The Boys Season 5 Episode 5: Release Date and Exact Time, Who’s Back, What to Expect

Halfway through season 5 on Prime Video, The Boys are on the ropes: episode 4 turns their worst impulses against each other, shredding trust and momentum. With the clock ticking, they need a win fast as Homelander lines up his next power play.

We are officially past halftime on The Boys season 5. The team is frayed, Homelander has upgraded from cult leader to would-be deity, and episode 5 is about to hit. Here is the quick what/when/where, plus a clean catch-up on last week so you are not scrambling five minutes before play.

When and where to watch episode 5

Episode 5 lands on Prime Video on Wednesday, April 29 at roughly 12:00 a.m. PT / 3:00 a.m. ET. The first four episodes are already up if you need to binge back in.

Yes, this is the endgame

Season 5 is the final season. There are eight episodes total, dropping weekly on Wednesdays through May 20, 2026.

Can you watch it for free?

If you are new to Prime Video, there is a 30-day free trial. With the finale set for May 20, a trial started now will carry you through the rest of season 5 without paying.

Previously on The Boys: season 5, episode 4 (the one where everyone lost the plot)

After getting steamrolled by Homelander in episode 3, Ryan wakes up under Butcher’s watch. It goes about how you would expect: Butcher is Butcher, Ryan bails, and Homelander promptly forgets his son exists because he is too busy crowning himself a god. Firecracker tries to keep pace with his messianic PR tour and does not love what she is selling.

Starlight tracks down her estranged dad, Rick January. Surprise: he has a new wife, Courtenay, and a teenage son, Mason. Rick and Courtenay are warm; Mason is a Homelander true believer who immediately reports his half-sister to the cops. A local officer checks it out, but Rick talks him down. Mason tosses out a weak apology. Annie leaves shaken after a glimpse of the family life she never got.

Meanwhile, the hunt for V1 (the immortality cocktail Homelander wants) converges at Fort Harmony. Soldier Boy and Homelander show up right as the Boys do. Something on-site starts scrambling everyone’s self-control, and the team turns on itself — even Kimiko snaps at Frenchie before Butcher, M.M., Hughie, and Kimiko start swinging at each other. Soldier Boy lures Homelander into a nasty trap, which Butcher enjoys a little too much, and it still does not dent Homelander’s god complex.

Frenchie pieces it together: an incapacitated Supe named Quinn is the one messing with their heads. He cons Soldier Boy into killing Quinn, breaking the spell. The Boys pull out with one useful piece of intel — Bombsight already stole the remaining supply of V1. Homelander eventually wriggles free of the trap and, interestingly, spares Soldier Boy.

In the aftermath, Kimiko and Frenchie try to figure out what they are to each other, and Annie reconnects with Hughie. On TV, televangelist Oh Father (yes, that is Daveed Diggs) runs with Firecracker’s plan and anoints Homelander as God’s prophet. Subtlety is dead.

What to expect next

Homelander’s divinity tour is not a bit — he wants to lock in actual immortality, and he only gets there if he finds V1 and doses up. The Boys are down bad on tools: no Supe-killing virus, no V1, and not a lot of runway. The trailer teases that Homelander’s obsession with family — specifically Soldier Boy — could be the crack in his armor.

New faces, returning trouble

Daveed Diggs joins the main cast as Oh Father. Jensen Ackles is back as Soldier Boy. Jared Padalecki and Misha Collins pop in with undisclosed roles, Seth Rogen has a mystery part, and Mason Dye plays Bombsight. Paul Reiser and Giancarlo Esposito return as The Legend and Stan Edgar.

• Karl Urban as William 'Billy' Butcher
• Jack Quaid as Hugh 'Hughie' Campbell Jr.
• Antony Starr as Homelander
• Erin Moriarty as Annie January / Starlight
• Jessie T. Usher as Reggie Franklin / A-Train
• Laz Alonso as Marvin T. 'Mother 's Milk' / M.M.
• Chace Crawford as Kevin Kohler / The Deep
• Tomer Capone as Serge / Frenchie
• Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko Miyashiro
• Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir II
• Colby Minifie as Ashley Barrett
• Cameron Crovetti as Ryan Butcher
• Susan Heyward as Jessica 'Sage' Bradley / Sister Sage
• Valorie Curry as Misty Tucker Gray / Firecracker
• Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Joe Kessler

One last tease

'Jaw hit the floor' reading the final scripts.
— Antony Starr on the endgame