Gen V. Season 2 has made its prime video debut – and surprisingly, we have already learned a reasonable agreement on its primary mystery.
First teased in Gen V. Season 2’s first trailer, the Odessa project seems to play a big role in the show’s latest rate and potentially give answers to some of our biggest questions about The boys universe. And with Season 2’s first three episodes out now, we’ve found out more than we probably expected of this secret experiment and its bond to put together V.
Full spoilers immediately follow for Gen V. Season 2 Episodes 1 to 3.
Like the SPEP killing virus created and tested at several Godolkin University (God U) students in an underground facility called Woods, the Odessa project is a hidden operation performed in the intestines of the Vought-owned educational institution.
We immediately get some indication that it is linked to the development of composite V, alias the blue -colored serum that gives superhuman abilities to anyone who is injected with it.
This season’s first chapter, entitled ‘New Year, New You’, opens with a flashback to 1967 and introduces us to Doctor Thomas Godolkin. The university’s founder and right man to Doctor Frederick Vought, ie. The inventor of Compound V and founder of Vought International, Thomas Godolkin tries and fails to prevent his co-researchers from even managing a prototype version of the supplementary serum.
Long story Short: They all die because of the different effects in which the serum has on them, while Godolkin seems to perish from carbon monoxide poisoning after a fire breaks out in the laboratory they are all present in.
Quickly to the present and Gen V.‘s primary protagonist Marie Moreau is on the run after breaking out of Elmira adult rehabilitation center after her prison in Gen V.‘s season 1 final. It’s not long before she’s traced by that Supe known as Dogknot for the Sleazy Motel she hides in. Fortunately for Marie, Annie January/Star Light, last looked at the escape to the place unknown in The boys Season 4’s finale arrives and saves Marie.
How Annie found that Marie is a question for another day because Annie soon tells Marie that a Vought Insider told Annie that Vought is seeking to restart the development of the Odessa project. To find out if it is true, Annie convinces a reluctant Marie to restore God, and in the process you will find out what Project Odessa actually is.
Coincidentally, Marie has her own ties to it. Reunited with its besties Emma and Jordan in section 2, alias ‘Justice never forgets’, Marie fills them in the hidden experiment. Later the episode, Emma – that goes with Polarity, father of the deceased God U students others Anderson – discovers a secret space in Thomas Godolkin -Wing at the University Library.
In the middle of the Nazi, KKK and other right-wing appliances, Emma finds a file on the Odessa project. She runs across campus, she finds Marie and Jordan and hand over the file to the former. Cue a stunned Marie who read it and learned that she was not only part of the Odessa project, but she was also the only survivor.
But wait there’s more. Section 3, entitled ‘H is to Human’, visits Marie Aunt Pam, the best friend of Marie’s dead mother who refused to see Marie for years. Remember, Marie accidentally killed her parents as her blood manipulation powers manifested in puberty.
In any case, after an originally frosty reunion at home Pam’s home, Pam begins to open up Marie about what she knows about the Odessa project. Essentially, Marie’s parents couldn’t get pregnant naturally, nor could they resort to IVF treatment because it was too expensive. Go forward Vought, who offered them a way to get a baby (ie Marie) via her own IVF style treatment by God U.
That’s not all. Pam shows Marie some printed photographs of the day she was born and who stands there and holds Marie as a newborn? No one but Cipher, also known as the university’s enigmatic and recently installed new teacher. As it happens, Cipher, which Pam calls “Doctor Gould” helped deliver Marie.
It’s … Much for Marie and by power of attorney, us as viewers-to take in, but the three-episode premiere of one of the best Prime Video Shows’ second season is not the first time we have found project Odessa.
IN The boys Season 4 section 4, alias the one in which Homelander takes an ultraviolent trip down the memory track to the laboratory he grew up in, can a reference to something called ‘Odessa’ can be seen on a bulletin board.
At that time, the only thing we learned about Odessa was that it is a “high security project of the strictest confidence” and that anyone found to have broken the non-revelation agreement (NDA) over the secret project would be fired and sued by Vought.
Now that we know that the Odessa project has passed since the 1960s, it is plausible that Homelander, born in 1981, was its first success story. It is also possible that given her own birth, Marie is the only time Vought has recreated the process that created Homelander.
So much as Gen V. continues to pull the veil back on the Odessa project and Marie’s commitment to it but the things we learn in The boys‘Sibling Show raises some interesting questions.
For starters, is it a way of virted to create newborn people with composite V already woven into their genetic composition? Thanks to The boysWe know that the chemical can cause side effects. Injection of it into children, teens and even adults is also an invasive and incredibly pain procedure, so these two questions would be resolved if Vought finds a way to construct newborns with composite V already locked into their DNA.
If Vought wants to restart the Odessa project, does that mean that Homelander, USA’s newly installed shadow president, also wants to create an army of supes from birth? Given that he has just been drafted as God U’s new dean, digits digit secretly resuming this research? Is Marie Safe or because she is the only other success story besides Homelander, could she be used a guinea pig to try to recreate/perfect the procedure? And what influence could all this have on The boys Season 5, alias the Amazon TV Original’s last installment to go out in 2026?
Hopefully, Gen V. Season 2 will satisfy our need for answers in the next five episodes. With a week back (at the time of publication), until the fourth chapter lands on one of the world’s best streaming services, let me know about your project Odessa theories in the comments below.
