WEBVTT 00:00:22.063 --> 00:00:24.023 [KETTLE WHISTLING] 00:00:24.190 --> 00:00:25.941 MAN 1 [ON TV]: Wrong, as usual. 00:00:26.109 --> 00:00:29.236 The United States' lack of action in Eastern Europe... 00:00:29.404 --> 00:00:33.824 ...proves that the Soviet Union's aggression at the Afghan border... 00:00:33.992 --> 00:00:37.161 ...will not be opposed publicly by the United States. 00:00:37.328 --> 00:00:38.620 [WHISTLING STOPS] 00:00:39.205 --> 00:00:44.543 Issue: The Soviet Union continued its recent series of military exercises... 00:00:44.711 --> 00:00:47.963 ...conducting a bomb test today in the Bering Sea... 00:00:48.131 --> 00:00:52.051 ...just 1500 miles off the southern coast of Alaska. 00:00:52.218 --> 00:00:56.597 President Richard Nixon issued this warning to the Soviets: 00:00:56.765 --> 00:01:00.267 MAN 2: The United States does not start fights. 00:01:00.435 --> 00:01:04.104 Let it be clear we maintain our strength... 00:01:04.272 --> 00:01:07.066 ...in order to maintain peace... 00:01:07.233 --> 00:01:10.986 ...so any adversary should ask themselves: 00:01:11.154 --> 00:01:14.198 "Do the consequences of attacking America... 00:01:14.365 --> 00:01:16.992 ...outweigh the potential benefits?" 00:01:17.160 --> 00:01:19.828 As a result of the Soviet activity... 00:01:19.996 --> 00:01:22.790 ...the watchdog group of nuclear scientists... 00:01:22.957 --> 00:01:28.337 ...moved the Doomsday Clock up to five minutes until midnight: 00:01:28.505 --> 00:01:32.841 destruction by nuclear war. 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:35.219 Question: 00:01:35.512 --> 00:01:38.013 On a scale of zero to 10, zero meaning impossibility... 00:01:38.181 --> 00:01:40.516 ...10 meaning complete metaphysical certitude... 00:01:40.683 --> 00:01:45.187 ...what are the chances the Russians will actually attack the United States? 00:01:45.355 --> 00:01:46.688 Pat Buchanan. 00:01:46.856 --> 00:01:48.190 Zero. 00:01:48.358 --> 00:01:50.984 The Soviets would never risk going to war... 00:01:51.152 --> 00:01:54.988 ...when we have a walking nuclear deterrent on our side. 00:01:55.156 --> 00:01:57.616 You're referring, of course, to Dr. Manhattan... 00:01:57.784 --> 00:02:01.870 ...but does Dr. Manhattan's existence guarantee world peace? Eleanor Clift. 00:02:02.038 --> 00:02:04.790 Well, it hasn't stopped the Soviet Union... 00:02:04.958 --> 00:02:09.628 ...from stockpiling record amounts of nuclear weapons. 00:02:09.796 --> 00:02:11.505 You don't think it's just posturing? 00:02:11.673 --> 00:02:13.257 Maybe the reason why the Soviets... 00:02:13.424 --> 00:02:15.968 ...are doing these bomb tests... 00:02:16.136 --> 00:02:20.514 ...is because they feel threatened by Dr. Manhattan. Of course. 00:02:21.057 --> 00:02:24.226 Maybe the whole world feels like that. 00:02:24.394 --> 00:02:26.061 [MTV THEME "MAN ON THE MOON" PLAYS ON TV] 00:02:26.229 --> 00:02:28.689 Soviet ships have violated the territorial waters-- 00:02:28.857 --> 00:02:31.400 [NAT KING COLE'S "UNFORGETTABLE" PLAYS ON TV] 00:02:31.424 --> 00:02:42.424 ..:: Presented By ZarFilm Website ::.. ‏.:: www.bolboljan.net ::. 00:03:05.476 --> 00:03:07.769 Just a matter of time, I suppose. 00:03:27.373 --> 00:03:29.124 [GRUNTING] 00:04:33.106 --> 00:04:34.606 [YELLS] 00:04:35.692 --> 00:04:37.985 [CHUCKLES] 00:04:38.361 --> 00:04:42.030 It's a joke. It's all a joke. 00:04:42.699 --> 00:04:44.950 Mother, forgive me. 00:08:40.144 --> 00:08:43.188 [ARGUING INDISTINCTLY] 00:08:45.733 --> 00:08:48.693 SALLY: I was a hero, goddamn it! 00:08:50.112 --> 00:08:54.282 MAN [ON TV]: --an act clearly meant to send a signal to the government in Saigon... 00:08:54.450 --> 00:08:58.787 ...that violence and oppression is not the way to peace. 00:09:36.117 --> 00:09:38.618 MAN 1: Fuck you, pigs! 00:10:08.733 --> 00:10:11.860 MAN 2: Good luck, Mr. Gorsky. 00:10:57.740 --> 00:11:00.825 MAN: Get out of here, vigilantes! 00:11:00.993 --> 00:11:04.412 [CHATTERING] 00:11:08.542 --> 00:11:10.710 No! 00:11:34.735 --> 00:11:36.778 [SIRENS WAILING] 00:11:37.655 --> 00:11:43.785 GALLAGHER: Edward Blake. Sixty-seven years old. Six-two, a solid 225. 00:11:44.286 --> 00:11:46.162 Guy was built like a linebacker. 00:11:46.330 --> 00:11:48.248 FINE: Yeah, I saw the body. 00:11:48.416 --> 00:11:50.458 For a guy his age, he was in terrific shape. 00:11:50.626 --> 00:11:53.294 GALLAGHER: You mean apart from being dead? 00:11:54.547 --> 00:11:56.047 That's plate glass. 00:11:56.215 --> 00:11:59.134 You'd have to step on the gas just to put a crack in it. 00:11:59.301 --> 00:12:01.344 Had to have been thrown. 00:12:01.512 --> 00:12:02.721 Check the bedroom? 00:12:02.888 --> 00:12:05.807 Yeah. Drawers opened, tossed through. 00:12:05.975 --> 00:12:09.060 Mattress flipped. Probably robbery. 00:12:09.228 --> 00:12:10.687 Or made to look like one. 00:12:10.855 --> 00:12:12.647 See this? 00:12:12.940 --> 00:12:16.151 -Shaking hands with the president. FINE: Whoa. 00:12:16.318 --> 00:12:18.570 Think Blake was a spook? 00:12:18.738 --> 00:12:22.407 Government or black ops? 00:12:22.700 --> 00:12:24.617 GALLAGHER: I think... 00:12:24.910 --> 00:12:28.204 ...this is way bigger than both of us. 00:12:31.333 --> 00:12:36.629 RORSCHACH: Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. 