[Butcher wheels in a cart full of chemistry equipment into the warehouse lab where Sameer is tied to a pole]
Well, looky here. Christmas came early, Sameer.
Nicked it off a French bloke. Should be enough to get you started.
[coughs] I won’t do it.
The fuck you won’t.
Do what you want to me, but I can't–I can’t do this for you.
Listen. One dose strong enough to top Homelander. And then, you can go back to what’s-her-name, and you don’t gotta see me no more. But this first.
You don’t understand. I can’t. It’s what we realized in the lab. To make the virus strong enough to kill Homelander would evolve it into something unstable.
What d'you mean, unstable?
Airborne, highly contagious, super lethal. No one with Compound V in their bloodstream would be safe.
A global fucking pandemic.
We’re not just talking about killing Homelander. We’re talking about killing every Supe on Earth.
[appearing behind Butcher] That’s Annie, Kimiko…
Ryan.
Vicky, Zoe. [shakes his head] I’m sorry. But when they say shit’s fallen into the wrong hands… they mean your hands.
This is beyond our wildest dreams, man. Dude just gave us the silver bullet. We can wipe them all out.
Billy, you cannot go along with this.
Listen, mate. No one ever said nothing about genocide.
Is that a fucking joke?
He’s insane.
Who was it that said, “They all gotta go? Every fucking last one of ’em?”
He’s talking about murder, Billy. Of thousands.
Think how much better the world would be.
And a lot of them are innocent, okay? I know you–
Shut your fucking cake hole, bitch!
[pause] Wait a minute… [stammers] You can see her?
[Kessler is revealed to be a figment of Butcher's imagination, just like Becca. Sameer watches Butcher talking to himself.]
…What the fuck’s that supposed to mean? You’re me?
I mean, out of all the fucking people that your festering fucked-up brain could’ve conjured up, you picked me. The real Joe Kessler? He’s dead in the Panjshir Valley, motherfucker. You never dragged me out. You left me to die.
[Butcher thinks back to his earlier encounters with Kessler. He slowly puts it together in his head that Kessler was never there and he was talking to nobody the entire time. He also realizes that he actually murdered Ezekiel.]
No. No, I’d remember that. I’d fuckin' remember that.
Unless of course you’ve got a big old, fat, V’d-up brain tumor, you cunt. Which is why you're seeing me in the first place. [pause; Butcher looks at Becca] I killed Ezekiel for you. I am inside of you. I am you… which is why when I tell you you wanna do this, I am literally telling you that you fucking wanna do this. So don’t you worry, Billy, my boy. [smiles] Daddy’s home.
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