WARNING: The following contains major spoilers for The Boys Season 2, Episode 6, "The Bloody Doors Off," available now on Amazon Prime Video.

The Boys is known for its gritty take on superheroes but in Season 2, Episode 6, Starlight had her own gruesome moment when she killed a man. Her portrayer, Erin Moriarty, spoke about why Starlight crossed that brutal line and what it means for her character.

The scene in question happens when Hughie is dying and a reluctant driver refuses to give the heroes his car to drive him to the hospital. In a rush decision, Starlight kills him. While on an episode of Collider's Ladies Night, Moriarty discussed Starlight's actions. She said, "That episode is a really important one because it makes her realize how far she’s going in keeping herself safe, maintaining her objective to take down Vought and also it really wakes her up to realize – I think she’s kind of been in denial about how much this world and being in Vought has changed her, you know? If we think back to Episode 1, Season 1 of Annie or Starlight, we all know that that would have not been a feasible thing for her at all, and I think the way she digests the death and that she causes it and what’s going on in that episode is, it’s a really hard pill for her to swallow."

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Moriarty also explained how important this scene is when one thinks about all she went through in Season 1. She said, "I think a lot of this season is about her building up that facade to go covert, but also, she’s got a wall up in terms of Hughie and her mom because she’s had her heart totally broken and I think when you have someone who is young and ignorant merely because they’ve not yet been exposed to certain aspects of our world and they have their trust betrayed, it can put up a really thick wall. I know that happened for me personally and I know that, oftentimes, you compensate with a wall that’s too thick and you have to slowly find yourself again and your trust in other people."

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She continued, "And I think that that episode and the death she causes makes her realize how far she’s strayed from herself. I think that she knows that certain things have to be done. I think she thinks that it did have to be done, but I think that it’s the beginning of her starting to find herself again after all of her deep heartbreaks in Season 1 and her exposure to this immensely dark world; her facade and walls have become excessively thick and she sets out to find the in-between, between being not naive or ignorant but also being her true, good self."

Amazon Studios' The Boys stars Karl Urban as Billy Butcher, Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko, Erin Moriarty as Annie January, Chace Crawford as the Deep, Antony Starr as Homelander and Aya Cash as Stormfront. New episodes of Season 2 release Fridays on Amazon Prime Video.

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