Last week’s episode of The Boys Season 4 was centered around a party at Tek Knight’s mansion where Homelander, Sister Sage, and Victoria Neuman were supposed to convince the bureaucrats and politicians to turn the United States of America into a Supe-controlled fascist country. Hughie impersonated Webweaver and was nearly gutted by Tek Knight. MM, along with Kimiko and Annie, came to his rescue. MM shot Sister Sage in the head and suffered a panic attack. He was saved by A-Train, who delivered MM to the nearest hospital. He experienced his first “superhero” moment when a child saw A-Train helping someone. Sage’s brain recovered from the injury, but it decreased her intelligence for quite a while, thereby forcing Neuman to step up and convince the aforementioned bureaucrats and politicians. Firecracker took advantage of Sage’s misstep and became Homelander’s most trusted aide by spraying some breast milk on his face. Tek Knight was probably killed by his butler, Elijah, and his former sidekick, Laddio. Butcher was busy forcing Sameer to cook up a new batch of the Supe-killing virus, and that was where he learned that, along with Becca, Kessler was also just a voice in his head. The seventh episode of The Boys Season 4 deals with the repercussions of these events. So, let’s talk about it.
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Sister Sage Realizes That Homelander Doesn’t Trust Her Anymore
Episode 7 of The Boys Season 4 opens with Ryan partaking in a Sesame Street-inspired show featuring The Seven. Ryan struggles to say all the bigoted stuff he is being told to spew on live television, and he leaves. Elsewhere in the Vought Tower, Sister Sage finds out that her position has been taken by Firecracker. Instead of focusing on that, Homelander starts talking about the fact that the party was infiltrated by the titular team, and they’ve listened to everything they said at Tek Knight’s place. By the way, Homelander speculates that Tek Knight is probably dead. So, it’s still unclear if Elijah and Laddio actually killed him. Coming back to the conversation, Homelander wants to go and slaughter Butcher and his team. Sister Sage advises against it. When she tries to elaborate on her plan, Homelander and Firecracker shut her down. They tell her to focus on ensuring that the shooter (who is supposed to take out Robert Singer when he takes the oath as the President of the USA) does his job properly, while the new patriotic and dumb dynamic duo will find the actual leaker of the footage of the death of the Homelander fans because Cameron Coleman wasn’t guilty of leaking anything. In order to let off some steam, Sage decides to get intimate with The Deep, thereby prompting the aquatic Supe to cheat on his octopus lover, Ambrosius.
Butcher Reunites With The Boys
Annie not only finds out that her mother has been kicked out of the Bible study group because of her abortion but also that Hughie has kept her Starlight suit on the off chance that she wants to wear it. This obviously upsets Annie, but the couple has a mature conversation about why she wants to stay away from the persona of Starlight and why she doesn’t want to bring a baby into this terrifying world. The scene briefly focuses on A-Train taking pictures of Sister Sage conspiring with the aforementioned shooter, which he sends to MM, and then we go to The Boys headquarters to see Butcher reuniting with the rest of the team. Probably for the first time in his life, Butcher starts a conversation by telling the truth. He admits that he is holding Sameer hostage in a secluded location and forcing him to cook a batch of the Supe-killing virus. Since Sameer doesn’t know how to make it potent enough to kill Homelander and Neuman without causing a Supe genocide, Butcher has bailed out Frenchie, and he intends to make him work with Sameer on the virus. MM tells Kimiko to go with Frenchie and ensure that the virus is made properly, while Butcher, Annie, and Hughie go in search of the man who has been hired to shoot the future President. Annie reluctantly accepts the fact that Butcher is back on the team. MM goes to Monique and gives her two tickets (one for Monique and one for Janine) to Belize so that they can be safe when things go sideways.
