She Was Killed by Space Junk

"She Was Killed by Space Junk" is the third episode of the HBO superhero drama miniseries Watchmen, based on the 1986 DC Comics series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.

It introduces the character of Laurie Blake (Jean Smart), formerly the vigilante Silk Spectre but now a member of the FBI's Anti-Vigilante's Task Force.

At the funeral, a Seventh Kavalry member wearing a bomb vest equipped with a dead man's switch emerges from a nearby tomb and seizes Senator Keene.

Laurie uses a hidden gun to kill the hostage taker, and Angela drags his body into Judd's grave and pushes the casket atop it, smothering the explosion.

The Blonde Man issues a defiant response to a written warning from the Game Warden about his imprisonment and signs it "Adrian Veidt", before preparing to return to hunt in his Ozymandias costume.

[2] Lila Byock wrote Blake's scenes so that her level of agency would contrast with the younger Silk Spectre character in the comic book.

[8] The opening of the show features Laurie Blake leading a faked bank robbery to capture the vigilante Mister Shadow, played by Lee Tergesen.

Costume designer Meghan Kasperlik drew out a Batman-like outfit which had included high-tech gadgetry, which became part of Mister Shadow's character as a rich person with too much money using it for crime-fighting.

The site's summary states "Not only does Jean Smart's brilliant performance as the former vigilante turned FBI agent Laurie Blake raise the stakes, but her arrival in Tulsa connects "She Was Killed by Space Junk" to its comic book past in an exciting way.