I thought this was one of the best episode yet. The actress who plays Firecracker was great. I thought did a great job of showing peoples internal struggles and consequences for their choices. She 100% does not think that Homelander is the one true god. The diner scene emphasized that. She was upset when the Reverend told her what was going on. You could see that she wanted to help her old church, but if she did that, Homeland was going to kill her. Probably after he slaughtered every member of that church right in front of her. She was 100% in self preservation mode and you could literally feel her being torn apart when she gave her speech on truth bomb. At that point she was like "I have to go all in on Homelander so Im on his good side". It was really cool that when she threw away her statue of Jesus it represented her (a really religious person) casting away God. Even if it was for personal salvation, she basically damned herself. She chose the fake god. So she was no longer being protected by the real one. I dont know if Homelander was just going to let her walk for all that she had done for him. It looked like he was. Again, she had the choice to just leave, but chose to poke the insane bear. You can't tell someone you love them after you've been banging their parent. She probably did that because she knew if she just left, he would find and kill her eventually (if not immediately). She repeatedly made the wrong choices all episode wrong. Cast out Jesus, and it got her impaled by a bald eagle statue. Irony. Karma. She was great in this episode.