00:12:36.797 --> 00:12:41.885 Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach. 00:12:42.178 --> 00:12:44.387 This city's afraid of me. 00:12:44.555 --> 00:12:48.516 I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters... 00:12:49.185 --> 00:12:51.561 ...and the gutters are full of blood. 00:12:51.729 --> 00:12:54.189 And when the drains finally scab over... 00:12:55.274 --> 00:12:57.525 ...all the vermin will drown. 00:12:58.152 --> 00:13:00.528 The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder... 00:13:00.696 --> 00:13:03.031 ...will foam up around their waists... 00:13:03.199 --> 00:13:08.661 ...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, "Save us." 00:13:09.622 --> 00:13:13.249 And I'll whisper, "No." 00:13:14.752 --> 00:13:17.629 Now the whole world stands on the brink... 00:13:17.797 --> 00:13:20.298 ...staring down into bloody hell. 00:13:20.466 --> 00:13:24.010 All those liberals and intellectuals... 00:13:24.178 --> 00:13:26.179 ...and smooth talkers... 00:13:26.347 --> 00:13:29.808 ...and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say. 00:13:29.975 --> 00:13:33.144 Beneath me, this awful city. 00:13:33.312 --> 00:13:37.065 It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children... 00:13:37.233 --> 00:13:41.903 ...and the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences. 00:14:52.975 --> 00:14:54.934 Huh. 00:15:02.484 --> 00:15:06.613 Tonight, a comedian died in New York. 00:15:06.780 --> 00:15:08.156 Somebody knows why. 00:15:09.074 --> 00:15:10.700 Somebody knows. 00:15:10.868 --> 00:15:12.410 [ELEVATOR BELL DINGS] 00:15:12.578 --> 00:15:14.787 [ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS] 00:15:15.998 --> 00:15:18.499 No, I definitely heard something. 00:15:21.837 --> 00:15:23.129 Watch the door. 00:15:43.192 --> 00:15:44.275 [GRUNTS] 00:15:48.405 --> 00:15:49.989 Shh. 00:15:50.950 --> 00:15:53.409 Must've been the wind. Next time you-- 00:16:06.924 --> 00:16:13.179 MAN: It all started with the gangs. You know, people tend to forget that. 00:16:13.847 --> 00:16:16.933 Pirate outfits, ghosts. 00:16:17.101 --> 00:16:19.727 They thought it was funny: dress up and pull heists. 00:16:19.895 --> 00:16:21.229 [MAN CHUCKLES] 00:16:21.397 --> 00:16:24.107 As soon as we'd arrest them, they'd be back on the street. 00:16:24.274 --> 00:16:28.111 Nobody could pick them out of a lineup because of the damn masks. 00:16:28.278 --> 00:16:30.571 So a few of us cops, we get together... 00:16:30.739 --> 00:16:34.075 ...and we figure, what the heck, we'll mask up, too. 00:16:34.243 --> 00:16:36.953 We'll finish what the law couldn't. 00:16:37.746 --> 00:16:41.791 Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it... 00:16:41.959 --> 00:16:45.628 ...and oh, boy, we're a national pastime. 00:16:45.796 --> 00:16:49.298 It was me, Dollar Bill, Mothman... 00:16:49.466 --> 00:16:52.844 ...Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice... 00:16:53.012 --> 00:16:56.222 ...Silk Spectre and the Comedian. 00:16:56.390 --> 00:16:59.934 Oh, don't get me started on him. 00:17:02.062 --> 00:17:06.107 I must be drunk already, telling you this sob story again. 00:17:06.275 --> 00:17:08.151 I think you were trying to make a point. 00:17:09.069 --> 00:17:15.241 Well, my point is that we had it too easy. It wasn't fair what happened to you guys-- 00:17:15.409 --> 00:17:19.537 You guys who picked up where we left off. --with Nixon forcing you out. 00:17:20.581 --> 00:17:25.043 Nixon, oh, that prick. To think I voted for that prick five times. 00:17:25.210 --> 00:17:27.962 Hey, it was him or the commies, right? 00:17:30.758 --> 00:17:34.552 Oh, wow, it's almost midnight. Gotta go. 00:17:36.096 --> 00:17:37.722 Truth? 00:17:38.390 --> 00:17:42.143 You were a better Nite Owl than I ever was, Danny boy. 00:17:42.311 --> 00:17:46.022 -Hollis, we both know that's bullshit. -Hey. 00:17:46.190 --> 00:17:47.482 Watch it with the language. 00:17:47.649 --> 00:17:50.276 This is the left hook that floored Captain Axis, remember? 00:17:50.444 --> 00:17:51.819 -Yeah. WOMAN [ON TV]: This just in: 00:17:51.987 --> 00:17:53.905 The masked vigilante known as Rorschach... 00:17:54.073 --> 00:17:56.908 ...has assaulted a police officer in the early-morning hours. 00:17:57.785 --> 00:18:00.787 Rorschach is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list... 00:18:00.954 --> 00:18:04.749 ...for violation of the Keene Act, which banned masked heroes six years ago. 00:18:04.917 --> 00:18:07.168 Rorschach reportedly incapacitated.... 00:18:07.711 --> 00:18:10.129 Forced everyone out except him. 00:18:10.297 --> 00:18:11.839 Oh, he'll quit. 00:18:12.007 --> 00:18:13.341 When he's dead. 00:18:13.967 --> 00:18:16.052 DAN: Next week? HOLLIS: Well... 00:18:16.220 --> 00:18:20.848 ...you know, you don't have to keep humoring me like this. 00:18:21.016 --> 00:18:23.184 If you got a hot date or something.... 00:18:23.352 --> 00:18:26.145 Hey, us retired guys have to stick together, right? 00:18:27.898 --> 00:18:29.774 You ever miss it? 00:18:30.984 --> 00:18:33.069 No. You? 00:18:33.654 --> 00:18:35.446 Oh, heck, no. 00:18:36.740 --> 00:18:38.533 Be seeing you. 00:19:36.216 --> 00:19:39.093 [METAL SCRAPING] 00:19:52.274 --> 00:19:53.608 Hello, Daniel. 