Peacemaker Finale Introduces Salvation Prison Plot

Peacemaker’s Season 2 finale proved divisive, leaving Christopher Smith arrested and isolated and his rivalry with Rick Flag Sr. unresolved while clearly seeding wider DCU threads. Flag Sr. exploited Auggie Smith’s dimensional door and the Quantum Unfolding Chamber, sacrificing agents to find a reality he intends to convert into a metahuman prison called Salvation. The episode also introduced Salvation and Checkmate as connective elements to the broader DCU and featured a multiverse turn — including an Earth X Nazi reality — that highlighted Chris’s continuing blind spots after he ignored Jamil’s Season 1 warning. The finale leaves questions about Rick Flag Jr.’s fate, Flag Sr.’s deal with Lex Luthor, and other mysteries unanswered rather than closing the show’s main plotlines. Behind the scenes, Peacemaker has weathered casting turmoil (including a Vigilante recast during Season 1 and reportedly recurring problems), even as DC Studios positions the series as an emotionally grounded strand of its expanding slate.