Watchmen: Chapter II

Why tonight?

• ◆Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
• ◆It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.

The story

Suspicious of the events ensnaring their former colleagues, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre are spurred out of retirement to investigate. As they grapple with personal ethics, inner demons and a society turned against them, they race the clock to uncover a deepening plot that might trigger global nuclear war.

• nuclear war
• secret identity
• retirement
• based on comic
• conspiracy
• alternate history
• masked vigilante
• doomsday clock
• 1980s