in Watchmen, supplementary materials reveals that Dan and Silk Spectre II ended their relationship in the 1990s, as he desired children while she wished to keep fighting crime. They were later arrested in 1995 by the FBI for violating the Keene Act after foiling the Oklahoma City bombing. While Laurie subsequently became a member of the FBI, Dan is still in federal custody. This was confirmed in the episode "She Was Killed by Space Junk", where Senator Joe Keene Jr. notices that Laurie Blake has a pet owl and he states that he can arrange for Dan to be pardoned if he becomes President of the United States. The supplementary materials also reveal that Dan had sent a mocking gift for Laurie in the form of "Excalibur", a vibrator modelled after Doctor Manhattan designed by Dan, in addition to expanding his enterprise by distributing Owlships to various law enforcement agencies through MerlinCorp, a company secretly owned by him. Film Both Nite Owl incarnations appear in Watchmen. Patrick Wilson portrays the second Nite Owl, Dan Dreiberg, and Stephen McHattie portrays the original Nite Owl, Hollis Mason. Mason's murder at the hands of the gang is not featured in the theatrical version, although the director’s cut shows his death. Clint Carleton portrayed the younger Hollis Mason in flashbacks. Video games Nite Owl II appears as a playable character in Watchmen: The End Is Nigh, with Patrick Wilson reprising his role from the film. In popular culture In The Simpsons episode "Husbands and Knives", infant versions of Nite Owl II along with Ozymandias, Dr. Manhattan, and Rorschach are shown riding a surfboard on the cover of a DVD of the fictional film Watchmen Babies in V for Vacation (a parody of Alan Moore's graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta''). References DC Comics male superheroes DC Comics martial artists DC Comics police officers Fictional aviators Fictional characters from New York City Watchmen characters Fictional male detectives Fictional inventors Fictional mechanics Comics characters introduced in 1986 Vigilante characters in comics Jewish superheroes Parodies of Batman Blue Beetle