Episode 6 opens on the “better” world in a cheery diner, where Chris, Harcourt, Auggie, and Keith bask in their kaiju win. Kids ask Blue Dragon Auggie for a photo, Harcourt snaps it, and the faces warp in the picture. It is a quick, creepy tell that this place is off, and the hour keeps pressing on that feeling until the truth is unavoidable.
Back in our reality, Adebayo, Adrian, Economos, and our Harcourt head to Adrian’s place because A.R.G.U.S. is not tracking the portal gear. His “secret room” turns out to be a stash of seized cash and drugs. When Adebayo fires up the Quantum Unfolding Storage Area, the room blooms open, coke bags burst, and everyone gets dusted. Their walk through the extradimensional space is funny and gross in the Vigilante way, including a blink of a Kyphotic Alien lobbing a rat. It keeps the show’s weirdo pulse alive while moving the plot.
The infiltration of the alt Smith mansion is a small masterclass in tension. Economos gets wedged behind a door. Adebayo and Adrian cram into a closet. Harcourt fakes a bathroom emergency to stall Keith. She then gambles by riding with him to A.R.G.U.S. to reach Chris, only to trip a drug dog because of the earlier powder shower. In parallel, Chris decides he can thread the needle and heads to A.R.G.U.S. too, still trying to keep this bright, simple life alive without admitting what it is costing him.
Adrian meeting himself is the episode’s best scene because it starts as a gag and lands as character work. He sneaks into his alt secret room and finds Alt Adrian, a mirror with all the same fidgety bravado. The delight is real. Then the values flip. Alt Adrian loathes Peacemaker and proudly signed up with the Sons of Liberty because of him. The joke turns into a reckoning. Vigilante has always treated confidence like a costume. Watching him measure that costume against a version of himself who wears it for the wrong cause is both funny and quietly sad.
James Gunn widens the frame at Belle Reve. Rick Flag Sr. visits the glassed-in prisoner and it is Lex Luthor, played by Nicholas Hoult. Lex dangles a tool and intel that can find the portal device. Flag agrees to a transfer to Van Kull in return. It is a clean DCU bridge that raises the temperature without hijacking the episode. The scene also underlines the larger idea running through the hour. People will trade almost anything to make a broken world feel ordered.
The reveal of what this other Earth actually is lands in stages that you feel rather than get told. Halls that seem a little too empty. A workforce that is conspicuously all white. A small desk flag where the stars are replaced by a swastika. By the time Chris and our Harcourt compare notes, the penny has dropped. This is Earth X, a world where the Sons of Liberty are not fringe terrorists but the state. That drip-feed approach is why the dread sticks. The show trusts you to connect the clues, and that trust makes the chase that follows hit harder.
Once the mask is off, the hour sprints. Adebayo steps outside for a breath and is immediately hunted by an all-white crowd with Keith at the front shouting about “one getting out.” At the mansion, Alt Auggie ambushes Economos and pins his hand to the counter, forcing a confession that our Chris killed his son. Inside A.R.G.U.S., Alt Harcourt orders our Harcourt detained. The cut to black lands with Adebayo running and no cavalry in sight, followed by a stinger that briefly lightens the mood before the dread settles back in.
It all works because the craft lines up with the theme. The episode keeps the camera a step back and lets silences do the talking. Comedy never undercuts the stakes. Adrian’s twin meet-cute delivers big laughs, but it also pushes Vigilante’s arc in a way that feels earned. Chris and Harcourt finally say the quiet part out loud in an interrogation room, and that honesty makes the world twist matter. Even the Lex scene, which could have felt like franchise homework, slots into the story’s moral argument about the deals people make when fear is in charge.
If there is a quibble, it is that a couple of breadcrumbs flash by fast. Viewers who do not know the Earth X label might need a beat to process what the imagery is saying. But the choice to show rather than tell fits the hour’s slow-turn screw. This chapter is about pressure, not release.
“Ignorance Is Chris” is the season tightening the tourniquet. It sells the new world through small horrors, lets Vigilante’s mirror encounter be both goofy and revealing, and pushes Peacemaker to stop pretending he can live in someone else’s dream without paying the price. By the end, the door to that new world is open just wide enough to see what it really is, and the show leaves you leaning forward, not because of a trick, but because the characters have reached a point where the next choice will define them.
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