{"id":152150,"date":"2025-09-12T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152150\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T19:30:10","slug":"peacemaker-went-full-doctor-who-explaining-how-portal-doors-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/152150\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Peacemaker’ Went Full ‘Doctor Who’ Explaining How Portal Doors Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time to see once again what\u2019s new in the world of Christopher Smith in another episode of Peacemaker<\/a>. Will Chris return in the nick of time to save Eagly<\/a> from whatever twin-tailed horrors ARGUS has in store for our feathered friend? Will Chris and Harcourt ever become Facebook official? Will we ever figure out why Chris\u2019 \u201cbest dimension\u201d appears not to have any non-white people<\/a> roaming about in the background? Let\u2019s cease with the incessant questions and what awaits<\/p>\n

\"Io9spoiler\"<\/p>\n

Episode four, \u201cNeed I Say Door,\u201d begins with yet another flashback. This time, we see the Smith family out hunting when they come across a small gray alien, who stands only three apples tall.\u00a0Unfortunately, this isn\u2019t\u00a0E.T.\u00a0or\u00a0Mac & Me, as the alien doesn\u2019t last long. He is quickly shot by Auggie Smith (Robert Patrick), who also backhands his oldest son, Keith for protesting the shooting.<\/p>\n

However, for the Smiths, the gray alien didn\u2019t die in vain, because he left behind a silver helmet, along with the dimensional portal he must have emerged from. That\u2019s right, we just got a Peacemaker helmet and pocket universe origin all within the span of three minutes.<\/p>\n

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As we move on from Gunn\u2019s thinly veiled excitement in showcasing the murder of the underdog, we return to John Economos (Steve Agee) and the ARGUS team as they, joined by Red St. Wild (Michael Rooker) and Judomaster aka Rip Jagger (Nhut Le), barrel toward Chris\u2019 house to murk Eagly and steal his pocket universe door. Meanwhile, Chris is back, likely enjoying his big hero moment from the last episode and contemplating whether to leave his dimension behind for what he claims is the \u201cbest dimension ever.\u201d Still waiting for the other shoe to drop on that one.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Chris\u2019 daydreaming gives him a moment to notice the bullet holes in his ceiling and the chaos in his post-orgy house left by ARGUS\u2019 last visit. He finds himself wondering where Eagly is. Fortunately, Eagly is just in the kitchen, eating. However, a text from Economos warns Chris that ARGUS is at their doorstep, ready to breach. Just in time, Chris grabs the helmet from the cadaveric alien he encountered earlier. He and Eagly make a swift exit right before ARGUS arrives. This sets off the extended chase sequence for the rest of the episode.<\/p>\n

\"Peacemaker\u00a9 HBO Max <\/p>\n

What follows is chaos in the woods behind Chris\u2019 house, where he squares off against Rip Jagger, while Eagly, keeping a watchful eye, circles overhead and is being trained on by Red St. Wild\u2019s rifle. Just when things look grim, Economos comes in clutch\u2014body-checking \u201cCaptain Cultural Appropriation\u201d straight into a stone on the ground. He\u2019s still alive, but he\u2019s definitely got some brain damage. Secure the bag, Michael Rooker. Meanwhile, Rip Jagger unleashes a head scissors into a tilt-a-whirl takedown, snapping Chris into a headlock mid-spin. They crash to the forest floor in a tangled heap, with Chris\u2019 wide-ass frame pancaking Jagger with all the grace of a falling vending machine.<\/p>\n

While Chris phones Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) to pick him up like a kid who had a bad day at school, ARGUS locates the security pad to Chris\u2019 pocket dimension and tasks Economos with opening it. Cutting back to Adebayo and Chris, Chris phones Adrian Chase (Freddie Stroma), asking him to get some doors from Lowe\u2019s to concoct his plan to \u201cmove the portal\u201d while Economos stalls for time.\u00a0Bet Mr. Terrific wishes his spheres knew how to do that in Superman.<\/p>\n

