THE BOYS: [SPOILER] Returns And One Of The Team Suffers A Loss In "Beware The Jabberwock, My Son"

THE BOYS: [SPOILER] Returns And One Of The Team Suffers A Loss In "Beware The Jabberwock, My Son"

The Boys season 4, episode 5 is now streaming, and "Beware the Jabberwock, My Son" sees the crew take some major losses. Spoilers ahead...

By MarkCassidy - Jun 27, 2024 02:06 PM EST
Filed Under: The Boys

"You've gotta hand it to him... the c*nt knows how to wear a whistle."

We're now over halfway through the fourth season of The Boys, and this week's fifth episode, "Beware the Jabberwock, My Son," saw the return of scheming Vought exec Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito), who joins the gang on a little excursion to a farm full of V'd-up barnyard animals.

Billy Butcher cuts a deal to get Edgar out of prison in return for his help in acquiring some of the Supe virus we saw being cooked up in Gen V. Unfortunately, most of the virus is gone, and all that awaits the crew is Victoria Neuman and a flock of flesh-eating sheep.

The Boys narrowly escape, and Butcher ruthlessly cuts off Neuman's scientist husband Sameer's leg to make it look like he was munched up by the sheep. In reality, Butcher and Joe Kessler decide to keep Sameer prisoner until he creates a dose of the virus powerful enough to take down Homelander.

The gory farm excursion is a bit of bloody fun, but Hughie's storyline is anything but. After Daphne injected her ex-husband with V at the end of last week's episode, Hugh Sr. wakes up as a very confused - and very angry - Supe, who kills several nurses and patients by vibrating through their bodies before Hughie is forced to euthanize his dad in a heartbreaking scene.

As for Homelander, the leader of the Seven tells his team that it's time to become "wrathful gods," and makes an example of Vought News Network anchor Cameron Coleman - who Ashley frames as the mole - instructing Firecracker and the others to beat him to death.

Elsewhere, Frenchie decides that he must atone for the murders he committed in the past, and hands himself into the police.

What did you make of this week's episode of The Boys? Drop us a comment down below.

"The world is on the brink. Victoria Neuman is closer than ever to the Oval Office and under the muscly thumb of Homelander, who is consolidating his power," reads the official season 4 synopsis. "Butcher, with only months to live, has lost Becca’s son as well as his job as The Boys’ leader. The rest of the team are fed up with his lies. With the stakes higher than ever, they have to find a way to work together and save the world before it’s too late."

Returning cast members include Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso, Chace Crawford, Tomer Capone, Karen Fukuhara, Colby Minifie, Claudia Doumit, and Cameron Crovetti, along with new recruits Susan Heyward, Valorie Curry, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.

The first three episodes of The Boys season 4 will be available to stream from June 13th, with new instalments dropping weekly through to the season finale on July 18.

The Boys was recently renewed for a fifth and final season.

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Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 6/27/2024, 2:31 PM
Amazing now bring pablo lyle añs we are set
Conquistador
Conquistador - 6/27/2024, 2:35 PM
Go woke or go yolk(?)!

Anyone else thinking the kid's voice sounds off these last few episodes? Like I get he's probably hit puberty and it's cracked a little, but it seems they've done something to it in editing.

Maybe 1 twin performers hasn't quite broken yet?
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/27/2024, 2:38 PM
Man , we haven’t gotten much of Simon Pegg in this show but he was like if this is my final episode then I’m gonna go out on a high…

He crushed it performance-wise and it was a heartbreaking & touching end to the character.

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McMurdo
McMurdo - 6/27/2024, 3:06 PM
It's literally getting worse.
Kadara
Kadara - 6/27/2024, 5:09 PM
@McMurdo - Nobody is holding you hostage to watch it.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 6/27/2024, 11:01 PM
@Kadara - Captain obvious here!
Kadara
Kadara - 6/28/2024, 12:56 AM
@McMurdo - Cheers, enjoy Euro Cup, I'm going for Germany 😘
Blergh
Blergh - 6/27/2024, 3:10 PM
F*****ng amazing episode! Simon Pegg acted the hell out of that broken but ultimately great father.
The not so subtle racism in Voughts line-up made me cringe inside, love the way the show depicts fake-liberals.

My theories:

- JDM is only in Butcher's head and is, like Becca, a manifestation of the juiced up tumor in his head (maybe a Venom homage?)

