Warning: SPOILERS for the Peacemaker episode “Again to the Suture” are forward!
Emilia Harcourt was put in a tough place in final week’s episode of Peacemaker Season 2 when she was instructed by Rick Flag Sr. to lure Chris right into a entice so she might get her job at A.R.G.U.S. again. Jennifer Holland, who performs Harcourt, informed me that her character did certainly really feel conflicted about this curveball, and that’s factoring in how he killed her solely good friend, Rick Flag Jr., in The Suicide Squad. Effectively, that entice resulted in Chris going by hell within the latest Peacemaker episode to drop on the 2025 TV schedule, and Holland additionally opened up about Harcourt having to cope with a brand new “sophisticated set of feelings.”
In “Again to the Suture,” Chris confirmed up for the meet at Kupperberg Park regardless of Emilia Harcourt secretly warning him to remain away. Chris was nicely conscious that A.R.G.U.S. brokers had been close by able to neutralize him, however he was nonetheless decided to seek out out if what occurred on the boat between them pre-Season 2 meant something to Harcourt (we nonetheless don’t know what that was). To say she was angered by this may be an understatement, with Jennifer Holland saying:
She’s so livid since you discover out on the park bench that she was not giving him up. She wasn’t giving him up. She informed him that she typed ‘copacetic.’ That was the warning phrase. She stated, ‘That was the warning phrase, you dumb fuck!’ And he stated, ‘Yeah, I do know however like, I wished to speak to you.’ And she or he’s similar to, ‘What’s improper with you? Your ego is so uncontrolled that you would be able to’t even hearken to me. You suppose you may get out of this?’ She is aware of that he can not get out of this case. He is completely fucked on this state of affairs. And so she was making an attempt to save lots of the man, and she or he’s like, ‘Significantly, if you happen to had been simply gonna give your self up anyway, I ought to have fucking achieved it and gotten my job again.’ So she’s simply so mad at him on this second.
After Harcourt informed Chris that their time on the boat meant nothing to her, he tried to make his escape and was almost shot by Sasha Bordeaux on Rick Flag Sr.’s orders. It was solely due to Harcourt working in and knocking Chris unconscious that this didn’t occur, and upon being delivered to A.R.G.U.S., Rick proceeded to beat Chris to a pulp as revenge for killing his son. He would possibly’ve ended our major protagonist’s life had John Economos, on Harcourt’s urging, not booked him within the system and generated an arrest report, which means he couldn’t simply “disappear.”
Rick Flag Sr. claimed to Bordeaux that his aggressive actions had been a part of his lengthy sport to seek out the dimensional rift created by Peacemaker’s Quantum Unfolding Chamber, however that’s a dialog for one more time. What’s extra necessary is that upon being let go by A.R.G.U.S. and arriving again on the cabin the place the QUC was arrange, Chris departed to that different universe to be with the alternate Emilia Harcourt and left a notice for his mates explaining his reasoning. Right here’s what Jennifer Holland needed to say about how the principle Harcourt feels about Chris doing this:
I feel that she goes by a extremely sophisticated set of feelings, and I feel that she feels when she hears that type of goodbye notice that he wrote, she feels so responsible. As a result of she would not suppose that he must be within the different dimension, however she additionally seems like a part of the rationale that he left is that she wouldn’t take her wall down a bit bit. So whether or not or not because of this she cares for him and desires to attempt to work issues out with him, or this simply means like, ‘I really feel responsible that he is gone and left, and I really feel like I have to go attempt to repair this case as a result of I am partially accountable.’
That’s precisely what’s going to occur, as Harcourt declares on the finish of “Again to the Suture” that she, Economos, Adrian and Adebayo will make their technique to that different universe to get Chris again. First they should discover a new place to arrange the QUC, after which it’s a matter of discovering the correct doorway to that different universe. As Jennifer Holland capped off this portion of my interview together with her, Harcourt is simply improvising at this level, saying:
I feel that is what is going on on together with her proper now. However proper now, she would not know what she’s doing. She would not have plans. Within the second, she’s like, ‘We’re gonna go get him. That is what we’re gonna do.’
One other fascinating wrench thrown within the works is how Judomaster, who misplaced his rematch in opposition to Peacemaker in “Want I Say Door” tracked Chris all the way down to the cabin and walked by the portal earlier than it closed. He left his personal notice for Rick Flag Sr. and the A.R.G.U.S. brokers that arrived after Adebayo and Adrian had been already there, so now it’s recognized throughout the board that stuff’s taking place in that different universe, which I nonetheless suspect holds a darkish secret.
There are three episodes left to go in Peacemaker Season 2, so head again to HBO Max subsequent Thursday for the following chapter of this story. Don’t neglect that Superman, the primary DCU film, may even be debuting on the streaming platform tomorrow, September 19.