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Season 1 1 1 It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice ...... 3 2 Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship ...... 7 3 She Was Killed by Space Junk ...... 11 4 If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own ...... 15 5 Little Fear of Lightning ...... 19 6 ...... 23 7 ...... 27 8 A God Walks into Abar ...... 31 9 ...... 35

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It’s Summer and We’re Running Out of Ice

Season 1 Episode Number: 1 Season Episode: 1

Originally aired: Monday October 21, 2019 Writer: Director: Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Don Johnson (Chief Judd Crawford), Frances Fisher (Jane Craw- ford), Charles Brice (Charlie Sutton), Michael Graziadei (Carmichael), Jessica Camacho (Pirate Jenny), Wayne Pere´ (The Suspect), Geral- dine Singer (Ms. Sweetwater), Jamal Akakpo (Bass Reeves), Landon Durrence (Adorable White Boy), Victoria Blade (Mom), Charles Green (Preacher), Lily Rose Smith (Rosie), Adelynn Spoon (Emma Abar), Kyle McDuffie (Sheriff), Danny Boyd Jr. (Young Boy), Steven G. Nor- fleet (The Father), Alexis Louder (The Mother), Dajour Ashwood (Me- chanic), Sasha Morfaw (Mechanic’s Wife), Uyoata Udi (Curly (Okla- homa)), Teresa Jade Wilson (Farmer’s Daughter (Oklahoma)), Jamie Miles (Nurse), Zsane Jhe (Roberta Sutton), Nicholas Logan (7th Kalvary Spokesman), Joe Sykes (Uniformed Cop), Gabrielle Manning (4th Grader #1), Jay Amir (Curious Boy), Ethan Stormant (Tommy (Buzz- cut)), Helena Hu (Curious Girl), Joey Mekyten (One Kid), Joshua Allen (Businessman), Matthew Byrge (DC Police Officer), Russ Gladden (An- gry White Man), John Grimm (Masked Cop), Grant Kersey (Armed Soldier), Alex Kontakos (Audience Member), Rashaan Matthews (Ok- lahoma Businessman), David R. Mitchell (Suspect), Clarence Powell (Audience Member), Jeffrey S Smith (Businessman), James Sterling (Armed Soldier) Production Code: 101 Summary: In a world not so different from our own, policemen wear masks to protect their identities so their loved ones can’t be harmed by crimi- nals. The 7th Kavalry, a supremacist group, emerges from hiding with a plan that threatens the world. And somewhere, the Lord of the Manor writes a play as squids rain down from the sky.

A silent movie plays of a sheriff being pursued by a man in a mask and cape. The man finally lassos Bass and pulls him from his horse. The congregation comes out from a nearby church and the preacher asks the masked man what he’s done to their sheriff. The masked man says that the sheriff is a scoundrel who stole their cattle and doesn’t deserve his badge. When the preacher wonders who the stranger is, the stranger removes his mask to reveal that he’s Bass Reeves, the Black Marshal of Oklahoma. Tulsa, 1921 — A young black boy sits in the theater and watches the movie, and mouths along with Bass on the screen as he says that they won’t resort to mob violence. A siren sounds outside and the woman playing the piano breaks into tears. The building shakes and the woman runs to her son. The father comes in, gives his gun to his wife, picks up his son, and says that they have to go.

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Outside, people panic and run through the streets. A plane flies overhead, gun- ning down blacks. White-robed men back blacks up against a truck, and the family watches as people burn down stores. The family runs down a side street and duck into an autoshop, and the blacks inside tell them that there isn’t any room for them. The father says that they should take his son, and the mother tells her son that it will be okay and they’ll be right be- hind him. After writing a note, the father gives it to his son and puts it in his pocket as he puts the boy in the car. He tells his son to be strong and the car drives off. Bullets go through the crate the boy is hiding in, and he looks out to see more whites dragging dead blacks down the street. Behind him, the autoshop blows up as plane drops a bomb on it. Later, the boy wakes up on grass and sits up. The car is on its side and the mechanic and his wife are shot dead. The boy checks the note, which says, ”Watch over this boy”, then puts it back in his pocket. The dead blacks’ baby cries, and the boy picks it up, says that she’s okay, and walks away as Tulsa burns behind him. Now — A man drives down the highway, and a police car pulls him over. The driver pulls over and the police car pulls up behind them. An officer comes over and asks the driver, Carmichael, if he consents to their interaction being recorded. Carmichael agrees and says that he’s hauling lettuce, and asks to look at the officers face. The masked officer takes offense and Carmichael apologizes. The officer asks for Carmichael’s license and registration, and Carmichael slowly takes them out from the glove compartment and hands them over. Back in his car, the officer– Charlie Sutton–removes his mask and calls in. Panda comes on the line, and Charlie tells him that he made a traffic stop and he saw Kavalry contraband in his truck. Charlie reaches for his gun, locked in, and requests for its release. Panda asks for details and Charlie says that he saw a mask. The other officer asks for the probability of drugs, alcohol, and explosives in the truck, and Charlie says that the probability is high. Charlie insists that the threat level is high, and Panda hits the buzzer. The lock finally releases, and Carmichael opens fire through the windshield, wounding Charlie. Carmichael, wearing the Rorschach mask, tosses a head of lettuce from his truck through the shattered windshield and gets in his truck. An audience watches a production of Oklahoma. All of the cast and much of the audience is black, and Judd and Jane Crawford are in the audience. A police officer comes in and tells Judd about the shooting, and Judd excuses himself. He goes to the hospital where Charlie is in a hospital bed. Judd sends the nurse to wait outside and has the watching detective, Looking Glass, confirm that he’s run a background check on the hospital staff. Later, Looking Glass tells Judd that they’re searching for Carmichael but they’re unlikely to find him. He figures the Kavalry was involved and asks if Judd wants him to call in Red Scare and Knight. Judd tells Looking Glass to let them sleep and wonders why the Kavalry is starting things up again. Looking Glass says that there was a head of romaine lettuce in the police car, and Judd checks his newly-donned uniform in the reflection of Looking Glass’ mask. Judd goes to the Sutton house and tells Roberta Sutton about her husband’s injury. He says that they’re going to move Charlie to their secure medical facility after he’s out of surgery, and asks if Charlie told anyone that he’s police. Roberta points out that doing so is against the rules and insists that he didn’t, and he said he was going to night school for engineering. Judd says that they’ll claim it was a carjacking and it keeps everyone safe, and Roberta tells him that Charlie liked him. The next day at Career Day, Angela Abar demonstrates cooking for her son’s class. The chil- dren eat the Vietnamese treats that Angela has provided, and the teacher Ms. Sweetwater asks if she was born in the U.S. before Vietnam became a state. Angela says that it was a couple of years before, and her son Topher glares at her. She tells the class that she moved to Tulsa and

4 Watchmen Episode Guide became a police officer for awhile and then retired. When a student asks why, Angela says that she was one of the cops who were attacked on the White Night. The criminals knew where she lived, came to her house, and shot her. As Angela describes how she was shot, Ms. Sweetwater interrupts and Angela says that cooking was better than being shot. Another student, Tommy, asks if Angela paid for her bakery with Redfordations, and Topher attacks him. Later, Angela drives Topher home and asks her son why he hit Tommy. Topher figures that Angela wanted to hit Tommy and says that he’s a racist. Sirens go off and everyone pulls over, and miniature squid rain down from the sky. Once the storm is over, Angela gets out and cleans off the windshield. She gets back in the car and drives off. Later at home, Angela finds her husband Cal and daughter Emma spraying squid off the sidewalk. Cal gives Angela her pager and says it’s been going off all morning. Angela tells Cal that she has to go to the bakery and Cal confirms that he’ll pick up Rosie from school. She kisses Emma goodbye and leaves. Angela arrives at the closed bakery and a wheelchair-bound man, Will Reeves, asks her when it’s going to open. He says that he’ll wait when she tells him it’ll open in a few months, and asks if she thinks he could lift 200 pounds. Angela goes inside and locks the door behind her, goes to a locked vault, and dons her police costume of Sister Night. She drives a mirror-windshielded car out a back alley, kicks her way into a trailer at a trailer court, and punches the man inside. Sister Night then drives to an underground parking garage and takes the elevator up to the police station. Sister Night arrives in a room where the other detectives are watching a video from the Kavalry boasting that soon the gutters will overflow with blood, and they will never compromise. As the spokesman and his minions chant ”Tick tock”, Sister Night enters the room. Judd tells his men that the Kavalry are back after three years of peace, and they know where there are. He tells his officers to roll into Nixonville and round them up, and tells Panda to buzz out the guns. Panda opens the regulations book and notes that the majority of the officers have to believe that their lives are in danger. The officers all say that they do, and Judd tells Panda to unlock the guns. Panda warns him that he’s making a mistake, and Judd says that it’s his funeral. Judd goes to his office and finds Angela waiting for him. She wonders why he didn’t call her, and figures he was mad that her sitter bailed so she could be at Oklahoma with him. Angela tells him that there’s a guy in her trunk who is likely with the Kavalry, and asks if she should put him in the Pod. Judd tells her to do it, and Angela put on her mask and leaves. In the Pod, Looking Glass interrogates the manacled Suspect. The Suspect demands his lawyer, and Looking Glass says they don’t have to do that with terrorists. Looking Glass brings up images on the walls and questions the Suspect as images of advertisements and historical fig- ures come up. The detective continues asking him if he’s a member of the Kavalry as the images flash faster and faster. Looking Glass finally stops the images and goes outside, and tells Sister Night and the other detectives that the Suspect knows based on his reactions to the images. Sister night and the others take the Suspect out, and she apologizes for how she treated him. She then shoves him into a room and beats him, and blood flows under the door. After a minute, Sister Night comes out alone and says they’re going to the Cattle Ranch. That night, the detectives move through a field of cattle. Judd and Pirate Jennie are monitoring the situation and reports a headcount of four, maybe five. Inside the ranch house, the supremacists remove lithium from wristwatches. An alarm goes off and they pack everything up. Judd picks up their movement and orders his people in. Mean- while, the Kavalry men reveal a machine gun and open fire on the detectives. The cows stampede and some of them go down, and the detectives return fire. Two of the supremacists head for a plane and prepare to take off. When the shooters stoop to reload, Sister Night moves in and shoots one dead. The other one runs in the ranch house and when Sister Night goes in after him, he turns and attacks her. She finally grabs her gun and tells him to surrender, and he takes a cyanide pill and dies. Red Scare comes in and Sister Night confirms that the shooter is dead, and outside the plane takes off. Judd and Pirate Jennie take up the airship that they’re in and hit the plane with a flamethrower, destroying it. The airship, too close to the plane, goes down into the forest beneath, and Judd and Pirate Jennie emerge. Judd and Sister Night, who has run over, both laugh in relief. At a manor, Adrian Veidt rides a pale horse around the grounds. He goes inside and types while his housemaid, Mrs. Crookshanks, brushes him down. The butler Mr. Phillips comes in

5 Watchmen Episode Guide and offers to dress Adrian, and reminds him that it’s his anniversary. At dinner, Crookshanks and Phillips sing ”For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow” to Adrian and serve cake, and Adrian blows out the one candle on it. Mr. Phillips offers Adrian a horseshoe to cut it, and Adrian points out that it’s a horseshoe rather than a knife. The butler apologizes but Adrian takes a bite of the cake with his fork and eats it. Mr. Phillips presents Adrian with a pocketwatch and wishes him a happy anniversary, saying that he did his best to make it function after Adrian discarded it. Adrian assures him that it’s exquisite and says that he’s writing a play, The Watchmaker’s Son, and wants the two of them to play the leading roles. The Abars and the Crawfords have dinner together, and Judd mentions that he got ditched for Oklahoma. Cal wonders what he means, and Angela admits that she didn’t tell him. Angela reminds Cal that he hates musicals, and Jane and Angela tease him about being jealous because he was Curly in a high school production. Every begs Judd to sing, and he finally does, ending by kissing Jane. Later outside, Angela tells Judd that the supremacists had the old synthetic lithium batteries that made people seek. Jane calls to them from the car, wondering what they’re doing, and Judd jokingly says that they’re talking about the end of the world. Later at home, Judd makes a call to the governor and says that they got all of the Kavalry men. After he hangs up, Jane says that he noticed Judd using cocaine during supper. The hospital calls to tell Judd that Charlie woke up, and he changes into his uniform to go see him. Judd drives to the hospital, and on a stretch of country road and his tires go out. After confirming that all four tires are flat, Judd finds a tirecutter across the road. Someone shines a light on him. Angela and Cal make love. The phone rings and Angela finally answers it. A man confirms who she is and asks if her father was Marcus. The man tells her that there’s something at the oak tree on Rowland Hill that she needs to see. The caller tells her that he knows who she is so she shouldn’t wear a mask. After she hangs up, Angela gets a shotgun and gives Cal a revolver, and tells him to shoot anyone that approaches the house that isn’t her. Angela drives to Rowland Hill and the old oak tree. A light shines in her face, and Angela stops her car, gets out, and yells for the caller to turn off the light or she’ll shoot. The light goes off, and Will holds out his empty hands. Judd is dead, hanging from a tree branch, and Angela sees that he’s holding a note saying ”Watch over this boy”.

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Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship

Season 1 Episode Number: 2 Season Episode: 2

Originally aired: Sunday October 27, 2019 Writer: Damon Lindelof, Nick Cuse Director: Nicole Kassell Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Don Johnson (Chief Judd Crawford), Frances Fisher (Jane Craw- ford), James Wolk (Senator Joe Keane), Jim Beaver (Andy), Robert Wisdom (Seymour), Cheyenne Jackson (Hooded Justice), Lily Rose Smith (Rosie), Adelynn Spoon (Emma Abar), Jolie Hoang-Rappaport (Bian), Danny Boyd Jr. (Young Will), Henry Louis Gates (Skip Gates), Steven G. Norfleet (O.B. Williams), Miles Doleac (German Officer), An- nika Pampel (Fraulein¨ Muller),¨ Christian Robinson (Delivery Guy), Jim Braswell (Singer), Brian Stapf (Tattooed Man), Luke David Blumm (Newspaper Boy), Ryan Czerwonko (Ringleader), Vince Pisani (Cashier), Tevin Marbeth (Soldier), Kate Kovach (Dame), Faye Yvette McQueen (Fashionable Lady), Moses J. Moseley (Usher), Cremel Nakia Burney (Museum Guest), Jose´ Alfredo Fernandez (Coroner), Mystie Smith (Hologram Reporter) Production Code: 102 Summary: As Angela relives haunting memories of an attack on her family, she detains a mysterious man who claims responsibility for Tulsa’s most recent murder; An original play is performed for an audience of one.

