, was making the Super into heroes.
I don't follow.
Making them figures to be worshiped. The fame, the movies, the depraved sex? It ruined them. Cone of silence–in five years, I hope to be out of the superhero business entirely.
Bullshit.
This should be a serious company. A defense and pharmaceutical company. Not a daycare dealing with spoiled children and dead prostitutes. But the point is, you won't have to worry about any of that, because your soldiers will only be super temporarily. The product, finally perfected.
Stan, when you say Compound V...
V-24.
Do you know what the public hears? Gestapo. Swastika. And that's your fault; you used a Nazi to sell it! Compound V is radio-fucking-active. It's not gonna fly in Congress.
I still have a few strings that I can pull in Congress...
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