‘Gen V’ Season 2 Finale Recap And What Happens To Characters

Ethan Slater on season two, episode eight of “Gen V.”

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Warning: Spoilers ahead for season two, episode eight of Gen V.

The season two finale of Gen V has arrived.

After utilizing a Trojan horse ploy, Marie (Jaz Sinclair) and her friends have a showdown against Thomas Godolkin (Ethan Slater), who’s determined to rid the campus of “useless” supes. Here’s a full recap of what happened in the latest episode of Prime Video’s superhero satire series.

The finale opens with the same flashback from the start of the season, set in 1967. The previous scene ended with Godolkin passing out while trying to pull the fire alarm. In the finale’s flashback, Godolkin awakens and injects himself with Compound V. As his skin becomes inflamed, fire from the lab spreads and he screams as his body gets burned.

Doug Fills In Blanks About Godolkin’s Past

In the present day, Doug (Hamish Linklater) is recovering from being freed of Godolkin’s control. He tells Marie and her friends that 60 years ago, Godolkin injected himself with the same Compound V that Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) and Stormfront (Aya Cash) took, making him ageless. Doug is Godolkin’s second puppet and has been under his control for 30 years. When Godolkin first took over Doug’s mind, he made him kill the first host with his bare hands.

Godolkin, meanwhile, is having a blast being back in his own body, indulging in copious amounts of food and wine. He tells Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) that she was right about all the pieces of their plan falling into place as expected, beginning with planting information on Project Odessa for Starlight (Erin Moriarty) to find, knowing it would lead to Marie returning to God U. Sage asks Godolkin to move in with her at her apartment at Seven Tower, but he’s preoccupied with one last thing he wants to do at God U.

As Polarity (Sean Patrick Thomas) drives Doug to a hospital for proper treatment, Doug recalls interacting with Andre (Chance Perdomo) at Elmira. He calls Andre “fearless” and “the greatest hero I’ve ever seen.”

Those are Doug’s last words, because they’re attacked by The Boys character Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell), who kills Doug by stabbing him through the car with a sword.

At the dorms, Emma (Lizze Broadway) theorizes that Godolkin wants to puppet Marie and take over her body forever. Marie says that Godolkin convinced her that she was special, but she doesn’t believe that anymore. She still sees herself as the girl who self-harms when she’s sad. Emma reveals to Marie that she purged at Elmira. She tells Marie that they’re messed up, but at least they have each other to help carry the baggage and support each other.

Marie finally understands how Vought manipulated and used Cate (Maddie Phillips), because Godolkin did the same thing to her. She forgives Cate and heals her powers.

Godolkin Enacts His Plan To Decrease The God U Population

Godolkin announces that he’s alive, the rankings have been reset and he’s opening his advanced seminar, where everyone will have the chance to join the top 10. It’s really just a trap to lure Marie so Godolkin can control her.

At the seminar, Godolkin tells the supes that they’re undeserving of their powers and have to prove they’re worthy or die trying. He manipulates them into attacking and killing each other. Sage, who’s watching in disproval, gets a call from Homelander (Antony Starr) and declines it.

After a strained relationship all season long, Jordan (London Thor and Derek Luh) breaks up with Marie. They tell Marie that they always end up in the same situation, with Marie leaving them behind to do things on her own, and Jordan doesn’t want to be angry with her.

“But I would love if I could be your friend,” Jordan says.

After the first session concludes, Godolkin tells Sage that he’s applying his own principles to himself and accelerating his own evolution for their future. He thinks that once he’s powerful enough, he’ll be able to control Marie, and if he’s capable of doing that, he can also control Homelander. Sage says there’s no reason to control Homelander, but Godolkin says that the Seven leader and his fragile ego are holding back supes from reaching their full potential. Sage argues that Homelander is a vital part of phase two of her plan.

“I know, but my plan is so much better,” Thomas says, ignoring her.

Marie interrupts Godolkin’s class and he puppeteers the students to attack her. She cues Black Hole (Wyatt Dorion), who has a quantum singularity in his anus, and Greg (Stephen Thomas Kalyn), Sam (Asa Germann), Jordan, Harper (Jessica Clement), Ally (Georgie Murphy) and Emma emerge.

Everyone contributes to the fight, but Godolkin succeeds in puppeteering Marie.

Under his control, Marie uses her powers to cause her friends internal pain and says that there’s no place for the weaklings at God U “or in the world to come.”

Polarity bursts into the room and breaks Godolkin’s hold on Marie. Then, he starts beating up Godolkin, getting vengeance for Andre’s death. As Godolkin tries to control Polarity, Marie uses her powers to explode Godolkin’s head.

“That was for Andre,” she says after killing him.

Marie And The Gang Join The Resistance

Afterward, Polarity urges the group to flee together because Vought will be looking for a scapegoat for the latest campus massacre.

Emma and Polarity have an emotional goodbye, where he tells her that he’s not sure how to continue without Andre, but he’s going to try and knows that his son will always be with him. Greg also stays behind, telling Emma that he can’t run off with her because his sister, Ally, is here. Emma understands and kisses him before leaving.

Marie, Jordan, Emma, Sam, Cate and Annabeth (Keeya King) leave God U and go on the run together. While trying to find Stan Edgar’s (Giancarlo Esposito) hideout, they pull over to take a bathroom break.

Cate points out that Emma and Sam seem to be getting along nicely, but Emma says that she’s still single and not with anyone. Marie offers to drop Annabeth back at Pam’s (Judith Scott) house, but she decides to stay with the group because they can use all the help they can get. Annabeth hugs Marie and tells her that she’s a hero.

The streetlights start flickering and Annie January/Starlight flies in and greets the supes. She says that Sage leaked the Odessa intel and she fell for it, and if the group hadn’t figured it out, they’d be in deep trouble. Annie says that she’s impressed and enlists them to join the resistance.

When Sam asks how Annie found them, she reveals that she had help from her speedy accomplice: A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), who was last seen fleeing Seven Tower on season four of The Boys. A-Train tells them they’re rebels now, and need to act like

The Gen V gang looks optimistic and excited about the merging of the two groups, and the finale concludes with a close-up of Marie smiling.

Suddenly, the fifth and final season of The Boys just got a whole lot more interesting.

All episodes of season two of Gen V are streaming on Prime Video.