The past — During World War I, sec- retaries are typing and a man comes out and asks where Fraulein Mueller is. Mueller raises her hand and the Com- mandant confirms that she speaks En- glish. He tells her to bring her typewriter, and Mueller goes to the Commandant’s office. The Commandant dictates propa- ganda aimed at American black soldiers, asking if the enjoy the same rights. Soon the Germans are dropping the fliers on the black soldiers. Will Reeves’ father is one of the soldiers who reads the fliers, which say that Germany is open to blacks. Now — Will finishes reading his letter. Angela arrives and sees Judd’s hanging body. She wheels the wheelchair-bound Will to her car and takes him to her secret lair, and then handcuffs him to his wheelchair. Angela searches him and finds a bottle of pills, She goes into the next room and screams in grief, then dons her Sister Night costume and mask. Sister Night goes out to Will and offers him coffee. She asks who he is, and Will insists that he killed Judd all by himself. Will jokingly claims that he has psychic powers and asks for his

7 Watchmen Episode Guide pills. Sister Night asks what the pills are, and Will says that they help him get his memory. She gives them to him and he takes them, and asks why he strung up Judd. Will says that there is a conspiracy in Tulsa and he has to give it to her in pieces. He finally gives his name and asks who she is. The vigilante’s pager goes off, and Sister Night says that she’ll be there. Will figures that they found Judd, and Sister Night puts Will’s coffee cup in an evidence bag and takes it with her. A newspaper vendor and his deliveryman are discussing politics when a young woman arrives. One of the men asks the woman if ”she” reads them, and he says that he reads them but doesn’t believe them. Sister Night drives out to the tree past the reporters gathered outside the barricade. Looking Glass gets in the car with her and confirms that Judd suffered. He confirms that Judd was alive the entire time he was hung. Looking Glass asks if Judd was drunk or high when he had dinner with Regina and her family. Sister Night wonders if he’s interrogating her. Red Scare drops a photographer on the car hood and beats him until Looking Glass calls him off. Sister Night figures that they need to get Judd down, and the three detectives lower the body down. Angela dances with Cal on Christmas Eve, and he says that he’s going to open up her present to him in Midnight. She tells him that he has to wait, and then shoves Cal down as a Kavalryman breaks in and shoots at them. Angela manages to kill the man as the clock strikes midnight, but shoots her. Another Kavalryman comes in and prepares to kill her. When Angela wakes up, she’s in a hospital bed. Judd is there and says that Cal was there and he went home to change his clothes. Judd explains that the Kavalry came at forty houses and killed most of the policemen. He killed the Supremacist who came after him, but many of the other cops didn’t make it in the ”White Night” massacre. Judd explains that all of the surviving policeman are resigning, and Judd and Angela agree that they’re not quitting. He tells Angela that it’s okay to cry, and she says that she’ll cry later. Judd apologizes for letting her down, and Angela takes his hand. Sister Night and the others watch as the EMTs take Judd’s body away. Red Scare wants to bust Kavalry heads until someone talks, and Sister Night says that they should stop and take a break. She agrees to go with the others into Nixonville when they push the issue. Later in Nixonville, Red Scare announces over a bullhorn that they’re all going to get into the paddy wagons. There are cops backing him up, and if any of them refuse they’ll tear down their Nixon idol. One resident throws a bottle at Red Scare’s feet, and he orders the police to move in over Sister Night’s objections. She tells Looking Glass that it’s unnecessary, and then takes out a supremacist coming after him, beating the man unconscious. Silent Night gets into her car, gasping. Later, Angela takes Will’s glass to a Cultural Heritage museum dedicated to the Tulsa Massacre, and has Will’s DNA tested. The recorded message says that only survivors of the massacre and their descendants can apply at the facility. Angela returns home and finds Angry on her porch. He says that she can’t deprive him of his visitation rights. Angela pays him to leave, and they go in where Cal is playing with Emma and Rosie. She tells Angela that she got rid of Andy and says that Will is at the bakery. Angela figures that Will didn’t kill Judd, and Cal wonders if they’re safe. She confirms that her dead son’s partner Topher is in his room, and goes to see him. As Angela goes, Cal says that Jane is having people over and Angela should go while he stays with the kids. He figures that Jane isn’t fine... just like Angela. In Topher’s room, Angela asks the boy if they can talk. She says that she remembers what happened to her parents, and figures he remembers what happened to his. Angela tells Topher that they know the world isn’t pretty, and says that Judd is dead. Topher figures that policemen die and say that Judd wasn’t his real uncle, and asks Angela not to tell Emma and Rosie because he’ll handle it. The boy angrily knocks away the model building he’s working on and then asks to watch TV. That night, Angela kisses Rosie and Emma goodbye, and leaves past Cal and Topher as they watch American Hero Story on TV. Looking Glass is at home watching the same show. Kavalrymen watch TV and work on a device. The past — On American Hero Story, Hooded Justice says that the body people believed was

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Rolf Mueller isn’t his. In the following recreation, masked men rob a grocery store, and they tell the cashier to blow the safe or they’ll kill a hostage. Hooded Justice jumps in through the window and kills the robbers. Now — Angela drives to the Crawford home and offers her condolences to Jane. Senator Joe Keene comes over and introduces himself, He promises Angela any resources she needs, and Angela says that she retired as a cop. Angela passes out, and Jane has her taken to a bedroom. She assures Angela that she’s her friend and she’s taking care of her, and tells Angela that Judd loved her. Jane then asks Angela to get whoever killed Judd. Later, Angela uses x-ray goggles to scan Judd’s room and finds a hidden chamber. Inside is a costume containing a KKK hood and robe. She goes downstairs and leaves. Adrian rides across his manor lands, stops to pluck a soft fruit from a tree, and then returns home. Phillips and Crookshanks sing ”For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow”, and Adrian makes Crook- shanks promise that she’ll shed real tears. Phillips asks for the pocketwatch he gave Adrian as a prop, and Adrian tells him that he’s a prop. Soon, Phillips and Vickers present Adrian’s play, The Watchmaker’s Son. It shows the creation of Dr. Manhattan, and Adrian incinerates Phillips and tells Crookshanks to cry. She does so, and a new Phillips descends from the ceiling as Dr. Manhattan. The play ends and Adrian tells them that they were fantastic. He has the crew re- move the first Phillips’ incinerated corpse, and asks one of the hands, Montrose, if he’d like to be the new Mr. Phillips. Before they take the body away, Adrian takes the pocketwatch out of the corpse’s hand and says that it hasn’t stopped but has only just begun. Angela returns to her lair and finds Will free of his handcuffs. He’s cooking eggs, and says that he got them from across the street. Angela says that she looked in Judd’s closet and throws the KK robe at Will. She asks if Will tried to set Judd up, and demands to know what is going on. Will figures that she would have been rescued anyway, saying he has friends in high places. The phone rings, and Angela answers it. The computer from the heritage center says that Will was at the Race Riots, and Angela is his granddaughter. Angela hangs up and Will asks if her parents said anything about him. She confirms that they didn’t, and asks why Will is there. He says that he wanted to meet her and show where she came from. Angela tells Will that he’s under arrest. The detective takes Will out to her car and lifts him into the front seat. Angela puts his wheelchair in the back, and a skyship drops an industrial magnet onto the car and lifts it away into the darkness. Will’s note drops down, written on the back of a German flyer.

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She Was Killed by Space Junk

Season 1 Episode Number: 3 Season Episode: 3

Originally aired: Sunday November 03, 2019 Writer: Damon Lindelof, Lila Byock Director: Stephen Williams Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Frances Fisher (Jane Crawford), James Wolk (Senator Keane), Lee Tergesen (Mister Shadow), Dustin Ingram (Agent Petey), Jessica Ca- macho (Pirate Jenny), David Andrews (Deputy Director Farragut), Lily Rose Smith (Rosie), Adelynn Spoon (Emma Abar), Brook Todd (Kavalry Bomber), Erin C. Davis (Hostage), Michael Hodson (Donald Callahan / Prisoner), Sara Antonio (Another Reporter), James Dean Smith (Heavy- set White Dude), Ethan Levy (Fat Guy), Mahdi Cocci (Uniformed Cop), Darrell Snedeger (Jon), Hunter McGregor (Reporter), Denny Zartman (Teller), Benjamin David (Ballcap Agent), Maxton Jones (Clipboard Yel- low), Patrick Brown (Sergeant At Arms), Matthew Atchley (FBI Agent), Robert Tinsley (Suspect) Production Code: 103 Summary: Following a late-night visit from the senator, FBI agent Laurie Blake heads to Tulsa to take over the recent murder investigation; The Lord of The Manor receives a harshly worded letter and responds accord- ingly.

Laurie Blake calls Mars and tells Dr. Man- hattan a joke about a bricklayer teach- ing his daughter how to lay bricks, and coming up one brick extra. His daughter throws it into the air, and Laurie says that she messed up the punchline. The next day, Laurie goes to a bank and robs it. Other shooters among the customers fire shots, and Mr. Shadow drops into the lobby and takes out the shooters. Laurie takes a hostage, and tells him that they’re FBI and they tipped him over to trap him because vigilan- tism is illegal. All of the agents reveal their badges, and Mr. Shadow runs. Lau- rie shoots him and he falls through the glass door. The FBI secure the crime scene and take Mr. Shadow away. Laurie cuffs him, and protestors ask why she’s arresting a hero. She says that the vigilante is a joke, not a hero, and walks away. At home, Laurie puts a white mouse in a covered cage, then opens a case with something glowing blue inside. There’s a knock at the door. After a moment she opens it and finds Senator Keene there. He congratulates her on capturing Mr. Shadow and invites himself in. He looks at

11 Watchmen Episode Guide the owl inside of the covered cage and asks Laurie to go to Tulsa to take lead on an investigation. Keene wants Laurie to investigate Judd’s murder and figures the 7K isn’t responsible because they didn’t take credit. He suggests that it’s a vigilante, and notes that other cities are masking their policemen. Keene suggests that if he becomes President, he could pardon anyone. Laurie tells Manhattan a joke about three heroes trying to get into Heaven. Owlman never killed anyone and God sends him to Hell for not being tough enough. The next day, Laurie goes to FBI HQ and attends a briefing on the 7K. Agent Petey inserts a slide of Rorschach’s Journal to provide ”psychological context”, but Deputy Director Farragut says no one cares about Rorschach. Farragut continues with the briefing, talking about how Judd was one of the few survivors of White Night. The cops donned masks and peace returned to Tulsa until Judd was hung. Farragut tells the other agents that Laurie is running point, and Laurie says that she’s the only one going there because Tulsa PD won’t cooperate with FBI agents. She finally agrees to take Petey. On the jet to Tulsa, Petey says that he brought a mask to wear. Laurie tells him that he’s a Federal agent and Petey hastily puts away the mask. The pilot directs their attention to the Millennium Clock on the ground below. Petey notes that Lady Trieu had the clock built after she built out Adrian’s company, and they’ve declared him dead. The FBI agent notes that Laurie knew Adrian when he was , and Laurie asks Petey if he wants her autograph. Petey says that he knows Laurie was and points out that he had a PhD in history. He tells Laurie not to treat him like he’s a fan, and Laurie says that she knew Adrian. Laurie continues the joke with the second hero, Ozymandias. Ozymandias says that he saved humanity by dropping a giant alien squid on New York City, killing three million people God declares that he’s a monster and sends him to Hell. Laurie and Petey examine the scene where Judd was hung, Laurie then meets with Jane. Later, Laurie and Petey drive to a warehouse and when a prison transport van pulls up, Laurie goes in on her own. Red Scare and Pirate Jenny toss a prisoner out on the tarmac, and Laurie flashes her badge and asks who they are. They identify themselves, and Laurie asks if Looking Glass is inside. The detectives go in, taking Laurie and the prisoner with them. Police are in the warehouse, processing 7K prisoners. Looking Glass emerges from the pod with a prisoner, and Looking Glass reports that the prisoner is cleared of Judd’s murder. Laurie goes into the pod with him and he explains how it works. She knows Looking Glass’s secret identity of Wade Tillman, and he removes his mask and asks how he can help her. Laurie asks about Judd’s autopsy, and Wade confirms that there was no tox screen because the cause of death was there. He wasn’t at the raid on the cattle ranch, and Wade says that Sister Night got the location out of the prisoner during secondary interrogation. Laurie confirms that Sister Night is Angela, and Wade says that she took a personal day to work on the eulogy for Judd’s funeral in a couple of hours. Laurie continues the joke, saying that the third hero was Dr. Manhattan. God asks him how many people he killed, and Manhattan says that it doesn’t matter and he knows God is sending him to Hell no matter what he says. He knows what God will do because he’s seen it, and God sends Manhattan to Hell. After going to their motel rooms to change, Laurie and Petey attend Judd’s funeral. They hand over their guns to the policemen at the gate, and Laurie approaches Angela as the Abars arrive at the gravesite. She says that she’s there to hope and talks with Angela over coffee later. Angela says that she’s retired, and Frankie gives Angela her card. At the service, Jane thanks everyone for being there and invites Angela up to give the eulogy. Angela talks about how she and Judd made a pact after White Night about what each of them would say at the other’s funeral. A 7K bomber crawls through a tunnel. Angela sings the song Judd wanted sung. The bomber comes up in a nearby crypt. Laurie claps to the music, and after a moment the other attendees clap with her to the song. The bomber puts on an explosive vest, steps out of the crypt, and approaches the gravesite. He explains that the bomb is connected to his heart and will go off if he dies. The bomber tells Keene

12 Watchmen Episode Guide that he’s a race traitor and tells him to surrender himself or everyone dies. Keene goes to the bomber, and Laurie shoots the 7K man in the head. The bomb starts counting down, and Angela yells at everyone to run. She then drags the corpse into the grave and drops Judd’s coffin on top of it. She runs away and the bomb explodes, knocking everyone to the ground. Angela glares at Laurie. At the castle, Adrian works on a protective suit and then puts it on one of the Phillips clones. After moving to a safe distance, Adrian conducts his experiment and checks on Phillips. Phillips is frozen solid despite the suit, and Adrian kicks the body and curses in frustration. Another Phillips comes over and asks what went wrong, and Adrian says that he’ll need a thicker skin. Adrian rides off across the countryside to a herd of buffalo, takes out a bow and arrow, and kills one buffalo with a single shot into the eye. As he goes over to skin it, a man on horseback fires a warning shot at him. Adrian puts up his hands and returns to his castle, shoves past Phillips and Crookshanks when they try to present him with a cake, and goes to his study to meditate. Crookshanks comes in and says that he has a letter from the Game Warden. Adrian has her read it, and it says that they agree on the terms of Adrian’s captivity. It appears that he’s trying to free himself, and if so he will face grave consequences. Adrian dictates a response to Crookshanks, saying that his activities are purely recreational. He would never transgress the terms of their agreement, and is available if the Game Warden wishes to repeat his accusations in person. Satisfied, Adrian says that he hunts again at midnight. That night, Adrian puts on his old Ozymandias costume and checks himself in the mirror. At the cemetery, Keene tells the reporters that law enforcement are the heroes who kept him safe. Laurie watches as Keene says that the 7K is his problem and he won’t leave until the war is won. Petey asks for Laurie’s autograph, and she takes his coffee and goes to the crypt. Angela emerges from the tunnel wearing her night-vision goggles, and tells Laurie that it goes just outside the fence. Laurie offers her Petey’s coffee, and admits that she thought the bomber was bluffing. Laurie thanks Angela for saving them, and points out that there’s nothing left for them to exhume. When Angela asks why, Laurie says that the 7K murdered Judd but they still have to consider the possibilities. She points out that there were wheelchair tire tracks at the tree where Judd was hung. Laurie says that she found a secret compartment in Judd’s closet, Angela asks what was in it, and Laurie asks her what was in it since Jane told her Angela was the last person there. When Angela doesn’t say, Laurie figures that there was a naked bust and something on it. She calls Angela ”Sister Night” and says that she eats good guys for breakfast. Angela feigns shock, pours the coffee into the tunnel, and leaves. Finishing her joke, Laurie says that God notices someone waiting: a woman. God says that he doesn’t know who she is, and the woman says that she’s the bricklayer’s daughter from the first joke. The brick hits God in the head, killing him and sending him to Hell. Petey and Laurie return to the motel, and Laurie takes a glowing blue vibrator out of her case. She then goes to Petey’s room, and they end up in bed together with Petey wearing his mask. With 55 seconds left until her time ends, Laurie tells Manhattan that she doesn’t know why she keeps telling him jokes because he never had a sense of humor. She says that sometimes it’s nice to pretend he is listening to her, and humanity isn’t worth Manhattan–or anyone–caring about. The call ends and Laurie goes to her car. A piece of space junk slams down on it, and Laurie looks up to see a flare in the night sky where Mars is. She bursts into laughter, looking up at the sky.

