The Boys Season 5 Episode 6, titled "Though the Heavens Fall," centers on Bombsight surrendering the V‑One and losing his powers to Soldier Boy, with the episode closing on Homelander taking the V‑One.
Mason Dye’s Bombsight — a World War II‑era Supe and former U.S. Armed Forces combat pilot who is bulletproof and can fly and land like a bomb — is the human hinge of the hour. For the past couple of episodes, Butcher’s team, Homelander and Soldier Boy have all been hunting Bombsight because he holds the V‑One, the original Compound V formula tied to Homelander’s obsession with V1.
The episode arrives on Prime Video in the United States on Wednesday, May 6, at 3:00 a.m. ET, 12:00 a.m. PT and 2:00 a.m. CT; one article listed the release as Wednesday, May 7. The trailer for the episode teases the violence to come: Homelander and Soldier Boy trading blows, Soldier Boy landing punches on both Bombsight and Homelander, and Chace Crawford’s The Deep covered in what looks like oil.
The Boys’ effort to reach Bombsight follows a chain of discoveries. The team found the Legend, who identified Golden Geisha — called Goldie — as Bombsight’s love and who is at a retirement home for supes. The Boys kidnapped Goldie and used her, with Sage’s help, to lure Bombsight out. Bombsight told them he had the V‑One and that he wanted Goldie to take it so they could remain immortal together; he repeatedly refused to hand the V‑One over to Soldier Boy, insisting he could not give it to him.
That refusal did not hold. Soldier Boy, summoned after Sage contacted him to help unseat Bombsight, offered to take Bombsight’s powers so Bombsight would not have to live forever, and Bombsight ultimately gave up the V‑One. Soldier Boy took Bombsight’s powers as promised; the episode then ends with Homelander taking the V‑One, shifting possession of the original Compound V to the show’s most dangerous Supe.
Context matters here: the season has only three episodes remaining, and the series has already strayed from its comic book source material, so the show’s choices about who holds the V‑One carry immediate weight for how the finale will land. The V‑One and Bombsight will also figure in the upcoming prequel series Vought Rising, which is billed to spotlight Bombsight and the early days of Vought and Soldier Boy.
The episode contains its own friction. Bombsight wanted eternal life with Goldie and told allies he could not hand the V‑One to Soldier Boy, yet he ultimately surrendered it and had his powers removed — a reversal that hands the original Compound V into a different set of hands. Separately, the run‑out timing for the episode is muddled in the public record: Prime Video’s listed U.S. premiere is May 6 at early‑morning time slots, while another article lists May 7, leaving viewers to check their platforms at both dates.
What this means going forward is clear: Soldier Boy does take Bombsight’s powers, but he is not the final owner of the V‑One — Homelander ends the episode holding the original Compound V. With three episodes left in the season and a prequel that will revisit this era, the show has shifted its central threat from the man who carried the V‑One to the Supe who now possesses it, raising the stakes for the closing chapters.
