Watchmen is still holding things close to chest four episodes in. It's clear that Trieu and Will are planning something … something big that will happen within the next three days. We don't yet know the details of their plot, and that's not important in the end.

That their purpose is what we do understand, or at least part of it. History. Heritage. After they're gone, something has to go on. The end of episode 4 brings up a disquieting notion as well: what if legacy is not the blood you pass on but rather the blood you spill?

“Legacy isn’t in land, it’s in blood,” reclusive trillionaire Lady Trieu tells a farming couple in Watchmen episode 4’s typically enigmatic opening scene.

Trieu has left her massive Millennium Clock sculpture home on the outskirts of Tulsa to arrive at Clark Acres Farms and offer Mr. and Mrs. Clark a very decent proposal. She wants their home and the 40 acres it sits on and in return she’s going to offer them something more important than money (though she’ll offer them that too, $5 million of it to be precise). She’s going to offer them legacy.

“You two have no children,” she tells them. “So when you die, your legacy dies with you.”

Since Lady Trieu made her trillions in the biotech and pharma industry, she is going to give them the child they’ve always wanted. In fact, she’s already created the child they’ve always wanted, a boy harvested from the Clarks’ own genetic material. Enormous HIIPA violation aside, as the three-minute clock that Trieu trickles down to 10 seconds, the Clarks throw themselves at the contract she’s brought and quickly scribble their names on it.