This article incorporates spoilers for The Boys.
Throughout this season of The Boys, we’ve recognized that Sister Sage — the neatest particular person on the earth — has had a grand plan to assassinate the President so the Supe-friendly Victoria Neuman can take over the oval workplace as Homelander’s political puppet. Up till now, we weren’t actually positive how they have been going to drag it off with out it getting pinned on any of the power-players they wanted for his or her new best America, however this week’s episode lastly gave us a glimpse of how Homelander, Sage and Neuman would possibly accomplish this extraordinarily worrying job. Delightfully, it includes showrunner Eric Kripke getting again on his shapeshifter bullshit.
But amid the shapeshifter shenanigans of Season 4, Episode 7, “The Insider,” there was additionally the not minor matter of Homelander (Antony Starr) firing Sage (Susan Heyward) from The Seven. Did the psychopathic Supe simply smash his personal plan?
About halfway into the episode, Annie (Erin Moriarty), Hughie (Jack Quaid) and Butcher (Karl Urban) encounter a shapeshifter whereas trying to find the would-be presidential murderer. The second the shifter touched Annie earlier than working away after the three found her within the closet, Sister Sage’s (Susan Heyward) plan grew to become fairly clear: the shapeshifter could be the one assassinating the President, and he or she’d be doing it in Annie January pores and skin. Even followers of The Boys who aren’t aware of Kripke’s shapeshifter proclivities (extra on that in a sec!) doubtless suspected mentioned plan by the point Not Annie™ places on the Starlight go well with and has deeply bizarre Not Annie™ intercourse with Hughie. But the top of the episode places the ultimate nail within the coffin once we see Not Annie™ steal the Neuman proof that Hughie has been holding above the VP-elect’s head, whereas the actual Annie is revealed to be chained up in a darkish basement making an attempt to determine how the hell she bought there.
The actual query is how does Sage proceed to complete her scheme after being ousted by Homelander and Firecracker (Valorie Curry)? Neuman (Claudia Doumit) is in on hunk of the plan, however her begrudging connection to Hughie makes it unlikely that she’s concerned within the half that includes framing his girlfriend. Homelander has made it abundantly clear that he has neither the brains (nor “knowledge”) to implement something near a plan that doesn’t simply finish in lasering individuals to demise, and Firecracker is a wildly harmful software, however a software isn’t any good if somebody doesn’t know how you can wield it.
After Homelander tells her to pack her luggage, Sage factors out that actually every thing has gone in response to plan up thus far (unsurprising) and leaves behind a pocket book to show it. But will Homelander kill her if she tries to become involved once more? Is her coup essential sufficient to danger it? Or does she even want to stay concerned at this level now that every thing is thus far in movement?
The way forward for each Sage and Annie are very a lot in query by the top of the episode, however one factor is completely positive: Hughie isn’t going to have to fret concerning the shapeshifter stealing all of his proof on Neuman and framing his girlfriend as soon as Starlight finds out that he and Not Annie™ had intercourse…
But about that Kripke/shapeshifter factor. Of course, followers of Kripke’s former present, Supernatural, doubtless pegged the shapeshifter instantly after it sprinted away from Annie, Hughie and Butcher. Shapeshifters got here up many instances in Supernatural’s 15-season tenure (of which Kripke ran 5), and in earlier seasons typically led to some fairly severe woes for foremost characters Sam and Dean Winchester. Obviously, this isn’t the primary time Kripke’s paid homage to his former present and its fandom (lovingly dubbed the SPN Family). President Robert Singer is performed by Jim Beaver who, on Supernatural, was the brothers’ surrogate father Bobby Singer (a nod to fellow SPN showrunner, you guessed it, Robert Singer). Meanwhile, Jensen Ackles (Dean Winchester) got here onto The Boys for Season 3 as Soldier Boy, and his character stays very a lot alive within the collection’ universe, whereas the opposite Winchester brother actor, Jared Padalecki, has all however confirmed he might be in The Boys Season 5.
So will Kripke’s newest shapeshifter shenanigans be step one within the downfall of Homelander now that the recent head has eliminated the brains of the operation? With just one episode left within the season, we would begin to get a greater thought of the place that is all going subsequent week…
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