1 00:00:21,956 --> 00:00:24,091 [KETTLE WHISTLING] 2 00:00:24,091 --> 00:00:25,993 MAN 1 [ON TV] : Wrong, as usual. 3 00:00:25,993 --> 00:00:29,296 The United States' lack of action in Eastern Europe... 4 00:00:29,296 --> 00:00:33,901 ...proves that the Soviet Union's aggression at the Afghan border... 5 00:00:33,901 --> 00:00:37,238 ...will not be opposed publicly by the United States. 6 00:00:37,238 --> 00:00:38,499 [WHISTLING STOPS] 7 00:00:39,106 --> 00:00:44,612 Issue: The Soviet Union continued its recent series of military exercises... 8 00:00:44,612 --> 00:00:48,015 ...conducting a bomb test today in the Bering Sea... 9 00:00:48,015 --> 00:00:52,119 ...just 1500 miles off the southern coast of Alaska. 10 00:00:52,119 --> 00:00:56,657 President Richard Nixon issued this warning to the Soviets: 11 00:00:56,657 --> 00:01:00,327 MAN 2: The United States does not start fights. 12 00:01:00,327 --> 00:01:04,165 Let it be clear we maintain our strength... 13 00:01:04,165 --> 00:01:07,134 ...in order to maintain peace... 14 00:01:07,134 --> 00:01:11,038 ...so any adversary should ask themselves: 15 00:01:11,038 --> 00:01:14,275 " Do the consequences of attacking America... 16 00:01:14,275 --> 00:01:17,077 ...outweigh the potential benefits?" 17 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:19,880 As a result of the Soviet activity... 18 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:22,850 ...the watchdog group of nuclear scientists... 19 00:01:22,850 --> 00:01:28,422 ...moved the Doomsday Clock up to five minutes until midnight: 20 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:32,721 Destruction by nuclear war. 21 00:01:33,427 --> 00:01:35,396 Question: 22 00:01:35,396 --> 00:01:38,098 On a scale of zero to 10, zero meaning impossibility... 23 00:01:38,098 --> 00:01:40,601 ...10 meaning complete metaphysical certitude... 24 00:01:40,601 --> 00:01:45,272 ...what are the chances the Russians will actually attack the United States? 25 00:01:45,272 --> 00:01:46,740 Pat Buchanan. 26 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:48,242 Zero. 27 00:01:48,242 --> 00:01:51,045 The Soviets would never risk going to war... 28 00:01:51,045 --> 00:01:55,049 ...when we have a walking nuclear deterrent on our side. 29 00:01:55,049 --> 00:01:57,685 You're referring, of course, to Dr. Manhattan... 30 00:01:57,685 --> 00:02:01,956 ...but does Dr. Manhattan's existence guarantee world peace? Eleanor Clift. 31 00:02:01,956 --> 00:02:04,859 Well, it hasn't stopped the Soviet Union... 32 00:02:04,859 --> 00:02:09,697 ...from stockpiling record amounts of nuclear weapons. 33 00:02:09,697 --> 00:02:11,565 You don't think it's just posturing? 34 00:02:11,565 --> 00:02:13,334 Maybe the reason why the Soviets... 35 00:02:13,334 --> 00:02:16,036 ...are doing these bomb tests... 36 00:02:16,036 --> 00:02:20,404 ...is because they feel threatened by Dr. Manhattan. Of course. 37 00:02:20,975 --> 00:02:24,278 Maybe the whole world feels like that. 38 00:02:24,278 --> 00:02:26,113 [MTV THEME " MAN ON THE MOON" PLAYS ON TV] 39 00:02:26,113 --> 00:02:28,749 Soviet ships have violated the territorial waters-- 40 00:02:28,749 --> 00:02:31,308 [NAT KING COLE'S " UNFORGETTABLE" PLAYS ON TV] 41 00:03:05,386 --> 00:03:07,649 Just a matter of time, I suppose. 42 00:03:27,274 --> 00:03:29,036 [GRUNTING] 43 00:04:33,007 --> 00:04:34,496 [YELLS] 44 00:04:35,576 --> 00:04:38,278 [CHUCKLES] 45 00:04:38,278 --> 00:04:41,940 It's a joke. It's all a joke. 46 00:04:42,583 --> 00:04:44,846 Mother, forgive me. 47 00:08:40,053 --> 00:08:43,078 [ARGUING INDISTINCTLY] 48 00:08:45,626 --> 00:08:48,594 SALLY: I was a hero, goddamn it! 49 00:08:49,997 --> 00:08:54,334 MAN [ON TV] : --an act clearly meant to send a signal to the government in Saigon... 50 00:08:54,334 --> 00:08:58,667 ...that violence and oppression is not the way to peace. 51 00:09:36,009 --> 00:09:38,499 MAN 1: Fuck you, pigs! 52 00:10:08,642 --> 00:10:11,769 MAN 2: Good luck, Mr. Gorsky. 53 00:10:57,657 --> 00:11:00,894 MAN: Get out of here, vigilantes! 54 00:11:00,894 --> 00:11:04,294 [CHATTERING] 55 00:11:08,435 --> 00:11:10,595 No! 56 00:11:34,628 --> 00:11:36,652 [SIRENS WAILING] 57 00:11:37,564 --> 00:11:43,695 GALLAGHER: Edward Blake. Sixty-seven years old. Six-two, a solid 225. 58 00:11:44,204 --> 00:11:46,239 Guy was built like a linebacker. 59 00:11:46,239 --> 00:11:48,308 FINE: Yeah, I saw the body. 60 00:11:48,308 --> 00:11:50,544 For a guy his age, he was in terrific shape. 61 00:11:50,544 --> 00:11:53,205 GALLAGHER: You mean apart from being dead? 62 00:11:54,448 --> 00:11:56,116 That's plate glass. 63 00:11:56,116 --> 00:11:59,186 You'd have to step on the gas just to put a crack in it. 64 00:11:59,186 --> 00:12:01,421 Had to have been thrown. 65 00:12:01,421 --> 00:12:02,789 Check the bedroom? 66 00:12:02,789 --> 00:12:05,892 Yeah. Drawers opened, tossed through. 67 00:12:05,892 --> 00:12:09,129 Mattress flipped. Probably robbery. 68 00:12:09,129 --> 00:12:10,764 Or made to look like one. 69 00:12:10,764 --> 00:12:12,833 See this? 70 00:12:12,833 --> 00:12:16,236 -Shaking hands with the president. FINE: Whoa. 71 00:12:16,236 --> 00:12:18,638 Think Blake was a spook? 72 00:12:18,638 --> 00:12:22,609 Government or black ops? 73 00:12:22,609 --> 00:12:24,811 GALLAGHER: I think... 74 00:12:24,811 --> 00:12:28,109 ...this is way bigger than both of us. 75 00:12:31,218 --> 00:12:36,690 RORSCHACH: Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. 76 00:12:36,690 --> 00:12:42,062 Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach. 77 00:12:42,062 --> 00:12:44,464 This city's afraid of me. 78 00:12:44,464 --> 00:12:48,399 I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters... 79 00:12:49,069 --> 00:12:51,638 ...and the gutters are full of blood. 80 00:12:51,638 --> 00:12:54,105 And when the drains finally scab over... 81 00:12:55,175 --> 00:12:57,404 ...all the vermin will drown. 82 00:12:58,044 --> 00:13:00,614 The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder... 83 00:13:00,614 --> 00:13:03,083 ...will foam up around their waists... 84 00:13:03,083 --> 00:13:08,543 ...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, " Save us. " 85 00:13:09,523 --> 00:13:13,151 And I'll whisper, "No. " 86 00:13:14,661 --> 00:13:17,697 Now the whole world stands on the brink... 87 00:13:17,697 --> 00:13:20,367 ...staring down into bloody hell. 88 00:13:20,367 --> 00:13:24,070 All those liberals and intellectuals... 89 00:13:24,070 --> 00:13:26,239 ...and smooth talkers... 90 00:13:26,239 --> 00:13:29,876 ...and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say. 91 00:13:29,876 --> 00:13:33,213 Beneath me, this awful city. 92 00:13:33,213 --> 00:13:37,150 It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children... 93 00:13:37,150 --> 00:13:41,779 ...and the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences. 94 00:14:52,892 --> 00:14:54,825 Huh. 95 00:15:02,369 --> 00:15:06,673 Tonight, a comedian died in New York. 96 00:15:06,673 --> 00:15:08,037 Somebody knows why. 97 00:15:08,975 --> 00:15:10,777 Somebody knows. 98 00:15:10,777 --> 00:15:12,479 [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS] 99 00:15:12,479 --> 00:15:14,673 [ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS] 100 00:15:15,882 --> 00:15:18,372 No, I definitely heard something. 101 00:15:21,721 --> 00:15:23,017 Watch the door. 102 00:15:43,076 --> 00:15:44,167 [GRUNTS] 103 00:15:48,314 --> 00:15:49,871 Shh. 104 00:15:50,850 --> 00:15:53,317 Must've been the wind. Next time you-- 105 00:16:06,833 --> 00:16:13,067 MAN: It all started with the gangs. You know, people tend to forget that. 106 00:16:13,740 --> 00:16:17,010 Pirate outfits, ghosts. 107 00:16:17,010 --> 00:16:19,779 They thought it was funny: Dress up and pull heists. 108 00:16:19,779 --> 00:16:21,314 [MAN CHUCKLES] 109 00:16:21,314 --> 00:16:24,184 As soon as we'd arrest them, they'd be back on the street. 110 00:16:24,184 --> 00:16:28,188 Nobody could pick them out of a lineup because of the damn masks. 111 00:16:28,188 --> 00:16:30,623 So a few of us cops, we get together... 112 00:16:30,623 --> 00:16:34,160 ...and we figure, what the heck, we'll mask up, too. 113 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:36,855 We'll finish what the law couldn't. 114 00:16:37,664 --> 00:16:41,868 Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it... 115 00:16:41,868 --> 00:16:45,705 ...and oh, boy, we're a national pastime. 116 00:16:45,705 --> 00:16:49,375 It was me, Dollar Bill, Mothman... 117 00:16:49,375 --> 00:16:52,912 ...Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice... 118 00:16:52,912 --> 00:16:56,282 ...Silk Spectre and the Comedian. 119 00:16:56,282 --> 00:16:59,808 Oh, don't get me started on him. 120 00:17:01,955 --> 00:17:06,192 I must be drunk already, telling you this sob story again. 121 00:17:06,192 --> 00:17:08,056 I think you were trying to make a point. 122 00:17:08,962 --> 00:17:15,301 Well, my point is that we had it too easy. It wasn't fair what happened to you guys-- 123 00:17:15,301 --> 00:17:19,430 You guys who picked up where we left off. --With Nixon forcing you out. 124 00:17:20,473 --> 00:17:25,111 Nixon, oh, that prick. To think I voted for that prick five times. 125 00:17:25,111 --> 00:17:27,840 Hey, it was him or the commies, right? 126 00:17:30,650 --> 00:17:34,449 Oh, wow, it's almost midnight. Gotta go. 127 00:17:35,989 --> 00:17:37,615 Truth? 128 00:17:38,291 --> 00:17:42,195 You were a better Nite Owl than I ever was, Danny boy. 129 00:17:42,195 --> 00:17:46,099 -Hollis, we both know that's bullshit. -Hey. 130 00:17:46,099 --> 00:17:47,534 Watch it with the language. 131 00:17:47,534 --> 00:17:50,336 This is the left hook that floored Captain Axis, remember? 132 00:17:50,336 --> 00:17:51,871 -Yeah. WOMAN [ON TV] : This just in: 133 00:17:51,871 --> 00:17:53,973 The masked vigilante known as Rorschach... 134 00:17:53,973 --> 00:17:56,805 ...has assaulted a police officer in the early-morning hours. 135 00:17:57,677 --> 00:18:00,847 Rorschach is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list... 136 00:18:00,847 --> 00:18:04,818 ...for violation of the Keene Act, which banned masked heroes six years ago. 137 00:18:04,818 --> 00:18:07,081 Rorschach reportedly incapacitated.... 138 00:18:07,620 --> 00:18:10,190 Forced everyone out except him. 139 00:18:10,190 --> 00:18:11,891 Oh, he'll quit. 140 00:18:11,891 --> 00:18:13,221 When he's dead. 141 00:18:13,860 --> 00:18:16,129 DAN: Next week? HOLLIS: Well... 142 00:18:16,129 --> 00:18:20,900 ...you know, you don't have to keep humoring me like this. 143 00:18:20,900 --> 00:18:23,236 If you got a hot date or something.... 144 00:18:23,236 --> 00:18:26,033 Hey, us retired guys have to stick together, right? 145 00:18:27,807 --> 00:18:29,671 You ever miss it? 146 00:18:30,877 --> 00:18:32,969 No. You? 147 00:18:33,546 --> 00:18:35,342 Oh, heck, no. 148 00:18:36,649 --> 00:18:38,411 Be seeing you. 149 00:19:36,109 --> 00:19:38,975 [METAL SCRAPING] 150 00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:53,487 Hello, Daniel. 151 00:19:54,227 --> 00:19:55,318 Rorschach. 152 00:19:56,396 --> 00:20:00,867 Helped myself to some beans. Hope you don't mind. 153 00:20:00,867 --> 00:20:03,300 No, no. Course not. 154 00:20:04,904 --> 00:20:07,640 You want me to heat those up for you? 155 00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,163 Fine like this. 156 00:20:10,743 --> 00:20:11,936 How have you been keeping? 157 00:20:16,316 --> 00:20:18,112 RORSCHACH: Out of prison. 158 00:20:19,819 --> 00:20:22,048 Heard about you on the news. 159 00:20:22,655 --> 00:20:25,058 Say you attacked a cop. 160 00:20:25,058 --> 00:20:27,821 RORSCHACH: Minor wound. Won't need hospitalization. 161 00:20:28,695 --> 00:20:30,029 Daniel... 162 00:20:30,029 --> 00:20:31,325 ...Iook at this. 163 00:20:37,103 --> 00:20:39,730 DAN: Is this bean juice? RORSCHACH: Human bean juice. 164 00:20:40,440 --> 00:20:44,933 Badge belonged to the Comedian. Blood too. He's dead. 165 00:20:46,946 --> 00:20:48,412 Let's talk downstairs. 166 00:20:57,323 --> 00:20:59,258 DAN: It could have been a burglary. 167 00:20:59,258 --> 00:21:02,128 Maybe the killer didn't know who the Comedian was. 168 00:21:02,128 --> 00:21:06,860 RORSCHACH: An ordinary burglar? Kill the Comedian? Ridiculous. 169 00:21:08,434 --> 00:21:12,038 I heard he'd been working for the government since '77... 170 00:21:12,038 --> 00:21:15,375 ...knocking over Marxist republics in South America. 171 00:21:15,375 --> 00:21:18,478 Maybe it was a political killing or something. 172 00:21:18,478 --> 00:21:19,912 Maybe. 173 00:21:19,912 --> 00:21:23,349 Maybe someone's picking off costumed heroes. 174 00:21:23,349 --> 00:21:25,618 DAN: You don't think that's a little paranoid? 175 00:21:25,618 --> 00:21:28,421 That what they say about me now? 176 00:21:28,421 --> 00:21:29,856 Paranoid? 177 00:21:29,856 --> 00:21:32,859 DAN: Look, Comedian made a lot of enemies over the years... 178 00:21:32,859 --> 00:21:34,527 ...even among his friends. 179 00:21:34,527 --> 00:21:36,687 RORSCHACH: Speaking of friends, how's Hollis Mason? 180 00:21:37,563 --> 00:21:41,701 He wrote that book. Said some bad things about the Comedian in it. 181 00:21:41,701 --> 00:21:45,761 I don't like what you're implying, and I like being followed even less. 182 00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:50,943 Maybe I was keeping an eye on you, in case someone's gunning for masks. 183 00:21:50,943 --> 00:21:56,049 -You were never that sentimental. -Attack on one is attack on all of us. 184 00:21:56,049 --> 00:21:58,482 What do you suggest we do about it? 185 00:21:59,385 --> 00:22:00,544 Retribution. 186 00:22:01,954 --> 00:22:05,425 -Watchmen are over. -Says Tricky Dick. 187 00:22:05,425 --> 00:22:07,187 Says me. 188 00:22:09,796 --> 00:22:11,597 Nobody knows who you are. 189 00:22:11,597 --> 00:22:14,734 You can give it up, try and have a normal life. 190 00:22:14,734 --> 00:22:18,635 That what you have now? A normal life? 191 00:22:19,639 --> 00:22:23,176 When you walk down the street in a city dying of rabies... 192 00:22:23,176 --> 00:22:24,811 ...past the human cockroaches... 193 00:22:24,811 --> 00:22:27,747 ...talking about their heroin and child pornography... 194 00:22:27,747 --> 00:22:29,270 ...do you really feel normal? 195 00:22:30,416 --> 00:22:33,179 Least I'm not the one still hiding behind a mask. 196 00:22:35,054 --> 00:22:36,315 No. 197 00:22:37,990 --> 00:22:40,116 You're hiding in plain sight. 198 00:22:41,494 --> 00:22:43,654 Be seeing you, Dan. 199 00:22:44,163 --> 00:22:46,799 A maintenance hatch will let you out two blocks north. 200 00:22:46,799 --> 00:22:48,701 Yeah, I remember. 201 00:22:48,701 --> 00:22:52,939 Came here often, when we were partners. 202 00:22:52,939 --> 00:22:54,838 DAN: Those were great times, huh, Rorschach? 203 00:22:55,341 --> 00:22:58,571 -What happened? -You quit. 204 00:23:21,501 --> 00:23:23,402 Rorschach's journal. 205 00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:25,905 First visit of evening fruitless. 206 00:23:25,905 --> 00:23:27,997 Feel slightly depressed. 207 00:23:28,541 --> 00:23:30,610 Soon there will be war. 208 00:23:30,610 --> 00:23:34,347 Millions will perish in sickness and misery. 209 00:23:34,347 --> 00:23:36,871 Why does one death matter against so many? 210 00:23:37,617 --> 00:23:42,588 Because there is good and evil, and evil must be punished. 211 00:23:42,588 --> 00:23:45,591 Even in the face of armageddon... 212 00:23:45,591 --> 00:23:48,525 ...I will not compromise in this. 213 00:23:49,095 --> 00:23:50,296 MAN: Mr. Veidt... 214 00:23:50,296 --> 00:23:52,598 ...to date, you're one of only two Watchmen... 215 00:23:52,598 --> 00:23:55,201 ...ever to reveal their true identity to the world... 216 00:23:55,201 --> 00:23:57,170 ...the first being Hollis Mason. 217 00:23:57,170 --> 00:24:00,339 And you've certainly profited greatly by it... 218 00:24:00,339 --> 00:24:05,778 ...turning your superhero alter ego, Ozymandias, into a billion-dollar industry: 219 00:24:05,778 --> 00:24:09,015 Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering. 220 00:24:09,015 --> 00:24:11,250 I understand there's a movie in the works. 221 00:24:11,250 --> 00:24:15,621 -I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth. ROTH: I'm sorry. Do you think-- 222 00:24:15,621 --> 00:24:18,357 The Watchmen resent me for prostituting their struggle? 223 00:24:18,357 --> 00:24:21,260 It's a fair question. Yes, it's crossed my mind... 224 00:24:21,260 --> 00:24:24,463 ...some of my old colleagues might see it that way... 225 00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:27,633 ...just as you're clearly aware that biased journalism... 226 00:24:27,633 --> 00:24:30,226 ...sells more magazines. 227 00:24:30,736 --> 00:24:35,675 The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan. 228 00:24:35,675 --> 00:24:38,778 We recently expanded our research facility in Antarctica... 229 00:24:38,778 --> 00:24:42,181 ...in the hope of developing cheap, renewable sources of energy... 230 00:24:42,181 --> 00:24:45,351 ...that we might eliminate the world's reliance on fossil fuels. 231 00:24:45,351 --> 00:24:47,954 Now, it doesn't take a political scientist... 232 00:24:47,954 --> 00:24:51,524 ...to see that our Cold War with the Russians isn't ideological... 233 00:24:51,524 --> 00:24:55,394 ...it's based upon fear. Fear of not having enough. 234 00:24:55,394 --> 00:24:59,265 But if we make resources infinite... 235 00:24:59,265 --> 00:25:01,534 ...ah... 236 00:25:01,534 --> 00:25:03,626 ...we make war obsolete. 237 00:25:04,470 --> 00:25:08,303 I would hope the other Watchmen understand that... 238 00:25:09,508 --> 00:25:11,168 ...wherever they may be. 239 00:25:13,279 --> 00:25:14,643 Thanks for your time. 240 00:25:20,886 --> 00:25:23,723 -You look good, Adrian. -Dan. 241 00:25:23,723 --> 00:25:25,952 It's been too long. 242 00:25:27,693 --> 00:25:31,753 ADRIAN: So Rorschach thinks someone's hunting the Watchmen, huh? 243 00:25:32,431 --> 00:25:34,467 You think it's possible? 