Watchmen (2019) 1.04

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

Lady Trieu visits the Clarks, a couple, and offers them a child, they are without children, and $5 million if they will give her their home. The child is biologically their own.

Angela cleans the kitchen where she kept Will. She destroys or attempts to destroy all traces that he was there. She heads over to the Greenwood Cultural Center after she is done in her bakery. She breaks in and learns more about her family history. Her moment of discovery is interrupted by a crashing noise.

Sister Night rushes outside and finds Laurie Blake laughing and the remains of her car. Angela calls to get her car towed. Will's bottle of pills is in the glove compartment. She takes them and goes home to get some sleep. The next day she goes to see Glass. She shows him Chief Crawford's clan robes and asks him to get his ex to figure out what the pills are.

Sister Night throws some things in a duffle bag (Will's wheelchair?) and disposes of them. She turns around and realizes someone was watching her. She chases the person who is dressed in silver but they escape by sliding down into the sewers. She takes what the stranger leaves behind to the police station. She talks to Red Menace and Pirate Jenny but they are busy with other things.

Laurie Blake, Sister Night, and Agent Petey go to see Lady Trieu. They talk about their pasts while they are driving there. They ask Lady Trieu about some of her flying vehicles. They wonder if maybe one of them was used to grab Angela's car. Angela learns from Lady Trieu that her grandfather wants to know if she got the pills. The message is delivered in Vietnamese, in the guise of an old saying. Angela understands and responds in Vietnamese.

Adrian Veidt continues his experiments from his prison. He grows more helpers into what look like fully grown humans. He harvests them as infants from a lake. They help him to operate a catapult with which he hurls the dead bodies of his deceased servants into the sky.

Angela confronts Cal about the visit he got from Agent Blake. He tells her what happened. It seems that Agent Blake knows more about them than she is letting on.

Lady Trieu's daughter wakes up after having a nightmare. She finds her mother and tells her about it. Lady Trieu does not comfort her daughter. Will Reeves is there with Lady Trieu, drinking tea. She says good night to them and returns to bed. Lady Trieu questions why Will didn't tell Angela about the pills. She also questions Will's commitment to their cause. He insists that he is all in and that in three days his granddaughter will hate him for what he has done.

Thoughts

There is a lot to like in this episode.

The title to this episode sounds like the show runner speaking directly to the audience. I'm not sure what else it might mean.

I feel as though there is a lot in the Watchmen universe, from the original story, that has not been touched yet. I'm guessing that some of those things will not get referenced.

What is Lady Trieu up to? How does Will Reeves fit into that plan? What is he up to? Is Lady Trieu's daughter a clone of herself? Where do the babies come from that Adrian Veidt harvests from the lake? He claims that he isn't the one creating them. Is Adrian Veidt on the moon? That seems to be implied by the way his segment of this episode ends.

This is another solid episode of the show. I hope that it all comes together sufficiently in the end to satisfy me. Seeds are being planted but will the plants they grow into plants that bear fruit?