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Like its seed material , HBO’sWatchmensequel warns viewers about the danger that comes with live in the past . In instalment 6 " This Extraordinary Being , " detectiveAngela Abar , a.k.a . Sister Night , o.d. on " Nostalgia,“a drug the HBO serial publication introduced . The resulting trip down computer memory lane revealed some key information for the overarching plot , including the true individuality of a lineament from the original DC ComicsWatchmen . It also demonstrated the peril of this drug , thus clear a larger controversy against haunt over the past .
Regina King plays Abar , a detective enquire the end of her friend and honcho of police , Judd Crawford . Abar acquired the pills in sequence 2 fromWilliam Reef , after arresting him for Crawford ’s murder . reef , she find , is her grandfather , and a former police officer from New York City . When Abar herself was facing arrest at the end of episode 5 , she took the bottleful of pills all at once , overdosing .
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Watchmenepisode 6 focused on Abar ’s experience living her gramps ’s memories . Through the drug , she was capable to feel first - hand the most impactful — and in many shell , the most afflictive — events in Reeves ' life . The drug has a downside , however : as FBI factor ( and former masked vigilante ) Laurie Blake warned Abar part - way through the instalment , o.d. on Nostalgia can cause the user to bury who they are .
" Nostalgia " has its stemma in theoriginal DC Comics limited seriesWatchmen . In the comic , " Nostalgia " is the name of a perfume sold by Adrian Veidt ( Ozymandias ) through his company Veidt Enterprises . The amusing heavily implies that the perfume ’s retrospective merchandising is in response to the purchasing market place ’s romanticist compulsion with the past : a circumstance make by the uncertainty and pessimism of dwell during the Cold War . After Veidt " solves " this public doubt through the comic ’s climax ( an event called the Dimensional Incursion Event in the HBO series ) , he releases a new optimistic scent , " Millennium . "
In the most recent installment of the series , sequence 7 " An Almost spiritual Awe,“the drug ’s creator Lady Trieu stated that the drug was her heavy failure , citing the users ' tendency to relive their most traumatic moments over and over . She , like Veidt before her , urges the public to move on from the yesteryear and embrace the future tense .
The next installment ofWatchmenairs Sunday December 8 , on HBO .
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