244 00:25:34,467 --> 00:25:37,196 Statistically, one murder doesn't equal a trend. 245 00:25:38,337 --> 00:25:40,304 Rorschach's a sociopath, Dan. 246 00:25:40,940 --> 00:25:44,306 And so was the Comedian. He was practically a Nazi. 247 00:25:45,144 --> 00:25:47,346 You know that better than anyone. 248 00:25:47,346 --> 00:25:49,715 I'm not here because I miss him. 249 00:25:49,715 --> 00:25:51,217 It's occurred to Rorschach... 250 00:25:51,217 --> 00:25:54,185 ...that we're the only ones who know each other's identities. 251 00:25:54,687 --> 00:25:56,779 Actually, the whole world knows yours. 252 00:25:57,556 --> 00:26:00,023 That's why I'm warning you first. 253 00:26:03,629 --> 00:26:05,619 Thank you, Dan... 254 00:26:07,233 --> 00:26:11,203 ...but I fear there's something much more real to worry about... 255 00:26:11,203 --> 00:26:13,796 ...than Rorschach's mask killer. 256 00:26:15,308 --> 00:26:20,012 If the Russians do launch their nukes, can Jon really stop them? 257 00:26:20,012 --> 00:26:23,816 The Soviets have 51,000 warheads stockpiled. 258 00:26:23,816 --> 00:26:27,186 Even if Jon stops 99 percent of them... 259 00:26:27,186 --> 00:26:31,383 ...the 1 percent that get through could still kill every living thing on Earth. 260 00:26:34,126 --> 00:26:36,491 Even Dr. Manhattan can't be everywhere at once. 261 00:26:50,743 --> 00:26:56,549 Rorschach's journal, October 13th, 1985... 262 00:26:56,549 --> 00:26:58,880 ...8:30 p.m. 263 00:26:59,585 --> 00:27:03,689 Meeting with Dreiberg left bad taste in mouth. 264 00:27:03,689 --> 00:27:07,749 A flabby failure who sits whimpering in his basement. 265 00:27:08,928 --> 00:27:12,064 Why are so few of us left active... 266 00:27:12,064 --> 00:27:17,103 ...healthy and without personality disorders? 267 00:27:17,103 --> 00:27:20,506 The first Nite Owl runs an auto-repair shop. 268 00:27:20,506 --> 00:27:24,076 The first Silk Spectre is a bloated, aging whore... 269 00:27:24,076 --> 00:27:27,113 ...dying in a California rest resort. 270 00:27:27,113 --> 00:27:29,882 Dollar Bill got his cape stuck in a revolving door... 271 00:27:29,882 --> 00:27:31,405 ...where he got gunned down. 272 00:27:32,017 --> 00:27:34,787 Silhouette, murdered... 273 00:27:34,787 --> 00:27:37,721 ...a victim of her own indecent lifestyle. 274 00:27:38,290 --> 00:27:41,281 Mothman's in an asylum in Maine. 275 00:27:45,297 --> 00:27:49,668 Even Adrian Veidt, possible homosexual. 276 00:27:49,668 --> 00:27:52,338 Must investigate further. 277 00:27:52,338 --> 00:27:55,101 Only two names remain on my list. 278 00:27:55,641 --> 00:28:00,913 Both share private quarters at Rockefeller Military Research Center. 279 00:28:00,913 --> 00:28:03,582 I shall go to them. 280 00:28:03,582 --> 00:28:08,951 I shall go tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him. 281 00:28:09,755 --> 00:28:11,724 JON: Good evening, Rorschach. 282 00:28:11,724 --> 00:28:15,394 RORSCHACH: Dr. Manhattan, you know why I'm here. 283 00:28:15,394 --> 00:28:16,826 JON: Yes... 284 00:28:18,097 --> 00:28:20,232 ...but you're going to leave disappointed. 285 00:28:20,232 --> 00:28:24,136 Rorschach. You shouldn't be here. You're a wanted man. 286 00:28:24,136 --> 00:28:26,505 RORSCHACH: Nice to see you too, Silk Spectre. 287 00:28:26,505 --> 00:28:28,741 I have a real name I've been using. 288 00:28:28,741 --> 00:28:29,942 Try it. 289 00:28:29,942 --> 00:28:32,211 Whatever you say, Laurie. 290 00:28:32,211 --> 00:28:33,612 What are you doing here? 291 00:28:33,612 --> 00:28:36,115 JON: The Comedian is dead. 292 00:28:36,115 --> 00:28:38,551 Rorschach wants me to look into my future... 293 00:28:38,551 --> 00:28:41,187 ...see if the killer is ever publicly identified. 294 00:28:41,187 --> 00:28:44,280 Already warned Dreiberg. Came to warn you too. 295 00:28:46,992 --> 00:28:49,357 Even if I wanted to help... 296 00:28:49,962 --> 00:28:54,266 ...my future is blocked by some kind of temporal interference. 297 00:28:54,266 --> 00:28:58,504 -I cannot see it clearly. -Interference? Caused by what? 298 00:28:58,504 --> 00:29:01,904 In all likelihood, nuclear holocaust. 299 00:29:02,641 --> 00:29:06,912 If the United States and Soviet Union engage in all-out war... 300 00:29:06,912 --> 00:29:11,083 ...the resulting blast wave would produce a sudden burst of tachyons... 301 00:29:11,083 --> 00:29:16,042 ...particles which travel backward through what you perceive as time... 302 00:29:16,689 --> 00:29:20,021 ...therefore obscuring my vision of the present. 303 00:29:20,826 --> 00:29:22,394 I must return to my work. 304 00:29:22,394 --> 00:29:23,696 RORSCHACH: Wait a minute. 305 00:29:23,696 --> 00:29:26,365 What if that's why someone wants us out of the way? 306 00:29:26,365 --> 00:29:28,767 So we can't do anything to stop it? 307 00:29:28,767 --> 00:29:30,769 Goodbye, Rorschach. 308 00:29:30,769 --> 00:29:33,205 RORSCHACH: Took a lot of effort to get in here to see you. 309 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:34,535 I'm not leaving-- 310 00:29:35,808 --> 00:29:38,139 --till I've had my say. 311 00:29:45,651 --> 00:29:48,754 Seems like there's a lot of things you don't tell me these days. 312 00:29:48,754 --> 00:29:51,924 I didn't wanna worry you prematurely. 313 00:29:51,924 --> 00:29:56,228 If Adrian and I can solve the energy crisis, war may be averted. 314 00:29:56,228 --> 00:29:58,286 LAURIE: But you always say time is simultaneous. 315 00:29:58,998 --> 00:30:02,034 If that's true, then how can you change the future? 316 00:30:02,034 --> 00:30:07,206 If only you could perceive time as I do. 317 00:30:07,206 --> 00:30:08,467 Please let me show you. 318 00:30:14,446 --> 00:30:19,552 Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it! 319 00:30:19,552 --> 00:30:22,788 It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about? 320 00:30:22,788 --> 00:30:25,391 I'm putting food on the table for you and your child. 321 00:30:25,391 --> 00:30:28,327 Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life. 322 00:30:28,327 --> 00:30:32,798 -It was a mistake. One time. -Man tries to rape you-- 323 00:30:32,798 --> 00:30:34,162 Stop! 324 00:30:34,934 --> 00:30:36,569 Your mind goes to dark places... 325 00:30:36,569 --> 00:30:38,900 ...and you wonder why I keep the worst from you. 326 00:30:42,841 --> 00:30:46,276 -Say hello to Dan for me. -What? 327 00:30:48,047 --> 00:30:50,844 You wanna ask me to go to dinner with you... 328 00:30:52,551 --> 00:30:54,711 ...like we used to... 329 00:30:56,155 --> 00:30:57,280 ...but you won't. 330 00:30:58,057 --> 00:31:00,320 You know I can't. 331 00:31:02,962 --> 00:31:05,664 So you'll call Dan... 332 00:31:05,664 --> 00:31:08,200 ...which is only natural. 333 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,793 You deserve the comfort of an old friend. 334 00:31:45,104 --> 00:31:46,627 LAURIE: Dan Dreiberg's table. 335 00:32:07,793 --> 00:32:11,558 DAN: Did you know that he and H.J. Were--? I had no idea. 336 00:32:12,064 --> 00:32:15,300 You remember that crazy guy? What'd he call himself? 337 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:16,969 Captain Carnage. 338 00:32:16,969 --> 00:32:20,339 Used to pretend he was a supervillain just so he could get beat up? 339 00:32:20,339 --> 00:32:22,908 Yeah, he tried that on me once. I just walked away. 340 00:32:22,908 --> 00:32:26,111 He starts following me down the street in broad daylight... 341 00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:29,148 ...yelling, " Punish me! Punish me!" 342 00:32:29,148 --> 00:32:31,672 I'm just saying, " No, get lost." 343 00:32:32,818 --> 00:32:35,454 God, whatever happened to him? 344 00:32:35,454 --> 00:32:37,790 Oh. Um.... He pulled that on Rorschach... 345 00:32:37,790 --> 00:32:40,189 ...and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft. 346 00:32:46,665 --> 00:32:49,064 Oh, my God. That's not even funny. 347 00:32:49,768 --> 00:32:52,258 -It's a little funny. -Yep. 348 00:32:54,173 --> 00:32:56,308 WOMAN: I'm glad I ordered the four-legged chicken. 349 00:32:56,308 --> 00:32:58,275 It's really good to see you again. 350 00:32:59,511 --> 00:33:01,034 It's great seeing you too. 351 00:33:01,847 --> 00:33:04,371 Why'd we do it, Dan? Dress up like that? 352 00:33:05,517 --> 00:33:09,021 -No one else would. -Yeah, but do you remember my costume? 353 00:33:09,021 --> 00:33:12,291 All that tight latex? I mean, it was awful. 354 00:33:12,291 --> 00:33:15,427 Uh.... Yeah, yeah, awful. 355 00:33:15,427 --> 00:33:18,030 But didn't wanna disappoint Mother. 356 00:33:18,030 --> 00:33:22,022 Wanted her little girl to be just like her and fight bad guys. 357 00:33:22,701 --> 00:33:26,295 I think the Keene Act was the best thing that ever happened to us. 358 00:33:27,372 --> 00:33:29,737 Well, we'll live longer anyway. 359 00:33:33,045 --> 00:33:34,568 What? 360 00:33:35,547 --> 00:33:40,040 Jon thinks, unless he can do something about it... 361 00:33:40,886 --> 00:33:43,388 ...that there's gonna be nuclear war. 362 00:33:43,388 --> 00:33:44,877 Soon. 363 00:33:45,758 --> 00:33:49,261 But I don't know what to think. I mean, it's all... 364 00:33:49,261 --> 00:33:52,498 ...quantum mechanics and parallel realities with him. 365 00:33:52,498 --> 00:33:55,261 I never even know what universe he's actually seeing. 366 00:33:56,568 --> 00:33:59,695 He just keeps getting further away from me. 367 00:34:00,405 --> 00:34:02,065 Everyone. 368 00:34:03,175 --> 00:34:06,011 I can't even tell if he actually cares about me anymore... 369 00:34:06,011 --> 00:34:08,035 ...or if he's just pretending. 370 00:34:08,747 --> 00:34:11,681 If he's pretending, it means he cares. 371 00:34:16,421 --> 00:34:18,411 Hold on, I'll get the door. 372 00:34:19,758 --> 00:34:21,927 Thanks, Dan. 373 00:34:21,927 --> 00:34:23,951 -Got it? -Yeah. 374 00:34:29,368 --> 00:34:32,359 You always get a government escort to dinner? 375 00:34:33,071 --> 00:34:37,131 They're making sure I don't do anything to upset the country's most powerful weapon. 376 00:34:38,911 --> 00:34:40,312 I'm sorry. 377 00:34:40,312 --> 00:34:44,583 I invite you out to dinner to catch up and have a few laughs... 378 00:34:44,583 --> 00:34:48,120 ...but there don't seem to be many laughs around these days. 379 00:34:48,120 --> 00:34:51,919 What do you expect? The Comedian's dead. 380 00:36:31,723 --> 00:36:33,781 [VOMITING] 381 00:36:35,460 --> 00:36:39,020 Laurie? Is that you? 382 00:36:41,733 --> 00:36:44,701 Thought you'd be used to traveling that way by now. 383 00:36:45,370 --> 00:36:49,541 Well, I'm not. I hate it when Jon teleports me. 384 00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:52,778 Well, it beats flying coach. 385 00:36:52,778 --> 00:36:55,013 Margarita? 386 00:36:55,013 --> 00:36:57,349 Mother, it's 2:00 in the afternoon. 387 00:36:57,349 --> 00:36:59,316 [CHUCKLES] 388 00:36:59,885 --> 00:37:01,351 Mm. 389 00:37:02,020 --> 00:37:04,690 Remember that guy that writes me letters? 390 00:37:04,690 --> 00:37:08,160 He sent me an item of memorabilia. It's a Tijuana bible. 391 00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:12,497 This little eight-page porno comic they did in the '30s and '40s. 392 00:37:12,497 --> 00:37:16,523 -He sent you this? -Sure. They're very valuable, like antiques. 393 00:37:17,336 --> 00:37:19,204 Mother, this is gross. 394 00:37:19,204 --> 00:37:21,640 I think it's kind of flattering. 395 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:23,903 Why do you always call me Mother when you're mad? 396 00:37:25,277 --> 00:37:29,337 I know why you're here. I can still read, you know. 397 00:37:30,115 --> 00:37:32,344 I saw it in the paper. 398 00:37:33,018 --> 00:37:35,918 Eddie Blake's funeral is today. 399 00:37:37,723 --> 00:37:41,193 Finally got his punchline, I guess. 400 00:37:41,193 --> 00:37:44,025 -Poor Eddie. -Poor Eddie? After what he did to you? 401 00:37:44,730 --> 00:37:46,253 Oh, Laurie, you're still young. 402 00:37:47,032 --> 00:37:49,134 You don't know. 403 00:37:49,134 --> 00:37:50,896 Things change. 404 00:37:51,737 --> 00:37:54,673 What happened happened 40 years ago. 405 00:37:54,673 --> 00:37:58,110 I'm 67 years old. 406 00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:02,307 Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. 407 00:38:03,148 --> 00:38:05,308 But the past... 408 00:38:05,817 --> 00:38:08,808 ...even the grimy parts of it... 409 00:38:09,354 --> 00:38:11,981 ...keep on getting brighter. 410 00:38:17,496 --> 00:38:20,328 I've got spots in my eyes. 411 00:38:22,067 --> 00:38:23,802 [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY] 412 00:38:23,802 --> 00:38:26,463 Stop it, Eddie. 413 00:38:27,439 --> 00:38:30,805 -Thank you, Weegee. -Thank you, Mr. Owl. 414 00:38:32,010 --> 00:38:35,380 Tomorrow, 3:00, my studio. 415 00:38:35,380 --> 00:38:38,717 -Little place on 21 st. -Sounds good. 416 00:38:38,717 --> 00:38:43,312 SALLY: Wow, a real photo session. Wonder how my hair will look? 417 00:38:45,624 --> 00:38:48,820 Oh, go ahead. I'll be there in five. 418 00:39:05,310 --> 00:39:06,333 Eddie. 419 00:39:07,412 --> 00:39:11,650 What the hell are you doing here? You knew I was changing. 420 00:39:11,650 --> 00:39:13,241 Sure I did. 421 00:39:14,886 --> 00:39:16,922 Come on, baby. 422 00:39:16,922 --> 00:39:19,091 I know what you need. 423 00:39:19,091 --> 00:39:23,328 You gotta have some kind of reason for dressing in an outfit like this. 424 00:39:23,328 --> 00:39:25,625 I said no, Eddie. 425 00:39:26,264 --> 00:39:31,336 -No spelled Y-E-S. -No spelled N-O. 426 00:39:31,336 --> 00:39:34,771 -All right? -Come on, sweetheart. 427 00:39:38,710 --> 00:39:40,301 Eddie.... 428 00:39:43,515 --> 00:39:45,379 [GRUNTING] 429 00:39:49,154 --> 00:39:51,144 [EDDIE LAUGHS] 430 00:40:21,153 --> 00:40:23,882 You little bastard. 431 00:40:30,495 --> 00:40:31,696 This what you like? 432 00:40:31,696 --> 00:40:34,186 -This what makes you hot? -What? 433 00:40:44,676 --> 00:40:48,046 Things are tough all over, cupcake. 434 00:40:48,046 --> 00:40:52,317 It rains on the just and the unjust alike. 435 00:40:52,317 --> 00:40:56,150 The Comedian was a little bit of both. 436 00:40:57,622 --> 00:41:00,988 And he always thought he'd get the last laugh. 437 00:41:01,526 --> 00:41:04,585 MAN: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts. 438 00:41:05,197 --> 00:41:08,700 Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers... 439 00:41:08,700 --> 00:41:13,471 ...but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty... 440 00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:16,530 ...O holy and merciful savior. 441 00:41:17,209 --> 00:41:20,111 Thou most worthy judge eternal. 442 00:41:20,111 --> 00:41:23,443 Suffer us not at our last hour for any-- 443 00:42:50,402 --> 00:42:53,004 EDDIE: Fireworks. You gotta be kidding me. 444 00:42:53,004 --> 00:42:57,736 You know, you'd think this goddamn country had had enough fireworks. 445 00:42:58,643 --> 00:43:01,413 You know, if we'd lost here in Vietnam... 446 00:43:01,413 --> 00:43:06,372 ...I think it might have driven us crazy. You know, as a country. 447 00:43:07,152 --> 00:43:10,848 But we didn't, thanks to you. 448 00:43:12,824 --> 00:43:14,926 You sound bitter. 449 00:43:14,926 --> 00:43:16,761 Me? Bitter? 450 00:43:16,761 --> 00:43:19,820 Fuck, no. I think it's hilarious. 451 00:43:21,666 --> 00:43:24,759 [JANIS JOPLIN'S " ME AND BOBBY McGEE" PLAYING O VER SPEAKERS] 452 00:43:26,171 --> 00:43:28,173 Oh, Jesus Christ. 453 00:43:28,173 --> 00:43:31,343 -Mr. Eddie? -Just what I fucking needed. 454 00:43:31,343 --> 00:43:36,405 The war is over now. We must talk about this baby. 455 00:43:37,182 --> 00:43:40,885 There's nothing to talk about. See, I'm leaving. 456 00:43:40,885 --> 00:43:42,387 I'm gonna forget about you... 457 00:43:42,387 --> 00:43:45,219 ...and your horrible, sweaty, little piece-of-shit country. 458 00:43:45,790 --> 00:43:46,949 Get the fuck out of here. 459 00:43:48,693 --> 00:43:50,729 -No. -Get the fuck out of here. 460 00:43:50,729 --> 00:43:52,093 You will remember. 461 00:43:53,865 --> 00:43:56,594 You will remember me and my country... 462 00:43:57,469 --> 00:43:59,095 ...forever! 463 00:44:01,706 --> 00:44:03,570 My face! 464 00:44:05,777 --> 00:44:06,936 Blake. Don't. 465 00:44:07,746 --> 00:44:09,042 Blake! 466 00:44:15,920 --> 00:44:18,410 She was pregnant... 467 00:44:19,691 --> 00:44:21,593 ...and you gunned her down. 468 00:44:21,593 --> 00:44:23,027 That's right... 469 00:44:23,027 --> 00:44:25,130 ...and you know what? You watched me. 470 00:44:25,130 --> 00:44:28,299 You could have turned the gun to steam, the bullets to mercury... 471 00:44:28,299 --> 00:44:31,893 ...the bottle into goddamn snowflakes, but you didn't, did you? 472 00:44:33,838 --> 00:44:36,670 You really don't give a damn about human beings. 473 00:44:37,842 --> 00:44:40,674 You're drifting out of touch, Doc. 474 00:44:42,247 --> 00:44:44,441 God help us all. 475 00:44:46,451 --> 00:44:47,747 Medic! 476 00:44:54,592 --> 00:44:57,754 MAN: Most holy and merciful savior. 477 00:44:58,696 --> 00:45:03,768 He cometh up and is cut down, like a flower. 478 00:45:03,768 --> 00:45:08,139 In the midst of life, we are in death. 479 00:45:08,139 --> 00:45:12,438 Of whom may we seek succor, but of thee, O Lord? 480 00:45:16,848 --> 00:45:20,084 Welcome. We'll be starting shortly. 481 00:45:20,084 --> 00:45:22,176 We're waiting for one more. 482 00:45:32,964 --> 00:45:36,296 I told you, you wouldn't be the only one dressed up. 483 00:45:37,936 --> 00:45:39,771 Welcome, doctor. 484 00:45:39,771 --> 00:45:41,573 Now we can start. 485 00:45:41,573 --> 00:45:45,406 Thank you for coming. Acquaint yourselves with this map of high-crime areas. 486 00:45:46,778 --> 00:45:47,903 This is all bullshit. 487 00:45:48,713 --> 00:45:53,251 For a guy who calls himself the Comedian, I can never tell when you're joking. 488 00:45:53,251 --> 00:45:56,821 Watchmen. That's the real joke. 489 00:45:56,821 --> 00:45:59,791 It didn't work 15 years ago, and it ain't gonna work now... 490 00:45:59,791 --> 00:46:02,093 ...because you wanna play cowboys and Indians. 491 00:46:02,093 --> 00:46:04,629 Maybe we should agree on no drinking at meetings. 