- [Frenchie and Mother's Milk are sitting on the floor of their cell]
- Frenchie: You know, in Medieval times they locked prisoners inside a pillory barrel, and they kneel in their own excrement until they got sepsis and died, so...
- Mother's Milk: Thank you, Frenchie, for that disgusting yet fascinating piece of trivia.
- Frenchie: I'm just saying, it could be worse, no?
- Queen Maeve: [finds Starlight throwing up in the bathroom] You want me to hold your hair back?
- Starlight: Don't touch. Leave me alone, I'm not in the mood.
- Queen Maeve: Not in the mood for what?
- Starlight: Your bottomless casual cruelty. So just make whatever shitty comment you're gonna make and then go.
- [pause]
- Queen Maeve: [holds up her wrist] Look.
- Starlight: What am I supposed to be looking at?
- Queen Maeve: My radius never healed straight. I really did break every bone in my right arm.
- Starlight: What?
- Queen Maeve: Stopping that bus from falling. You said the marketing guys made it up. It was me. 23-year old, bright-eyed, ass you could bounce a quarter off of me. I really did want to make a difference. I really did care. I was just like you. And then I started giving pieces of myself away, and I guess I gave away everything. So you know what? Be... just be original. For fuck's sake. My position is already taken. Be the annoying, goody two-shoes asshole that you are. One of us has to be.
- Homelander: You promised me no more lies. You fucking promised me. You and Vogelbaum should have got your stories straight. They were so close! So fucking close, but there was a few little details that were different. So I went back to Vogelbaum, and I managed to squeeze the truth out of him. The real truth.
- [Stillwell starts to cry]
- Homelander: Yes, that's it.
- Madelyn Stillwell: I'm so sorry. I never should have lied to you. I know now that you don't need to be protected. I'm so sorry. Will you please take Teddy back upstairs?
- Homelander: Did you ever really care about me?
- Madelyn Stillwell: You mean everything to me.
- Homelander: No. No, no. I mean everything to your job. You care more about that fucking baby than you do about me.
- Madelyn Stillwell: No. I love you. I love you, I love you. I swear I love you.
- Homelander: But?
- [Stillwell hesitates]
- Homelander: Tell me the truth, or I walk out right now.
- Madelyn Stillwell: [quietly] I'm scared. I'm scared of you.
- Homelander: What?
- Madelyn Stillwell: I said I'm scared.
- Homelander: Of?
- Madelyn Stillwell: Of you. I'm scared of you.
- Homelander: [tenderly] Thank you. Thank you for finally being honest.
- [Homelander kills Stillwell]
- The Deep: So, when?
- Jeff: When what?
- The Deep: When do I ship out?
- Jeff: Oh. Gosh... you know that water park's opening up a new splash zone, and... and they are real excited to have you cut that ribbon...
- The Deep: You know, I'm seriously leaving, Jeff. Fuck Ohio.
- Jeff: [sheepishly] Here's the sitch: I talked to the guys in New York. And you're not... so much... leaving.
- The Deep: [stunned] What?
- Jeff: They didn't share details. But, hey, the boys in marketing have created a primo tag for you: the Savior of Sandusky! That has a nice ring, doesn't it?
- [while locked in a cell]
- Mother's Milk: Did they get Butcher too?
- Hughie Campbell: No.
- Frenchie: They had you separated? When? When?
- Hughie Campbell: Well, um... he went after Homelander. But I-I came to save you. Yay.
- Mother's Milk: So, you came here. You meant to come here. Without Butcher.
- Hughie Campbell: Yeah.
- Frenchie: [genuinely impressed] C'est incroyable.
- [he grabs Hughie and kisses him on both cheeks]
- Frenchie: Never has a man thrown his life away so... completely like you've thrown yours away today. No. No, I mean, *you* rescuing *us* is the most useless, futile gesture I can think of!
- Hughie Campbell: Yeah, I-I got it.
- Frenchie: Unbelievable!
- A-Train: Hughie... you killed the only woman I ever loved.
- Hughie Campbell: I didn't kill her.
- A-Train: [sweating, breathing heavily] I know... I did... But it was your fault...
- [collapses]