The latest instalment of the Amazon Prime Video superhero show<\/a>, titled Dirty Business, unveiled the true nature of the relationship between Jeffrey Dean Morgan\u2019s character Joe Kessler and Karl Urban\u2019s Butcher.<\/span><\/p>\n The episode revealed that Butcher didn\u2019t actually save Kessler\u2019s life during their service in Afghanistan, instead leaving him to die.<\/span><\/p>\n Kessler now exists only as a figment of Butcher\u2019s imagination \u2013 a symptom of his V-induced tumour.<\/span><\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s like Venom,\u201d Kripke told Entertainment Weekly,<\/a> responding to fan comparisons between Kessler and the infamous Spider-Man adversary.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think he\u2019s a dude with his own point of view and wants to go eat chickens or whatever, but I think he represents all that\u2019s dark and malignant inside of Butcher.\u201d<\/p>\n Speaking further about the battle for control raging inside Butcher\u2019s mind, Kripke added: \u201cBoth Butcher and Homelander [played by Antony Starr], in very different ways, are wrestling with whether they\u2019re human or whether they\u2019re monsters.<\/p>\n \u201cKessler represents the monster side and Becca represents the human side of Butcher. Those two sides are at war with themselves, but they\u2019re all Butcher.\u201d<\/p>\n Meanwhile, speaking about the timing of the huge twist, Morgan <\/span>told <\/span>Variety:<\/a> \u201cWe were always going to reveal it in episode 6 \u2014 we didn\u2019t want to save it for the end of the movie.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cBecause now Kessler has this new role to be literally the devil on his shoulder, and really be twisting the knife and saying really cruel things to Butcher that all happen to be totally true \u2014 which is always great when your villain can be a real truth-teller.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n [squirrel-affiliate-playlist squirrel_playlist_id=\u201d753\u2033 \/]<\/p>\n The Boys season 4 continues on Amazon Prime Video on Thursday 11th July.<\/strong>\u00a0The Boys seasons 1-3 are available to watch now\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0<\/strong>try Amazon Prime Video for free for 30 days<\/a>. <\/strong>Plus, read our guides to the best Amazon Prime series<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0best movies on Amazon Prime<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>\u00a0to find out what\u2019s on. 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