492 00:46:04,629 --> 00:46:06,264 [LAUGHS] 493 00:46:06,264 --> 00:46:10,168 Rorschach and I have made headway on the gang problem by working together. 494 00:46:10,168 --> 00:46:14,672 A group this size seems like a publicity stunt. I'm not in it for the ink. 495 00:46:14,672 --> 00:46:16,641 ADRIAN: We can do so much more. 496 00:46:16,641 --> 00:46:19,010 We can save this world... 497 00:46:19,010 --> 00:46:20,445 [EDDIE CHUCKLES] 498 00:46:20,445 --> 00:46:23,607 -...with the right leadership. -Yeah. 499 00:46:25,984 --> 00:46:27,919 And that'd be you, right, Ozzy? 500 00:46:27,919 --> 00:46:30,855 I mean, hell, you're the smartest man on the planet. 501 00:46:30,855 --> 00:46:33,892 It doesn't take a genius to see the world has problems. 502 00:46:33,892 --> 00:46:37,554 But it takes a room of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle. 503 00:46:38,062 --> 00:46:39,397 You people. 504 00:46:39,397 --> 00:46:43,034 You hear Moloch's back in town, get your panties all in a bunch. 505 00:46:43,034 --> 00:46:46,037 -You think catching him matters? -Justice matters. 506 00:46:46,037 --> 00:46:47,438 [CHUCKLES] 507 00:46:47,438 --> 00:46:49,268 Justice. 508 00:46:49,874 --> 00:46:52,076 Justice is coming to all of us. 509 00:46:52,076 --> 00:46:53,542 No matter what the fuck we do. 510 00:46:54,279 --> 00:46:58,383 You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time. 511 00:46:58,383 --> 00:47:03,454 Now we finally have the power to finish the job. 512 00:47:03,454 --> 00:47:07,082 Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust. 513 00:47:10,228 --> 00:47:12,252 Then Ozymandias here... 514 00:47:13,264 --> 00:47:15,527 ...will be the smartest man on the cinder. 515 00:47:24,442 --> 00:47:26,500 MAN: For as much as it hath pleased... 516 00:47:27,378 --> 00:47:31,643 ...almighty God to take onto himself the soul of our dear departed brother... 517 00:47:33,051 --> 00:47:37,288 ...let us therefore commit his body to the ground. 518 00:47:37,288 --> 00:47:40,745 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes.... 519 00:47:47,832 --> 00:47:50,602 [CHATTERING] 520 00:47:50,602 --> 00:47:52,398 [GRUNTS] 521 00:48:04,515 --> 00:48:10,783 Watchmen! Police! Police to protect the people! 522 00:48:15,326 --> 00:48:19,530 DAN: Attention, citizens. We are trying to maintain order. 523 00:48:19,530 --> 00:48:24,135 You must clear the streets until the police strike is over. 524 00:48:24,135 --> 00:48:27,297 If you could-- Please, there's no need for violence. 525 00:48:28,272 --> 00:48:32,543 We are trying to retain order on the streets until the police strike is over. 526 00:48:32,543 --> 00:48:34,946 Crawl back in your holes before you get hurt. 527 00:48:34,946 --> 00:48:37,248 -I got rubber bullets. MAN 1: I want my rights! 528 00:48:37,248 --> 00:48:40,051 -You are not the law! MAN 2: We want regular cops! 529 00:48:40,051 --> 00:48:41,486 No more vigilantes! 530 00:48:41,486 --> 00:48:45,046 My son's a police officer, you fucking faggots! 531 00:48:46,658 --> 00:48:49,455 Goddamn it. All right. That's how you wanna do it? 532 00:49:01,205 --> 00:49:03,041 There's no need for violence. 533 00:49:03,041 --> 00:49:06,168 Fuck you. Fuck you! 534 00:49:12,417 --> 00:49:14,145 Oh, this is getting heavy. 535 00:49:38,576 --> 00:49:42,146 Goddamn, I love working on American soil, Dan. 536 00:49:42,146 --> 00:49:44,749 Ain't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein. 537 00:49:44,749 --> 00:49:46,551 How long can we keep this up? 538 00:49:46,551 --> 00:49:50,321 Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks. 539 00:49:50,321 --> 00:49:51,756 Our days are numbered. 540 00:49:51,756 --> 00:49:56,194 Until then, it's like you always say: We're society's only protection. 541 00:49:56,194 --> 00:50:00,932 -From what? -Are you kidding me? From themselves. 542 00:50:00,932 --> 00:50:03,301 -Son of a bitch. DAN: No, Comedian, wait! 543 00:50:03,301 --> 00:50:04,669 [MAN GRUNTS] 544 00:50:04,669 --> 00:50:06,568 Get your stinking hands off me. 545 00:50:08,740 --> 00:50:11,207 What the hell happened to us? 546 00:50:15,513 --> 00:50:17,844 What happened to the American dream? 547 00:50:18,683 --> 00:50:21,686 What happened to the American dream? 548 00:50:21,686 --> 00:50:23,988 It came true! 549 00:50:23,988 --> 00:50:26,012 You're looking at it. 550 00:52:28,479 --> 00:52:30,114 Edgar William Jacobi. 551 00:52:30,114 --> 00:52:33,947 Also known as Edgar William Vaughn. Also known as Moloch. 552 00:52:36,354 --> 00:52:37,989 [GRO ANING] 553 00:52:37,989 --> 00:52:40,252 What are you talking about? 554 00:52:41,192 --> 00:52:42,793 I'm a retired businessman-- 555 00:52:42,793 --> 00:52:44,419 [GRO ANS] 556 00:52:44,929 --> 00:52:47,932 Lie again, Moloch, I break another finger. 557 00:52:47,932 --> 00:52:50,134 I did my time. 558 00:52:50,134 --> 00:52:52,931 I'm not Moloch anymore. 559 00:52:53,537 --> 00:52:58,142 -What do you want from me? -Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why? 560 00:52:58,142 --> 00:53:01,599 I just felt I should... 561 00:53:02,780 --> 00:53:05,680 ...pay my respects to the Comedian. 562 00:53:08,152 --> 00:53:13,057 -How'd you know he was the Comedian? -He broke in here. A week ago. 563 00:53:13,057 --> 00:53:15,860 He had his mask off. 564 00:53:15,860 --> 00:53:19,530 -He was drunk. -Enemies. For decades. 565 00:53:19,530 --> 00:53:22,733 -Why should he visit you? -I don't know. 566 00:53:22,733 --> 00:53:25,836 I woke up in my bedroom and there he was. 567 00:53:25,836 --> 00:53:27,803 He was upset. 568 00:53:28,372 --> 00:53:29,895 He was crying. 569 00:53:30,408 --> 00:53:32,877 Crying? The Comedian? 570 00:53:32,877 --> 00:53:36,047 EDGAR: He was babbling, not making any sense. 571 00:53:36,047 --> 00:53:39,216 I was pissing in my pants. 572 00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:41,686 I thought he was gonna kill me. 573 00:53:41,686 --> 00:53:43,949 RORSCHACH: What did he say? 574 00:53:45,256 --> 00:53:46,916 It's a joke. 575 00:53:47,658 --> 00:53:50,217 It's all a fucking joke. 576 00:53:52,263 --> 00:53:54,832 You know, I thought I knew how it was. 577 00:53:54,832 --> 00:53:57,857 I thought I knew how the world was. 578 00:53:59,003 --> 00:54:01,664 I've done some bad things. 579 00:54:02,340 --> 00:54:06,110 I did bad things to women. I shot kids. 580 00:54:06,110 --> 00:54:08,373 In 'Nam, you know. 581 00:54:08,946 --> 00:54:10,378 But that was fucking war. 582 00:54:11,349 --> 00:54:12,679 This.... 583 00:54:13,351 --> 00:54:16,012 I never done anything like this. 584 00:54:18,689 --> 00:54:21,792 God, here I am... 585 00:54:21,792 --> 00:54:24,362 ...spilling my guts... 586 00:54:24,362 --> 00:54:25,851 ...to one of my archenemies. 587 00:54:28,032 --> 00:54:30,363 But the truth is... 588 00:54:30,968 --> 00:54:35,563 ...you're the closest thing to a friend I got. What the fuck does that say? 589 00:54:39,477 --> 00:54:41,671 Shit. 590 00:54:43,214 --> 00:54:45,049 And your name... 591 00:54:45,049 --> 00:54:47,785 ...your name was on the list... 592 00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:52,256 ...along with Janey, you know, whatever the fuck her name is. 593 00:54:52,256 --> 00:54:54,689 Manhattan's old girl. 594 00:54:58,896 --> 00:55:01,056 Mother, forgive me. 595 00:55:02,233 --> 00:55:03,893 EDGAR: And then he left. 596 00:55:04,902 --> 00:55:09,497 I swear I don't know what the hell he was talking about. 597 00:55:16,247 --> 00:55:18,682 Funny story. 598 00:55:18,682 --> 00:55:21,013 Sounds unbelievable. 599 00:55:21,786 --> 00:55:23,888 Probably true. 600 00:55:23,888 --> 00:55:26,757 So that's it? 601 00:55:26,757 --> 00:55:30,886 -I'm clean? -You? 602 00:55:32,096 --> 00:55:33,426 Clean? 603 00:55:38,369 --> 00:55:39,637 Amygdalin. 604 00:55:39,637 --> 00:55:42,506 This phony medication made from apricot pits. 605 00:55:42,506 --> 00:55:45,736 -It's illegal. -Come on. 606 00:55:47,611 --> 00:55:49,942 Please don't confiscate that. 607 00:55:50,781 --> 00:55:53,578 I'm trying anything. 608 00:55:55,052 --> 00:55:56,541 I have cancer. 609 00:55:57,555 --> 00:55:58,885 What kind of cancer? 610 00:56:00,791 --> 00:56:03,816 You know the kind you eventually get better from? 611 00:56:05,729 --> 00:56:07,719 That ain't the kind I got. 612 00:56:10,968 --> 00:56:15,106 Rorschach's journal. October 16th. 613 00:56:15,106 --> 00:56:18,142 Want some of this? Fifty bucks, I'll suck your cock. 614 00:56:18,142 --> 00:56:21,078 -Thought about Moloch's story. -Come on. 615 00:56:21,078 --> 00:56:23,180 Could all be lies. 616 00:56:23,180 --> 00:56:27,651 A revenge scheme planned during his years behind bars. 617 00:56:27,651 --> 00:56:32,923 Fuck you. I make more in a week than you make in a year, you fucking homo. 618 00:56:32,923 --> 00:56:34,692 But if it's true... 619 00:56:34,692 --> 00:56:37,128 ...what could have possibly scared the Comedian... 620 00:56:37,128 --> 00:56:38,992 ...enough to cry in front of Moloch? 621 00:56:40,364 --> 00:56:41,387 What was it he saw? 622 00:56:43,167 --> 00:56:44,827 And that list he mentioned. 623 00:56:49,006 --> 00:56:52,576 Edward Blake. The Comedian. 624 00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:55,146 Born 1918. 625 00:56:55,146 --> 00:56:57,348 Buried in the rain. 626 00:56:57,348 --> 00:56:59,383 Murdered. 627 00:56:59,383 --> 00:57:03,409 Is that what happens to us? No time for friends? 628 00:57:04,355 --> 00:57:07,825 Only our enemies leave roses. 629 00:57:07,825 --> 00:57:10,725 Violent lives ending violently. 630 00:57:12,696 --> 00:57:17,935 Blake understood. Humans are savage in nature. 631 00:57:17,935 --> 00:57:20,804 No matter how much you try to dress it up... 632 00:57:20,804 --> 00:57:23,107 ...to disguise it... 633 00:57:23,107 --> 00:57:26,410 ...Blake saw society's true face. 634 00:57:26,410 --> 00:57:31,215 Chose to be a parody of it. A joke. 635 00:57:31,215 --> 00:57:32,875 I heard joke once. 636 00:57:34,051 --> 00:57:38,022 Man goes to doctor, says he's depressed. 637 00:57:38,022 --> 00:57:42,059 Life seems harsh and cruel. 638 00:57:42,059 --> 00:57:46,096 Says he feels all alone in threatening world. 639 00:57:46,096 --> 00:57:49,300 Doctor says treatment is simple. 640 00:57:49,300 --> 00:57:53,904 " The great clown Pagliacci is in town. Go see him. 641 00:57:53,904 --> 00:57:55,894 That should pick you up. " 642 00:57:56,407 --> 00:57:59,510 Man bursts into tears. 643 00:57:59,510 --> 00:58:03,843 "But doctor, " he says. "I am Pagliacci. " 644 00:58:05,849 --> 00:58:07,851 Good joke. 645 00:58:07,851 --> 00:58:09,920 Everybody laugh. 646 00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:12,080 Roll on snare drum. 647 00:58:12,590 --> 00:58:14,079 Curtains. 648 00:58:19,029 --> 00:58:22,533 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 649 00:58:22,533 --> 00:58:24,969 What time do you have to be at your interview? 650 00:58:24,969 --> 00:58:26,595 JON: Don't worry. 651 00:58:27,238 --> 00:58:29,907 We've got plenty of time. 652 00:58:29,907 --> 00:58:32,431 [BILLIE HOLLIDAY'S " YOU'RE MY THRILL" PLAYING O VER SPEAKERS] 653 00:58:36,780 --> 00:58:38,974 Your finger's like licking a battery. 654 00:58:59,303 --> 00:59:02,239 God, Jon, stop. What are you doing? 655 00:59:02,239 --> 00:59:03,741 Please don't be upset. 656 00:59:03,741 --> 00:59:07,578 I always thought you liked this. 657 00:59:07,578 --> 00:59:08,976 LAURIE: No. 658 00:59:10,481 --> 00:59:13,449 I don't-- No. 659 00:59:14,285 --> 00:59:17,388 I don't want that. 660 00:59:17,388 --> 00:59:20,550 I don't know what stimulates you anymore. 661 00:59:22,693 --> 00:59:26,321 Look, I know you were just trying-- 662 00:59:28,132 --> 00:59:30,768 Are you working in here while we're in bed together? 663 00:59:30,768 --> 00:59:34,672 My work with Adrian is at a critical stage right now. 664 00:59:34,672 --> 00:59:38,008 -I didn't think it was necessary to-- -To what? 665 00:59:38,008 --> 00:59:41,534 To what? To tell me which one of you is giving me a pity fuck? 666 00:59:50,688 --> 00:59:53,121 My attention was completely focused on you. 667 00:59:53,724 --> 00:59:56,160 If you think there's a problem with my attitude... 668 00:59:56,160 --> 00:59:58,389 ...I am prepared to discuss it. 669 01:00:00,164 --> 01:00:04,068 You know how everything in this world fits together except people. 670 01:00:04,068 --> 01:00:08,706 What am I to you? Another puzzle to be solved? 671 01:00:08,706 --> 01:00:12,402 Have your men stand back. I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now. 672 01:00:13,243 --> 01:00:16,177 You're my only remaining link to the world. 673 01:00:23,954 --> 01:00:26,547 I don't want that responsibility anymore. 674 01:00:32,429 --> 01:00:34,555 He's all yours. 675 01:00:40,604 --> 01:00:42,969 ADRIAN: Don't worry, Jon. She'll be back. 676 01:00:44,441 --> 01:00:46,635 No, she won't. 677 01:01:00,724 --> 01:01:05,285 MAN [ON TV] : He's been called many things: Hero, weapon... 678 01:01:05,796 --> 01:01:08,432 ...linchpin of our national security... 679 01:01:08,432 --> 01:01:13,303 ...deterrent to nuclear war, or a man to end worlds. 680 01:01:13,303 --> 01:01:16,039 Later tonight, Dr. Manhattan... 681 01:01:16,039 --> 01:01:21,178 ...will answer my questions and yours in an exclusive interview... 682 01:01:21,178 --> 01:01:26,216 ...brought to you commercial-free by Veidt Enterprises. 683 01:01:26,216 --> 01:01:27,785 [KNOCKING] 684 01:01:27,785 --> 01:01:30,275 [NAT KING COLE'S " UNFORGETTABLE" PLAYS ON TV] 685 01:01:40,898 --> 01:01:42,332 Who is it? 686 01:01:42,332 --> 01:01:44,299 LAURIE: It's Laurie. 687 01:01:55,179 --> 01:01:58,615 Sorry. I just had this new lock installed. 688 01:01:58,615 --> 01:02:01,251 I didn't know where else to go. 689 01:02:01,251 --> 01:02:04,413 Oh, it's okay. Come in. 690 01:02:11,862 --> 01:02:12,885 What's wrong? 691 01:02:14,198 --> 01:02:15,824 I left Jon. 692 01:02:16,533 --> 01:02:19,303 Oh, God. 693 01:02:19,303 --> 01:02:21,205 I'm so sorry. 694 01:02:21,205 --> 01:02:24,037 I don't know why I'm here. I just.... 695 01:02:25,576 --> 01:02:28,043 I don't know anybody else. 696 01:02:28,879 --> 01:02:32,177 I don't know anybody except for goddamn superheroes. 697 01:02:32,749 --> 01:02:34,585 That's okay. 698 01:02:34,585 --> 01:02:37,020 You probably just had an argument or something. 699 01:02:37,020 --> 01:02:38,384 No, Dan. 700 01:02:38,922 --> 01:02:41,792 You don't know what it's been like living with him. 701 01:02:41,792 --> 01:02:45,095 The way he looks at things now, it's like he doesn't... 702 01:02:45,095 --> 01:02:47,898 ...remember what they are. 703 01:02:47,898 --> 01:02:50,234 It's like this world, this real world... 704 01:02:50,234 --> 01:02:54,204 ...to him, it's like walking through mist. 705 01:02:54,204 --> 01:02:57,764 And people are just shadows. 706 01:02:59,343 --> 01:03:01,833 Shadows in a fog. 707 01:03:02,946 --> 01:03:06,312 God, how did everything get so tangled up? 708 01:03:07,918 --> 01:03:09,908 I'm sorry, Dan. 709 01:03:10,654 --> 01:03:14,091 This is twice now I've ruined your evening. 710 01:03:14,091 --> 01:03:17,261 Come on. I'm glad you came over. 711 01:03:17,261 --> 01:03:20,964 I was just gonna see Hollis for our weekly beer session. 712 01:03:20,964 --> 01:03:22,954 You're more than welcome to join. 713 01:03:24,134 --> 01:03:27,432 In fact, I insist. 714 01:03:55,999 --> 01:03:58,796 [WOMAN GASPING] 715 01:03:59,937 --> 01:04:02,906 Terrific. Dr. Manhattan arrives and no one thinks to tell me. 716 01:04:02,906 --> 01:04:04,975 WOMAN: He just-- -We don't have time for makeup. 717 01:04:04,975 --> 01:04:07,272 That blue is too light for television. 718 01:04:10,047 --> 01:04:12,037 Is that dark enough? 719 01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:16,920 PRODUCER: Yeah, that's dark enough. 720 01:04:16,920 --> 01:04:20,757 MAN: The weight of the world's on him, but does he quit? No. 721 01:04:20,757 --> 01:04:23,193 News vendors always cope. They're the-- 722 01:04:23,193 --> 01:04:27,197 Oh, God, here comes that homeless guy again. 723 01:04:27,197 --> 01:04:30,167 I told you, this month's issue still hasn't arrived yet. 724 01:04:30,167 --> 01:04:34,004 Why do you care about that right-wing rag? Those bastards don't give a damn. 725 01:04:34,004 --> 01:04:35,205 [HORN HONKS] 726 01:04:35,205 --> 01:04:37,502 Hold up. Here they come. 727 01:04:41,278 --> 01:04:43,981 -Seymour. -Bernie, how's tricks? 728 01:04:43,981 --> 01:04:45,182 BERNIE: Fine, fine. 729 01:04:45,182 --> 01:04:48,480 See this guy behind me? Been bugging me all week. 730 01:04:51,388 --> 01:04:55,759 Maybe we should get a cab. These are bad neighborhoods. 731 01:04:55,759 --> 01:04:59,387 Yeah, well, I'm in a bad mood. 732 01:05:11,975 --> 01:05:14,411 MAN 1: Girl. MAN 2: What we got here? 733 01:05:14,411 --> 01:05:17,447 Here's a list of Pentagon-approved no-go areas. 734 01:05:17,447 --> 01:05:20,417 Afghanistan will obviously come up, but just play it cool... 735 01:05:20,417 --> 01:05:22,953 ...and try not to get into any tight corners. 736 01:05:22,953 --> 01:05:26,823 --A renowned nuclear physicist, who, through a terrible accident... 737 01:05:26,823 --> 01:05:32,763 ...was gifted with extraordinary powers, capable of bending matter to his will. 738 01:05:32,763 --> 01:05:37,200 Today, the world knows him as Dr. Manhattan. 739 01:05:37,200 --> 01:05:38,702 Welcome. 740 01:05:38,702 --> 01:05:41,261 [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING] 741 01:05:43,540 --> 01:05:44,941 JON: Thank you. 742 01:05:44,941 --> 01:05:46,874 MAN 3: That's right. 743 01:05:53,417 --> 01:05:56,386 Ms. Black, you have the first question. 744 01:05:56,386 --> 01:05:57,988 Dr. Manhattan, as you know... 745 01:05:57,988 --> 01:06:00,857 ...the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face... 746 01:06:00,857 --> 01:06:04,761 ...analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction... 747 01:06:04,761 --> 01:06:07,931 ...midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. 748 01:06:07,931 --> 01:06:11,093 As of now, it stands at four minutes to midnight. 