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If You Don’t Like My Story, Write Your Own

Season 1 Episode Number: 4 Season Episode: 4

Originally aired: Sunday November 10, 2019 Writer: Damon Lindelof, Christal Henry Director: Andrij Parekh Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Hong Chau (Lady Trieu), James Wolk (Senator Joe Keane), Lily Rose Smith (Rosie), Adelynn Spoon (Emma Abar), Jolie Hoang-Rappaport (Bian), Dustin Ingram (Agent Petey), Jessica Camacho (Pirate Jenny), Danny Boyd Jr. (Young Will), Steven G. Norfleet (O. B. Williams), Alexis Louder (Ruth Williams), Regina Ting Chen (Crew Chief Selma), Robert Pralgo (Jon Clark), Christine Weatherup (Katy Clark), Henry Louis Gates (Skip Gates), Mariana Novak (Guard), Quinten Johnson (Fire- man), Lauren Hough (Local), Varryl Vano (Police Officer) Production Code: 104 Summary: Reclusive trillionaire Lady Trieu finally enters the stage with a mysteri- ous offer; With Blake getting closer to the truth of her coverup, Angela enlists Looking Glass for help; The Lord trains two new servants.

Katy Clark sits outside of her farmhouse and waits for someone to stop and buy the fresh eggs she has on display. No one does, and Katy takes the eggs inside but trips and drops them on the porch. Her husband Jon catches one before it rolls on the ground, and smiles at his wife. Later, they eat dinner, put together a jigsaw puzzle, brush their teeth, and go to bed. The doorbell rings and when the Clarks answer it, they find Lady Trieu there. She asks to come in, and Kate says that she’s the billionaire building a gi- ant clock down the road, but no one ever sees Trieu because she doesn’t come out. Trieu says that it’s more than a lock and she comes out when it’s important, and the Clarks are the most important people in the world for the next three minutes. She asks for their house immediately, along with the land it sits on. The doorbell rings, and Trieu calls out in Vietnamese to wait. She then says that when the Clarks die, their legacy dies with them and they’ll be extinct. Trieu opens her case and offers them legacy by providing them with a child. Katy tells her to get out, and Trieu tells her that she’s already made them a baby. She opens the front door and takes a baby from her assistant, brings it in, and says that she has created their biological son. Trieu has placed $5 million in an account to cover their relocation costs and the baby costs, and gives them 30 seconds to decide. Jon takes their son, and he and Katy look at him. Trieu says that they have ten seconds left

15 Watchmen Episode Guide and then she’ll destroy the baby, then says that she’s joking and will just take him away. Katy quickly signs the papers, and the lights flicker as the house shakes. They go outside and see an object fall from the sky and crash to the ground just over the horizon on the property, and Trieu says that it’s hers. Angela goes to her bakery, cleans up the place removing any DNA evidence, cuts up Will’s wheelchair, and starts to burn the note that he left. Gates’ automated voice calls talking about Will’s DNA that he submitted to the cultural heritage center, identifying Angela as her ancestor. Angela blows out the flames on the note. Later, Sister Night calls her squad to see if they got a silent alarm from the center. She goes there and claims that someone broke in, then breaks in herself and brings up the Gates DNA analyzer. Sister Night asks to see her family tree, and the computer gives her an acorn and directs her to the Greenhouse to ”plant” it. She puts the ”acorn” in a glass tube, and it displays her family tree. It shows a new branch of her father Marcus’ lineage, and Sister Night opens it up to reveal an unidentified grandparent: Will. The center computer presents images of Angela’s great grandparents, O.B. and Ruth. They had one son but his records were lost in the fires. The family was killed in the 1921 massacre, and Sister Night figures that Will disappeared but isn’t dead. She says that now she knows where she came from, and tells him to leave her alone. There’s a crash outside and a car alarm goes off. Sister Night runs out and finds Laurie laughing over the wreckage of Sister Night’s car. The FBI agent draws a gun, turns, and aims it at Sister Night, who puts up her hands. After a moment Laurie lowers her gun, and Sister Night turns off the car alarm, then identifies the car as hers. She calls in to ask for a tow for the missing car, and Angela unmasks and says that nothing is gone. Laurie tells her that it fell out of the sky and goes to her car. Angela returns home and finds Cal asleep in their bed with their daughters. She goes to the girls’ room and asks Topher if she can crash there. Topher agrees and asks where she was, and Angela claims that the police questioned her about the funeral. The boy says that he thinks his sisters are okay, and they didn’t see the bomber get shot in the head but he did. He asks if Angela was scared, and she says that she was and still is a little. Topher offers her his stuffed animal to comfort her. The next morning, Angela and Cal make breakfast and Angela tells her husband what Laurie saw happen. She explains that she broke into the cultural center, and the children argue about whether Judd went to Heaven when he blew up. Cal says that there isn’t a Heaven and Judd is nowhere. Later, Angela goes to a bomb shelter in the back of Wade’s house, knocks on the door, and says who she is. Wade lets her in and shows her photos of the squids that he took during the last downpour. Angela notes that he’s weird and Wade points out that she is as well, and asks why she’s there. She shows him a pill bottle that she found in the car and asks Wade to have his ex identify the pills inside. Angela makes it clear she doesn’t want them examined at the precinct lab, and Wade asks if it’s related to Judd’s murder. She points out that he was a racist and shows Wade the KKK outfit she found, and he says that they’re old school. Wade suggests that it’s a keepsake, and Angela asks him to hold on to it for her. Wade agrees and warns Angela that Laurie is weird. Later, Angela dons her costume, drives to an overpass, and tosses a duffle bag into the garbage container of a passing train. She turns to see a masked and costumed man watching her, and he runs off after a moment. Sister Night goes after him and he sprays lube on himself, removes his accessories as he rims, and slides into a sidewalk sewer outlet. Returning to the station, Sister Night runs into Keene. He thanks her for saving his life and mentions that he knows her real name, and apologizes for not knowing he was a target. Sister Night then gives Lube Man’s belt to Pirate Jenny and Red Scare, but they don’t recognize the vigilante from his description. Red Scare says that the new boss won’t care about Lube Man if he’s not part of the 7K. Silent Night goes to see their new boss: Laurie. Laurie says that she has a lead on her stolen car, and found prints on it that Quantico got a hit on. They belong to Will Reeves, a cop in NYC in the 40s and 50s. Will retired young and disappeared. Laurie says that he’d be a hundred now, and old men tend to get around in wheelchairs. Petey comes in and whispers something in Laurie’s ear. Laurie tells Angela that they have another lead on her car. They drive off and Laurie says that Sister Night’s car was stolen the night of Judd’s murder and returned the night of his funeral. She figures that it’s a thermos-

16 Watchmen Episode Guide dynamic miracle, and she talked to Cal earlier. Angela says that her parents died when she was young, and Laurie notes that people in masks suffered from trauma when they were kids. When Sister Night asks what Laurie’s trauma was that she dressed up in a costume, Laurie has Petey tell Angela that Laurie’s parents were the and Silk Spectre. Laurie found out that the Comedian tried to rape Silk Spectre, and Angela puts her mask back on. The trio arrive at Trieu’s complex around the Millennium Clock. They go inside and they watch as a flight wing arrives. Laurie speculates that one could have been used to pick up a car, and asks for a list of pilots. The crew chief warns that she isn’t authorized, and Bian comes over and greets them. She passes on Trieu’s invitation for Laurie and Sister Night to have tea with them, and they accept. As they go, Bian says that they’re building the first wonder of the new world. All she says is that the Millennium Clock tells time. They enter the arboretum and Trieu greets them. Laurie notes that Sister Night is from Vietnam like Trieu, and Sister Night sarcastically says that it’s a thermos-dynamic miracle. Trieu asks if they think their equipment was used to steal a car and drop it, and Sister Night says that it was hers. The detective asks for a list of all of the pilots, and Trieu has Bian bring it forward. Trieu offers her condolences on Judd’s death, and says in Vietnamese that Will wants to know if Sister Night got the pills. Sister Night tells Trieu to have Will ask her himself. Laurie finds a statue of Adrian, and points out that Trieu bought Adrian’s company after he disappeared. She wonders why Trieu had the sculptor make Adrian so old, and Trieu points out that he is old and Vietnamese elders are revered. Laurie says that he looks like shit. Adrian goes out on a lake at night and pulls infants out of crab traps. He throws back the ones that are unsuitable, finds two that he wants, and takes them back to his workshop. Adrian puts them in an aging chamber and as they start to grow into Phillips and Crookshanks, puts on a record and sits down to eat cake. The babies cry as they age to adults, and Adrian opens the chamber door and wishes them a happy birthday. They go out together and Adrian says that he’s their master. He knows that they can understand him and know what they are: flaws in a faultless design. Adrian insists that he’s their master but not their maker, because he wouldn’t have given such pathetic creatures the gift of life. He dresses them and says that their purpose is to serve, leads them into the manor, and they stare at the dining room filled with corpses of Phillips and Crookshanks. Adrian apologizes for the mess, saying he had a rough night, has his new servants load the corpses into a trebuchet, and launches them into the sky. Each corpse disappears, and Adrian says that it’s been four years since he was sent there. At first he thought it was a paradise, but now he realizes that it’s a prison. One way or another, Adrian promises that he will escape. That night, Angela drives home and finds Cal sitting in the living room. He’s reading Things Fall Apart, and Angela admits that she’s trying to pick a fight when she spoils the ending for him. Angela asks when Cal was going to tell her that Laurie came by, and Cal tells her that Laurie came by and asked about who called the night that Judd was murdered. He describes how Angela came back and said that her grandfather killed Judd, and he didn’t know she had a grandfather. Cal then says that he lied and didn’t tell Laurie that, and Angela explains that Laurie knew they met in Vietnam. She asks if Laurie asks Cal about his accident, and he says that it didn’t come up. Cal suggests that Laurie wants to help Angela, and suggests that Laurie knows how to find Will. Angela says that she can find Will by himself, and invites him to the closet to have sex. Bian jerks awake and goes to the arboretum. Trieu is there, and Bian tells her mother that she had a nightmare and describes how she was in a village and men came to burn it. The men made the villagers walk, and Bian’s feet still hurt. Trieu says ”Good”, and refuses to walk her daughter back to bed. Bian says goodnight to Will and goes back to her bed. Trieu offers Will tea, and says that she’s concerned rather than worried. She suggests that Will tell Angela who he is, and he figures she has to learn by herself. Trieu says that it’s too cute, and Will notes that Trieu is doing the same thing with Bian. She says that it’s something different, and warns that when family is involved, things get cloudy, feet get cold, and deals get broken. Trieu figures that Will isn’t in, and he stands up out of his wheelchair and says that his feet are fine. He asks how much longer, and Trieu says that it will be three days. Will admits that he betrayed Angela, and in three days she’ll know what he’s done... and hate him for her. He insists that he’s in all the way, and mutters ”tick tock” repeatedly.

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Little Fear of Lightning

Season 1 Episode Number: 5 Season Episode: 5

Originally aired: Sunday November 17, 2019 Writer: Damon Lindelof, Carly Wray Director: Steph Green Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: James Wolk (Senator Joe Keene), Paula Malcomson (Renee), Steve Coulter (Simmons), Cheyenne Jackson (Hooded Justice), Chris Whit- ley (Captain Metropolis), Philip Labes (Young Wade Tillman), Julia Vasi (Roxy), David Watts (Outdoorsy Man), Karen Beyer (Well Dressed Woman), Michael Rubino (Police Officer), Ariel Milner (Child), Tim Peek (Elder), Eileen Grubba (Cynthia Tillman), Ryan Hope Travis (Jerry), Austin Freeman (Knot Top #1), Cabot Basden (Knot Top #2), Holly Stevenson (Older Woman), Jimi Kocina (Rorschach Tech), Tiger Dawn (ED Support Tech #1), Debra Nelson (ED Support Tech #2), Denise Hillis (ED Support Member #3), Jesse Mattson (ED Support Mem- ber #4), Omer Mughal (Moderator), Coley Campany (Moderator 2- Perfume), Jason Turner (Receptionist #1), Victor Turner (Reception- ist #2), Chris Baker (ED Support Member), Tommy Campbell (Focus Group Moderator), Timothy Carr (Leg Amputee), Scott Lane (Rough Biker), Chris Naylor (Rorschach Guard), Scott Rapp (Bar ( DJ )), Matthew Thompson (Knot Top), Judith Tokarsky (ED Support Mem- ber), William Tokarsky (ED Support Member), Josh Turner (Rough Biker), Chris Ward (Oklahoma Businessmen) Production Code: 105 Summary: The origin story of Looking Glass is revealed, as is the truth behind the greatest hoax in American history; The Smartest Man In The World plots a daring escape.

