: In the present day, Wade leads support groups for survivors of "Extra-Dimensional Anxiety" and lives in a bunker stocked with security equipment to protect against another attack.
: Tim Blake Nelson's performance as Wade Tillman received significant critical praise for its emotional weight. 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 : In the present day, Wade leads support
: Wade is shown a video recorded by Veidt in 1985, intended for future President Robert Redford, in which Veidt confesses to the massacre. Behind the Scenes : Wade is shown a
: 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.
: The Seventh Kavalry (7K) manipulates Wade into a meeting where Senator Keene reveals a massive secret: the 1985 squid attack was a hoax orchestrated by Adrian Veidt to prevent nuclear war.
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