Gen V season 2 episode 6 reveals some new big details about The Odessa Project – and its ties to Homelander

• Gen V season 2 episode 6 is out now on Prime Video
• It includes a major cameo from The Boys that nobody predicted
• The character in question dropped some huge new details about Project Odessa

Gen V season 2 episode 6 has arrived on Prime Video, and it's full of intriguing reveals that not only set the stage for the show's next two episodes, but also The Boys' fifth and final season.

Titled 'Cooking Lessons', it contains a cameo from a character who first appeared in The Boys, confirmed what our prediction that Marie's sister Annabeth has superpowers, and revealed a bunch of big new details about The Odessa Project / Project Odessa.

Full spoilers immediately follow for Gen V season 2's latest entry. Turn back now if you haven't seen it yet.

Welcome back, Stan Edgar

Let's deal with that big cameo first. After escaping Elmira, Marie and company decide to lay low in an abandoned library to plot their next move against Cipher. That's the plan anyway, until the Amazon TV show's latest Big Bad manages to track them down and sends the Norse god-inspired Supe Vikor after them.

Luckily, Marie and her friends are rescued by someone we didn't expect to see – Zoe Neuman, who murders Vikor using her mouth-based tentacle abilities. For those who need reminding: Zoe is the daughter of dead Supe politician Victoria Neuman, who was killed by Billy Butcher in The Boys season 4 finale.

That's not the big cameo I'm talking about, though. Moments later, we see Zoe has been accompanied by none other than Stan Edgar, aka the former CEO of the Supe-manufacturing megacorporation Vought Inc.

There's no mention of how the pair were reunited. Remember, following Victoria's death in the final episode of The Boys season 4, Zoe was sent to Red River, aka the Vought-founded institution for orphaned Supe kids. Meanwhile, Edgar was last seen being rescued by Victoria, aka his estranged adoptive daughter, in season 4 episode 5.

Until now, we didn't know what had happened to him. But, considering Zoe is Edgar's adoptive granddaughter, he must have tracked her down to Red River, become her guardian, and brought her back to live with him at his underground base of operations.

Project Odessa's ties to Homelander and Cipher's plan revealed

But I digress. After agreeing to accompany Edgar back to his secret headquarters, Marie and company soon learn the truth about Project Odessa.

Gen V season 2's three-episode premiere already revealed some key intel on The Odessa Project. Namely, that it was the brainchild of Thomas Godolkin and Marie was seemingly its only success story. However, as Edgar prepares to make a hungry Marie, Jordan, and Cate some frittatas, he enlightens the trio about the whole project.

As it happens, The Odessa Project was devised by Godolkin to create God-tier superhumans who would, one assumes, rule planet Earth. This plan was teased via an inscription on a plinth that a bronze bust of Godolkin sits on in Godolkin University's (God U) courtyard, which reads: 'The path shall begin here, where mortals become gods'.

According to Edgar, Project Odessa failed at first. However, a breakthrough was achieved in the 1980s – and, surprise surprise, it has something to do with Homelander. That's because, as I predicted in the aforementioned Odessa Project explained article, The Boys' primary villain was the first Supe created as part of the program. Marie, then, wasn't the first and only individual to come out of it.

That's not all. Again, as I outlined in my Odessa Project article, Compound V, i.e. the serum that imbues people with superhuman abilities, can cause side effects in kids, teens, and adults. Injecting it into an embryo as part of, say, an in-vitro fertilization (IVF) program would circumnavigate this problem and ensure babies are born with Compound V written into their DNA.

Gen V's latest chapter confirms this. Indeed, Edgar says that the advent of IVF allowed Vought to inject Compound V into Odessa subjects at the blastocyst stage (essentially, an early-stage embryo). Newborns would be, well, born with the Supe-creating serum as part of their genetic make-up and therefore be more powerful than your average superhuman. FYI, Edgar was the one who shut down Project Odessa. Initially, Marie didn't display superhuman aptitude, so she was considered to be a failure, hence the program's shuttering.

But wait, there's even more. In one of the best Prime Video shows' latest episode, Edgar also admits Godolkin has the power to stop Homelander.

When Edgar later shows other top-secret Vought files to Marie, we catch glimpses of a high frequency whistle device, as well as a superpower-blocking neck brace. The latter's design looks like the same ones that incarcerated Supes wear at Elmira, which is basically The Boys' take on the Mutant Inhibitor Collars that any detained X-Men and other mutants are forced to wear in Marvel Comics. It's unlikely, though, that either of these devices would actually work on Homelander.

Regardless, Edgar also tells the triumvirate that Godolkin believes he can control Supes. We've already seen examples of this in Gen V season 2, with Cipher, who fans think is a human vessel that Godolkin controls, being able to control Jordan during their staged fight with Marie in season 2 episode 4. You can remind yourself about that via my Gen V season 2 Cipher's powers explained piece.

Is this another clue, then, that Godolkin is the heavily-scarred individual we saw in that hyperbaric chamber in this season's fourth episode? And does it confirm he's actually controlling the man known as Cipher to puppeteer events from the shadows?

Edgar seems to think Godolkin and Cipher are completely separate people – indeed, he says as much by telling the group that, while Godolkin wants to control Supes, Cipher wants Supes to rule over humanity. In a separate scene later on, Cipher tells Polarity he wants to cull 75% of Godolkin University's Supe population so only the strongest remain, which lends credence to Edgar's claim.

However, when the trio fill him in on what they know about Godolkin and Cipher, Edgar soon changes his tune. He didn't believe the long-standing rumor that Godolkin had survived that terrible lab fire in 1967, either, but what Marie and company tell him forces him to change his mind.

Understandably, all of this raises new questions. Are Homelander and Marie the only God-like Supes in existence? And, after his big lore dump, can we trust Edgar, or is he simply using everyone to eventually regain control of Vought in The Boys season 5?

Furthermore, despite the Nazi and KKK memorabilia in that secret room in Godolkin University's library, is Godolkin actually a good guy who wants to help Marie and company stop Homelander? If so, is Cipher/Godolkin pushing Marie to unlock her true potential because she's the only one powerful enough to kill Homelander?

I suspect the answers to the latter are both "no", with "TBC" being the response to my other queries. Hopefully, we'll get answers to those questions and more in Gen V season 2's final two episodes. Lord knows that, as a fanbase, we'll be annoyed if we have to wait for The Boys' fifth and final season to get them.

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