Hoboken, 1985 — A young Wade Till- man gets off a bus with other teenagers in his group, and their elder tells them to pray. With one minute to midnight on the Doomsday Clock, the elder says that they’re entering the whores’ nest. After- ward he tells Wade that they have little time left. Wade walks nervously down the street, approaches a group of knot tops, and asks them if they’re ready to hear the truth. Two of them assault him, knocking his flyers out of his hands. One woman, Roxy, brushes them aside and tells them to leave Wade alone and tells him that she wants to hear more. Roxy leads Wade into a street funhouse and wonders why he’s in Jersey. He says that’s where the sinners are, and Roxy asks if he really thinks the world is coming to an end. When Wade says

19 Watchmen Episode Guide that he does, Roxy asks if he’s afraid. He tells her that she isn’t, and Roxy asks if he’s afraid of her. When he says that he isn’t, Roxy asks him what he is afraid of. Roxy undresses Wade and asks if he’s a virgin, and says that it will be his last chance. Wade says that he doesn’t want to, and Roxy runs off with his clothes. Wade looks at himself in the funhouse mirrors and calls himself a dummy, saying that he’s pathetic and a sinner and is getting what he deserves. An explosion occurs nearby, and Wade clutches at his ears in pain. After a moment, the mirrors shatter from the shockwave. Later, Wade wakes up, blood dripping from his ears. His head ringing, Wade makes his way outside and finds the street littered with corpses. He takes his clothes from Roxy’s hands and looks at her bloody face in shock, and sees a few other survivors walking among the piles of corpses. Shocked, Wade screams, asking what happened. In nearby New York City, a giant alien squid lies half-teleported in a building’s wreckage. Years later — An adult Wade is among a focus group reviewing NYC’s campaign to get people to come back. Wade says that people despised their commercial, and nobody would admit that they were scared. He tells them that all their ad does is remind people that three million inexplicably died, gets up, and walks out. Later, Wade drives to a storage unit, puts on his Looking Glass mask, switches cars, and drives to the police station. Laurie is meeting with the officers and tells them that they’re going to do things her way because they’ve come up with nothing. She says that if they find the church the 7K video was made in, maybe they’ll find 7K. Afterward, Red Scare asks Looking Glass if he’s religious. Looking Glass points out that Red Scare is eating a sandwich with lettuce from the truck of the 7K member who shot a cop. Sister Night comes over and asks Looking Glass what his ex said about the pills. He says that she hasn’t said anything yet, and Sister Night asks him to remind her again. Laurie calls Looking Glass into her office and invites him to take off his mask. Looking Glass tells her that regs require him to wear the mask at all times, but reluctantly rolls it up. Laurie checks his file and confirms he was near NYC in 11/2, and asks if he still has nightmares. Wade tells her that he sleeps great, and Laurie notes that the reflectatine substance protects him from psychic blasts. After noting his cover identity, Laurie says that he can go. As Wade goes, Laurie asks him about the pills Sister Night is having his ex analyze. Wade says that it’s a personal issue between them and it would be a violation of her medical privilege to discuss it. Later at home, Wade discovers that he’s received a letter intended for his ex, Cynthia. He puts on his mask, eats beans out of the can, and watches a porn video of Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis. An alarm goes off and Wade removes his mask and runs out to his bomb shelter, locking himself in. He notes the time and tries to shut off the alarm. When the shut-off doesn’t work, Wade goes back to his house and finally rips out the alarm mounted in the closet, throwing it on the floor and stomping on it repeatedly until it stops. Wade then calls Extra-Dimensional Security and complains that the shut-off didn’t work. He insists that the machine malfunctioned and notes that he has used it over five thousand times. The operator promises that they’ll ship a new unit in a week, but Wade tells him to overnight it despite the cost and include some reflectatine with it. After hanging up, Wade sits on the couch, puts his mask on, and goes to sleep. The next day, Wade returns to his job as a focus group advisor. Cynthia texts him and Wade goes to Forever Pet to see her. He gives her her mail and she incinerates an imperfect dog clone. Cynthia asks him if he’s okay with Judd being murdered, and Wade insists that he’s fine and asks about the pills. His ex says that the pills are Nostalgia, which was outlawed because putting memories into pill form led to psychosis. She asks if Wade got them from a lady, and asks why he keeps getting messed up with women who abuse him. Cynthia notes that she spent seven years trying to convince him she wasn’t going to run off with his clothes, and Wade says it was seven years of bad luck. That night, Wade goes to a church and goes to an ED anxiety support group. The members talk about their fear of squids. A woman, Renee, comes in and Wade welcomes her. A speaker wonders if it’s ever going to end, and Wade tells him that he was where the speaker was. He tells the group that he’s no longer afraid, and notes that the squid united them against a common thread. Wade says that it eventually ends because they’re in a tunnel and a tunnel ends with light. He says that he’ll show them to the light if they trust him. They all join hands and recite

20 Watchmen Episode Guide their mantra about how they will not live in fear. Afterward, Wade goes to his car and says goodnight to Renee. She says that she doesn’t believe him and that he’s still in the tunnel, and is just as crazy as the rest of them. Wade suggests that she share at the next meeting, and Renee tells him that she’s not coming back. She invites Wade to follow him, and he does so. They end up at a bar and Wade talks about his work. and he says that he can tell when people are lying. Renee claims that she’s a waitress and then works in foreclosure, but Wade realizes that she’s lying and she finally says that she’s a radiologist. Wade asks for her ”squid story”, and Renee says that she became obsessed by fear after Steven Spielberg’s Pale Horse movie about 11/2. Watching the movie makes her feel better by letting her face her fear, and wonders why everyone isn’t petrified. Renee tells Wade that she isn’t obsessed by fear when she’s fucking, laughs, and admits that she’s drink. Wade offers to take her home, and Renee advises him to call a friend to get him home because he’s drunk. As she leaves, Wade mutters that he doesn’t have any friends. Wade goes outside and finds Renee waiting for him with a cigarette. He says that he doesn’t partake, but admits that it smells good. Renee kisses him, and Wade says that he’s not out of the tunnel. She says that at least they’re in it together. Renee’s ride pulls up and she tells Wade that she’ll see him at the next meeting. As the truck drives off, a head of lettuce falls out of the back. Wade picks it up, curses, and calls dispatch to ask if they ever recovered the 7K shooter’s lettuce truck. They confirm that they didn’t, and Wade drives after the truck. The truck pulls up to an abandoned department store and Wade watches from across the street. Renee and the driver put on their 7K Rorschach masks and go inside, and Wade calls in to request backup. He then checks the truck and finds a gun, and goes into the store. Wade finds a church inside and realizes that it’s the one in the video. A basketball drops out of a portal that opens briefly in the air, and Wade hides as a Rorschach tech comes in, notes where it arrived, and goes back. Wade follows him and sees the techs working on a portal mechanism, steps out, and cocks the revolver. Renee sees him and calls him by name, and Wade orders everyone down on the ground. She asks if they’re opening portals, and Renee says that they rigged the lettuce to fall of the truck, all to lure Wade in. A man comes up behind Wade and he shoots him, but the bullets have no effect. Renee tells him that they put the blanks in the gun, and explains that they boosted his signal to dispatch. Two 7K men grab Wade and drag him away to a room filled with TV screens. Renee picks up Wade’s discarded baseball hat, which is lined with reflectatine. She then gives it back to Wade and removes her mask, and says that she’s really a radiologist. Wade puts his hat on and Renee puts her mask back on, and a 7K man sits down with Wade and asks if Wade made his Looking Glass mask out of reflectatine. Wade recognizes Keene’s voice, and Keene removes his mask and apologizes for his rudeness. Keene assures Wade that he isn’t going to kill him because he’s a politician, not a murderer. He came to Tulsa to prevent cop killing from happening, and Judd did the same as chief of police. Basketballs drop out of portals, and Wade says that the portal he saw is the same one that the squid came through on 11/2. He figures 7K is going to drop another squid on Tulsa, and Keene tells him that they’re going to do something new. Keene says that he’s going to show Wade something that will set him free, and in return he wants Wade to take Angela off the board because she threatens the peace. If Wade doesn’t then Keene will have to send the local 7K to kill Angela and her family. Keene plays a CD and says that when he joined Appropriations they showed him what he’s going to show Wade. He gives says that Wade can either turn him in and he’ll convince his superiors that he’s crazy, or he can press ”Play” on a remote he gives him and be free. Once Keene leaves, Wade presses ”Play”. A video of Adrian plays, congratulating Robert Red- ford on being elected President. The message is seven years in the past of Redford being elected in 1991, and Adrian explains that he planned it. He says that nuclear war is eminent and he used something more powerful than atomic device to stop the world’s extinction. Adrian admits that he used fear as a weapon and create an extra-dimensional monster and unleashing it on NYC. He explains the hoax and says that the world will need time to heal while he maintains the fear with small extra-dimensional events. Adrian visualizes a stronger world caring for the weak, and says he did all he can to get Redford elected. In return he needs Redford to become his partner in building a utopia. But first, he’ll answer all of the questions that he has. Adrian dons his protective suit and tells the Phillips and Crookshanks that time is of the

21 Watchmen Episode Guide essence. They load him in the trebuchet and shoot him up into the sky. Adrian passes through the barrier and lands on the Moon, looking down on Earth. He piles up the frozen corpses of the Phillips and Crookshanks that he shot through the barrier before, breaking them apart and spelling out ”Save me”. looks up and sees a spy satellite overhead, and yells that he did it. His clones pull him back via the line attached to his suit. The clones are there, and the Game Warden is as well. He tells Adrian that he warned him not to defy the laws of land, dismounts, and draws a sword. The Warden cuts off Adrian’s helmet and tells him that he’s under arrest, and Adrian tells him that God has abandoned him. Kicking Adrian, the Warden admits that God has abandoned them and isn’t likely to return. Wade watches the testing of a new perfume, ”Mercy”. He remembers 11/2 and later goes to the station. Sister Night calls and asks him if he found out about the pills, and he asks if anything is true. She walks over and tells Looking Glass to start playing around, and he gives her the pills and says that they’re Nostalgia. Looking Glass wonders whose memories they are, and says that he wants to help. After a moment, Silent Night says that her grandfather was at the tree and claimed to kill Judd, but says that it’s not possible so she covered it up. Removing his mask, Wade glances at the bug Laurie put on his desk and tells Angela that he’s sorry. Laurie comes out, gun drawn, and arrests Angela. Wade tells Angela that he had to, and Silent Night swallows some of the pills. The officers cuff her and she glares at Wade as they lead her away. Wade looks at Laurie and pulls his mask down. That night, Wade returns home and goes inside, leaving his hat in the car. He finds the new EDS alarm system delivered and tosses it in a dumpster, but after a moment goes back and takes it inside. 7K men arrive and go in, rifles ready.

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This Extraordinary Being

Season 1 Episode Number: 6 Season Episode: 6

Originally aired: Sunday November 24, 2019 Writer: Damon Lindelof, Cord Jefferson Director: Stephen Williams Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Don Johnson (Judd Crawford), Hong Chau (Lady Trieu), Jovan Adepo (Young Will Reeves), Jake McDorman (Nelson Gardner / Captain Metropolis), Glenn Fleshler (Fred), Cheyenne Jackson (Hooded Jus- tice), Danielle Deadwyler (June), Erik Palladino (Agent Art), Valeri Ross (Old Woman), Adam Drescher (Agent Jerry), Greg Weeks (Paramedic), Danny Boyd Jr. (Young Will Reeves), Marissa Chanel Hampton (Lorna), John Newberg (Chief), Thomas K. Belgrey (Werner), Philly Plowden (Sam Battle), Jamal Akakpo (Bass Reeves), Jordan Salloum (Offi- cer Bourquin), Charlie Talbert (Desk Sergeant), Jason Collett (Well Dressed Man), Catherine Eure (Woman Getting Attacked), Ryan Hom- chick (White Cop (1950)), Jaiden Bostic (Marcus), Daniel Parvis (Re- porter), Steven G. Norfleet (O. B. Williams), Alexis Louder (Ruth Williams), Landon Durrence (Adorable White Boy), Victoria Blade (Mom), Charles Green (Preacher), Kyle McDuffie (Sheriff), McDaniel Austin (Core Police), Ray Buchanan (Patron), Anthony B. Harris (Police cadet graduation audience member), Kyle Jackson (Audience Mem- ber), Spencer Mulligan (Officer Gallagher), Michael Ongaku (Bar Pa- tron), Benjamin Weaver (Uniformed Cop) Production Code: 106 Summary: Deep under the influence of Nostalgia, Angela gets a firsthand account of her grandfather’s journey.

Two agents, Art and Jerry, Hooded Justice and express their admi- ration to sit with him. They note that the Minutemen put away dozens of super- villains, and Hooded Justice was the first. The agents tell him to take his hood off so they can take a photo of his face. Hooded Justice refuses, and the agents note that Captain Metropolis has a roll of film with sex stuff on it, and Metropolis is black- mailing Hoover. Jerry tells Hooded Jus- tice that he’s going to bring them the film, and they’ll tear up the photo of Hooded Justice they’re going to take. Hooded Justice finally removes his mask, and Jerry starts to take a photo of him. The vigilante attacks and kills them both. As American Hero Story plays in the station house, Laurie comes in and tells the cops to turn it off. An officer tells Laurie that Angela needs treatment before she goes into a coma. Undeterred,