749 01:06:11,735 --> 01:06:14,604 Would you agree that we're that close to annihilation? 750 01:06:14,604 --> 01:06:16,935 My father was a watchmaker. 751 01:06:17,774 --> 01:06:22,107 He abandoned it when Einstein discovered that time is relative. 752 01:06:23,280 --> 01:06:25,449 I would only agree that a symbolic clock... 753 01:06:25,449 --> 01:06:27,617 ...is as nourishing to the intellect... 754 01:06:27,617 --> 01:06:30,881 ...as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man. 755 01:06:33,223 --> 01:06:35,125 So you're saying there is no danger. 756 01:06:35,125 --> 01:06:39,117 JON: Even in a world without nuclear weapons, there would still be danger. 757 01:06:44,067 --> 01:06:47,137 MAN: And would you say, as so many claim... 758 01:06:47,137 --> 01:06:49,072 ...that you are, in fact, a god... 759 01:06:49,072 --> 01:06:52,075 ...given you see the past and future simultaneously? 760 01:06:52,075 --> 01:06:54,811 I can only see my own past... 761 01:06:54,811 --> 01:06:58,712 ...my own future. I am not omniscient. 762 01:06:59,316 --> 01:07:00,851 KOPPEL: Doug Roth, your question? 763 01:07:00,851 --> 01:07:03,754 Speaking of your past, Dr. Manhattan... 764 01:07:03,754 --> 01:07:06,690 ...do you remember a man named Wally Weaver? 765 01:07:06,690 --> 01:07:11,820 Yes. We were both physicists together at the Gila Flats Research Base. 766 01:07:12,329 --> 01:07:13,886 He died of cancer. 767 01:07:14,765 --> 01:07:17,200 -He was a good man. ROTH: How about Edgar Jacobi... 768 01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:20,100 ...also known as the supervillain Moloch? 769 01:07:21,071 --> 01:07:25,375 You encountered him several times in the '60s: Battles, conflicts. 770 01:07:25,375 --> 01:07:27,842 Did you know that he has cancer as well? 771 01:07:28,779 --> 01:07:30,180 I wasn't told. 772 01:07:30,180 --> 01:07:32,582 ROTH: And what about General Anthony Randolph? 773 01:07:32,582 --> 01:07:36,419 He was your handler when you first started working for the government. 774 01:07:36,419 --> 01:07:37,621 Cancer. 775 01:07:37,621 --> 01:07:40,690 You're suggesting I was the cause. 776 01:07:40,690 --> 01:07:43,860 ROTH: From where I'm standing, it's starting to look pretty conclusive. 777 01:07:43,860 --> 01:07:46,062 JON: Even if that's the case, it's irrelevant. 778 01:07:46,062 --> 01:07:49,032 A live human body and a deceased human body... 779 01:07:49,032 --> 01:07:51,124 ...have the same number of particles. 780 01:07:53,870 --> 01:07:55,769 Structurally, there's no difference. 781 01:07:56,907 --> 01:07:59,170 All right. Let's settle down, please. 782 01:08:05,048 --> 01:08:06,275 What about Janey Slater? 783 01:08:07,050 --> 01:08:09,381 You think it makes a difference to her? 784 01:08:10,453 --> 01:08:12,122 Janey? 785 01:08:12,122 --> 01:08:13,857 ROTH: Your ex-girlfriend? 786 01:08:13,857 --> 01:08:17,661 She was a physicist too. You saw each other for 11 years. 787 01:08:17,661 --> 01:08:19,362 Doug, one question at a time. 788 01:08:19,362 --> 01:08:22,899 She has cancer as well. Doctors have given her six months. 789 01:08:22,899 --> 01:08:24,729 Isn't that right, Miss Slater? 790 01:08:40,250 --> 01:08:42,046 You were the world to me, Jon. 791 01:08:42,652 --> 01:08:44,881 You were my whole life. 792 01:08:45,822 --> 01:08:48,592 Do you remember how many times you said you loved me? 793 01:08:48,592 --> 01:08:50,760 Janey, I wasn't told. 794 01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:56,129 I stuck by you after the accident. I gave you everything. 795 01:08:59,069 --> 01:09:01,171 [AUDIENCE MURMURING] 796 01:09:01,171 --> 01:09:03,273 This is how you repay me? 797 01:09:03,273 --> 01:09:08,345 -Janey, I wasn't told. I didn't know. -Damn you, Jon. Goddamn you. 798 01:09:08,345 --> 01:09:10,335 Janey, wait. 799 01:09:11,748 --> 01:09:14,351 -That's it. This interview is over. MAN: Get up there. 800 01:09:14,351 --> 01:09:16,887 Get those cameras off. Everybody back off. 801 01:09:16,887 --> 01:09:20,757 Everybody back off. I need some backup here. Leave him alone. 802 01:09:20,757 --> 01:09:27,030 Please, if everyone would just go away... 803 01:09:27,030 --> 01:09:30,100 ...and leave me alone.... 804 01:09:30,100 --> 01:09:31,668 Do you care to comment? 805 01:09:31,668 --> 01:09:34,693 I said, leave me alone! 806 01:09:48,285 --> 01:09:50,275 [BOTH PANTING] 807 01:10:00,330 --> 01:10:02,229 Jesus. 808 01:10:03,333 --> 01:10:04,924 Us... 809 01:10:05,835 --> 01:10:07,665 ...getting mugged. 810 01:10:10,006 --> 01:10:11,597 Let's go. 811 01:10:13,376 --> 01:10:15,366 [MEN GRO ANING] 812 01:10:17,347 --> 01:10:19,143 I'm shaking. 813 01:10:23,353 --> 01:10:25,488 You know what? 814 01:10:25,488 --> 01:10:29,159 I'm wiped. I'm just gonna call it a night. 815 01:10:29,159 --> 01:10:32,562 Oh, are you sure you don't wanna come by Hollis' with me... 816 01:10:32,562 --> 01:10:34,791 ...and shake off the adrenaline? 817 01:10:35,598 --> 01:10:38,725 LAURIE: I think I've had enough hero stuff for one night. 818 01:10:39,869 --> 01:10:42,539 It helped having you listen. 819 01:10:42,539 --> 01:10:44,267 DAN: Any time. 820 01:10:44,975 --> 01:10:46,874 LAURIE: Take care, Dan. 821 01:10:47,677 --> 01:10:49,974 It's a rough world out there. 822 01:10:51,448 --> 01:10:52,816 DAN: Be seeing you. 823 01:10:52,816 --> 01:10:54,146 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 824 01:10:56,987 --> 01:10:58,288 You're late. 825 01:10:58,288 --> 01:11:01,558 Ah, I know. I know. You won't believe what happened. 826 01:11:01,558 --> 01:11:04,527 Dr. Manhattan just lost it on live TV. 827 01:11:04,527 --> 01:11:06,396 Wait, what? 828 01:11:06,396 --> 01:11:09,387 [PEOPLE CLAMORING ON TV] 829 01:11:11,801 --> 01:11:13,734 I was just with Laurie. She doesn't know. 830 01:11:14,537 --> 01:11:18,308 HOLLIS: She's gonna know soon enough. The whole world will know. 831 01:11:18,308 --> 01:11:21,037 I said, leave me alone! 832 01:11:30,887 --> 01:11:33,081 JON: I am looking at the stars. 833 01:11:33,590 --> 01:11:36,026 They're so far away... 834 01:11:36,026 --> 01:11:38,687 ...and their light takes so long to reach us... 835 01:11:41,431 --> 01:11:45,628 ...all we ever see of stars are their old photographs. 836 01:11:49,239 --> 01:11:53,072 It is July, 1959, and I am in love. 837 01:11:53,910 --> 01:11:55,745 MAN: That's great. 838 01:11:55,745 --> 01:11:57,547 -You can pick it up tomorrow. -Okay. 839 01:11:57,547 --> 01:11:59,449 -Seventy-five cents. -Okay, thank you. 840 01:11:59,449 --> 01:12:00,650 Thank you. 841 01:12:00,650 --> 01:12:05,021 Gosh, Jon, I wish he gave us a little notice. I'm sure I made a face. 842 01:12:05,021 --> 01:12:10,014 Oh, no, no. I'm sure that you'll look beautiful. 843 01:12:13,930 --> 01:12:16,261 Her name is Janey Slater. 844 01:12:17,100 --> 01:12:19,761 She is a physicist, like me. 845 01:12:21,037 --> 01:12:22,799 I am 30 years old. 846 01:12:27,510 --> 01:12:31,445 We were introduced by a good friend of mine from college, Wally Weaver. 847 01:12:35,618 --> 01:12:38,354 It is February 12th, 1981. 848 01:12:38,354 --> 01:12:42,119 Wally dies of cancer, of which they now say I am the cause. 849 01:12:48,264 --> 01:12:50,788 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 850 01:12:59,109 --> 01:13:02,509 That night, Janey and I make love for the first time. 851 01:13:10,353 --> 01:13:13,344 A month from now, the accident awaits me. 852 01:13:20,830 --> 01:13:24,321 Oh, I'll catch up with you guys. I think I left my watch inside. 853 01:13:25,001 --> 01:13:27,230 Hey. Let's just wait a second. 854 01:13:30,640 --> 01:13:35,042 I cross the room to the Intrinsic Field Center. I find my watch. 855 01:13:36,613 --> 01:13:39,513 [ALARM BUZZES] 856 01:13:41,751 --> 01:13:42,910 When I get to the door... 857 01:13:44,687 --> 01:13:46,055 ...Wally is turning white. 858 01:13:46,055 --> 01:13:50,115 The program's locked in. We can't override the time lock. 859 01:13:51,494 --> 01:13:53,596 I am terrified. 860 01:13:53,596 --> 01:13:54,721 JANEY: Jon? 861 01:13:59,969 --> 01:14:01,731 I'm sorry, Jon... 862 01:14:03,673 --> 01:14:05,230 ...but I can't-- 863 01:14:07,510 --> 01:14:09,033 Janey, don't leave me! 864 01:14:09,579 --> 01:14:11,569 Don't leave me! 865 01:14:14,784 --> 01:14:17,217 [MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 866 01:14:43,613 --> 01:14:48,818 It is May 12th, 1959, when I'm introduced to Janey. 867 01:14:48,818 --> 01:14:51,221 She buys me a beer... 868 01:14:51,221 --> 01:14:54,053 ...the first time a woman has done this for me. 869 01:14:55,425 --> 01:14:59,258 As she passes me the cold, perspiring glass... 870 01:14:59,896 --> 01:15:01,123 ...our fingers touch. 871 01:15:14,010 --> 01:15:16,346 Yes, Jon, good. 872 01:15:16,346 --> 01:15:21,840 Now it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence. 873 01:15:25,688 --> 01:15:26,779 I feel fear... 874 01:15:28,024 --> 01:15:30,150 ...for the last time. 875 01:15:46,976 --> 01:15:49,579 A token funeral is held. 876 01:15:49,579 --> 01:15:51,914 There is nothing to bury. 877 01:15:51,914 --> 01:15:54,717 Janey frames the snapshot. 878 01:15:54,717 --> 01:15:57,844 It's the only photograph of me anyone has. 879 01:15:59,155 --> 01:16:04,427 A circulatory system is seen by the perimeter fence. 880 01:16:04,427 --> 01:16:06,062 A few days later... 881 01:16:06,062 --> 01:16:09,465 ...a partially muscled skeleton stands in a hallway... 882 01:16:09,465 --> 01:16:13,298 ...and screams for a moment before vanishing. 883 01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:19,234 [RUMBLING] 884 01:16:38,661 --> 01:16:40,863 Oh, God. 885 01:16:40,863 --> 01:16:42,386 Jon? 886 01:16:43,433 --> 01:16:45,263 Is that you? 887 01:16:45,935 --> 01:16:49,138 Nations around the world reeling from this morning's announcement... 888 01:16:49,138 --> 01:16:51,941 ...possibly the most significant event in recent history. 889 01:16:51,941 --> 01:16:56,001 We repeat, the superman exists, and he is American. 890 01:17:02,385 --> 01:17:04,978 They call me Dr. Manhattan. 891 01:17:07,323 --> 01:17:09,425 They explain the name has been chosen... 892 01:17:09,425 --> 01:17:13,656 ...for the ominous associations it will raise in America's enemies. 893 01:17:18,267 --> 01:17:21,599 The marketing boys say I need a logo. 894 01:17:30,413 --> 01:17:32,778 If I'm to have a symbol... 895 01:17:34,751 --> 01:17:37,378 ...it shall be one I respect. 896 01:17:47,430 --> 01:17:50,455 They are shaping me into something gaudy... 897 01:17:51,534 --> 01:17:53,660 ...something lethal. 898 01:17:58,474 --> 01:18:01,177 In January, 1971... 899 01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:05,314 ...President Nixon asks me to intervene in Vietnam... 900 01:18:05,314 --> 01:18:08,077 ...something that his predecessors would not ask. 901 01:18:09,385 --> 01:18:12,388 A week later, the conflict ends. 902 01:18:12,388 --> 01:18:16,824 Some of the Vietcong forces wanna surrender to me personally. 903 01:18:20,263 --> 01:18:24,033 Hollis Mason, a retired costume hero, writes a book. 904 01:18:24,033 --> 01:18:28,867 In it, he calls my arrival the dawn of the superhero. 905 01:18:29,705 --> 01:18:32,434 I am not sure if I know what that means. 906 01:18:48,925 --> 01:18:52,295 WALLY: You see, at the time, I was misquoted. 907 01:18:52,295 --> 01:18:55,531 I never said, " The superman exists and he is American." 908 01:18:55,531 --> 01:19:01,491 What I said was, " God exists, and he is American." 909 01:19:02,004 --> 01:19:04,640 Now, if you begin to feel an intense... 910 01:19:04,640 --> 01:19:08,978 ...and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept... 911 01:19:08,978 --> 01:19:11,002 ...don't be alarmed. 912 01:19:11,647 --> 01:19:15,673 That indicates only that you are still sane. 913 01:19:18,154 --> 01:19:21,624 It is Christmas, 1963. 914 01:19:21,624 --> 01:19:25,320 Janey tells me she is afraid, and worried. 915 01:19:25,962 --> 01:19:28,759 She says I am like a god now. 916 01:19:29,465 --> 01:19:31,801 I tell her I don't think there is a God. 917 01:19:31,801 --> 01:19:34,428 And if there is, I'm nothing like him. 918 01:19:39,208 --> 01:19:41,641 I tell her I still want her... 919 01:19:42,411 --> 01:19:44,401 ...and that I always will. 920 01:19:47,483 --> 01:19:52,146 As I lie to her, it is September 4th, 1970. 921 01:19:52,989 --> 01:19:55,855 I am in a room full of people wearing disguises. 922 01:19:57,326 --> 01:20:01,591 A very young girl looks at me and smiles. 923 01:20:03,466 --> 01:20:05,456 She's beautiful. 924 01:20:09,005 --> 01:20:15,077 After each long kiss, she plants a smaller, gentler one upon my lips... 925 01:20:15,077 --> 01:20:16,634 ...like a signature. 926 01:20:18,014 --> 01:20:21,176 Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. 927 01:20:21,684 --> 01:20:27,123 She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. 928 01:20:27,123 --> 01:20:28,953 It's true. 929 01:20:31,027 --> 01:20:34,230 She's aging more noticeably every day... 930 01:20:34,230 --> 01:20:37,289 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 931 01:20:40,636 --> 01:20:43,468 ...while I am standing still. 932 01:20:44,407 --> 01:20:47,068 I prefer the stillness here. 933 01:20:48,044 --> 01:20:50,313 I am tired of Earth. 934 01:20:50,313 --> 01:20:51,973 These people. 935 01:20:52,548 --> 01:20:56,244 I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. 936 01:21:19,075 --> 01:21:22,407 They claim their labors are to build a heaven... 937 01:21:22,979 --> 01:21:26,916 ...yet their heaven is populated with horrors. 938 01:21:26,916 --> 01:21:29,577 Perhaps the world is not made. 939 01:21:30,586 --> 01:21:32,576 Perhaps nothing is made. 940 01:21:33,422 --> 01:21:36,982 A clock without a craftsman. 941 01:21:37,927 --> 01:21:40,363 It's too late. 942 01:21:40,363 --> 01:21:42,262 Always has been... 943 01:21:42,898 --> 01:21:45,092 ...always will be... 944 01:21:45,668 --> 01:21:47,294 ...too late. 945 01:21:48,771 --> 01:21:51,641 FORBES: And you have no idea where he would've gone. 946 01:21:51,641 --> 01:21:53,109 LAURIE: How would I know? 947 01:21:53,109 --> 01:21:56,012 Probably on the other side of the world studying molecules. 948 01:21:56,012 --> 01:21:58,714 FORBES: Our satellites have done a sweep of the planet. 949 01:21:58,714 --> 01:22:01,183 There's no trace of his energy signature anywhere. 950 01:22:01,183 --> 01:22:02,652 Really? 951 01:22:02,652 --> 01:22:06,222 Miss Jupiter, did you and Dr. Manhattan have a fight today? 952 01:22:06,222 --> 01:22:07,890 None of your fucking business. 953 01:22:07,890 --> 01:22:11,222 It is when you're on government payroll and you're not doing your job. 954 01:22:12,061 --> 01:22:15,860 That's as close to the word " whore" as you're gonna get with me, Agent Forbes. 955 01:22:24,006 --> 01:22:25,495 Smoke? 956 01:22:26,042 --> 01:22:28,444 My apologies, Miss Jupiter. 957 01:22:28,444 --> 01:22:31,810 You know how important Dr. Manhattan is to our national security. 958 01:22:32,715 --> 01:22:34,817 You can imagine our concern. 959 01:22:34,817 --> 01:22:36,340 I can only imagine. 960 01:22:42,591 --> 01:22:47,029 EDDIE: Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust. 961 01:22:47,029 --> 01:22:50,032 Then Ozymandias here... 962 01:22:50,032 --> 01:22:52,795 ...will be the smartest man on the cinder. 963 01:23:10,986 --> 01:23:14,079 EDDIE: Laurel? Laurel Jane? 964 01:23:15,624 --> 01:23:17,420 You're Sally Jupiter's kid. 965 01:23:18,327 --> 01:23:20,763 You're the Comedian, right? 966 01:23:20,763 --> 01:23:22,229 You were pretty cool in there. 967 01:23:23,032 --> 01:23:26,762 You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties. 968 01:23:27,937 --> 01:23:32,742 You got her eyes, you know. You even have that same funny little mole. 969 01:23:32,742 --> 01:23:34,810 Take your hands off her. 970 01:23:34,810 --> 01:23:37,079 Hey, doll. Long time no see. 971 01:23:37,079 --> 01:23:40,673 Not long enough in my book, Eddie. Get in the car. 972 01:23:42,251 --> 01:23:44,420 Are there no depths you won't sink to? 973 01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:48,253 Jesus Christ, Sally. Can't a guy talk to his... 974 01:23:48,958 --> 01:23:50,826 ...you know, old friend's daughter? 975 01:23:50,826 --> 01:23:53,129 I mean, what the hell do you think I am? 976 01:23:53,129 --> 01:23:54,789 MAN: We found him! 977 01:23:57,833 --> 01:23:59,925 -We found him. FORBES: Where is he? 978 01:24:03,339 --> 01:24:04,669 Mars. 979 01:24:10,713 --> 01:24:12,882 Mr. President... 980 01:24:12,882 --> 01:24:17,511 ...the Soviets have moved their tanks just short of the Afghan border. 981 01:24:19,088 --> 01:24:20,489 They are testing us... 982 01:24:20,489 --> 01:24:25,060 ...to see if we manufactured Dr. Manhattan's disappearance... 983 01:24:25,060 --> 01:24:28,330 ...to coax a move out of them. 984 01:24:28,330 --> 01:24:32,468 GENERAL 1: If they realize it's not a hoax, they'll probably start with air strikes. 985 01:24:32,468 --> 01:24:36,939 If they do, they'll have Afghanistan under control in a matter of days. 986 01:24:36,939 --> 01:24:41,811 A watchdog group of nuclear scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock... 987 01:24:41,811 --> 01:24:44,213 ...to two minutes until midnight. 988 01:24:44,213 --> 01:24:47,550 NIXON: Get this shit off the screen. 989 01:24:47,550 --> 01:24:50,753 Who are these assholes to say when doomsday approaches? 990 01:24:50,753 --> 01:24:53,220 I say when doomsday is approaching. 991 01:24:58,894 --> 01:25:00,485 Now, then. 992 01:25:01,530 --> 01:25:04,200 What about the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries? 993 01:25:04,200 --> 01:25:08,571 Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany have mobilized their forces. 994 01:25:08,571 --> 01:25:11,907 But no movement yet. They're playing a wait-and-see. 995 01:25:11,907 --> 01:25:13,533 Letting the Russians take the lead. 996 01:25:17,880 --> 01:25:21,250 Bold moves, Henry. That's what's needed right now. 997 01:25:21,250 --> 01:25:24,186 We can't let these fuckers think we're weak. 998 01:25:24,186 --> 01:25:28,451 Yes. They must fear the madman Richard Nixon. 