Hughie wants to believe her. He really does. But then his phone buzzes again. A news alert. BREAKING: DISTURBING VIDEO EMERGES OF SUPERSONIC – THE NEWEST MEMBER OF THE SEVEN – IN A COMPROMISING POSITION WITH A DEAD PORPOISE.
“You’re doing it again,” she says.
The bigger bastard, as it happens, is walking through the halls of Vought Tower at that exact moment. Homelander. He’s not flying. He’s walking. Because when you can level a city block with your heat vision, walking is a power move. It makes people wait. the boys s03e01 brrip
“This is desperate.”
“On his way,” Butcher says. “Had to tuck Starlight into bed. She’s worried about her ex-boyfriend. The one with the porpoise problem.” Hughie wants to believe her
He leaves. Chloe throws up into a trash can. That night, at an abandoned warehouse on the docks, The Boys assemble. MM is pacing. Frenchie is soldering a bomb vest. Kimiko is sharpening her crowbar with a whetstone (a hobby she picked up). Hughie is late. Butcher is leaning against a pillar, smirking.
“I’m in,” he says. “But we do this my way. No unnecessary deaths.” A news alert
“I’m not stupid,” Hughie continues. “I saw the file on your desk. Soldier Boy. The weapon. The whole thing. You’re not trying to kill Homelander. You’re trying to wake up something that can fight Homelander. And you’re going to torture a seventy-year-old woman to find out where they buried it.”