- Hughie Campbell: If Soldier Boy goes through with this, thousands will die. Help us stop him.
- Billy Butcher: This ain't a bloody kinder care we're on about, son. It's Vought fucking Tower.
- Frenchie: Becca worked in the Tower.
- Billy Butcher: You shut your fucking cake hole, Frenchie.
- Frenchie: No. No! No, my cake hole will remain open! You will never command me again. I am done with your cruelty! I deserve respect! And we all deserve paid vacation days, and a dental plan!
- Hughie Campbell: Hey, Maeve. Good to see you again. Glad you're okay.
- Queen Maeve: It's like you wear a neon sign that says, "Raw dog me, I'm a bottom."
- Homelander: Listen, Ryan. Your mom, she wanted what's best for you. And so do I. You have a real family.
- Ryan: But aren't you mad at me? For what I did?
- Homelander: You know it wasn't your fault, right? Son, when you're as strong as we are, accidents happen, things break... and sometimes they are the things that you love the most. But-but that's all it is: An accident. And nobody on this earth knows that better than me. Nobody. That's why I'm always gonna love you. No matter what happens, no matter... what you do. I'm not going anywhere. I will always be here.
- Starlight: Thank you. For everything.
- Queen Maeve: First time your prissy ass showed up at the Tower, crying in that bathroom... You saved me. Truth is, you... you don't need me anymore. I could jump. But you can fucking fly.
- Soldier Boy: What the fuck are you doing?
- Billy Butcher: Not the kid.
- Soldier Boy: Oh, I thought you said blood didn't matter. Thought that was the whole fucking point.
- Billy Butcher: He's my wife's son.
- Soldier Boy: Wait, Homelander fucked your wife? And you wanna save the brat? The hell's wrong with you?
- Billy Butcher: I made a promise.
- Soldier Boy: So this is it. Everything you wanted, he's right fucking there -- and now you blink?
- Billy Butcher: Stand down.
- Soldier Boy: Fuck you! You're weaker than he is.
- Mother's Milk: You know, for the longest time, Janine, I... I didn't want to bring you into this. But you know what? There's nothing to be ashamed of. Truth is, superheroes aren't always good. One of them, Soldier Boy... killed a lot of our family members a long time ago. It makes me sad. Sometimes it makes me mad when I think about it. But...
- [CLICKS TONGUE]
- Mother's Milk: your granddaddy, he spent his entire life fighting to get justice. And now I do, too. I just want you to know that you should be proud. Your granddaddy... now, he was a real hero.
- Janine: You're my hero, Daddy.
- Hughie Campbell: Literally every neuron in your brain is screaming "I told you so," so why don't you just say it before your head explodes.
- Starlight: Oh, my God! I fucking told you so.
- Hughie Campbell: Feel good to get that out?
- Starlight: So satisfying.
- Hughie Campbell: We save everyone. Even if they don't deserve it. Especially if they don't deserve it.
- Mother's Milk: We're gonna break into Vought Tower, while you go to the lab crawling with armed guards and you're gonna cook up the world's most dangerous neurotoxin with, what, a little moxie and a little Mr. Wizard know-how while we hold off Homelander and Soldier Boy?
- Frenchie: Uh... oui.
- Soldier Boy: [sniffs at a bottle of whiskey] Whoa. That brings me back. Used to sneak my dad's Manhattans when I was a kid.
- Billy Butcher: I didn't have to nick nothin' from my old man. He used to get me and me little brother lagered just for the hell of it.
- Soldier Boy: Well, I gotta admit, that does sound funny. The old man still around?
- Billy Butcher: Arse cancer. Shittin' his guts out as we speak, one hopes.
- [pause]
- Soldier Boy: You ever see The Soldier Boy Story?
- Billy Butcher: Musta missed it.
- Soldier Boy: It's a classic. We lost Best Picture to An American in Paris that year. Least I got to assfuck Jane Wyman in the coat check. About a poor kid from the streets of South Philly. Discovers he's got incredible powers to match his heart of gold. It was all bullshit.
- Billy Butcher: Blimey, you don't say.
- Soldier Boy: Actually, my father owned half the steel mills in the state. I went to boarding school. Got kicked out of boarding school. Because I was a fuckup. And he made sure I knew it.
- Billy Butcher: Used the belt, did he?
- Soldier Boy: Never laid a hand on me. He couldn't be bothered. He said I was a disappointment. Not good enough to carry his name. So I went to his golf buddies in the War Department, and they got me into Dr. Vought's Compound V trials. I became a superhero. Strongest man alive, fuckin' ticker-tape parades when I came home.
- Billy Butcher: And what did the old man say then?
- Soldier Boy: Ah. He said I took a shortcut. That a real man wouldn't have cheated.
- [pause, then he clears his throat uncomfortably]
- Soldier Boy: How 'bout you, you got kids?
- Billy Butcher: It's complicated.
- Soldier Boy: I always assumed I had a few out there. Somewhere. I always wanted 'em. 'Cause I thought I could do it better than my father did.
- Billy Butcher: Homelander ain't yours. Not really.
- Soldier Boy: He's the only blood I've got left.
- Billy Butcher: It don't matter. You didn't name him, didn't raise him. Vought grew him in a fucking test tube to take your place. He's the fucking reason they left you to rot with the Ivans. Look, mate... we had a deal.
- [pause, then Soldier Boy takes a long drink of whiskey, stands up, and walks out]
- Soldier Boy: I'm gonna get some air.
- Starlight: I really thought that deep down you were a hero.
- Queen Maeve: Well, you were wrong. There's no such thing.