Why The Redemption of A-Train Works
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The subtle buildup towards A-Train's redemption has been incredible to watch! I already love this show but seeing such cool writing with this character has been a treat. As the season nears it's end I can't help but be worried. Like most viewers, this seems too good to be true.
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I do have to admit this version of A-train is a lot better than the one in the comics.
Almost every version of the character in tho show is better than comics version😭
How different are they?
@@Bkr0507really? How so?
@@paganavenger8920 By far.
@@pt5728 in the comics, A-train along with homelander, the deep and black noir try to take advantage of starlight
I think this is a VAST improvement on the original comic version. There after killing Robin he quickly fell into a role as a dumbass frat boy for the rest of the series.
The show really improves the source material for sure!
yeah the comics are horrible and i dont like the Art style either
Truly
@@Blackpanther-cr2vr hugie looks like a middle aged man with 4 children lmfao
@@benjili458 he’s based off Simon Pegg in the comics
If he truly gets killed, I hope he gets a dope last fight with slow motion and all like Quicksilver.
nah more like eternals
I think he will be killed but before that they will get the boys address from him. In the trailer we see the seven fight the boys in the cast iron building.
I like to think he will go out by saving Hughie's bacon again. I could see a situation where Homelander has Hugie, Frenchie, Kimiko, Billy, MM and Annie cornered. He neutralizes both Kimiko and Annie (although they are still alive) and is about to finish off everybody else, when A-Train suddenly wizes by and tackles Homelander. This leads an enraged Homelander to chase after him. The two then go on a high speed foot chase, with A-Train outrunning Homelander, but has to dodge his laser beams, which creates a lot of death and property damage throughout the city. Eventually however, A-Train tires whereas Homelander still not breaking a sweat appears and taunts him, before A-Train charges at him, and either gets bludgeoned or lasered to death.
I think he can see on slow mo, he would never run into Robin if that was the case...
@@oscardanny228 It's "seeing in slo-mo" isn't infallible. A-Train is still restricted by physics. He was also high when he did that. Hell, even if he wasn't...he could have just spaced out while running
That Teen Titan Go Robin scene is diabolical
I feel like The Boys Robin scene is a tad worse, but thas just me.
Nah fr tho 😂😂😂 I wasn’t ready for that
That was crazy
Fucking diabolical!
You should see what they did in the TTG movie to make sure Bruce Wayne becomes Batman. TTG likes dark humor at times
You can say "he had a change of heart"
Literally 😅
I we what you did there lol
Haha nice
You cooked
If I hear one more goddamn heart pun-
3:35 A-train’s brother is really naïve if he thinks there was a possibility of Blue Hawk facing any kind of justice other than what A-train served up.
Pretty much in the context of the world of the boys, A-Train got the only justice that was going to happen. At best bluehawk was getting PR community service but as a hero face of vought he was going to be protected just as everyone else. Also felt pretty personal and poetic for him to drag him to death considering history... He gave blue hawk an extra chance to make things right and he still fucked it up, in the context of the injust world bluehawk still got off easy.
Also missed out on A-Train being the one who gets the evidence that out's stormfront as a literal Nazi.
Very happy with A-Trains arc though just going to be that much sadder when he gets black noired
@@Tyconyou just said exactly what OP said in way more words
I mean he was to represent us Mothers Milk's Father
@@adonislanzones the fuck are you even talking about. A Train has absolutely nothing to do with M.M. or his father.
When his brother said that to him I was like "Oh you deserved what you got.
The actor for A-Train has done a bang-up job subtly changing his character over the seasons and forming a really smooth redemption arc
Really hasn't but ight.
Honestly Jessie is so underrated, not a lot of people talk about how good his performance as A-train is
Jessie Usher has promise, he’s still young
@@Kspice9000mfs always find a way to hate
I think the fact that his brother was his catalyst for change, not hughie or starlight, shows the writers dedication to not be hypocrites and give him a white savior like in a-trains movie. Because it makes sense, that A-train would change because the person who had gotten him so far and always stood by his side no longer supported him, not because of some random person he doesn’t care about.
