'Watchmen' Episode 5: Adrian Veidt lands on moon and posts SOS message but Game Warden pulls him back
The 'Watchmen episode titled 'Little Fear of Lightning' was packed with surprises and plot twists and Adrian Veidt, aka Ozymandias (Jeremy Irons), trying another time to escape from the Manor where he is held captive. While episode 5 belonged to Wade Tillman, aka Looking Glass (Tim Blake Nelson), we also saw an important development in Veidt's plot. The man finally succeeded in being catapulted to the sky. He lands on a surface that looks like a moon, most possibly Jupiter, considering the planet that Veidt sees once he lands.
He has a rope tied to him that can help him get pulled back into the manor if his experiment failed, but Veidt has successfully worked out all the setbacks that he had previously had when he sent his clone servants to space. Veidt then decides to use the bodies of the clones that landed upon the moon surface to post a message which reads "Save Me, D." He forms the message in the direction of one of Earth's satellites. Is that all of the message or did he call out to Dr. Manhattan? For now, fans are speculating that it is most likely Dr. Manhattan but why would Veidt then send the message in the direction of Earth's satellite? Dr. Manhattan is believed to be on Mars after all.
Then, just when Veidt begins to celebrate his successful attempt at writing out the SOS message, he is firmly pulled back to the Country Manor where he is held captive. The rope that was Veidt's safety net, gets used by the Game Warden to pull him back to the Manor. The Warden who always appears with a face mask on the back of a horse is visibly pissed at Veidt because the Lord of the Country Manor went against the terms that he had agreed to in the first place when he was brought to the Manor.
Veidt, who is also fuming at this point, tells the warden that their God - possibly a reference to Dr. Manhattan - has abandoned them. He is surrounded by multiple clones of Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks as he yells out that their God is not returning. This gets him a beating from a stick that the warden has, who accepts that their God is not returning. Yet, he decides to imprison Veidt.
Now that brings us to the next question. Where can Veidt, who is already a captive in a mysterious place, be imprisoned? Is there a prison cell in the manor that Veidt would be restricted to? Or does this imprisonment hint at something bigger? Considering that Veidt has been missing for a lot longer than the four years that he has spent on the manor, is this prison his last known location? The answer lies in the upcoming episodes of 'Watchmen.'
'Watchmen' episode titled 'This Extraordinary Being' will be aired on November 25 at 9 pm ET on HBO.