The Boys

Fuck you! Starlight's right! Starlight's right!

Starlight's right! Starlight's right!

Starlight's right! Starlight's right!

Starlight's right! Starlight's right!

Big round of applause

for the Samaritan's Embrace Boys Choir.

I'll tell you, these kids really are a comfort in troubled times, aren't they?

Yeah. A time when this country

is facing the biggest threat in its history,

Starlighters.

Starlight is right!

What do these crazies want to do now?

They want to get rid of superheroes.

- You asshole! - Get out.

They want to get rid of me.

No!

And then they want to replace you with some godless,

non-binary socialists like them.

Their depraved leader Starlight commands it.

String her up!

Love you, pal.

I love all of you. And I love this country, so I am not

gonna let that happen.

The Seven is gonna fight back.

All right,

here they are, the defenders of real Americans.

Yeah.

Deep, A-Train and Black Noir.

You're doing too much, pull it back.

And today is a very special day

because The Seven is getting even stronger as we welcome

two new members.

Put your hands together for

Firecracker and Sister Sage.

Woo-hoo! Yeah!

You look great. Really suits you.

Welcome, ladies, welcome.

Well, as for that last spot, who knows?

But, actually, my son

he did stop those bank robbers the other day.

Y-You saw that video, right?

So, let's just say I might be keeping that last chair warm for him,

all right?

There's enough here to take down a bull elephant.

Ten bull elephants.

I'm not taking any chances.

How you gonna get close enough to use it?

If I can get Ryan here, I can dose him. You just be ready.

He's not gonna be real happy with us when he wakes up.

Grace built the Hazlet Safe House

with the specific intention of hot-boxing Supes.

- It'll hold Ryan. - Not for long.

Then we better work fast.

Like when we deprogrammed them two ISIL lads, eh?

And if he doesn't listen to us?

My son Ryan.

Then we keep him high on Halothane till he does.

Now listen here, Joe,

we get Ryan's head clear, and that's it, all right?

Nothing about training him up to top Homelander.

So you've said.

I mean it, Joe.

Would you train your boy up to be a killer?

Listen, brother, you don't trust me?

Go back to your team.

Oh. Wait.

Smile. Right now.

Ooh, there we go!

Did you know that these

"vaccines" that they're giving out

at the Starlight House actually cause autism?

And-and not that cool Rain Man autism

that makes you good at counting cards and shit.

- Her? - Yeah.

- Really? - Mm-hmm.

Seems like she fell off her Jet Ski one too many times.

Mm-mm. Now that Starlight's back leading the Starlighters, we need her.

Mm. That is gonna shut them up?

No. She's gonna make them louder.

Are you gonna trust me or not?

Is there a problem?

'Cause this is a huge day for you,

but you seem to have something firmly lodged up your asshole.

This spandex is.

Up my ass and in a camel toe.

- Mm. - The whole point was for me to stay behind the scenes.

You're clearly punishing me for openly disagreeing with you,

which you said you could handle, but clearly you can't.

- Do you really think I'd be that petty? - Yes, I do.

I mean, did it occur to you

that it is harder to stage a fucking coup with a million eyes on me?

Popularity is power, Sister.

It's a prison.

Listen, it's gonna be great. Okay?

You're a member of The Seven now. You're a superhero.

Act like it.

Hey, how about a photo with the new girl, guys?

Yeah, get in here.

Front and center. Get in there.

- Make a sandwich out of her. - Right there.

Like, if she really cared about women,

why push to let these transgenders into the girls' bathrooms?

Because she in no way represents

Vought's values.

Because we are on the right side of history here.

I'm back.

Starlight is...

All pretty cut and dry.

Your mom has power of attorney, and she has to execute your dad's wishes.

Right, but that-that directive only applies to a vegetative state.

My dad's not a vegetable.

His doctor say so?

People wake up from comas all the time.

I'm sorry, Hughie.

There just really isn't anything you can do legally.

You want my advice?

Just work it out with your mom.

Hey. What are you doing here?

We need to talk.

Um... Just give me one sec.

Hey, welcome to Starlight House. Can I help you?

- Where are they? - I'm sorry, who?

Where are the kids? The ones in the basement.

- We don't have a basement. - Bullshit.

Firecracker's onto you pedos.

What, are you selling Cheese Pizza? C.P.? Child Porn?

Okay. Uh...

Oh, my God. - Stay back.

All right.

I'm rescuing those kids. Call the police.

All right, all right.

Come on, now.

- Frenchie? - The hell happened?

A friend of Firecracker's.

Un imbécile.

Hey, hey, hey, hey.

Okay. So, how does a chemist

know how to disarm a guy like Jason fucking Bourne?

I'd say more like Jean Reno

- in Léon. - Never heard of it.

You're a thousand years old.

Okay. There.

You need me to kiss it better?

I'm fine.

Oh, Colin.

I can't.

You gonna knock me out, too?

We've got Berns and Sasha.

I don't care about our side, Mitch.

Tell me about the other side.

How many are still in Vought's pockets?

214 in the House. 43 in the Senate.

Fucking hell.

Sorry I'm late. Bob's office must've forgotten to loop me in on this.

Glad you could make it, Vicky.

I read the new draft. There seems to be an amendment.

Vought's been calling the shots for too damn long.

Thanks to Starlight, folks are wising up.

The DOJ is filing antitrust charges, but I say we take it a step further.

It's time we ban Supes

from the military, from private policing,

and all other government positions. Don't you agree?

Of course. But, I mean, we don't want to seem

as though we're prejudiced against them either, so--

Supes are entertainers, period, end of story.

So, shouldn't we take them off the streets

and put them back on The Masked Singer, where they belong?

Absolutely.

No matter.

A Shining Light cell nearby.

How do you know?

Hughie helped me with the CIA Mainframe.

I'm a hacker now.

The therapist was right.

I need to face my past.

So I'm going to kill them all.

No. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Absolute no. Bad. This is a bad idea, very bad.

Shining Light is hurting kids.

Kids like me.

You need to come with me.

No questions. No hesitation.

Because I'm asking you.

When do we leave?

Um, just, uh...

- Just keep your arms up. - Yeah.

I mean, you're 80% limbs. Use 'em.

- Okay. Arms are up. - Mm-hmm. Okay.

Ah, fuck, that was hard.

That was, like, 10% of hard.

Yo. These new Seven picks make any goddamn sense to you?

I mean, Sage? Elon Musk

has more charm than she does, and he's half-android.

I mean, Firecracker hates my guts

for some reason, but outside of that, I don't get it.

- Something big is happening. - Mm-hmm.

And we need help. Now, look, I know y'all ain't gonna like this shit.

I want to flip A-Train. What?

- You're joking. - Fuck that.

We turn A-Train informant,