00:19:54.318 --> 00:19:55.443 Rorschach. 00:19:56.486 --> 00:20:00.781 Helped myself to some beans. Hope you don't mind. 00:20:00.949 --> 00:20:03.409 No, no. Course not. 00:20:04.995 --> 00:20:07.580 You want me to heat those up for you? 00:20:07.748 --> 00:20:09.290 Fine like this. 00:20:10.834 --> 00:20:12.043 How have you been keeping? 00:20:16.423 --> 00:20:18.216 RORSCHACH: Out of prison. 00:20:19.927 --> 00:20:22.136 Heard about you on the news. 00:20:22.763 --> 00:20:24.972 Say you attacked a cop. 00:20:25.140 --> 00:20:27.934 RORSCHACH: Minor wound. Won't need hospitalization. 00:20:28.810 --> 00:20:29.977 Daniel... 00:20:30.145 --> 00:20:31.437 ...look at this. 00:20:37.194 --> 00:20:39.820 DAN: Is this bean juice? RORSCHACH: Human bean juice. 00:20:40.530 --> 00:20:45.034 Badge belonged to the Comedian. Blood too. He's dead. 00:20:47.037 --> 00:20:48.496 Let's talk downstairs. 00:20:57.422 --> 00:20:59.173 DAN: It could have been a burglary. 00:20:59.341 --> 00:21:02.051 Maybe the killer didn't know who the Comedian was. 00:21:02.219 --> 00:21:06.973 RORSCHACH: An ordinary burglar? Kill the Comedian? Ridiculous. 00:21:08.517 --> 00:21:11.978 I heard he'd been working for the government since '77... 00:21:12.145 --> 00:21:15.314 ...knocking over Marxist republics in South America. 00:21:15.482 --> 00:21:18.401 Maybe it was a political killing or something. 00:21:18.568 --> 00:21:19.860 Maybe. 00:21:20.028 --> 00:21:23.281 Maybe someone's picking off costumed heroes. 00:21:23.448 --> 00:21:25.533 DAN: You don't think that's a little paranoid? 00:21:25.701 --> 00:21:28.286 That what they say about me now? 00:21:28.537 --> 00:21:29.787 Paranoid? 00:21:29.955 --> 00:21:32.790 DAN: Look, Comedian made a lot of enemies over the years... 00:21:32.958 --> 00:21:34.458 ...even among his friends. 00:21:34.626 --> 00:21:36.794 RORSCHACH: Speaking of friends, how's Hollis Mason? 00:21:37.671 --> 00:21:41.632 He wrote that book. Said some bad things about the Comedian in it. 00:21:41.800 --> 00:21:45.886 I don't like what you're implying, and I like being followed even less. 00:21:46.388 --> 00:21:50.891 Maybe I was keeping an eye on you, in case someone's gunning for masks. 00:21:51.059 --> 00:21:55.730 -You were never that sentimental. -Attack on one is attack on all of us. 00:21:56.148 --> 00:21:58.566 What do you suggest we do about it? 00:21:59.484 --> 00:22:00.651 Retribution. 00:22:02.070 --> 00:22:05.364 -Watchmen are over. -Says Tricky Dick. 00:22:05.532 --> 00:22:07.283 Says me. 00:22:09.911 --> 00:22:11.537 Nobody knows who you are. 00:22:11.705 --> 00:22:14.665 You can give it up, try and have a normal life. 00:22:14.833 --> 00:22:18.753 That what you have now? A normal life? 00:22:19.755 --> 00:22:23.090 When you walk down the street in a city dying of rabies... 00:22:23.258 --> 00:22:24.759 ...past the human cockroaches... 00:22:24.926 --> 00:22:27.678 ...talking about their heroin and child pornography... 00:22:27.846 --> 00:22:29.388 ...do you really feel normal? 00:22:30.515 --> 00:22:33.267 Least I'm not the one still hiding behind a mask. 00:22:35.145 --> 00:22:36.437 No. 00:22:38.106 --> 00:22:40.232 You're hiding in plain sight. 00:22:41.610 --> 00:22:43.778 Be seeing you, Dan. 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:46.739 A maintenance hatch will let you out two blocks north. 00:22:46.907 --> 00:22:48.616 Yeah, I remember. 00:22:48.784 --> 00:22:52.870 Came here often, when we were partners. 00:22:53.038 --> 00:22:54.955 DAN: Those were great times, huh, Rorschach? 00:22:55.457 --> 00:22:58.667 -What happened? -You quit. 00:23:21.608 --> 00:23:23.317 Rorschach's journal. 00:23:23.485 --> 00:23:25.820 First visit of evening fruitless. 00:23:25.987 --> 00:23:28.114 Feel slightly depressed. 00:23:28.657 --> 00:23:30.533 Soon there will be war. 00:23:30.700 --> 00:23:34.286 Millions will perish in sickness and misery. 00:23:34.454 --> 00:23:36.997 Why does one death matter against so many? 00:23:37.707 --> 00:23:42.503 Because there is good and evil, and evil must be punished. 00:23:42.671 --> 00:23:45.506 Even in the face of armageddon... 00:23:45.674 --> 00:23:48.509 ...I will not compromise in this. 00:23:48.969 --> 00:23:52.555 But there are so many deserving of retribution... 00:23:52.764 --> 00:23:55.015 ...and so little time. 00:24:13.368 --> 00:24:14.743 [GASPS] 00:24:28.550 --> 00:24:30.217 MAN: Captain. 00:24:30.385 --> 00:24:32.845 -Captain. -Ridley. 00:24:33.013 --> 00:24:36.015 Ridley, have you seen any other survivors? 00:24:36.183 --> 00:24:37.224 No, sir. 00:24:37.392 --> 00:24:41.854 Captain, my foot is caught in some of the wreckage. 00:24:42.022 --> 00:24:45.399 -It's pulling me under. -Hold on. 00:24:47.736 --> 00:24:49.570 Ridley. 00:24:50.447 --> 00:24:51.489 [SCREAMS] 00:25:00.665 --> 00:25:03.125 Ridley. Ridley. 00:25:03.752 --> 00:25:05.085 No. 00:25:05.253 --> 00:25:06.754 No. 00:25:07.088 --> 00:25:09.381 VOICES [CHANTING]: More blood, more blood, more blood. 00:25:09.549 --> 00:25:12.051 MARINER: Delirious from nearly drowning, I saw it. 00:25:13.595 --> 00:25:15.596 The Black Freighter. 