999 01:25:33,529 --> 01:25:36,986 How soon can we be ready for a preemptive strike? 1000 01:25:38,167 --> 01:25:39,602 Two days. 1001 01:25:39,602 --> 01:25:43,639 We have a 54 percent chance of wiping out the entire U.S.S.R... 1002 01:25:43,639 --> 01:25:45,697 ...before they get their missiles airborne. 1003 01:25:47,309 --> 01:25:49,078 What would our losses be? 1004 01:25:49,078 --> 01:25:51,113 Assuming conservative projections... 1005 01:25:51,113 --> 01:25:54,650 ...of how many Soviet warheads are destroyed beforehand... 1006 01:25:54,650 --> 01:25:56,952 ...we'll lose all of the East Coast. 1007 01:25:56,952 --> 01:25:58,475 The last gasp... 1008 01:25:59,355 --> 01:26:02,258 ...of the Harvard establishment. 1009 01:26:02,258 --> 01:26:05,694 Let's see them think their way out of fission. 1010 01:26:05,694 --> 01:26:09,465 With anticipated wind patterns, the fallout drift would head south. 1011 01:26:09,465 --> 01:26:11,834 Mexico would catch the worst of it. 1012 01:26:11,834 --> 01:26:14,103 Most of the farm belt might remain unaffected. 1013 01:26:14,103 --> 01:26:15,797 Not so bad... 1014 01:26:16,605 --> 01:26:18,731 ...all things considered. 1015 01:26:21,310 --> 01:26:23,312 GENERAL 2: Mr. President... 1016 01:26:23,312 --> 01:26:24,938 ...what would you like to do? 1017 01:26:33,289 --> 01:26:35,758 Take us to DEFCON two. 1018 01:26:35,758 --> 01:26:37,748 Begin fueling the bombers. 1019 01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:41,697 Dr. Manhattan has two days. 1020 01:26:41,697 --> 01:26:43,666 After that... 1021 01:26:43,666 --> 01:26:47,294 ...humanity is in the hands of a higher authority than mine. 1022 01:26:47,903 --> 01:26:50,871 Let's just hope he's on our side. 1023 01:26:52,107 --> 01:26:54,376 FORBES: There must be a way to reach him. LAURIE: Excuse me. 1024 01:26:54,376 --> 01:26:56,211 FORBES: Radio transmission, space shuttles-- 1025 01:26:56,211 --> 01:26:57,613 LAURIE: Excuse me. FORBES: What? 1026 01:26:57,613 --> 01:26:59,910 LAURIE: I need to use the restroom. 1027 01:27:09,158 --> 01:27:10,749 [BOTH GRUNTING] 1028 01:27:21,524 --> 01:27:23,293 Don't you understand? 1029 01:27:23,293 --> 01:27:26,095 The only thing that can bring Jon back is Jon. 1030 01:27:26,095 --> 01:27:28,231 If he wants to find me, he will. 1031 01:27:28,231 --> 01:27:31,067 I've been a prisoner in my life long enough. 1032 01:27:31,067 --> 01:27:32,936 MAN: Without Dr. Manhattan around... 1033 01:27:32,936 --> 01:27:36,005 ...to bully the Russians into peace, Mr. Veidt... 1034 01:27:36,005 --> 01:27:40,577 ...people are going to need good, old-fashioned energy to rely on. 1035 01:27:40,577 --> 01:27:42,412 You can understand. 1036 01:27:42,412 --> 01:27:47,684 The world can't just quit on oil and nuclear power cold turkey. 1037 01:27:47,684 --> 01:27:50,086 You'll dismantle our entire economy overnight. 1038 01:27:50,086 --> 01:27:53,022 You're right, Lee. And why free energy? 1039 01:27:53,022 --> 01:27:56,092 Well, " free" is just another word for " socialist." 1040 01:27:56,092 --> 01:27:58,228 We might have to make a public inquiry... 1041 01:27:58,228 --> 01:28:01,898 ...into any past communist affiliations you might have had. 1042 01:28:01,898 --> 01:28:04,764 ADRIAN: Mr. Lacocca, gentlemen... 1043 01:28:05,935 --> 01:28:08,338 ...I respect your position... 1044 01:28:08,338 --> 01:28:12,642 ...and what you've accomplished as captains of industry. I do. 1045 01:28:12,642 --> 01:28:15,132 You wanna know my past? Hm? 1046 01:28:15,945 --> 01:28:18,848 Okay. Happily. 1047 01:28:18,848 --> 01:28:22,485 It's a matter of public record that by 17, both my parents were dead... 1048 01:28:22,485 --> 01:28:24,315 ...leaving me alone. 1049 01:28:25,321 --> 01:28:28,858 I guess you could say I've always been alone. 1050 01:28:28,858 --> 01:28:33,930 They say I'm the smartest man in the world, but the truth is I've often felt stupid... 1051 01:28:33,930 --> 01:28:37,600 ...at being unable to relate to anyone. 1052 01:28:37,600 --> 01:28:41,170 Well, anyone living, that is. 1053 01:28:41,170 --> 01:28:43,306 The only person with whom I felt kinship... 1054 01:28:43,306 --> 01:28:46,609 ...died 300 years before the birth of Christ. 1055 01:28:46,609 --> 01:28:52,148 Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him. 1056 01:28:52,148 --> 01:28:55,351 His vision of a united world was.... 1057 01:28:55,351 --> 01:28:58,488 [STUDIO GROUP'S " EVERYBOD Y WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD" PLAYS O VER SPEAKERS] 1058 01:28:58,488 --> 01:29:00,356 Well, it was unprecedented. 1059 01:29:00,356 --> 01:29:02,225 I wanted... 1060 01:29:02,225 --> 01:29:04,694 ...needed to match his accomplishments... 1061 01:29:04,694 --> 01:29:08,064 ...so I resolved to apply antiquity's teachings to our world today. 1062 01:29:08,064 --> 01:29:11,734 And so began my path to conquest. 1063 01:29:11,734 --> 01:29:15,138 Conquest not of men... 1064 01:29:15,138 --> 01:29:18,207 ...but of the evils that beset them. 1065 01:29:18,207 --> 01:29:23,279 Fossil fuels, oil, nuclear power... 1066 01:29:23,279 --> 01:29:26,282 ...are like a drug, and you, along with foreign interests... 1067 01:29:26,282 --> 01:29:27,908 -...are the pushers. -Now, listen. 1068 01:29:28,484 --> 01:29:30,110 ADRIAN: No. 1069 01:29:32,455 --> 01:29:34,251 You listen. 1070 01:29:35,491 --> 01:29:38,194 The world will survive... 1071 01:29:38,194 --> 01:29:41,798 ...and it deserves more than you've been able to provide. 1072 01:29:41,798 --> 01:29:44,667 So let's cut to it, shall we? 1073 01:29:44,667 --> 01:29:47,303 I'm worth more than all of your corporations combined. 1074 01:29:47,303 --> 01:29:51,074 I could buy and sell you, something you should factor into your decision... 1075 01:29:51,074 --> 01:29:57,376 ...should you choose to make our disagreement public. 1076 01:29:58,848 --> 01:30:01,281 I think you know the way out. 1077 01:30:03,019 --> 01:30:04,747 Gentlemen. 1078 01:30:07,256 --> 01:30:10,927 The toy people wanna talk to you about new villains for the Ozymandias line. 1079 01:30:10,927 --> 01:30:14,564 -Seems all the old villains are dead. -Mr. Veidt? 1080 01:30:14,564 --> 01:30:18,301 -I think I have some ideas. -Mr. Veidt? 1081 01:30:18,301 --> 01:30:21,270 I think we got off on the wrong foot. 1082 01:30:21,270 --> 01:30:23,396 [BEEPS] 1083 01:30:36,619 --> 01:30:38,051 [SCREAMING] 1084 01:31:00,109 --> 01:31:01,803 He's got a poison capsule. 1085 01:31:02,478 --> 01:31:07,116 Don't bite down, you son of a bitch. Who sent you? I want a name. 1086 01:31:07,116 --> 01:31:08,207 Give me a name! 1087 01:31:20,329 --> 01:31:21,625 LAURIE: Suicide pill. 1088 01:31:22,732 --> 01:31:25,835 Potassium cyanide. Guy was dead before he hit the ground. 1089 01:31:25,835 --> 01:31:27,665 WAITRESS: Thanks, hon. 1090 01:31:28,171 --> 01:31:30,373 Then Rorschach was right. 1091 01:31:30,373 --> 01:31:32,708 This wasn't some Ione nut. 1092 01:31:32,708 --> 01:31:36,837 It's an organization: Well-funded, well-equipped. 1093 01:31:37,814 --> 01:31:39,747 But who'd wanna kill us now? 1094 01:31:41,050 --> 01:31:44,177 I don't know, but it's not safe out here. 1095 01:31:49,725 --> 01:31:51,692 So no word from Jon? 1096 01:31:52,662 --> 01:31:54,664 No. 1097 01:31:54,664 --> 01:31:56,563 Well, listen... 1098 01:31:57,066 --> 01:31:58,760 ...why don't you come stay with me? 1099 01:32:00,102 --> 01:32:03,573 Oh, no. That's sweet, but I wouldn't wanna impose. 1100 01:32:03,573 --> 01:32:06,939 Oh, no. No. Think of it as doing me a favor. 1101 01:32:08,778 --> 01:32:11,109 I wouldn't have to worry about you being out there. 1102 01:32:14,517 --> 01:32:15,918 Okay. 1103 01:32:15,918 --> 01:32:17,475 [HORN HONKS] 1104 01:32:18,821 --> 01:32:24,427 Rorschach's journal, October 21 st, 1985. 1105 01:32:24,427 --> 01:32:28,522 On 43rd and 7th, saw Dreiberg and Jupiter leaving diner. 1106 01:32:29,198 --> 01:32:31,859 They didn't know me without my mask. 1107 01:32:32,702 --> 01:32:34,537 An affair? 1108 01:32:34,537 --> 01:32:38,641 Did she break Manhattan's heart to engineer his exile... 1109 01:32:38,641 --> 01:32:40,743 ...make room for Dreiberg? 1110 01:32:40,743 --> 01:32:44,200 Does Manhattan even have a heart to break? 1111 01:32:45,448 --> 01:32:48,417 The alley was cold, deserted. 1112 01:32:48,417 --> 01:32:53,189 My things were where I left them, waiting for me. 1113 01:32:53,189 --> 01:32:57,557 My coat, my shoes, my spotless gloves. 1114 01:32:59,095 --> 01:33:01,264 My face. 1115 01:33:01,264 --> 01:33:05,368 Putting them on, I abandoned my disguise... 1116 01:33:05,368 --> 01:33:07,494 ...became myself. 1117 01:33:08,004 --> 01:33:11,274 Free from fear or weakness... 1118 01:33:11,274 --> 01:33:12,542 ...or lust. 1119 01:33:12,542 --> 01:33:13,943 [WOMAN SCREAMING] 1120 01:33:13,943 --> 01:33:15,978 Down alley... 1121 01:33:15,978 --> 01:33:18,014 ...heard woman scream. 1122 01:33:18,014 --> 01:33:22,184 First bubbling note of city's evening chorus. 1123 01:33:22,184 --> 01:33:24,153 Attempted rape. 1124 01:33:24,153 --> 01:33:25,488 Mugging. 1125 01:33:25,488 --> 01:33:27,123 Both. 1126 01:33:27,123 --> 01:33:28,457 [RORSCHACH CLEARS THRO AT] 1127 01:33:28,457 --> 01:33:30,326 The man turned... 1128 01:33:30,326 --> 01:33:33,453 ...and there was something rewarding in his eyes. 1129 01:33:34,430 --> 01:33:36,897 Sometimes the night is generous to me. 1130 01:33:43,005 --> 01:33:47,338 Veidt's assassin was a local lowlife named Roy Chess. 1131 01:33:47,910 --> 01:33:50,673 At his apartment, I found clues. 1132 01:33:51,881 --> 01:33:55,117 Seems he worked at Pyramid Transnational. 1133 01:33:55,117 --> 01:33:58,087 I've seen the logo before... 1134 01:33:58,087 --> 01:34:00,145 ...at Moloch's. 1135 01:34:30,519 --> 01:34:33,453 Someone tried to shoot the world's smartest man today, Moloch. 1136 01:34:34,290 --> 01:34:37,259 Guy worked for Pyramid Transnational. 1137 01:34:37,259 --> 01:34:39,562 More than a just delivery service, I take it. 1138 01:34:39,562 --> 01:34:43,666 Last time I was here, I saw a pension check written from the same company. 1139 01:34:43,666 --> 01:34:47,336 I'm guessing it's a front set up by whoever wants us masks dead. 1140 01:34:47,336 --> 01:34:50,930 Now, no more lies, Moloch. Who runs Pyramid? 1141 01:34:55,811 --> 01:34:57,613 FINE [O VER BULLHORN] : Rorschach. 1142 01:34:57,613 --> 01:35:00,149 This is the police. We know you're in there. 1143 01:35:00,149 --> 01:35:02,184 No. No! 1144 01:35:02,184 --> 01:35:05,488 If there's anybody in there with you, send them out unharmed. 1145 01:35:05,488 --> 01:35:08,591 No. No, no, no! 1146 01:35:08,591 --> 01:35:13,162 Framed. Walked right into it. Stupid, stupid, stupid! 1147 01:35:13,162 --> 01:35:14,964 Never, never surrender. 1148 01:35:14,964 --> 01:35:18,134 All right. I hope you're ready, hero. 1149 01:35:18,134 --> 01:35:19,157 When you are. 1150 01:35:41,857 --> 01:35:42,880 One... 1151 01:35:47,897 --> 01:35:48,954 ...two... 1152 01:35:52,968 --> 01:35:54,025 ...three. 1153 01:36:46,021 --> 01:36:47,783 Come on. 1154 01:36:58,601 --> 01:37:00,033 MAN: Son of a bitch. 1155 01:37:01,003 --> 01:37:03,572 -Christ, he stinks. -Get that mask off him. 1156 01:37:03,572 --> 01:37:06,575 -I got it. -No. No! 1157 01:37:06,575 --> 01:37:09,270 My face! Give me back my face! 1158 01:37:10,112 --> 01:37:12,915 The masked vigilante Rorschach was apprehended... 1159 01:37:12,915 --> 01:37:16,919 ...and identified as Walter Kovacs, a 35-year-old white male. 1160 01:37:16,919 --> 01:37:20,156 Little's known about Kovacs, but he was charged with the murder... 1161 01:37:20,156 --> 01:37:24,160 ...of Edgar Jacobi, found shot in the head in his home in the Bronx. 1162 01:37:24,160 --> 01:37:27,363 Police officers were injured and Jacobi's home was set ablaze... 1163 01:37:27,363 --> 01:37:29,922 ...during the violent course of the capture. 1164 01:37:33,736 --> 01:37:35,204 MAN 1: Rorschach! 1165 01:37:35,204 --> 01:37:38,934 I'm gonna fuck you like I fucked your mother! 1166 01:37:45,581 --> 01:37:48,684 MAN 2: Come on out, Rorschach! 1167 01:37:48,684 --> 01:37:51,086 MAN 3: Walter Kovacs. 1168 01:37:51,086 --> 01:37:54,123 Is that your name? Walter? 1169 01:37:54,123 --> 01:37:58,360 Well, let me explain your situation here, Walter. 1170 01:37:58,360 --> 01:38:00,095 You cooperate with me... 1171 01:38:00,095 --> 01:38:04,767 ...and I may be able to convince them that you should be treated medically. 1172 01:38:04,767 --> 01:38:08,504 In a hospital. I believe that would be good for you. 1173 01:38:08,504 --> 01:38:14,533 But the authorities wanna put you with the general population. 1174 01:38:15,411 --> 01:38:18,470 -Prison's a prison. -Uh-huh. Yes. 1175 01:38:19,081 --> 01:38:22,516 But the difference is, down there... 1176 01:38:23,085 --> 01:38:24,449 ...you'd be eaten alive. 1177 01:38:25,421 --> 01:38:29,652 You're responsible for a lot of them being in prison here, Walter. 1178 01:38:32,728 --> 01:38:34,194 Tell me what you see. 1179 01:38:39,368 --> 01:38:41,028 A pretty butterfly. 1180 01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:46,670 What about now? What do you see here? 1181 01:38:51,780 --> 01:38:53,215 Mom? 1182 01:38:53,215 --> 01:38:54,750 Is he hurting you? 1183 01:38:54,750 --> 01:38:57,786 You got a fucking kid in here. I get that at home. 1184 01:38:57,786 --> 01:39:01,312 Bastard. I should have had that abortion. 1185 01:39:10,966 --> 01:39:12,899 Some nice flowers. 1186 01:39:18,607 --> 01:39:20,267 BO Y 1: I heard this guy's mom's a whore. 1187 01:39:22,578 --> 01:39:25,481 Did you catch any diseases from her? 1188 01:39:25,481 --> 01:39:30,281 Huh? Whoreson. Listen to me, retard. 1189 01:39:31,587 --> 01:39:34,817 BO Y 2: Hey, you think she'd suck my dick for a dollar? 1190 01:39:44,466 --> 01:39:46,126 [SCREAMING] 1191 01:39:53,442 --> 01:39:54,567 Clouds. 1192 01:39:59,515 --> 01:40:02,418 Tell me about Rorschach. Will you do that, Walter? 1193 01:40:02,418 --> 01:40:05,944 You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you. 1194 01:40:07,022 --> 01:40:11,393 You don't like me. All right, why is that, exactly? 1195 01:40:11,393 --> 01:40:12,757 You're fat. 1196 01:40:13,362 --> 01:40:16,665 Wealthy. Liberal sensibilities. 1197 01:40:16,665 --> 01:40:18,834 What you call compassion. 1198 01:40:18,834 --> 01:40:21,303 Wanting to protect and understand the guilty. 1199 01:40:21,303 --> 01:40:25,374 This rotting society, what it calls rehabilitation. 1200 01:40:25,374 --> 01:40:27,009 Nothing short of compromise. 1201 01:40:27,009 --> 01:40:29,745 Is it a compromise to want to make you well? 1202 01:40:29,745 --> 01:40:33,976 There are other men in here with behavior more extreme than mine, doctor. 1203 01:40:34,650 --> 01:40:38,020 Of course, they're not famous, are they? 1204 01:40:38,020 --> 01:40:40,715 You wanna know about Rorschach? 1205 01:40:42,191 --> 01:40:43,953 I'll tell you about Rorschach. 1206 01:40:45,260 --> 01:40:47,930 Once a man has seen society's black underbelly... 1207 01:40:47,930 --> 01:40:50,733 ...he can never turn his back on it. 1208 01:40:50,733 --> 01:40:53,602 Never pretend, like you do... 1209 01:40:53,602 --> 01:40:58,107 ...that it doesn't exist, no matter who orders him to look the other way. 1210 01:40:58,107 --> 01:41:01,844 We don't do this thing... 1211 01:41:01,844 --> 01:41:03,936 ...because it's permitted. 1212 01:41:04,580 --> 01:41:07,139 We do it because we have to. 1213 01:41:07,883 --> 01:41:10,146 We do it because we're compelled. 1214 01:41:11,987 --> 01:41:14,420 I was investigating a kidnap case. 1215 01:41:16,158 --> 01:41:18,193 Blaire Roche. 1216 01:41:18,193 --> 01:41:21,628 Six-year-old girl. I was young then. 1217 01:41:22,498 --> 01:41:24,829 Too soft on criminals. 1218 01:41:25,768 --> 01:41:27,394 I let them live. 1219 01:41:28,670 --> 01:41:34,403 Broke a man's arm to get a tip. Led me to the missing girl's location. 1220 01:41:42,017 --> 01:41:44,620 I knew the girl was here... 1221 01:41:44,620 --> 01:41:48,146 ...but when I searched the place, I saw nothing. 1222 01:41:49,024 --> 01:41:51,457 And then I found her. 1223 01:42:22,724 --> 01:42:26,159 [DOGS SNARLING] 1224 01:42:40,809 --> 01:42:42,673 MAN: Fred. 1225 01:42:43,545 --> 01:42:45,547 Barney. 1226 01:42:45,547 --> 01:42:48,276 Who's gonna bark for Daddy? 1227 01:42:53,722 --> 01:42:56,986 It was dark when the murderer got back. 1228 01:42:58,727 --> 01:43:00,318 As dark as it gets. 1229 01:43:38,967 --> 01:43:43,835 Oh, God. Who's out there? Who is it? 1230 01:43:45,641 --> 01:43:46,942 Who is it? 1231 01:43:46,942 --> 01:43:48,306 [FLOORBO ARD CREAKS] 1232 01:43:53,282 --> 01:43:55,078 [GRO ANS] 1233 01:43:57,486 --> 01:44:01,089 What? What the fuck? Who the fuck are you? 1234 01:44:01,089 --> 01:44:05,582 What the fuck do you want? You killed my dogs, man! 1235 01:44:10,599 --> 01:44:15,304 You think I had something to do with that girl? I found that. 1236 01:44:15,304 --> 01:44:17,771 What evidence have you got? That's nothing. 1237 01:44:25,681 --> 01:44:28,478 Okay. I confess. 1238 01:44:29,685 --> 01:44:32,380 I kidnapped her. I killed her. 1239 01:44:33,155 --> 01:44:34,553 Arrest me. 1240 01:44:35,357 --> 01:44:37,259 What? Arrest me! 1241 01:44:37,259 --> 01:44:38,694 [RORSCHACH BREATHING HEAVILY] 1242 01:44:38,694 --> 01:44:40,829 I did it! I said I did it! 1243 01:44:40,829 --> 01:44:42,431 Christ. 1244 01:44:42,431 --> 01:44:46,730 Look, I've got a problem, man. Fucking take me in. I need help. 1245 01:44:47,536 --> 01:44:54,270 No, don't. Don't do that. Take me in. Don't! No! 1246 01:44:59,248 --> 01:45:02,739 Men get arrested. 1247 01:45:04,152 --> 01:45:06,176 Dogs get put down. 1248 01:45:14,296 --> 01:45:16,456 Tremors of impact shook my arm. 1249 01:45:17,866 --> 01:45:20,197 Warm blood splashed my face. 1250 01:45:21,436 --> 01:45:25,531 Whatever was left of Walter Kovacs died that night with that little girl. 1251 01:45:26,541 --> 01:45:28,770 From then on, there was only Rorschach. 1252 01:45:30,312 --> 01:45:33,548 See, doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. 1253 01:45:33,548 --> 01:45:37,711 Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. 