The Boys Season 4 Episode 7 Recap: A-Train’s Betrayal Unveiled

A-Train is revealed as the source of the Vought data leak and Homelander is not happy about it in The Insider, the seventh episode of The Boys Season 4.

During the episode, A-Train essentially gives himself up as the guilty party when he zips into The Boys’ headquarters to save Billy Butcher, Annie, and Hughie. The trio is under siege from The Deep and Black Noir II, who are there to carry out kill orders from Homelander.

Once The Deep and Black Noir II realize that A-Train is not there to aid them, the Supe‘s cover as an insider for The Boys is blown. As such, A-Train races back to Vought Tower, where his only Vought ally, Ashley Barrett, tells the Supe to remove his tracking chip and flee to a place where Homelander can’t find him.

There’s a lot more going on in The Boys Season 4, Episode 7, The Insider. Here’s a recap.

Vought Studios creates a family-friendly holiday program for Ryan called The Avenue V Christmas Special, an Avenue Q-like musical presentation featuring puppet versions of The Seven. Ryan stops the live broadcast of the special and stares directly into the television camera as he shames his father, Homelander, with some cold, hard truths.

Homelander puts Sister Sage on the hot seat during a meeting at The Seven headquarters since he discovered a bug planted at Tek Knight’s Federalist Society gathering. Firecracker is also at the meeting and demonstrates her influence over Homelander since she’s become his new supplier of breast milk.

Homelander is angry with Sister Sage since he knows Vought News Network anchor Cameron Coleman did not leak The Seven’s crime analytics data. Firecracker convinces Homelander that Webweaver is connected to the leak, so he executes the hapless Supe in a grisly manner. Firecracker is shocked by Homelander’s sadistic use of his power.

Stressed over the meeting with Homelander and Firecracker, Sister Sage texts The Deep to meet up for another brainless sexual encounter. Later, The Deep’s octopus lover, Ambrosius, says she knows of the affair and in a fit of anger, Deep smashes her aquarium and lets her suffocate to death.

Billy Butcher admits to Mother's Milk, Kimiko, Annie, and Hughie during a meeting at The Boys headquarters that he’s forcing Vought scientist Sameer to create a virus that will kill Homelander. Butcher also admits that if the virus spreads it will create a global pandemic, meaning all Supes on the planet—including Annie, Kimiko, and Ryan—will die, too.

Refusing to commit Supe genocide, Butcher and The Boys need to find a way for the virus to only kill Homelander and Vice President-elect and secret Supe Victoria Neuman. Hughie visits Victoria and tries to convince her to back out of Homelander’s plans to seize the White House, but to no avail.

Mother’s Milk, concerned about his family after his panic attack in Episode 6, decides to step back from his leadership role in The Boys and asks Billy to head the group again. A-Train calls out Mother’s Milk for backing out of the fight.

After the big reveal at the end of Episode 6 of The Boys, Joe Kessler continues to be a figment of Butcher’s imagination. For the first time, though, Butcher talks to “Joe” in front of The Boys—leading to baffling looks from the team.

Butcher pulls some strings to get Frenchie out of jail after he confessed to murdering his boyfriend Colin’s family in the past. Kimiko and Frenchie go to where Butcher is holding Sameer captive so Frenchie can aid the scientist as he creates the virus. While at the location, Kimiko reveals to Frenchie she doesn’t speak as a tragic memory from her past replays in her mind.

Sameer escapes after he infects Kimiko with the virus while Frenchie saves the self-healing Supe by cutting off her leg.

Learning of Homelander’s plans to kill President Robert Singer, Butcher, Hughie, and Annie break into the hired assassin’s apartment to discover blueprints for an insurrection. While in the apartment, the trio encounters a Supe only identified as the “Woman”, who has the power to shapeshift into different people—but only by tearing off her own skin first.

The Woman later shapeshifts into Annie in a plot to steal Hughie’s laptop, which contains the information about the presidential coup that was secretly recorded by The Boys during the Federalist Society gathering. Even though “Annie” is behaving in a particularly strange manner around Hughie, he doesn’t catch on to the ruse. Meanwhile, the real Annie is being held in a secret location and chained to a floor to prevent her escape.