Peacemaker (1×06) Murn After Reading Review

For our review of the last episode of Peacemaker, click here.

The way the last episode ended seems to hint at doom for Adebayo but this would prove to not be the case as this latest episode of Peacemaker throws viewers one more curveball as the first season comes to an end. This episode took all the groundwork that had been laid thus far and used it to formulate what looks to be the endgame. However, more curveballs are certainly not out of the question.

There looks to be a war brewing between the butterflies and the humans and it’s going to be intense but not all butterflies are bad. Murn is one of the good ones, in fact the only good one. This was why he has been helping the task force who all knew his secret except for Adebayo who just learned it and Peacemaker and Vigilante which will surely be a different situation altogether. Her guilt for keeping from Peacemaker will be her breaking point as he picked up on there being something going on with her. Also Waller didn’t know the secret, which is a big one. Who knows, maybe it’ll be Auggie and his merry band of white supremacists that will save the day? Yeah, he got out and definitely took advantage of that, reclaiming his position as the White Dragon and setting his sights on his son.

Murn After Reading began with Adebayo being filled in on what’s been going on as mentioned. Meanwhile, keeping his word, Peacemaker spoke in Jamil’s (Rizwan Maji) daughter’s class to prop her up. They had some great questions but couldn’t win them all over. That included a potential illegitimate daughter.

Song and Fitzgibbon went over Locke’s head and got Auggie Smith released before getting an arrest warrant for Peacemaker who was getting answers of his own from the butterfly he had been keeping who just happened to be the leader of the butterflies and formerly inside Goff. However, Vigilante unsurprisingly found a way to ruin it and other key moments in the episode in a comically-inept way. Their interrogation was cut short by the police who arrived though were no match for Peacemaker and Vigilante in what was a thrilling escape sequence that saw Eagly take part in the action before they were ultimately helped by Locke. The noteworthy part of that was Goff’s escape from the jar which held him and him taking Song as his new host and the police finding Peacemaker’s planted diary which implicated him as the ringleader of the taskforce.

Using Song’s body, Goff moved forward with his plan despite barely making any attempt at acting normally. She called forth all the butterflies who swarmed into the police station and prison and took up hosts in everyone in the building, including Fitzgibbon and Locke. With the full weight of however many hosts the butterflies took, they set their sights on Peacemaker as the episode ended with a press conference announcing such by Locke.

Peacemaker, who appears to not quite be the same person anymore, and the task force appear to be outnumbered but maybe there’s still one more wrinkle to the story. Perhaps it’s time to bring in Amanda Waller? Props goes to Annie Chang whose performance as Song was a delight and Freddie Stroma who has consistently been a delight a Adrian Chase/Vigilante.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.