Towards the end of the first episode of the series, a rejection from Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) leads Peacemaker (John Cena) to nurse his ego in one of the few ways he knows how... By hooking up with a random woman at a bar. To Peacemaker's surprise, however, instead of joining in his post-coitus, underwear-clad, vibrator-microphone rendition of "I Don't Love You Anymore" by The Quireboys, the woman attacks him with a knife and meta-human super powers.
The motivations for Annie Sturphausen's (Crystal Mudry) attack on Peacemaker aren't entirely clear to the team at first. While it would seem fair to ask if Peacemaker was just simply that bad in bed, the team is forced to grapple with much bigger questions. Clemson Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji) notes that the entire operation has been kept off the books and he can't understand how anyone could have known that Peacemaker was a part of it. Harcourt (Jennifer Holland) suggests that Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) might have been behind it, noting her superior's previous willingness to sacrifice entire teams for small wins. After Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) insists that it's not Waller, Harcourt even begins to question Leota's placement on the mission.
Eventually, however, Peacemaker remembers that he caught Sturphausen reviewing the classified materials provided to him by Murn, including a dossier detailing the mission to assassinate a sitting U.S. Senator. Boy, Peacemaker really knows how to choose them. While Harcourt is proven wrong in her initial accusations against Leota, this specific encounter has clearly raised her suspicions of her newest colleague. We can't imagine that Harcourt or any of the other team members will react positively when they find out that Waller and Leota are keeping an important part of the mission plan a secret.