00:25:15.931 --> 00:25:21.185 The hell-bound ship's black sails against the yellow Indies sky. 00:25:21.770 --> 00:25:27.691 I knew again the stench of powder and men's brains and war. 00:25:28.443 --> 00:25:32.613 VOICES [CHANTING]: More blood, more blood, more blood. 00:25:38.453 --> 00:25:42.748 More blood, more blood, more blood. 00:25:48.922 --> 00:25:50.673 MARINER: The waves about me were scarlet... 00:25:50.840 --> 00:25:53.842 ...foaming, horribly warm in the Freighter's wake. 00:25:54.010 --> 00:25:57.179 In despair, I offered my weathered soul to almighty God... 00:25:57.347 --> 00:26:00.849 ...his mercy and his judgment. 00:26:02.394 --> 00:26:03.978 MAN: Heh. What do you think, kid? 00:26:04.145 --> 00:26:07.273 We ought to nuke Russia and let God sort it out. 00:26:07.440 --> 00:26:10.484 Or at the very least, send Dr. Manhattan over for a visit. 00:26:10.652 --> 00:26:12.152 You know what I'm saying? 00:26:12.320 --> 00:26:15.239 I mean, I ain't trying to be an asshole or anything, but they're the ones... 00:26:15.407 --> 00:26:17.908 ...who are agitating us. Now this is just my opinion. 00:26:18.076 --> 00:26:21.495 But I'm a news vendor, you know, so I am informed. 00:26:22.289 --> 00:26:25.666 Yeah, I know. The New Frontiersman. Well, it's not here yet. 00:26:25.834 --> 00:26:27.668 I'd appreciate if you didn't stand around waiting... 00:26:27.836 --> 00:26:30.337 ...because I don't know when it's going to be here. 00:26:30.589 --> 00:26:32.506 I thought you said you was informed. 00:26:34.676 --> 00:26:37.636 -Are you gonna buy that? -No. 00:26:39.514 --> 00:26:43.350 Oh, Jesus. Just try again tomorrow, okay? 00:26:49.983 --> 00:26:51.150 [SIGHS] 00:26:53.778 --> 00:26:54.820 MAN: Mr. Veidt... 00:26:54.988 --> 00:26:57.114 ...to date, you're one of only two Watchmen... 00:26:57.282 --> 00:26:59.700 ...ever to reveal their true identity to the world... 00:26:59.868 --> 00:27:01.702 ...the first being Hollis Mason. 00:27:01.870 --> 00:27:04.872 And you've certainly profited greatly by it... 00:27:05.040 --> 00:27:10.294 ...turning your superhero alter ego, Ozymandias, into a billion-dollar industry: 00:27:10.462 --> 00:27:13.547 Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering. 00:27:13.715 --> 00:27:15.758 I understand there's a movie in the works. 00:27:15.925 --> 00:27:20.137 -I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth. ROTH: I'm sorry. Do you think-- 00:27:20.305 --> 00:27:22.890 The Watchmen resent me for prostituting their struggle? 00:27:23.058 --> 00:27:25.768 It's a fair question. Yes, it's crossed my mind... 00:27:25.935 --> 00:27:28.979 ...some of my old colleagues might see it that way... 00:27:29.147 --> 00:27:32.149 ...just as you're clearly aware that biased journalism... 00:27:32.317 --> 00:27:34.902 ...sells more magazines. 00:27:35.403 --> 00:27:40.199 The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan. 00:27:40.367 --> 00:27:43.285 We recently expanded our research facility in Antarctica... 00:27:43.453 --> 00:27:46.705 ...in the hope of developing cheap, renewable sources of energy... 00:27:46.873 --> 00:27:49.875 ...that we might eliminate the world's reliance on fossil fuels. 00:27:50.043 --> 00:27:52.461 Now, it doesn't take a political scientist... 00:27:52.629 --> 00:27:56.048 ...to see that our Cold War with the Russians isn't ideological... 00:27:56.216 --> 00:27:59.718 ...it's based upon fear. Fear of not having enough. 00:28:00.095 --> 00:28:03.764 But if we make resources infinite... 00:28:03.932 --> 00:28:06.058 ...ah... 00:28:06.226 --> 00:28:08.310 ...we make war obsolete. 00:28:09.145 --> 00:28:12.981 I would hope the other Watchmen understand that... 00:28:14.192 --> 00:28:15.859 ...wherever they may be. 00:28:17.946 --> 00:28:19.321 Thanks for your time. 00:28:25.578 --> 00:28:28.247 -You look good, Adrian. -Dan. 00:28:28.415 --> 00:28:30.624 It's been too long. 00:28:32.377 --> 00:28:36.463 ADRIAN: So Rorschach thinks someone's hunting the Watchmen, huh? 00:28:37.132 --> 00:28:38.966 You think it's possible? 00:28:39.134 --> 00:28:41.885 Statistically, one murder doesn't equal a trend. 00:28:43.012 --> 00:28:44.972 Rorschach's a sociopath, Dan. 00:28:45.640 --> 00:28:48.976 And so was the Comedian. He was practically a Nazi. 00:28:49.811 --> 00:28:51.854 You know that better than anyone. 00:28:52.021 --> 00:28:54.231 I'm not here because I miss him. 00:28:54.399 --> 00:28:55.733 It's occurred to Rorschach... 00:28:55.900 --> 00:28:58.861 ...that we're the only ones who know each other's identities. 00:28:59.362 --> 00:29:01.488 Actually, the whole world knows yours. 00:29:02.240 --> 00:29:04.700 That's why I'm warning you first. 00:29:08.329 --> 00:29:10.330 Thank you, Dan... 00:29:11.916 --> 00:29:15.711 ...but I fear there's something much more real to worry about... 00:29:15.879 --> 00:29:18.505 ...than Rorschach's mask killer. 00:29:20.008 --> 00:29:24.511 If the Russians do launch their nukes, can Jon really stop them? 00:29:24.679 --> 00:29:28.348 The Soviets have 51,000 warheads stockpiled. 00:29:28.516 --> 00:29:31.685 Even if Jon stops 99 percent of them... 00:29:31.853 --> 00:29:36.064 ...the 1 percent that get through could still kill every living thing on Earth. 