The Boys (TV Series)

The Instant White-Hot Wild (2022)

Jensen Ackles: Soldier Boy, Ben

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Quotes 

• Soldier Boy : What the fuck are you doing?

  Billy Butcher : Not the kid.

  Soldier Boy : Oh, I thought you said blood didn't matter. Thought that was the whole fucking point.

  Billy Butcher : He's my wife's son.

  Soldier Boy : Wait, Homelander fucked your wife? And you wanna save the brat? The hell's wrong with you?

  Billy Butcher : I made a promise.

  Soldier Boy : So this is it. Everything you wanted, he's right fucking there -- and now you blink?

  Billy Butcher : Stand down.

  Soldier Boy : Fuck you! You're weaker than he is.

• Soldier Boy : I'm not going back in that fucking box!

• Soldier Boy : I'd have let you take the spotlight. What father wouldn't want that for his son ?

• Soldier Boy : [sniffs at a bottle of whiskey]  Whoa. That brings me back. Used to sneak my dad's Manhattans when I was a kid.

  Billy Butcher : I didn't have to nick nothin' from my old man. He used to get me and me little brother lagered just for the hell of it.

  Soldier Boy : Well, I gotta admit, that does sound funny. The old man still around?

  Billy Butcher : Arse cancer. Shittin' his guts out as we speak, one hopes.

  [pause] 

  Soldier Boy : You ever see The Soldier Boy Story?

  Billy Butcher : Musta missed it.

  Soldier Boy : It's a classic. We lost Best Picture to An American in Paris that year. Least I got to assfuck Jane Wyman in the coat check. About a poor kid from the streets of South Philly. Discovers he's got incredible powers to match his heart of gold. It was all bullshit.

  Billy Butcher : Blimey, you don't say.

  Soldier Boy : Actually, my father owned half the steel mills in the state. I went to boarding school. Got kicked out of boarding school. Because I was a fuckup. And he made sure I knew it.

  Billy Butcher : Used the belt, did he?

  Soldier Boy : Never laid a hand on me. He couldn't be bothered. He said I was a disappointment. Not good enough to carry his name. So I went to his golf buddies in the War Department, and they got me into Dr. Vought's Compound V trials. I became a superhero. Strongest man alive, fuckin' ticker-tape parades when I came home.

  Billy Butcher : And what did the old man say then?

  Soldier Boy : Ah. He said I took a shortcut. That a real man wouldn't have cheated.

  [pause, then he clears his throat uncomfortably] 

  Soldier Boy : How 'bout you, you got kids?

  Billy Butcher : It's complicated.

  Soldier Boy : I always assumed I had a few out there. Somewhere. I always wanted 'em. 'Cause I thought I could do it better than my father did.

  Billy Butcher : Homelander ain't yours. Not really.

  Soldier Boy : He's the only blood I've got left.

  Billy Butcher : It don't matter. You didn't name him, didn't raise him. Vought grew him in a fucking test tube to take your place. He's the fucking reason they left you to rot with the Ivans. Look, mate... we had a deal.

  [pause, then Soldier Boy takes a long drink of whiskey, stands up, and walks out] 

  Soldier Boy : I'm gonna get some air.