@@jellyfsh5621 I mean it isn't random, Huggie forgave and saved A-train more than once.
the way his brother warned him about the drugs too and tried to get him out of it, it's so tragic but great storytelling 😢
9:47 I’m pretty sure in this scene Sage literally tells him that she knows he’s guilty and he’s just trying to get on her good side by being friendly
Think it’s queen maves diary or starlights, the diary is decorated that way
Could say it’s firecrackers but I jus think it’s a mave Easter egg
Yeah she legit came up to a-train specifically for no reason and says "the files couldn't have just "ran" off". There's no way she didn't know.
IMO she's sparing a-train from homelander finding out. Remember that they were on a team together. If she was really on homelander's side, she'd tell HL and have him laser a-train during their next meeting, setting an example to cate, sam, and tek knight.
@@eliboring482 Maeve*
@@La-Machina And Sage was talking to Tek Knight
I bet A-Train dies saving his brother in some way
Nah he will get captured and questioned by the seven which is how they will know that the boys are in the cast iron building since they fought the seven there in the trailers. Just my theory. A train knows where the boys are at.
I'd like for him to stay alive as long as Deep and then he takes Deep out before his own death.
Or Homelander threatens Nathan and the kids. Man is more unhinged now so its possible
I used to hate a train, but I always enjoyed his performance now with season 4 I can like the character
Nah he still sucks.
I don't call character development "changing because every disrespects you enough to call you a selfish entitled dipshit to your face." Dude didn't give a fuck about anyone he hurt and still doesn't even after blue hawks poorly written bullshit. And now he gets "redeemed" because "now he knows how it feels". Fuck that. Dude was bully that's spinelessness is hidden poorly behind his superpowers.
I really hope they don't pull on A-Train the same thing they did with Black Noir last season, still very disappointing how he ended up getting killed by Homelander at the end. All that build up for him fighting Soldier Boy, only for getting wasted for the sake of shock value. A-Train deserves an emotional well written ending.
With Noir death.
That's normal. Life is unpredictable.
@@zeno-two0255 Narratives aren’t supposed to be realistic they are supposed to be compelling
Nah A train straight up deserves worse.
@abcdefg-ox6mu and a compelling narrative is one grounded with atleast some realism.
@@Kspice9000 no he doesn't. Leave my man alone
Hughie absolving A-Train of his guilt *before* any heroic sacrifice/death scene was really cool to me. It made Hughie's choosing to do so feel proactive and organic, rather than "oh crap, we've gotta wrap up this arc before dude is gone", if the scene had coincided with his death.
Nah definitely felt more like the latter.
@@Kspice9000not at all
Yeah I think it tied up great with Hughie's ark in the past couple episodes that he spent with his mother. He learned not really to forgive, since both his mom and A-Train don't deserve it, but giving them a second chance now that they realized how fucked up they acted.
@@georgetriantafyllidis6525 this! It feels like Hughie is realizing that the best way to truly defeat your enemy is to make them your ally. Now if (when, probably) A Train goes out, it'll be as an actual hero, because he could've ran out of that alley and went right back to his old ways, but instead he's working for good
I just hope that if a train and homelander do fight it’s actually a really good fight and not just a train getting rocked ina few seconds.
Did you watch the first episode of invincible? With red rush vs Omni man?
@@JamaicanMeCrazy the power gap between homelander and a train is a lot smaller than red rush and Omni man tho
@@DeeDeeDeeeeeNo it isn't homelander can do the same to a train which a train did to Robin or just a full powered laser blast would be enough for a train
@@shivamjha5578 A-Train probably can't dodge a point blank C4 explostion, let alone save both a baby and a man that are right next to it, without anyone being hurt.
Homelander is definetely faster than A-Train and obviously stronger. Lasers are also light speed, so there's that as well.
@@ChessKing-ev8kmI'm calling bs. If black noir handled the laser in diabolical series then A train can dodge a few lasers
No way sage doesn’t know already.
