Warning: SPOILERS for Watchmen.
Irons' character was accidentally confirmed. But all doubt was erased when Veidt donned Ozymandias' costume in Watchmen's third episode, "She Was Killed By Space Junk".
Thus far, Adrian Veidt and his storyline have proven to be the most bizarre aspect of Watchmen. Episode 3 further confirmed that Doctor Manhattan, and experiment on his cloned helpers as he designs what appears to be a means of escape.
Even isolated from the rest of humanity, Adrian Veidt remains incredibly dangerous. With his giant Tulsa, Oklahoma?
Jeremy Irons Is Ozymandias - What That Means
Even at 80 years old, Adrian Veidt is a force to be reckoned with - if he gets free from his captivity. Before he ended up at his current mystery location, Veidt saw his political influence dwindle after he personally helped install Robert Redford as President of the United States in the early 1990s. Before he disappeared, Trieu Industries purchased Veidt's billion-dollar corporation, so Ozymandias has been robbed of his resources. But Veidt retains his intellect and his ruthlessness.
Judging from Veidt's experiments seen in Watchmen episode 3, he's deg some kind of contraption and a makeshift environmental suit, which he might be intending to use for his escape from confinement. Veidt made Phillips wear his hazard suit but it failed to keep the clone from freezing solid, as if Phillips was exposed to the vacuum of space. If Veidt is indeed trying to conjure a means of escape, then he likely has a greater plan in mind for when he returns to Watchmen's outside world. Ozymandias, who models himself after Alexander the Great, is a self-styled hero with a twisted savior complex. He already 'saved the world' once, so perhaps he intends to save it again from a new threat, but what that menace could be remains to be seen.
Who Is Watchmen's Game Warden?
Watchmen episode 3 also introduced an immediate nemesis for Adrian Veidt: the Game Warden. A masked figure on horseback, the Game Warden fired a warning shot at Veidt after he killed a buffalo. Later, the Warden sent Adrian a threatening letter, albeit a polite one. However, the Game Warden doesn't just protect the animals on Veidt's sprawling property, he's evidently also Veidt's jailer. Ozymandias and the Game Warden agreed to when Veidt arrived at his stately prison and the Warden correctly believes that Veidt is violating those with his experiments, which indicates he plans to escape.
The Game Warden's identity is unknown, but judging from his appearance, he is a Caucasian male and, from the text of his letter, evidently British. Since Veidt has no plans to stop continuing his experiments, he intends to provoke the Game Warden's ire, so a confrontation between him and Ozymandias is likely coming in a future Watchmen episode.
Watchmen airs Sundays @ 9pm on HBO.
