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of you clings... Nostalgia...
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Coming up
on the Benny Anger show,
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crime and punishment in America
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since the Keene Act
banned masked vigilantes,
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but first, we ask
the average citizen,
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"Is our society now safer
without those so-called
superheroes?"
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I don't miss the masks.
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They stirred up more trouble
than they were worth.
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The only
good ones were the Minutemen
back in the '40s.
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The blue guy, Manhattan,
he scares me,
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but, but then he scares
the Reds too,
so I ain't complainin'.
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Meh, America never really
took to superheroes.
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Took to superheroes,
took to superheroes.
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Rorschach's Journal.
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October 12th, 1985.
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Dog carcass in alley
this morning,
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tire tread on burst stomach.
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This city is afraid of me.
I have seen its true face.
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The streets
are extended gutters,
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and the gutters
are full of blood,
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and when the drains
finally scab over,
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all the vermin will drown.
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Hey! What are ya, blind?
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You're walkin'
through blood here!
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The accumulated filth
of all their sex and murder
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will foam up about their waists
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and all the whores
and politicians will
look up and shout,
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save us!
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And I'll look down
and whisper, no.
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They had a choice.
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They could have followed
in the footsteps of good men.
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Decent men who believed in
a day's work for a day's pay.
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Instead, they followed
the droppings of lechers
and communists.
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Now the whole world stands
on the brink,
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staring down into bloody hell,
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all those intellectuals
and smooth talkers...
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And all of a sudden nobody can
think of anything to say.
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Hmm, that's quite a drop.
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So what do you think
happened here?
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Door chain was fastened
on the inside.
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Busting it down would
take two guys.
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Or one guy on serious drugs.
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I saw the body.
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This Blake guy looked beefy
enough to protect himself.
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Muscles like a weight lifter.
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He would've put up
some kind of fight.
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Maybe it was a couple
of Knot-Tops and they just
overpowered him.
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Background report said
he's been doing overseas
diplomatic work for years...
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Lotta classy expense
account living.
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Maybe he just got soft.
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He don't look
too soft in this photo.
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Wonder how he got that scar.
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Oh, he's shaking hands
with Vice President Ford here.
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I think we can rule him out
as a suspect.
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Oh, ha ha.
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That'd be funny if we had
any better leads to go on.
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I mean, what is this?
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A little money stolen,
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but no way is this
a straight burglary.
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Ah, somebody really
had it in for this guy.
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How else did he go
outta the window?
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Maybe he tripped against it.
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That's strong glass, man.
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You'd have to be thrown.
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Ground floor comin' up.
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Y'know, this could be
just a simple burglary.
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Crazy things happen
in a city this size.
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They don't all need motives.
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So you're saying...
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Let's not raise too much dust
over this one.
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We don't need any
masked avengers cutting in.
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Oy! Here we go!
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You take this vigilante
stuff too seriously.
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Ever since the
Keene Act passed in '77,
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only the government
sponsored weirdos are active.
They don't interfere.
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Rorschach never retired!
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Even after him and his buddies
fell outta grace.
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He's still out there somewhere.
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He's crazier
than a snake's armpit
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and wanted on
two counts murder one.
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We've got a cozy
little homicide here.
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If Rorschach gets involved,
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we'll be up to our butts
in corpses.
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Huh.
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Hmm.
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So there I was
in the supermarket
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buying dog food
for old Phantom here...
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I turn the corner and WHAM!
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I bump into
the Screaming Skull.
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You remember him?
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I heard you mention him...
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Put him away a dozen times.
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He'd reformed
and turned to Jesus.
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Married, two kids.
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We traded addresses. Nice guy.
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Oh, Hollis, almost midnight.
I outta go.
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Oh, sure, Dan,
lost track of the time there,
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talking about
all that old stuff.
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You must be bored as hell.
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You know better than that.
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These Saturday night
beer sessions are what
keep me going.
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You know, it was a cryin' shame
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they put you youngsters out
to grass in '77.
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You were a better Nite Owl
than I ever was.
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Hollis, we both know that's
bullshit. But thank you anyway.
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Hey, watch the language!
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This is the left hook
that floored Captain Axis, remember?
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Goodnight!
Don't forget to lock up
and take care of yourself.
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You too, Danny. God bless.
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Hmm.
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Where you goin' pig?
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- The party's right here!
- Oh yeah!
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Hit us with more
of those Katie's, Derf!
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Yeah, I'm comin' down
already, man.
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You never
could keep it up.
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Hey, let's go break
some shit, huh!
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- I wanna get crazy!
- Aw, yeah!
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Call up your boys, Derf!
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Fire it up!
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Hello, Daniel.
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- Rorschach?
- Got hungry waiting.
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Helped myself to some beans.
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Hope you don't mind.
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No, no of course I don't mind.
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You want me to heat
those up for you?
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No need. Fine like this.
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So... long time no see.
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How've you been keeping?
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Out of prison, so far.
Take a look at this.
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This stain...
is that bean juice or--
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Yeah... human bean juice.
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Badge belonged to the Comedian.
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Blood too. He's dead.
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Wait. The Comedian?
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Investigated
a routine homicide.
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Victim named Edward Blake.
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Found the costume
in Blake's wardrobe.
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Seems he was the Comedian.
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Somebody threw him
out of a window.
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Um, maybe we should
talk about this
down in my workshop.
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Right down this way.
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You haven't been
down here in a while.
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Neither have you. Lots of dust.
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Oh!
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Uh, listen...
about the Comedian,
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might it have been
just an ordinary
burglary or something?
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Maybe the killer didn't
even know who Blake was.
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An ordinary burglar?
Kill the Comedian?
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Ridiculous.
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Well, I hear he'd been working
for the government since '77,
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knocking over Marxist republics
in South America.
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- Maybe this was
a political killing.
- Maybe.
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Or maybe someone's
picking off costumed heroes.
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Don't you think that's
maybe a little paranoid?
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That what they're
saying about me now?
That I'm paranoid?
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The Comedian was active
for 40 years.
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Men make a lot of enemies
in that time.
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How's your friend Hollis Mason
these days?
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Hollis? What does he--
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They were both Minutemen,
when Blake was 16
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and Hollis
was the first Nite Owl.
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Hollis said some bad things
about the Comedian
in that book he wrote.
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I don't like what
you're implying.
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Hollis is an old man,
and he's my friend.
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If you're thinking of going
over there and scaring him--
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Implying nothing,
only an observation.
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I just wanted to let you know,
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in case someone's
gunning for masks.
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Better go now.
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Things to do.
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The tunnel will bring you out
to a warehouse two blocks
north--
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I remember.
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Used to come here often
back when we were partners.
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Those were great times, Rorschach.
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- Whatever happened to them?
- You quit.
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We want cops! No more costumes!
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Listen, you little punks!
You better get back
in your rat holes!
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I got riot gas,
I got rubber bullets--
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- There's no need for this!
- Fuck you, Owl!
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The police strike is being
negotiated right now!
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You vigilantes belong in jail!
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My son's a police officer,
you freaks!
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Call yourself a Comedian?
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More like pig and rapist!
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Okay, that does it!
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Oh my God,
he just shot him!
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God, look, I'm sorry.
You haven't left us any choice.
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This stuff is dangerous.
Please clear the streets!
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Look at 'em!
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Run, you suckers!
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This is a nightmare!
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The whole country's
erupting like this.
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How long can we keep this up?
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My contacts say
Senator Keene's act is
gonna shut us all down.
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Until then, we're society's
only protection.
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Protection? From who?
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From themselves.
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What-- What happened
to the American dream?
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It came true.
You're looking at it.
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Now let's really put
these jokers through
some changes.
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Rorschach's Journal.
October 13th, 1985.
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Slept all day. Awakened
by landlady complaining
about the smell.
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She has five children
by five different fathers.
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I'm sure she cheats on welfare.
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Soon it will be dark.
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On Friday night,
a Comedian died in New York.
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Somebody knows why.
Somebody knows.
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Get lost, you creep!
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I believe I shall
take my exercise.
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Huh, Rorschach!
Hey, how you doin', fella?
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I'm fine, Happy Harry.
Yourself?
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I'm fine! I'm fine!
Just fine and... uh...
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Oh, God,
please don't kill anybody.
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Guy went sidewalk diving
Friday night.
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I don't think he was alone
when it happened.
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His name was Edward Blake.
Friend of mine.
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You hear that?
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He's got friends.
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Must've changed his deodorant!
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I... I didn't mean
anything, I--
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I've just broken
this gentleman's little finger.
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Who killed Edward Blake?
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Who killed Edward Blake?
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And his index finger.
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- Who killed Edward Blake?
- We don't know.
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Please, God, leave him alone!
We don't know!
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No. No, no, no, no, no, no!
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Nobody knew anything.
Feeling slightly depressed.
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I leave the human cockroaches
to discuss their heroin
and child pornography.
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I have business
with a better class of person.
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The Comedian is dead? Why?
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You're supposed to be
the world's smartest man,
Veidt. You tell me.
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I never claimed to be
anybody special, Rorschach.
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I just have some
over-enthusiastic P.R. men.
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Perhaps it was
a political killing.
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- Maybe the Soviets...
- Dreiberg said the same.
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America has Dr. Manhattan.
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Reds would never
dare antagonize us.
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I think we've got
a mask-killer.
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The Comedian had
plenty of other
political enemies,
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even discounting the Russians.
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The man was practically a Nazi.
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He stood up for his country.
Never let anyone retire him.
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Never cashed in
on his reputation.
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Never set up a company
selling posters and diet books
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and toy soldiers
based on himself.
249
00:18:09,523 --> 00:18:12,178
Never became a prostitute.
250
00:18:12,352 --> 00:18:16,095
If that makes him a Nazi,
you might as well call me
a Nazi too.
251
00:18:17,357 --> 00:18:18,140
Rorschach...
252
00:18:19,576 --> 00:18:21,578
I know we were never friends,
253
00:18:21,752 --> 00:18:24,146
but even so
you're being unfair.
254
00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:26,192
Nobody retired me.
255
00:18:26,366 --> 00:18:28,716
I chose to quit adventuring
and go public
256
00:18:28,890 --> 00:18:31,719
two years before
the police strike made
the Keene Act necessary.
257
00:18:31,893 --> 00:18:33,677
Yes. Good timing.
258
00:18:33,851 --> 00:18:36,158
I came here to warn you
about the mask-killer
259
00:18:36,332 --> 00:18:39,640
so you don't end up
the smartest man
in the morgue.
260
00:18:39,814 --> 00:18:41,816
But I guess there's
worse things to end up as.
261
00:18:44,166 --> 00:18:45,124
Be seeing you.
262
00:18:48,214 --> 00:18:49,128
Sure.
263
00:18:49,954 --> 00:18:50,955
Have a nice day.
264
00:18:57,919 --> 00:19:03,272
Now, I want to thank everyone
for coming to the first meeting
of the Crimebusters.
265
00:19:03,446 --> 00:19:06,188
For those who know me
only as Captain Metropolis,
266
00:19:06,362 --> 00:19:08,538
the name's Nelson Gardner.
267
00:19:08,712 --> 00:19:10,366
Call me Nelson.
268
00:19:12,629 --> 00:19:15,154
As you know, this country
hasn't had an organization
269
00:19:15,328 --> 00:19:18,026
of masked adventurers
in over 20 years,
270
00:19:18,200 --> 00:19:20,507
since the Minutemen
were disbanded.
271
00:19:20,681 --> 00:19:23,510
Specialized law enforcement
is standing still.
272
00:19:23,684 --> 00:19:26,121
Crime isn't.
273
00:19:26,295 --> 00:19:29,298
New social evils emerge
every day:
274
00:19:29,472 --> 00:19:33,259
promiscuity, drugs,
campus subversion, you name it.
275
00:19:33,433 --> 00:19:36,653
But, by banding together
as Crimebusters,
276
00:19:36,827 --> 00:19:38,438
- we can make a--
- Bullshit.
277
00:19:39,395 --> 00:19:41,180
We're all livin' in 1966
278
00:19:41,354 --> 00:19:43,660
while you're
still stuck in '49.
279
00:19:43,834 --> 00:19:45,314
This is all about
you getting old
280
00:19:45,488 --> 00:19:48,230
but still wanting to play
cowboys and Indians.
281
00:19:48,404 --> 00:19:50,841
Th--That's-- That is not true.
282
00:19:51,015 --> 00:19:54,062
Uh, no reason to just
throw the idea away.
283
00:19:54,236 --> 00:19:56,760
Me and Rorschach have
made great headway
into the gang problem
284
00:19:56,934 --> 00:19:58,675
by pooling our efforts.
285
00:19:58,849 --> 00:20:01,939
But a group this size seems
more like a publicity exercise.
286
00:20:02,113 --> 00:20:03,463
Too big and unwieldy.
287
00:20:03,637 --> 00:20:05,378
That's just
an organizational problem.
288
00:20:05,552 --> 00:20:07,206
With the right person
coordinating the group--
289
00:20:07,380 --> 00:20:11,166
Oh, and who would that be?
Any ideas, Ozzy?
290
00:20:11,340 --> 00:20:15,170
I mean, you are the smartest
man in the world, right?
291
00:20:15,344 --> 00:20:18,086
It doesn't take
a genius to see that
America has problems
292
00:20:18,260 --> 00:20:19,827
that need tackling.
