‘The Boys’ Showrunner on Hughie’s Sticky Tek Knight Encounter, That Zendaya Reference and Firecracker’s Big-Hearted Gift to Homelander

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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from Episode 6 of “The Boys” Season 4, currently streaming on Amazon’s Prime Video.

This week on “The Boys”: Homelander (Antony Starr), Sage (Susan Heyward) and VP-elect Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) rally some Federalist Society one-percenters to fall in line with their plan for total supe supremacist domination and to create internment camps for any detractors — and somehow that was not the craziest part of the episode.

First up, there was the giant reveal that Jeffrey Dean Morgan’s character CIA agent Joe Kessler has been a hallucination of Butcher’s (Karl Urban) this whole time.

You can read more about that here. Second, Hughie (Jack Quaid) goes undercover as the supe Webweaver at the ultra elite alt-right party hosted by billionaire supe Tek Knight (Derek Wilson) to discuss Homelander’s plan — and ends up being Tek Knight and Ashley’s (Colby Minifie) plaything down in Tek Knight’s sex dungeon, all the while pretending he’s totally fine and can handle all this just after the death of his father Hugh Sr. (Simon Pegg). “It was one of the most challenging and one of my favorite things that I’ve gotten to do in this crazy world of a show,” Minifie told Variety. “There was a lot of prep for that.