Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 7 Ending Explained: Did Chris Just Seal His Fate?
Peacemaker Season 2’s semi-finale hits HBO Max with a gut-punch twist: Auggie defies Earth-X’s Nazi ideology and is killed by Vigilante moments later, following an encounter with Keith in an alternate reality.
Spoilers ahead for Peacemaker season 2. The penultimate episode just hit HBO Max and, yeah, it goes hard on the multiverse stuff, the guilt spiral, and one very unexpected twist about a character you probably thought you had pegged.
The Earth-X shocker, and a death that lands fast
The big swing this week: in a detour to Earth-X (the alt-Earth where fascism won), Auggie Smith turns out to be firmly against the Nazi ideology running that world. Given his history, that is not the turn most of us saw coming. The series drops that surprise and then immediately rips the rug out: Vigilante kills Auggie not long after.
Keith, the 'original Chris,' and fallout that wrecks everyone
Over in the alternate-reality thread with Keith, we learn the 'original Chris' is dead. Keith takes that about as badly as you would expect — devastated and inconsolable — and ends the episode battered, bruised, and on his way to the hospital. Auggie, ironically, processes the news more calmly... and then dies anyway. It is bleak.
Chris decides he is the problem, and walks straight into a cell
All the chaos, plus the threat to Adebayo’s life, pushes Chris to a brutal conclusion: maybe he is the common denominator for every disaster, in any dimension. So he stops running. He surrenders to Rick Flag Sr. and A.R.G.U.S., hands over his QUC portal device (the multiverse-jumping gizmo), and lets them lock him up. The last image is him in the back of a car, staring into space and basically bracing for capital punishment. Inside baseball note: that Adebayo-in-danger plotline? It only exists because Danielle Brooks was up for it; if she had passed, the show would have dropped that thread. Wild but true.
What the finale is setting up
James Gunn has been saying the season 2 finale — titled 'Full Nelson' — is a gateway to the wider DCU. Translation: the multiverse cards get thrown on the table. A.R.G.U.S. now holds both Chris and the QUC, and there are hints they are cooking up something with Lex Luthor and his people. Expect the stakes to jump from bad to apocalyptic as that alliance clicks into place.
Also brewing: the team does not exactly trust A.R.G.U.S. right now. If Harcourt and the 11th Street Kids decide the suits are the real threat, we could be looking at a rescue mission and an internal war at the same time — save Chris from execution, stop A.R.G.U.S. and Lex from torching the multiverse. Simple, right?
- Episode: Season 2, Episode 7 — 'Like a Keith in the Night'
- Director: Alethea Jones
- Major cast: John Cena, Jennifer Holland, Danielle Brooks, Freddie Stroma, Steve Agee
- IMDb score: 9.4/10 (as of now)
The vibe going into 'Full Nelson'
This episode is a messy, intriguing pivot: a surprising moral beat for Auggie, a brutal kill from Vigilante, and a lead who voluntarily chooses the needle because he cannot trust himself with power. If Gunn is serious about this being the DCU on-ramp, expect cameos to mean something and the multiverse rules to lock into place — not just teases, but consequences.
What do you want to see in the last episode of season 2?
Peacemaker season 2 is streaming on HBO Max (US).