293
00:20:20,001 --> 00:20:21,698
And it takes a moron to think
they're small enough
294
00:20:21,872 --> 00:20:23,700
for clowns like you guys
to handle.
295
00:20:23,874 --> 00:20:26,181
None of the world's problems
are insurmountable.
296
00:20:26,355 --> 00:20:30,620
What's going down
in this world, you got no idea!
297
00:20:35,973 --> 00:20:38,367
Believe me.
298
00:20:38,541 --> 00:20:41,196
You people hear Moloch's back
in town and you think,
299
00:20:41,370 --> 00:20:44,373
"Oh, boy! Let's gang up
and bust him!"
300
00:20:44,547 --> 00:20:47,115
Like that matters.
301
00:20:47,289 --> 00:20:49,030
It doesn't mean squat!
302
00:20:49,204 --> 00:20:53,426
In 30 years the nukes are
gonna be flying like maybugs...
303
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:55,602
My map!
304
00:20:55,776 --> 00:21:00,998
And Ozzy here is gonna be
the smartest man on the cinder.
305
00:21:03,044 --> 00:21:04,872
Jon, I'd like to go home now.
306
00:21:05,046 --> 00:21:06,308
- Please.
- Listen, Nelson,
307
00:21:06,482 --> 00:21:08,702
maybe this isn't
the best idea...
308
00:21:08,876 --> 00:21:11,270
No, wait, don't leave.
309
00:21:11,444 --> 00:21:13,141
Somebody has to do it...
310
00:21:13,315 --> 00:21:15,404
Somebody has to save the world!
311
00:21:57,968 --> 00:22:00,754
Meeting with Veidt
left bad taste in mouth.
312
00:22:00,928 --> 00:22:02,973
He is pampered and decadent,
313
00:22:03,147 --> 00:22:06,455
betraying even his own shallow,
liberal affectations.
314
00:22:06,629 --> 00:22:08,979
Dreiberg just as bad.
315
00:22:09,153 --> 00:22:11,765
A flabby failure whimpering
in his basement.
316
00:22:11,939 --> 00:22:14,637
Why are there so few
of the Minutemen left active,
317
00:22:14,811 --> 00:22:18,293
healthy and without
personality disorders?
318
00:22:18,467 --> 00:22:21,296
The first Nite Owl runs
an auto repair shop.
319
00:22:21,470 --> 00:22:24,734
Captain Metropolis
was decapitated
in a car crash.
320
00:22:27,737 --> 00:22:31,001
The first Silk Specter
is a bloated, aging whore...
321
00:22:31,175 --> 00:22:34,178
Dying in a California
rest resort.
322
00:22:34,353 --> 00:22:37,138
Mothman's in an asylum
up in Maine.
323
00:22:37,312 --> 00:22:39,836
The Silhouette retired
in disgrace.
324
00:22:40,010 --> 00:22:44,188
Murdered six weeks later
by a minor adversary
seeking revenge.
325
00:22:44,363 --> 00:22:46,234
Dollar Bill got shot.
326
00:22:46,408 --> 00:22:48,932
Hooded Justice went missing.
327
00:22:49,106 --> 00:22:50,934
The Comedian is dead.
328
00:22:51,108 --> 00:22:53,589
And now I must tell
the indestructible man
329
00:22:53,763 --> 00:22:55,809
that someone
plans to murder him.
330
00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:04,905
Good evening, Rorschach.
331
00:23:05,079 --> 00:23:06,733
Good evening, Dr. Manhattan.
332
00:23:11,346 --> 00:23:13,304
What're you doing here,
Rorschach?
333
00:23:13,479 --> 00:23:15,655
Aren't you still wanted
by the police?
334
00:23:15,829 --> 00:23:17,570
Good evening, Miss Jupiter.
335
00:23:17,744 --> 00:23:19,136
That's Juspeczyk.
336
00:23:19,310 --> 00:23:21,922
Jupiter was my mother's
publicity name.
337
00:23:22,096 --> 00:23:23,532
Apologies.
338
00:23:23,706 --> 00:23:26,013
Came to warn you both
and bring bad news.
339
00:23:26,187 --> 00:23:27,797
The Comedian is dead.
340
00:23:27,971 --> 00:23:30,800
Yes. He and I are the only
two extranormal operatives
341
00:23:30,974 --> 00:23:34,369
employed by the government,
so I was informed at once.
342
00:23:34,543 --> 00:23:36,850
You don't seem too concerned
about Blake's death.
343
00:23:37,024 --> 00:23:40,941
A live body and a dead body
contain the same number
of particles.
344
00:23:41,115 --> 00:23:43,552
Structurally there's no
discernible difference.
345
00:23:43,726 --> 00:23:47,426
Life and death
are unquantifiable abstracts.
346
00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,036
Why should I be concerned?
347
00:23:49,210 --> 00:23:51,255
Besides, Blake was a monster.
348
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,736
You know he tried to rape
my mother when they were
both Minutemen?
349
00:23:53,910 --> 00:23:56,304
I'm not here to speculate
on the moral lapses
350
00:23:56,478 --> 00:23:59,220
of men who died
in their country's service.
I came to warn--
351
00:23:59,394 --> 00:24:02,441
Moral lapses?
He broke her ribs! He--
352
00:24:05,095 --> 00:24:07,228
Jon, get this creep
out of here.
353
00:24:08,925 --> 00:24:10,710
You seem to be
upsetting Laurie.
354
00:24:10,884 --> 00:24:12,276
I think you ought to go.
355
00:24:12,451 --> 00:24:13,843
With respect, Dr. Manhattan,
356
00:24:14,017 --> 00:24:15,932
I believe someone
is eliminating masks.
357
00:24:16,106 --> 00:24:18,152
I warned Veidt and Dreiberg
and I intend--
358
00:24:18,326 --> 00:24:20,154
I said I think you ought to go.
359
00:24:20,328 --> 00:24:21,590
Not before I've had my--
360
00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:24,463
Say.
361
00:24:30,991 --> 00:24:31,992
Hmm.
362
00:24:37,476 --> 00:24:40,304
He's gone. Are you still upset?
363
00:24:41,784 --> 00:24:42,611
Jon?
364
00:24:44,657 --> 00:24:47,877
Hey, I was thinking,
365
00:24:48,051 --> 00:24:50,924
I must be really on edge
to let a maggot like Rorschach
get to me like that.
366
00:24:51,098 --> 00:24:52,229
Maybe we--
367
00:24:53,970 --> 00:24:56,495
Maybe I could use a night out.
368
00:24:57,974 --> 00:25:00,063
Rorschach mentioned
Dan Dreiberg.
369
00:25:00,237 --> 00:25:02,152
Haven't seen him in years.
370
00:25:02,326 --> 00:25:04,764
Maybe I'll call him up,
ask him to dinner.
371
00:25:06,635 --> 00:25:08,724
If you don't mind, that is.
372
00:25:08,898 --> 00:25:09,986
Of course not.
373
00:25:16,819 --> 00:25:19,518
It is October, 1985.
374
00:25:19,692 --> 00:25:21,476
I am close to locating
a gluino,
375
00:25:21,650 --> 00:25:24,261
which would completely validate
super symmetrical theory.
376
00:25:29,484 --> 00:25:32,008
It is May, 1971.
377
00:25:40,016 --> 00:25:43,672
Having been asked to intervene
in Vietnam by President Nixon,
378
00:25:43,846 --> 00:25:47,328
I am deployed alongside
Edward Blake, the Comedian.
379
00:25:49,199 --> 00:25:52,246
I have never met anyone
so deliberately amoral.
380
00:25:54,291 --> 00:25:56,816
What Vietnam implies
about the human condition,
381
00:25:56,990 --> 00:26:00,384
few humans will permit
themselves to understand.
382
00:26:00,559 --> 00:26:02,604
But Blake is different.
383
00:26:02,778 --> 00:26:04,693
He understands perfectly.
384
00:26:05,825 --> 00:26:07,174
And he doesn't care.
385
00:26:09,568 --> 00:26:13,397
The average
Vietnamese doesn't give
a damn who won this war.
386
00:26:13,572 --> 00:26:16,487
But it means plenty
to the US of A.
387
00:26:16,662 --> 00:26:20,970
If we'd lost, I think
it might've driven
the country a little crazy.
388
00:26:21,144 --> 00:26:23,756
Thanks to you, we didn't.
389
00:26:23,930 --> 00:26:25,627
Yet you sound so bitter.
390
00:26:25,801 --> 00:26:29,022
You have some strange attitudes
toward life and war.
391
00:26:29,196 --> 00:26:30,589
Strange?
392
00:26:30,763 --> 00:26:32,634
Once you figure out
everything's a joke,
393
00:26:32,808 --> 00:26:35,637
being a Comedian
is the only thing
that makes sense.
394
00:26:35,811 --> 00:26:37,160
The charred villages,
395
00:26:37,334 --> 00:26:40,599
the boys with necklaces
of human ears...
396
00:26:40,773 --> 00:26:43,079
these are part of the joke?
397
00:26:43,253 --> 00:26:45,560
Never said it was a good joke.
398
00:26:45,734 --> 00:26:48,650
I'm just playing
along with the gag.
Same as him.
399
00:26:48,824 --> 00:26:53,002
First press helicopter
into Saigon since
the cease fire.
400
00:26:53,176 --> 00:26:56,005
Oh, he's got the next election
in the bag.
401
00:26:56,179 --> 00:26:59,618
Me, I'm taking
the first chopper out.
402
00:27:00,444 --> 00:27:02,490
I hate this place.
403
00:27:02,664 --> 00:27:07,538
The temperature, the smell,
this rotten, cheap bourbon--
404
00:27:07,713 --> 00:27:09,976
- Mr. Eddie?
- Oh, God.
405
00:27:11,542 --> 00:27:14,763
Now war is over,
I must talk to you.
406
00:27:14,937 --> 00:27:17,374
Nothing to talk about.
I'm leaving.
407
00:27:17,548 --> 00:27:19,115
And... and what of me?
408
00:27:19,289 --> 00:27:23,380
I cannot just walk away
from what grow in my belly.
409
00:27:23,554 --> 00:27:24,947
- I cannot forget!
- Too bad,
410
00:27:25,121 --> 00:27:26,906
because that's what
I intend to do.
411
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:28,385
Forget you,
412
00:27:28,559 --> 00:27:30,257
your cruddy little country,
all of it.
413
00:27:33,434 --> 00:27:35,349
I do not think so.
414
00:27:35,523 --> 00:27:38,526
I think you remember me
and my country.
415
00:27:38,700 --> 00:27:41,921
You remember
as long as you live.
416
00:27:45,576 --> 00:27:46,795
My face!
417
00:27:48,275 --> 00:27:50,843
Filthy, stinking,
418
00:27:51,017 --> 00:27:52,627
- worthless...
- Blake, don't--
419
00:27:55,543 --> 00:27:58,807
Medic. Gotta find
a goddamn medic.
420
00:27:58,981 --> 00:28:00,374
She was pregnant.
421
00:28:00,548 --> 00:28:02,071
- You gunned her down.
- That's right.
422
00:28:02,245 --> 00:28:03,551
And you know what?
423
00:28:03,725 --> 00:28:05,031
You watched me.
424
00:28:05,205 --> 00:28:06,989
You coulda turned
the gun into steam,
425
00:28:07,163 --> 00:28:10,384
the bullets into mercury
or the bottle into snowflakes!
426
00:28:10,558 --> 00:28:12,560
You coulda teleported her
to goddamn Australia,
427
00:28:12,734 --> 00:28:15,171
but you didn't lift a finger.
428
00:28:15,345 --> 00:28:17,478
You let it happen.
429
00:28:17,652 --> 00:28:19,219
I've watched you.
430
00:28:19,393 --> 00:28:22,570
You don't really give a damn
about human beings.
431
00:28:22,744 --> 00:28:23,832
You never cared
about Janey Slater
432
00:28:24,006 --> 00:28:26,139
even before you ditched her.
433
00:28:26,313 --> 00:28:31,187
Soon you won't be
interested in Sally Jupiter's
little gal, either.
434
00:28:31,361 --> 00:28:33,407
You're drifting
outta touch, Doc.
435
00:28:34,277 --> 00:28:35,975
God help us all.
436
00:28:53,644 --> 00:28:55,298
- Hello?
- H-hello?
437
00:28:55,472 --> 00:28:57,779
- Dan? Uh, this is--
- Laurie?
438
00:28:57,953 --> 00:28:59,563
Laurie Juspeczyk!
439
00:28:59,738 --> 00:29:03,829
Hey, it's been awhile.
How-- How are you?
440
00:29:07,136 --> 00:29:10,183
Rorschach's Journal. 11:30 p.m.
441
00:29:10,357 --> 00:29:13,055
Yesterday a Comedian died
in New York.
442
00:29:13,229 --> 00:29:15,144
Nobody cares but me.
443
00:29:15,318 --> 00:29:18,234
Are they right? Is it futile?
444
00:29:18,408 --> 00:29:20,149
Soon there will be war.
445
00:29:20,323 --> 00:29:24,066
Millions will perish and burn
in sickness and misery.
446
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,722
Why does one death matter
against so many?
