Why the long face, tiger?
What if I can't handle him? I mean... If Noir ran–
Oh, you can handle him. You're the top of the food chain! Hey, hey... when we were kids, alone in the Bad Room, I got us through it, right? Don't I always?
[nods] Always.
No matter what.
No matter what.
And now, I'll get us through this, just as long as you and me stick together.
What if Edgar's right? What if it was a-- a mistake to take over Vought? And then... I am just talent, and they all know I'm a fraud?
Now, what do you care what a bunch of mud people think? C'mon. Tell me the real reason, I wanna hear you say it. [pause; Homelander hesitates] SAY IT!
I want them to... love me.
Yahtzee! Only it never seems to work out, does it? Madelyn, Maeve, Stormfront, even your own son. So why do you keep running headfirst into the same brick wall?
[looks down and shakes his head] I don't know.
Mmm, pants on fire! You know. It's because, deep down, there's a part of you that is still… human.
[on the verge of tears] No...
Mmm-hmm, part of you is. A dirty, shrivelled, anemic little part of you that still mewls for approval and love, and a mommy and a daddy and oh, boo-hoo-hoo!
[As Mirror Homelander says this, the real Homelander cries in shame]
Look at me, tiger. Look at me. We gotta cut that part of you out like a cancer. And then? Well then, my boy, you can finally be who you were always meant to be: Pure. Clean. Like marble.
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