‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Episode 3 Opening Scene Explained
Here is everything you need to know about the opening scene in Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 3
Some of Emilia Harcourt’s past is revealed in the opening of Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 3.
We’re now in our third week of Peacemaker Season 2, where we last left off, Chris (John Cena) was determined to find the alternate dimension’s Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) after a harsh rejection from his universe’s Harcourt. The second season of Peacemaker follows the 11th Street Kids (Cena, Holland, Steve Agee, Danielle Brooks, and Freddie Stroma) navigating life after saving the world from Project Butterfly, with their newfound sense of heroics they hope to help the world any way they can. Christopher Smith in particular hopes to join a team of heroes but is quickly rejected, down on his luck he hits the jackpot when he comes across a parallel dimension of his dreams.
Read the official synopsis below:
In season 2, Peacemaker discovers an alternate world where life is everything he wishes it could be. But this discovery also forces him to face his traumatic past and take the future into his own hands.
Spoilers for Peacemaker Season 2, Episode 3 ahead!!
The third episode opens with the caption “Three Years Ago” outside of a gray house. We see Emilia Harcourt waking up, Rick Flag Jr (Joel Kinnaman) is asleep on the bed. Rick says “Hey. Come back to bed,” Emilia responds, “I have to get ready for work, Rick. So do you.” He says, “Don’t remind me.” Emilia responds, “You ship out today. You should really be with June.” The conversation continues, and Rick brings up that June is a sorceress, which points to her being June Moone / Enchantress, who first appeared in Suicide Squad (2016). This implies that some events of that film could be canon given that Rick and June have met each other in a romantic capacity. However, it seems the Enchantress was not defeated, opening the doors for her to return to the DCU.
As the conversation continues, we learn that Rick and Emilia aren’t official due to the two not wanting to ruin their friendship. The scene is also shown to be set very closely timeline-wise to The Suicide Squad as Emilia mentions that Rick ships out to Corto Maltese in two hours. The opening ends with flashbacks of Task Force X getting annihilated in Corto Maltese as well as Rick’s fight with Peacemaker. The line “Peacemaker, what a joke” is repeated.
This line was previously a big turning point for Peacemaker as it points out the hypocrisy of his name:a person who strives for “peace” is willing to turn on his own morals to hide the dark truth of Project Starfish.
Peacemaker Season 2 is created by James Gunn and stars John Cena as Christoper Smith / Peacemaker, Freddie Stroma as Adrian Chase / Vigilante, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr and more. The first three episodes are now streaming on HBO Max, and the fourth episode premieres on September 11th at 6:00 PM PT / 9:00 PM ET.
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