‘Peacemaker’ Star Jennifer Holland on What Harcourt-Chris Kiss Means Going Forward

[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Peacemaker Season 2 finale, “Full Nelson.”]

Peacemaker‘s second season finally answered the long-lingering question of what happened between Chris Smith (John Cena) and Emilia Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) on that heavily alluded to boat in the finale episode, “Full Nelson.”

What could have caused her to shut down when Chris asked if what happened between them meant anything? It turns out it was just a kiss. But a kiss for Harcourt means so much more than might be construed on the surface, as Holland tells TV Insider, “For Harcourt, allowing her guard to be let down enough that she kissed the man who killed her only friend is an extraordinary circumstance.”

As viewers learned earlier this season, Harcourt had a friendship and fling with Rick Flag Jr. (Joel Kinnaman) before he was killed by Peacemaker in Corto Maltese during 2021’s The Suicide Squad. “It’s the worst case scenario, and she can’t accept that she’s gone so far as to allow his charms to break down her walls enough that she’s gone from being a person who was this close to doing everything that she could to ruin his life to being a person who maybe loves him, if she’s capable of that.”