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Laurie confronts Angela in her cell and asks where Will is. Angela says nothing, and Laurie explains how Nostalgia makers harvest memories and put them into pills. People got hooked on it so the government outlawed it, and Trieu owns the company that owns it. Angela fades in and out of consciousness, and Laurie warns her that the pills are bad. She tells Angela to sign a release so they can get her stomach pumped, and Angela sees memories of a police officer playing a drum. More memories flood her mind and she collapses. Angela finds herself in Will’s body in 1938 as he graduates the police academy. The chief gives a speech and then pins a badge on each graduate’s jacket... except Will’s. The black officer, Lt. Battle, does it instead, and tells Will to beware of the Cyclops and shakes Will’s hand. Later, Will has drinks with a reporter, June. He admits that the police in the city kill our people and the department just hired him for the publicity. June says that he’s an angry man, and most of them are. Will wonders what he should be angry about, and June tells him that his parents were murdered in front of him. He says that he doesn’t want to live in the past, and June tells him that’s why he’s angry. Will’s mother plays the piano in his memories as he goes on foot patrol. He sees a white man, Fred, throwing a Molotov into a Jewish delicatessen. The man walks away and Will goes after him. Fred suggests that a rat chewed through a wire, setting the place on fire. Will arrests him and takes him to the station, and Fred denies starting the fire. The desk sergeant says it was a case of mistaken identity, and Fred asks the other officers who they’re going to believe. One officer takes offense when Fred calls Will a ”spook” and tells Fred to apologize. Once Fred does, the officer leads Fred away. Will goes to a newspaper stand and the vendor show him a copy of Action Comics #1. Fred bumps past Will and smiles when Will calls him out. Will goes back to the station and asks the desk sergeant if he let Fred go. The desk sergeant tells Will to let it be, warning him that they’ll kill him if he doesn’t drop it. Will goes home and two officers pull up and offer him a ride home and then invite him for a beer. When Will refuses, they drive off dragging two bodies behind them. The officers drive back, cutting Will off as he walks through an alley and then beat him. Later, the officers drag Will to a tree and string him up. They cut him down at the last moment and tell him to keep his black nose out of white folks’ business or the next time they won’t cut him down. Once they leave, Will looks at the hood they put over his head before they strung him up. He walks home, the noose still around his neck, and hears a woman scream. Tearing eyeholes in the hood, Will puts it on and attacks the men attacking the woman and her husband. He viciously beats the robbers unconscious, and the couple thank him before running off. Later, Will returns home and tells June that he’s angry. She hugs him, crying. The next afternoon, June tends to Will’s injuries. She says that the newspapers are calling the masked Will a hero. June asks why Will put the hood back on, and asks what the name of the movie was that he watched as a boy. Will remembers that it was Trust in the Law, and says that it ends with Bass Reeves in a hood lassoing a crooked sheriff. He says that eventually the theater was burned down in the Tulsa race riots, and June tells him that he’ll get justice by wearing the hood and letting people believe he’s a white man. She puts white makeup around his eyes and asks if he wants to do it, and Will says that he’s sure. That night, the new Hooded Justice figures that Fred is involved with the Cyclops. He watches as Fred and his friends go into the back of a grocery store, and then breaks in and takes out the KKK men inside. Once Hooded Justice has taken them down, he finds a book on mesmerism. A man attacks him and they burst into the grocery store that Fred owns. Fred fires a shotgun at Hooded Justice, who dives out the window. Laurie examines the unconscious Angela and tells her that she swallowed a lethal dose of Nostalgia and they gave her a shot of adrenaline to wake her up. Angela’s eyes are open but she’s not moving, and Laurie has Cal read something to Angela to get her out. Cal reads Angela’s history and says that he’s her husband, and reminds her that it’s 2019. He asks her to wake up and come home, but Angela slips back into the memories. Will and June are eating at home when Nelson Gardner arrives and introduces himself. June refuses to leave them alone, and Nelson tells Will that he’s there on behalf of costumed adventurer Captain Metropolis. Metropolis would like to form a team of patriots and heroes, the Minutemen. When Will wonders what it has to do with him, Nelson says that the team needs Hooded Justice. Metropolis has concluded a cop is feeding Hooded Justice information on criminals, and believes Will is the cop. June immediately works out that Nelson is Metropolis, and Will asks him what

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”Cyclops” means to him. He says that the KKK is Cyclops, and Nelson figures it’s a job for the Minutemen. June says that Hooded Justice shouldn’t join the Minutemen, and Nelson tells Will that Hooded Justice can have true companionship among fellow humans. Nelson gives Will his card and leaves. Once they’re alone, June tells Will no, and Will says yes. Later, Nelson and Will end up in bed. Nelson admits that he realized Will was Hooded Justice when they met, and says that the Minutemen will be thrilled to have Hooded Justice. He warns that the others can’t know Will’s secret, and suggests that they wear their masks the next time they have sex. Nelson admires Will’s beauty and says that it’s a shame the others can’t see it. Later, Will and June lie in bed. Will admits that he needs a team to take down Cyclops, and he talks about how he found June in the grass after he escaped Tulsa. June tells him to never make him start crying again, and when he agrees she says that she’s pregnant. Will puts on his makeup and looks at clippings of Nazis in the U.S. and his own exploits. He then joins the other Minutemen and Metropolis presents him to the press. Hooded Justice says that he has evidence of a secret conspiracy, and Metropolis intervenes and says that a crime wave is being planned by Muloch. Will goes back to his room and removes his hood and makeup. June raises their son Marcus, who watches Will put on his makeup. Will reads stories about Negro lynchings. As an officer, he gets summoned to a movie theater. They send him in and bring out black patrons, and talks to a woman, Lorna. Lorna says that there was a flicker when the picture started. Later they told her that she hurt people, but Lorna doesn’t remember. Will figures that it involves Cyclops and the book on mesmerism that he found, goes out, and sees men loading projection equipment into a truck going to a warehouse. Later outside the warehouse, Will calls Nelson and tells him what happened. Nelson dismisses it as nothing and doesn’t believe the Klan is using mind control. He invites Will to come over and talk about it, and refuses to bring the Minutemen to help. Will hangs up and then smashes the receiver into the phone. Fred is outside watching, and says that Will doesn’t walk a beat there. He offers Will free stakes, and Will realizes that Fred owns the warehouse. When Fred casually insults Will, Will shoots him dead. Will then puts on his hood, goes into the warehouse, and finds the Klansmen and the police working on the projection equipment. He shoots them dead, looks at the projector plans, and goes into the next room where the officer from the station is preparing a subliminal film about how blacks should only attack each other and never harm whites. Will’s gun is empty so he strangles the officer with the microphone cord. Will then gathers the body, pours gasoline on them, and burns them. He takes one projector, goes outside, and watches the warehouse burn down. Will returns home with the projector and sees Marcus putting on his white makeup and wearing a noose around his neck. The boy says that he’s like Will, and Will says no. When June comes out, she tells him that he can’t ever take it off because he can’t stand to see himself. She thought it would help him get rid of his anger, but being Hooded Justice fed his anger. June says that they should go back to Tulsa, but Will refuses and June tells him to stay away from them before leaving with Marcus. Decades later, a now-elderly Will holds the noose in his hand and sits by the side of the road. When Judd’s car hits Will’s tire ripper, Judd gets out and Will shines a flickering projector in his face. He mind-controls Will to push him to the tree, turns off the light, and says that he’s justice. Judd insists that he’s trying to help them and they don’t know what’s really happening, and Will points out that Judd has a Klan robe in his closet. The police chief says that it belongs to his grandfather, and says that Will doesn’t know him. Will says that he does and motions a single eye on his forehead, then shines the light in Judd’s face and tells him to hang himself. Unable to resist, Judd does so. Angela wakes up gasping, a tube hooked up to her arm. Trieu is there and welcomes Angela back.

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An Almost Religious Awe

Season 1 Episode Number: 7 Season Episode: 7

Originally aired: Sunday December 01, 2019 Writer: Stacy Osei-Kuffour, Claire Kiechel Director: David Semel Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Hong Chau (Lady Trieu), Don Johnson (Judd Crawford), Frances Fisher (Jane Crawford), James Wolk (Senator Joe Keene), Jolie Hoang- Rappaport (Bian), Dustin Ingram (Agent Petey), Jessica Camacho (Pi- rate Jenny), Valeri Ross (Old Woman June), Faithe Herman (Young Angela), Jennifer Vo Le (Officer Jen), Jovan Adepo (Young Will Reeves), Danielle Deadwyler (June), Anthony Hill (Marcus Abar), Devyn A. Tyler (Elise Abar), Damien Dao (Video Store Clerk), Junie Hoang (Vietnamese Headmistress), Han Soto (Vietnamese Cab Driver), Hawn Tran (Scar- face Puppeteer), Shakirah DeMesier (Trieu Compound Guard), Edelia Merida (Venezuelan Woman), Rowan Bousaid (Arabic Man), Danny Boyd Jr. (Young Boy), Steven G. Norfleet (O. B. Williams), Alexis Louder (Ruth Williams), Jaiden Bostic (Marcus), Philly Plowden (Sam Bat- tle), Jordan Salloum (Officer Bourquin), Sonny Charles (Puppeteer #2), Danny Le Boyer (Officer Roy), RayJay Serrano (Marionette Puppeteer), Kevin Kedgley (Soldier) Production Code: 107 Summary: Under Lady Trieu’s care, Angela undergoes an unconventional treat- ment; Laurie chases down a lead; The Smartest Man in The World delivers a stunning defense of his past actions.

Jon Osterman arrives in the U.S. from Germany and eventually becomes Dr. Manhattan, and immortal god. He single- handedly ended the war in Vietnam, but may have decimated an entire way of life. Manhattan eventually retreated to Mars. In a video store in Saigon, a young Angela picks up a video featuring Sister Night and takes it to the counter. The clerk says that her parents won’t let her watch it, but Angela rents it anyway and leaves the store and goes out onto the streets of the city during VVN. Angela stops to watch a puppet show portraying the arrival of Dr. Manhattan to win the war for America. The girl finds her parents at the American embassy and shows them the video, and asks them to let her see it. They remind her that she has to wait until she grows up, and her father tells her that she should be scared of people who wear masks because they’re hiding

27 Watchmen Episode Guide something. Marcus tells Angela to take it back and then come back to watch the fireworks with them. As Angela goes back past the puppet show, a man rides up on a bicycle, looks briefly at the puppeteer, takes a backpack from him and puts it on, and rides away. Angela watches him ride up to her parents, and the bomb in his backpack explodes just after he yells ”Death to the invaders!” In the present, Angela falls out of her bad and climbs back up. Trieu comes in and tells Angela that her memory is a bit broken after she took an entire bottle of someone else’s Nostalgia pills. The woman explains that Laurie asked her to treat Angela, and gives her a tutorial injection explaining how the new memories are overwriting Angela’s own memories. The treatment flushes Nostalgia from the brain cortex and ”cures” the patient. Angela tells Trieu to never do it to her again, and Trieu says that the tube is connected to a natural host: Will. She tells Angela that Will’s painful memories are coming out of Angela, and advises against contact with him since she wouldn’t know where he ends and she begins. Trieu warns that Angela will abruptly experience her own memories and asks what knocked her out of bed. Angela claims that it was her tenth birthday party and her parents gave her a pony. With 12 hours until the Millennium Clock is activated, Cal drives up to the Trieu facility. He finds Red Scare and Pirate Jenny outside and asks if Angela is there. Red Scare says that Angela is and advises him to go home. Cal drives in anyway and asks to see his wife. The security guard gets a call, puts a hologram disc on the ground, and Bian appears and tells Cal that they can’t grant him access for his own safety while they activate the Clock. Bian assures Cal that Angela is doing well and disappears. Cal yells to see Laurie. Laurie listens to Angela muttering about Will’s memories of Cyclops, the mesmerism projector, and someone hanging themselves. Petey calls Laurie and tells her that he’s at Wade’s house after Laurie sent him there in case Wade was working with 7K. The agent reports that the five 7K intruders are dead and one of them isn’t wearing a Rorschach mask. Petey wonders why Wade didn’t call it in, and Laurie tells him not to call it in and leaves her phone in the car. Jane rides up on a horse and Laurie approaches her. They go into the Crawfords’ home and Laurie tells Jane that Will killed Judd. Jane wonders why Will wanted to kill Judd, and Laurie explains that Angela talked while she was ODing on Will’s Nostalgia. It turns out that Will was Hooded Justice, the very first masked vigilante, and he was black. Will hid who he was because black men in masks are scary. Laurie asks if Jane knows the significance of ”Cyclops”, a racist cult that used mind control. The agent thinks that Judd thought Will was part of Cyclops, and she’s considering the idea that Judd was a secret white supremacist. Laurie wonders if 7K is just Cyclops with a new name, and Joe engineered White Night so that cops would wear masks. Jane says that was the original idea, and Laurie is surprised that Jane is confessing so readily. The woman takes out a remote and punches until the couch Laurie is sitting in falls through the floor. Jane then makes a call and asks if they want her to kill Laurie. Angela stares out the window at the Clock, and Bian comes in with a chair and a laptop. She tests Angela’s psychological responses and takes notes, Bian shows Angela a picture of the same woman twice and asks which one is angrier. Angela notes that they’re the same, and Bian explains that she’s doing a dissertation. When Angela mentions her son, Bian asks if it’s tough lying to him that she’s not a police detective. She wonders why Angela is a cop if she doesn’t want her parents to worry that she’s a cop. Angela stares off into space. Memories of Angela’s time in Vietnam come back to her. She’s painting a Dr. Manhattan doll at the orphanage when the headmistress takes her out to two waiting policemen and leaves. The officers say that they need her help and show her the puppeteer in the back of their car. Angela identifies him and one officer puts a hood on the man and takes him away. The other officer, Jen, tells Angela that she’s brave, gives her a badge, and says that Angela should find her when she’s older. A gunshot rings out from the alley where the other officer took the puppeteer. That night, Angela goes to bed in the orphanage. She gets up and looks at the badge she hid under her bed, then puts it back with the video. Bian asks if Angela experienced her memory or Will’s, and Angela says that it was hers. As Angela looks at the tube in her arm, Bian says that she has dreams of being a scared old woman and they hurt. She asks Angela what it was like for her when she saw what Will saw, and Angela says that it also hurt.