447
00:29:27,896 --> 00:29:30,246
Because there is good,
and there is evil,
448
00:29:30,420 --> 00:29:34,033
and evil must be punished.
449
00:29:34,207 --> 00:29:39,168
Even in the face of Armageddon
I shall not compromise on this.
450
00:29:39,342 --> 00:29:43,042
But there are so many
deserving of retribution,
451
00:29:43,216 --> 00:29:44,565
and so little time.
452
00:29:52,268 --> 00:29:54,618
Oh wow, look at the time.
It's getting pretty late.
453
00:29:54,793 --> 00:29:57,926
Oh, I'm in
no hurry to get back.
454
00:29:58,100 --> 00:29:59,667
The government
only keeps me around
455
00:29:59,841 --> 00:30:02,017
so Jon stays relaxed and happy.
456
00:30:04,150 --> 00:30:07,022
Is, uh, everything okay
with you two?
457
00:30:07,196 --> 00:30:09,503
Fine. Couldn't be better.
458
00:30:12,985 --> 00:30:17,250
It's just, I'm 35, Dan,
459
00:30:17,424 --> 00:30:22,037
and all I can think is...
what have I done with my life?
460
00:30:22,211 --> 00:30:24,561
I've spent
eight years semi-retired,
461
00:30:24,735 --> 00:30:28,435
preceded by 10 years
running around
in a stupid costume
462
00:30:28,609 --> 00:30:31,394
because my stupid mother
wanted me to.
463
00:30:31,568 --> 00:30:35,877
Short skirt, neckline going
all the way down to my navel...
464
00:30:36,051 --> 00:30:40,447
- so dreadful.
- Oh, yeah... dreadful.
465
00:30:40,621 --> 00:30:43,406
The Keene Act
was the best thing that
ever happened to us.
466
00:30:44,930 --> 00:30:48,107
Yeah, you're probably right.
467
00:30:55,766 --> 00:30:57,681
Hey, remember that guy
468
00:30:57,856 --> 00:30:59,683
who used to pretend to be
a super-villain
469
00:30:59,858 --> 00:31:01,163
so he could get beaten up?
470
00:31:01,337 --> 00:31:04,514
Oh, um...
Captain Carnage!
471
00:31:04,688 --> 00:31:07,126
Yes!
472
00:31:07,300 --> 00:31:09,432
Ya know, I caught him
running out of a jewelers.
473
00:31:09,606 --> 00:31:10,956
I didn't know
what his racket was,
474
00:31:11,130 --> 00:31:12,871
so I start hitting him
and I'm thinking,
475
00:31:13,045 --> 00:31:15,438
"Jeez, he's breathing
awfully hard."
476
00:31:15,612 --> 00:31:17,571
"Maybe he has asthma."
477
00:31:17,745 --> 00:31:19,051
He tried that
with me too,
478
00:31:19,225 --> 00:31:21,357
but I'd heard about him,
so I walked away.
479
00:31:21,531 --> 00:31:24,012
He followed me down the street
saying "Punish me!"
480
00:31:24,186 --> 00:31:26,145
I'm saying, "No, get lost!"
481
00:31:26,319 --> 00:31:29,235
What ever
happened to him?
482
00:31:29,409 --> 00:31:30,889
He--
he pulled that on Rorschach
483
00:31:31,063 --> 00:31:33,065
and Rorschach dropped him
down an elevator shaft.
484
00:31:36,633 --> 00:31:39,288
Oh, God,
that's not funny.
485
00:31:39,462 --> 00:31:43,336
No, no, I guess not...
486
00:31:45,512 --> 00:31:46,687
That felt good.
487
00:31:49,211 --> 00:31:51,170
Not a lot of laughs around
these days.
488
00:31:51,344 --> 00:31:53,694
Well, what do you expect?
489
00:31:54,695 --> 00:31:56,131
The Comedian is dead.
490
00:32:08,448 --> 00:32:10,189
Oh, look at her,
491
00:32:10,363 --> 00:32:14,106
pretty as a picture
and still keeping her figure.
492
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:18,066
So what brings you
to the city of the dead?
493
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,895
Being lazy isn't
a terminal condition, mother,
494
00:32:21,069 --> 00:32:23,463
so spare me
the city of the dead crap.
495
00:32:23,637 --> 00:32:24,464
Brought you some flowers.
496
00:32:24,638 --> 00:32:27,423
Oh, big spender!
497
00:32:27,597 --> 00:32:28,511
So where's Jon?
498
00:32:30,122 --> 00:32:33,777
He had to go to some
official funeral.
499
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,215
Made him put on pants
and everything.
500
00:32:36,389 --> 00:32:39,870
I didn't feel like going
so he transported me
here to California.
501
00:32:40,045 --> 00:32:42,482
Teleporting
always makes me sick.
502
00:32:42,656 --> 00:32:44,832
It's Eddie Blake's funeral,
isn't it?
503
00:32:45,006 --> 00:32:47,443
I saw in the paper.
He got murdered.
504
00:32:48,967 --> 00:32:50,446
Poor Eddie.
505
00:32:50,620 --> 00:32:52,274
How can you say "Poor Eddie"
after he almost--
506
00:32:52,448 --> 00:32:55,364
What happened was 40 years ago.
507
00:32:56,365 --> 00:32:57,976
It's history.
508
00:32:58,150 --> 00:33:02,154
Gettin' old, you get
a different perspective.
509
00:33:02,328 --> 00:33:05,896
The big stuff
looks smaller somehow.
510
00:33:06,071 --> 00:33:10,162
Ya know, that makes just
three of us Minutemen left now.
511
00:33:10,336 --> 00:33:14,775
Me, Hollis and poor Byron
at the asylum in Maine.
512
00:33:14,949 --> 00:33:16,690
Eddie was the youngest.
513
00:33:16,864 --> 00:33:18,561
The Comedian.
514
00:33:18,735 --> 00:33:21,869
Always jokin'
that he'd bury us all.
515
00:33:22,043 --> 00:33:24,872
Always thought
he'd get the last...
516
00:33:25,046 --> 00:33:28,484
laugh.
517
00:33:28,658 --> 00:33:31,270
You and Jon oughta
move out here for the weather.
518
00:33:31,444 --> 00:33:33,141
Lots of sunshine!
519
00:33:33,315 --> 00:33:34,838
What the hell is this?
520
00:33:35,013 --> 00:33:36,971
What are you doing
with this creepy pervert art?
521
00:33:37,145 --> 00:33:39,539
Oh, just some old memorabilia.
522
00:33:39,713 --> 00:33:42,411
Being reminded
that people used to
slobber over me
523
00:33:42,585 --> 00:33:44,935
- is kind of flattering.
- Flattering?
524
00:33:45,110 --> 00:33:48,243
Laurie, I'm 65.
525
00:33:48,417 --> 00:33:52,204
Every day the future
looks a little bit darker.
526
00:33:53,161 --> 00:33:54,510
But the past...
527
00:33:54,684 --> 00:33:56,947
even the grimy parts of it,
528
00:33:58,427 --> 00:34:00,386
keep getting brighter
all the time.
529
00:34:07,306 --> 00:34:09,569
Okay, that's it!
Nice picture, folks!
530
00:34:09,743 --> 00:34:12,006
Finally,
I can scratch my armpit.
531
00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:13,747
Got spots in my eyes.
532
00:34:13,921 --> 00:34:15,227
Here lemme take a look,
533
00:34:15,401 --> 00:34:17,751
maybe I can
fish 'em out for you.
534
00:34:17,925 --> 00:34:21,189
Oh, Eddie,
give me a break.
535
00:34:21,363 --> 00:34:22,582
Okay everybody,
we're good.
536
00:34:22,756 --> 00:34:24,366
So let's meet
in the lobby in five.
537
00:34:24,540 --> 00:34:25,585
We'll go back
to the Owl's Nest
for a beer.
538
00:34:25,759 --> 00:34:28,196
You go on ahead,
I gotta change.
539
00:34:46,258 --> 00:34:47,563
- Hi.
- Eddie,
540
00:34:47,737 --> 00:34:49,087
what are you doing here?
541
00:34:49,261 --> 00:34:50,566
You knew I was changing...
542
00:34:50,740 --> 00:34:53,787
Sure did. You announced it
loud enough.
543
00:34:53,961 --> 00:34:57,878
C'mon, baby.
I know what you need...
544
00:34:58,052 --> 00:35:00,750
know why you wear
an outfit like that.
545
00:35:00,924 --> 00:35:02,665
Eddie, no--
546
00:35:02,839 --> 00:35:05,799
Spelled Y-E-S.
547
00:35:05,973 --> 00:35:07,061
Spelled N-O!
548
00:35:13,633 --> 00:35:15,939
Eddie...
549
00:35:26,820 --> 00:35:29,301
What... what's happening?
550
00:35:29,475 --> 00:35:30,824
Eddie, what are you doing?
551
00:35:30,998 --> 00:35:33,261
You sick little bastard!
552
00:35:35,437 --> 00:35:38,048
I'm going to break your neck!
553
00:35:52,019 --> 00:35:54,369
This is what you like,
isn't it?
554
00:35:54,543 --> 00:35:56,980
This is what gets you hot.
555
00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:59,418
Get out.
556
00:35:59,592 --> 00:36:01,942
Oh, sure. Sure, I'm going.
557
00:36:03,117 --> 00:36:05,119
But I got your number...
558
00:36:05,293 --> 00:36:07,077
And one of these days,
559
00:36:07,252 --> 00:36:09,558
the joke's gonna be on you.
560
00:36:14,650 --> 00:36:17,349
Thou hast set
our misdeeds before thee,
561
00:36:17,523 --> 00:36:22,049
and our secret sins
in the light
of thy countenance.
562
00:36:22,223 --> 00:36:25,922
As much as it hath pleased
Almighty God of his great mercy
563
00:36:26,096 --> 00:36:30,710
to take unto himself
the soul of our dear brother
here departed.
564
00:36:30,884 --> 00:36:33,234
We therefore commit his body
to the ground,
565
00:36:33,408 --> 00:36:39,501
earth to earth, ashes to ashes,
dust to dust.
566
00:36:39,675 --> 00:36:44,202
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.
567
00:36:44,376 --> 00:36:51,252
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in heaven.
568
00:36:51,426 --> 00:36:54,212
Give us this day
our daily bread,
569
00:36:54,386 --> 00:36:55,865
and forgive us our trespasses
570
00:36:56,039 --> 00:36:59,739
as we forgive those
that trespass against us.
571
00:36:59,913 --> 00:37:02,481
And lead us not
into temptation,
572
00:37:02,655 --> 00:37:04,526
but deliver us from evil.
573
00:37:05,266 --> 00:37:06,180
Amen.
574
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:48,962
Edgar William Jacobi.
Also known as Moloch.
575
00:37:49,136 --> 00:37:50,572
I don't know what
you're talking about,
576
00:37:50,746 --> 00:37:51,704
you've got the wrong person,
577
00:37:51,878 --> 00:37:53,053
I'm a retired businessman.
578
00:37:53,227 --> 00:37:55,621
Lying. Do it again, broken arm.
579
00:37:55,795 --> 00:37:58,058
Oh, God, I spent
the '70s in jail.
580
00:37:58,232 --> 00:37:59,581
I'm not Moloch anymore.
581
00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:01,627
I just want to be left alone.
582
00:38:03,019 --> 00:38:04,717
You attended
funeral today. Why?
583
00:38:04,891 --> 00:38:07,589
I... just felt I should.
584
00:38:07,763 --> 00:38:09,548
I've been thinking
about the Comedian a lot--
585
00:38:09,722 --> 00:38:11,289
How do you know Edward Blake
was the Comedian?
586
00:38:11,463 --> 00:38:13,595
He broke in to see me
two weeks ago!
587
00:38:13,769 --> 00:38:15,162
His mask was off!
588
00:38:15,336 --> 00:38:17,599
Enemies for 40 years!
Why should he visit you?
589
00:38:17,773 --> 00:38:18,992
I don't know!
590
00:38:19,166 --> 00:38:21,473
I just woke up
and he was there!
591
00:38:21,647 --> 00:38:23,257
I thought he was
going to kill me.
592
00:38:23,431 --> 00:38:26,913
He was drunk,
not making sense--
593
00:38:28,088 --> 00:38:30,482
It's a joke.
594
00:38:30,656 --> 00:38:32,571
It's all a joke.
595
00:38:32,745 --> 00:38:34,964
I thought I knew
how the world was,
596
00:38:35,138 --> 00:38:37,967
but then I found out
about this gag,
597
00:38:38,141 --> 00:38:40,100
this joke...
598
00:38:40,274 --> 00:38:42,972
You're part of it, Moloch,
old pal, you know that?
599
00:38:43,146 --> 00:38:46,628
I saw your name on the list,
you and Janey Slater.
600
00:38:46,802 --> 00:38:49,588
If I thought you were
in on this, I'd kill you, understand?
601
00:38:49,762 --> 00:38:52,155
I mean, you fought
that big blue geek.
602
00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:54,070
You know what his head's like.
603
00:38:54,244 --> 00:38:56,246
Who knows which way
he'll jump if anyone
messes with him?
604
00:38:58,379 --> 00:39:01,295
I never shoulda looked
out that airship window.
605
00:39:01,469 --> 00:39:02,862
Never seen that island.
