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| “ | I was so relieved when you contacted me about my research. I could not stand by any longer while Dean Shetty twisted my work. You and I have the same goals, right? Compassionate control. | „ |
| ~ Edison Cardosa to Victoria Neuman about Supe Virus before dying. |
Dr. Edison Cardosa is the secondary antagonist in Season 1 of the Amazon series Gen V, a spin-off series of The Boys. He's a gifted doctor contracted for Vought International with ties to the University, utilizing The Woods, a mysterious underground medical facility, to experiment on innocent Supes.
He was portrayed by Marco Pigossi.
Biography[]
Not much is known about Edison other than that he is a talented doctor who employed his abilities for Vought International's secret medical facility, The Woods, to study Supes and learn how to control them. As a result, Edison and Richard Brinkerhoff worked together seamlessly to ensure that he maintained his cover flawlessly, leaving no room for suspicion from his family or students at Godolkin University. In the Woods, a frustrated Edison prepares for Sam Riordan's surgery. Indira Shetty arrives and tells him to relax. The two speak for a brief moment about Brink's death before Edison starts operating on Sam, who yells out in agony.
Edison and Shetty discover Sam's escape from his cell and his slaughter of the facility's guards. He asserts that Sam escaped on his own, but she instead believes the escaped student was aided by someone else, noticing a small shoe in the pool of blood before ordering him to locate Sam with the remaining guards, reminding Edison that news of Sam's escape will bring Vought's attention to them. Later, as he returns home, Edison discovers an angry Sam threatening his family. He pleads with the Supe to spare them and pushes them away to safety, asking Sam to keep his attention on him and not them. Sam approaches his former abuser but is knocked away by the fridge slamming into him, controlled by Andre Anderson, who is joined by other students attempting to stop him from killing Edison. Shetty meets Edison in the Woods, where he demonstrates the progress of the current virus on a patient named Betsy. Betsy attempts to attack them, but the virus inhibits her powers. He explains that the virus attaches to Compound V in a Supe's blood and thus shouldn't infect humans. Edison calls the current trial a success and wishes to inform Vought of the results, but Shetty insists he test the virus further and increase the dosage. When Shetty returns, Edison is in distress and reveals that, despite only slightly increasing the dosage, Betsy has died from the virus. Instead, Shetty is impressed and questions if he can make the virus contagious. Edison is ordered by Shetty to test the virus on several patients, watching with visible discomfort as they plead for their lives. He is shocked when Shetty asks him to make it air-borne. Edison attempts to convince her otherwise, explaining that such a virus could devastate the Supe population, but she ignores his concern. He then threatens her with going to Vought and explaining that she has made a virus capable of killing Supes, but she reminds him that it is his project and his creation, and that he will subsequently take the downfall should he go public with the information. Later, a drunken Edison enters Shetty's office while holding his report of the virus, angered and troubled by her demands to increase the virus' lethality and her threats to bring him down should he stop his work. He notices a decanter beside her desk and takes a gulp before urinating into it to relieve himself of his stress at her orders. He slams the report onto Shetty's desk and curses her before leaving.
In a parking lot building, he secretly meets with Victoria Neuman to speak out to Vought about his work. Holding a tank with test tubes of the virus, he explains that it is not exceptionally contagious. Neuman thanks him for his bravery to come forward. Still somewhat unsure of her goals, Edison attempts to ask her if they both believe in compassionate control, to which she agrees, asking if she can steal his words. Edison adds that he hopes she will protect him and his family should information on the virus be released, to which she gives him a card in exchange for the samples. She asks if it contains all samples of the virus and that he is the only one who can replicate it, which he confirms, earning her praise as a hero. He nods at her compliment and looks at the card he is holding, realizing with confusion that it is completely blank, before a drop of blood falls onto it. He apologizes and states that the air is dry, only for his head to suddenly explode in a bloody mess of gore, killed by Neuman using her powers.
Legacy[]
Neuman took the virus to a hidden laboratory under a farm that formerly belonged to her adopted father, Stan Edgar; she aimed for her own scientists to test and strengthen the virus in the hope of being lethal to Homelander. Lead scientist was Dr. Sameer Shah, who was the only survivor after V-powered hamster broke containment of other test animals, and caused Compound V to leak into the ground water, converting life stock into supe monsters. The creatures were destroyed, and area effectively quarantined; although, the severed leg of Shah suggested he was devoured by the supe animals before they could be killed.
However, Shah actually lived, with his leg cut off by Billy Butcher to fake his death, as he intended the scientist to continue work on the virus, while preventing Neuman from having it. Shah revealed that the farm lab tests had indicated it was impossible to make the virus strong enough to kill Homelander, without it mutating into a stronger strain that would eventually kill everyone with Compound V in their veins. Shah refused due to his affection for Neuman and knowledge that the daughter he had with her, Zoe, had also been dosed by V, thereby would be susceptible to supe-killing pandemic. Eventually, Shah seemed to be convinced to keep trying under the impression that it would only be used on Homelander.
Butcher arranged for Frenchie to join Shah in his work, with Kimiko as a guard. Shah successfully created a new dose, but injected it into Kimiko, escaping in the confusion and panic. Frenchie was able to dismember her leg before the virus spread up into her whole body. Butcher forced Frenchie to resume work, using the viral sample in Kimiko's detached leg. Frenchie was able to create a new dose of the supe-killing virus, although was unsure if it would be effective on Homelander.
During a meeting between the Boys and Neuman, who had switched to their side out of fear of what Homelander would do to Zoe, the Boys maintained precaution by having Frenchie aim a powerful rifle with the virus in a dart, ready to infect her if it was another deception. Butcher interrupted the meeting, revealing his tumour caused by V24 had mutated from a half-dose of Compound V he took in a failed attempt to stop its growth; it grew organic tendrils that were strong enough to withstrain Neuman and rip her in half, causing her death.
Frenchie almost shot Butcher with the virus out of anger for his hypocrisy of becoming like a supe again, as well as ruining the damage they could have done to Vought with Neuman. Despite threatening him, Frenchie was unable to pull the trigger, therefore Butcher stole the virus, seeming to intend to enact the supe genocide that his darker instincts wanted him to unleash.
External Link[]
- Edison Cardosa on the Boys Wiki.
