Warning : SPOILERS up toWatchmenEpisode 3

HBO’sWatchmenseries has only turn over its third episode , but it ’s already proving to be a treasure trove of references and inside jokes . cognize just how manyWatchmenEaster Eggs have been foundalready , the third chapter shows there is no veridical sign of stopping any time soon .

While the fourth episode , " If You Do n’t Like My report , Write Your Own " may not be as stuffed withsecrets asWatchmenepisode 3 , there are still several small details that devoted lover wo n’t desire to miss – including a few nods to lesser - know case in theWatchmenuniverse .

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7. The Actual Episode Title

The episode title of respect itself is a bit of an Easter egg most viewing audience will lose : " If You Do n’t wish My Story , Write Your Own " is a melodic line taken straight from the bookThings Fall Apart . This is meaning , since Cal Abar is see reading tell book near the end of the episode .

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6. Fogdancingby Max Shea

In the rootage of the episode , a woman sell farm - fresh eggs outside of her house . While she waits for potential client to drive by , she reads a book entitledFogdancingwritten by Max Shea . It ’s a pretty cryptic - cold shoulder reference to the originalWatchmenstory : Max Shea was the writer of the " Tales of the Black Freighter " pirate comics . In the original comic , Shea was take up by Adrian Veidt to help him createhis inter - dimensional calamary monsterfor his plan to unite the humankind , and promptly down by Veidt afterwards to keep the truth from coming out . Even so , it count like Shea ’s books are still being enjoy .

5. Lady Trieu Already Finished Her Plan

When Lady Trieu ( Hong Chau ) makes her official debut in theWatchmenseries , it ’s appear to mysteriously buy farmland from a childless pair . But instead of merely buy them off with money , she offer them a biological child of their very own ( previously thought impossible ) . or else of waiting for their response to create a baby , she reveals the youngster already subsist , before lay it in their arms . As the couple signs their farm away , an object hurtles to the ground nearby on the holding – an object Trieu proclaim now belongs to her , paint a picture its comer was her rationality for purchasing the acres .

The crashing object gives some echoes of theSupermanorigin history , but the reference more likely to be noticed is her adopting the part of Veidt in her scheme . The circumstances are unlike , but having " already " produce the fry feels undeniably similar to Veidt telling Nite Owl and Rorschach that he had already unleash his giant squid " 35 minute of arc " before they arrived to confront him .

4. Looking Glass' Squid Hobby

More calamary ! Angela goes to front Glass ' bunker - home and asks him to hold on to William ’s tab that were leave in her car , as well as the KKK attire she found in Crawford ’s closet . While there , several photograph of the squids that fell from the sky can be seen hanging on the walls , taken by Looking Glass . It appears as though he trust the squidsreally arefrom another attribute , and not a ploy by the governing hoping to maintain Veidt ’s deception likethe Seventh Kalvary conceive .

3. The Bubastis Stuffed Animal

When Angela Abar returns home from break-dance into the cultural center , she talks with her adopted boy Topher . When she tells him that she was frightened during the cemetery attack visualise in the last episode , he gives her his binge beast . The stuffed animal itself resemble Bubastis , the genetically modified pet lynx that once belonged to Adrian Veidt , Ozymandias ( meet a tragic end alongside Dr. Manhattan ) .

2. Therm0dynamic Miracles

While Laurie and Angela drive to the Millennium Clock to question Lady Trieu , Laurie discusses the coincidence of Angela ’s railway car being take off the night of Crawford ’s execution and then landing from the sky right in the same topographic point on the night of his funeral . She calls in a thermodynamic miracle , a termher ex - beau ( Doctor Manhattan)regularly used to babble about when he was n’t talking about quark cheese . It tracks with his original dialogue from the comic when he talked about events with unsufferable betting odds , such as Laurie ’s own existence and that of every other man .

1. Lady Trieu’s Vivarium With A Statue

Inside the Millennium Clock , Laurie and Angela meet with Lady Trieu in her vivarium ( a sort of greenhouse ) . The very structure is areference to Adrian Veidt , who had a vivarium himself in his icy fortress . Not only that , but she also has a favorable statue of Veidt within the vivarium , seemingly holding him in high regard . It makes sense , seeing as how she purchased his company . While Veidt ’s idol was Alexander the Great , it appears as though Veidt himself may be hers .

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