she probably does, just doesn’t have proof yet
Considering they knew each other on Teenage Kix, I think she's protecting him
@@thezeronelite that's what I'm thinking too. Seems they have bond history
I think she knows but she wants to see how far A Train’s betrayal will go and how many people will get involved. Remember this is the smartest PERSON in the world and Sage isn’t someone who likes rushing things. She likes taking it slow and letting things play out so once she initiates her plan the damage is bigger than before. I highly doubt it has anything to do with needing evidence since she’s Homelander’s right hand woman. He would believe anything she says plus there would be no reason for her to lie. Could it be because she has a past bond with A Train? It’s possible. Maybe they dated in the past but things didn’t work out. Could also be why A Train didn’t fuck with her despite knowing her. I kinda doubt this but it’s a possibility
It’s crazy because she definitely knows lmao I feel like the only reason she has not snitched on him yet is because he’s a one of the only black members of the seven and she also knows how unhinged Homelander is there’s more layers to her character for sure
Hughie pissed me off when he asked A-Train to get the V from Homelander’s room. Primarily, he is endangering an extremely important piece of their plan. Asking him to do something so selfish and stupid right when he is starting to become truly sympathetic to their cause is beyond braindead. I am honestly floored that A-Train agreed to do it. Shows how much he really wants to make up for his sins. And I’m glad Hughie forgave him. I hope A-Train survives, at least long enough to deal a decisive blow, but he is throwing way too many death flags for me to have confidence in him surviving the season. They are setting him up for some kind of heroic death to prove he actually is a hero in the end, since everyone is calling him a fraud. Also props to Jessie T. Usher for his phenomenal acting!
Nah shows how dogshit the writing is.
wouldn't you wanna save the only family you have left if you were in his position?. Even then he didnt go through with it and let go of his dad, yeah it was a selfish decision in the first place but can you blame him?
@@mono-tone362 the fact that it was all for nothing except his own closure kind of makes it worse. They didn’t gain anything from putting one of their strongest new allies in mortal danger. Hughie screwed up by ignoring his dad, and that sucks, but potentially dooming the entire world by sabotaging his team’s plans against homelander is a bad trade for a gamble at waking his father up from a coma. It’s the trolley car question. I also thought A Train could use it as an excuse to stop helping them now that he feels he doesn’t owe them anything.
@@TheLastArbiter Picture someone who sheltered and loved you now dying in a hospital room with a day or two left to live. You're not thinking of the sum total good for humanity, you are thinking there's a chance to keep them alive and said asset turning or being caught was not a guarantee. To begin with, that asset owed you for killing someone else you loved.
Grief causes people to do things they otherwise would not do. It's only human. Highie made a bad call, we saw that with all the violence, but it gave him a chance to get closure.
It wasn't not worth it.
I have this feeling once he’s redeemed fully he’s gonna die either by Homelander or someone else. I hope that once he redeems himself he just removes compound v from his system and lives a normal life with his brother
I really hope he doesn’t :(
I think it’s pretty obvious he is going to die, that would make his redemption arc better, him sacrifing himself to probably save the boys and his motivation being that he prefers to die being a hero rather than to keep on living a false life
@@diamonddustin7664 you are entirely correct I hope because the show always has twist and turns they will figure out a way to make him live, but I don’t think he will
At least Maeve got a happy ending.
@@KnoxCarbon Depends on how you define "happy". She wasn't exactly thrilled about the prospect of having to live the rest of her life as an ordinary person when Soldier Boy burned the V out of her system.
I think A-Train's arc is some of the most well written character progression we've seen in a show recently. All of the building blocks of his story feel natural and cohesive and writers have done a great job making A-Train seem like a person who just got carried away by power and influenced by the horrible people around him.
Agreed, it's like Hughie said. He just ran through life, unbothered about the destruction he was causing. Until because of a heart attack that he brought on himself, he was finally forced to slow down and take a look behind himself to see all the awful things he had done.
I don't think A-Train wants to become a hero. I think he's just so tired of all of Homelander's insanity and all the crimes he's complicit in that he can't continue anymore. If he could disappear like Maeve, he probably would, but he knows he doesn't have a choice anymore.
Also, Sage definitely has her own plans. Sage smiled when Homelander compared himself to Caesar, and Caesar was assassinated.
I know Anthony Starr deservedly gets a lot of praise for his performance but I really think Jessie T Usher puts on a great performance as well. He does a lot of subtle things that just really add the layers to A-train
A-Train's redemption arc reminds me of Zuko's redemption arc from Avatar the last air bender
I know what you mean. A lot of redemption arcs miss this key element. The villain, actually has to apologize and seek forgiveness from those he has wronged. A LOT of fiction writers try to skip over this part, and instead just want the villain to start doing good, and hope the heroes start warming up to him, rather than having him apologize and own up to the mistakes he made, and wrong he did to them. A-train's arc works, because he's ACTUALLY sorry, and is now going out of his way to make amends
I think he will die protecting his brother from homelander.
