The episode opens with a public service announcement with Homelander and a police officer instructing of what to do in case of a Supe terrorist invades a school and how to defend against one.
After the hearing massacre,[a] US Senator Robert Singer tells Victoria Neuman and Grace Mallory that the president has authorized the use of Compound-V to soldiers and security forces to fight Supe terrorists.
They find Queen Maeve and attempt to convince her to testify against Vought but hopeless about winning and tired of fighting, the latter angrily refuses and forces the two to leave.
Having living in an isolated compound with his mother and not accostumated to big crowds of people, Ryan suffers a panic attack causing Homelander and Stormfront to leave and take him to the former's cabin.
Homelander conforts Ryan over his past experiences as a child and tries to teach him to use his powers once again, but is interrupted as Stormfront realizes the evidence of her Nazi background has become public.
Returning to the Seven tower she angrily watch the news as she realizes that her past as a Nazi has been exposed and her reputation destroyed with the public opinion turning against her.
Kimiko initially freezes by seeing Stormfont but manages to overcome this as she and Annie start to fight her but are overpowered by the latter who also destroys the Boys car with all of their weapons.
However, Maeve soon arrives to aid Kimiko and Annie to fight Stormfont and soon the three women overpower her before she escapes to confront Butcher, Becca and Ryan.
Homelander, having realized that the sonic device was a distraction, returns to the cabin where he kills an entire Vought armed team sent by Edgar to pick up Ryan.
In the aftermath, the Boys are cleared of all their charges allowing each member to return to their normal lives: Frenchie and Kimiko leave the hideout as they prepare to start their lives together, MM is reunited with his daughter, Hughie rekindles his relationship with Annie as he also decides to leave the Boys to fight Vought in his own non-violent way, and Butcher waits with Ryan before the latter is sent away.
Returning to the Office of Supe Affairs, Neuman meets Hughie, whom he offers to work with her wanting to fight Vought in the right way but unaware that the former is the assassin.
[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.
Kripke explained that he took the decision because otherwise Butcher would have become a stable, functional good man that would have deviated the character off the path from his comic counterpart and that the series would have ended much earlier.
"[11][12] Kripke explained the context of this by stating that after being injured, they decide to write a happy memory back in time as an insane thought while she was in pain and have it translated to German.
[17] 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.
[18] Also starring are Giancarlo Esposito as Stan Edgar, Shantel VanSanten as Becca Butcher, Ann Cusack as Donna January, Claudia Doumit as Victoria Neuman, Cameron Crovetti as Ryan Butcher, Laila Robins as Grace Mallory, Goran Visnjic as Alastair Adana, and Jim Beaver as Robert Singer.
[20] For the scene where Butcher meets Edgar to arrange a deal about the former's wife and her child, it was filmed at The Chase rooftop restaurant which is located in a historic building at 10 Temperance Street at the city of Toronto.
The scene where A-Train confront Hughie and Annie to give them evidence regarding Stormfront past and true nature was filmed near the George Brown College St. James campus.
He also praised Aya Cash performance as Stormfront and also highlighted her fight sequence with the other three female main characters of the show as a much better alternative of girl-power in contrast to the high-budgeted moment in the 2019 film Avengers: Endgame.