606
00:39:03,036 --> 00:39:05,038
Never got involved.
607
00:39:05,212 --> 00:39:07,780
See, on that island,
608
00:39:07,954 --> 00:39:11,566
they got writers and artists
and scientists,
609
00:39:11,740 --> 00:39:14,787
and what they're doing
is just...
610
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:21,794
I've done some bad things.
611
00:39:22,795 --> 00:39:24,710
Did bad things to women.
612
00:39:24,884 --> 00:39:27,669
Shot kids in 'Nam...
613
00:39:27,843 --> 00:39:33,240
but I never did anything
like... like...
614
00:39:33,414 --> 00:39:36,896
Oh, mother.
615
00:39:37,070 --> 00:39:38,419
Forgive me.
616
00:39:38,593 --> 00:39:42,118
Forgive me, forgive me,
forgive me...
617
00:39:42,292 --> 00:39:44,991
It's a joke.
618
00:39:45,165 --> 00:39:46,601
But I don't get it!
619
00:39:46,775 --> 00:39:48,690
What's so goddamned funny!
620
00:39:48,864 --> 00:39:50,431
Somebody explain it to me!
621
00:39:50,605 --> 00:39:53,521
Somebody please
explain it to me.
622
00:39:53,695 --> 00:39:55,784
And then he left.
623
00:39:55,958 --> 00:39:57,873
I don't know what
the hell it was about.
624
00:39:58,047 --> 00:39:59,658
Hmm.
625
00:39:59,832 --> 00:40:01,050
Funny story.
626
00:40:01,224 --> 00:40:02,400
Sounds unbelievable.
627
00:40:02,574 --> 00:40:03,792
Probably true.
628
00:40:03,966 --> 00:40:06,665
So that's it?
629
00:40:06,839 --> 00:40:08,362
- I'm clean?
- No.
630
00:40:08,536 --> 00:40:10,103
Searched house
before you got back.
631
00:40:10,277 --> 00:40:12,105
Found phony medication.
632
00:40:12,279 --> 00:40:13,585
Outlawed years ago.
633
00:40:16,065 --> 00:40:21,331
Well, when you're desperate,
you'll try anything.
634
00:40:21,506 --> 00:40:25,205
I... I have cancer.
635
00:40:25,379 --> 00:40:28,251
Cancer? What kind?
636
00:40:28,426 --> 00:40:31,646
You know the kind of cancer
you eventually get better from?
637
00:40:33,518 --> 00:40:34,736
This ain't it.
638
00:40:38,523 --> 00:40:41,743
Wrote down name of company.
Will report them later.
639
00:40:41,917 --> 00:40:44,485
You're off the hook for now.
640
00:40:44,659 --> 00:40:45,834
Stay out of trouble.
641
00:40:53,712 --> 00:40:57,759
Rorschach's Journal.
October 16th, 1985.
642
00:40:57,933 --> 00:41:00,414
Thought about Moloch's story
on the way to cemetery.
643
00:41:00,588 --> 00:41:03,939
Could be all lies,
part of a revenge scheme.
644
00:41:04,113 --> 00:41:06,159
But if true, then what?
645
00:41:06,333 --> 00:41:09,728
References to an island,
to Dr. Manhattan...
646
00:41:09,902 --> 00:41:12,339
might he be at risk?
647
00:41:12,513 --> 00:41:16,648
Edward Morgan Blake.
45 years, a Comedian.
648
00:41:16,822 --> 00:41:18,563
Buried in the rain.
649
00:41:18,737 --> 00:41:20,608
Is this what happens to us?
650
00:41:20,782 --> 00:41:23,568
A life of conflict with
no time for friends,
651
00:41:23,742 --> 00:41:26,919
so that when it's done,
only our enemies leave roses?
652
00:41:28,398 --> 00:41:31,184
Blake saw the cracks
in society,
653
00:41:31,358 --> 00:41:34,100
saw the little men in masks
trying to hold it together,
654
00:41:34,274 --> 00:41:37,451
and treated it like a joke.
655
00:41:37,625 --> 00:41:40,062
Saw the true face
of the 20th century
656
00:41:40,236 --> 00:41:43,109
and became a reflection of it,
a parody.
657
00:41:45,807 --> 00:41:47,287
No one else saw the joke.
658
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:52,553
That's why he was lonely.
659
00:41:59,342 --> 00:42:00,996
Heard joke once.
660
00:42:01,170 --> 00:42:04,260
Man goes to doctor,
says he's depressed.
661
00:42:04,434 --> 00:42:06,567
Life seems harsh and cruel.
662
00:42:06,741 --> 00:42:09,527
Says he feels all alone
in a threatening world.
663
00:42:09,701 --> 00:42:11,529
Doctor says,
"Treatment is simple."
664
00:42:11,703 --> 00:42:15,271
"Great clown Pagliacci
is in town. Go see him."
665
00:42:15,445 --> 00:42:16,795
"That will pick you up."
666
00:42:16,969 --> 00:42:18,448
Man bursts into tears.
667
00:42:18,623 --> 00:42:20,233
Says, "But doctor...
668
00:42:20,407 --> 00:42:22,365
I am Pagliacci."
669
00:42:25,281 --> 00:42:26,282
Good joke.
670
00:42:33,246 --> 00:42:34,769
Delirious,
671
00:42:34,943 --> 00:42:37,598
I saw that hell-bound
ship's black sails
672
00:42:37,772 --> 00:42:40,862
against the yellow Indies sky,
673
00:42:41,036 --> 00:42:43,952
and knew again
the stench of powder,
674
00:42:44,126 --> 00:42:47,565
and men's brains, and war.
675
00:42:47,739 --> 00:42:51,394
The severed heads nailed
to its prow liplessly mouthed,
676
00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:54,397
"No use! All's lost!"
677
00:42:54,572 --> 00:42:57,313
We outta nuke Russia
and let God sort it out.
678
00:42:57,487 --> 00:43:00,273
The freighter's hideous
crew called out,
679
00:43:00,447 --> 00:43:03,189
"More blood! More blood!"
680
00:43:03,363 --> 00:43:04,886
Nuke 'em till they glow.
681
00:43:05,060 --> 00:43:07,585
That's my opinion,
for what it's worth, ya know?
682
00:43:07,759 --> 00:43:09,064
Inna final analysis.
683
00:43:09,238 --> 00:43:11,545
Man, I'm tryin' to read here.
684
00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,243
It's tar-streaked hull
rolled over me.
685
00:43:14,417 --> 00:43:18,204
In despair,
I sank beneath the waves,
686
00:43:18,378 --> 00:43:21,163
offering up
my wretched soul to God,
687
00:43:21,337 --> 00:43:25,341
his mercy and his judgment.
688
00:43:25,515 --> 00:43:27,082
Waking from nightmare,
689
00:43:27,256 --> 00:43:31,217
I found myself upon
a dismal beachhead,
690
00:43:31,391 --> 00:43:37,876
amongst dead men and...
the pieces of dead men.
691
00:43:38,050 --> 00:43:39,834
I'm informed on these things.
692
00:43:40,008 --> 00:43:41,836
I see every paper in the world.
693
00:43:42,010 --> 00:43:44,273
See, everything's connected.
694
00:43:44,447 --> 00:43:46,667
I begged that the gulls
should take my eyes...
695
00:43:46,841 --> 00:43:49,278
A news vendor
understands that reality.
696
00:43:49,452 --> 00:43:51,367
...thus sparing me the horrors.
697
00:43:51,541 --> 00:43:53,631
The weight o' the world's
on him, but he can take it.
698
00:43:53,805 --> 00:43:56,242
But at least I was alive.
699
00:43:56,416 --> 00:43:58,070
He's a survivor.
700
00:43:58,244 --> 00:44:00,463
And I knew that life
had no worse news to offer me.
701
00:44:00,638 --> 00:44:01,508
Good afternoon.
702
00:44:02,552 --> 00:44:04,380
Is it here yet?
703
00:44:04,554 --> 00:44:06,382
Oh! Your copy of today's
New Frontiersman, coming up.
704
00:44:06,556 --> 00:44:09,211
I keep it for ya
every day, don't I? Uh...
705
00:44:10,952 --> 00:44:13,085
Hey, how's the end
of the world coming?
706
00:44:13,259 --> 00:44:15,565
Today for certain.
707
00:44:15,740 --> 00:44:17,872
You won't forget to keep
my paper for me tomorrow?
708
00:44:18,046 --> 00:44:19,569
Sure will!
709
00:44:19,744 --> 00:44:21,397
I had a sudden memory
710
00:44:21,571 --> 00:44:23,443
of clinging fast to someone
through the tempest.
711
00:44:24,662 --> 00:44:26,925
Our fateful ship's figurehead,
712
00:44:27,099 --> 00:44:29,057
now lying at my feet,
713
00:44:29,231 --> 00:44:33,366
blindfolded by seaweed, smiling.
714
00:44:33,540 --> 00:44:36,195
I thought better
of removing the kelp
from her eyes,
715
00:44:36,369 --> 00:44:41,940
not wishing her to suffer
the terrible distractions
of that grim tideline.
716
00:44:42,114 --> 00:44:44,986
She had borne me
through seas of blood,
717
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:48,120
had nourished me
in the heart of the storm.
718
00:44:48,294 --> 00:44:52,167
This small comfort
was all I could offer,
719
00:44:52,341 --> 00:44:55,301
for I could not love her
as she had loved me.
720
00:45:02,308 --> 00:45:05,354
Mmm... Jon...
721
00:45:05,528 --> 00:45:08,444
don't you have to do
a TV interview soon?
722
00:45:08,618 --> 00:45:12,100
No. We have plenty of time.
723
00:45:12,274 --> 00:45:13,667
Laurie?
724
00:45:13,841 --> 00:45:16,888
Oh, God! Jon,
just be one person again!
725
00:45:17,062 --> 00:45:20,718
Don't be upset. I'm sorry.
I thought you'd enjoy it.
726
00:45:20,892 --> 00:45:22,328
I was just trying
to please you.
727
00:45:22,502 --> 00:45:23,677
I-I-I know.
728
00:45:23,851 --> 00:45:26,636
I know. I'm sorry
I over-reacted.
729
00:45:26,811 --> 00:45:29,465
You just startled me is all.
730
00:45:29,639 --> 00:45:30,771
I'm fine. It doesn't--
731
00:45:34,427 --> 00:45:35,733
Laurie?
732
00:45:35,907 --> 00:45:38,779
- Are you okay?
- Am I okay?
733
00:45:38,953 --> 00:45:40,825
This whole time
you've been working out here
734
00:45:40,999 --> 00:45:42,478
while we were in bed?
735
00:45:42,652 --> 00:45:44,654
My work's
at an important stage.
736
00:45:44,829 --> 00:45:47,657
- It didn't seem necessary to--
- To what?
737
00:45:47,832 --> 00:45:50,791
Give me your full attention?
738
00:45:50,965 --> 00:45:52,575
For once?
739
00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:54,795
If there's a problem
with my attitude,
740
00:45:54,969 --> 00:45:56,710
I'm prepared to discuss it.
741
00:46:01,976 --> 00:46:03,151
I hate you.
742
00:46:06,328 --> 00:46:07,373
Laurie?
743
00:47:01,731 --> 00:47:02,732
I left Jon.
744
00:47:02,907 --> 00:47:05,866
Oh, I... I'm sorry, I--
745
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:10,740
And I'm sorry
to dump this on you,
746
00:47:10,915 --> 00:47:14,179
but you don't know
what it's like,
living with him.
747
00:47:17,486 --> 00:47:19,967
For him...
748
00:47:20,141 --> 00:47:23,492
the real world is like
walking through mist,
749
00:47:23,666 --> 00:47:27,757
and all the people
are just shadows.
750
00:47:27,932 --> 00:47:30,543
I mean, the way
he looks at things,
751
00:47:30,717 --> 00:47:33,154
like he can't remember
what they are,
752
00:47:33,328 --> 00:47:36,679
and he doesn't
particularly care.
753
00:47:36,854 --> 00:47:39,900
Sometimes I look at myself
and I don't understand
754
00:47:40,074 --> 00:47:44,731
how things got so tangled up.
755
00:47:53,914 --> 00:47:56,438
- Hey, can we go out?
- Oh!
756
00:47:56,612 --> 00:47:57,962
- Get some air?
- Um...
757
00:47:59,267 --> 00:48:01,356
I'll get my coat.
758
00:48:02,836 --> 00:48:03,793
Let's go.
759
00:48:14,326 --> 00:48:16,197
- Oh! Dr. Manhattan!
- Dr. Osterman...
760
00:48:16,371 --> 00:48:17,938
We need to get you
into make-up.
761
00:48:18,112 --> 00:48:20,506
That blue is-is
far too light for broadcast.
762
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,074
- Is this dark enough?
- That's perfect!
763
00:48:23,248 --> 00:48:26,729
Here's a list of no-go
talking points compiled
by army intelligence.
764
00:48:26,904 --> 00:48:29,471
Afghanistan will come up
but play it cool...
765
00:48:29,645 --> 00:48:33,649
And try not to get into
any tight corners.
766
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:39,568
Ladies and gentlemen,
we have something really
special for you tonight.
