Watchmen (2019) 1.09

See How They Fly

Lady Trieu's mother was working for Adrian Veidt in 1985 when he recorded his message to future President of the United States, Robert Redford. She stole a sample of his semen from his wall safe and impregnated herself with it.

Lady Trieu visits Adrian Veidt in his Antarctic lair in 2008. He has no idea who she is, until she tells him. He is angry and refuses her request for funding for her plan to capture Doctor Manhattan. She shares with him what she knows about Doctor Manhattan, things that he has not figured out.

Adrian Veidt in 2019 escapes from Europa with some help from Lady Trieu. He is cryogenically fronzen in gold for the return trip to Earth. She finally thaws him out in time for her big moment.

The leaders of Cyclops gather, elsewhere in Tulsa. Agent Blake is still their prisoner. Looking Glass is there disguised as a member of the Seventh Kavalry. Doctor Manhattan arrives in the containment unit. Senator Keene makes preparations to absorb his power.

Angela tortures one of the surviving members of the Seventh Kavalry until he tells her where to find them. She rushes there. She tries to talk Senator Keene out of going through with his plan. She tells him that Lady Trieu has been manipulating them. Keene doesn't believe her. He gets in the device which will transform him into Doctor Manhattan. He gets vaporized.

Lady Trieu shows up or rather she teleports everyone surrounding the containment unit to Greenwood. She kills the leaders of Cyclops. Doctor Manhattan finds a way to teleport Adrian Veidt, Looking Glass, and Agent Blake to Karnak, Veidt's Antarctic lair.

Lady Trieu continues with her plan. Doctor Manhattan is absorbed by her machinery. 

Veidt comes up with a plan. He dumps squids on Tulsa but he freezes them before teleporting them. The deluge of frozen squid falling from the sky destroy Lady Trieu's machinery and Lady Trieu herself. Bian is sheltered in the phone booth. Angela runs to the theater where she finds her grandfather and the kids. The kids are asleep. 

Angela and Will talk. He tells her that John knew all this was going to happen. They go back to her place. Everyone else goes to bed. Angela is cleaning up the eggs that were broken when she finds out that is still intact. She remembers a conversation she had with John.

Thoughts

How is it that Looking Glass was able to infiltrate the Seventh Kavalry? Didn't anyone wonder about the team that was sent to eliminate him? Were they just too busy with Senator Keene's plan to ask questions? It seems like if they cared enough to send a team to eliminate him then they should have wanted to know that he was dealt with. 

I have mixed feelings about this ending. I like the ambiguity at the very end but it also felt a bit anticlimactic. It felt in part like they were laying groundwork for something else. The only problem with that theory is that there is nothing else. This, as far as I know, is it.

I don't regret watching this show. It felt very satisfying. It gave me a lot to chew on and puzzle over. I want to go back and read the comic book story again. Maybe I will sometime in the near future.