The Boys season 4 episode 8 preview, date, time, and what to expect in the finale

The Boys season 4 finale is here! We're only hours away from the final episode of the season and then a very long break until The Boys season 5, the final season of the series, hits Prime Video.

Enough about that, though. There's still so much that can happen in the finale. Knowing The Boys and how each season finale has gone so far, it's going to be a wild ride.

The Boys season 4 finale trailer

The Boys season 4 finale trailer is finally here!

In the preview, Butcher tells Hughie to apologize to the Boys over the phone. We also see him playing games with Ryan in what looks like a hospital room.

Then, we see Homelander. In a voiceover, he's rolling out his plan to take power, using Victoria Neuman.

"Neuman will be sworn in. There will be rioting. Someone will have to swoop in and restore order. Our fates are connected now, and I'm the only friend you've got left. We are gonna change the world."

While Homelander talks, we see clips of chaos. Ashley, who refused to leave Vought with A-Train, is panicking. There are clips of Victoria on Firecracker's TV news show with Homelander. Hughie looks shocked, while Kimiko prepares to fight. It appears that Grace Mallory is there, about to push a big, red button.

This trailer isn't giving much away, but it's clear that a battle is coming.

The Boys season 4 finale is titled "Assassination Run." The series waited until Wednesday, July 17, to drop the trailer for the finale. Throughout season 4, we've seen new trailers for upcoming episodes released on social media every Monday. The new look at each episode has been a great way to break up the week and give a chance for fans to see what's coming up in the new episode and speculate about how each clip affects the story.

It's unclear if recent events have affected the rollout of the teaser trailer and promotion for The Boys season 4 finale or if Prime Video was just keeping the story under wraps until the day before the release. Either way, the trailer is here now!

The Boys season 4 episode 8 release date and time

The Boys season 4 episode 8 will be released at 12:00 a.m. PT / 3:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, July 18.

What's going to be really interesting is how many fans stay up late on Wednesday, July 17 (if you live on the West Coast), to watch the finale! If there was any episode you wanted to watch and react to with other fans on social media, this is the episode to do it!

For reference, The Boys season 4 finale will also be released at 8:00 a.m. BST in the UK, so it's a morning episode release across the pond. The episode will be available to stream at 8:00 p.m. NZST. We have to shout out the Karl Urban and the Antony Starr fans, of course!

What to expect in The Boys season 4 finale

Even with the new trailer forThe Boys season 4 finale, we don't have much to go on for what to expect in the last episode of the season. Things were left in a very interesting place at the end of The Boys season 4 episode 7.

The main thing to remember is that Annie (Erin Moriarty) is not Annie! In the episode, Annie is attacked by the shifter who MM (Laz Alonso), Hughie (Jack Quaid), and Annie tried to stop after A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) revealed that the shifter was working with Sage (Susan Heyward) and Homelander (Antony Starr). It's believed that the shifter is the one who is going to make an attempt on Robert Singer's (Jim Beaver) life. Remember, this episode was filmed last year.

Will Hughie know that Annie isn't really Annie before it's too late? How will they save her? Those are the two big questions I have heading into the season finale, but there are many, many other things happening that need to be mentioned.

Butcher (Karl Urban) passed out at the bar, likely from his disease but that's unclear, at the end of episode 7. Is this the end for Butcher? He's really not looking good lately.

Butcher also tasked Frenchie (Tomer Capone) with extracting the virus from Kimiko's (Karen Fukuhara) severed leg. The Boys are planning to use it on Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) and Homelander, but they don't want to use it on all of the Supes.

A-Train is also on the run after stopping Deep and Black Noir from killing Butcher and the Boys.

That's basically where things end in the seventh episode of the season! It's all going to go down in the season finale. It feels like we've been waiting for this episode for a long time. What happens in this episode will absolutely set up what's going to happen in the final season of The Boys.

Watch The Boys season 4 episode 8 on Thursday, July 18!