Since the first episode, when Marie (Jaz Sinclair) unintentionally offended her parents in the most graphic manner possible, Gen V has been operating at full capacity. She ripped sharp shards of concentrated blood into their tender flesh.

It’s been nothing but corruption, manipulation, exploitation, and a ton of death—in oozy, gory, exploding ways—since that extremely visceral, almost frightening premiere.

All of this culminated in the penultimate episode, in which Cate (Maddie Phillips) was comforted by Sam (Asa Germann)’s supportive reaction to her homicidal acts, and Dean Shetty’s (Shelley Conn) blood pooling around her dying corpse.

Then, two more appearances from The Boys appeared in the Gen V finale; their appearance can only indicate one thing: an enormous crossover.

Come along as we analyze how Gen V’s first semester concluded and how The Boys season four will probably be affected by the shocking events of the last episode.

The first season of Generation V’s conclusion explained

In the first season finale of Gen V, an emboldened Cate and a radicalized Sam teamed up to free the children imprisoned in The Woods.

It sounds honorable, doesn’t it? Something excellent for all of Supe-kind.

However, they later launched a Supes vs Humans uprising, justifying their radicalism with Shetty’s intense anti-Supes sentiment.

Cate offered the brutalized, dehumanized, and defenseless youths the line that they (and, by default, all Supes) are superior “and it’s about time we showed it” after rescuing Shetty’s Supe-lab-rat-kids. And thus they started their rampage over the Godolkin campus. Only humans, of course.

Before things got out of hand, Marie, Emma (Lizze Broadway), and Jordan (Derek Luh and London Thor) tried to stop them. While all of this was going on, Andre (Chance Perdomo) was at his ailing father Polarity’s (Sean Patrick Thomas) hospital bedside. Polarity had recently realized that his usage of abilities was killing him. If Andre keeps using them, that may possibly have an impact on him.

With Polarity’s admission that he had only remained silent about The Woods to shield his son, the father and son were able to reconcile their differences.

There was widespread mayhem at Godolkin. The idea of becoming targeted freaked out Ashley (Colby Minifie) and Vought’s whole board of trustees, while human academics were getting their brains melted and Cate tricked Jeff (Dan Beirne), the company’s social media advisor, into blowing his head off on a live broadcast.

After Emma stopped Sam from killing him in the middle of the kill, everyone started to run about in fear. She made one final attempt to win him over, but their chat ended badly when he played on her fears after she told him that she had sacrificed everything for him.

“You’re not a hero,” he slapped her after saying, “You do anything for people to like you.”

After that, Sam departed, but his comments still had an effect on Emma, making her feel smaller than she truly was.

Ironically, this is everything we’ve been waiting for — not the emotional stripping down of Emma (we’re clearly Team Cricket), but for her to tap into her ability to become small without having to purge.

It’s not great that degradation was the trigger, but there’s hope for her, even in this small moment, that eventually she’ll be able to control her power without negative tools, and we can’t wait to see how the show explores that in season two.

Despite his words to Emma, Sam’s resolve began to waver, and the manifestation of his brother Luke (Patrick Schwarzenegger) questioning his actions left him feeling doubtful.

Seeing this, Cate offered to help him, to which a tormented Sam agreed.

“Feel nothing,” she commanded with a touch. And just like that, the most dangerous Supe in Gen V had no strings to hold him down (except maybe Cate’s).

By now, Ashley was in a major panic. In any case, she managed to keep a shred of herself together — enough to instruct one of the team to call a chopper… and Homelander (Anthony Starr). Cate quickly destroyed that chopper, but Jordan still urged the Vought team to hide inside.

Finally, Andre joined the fight after receiving a call from Cate. But when he didn’t take Cate’s side as she had hoped, Sam barrelled into him, and the two fought. By some stroke of luck, Andre was able to render Sam unconscious with a taser rod.

Marie tried again to convince Cate to give up on her misguided activism, but Cate was married to the disillusion that this was the only way to save the exploited Supes.

At that moment, Jordan was attacked by the inmates from The Woods, and Marie abandoned reasoning with Cate when she saw Jordan in pain.

She took one of them out, which gave Jordan the advantage they needed to deal with the other two. She then summoned the copious amount of blood from multiple fights to weaponise them as shards, using them to kill the inmate heading towards the grounded Vought helicopter.

There was a moment of relief, and in that brief millisecond, Marie and Jordan were bonded. But before they could embrace, Cate stretched out a hand to touch Jordan and presumably control them.

Instinctively, Marie blew the hand clean off, and here’s where things got even wilder.