The Boys season five will bring the ongoing battle between Homelander and Butcher to an end. After episode six, the scales are certainly not balanced in Butcher’s favor, but we hope that turns around. Their feud aside, this final season is also setting the stage for Vought Rising, a prequel serious about the early days of Vought and Soldier Boy. One supe who will also appear in that series is Bombsight, played by Mason Dye, who is another successful test subject with V-One in his veins. We learn a bit about Bombsight’s past in The Boys and we also discover how his story ultimately ends.
For the past couple of episodes, both Butcher’s team as well as Homelander and Soldier Boy have all been looking for Bombsight. The Boys make serious progress when they find the Legend (this universe’s Stan Lee, basically), who tells them that the love of Bombsight’s life, Golden Geisha aka Goldie, is at a retirement home for supes. They decide to kidnap her and use her to lure Bombsight, which works with Sage’s assistance.
Goldie and Bombsight reveal that he does have the V-One and wanted her to take it so they could remain immortal together. But, Goldie doesn’t want to live forever. Still Bombsight thinks that she will change her mind, even though they have wasted years not being together. Bombsight gets into a fight with the team, using his ability to rush at someone and hurl them into a wall to his advantage. He’s super strong and pretty darn fast as well as bulletproof with the ability to fly and land like a, well, bomb.
Soldier Boy shows up after Sage contacts him to help get the V-One from Bombsight. We quickly learn that the pair have 80 year old beef. Bombsight wants to smash Soldier Boy’s face and gives him a run for his money in a fight. Soldier Boy is about to break his neck when Bombsight, who calls him Ben, tells him to stop. Soldier Boy lets him go and Bombsight says he simply cannot give the V-One to him.
Of course, Soldier Boy starts to taunt Bombsight, saying he took “smack” in a needle up his penis, but Bombsight gets emotional and says that he couldn’t hold a candle to Soldier Boy back in their day. He strongly hints at everyone thinking Soldier Boy was special, including Clara Vought, and that he hated him for being everything. Soldier Boy admits that he couldn’t be everything Clara wanted.
Bombsight says that Soldier Boy did love Clara and would surely give anything to have her back. Soldier Boy offers to take away Bombsight’s powers so he doesn’t have to live forever and he can be with Goldie forever. Bombsight gives up the V-One and Soldier Boy takes his powers as promised.
Things go awry when the Legend tells Homelander about the Boys plan, and he uses his Geisha’s Vought tracking device to discover her location. He arrives and Bombsight runs to safety to go be with his girl. The episode ends with Homelander taking the V-One and oh boy. It’s not likely that we will see Bombsight in the remainder of The Boys’ last season considering this wraps his arc well, but we will get to go back in time and see him in Vought Rising.