Gen V Season 2 made its privileged video debut – and, surprisingly, we have already learned a good deal on its main mystery.
Teased first in Gen V The initial trailer of season 2, the Odessa project seems to play a big role in the last episode of the show and potentially provide answers to some of our biggest questions Boys universe. And, with the first three episodes of season 2 now, we discovered more than what we were probably waiting for about this secret experience and its links with the compound V.
Complete spoilers immediately follow for Gen V Season 2 episodes 1 to 3.
Like the Supe-Killing virus that has been created and tested on many students from Godolkin University (God U) in an underground establishment called The Woods, the Odessa project is a secret operation carried out in the entrails of the educational institution belonging to Voughts.
We are immediately given an indication that it is linked to the development of compound V, alias the blue serum which grants superhuman capacities to any injected person.
The first chapter of this season, entitled “New Year, New You”, opens on a flashback in 1967 and presents Doctor Thomas Godolkin. The founder and right-wing man of the university at Doctor Frederick Vought, that is to say the inventor of Compound V and founder of Vought International, Thomas Godolkkin tries-and fails-prevent his scientific colleagues from self-administering a prototype version of the serum of the creation of super-creation.
In short, they all die because of the different effects that serum has on them, while Godolkin apparently perishes carbon monoxide poisoning after a fire breaks into the laboratory in which they are all present.
Rapid advance to the present, and Gen VThe main protagonist, Marie Moreau, is on the run after having burst from the Elmira Adult Rehabilitation Center after her imprisonment in Gen VFinal of season 1. It takes long before it is found by the Supe known under the name of Dogknot of the Sléche motel in which it hides. Fortunately for Marie, Annie January / Starlight, who was seen for the last time by fleeing towards where he is unknown in Boys The final of season 4 arrives and saves Marie.
How Annie found Marie is a question for another day, because Annie soon told Marie that an initiate of Vought told Annie that Vought sought to restart development on the Odessa project. To discover if it is true, Annie convinces a reluctant Marie to reintegrate into God U and, in the process, to discover what Odessa really is.
By coincidence, Marie has her own links with him. Bringing together with his besties Emma and Jordan in episode 2, alias “Justice Never Forgets”, Marie fills them in the secret experience. Later this episode, Emma – who teams up with Polarity, the father of the deceased student God U Andre Anderson – discovers a secret room in the Thomas Godolkin wing at the University Library.
In the middle of Nazi, KKK accessories and other right -wing accessories, Emma finds a file on the Odessa project. Current through the campus, she finds Marie and Jordan, and puts the file on the first. Picked a stunned Marie by reading it and learning that not only was she part of the Odessa project, but she was also the only survivor.
But wait, there is more. Episode 3, entitled “H is for Human”, Marie visits Aunt Pam, the best friend of the dead mother of Marie who refused to see Marie for years. Remember, Marie accidentally killed her parents when her blood manipulation powers came out during puberty.
Anyway, after an initially freezing meeting at Aunt Pam, Pam begins to open up to Marie on what she knows about the Odessa project. Essentially, Marie’s parents could not naturally conceive, and they could not resort to the treatment of IVF because it was too expensive. Step Forward Vought, who offered them a way to have a baby (that is to say Marie) via his own IVF style treatment in God U.
That’s not all. Pam shows Marie a few printed photographs of the day she was born – and who stands there by holding Marie like a newborn? No one other than Cipher, alias the enigmatic of the university and recently installed a new school head. In this case, Cipher, whom Pam calls “Doctor Gould”, helped to deliver Marie.
It is … a lot for Marie – and, by proxy, we as viewers – to take into account, but the first of three episodes of one of the best first -rate programs of first -rate programs is not the first time that we have encountered the Odessa project.
In Boys Season 4 Episode 4, alias The one where Homelander makes an ultraviolet trip in the past to the laboratory in which he grew up, a reference to something called “Odessa” can be seen on a babbleman.
At the time, the only thing we learned about Odessa was that it was a “highliest safety security project”, and that anyone who had won the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) on the secret project would be dismissed and prosecuted by Vought.
Now that we know that the Odessa project has been taking place since the 1960s, it is plausible that Homelander, born in 1981, is his first success. It is also possible that, given her own birth, Marie is the only time Vought has recreated the process that created Homelander.
As much as Gen V continues to withdraw the veil on the Odessa project and the involvement of Marie, however, the things we learn in Boys“The brothers and sisters raise interesting questions.
To start, is it a way for Vought to create new humans with a V compound already woven in their genetic composition? Thanks to BoysWe know that chemicals can cause side effects. The injection to children, adolescents and even adults is also an invasive and incredibly painful procedure, so that these two problems would be resolved if Vought finds a means of engineering the new born with the compound V already locked in their DNA.
If Vought wants to restart the Odessa project, does that mean that Homelander, the newly installed American ghost president, also wants to create an army of Supe from birth? Since he has just been written in the new dean of God U, Cipher secretly supervises the resumption of this research? Is Marie safe or, because she is the only other success than Homelander, could it be used a guinea pig to try to recreate / perfect the procedure? And what impact would all have on Boys Season 5, alias The last episode of the original Amazon TV which is to be released in 2026?
Hopefully, Gen V Season 2 will satisfy our need for answers in its next five episodes. With a week to go (at the time of publication) until his fourth chapter lands on one of the best streaming services in the world, let me know your Odessa Theories project in the comments below.
