Warning: SPOILERS for the Peacemaker episode “Want I Say Door” are forward!
We’re midway into Peacemaker Season 2’s run on the 2025 TV schedule, and it’s turn out to be clear that there’s awkward stress between John Cena’s Christopher Smith and Jennifer Holland’s Emilia Harcourt following that mysterious dalliance between the 2 of them aboard a ship. It’s gotten to the purpose the place Chris is now trying to develop nearer with the Harcourt from that different universe. Now the episode “Want I Say Door” has put the principle Harcourt ready the place she has to lure Chris right into a lure on behalf of A.R.G.U.S., and Holland talked with CinemaBlend about how her character feels so conflicted about this newest curveball for the HBO Max subscription-exclusive collection.
Following A.R.G.U.S.’ failed try to breach the Quantum Unfolding Chamber in Peacemaker’s home, Rick Flag Sr. reached out to Emilia Harcourt for assist. She’s been having no luck getting employed by one other intelligence company resulting from Amanda Waller black-booking her, however Flag knowledgeable her that she may get again into the great graces of the U.S. authorities by agreeing to arrange a meet with Chris at Kupperberg Park. After I requested Holland if Harcourt feels conflicted in any respect about doing this given how off the vibe has been between her and Chris resulting from no matter occurred on the boat, she began off by saying:
She’s not curious about speaking about what occurred on the boat. She needs to only overlook what occurred on the boat, and he is pissed off at her as a result of he simply needs to deal with the state of affairs and determine how they’ll transfer ahead. They’re at an deadlock to a point as a result of she’s obtained to place up or shut up. On the finish of the day, she must open up and speak to the man, and we do not know if she’s able to doing that or not.
Hopefully Peacemaker Season 2 will finally present us what went down on the boat, however for now, Chris and Harcourt have very differing beliefs on how they’re supposed to maneuver ahead. That’s solely going to turn out to be extra sophisticated now that Harcourt is working with Flag to apprehend Chris. This actually isn’t going to assist with opening the doorways to communication.
None of this is able to be taking place if Amanda Waller hadn’t lashed out at Emilia Harcourt for, as Rick Flag Sr. defined, “corrupting” her daughter, Leota Adebayo, who uncovered Process Power X and Challenge Butterfly within the Peacemaker Season 1 finale. However now Harcourt has the chance to return to her outdated skilled life, although as Jennifer Holland cleared up with me, throwing Christopher Smith underneath the bus like this undoubtedly isn’t straightforward for her:
She’s informed that she must deliver the Peacemaker in, and he or she’s completely torn by the state of affairs as a result of she needs her job again greater than something on this planet. She now sees a path to getting her job again, and he or she’s having to calculate whether or not or not it’s value it to surrender this man who… she has a cause to hate him. He killed her solely pal.
Sure, as we realized in “One other Rick Up My Sleeve,” the late Rick Flag Jr. and Emilia Harcourt had been shut buddies. They even slept collectively simply hours earlier than Rick shipped out to Corto Maltese in The Suicide Squad, the place he would finally be killed by Peacemaker. This provides extra context for why Harcourt disliked Chris a lot in the beginning of Peacemaker, and though she thinks extra positively of him now, she’s additionally fairly determined given how her life turned out. Holland concluded:
So it would not be unrealistic to suppose that she may give this man up and that it would make sense for her to try this in order that she will be able to get her job again. She did not actually do something to lose her job. Somebody’s taking it out on her. Yeah, I do not know. I feel it is tearing her aside, however she simply actually has to determine the place her priorities lie at this second.
We’ll discover out subsequent Thursday how this meet goes down when the latter half of Peacemaker Season 2 kicks off. “Want I Say Door” additionally ended by displaying Michael Rooker’s Pink St. Wild is certainly the true deal and extra decided than ever to kill Eagly. Let’s cross our fingers that Chris’ feathered finest pal stays protected.