Watchmen 1x5 May 2026

: Wade is shown a video recorded by Veidt in 1985, intended for future President Robert Redford, in which Veidt confesses to the massacre.

: The episode opens with a 1985 flashback in Hoboken, NJ, showing a young Wade Tillman being humiliated by a teenage girl just as Adrian Veidt's "psychic squid" descends on New York City. While Wade survives due to being in a hall of mirrors, the psychic blast leaves him with lifelong PTSD. Watchmen 1x5

: To save himself and seek "freedom" from his fear, Wade betrays Angela Abar by leading her into a trap that results in her arrest, though he ultimately finds himself targeted by the 7K anyway. Behind the Scenes : Wade is shown a video recorded by