3:40 I don't think A-Train hurt him on purpose here since he loves his brother.
anyone in that position would move cause no one liked to be pushed around, so its most likely accidental
@@looots1320 Yup. His brother was an aggressor in that situation.
8:30 hehe “running” with it 🤭
I’m glad you don’t find it corny haha that was not intentional
@@iAmLufa it was pretty smooth tho
My favourite character arcs are a train and the deep
@@bobnotbobff same!
The deep still has to redeem himself
@@McNair_Music not necessarily he can just have an arc and die, but to like him as a person yeah, but his still a fictional character
I hate the deep this season especially he went back to being homelander lapdog
@@bgos4727 can't wait till homelander finds out what in his closet lol
Oddly enough, I think Ashley’s words hit home too. “You only give a shit because it happened to YOU.”
Then there was the confrontation and his SINCERE apology to Huey, for which he got super punched in the face. Which was reasonable, honestly.
I went from wanting him to die the most to not wanting him to die at all and I’m worried that he’s going to die this season.
CZcams recommending this two days late is CRAZY! 10/10 my dude. We’ve been hyped the new season is out. I figured we’d get a video with you also being a fan! It lived up to the hype!
@@heftyx3 Woohoo!! Glad you liked it :D
i feel like sage is secretly playing the long game sabotage homelander showing just enough results to be trusted by him while planning to turn ryan against him
2:00 Man.. what a beauty and now, what a shame.... 😢😢
Reading some of the comments here and I think some of them are hilarious. I think Sage has her own agenda and is playing ALL the characters (and not necessarily A-Train) against one another. And I think the other Supes are missing it because -- and, bluntly, as a Black man, I find this to be true in real life as well as reel life -- I don't think they can truly imagine a Black character with an agenda, goals and ideas that don't center on the approval or acceptance of the white protagonist(s).
But, admittedly, that's just a guess. And, moreover, the show's writers are (mostly) white.
I have been loving Season 4 so far but this video was so full of information that I didn’t realise I’d forgotten! This is really going to help me appreciate it even more. Thank you!
with how far the seasons releases are spread out its easy to forget some of the stuff that happens
3:37
Honestly, I peeped that the first time I saw it, but, f*ck it, it was funny AF!😂
I’ve been rewatching the first 3 seasons and I appreciate him and deep so much more now
They're doing a great job with his story arc. I hope the actor gets more roles after this show. The only other thing ive seen him on was a walking dead spinoff
He’s a main character in “Shaft” and a a side character in “the banker” both really good movies
Here a few more details you may be missing from season four.
We are collecting a group of people with abilities that outclass homelander in some capacity. In an overall stat spread homelander wins ofc, but not in specialization.
Mainly:
Kimiko’s healing abilities
A-Trains speed
And Sister Sage’s intellect
With that you may be thinking, sister sage is a bad guy on homelander’s side. Well it is pretty obvious she has ulterior motives. She knows Atrain is the mole yet says nothing. She is making the Deep loyal to her. She most likely knows the exact whereabouts of the Bous, yet does not attempt to eliminate them. She is trying to seperate homelander from ryan. Essentially, she is trying to give homelander one frankly worthless ally, firecracked. All the while the writers are poising his son to be the newest and baddest villain. It seems to me her goal may be eliminating homelander (perhaps by utilizing the boys and those she is defecting/allowing the turning away of from homelander). Then swoop in and use ryan to secure her position as the most powerful person due to having the most powerful lackey.
I say this meaning it for real, but A-Train arc its so well written over the seasons that it reminds me to Zuko from Avatar the last air bender. I hope that he will have a good ending, being becoming a real superhero or having an heroic death
this is a great analysis
I feel like he will die after trying to inject homelander with the supe virus, he’s the only one fast enough to do it without getting instantly killed
Super heroes with normal ass health problems is so funny to me. A-train has a heart condition, Black Noir is allergic to nuts. Comedic gold every time.
After A-train pretended to care after that whole thing with his heart he actually started to care
Happy to see A Train on his road to redemption. Great video on A Train by the way.
He got a physical change of heart and a moral change of heart.
I'm hoping for a plot twist where A-Train frees Soldierboy and creates a team to counter the seven in the final season. Bringing back a repowered Queen Maeve and maybe some of the gen v characters or the head popper.
