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: Tim Blake Nelson's performance as Wade Tillman received significant critical praise for its emotional weight.

: The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carly Wray. Director : It was directed by Steph Green. Watchmen 1x5

: 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. : Tim Blake Nelson's performance as Wade Tillman

: 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

" Little Fear of Lightning " is the fifth episode of the Watchmen HBO miniseries, first airing on November 17, 2019. This character-focused installment centers on Wade Tillman, known as the masked detective Looking Glass, and delves into his deep-seated trauma following the 1985 "Squid Attack".

: 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.

: 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.