‘The Boys’ Boss Eric Kripke on How Stan Edgar and Vought Will Deal With Their Compound V Problem

Kripke tells TheWrap Giancarlo Esposito’s character already has “plans in place as to how to turn that to his advantage — of which Stormfront will be a big part”

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(Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The Boys” Season 2 Episodes 1-3.)

The truth is out there: In Episode 3 of Season 2 of “The Boys,” Annie (Erin Moriarty) and Hughie (Jack Quaid) pull off their plan to leak the news that superheroes are not born, but made through the use of Vought’s Compound V chemical. So Vought is finally going down, right? Right??!

Well, by the end of the hour, Vought CEO Stan Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito) has thrown the whole PR nightmare on the now-deceased Madelyn Stillwell (Elisabeth Shue) and pledged to the public to get to the bottom of the scandal — which he, as we viewers know, has been aware of this entire time.

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