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By this point, it\u2019s clear that episode four, while being a big cat-and-mouse game, also doubles as a big lore explainer for how Peacemaker\u2019s pocket universe works. Or at least, as much as Chris understands how it works. The gist of which is that he can transfer the portal door from his dad\u2019s house to where they\u2019re headed: Grandpa Smith\u2019s derelict cabin in the woods. Apparently, Chris had only been able to pull off the portal door switcheroo twice when he was a kid.<\/p>\n

In the midst of all the chaos, Chris tells Adebayo about the \u201cbest universe ever,\u201d where his dad is still alive. Adebayo, not believing in the parallel universe despite all the extraterrestrial chicanery she has witnessed thus far, questions whether Chris is still having visions of his dead dad, experienced at the end of the first season\u2014a plotline that was quickly abandoned this season.<\/p>\n

However, Chris insists that this situation is different from one of the 99 doors to a parallel world, saying, \u201cBut it\u2019s better.\u201d Once again, the anticipation for learning why Chris, Keith, and their historically racist Pa are lauded as the Top Trio hero team in that universe makes us long to see Chris and Adebayo discover the reason why the grass isn\u2019t greener on the other side. But we\u2019ll have to wait for that to be revealed another day.<\/p>\n

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After some weird space science winging it from Chris, the pair manages to transfer the portal doors in time. Sasha Bordeaux (Sol Rodriguez), pissed at Economos\u2019 wishy-washiness, reports back, telling Rick Flag Sr. (Frank Grillo) that their mission failed. He doesn\u2019t take the news well. He\u2019s so pissed that he asks to get in contact with Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland), who appears to be in the midst of yet another barroom brawl.<\/p>\n

While she\u2019s nursing her wounds at home, Flag Sr. makes a house call, reaffirming they\u2019re on a first-name basis on account of her and his son being such close friends he\u2019d cheat on a world-ending witch girlfriend, Enchantress, with her. While they talk about Rick Flag Jr.\u2019s funeral, Harcourt stresses that Chris only killed him on Amanda Waller\u2019s orders, but Flag Sr., again, isn\u2019t having it. This leads him to cut to the real purpose behind his visit: to offer Harcourt a job that\u2019ll exempt her from the US government\u2019s blacklist: apprehending Chris. Dun dun dun!<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Adebayo finally asks about what happened to the other Chris in the \u201cbest dimension ever.\u201d Chris fesses up to killing himself in self-defense. In the spirit of sharing, he also reveals he was only in the alt-dimension because he was gawking at a photo of his other self and Harcourt being together, and that she\u2019s dating Rick Flag Jr.<\/p>\n

Adebayo takes all of this \u201cfucked up Twilight Zone shit\u201d well (she doesn\u2019t). Reading the room, Adebayo tells Chris she thinks he shouldn\u2019t go back to the alternate universe and should make the most of the life he has here, even if he\u2019s less of a dick than his dead self was. Chris retorts, saying he feels like he spawned in the wrong universe: a dark dimension, given how fucked his home life has been.<\/p>\n

\"PeacemakerGirl, same. \u00a9 HBO Max <\/p>\n

We conclude with Chris texting Harcourt to arrange a meeting, as she considers whether to betray him. Unlike Jerry from the last episode, we will have to wait until next week to find out what happens with Chris and Harcourt, as ARGUS lies in wait to capture him.<\/p>\n

Peaceful Peacemaker Pontifications \"Peacemaker\u00a9 Warner Bros. Fleury continues to be a delightful bird-blind idiot\u2014truly a grade-A addition to this motley crew of dumbasses. Eagly putting the fear in god into Red St. Wild, believing he\u2019s some mythical \u201cprimal eagle\u201d? All the accolades for best boy. Unfortunately, this only motivates St. Wild to kill Eagly even harder. This episode, by far, is the silliest and most lore-important episode this season. Everyone really put their whole Peaceussy into hamming up their comedic timing and exaggerated expressions to make this nearly 40-minute episode fly by with mile-a-minute jokes. Helmets off to all involved. Michael Rooker going full hog, doing a forest fire dance with his jibblets hanging out\u2026 not much else to really say here but that it\u2019s a thing that happened, and it helped him locate Chris and crew. <\/p>\n

Update, Sept. 12, 2: p.m.: This post has been updated to correct the spelling of Michael Rooker\u2019s name. io9 regrets the error.<\/p>\n

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