GEN V Reveals the Truth About Cipher and Changes THE BOYS Universe Forever

It is basically damage control after Jordan’s public airing of Vought and God U’s affairs. He personally takes on Marie as a protege of sorts to train her, and she doesn’t really have a choice. And, to be fair, it does help Marie. She’s able to move contained bags of blood without using her hands nor blood from a cut from another person or herself. 

While Marie trains with him as a distraction, Cate and Jordan lift the keys to Cipher’s place. They go inside the locked room, where there is a record playing, a surgical table, and a chamber. The chamber contains the charred body of someone whom Cipher is keeping alive. They escape as the person’s eyes open. 

Cipher Doesn’t Have Compound V in His Blood in Gen V, Yet He’s a Supe

Meanwhile, Cipher calls Marie out for wanting to know about Odessa. He essentially knows everything, including the photo she found from her birth, and says the school was created basically to create her, the most powerful supe to exist.. Marie does get a distraction when she looks at Cipher and can see his blood running through his veins, and realizes that Cipher doesn’t have V in his system. But is he really? Why wouldn’t Cate be able to read his mind previously if he was just a human? 

Anyway, the crew concocts a plan to take Cipher down and expose his humanness during the big “bender” fight. But Cipher is already a step ahead, telling Cate that, he knows Jordan is her “partner in crime” because his father, who was in the hyperbaric chamber, told him about their exploits. Welp! Cate admits that she was curious and it was foolish to do that.

While recording, she tries to bait him into saying that he’s not a supe but he knows she is recording. But it turns out he does have powers despite Marie not sensing V in his veins. He begins to control Jordan and makes them fight Marie. Just when Marie is about to fully strike back, Cipher relinquishes his control. Yikes.

Is Cipher’s Father Thomas Godolkin in Gen V? 

This is the first time that we’ve ever seen anyone who does not have V in their veins have powers. Even Homelander, who was created in a lab, came from Soldier Boy’s semen which contained Compound V. It is still not clear how Cipher has powers without Compound V in his veins, but surely the answers lie with whomever his father is, who we suspect might be Thomas Godolkin.

We did see him catch on fire in Gen V season two’s opening scene, after all. We are already halfway through the season and cannot wait to see how this all comes together.