The Boys (TV Series)

The Big Ride (2020)

Giancarlo Esposito: Stan Edgar

Quotes 

• Homelander : [entering Stan Edgar's office, unannounced]  Morning.

  Samantha : Mr. Edgar, I'm sorry...

  Stan Edgar : No, it's alright, Samantha.

  Homelander : Busy day?

  Stan Edgar : [turns off the TV]  Morning, Homelander. To what do I owe the pleasure?

  Homelander : Well, you never come up to 99. So, I figured I'd pay you a visit.

  Stan Edgar : What a lovely idea.

  Homelander : [laughs]  Right? After all, you run a superhero company, and, uh, you never check in with your superheroes, do you? Like, uh... oh, I don't know... around the hiring of that girl, for example.

  Stan Edgar : You wished to be consulted on Stormfront?

  Homelander : Well, why not? I signed off on all the rest. I'm the leader of the Seven.

  Stan Edgar : For which you have my undying respect.

  Homelander : See, I don't think I do. No. Not even Madelyn would've dared to try and pull this kind of shit.

  Stan Edgar : Well of course, you know how important you are to everyone at Vought!

  Homelander : No, no. Stan. I *am* Vought. You show my photo to some illiterate fucking camel jockey in the middle of the Sahara, he's gonna turn around and say, "Homelander," in perfect American.

  [Homelander sits down in a chair and props his feet up on the coffee table] 

  Homelander : You know what? My contract's up at the end of this year. Maybe it's time I, uh, move on. How do you think your shareholders would feel about that?

  [Edgar stares down Homelander for a solid ten seconds. The smug look on Homelander's face quickly disappears as it occurs to him that Edgar is not falling for his threats and isn't scared of him] 

  Stan Edgar : What do you know about Frederick Vought?

  Homelander : Excuse me?

  Stan Edgar : [gestures to a portrait of Vought]  Frederick. Vought. Our esteemed founder.

  Homelander : Well, I don't know, um, not a lot, probably. I only read his autobiography... five times?

  Stan Edgar : Not the self-serving bullshit that we peddle to the shareholders. The real story.

  Homelander : Enlighten me.

  Stan Edgar : Got his doctorate from Munich. Ahead of his time in genetics. Such the rising young star that in '39, Hitler appointed him chief physician at Dachau, where he enjoyed a ready supply of human subjects on which to test his earliest iterations of Compound V. For which we condemn in the strongest of possible terms. Early in '44, he felt the winds change, got spirited away to the Allies. When Oppenheimer was flailing with the bomb, Dr. Vought already had practical applications of Compound V tested in the field. Heroes like Soldier Boy, killing Germans by the dozen. So, Roosevelt pardoned him, and he became as "Wonder Bread American" as Disney and Edison.

  Homelander : Well, this is a truly fascinating, if not slightly condescending lecture, but, um... I don't think I see the point, Stan.

  Stan Edgar : The point is... that you are under a misconception that we are a superhero company. We are not. What we are, really, is a pharmaceutical company. And you are *not* our most valuable asset. That would be our *confidential* formula for Compound V. Which you, manchild that you are, released into the wild.

  Homelander : [sputtering]  I don't know what you're talking about.

  Stan Edgar : Well, let me remind you. You slipped Compound V to terrorists all over the globe to get you and your cronies into national defense. But maybe at the cost of destroying the whole company.

  Homelander : [stands up and gets in Edgar's face]  I don't think I appreciate your tone, sir. Not much at all.

  Stan Edgar : And I don't appreciate that the FDA now knows about Compound V, or... that it's only a matter of time before the public finds out. While you're preening at the Golden Globes, we're busy running around like maniacs trying to clean up the mess you made. I don't have to consult you about Stormfront or anything else. Now... I believe you have a premiere of Tek-Knight Lives to go to?