Once we final caught up with the gang in Gen V, all the pieces had gone to shit. Our younger heroes from The Boys spinoff uncovered a deep conspiracy inside their particular college, and had been shocked that harmful college students had been imprisoned in opposition to their will in some type of underground jail referred to as “The Woods.” Oh, and our foremost character, Marie Moreau (Jaz Sinclair), blew a man’s dick off.
Kicking off Episode 5, now we have even greater issues. Everybody wakes up the night time after a celebration that they don’t have any reminiscence of attending—and the escaped prisoner, Sam, reveals that the college most definitely erased their recollections. There’s additionally one other idea: The not too long ago dick-less Rufus could have used his telekinetic powers to get revenge on Marie and her mates for completely maiming him.
Cate, why?!
Poking across the get together, another NSFW moment ends in a lady with a blowhole on her again partaking in some extra, let’s assume, sexually ingenious materials. However our heroes haven’t got to look lengthy. A scientist at The Woods reveals that they are doing MkUltra experiments on the scholars that makes them neglect durations of time. He is even engaged on a virus that could possibly management their actions.
In the meantime, Emma (Lizzie Broadway) is soaking within the fame after a viral video—the place she’s large, bare, and chugging beer—positive factors reputation. As Steven Universe as soon as sang, “All I wanna do is see you flip into a large lady.” However Sam (Asa Germann), our escaped psychopath, nonetheless sees her as a puppet. He sees everybody as a puppet—clearly a metaphor about how they’re all “puppets” for the federal government—nevertheless it additionally helps decrease the gore issue when he rips a Muppet’s head off, versus an precise flesh-and-blood safety guard.
After feeling a bizarre itch on her neck, Marie makes use of her blood powers to take away a tracker positioned in her pores and skin. Horrified, she runs to Cate (Maddie Phillips) to see if her mates have one as nicely. Cate then consumer her thoughts management powers to make Marie black out, leading to a serious twist for our superhero mates shifting ahead. Cate is the traitor. Actually, if her powers had been thoughts management, they need to have a minimum of suspected it. However she’s been working with the college this complete time—even with Golden Boy earlier than the sequence even started. The twist additionally exonerates Rufus, which means that he by no means used his telekinetic skills to assault anybody.
When our heroes lastly discover out the mole’s identification, they’re simply as shocked as nicely are. “I solely needed to assist and defend you,” Cate says. “I simply needed to make issues higher.” She restores their recollections and comes clear, however the group is shaken. “You are a fucking monster,” Andre (Likelihood Perdomo) tells her earlier than storming out. Yup! Virtually everybody in The Boys universe is. Now that we’re getting into the second half of the spinoff sequence, there’s nothing left to hope for apart from candy, candy revenge.
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