00:29:38.818 --> 00:29:41.195 Even Dr. Manhattan can't be everywhere at once. 00:29:55.418 --> 00:30:01.048 Rorschach's journal, October 13th, 1985... 00:30:01.216 --> 00:30:03.550 ...8:30 p.m. 00:30:04.260 --> 00:30:08.180 Meeting with Dreiberg left bad taste in mouth. 00:30:08.389 --> 00:30:12.434 A flabby failure who sits whimpering in his basement. 00:30:13.603 --> 00:30:16.563 Why are so few of us left active... 00:30:16.731 --> 00:30:21.610 ...healthy and without personality disorders? 00:30:21.778 --> 00:30:25.030 The first Nite Owl runs an auto-repair shop. 00:30:25.198 --> 00:30:28.575 The first Silk Spectre is a bloated, aging whore... 00:30:28.743 --> 00:30:31.620 ...dying in a California rest resort. 00:30:31.788 --> 00:30:34.414 Dollar Bill got his cape stuck in a revolving door... 00:30:34.582 --> 00:30:36.083 ...where he got gunned down. 00:30:36.709 --> 00:30:39.127 Silhouette, murdered... 00:30:39.462 --> 00:30:42.422 ...a victim of her own indecent lifestyle. 00:30:42.966 --> 00:30:45.968 Mothman's in an asylum in Maine. 00:30:49.973 --> 00:30:54.184 Even Adrian Veidt, possible homosexual. 00:30:54.352 --> 00:30:56.854 Must investigate further. 00:30:57.021 --> 00:30:59.773 Only two names remain on my list. 00:31:00.316 --> 00:31:05.445 Both share private quarters at Rockefeller Military Research Center. 00:31:05.613 --> 00:31:07.948 I shall go to them. 00:31:08.283 --> 00:31:13.620 I shall go tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him. 00:31:14.455 --> 00:31:16.248 JON: Good evening, Rorschach. 00:31:16.416 --> 00:31:19.918 RORSCHACH: Dr. Manhattan, you know why I'm here. 00:31:20.086 --> 00:31:21.503 JON: Yes... 00:31:22.797 --> 00:31:24.756 ...but you're going to leave disappointed. 00:31:24.924 --> 00:31:28.635 Rorschach. You shouldn't be here. You're a wanted man. 00:31:28.803 --> 00:31:31.013 RORSCHACH: Nice to see you too, Silk Spectre. 00:31:31.180 --> 00:31:33.265 I have a real name I've been using. 00:31:33.433 --> 00:31:34.474 Try it. 00:31:34.642 --> 00:31:36.727 Whatever you say, Laurie. 00:31:36.895 --> 00:31:38.145 What are you doing here? 00:31:38.313 --> 00:31:40.647 JON: The Comedian is dead. 00:31:40.815 --> 00:31:42.900 Rorschach wants me to look into my future... 00:31:43.234 --> 00:31:45.694 ...see if the killer is ever publicly identified. 00:31:45.862 --> 00:31:48.989 Already warned Dreiberg. Came to warn you too. 00:31:51.659 --> 00:31:54.036 Even if I wanted to help... 00:31:54.662 --> 00:31:58.540 ...my future is blocked by some kind of temporal interference. 00:31:58.958 --> 00:32:03.003 -I cannot see it clearly. -Interference? Caused by what? 00:32:03.171 --> 00:32:06.590 In all likelihood, nuclear holocaust. 00:32:07.342 --> 00:32:11.428 If the United States and Soviet Union engage in all-out war... 00:32:11.596 --> 00:32:15.599 ...the resulting blast wave would produce a sudden burst of tachyons... 00:32:15.767 --> 00:32:20.729 ...particles which travel backward through what you perceive as time... 00:32:21.356 --> 00:32:24.691 ...therefore obscuring my vision of the present. 00:32:25.526 --> 00:32:26.902 I must return to my work. 00:32:27.070 --> 00:32:28.195 RORSCHACH: Wait a minute. 00:32:28.363 --> 00:32:30.864 What if that's why someone wants us out of the way? 00:32:31.032 --> 00:32:33.283 So we can't do anything to stop it? 00:32:33.451 --> 00:32:35.285 Goodbye, Rorschach. 00:32:35.453 --> 00:32:37.704 RORSCHACH: Took a lot of effort to get in here to see you. 00:32:37.872 --> 00:32:39.206 I'm not leaving-- 00:32:40.500 --> 00:32:42.834 --till I've had my say. 00:32:50.343 --> 00:32:53.261 Seems like there's a lot of things you don't tell me these days. 00:32:53.429 --> 00:32:56.139 I didn't wanna worry you prematurely. 00:32:56.599 --> 00:33:00.727 If Adrian and I can solve the energy crisis, war may be averted. 00:33:00.895 --> 00:33:02.980 LAURIE: But you always say time is simultaneous. 00:33:03.690 --> 00:33:06.566 If that's true, then how can you change the future? 00:33:06.734 --> 00:33:11.738 If only you could perceive time as I do. 00:33:11.906 --> 00:33:13.156 Please let me show you. 00:33:19.122 --> 00:33:24.084 Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it! 00:33:24.252 --> 00:33:27.295 It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about? 00:33:27.463 --> 00:33:29.923 I'm putting food on the table for you and your child. 00:33:30.091 --> 00:33:32.843 Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life. 00:33:33.011 --> 00:33:37.180 -It was a mistake. One time. -Man tries to rape you-- 00:33:37.473 --> 00:33:38.849 Stop! 00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:41.101 Your mind goes to dark places... 00:33:41.269 --> 00:33:43.603 ...and you wonder why I keep the worst from you. 00:33:47.525 --> 00:33:50.944 -Say hello to Dan for me. -What? 00:33:52.739 --> 00:33:55.532 You wanna ask me to go to dinner with you... 00:33:57.243 --> 00:33:59.411 ...like we used to... 00:34:00.830 --> 00:34:01.955 ...but you won't. 00:34:02.749 --> 00:34:05.000 You know I can't. 00:34:07.628 --> 00:34:09.921 So you'll call Dan... 00:34:10.339 --> 00:34:12.549 ...which is only natural. 00:34:12.884 --> 00:34:15.469 You deserve the comfort of an old friend. 