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In a church, Philips announces the 365th day of the People versus Adrian. The Game Warden comes in and everyone rises except Adrian. The Game Warden takes the bench and the Prose- cutor says that Ozymandias pulls them from the water and then slaughters them. She reminds everyone that the one law isn’t to leave, and Adrian has admitted that he killed three million innocent people. Adrian doesn’t apologize for anything that he’s done or shows remorse, and in- sists that such carnage is necessary to achieve utopia. For years, Adrian has hurled their bodies into the void and boasting of his true purpose: escape. The Prosecutor tells the jury to either resign themselves to Adrian’s cruel whim or find him guilty. The Game Warden notes that Adrian is defending himself but hasn’t presented anything in his defense. He invites Adrian to speak, and Adrian stands up and farts. Adrian then says that the defense rests and sits back down. The Game Warden apologizes to the jury for placing the burden of judging Adrian on them. He admits that the jury aren’t Adrian’s peers so he has assembled an alternate jury. Another Philips lets a herd of pigs into the room, and the Game Warden asks the pig foreman how they found the defendant. It squeals, and the Game Warden declares Adrian guilty. The Philips and Crookshanks all chant guilty. Angela walks out of her room and finds a sealed door. Trieu finds her and asks if she’s hungry, and as they eat Trieu explains that she has a secret plan to save humanity and it starts in Oklahoma. Angela says that she and Cal were looking to start over after Saigon and Tulsa seemed as good a place as ever. Trieu notes that Cal was in a car accident and Cal had total amnesia as the result of the crash. Angela demands to see Will, and Trieu says that it would be a bad idea at the moment. When Trieu says that Nostalgia is more tolerable in small doses, Angela asks whose memories Bian is experiencing. Trieu says that she’s slipping Bian’s own memories to her, and Bian is her mother. Before her mother died, she cloned her and has been reintegrating her memories while she sleeps. Trieu says that she wants her parents with her when she completes her life’s work. Angela asks what the Clock does, and Trieu refuses. Laurie wakes up in the 7K base, tied to a chair. 7K operatives are constructing a giant cage, and Keene comes over and admits that he didn’t expect Hooded Justice to kill Judd. Laurie tells him not to talk her through his plan, and says that she doesn’t care what his plan is. Keene tells him that she of all people will care, and says that Cyclops want to restore the balance on which the country was founded. It is difficult to be a white man in America right now, so Keene plans on being a blue man. Angela watches a video of Trieu talking about her successes and failures. Her greatest failure was Nostalgia, which she hoped would let people better themselves. Instead they became fixated on their most painful memories because they were afraid of releasing their trauma. Angela walks out of her room and goes to the door, and says that she knows Will is in there. She explains that she took Will’s pills and asks what he wants from her. When the door doesn’t open, Angela breaks in and finds an elephant sleeping on the floor of a cage, hooked up to a device pumping its memories into her. When Angela pulls out the tubes, she relives her memories of working at the orphanage. The headmistress arrives with an older June, who introduces herself and says that she’s Angela’s grandmother. June says that she’s there to take Angela home. They go to a diner and June explains that Marcus came there. When the war ended, Marcus met Angela’s mother and stayed for the opportunities. Eventually she learned that Marcus was dead and never listed June as her next of kin. June found out that Marcus had a wife and she was dead, and Angela was the only member of the family left. She flew to Vietnam to get Angela, and Angela says that she’s going to be a police officer and shows June the badge. Angela shows her the Sister Night video, and says that Marcus told her they should be scared of people in masks. June explains that someone in a mask scared Marcus and he never got over it. Angela asks about her grandfather, and June talks about the video. She offers to take Angela to Tulsa and they’ll watch the video together. June and Angela prepare to take a taxi to the airport, and Angela collapses outside. Angela gets out and discovers that her grandmother has died of a heart attack. Angela wakes up when alarms going off saying that the subject is disconnected from the tubes. She finds an elevator and takes it, and finds herself in a hallway. Angela follows it into a large dark chamber with a globe of the world in the center. When she touches Venezuela, a Venezuelan woman appears on a screen, talking on her phone. Angela touches the Middle East and an Arabic Man on a phone appears. She touches Tulsa and sees Laurie telling Manhattan her joke in the Manhattan booth. Trieu comes in and says that she owns and operates thousands

29 Watchmen Episode Guide of Manhattan booths. People beg for Manhattan to come down and make things better, but he ignores them all because he isn’t listening and isn’t on Mars. Angela wonders where Manhattan is, and Trieu says that Manhattan is in Tulsa pretending to be human. She says that Will put the idea in her head, and Angela demands to know what Trieu is doing. Trieu explains that Will came to her because he needed someone with Trieu’s resources to stop 7K. In an hour, 7K is going to capture Manhattan and destroy him... and then they’re going to become him. Trieu insists that she’s saving humanity. Angela says that it’s crazy and she’s leaving, and Trieu notes that Angela didn’t ask her who Manhattan is. The detective ignores her and leaves. Red Scare and Pirate Jenny are outside eating, and a van pulls up to the guard station. Pirate Jenny goes over to check it out, and Red Scare cuts it off. Angela is in van, and Pirate Jenny tells Angela that she’s under arrest. When Pirate Jenny relates Red Scare’s message, Red Scare says that he doesn’t care and Angela rams past him and drives to her home. 7K operatives are watching the place. Angela enters the house and Cal hears her. He finds her in the kitchen going through the cupboards. Angela tells him to listen to her and says that she loves him. She then tells Cal that it’s time to come out of the tunnel, finds a hammer, and says that they always knew the day would come but Cal doesn’t remember. When Cal wonders if they talked about it before the accident, Angela says that the accident was a lie so that they could be together. She explains that it was Cal’s idea, and Cal figures that she’s confused from the Nostalgia. Angela calls Cal ”Jon” and says that he’s not himself, and hits him in the head with the hammer. She then kneels over him and pounds on his head, reaches into the wound, and looks at the Manhattan symbol underneath. Cal’s skin glows blue, and Angela says that they’re in trouble.

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A God Walks into Abar

Season 1 Episode Number: 8 Season Episode: 8

Originally aired: Sunday December 08, 2019 Writer: Jeff Jensen, Damon Lindelof Director: Nicole Kassell Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Lily Rose Smith (Rosie), Adelynn Spoon (Emma Abar), Phillip Trieu (Bartender), Darrell Snedeger (Jon), Zak Rothera-Oxley (Young Jon Osterman), Anatole Taubman (Hans Osterman), Morris Owens Jr. (Ri- oter), Mark Pope (German Refugee), Stephen Samson (Refugee) Production Code: 108 Summary: Angela’s mysterious past in Vietnam is at last revealed.

In Saigon, Dr. Manhattan teleports onto a street and puts on a discarded Dr. Manhattan mask. He goes into Eddy’s Bar and finds Angela sitting at a table. Dr. Manhattan picks up two beers from the bar and sits down with Angela, and asks her to have dinner with her the next night. Angela isn’t interested and Dr. Manhattan asks if she’ll let him sit with her if he guesses while she’s drinking there alone. She agrees and Dr. Manhat- tan says that she’s commemorating the anniversary of her parents’ death. Angela invites him to sit down, and figures someone at the precinct sent him. She wonders who told him about her parents, and Dr. Manhattan says that she will in 20 minutes. He says that he’s Dr. Manhattan and Angela wonders why he’s there wearing a Dr. Manhattan mask. Dr. Manhat- tan says that he doesn’t want to be recognized, and Angela talks about the legend of Zeus. He explains that it’s a recording of him on Mars, not the real him, and he’s been on Europa for the last 20 years. Dr. Manhattan says that he is simultaneous in the bar and on Europa creating life with a wave of his hand. Dr. Manhattan describes how he created life on the moon of Jupiter, including a man and woman that he maturated from fetuses. He then teleported a manor to Europa from someplace he’s connected to from his childhood, and he feels safe there. Dr. Manhattan explains that he’s living his whole life simultaneously, and his father was of Jewish ancestry. Jon and his father were brought to the manor in 1936 where the owners gave refugees sanctuary before they were taken to the U.S. Hans repairs a watch and sends Jon to get him bread. Jon wanders off into a bedroom and hears people coming. The boy hides in a wardrobe and watches as a man and women come in and have sex. Jon drops an apple and the man hears it, and comes over and finds the boy in the wardrobe. Jon runs off before they can catch him. Later, the owners find Jon and Hans eating at the dinner table. Hans thanks them for opening their home to them and has Jon introduce himself. The man asks to speak to Jon in private, and

31 Watchmen Episode Guide the couple take him to the chapel. They say that it’s all right that Jon saw them and what he saw was a beautiful thing because they were creating life. The couple had a son that would have been Jon’s age, but he fell ill and died. The man says that it’s God’s will for them to try again, and give him a Bible. The woman says that it contains beautiful stories, including about how God created the world. The couple asks Jon to make it his purpose to create something beautiful when he goes to America, and Jon promises. Seven decades later on Europa, Dr. Manhattan fulfills his promise and makes Adam and Evil in the couple’s image. Angela congratulates Dr. Manhattan on his imagination, and Dr. Manhattan tells her that in six months a colleague will tell him he lacks imagination. She asks why Dr. Manhattan left, and he says that he left to meet people. Dr. Manhattan tells Angela that he loves her and already was. Angela points out that there was no moment when he realized he was in love, and tells Dr. Manhattan that she’s having the opposite of that moment. Dr. Manhattan removes his mask and Angela points out that Dr. Manhattan glows, but he explains that he wants to remain incognito and wants her to be unsure until she agrees to have dinner with him. Angela says that she hates Dr. Manhattan because 40 years ago he went to Vietnam and wiped out the enemy, and that inspired a puppeteer to make a bomb that killed her parents. Dr. Manhattan says that he was trying to be a superhero because people wanted him to, and he regrets it. She asks why he did it if he knew it, and Dr. Manhattan asks her to have dinner with him even though she thinks she’ll regret it. Angela asks if she does, and Dr. Manhattan tells her that she is. She says that she won’t and he’ll stick out when they go out in public. Dr. Manhattan tells her that she comes up with an elegant solution: she’ll explain how in two weeks. Angela goes through the morgue checking bodies, finding three corpses that will be cremated because they have no one. She says that they have paper trails in the real world and tells Dr. Manhattan to pick one. He suggests that she pick one unless she hasn’t presented all of the options, and Angela pulls out the corpse of Calvin Jelani, who died of a heart attack. Angela says that she’s be comfortable with him, and Dr. Manhattan takes Cal’s form. Dr. Manhattan explains that his vocal chords changed in the transformation, and Angela points out that he still has his symbol on his forehead. He says that he’s going to forget so much more but that’s a conversation for another time. Dr. Manhattan refuses to tell Angela what her solution is, and she insists that they won’t have dinner. He says that they’re together for ten years now and it ends tragically. Dr. Manhattan refuses to be more specific, and says that her favorite song is going to play on the jukebox. It does so, and Dr. Manhattan explains that it’s now her favorite song even though she’s never heard it before. Angela finds Dr. Manhattan amusing, and he says that in six months she tells him to leave because of it after they make love. Angela and Cal make love, and Cal says that he’s in the bar on the night they met, just before he created the egg. She tells him to shut up, lays down, and refuses to fight. Cal tells her that the fight will still happen regardless of his intent, and warns that they’re close to an argument. He tells her what she’s going to say, and Angela wonders why they’re together if they’re not going to be together. Cal points out that her ability to know the future was reassuring to her before, and he describes her childhood. Angela angrily tells him to stop, and they agree that they’re fighting. He describes how he became Dr. Manhattan and was afraid, and Angela wonders how he can be afraid if he knows everything that will happen. Cal apologizes and says that he needs Angela to say it. Angela tells him to leave and Cal teleports away. Cal goes to Karnak in Antarctica and finds Adrian watching his bank of TV monitors. He com- plains that humanity keeps making bombs despite the energy resources he’s given them, and Cal tells him that they make them feel safe. Adrian realizes that Cal is Dr. Manhattan since he arrived naked. Once Cal puts on a suit, he tells Adrian that it’s been 24 years since they last met. He recounts how Adrian tried to destroy him, and Adrian fabricates another ”alien incursion”. Adrian insists that he’s maintaining world peace and tells him that racial appropriation is in- appropriate in 2019. He wonders why Dr. Manhattan is masquerading as a human, and figures that love is involved. Cal says that her name is Angela, and explains that he told Angela who he really was the moment they met. Adrian figures that Cal wants to be a mortal, and Cal asks him for his help. His host tells him that he has a profound lack of imagination, and Cal laughs at how Angela told him six months ago that he has a fantastic imagination. Adrian asks if Cal has a brain, and says that they could insert a ring device into Cal’s cortex that would short circuit his abilities so that he could only use them in life-threatening situations.

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He says that he made it 30 years ago, takes Cal to his study, and says that his attempt to destroy Cal was Plan B. Adrian takes out a case and Cal realizes that he doesn’t know what it is in it, and Adrian says that he irradiated the case with tachyon particles. He opens the case, revealing the Dr. Manhattan symbol in metal. Adrian tells Angela to put it in Cal’s brain and he’ll forget who he is. Cal figures that he and Will have matters to discuss, and Adrian tells him to discuss them while he still knows who he is. Adrian laments that his plans for a great future are ignored, and asks Cal if he’ll live to see his utopia. Cal tells him that he will, but not on Earth. He created beings designed to care for others rather than themselves, and he did it on Europa. Their unceasing love and devotion is unsatisfying, so he must leave his creations behind. The creations are still there, waiting for someone to worship. Adrian figures that it sounds like paradise, and agrees to let Cal send him there. Cal wishes him godspeed and teleports him to Europa. Later, Cal shows Angela the ring and explains that she just pushes it into his head once he makes himself intangible. He admits that he doesn’t know if is going to work, and that’s why it’s a risk. Cal suggests that Angela tell him he was in an accident, and Angela figures they should start over somewhere that people don’t know them. She suggests Tulsa, where her family is from, and Cal agrees. Angela wonders if he’ll still be him if he forget who he is, and Cal says that she won’t lose him. Angela wants answers, and tells him to create some life. Dr. Manhattan creates an egg in his hand, and an unimpressed Angela wants to hear about the ten years that they’re together. Dr. Manhattan says that they have three adopted children and they don’t have his powers, and Angela says that she doesn’t want kids and has never wanted them. He tells Angela that they adopt them in Tulsa, and says that she’ll tell him that her family is from Tulsa in six months when he gives her a ring. Dr. Manhattan says that there’s a period of time he can’t see, and all he knows is that Angela is there when it begins and ends. When Angela smiles, Dr. Manhattan wonders why and she says that it sounds like a tunnel of love. Angela wonders if Cal will tell her what happens in ten years, and he says that he will. He gets down on knee and Angela kisses him on the forehead, and says that she loves him. Cal says that he loves her and Angela puts the ring into his brain. In the present, Angela looks at the ring she took out of Cal’s forehead and tells him that they’re in fucking trouble. Dr. Manhattan floats into the air for a moment, and Angela tells him that they’re in Tulsa in 2019. She says that bad people are coming to hurt him, and realizes that Dr. Manhattan still has Cal’s face. Angela tells him to change back to human for the children’s sake, but Dr. Manhattan tells her that he needs to move forward. He remembers White Night and how he instinctively disintegrated one 7K attacker. Dr. Manhattan teleports away, and the girls upstairs yell ”Daddy!” Angela runs up and they show her that Dr. Manhattan is walking on their swimming pool. Topher realizes that he looks like Cal, and Angela says that he is. Dr. Manhattan teleports the children away, and Angela goes to the pool and asks where their children are. He says that she needs to see him on the pool because it’s important for later, walks back onto the concrete, and says that the children are with Will who was expecting them. Dr. Manhattan explains that he talked to Will ten years ago when he was in Karnak, after he teleported Adrian to Europa. Cal teleports to Nelson Gardner’s former mansion where Will is living. When Nelson died, he bequeathed the property to Will. Will doesn’t believe him and slams the door in his face, and Cal walks through the walls. After Will agrees to talk, Cal says that he’s going to make some changes in his life and wanted to talk to Will. He explains that their lives have become entangled through someone known to both of them, and to ensure an optimal outcome he wants to form an alliance. Cal knows Will is Hooded Justice and says that it’s about Will’s granddaughter Angela. When Cal explains that Will’s son Marcus had a daughter Angela and they met in Vietnam, Will wonders what Cal wants with him. Cal says that Angela wants Will in her life, and it’s clear she wants a family despite her denials. Angela takes in the fact that Dr. Manhattan is talking to Will ”right now”, relatively. She asks him to ask Will how he knew Judd was a part of Cyclops. Cal asks Will Angela’s question, and Will has no idea who Judd is. Dr. Manhattan tells Angela that Will didn’t know who Judd was, but now he does. Angela realizes that it’s her fault, and Dr. Manhattan wonders if it’s a bad thing that Judd is dead. He realizes that they created a paradox. Dr. Manhattan teleports into the kitchen and makes waffles,

