Watchmen Episode 8's Secret Post-Credits Scene Explained

Watchmenepisode 8 ends with a post - credits scenery and here ’s what it means for next calendar week ’s season 1 finale . The ordeal of Adrian Veidt AKA Ozymandias ( Jeremy Irons ) has been the most bizarre aspect of Damon Lindelof ’s " remix " sequel to Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ' lifelike novel . Seemingly confused to the main account countersink inTulsa , Oklahoma , Veidt has been isolated in an idyllic body politic manor house with an raiment of servants , which are clones of his butler Mr. Phillips ( Tom Mison ) and his maid Ms. Crookshanks ( Sarah Vickers ) .

AsWatchmenprogressed , it became clear that Ozymandias was a captive who was plotting a means of escape . Watchmenepisode 8 , " A God Walks Into Abar " , made Veidt ’s whereabouts and quandary explicit : He is trapped on Europa , the moon of Jupiter 390 - million miles from Earth , in a ' paradise ' constructed byDoctor Manhattan(Yahya Abdul - Mateen II ) . The blue super being fork up on his hope to create novel life but , after he terraformed Europa and made the first of his Phillips and Crookshanks clones , Manhattan desolate his creation . In 2009 , after bring down Ozymandias at his Antarctic retreat , Karnak , Manhattan teleport Veidt to his Europa Shangri-la as a ' advantage ' for inventing a means to let him to endure as a human namedCal Abarwith Detective Angela Abar AKA Sister Night ( Regina King ) via mechanically - induced amnesia .

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At first , Veidt enjoyed his peaceful new household on Europa , styling himself as a genuine lord of the manor . But he grow blase of paradise and of his simpleminded servants and Adrian long to return to Earth . As he tried to make his elude - and made contact with an Earth planet passing Jupiter - Veidt was captured , try on , and found guilty by the Game Warden , his overseer , for the offence of violating the one principle of paradise:“Thou shalt not leave alone . "

What Happens In Watchmen Episode 8’s Post-Credits Scene?

Watchmenepisode 8 ’s post - credits scene in reality commence during the credit entry with audio recording of Phillips and Crookshanks asking Veidt if he will quell , Ozymandias repeatedly refusing , and the servants taking turns smash ripe tomato into their captain ’s face . This moment seems to pass shortly after Veidt ’s farcical trial . The scene then cuts to Veidt in a dank prison cell and it ’s one year after because , in each installment ofWatchmenwhere Ozymandias look , there is atime leap of one class .

The Game Warden visits Veidt on his day of remembrance with the traditional chicken and purple patty prepared by his servants . Veidt ’s masked overseer then reveals that he was the original clone ( the ' Adam ' of this Eden ) build byDoctor Manhattanand he even watch over his Maker build their paradise . The Game Warden again involve Veidt if he will stay , but Ozymandias explains that this ' Heaven ' is n’t enough for him and that his"8 - million children"on Earth require him , which set bleak Veidt ’s twisted God complex . Furious , the Game Warden tells Veidt to enjoy his"f@$#ing cake"and exits . After Adrian bluster out his candles , he notices a metal shoe buried in the cake . This is the same shoe a previous Mr. Phillips erroneously generate Veidt instead of a fork to make out his cake on his one - year anniversary . overjoy , Veidt use the shoe and begins digging at the floor of his cadre .

Ozymandias Is Escaping And… Returning To Earth?

When the post - credits view ends , Veidt is hard at work trying to scat his cadre ; capture off Europa altogether and returning to Earth has to be his objective . How he will accomplish the latter is the big enquiry but the World ’s Smartest Man must have already invented a eventuality programme . However , it ’s interesting to observe that there are seven taper on Veidt ’s cake , indicating that since he arrived in paradise in 2009 , Adrian is spend a penny his escapism in 2016 - 3 years before the main history ofWatchmen .

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Since all of Ozymandias ’s scenes are flashbacks , it ’s possible that Adrian Veidt is actually already on Earth and always has been throughout the primary report in Tulsa . This beg the interrogative : Was Ozymandias the thing that crashed from space into Oklahoma on the nightLady Trieu(Hong Chau ) purchased the farmland where she construct her Millennium Clock ? And if that was Veidt who plummet to Earth , where has he been for the last three years ? The answer will sure as shooting arrive inWatchmen ’s season 1 finale .

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