1254 01:45:38,887 --> 01:45:42,322 If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. 1255 01:45:44,226 --> 01:45:46,056 From then on, I knew: 1256 01:45:47,396 --> 01:45:49,727 God doesn't make the world this way. 1257 01:45:51,733 --> 01:45:53,222 We do. 1258 01:45:59,608 --> 01:46:01,973 I can't help him. 1259 01:46:14,058 --> 01:46:15,854 Hey, Rorschach. 1260 01:46:16,861 --> 01:46:18,851 Hey, you're pretty famous, right? 1261 01:46:19,397 --> 01:46:21,666 MAN 1: Rorschach, I heard your mother was a whore. 1262 01:46:21,666 --> 01:46:25,403 Hey, you know what? I'm pretty famous too. 1263 01:46:25,403 --> 01:46:27,927 -Ain't that right? That's right. MAN 2: That's right. 1264 01:46:29,574 --> 01:46:32,804 Maybe I can give you an autograph. What you say, big boy? 1265 01:46:40,818 --> 01:46:42,978 [SCREAMING] 1266 01:46:48,025 --> 01:46:51,763 None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. 1267 01:46:51,763 --> 01:46:53,855 OFFICER: All right, that's it! 1268 01:46:54,699 --> 01:46:57,132 You're locked in here with me. 1269 01:47:50,154 --> 01:47:52,849 [HUMMING] 1270 01:48:11,275 --> 01:48:13,401 [BELL RINGING] 1271 01:48:15,880 --> 01:48:16,937 DAN: Laurie! 1272 01:48:18,149 --> 01:48:19,479 Shit. 1273 01:48:20,484 --> 01:48:22,383 DAN: Hold on. -Fuck. 1274 01:48:25,656 --> 01:48:27,145 I got it, I got it, I got it. 1275 01:48:31,829 --> 01:48:35,399 I'm so sorry. I was snooping and must have hit the wrong button. 1276 01:48:35,399 --> 01:48:37,001 -Are you hurt? -No, no. 1277 01:48:37,001 --> 01:48:40,271 -Okay. -I'm fine. I just feel so bad. 1278 01:48:40,271 --> 01:48:42,440 No, don't worry. 1279 01:48:42,440 --> 01:48:45,738 It's happened before. Comedian did it back in '77. 1280 01:48:46,844 --> 01:48:49,113 Archie survived that. 1281 01:48:49,113 --> 01:48:50,443 LAURIE: Archie? 1282 01:48:51,182 --> 01:48:54,819 Oh. Well, uh, short for Archimedes... 1283 01:48:54,819 --> 01:48:56,342 ...Merlin's pet owl. 1284 01:48:57,455 --> 01:48:59,115 Stupid nickname. 1285 01:49:00,191 --> 01:49:03,094 LAURIE: How did you ever afford all this stuff, anyway? 1286 01:49:03,094 --> 01:49:08,622 Well, my dad was in corporate banking and left me a lot of money when he died... 1287 01:49:09,367 --> 01:49:12,699 ...which always surprised me. I mean, he was.... 1288 01:49:13,371 --> 01:49:16,173 I think he was disappointed I went into crime fighting... 1289 01:49:16,173 --> 01:49:17,867 ...instead of following him. 1290 01:49:18,643 --> 01:49:26,083 Guess I was just more interested in birds and airplanes, mythology and.... 1291 01:49:26,083 --> 01:49:30,075 Plus, there were enough other guys doing this so that I didn't feel ridiculous. 1292 01:49:30,988 --> 01:49:32,390 Like Hollis. 1293 01:49:32,390 --> 01:49:33,879 Yeah. 1294 01:49:34,659 --> 01:49:37,422 Yeah, he was my hero. 1295 01:49:38,462 --> 01:49:41,862 Man, I remember the first time that I met him... 1296 01:49:42,767 --> 01:49:45,836 ...I just felt so connected, you know? 1297 01:49:45,836 --> 01:49:48,167 To something that mattered. 1298 01:49:51,008 --> 01:49:53,669 Must be nice having a secret identity. 1299 01:49:54,345 --> 01:49:56,681 A secret place that nobody knows about. 1300 01:49:56,681 --> 01:50:01,674 You can just come down here and hang out without anyone checking up on you. 1301 01:50:03,154 --> 01:50:05,485 Nobody watching you. 1302 01:50:08,826 --> 01:50:09,883 Wanna try those on? 1303 01:50:20,671 --> 01:50:22,331 There we go. 1304 01:50:25,509 --> 01:50:27,499 Wow, these rock. 1305 01:50:30,348 --> 01:50:32,817 They amplify the spectral range. 1306 01:50:32,817 --> 01:50:34,943 Thermal imaging. 1307 01:50:36,620 --> 01:50:38,610 They work even better in the dark. 1308 01:50:43,527 --> 01:50:45,289 You can see me, right? 1309 01:50:47,465 --> 01:50:50,126 I can see everything. 1310 01:50:52,870 --> 01:50:56,707 I remember, no matter how black it got... 1311 01:50:56,707 --> 01:51:00,836 ...whenever I looked through those goggles, everything was as clear as day. 1312 01:51:03,147 --> 01:51:05,478 This must be the way Jon sees the world. 1313 01:51:07,985 --> 01:51:11,055 We should probably head up. Food's getting cold. 1314 01:51:11,055 --> 01:51:13,147 Put those away when you're done. 1315 01:51:22,133 --> 01:51:24,635 MAN [ON TV] : Soviet ambassador to the U.N. Had no comment... 1316 01:51:24,635 --> 01:51:27,071 ...when asked if Dr. Manhattan's disappearance... 1317 01:51:27,071 --> 01:51:29,573 ...has fueled Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. 1318 01:51:29,573 --> 01:51:31,267 Dan. 1319 01:51:32,009 --> 01:51:33,737 Jon sees a lot of things... 1320 01:51:36,147 --> 01:51:38,444 ...but he doesn't see me. 1321 01:51:45,589 --> 01:51:47,291 Well, uh.... 1322 01:51:47,291 --> 01:51:49,281 [DAN CLEARS THRO AT] 1323 01:52:05,342 --> 01:52:06,899 Oh. 1324 01:52:40,744 --> 01:52:42,074 Sorry. 1325 01:52:44,081 --> 01:52:45,411 Come here. 1326 01:52:51,355 --> 01:52:52,790 What's the matter? 1327 01:52:52,790 --> 01:52:55,392 -Lf you could just move a little.... -Okay. 1328 01:52:55,392 --> 01:52:57,621 Yeah. There you go. 1329 01:53:04,135 --> 01:53:06,762 Dan, what's wrong? 1330 01:53:08,439 --> 01:53:09,564 Sorry, I.... 1331 01:53:11,709 --> 01:53:13,938 Yeah, I just need a couple minutes. 1332 01:53:16,113 --> 01:53:18,046 Oh, hell. 1333 01:53:19,817 --> 01:53:21,647 It's okay. 1334 01:53:23,053 --> 01:53:27,489 Maybe we were just moving too fast. 1335 01:53:31,061 --> 01:53:33,688 We've got all the time in the world. 1336 01:53:35,199 --> 01:53:37,189 We'll take it slow. 1337 01:53:51,182 --> 01:53:53,513 It's been a long time, Rorschach. 1338 01:53:54,185 --> 01:53:56,020 RORSCHACH: Big Figure. 1339 01:53:56,020 --> 01:53:57,850 Small world. 1340 01:53:59,190 --> 01:54:00,679 I like that. 1341 01:54:01,458 --> 01:54:04,295 But you know, it is a small world in here. 1342 01:54:04,295 --> 01:54:07,231 And I've been in it for, how long now, Lloyd? 1343 01:54:07,231 --> 01:54:09,700 LLO YD: Almost 15 years, Mr. Figure. 1344 01:54:09,700 --> 01:54:11,030 That's right. 1345 01:54:12,036 --> 01:54:15,527 Fifteen years since you and that Owl fella put me away. 1346 01:54:18,542 --> 01:54:19,701 So... 1347 01:54:20,211 --> 01:54:25,149 ...Rorschach, that guy you burned is dying. Could go any minute. 1348 01:54:25,149 --> 01:54:30,521 You know, by my count, there are more than 50 people in here that you put away. 1349 01:54:30,521 --> 01:54:35,025 I been talking to every one of them and they're all dying to get a piece of you. 1350 01:54:35,025 --> 01:54:38,323 This place is gonna explode! 1351 01:54:39,897 --> 01:54:42,558 Then, you die by inches. 1352 01:54:43,500 --> 01:54:45,402 Tall order. 1353 01:54:45,402 --> 01:54:47,892 I'm gonna tear this guy a new hole. 1354 01:54:48,572 --> 01:54:51,563 Relax, Lawrence. Soon. 1355 01:54:52,409 --> 01:54:53,739 Come on. 1356 01:56:04,615 --> 01:56:06,809 [GASPS] 1357 01:56:22,266 --> 01:56:23,596 Dan? 1358 01:56:30,441 --> 01:56:32,101 Is everything all right? 1359 01:56:34,445 --> 01:56:37,379 I'm tired of being afraid. 1360 01:56:38,449 --> 01:56:40,814 Afraid of war... 1361 01:56:41,618 --> 01:56:45,178 ...afraid of the mask killer... 1362 01:56:46,790 --> 01:56:50,160 ...and afraid of this goddamn suit... 1363 01:56:50,160 --> 01:56:52,127 ...and how much I need it. 1364 01:56:52,963 --> 01:56:54,623 Me too. 1365 01:56:56,133 --> 01:56:57,429 So to hell with it. 1366 01:56:58,302 --> 01:56:59,632 Let's take Archie out. 1367 01:57:05,576 --> 01:57:06,877 You're serious. 1368 01:57:06,877 --> 01:57:09,580 I used to be a masked avenger too, remember? 1369 01:57:09,580 --> 01:57:12,810 I'm used to going out at 3 in the morning and doing something stupid. 1370 01:57:18,822 --> 01:57:21,449 [HUMMING] 1371 01:58:14,545 --> 01:58:16,814 MAN [O VER RADIO] : Rapid burner. Be advised, all units. 1372 01:58:16,814 --> 01:58:19,550 Tenement fire at 5th and Grand. Rapid burner. 1373 01:58:19,550 --> 01:58:20,880 Let's go. 1374 01:58:25,656 --> 01:58:28,021 LAURIE: I can see it. DAN: All right, hold on. 1375 01:58:38,869 --> 01:58:40,471 LAURIE: Dan, there are kids in there. 1376 01:58:40,471 --> 01:58:42,806 Everyone, stay where you are and remain calm. 1377 01:58:42,806 --> 01:58:45,175 We're gonna get you out of there. 1378 01:58:45,175 --> 01:58:47,511 The roof's starting to cave. Get me in there. 1379 01:58:47,511 --> 01:58:48,977 DAN: I'm gonna get you close. 1380 01:59:47,738 --> 01:59:49,273 Let's go. 1381 01:59:49,273 --> 01:59:50,607 Come on. 1382 01:59:50,607 --> 01:59:52,198 All right, let's move it, people. 1383 01:59:58,949 --> 02:00:04,187 Mom, is that guy in the space rocket...? 1384 02:00:04,187 --> 02:00:06,590 Is that Jesus? 1385 02:00:06,590 --> 02:00:08,420 No, baby. 1386 02:00:09,326 --> 02:00:11,452 DAN: Watch your step. LAURIE: All right. 1387 02:00:13,797 --> 02:00:14,820 We're all set. 1388 02:00:15,866 --> 02:00:17,526 Is that everyone? 1389 02:00:41,592 --> 02:00:43,889 MAN: Bye. GIRL: Bye! 1390 02:00:47,497 --> 02:00:49,054 LAURIE: I can't believe we did that. 1391 02:00:51,034 --> 02:00:53,670 -They'll lock us up with Rorschach. -Who cares? 1392 02:00:53,670 --> 02:00:55,637 World War III could start tomorrow. 1393 02:00:57,741 --> 02:00:59,071 Right? 1394 02:01:00,744 --> 02:01:02,074 Right. 1395 02:03:07,671 --> 02:03:10,707 [EKG FLATLINING] 1396 02:03:10,707 --> 02:03:13,368 [ALARM WAILING] 1397 02:03:14,344 --> 02:03:16,012 [MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY] 1398 02:03:16,012 --> 02:03:17,481 [SCREAMS] 1399 02:03:17,481 --> 02:03:18,879 [THUDS] 1400 02:03:21,284 --> 02:03:23,444 [SCREAMING] 1401 02:03:27,190 --> 02:03:29,089 MAN: Come back here! 1402 02:03:31,695 --> 02:03:33,563 He's dead, Rorschach. 1403 02:03:33,563 --> 02:03:37,934 While everyone's distracted, we thought we'd bring you a housewarming gift. 1404 02:03:37,934 --> 02:03:40,094 Something from the machine shop. 1405 02:03:41,738 --> 02:03:43,540 Hey, boss, you notice? 1406 02:03:43,540 --> 02:03:46,743 None of that " small world, tall order" crap. 1407 02:03:46,743 --> 02:03:50,413 He knows once we slice open his lock, he's next on the block. 1408 02:03:50,413 --> 02:03:51,538 Fat chance. 1409 02:03:52,249 --> 02:03:53,550 You're dead, Rorschach! 1410 02:03:53,550 --> 02:03:57,212 We got a prison full of killers out here. What do you got? 1411 02:03:58,822 --> 02:04:00,157 [SCREAMING] 1412 02:04:00,157 --> 02:04:02,759 Your hands, my pleasure. 1413 02:04:02,759 --> 02:04:03,986 [CRACKING] 1414 02:04:04,594 --> 02:04:06,763 LLO YD: Can't reach the lock. Should I cut the bars? 1415 02:04:06,763 --> 02:04:10,061 This riot won't last. I been waiting 15 years for this. 1416 02:04:11,201 --> 02:04:14,567 I'm sorry, Lawrence, but you're in the way of my revenge. 1417 02:04:18,275 --> 02:04:20,177 Nothing personal, big guy. 1418 02:04:20,177 --> 02:04:21,444 [SAW BUZZING] 1419 02:04:21,444 --> 02:04:23,434 Boss! Wait! 1420 02:04:37,594 --> 02:04:39,830 Now you find out what the score is. 1421 02:04:39,830 --> 02:04:42,957 One-nothing. Come and get me. 1422 02:04:49,005 --> 02:04:50,841 Come on. 1423 02:04:50,841 --> 02:04:52,467 DAN: So I've been thinking. 1424 02:04:53,410 --> 02:04:57,573 I feel that we have an obligation to our fraternity. 1425 02:04:58,415 --> 02:05:01,651 -I think we ought to spring Rorschach. LAURIE: What? 1426 02:05:01,651 --> 02:05:03,413 DAN: Someone set him up. 1427 02:05:04,254 --> 02:05:08,024 And this whole cancer thing with Jon, it just doesn't make sense. 1428 02:05:08,024 --> 02:05:10,260 You didn't get it. 1429 02:05:10,260 --> 02:05:12,863 Yeah, but breaking into a maximum-security prison... 1430 02:05:12,863 --> 02:05:16,525 -...is a little different than putting out a fire. -Yeah, you're right. 1431 02:05:17,434 --> 02:05:19,264 It'll be more fun. 1432 02:05:23,440 --> 02:05:26,431 Hurry, Lloyd. I wanna smell this son of a bitch cooking. 1433 02:05:31,715 --> 02:05:33,443 Yes. 1434 02:05:38,188 --> 02:05:39,211 No. 1435 02:05:53,136 --> 02:05:57,970 Never disposed of sewage with a toilet before. Obvious, really. 1436 02:05:58,808 --> 02:06:02,106 Two-nothing. Your move. 1437 02:06:05,448 --> 02:06:07,074 BIG FIGURE: Get out of the way! 1438 02:06:51,094 --> 02:06:52,651 No. No. 1439 02:06:53,296 --> 02:06:54,694 Where's my face? 1440 02:06:57,233 --> 02:06:58,961 Don't kill me. 1441 02:07:02,639 --> 02:07:04,207 Your turn, doctor. 1442 02:07:04,207 --> 02:07:07,403 Tell me, what do you see? 1443 02:08:33,563 --> 02:08:35,291 Don't move! 1444 02:08:43,573 --> 02:08:45,335 Rorschach. 1445 02:08:45,842 --> 02:08:48,812 Daniel. Miss Jupiter. 1446 02:08:48,812 --> 02:08:52,212 Excuse me. Have to visit men's room. 1447 02:08:52,749 --> 02:08:54,716 Oh, for chrissake. 1448 02:09:09,165 --> 02:09:11,655 [TOILET FLUSHES] 1449 02:09:31,921 --> 02:09:34,224 RORSCHACH: Good to see you in uniform, Daniel. 1450 02:09:34,224 --> 02:09:37,827 Should've known all you needed was nice pair of legs to motivate you. 1451 02:09:37,827 --> 02:09:42,058 LAURIE: You're such an asshole, Rorschach. -Spare me indignation. 1452 02:09:43,299 --> 02:09:46,503 Picked hell of a time to be unfaithful to Jon. 1453 02:09:46,503 --> 02:09:49,472 Get tired of being patriotic, or someone put you up to it? 1454 02:09:49,472 --> 02:09:52,308 You don't know what the fuck you're talking about! 1455 02:09:52,308 --> 02:09:56,346 Hey! Would you two stop? You can argue later. 1456 02:09:56,346 --> 02:10:00,076 I had to turn the screechers off, so we'll be drawing fire soon. 1457 02:10:04,087 --> 02:10:06,452 Stop! Stop or we will shoot! 1458 02:10:45,328 --> 02:10:47,454 Are you all right? 1459 02:10:48,898 --> 02:10:51,534 Yeah. Just... 1460 02:10:51,534 --> 02:10:52,795 ...heavy, you know? 1461 02:10:53,603 --> 02:10:55,695 War, jailbreak. 1462 02:10:56,239 --> 02:11:01,107 Don't worry about it. Okay? Everything's gonna be fine. 1463 02:11:06,115 --> 02:11:09,319 -Hello, Laurie. -Jon. 1464 02:11:09,319 --> 02:11:12,947 -TV said you were on Mars. -I am on Mars. 1465 02:11:13,523 --> 02:11:16,092 You and I are about to have a conversation there. 1466 02:11:16,092 --> 02:11:17,727 What are you talking about? 1467 02:11:17,727 --> 02:11:20,388 You're going to try to convince me to save the world. 1468 02:11:26,302 --> 02:11:29,472 -Laurie, don't. -Dan, trust me. 1469 02:11:29,472 --> 02:11:31,132 I have to go. 1470 02:11:36,813 --> 02:11:38,982 Beautiful, isn't it? 1471 02:11:38,982 --> 02:11:40,915 [GAGGING] 1472 02:11:42,151 --> 02:11:43,653 [BREATHES] 1473 02:11:43,653 --> 02:11:46,587 Forgive me. These things sometimes slip my mind. 1474 02:11:47,991 --> 02:11:49,821 It won't happen again. 1475 02:11:51,494 --> 02:11:53,484 LAURIE: That's comforting. 1476 02:11:55,832 --> 02:11:57,492 Oh, my God. 1477 02:11:58,167 --> 02:11:59,997 I'm on Mars. 1478 02:12:04,007 --> 02:12:08,044 MAN: Hey. Nice ass. WOMAN: Hey, asshole. 1479 02:12:08,044 --> 02:12:10,637 MAN: Hey, let's see if that comic-book retard's up here. 1480 02:12:11,447 --> 02:12:13,549 Hey, hey, hey. Yo. 1481 02:12:13,549 --> 02:12:18,421 You all hear? Some super-owl dude just busted Rorschach out of prison. 1482 02:12:18,421 --> 02:12:20,323 -Rorschach? -Yeah. 1483 02:12:20,323 --> 02:12:22,358 That fool put my cousin in a wheelchair. 1484 02:12:22,358 --> 02:12:25,395 You mean Nite Owl. Him and Rorschach used to be partners. 1485 02:12:25,395 --> 02:12:28,231 -Yeah. -Maybe he messed your cousin up too. 1486 02:12:28,231 --> 02:12:30,633 -Didn't he write a book or something? -Yeah. 1487 02:12:30,633 --> 02:12:34,671 You know, he lives over a garage right near here. 1488 02:12:34,671 --> 02:12:37,332 -Yeah? -Does he, now? 1489 02:12:40,076 --> 02:12:41,235 SALLY [ON PHONE] : Hello? 1490 02:12:42,245 --> 02:12:44,414 HOLLIS: Sally? 1491 02:12:44,414 --> 02:12:47,583 -Hollis? -Yeah. 1492 02:12:47,583 --> 02:12:51,484 Yes, Hollis Mason. Jesus. 1493 02:12:52,288 --> 02:12:57,093 All this time you've had my number and you wait until our sunset years to use it? 1494 02:12:57,093 --> 02:13:00,063 HOLLIS: Well, it seemed like a special occasion, Sal. 1495 02:13:00,063 --> 02:13:01,364 What? 1496 02:13:01,364 --> 02:13:05,595 The TV is reporting there was a tenement fire last night. 1497 02:13:06,469 --> 02:13:09,439 There were trapped people rescued by airship... 1498 02:13:09,439 --> 02:13:15,178 ...and they say the pilot was dressed like an owl. 1499 02:13:15,178 --> 02:13:17,547 And it seems he had a sexy woman with him. 1500 02:13:17,547 --> 02:13:20,316 Laurie? My daughter, Laurie? 1501 02:13:20,316 --> 02:13:21,751 [HOLLIS CHUCKLES] 1502 02:13:21,751 --> 02:13:25,054 I can't get over Laurie back in costume. 1503 02:13:25,054 --> 02:13:28,691 Maybe she'll finally thank me for getting her started in the first place. 1504 02:13:28,691 --> 02:13:32,462 You know, Sal, by the sound of your voice... 1505 02:13:32,462 --> 02:13:34,364 ...you're sounding younger than ever. 1506 02:13:34,364 --> 02:13:36,661 Oh. Why, bless you, Hollis. 1507 02:13:37,333 --> 02:13:39,357 But that's probably just senility. 1508 02:13:40,536 --> 02:13:42,138 [KNOCKING] 1509 02:13:42,138 --> 02:13:45,241 Well, it's been great talking to you, Sal... 1510 02:13:45,241 --> 02:13:47,606 ...but someone's knocking. 1511 02:13:48,144 --> 02:13:53,137 SALLY: Well, don't get too misty-eyed thinking about old times. 1512 02:13:54,016 --> 02:13:56,018 You take care now, Hollis. 1513 02:13:56,018 --> 02:13:57,487 Ah, you too. 1514 02:13:57,487 --> 02:13:58,714 Bye. 1515 02:13:59,288 --> 02:14:00,777 Bye. 1516 02:14:02,458 --> 02:14:04,227 [KNOCKING] 1517 02:14:04,227 --> 02:14:06,524 MAN 1: We're looking for Mr. Owl. 1518 02:14:07,397 --> 02:14:09,766 Yeah. Hold your horses. 1519 02:14:09,766 --> 02:14:11,323 MAN 1: Mr. Owl, you there? 1520 02:14:11,901 --> 02:14:13,469 MAN 2: Trick or treat. 1521 02:14:13,469 --> 02:14:14,904 [MAN 2 CHUCKLES] 1522 02:14:14,904 --> 02:14:16,495 MAN 1: You should've stayed retired, Owl. 1523 02:14:54,210 --> 02:14:55,233 [HOLLIS GRUNTS] 1524 02:15:13,129 --> 02:15:15,028 [MAN GRUNTING] 1525 02:15:21,737 --> 02:15:23,473 RORSCHACH: I hate this. 1526 02:15:23,473 --> 02:15:27,944 Cowering in cave, hiding from authorities. 