- it's MM who dies this season, his speech was a clear indication that he's the heart of the group

- the next season is a mirror of how the comics end, it's not a superhero driven apocalypse but an apocalypse for superheroes and human alike with a virus infused Butcher being the ultimate villain of the show
Kadara
Kadara - 6/27/2024, 5:11 PM
@Blergh - You copied and pasted my thoughts but I'll allow it 😉
Kadara
Kadara - 6/27/2024, 5:14 PM
@Blergh - What do you of think of Sage? I don't really trust her and it looks like she's trying to bring down the Seven all by herself with her manipulation. Shagged the Deep. Consulted Homelander to earn his trust. Basically told A Train she knows it was him and kept giving him looks. I just don't get her end game.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 6/28/2024, 6:10 AM
@Kadara - I think Sage's endgame is to destroy Vought. With Homelander waging a war on mankind, She's on the safest side of the war with him leading the charge and Vought gets destroyed in the process. She hates how supes are tools for the media and companies and you can see her disgust for the profiteering of racism and superheroes. I think that's why she put Firecracker through the ringer because it was her way to wake up Homelander into seeing how he's a tool for profit. He said so this episode as well about manipulation.
Kadara
Kadara - 6/28/2024, 6:17 AM
@SonOfAGif - Thank you, so itrd only me
NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 6/27/2024, 3:19 PM
This must've been one of the few episodes that was light in Homelander, he took a backseat except for some couple of scenes.

Firecracker's sporting a bruise after what Starlight did to her and she's not happy with how Sage set that up.

I liked Annie's scene with Frenchie at the barn, I'd like to see more of that but now that's difficult since he turned over to the police by the end. Maybe he'll find someone there he can talk to and gain a new perspective as Starlight had suggested.

Annie's seen better days and this episode was still rough on her: her Starlighter community center was trashed after the personal info was leaked and is going through an identity crisis that's affecting her powers. (Like it was in Spider-Man 2) But I don't fault her for deaaling with anger like when she hit Neuman.

Butcher forgot at the end of this episode that he's supposed to be a MF with a heart. Whether his pal Kressler is real or a fabric of his imagination due to to his mind detereorating because he's knocking on Heaven's door soon just like he sees Becca or not, he still has done another thing that will get him in trouble with The Boys and it'll explode in his face before the virus is ready. He's smirking at the end, but that'll wash off his face when the name Ryan pops in. They already were disappointed with finding out the deal he almost made with Neuman about the Red River files, this one will unlikely be shrugged off.

This also had to be the most vulnerable Neuman was like in her scenes with Edgar, yet she now needs him and his resources for something since she intersected his ride at the end before he returned to jail. She probably has a feeling that her husband isn't quite dead as Butcher made her believe.

MM has a lot of stress too, keeping the group together while his daughter is going through a rebel phase, albeit not for the wrong reasons exactly.

Homelander taking advantage of Ryan's good intentions to twist his sense of justice into humiliation is dangerous. But the way I see it this is just the story making valid points for both Butcher and Homelader. The former behave well and like a father would in the 3rd episode and now the latter did as well by letting him make his own choices. This is all meant to lead to a crossraods for Ryan later.

Felt sad for Hughie, but there was nothing lef to be done with his father. Simon Pegg and Jack Quaid and the mom's actress did well.

Good episode.
TheVisionary25
TheVisionary25 - 6/27/2024, 3:52 PM
@NinnesMBC - yep

Also Dr Pershing can’t stop experimenting on shit lol

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NinnesMBC
NinnesMBC - 6/27/2024, 8:24 PM
@TheVisionary25 - I heard it was the same actor, didn't recognize him.

I did like that non-Mando episode of Season 3, it was captivating.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 6/27/2024, 4:12 PM
This episode was brilliant !!!

I gotta admit the first 3 were quite underwhelming but now we’re getting back on track!!

Homelander getting scarier as he manipulates Ryan more and more.

Poor Hughie man, can’t cat a break even when he even isn’t in the scene.

Simon Pegg was excellent.

And I really hate Neumann idk , she just irks me lol
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 6/27/2024, 4:37 PM
Also does anyone know what Hughie injected his dad with ?

Aren’t supes hard to kill? And he just injected something and he died.
Couldn’t they have done that with other threats?
SATW42
SATW42 - 6/28/2024, 9:59 AM
@MisterDoctor217 - I think you firmly have to just go with this one and not think about it too much.

If you absolutely need an explanation, the V wasn't in his body very long so maybe didn't fully develop and his body was in a weakened state and he was essentially brain dead.
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