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Here are our 10 biggest unreciprocated interrogation fromWatchmenepisode 2 , " Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship " . Last week ’s premiere episode introduced the globe ofWatchmenin present - mean solar day 2019 ; executive manufacturer Damon Lindelof transplanted the story to Tulsa , Oklahoma , and introduced Detective Angela Abar AKA Sister Night ( Regina King ) , one of theTulsa ’s mask police force officers , whose constabulary honcho , Judd Crawford ( Don Johnson ) , was enigmatically hanged and murdered at the end of the episode .
While the rest of the Tulsa law force mistrust the white supremacist terrorist group the Seventh Kavalry to be behind Judd ’s slaying , Angela took an elderly man named Will Reeves ( Louis Gossett , Jr. ) into detainment . Will claims to be solely responsible for hang up the police head and , distrust there ’s much more to Reeves than he ’s permit on , Angela take a deoxyribonucleic acid sample distribution from him . After learning the surprising result that Will is Angela ’s biological grandfather , she had to watch helplessly as Will is spirited off inside her car by some kind of flying vehicle . Meanwhile , Adrian Veidt ( Jeremy Irons)watched his play , " The Watchmaker ’s Son " , perform by his servants Mr. Phillips ( Tom Mison ) and Ms. Crookshanks ( Sara Vickers ) . Not only is Veidt ’s play about the parentage of Doctor Manhattan but Veidt ’s servants were unveil to be clones .
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Watchmenepisode 2 , " Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship " , step up the mystery and spread up a lot of questions about Angela Abar , Will Reeves , Judd Crawford , and the more and more gonzo world ofWatchmen . These are the 10 questions we ’re pondering the most aboutWatchmenepisode 2 .
10. Is Fraulein Mueller Related To Rolf Muller?
Watchmenepisode 2 began with a flashback to World War I Germany where a woman named Fraulein Mueller ( Annika Pampel ) was plucked from the steno pond to transliterate anti - American propaganda Germany direct to black American soldier . While there ’s a slightly different spelling of their last name , is Fraulein Mueller connected toRolf Muller , the circus strongman believe to be Hooded Justice ?
The first - ever dress up adventurer , Hooded Justice ’s real identity was never bring out in theWatchmengraphic novel , but it was hinted that he was in secret Rolf Muller . Clips fromAmerican Hero Story : Minutemenshow Muller ’s remains being fish out of the river in Boston in the 1950s and " Hooded Justice " narrates his own living story , indicating he was really Muller all along . Can it be just a conjunction that there ’s now a Fraulein Mueller introduced in Germany over 20 years before Hooded Justice ’s first appearance ?
9. Does Will Reeves Really Have Powers?
After a great deal of back - and - forth banter that involved discussingDoctor Manhattan ’s power , Will Reeves continue to lay claim that he is the person who"strung up your police chief " . But Will himself confirm that he is 105 years previous ( meaning he was 7 old age honest-to-god during theTulsa Massacrein 1921 ) so how could it be potential that he alone killed and hanged Judd Crawford - unless Will really does have power ? Will was focused on his pills , which he claimed to help him with his memory board , but do they also give him abilities ?
The biggest contention against Will Reeves having might is that Doctor Manhattan is the only superpowered being in theWatchmenuniverse . If theWatchmenTV series establishes Will Reeves really does have superpowers , that violates one of the canonical rules of the saga , so it ’s likely Will is just taunting Angela by arrogate he has mightiness - and he could n’t psychically bring his own pills into his bridge player , after all . But if Will really is just a wheelchair - bound 105 - year - honest-to-goodness , how did he kill and flow Judd ?
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8. Why Did Angela Just Leave Will Unguarded At Her Bakery?
While it ’s graspable that Angela was distraught at finding Judd hanged , she then lied and affect to the remainder of the Tulsa P.D. that she did n’t jazz Judd was dead beforehand . Next , Detective Abar literally left Will Reeves alone in her secret lair inside her bakery . Later , she was offend when Will admitted he left and then returned , but why would she provide him alone completely unguarded ? Angela also keep the fact that she had Judd Crawford ’s intromit murderer in her hold from Looking Glass ( Tim Blake Nelson ) and the others . Although Angela pretend correctly that , in their rage , the Tulsa P.D. would have likely down Will if they come up out he allow in to Judd ’s murder , leave Will alone in her sanctuary was an illogical move . Even if he ’s in a wheelchair , Reeves is true dangerous and more capable than he appears .
7. How Did Angela And Cal Survive The White Night?
Watchmenepisode 2 showed the White Night from Angela ’s point of view : at midnight on Christmas Day 2016 , the Seventh Kavalry engage in a coordinated attack on over 40 rest home of Tulsa police officers , gunning the fuzz down along with their families . Angela ’s spouse and his married woman were both kill but Judd survive by kill his attacker . But how did Angela and Cal make it through their plan of attack ?
