Peacemaker: Why Captain Locke Claims He Saw The Hamburglar
Warning: Contains spoilers for Peacemaker episode 6.
In a bizarre scene—even for HBO Max's Peacemaker—Captain Locke claims that he saw someone matching the description of the Hamburglar murder police officers. The James Gunn-led DCEU TV series has already dropped references to plenty of obscure, oddball DC comics characters like Bat-Mite and Matter-Eater Lad. The latter reference even mentions the fast-food chain Wendy’s, but for as bizarre and quirky as Peacemaker can be at times, none of this quite explains why Locke would make such a blatant lie.
In Peacemaker episode 6, “Murn After Reading,” Captain Locke (Christopher Heyerdahl) covers Peacemaker (John Cena) and Vigilante’s (Freddie Stroma) escape by killing several police officers in cold blood. When Sophie Song (Annie Chang) and Larry Fitzgibbon (Lochlyn Munro) come across the scene, Locke says that he arrived as the shooter was getting away. Fitzgibbon assumes that it was Peacemaker's doing, but Locke goes on to describe the suspect in a serious tone, clearly describing the McDonald’s mascot known as the Hamburglar, down to the fact that as he left, he said “robble robble.”
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Locke’s lie in Peacemaker about the killings is so obviously false that Fitzgibbon immediately runs after Song to say that Locke is either too stupid to lie well or is deliberately messing with them. Based on his conversations with Murn, Locke has worked in black-ops around the world and is working on Amanda Waller’s paycheck at this point. He has shown himself to be generally a weird dude, but ultimately he just doesn’t need to fear reprisals in any form—even if someone calls him on claiming a mass murder was
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