SPOILER ALERT! The following includes events from the first two episodes of The Boys Season 5. Don't read further if you don't want to be spoiled about all things "supe" and otherwise.
The Boys wastes no time setting the tone for its final season, opening on a world that feels more unstable than ever. In the Season 5 premiere Homelander (Antony Starr) tightens his grip on power, publicly dismissing damning evidence released by Starlight (Erin Moriarty), including the Flight 37 video, as “deep fakes” while quietly setting a trap for his enemies.
By leaking plans to execute Hughie (Jack Quaid), Mother’s Milk (Laz Alonso) and Frenchie (Tomer Capone), he draws Butcher (Karl Urban) and Starlight into a rescue mission at one of Vought’s so-called “Freedom Camps,” where the three men are being held. The operation quickly spirals into chaos, ending with A-Train’s (Jessie T. Usher) heroic last stand. The speedster saves the team before being hunted down and killed by Homelander in a brutal, full-circle callback to the series premiere.
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Episode 2 picks up in the aftermath, repurposing A-Train’s death into a martyr narrative and falsely blaming Starlight. As Homelander expands his inner circle — even bringing Soldier Boy (Jensen Ackles) back into the fold — Butcher pushes forward with a dangerous weapon: The supe-killing virus first introduced in Gen V and later woven into The Boys Season 4. Now refined and ready for use, the virus becomes the center of a growing divide within the team, with some willing to deploy it no matter the cost and others insisting it be used only against the worst offenders, not the supes they still consider allies.
That tension spills into a chaotic mission involving a group of influencer-style supes, where an attempt to test the virus goes sideways and leaves a trail of destruction, including what appears to be the deaths of Soldier Boy and the nearly indestructible Rock Hard, a hulking, volcanic figure who looks like Spaceballs’ Pizza the Hutt and sounds like Stephen Hawking.
With new players like the enigmatic Oh Father (Daveed Diggs) entering the fold — and even stranger developments, including a shocking mutation tied to Ashley Barrett (Colby Minifie) — the series is already blurring the lines between chaos and control as it moves toward its final act.
Showrunner Eric Kripke spoke exclusively with Parade about the two-episode opener, unpacking the premiere’s biggest swings, the evolution of a key character and why A-Train’s run had reached the end of the line.
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Jessie T. Usher (A-Train) in 'The Boys'Courtesy of Prime Video
Viewers are expecting a high body count this season. Why was A-Train the right character to open with, and what made his ending feel like the right one for the story?I think it was important to kill someone really crucial and important in Episode 1 to really prove that no one was safe. And A-Train just had such a great redemption arc. In the first five minutes of the pilot, he's the villain of the show. He's the one who sets the whole story in motion. And then here we are in the first episode of Season 5. And the reason he gets caught is because he refuses to run through a woman. So I think it was time to bring his story full circle as a hero.
Worm (Ely Henry) is such a bizarre, very specific character — a TV writer eating dirt to break into a prison. Was he inspired by anyone you know? And be honest… do you have a Reacher spec script tucked away somewhere?[Laughs.] He was inspired by every single person in that writer's room, myself included. We love The Worm because all of his issues are really the issues that writers talk about behind closed doors, and he really is the voice of the writers in the show. I mean, look, we're all reasonably anxious about the finale, and so it really helped as a pressure valve to have a writer in the show saying, "Yeah, finales are really hard. They suck." It's really hard to do, and a lot of them really are not very good. And it helped us process our anxiety.
There’s a lot going on in these episodes, but I have to ask about Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) finally speaking. How much fun has it been to write for her in a new way, especially with a line like, “Your skin is so oily, like hugging a McRib”?It was a blast. Karen is such a good actor, and I was so looking forward to really giving her some lines. I remember they were wiring her with a microphone in Season 5, and she was like, "Wait, what are you doing?" And we're like, "Yeah, no, we actually need to put a microphone on you now because you're actually going to be speaking." And so that was just a blast. But I will say finding Kimiko's verbal voice was a process. And it actually was really hard and tricky because she had a very clear voice and persona as somebody who didn't speak, but now that she could, what did she sound like? What words could she use? What was her internal monologue the last four years that she's talking to Frenchie that she could now finally say out loud? And that took a little bit of trial and error.At one point, we were writing her like a teenage girl, and we're like, "That doesn't feel right." And then we said, "Okay, well then she's just going to speak really rapid fire and then that didn't feel right." And so we really landed on this, what I think ended up feeling right, which is that she's just really funny and sardonic and dark. We asked ourselves, "What emotions did we feel about Kimiko before she could speak?" And we're like, "Well, she was sweet, but also super violent and scary and dark, but also kind of funny." And we said, "Well, let's write her like that." And I think that ended up being the key.
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