The first three episodes of The Boys Season 4 has dropped on Amazon Prime and continues about six months after the season three finale. That’s a good amount of content for viewers to watch all at once, but some are looking for a quick recap and spoilers of what happens through Episodes 1, 2, and 3 of the fourth season. And given that the popular superhero show will release on a weekly basis through the summer of 2024, some might want a refresher of the events that occurred in these episodes instead of having to rewatch them all. Here’s a recap and summary of what happened in the premiere episodes of The Boys Season 4.
What happened in The Boys Season 4 Episode 1?
The following is a recap of Episode 1 for The Boys Season 4:
- Victoria Neuman steps on stage at a political rally as the votes are counted for the Singer-Neuman ticket. The Boys, with Marvin (or MM) being the new captain, are working as a team backed by the CIA to take Neuman down because Robert Singer is afraid of a Sup being the vice president and one bullet away from the presidency.
- Homelander has anxiety about aging, picking out white hairs, and appears at the rally along with Ryan. He is on trial for killing a protestor in broad daylight at the end of season three. Butcher attempts to convince him to join him instead, but Homelander intercedes. We learn that Butcher has six months left to live due to the Temp V he used in season three.
- The team tries to assassinate Neuman, but her daughter interrupts the operation with her own powers while Neuman finds Hugh in the team’s stakeout van and remains unfazed over their attacks.
- Back at CIA headquarters, Grace Mallory and Singer tell off Marvin about the botched operation, while Butcher reunites with agent Joe Kessler who believes that the agency needs more ruthless people like him.
- Annie January becomes the figurehead for the Starlighter movement, which opposes Vaught and the Hometeamer movement. Organizers want Annie to appear as Starlight for the campaign, but wants to be done with that persona.
- Homelander, A-Train, The Deep, Black Noir 2, and Ashley Barrett go through potential candidates to fill the remaining two seats of The Seven. Homelander, however, is annoyed by their sycophantic behavior and storms off. He later meets with Sister Sage, one of the smartest people on the planet, and impressed by her intelligence and candidness, offers her a spot on The Seven.
- While The Boys wants to kick Butcher off the team, he secretly meets with Neuman. It is revealed that a virus is being created to kill Homelander but the virus isn’t ready yet. Butcher offers to kill Homelander for her, but she wants him to grab Hugh’s files on her being raised in Red River Institute as a sign of good faith.
- Frenchie is hesitant to be in a relationship with Colin, but Kimiko thinks he shouldn’t hold back.
- Marvin follows Todd who meets with Sister Sage and two other fans to meet members of The Seven at Planet Vaught. Homelander orders A-Train, Black Noir, and The Deep to murder the three fans with bats. Sister Sage infiltrates the Starlighter crowd at the courthouse when the not-guilty verdict is read and instigates a fight between them and the Hometeamers. A-Train drags the three dead bodies to the scene to paint the Starlighters in a bad light.
- Ryan tells Homelander, to his disappointment, that he doesn’t want to see Butcher die.
- The Deep talks with the octopus, now named Ambrosius, and is love with her.
- Hugh learns that his father has had a stroke. This leads to him reuniting with his mother at the end of the episode.
- Butcher sees visions of Becca, who tells him to bring Ryan back and make good on his promise to her. This prompts him to cut the deal he made with Neuman off.
What happened in The Boys Season 4 Episode 2?
And here’s a recap of Episode 2 for The Boys Season 4:
- A-Train appears in a movie where a coach, played by Will Farrell, attempts to get him off the streets, but A-Train is disinterested in the “white savior” movie.
- Hugh discovers that his mom has power of attorney over his father and angrily storms off.
- Kimiko goes to a therapy session where she is told to confront her past, and she interprets this as going after the Shining Light terrorists.
- Butcher tells The Boys about his condition and is forcibly kicked off the team. Frenchie, Kimiko, and Marvin decide to track down Sister Sage, while Hugh and Annie try to get information from A-Train.
- Ryan is pitched to be a superhero named Homeboy and goes on his first solo save as a test. Sister Sage explains how the pitch is dumb to the annoyance of Ashley. In the elevator, Sister Sage also tells The Deep not to let Ashley talk down to him.
- Butcher forces himself on the team tracking Sister Sage at Truthcon. They follow her at a panel for Firecracker, who drums up a lot of controversies to take down the Starlighter movement. Sister Sage gives Firecracker a test, which she passes, and tells her to meet later. Marvin, Frenchie, and Kimiko follow them and fall into a trap, leading to a fight with Firecracker and a clone-creating Sup. Butcher arrives and saves the trio, while they let Firecracker run off.
- Hugh and Annie track down A-Train. They arrive back at the office to find him there, and to their surprise, he gives them footage that exonerates two Starlighters accused of killing the dead Hometeamers in the first episode.
- Ryan follows through with his first save, and Homelander tells him to throw a thug (really a stunt actor) hard, but Ryan accidentally throws him into a wall. Later, Ryan cries and is distraught about killing someone, but Homelander tells him not to care about humans dying.
- Hugh confronts his mother about her abandoning him when he was young.
- Butcher pleads with Marvin to help him get Ryan away from Homelander before it’s too late.
What happened in The Boys Season 4 Episode 3?
Last but not least, here’s a recap of Episode 3 for The Boys Season 4:
- At a Hometeamer event, Homelander formally welcomes Sister Sage and Firecracker to The Seven.
- Butcher and Joe plans to knock Ryan unconscious and take him to a facility. He bakes cookies with a drug to do so. He chats with Ryan over a The Boys fighting video game. Butcher decides to open up to Ryan about dying, and after a heart-to-heart, he decides against drugging him.
- A guy walks into the Starlighter headquarters believing that they are hiding children in the basement, but Frenchie disarms him.
- Robert Singer tells Victoria Neuman that he plans to take Sups out of political office, and Neuman is forced to agree.
- Kimiko asks for Frenchie’s help to go after a Shining Light terrorist cell. She takes them out rather easily, though Frenchie has an acid trip where he faces his guilt as a murderer. Kimiko decides not to kill a girl she seemingly recognizes, letting her go.
- Sister Sage takes over Ashley’s role as CEO, though she remains on as a figurehead. The Deep is also no longer in charge of Data Analytics.
- Ambrosius tries to convince The Deep to leave The Seven with her and become a superhero in the sea.
- Marvin tries to turn A-Train as an informant. A-Train refuses, but it seems like he will continue to aid The Boys.
- Anika is killed by Homelander after she admits to speaking with Annie a few days ago. This convinces Ashley not to quit her job out of fear that she will die for falling out of line.
- Annie confronts Firecracker at the Vaught Tower and learns that she hates her because of the slander she told about her when they were part of the child pageant circuit.
- At a Vaught ice skating show, Marvin and Hugh follow Neuman to plant a bug on her. Homelander and Sister Sage appear, giving Neuman an offer to kill Singer and become president, in exchange for her removing the anti-Sup department and revealing that she is a Sup. Hugh accidentally gives himself away but is able to escape with assistance by A-Train.
- Hugh has a talk with his mother and she confesses that she left him due to depression and suicidal ideation.
- Butcher tells Joe that he is going to turn Ryan without drugs, but Joe says this method is too slow and that Butcher might die before he can convince Ryan to switch sides.
- The Deep confronts Sister Sage about his firing, but their meeting turns into a movie night and a hot fling between them.
- Homelander is annoyed that Ryan went to see Butcher and his anger leads Ryan to run to his room. He sees multiple reflections in a mirror who convince him to go back to his origins in order to remove his need for love and destroy his humanity.