1527 02:15:27,944 --> 02:15:31,314 Cops are out there hunting us. Unless you wanna go back to prison... 1528 02:15:31,314 --> 02:15:33,950 ...we'd be stupid to expose ourselves without a plan. 1529 02:15:33,950 --> 02:15:36,552 And what would that be? 1530 02:15:36,552 --> 02:15:40,656 Once we've established a pattern... 1531 02:15:40,656 --> 02:15:42,959 ...we can break into Pyramid, see what we find. 1532 02:15:42,959 --> 02:15:45,561 RORSCHACH: Did that. Dead end. 1533 02:15:45,561 --> 02:15:50,156 I think it's a front company for whoever's really behind it, but can't prove it. 1534 02:15:53,102 --> 02:15:57,607 We need to hit up underworld contacts, squeeze people. 1535 02:15:57,607 --> 02:16:00,510 Sure, why don't we just pick names out of a phone book? 1536 02:16:00,510 --> 02:16:02,812 You forgot how we do things, Daniel. 1537 02:16:02,812 --> 02:16:07,450 You've gone too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women. 1538 02:16:07,450 --> 02:16:09,719 Okay, no. Listen, I've had it with that. 1539 02:16:09,719 --> 02:16:11,921 God, who do you think you are, Rorschach? 1540 02:16:11,921 --> 02:16:14,190 You live off people while insulting them... 1541 02:16:14,190 --> 02:16:17,989 ...and no one complains because they think you're a goddamn lunatic. 1542 02:16:29,972 --> 02:16:31,802 I'm sorry. 1543 02:16:34,477 --> 02:16:36,637 I shouldn't have said that, man. 1544 02:16:38,648 --> 02:16:39,978 Daniel... 1545 02:16:41,484 --> 02:16:43,951 ...you are a good friend. 1546 02:16:46,822 --> 02:16:49,984 I know it can be difficult with me sometimes. 1547 02:16:56,499 --> 02:16:57,988 Forget it. 1548 02:16:59,168 --> 02:17:00,828 It's okay, man. 1549 02:17:02,104 --> 02:17:03,695 Let's do it your way. 1550 02:17:14,951 --> 02:17:18,044 [WAYLON JENNINGS' " CLYDE" PLAYING O VER SPEAKERS] 1551 02:17:22,758 --> 02:17:24,226 Oh, God. 1552 02:17:24,226 --> 02:17:28,594 Pyramid Transnational. Anyone heard of it? 1553 02:17:36,072 --> 02:17:37,740 Oh, you bastards. 1554 02:17:37,740 --> 02:17:40,833 I buy everyone a round and you sell me out like this? 1555 02:17:42,044 --> 02:17:45,514 Back off, or I'll stick this glass in your squidgy face. 1556 02:17:45,514 --> 02:17:47,049 [GRUNTS] 1557 02:17:47,049 --> 02:17:49,983 Everybody stay calm. We'll try to keep this brief. 1558 02:17:52,088 --> 02:17:54,423 Roy Chess. On Pyramid payroll. 1559 02:17:54,423 --> 02:17:59,095 Tried to kill Adrian Veidt. Dead now. Did you know him? 1560 02:17:59,095 --> 02:18:00,930 No. 1561 02:18:00,930 --> 02:18:02,131 [MAN GRO ANING] 1562 02:18:02,131 --> 02:18:03,566 Yeah, yeah! 1563 02:18:03,566 --> 02:18:06,669 -I hired him. I knew him from the inside. -You're a felon. 1564 02:18:06,669 --> 02:18:09,805 I was. I've been straight ever since I got out, I swear. 1565 02:18:09,805 --> 02:18:13,709 I barely knew Chess that well, but I was told to hire from the old life. 1566 02:18:13,709 --> 02:18:17,480 -Told by whom? -My contact, Miss Slater. 1567 02:18:17,480 --> 02:18:20,249 Janey Slater works for Pyramid too? 1568 02:18:20,249 --> 02:18:24,387 Yeah, she was real nice. She said hiring ex-cons was part of the company program. 1569 02:18:24,387 --> 02:18:28,083 Give people a second chance. God, please let go! I'm telling the truth! 1570 02:18:32,228 --> 02:18:35,631 Janey Slater, Manhattan's old girlfriend. 1571 02:18:35,631 --> 02:18:38,501 Adrian might help us find out who's underwriting Pyramid. 1572 02:18:38,501 --> 02:18:39,735 Follow the money. 1573 02:18:39,735 --> 02:18:43,172 WOMAN [ON TV] : --former member of the Minutemen Hollis Mason found murdered... 1574 02:18:43,172 --> 02:18:45,675 ...in his apartment less than an hour ago. 1575 02:18:45,675 --> 02:18:49,945 Witnesses reported seeing members of a local gang known as the Knot-Tops... 1576 02:18:49,945 --> 02:18:53,382 ...leaving the area right around the estimated time of death. 1577 02:18:53,382 --> 02:18:56,316 Reporting live, Tiffany Burns.... 1578 02:18:58,654 --> 02:19:01,824 -Who did it? -I knew you were gonna victimize me, man. 1579 02:19:01,824 --> 02:19:04,126 What about my civil rights? Just because I'm wearing-- 1580 02:19:04,126 --> 02:19:07,185 -Tell me who did it! -A lot of people dress like this. 1581 02:19:08,531 --> 02:19:10,430 Who murdered Hollis Mason? 1582 02:19:16,105 --> 02:19:18,541 You tell your friends they're dead. 1583 02:19:18,541 --> 02:19:22,278 I'm gonna take out this entire rathole neighborhood. 1584 02:19:22,278 --> 02:19:24,768 I'll break your neck! 1585 02:19:25,347 --> 02:19:28,338 Daniel, not in front of the civilians. 1586 02:19:28,951 --> 02:19:31,783 Oh, goddamn. Goddamn, Hollis. 1587 02:19:41,797 --> 02:19:44,959 JON: This is where we hold our conversation. 1588 02:19:45,568 --> 02:19:49,469 In it, you reveal to me that you and Dreiberg have been sleeping together. 1589 02:19:50,639 --> 02:19:54,310 -You know about me and Dan? -Not yet. 1590 02:19:54,310 --> 02:19:57,142 But in a few moments you're going to tell me. 1591 02:19:59,482 --> 02:20:04,687 If you already know the future, then why were you surprised when I left you? 1592 02:20:04,687 --> 02:20:07,056 Or when that reporter ambushed you? 1593 02:20:07,056 --> 02:20:10,684 Why even argue about it if you already know how this is gonna end? 1594 02:20:11,861 --> 02:20:14,124 I have no choice. 1595 02:20:15,431 --> 02:20:18,534 Everything is preordained. 1596 02:20:18,534 --> 02:20:20,865 Even my responses. 1597 02:20:21,837 --> 02:20:25,608 And you're just going through the motions. 1598 02:20:25,608 --> 02:20:29,008 The most powerful thing in the universe is still just a puppet. 1599 02:20:32,148 --> 02:20:34,809 We are all puppets, Laurie. 1600 02:20:35,751 --> 02:20:38,420 I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. 1601 02:20:38,420 --> 02:20:40,289 And what if you're wrong? 1602 02:20:40,289 --> 02:20:44,960 Why does my perception of time distress you so? 1603 02:20:44,960 --> 02:20:47,029 Because it's inhuman. 1604 02:20:47,029 --> 02:20:49,598 Because it makes me insane. 1605 02:20:49,598 --> 02:20:53,499 You always say you wanna comfort me. Well, it isn't working. 1606 02:21:00,910 --> 02:21:03,400 Look, I don't wanna fight. 1607 02:21:04,914 --> 02:21:07,643 I'm sorry I slept with Dan. 1608 02:21:08,217 --> 02:21:10,241 You slept with Dan? 1609 02:21:11,954 --> 02:21:14,945 You just said that you already knew about that. 1610 02:21:15,658 --> 02:21:19,650 I said often... 1611 02:21:20,329 --> 02:21:24,662 ...that you were my only remaining link to humanity. 1612 02:21:27,102 --> 02:21:28,771 Why would I save a world... 1613 02:21:28,771 --> 02:21:30,897 ...I no longer have any stake in? 1614 02:21:33,008 --> 02:21:35,066 Then do it for me. 1615 02:21:35,945 --> 02:21:37,513 If you really care. 1616 02:21:37,513 --> 02:21:41,116 When you left me, I left Earth. 1617 02:21:41,116 --> 02:21:44,016 Does that not show you that I care? 1618 02:21:47,223 --> 02:21:50,157 My red world here, now... 1619 02:21:51,160 --> 02:21:54,060 ...means more to me than your blue one. 1620 02:21:54,830 --> 02:21:56,558 Let me show you. 1621 02:22:14,683 --> 02:22:17,617 KISSINGER: Bombers are fueled and ready, sir. 1622 02:22:26,962 --> 02:22:29,191 It's time, gentlemen. 1623 02:22:31,300 --> 02:22:33,699 Take us to DEFCON one. 1624 02:22:40,976 --> 02:22:44,246 RORSCHACH: Not in penthouse. Not in office. 1625 02:22:44,246 --> 02:22:47,316 What nocturnal proclivities entice a man with everything... 1626 02:22:47,316 --> 02:22:49,078 ...out into the night at this hour? 1627 02:22:51,153 --> 02:22:53,017 Daniel? 1628 02:22:54,256 --> 02:22:56,018 You with me? 1629 02:22:56,825 --> 02:22:59,952 -Yeah. -Then what are you doing? 1630 02:23:02,064 --> 02:23:03,999 DAN: I'm gonna look for Adrian's itinerary. 1631 02:23:03,999 --> 02:23:06,762 RORSCHACH: Maybe he keeps on file. 1632 02:23:11,273 --> 02:23:13,909 -Something's not right. -Agreed. 1633 02:23:13,909 --> 02:23:18,847 Janey Slater, Moloch, Roy Chess all work for Pyramid. 1634 02:23:18,847 --> 02:23:23,652 Moloch said the Comedian mentioned list with his and Slater's name on it. 1635 02:23:23,652 --> 02:23:27,122 Whoever owns Pyramid could be giving these people cancer. 1636 02:23:27,122 --> 02:23:29,589 Setting Manhattan up. 1637 02:23:41,370 --> 02:23:42,836 [BEEPING] 1638 02:23:43,739 --> 02:23:45,074 Funny. 1639 02:23:45,074 --> 02:23:48,744 Ancient pharaohs looked forward to the end of the world. 1640 02:23:48,744 --> 02:23:53,771 Believed cadavers would rise, reclaim hearts from golden jars. 1641 02:23:54,416 --> 02:23:57,219 Must currently be holding breath in anticipation. 1642 02:23:57,219 --> 02:23:58,446 Pharaohs? 1643 02:24:01,323 --> 02:24:03,017 [COMPUTER BEEPING] 1644 02:24:05,327 --> 02:24:07,351 Got a psych profile on Manhattan. 1645 02:24:07,997 --> 02:24:10,464 See what the corporate head-peepers say. 1646 02:24:12,501 --> 02:24:15,025 " Subject continues to retreat emotionally. 1647 02:24:17,339 --> 02:24:20,398 If the only remaining ties were to be severed... 1648 02:24:21,010 --> 02:24:24,968 ...we predict total detachment from the human condition." 1649 02:24:29,084 --> 02:24:30,846 DAN: I'm in. 1650 02:24:59,715 --> 02:25:01,045 No. 1651 02:25:03,218 --> 02:25:09,158 MAN: Congratulations, Mr. Veidt. Dr. Manhattan's energy reactor is online. 1652 02:25:09,158 --> 02:25:13,195 Your support and your enthusiasm... 1653 02:25:13,195 --> 02:25:15,664 ...is what has led to this triumph. 1654 02:25:15,664 --> 02:25:19,868 On behalf of the research team, we salute you. 1655 02:25:19,868 --> 02:25:22,301 -Cheers. -Cheers. 1656 02:25:23,072 --> 02:25:27,201 ADRIAN: What in life does not deserve celebrating? 1657 02:25:28,143 --> 02:25:32,414 This is the new Karnak. 1658 02:25:32,414 --> 02:25:36,185 This represents the culmination of a dream more than 2000 years old... 1659 02:25:36,185 --> 02:25:42,453 ...a dream now assured because of your unquestioning assistance. 1660 02:25:44,593 --> 02:25:46,253 And for this... 1661 02:25:47,096 --> 02:25:49,427 ...I am ashamed... 1662 02:25:50,599 --> 02:25:54,932 ...ashamed that you must now share such inadequate a reward. 1663 02:25:56,605 --> 02:25:58,595 To the pharaohs... 1664 02:25:59,541 --> 02:26:02,532 ...their greatest secrets entrusted to their servants... 1665 02:26:03,178 --> 02:26:07,511 ...buried alive with them in sand-floored chambers. 1666 02:26:08,383 --> 02:26:10,782 Sleep well, gentlemen. 1667 02:26:11,453 --> 02:26:15,124 Our new, peaceful world will be indebted... 1668 02:26:15,124 --> 02:26:17,683 ...to your great sacrifice. 1669 02:26:18,627 --> 02:26:20,821 Bubastis. 1670 02:26:25,000 --> 02:26:28,337 Rorschach's journal. Final entry. 1671 02:26:28,337 --> 02:26:31,006 Veidt's behind everything. 1672 02:26:31,006 --> 02:26:32,774 Why? 1673 02:26:32,774 --> 02:26:35,010 What's his endgame? 1674 02:26:35,010 --> 02:26:38,881 I cannot imagine a more dangerous opponent. 1675 02:26:38,881 --> 02:26:42,484 Used to joke he was fast enough to catch a bullet. 1676 02:26:42,484 --> 02:26:45,554 He could kill us both alone in the snow. 1677 02:26:45,554 --> 02:26:49,424 That's where we're going now: Antarctica. 1678 02:26:49,424 --> 02:26:52,361 Whether I'm alive or dead upon this reading... 1679 02:26:52,361 --> 02:26:56,798 ...I hope the world survives long enough for this journal to reach you. 1680 02:26:56,798 --> 02:26:59,535 I live my life free of compromise... 1681 02:26:59,535 --> 02:27:03,470 ...and step into the shadow without complaint or regret. 1682 02:27:04,106 --> 02:27:07,276 Rorschach, November 1 st. 1683 02:27:07,276 --> 02:27:10,802 LAURIE: Can't you just tell me how this ends and save us the trouble? 1684 02:27:11,780 --> 02:27:13,849 JON: It ends with you in tears. 1685 02:27:13,849 --> 02:27:17,619 Tears? So you don't come back to Earth. 1686 02:27:17,619 --> 02:27:21,054 At some point, yes. 1687 02:27:22,124 --> 02:27:25,227 The streets are filled with death. 1688 02:27:25,227 --> 02:27:27,462 Jon, please. 1689 02:27:27,462 --> 02:27:32,201 You have to stop this. Everyone will die. 1690 02:27:32,201 --> 02:27:36,534 And the universe will not even notice. 1691 02:27:38,974 --> 02:27:43,205 In my opinion, the existence of life... 1692 02:27:44,079 --> 02:27:47,070 ...is a highly overrated phenomenon. 1693 02:27:48,984 --> 02:27:51,281 Just look around you. 1694 02:27:54,022 --> 02:27:58,355 Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a microorganism. 1695 02:27:58,994 --> 02:28:03,732 Here, it's a constantly changing topographical map... 1696 02:28:03,732 --> 02:28:09,670 ...flowing and shifting around the pole in ripples 10,000 years wide. 1697 02:28:10,505 --> 02:28:12,174 So tell me... 1698 02:28:12,174 --> 02:28:17,012 ...how would all of this be greatly improved by an oil pipeline? 1699 02:28:17,012 --> 02:28:19,002 By a shopping mall? 1700 02:28:23,352 --> 02:28:27,823 So it's too much to ask for a miracle? 1701 02:28:27,823 --> 02:28:30,125 Miracles, by their definition, are meaningless. 1702 02:28:30,125 --> 02:28:31,793 Oh, God, Jon! 1703 02:28:31,793 --> 02:28:36,855 -Only what can happen does happen. -Just stop your bullshit. 1704 02:28:37,933 --> 02:28:40,636 Land this thing. Now. 1705 02:28:40,636 --> 02:28:43,195 JON: As you wish. 1706 02:28:48,810 --> 02:28:50,045 LAURIE: You know what? 1707 02:28:50,045 --> 02:28:52,914 You can send me back to Earth to fry with Dan and my mom... 1708 02:28:52,914 --> 02:28:55,450 ...and all the other worthless humans. 1709 02:28:55,450 --> 02:28:59,054 But know that you were wrong. You said this ended with me in tears... 1710 02:28:59,054 --> 02:29:03,392 ...and look: Nothing. Maybe you were wrong about everything. 1711 02:29:03,392 --> 02:29:08,658 You complain that I refuse to see life on life's terms... 1712 02:29:09,398 --> 02:29:13,335 ...yet you continuously refuse to see things from my perspective. 1713 02:29:13,335 --> 02:29:17,906 -You shut out what you're afraid of. -I'm not afraid. 1714 02:29:17,906 --> 02:29:22,933 You want me to see things your way? Go ahead, show me. Do that thing you do. 1715 02:29:30,085 --> 02:29:35,357 Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it! 1716 02:29:35,357 --> 02:29:38,593 It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about? 1717 02:29:38,593 --> 02:29:40,896 I put food on the table for you and your child. 1718 02:29:40,896 --> 02:29:43,693 Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life. 1719 02:29:44,433 --> 02:29:47,502 SALLY: Even the grimy parts of it... 1720 02:29:47,502 --> 02:29:50,072 ...keep on getting brighter. 1721 02:29:50,072 --> 02:29:53,842 You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties. 1722 02:29:53,842 --> 02:29:58,447 -You got her eyes, you know. You got-- -Take your hands off her. 1723 02:29:58,447 --> 02:30:00,749 EDDIE: Hey, doll. Long time no see. 1724 02:30:00,749 --> 02:30:03,512 Not long enough in my book, Eddie. Get in the car. 1725 02:30:04,019 --> 02:30:05,883 Now. 1726 02:30:06,855 --> 02:30:09,024 Are there no depths you won't sink to? 1727 02:30:09,024 --> 02:30:12,857 Jesus Christ, Sally. Can't a guy talk to his... 1728 02:30:13,562 --> 02:30:15,256 ...you know, old friend's daughter? 1729 02:30:17,566 --> 02:30:18,896 Drive. 1730 02:30:24,906 --> 02:30:28,009 SALLY: It was a mistake. One time. 1731 02:30:28,009 --> 02:30:31,413 Guy tries to rape you, and years later, you let him finish the job? 1732 02:30:31,413 --> 02:30:34,282 What? Were you drunk or just Ionely? 1733 02:30:34,282 --> 02:30:37,216 Am I ever gonna live this down? 1734 02:30:40,589 --> 02:30:41,714 Laurie. 1735 02:30:46,595 --> 02:30:47,925 No. 1736 02:30:49,931 --> 02:30:52,601 No, not him. 1737 02:30:52,601 --> 02:30:55,103 The Comedian... 1738 02:30:55,103 --> 02:30:57,195 ...was your father. 1739 02:30:58,673 --> 02:31:00,367 No. 1740 02:31:03,678 --> 02:31:09,377 No! No! No! 1741 02:31:10,185 --> 02:31:13,085 [CRACKING] 1742 02:31:41,983 --> 02:31:43,973 My life is just... 1743 02:31:44,653 --> 02:31:46,955 ...one big joke. 1744 02:31:46,955 --> 02:31:49,514 I don't think your life is a joke. 1745 02:31:51,159 --> 02:31:53,149 Yeah, well... 1746 02:31:54,996 --> 02:31:59,159 ...I'm sorry if I don't trust your sense of humor. 1747 02:32:07,342 --> 02:32:09,002 Will you smile... 1748 02:32:10,679 --> 02:32:13,146 ...if I admit I was wrong? 1749 02:32:16,017 --> 02:32:18,007 LAURIE: About what? 1750 02:32:20,021 --> 02:32:21,510 Miracles. 1751 02:32:23,191 --> 02:32:26,353 Events with astronomical odds of occurring... 1752 02:32:27,195 --> 02:32:29,865 ...like oxygen turning into gold. 1753 02:32:29,865 --> 02:32:34,699 I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect... 1754 02:32:35,370 --> 02:32:37,735 ...that in human coupling... 1755 02:32:38,540 --> 02:32:42,878 ...millions upon millions of cells compete to create life... 1756 02:32:42,878 --> 02:32:45,675 ...for generation after generation... 1757 02:32:46,548 --> 02:32:49,985 ...until finally, your mother... 1758 02:32:49,985 --> 02:32:51,178 ...Ioves a man... 1759 02:32:51,820 --> 02:32:55,590 ...Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate... 1760 02:32:55,590 --> 02:32:59,582 ...and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds... 1761 02:33:00,262 --> 02:33:02,161 ...it's you-- 1762 02:33:03,899 --> 02:33:05,229 Only... 1763 02:33:05,901 --> 02:33:07,390 ...you. 1764 02:33:08,236 --> 02:33:09,497 --That emerged. 1765 02:33:10,071 --> 02:33:14,743 To distill so specific a form... 1766 02:33:14,743 --> 02:33:17,006 ...from all that chaos... 1767 02:33:18,914 --> 02:33:21,882 ...is like turning air into gold. 1768 02:33:26,254 --> 02:33:28,244 A miracle. 1769 02:33:31,760 --> 02:33:33,249 And so... 1770 02:33:33,762 --> 02:33:35,592 ...I was wrong. 1771 02:33:37,599 --> 02:33:41,432 Now dry your eyes, and let's go home. 1772 02:34:08,964 --> 02:34:12,990 We got a bearing on that artificial structure. Heat signature's off the charts. 1773 02:34:13,969 --> 02:34:17,062 -Veidt. -I don't like the way Archie's kicking. 1774 02:34:25,480 --> 02:34:28,312 -The engines. -They're icing up. Hold onto something. 