00:34:49.796 --> 00:34:51.338 LAURIE: Dan Dreiberg's table. 00:35:12.485 --> 00:35:16.238 DAN: Did you know that he and H.J. were--? I had no idea. 00:35:16.739 --> 00:35:19.825 You remember that crazy guy? What'd he call himself? 00:35:19.992 --> 00:35:21.493 Captain Carnage. 00:35:21.661 --> 00:35:24.871 Used to pretend he was a supervillain just so he could get beat up? 00:35:25.039 --> 00:35:27.415 Yeah, he tried that on me once. I just walked away. 00:35:27.583 --> 00:35:30.627 He starts following me down the street in broad daylight... 00:35:30.795 --> 00:35:33.588 ...yelling, "Punish me! Punish me!" 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:36.383 I'm just saying, "No, get lost." 00:35:37.510 --> 00:35:39.970 God, whatever happened to him? 00:35:40.138 --> 00:35:42.305 Oh. Um.... He pulled that on Rorschach... 00:35:42.473 --> 00:35:44.891 ...and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft. 00:35:51.357 --> 00:35:53.733 Oh, my God. That's not even funny. 00:35:54.443 --> 00:35:56.945 -It's a little funny. -Yep. 00:35:58.865 --> 00:36:00.824 WOMAN: I'm glad I ordered the four-legged chicken. 00:36:00.992 --> 00:36:02.951 It's really good to see you again. 00:36:04.203 --> 00:36:05.745 It's great seeing you too. 00:36:06.539 --> 00:36:09.082 Why'd we do it, Dan? Dress up like that? 00:36:10.209 --> 00:36:13.545 -No one else would. -Yeah, but do you remember my costume? 00:36:13.713 --> 00:36:16.798 All that tight latex? I mean, it was awful. 00:36:16.966 --> 00:36:19.926 Uh.... Yeah, yeah, awful. 00:36:20.094 --> 00:36:22.554 But didn't wanna disappoint Mother. 00:36:22.722 --> 00:36:26.725 Wanted her little girl to be just like her and fight bad guys. 00:36:27.393 --> 00:36:30.979 I think the Keene Act was the best thing that ever happened to us. 00:36:32.064 --> 00:36:34.441 Well, we'll live longer anyway. 00:36:37.737 --> 00:36:39.279 What? 00:36:40.239 --> 00:36:44.743 Jon thinks, unless he can do something about it... 00:36:45.578 --> 00:36:47.621 ...that there's gonna be nuclear war. 00:36:48.080 --> 00:36:49.581 Soon. 00:36:50.458 --> 00:36:53.793 But I don't know what to think. I mean, it's all... 00:36:53.961 --> 00:36:57.005 ...quantum mechanics and parallel realities with him. 00:36:57.173 --> 00:36:59.966 I never even know what universe he's actually seeing. 00:37:01.260 --> 00:37:04.387 He just keeps getting further away from me. 00:37:05.097 --> 00:37:06.765 Everyone. 00:37:07.850 --> 00:37:10.518 I can't even tell if he actually cares about me anymore... 00:37:10.686 --> 00:37:12.729 ...or if he's just pretending. 00:37:13.439 --> 00:37:16.358 If he's pretending, it means he cares. 00:37:21.113 --> 00:37:23.114 Hold on, I'll get the door. 00:37:24.450 --> 00:37:26.243 Thanks, Dan. 00:37:26.619 --> 00:37:28.662 -Got it? -Yeah. 00:37:34.043 --> 00:37:37.045 You always get a government escort to dinner? 00:37:37.755 --> 00:37:41.841 They're making sure I don't do anything to upset the country's most powerful weapon. 00:37:43.594 --> 00:37:44.844 I'm sorry. 00:37:45.012 --> 00:37:48.890 I invite you out to dinner to catch up and have a few laughs... 00:37:49.267 --> 00:37:52.644 ...but there don't seem to be many laughs around these days. 00:37:52.812 --> 00:37:56.606 What do you expect? The Comedian's dead. 00:39:36.415 --> 00:39:38.458 [VOMITING] 00:39:40.127 --> 00:39:43.713 Laurie? Is that you? 00:39:46.425 --> 00:39:49.386 Thought you'd be used to traveling that way by now. 00:39:50.054 --> 00:39:54.057 Well, I'm not. I hate it when Jon teleports me. 00:39:54.225 --> 00:39:57.102 Well, it beats flying coach. 00:39:57.478 --> 00:39:59.479 Margarita? 00:39:59.688 --> 00:40:01.856 Mother, it's 2:00 in the afternoon. 00:40:02.024 --> 00:40:03.983 [CHUCKLES] 00:40:04.568 --> 00:40:06.027 Mm. 00:40:06.695 --> 00:40:08.988 Remember that guy that writes me letters? 00:40:09.365 --> 00:40:12.659 He sent me an item of memorabilia. It's a Tijuana bible. 00:40:12.827 --> 00:40:16.996 This little eight-page porno comic they did in the '30s and '40s. 00:40:17.164 --> 00:40:21.209 -He sent you this? -Sure. They're very valuable, like antiques. 00:40:22.002 --> 00:40:23.711 Mother, this is gross. 00:40:23.879 --> 00:40:26.172 I think it's kind of flattering. 00:40:26.340 --> 00:40:28.591 Why do you always call me Mother when you're mad? 00:40:29.969 --> 00:40:34.013 I know why you're here. I can still read, you know. 00:40:34.807 --> 00:40:37.016 I saw it in the paper. 00:40:37.685 --> 00:40:40.603 Eddie Blake's funeral is today. 00:40:42.398 --> 00:40:45.400 Finally got his punchline, I guess. 00:40:45.860 --> 00:40:48.695 -Poor Eddie. -Poor Eddie? After what he did to you? 00:40:49.405 --> 00:40:50.947 Oh, Laurie, you're still young. 00:40:51.699 --> 00:40:53.658 You don't know. 00:40:53.826 --> 00:40:55.577 Things change. 00:40:56.412 --> 00:40:59.205 What happened happened 40 years ago. 00:40:59.373 --> 00:41:02.625 I'm 67 years old. 00:41:02.793 --> 00:41:07.005 Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. 00:41:07.840 --> 00:41:10.008 But the past... 00:41:10.509 --> 00:41:13.511 ...even the grimy parts of it... 00:41:14.054 --> 00:41:16.681 ...keep on getting brighter. 