Let's Talk About That 'Watchmen' Episode 4 Ending
Spoiler alert: Obviously, the following story contains spoilers for episode 4 of Watchmen. Please don't continue reading if you haven't seen the episode or if you care about being spoiled.
Watchmen Episode 4 ended with a wild cliffhanger.
In an episode full of crazy moments, this ending will leave you theorizing for a while.
This is just the start of what we think is going on.
It was another wild week out in Watchmen world. We got some more Angela-Laurie team-ups, a Lube Man chase down, and Adrian Veidt fishing for babies in a lake. And that's just scratching the surface, because by the time the episode ends, you'll be thinking about something else entirely. The big reveal in the fourth episode's ending, of course, is that the mysterious Will Reeves not only is part of a larger conspiracy, but that he can actually walk.
At the episode's conclusion, after Lady Trieu's daughter tells her all about a nightmare that she had involving excessive walking, it's revealed that Will is spending time at their residence; the girl calls him Mr. Reeves—there's clearly already a familiarity there. Also, note Will's clothing; he looks much sharper and more put together than the haggard look that he took when initially meeting Angela outside her bakery and near the chief's corpse.
Will and Lady Trieu talk in-depth about a plan, and reveal that Will is doing the same thing with Angela that Lady Trieu is with her daughter. Is this tough love? Is this something more sci-fi? We'll see soon.
But again, the question of Will's identity comes into play. "If you want her to know who you are, just tell her," Lady Trieu tells Will. The warm red colors (and white collar) of his outfit once again seem to hint toward him either being, or having something to do with, Hooded Justice, the first-ever masked hero, and the subject of the show's universe's current season of American Hero Story. It all seems very sinister, culminating in Lady Trieu telling Will that people could get cold feet, and they not be fully in. "My feet are just fine," Will says, revealing that he can, in fact, walk.
"In three days, she'll know what I have done, and she'll hate me for it," Will says. This, I think, is the biggest clue about what is coming. Combined with Will's closing "tick tock" as Irma Thomas' "Time Is On My Side" plays, it seems like Will and Lady Trieu are planning something positively Veidt-esque.
As comic readers know, the book ends with Veidt dropping a giant squid on New York City, killing three million people for what he believes would be saving countless more, bringing US and Russian forces together and alleviating the threat of nuclear war. The way Will and Lady Trieu are talking here seems to be alluding toward a similar plan. Plus, remember Lady Trieu's Veidt statue, and the fact that she owns his company. It all seems very interwined; she could be the spiritual successor to his character (despite Jeremy Irons' constant presence as Veidt himself.)
We'll see how all of this plays into the larger picture in the coming weeks.
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