WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Peacemaker Episode 4, "The Choad Less Traveled," now streaming on HBO Max.
Next week's Peacemaker teases undercover Butterfly workers, shootouts and multiple celebrities Peacemaker would rather have in jail over his white supremacist father.
A promo for the Peacemaker episode, titled "Monkey Dory," features Peacemaker listing off a number of famous people who could have been framed for murder, including Ariana Grande, Drake, Will Ferrell and Danny DeVito.
The video then follows Peacemaker and his special ops team as they infiltrate a Glan Tai packaging facility, only to get in a fight with its Butterfly-infested staff. The clip also sees Murn contact a mysterious accomplice for help on this mission, presumably related to Auggie -- formally the supervillain White Dragon -- threatening to tell the police about his son's activities.
Peacemaker has repeatedly reiterated Auggie's bigoted, negative qualities as both a father and a human being. Their conversations in episode four, "The Choad Less Traveled," expanded upon this estranged father/son relationship by revealing that Christopher had a brother who died of a seizure when they were young, a death Auggie continues to blame Christopher for after all this time. Episode four also saw Adrian Chase (i.e. Vigilante), after being coerced by Leota Adebayo, get himself arrested in hopes of killing Auggie, only to unwittingly give away their professional connection.
A spinoff of James Gunn's The Suicide Squad, Peacemaker follows Smith, a former Task Force X operative recruited to Murn's "Project Butterfly" team to locate and eliminate mini-butterfly-shaped aliens possessing human bodies. The show's third episode concluded by revealing that these Butterflies have infiltrated Earth on a massive, planetary scale, though, rather than kill the Butterfly he discovered, Peacemaker brought it home to his trailer and pet eagle Eagly. However, episode four ended with the surprise revelation that Murn is actually a Butterfly, raising questions behind his motivation for authorizing Project Butterfly and whether he had any ulterior goals.
"Monkey Dory" will also mark the second Peacemaker episode not directed by Gunn, with Rosemary Rodriguez taking over the director's chair after Jody Hill in "The Choad Less Traveled." Gunn, who wrote all eight episode scripts, will direct the sixth and eighth episodes respectively.
New Peacemaker episodes debut Thursdays on HBO Max.
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