- Peacemaker season 2 episode 3 is out now on quite a few streaming platforms
- It contains the return of a significant character from The Suicide Squad
- Their cameo solutions our largest query a few key relationship within the present
The third episode of Peacemaker season 2 has debuted on streaming companies worldwide – and it simply revealed why Emilia Harcourt has persistently rebuffed the titular anti-hero’s romantic advances.
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This season’s third chapter, titled ‘One other Rick Up My Sleeve’, drops a significant bombshell that provides a brand new – to not point out large – layer of complexity to the ‘will they, will not they’ dynamic between Peacemaker, actual identify Chris Smith, and Harcourt.
It is obtained all the pieces to do with one of many finest HBO Max reveals’ newest cameos, too. The person in query? Rick Flag Jr, who was performed by Joel Kinnaman in 2016’s Suicide Squad film and 2021’s The Suicide Squad movie.
Forward of Peacemaker 2‘s launch, business insiders steered Kinnaman would seem within the DC Universe (DCU) TV sequence. His look in ‘One other Rick Up My Sleeve’ through a flashback scene, then, will not come as a shock to anybody who noticed that rumor.
What is essential, although, is what this season’s third entry establishes as quickly because it begins – that being, Flag Jr and Harcourt have been having no strings hooked up intercourse previous to the occasions of The Suicide Squad. For extra particulars on the place this movie suits on the sophisticated DC movie timeline, take a look at my DC motion pictures so as information.
However I digress. Harcourt makes it clear to Flag Jr that she’s not interested by having an precise relationship with him. She additionally reminds him that he is really seeing a sorceress referred to as June, who DC followers will know by her meta-human pseudonym Enchantress, so he is technically dishonest on June with Harcourt. Nonetheless, it is also clear that, regardless of suggesting they’re simply pals, Harcourt has developed some emotions for him amid their situationship.
That is essential on the subject of her reluctance to get with Smith. Bear in mind, in The Suicide Squad‘s third and last act, Smith kills Flag Jr. Smith does so after the latter threatens to leak highly-sensitive data, which Flag Jr finds on a tough drive, to the press concerning the experiments being carried out on the island of Corto Maltese. In Peacemaker’s phrases, leaking mentioned intel would trigger a world disaster. Lengthy story brief: the pair struggle and Smith finally ends up stabbing Flag Jr by way of the guts with a damaged wall tile.
Contemplating Harcourt is aware of Smith is liable for Flag Jr’s dying, it makes good sense why she gave him the chilly shoulder for a lot of the sequence’ first season. She’s since warmed to Smith, however her ongoing rejection of his romantic advances confirms she’d not solely really feel responsible for getting with the person who killed her former lover, but additionally put herself within the crosshairs of a vengeful Rick Flag Sr, who’s pumping loads of ARGUS’ assets into discovering and taking out Smith.
Issues grow to be simply as sophisticated for Smith in ‘One other Rick Up My Sleeve’, too.
After discovering a parallel world through the Quantum Unfolding Chamber in season 2 episode 1, after which touring to this alternate universe final episode to drunkenly textual content this dimension’s model of Harcourt, Smith spends nearly the whole thing of episode 3 in mentioned parallel universe.
Sadly for Smith, a model of Rick Flag Jr continues to be alive and properly on this universe, albeit one who’s extra of a goofball in comparison with the alpha male we noticed in Suicide Squad and The Suicide Squad.
Understandably, Flag Jr being alive on this alternate actuality prompts Smith’s PTSD over his murdering of the DCU’s Flag Jr, which ends up in a quick albeit awkward dialog between them. To make issues worse, this realm’s Flag Jr has been courting its model of Harcourt, too, who’d additionally gone out (and since damaged up) with this universe’s Peacemaker, who’s since been killed by the DCU’s Peacemaker on this season’s premiere. If we thought Smith and Harcourt’s dynamic was sophisticated at the very best of instances, the introduction of this different dimension and the DCU’s Peacemaker’s dabbling in it’s only going to make issues much more convoluted for all concerned.
We’ll see how Flag Jr’s ghost, plus Smith’s journeys to this parallel world, continues to have an effect on Smith and Harcourt’s relationship because the DCU Chapter One present continues. Within the meantime, take a look at my Peacemaker season 2 assessment for some narrative clues concerning the subsequent two episodes, or learn extra of my unique protection on the sequence beneath.
