The episode follows the Boys becoming allies with congresswoman Victoria Newman for an upcoming hearing against Vought with Lamplighter as the chief witness.
However, the plans are thwarted when Hughie Campell and Lamplighter decide to rescue Annie January from Vought after Homelander and Stormfront uncover her betrayal.
The episode starts with an ordinary civilian named Tommy Peterson who continues with his routine and lives a normal life, while also hearing Stormfront news about her ideals against Supe terrorists.
As time passes, Tommy becomes more influenced and radicalized of her ideals leading him to become more suspicious and paranoid towards a foreign grocery store that he suspects of being a Supe terrorist.
During a party for Alastair Adana's birthday, the Deep and A-Train learn that Eagle the Archer is no longer part of the Church of the Collective after they found a controversial video of him and are forbidden to speak with him.
In the news it is revealed that Eagle refused to abandon his mother as the Church asked him and didn't help him to revitalize his career like they promised.
Saddened that he failed to become the hero he promised to be to his father and remorseful over his past actions, Lamplighter commits suicide via self-immolation, much to Hughie's shock and horror.
Using the severed hand of Lamplighter's lifeless body, Hughie frees Donna from her cell as the two set to find Annie, while she fights Black Noir at the conference room.
When a nostalgic Stormfront reminisces about her daughter, Homelander decides to introduce her to his son Ryan, whom he apologizes to for throwing him off the roof and attempting to force him to flight abruptly.
[d] The two ask Vogelbaum to testify against Vought and reveal the truth of Sage Groove Center, but he refuses in order to protect his family to which Mallory understands and the two leave.
Returning to Mallory's mansion, the Boys are angered that Hughie disobeyed orders and allowed the death of Lamplighter, while Annie is grateful that he came to rescue him.
[3] In June 2020, it was announced that the episodes for the second season would be released in a weekly basis instead of dropping all of them in one day in order to make people discuss about the topics for a longer time.
[10] The episode also includes the opening montage of a man being brainwashed by Stormfront's propaganda where he start to accept and follow her ideas which ends on a tragedy.
The montage serves as an analogy of Donald Trump's propaganda to show how it is used to brainwash the followers with supremacist ideals and inspire fear towards them.
[11] The episode main cast includes Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, Antony Starr as John Gillman / Homelander, Erin Moriarty as Annie January / Starlight, Dominique McElligott as Maggie Shaw / Queen Maeve, Jessie T. Usher as Reggie Franklin / A-Train, Laz Alonso as Marvin T. Milk / Mother's Milk (M.M.
), Chace Crawford as Kevin Moskowitz / The Deep, Tomer Capone as Serge / Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female, Nathan Mitchell as Earving / Black Noir, Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett, and Aya Cash as Klara Risinger / Stormfront.
He also praised the heartwarming scene between Frenchie and Kimiko as another of the episode's highlight stating that as the two share a tender moment where she finally teaches him how to properly communicate with her.
[24] Nick Schager from Entertainment Weekly, praised the episode for its portrayal of white supremacism and fascist ideologies through Stormfront, highlighting the opening scene over how a man is brainwashed with those radical ideologies through the news and social media thus representing a real life issue over how the spread of ideas can actually make a regular citizen to violent actions towards what they believe to be terrorists.