The episode was written by Anne Cofell Saunders and Rebecca Sonnenshine, and directed by the series showrunner Eric Kripke.
Meanwhile, Annie January is forced to face the consequences of dating Hughie after she realizes that he used her to get revenge on A-Train, while also struggling to accept the truth after finding out that she was never born with powers leading her to question her life as a superheroine.
CIA director Susan Reynor calls Billy Butcher to inform him that the government has signed a deal to let Supes join the army and that the Pentagon has agreed to keep Compound-V classified.
At a fundraising event, Stillwell confronts Homelander over his visit to Vogelbaum; he admits that he and A-Train gave Compound-V to terrorists to ensure that the military would allow Supes to join the army.
Stillwell apologizes and admits that she wanted to spare Homelander pain, though claims that Becca suffered a miscarriage, in contrast to Voglebaum’s previous statements.
Elsewhere, the Deep learns that Stillwell has forbidden his return to the Seven, causing him to suffer an emotional breakdown and shave his head as a result.
A-Train is racially profiled in a clothing store, causing him to consume Compound-V to heal his leg, which was broken by Kimiko.
Homelander arrives and confronts Butcher, questioning him over his revenge and lack of proof about Becca's death, also claiming their sexual encounter was a one-off consensual one.
[1] On 2016, it was announced that the show would be developed by Cinemax, with Erick Kripke being hired to serve as the series showrunner and head writer, alongside Evan Goldberg, and Seth Rogen who would direct the pilot episode.
[4][5] The episode titled "You Found Me" was written by Anne Cofell Saunders & Rebecca Sonnenshine, and directed by Kripke.
[9][10] Kripke and the writers wanted to avoid the trope of allowing the typical, grizzled, mysterious, tough, and old white dude from getting the role of the mentor of the main characters.
They decided to do this by gender-swapping the character of Greg Mallory for the television adaptation, though they maintained the most important aspects of his partial backstory and characterization.
While in the comics Stillwell remains of the main antagonists till the end, while in the television adaptation the character is killed in the episode.
[13] The episode's 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 Black Noir, and Elisabeth Shue as Madelyn Stillwell.
[14] Also starring are Giancarlo Esposito as Stan Edgar, Jennifer Esposito as Susan Reynor, Shantel VanSanten as Becca Butcher, Ann Cusack as Donna January, Christian Keyes as Nathan Franklin, Laila Robins as Grace Mallory, and Jim Beaver as Robert Singer.
[16] The scenes of the hotel where the Boys are forced to go into hiding after becoming fugitives was filmed at the New Plaza Motel located at the district of Scarborough.
[29] Randy Dankievitch from Tilt Magazine praised the episode for the character development and called it and the setup for the second season.
He also praised that the episode is allowed to make several risks to portray certain themes and for not censoring at anything in order to disseminate some of the information.