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HBO’sWatchmenrevealed intriguing newfangled point about what happened to Nite Owl and Silk Spectre in the yearsafter theWatchmengraphic novelended . The third sequence ofWatchmen , " She Was wipe out By Space Junk " , re-introduce AgentLaurie Blake(Jean Smart ) into the saga . Now an FBI factor with the Anti - Vigilante Task Force , Blake - the former Silk Spectre - is reluctantly investigate the slaying of Tulsa Police Chief Judd Crawford ( Don Johnson ) .
Laurie ’s arrival fusedWatchmen’sTulsa , Oklahoma - set mysteries with the legacy of the graphic novel but it opened up interrogation about what hap to Nite Owl and Silk Spectre after Ozymandias’giant squid hoaxon 11/2/85 saved the human race from atomic war . TheWatchmencomics ' epilogue established that Nite Owl / Dan Dreiberg and Silk Spectre / Laurie Juspeczyk assumed unexampled identities as " Sam and Sandra Hollis " but continued to fight down law-breaking as superheroes . By HBO’sWatchmen ’s 2019 setting , Laurie has alter her last name to Blake and become a Union broker ( like her late father , Edward Blake / The Comedian ) while Dan Dreiberg was revealed to be in Union hold . In fact , Laurie accepted the Oklahoma appointment because Senator Joe Keene ( James Wolk ) inferred he would pardon Dreiberg if he becomes the next President of the United States .
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Watchmen ’s tie - in websitePeteypediareleased an FBI copy that sheds some captivating light on what chance to Nite Owl and The Comedienne ( Laurie took on her father ’s mantle after she abandoned her mother ’s - Sally Jupiter ’s - Silk Spectre bequest ) . Dated 4/24/1995 , Laurie was interrogated by Special Agents David Latimer and Dinwitty when she and Nite Owl were apprehended by the FBI after they stopped the Oklahoma City Bombing and toss off the perpetrator , Timothy McVeigh , on 4/19/1995 . ( Another lesson of howWatchmen ’s reality is differentfrom the existent Earth . ) While Dan Dreiberg reject to speak to the bureau , the FBI agents found Laurie Juspeczyk ( she had n’t yet shift her family name at this point ) to be bristled but conjunct in their Q&A and she dropped lots of details that shoots down theJudd Crawford was Nite Owltheory .
consort to Laurie , her and Nite Owl ’s limited crimefighting equipment were provide by MerlinCorp , a company on the Q.T. owned by Dan Dreiberg . MerlinCorp also equip law enforcement agencies , which is why"the cops vanish Owlships" . This explains why the Tusla Police have an Owlship - it turn out lot of police section all over the country bought them from MerlinCorp - and Laurie ’s confession eventually lays to rest that rooter theory thatJudd Crawford was Dan Dreiberg . Laurie ’s capture in Oklahoma in ' 95 also excuse her reluctance to return there to investigate Crawford ’s murder .
Further , Laurie and Dreiberg were performing"one last job"together to stop Timothy McVeigh as their family relationship had become strained . Laurie stress that she and Nite Owl were"not lovers " -“He wanted kids , I need guns " , Laurie confess . Her tipping the Federal off about MerlinCorp led to a raid on Dreiberg ’s caller , where the FBI recovered the pattern for the hugeblue phallusfans saw Laurie take out of her briefcase inWatchmen . It turn out this was a"gift"from Dreiberg , which he named " Excalibur " , and he made it to spite Laurie because Dan covetously suspected she still harbored feelings for her x , Doctor Manhattan .
Intriguingly , there were several redacted section of the transcript have-to doe with to the whereabouts of Rorschach and the events of 11/2/85 . base on what was n’t blacked out , it seems that Laurie confessed the truth about how Rorschach died , Doctor Manhattan leaving the planet , and perchance the details about Adrian Veidt ’s ( Jeremy Irons ) fraud . Once the FBI get wind the truth about the case of theWatchmengraphic novel , the Union government helped maintain the cover - up . Laurie ’s cooperation explain why she is n’t in hands like Dreiberg and she was even capable to connect the Bureau . It also clarify that whenPresident Robert Redfordlearned the the true about the hoax , this likely led to his falling out with his benefactor , Adrian Veidt , in the years beforeWatchmen ’s upshot .
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