Even after season 1, I felt A train would eventually have a redemption arc. Just didn’t know when it would happen but we’re finally seeing it. The Deep is the character I felt would never change and it’s looking that way
A-Train has definitely got redemption. He is definitely one of characters in season 4 who had got character development. I have a feeling he might get killed sometime soon but hope he goes out with a bang!
8:35 That would be great.
Excellent video. I always found Maeve and A-Train to be way more interesting and sympathetic than the boys themselves. A-Train is definitely my favorite character in the show, with Soldier Boy and Queen Maeve as second and third. I definitely feel like my boy’s cooked. But I would not consider it out of the cards for Sage to leave him as an element of chaos that ends up setting up Homelander to be stopped and it’s Sage or even Butcher that becomes the final antagonist. Newman has final boss aura, but I don’t think she’s that evil, just power hungry.
I really hope they don't kill him, last season they killed Noir just as he became a character we could really care about, it would be kind of repetitive to do the same thing twice. Plus literally everyone and their Grandma has predicted that's how this will go.
So I hope the show can subvert our expectations a little here. I'd rather he can become an arms length ally of the Boys.
exactly my thoughts. and i’m also just kinda tired of the trope where the characters always have to die after they redeem themselves. Queen maeve doesn’t really count in my opinion because she was never really a bad person to begin with
This character is Actually opposite of his comic version
They just flipped His character to Deep of Comics
Tek Knight and Sister sage teaming up is terrifying
Nathan despite working for Vought and likely seeing all the stuff they let supes get away with thought Blue Hawk would end up in a line up/jail thats actually weirdly naive Vought would never allow that he was a somewhat major Supe having a highly publicized TV show.
A-Train killing Blue Hawk was the closest to justice Nathan was ever going to get im actually really surprised he doesn't get that since he apparently knows that saves are staged and Vought pulls strings
I think it was around season 2 during the court room scene, I started wanting A-Train to eventually join the boys.
I thought it would’ve been super cool to have a highly unredeemable character eventually redeem himself.
Now that we’re in season 4 and A Train is finally an honorary Boy, I’ve been so satisfied!
Great video!
Thanks!
This is all started because of a-train which is funny. I hope he gets a good ending
I have a feeling Sage is a double agent. I think she's trying to destroy the Seven herself.
How so? Double agent for who
Nah she just want chaos
amazing video
The final of this season is called assassination run so I think a-train is gonna have some awesome fights killing Supes and maybe taking down sage before he dies ,which is funny since he's a flash parody he could be doing something that the flash would actually do,I hope The Deep has an amazing fight with a-train to,see his powers in action for once
@ 3:43 I don't believe that A Train moved out of the way to let him fall. He did it because he didn't want to be touched anymore.
Not everything is that deep to examine. Regardless good analysis
Facts
I think a train will end up saving the boys from the seven in front of them, blowing his cover entirely. He knows sticking around with the boys would be a death wish for all of them. I predict that he will just run somewhere far away and go into hiding like Maeve.
Part of it it that his arc has taken course over such a long time and through so many various miscues and successes. Success is not a straight line and neither has his journey toward becoming a decent person.
I honestly believe A-train is one of the few Supes who can go toe to toe with Homelander and maybe even kill him.
1. He’s too fast and Homelander while fast in the air, hasn’t shown impressive ground speed equal to his.
2. We’ve seen Homelander has a weak spot in his ears when Maeve stabs him with a pipe so A-train at full speed could do the same and even make the the stab fatal.
I hated A train in season 1&2 but season 3&4 I started to love his character
A train blitses and oneshots all of them except ryan,homlander,sam
What in the Sam Hill was that Teen Titans clip???
That was so uncalled for
I think A-Train redemption arc is one of the things that is keeping the tension high in The Boys. The Boys survived too many times with Supes and each new villain plot so far gets ended in a season, so the only uncertainty left is will the good deed go unpunished or not with A-Train, and will Ryan be evil?
Noir wiith the jumping bat slam 😂
A- Train is one of my favorite characters really really scared he is going to die
A-Train reminds me of Prince Zuko, because he is a villain with a conscience, he receives painful epiphanies throughout the series that tell him to stop being a selfish coward and cut out his toxic environment, but he chooses to ignore that and he pays big time.
