The episode follows Hughie Campbell, Mother's Milk and Annie January going on a road trip in order to find a lead with a mysterious superheroine named Liberty who has been missing from the public eye for many years, where they will also realize the true reason of her disappearance.
Meanwhile, Billy Butcher manages to reunite with his wife Becca for the first time in eight years following her disappearance and plans to rescue her from Vought's control.
Butcher manages to infiltrate the Vought compound where Becca and Ryan are being kept, meeting her for the first time in eight years as the two tearfully embrace.
Valerie reveals that Liberty murdered her brother Myron when she was 11 years old and that Vought paid her parents in order to ensure their silence.
Cherie makes him realize that he wants to help her to deal with his guilt over his failure to save Mallory's grandchildren and recommends him to back off and let Kimiko grieve in her own way.
During a protest against Vought, Kimiko attempts to approach Stormfront intending to kill her and avenge her brother, but Frenchie stops her believing that she would not survive.
Growing more unstable, Homelander visits Doppelganger dressed as Madelyn Stilwell[b] in a cabin to satisfy his sexual fantasies.
[1][2] The series showrunner and head writer Eric Kripke was already writing on the scripts for the season, having started to work on them during the 2018 United States elections in order to capture the topics and themes that it would be explored for the season accurately, which would be the white nationalism, white supremacy, systemic racism, and xenophobia.
[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.
[9] The episode also continues Becca's storyline with Billy Butcher being reunited with her for the first time in eight years after her disappearance and presumed death, however the former refuses to go with him knowing that he would abandon her son Ryan for having Homelander as his father.
[10] 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.
[11] Also starring are Elisabeth Shue as Doppelgänger (Madelyn Stillwell), Shantel VanSanten as Becca Butcher, Jessica Hecht as Carol Manheim, Abraham Lim as Kenji Miyashiro, Jordana Lajoie as Cherie, Dawnn Lewis as Valerie Hunter, Howard Campbellas Myron Hunter, and Laila Robins as Grace Mallory.
[17] The episode features the following songs which are "Le Temps" by Kaaris and "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel.
During her review she commented that "the reason for which she compares When Harry Met Sally with the episode is punctuated by interstitials that invoke but with what, we learn, are essentially wife candidates auditioning to help rehabilitate The Deep's image.
"[23] Brian Tallerico from Vulture rated the episode with 3 stars out of 5, where he complemented Urban's performance as a more vulnerable Butcher as well s the chemistry between Quaid and Moriarty, but criticizing the episode for its slow pacing and writing by stating that it "could have been accomplished in two-thirds the running time, pushing us with more urgency into the back half of the season, instead of feeling like a show that's kind of spinning its wheels before it gets to the good stuff.