The questions increased when Angela Abar was shown to be using X-ray goggles eerily similar to those used by Nite Owl in the Watchmen movie. The first trailers got fans scratching their heads, showing Nite Owl's famous Owlship being piloted (and crashed) by Police Chief Judd Crawford and Pirate Jenny. Fortunately, it does explain why the Tulsa police force are more than a little familiar with the Nite Owl's technology. The final tease of Watchmen's ending doesn't definitively say Dan and Laurie are done beating up hoodlums, and the circumstances of Dan's arrest could prove to be even more important than the time he's serving (and have a greater role in Laurie's life path). The implication is clear: Dan wound up arrested and imprisoned for his actions as Nite Owl, since The Keene Act (championed by Joe Sr.) made them illegal.įans can still debate whether Dan's arrest and incarceration had to do with his past actions, or if he simply couldn't stay out of retirement. "I could even get that owl out of its cage." That line catches Laurie off guard, cracking her tough exterior. But when Laurie cynically claims Keene is only asking for help to bolster his run for President, he fires back, suggesting he could sign all kinds of pardons for his friends charged with crimes, or serving sentences. The owl itself could be a keepsake or fond reminder of her time with Dan following the ending of the Watchmen comic. The confirmation comes when Laurie is visited at her apartment by Senator Joe Keene, Jr., and he discovers the owl she is keeping as a pet caged in her living room. But there is reason to believe that it was losing Dan, and not growing disillusioned about her past heroics, that ultimately pushed her into becoming Laurie Blake, the Comedian's daughter. It also clarifies that when President Robert Redford learned the truth about the hoax, this likely led to his falling out with his benefactor, Adrian Veidt, in the years before Watchmen's events.Given the version of Laurie being played by Jean Smart, it would be easy to believe almost any ending to her and Dan's romance. Laurie's cooperation explains why she isn't in custody like Dreiberg and she was even able to join the Bureau. Once the FBI learned the truth about the events of the Watchmen graphic novel, the federal government helped maintain the cover-up. Based on what wasn't blacked out, it seems that Laurie confessed the truth about how Rorschach died, Doctor Manhattan leaving the planet, and possibly the details about Adrian Veidt's (Jeremy Irons) hoax. Intriguingly, there were several redacted sections of the transcript relating to the whereabouts of Rorschach and the events of 11/2/85. It turns out this was a "gift" from Dreiberg, which he named "Excalibur", and he made it to spite Laurie because Dan jealously suspected she still harbored feelings for her ex, Doctor Manhattan. Her tipping the feds off about MerlinCorp led to a raid on Dreiberg's company, where the FBI recovered the blueprints for the huge blue phallus fans saw Laurie take out of her briefcase in Watchmen. Laurie stressed that she and Nite Owl were "not lovers" - "He wanted kids, I wanted guns", Laurie confessed. In fact, Laurie accepted the Oklahoma assignment because Senator Joe Keene (James Wolk) inferred he would pardon Dreiberg if he becomes the next President of the United States.įurther, Laurie and Dreiberg were performing "one last job" together to stop Timothy McVeigh as their relationship had become strained. By HBO's Watchmen's 2019 setting, Laurie has changed her last name to Blake and become a federal agent (like her late father, Edward Blake/The Comedian) while Dan Dreiberg was revealed to be in federal custody. The Watchmen comics' epilogue established that Nite Owl/Dan Dreiberg and Silk Spectre/Laurie Juspeczyk assumed new identities as "Sam and Sandra Hollis" but continued to fight crime as superheroes. Laurie's arrival fused Watchmen's Tulsa, Oklahoma-set mysteries with the legacy of the graphic novel but it opened up questions about what happened to Nite Owl and Silk Spectre after Ozymandias' giant squid hoax on 11/2/85 saved the world from nuclear war. Now an FBI agent with the Anti-Vigilante Task Force, Blake - the former Silk Spectre - is reluctantly investigating the murder of Tulsa Police Chief Judd Crawford (Don Johnson). The third episode of Watchmen, "She Was Killed By Space Junk", reintroduced Agent Laurie Blake (Jean Smart) into the saga. HBO's Watchmen revealed intriguing new details about what happened to Nite Owl and Silk Spectre in the years after the Watchmen graphic novel ended.
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