When the 7 K member erupt into their plate , Angela pushed Cal out of the way , killed the lights , and hide out in the kitchen with a tongue . She knife the man to death only to be shoot in the stomach by a secondRorschach - masked Isle of Man , who stood over her before she blacken out . She awaken three mean solar day later in the infirmary , but why did n’t the 2nd 7 K appendage kill Angela ? Why did the masked humans let her and Cal live ?
6. Who Is The Asian Girl Buying Newspapers?
Just like New York City in the graphic novel andZack Snyder’sWatchmenmovie , Tulsa also has a newsstand where the vendor is chock full of opinions about political sympathies and the nation of the world . However , a mysterious Asian young woman in glasses rive up to amass a plenty of newspapers , which is apparently a daily ritual . The newsstand operator take if"she really reads all of those papers",including the in - creation periodicalsNova ExpressandNew Frontiersman , and the girl ensure him that she does . But who is this mysterious female child and who were they both talking about ? Clearly , there are more players inWatchmenthat still require to be introduce .
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5. Why Did Adrian Veidt Write A Play About Doctor Manhattan’s Origin?
Jeremy Irons ' character is all but surely Adrian Veidt , especially consider the play he write , " The Watchmaker ’s Son " , apparently depicts the infamous origin story of Doctor Manhattan . Veidt ’s butler , Mr. Phillips ( Tom Mison ) , and the amah , Ms. Crookshanks ( Sara Vickers ) performed the manoeuvre in the roles of Dr. Jon Osterman ( the human version of Doctor Manhattan ) and his girlfriend Janey Slater . The play was a wildcat satire that mocked the accident that created Doctor Manhattan - but why is Adrian Veidt doing this ? Is it just for his own entertainment ? trivial revenge ? Or is there something more to " The Watchmaker ’s Son " ?
Further , the view revealed that Phillips and Crookshanks are clones and there are multiple interpretation of each . The original Phillips was in reality roasted alive in the " Intrinsic Field Generator " . Why does Veidt have clone of his servants ? Further , could Phillips in reality be aclone of Jon Osterman / Doctor Manhattanand Crookshanks a doppelganger of Janey Slater ?
4. Is Joe Keene Running For President?
At Judd ’s viewing , Angela met Senator Joe Keene ( James Wolk ) , a potential next Presidential campaigner . Keene is the son of Senator John David Keene , who passed the 1977 Keene Act that shun costumed vigilante , which continue the law of the demesne inWatchmen ’s 2019 world . However , Senator Joe Keene was first mentioned inWatchmen ’s pilot episode ; his expectation as a challenger to President Robert Redford in the next election is something the materialistic public lecture radio hosts in Oklahoma are strongly behind . Joe is obviously a Quaker of the Crawford family but is he planning to run for President of the United States ?
3. Was Judd Crawford Really A Member Of The Klan?
When Will taunted Angela about the " skeletons in Judd ’s closet " , she took him literally and used X - shaft goggles to search Crawford ’s paseo - in . Many fans hoped and bear Detective Abar would recover aNite Owlcostume hidden in Judd ’s closet but instead , she find a ashen KKK gown with a police badge in a secret compartment . While this tantrum is a cool nod to the import in the originalWatchmenwhere Rorschach search Edward Blake ’s cupboard and discovered his Comedian costume hidden in a secret space , Angela ’s discovery was much more troubling .
Could Judd really be a secret appendage of the Klan or even the Seventh Kavalry ? Was Chief Crawford puzzle out both slope against each other all along ? It does n’t make sense that Judd was secretly a lily-white supremacist , especially weigh his close friendly relationship with Angela and her husband . Regardless , the Klan gown is definitely an formidable uncovering about Judd that needs an explanation .
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2. Who Stole Angela’s Car (And Will) And Where Did They Go?
Watchmenepisode 2 end very unexpectedly : just as Angela was buckling Will into her railroad car to take him into the station , some sort of aircraft dropped a giant magnet onto her gondola and lifted it into the air - with a smiling Will roll cheerio . So clearly , Will has accomplice and it was likely during the hour Angela left him alone unsupervised that he contacted his enigma partners , who pounce in for a rescue . So , who is Will ferment with and where did they take the old man who left his wheelchair behind ?
1. What Is The Conspiracy Will Told Angela About?
Will Reeves told Angela that there is a"vast and pernicious confederacy at play in Tulsa"but Angela did n’t press him for more data - which is quite a failure for a investigator . But let ’s look at the piece thatWatchmenhas presented so far : after three years of repose , the Seventh Kavalry has declared war on the police force . They have a cloak-and-dagger mission and it require stockpiling older - style lithium batteries that were shun out of fright they cause malignant neoplastic disease . Will Reeves ( likely with remote assistance ) toss off Judd Crawford , the Chief of Police , who has a Klan gown hidden in his press . And then something snatched Angela ’s auto literally into the airwave with Will inside . There ’s a passel more go on in Tulsa and there are still more players to be introduced . It ’s hard to see how everything connects but there ’s a lot more to follow inWatchmen .
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