This article contains spoilers for season 2 of Gen V to episode 4, “bags”.
One of the greatest mysteries of Season 2 of Gen V on Prime Video is not one thing is a person. Who is Cipher, the new dean of Godolkin University, played by Hamish Linklater? Heck, “mystery” is almost literally his name, as a figure is defined as “a message in the code”. Since the fourth episode of the season, we have some answers, at least in terms of an aspect of this particular mystery: Cipher’s powers. But there is more to come, so let’s go.
In the episode, while Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair) and Jordan Li (London Thor / Derek Luh) are forced in a mixed -style martial arts cage match, the rest of the gang – now gathered with the previous “bad” Cate Dunlap (Maddie Phillips) – investigating the figure to close the fight. A key ingredient of the plan? Marie, who has blood -based powers, is able to say that Cipher has no compound V in her system. This means, according to our goalkeeper Scrappy de Godolkin, that he is not A Supe, so what East An ordinary human man making a superemacist school supens like God U?
Complete the plans a little is that they volunteer to use his powers to “push” to force Cipher to confess his humanity. The only problem with that Have the powers of Cate have been spoiled since Marie, Jordan and Emma (Lizze Broadway) opened his head during the first of the season. So, without being able to do what is asked to do, Cate is sent to push Cipher to admit that he has no power on a camera in which Emma sneaks via her narrowed powers in the toilets in a private suite on the night of combat “hostility to university” between Marie and Jordan. Follow it all?
With this particular comedy of errors already imperfect at the beginning, things only worsen once Cipher reveals that he knows all the aspects of their plan and seems completely tickled by the groping of gang in darkness.
“Okay, you understand,” said Cipher. “I am human. And I bet you wonder how I got out so long. ”
He then reveals that he knows the camera and that Cate cannot use his powers of push correctly, and when Cate suggests that there is no V in his blood, he discovers that Marie also provided this information.
“Here, look at this,” said Cipher, and that’s where we get the great revelation.
What are Cipher’s powers on generation V? Puppet powers with meat, baby!
While Cate looks and Marie tries to close the fight by kissing Jordan, Cipher essentially takes Jordan’s body. Cipher signals them to the dean box, speaks through Jordan’s mouth and generally controls Jordan “like a meat puppet, without strings”.
While Jordan is shit, Cipher clearly takes the opportunity to train Marie. He pushes her until Marie uses her blood powers to float Jordan in the air, but a side effect is that Marie manages to repel Cipher’s control of Jordan’s body, something he seems surprised.
Married Also Almost makes Jordan bursts like the little bag of blood they are; It is Marie, however. Let’s talk about Cipher.
To put it more clearly, he can marry people and perhaps also animals (otherwise TBD on this last point). It is quite non -specific, and it is clearly necessary to be explored here, but it seems quite possible on the basis of a careful study of the source material (meaning: watch each episode of Gen v) that its powers are based on blood like Marie. The reasoning is that during the first season, we discovered that Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) was not a simple “popper head” as we can see on the boys, but she had powers based on the manipulation of blood, giving her a connection point with Marie.
If Cipher also has blood -based powers, this would greatly contribute to explaining a large part of her general interest for Marie, as well as the way in which he takes her in this episode. The title “Bags” takes its name from a sequence where Cipher places a few bags of blood on a table and asks Marie to move them from one table to another. After a false departure, she do Move them, so they improve the exercise towards a goat named Elon Musk, with Cipher explaining that living beings are not very different from thin plastic bags holding blood. “What if I kill Elon?” Ask Marie, with Cipher responding: “This is why we named them for the assholes.” Although it is more complicated than simply floating the Jordan (or Elon Musk the goat), it certainly seems to be what Cipher is capable of doing – manipulating a human body to do what he wants, including by pronouncing the words he wants to speak.
Is this perhaps the ultimate evolution of Marie’s powers? Has Cipher trained it from the start? There is a lot of paternity in the relationship, and we have already seen it – like Dr. Gold – Cipher was not only in the prison of Elmira who held Marie and her friends between the seasons of Gen V, but was also there in the Odessa project, which helped her create. Perhaps Cipher considers Marie as her heir, or – while he is called “Yoda” in this episode – perhaps a more precise point of comparison is Dark Vader. After all, thanks to the genetically creation of creation by the Odessa project, Cipher is a step to say to Marie: “No, I Am your father.
There is a small complication of little-small here, however …
What about the lack of compound V in Cipher’s blood?
The fact is that Marie has still not detected any compound V in Cipher’s blood, which throws a big key in all this power. Everything in the world of boys and Gen V is based on the compound V being the source of superpowers – not being bitten by a radioactive spider, coming to the earth of an extraterrestrial planet, or any other origin of comics.
There are variations on compound V, including V24 (also known as Tem V), but there have not yet been natural powers in the franchise. Perhaps Cipher is the first, but it is not particularly likely, mainly because we head for the last season of boys; Suddenly introducing natural superpowers halfway through a spin-off would be a strange swerve that would change the game unpredictable.
We have a large clue, however, in that, despite being enigmatic – again, it’s just in the name – Cipher has lied on anything all the season as far as we know. Take a look at the above quote, in which he tells Cate that he is human; He does not deny it, or says that Cate does not know what she is talking about.
To imagine a line, I think you should leave: Oh my God, he admits it! What is this admission means is a good question. Let’s say that Cipher once again says the truth, and he East human. How does he also have powers? There is a big index on this mystery, but for that, we must speak another Mystery in this episode.
What about Cipher’s “dad”, alias the man burned in the hyperbaric room?
Previously, we were tinked about a strange room locked in Cipher’s house. Thanks to the intrepid investigators Cate and Jordan, we discovered what was behind door No. 1: Cipher’s father, horribly burned, in a hyperbaric room … or at least, we are said He’s Cipher’s father.
By bringing together pieces that Jordan and Cate did not, at the start of the first of the season, met Thomas Godolkin, played by the nasty star Ethan Slater. Godolkin worked on the Odessa project, which seemed to develop an unstable serum – perhaps a variant of compound V – which did not work. He killed most of the scientists who used it horrible, and the last one we saw of Tommy, he was burned to death in an out of control laboratory.
It is not too exaggerated to think that the horribly burned man we see in episode 4 is, in fact, Thomas Godolkin, as opposed to a horribly burned man completely different. How he survived, if that East He is an open question, but Godolkin being Cipher’s father would certainly explain how Cipher became dean of the school. This would also explain why Cipher immediately brought back Thomas Godolkin Day in the previous episode.
And … it could also explain how Marie cannot detect the V in Cipher’s blood. Perhaps the whole project that Oodessa is developing was not exactly the V compound, but something else. If Cipher draws his powers from this, he might not be detectable by Marie, at least not in the same way.
There is another possibility, however, which is strongly suggested by all the thing “puppet with meat”, but we do not want to take too much ahead of our skis on that one.
At the end of episode 4, Cipher’s powers are physical and mental manipulations, mainly other living beams. As for the other parts of the mystery? Well, this is a figure that we will disentangle during the rest of season 2.
