Peacemaker Season 2 is in the endgame now, and while Episode 7 concluded in grim fashion for Christopher Smith and the 11th Street Kids, that finale was nearly much darker.
Season 2 of Peacemaker has been an emotional rollercoaster, with Chris Smith discovering that his father and brother are alive on Earth X, which is good. Then learning that pretty much everyone is a Nazi in that reality, which isn’t so good.
Matters come to a head at the end of the episode, with Auggie and Keith confronting the 11th Street Kids, and learning that our Chris Smith killed their Chris Smith.
A fight ensues, that ends with Keith badly beaten, Auggie looking pretty much dead, and Peacemaker and co returning to their dimension to face Rick Flag. But the sequence was originally featured another death.
Harcourt kills Keith in early Peacemaker script
Speaking on ‘Peacemaker: The Official Podcast,’ James Gunn describes the psychology of what’s going on in that scene, and specifically when Harcourt considers finishing Keith off.
“After everybody runs out, Harcourt asks for Vigilante’s gun,” explains Gunn. “And not really asks. And she’s just going to f**king execute Keith there on the floor because she sees that there’s a pretty good chance that Keith will come after Peacemaker… she’s protecting Chris. And it’s this emotional moment because we’ve seen now that she has some amount of love for him.”
Jennifer Holland – who plays Harcourt – adds: “The way that I view this moment is that she’s willing to sacrifice his love for her to save him because she knows. I think what’s going through her head in that moment is, ‘if I do this, he’s never going to be able to forgive me. I know he will never forgive me.'”
Harcourt ultimately doesn’t shoot Keith dead, but Gunn reveals that “in the original draft, she kills him.”
How Season 2 sets up supervillain
On the same podcast, Steve Agee – who plays Economos – says that leaving Keith alive gives birth to a “possible new villain.” Gunn responds in the affirmative, adding: “In one way, the whole season is Captain Triumph’s origin as a supervillain; a white supremacist piece of sh*t supervillain. And we see at the end – we see that look in his eye, and we’re like, ‘Oh.'”
Agee then makes a direct comparison to Chris Smith, claiming, “It’s also not dissimilar to Peacemaker’s origin story, where it’s like his brother is killed and his father is killed. It’s like a cycle.”
And Gunn agrees, saying: “What a weird supervillain to have as your arch enemy… your brother from another dimension who hates you because you killed yourself.”
So while there’s no word yet regarding if we’ll get a Peacemaker Season 3, should it happen Chris and Keith will likely go toe-to-toe at some point.
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