33 Watchmen Episode Guide and Angela smashes the floating eggs on the floor. She says that 7K is coming for him, and Dr. Manhattan says that they’re in a truck parked across the street. They’re armed with a tachyonic cannon that they’ll use to involuntarily teleport him and then destroy him. Angela suggests that they stop them, and Dr. Manhattan tells her that they can’t. Angela puts on her Sister Night costume and goes out to fight 7K. Dr. Manhattan stares at her and says that it’s the moment when she tries to save him even though she can’t. He insists that he’s always been in love with her, and Angela goes out and sees 7K setting up their cannon. They spot her and open fire, and the two sides exchange shots. Dr. Manhattan stands in the house and listens to the gunshots. Angela kills the driver of one of the trucks, then drives it into the others. She’s wounded and the truck stops, and 7K prepare to shoot her. Dr. Manhattan arrives and kills them, and Angela tells him that they win and he was wrong. He tells her that he wasn’t, and the remaining 7K fire the cannon, teleporting him away. Dr. Manhattan says that his first name is Jon, and he refuses to tell her what happens to them. Angela tells him that she can’t get serious with someone when it ends in tragedy. Dr. Manhattan points out that all relationships inevitably end in tragedy, and Angela concedes the point. He asks if she’ll have dinner with her the next night, and Angela agrees. On Europa, the clones tie Adrian to the trebuchet. They ask him if he’ll stay, and when he refuses they smash tomatoes into his face. Later, Adrian sits in his cell and reads. The Game Warden comes in with a birthday cake and suggests that Adrian wants to suffer. Adrian says that he doesn’t want another book and the one he’s reading is about loneliness. The Game Warden tells him that he understands loneliness, and was the first clone to emerge from the water. He saw Dr. Manhattan make Heaven before his very eyes, and asks why it isn’t enough. Adrian says that his home is Earth, and his children are crying out for him to return. He tells the Game Warden that Heaven isn’t enough because Heaven doesn’t need him, and the Game Warden angrily tells Adrian to enjoy his cake. Once he’s alone, Adrian blows out the candles on the cake and then sees the edge of the horseshoe in it: the on that Phillips used to try and cut the cake he presented Adrian with earlier. Laughing, Adrian uses the horseshoe to start digging at the wall to make his escape.

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See How They Fly

Season 1 Episode Number: 9 Season Episode: 9

Originally aired: Sunday December 15, 2019 Writer: Nick Cuse, Damon Lindelof Director: Frederick E.O. Toye Show Stars: Regina King (Angela Abar / Sister Knight), Tim Blake Nelson (Wade / Looking Glass), Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Cal Abar), Andrew Howard (Red Scare), Jacob Ming-Trent (Panda), Tom Mison (Mr. Phillips), Sara Vickers (Ms. Crookshanks), Dylan Schombing (Topher Abar), Louis Gossett Jr. (Will Reeves), Jeremy Irons (Adrian Veidt), Jean Smart (Laurie Blake / The Comedienne) Guest Stars: Jovan Adepo (Will Reeves), Jamal Akakpo (Bass Reeves), Danny Boyd Jr. (Young Boy), Trey Butler (Rorschach), Jessica Cama- cho (Pirate Jenny), Hong Chau (Lady Trieu), Elyse Dinh (Clean- ing Woman), Frances Fisher (Jane Crawford), Jolie Hoang-Rappaport (Bian), Ted Johnson (Senator Keene Sr.), Nicholas Logan (7th Kalvary Spokesman), Alexis Louder (Ruth Williams), Jesse O’Neill (Radio- Schach), Adelynn Spoon (Emma Abar), Robert Wisdom (Seymour), James Wolk (Senator Joe Keene) Production Code: 109 Summary: Angela, Wade, and Laurie face off against 7K and Cyclops, and Trieu reveals her plan within their plans.

November 1, 1985 — Adrian films his message to Robert Redford, congratulat- ing him on his inauguration as U.S. Pres- ident and explaining that he planned it. Meanwhile, a cleaning woman goes to Adrian’s office, closes the doors, and ac- cesses his computer. The woman opens a hidden refrigerator and takes out Vial #2346, mixes in a liquid from a soap dis- penser she has with her, and puts the vial back. Once she’s put everything back in order, the cleaning woman prepares a sy- ringe and inseminates herself. 2008 — A woman arrives at Karnak and pounds on the door. Adrian opens the door and the woman removes her protective mask to reveal that she’s Trieu. Trieu says that she wanted to talk to him, but Adrian isn’t interested until he says that he manufactured a trans-dimensional being to kill three million people. Adrian denies it, but Trieu points out that no one gives him credit for it. She thanks Adrian for saving the world, and Adrian invites her in for tea. Inside, Adrian tells Trieu that Redford doesn’t return his calls and figures he could have become President without Adrian. Trieu looks at Adrian’s teleport device and he explains that he teleports the squid into the stratosphere using a random algorithm to cause the rains randomly. Trieu tells Adrian that it’s a rerun because he’s still doing the same thing as twenty years ago, just smaller. She asks him what happens if he lets the ”clock” start up again, and Adrian figures that they’d be back where they started at. Trieu offers to make every nuclear weapon disappear on the planet, and says that there is someone without limitations who could do it. She knows

35 Watchmen Episode Guide that Manhattan isn’t on Mars but on Europa, and explains that she build a satellite to scan for Manhattan’s unique frequency of radiation and it should reach Europa in five years. Trieu says that she just needs to confirm where Manhattan is before she destroys him and takes his power. Once she does that, she can fix the world and do everything Manhattan should have done. Trieu has designed a quantum centrifuge to strip Manhattan of his energy and trans- fer it into her, but she can’t afford to build it so she hoped Adrian would stake her $42 billion. Adrian wonders why she would hope that, and Trieu says that she’s his daughter. He insists that he’s never given himself to a woman, and Trieu points out the hidden refrigerator with Adrian’s sperm specimens, and says that she’s subject 2346. Her mother was one of the Vietnamese refugees working at Karnack in 1985, and Adrian says that the woman was a thief. He notes that he gave up his parents’ wealth to demonstrate he could achieve anything starting from nothing, and he offers Trieu the same. Adrian insists he will never call her ”daughter”. On Europa, Adrian blows on the rotting birthday cake, and the manor shakes. A space probe lands on Europa and Adrian smiles in satisfaction. He then goes to the tunnel that he dug with the horseshoe and descends. Adrian emerges outside and approaches the probe, and the Game Warden arrives and orders Adrian back to his cell. When Adrian refuses, the Game Warden shoots him in the chest. The Game Warden goes over, and discovers that Adrian caught the bullet. Adrian kicks the Game Warden to the ground, gets up, and heads the probe. The clones arrive and shout a warning, and the Game Warden tackles Adrian from behind. Adrian drives the horseshoe into his chest, comforts the dying clone, and says that it’s almost over. The Game Warden asks him why he made him wear a mask, and Adrian says that masks make men cruel. He removes the mask and says that having a worthy adversary kept him sane for the eight years of his imprisonment. The Game Warden asks his master if he was a worthy adversary, and Adrian says that he wasn’t. The clone dies, and Adrian tells him that he put on a hell of a show. The clones say goodbye to Adrian as he goes to the probe. The last Miss Crookshanks gives him his headpiece and kisses him on the cheek, and wishes him godspeed. Adrian looks at her for a moment and then enters the probe, and the probe lifts off and heads for Earth. He sees the words that he left in corpses: ”Save Me Daughter”, and Trieu’s recorded voice tells him that his return journey has begun. It invites him to step into the preservation chamber, and Adrian does so and is frozen in a protective metal case.

Now — When the probe arrives on Earth, Trieu’s servant take the Adrian ”statue” out and take it to Bian. Bian removes the case as Trieu comes in and tells Bian that she has to do it now before Adrian says something. The girl acknowledges that she’s Trieu’s mother, and the chamber opens to reveal the unfrozen Adrian. Trieu offers him water and says that she was surprised when the images showed him and his message on Europa. She says that it meant a lot for him to acknowledge he was her daughter, and Adrian says that Manhattan sent him to Europa and is on Earth. Trieu explains that she’s going to destroy Manhattan and take his power in an hour, and she brought Adrian back so he could see her achieve anything. Bian has clothes for Adrian, and he realizes that Trieu cloned her mother. he sees the Millennium Clock outside the window and realizes that Trieu actually built it and says that it’s beautiful, and Trieu tells him that they have a god to kill. The group drive to the Dreamland Theater in Tulsa and Trieu goes over to Seymour’s news- stand to get her papers. He hands them over, and Adrian looks at a newspaper showing Redford is still President. Seymour notes that Adrian looks like Ozymandias, and Adrian asks him what everyone thinks happened to him. The vendor says that no one cares, but he heard that one day Ozymandias walked off into the jungle and never came back. Adrian says that Ozymandias was stranded on Europa quietly going insane, and a metal sphere from the Clock arrives and hovers in the air. Seymour and Adrian look at the sphere, and Adrian tells the vendor that the end is nigh. Senator Keene Sr. arrives at the abandoned department store housing the 7K base. Inside, other 7K soldiers take Laurie to the cage they’ve been building. She sees Jane, and Joe greeting his father, and asks her guard what they’re waiting for. Gunshots come over the guard’s radio, and the soldier at the other end says that people are shooting at them. The guard tells Joe that they have a situation, and a Rorschach-masked Wade comes over and tells Laurie to stay cool. He says that he’ll get them out when he has a chance, and explains that 7K came to his house to try and kill them. Meanwhile, Joe tells the soldier on the radio to take the shot. Manhattan

36 Watchmen Episode Guide appears inside the cage and Laurie realizes that it’s Jon. Joe tells Manhattan that he’s got him. Angela questions a 7K soldier, who says that she can’t stop them. She breaks his fingers until he answers her. Joe undresses and says that Adrian took their guns and made them say sorry over and over for the sins of people who died decades earlier. Three years ago, they sent out their guys to get the war rolling. Angela shoots her way in through the front door. Joe explains that three years ago, one of his men got teleported to Gila Flats on White Night. Manhattan teleported him there, and Joe asks Manhattan where he is in time. The being says that it’s 1985 to him, and Joe explains that the cage is made of synthetic lithium that they got from melting down millions of watch batteries. Everyone cheers, and Joe says that he brought Laurie there so that someone who cares about Manhattan is there when he dies. Angela comes in and tells everyone to stop, training a gun on Joe. She says that whatever Joe thinks is going to happen won’t happen, and explains that Trieu has been planning her operation longer. Joe doesn’t believe her, and Angela puts her gun down so Joe will listen. She explains that Trieu told her that she was going to stop Joe, and Joe asks where she is. Trieu let 7K steal the batteries, and Joe promises to drink Manhattan’s power. Laurie tells Wade to shoot Joe, but Wade doesn’t see an end game after that. Joe gets into the transference chamber and 7K powers it up. There’s a burst of energy, and the people and equipment are teleported to downtown Tulsa. Trieu’s men disarm 7K using magnetic shields, and Trieu comes in and is surprised to see Angela there. She says that she’s fulfilling her promise to Will to give him justice. Adrian approaches Laurie and assures her that she isn’t dead, while Trieu notices that Joe isn’t there. She opens the transference chamber and Joe’s liquefied remains pour out. Trieu thanks them for capturing Manhattan for her, and reads Will’s letter saying that Cyclops has plundered, pillaged, and murdered in the name of white supremacy. Jane tells Trieu to just do it, figuring she’s going to have them killed, and she vaporizes all of them with her machinery. In the cage, Manhattan touches some of Joe’s blood that has seeped in. He energies it with his touch and teleports Wade, Laurie, and Adrian to Karnak. Adrian tells Laurie and Wade that they’re in his office, and Manhattan did it to save the day. Manhattan tells Trieu that he sent the trio away, and then starts reliving more of his past. Bian initiates the transfer and Angela asks Manhattan what’s going on. He says that the cage makes it hard for him to be present, and he sent the others somewhere to help. Angela wonders why he didn’t send her, and Manhattan says that he didn’t want to be alone when he dies. He tells her not to touch the light. A beam of light comes down from the sphere, slamming into Manhattan. Manhattan screams in agony. Wade tells Adrian that the last dimensional incursion in Tulsa was three weeks ago, and finds the chamber where Adrian sent the squid from in 1985. Adrian is shocked that Laurie now works for the FBI, and insists to Wade that he saved humanity. He then activates his teleportation device, targeting it on Tulsa. Bian continues draining Manhattan’s energy, and Angela asks him what she should do. He tells her to go, saying that he can’t hold himself together. but Angela refuses to abandon him. Manhattan stares at Angela and remembers their life together, and says that he’s in every mo- ment at once when they’re together. He reverts to Cal and tells Angela that he loves her, and then disappears in a burst of energy that knocks Angela back. Adrian tells Laurie that he designed the baby squids to dissolve shortly after impact. If he freezes them before teleport, it will be like firing a Gatling gun from the heavens. Adrian admits that Jon is already dead, but they have a window of opportunity before the centrifuge transfers Manhattan’s energy into his most worthy adversary. He figures that Trieu is a narcissist whose ambition knows no limits, and she won’t fix the world as she claims. Adrian warns that Trieu won’t reset until they all prostrate themselves to her. Trieu enters the cage and prepares to receive Manhattan’s energy. Adrian teleports the frozen squid to Tulsa and says that everything within five square blocks is going to be obliterated. Bian wakes up Angela and asks if she’s okay. She tells Angela to tell the arriving police that they have to go or they’ll get hurt. Red Square and Pirate Jenny get out with the officers, and the phone in a nearby Manhattan booth rings. Bian answers it and Laurie tells her to take cover,

37 Watchmen Episode Guide and asks where Angela is. The girl tells Angela that the call is for her. Angela takes the receiver and Laurie tells her to run. As Trieu waits for the energy to enter her, a frozen baby squid falls, shooting through her hand. The squid rain down and Angela takes cover in the booth with Bian. The police and tech- nicians die, and Angela grabs a case as cover and runs away, and the sphere shatters from the impacts and falls on Trieu. Angela gets into the Dreamland Theater and goes into the abandoned theater. Will is sitting in a seat, and Angela goes over to her grandfather and sits down across the aisle from him. Topher, Rosie, and Emma re sleeping on the stage, and Will assures Angela that her daughters are okay. Will explains that he told them he was family, and asks if Manhattan and Trieu are gone. He admits that making a deal with Trieu was Angela’s idea, and Angela realizes that Manhattan knew he was going to die and Will helped him. Will says that they helped each other, and confirms that Angela took his Nostalgia pills. He figures that Angela knows his origin story, and describes how he was sitting there when the riots broke out a hundred years explains that Bass Reeves was his hero, and that’s why he became a cop. Angela says that she felt anger when she put the hood on, and Will explains that it was fear and hurt. He tells Angela that Manhattan wanted it the way it happened and that you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs, Manhattan told him that Angela would understand when the time was right. Crying, Angela says that she doesn’t and Will figures that the time isn’t right. Will says that he’s staying at a motel down the block, and Angela invites him to stay in their guest room for a couple of nights. Adrian takes Laurie and Wade to the Owl Ship he found out in the ice. Wade says that he knows how to fly it since the police use the design for their own airships, and Laurie tells Adrian that he’s under arrest. When Adrian points out that she has no proof, Wade holds up the DVD and says that he has Adrian’s confession. Adrian says that the world will end, but Laurie doesn’t believe it. He wonders why she would reveal the secret, and Laurie tells him that some people change. Angry, Adrian asks who she thinks she is to hold judgment over him, and Wade knocks him unconscious from behind. The two of them haul Adrian into the airship. Angela leaves the theater with Will and her children. Pirate Jenny and Red Scare get Bian into the back of a police car. Angela takes her family to the bakery and lets them into her secret vault. Topher looks cu- riously at her Sister Night costume and then at his mother. Angela drives her family home and tucks her children into bed. She then goes to the kitchen and picks up the ring, Will comes in and says that Cal was a good man and he’s sorry he’s gone, but figures that he could have done more. Once Will leaves, Angela looks at the broken eggs on the floor. She cleans them up and finds one unbroken egg in the carton. She remembers Manhattan telling her that he can give someone his powers by transferring them into organic material, and if someone consumed it they would inherit his abilities. Angela goes out to the pool, takes off her shoes, cracks open the egg, and eats its contents. She then steps puts one foot onto the water to see if it goes through or not.

