Whenever an alien finally makes first contact, I hope they encounter a better earthling than Auggie Smith. In a prologue set 35 years before the events of Peacemaker ’s second season, we join Auggie and his two adolescent sons on a hunting trip. Spotting movement in the nearby brush, Auggie fires his shotgun and blasts off the hands of a shocked, screaming extraterrestrial. Chris is horrified, but Auggie isn’t just a shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later kind of guy; he’s a shoot-again-and-never-ask-questions kind of guy. Having blown the alien’s head clean off its shoulders, he swipes the strange, metallic device it was carrying — a device that opens a portal to the quantum unfolding chamber.

After this bloody prologue, “Need I Say Door” is a race against the clock, as Chris and Adebayo

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