He gets what he wanted, to remain the number one speedster and return to the Seven, but at the price of becoming a sycophant and a hitman, being left alone and losing the trust of both his family and Starlight.
His redemption is painful, because he is full of remorse for not having done it sooner and no one trusts him, but you only have to watch The Deep to see that giving up is much worse.
"And with that, A-Train is now helping the boys; and it is terrifying." Man, you aren't kidding.
This is better than what's going on with Frenchie
A great character development. I am preparing my little boy heart to watch Homelander Vs A-Train.
Just remember that the name of this season finale eps is "Assassination Run" 😢
Dude. The ending of episode five. When Homelander talked about the leak. I thought aTrain was done for. I do think it is for shadowing his downfall, and the scene showing no where to run frightens me.
I just hope he can plan an escape when needed. But would need to be methodical.
Got a feeling Sage and Homelander have a trap in place.
But a battle between the Deep and A train needs to happen
great video
Thanks for the visit
No way bluddington tied A-train to Teen titans go
9:47 pretty sure that’s just queen maves diary but could be wrong
I think when they showed the 'Black At It' movie teaser it wasn't a coincidence that the Deep was handling Top Secret files and right after that Sage gave A-Train a look. A-Train didn't see that frame of the teaser, so more likely it's a way how writers show us that Sage knows - with a subtle reference. Although I could just be seeing things as the look happened right after the Deep mentioned cognac (as in A-Train looked at Sage like 'Seriously, Vought is doing this shitty type of racist pondering and Sage being like 'Yeah, Vought is like this not only in your Training A-Train movie with the white saviour').
I think A train knows something about Sage. She may be suspicious about him but they do go back to ‘Teenage Kix’ and he did say ‘she doesn’t know when to keep her mouth shut. He may not seem that worried because he has something in his back pocket for Sage just in case.
Did he really say that? Maybe that’s foreshadowing how she ends up dying
10:33 homelander and sage clocked a trains reaction in this scene. They know he’s the mole
“Due to his change of heart” lol
Hes far from redeemed for me yet, feeling bad isn't good enough to fix being a shitty person for years
A-Train will be forgiven by his brother before he dies or he’ll end up wheelchair bound too after Homelander lasers his legs off and him and his brother will be buddies again at the end of the series
👀
If A train gets found out they’re still gonna have a heck of a time actually catching him!
Omg that Teen Titans clip is brutal
A Train works for the same reason other people work. He needs to pay his bills 🥁 tiss
I have a feeling it will come full circle and Hughie will try and save or stand up for A-train. Though he might not succeed but it will show how far A-train has come and how Hughie really forgives him and hopefully it will be in front of butcher which will make him shocked knowing the pin A-train caused Hughie
I actually think that Sage is on A-trains side. I believe she already knows it's him, but is playing the long game.
Ngl. This felt kinda nice.
I just realized, in that room there were 9 supes. The 6 Seven and Sam, Kate and tech knight. If A train is gone, and maybe someone else like firecracker or tech knight too (I think Sage will survive untill s5) we have the new 7.
I think Sage wants to use A-train for her own plans, I’m pretty sure she figured him out straight away when she said the files “ran” out of the area they were locked in. I wouldn’t be surprised if she plans on taking out Homelander and the other supes by getting them to turn on each other
By the fact the last episode is called Assassination run I assume that’s when A-Train will die
I wonder what Ashley actually did in Homelanders Apartment? Cause A-Train said taking a dump wasnt the only thing she did..
And the last episode is named.
*"Assassination Run"*
A-Train is having his red dead redemption.
I just hope he survives to season five at the very least.
Truthfully hopefully they subvert out expectations and let him live 😭
don't know if A-Train joining the boys is too good to be true. We've had Starlight in The Seven work with The Boys while still under the same roof as Homelander. I think there are still ways out of the life he's in other than death. Even if he gets killed off, I'll bet they'll at least keep him around longer than season 4.
It feels like A-train's and Homelander's arcs are the only ones that are consistent to given characters.
Every other old character is running circles (MM, Kimiko, Butcher) or out of character at this point (Frenchie)
Eipsode 8 is called “The Insider” 😢
I think he's going to die in the season finale "Assassination Run".
The title is a pretty big clue, at least that he's going to play a major role in the season 4 finale.