767
00:48:39,742 --> 00:48:41,527
In his first live interview,
768
00:48:41,701 --> 00:48:44,138
let's have a hand
for Doctor Manhattan himself,
769
00:48:44,312 --> 00:48:48,142
Dr. Jon Osterman!
770
00:48:48,316 --> 00:48:51,145
So, uh... what's up, Doc?
771
00:48:51,319 --> 00:48:53,713
Well, you'll forgive
the levity, doctor,
772
00:48:53,887 --> 00:48:56,455
but the news overseas
has everyone a little tense.
773
00:48:56,629 --> 00:49:02,200
So, before
I throw you to our hungry
reporters here tonight,
774
00:49:02,374 --> 00:49:05,420
let me kick things off
with this...
775
00:49:05,594 --> 00:49:08,336
If the Reds act up
in Afghanistan,
776
00:49:08,510 --> 00:49:11,687
are you prepared
to enter hostilities?
777
00:49:11,861 --> 00:49:15,865
There is no situation
in Afghanistan currently
requiring my attention.
778
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:18,346
Ahem. If I can jump in.
779
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:20,566
Doug Roth. Nova Express.
780
00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:24,439
Dr Osterman...
Do you remember Wally Weaver?
781
00:49:24,613 --> 00:49:27,138
The newspapers called him
Dr. Manhattan's buddy.
782
00:49:27,312 --> 00:49:30,315
- He died of cancer in '71...
- I remember.
783
00:49:31,838 --> 00:49:33,535
I attended Wally's funeral
784
00:49:33,709 --> 00:49:37,452
How about Edgar W. Jacobi,
aka Moloch?
785
00:49:37,626 --> 00:49:40,499
You and he battled it out many
times over the years.
786
00:49:40,673 --> 00:49:42,936
Did you know he's
also battling terminal cancer?
787
00:49:44,546 --> 00:49:47,549
No. I did not know that.
I would rather not--
788
00:49:47,723 --> 00:49:49,856
And are you aware
that Janey Slater,
789
00:49:50,030 --> 00:49:52,511
with whom you were
romantically linked
for several years,
790
00:49:52,685 --> 00:49:55,296
is suffering from lung cancer?
791
00:50:00,954 --> 00:50:03,870
No, I... I wasn't told. I--
792
00:50:04,044 --> 00:50:06,003
Or that she has
six months to live?
793
00:50:06,177 --> 00:50:07,700
I recently interviewed
Ms. Slater.
794
00:50:07,874 --> 00:50:09,310
Her story's hitting
the streets right now.
795
00:50:11,704 --> 00:50:13,662
- What are you suggesting?
- Jon,
796
00:50:13,836 --> 00:50:16,883
Doug has reports
of over two dozen
of your former associates
797
00:50:17,057 --> 00:50:18,493
who have been
similarly afflicted--
798
00:50:18,667 --> 00:50:20,104
No, I--
799
00:50:20,278 --> 00:50:22,193
Do you have any response
to these allegations?
800
00:50:26,893 --> 00:50:28,590
- Are we gonna get cancer?
- Is this guy radioactive?
801
00:50:29,504 --> 00:50:30,810
Leave me alone.
802
00:50:30,984 --> 00:50:33,117
Do you think
you gave Ms. Slater cancer
803
00:50:33,291 --> 00:50:34,422
by sleeping with her?
804
00:50:37,469 --> 00:50:39,427
I said--
805
00:50:39,601 --> 00:50:41,777
How does it feel knowing
you may have doomed
hundreds of people?
806
00:50:41,951 --> 00:50:45,303
Leave me alone!
807
00:51:17,422 --> 00:51:18,597
Um...
808
00:51:19,772 --> 00:51:22,514
- You okay?
- Yeah. Fine.
809
00:51:22,688 --> 00:51:24,777
Um... I...
810
00:51:24,951 --> 00:51:27,475
We just need to get
our breath back.
811
00:51:27,649 --> 00:51:30,217
- We should--
- I'm just gonna go
grab a hotel.
812
00:51:30,391 --> 00:51:31,871
Think my relationship over.
813
00:51:32,045 --> 00:51:33,307
Oh. Of course.
814
00:51:33,481 --> 00:51:36,049
Thanks for listening, Dan.
Take care.
815
00:51:36,223 --> 00:51:37,006
Sure...
816
00:51:37,181 --> 00:51:38,704
W-w...
817
00:51:40,619 --> 00:51:42,142
You too, Laurie...
818
00:51:43,535 --> 00:51:44,362
Bye.
819
00:51:52,892 --> 00:51:56,591
The freighter's murderous
onslaught had surprised us.
820
00:51:59,638 --> 00:52:03,729
We'd been blasted to fragments
before we could warn Davidstown
of the hell-ship's approach.
821
00:52:05,122 --> 00:52:07,515
I thought of my family there,
822
00:52:07,689 --> 00:52:11,389
vulnerable, unsuspecting,
823
00:52:11,563 --> 00:52:14,783
unaware of the damnation
that bore down upon them.
824
00:52:16,872 --> 00:52:22,051
Crazed with helplessness,
I cursed God and wept,
825
00:52:22,226 --> 00:52:24,532
wondering if he wept also.
826
00:52:24,706 --> 00:52:28,710
But then, what use
are his tears if he
also denied me help?
827
00:52:31,365 --> 00:52:36,675
That night I slept badly
beneath cold, distant stars
828
00:52:36,849 --> 00:52:39,634
pondering the cold, distant god
829
00:52:39,808 --> 00:52:43,029
in whose hands the fate
of Davidstown rested.
830
00:52:45,814 --> 00:52:47,207
Was he really there?
831
00:52:48,513 --> 00:52:50,297
Had he been there once...
832
00:52:51,603 --> 00:52:53,300
But now departed?
833
00:52:53,474 --> 00:52:57,435
Hey, this base is off limits.
You don't belong... here.
834
00:52:59,045 --> 00:53:00,742
I believe you are correct.
835
00:53:02,483 --> 00:53:05,225
Please tell your superiors
and Laurie Juspeczyk
836
00:53:05,399 --> 00:53:06,618
that I am leaving.
837
00:53:07,619 --> 00:53:08,881
Leaving for Mars.
838
00:53:21,154 --> 00:53:24,244
Gone? What do you mean
he's gone?
839
00:53:24,418 --> 00:53:28,770
Ma'am, your meal ticket
flew the coop after
last night's broadcast.
840
00:53:28,944 --> 00:53:31,904
Dr. Manhattan, the linchpin
of America's security,
841
00:53:32,078 --> 00:53:33,558
has left Earth.
842
00:53:33,732 --> 00:53:35,342
Mr. President...
843
00:53:35,516 --> 00:53:37,344
The Russians are invading
Afghanistan and Pakistan.
844
00:53:37,518 --> 00:53:40,173
If this keeps up,
they'll try taking
Western Europe next.
845
00:53:40,347 --> 00:53:44,090
If Dr. Manhattan
wanted to live on a red planet,
846
00:53:44,264 --> 00:53:46,266
he should've stayed home.
847
00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:48,790
Keep running the numbers
for our losses in a nuclear exchange.
848
00:53:48,964 --> 00:53:52,011
And be ready
for a first strike
in seven days.
849
00:53:52,185 --> 00:53:53,795
Good morning, Daniel.
850
00:53:53,969 --> 00:53:55,449
Brought you your paper.
851
00:53:55,623 --> 00:53:59,105
The Comedian murdered,
Dr. Manhattan exiled...
852
00:53:59,279 --> 00:54:02,413
Two of us gone.
All within a week.
853
00:54:02,587 --> 00:54:07,418
Who next? Veidt?
Juspeczyk? Me? You?
854
00:54:07,592 --> 00:54:10,551
These days, nobody's safe.
855
00:54:31,137 --> 00:54:33,313
The photograph
is in my hand.
856
00:54:35,359 --> 00:54:37,926
It is the photograph of a man
and a woman.
857
00:54:39,667 --> 00:54:42,757
They are at
an amusement park in 1959.
858
00:54:44,759 --> 00:54:46,805
In exactly 38 seconds,
859
00:54:46,979 --> 00:54:50,461
I drop the photograph
to the sand and walk away.
860
00:54:50,635 --> 00:54:54,247
It is already there,
31 seconds into the future.
861
00:54:54,421 --> 00:54:56,293
The photograph is in my hands.
862
00:54:56,467 --> 00:54:58,817
I found it in a derelict bar
27 hours ago.
863
00:54:58,991 --> 00:55:00,471
Twenty-four seconds.
864
00:55:00,645 --> 00:55:02,734
It is still there,
27 hours into the past.
865
00:55:02,908 --> 00:55:04,170
Twenty-one seconds.
866
00:55:04,344 --> 00:55:05,737
I am still there,
looking at it.
867
00:55:05,911 --> 00:55:06,738
Eighteen seconds.
868
00:55:06,912 --> 00:55:08,957
It is October, 1985.
869
00:55:09,131 --> 00:55:10,655
- I'm on Mars.
- Fourteen seconds.
870
00:55:10,829 --> 00:55:13,701
- It is July, 1959.
- Eleven seconds.
871
00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:15,964
I am at the
Palisades Amusement Park.
872
00:55:16,138 --> 00:55:19,228
- Eight. Seven. Six.
- I am tired of looking
at the photograph.
873
00:55:19,403 --> 00:55:22,014
- Five. Four. Three. Two. One.
- I open my fingers.
874
00:55:22,188 --> 00:55:23,624
It falls to the sand.
875
00:55:27,236 --> 00:55:30,283
I am going to look
at the stars.
876
00:55:30,457 --> 00:55:33,068
They are so far away,
877
00:55:33,242 --> 00:55:37,334
and their light takes
so long to reach us.
878
00:55:37,508 --> 00:55:41,729
All we ever see of the stars
are their old photographs.
879
00:55:51,086 --> 00:55:52,914
I am watching the stars,
880
00:55:53,088 --> 00:55:56,353
admiring their complex trajectories
881
00:55:56,527 --> 00:55:57,832
through space,
882
00:55:58,833 --> 00:56:01,575
through time.
883
00:56:01,749 --> 00:56:05,666
My father admired the sky
for its precision.
884
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:07,233
He repaired watches.
885
00:56:09,540 --> 00:56:11,716
It is August, 1945.
886
00:56:11,890 --> 00:56:13,674
I sit in a Brooklyn kitchen,
887
00:56:13,848 --> 00:56:17,025
fascinated by an arrangement
of cogs on black velvet.
888
00:56:17,199 --> 00:56:18,592
I am 16 years old.
889
00:56:18,766 --> 00:56:20,768
Jon? Jon? What are you doing?
890
00:56:20,942 --> 00:56:22,509
Practicing on your
old pocket-watch
before I leave for school--
891
00:56:22,683 --> 00:56:25,294
Forget watches.
Have you seen the news?
892
00:56:25,469 --> 00:56:29,821
They dropped an atomic bomb
on Japan! A whole city, gone!
893
00:56:29,995 --> 00:56:32,389
- This changes everything!
- Father, what are you--
894
00:56:32,563 --> 00:56:34,739
- I'm doing what
is best for you.
- Wait!
895
00:56:34,913 --> 00:56:37,872
This atomic science
is what the world will need,
896
00:56:38,046 --> 00:56:40,875
not pocket watches!
897
00:56:41,049 --> 00:56:46,925
Professor Einstein says
that time differs
from place to place.
898
00:56:47,099 --> 00:56:52,583
If time is not true,
what purpose have watchmakers?
899
00:56:52,757 --> 00:56:55,499
Wait! No!
900
00:56:55,673 --> 00:56:59,459
Forty years ago,
cogs rain on Brooklyn.
901
00:56:59,633 --> 00:57:02,462
One hundred and fifteen minutes
into the future,
902
00:57:02,636 --> 00:57:05,900
meteorites penetrate
the rarefied Martian atmosphere.
903
00:57:08,773 --> 00:57:10,775
It is 1958.
904
00:57:10,949 --> 00:57:13,995
I am graduating
with a PhD in atomic physics.
905
00:57:15,693 --> 00:57:19,044
It is May 12th, 1959,
906
00:57:19,218 --> 00:57:22,961
my first day
at the Gila Flats Test Base.
907
00:57:23,135 --> 00:57:25,093
Wally Weaver shows me around.
908
00:57:26,834 --> 00:57:28,880
What's this place?
909
00:57:29,054 --> 00:57:30,490
This is where the intrinsic
field experiments happen.
910
00:57:30,664 --> 00:57:33,406
They're, uh, trying to prove
there's some field
911
00:57:33,580 --> 00:57:36,061
holdin' stuff together
besides gravity.
912
00:57:36,235 --> 00:57:38,411
This is our time-lock
test vault,
913
00:57:38,585 --> 00:57:41,240
for when they're tryin'
to separate objects
from their intrinsic fields.
914
00:57:41,414 --> 00:57:43,895
It makes sure
no radiation gets out.
915
00:57:50,989 --> 00:57:54,166
Wally steers me
to a crowded bar.
916
00:57:54,340 --> 00:57:57,430
There is a sudden
sense of deja vu.
917
00:58:00,477 --> 00:58:03,305
So, you must be the new guy.
918
00:58:03,480 --> 00:58:05,525
Pretty young
for a research scientist.
919
00:58:05,699 --> 00:58:08,485
Well, my dad sort of
pushed me into it.
