[Homelander is watching the news on the shattered TV in the Seven common room]
[on TV] We are interrupting our regular reporting with a breaking news story, that at… I’m sorry, I’m just looking to my producers here. Is this confirmed? [stutters] They’re telling me it has been. The Vice President-elect, Victoria Neuman, is dead. [Homelander starts tearing up] Assassinated today only hours after revealing to the world that she is super-abled…
Where’s Ryan?
[Homelander opens his eyes in shock at the sound of Sister Sage's voice. She walks into the common room holding a balloon.]
This was all for him after all, right?
What are you doing here?
Celebrating. We won. Here.
[Sage offers the balloon to Homelander, but he refuses and lets the balloon float up to the ceiling]
[sighs] Everything’s turned to shit. Plan’s dead.
This is the plan. I mean, sure, a few curveballs, but we got here. Just had to keep a few bits to myself. You know, the bits you’d fuck up by… you know, being you. Neuman would have been a shit patsy–stubborn, too many ideas–so I went another way.
[The news feed cuts to an out-of-context clip of Singer speaking to the Boys about Neuman followed by another clip of Singer being arrested by authorities.]
[on TV] …Bob Singer himself ordering the assassination.
[on TV] If you’d killed Neuman like I ordered, we wouldn’t be stuck four stories underground playing pocket pool.
[on TV] And now we go live. Okay, that’s President-elect Robert Singer taken into custody by federal agents…
[on TV] She tried to kill me first!
[on TV] …in an unprecedented turn of events that is certain to go down as one of the darkest days–
[Sage turns the TV off. She feels her cell phone vibrating]
Oh, it's… [offers her phone to Homelander] for you.
Who is it?
Oh, Speaker of the House Calhoun. Once they invoke the 25th, he’s next in line to be President. He’d like to pledge his allegiance to you.
[beat; gets up] To me?
Just like I promised. We had a deal.
Yeah, well, I broke the deal.
I didn’t. I told you, you could trust me, boo. I got your back.
[pause; takes phone] I–I threw you out like… like garbage. Why would you do this?
To see if I could. [pause; chuckling] Thank you. This was so much fun. Just, you know–Next time, listen to me.
Next time?
Oh, hells yeah, Blonde Ambition! Buckle up for Phase Two.
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