Proper Preparation and Planning In the present, simultaneously with
Highland Laddie,
Billy Butcher re-examines the Boys' first encounter with the Seven as
the Homelander thinks back on their first mission and its consequences (the destruction of the
Brooklyn Bridge on
9/11 instead of the World Trade Center), and the death of their former leader Greg Mallory's grandchildren at the hands of Lamplighter and his subsequent handover to the Boys as a truce, trying to figure out what went wrong, while dealing with disquiet in the ranks and the return of an old enemy. Meanwhile, on the Seven's floating headquarters, a flying lesson goes badly awry…
Barbary Coast On his return to America,
Wee Hughie travels out west to meet The Boys founder
Lieutenant-Colonel Greg Mallory, who recounts the history of the organisation, beginning with the terrible story of the first Supes to see action during the
Second World War under the original
Soldier Boy, to Mallory joining the
CIA and recruiting each of the Boys to its ranks.
The Big Ride As Hughie returns to the Boys with surprisingly little fanfare, the Seven's and the Boys' conflict reaches a boiling point, as
Jack from Jupiter and the Boys meet the mysterious Doctor Peculiar. ==Reception==