Butcher, Hughie, And Annie Come Across A Shapeshifter
A-Train meets Ashley to thank her for saving his life by throwing Cameron Coleman under the bus. But Ashley is apparently spiraling out, and she wants to leave Vought, and she wants A-Train to come with her. A-Train tells Ashley to get a grip and leaves to monitor Butcher, Hughie, and Annie who are closing in on the person who has been assigned to kill the President. Butcher has a weird conversation with Kessler about Maeve, Becca, and Ryan before breaking into the assassin’s house. Butcher, Hughie, and Annie come across the files that were handed over to him by Sister Sage. But they are distracted by the revelation that a bruised and abused woman is imprisoned in the man’s closet. Well, it turns out that the woman is actually the assassin, and the assassin is a shapeshifter. Yes, it’s a homage to X-Men’s Mystique and Morph, but the shapeshifting Supe’s process of, well, shapeshifting has to be one of the grossest depictions of transforming from one person to another. After touching a person to assume their identity, they have to literally peel off their skin to reveal their new identity. So, they leave a mess everywhere, and it seems like if they don’t shapeshift for too long, they start to burn up. Butcher rightly points out that such a Supe is the perfect person for an assassination mission. Butcher and Annie go to get the files in the assassin’s room while Hughie tends to his wounds. Since A-Train doesn’t see MM working with Butcher, Hughie, and Annie, he goes to his house and finds out that MM is leaving for Belize with his family. MM thinks that even if he stays and fights, the war is never going to end. A-Train tells MM that it’s stupid to think that Homelander’s fascist activities will be limited to the United States of America and he won’t branch out and eventually get to whatever hole MM and his family will be hiding in.
Did The Deep Kill Ambrosius The Octopus?
At the Vought Tower, Homelander kills Webweaver and Firecracker is horrified by the bloody sight, as she comes to the realization that the man she is fawning over is a murderous maniac. Elsewhere, The Deep kills Ambrosius after they get into an argument about the fact that Deep has been cheating on the octopus with Sister Sage. The scene goes on for so long that the tone changes from absurdly funny to disgustingly bone-chilling. This brings about a shift in Deep’s character as he goes from being this dumb and idiotic bootlicker of Homelander to a murderous and unhinged bootlicker of Homelander. Talking about Homelander, he notices a crack on the glass table in the Vought war room, and he sees the reflection of his mural through that crack, and it seems like he has been hit with the realization that all this murdering he has been doing isn’t actually helping him.
Hughie Tries To Persuade Neuman To Not Work With Homelander
Hughie visits Neuman with the sole intention of getting her to cancel her plans of killing the President and turning the US into a fascist state that’ll essentially be ruled by Homelander. He even brings up the fact that Homelander plans to put dissenters into concentration camps, which have been built all across the country. And it seems like Neuman is just learning about the internment camp aspect of the Supes’ plan to take over the country. But she is so deep into this mess that, for her, the only way is through. Hughie assures her that it’s actually not too late and they can still work together to put an end to Homelander. However, Hughie’s words don’t affect Neuman in any significant way.
The Deep And Noir Try To Kill Butcher And Annie
Since Annie doesn’t know that Hughie has gone to meet Neuman, she expresses her worry to Butcher because the last time she saw him, he was going to the store to get his wounds patched up. Her worry turns into fear as she finds out that The Deep and Black Noir have infiltrated The Boys headquarters. The four of them get into a fight, and the showrunners get to feature some of their signature incomprehensive editing and combat choreography. A-Train and MM show up to help Butcher and Annie, thereby confirming that A-Train’s little pep talk has convinced MM to stay in the fight instead of running away with his family to Belize. While Deep and Noir are incapacitated, A-Train returns to the Vought Tower, and this time, he asks Ashley to run away with him. However, since Ashley has sobered up, she tells A-Train to go on his own because she knows that a life of freedom isn’t something that she’ll get to enjoy anytime soon. Meanwhile, Butcher, Annie, and MM chill out at a bar because they can’t stay at their headquarters after it has been infiltrated by the Supes. MM tells Monique that he isn’t coming with her and Janine to Belize, which upsets her very much. Annie tries to learn who Kessler is, but Butcher feigns ignorance because he doesn’t want to reveal that he is talking to the voices in his head.
