A handheld, vomit-inducing close-up of a man’s face—pockmarked, sweaty, with the thousand-yard stare of someone who just watched his own funeral livestream. That man is Hughie Campbell. He’s standing in a fluorescent-lit corridor that smells of bleach and broken dreams. This is the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs, and Hughie is trying very hard not to think about the last time he was in a government building. That was when he watched his girlfriend, Starlight/Annie January, testify before a congressional committee while pretending she wasn’t dating a vigilante who liquefies people with his mind.
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. the boys s03e01 brrip
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. This is the Federal Bureau of Superhuman Affairs,
“No,” MM says. “We do what we always do. We find a bigger bastard.” He really does
“You,” Homelander says softly. “What’s your name?”
A door hisses open. Out walks Senator Victoria Neuman. She’s wearing a pastel pantsuit and a smile that doesn’t reach her eyes. Hughie knows what those eyes have done. He saw the heads pop. He knows she’s a Supe with the power to make people’s skulls detonate like microwaved eggs. But she’s also the only person on Capitol Hill who pretends to care about regulating Vought.