The Boys series never ceases to amaze when it comes to stretching the limits of its characters’ super abilities in more and more depraved ways.

**Major spoilers ahead for The Boys Season 5, Episode 5!**

This week, the Prime Video series kills off Adam Bourke (played by a hilarious P.J. Byrne) in a brutal scene that plays to an irrational fear everyone has: He dies by an eel slithering up the toilet into his butt while pooping, courtesy of The Deep (Chace Crawford).

Some might say he got what he deserved; Adam has long been a recurring character on both The Boys and Gen V as Vought Studio’s go-to writer, propaganda pusher and total sex pest known for sexually harassing women he works with. Adam returns for a short stint in this week’s episode when it’s revealed he’s directing the play Black Noir (Nathan Mitchell) has secretly been rehearsing for. As he explains it in this week’s episode, he thinks he was hung out to dry by Vought Studios after they shelved the problematic movie he was directing about A-Train’s life, Training A-Train, sending him down a dark path.

“At first I drowned my sorrows in crack, nitrous, huffing glue, huffing paint, paint thinner, cough medicine, guns, high-risk sex, codeine. You ever fuck on codeine?” Adam tells Noir. “But that’s not the answer. This play, it saved me. You saved me.”

In a bizarre twist of fate, Adam seems like the only person who truly believes in Black Noir – or Justin, as he goes by in the theater. It’s clear Noir believes Adam could be his ticket to Hollywood. After all, Black Noir’s replacement sees himself as an actor first and foremost.

But the touching moment ends when Adam reverts to his grody self and announces he has to go “drop a deuce.” Cut to the theater bathroom, where Adam’s peaceful moment on the toilet is interrupted by an eel forcefully penetrating him, sending blood spurting everywhere.

The eel comes at you fast before you can even realize what’s happening. Black Noir rushes into the bathroom to save him, somehow making Adam’s violent death even more difficult to watch when he literally rips the eel from his butt, causing his entrails to spill out.

To top it all off, the writer’s final moments are just as ridiculous and vulgar as his existence on the show was as he utters his final words to Noir in a hushed whisper: “My hole hurts so fucking much.”

Noir knows as soon as he sees the eel that this is The Deep’s doing, sparking a renewed thirst for revenge in the supe. The Deep has been relentlessly pushing Noir around in his desperation for Homelander’s approval.

It’s easy to get caught up in the tragedy of Adam’s death until you remember just how terrible everyone involved is – including Adam. Can anyone in Vought’s orbit be considered a victim these days? Noir, The Deep and Firecracker have done nothing to stop his fascistic power grab, and Season 5, Episode 5 is nothing but a lesson in getting a taste of your own medicine.

It’s been delightful getting to know the man behind the mask in Seasons 4 and 5 since Mitchell, who has been playing Noir since the show’s premiere, finally got some speaking lines when the supe was “replaced” by an actor in Season 4. But this new Noir has readily leaned into being in The Seven, murder and all. He might be likable, but the supe is still vying for Homelander’s approval just as much as The Deep is.

The moment also highlights just how depraved The Seven have become. Just like Butcher always says, these Supes will stop at nothing to get what they want. The Deep could have sabotaged Noir’s play several ways, but killing Adam sent a message Noir couldn’t ignore after he seemingly overstepped in front of Oh Father. It’s also significant that The Deep was willing to sacrifice an aquatic animal to get the job done, demonstrating how little he seems to care about animal welfare anymore. This used to be the crux of his existence, even if he often lacked any other morals.

Adam’s death is just one of several hilarious and unbelievable bits featured in Episode 5 that cement it as one of the best episodes in the series. It’s almost as difficult to watch as Sister Sage and The Deep’s gross lobotomy foreplay or the horrifying human centipede from Season 4.

But all of the wild antics and The Boys Season 5 cameos they’re pulling off makes it clear the show is trying to go out with a bang.

New episodes of The Boys Season 5 air Wednesdays on Prime Video.