While Butcher is recovering at a CIA facility, he has a conversation with Kessler in which he urges him to commit a Supe genocide that would kill Homelander as well, though he rebuffs him before Mallory arrives and calls Ryan.

As the votes certifying Robert Singer's electoral victory are being counted, Hughie begins searching for the files incriminating Victoria Neuman only to discover that they have been deleted by the shapeshifting Annie without his knowledge.

At the same time, Homelander exposes Neuman as Supe on live and orders the remaining Seven to kill anyone who could incriminate them, causing Ashley to inject herself with Compound V and begin to mutate.

After Neuman's death, a devastated Homelander is told by Sister Sage that this was the plan and Steven Calhoun, who will be the new president of the United States, swears loyalty to him.

In a speech, Calhoun declares martial law and Homelander assures that they will take revenge on the "enemies" of the country while all of The Boys are captured except Butcher and Annie, who flies away when she regains her powers.

), Chace Crawford as Kevin Moskowitz / The Deep, Tomer Capone as Serge / Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro / The Female, Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir II, Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett, Claudia Doumit as Victoria Neuman, Cameron Crovetti as Ryan Butcher, Susan Heyward as Jessica "Sage" Bradley / Sister Sage, Valorie Curry as Misty Tucker Gray / Firecracker and Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe Kessler.

Also starring are Jim Beaver as Robert "Dakota Bob" Singer, David Andrews as Senator Calhoun and Jensen Ackles as Ben / Soldier Boy.

"[10] Jante A. Leigh for Digital Spy praised that "The Boys somehow found a way to do what, at the start of the season, felt impossible to achieve – make all the blood, entrails and sinister plot points come alive in an exciting way again" but criticized how Kimiko was taken in the episode "Her voice was taken away from her in a situation she couldn't control.