Peacemaker Episode 5 (SPOILER-FILLED Review)

 

Peacemaker returns this week with exceptionally less gore but giving us more revelations with the mysteries that reside within the narrative. As opposed to character development, we see a little dynamic improvement between our team members which ultimately makes this episode a lot more touching than most. However, instincts kick in when you wonder how everything goes right at one point, turns bad by the next. 

Episode 5 sends our mini-Task Force X on a mission to check out a warehouse that has possible individuals infected by the alien Butterflies they've been investigating. All we got from that mission is that they're shipping the special liquid all around the world to continue invading and reproducing. With that mission, Peacemaker finally finds common ground and gains gratitude towards Economos, whom he constantly bullies throughout the last 4 episodes. 

Harcourt, on the other hand, starts to appreciate the quirkiness of her team and accepts their oddball attributes. Adebayo finally reaches into Chris by becoming a dear friend, allowing him to finally open up to someone who would never see him as just a big-mouthed assassin. However, Adebayo has a mission within the mission to carry out. Mommy dearest, Amanda Waller wants her to plant a specific diary into Chris' possession. We find out by the end of the episode that it was a diary with Smith's name on it. 

After planting the diary, Adebayo heads back to meet Murn and puts on Peacemaker's X-Ray vision helmet he used to identify the Butterfly infected people at the warehouse. Adebayo learns that he is a butterfly as well and we are left with a cliffhanger once again. 

Now that one of them knows, how long before the rest does? It's probably not going to be easy and Adebayo can't be dead. And also, what happened to the Butterfly that Chris kept in the jar? Where was it when Adebayo planted the diary? Last but not least, the gorilla that escaped the zoo in last week's episode, which we all thought was an easter egg to Grodd, turns out to just have been infected by a Butterfly alien. Or is it just simply a nod to this Gorilla later becoming smart, eventually becoming Grodd later down the road. Time will tell in these next few episodes.