00:41:22.188 --> 00:41:25.023 I've got spots in my eyes. 00:41:26.734 --> 00:41:28.318 [SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY] 00:41:28.486 --> 00:41:31.154 Stop it, Eddie. 00:41:32.114 --> 00:41:35.492 -Thank you, Weegee. -Thank you, Mr. Owl. 00:41:36.702 --> 00:41:39.913 Tomorrow, 3:00, my studio. 00:41:40.080 --> 00:41:43.249 -Little place on 21st. -Sounds good. 00:41:43.417 --> 00:41:48.004 SALLY: Wow, a real photo session. Wonder how my hair will look? 00:41:50.299 --> 00:41:53.510 Oh, go ahead. I'll be there in five. 00:42:09.985 --> 00:42:11.027 Eddie. 00:42:12.112 --> 00:42:16.157 What the hell are you doing here? You knew I was changing. 00:42:16.325 --> 00:42:17.951 Sure I did. 00:42:19.578 --> 00:42:21.162 Come on, baby. 00:42:21.622 --> 00:42:23.623 I know what you need. 00:42:23.791 --> 00:42:27.835 You gotta have some kind of reason for dressing in an outfit like this. 00:42:28.003 --> 00:42:30.296 I said no, Eddie. 00:42:30.965 --> 00:42:35.843 -No spelled Y-E-S. -No spelled N-O. 00:42:36.011 --> 00:42:39.472 -All right? -Come on, sweetheart. 00:42:43.394 --> 00:42:44.978 Eddie.... 00:42:48.190 --> 00:42:50.066 [GRUNTING] 00:42:53.821 --> 00:42:55.822 [EDDIE LAUGHS] 00:43:25.853 --> 00:43:28.563 You little bastard. 00:43:35.195 --> 00:43:36.195 This what you like? 00:43:36.363 --> 00:43:38.865 -This what makes you hot? -What? 00:43:49.376 --> 00:43:52.545 Things are tough all over, cupcake. 00:43:52.713 --> 00:43:56.841 It rains on the just and the unjust alike. 00:43:57.009 --> 00:44:00.845 The Comedian was a little bit of both. 00:44:02.306 --> 00:44:05.683 And he always thought he'd get the last laugh. 00:44:06.226 --> 00:44:09.270 MAN: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts. 00:44:09.897 --> 00:44:13.232 Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers... 00:44:13.400 --> 00:44:17.987 ...but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty... 00:44:18.155 --> 00:44:21.240 ...O holy and merciful savior. 00:44:21.909 --> 00:44:24.619 Thou most worthy judge eternal. 00:44:24.787 --> 00:44:28.122 Suffer us not at our last hour for any-- 00:45:55.085 --> 00:45:57.503 EDDIE: Fireworks. You gotta be kidding me. 00:45:57.671 --> 00:46:02.425 You know, you'd think this goddamn country had had enough fireworks. 00:46:03.343 --> 00:46:05.928 You know, if we'd lost here in Vietnam... 00:46:06.096 --> 00:46:11.058 ...I think it might have driven us crazy. You know, as a country. 00:46:11.852 --> 00:46:15.521 But we didn't, thanks to you. 00:46:17.524 --> 00:46:19.442 You sound bitter. 00:46:19.610 --> 00:46:21.277 Me? Bitter? 00:46:21.445 --> 00:46:24.530 Fuck, no. I think it's hilarious. 00:46:26.366 --> 00:46:29.452 [JANIS JOPLIN'S "ME AND BOBBY McGEE" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] 00:46:30.871 --> 00:46:32.705 Oh, Jesus Christ. 00:46:32.873 --> 00:46:35.875 -Mr. Eddie? -Just what I fucking needed. 00:46:36.043 --> 00:46:41.088 The war is over now. We must talk about this baby. 00:46:41.882 --> 00:46:45.384 There's nothing to talk about. See, I'm leaving. 00:46:45.552 --> 00:46:46.886 I'm gonna forget about you... 00:46:47.054 --> 00:46:49.889 ...and your horrible, sweaty, little piece-of-shit country. 00:46:50.474 --> 00:46:51.641 Get the fuck out of here. 00:46:53.393 --> 00:46:55.228 -No. -Get the fuck out of here. 00:46:55.395 --> 00:46:56.771 You will remember. 00:46:58.565 --> 00:47:01.275 You will remember me and my country... 00:47:02.152 --> 00:47:03.778 ...forever! 00:47:06.406 --> 00:47:08.241 My face! 00:47:10.452 --> 00:47:11.619 Blake. Don't. 00:47:12.412 --> 00:47:13.746 Blake! 00:47:20.587 --> 00:47:23.089 She was pregnant... 00:47:24.383 --> 00:47:26.092 ...and you gunned her down. 00:47:26.260 --> 00:47:27.552 That's right... 00:47:27.719 --> 00:47:29.637 ...and you know what? You watched me. 00:47:29.805 --> 00:47:32.807 You could have turned the gun to steam, the bullets to mercury... 00:47:32.975 --> 00:47:36.602 ...the bottle into goddamn snowflakes, but you didn't, did you? 00:47:38.522 --> 00:47:41.357 You really don't give a damn about human beings. 00:47:42.526 --> 00:47:45.361 You're drifting out of touch, doc. 00:47:46.947 --> 00:47:49.115 God help us all. 00:47:51.118 --> 00:47:52.451 Medic! 00:47:59.293 --> 00:48:02.461 MAN: Most holy and merciful savior. 00:48:03.380 --> 00:48:08.301 He cometh up and is cut down, like a flower. 00:48:08.468 --> 00:48:12.638 In the midst of life, we are in death. 00:48:12.806 --> 00:48:17.143 Of whom may we seek succor, but of thee, O Lord? 00:48:21.523 --> 00:48:24.609 Welcome. We'll be starting shortly. 00:48:24.776 --> 00:48:26.861 We're waiting for one more. 00:48:37.664 --> 00:48:41.000 I told you, you wouldn't be the only one dressed up. 00:48:42.628 --> 00:48:44.003 Welcome, doctor. 00:48:44.463 --> 00:48:46.088 Now we can start. 00:48:46.256 --> 00:48:50.092 Thank you for coming. Acquaint yourselves with this map of high-crime areas. 00:48:51.470 --> 00:48:52.595 This is all bullshit. 00:48:53.388 --> 00:48:57.767 For a guy who calls himself the Comedian, I can never tell when you're joking. 00:48:57.935 --> 00:49:01.354 Watchmen. That's the real joke. 00:49:01.521 --> 00:49:04.315 It didn't work 15 years ago, and it ain't gonna work now... 00:49:04.483 --> 00:49:06.609 ...because you wanna play cowboys and Indians. 