Angela Abar starts tripping out, having overdosed on Nostalgia, and finding herself taken back in time to her grandfather’s youth.

It stands to reason that Watchmen is particularly good at handling shifts in timeframes – the manipulation and influence of time is after all at the very heart of its narrative. After last week’s flashback episode, filling us in on Looking Glass’ origins, we step back even further to 1938, where police cadet Reeves has just graduated.

Right from the outset, Will Reeves is a victim of institutionalised racism within the force – the police commissioner won’t even give him his badge at the passing out parade, and it’s evident that there’s a secret society running things behind the scenes, a society that he’s not a part of. A beating by his colleagues and witnessing crooks getting let off for their crimes leads to the emergence of Hooded Justice, the first of the new vigilante superheroes, and he’s not pulling punches.

This show manages to maintain its excellent high quality with another pitch perfect character study, filling in some of the gaps that we’ve wanted to plug from the beginning – just how did old Will get Don Johnson’s Judd Crawford to hang himself? We discover just how corrupt the force had become, and there’s a striking use of monochrome, with the occasional colour element appearing.

Verdict: There’s no Adrian Veidt shenanigans this week, but with a focus on the Minutemen’s leader, it’s a cracking hour of TV. And just look where Angela Abar wakes up after the drug has left her body! 9/10

Nick Joy