[Editor’s note:The following article contains spoilers for Episode 5 of “ The Boys ” Season 4, “Beware of the Jabberwocky, My Son.”] With the ending of Season 3 of “The Boys” seeing Karl Urban ’s Billy Butcher diagnosed as terminally ill following multiple injections of Compound V, Season 4 sees him rushing to find a solution, while also being kept on a leash. Since his team doesn’t seem to want his help, he conspires with old CIA colleague Joe Kessler (new cast member Jeffrey Dean Morgan), but in this past week’s episode, “Beware of the Jabberwocky, My Son,” he starts to realize death may not be the only thing he has to worry about .
In a recent interview with Variety , showrunner Eric Kripke discussed the episode, acknowledging the mutated bunny Butcher encounters to be a bad omen. “It doesn’t mean anything good,” he said. “I don’t want to give too much away, but I think Butcher is really starting to wonder what’s happening to him, and wonder how he was able to kill Ezekiel.
And this is a little bit of bunny foreshadowing.” The scene Kripke references sees Butcher release a bunny that’s been injected with the same drug he injected himself with only to have to kill them later when they sprout tentacles from their stomach. At another point, Butcher blacks out as he mauls a Firecracker supporter to death.
Finally, the episode ends with Butcher chopping off the leg of Neuman’s daughter’s father, Dr. Sameer Shah, then kidnapping him. �.