920
00:58:09,529 --> 00:58:11,009
Happens to me a lot.
921
00:58:11,183 --> 00:58:13,446
Other people seem to make
all my moves for me.
922
00:58:13,620 --> 00:58:16,884
I'm Janey Slater.
923
00:58:17,058 --> 00:58:19,060
Can I buy you a drink?
924
00:58:19,234 --> 00:58:20,148
Hey, young lovers!
925
00:58:21,715 --> 00:58:23,500
There!
That's a beautiful picture!
926
00:58:23,674 --> 00:58:24,501
The photograph lies
in the sand.
927
00:58:24,675 --> 00:58:26,720
It is July, 1959.
928
00:58:26,894 --> 00:58:29,375
By the shooting gallery,
Janey's watch falls off
929
00:58:29,549 --> 00:58:32,247
and a man steps on it.
930
00:58:32,421 --> 00:58:34,380
- I tell her I can fix it.
- I can fix it.
931
00:58:36,164 --> 00:58:38,123
It is 1963.
932
00:58:38,297 --> 00:58:40,821
We're making love
after an argument,
933
00:58:40,995 --> 00:58:45,304
our tenderness
in direct proportion
to its violence.
934
00:58:45,478 --> 00:58:49,917
It is 1966, and she's
packing a suitcase, crying.
935
00:58:53,442 --> 00:58:55,749
It is August, 1959.
936
00:58:55,923 --> 00:58:57,969
We have only been together
for a month.
937
00:58:58,143 --> 00:59:01,450
- So Jon...
- The accident
is waiting for me.
938
00:59:01,625 --> 00:59:03,409
...did you fix my watch yet?
939
00:59:03,583 --> 00:59:07,021
Sure did, it's right-- Oh.
940
00:59:09,328 --> 00:59:11,025
Must've left it in my lab coat
941
00:59:11,199 --> 00:59:13,593
when we were resetting
the intrinsic chamber.
942
00:59:13,767 --> 00:59:14,594
Be right back.
943
00:59:17,118 --> 00:59:19,730
The accident is almost
upon me now.
944
00:59:47,714 --> 00:59:49,847
- Janey! Janey!
- Jon?
945
00:59:50,021 --> 00:59:51,892
- Open the door!
- I can't!
946
00:59:52,066 --> 00:59:53,546
Open the door!
947
00:59:53,720 --> 00:59:55,896
It's on a timelock
for the next experiment! I--
948
00:59:56,070 --> 00:59:57,768
- I can't override it!
- No.
949
00:59:59,204 --> 01:00:01,293
Oh, God, it's starting!
950
01:00:02,990 --> 01:00:04,818
Oh my God! Janey!
951
01:00:04,992 --> 01:00:06,820
- It's my fault!
- No!
952
01:00:06,994 --> 01:00:08,126
No! Janey!
953
01:00:08,300 --> 01:00:09,736
- Please!
- I can't stay and watch...
954
01:00:09,910 --> 01:00:11,869
Please, I... I just can't.
955
01:00:12,043 --> 01:00:13,827
- Don't go!
- I'm sorry.
956
01:00:14,001 --> 01:00:15,786
No! No! No! No! No! No!
957
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:16,830
Janey!
958
01:00:20,181 --> 01:00:22,314
No...
959
01:00:22,488 --> 01:00:24,751
The shields slide back
from the particle cannons.
960
01:00:24,925 --> 01:00:28,059
The atoms in the test chamber
begin screaming.
961
01:00:28,233 --> 01:00:30,757
I look at the watch in my hand.
962
01:00:30,931 --> 01:00:32,585
Good as new.
963
01:00:32,759 --> 01:00:34,369
And the light...
964
01:00:34,543 --> 01:00:36,894
the light is taking me
to pieces.
965
01:00:47,513 --> 01:00:49,210
It is September.
966
01:00:49,384 --> 01:00:52,126
A token funeral service
is held.
967
01:00:52,300 --> 01:00:53,954
There is nothing to bury.
968
01:00:56,522 --> 01:00:58,524
It is October.
969
01:00:58,698 --> 01:01:01,919
Janey places the only photo
anyone has of me in the bar.
970
01:01:05,139 --> 01:01:06,750
It is November.
971
01:01:08,621 --> 01:01:11,668
A human nervous system
briefly materializes.
972
01:01:13,713 --> 01:01:15,672
It is November 10th now.
973
01:01:15,846 --> 01:01:18,936
A circulatory system is seen
walking through the kitchen.
974
01:01:19,110 --> 01:01:20,241
Wha... What?
975
01:01:20,415 --> 01:01:22,766
November 14th.
976
01:01:22,940 --> 01:01:26,247
A partially muscled
skeleton appears outside
the perimeter fence.
977
01:01:26,421 --> 01:01:29,511
It screams for 30 seconds
before vanishing.
978
01:01:30,948 --> 01:01:32,689
Really, it is just a question
979
01:01:32,863 --> 01:01:35,996
of reassembling the components
in the correct sequence.
980
01:02:00,891 --> 01:02:02,066
Jon?
981
01:02:03,850 --> 01:02:05,112
Jon?
982
01:02:05,286 --> 01:02:07,724
It is Christmas, 1959.
983
01:02:07,898 --> 01:02:11,205
So, do you like it?
984
01:02:11,379 --> 01:02:15,470
I mean, is a ring the sort
of thing that you like
985
01:02:15,644 --> 01:02:17,908
now that you're, uh...
986
01:02:18,082 --> 01:02:20,301
Like that symbol
on your helmet?
987
01:02:20,475 --> 01:02:22,434
Marketing boys say
you need a symbol.
988
01:02:22,608 --> 01:02:24,784
It's February, 1960.
989
01:02:24,958 --> 01:02:27,265
Your symbol is meaningless.
990
01:02:27,439 --> 01:02:28,788
If I am to have a symbol,
991
01:02:28,962 --> 01:02:31,748
a hydrogen atom
would be more appropriate.
992
01:02:31,922 --> 01:02:34,359
A symbol I respect.
993
01:02:34,533 --> 01:02:37,405
It's atomic structure
is a perfect grid.
994
01:02:37,579 --> 01:02:39,016
I like it very much.
995
01:02:41,105 --> 01:02:42,715
Janey? What's wrong?
996
01:02:43,890 --> 01:02:45,326
I'm scared, Jon.
997
01:02:46,023 --> 01:02:48,112
Of me?
998
01:02:48,286 --> 01:02:50,592
They assign me the name
Dr. Manhattan
999
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:55,641
for the ominous
associations it will raise
in American enemies.
1000
01:02:55,815 --> 01:02:59,210
They're shaping me into
something gaudy and lethal.
1001
01:02:59,384 --> 01:03:04,737
I'm just scared because
everything feels... weird.
1002
01:03:04,911 --> 01:03:06,608
March, 1960.
1003
01:03:06,783 --> 01:03:09,176
We repeat: the superman exists
1004
01:03:09,350 --> 01:03:10,787
and he's American.
1005
01:03:10,961 --> 01:03:12,658
Pentagon sources say
1006
01:03:12,832 --> 01:03:15,574
this Dr. Manhattan can control
atomic structure itself.
1007
01:03:15,748 --> 01:03:18,577
There's been
no response from the Kremlin.
1008
01:03:18,751 --> 01:03:21,710
It's as if
everything's changed
1009
01:03:21,885 --> 01:03:23,887
November, 1960.
1010
01:03:24,061 --> 01:03:26,498
The newspapers
call me a crime-fighter,
1011
01:03:26,672 --> 01:03:30,589
so the Pentagon says
I must fight crime.
1012
01:03:30,763 --> 01:03:34,114
The morality of my activities
escapes me.
1013
01:03:34,288 --> 01:03:37,814
Not just you. Everything.
1014
01:03:37,988 --> 01:03:40,120
May, 1962.
1015
01:03:40,294 --> 01:03:44,211
A masked man retires to open
an auto-repair business.
1016
01:03:44,385 --> 01:03:46,953
With someone like you around,
the whole situation changes.
1017
01:03:47,127 --> 01:03:48,607
You can do anything.
1018
01:03:48,781 --> 01:03:51,131
All I got to offer
is a good left hook.
1019
01:03:51,305 --> 01:03:53,873
And some mean wrenching skills
under the hood.
1020
01:03:54,047 --> 01:03:57,485
Well, the new electric
cars I've designed
should be simpler.
1021
01:03:58,138 --> 01:03:59,096
Electric?
1022
01:04:00,619 --> 01:04:03,187
They say you can do
anything, Jon.
1023
01:04:03,361 --> 01:04:05,537
They say you're like a...
1024
01:04:05,711 --> 01:04:07,104
like a god now.
1025
01:04:07,278 --> 01:04:09,323
September, 1961.
1026
01:04:09,497 --> 01:04:11,325
John Kennedy is
asking what it's like
to be a superhero.
1027
01:04:11,499 --> 01:04:12,370
So, what's it like
to be a superhero?
1028
01:04:12,544 --> 01:04:13,545
You should know.
1029
01:04:13,719 --> 01:04:15,329
I tell him he should know.
1030
01:04:15,503 --> 01:04:16,287
He nods, laughing.
1031
01:04:18,332 --> 01:04:20,813
I don't think
there is a god, Janey.
1032
01:04:20,987 --> 01:04:24,164
If there is, I'm not him.
1033
01:04:24,338 --> 01:04:26,427
November, 1963.
1034
01:04:26,601 --> 01:04:30,431
In Dallas, his head
snaps forward and then
back. Two shots.
1035
01:04:30,605 --> 01:04:33,782
I can't believe this.
So you knew he'd get shot?
1036
01:04:33,957 --> 01:04:35,567
Then why didn't you
do something?
1037
01:04:35,741 --> 01:04:37,786
I cannot prevent the future.
1038
01:04:37,961 --> 01:04:40,833
To me, it is already happening.
1039
01:04:41,007 --> 01:04:43,140
I'm still the same person.
1040
01:04:43,314 --> 01:04:44,750
Nothing's changed.
1041
01:04:46,578 --> 01:04:48,319
It is 1966.
1042
01:04:48,493 --> 01:04:50,495
A young woman sits to my right.
1043
01:04:50,669 --> 01:04:53,672
She looks at me and smiles.
1044
01:04:53,846 --> 01:04:57,328
Stop staring at that girl!
Pay attention!
1045
01:04:57,502 --> 01:05:01,114
I'll always want you.
1046
01:05:01,288 --> 01:05:04,770
As I lie, I hear
her sobbing in 1966.
1047
01:05:07,512 --> 01:05:10,950
It is May, 1966.
1048
01:05:11,124 --> 01:05:13,126
My name's Laurie.
1049
01:05:13,300 --> 01:05:16,825
Do you have another name,
apart from Dr. Manhattan.
1050
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,871
You pig.
1051
01:05:20,612 --> 01:05:21,830
My name's Jon.
1052
01:05:22,005 --> 01:05:24,572
I knew
you were seeing her!
1053
01:05:27,140 --> 01:05:30,056
It's nice of you to come out
on patrol with me.
1054
01:05:30,230 --> 01:05:33,712
Your um, girlfriend
won't mind, will she?
1055
01:05:33,886 --> 01:05:35,844
As I lie...
1056
01:05:36,019 --> 01:05:38,978
- I hate you.
- ...I see her walking
out on me in 1985.
1057
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:42,416
She is beautiful.
1058
01:05:42,590 --> 01:05:46,507
After each kiss,
she plants a smaller,
gentler one on my face,
1059
01:05:46,681 --> 01:05:48,683
like a signature.
1060
01:05:48,857 --> 01:05:52,122
I pull her closer,
never wanting to lose her.
1061
01:05:52,296 --> 01:05:53,514
Knowing that I shall.
1062
01:06:01,783 --> 01:06:03,829
I am tired of their world...
1063
01:06:07,572 --> 01:06:09,617
of these people.
1064
01:06:09,791 --> 01:06:12,055
Alone!
1065
01:06:12,229 --> 01:06:15,493
I am tired of being caught
in the tangle of their lives.
1066
01:06:17,799 --> 01:06:20,411
In Arizona,
I am taking the photo...
1067
01:06:21,368 --> 01:06:22,761
and I am gone.
1068
01:06:24,676 --> 01:06:27,548
Gone to Mars.
1069
01:06:32,075 --> 01:06:35,513
And I have decided
to create something.
1070
01:06:42,737 --> 01:06:45,479
A world grows up around me.
1071
01:06:47,568 --> 01:06:49,483
Am I shaping it,
1072
01:06:49,657 --> 01:06:52,530
or do its predetermined
contours guide my hand?
1073
01:06:53,922 --> 01:06:56,882
The world changed
because of me.
1074
01:06:57,056 --> 01:07:00,973
But what if I hadn't left
the watch in the test chamber?
1075
01:07:01,147 --> 01:07:03,628
What if I had not gone back?
1076
01:07:03,802 --> 01:07:06,544
Or waited, just a moment?
1077
01:07:07,806 --> 01:07:09,677
Am I to blame, then?
1078
01:07:09,851 --> 01:07:10,896
Or Janey?
1079
01:07:12,332 --> 01:07:13,290
Or my father?
1080
01:07:15,031 --> 01:07:16,293
Which of us is responsible?
1081
01:07:20,210 --> 01:07:22,386
Who makes the world?
