Caution: Spoilers ahead.

Things are getting a lot weirder on HBO's Watchmen. We learned, as we suspected last week, that Sheriff Judd had some secrets and allegiances that may have precipitated his death. And the showrunners continue to hammer home the moral ambiguity of the people in this world, as the police raid of Nixonville is framed as an unjustified abuse of power and authority.

On a meta level, it's becoming increasingly clear that reading the Watchmen comic is a necessary prerequisite to appreciating and enjoying this show. We're only two episodes deep, and already, we're expected to have at least a general idea of who Ozymandias, Doctor Manhattan, and Rorschach are. And according to next week's previews, we're going to be introduced to Laurie Juspeczyk, formerly Silk Spectre, who's now working as an FBI Agent. Even if you've read the comics, a little refresher certainly couldn't hurt.

Here are some new Watchmen theories, and some reinforcement for some old ones, based on "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship."

1. Will is a very literal man.

Watchmen capped its second episode with a very strange scene in which a giant magnet airlifted Will out of Angela's custody (along with her car). And moving forward, the audience needs to take what Will says or does at face value. He's been shown to have a dark sense of humor when it comes to matters of wordplay.

When he asked Angela if he could lift 200 pounds, he was foreshadowing the hanging that would take place that evening. When he said that the sheriff was hiding something in his closet, he meant his literal closet, which is where Angela found Jud's Ku Klux Klan regalia. And when he said he had friends in high places, it was because he knew that the aircraft, and the magnet, would be coming to save him.

This is now a pattern. It leads one to think that his other lines might be weighed with meaning that we simply can't see yet. For example, when Angela asked for the truth, he responded, "If I told you about it, your head would explode.”

Is Angela going to make it out of this season alive, with a line like that?

2. Painted around the eyes.

Multiple fans have speculated that Will is Hooded Justice, And after episode 2, it's clear that at the very least, there's a connection there. We see that Will's father, who served in World War I, received a German pamphlet that was airdropped from the sky over Europe, discouraging black Americans from the war effort. This pamphlet is the slip of paper from the first episode, on which Will's father wrote "WATCH OVER THIS BOY" following the Tulsa race riots.

In the comics, it's heavily rumored that Hooded Justice was a German bodybuilder, Rolf Muller. This could be a nod towards that rumor--that Will's father had some sort of connection to the Germans (did he cross over to enemy lines?) which was then passed down to Will.

We see a fanciful rendition of Hooded Justice in the show-within-a-show, American Hero Story. In this depiction, Hooded Justice was a white man. But just because he was white in the dramatic depiction doesn't mean he was white in real life. It might be a commentary on the whitewashing of American history.

The camera also lingers on Angela's costume dress-up routine in Episode 2. We see that she paints the area around her eyes, so that no one can tell her skin color. It's probable that Hooded Justice did the same thing; he may have even used light-skinned paint to pass himself off as a white man.

Most notably, the American Hero show posits that the real Hooded Justice put Rolf Muller forward as a patsy. We're not sure who is a reliable narrator and who is not. But the voiceover where he says, “I’m not ready to tell you who I really am. If I did, you wouldn’t watch until the end.” seems directed at us as much as the show's characters.

3. Among The Stars

CBR discusses an interesting theory that Veidt/Ozymandias is currently not on Earth, and is either on Mars with Doctor Manhattan or somewhere else beyond our planet. The theory necessitates that we interpret the camera work; after the police raid of Nixonville, the camera pans up at the sky before cutting to a scene of Veidt at his estate.

It raises another interesting question; is Ozymandias in this castle of his own free will, or is he imprisoned in some fashion? If he's on Mars, is he being imprisoned by Doctor Manhattan? It seemed that Doctor Manhattan and Ozymandias had reached an uneasy truce at the end of the comic. But we don't know if things between them went south afterward.

Either way, the world at large assumes Veidt is dead. And we may see his return to public life before the end of the season.

4. The Watchmaker's Son

Veidt stages a bizarre play about the origin of Doctor Manhattan, which involves burning his butler to death, only to be reborn as the blue and naked superhero. We get some confirmation that these butlers and maids are indeed clones of some sort, since the new butler asks if he should place the corpse of the old butler with the others.

Who is the audience for this play? Assuming he's not doing this solely for his amusement, he might be staging it for the benefit for whoever else might be watching, whether that be Doctor Manhattan (who is clearly mocked in the play) or someone else, who has a vested interest in keeping Veidt under lock and key.

5. Who's the second Kavalry member?

In the flashback to The White Night, we see that there are two Kavalry members that attacked Angela in her home. Angela stabbed the first one with her knife. But the second one had a shotgun pointed at her face when she passed out. She awoke in the hospital later with Sheriff Crawford by her side. In their conversation, neither mentioned the second masked Kavalry member. So who was he?

Based on the Klan outfit in his closet, what if the second shooter was Crawford, and he had second thoughts about killing her? After all, when he recounted Angela's ordeal to her, there was no one else in the room to contradict his narrative. And it's possible that Angela's husband, Cal, didn't realize there was a second gunman in the house; after all, he was just trying to stay alive.

6. Is Topher Doctor Manhattan?

We learn, in Will and Angela's tense conversation, that Doctor Manhattan could not change his appearance to look like someone else--that they know of. It's the sort of throwaway detail that might foreshadow a massive twist: that Doctor Manhattan can change his appearance, and he's currently hiding in plain sight, amongst the characters we've met so far.

So who could Doctor Manhattan be? One wild theory speculates that it could it to be Angela's son, Topher. At the very least, there are thematic echoes between the two of them. Both he and Doctor Manhattan have a thing for castles (and for knocking them down). Topher also has an odd way of talking, and he shows an ability to read Angela's emotions, like when he says, "You wanted to hit him," in the first episode.