1775 02:34:29,084 --> 02:34:31,108 Daniel, you're coming in too low. 1776 02:34:33,989 --> 02:34:37,325 Don't wish to interfere, but perhaps should pull up sharply-- 1777 02:34:37,325 --> 02:34:41,260 I know! I'm trying. I'm trying to pull him up, goddamn it! 1778 02:35:08,523 --> 02:35:12,327 DAN: I'm gonna redirect the heat from the flamethrower to speed up deicing... 1779 02:35:12,327 --> 02:35:15,193 ...but it's gonna take a while and we don't have time to wait. 1780 02:35:16,698 --> 02:35:18,164 You need something warmer. 1781 02:35:18,700 --> 02:35:20,860 Fine like this. 1782 02:35:49,130 --> 02:35:50,365 [BUBASTIS GROWLS] 1783 02:35:50,365 --> 02:35:52,229 What is it, girl? 1784 02:35:54,536 --> 02:35:56,230 Mm. 1785 02:36:21,830 --> 02:36:24,299 DAN: Adrian's a pacifist. 1786 02:36:24,299 --> 02:36:29,104 He's a vegetarian, for chrissakes. He's never killed anyone in his life. 1787 02:36:29,104 --> 02:36:30,672 Hitler was vegetarian. 1788 02:36:30,672 --> 02:36:35,199 You're squeamish, leave him to me. We won't get second chance. 1789 02:36:40,615 --> 02:36:44,243 [CHATTERING ON TVS] 1790 02:37:46,447 --> 02:37:47,777 Gentlemen. 1791 02:37:48,283 --> 02:37:52,387 -Welcome. -Adrian, we know everything. 1792 02:37:52,387 --> 02:37:54,322 Then what's there to discuss, Dan? 1793 02:37:54,322 --> 02:37:57,492 Plenty. You killed Comedian. 1794 02:37:57,492 --> 02:37:59,015 May he rest in peace. 1795 02:37:59,527 --> 02:38:02,297 Blake figured it out first. 1796 02:38:02,297 --> 02:38:06,357 Nixon had him keeping tabs on us, making sure we weren't rocking the boat. 1797 02:38:07,302 --> 02:38:09,737 Blake found out what I was doing here in Karnak... 1798 02:38:09,737 --> 02:38:13,975 ...and by the time he visited poor Moloch, he was cracking badly. 1799 02:38:13,975 --> 02:38:17,239 Even I couldn't predict he'd be the one to have a change of heart. 1800 02:38:17,979 --> 02:38:19,502 So... 1801 02:38:20,548 --> 02:38:22,481 ...I had to kill him. 1802 02:38:23,051 --> 02:38:26,988 Then I neutralized Jon. No easy task. 1803 02:38:26,988 --> 02:38:29,624 I put roughly $2 billion into tachyon research... 1804 02:38:29,624 --> 02:38:31,826 ...to block Jon's vision of the future. 1805 02:38:31,826 --> 02:38:34,089 RORSCHACH: You used his psych profile to manipulate him. 1806 02:38:34,596 --> 02:38:36,231 Got him to leave the planet. 1807 02:38:36,231 --> 02:38:39,801 I've known Jon long enough to see he isn't devoid of emotion. 1808 02:38:39,801 --> 02:38:43,872 His subtle facial twitches wouldn't be noticed by the layman, but to me... 1809 02:38:43,872 --> 02:38:46,074 ...he might as well have been sobbing. 1810 02:38:46,074 --> 02:38:49,377 All I needed to do was tug on the thread. 1811 02:38:49,377 --> 02:38:51,446 The sudden flood of emotion Jon felt... 1812 02:38:51,446 --> 02:38:55,216 ...when he came to believe he'd given cancer to the people he loved... 1813 02:38:55,216 --> 02:38:57,518 ...was all the excuse he needed to leave Earth. 1814 02:38:57,518 --> 02:39:01,522 DAN: Your bullshit assassin. You paid him to throw us off. 1815 02:39:01,522 --> 02:39:06,185 ADRIAN: Mr. Chess gave his life in the service of a higher cause, Dan. 1816 02:39:08,329 --> 02:39:11,599 I put a cyanide capsule in his mouth... 1817 02:39:11,599 --> 02:39:14,192 ...leaving only one loose end: 1818 02:39:14,802 --> 02:39:18,406 You, and your mask-killer theory... 1819 02:39:18,406 --> 02:39:21,709 ...one you followed with the tenacity of a true sociopath. 1820 02:39:21,709 --> 02:39:23,578 I tipped off the police. 1821 02:39:23,578 --> 02:39:26,147 Once you were in prison, I was able to move forward. 1822 02:39:26,147 --> 02:39:28,774 RORSCHACH: Sorry to disappoint you. 1823 02:39:41,963 --> 02:39:44,599 DAN: We were supposed to make the world a better place. 1824 02:39:44,599 --> 02:39:46,501 ADRIAN: Dan, that's exactly what I am doing. 1825 02:39:46,501 --> 02:39:48,002 DAN: Nuclear war? 1826 02:39:48,002 --> 02:39:50,162 Human extinction? 1827 02:39:59,814 --> 02:40:04,886 ADRIAN: Of course, my moral safeguards gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice. 1828 02:40:04,886 --> 02:40:08,022 A few key regions around the globe-- 1829 02:40:08,022 --> 02:40:13,661 New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Hong Kong. 1830 02:40:13,661 --> 02:40:15,321 --Disintegrated in an instant. 1831 02:40:16,064 --> 02:40:19,567 Fifteen million people killed... 1832 02:40:19,567 --> 02:40:21,625 ...by Dr. Manhattan himself. 1833 02:40:22,837 --> 02:40:25,807 The world's punishment for flirting with World War III. 1834 02:40:25,807 --> 02:40:26,932 Jon wouldn't do that. 1835 02:40:27,508 --> 02:40:30,203 A fact no one outside this room ever has to know. 1836 02:40:30,845 --> 02:40:34,644 The energy breakthrough I was working on just came to fruition. 1837 02:40:35,249 --> 02:40:39,420 All these years, Jon was helping me replicate his power... 1838 02:40:39,420 --> 02:40:42,123 ...unaware of how I planned to use it. 1839 02:40:42,123 --> 02:40:44,113 You see... 1840 02:40:45,026 --> 02:40:47,425 ...the Comedian was right. 1841 02:40:48,129 --> 02:40:53,301 Humanity's savage nature will inevitably lead to global annihilation. 1842 02:40:53,301 --> 02:40:56,371 So in order to save this planet... 1843 02:40:56,371 --> 02:40:58,806 ...I had to trick it... 1844 02:40:58,806 --> 02:41:03,111 ...with the greatest practical joke in human history. 1845 02:41:03,111 --> 02:41:06,511 -Killing millions. -To save billions. 1846 02:41:07,048 --> 02:41:09,183 A necessary crime. 1847 02:41:09,183 --> 02:41:11,343 RORSCHACH: You know we can't let you do that. 1848 02:41:12,787 --> 02:41:15,089 " Do that," Rorschach? 1849 02:41:15,089 --> 02:41:16,715 I'm not a comic-book villain. 1850 02:41:17,558 --> 02:41:19,994 Do you think I'd explain my masterstroke to you... 1851 02:41:19,994 --> 02:41:24,157 ...if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? 1852 02:41:26,901 --> 02:41:29,698 I triggered it 35 minutes ago. 1853 02:43:09,170 --> 02:43:12,340 Jesus Christ, Henry. 1854 02:43:12,340 --> 02:43:14,534 Why the hell didn't we get a launch detection? 1855 02:43:16,444 --> 02:43:20,880 It's not the Soviets, sir. 1856 02:43:21,449 --> 02:43:24,785 Intel indicates the energy signature... 1857 02:43:24,785 --> 02:43:27,218 ...was generated by... 1858 02:43:28,189 --> 02:43:30,622 ...Dr. Manhattan. 1859 02:43:33,461 --> 02:43:35,018 Jon. 1860 02:43:38,032 --> 02:43:39,157 Interference. 1861 02:43:39,767 --> 02:43:41,666 Cataclysmic interference. 1862 02:43:51,379 --> 02:43:54,142 LAURIE: I can't believe it happened. 1863 02:43:55,149 --> 02:43:58,640 This wasn't caused by nuclear warheads. 1864 02:44:02,723 --> 02:44:04,019 It was me. 1865 02:44:06,060 --> 02:44:07,651 I... 1866 02:44:08,229 --> 02:44:09,252 ...did this. 1867 02:44:09,897 --> 02:44:13,354 -What do you mean, you did this? -Not directly. 1868 02:44:14,335 --> 02:44:17,030 It was made to look like I did it. 1869 02:44:20,074 --> 02:44:21,506 Adrian. 1870 02:44:27,782 --> 02:44:29,772 Speak of the devil. 1871 02:44:32,920 --> 02:44:34,121 DAN: Jon-- JON: I know. 1872 02:44:34,121 --> 02:44:36,457 RORSCHACH: Must stop him. Killed Blake, killed millions. 1873 02:44:36,457 --> 02:44:37,787 Wait here. 1874 02:44:48,936 --> 02:44:51,301 Adrian, stop this. 1875 02:44:52,773 --> 02:44:54,637 The tachyons were clever... 1876 02:44:55,776 --> 02:45:00,109 ...but even if I can't predict where you are, I can turn the walls to glass. 1877 02:45:01,449 --> 02:45:03,916 I should thank you. 1878 02:45:05,086 --> 02:45:08,282 I'd almost forgotten the excitement of not knowing... 1879 02:45:09,290 --> 02:45:12,281 ...the delights of uncertainty. 1880 02:45:16,464 --> 02:45:18,124 Forgive me, girl. 1881 02:45:38,653 --> 02:45:40,119 [GUN COCKS] 1882 02:45:41,088 --> 02:45:42,782 You're such an asshole. 1883 02:46:13,154 --> 02:46:14,381 [GASPS] 1884 02:46:16,724 --> 02:46:18,826 DAN: Veidt, you bastard. 1885 02:46:18,826 --> 02:46:21,293 -Lf you've hurt her, I'Il-- -Dan... 1886 02:46:23,030 --> 02:46:27,802 ...grow up. My new world demands less obvious heroism. 1887 02:46:27,802 --> 02:46:29,970 Your... 1888 02:46:29,970 --> 02:46:34,929 ...schoolboy heroics are redundant. What have they achieved? 1889 02:46:36,544 --> 02:46:39,410 Failing to prevent Earth's salvation... 1890 02:46:40,381 --> 02:46:42,983 ...is your only triumph. 1891 02:46:42,983 --> 02:46:44,882 JON: I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. 1892 02:46:45,686 --> 02:46:49,177 I'm very disappointed. 1893 02:47:01,569 --> 02:47:04,731 Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. 1894 02:47:05,406 --> 02:47:07,805 It didn't kill Osterman. 1895 02:47:10,411 --> 02:47:12,776 Did you really think it would kill me? 1896 02:47:14,081 --> 02:47:17,243 I have walked across the surface of the sun. 1897 02:47:17,752 --> 02:47:21,088 I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast... 1898 02:47:21,088 --> 02:47:24,325 ...they can hardly be said to have occurred at all... 1899 02:47:24,325 --> 02:47:27,953 ...but you, Adrian, you're just a man. 1900 02:47:29,096 --> 02:47:31,899 The world's smartest man... 1901 02:47:31,899 --> 02:47:34,502 ...poses no more threat to me... 1902 02:47:34,502 --> 02:47:37,629 ...than does its smartest termite. 1903 02:47:39,907 --> 02:47:41,776 What's that? 1904 02:47:41,776 --> 02:47:43,640 Another ultimate weapon? 1905 02:47:44,278 --> 02:47:46,006 Yes. 1906 02:47:47,615 --> 02:47:49,081 You could say that. 1907 02:47:52,620 --> 02:47:54,553 --Came under attack. 1908 02:47:55,389 --> 02:47:59,059 Millions of lives were suddenly ended... 1909 02:47:59,059 --> 02:48:04,257 ...in an act of evil perpetrated by Dr. Manhattan himself. 1910 02:48:06,066 --> 02:48:10,171 Since the attacks, I have been in constant contact... 1911 02:48:10,171 --> 02:48:13,574 ...with the premier of the U.S.S.R. 1912 02:48:13,574 --> 02:48:16,744 Putting aside our past differences... 1913 02:48:16,744 --> 02:48:19,246 ...we have both pledged to unite... 1914 02:48:19,246 --> 02:48:22,578 ...against this common enemy. 1915 02:48:23,083 --> 02:48:25,519 With the rest of the world... 1916 02:48:25,519 --> 02:48:27,543 ...we will prevail. 1917 02:48:30,090 --> 02:48:33,260 This is a day we shall never forget. 1918 02:48:33,260 --> 02:48:37,631 And yet we go forward to defend the human race... 1919 02:48:37,631 --> 02:48:42,260 ...and all that is good and just in our world. 1920 02:48:43,604 --> 02:48:48,209 Thank you. God bless us all. 1921 02:48:48,209 --> 02:48:50,005 ADRIAN: Do you see? 1922 02:48:52,213 --> 02:48:54,680 Two superpowers retreating from war. 1923 02:48:56,283 --> 02:48:58,886 I've saved the earth from hell. 1924 02:48:58,886 --> 02:49:01,322 We both have. 1925 02:49:01,322 --> 02:49:03,516 This is as much your victory as it is mine. 1926 02:49:08,329 --> 02:49:09,818 Now we can return... 1927 02:49:11,265 --> 02:49:13,000 ...do what we were meant to. 1928 02:49:13,000 --> 02:49:16,303 We were meant to exact justice. 1929 02:49:16,303 --> 02:49:19,807 -Everyone's gonna know what you've done. -Will they? 1930 02:49:19,807 --> 02:49:24,778 By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today. 1931 02:49:24,778 --> 02:49:28,382 -Peace based on a lie. -But peace... 1932 02:49:28,382 --> 02:49:30,576 -...nonetheless. -He's right. 1933 02:49:31,151 --> 02:49:35,289 Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to nuclear destruction again. 1934 02:49:35,289 --> 02:49:38,325 No. We can't do this. 1935 02:49:38,325 --> 02:49:40,087 On Mars... 1936 02:49:41,595 --> 02:49:43,425 ...you taught me the value of life. 1937 02:49:44,398 --> 02:49:46,831 If we hope to preserve it here... 1938 02:49:47,635 --> 02:49:49,659 ...we must remain silent. 1939 02:49:53,507 --> 02:49:55,440 Keep your own secrets. 1940 02:50:02,316 --> 02:50:03,509 Don't even think about it. 1941 02:50:06,120 --> 02:50:07,848 Rorschach. 1942 02:50:09,623 --> 02:50:11,146 Wait. 1943 02:50:12,192 --> 02:50:14,662 Never compromise. 1944 02:50:14,662 --> 02:50:17,932 Not even in the face of armageddon. 1945 02:50:17,932 --> 02:50:20,923 That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. 1946 02:50:31,979 --> 02:50:35,505 I've made myself feel every death... 1947 02:50:36,984 --> 02:50:42,888 ...see every innocent face I've murdered to save humanity. 1948 02:50:48,462 --> 02:50:52,158 -You understand, don't you? JON: Without condoning... 1949 02:50:53,834 --> 02:50:55,733 ...or condemning... 1950 02:51:00,140 --> 02:51:02,073 ...I understand. 1951 02:51:09,483 --> 02:51:12,610 Out of my way. People have to be told. 1952 02:51:13,487 --> 02:51:15,420 You know I can't let you do that. 1953 02:51:16,657 --> 02:51:19,648 Suddenly you discover humanity? 1954 02:51:21,095 --> 02:51:22,925 Convenient. 1955 02:51:31,639 --> 02:51:36,200 If you'd cared from the start, none of this would have happened. 1956 02:51:39,980 --> 02:51:42,948 I can change almost anything... 1957 02:51:47,521 --> 02:51:49,852 ...but I can't change human nature. 1958 02:51:51,191 --> 02:51:54,591 Of course you must protect Veidt's new utopia. 1959 02:51:55,863 --> 02:51:59,195 What's one more body amongst foundations? 1960 02:52:05,372 --> 02:52:07,236 Well, what are you waiting for? 1961 02:52:10,711 --> 02:52:12,541 Do it. 1962 02:52:18,652 --> 02:52:19,675 Do it! 1963 02:52:22,389 --> 02:52:25,755 No! 1964 02:52:43,243 --> 02:52:49,183 JON: I'm leaving this galaxy for one a little less complicated. 1965 02:52:49,183 --> 02:52:51,852 LAURIE: I thought you said you cared about life again. 1966 02:52:51,852 --> 02:52:53,250 JON: I do. 1967 02:52:54,588 --> 02:52:57,488 I think maybe I'll create some. 1968 02:53:01,595 --> 02:53:03,926 Goodbye, Laurie. 1969 02:53:23,817 --> 02:53:27,047 [DAN YELLING] 1970 02:53:39,166 --> 02:53:40,325 Come on. 1971 02:53:42,803 --> 02:53:44,394 Come on! 1972 02:53:48,809 --> 02:53:50,611 Dan... 1973 02:53:50,611 --> 02:53:53,374 ...a world united and at peace. 1974 02:53:54,248 --> 02:53:55,616 There had to be sacrifice. 1975 02:53:55,616 --> 02:54:00,154 No! You haven't idealized mankind, you've deformed it. 1976 02:54:00,154 --> 02:54:02,289 You've mutilated it. 1977 02:54:02,289 --> 02:54:04,449 That's your legacy. 1978 02:54:13,000 --> 02:54:15,797 That's the real practical joke. 1979 02:55:08,388 --> 02:55:12,559 MAN [ON TV] : We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. 1980 02:55:12,559 --> 02:55:16,196 You are about to participate in a great adventure. 1981 02:55:16,196 --> 02:55:19,533 You are about to experience the awe and mystery... 1982 02:55:19,533 --> 02:55:25,334 ...which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits. 1983 02:55:26,540 --> 02:55:28,734 SALLY: Sure you don't want a drink? 1984 02:55:29,743 --> 02:55:30,766 I'm okay. 1985 02:55:31,845 --> 02:55:33,072 Cheers. 1986 02:55:34,514 --> 02:55:37,641 There's something I need to get off my chest. 1987 02:55:38,919 --> 02:55:41,409 I know that Eddie Blake was my father. 1988 02:55:44,424 --> 02:55:46,186 Laurel. 1989 02:55:47,194 --> 02:55:49,525 What you must think of me. 1990 02:55:50,364 --> 02:55:53,066 I'm sorry I never told you. 1991 02:55:53,066 --> 02:55:55,035 I should have... 1992 02:55:55,035 --> 02:55:59,339 ...but I don't know, I just felt ashamed. I felt stupid. 1993 02:55:59,339 --> 02:56:01,272 It doesn't matter. 1994 02:56:02,109 --> 02:56:07,375 People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things... 1995 02:56:07,948 --> 02:56:11,051 ...and, well, sometimes they can't talk about them. 1996 02:56:11,051 --> 02:56:13,382 I know how that is... 1997 02:56:14,121 --> 02:56:16,714 ...but I just want you to know... 1998 02:56:17,291 --> 02:56:20,123 ...that you never did anything wrong by me. 1999 02:56:24,298 --> 02:56:28,563 You asked me why I wasn't mad at him. 2000 02:56:30,137 --> 02:56:32,627 Because he gave me you. 2001 02:56:37,644 --> 02:56:38,735 Thanks, Mom. 2002 02:56:41,481 --> 02:56:43,277 I love you. 2003 02:56:50,824 --> 02:56:55,021 -Hello, Miss Jupiter. -Oh, Sally, please. 2004 02:56:56,663 --> 02:57:01,258 Excuse me. Gotta go freshen up. I'll be right back. 2005 02:57:11,778 --> 02:57:16,116 -So how's it going up here? -Good. How's it going down there? 2006 02:57:16,116 --> 02:57:19,786 Good. I think I've got everything working. 2007 02:57:19,786 --> 02:57:24,591 All of Archie's systems are upgraded. Finished the tinkering for now... 2008 02:57:24,591 --> 02:57:26,994 ...so all we gotta do is take her out. 2009 02:57:26,994 --> 02:57:30,053 Well, that sounds like a date. 2010 02:57:41,375 --> 02:57:43,638 Are we gonna be all right? 2011 02:57:45,712 --> 02:57:50,217 Long as people think Jon's still watching us, we'll be all right... 2012 02:57:50,217 --> 02:57:52,081 ...in the end. 2013 02:57:53,720 --> 02:57:56,056 I know what Jon would say: 2014 02:57:56,056 --> 02:57:58,080 Nothing ends. 2015 02:57:59,993 --> 02:58:02,586 Nothing ever ends. 2016 02:58:49,943 --> 02:58:53,880 Seymour, we got nothing to write about anymore. 2017 02:58:53,880 --> 02:58:55,415 Everyone in the country... 2018 02:58:55,415 --> 02:58:57,851 ...every country in the world are holding hands... 2019 02:58:57,851 --> 02:59:01,115 ...and singing songs about peace and love. 2020 02:59:01,621 --> 02:59:04,658 It's like living in a goddamn global hippie commune. 2021 02:59:04,658 --> 02:59:08,762 Well, Ronald Reagan says he's gonna be running for president in '88. 2022 02:59:08,762 --> 02:59:10,764 We could run a piece on that. 2023 02:59:10,764 --> 02:59:14,101 Seymour, we don't dignify absurdities with coverage. 2024 02:59:14,101 --> 02:59:17,934 This is still America, damn it. Who wants a cowboy in the White House? 2025 02:59:18,672 --> 02:59:23,076 Okay. I could look for something in the crank file. 2026 02:59:23,076 --> 02:59:24,845 Crank file. 2027 02:59:24,845 --> 02:59:27,013 Whatever. Take some initiative. 2028 02:59:27,013 --> 02:59:29,640 Run whatever you like. I leave it entirely in your hands. 2029 02:59:36,156 --> 02:59:41,027 Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. 2030 02:59:41,027 --> 02:59:45,486 Tonight, a comedian died in New York. 2031 03:06:24,097 --> 03:06:26,087 [ENGLISH SDH]