Soldier Boy Gives Homelander V1 in Episode 6 — How Many Episodes In Season 5 Of The Boys
How many episodes in season 5 of the boys? Episode 6 ends with Soldier Boy giving Homelander the Compound V1 instead of destroying it, a turn that pushes the series into its final stretch with one episode left before the finale. That choice leaves Homelander holding the one thing that could make him immortal.
Homelander's V1 push
Episode 6 centered on Homelander’s attempt to get the Compound V1, while Billy Butcher and his team made their own move on the same target. The episode spent its time building toward a single handoff, and then reversed the expected outcome at the moment it mattered most.
Sister Sage tried to engineer the opposite result by sending Soldier Boy after Bombsight with the goal of destroying the compound before Homelander could take it. Instead, Soldier Boy completed the mission, arrived with V1 in hand, and met Homelander after the fact.
Soldier Boy and Stormfront
Sister Sage also showed Soldier Boy and Homelander a video of Homelander and Stormfront, a move meant to widen the wedge between them. It did not work. Soldier Boy said he still loved Homelander and was proud of him, then decided Stormfront would have wanted this future for him.
That decision mattered because Soldier Boy and Homelander are each other’s only relatives, which gives their clash a family logic the show keeps tightening rather than resolving. In a single episode, the story moved from retrieval to inheritance, with the compound now sitting in Homelander’s hands instead of being destroyed.
Sister Sage misses
Sister Sage failed to predict the outcome, and that miss matters more than the usual villain misfire. She tried to control the chain of events, but the episode ended with Soldier Boy choosing Homelander over the plan, leaving the compound’s future tied to a relationship that has already proven unstable.
With only a single episode separating this turn from the finale, the practical takeaway is simple: the next installment has to deal with an immortal Homelander and the fallout from Soldier Boy’s choice, not a neutralized weapon. That is the story the season now has to pay off.
