At the end of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Katniss and Peeta’s romance ended rather abruptly: She got whisked out of the Arena, while he was kidnapped by the Capitol for god-knows-what. Several new clips from Mockingjay, Part 1 allow fans to piece together Katniss’ first look at Peeta in the new movie, once he’s creepily dressed all in-white as some sort of emissary for President Snow.
Lionsgate debuted this clip today, in which Katniss, Gale, and the rest of District 13 get their lunches rudely interrupted by a Capitol broadcast. Of course Caesar Flickerman is in on the scheme, presenting Peeta as if this were yet another pre-Games chat instead of Peeta sending a message to the rebels:
This follows another clip that was released a few days ago, also in the Peeta-centric vein. Here, you can see more of his message for his one-time star-crossed lover/fellow tribute:
And here’s sad, bruised Peeta:
Those who have read the books know what’s going on with Peeta. We won’t spoil it, but clearly things are not right.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 comes out November 21.
