"At a moment of high stress in "Back to the Suture," Adrian Chase tries to lighten the mood: "Ha, ha, ha, it's getting a little dour. Anyone want to quiz me on manta ray facts?" Despite Adrian's persistent attempts to cheer everybody up with facts about manta rays (or spiders or owls), he's right. Peacemaker's second season has been a decidedly grimmer adventure than its first."
"Though she apparently lured Chris into a trap set by A.R.G.U.S., she also secretly warned him to stay away using a previously established code word - "copacetic" - to let him know that the situation wasn't actually, uh, copacetic. Chris recognized the warning and ignored it. His personal safety, and maybe even his life, turns out to be less important to him than a moment that's been haunting him all season: whatever happened between him and Harcourt on the party boat."
"That's enough of a rebuke for Chris to make the decision he's been toying with since he discovered an alternate, apparently happier universe on the other side of the quantum unfolding chamber. Unfortunately, he's also still at the center of an A.R.G.U.S. trap (and would have been killed by Sasha Bordeaux outright if Harcourt hadn't intervened to take him down non-lethally)."
Adrian Chase tries to lighten tense moments with trivia about manta rays, spiders, and owls while the series remains grim. The second season focuses on Chris's earnest attempt at redemption and revisits past sins tied to Rick Flag Jr.'s death. Harcourt refuses to tell Flag Sr. who killed his son, promising retribution but later declining to act. Harcourt lures Chris into an A.R.G.U.S. trap yet secretly warns him with the code word "copacetic," a warning Chris ignores. Chris pursues clarity about a haunting encounter with Harcourt on a party boat, risking his safety despite alternate-universe temptations. An A.R.G.U.S. confrontation nearly kills him before Harcourt intervenes non-lethally.
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