1082
01:07:22,560 --> 01:07:24,649
Perhaps the world is not made.
1083
01:07:25,780 --> 01:07:27,478
Perhaps nothing is made.
1084
01:07:28,696 --> 01:07:31,308
Perhaps it simply is,
1085
01:07:31,482 --> 01:07:35,529
has been,
and will always be there.
1086
01:07:35,703 --> 01:07:38,967
A clock without a craftsman.
1087
01:07:40,578 --> 01:07:42,362
I am standing on a balcony,
1088
01:07:42,536 --> 01:07:44,538
as I once stood
on a fire escape,
1089
01:07:44,712 --> 01:07:48,281
trying to catch the falling
cogs and wheels.
1090
01:07:48,455 --> 01:07:50,240
But it is too late.
1091
01:07:50,414 --> 01:07:51,806
Always has been.
1092
01:07:53,156 --> 01:07:55,027
Always will be.
1093
01:07:56,985 --> 01:07:58,944
Above the
Nodous Gordii mountains,
1094
01:07:59,118 --> 01:08:02,730
like jewels
in a maker-less mechanism,
1095
01:08:02,904 --> 01:08:05,559
the first meteorites
begin to fall.
1096
01:08:19,138 --> 01:08:22,881
Oh, God,
not again.
1097
01:08:25,884 --> 01:08:27,103
What do you want from me?
1098
01:08:27,277 --> 01:08:28,974
Nothing.
Old and alone.
1099
01:08:29,148 --> 01:08:30,541
Thought you might
appreciate company.
1100
01:08:30,715 --> 01:08:32,151
Can I come out, then?
1101
01:08:32,804 --> 01:08:33,848
No.
1102
01:08:34,022 --> 01:08:35,850
Deep breath.
1103
01:08:36,024 --> 01:08:38,679
You said Comedian visited here.
Mentioned a list.
1104
01:08:38,853 --> 01:08:40,464
You and Janey Slater
were on it.
1105
01:08:40,638 --> 01:08:42,640
Talked about someone
messing with Dr. Manhattan.
1106
01:08:42,814 --> 01:08:45,164
Days later, Manhattan
publicly disgraced.
1107
01:08:45,338 --> 01:08:46,687
Forced into exile.
1108
01:08:46,861 --> 01:08:49,125
Allegations he'd
given people cancer.
1109
01:08:49,299 --> 01:08:51,214
Janey Slater. You.
1110
01:08:52,867 --> 01:08:54,913
Tough break.
1111
01:08:55,087 --> 01:08:57,133
I think Blake's list
was cancer list.
1112
01:08:57,307 --> 01:08:59,135
Somebody wrote it.
Somebody put your name on it.
1113
01:08:59,309 --> 01:09:01,049
Somebody gave it to the media.
1114
01:09:01,224 --> 01:09:03,487
Comedian and Dr. Manhattan were
always your biggest enemies.
1115
01:09:03,661 --> 01:09:04,792
Now they're both gone.
1116
01:09:04,966 --> 01:09:06,968
Very convenient.
Who is it, Moloch?
1117
01:09:07,143 --> 01:09:08,927
- Who's behind this?
- I don't know!
1118
01:09:09,101 --> 01:09:11,234
- Not convincing.
- I don't know!
1119
01:09:11,408 --> 01:09:13,018
I don't know!
1120
01:09:13,192 --> 01:09:16,064
I swear to God,
I don't know who it was!
1121
01:09:16,239 --> 01:09:18,241
Hmm. Better.
1122
01:09:20,852 --> 01:09:22,636
If anything should
refresh memory,
1123
01:09:22,810 --> 01:09:24,551
contact me by leaving note,
1124
01:09:24,725 --> 01:09:27,772
trash can opposite Gunga Diner,
at 40th and 7th.
1125
01:09:32,385 --> 01:09:37,085
Rorschach's journal.
October 21st, 1985. 2:35 AM.
1126
01:09:37,260 --> 01:09:39,523
Jacobi visit useless.
Knows nothing.
1127
01:09:39,697 --> 01:09:42,439
Has simply been used.
But by who?
1128
01:09:42,613 --> 01:09:43,657
Russians?
1129
01:09:43,831 --> 01:09:45,355
Comedian mentioned an island,
1130
01:09:45,529 --> 01:09:47,792
artists and writers
living on it.
1131
01:09:47,966 --> 01:09:49,446
Doesn't fit.
1132
01:09:49,620 --> 01:09:52,057
Waiting for a flash
of enlightenment
1133
01:09:52,231 --> 01:09:54,190
in all this blood and thunder.
1134
01:10:01,719 --> 01:10:03,590
Everything I loved,
1135
01:10:03,764 --> 01:10:06,289
everything I lived for,
1136
01:10:06,463 --> 01:10:11,642
depended on my reaching
Davidstown in advance
of that terrible freighter.
1137
01:10:11,816 --> 01:10:14,514
It was then I conceived
of building a raft.
1138
01:10:14,688 --> 01:10:19,171
But the island's trees
did not look buoyant enough
to reach Davidstown,
1139
01:10:19,345 --> 01:10:21,478
not unaided.
1140
01:10:21,652 --> 01:10:26,613
Suddenly, I found myself considering
a repulsive notion...
1141
01:10:26,787 --> 01:10:31,705
Birthed from the gas-bloated
stomachs of the buried men.
1142
01:10:31,879 --> 01:10:35,622
I shuddered
at my loathsome scheme.
1143
01:10:35,796 --> 01:10:38,930
But I had no choice.
1144
01:10:39,104 --> 01:10:41,237
I pulled men up
from underground,
1145
01:10:41,411 --> 01:10:43,630
sand trickling
from their sockets.
1146
01:10:43,804 --> 01:10:47,155
I tore their clothes to ribbons
to bind them together.
1147
01:10:47,330 --> 01:10:50,594
I fixed their bodies
to the bottom of the raft.
1148
01:10:50,768 --> 01:10:52,378
As the ebb tide rose,
1149
01:10:52,552 --> 01:10:56,556
I embarked, heading east.
1150
01:10:56,730 --> 01:10:59,864
East, across the night seas.
1151
01:11:00,038 --> 01:11:03,650
Borne on the naked backs
of murdered men.
1152
01:11:05,086 --> 01:11:06,697
Lent speed by my hunger,
1153
01:11:06,871 --> 01:11:08,655
I ripped a seagull
from the air.
1154
01:11:10,440 --> 01:11:13,791
I had not eaten
since the shipwreck.
1155
01:11:13,965 --> 01:11:19,187
Chewing on raw meat,
I drifted on toward Davidstown.
1156
01:11:19,362 --> 01:11:21,059
My home was there.
1157
01:11:21,233 --> 01:11:23,931
And nothing would
take it from me.
1158
01:11:24,105 --> 01:11:26,238
So...
the government said
1159
01:11:26,412 --> 01:11:28,327
I can't live on the base
now that Jon's gone.
1160
01:11:28,501 --> 01:11:31,069
And they canceled
my credit cards.
1161
01:11:31,243 --> 01:11:33,419
Now all I have left
is my savings.
1162
01:11:33,593 --> 01:11:35,900
What-- Where...
where will you stay?
1163
01:11:36,074 --> 01:11:37,205
Did you call your mother?
1164
01:11:37,380 --> 01:11:39,338
I'd rather sleep
on a street grate.
1165
01:11:39,512 --> 01:11:41,775
It just burns my ass
to be so damn...
1166
01:11:43,211 --> 01:11:44,300
disposable.
1167
01:11:45,431 --> 01:11:47,868
- Well, I um--
- Anyway,
1168
01:11:48,042 --> 01:11:51,394
I appreciate you
buying me lunch, Dan.
1169
01:11:51,568 --> 01:11:53,526
Don't worry about me,
1170
01:11:53,700 --> 01:11:55,267
I'll find someplace cheap
to stay.
1171
01:11:59,053 --> 01:12:00,620
- Laurie!
- Yeah?
1172
01:12:00,794 --> 01:12:03,231
You could, uh, always
stay at my place.
1173
01:12:03,406 --> 01:12:04,842
There's plenty of room.
1174
01:12:05,016 --> 01:12:06,626
Oh, I-I don't want to impose.
1175
01:12:06,800 --> 01:12:08,585
Hey... you're not.
1176
01:12:09,237 --> 01:12:10,151
Truly.
1177
01:12:11,675 --> 01:12:13,590
I mean, we're both friends.
1178
01:12:13,764 --> 01:12:15,331
We're both in
the same line of work.
1179
01:12:15,505 --> 01:12:17,071
And we're both, uh...
1180
01:12:17,245 --> 01:12:19,073
We're both leftovers.
1181
01:12:21,467 --> 01:12:23,817
Yeah.
1182
01:12:23,991 --> 01:12:26,690
I'd swallowed too much
bird flesh,
1183
01:12:26,864 --> 01:12:29,649
too much horror.
1184
01:12:29,823 --> 01:12:33,087
I grew faint
and dozed fitfully.
1185
01:12:33,261 --> 01:12:38,310
The Black Freighter's
hideous banner flapped
dismally in my dreams.
1186
01:12:38,484 --> 01:12:42,619
Its death's-head banner
flies above us all.
1187
01:12:42,793 --> 01:12:49,016
And the heads nailed
to the ship's black prow
are our heads.
1188
01:12:49,190 --> 01:12:54,587
Truly, whoever we are,
wherever we reside,
1189
01:12:54,761 --> 01:12:58,025
we exist on the whim
of murderers.
1190
01:12:59,766 --> 01:13:01,725
Your four o'clock
is here, Mr. Veidt.
1191
01:13:01,899 --> 01:13:04,902
Beneath my raft,
something moved.
1192
01:13:05,076 --> 01:13:07,034
It's the meeting
with the toy company, isn't it?
1193
01:13:07,208 --> 01:13:10,473
Yes. They want some
new characters in
their Ozymandias line.
1194
01:13:10,647 --> 01:13:13,214
They said maybe
some of your major villains.
1195
01:13:13,389 --> 01:13:16,653
The major villains
are all dead.
1196
01:13:16,827 --> 01:13:20,918
Irrationally, my first thought
was of the corpses,
1197
01:13:21,092 --> 01:13:22,833
bursting their bonds,
1198
01:13:23,007 --> 01:13:26,140
attempting to clamber up
into the air and dryness.
1199
01:13:31,450 --> 01:13:32,756
Did you see the news?
1200
01:13:32,930 --> 01:13:34,932
Some guy went crazy
and killed his kid
1201
01:13:35,106 --> 01:13:38,022
because he was afraid
there's gonna be a nuclear war.
1202
01:13:38,196 --> 01:13:40,720
I'm sorry,
but that's just dumb.
1203
01:13:40,894 --> 01:13:43,375
Nobody's so crazy
that they'll start a war.
1204
01:13:43,549 --> 01:13:47,379
I don't understand why
everyone's so down and scared.
1205
01:13:47,553 --> 01:13:50,426
Well, perhaps they lack
your youth and enthusiasm.
1206
01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:52,950
Well, I have to be upbeat
to work in this place.
1207
01:13:53,124 --> 01:13:55,343
All this Egyptian decor
is very morbid.
1208
01:13:55,518 --> 01:13:57,998
In the darkening water
I heard a splash.
1209
01:13:58,172 --> 01:13:59,783
Very obsessed
with death.
1210
01:13:59,957 --> 01:14:02,655
Shadowy forms approached.
1211
01:14:02,829 --> 01:14:05,832
Were they boats
come to rescue me?
1212
01:14:06,006 --> 01:14:09,314
Actually death wasn't morbid
to the ancient Egyptians.
1213
01:14:09,488 --> 01:14:11,577
They saw death
as an inevitable step
1214
01:14:11,751 --> 01:14:14,711
in beginning a voyage
of spiritual discovery.
1215
01:14:14,885 --> 01:14:16,190
I find that very comforting.
1216
01:14:16,364 --> 01:14:19,237
No, not boats.
1217
01:14:19,411 --> 01:14:20,760
Fins.
1218
01:14:20,934 --> 01:14:22,936
Well, I think it's--
Oh, God, he's got a gun!
1219
01:14:25,635 --> 01:14:29,160
Teeth shredded my raft.
1220
01:14:29,334 --> 01:14:32,206
Tiny, prehistoric eyes
glistened with rage.
1221
01:14:35,471 --> 01:14:36,950
It became tangled in my ropes.
1222
01:14:37,124 --> 01:14:40,345
Terrified, I took up
a splinter of mast.
1223
01:14:40,519 --> 01:14:43,391
The shark's stained marble eye
looked up at me...
1224
01:14:43,566 --> 01:14:45,263
And in that instant...
1225
01:14:45,437 --> 01:14:47,178
We knew each other!
1226
01:14:47,352 --> 01:14:48,875
What have you got
in your mouth? No!
1227
01:14:49,049 --> 01:14:52,183
Don't bite down.
Don't bite down, you scum!
1228
01:14:52,357 --> 01:14:54,185
The leviathan
attempted to swim away...
1229
01:14:54,359 --> 01:14:56,753
Dragging my raft
in its bloody wake.
1230
01:14:56,927 --> 01:14:58,406
I want to know
who's behind this!
