Peacemaker S2E3 trailer pits ARGUS hunt against multiverse tie to DCU

A new trailer for Peacemaker Season 2 Episode 3, due Thursday on HBO Max, ratchets up the stakes for John Cena's Christopher Smith as A.R.G.U.S. intensifies its hunt and the series expands a multiverse plotline that ties into the newly rebooted DC Universe. The promo, released ahead of Episode 3's Sept. 4 broadcast, frames the week-to-week season as a collision between a government manhunt and the dangerous lure of alternate realities.

The clip opens on Christopher — known as Peacemaker — giddy in an alternate world, admiring a motorcycle and proclaiming, "Oh yeah. Best dimension ever." That brief sense of refuge is undercut by new A.R.G.U.S. pressure: Sasha Bordeaux, played by Sol Rodríguez, declares that "Peacemaker is A.R.G.U.S.'s top priority," and an offscreen voice warns, "Until our demands are met, how many here is going to die?" The trailer ends with Peacemaker charging into a building to confront that threat and a concerned Keith asking, "You good, man? Been disappearing even more than usual?" to which Chris replies, "I'm great."

Episode 2, titled "A Man Is Only As Good As His Bird," set up that escalation. The episode revealed that Rick Flag Sr., newly installed as...