Homelander Officially Fires Sister Sage
Homelander is sad about the fact that A-Train is the one who has betrayed him. While Firecracker tries to pacify him, Sister Sage reveals that she knew that he was the leaker all this time. Apparently, she was using A-Train to spread the right kind of misinformation to Butcher and his team. Sister Sage scoffs at the fact that Homelander and Firecracker thought that Webweaver was the leaker. Instead of admitting his mistake, Homelander tells Sister Sage to leave and go back to her home in Detroit. Sister Sage tells Homelander that, without her, he is going to be nothing but an unhinged murderer. She reminds him that he hired her because he was sick of people who blindly agreed with him no matter how wrong he was. She made one mistake, and he replaced her with Firecracker, a person who doesn’t have a single intelligent thought flowing through that brain of hers. Sister Sage strategically leaves her Queen Maeve-themed notebook so that Homelander can stay on track by going through her observations and notes even if she isn’t around to guide him. On her way out, it’s revealed that Sister Sage has been getting freaky with both Black Noir and The Deep. Also, she didn’t need to lobotomize herself to get intimate with Noir, thereby proving that she only needed to do that to be on par with Deep’s IQ while they were together.
Frenchie And Kimiko Have A Long-Overdue Conversation
Frenchie and Kimiko reach the abandoned lab to help Sameer with the virus. While he puts Frenchie’s advice to practice, Kimiko has a heart-to-heart with Frenchie about her past. She reveals that, during her time at the Shining Star Liberation Army, she was forced to kill girls of her age under the garb of training them. The trauma of that experience doesn’t allow her to use her vocal cords. Frenchie realizes that it’s better to work on his past with Kimiko, because she is doing the same, instead of suffering alone. This healing moment makes Frenchie think that they should free Sameer once he has made the virus they need, even though they know that Butcher won’t be happy with that. This plan backfires when Sameer administers the virus on Kimiko and then runs away. With no other option left, Frenchie cuts off Kimiko’s leg before the virus spreads all over her body. Thankfully, Kimiko survives, and now, they have an amputated leg full of the Supe-killing virus. That said, it’s still not potent enough to kill Homelander. So, MM tells Frenchie to get working on it while the rest locate the shapeshifter who is out to kill the future President.
Annie Has Been Kidnapped By A Shapeshifter
Ryan goes off-script during another one of his Sesame Street-inspired shows and talks about how he is not comfortable doing Homelander’s bidding and how he misses his mother. This instills some confidence and pride in Butcher as he thinks that Ryan can still be convinced to leave Homelander and come away with him. Soon after that, he passes out on the floor of a pub. The scene then shifts to Annie and Hughie’s home, where Annie dons the Starlight costume and gets intimate with Hughie. It feels like a weird moment because all of them are in a tough situation, and sex is supposed to be the last thought on their mind. Annie has been going through so much that she hasn’t been able to think about anything that’s synonymous with romance. Well, it turns out that that’s not actually Annie who is getting intimate with Hughie, it’s the shapeshifting Supe-assassin. When Butcher, MM, and Annie were at the bar after their fight with Noir and Deep, the shapeshifter pretended to be a fan and got close to Annie to get her identity. When she went to the restroom, the shapeshifter abducted her and imprisoned her in an abandoned house. While Annie tries to break the massive cuffs on her hands, her doppelganger steals all the data that Hughie has in his safe. If you’re wondering why the shapeshifter hasn’t killed Annie, well, as mentioned before, the shapeshifter can’t pretend to be one person for a long amount of time or else they start to burn up. So, they need to have access to Annie or her DNA to keep their counterfeit skin fresh. It’s only a matter of time before the shapeshifter’s truth is discovered, but it’s obvious that they’re going to undo all the progress that The Boys have made. Will they recover from that? We’ll have to wait till next week to get the answer to that.
