ignorance is chris
The 11th Street Kids find a way into the alternate dimension to find Peacemaker and make some disturbing discoveries about what he thinks is a better place for him.
Warning: Spoilers Below
Vigilante’s House
The team arrives at Vigilante’s house to help set up the doorway. Here, the team meets Vigilante’s mother who is a very sweet woman who clearly loves her son. She embarrasses him with her relentless questioning of his friends, especially Harcourt who he claimed to have once had a relationship with but she was quote “slutty.” They go to his basement where he has kept drugs and money from all the criminals he’s killed. Harcourt, Economos and Adebayo all steal some money when Vigilante isn’t looking. Of course, he ends up spreading cocaine around the room because he refuses to flush it down the toilet because he doesn’t want to poison the alligators he says are in the sewers.
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The team gets the door open and finds their way into the Quantum Unfolding Chamber but now must find the right door. They find the one with several Peacemaker helmets and Vigilante knows the code, so they get in. They find their way into the other Peacemaker’s home, but Harcourt is met with a surprise visitor.
Emilia Meets Keith
Keith enters and sees Harcourt. She closes the bathroom door to protect Adebayo, Economos and Vigilante. She holds a conversation with him where he notices she’s a lot different than the Harcourt he’s used to seeing. She’s wearing black and pants and talks about picking up a snow globe before heading into the ARGUS office. That snow globe is what Keith and Chris’ mother gave Peacemaker on her deathbed. He’s surprised but doesn’t stop her.
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She goes into ARGUS where she sees Chris and he knows it’s not the Harcourt of this dimension. The cocaine that’s all over her clothes from Vigilante’s basement sets off the drug-sniffing dogs. She’s taken into holding and Peacemaker goes in to confront her about why she’s there. They go over what happened when he was taken into ARGUS in the prime dimension. She explains she did what she did to save him because ARGUS was ready to kill him. He understands and regrets not trusting her, but he tells her he loves her. She knows this but she can’t because he killed Rick Flag Jr. Still, they come to an understanding.
ARGUS Interviews
While the 11th Street Kids are in the alternate dimension, Rick Flag Sr. needs answers on how to find them. He knows they’ve disappeared from Earth Prime and also knows that Judomaster and Peacemaker are both missing. He heads to Belle Reve to meet with the only other person seen in the universe to have had a dimensional doorway. Enter Lex Luthor, played by Nicholas Hoult, reprising his role from Superman.
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Flag and Lex go back and forth with Lex making it clear he wants out of Belle Reve. Lex even mentions his cell mates are "bear-sized man with dragon skin" and a "glowing twink with cartoon eyes". He wants out and Flag works on a transfer for information about dimensional doorways and finding the 11th Street Kids.
The Team Splits Up
While Harcourt is meeting with Chris at ARGUS, the rest of the team is tasked with cleaning up Eagly’s mess. Vigilante keeps trying to go find this universe’s version of himself and eventually takes off. He can’t not be his weird self but eventually makes his way to his own home. He makes a comment about his dad isn’t “gay” in this world until he finds himself. The two Vigilantes do the “Spider-Man” meme and even reference it proving the Spider-Man comic exists in both the DCU and the alternate dimension.
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The pair discuss how much alike they are until they get to the part about Peacemaker being Vigilante’s best friend in the prime universe. Turns out, this version of Vigilante hates Peacemaker citing him as the reason Vigilante joined the Sons of Liberty, the “terrorist group” seen earlier in the season. Vigilante is left a bit bewildered. But a reckoning is coming for everyone.
The Reveal
Adebayo decides to go for a walk around the neighborhood while Economos stays at Peacemaker’s house. Auggie returns to the house and attacks Economos, stabbing him in the hand. Economos admits they are from another dimension and the Peacemaker there now is not his son because Peacemaker killed his son. Auggie stops his attack and realizes things are very wrong.
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Meanwhile, Adebayo is walking down the street when she gets a dirty look from a woman driving down the road. Then, Chris’ brother Keith spots her and tells everyone “one got out.” It becomes clear that everyone moving around is white and Adebayo, as a black woman, is in deep trouble. She starts running as a violent mob chases her.
At ARGUS, Harcourt has been cleared since there was no cocaine in her system, just on her clothes. She talks to Chris and references that they haven’t seen any people of color. Chris tries to shrug it off until he can’t deny it. He picks up a flag that looks like an American flag, but instead of 50 stars, it has a swastika on it. Harcourt tells him “so this is your perfect world” just as the alternate dimension Harcourt comes in demanding her arrest.
What’s Next?
The reveal confirms that this version of Earth is Earth X, the Nazi world in DC Comics. It helps explain why Auggie is so happy here and his hatred has won out. It also shows that Peacemaker’s brother is complicit in evil. It creates some issues because Vigilante has proven that he’s siding with the “terrorists,” but the “terrorists” are fighting one of the greatest evils the world has ever seen. Plus, it makes the “my dad isn’t gay in this universe” hit harder since Nazis killed gay people in their white supremacy. Meanwhile, Adebayo is running for her life, Peacemaker and Harcourt are about to have to flee ARGUS and Economos is ill-equipped to escape the Auggie.
With two episodes left, this episode hits very hard. The storyline is getting ramped up and it’ll be interesting to see how the 11th Street Kids rebound. Will ARGUS suddenly come in to help? Given the majority of its agents appear to be people of color, I can’t imagine them siding with the Nazis. The series is hitting all cylinders, especially with dialogue from Economos when asked if he was in to go to the other dimension, responding “No, I’m not in, I’m just incredibly susceptible to peer pressure.” Great dialogue.
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Article Written By: Jeremy Brown for Stelmach Brown Media 2025
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