A few subtle details in The Boys season 4’s finale have me convinced that Gen V‘s ending was one massive red herring. In Gen V season 1’s ending moments, Marie wakes up in a mysterious room after getting heat-waved by Homelander. She soon notices that she is surrounded by her Godolkin friends — Jordan, Emma, and Andre — who have no idea where they are. The room they are in also has no doors but only an escape hatch on its roof.

When I first watched Gen V‘s ending, I could not help but assume that the three supes had been imprisoned by Vought after everything that happened at Godolkin University. I believed that, on Homelander’s command, Vought must have shut them down in the same facility where Queen Maeve was once imprisoned to contain her powers. However, I noticed some intriguing details in a scene from The Boys season 4’s finale that convinced me Marie and her friends were somewhere else in Gen V‘s closing moments.

The Boys Season 4 Hints The Godolkin Kids Were In The CIA’s Safehouse During Gen V’s Ending

They Were In The Same Facility Where Ryan Met Malory & Butcher

Marie, Andre, Emma, & Jordan in Gen V's ending

In The Boys season 4, episode 8, Malory tries to stop Ryan from leaving in the hope that he will eventually help them fight Homelander. However, Ryan soon notices that the facility he is in has six-foot-thick walls, making him question where he is. When he confronts Malory, she reveals they are in the CIA’s Hazlet safe house, and she only has to push one button to fill the room with Halothane that could immobilize all of them. This scene made me realize that if the CIA safehouse could contain an overpowered supe like Ryan, it certainly could prevent Gen V supes like Marie and her friends from leaving.

…Marie and her friends also seem to be wearing the exact same patient gowns that Billy Butcher wears in The Boys season 4, episode 8.

The place where Marie awakens in Gen V‘s ending also has hospital beds, which seem similar to the ones featured in the scene where Malory and Butcher interact with Ryan in The Boys season 4’s episode 8. Moreover, Marie and her friends also seem to be wearing the exact same patient gowns that Billy Butcher waers in The Boys season 4, episode 8. This could mean that Marie and her friends were not captured by Vought in Gen V’s ending. Instead, they were taken to the CIA’s Hazlet safe house.

Why The CIA Might Have Taken Gen V’s Heroes (& What It Would Mean For Season 2)

The CIA Could Weaponize Them Against Homelander’s Supe Army

Homelander mad after seeing his beheaded statue in Gen V

If the CIA actually took Gen V‘s heroes to the safe house, the intelligence agency must be preparing its own army of morally righteous supes who would eventually help restore peace when supe supremacists threaten global stability. Malory probably wanted Ryan to accompany them and create the CIA’s own overpowered supe team to counter the Seven. In The Boys season 4’s finale, she even mentions that they would train Ryan to become strong enough to kill Homelander in the future.

This could mean that, in Gen V season 2, Marie and her friends will go through rigorous training under the CIA to be able to take on all the dangerous supes on Homelander’s side. They could also eventually join forces with the boys and help them end Homelander’s reign before it is too late. While there is still a slight possibility that the Gen V heroes were imprisoned by Vought in the spin-off series’ ending, The Boys season 4’s finale has almost convinced me that the CIA rescued them and will prepare them for the battle ahead.

The Boys Season 4 Poster Showing Homelander with Victoria Neuman Surrounded by Confetti

The Boys is a superhero/dark comedy satire series created by Eric Kripke based on the comic series of the same name. Set in a “what-if” world that reveres superheroes as celebrities and gods who experience minimal repercussions for their actions. However, one group of vigilantes headed by a vengeance-obsessed man named Billy Butcher will fight back against these super-charged “heroes” to expose them for what they are.