to the series' events, he launched a series of attacks from alien squids in New York City, New York, killing three million people as part of a larger plan to avert a nuclear war. He makes his debut appearance in the pilot episode, "It's Summer and We're Running Out of Ice", in which he hides in a royal castle in an idyllic countryside on one of the moons of Jupiter years after faking his own death. He has created a race of clones that he uses as his servants, who are unquestioningly loyal to him even as he frequently kills them for sport. In the second episode, he is seen again in his castle, directing a play about Doctor Manhattan and his origins. Eventually, his servants rise up against him and imprison him when he attempts to return to Earth, but one of his clones allows him to escape and board a rocket to Earth. Veidt has a daughter, Trieu, conceived through artificial insemination. Trieu, who inherited Veidt's scientific genius, involves him in a plan to kill Doctor Manhattan and absorb his powers, claiming that she will use them to heal the planet and end all war. Veidt eventually sees through her utopian façade, however, realizing that she is a "raging narcissist" who desires unlimited power for its own sake; he says, "it takes one to know one". With help from FBI agent Laurie Blake and police officers Angela Abat and Wade Tillman, Veidt re-engineers his squids and causes them to rain down on Trieu's base of operations in Tulsa, killing Trieu and destroying the machinery she was going to use to take Manhattan's power. Afterwards, Blake arrests Veidt for crimes against humanity, specifically the earlier squid attacks that killed 3 million people. Veidt protests that his actions served the greater good, but Tillman knocks him unconscious so he and Blake can bring him to justice. Irons was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie for the role. Film Ozymandias appears in Watchmen, portrayed by Matthew Goode. Veidt follows the same course as in the graphic novel with one exception. Instead of creating an alien threat, he triggers the overload and detonation of energy reactors designed by himself and Dr. Manhattan, causing millions of deaths in major cities around the world. By framing Manhattan for the disaster, Ozymandias intends to trick