In the second episode of Peacemaker season 2, an ARGUS squad visits Chris Smith’s (John Cena) house to investigate reported interdimensional disturbances. The assignment quickly unravels when Chris’s bald eagle companion, Eagly, obliterates the team — forcing Langston Fleury (Tim Meadows) and his agents into a panicked retreat.
Fleury and ARGUS agent Sasha Bordeaux (Sol Rodríguez) accuse John Economos (Steve Agee) of concealing information about Chris’s so-called “superpowered duck,” a bit of ribbing that plays off Fleury’s avian blind spot. Economos insists Eagly is just a normal eagle and shouldn’t be capable of sending five people to the hospital.
That may be true for the Eagly Chris knew — but this season suggests that Peacemaker’s multiversal oddities extend to the bird world. It looks increasingly likely Chris accidentally brought home a different, far more formidable Eagly, a theory that episode 5 only reinforces.
Ed. note: Mild spoiler ahead for Peacemaker season 2, episode 5.
Chris grew up with an interdimensional nexus in his father’s house and treats it like an eccentric convenience — a place to let Eagly stretch his wings when the weather’s foul. Season 2 opens with Eagly slipping out of sight and pecking at the door to what Chris dubs “The best dimension ever.” When Chris steps into another version of his home and sees his brother Keith (David Denman) alive, he’s so shaken he bolts back to his own world.
In that panic he may have brought the wrong bird home. The Eagly we met in season 1 was extraordinary — affectionate, unnervingly clever, and willing to help Chris in sticky situations — but still within the realm of a remarkable raptor. That bird once needed stitches after an altercation with Chris’s father. This season’s Eagly, however, operates on a different level.
ARGUS even recruits the legendary eagle hunter Red St. Wild (Michael Rooker) to track the bird. Red believes his destiny is to slay the prime eagle and prepares with ritual magic, but when he confronts Eagly the bird calls in a flock of raptors and tears the hunter apart, returning a finger to Chris as a grisly keepsake. If Eagly possessed that much power all along, why didn’t he intervene more in season 1?
We’re told Earth‑2 Chris didn’t have an Eagly, which leaves room for different explanations: perhaps the resident eagle of that alternate world slipped through the doorway chasing a way home and latched onto prime‑universe Chris, or maybe Chris’s familiarity with portals meant he mistakenly returned with the wrong bird. Either scenario would account for the new Eagly’s extraordinary abilities — and it raises an uncomfortable question: where is the original Eagly? One hopes he’s safe, because finding out a stranger has been enjoying time with your human would not sit well with any self‑respecting eagle.
Peacemaker is streaming on HBO Max, with new episodes premiering every Thursday through Oct. 9.
Source: Polygon