1231
01:14:58,581 --> 01:15:00,583
I hung on desperately,
1232
01:15:00,757 --> 01:15:03,673
cursing in the bitter
stinging spray.
1233
01:15:06,153 --> 01:15:08,808
Damn... cyanide capsule.
1234
01:15:18,209 --> 01:15:20,516
Eventually the shark died.
1235
01:15:20,690 --> 01:15:24,520
And shortly thereafter,
stopped swimming.
1236
01:15:30,003 --> 01:15:31,352
Good evening, Jacobi.
1237
01:15:31,527 --> 01:15:34,094
Was wondering why
you wanted to see me.
1238
01:15:34,268 --> 01:15:36,532
Then someone tried to shoot
the world's smartest man.
1239
01:15:36,706 --> 01:15:39,535
Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias...
1240
01:15:39,709 --> 01:15:41,188
someone's killing
masks, Jacobi.
1241
01:15:41,362 --> 01:15:42,929
Someone wants us dead.
1242
01:15:43,103 --> 01:15:44,365
Maybe you can enlighten me.
1243
01:15:45,758 --> 01:15:46,716
Hmm...
1244
01:15:51,764 --> 01:15:52,809
Rorschach!
1245
01:15:52,983 --> 01:15:54,071
- No.
- This is the police!
1246
01:15:54,245 --> 01:15:56,073
No, no, no, no!
1247
01:15:56,247 --> 01:15:58,597
We know you're in there,
it's all over!
1248
01:15:58,771 --> 01:16:00,860
If there's anyone
in there with you,
1249
01:16:01,034 --> 01:16:02,688
- send them out unharmed!
- Framed. Set-up.
1250
01:16:02,862 --> 01:16:04,864
Walked right into it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
1251
01:16:05,038 --> 01:16:06,605
Then come out
and surrender with your
hands clearly visible.
1252
01:16:06,779 --> 01:16:09,347
Never. Never surrender.
Need weapons.
1253
01:16:09,521 --> 01:16:11,131
You have 30 seconds!
1254
01:16:12,916 --> 01:16:15,788
There's no escape Rorschach.
1255
01:16:15,962 --> 01:16:17,747
- It's the end of the line.
- Yes.
1256
01:16:19,052 --> 01:16:20,358
Time's up!
1257
01:16:20,532 --> 01:16:22,012
Ready when you are.
1258
01:17:07,666 --> 01:17:09,537
Get up, get up!
1259
01:17:09,712 --> 01:17:11,104
- No pain, no--
- Get him!
Don't let him get away!
1260
01:17:11,278 --> 01:17:12,236
- It was a setup.
- Cuff him!
1261
01:17:12,410 --> 01:17:13,846
Somebody framed me, somebody--
1262
01:17:14,020 --> 01:17:16,370
No! No! No! My face!
1263
01:17:16,544 --> 01:17:17,807
Give me back my face!
1264
01:17:17,981 --> 01:17:19,373
Give me back my face!
1265
01:17:19,547 --> 01:17:21,941
Give me back my face!
1266
01:17:28,644 --> 01:17:32,865
After eating their fill,
the sharks departed.
1267
01:17:37,565 --> 01:17:40,220
For the moment, I was safe.
1268
01:17:44,224 --> 01:17:46,357
That night, eating shark,
1269
01:17:46,531 --> 01:17:50,970
I would have chuckled
at the inversions
of natural roles
1270
01:17:51,144 --> 01:17:55,540
had not my parched laughter
seemed so hateful.
1271
01:17:58,412 --> 01:18:03,026
My raft grew
increasingly grotesque,
1272
01:18:03,200 --> 01:18:06,812
reflecting my own
gradual transformation.
1273
01:18:08,379 --> 01:18:11,556
With such thoughts
to comfort me,
1274
01:18:11,730 --> 01:18:15,952
I drifted on,
mast-less into the dawn.
1275
01:18:32,316 --> 01:18:36,668
Hey kids,
tune in for the animated
adventures of Ozymandias.
1276
01:18:36,842 --> 01:18:40,063
This Saturday morning
sponsored by Meltdown!
1277
01:18:42,718 --> 01:18:44,632
In the May
of this year, 1962,
1278
01:18:44,807 --> 01:18:47,244
that's exactly what
I opted to do.
1279
01:18:47,418 --> 01:18:48,593
I retired.
1280
01:18:48,767 --> 01:18:50,160
To mend cars.
1281
01:18:50,334 --> 01:18:52,640
Probably for the rest
of my life.
1282
01:18:52,815 --> 01:18:54,730
As I see it,
part of the art of being a hero
1283
01:18:54,904 --> 01:18:57,515
is knowing when you don't
need to be one anymore,
1284
01:18:57,689 --> 01:18:59,778
realizing that the game
has changed,
1285
01:18:59,952 --> 01:19:01,780
and that the stakes
are different,
1286
01:19:01,954 --> 01:19:03,782
and that there isn't
necessarily a place for you
1287
01:19:03,956 --> 01:19:07,177
in this strange new pantheon
of extraordinary people.
1288
01:19:07,351 --> 01:19:08,961
The world has moved on,
1289
01:19:09,135 --> 01:19:11,137
and I'm content to watch it
from my armchair
1290
01:19:11,311 --> 01:19:12,965
with a beer by my side
1291
01:19:13,139 --> 01:19:15,925
and the smell of fresh oil
still on my fingers.
1292
01:19:16,099 --> 01:19:17,796
Part of my contentment
comes from knowing
1293
01:19:17,970 --> 01:19:20,538
that there have maybe been
some overall consequence
1294
01:19:20,712 --> 01:19:23,367
of my 23 years behind the mask.
1295
01:19:23,541 --> 01:19:25,412
This knowledge came to me
in the shape of a letter
1296
01:19:25,586 --> 01:19:29,199
from a young man whose name
I'm not at liberty to reveal.
1297
01:19:29,373 --> 01:19:32,768
He told me of his great
admiration for my efforts
as Nite Owl
1298
01:19:32,942 --> 01:19:34,813
and proposed that,
1299
01:19:34,987 --> 01:19:37,076
since I'd retired and would
no longer be using the name,
1300
01:19:37,250 --> 01:19:38,730
perhaps he could borrow it,
1301
01:19:38,904 --> 01:19:40,906
since he intended
to follow my example
1302
01:19:41,080 --> 01:19:43,213
and become a crime-fighter.
1303
01:19:43,387 --> 01:19:45,389
I've visited his home
since then
1304
01:19:45,563 --> 01:19:47,608
and seen some
of the fabulous technology
1305
01:19:47,783 --> 01:19:50,481
he intends to bring to bear
on the war against crime.
1306
01:19:50,655 --> 01:19:52,352
I was certainly
far too impressed
1307
01:19:52,526 --> 01:19:54,877
to refuse him the use
of what I'd always thought
1308
01:19:55,051 --> 01:19:57,053
was a dumb name to begin with.
1309
01:19:57,227 --> 01:19:59,446
So by the time this sees print,
1310
01:19:59,620 --> 01:20:01,231
there may well be
a new Nite Owl
1311
01:20:01,405 --> 01:20:03,842
patrolling the streets
of New York.
1312
01:20:04,016 --> 01:20:05,583
Also, Sally Jupiter tells me
1313
01:20:05,757 --> 01:20:07,454
that as soon as
little Laurie's old enough
1314
01:20:07,628 --> 01:20:10,806
she wants to be a superheroine
just like her mom.
1315
01:20:10,980 --> 01:20:12,895
So who knows? It seems as if,
1316
01:20:13,069 --> 01:20:14,722
from being a novelty
nine-day wonder,
1317
01:20:14,897 --> 01:20:18,030
the superhero has become
a part of American life.
1318
01:20:18,204 --> 01:20:19,989
It's here to stay.
1319
01:20:20,163 --> 01:20:21,860
For better, or for worse.
1320
01:20:24,341 --> 01:20:28,301
Oh, how the ghost of you
clings... Nostalgia...
1321
01:20:30,086 --> 01:20:32,740
We argued.
1322
01:20:32,915 --> 01:20:34,917
And I said, Jon,
1323
01:20:35,091 --> 01:20:37,310
you know how every
damn thing in this world
1324
01:20:37,484 --> 01:20:39,443
fits together except people.
1325
01:20:39,617 --> 01:20:41,532
It's okay, Ms. Slater.
1326
01:20:41,706 --> 01:20:44,100
We can stop here
if you need to.
1327
01:20:44,274 --> 01:20:47,103
No. No, I want
the world to know
all the details.
1328
01:20:47,277 --> 01:20:49,279
I'm glad you contacted me.
1329
01:20:49,453 --> 01:20:52,412
It's a relief to finally
tell the truth about him.
1330
01:20:52,586 --> 01:20:56,503
Well, after helping
Nova Express with
our investigations,
1331
01:20:56,677 --> 01:20:58,854
and sharing your story
with the world,
1332
01:20:59,028 --> 01:21:00,290
how do you feel?
1333
01:21:00,464 --> 01:21:02,727
Heh, bitter as hell.
1334
01:21:02,901 --> 01:21:05,251
Oh, and I don't need
anyone's sympathy.
1335
01:21:05,425 --> 01:21:07,950
That won't cure my cancer.
1336
01:21:08,124 --> 01:21:10,126
After learning
of your condition,
1337
01:21:10,300 --> 01:21:13,520
and the others, Dr. Osterman
teleported to Mars,
1338
01:21:13,694 --> 01:21:16,393
sending shockwaves
across the globe.
1339
01:21:16,567 --> 01:21:18,482
Any comment about that?
1340
01:21:18,656 --> 01:21:20,832
It figures.
1341
01:21:21,006 --> 01:21:23,139
He dumped me
for some 16-year-old
1342
01:21:23,313 --> 01:21:24,923
who ran around
in her underwear.
1343
01:21:25,097 --> 01:21:27,491
Now everyone's shocked
that he dumped Earth for Mars?
1344
01:21:28,884 --> 01:21:31,060
Ah, they're all just worried
1345
01:21:31,234 --> 01:21:33,453
because he's not here
to stop us from nuking
each other.
1346
01:21:33,627 --> 01:21:37,109
Worried they're all
going to die in a
radioactive wasteland.
1347
01:21:40,678 --> 01:21:44,682
Well, Mr. Roth,
here's your comment...
1348
01:21:44,856 --> 01:21:46,684
welcome to my world.
1349
01:21:54,213 --> 01:21:56,824
So, seen the news lately?
1350
01:21:56,999 --> 01:21:59,784
Can't miss
the headlines about this war
they say is coming.
1351
01:21:59,958 --> 01:22:02,047
There was a smaller story yesterday...
1352
01:22:02,221 --> 01:22:03,919
about a tenement fire?
1353
01:22:06,834 --> 01:22:08,575
If I can figure out
who made the rescue,
1354
01:22:10,403 --> 01:22:11,535
so can the police.
1355
01:22:14,059 --> 01:22:17,062
You're not taking Rorschach's
maskkiller nonsense seriously?
1356
01:22:17,236 --> 01:22:19,325
We worked together.
1357
01:22:19,499 --> 01:22:21,371
Rorschach was always
a brilliant investigator
and tactician,
1358
01:22:21,545 --> 01:22:24,765
so I wonder if he found
any evidence that links
all these events.
1359
01:22:26,550 --> 01:22:29,683
The four of us, taken down.
1360
01:22:29,857 --> 01:22:32,251
War looming on the horizon.
1361
01:22:32,425 --> 01:22:34,601
I'm terrified it's all connected
1362
01:22:34,775 --> 01:22:36,168
and the worst is yet to come,
1363
01:22:36,342 --> 01:22:39,824
and I can't do anything
to stop it.
1364
01:22:39,998 --> 01:22:41,521
No!
1365
01:22:41,695 --> 01:22:44,394
Rorschach again...
They finally caught him.
1366
01:22:44,568 --> 01:22:46,178
There's a riot at the prison.
1367
01:22:48,006 --> 01:22:50,661
We got a jail full of guys
out here who hates your guts!
1368
01:22:50,835 --> 01:22:51,705
What do you got?
1369
01:22:52,532 --> 01:22:53,664
Your arms.
1370
01:22:55,622 --> 01:22:58,190
Come and get me.
1371
01:22:58,364 --> 01:22:59,800
If we don't crack
this case,
1372
01:22:59,975 --> 01:23:01,889
there may be no going back
for any of us.
1373
01:23:04,066 --> 01:23:05,806
Everybody's scared.
1374
01:23:05,981 --> 01:23:07,460
You can feel it.
1375
01:23:07,634 --> 01:23:09,245
We'll get murdered
in the chaos.
1376
01:23:09,419 --> 01:23:12,161
Just waitin' for the nukes
to start droppin'.
1377
01:23:12,335 --> 01:23:15,164
You are going to try
to convince me
to save this world.
1378
01:23:15,338 --> 01:23:18,515
Humanity might be
on the brink of extinction.
1379
01:23:18,689 --> 01:23:20,517
Doesn't that bother you?
1380
01:23:20,691 --> 01:23:24,390
This face is all I need.
1381
01:23:24,564 --> 01:23:26,349
Never compromise.
1382
01:23:28,090 --> 01:23:28,960
Do it!!
1383
01:23:31,484 --> 01:23:33,617
This all says war.
1384
01:23:33,791 --> 01:23:35,445
I will invest accordingly.