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A 0102 (Museum Guest) Trey Butler ...... 1 Jovan Adepo...... 3 0109 (Rorschach) 0106 (Young Will Reeves); 0107 (Young Will Reeves); Matthew Byrge ...... 1 0109 (Will Reeves) 0101 (DC Police Officer) Jamal Akakpo ...... 3 0101 (Bass Reeves); 0106 (Bass Reeves); 0109 (Bass Reeves) C Joshua Allen ...... 1 Jessica Camacho...... 5 0101 (Businessman) 0101 (Pirate Jenny); 0103 (Pirate Jenny); 0104 (Pi- Jay Amir ...... 1 rate Jenny); 0107 (Pirate Jenny); 0109 (Pirate 0101 (Curious Boy) Jenny) David Andrews ...... 1 Coley Campany ...... 1 0103 (Deputy Director Farragut) 0105 (Moderator 2-Perfume) Sara Antonio ...... 1 Tommy Campbell ...... 1 0103 (Another Reporter) 0105 (Focus Group Moderator) Dajour Ashwood...... 1 Timothy Carr ...... 1 0101 (Mechanic) 0105 (Leg Amputee) Matthew Atchley ...... 1 Sonny Charles...... 1 0103 (FBI Agent) 0107 (Puppeteer #2) McDaniel Austin ...... 1 Hong Chau ...... 4 0106 (Core Police) 0104 (Lady Trieu); 0106 (Lady Trieu); 0107 (Lady Trieu); 0109 (Lady Trieu) B Regina Ting Chen ...... 1 0104 (Crew Chief Selma) Chris Baker ...... 1 Mahdi Cocci ...... 1 0105 (ED Support Member) 0103 (Uniformed Cop) Cabot Basden ...... 1 Jason Collett ...... 1 0105 (Knot Top #2) 0106 (Well Dressed Man) Jim Beaver ...... 1 Steve Coulter ...... 1 0102 (Andy) 0105 (Simmons) Thomas K. Belgrey ...... 1 Ryan Czerwonko ...... 1 0106 (Werner) 0102 (Ringleader) Karen Beyer ...... 1 0105 (Well Dressed Woman) Victoria Blade ...... 2 D 0101 (Mom); 0106 (Mom) Luke David Blumm ...... 1 Damien Dao ...... 1 0102 (Newspaper Boy) 0107 (Video Store Clerk) Jaiden Bostic...... 2 Benjamin David ...... 1 0106 (Marcus); 0107 (Marcus) 0103 (Ballcap Agent) Rowan Bousaid...... 1 Erin C. Davis ...... 1 0107 (Arabic Man) 0103 (Hostage) Danny Boyd Jr...... 6 Tiger Dawn ...... 1 0101 (Young Boy); 0102 (Young Will); 0104 (Young 0105 (ED Support Tech #1) Will); 0106 (Young Will Reeves); 0107 (Young Shakirah DeMesier...... 1 Boy); 0109 (Young Boy) 0107 (Trieu Compound Guard) Danny Le Boyer ...... 1 Danielle Deadwyler ...... 2 0107 (Officer Roy) 0106 (June); 0107 (June) Jim Braswell ...... 1 Elyse Dinh...... 1 0102 (Singer) 0109 (Cleaning Woman) Charles Brice ...... 1 Miles Doleac ...... 1 0101 (Charlie Sutton) 0102 (German Officer) Patrick Brown ...... 1 Adam Drescher...... 1 0103 (Sergeant At Arms) 0106 (Agent Jerry) Ray Buchanan ...... 1 Landon Durrence ...... 2 0106 (Patron) 0101 (Adorable White Boy); 0106 (Adorable White Cremel Nakia Burney ...... 1 Boy) Watchmen Episode Guide

E 0102 (Hooded Justice); 0105 (Hooded Justice); 0106 (Hooded Justice) Catherine Eure ...... 1 Kyle Jackson ...... 1 0106 (Woman Getting Attacked) 0106 (Audience Member) Zsane Jhe ...... 1 0101 (Roberta Sutton) F Don Johnson ...... 4 0101 (Chief Judd Crawford); 0102 (Chief Judd Craw- Jose´ Alfredo Fernandez ...... 1 ford); 0106 (Judd Crawford); 0107 (Judd Craw- 0102 (Coroner) ford) Frances Fisher ...... 5 Quinten Johnson ...... 1 0101 (Jane Crawford); 0102 (Jane Crawford); 0103 0104 (Fireman) (Jane Crawford); 0107 (Jane Crawford); 0109 Ted Johnson ...... 1 (Jane Crawford) 0109 (Senator Keene Sr.) Glenn Fleshler...... 1 Maxton Jones ...... 1 0106 (Fred) 0103 (Clipboard Yellow) Austin Freeman ...... 1 0105 (Knot Top #1) K G Kevin Kedgley ...... 1 0107 (Soldier) Grant Kersey ...... 1 Henry Louis Gates ...... 2 0101 (Armed Soldier) 0102 (Skip Gates); 0104 (Skip Gates) Jimi Kocina...... 1 Russ Gladden ...... 1 0105 (Rorschach Tech) 0101 (Angry White Man) Alex Kontakos ...... 1 Michael Graziadei ...... 1 0101 (Audience Member) 0101 (Carmichael) Kate Kovach ...... 1 Charles Green ...... 2 0102 (Dame) 0101 (Preacher); 0106 (Preacher) John Grimm...... 1 0101 (Masked Cop) L Eileen Grubba...... 1 0105 (Cynthia Tillman) Philip Labes ...... 1 0105 (Young Wade Tillman) Scott Lane ...... 1 H 0105 (Rough Biker) Jennifer Vo Le ...... 1 Marissa Chanel Hampton ...... 1 0107 (Officer Jen) 0106 (Lorna) Ethan Levy ...... 1 Anthony B. Harris...... 1 0103 (Fat Guy) 0106 (Police cadet graduation audience member) Nicholas Logan ...... 2 Faithe Herman ...... 1 0101 (7th Kalvary Spokesman); 0109 (7th Kalvary 0107 (Young Angela) Spokesman) Anthony Hill ...... 1 Alexis Louder...... 5 0107 (Marcus Abar) 0101 (The Mother); 0104 (Ruth Williams); 0106 (Ruth Denise Hillis ...... 1 Williams); 0107 (Ruth Williams); 0109 (Ruth 0105 (ED Support Member #3) Williams) Jolie Hoang-Rappaport ...... 4 0102 (Bian); 0104 (Bian); 0107 (Bian); 0109 (Bian) Junie Hoang...... 1 M 0107 (Vietnamese Headmistress) Michael Hodson ...... 1 Paula Malcomson ...... 1 0103 (Donald Callahan / Prisoner) 0105 (Renee) Ryan Homchick ...... 1 Gabrielle Manning ...... 1 0106 (White Cop (1950)) 0101 (4th Grader #1) Lauren Hough ...... 1 Tevin Marbeth...... 1 0104 (Local) 0102 (Soldier) Helena Hu ...... 1 Rashaan Matthews...... 1 0101 (Curious Girl) 0101 (Oklahoma Businessman) Jesse Mattson ...... 1 0105 (ED Support Member #4) I Jake McDorman ...... 1 0106 (Nelson Gardner / Captain Metropolis) Dustin Ingram...... 3 Kyle McDuffie ...... 2 0103 (Agent Petey); 0104 (Agent Petey); 0107 (Agent 0101 (Sheriff); 0106 (Sheriff) Petey) Hunter McGregor ...... 1 0103 (Reporter) Faye Yvette McQueen ...... 1 J 0102 (Fashionable Lady) Joey Mekyten...... 1 Cheyenne Jackson ...... 3 0101 (One Kid)

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Edelia Merida...... 1 0102 (Delivery Guy) 0107 (Venezuelan Woman) Valeri Ross...... 2 Jamie Miles...... 1 0106 (Old Woman); 0107 (Old Woman June) 0101 (Nurse) Zak Rothera-Oxley ...... 1 Ariel Milner ...... 1 0108 (Young Jon Osterman) 0105 (Child) Michael Rubino ...... 1 David R. Mitchell...... 1 0105 (Police Officer) 0101 (Suspect) Sasha Morfaw ...... 1 0101 (Mechanic’s Wife) S Moses J. Moseley...... 1 0102 (Usher) Jordan Salloum ...... 2 Omer Mughal...... 1 0106 (Officer Bourquin); 0107 (Officer Bourquin) 0105 (Moderator) Stephen Samson ...... 1 Spencer Mulligan ...... 1 0108 (Refugee) 0106 (Officer Gallagher) RayJay Serrano ...... 1 0107 (Marionette Puppeteer) Geraldine Singer ...... 1 N 0101 (Ms. Sweetwater) James Dean Smith...... 1 Chris Naylor ...... 1 0103 (Heavyset White Dude) 0105 (Rorschach Guard) Jeffrey S Smith...... 1 Debra Nelson ...... 1 0101 (Businessman) 0105 (ED Support Tech #2) Lily Rose Smith ...... 5 John Newberg ...... 1 0101 (Rosie); 0102 (Rosie); 0103 (Rosie); 0104 (Rosie); 0106 (Chief) 0108 (Rosie) Steven G. Norfleet...... 5 Mystie Smith ...... 1 0101 (The Father); 0102 (O.B. Williams); 0104 (O. 0102 (Hologram Reporter) B. Williams); 0106 (O. B. Williams); 0107 (O. Darrell Snedeger ...... 2 B. Williams) 0103 (Jon); 0108 (Jon) Mariana Novak ...... 1 Han Soto...... 1 0104 (Guard) 0107 (Vietnamese Cab Driver) Adelynn Spoon ...... 6 0101 (Emma Abar); 0102 (Emma Abar); 0103 (Emma O Abar); 0104 (Emma Abar); 0108 (Emma Abar); 0109 (Emma Abar) Jesse O’Neill...... 1 Brian Stapf ...... 1 0109 (Radio-Schach) 0102 (Tattooed Man) Michael Ongaku...... 1 James Sterling ...... 1 0106 (Bar Patron) 0101 (Armed Soldier) Morris Owens Jr...... 1 Holly Stevenson ...... 1 0108 (Rioter) 0105 (Older Woman) Ethan Stormant...... 1 P 0101 (Tommy (Buzzcut)) Joe Sykes...... 1 Wayne Pere...... 1´ 0101 (Uniformed Cop) 0101 (The Suspect) Erik Palladino ...... 1 0106 (Agent Art) T Annika Pampel ...... 1 0102 (Fraulein¨ Muller)¨ Charlie Talbert ...... 1 Daniel Parvis ...... 1 0106 (Desk Sergeant) 0106 (Reporter) Anatole Taubman ...... 1 Tim Peek...... 1 0108 (Hans Osterman) 0105 (Elder) Lee Tergesen...... 1 Vince Pisani ...... 1 0103 (Mister Shadow) 0102 (Cashier) Matthew Thompson ...... 1 Philly Plowden...... 2 0105 (Knot Top) 0106 (Sam Battle); 0107 (Sam Battle) Robert Tinsley...... 1 Mark Pope ...... 1 0103 (Suspect) 0108 (German Refugee) Brook Todd ...... 1 Clarence Powell ...... 1 0103 (Kavalry Bomber) 0101 (Audience Member) Judith Tokarsky ...... 1 Robert Pralgo ...... 1 0105 (ED Support Member) 0104 (Jon Clark) William Tokarsky...... 1 0105 (ED Support Member) Hawn Tran ...... 1 R 0107 (Scarface Puppeteer) Ryan Hope Travis ...... 1 Scott Rapp...... 1 0105 (Jerry) 0105 (Bar ( DJ )) Phillip Trieu ...... 1 Christian Robinson ...... 1 0108 (Bartender)

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Jason Turner...... 1 0105 (Receptionist #1) Josh Turner ...... 1 0105 (Rough Biker) Victor Turner ...... 1 0105 (Receptionist #2) Devyn A. Tyler...... 1 0107 (Elise Abar) U

Uyoata Udi ...... 1 0101 (Curly (Oklahoma)) V

Varryl Vano ...... 1 0104 (Police Officer) Julia Vasi ...... 1 0105 (Roxy) W

Chris Ward ...... 1 0105 (Oklahoma Businessmen) David Watts ...... 1 0105 (Outdoorsy Man) Christine Weatherup...... 1 0104 (Katy Clark) Benjamin Weaver...... 1 0106 (Uniformed Cop) Greg Weeks ...... 1 0106 (Paramedic) Chris Whitley...... 1 0105 (Captain Metropolis) Teresa Jade Wilson ...... 1 0101 (Farmer’s Daughter (Oklahoma)) Robert Wisdom ...... 2 0102 (Seymour); 0109 (Seymour) James Wolk...... 6 0102 (Senator Joe Keane); 0103 (Senator Keane); 0104 (Senator Joe Keane); 0105 (Senator Joe Keene); 0107 (Senator Joe Keene); 0109 (Sen- ator Joe Keene) Z

Denny Zartman ...... 1 0103 (Teller)

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