00:49:06.777 --> 00:49:09.153 Maybe we should agree on no drinking at meetings. 00:49:09.321 --> 00:49:10.780 [LAUGHS] 00:49:10.948 --> 00:49:14.700 Rorschach and I have made headway on the gang problem by working together. 00:49:14.868 --> 00:49:19.205 A group this size seems like a publicity stunt. I'm not in it for the ink. 00:49:19.373 --> 00:49:21.165 ADRIAN: We can do so much more. 00:49:21.333 --> 00:49:23.542 We can save this world... 00:49:23.710 --> 00:49:24.961 [EDDIE CHUCKLES] 00:49:25.128 --> 00:49:28.297 -...with the right leadership. -Yeah. 00:49:30.676 --> 00:49:32.426 And that'd be you, right, Ozzy? 00:49:32.594 --> 00:49:35.388 I mean, hell, you're the smartest man on the planet. 00:49:35.555 --> 00:49:38.224 It doesn't take a genius to see the world has problems. 00:49:38.558 --> 00:49:42.228 But it takes a room of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle. 00:49:42.729 --> 00:49:43.896 You people. 00:49:44.064 --> 00:49:47.566 You hear Moloch's back in town, get your panties all in a bunch. 00:49:47.734 --> 00:49:50.569 -You think catching him matters? -Justice matters. 00:49:50.737 --> 00:49:51.946 [CHUCKLES] 00:49:52.114 --> 00:49:53.948 Justice. 00:49:54.574 --> 00:49:56.575 Justice is coming to all of us. 00:49:56.743 --> 00:49:58.244 No matter what the fuck we do. 00:49:58.954 --> 00:50:02.915 You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time. 00:50:03.083 --> 00:50:07.920 Now we finally have the power to finish the job. 00:50:08.130 --> 00:50:11.757 Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust. 00:50:14.928 --> 00:50:16.929 Then Ozymandias here... 00:50:17.931 --> 00:50:20.224 ...will be the smartest man on the cinder. 00:50:29.109 --> 00:50:31.193 MAN: For as much as it hath pleased... 00:50:32.070 --> 00:50:36.323 ...almighty God to take onto himself the soul of our dear departed brother... 00:50:37.743 --> 00:50:41.787 ...let us therefore commit his body to the ground. 00:50:41.955 --> 00:50:45.458 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes.... 00:50:52.507 --> 00:50:55.134 [CHATTERING] 00:50:55.302 --> 00:50:57.094 [GRUNTS] 00:51:09.191 --> 00:51:15.488 Watchmen! Police! Police to protect the people! 00:51:19.993 --> 00:51:24.038 DAN: Attention, citizens. We are trying to maintain order. 00:51:24.206 --> 00:51:28.667 You must clear the streets until the police strike is over. 00:51:28.835 --> 00:51:32.004 If you could-- Please, there's no need for violence. 00:51:32.964 --> 00:51:37.051 We are trying to retain order on the streets until the police strike is over. 00:51:37.219 --> 00:51:39.428 Crawl back in your holes before you get hurt. 00:51:39.638 --> 00:51:41.764 -I got rubber bullets. MAN 1: I want my rights! 00:51:41.932 --> 00:51:44.558 -You are not the law! MAN 2: We want regular cops! 00:51:44.726 --> 00:51:46.018 No more vigilantes! 00:51:46.186 --> 00:51:49.730 My son's a police officer, you fucking faggots! 00:51:51.358 --> 00:51:54.151 Goddamn it. All right. That's how you wanna do it? 00:52:05.872 --> 00:52:07.540 There's no need for violence. 00:52:07.707 --> 00:52:10.876 Fuck you. Fuck you! 00:52:17.092 --> 00:52:18.843 Oh, this is getting heavy. 00:52:43.243 --> 00:52:46.662 Goddamn, I love working on American soil, Dan. 00:52:46.830 --> 00:52:49.248 Ain't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein. 00:52:49.416 --> 00:52:51.083 How long can we keep this up? 00:52:51.251 --> 00:52:54.837 Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks. 00:52:55.005 --> 00:52:56.255 Our days are numbered. 00:52:56.423 --> 00:53:00.718 Until then, it's like you always say: We're society's only protection. 00:53:00.886 --> 00:53:05.431 -From what? -Are you kidding me? From themselves. 00:53:05.599 --> 00:53:07.808 -Son of a bitch. DAN: No, Comedian, wait! 00:53:07.976 --> 00:53:09.185 [MAN GRUNTS] 00:53:09.352 --> 00:53:11.270 Get your stinking hands off me. 00:53:13.440 --> 00:53:15.900 What the hell happened to us? 00:53:20.197 --> 00:53:22.531 What happened to the American dream? 00:53:23.366 --> 00:53:26.202 What happened to the American dream? 00:53:26.369 --> 00:53:28.495 It came true! 00:53:28.663 --> 00:53:30.706 You're looking at it. 00:55:33.163 --> 00:55:34.621 Edgar William Jacobi. 00:55:34.789 --> 00:55:38.625 Also known as Edgar William Vaughn. Also known as Moloch. 00:55:41.046 --> 00:55:42.504 [GROANING] 00:55:42.672 --> 00:55:44.923 What are you talking about? 00:55:45.884 --> 00:55:47.301 I'm a retired businessman-- 00:55:47.469 --> 00:55:49.094 [GROANS] 00:55:49.596 --> 00:55:52.431 Lie again, Moloch, I break another finger. 00:55:52.599 --> 00:55:54.641 I did my time. 00:55:54.809 --> 00:55:57.603 I'm not Moloch anymore. 00:55:58.229 --> 00:56:02.649 -What do you want from me? -Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why? 00:56:02.817 --> 00:56:06.278 I just felt I should... 00:56:07.447 --> 00:56:10.366 ...pay my respects to the Comedian. 00:56:12.827 --> 00:56:17.581 -How'd you know he was the Comedian? -He broke in here. A week ago. 00:56:17.749 --> 00:56:20.084 He had his mask off. 00:56:20.543 --> 00:56:24.046 -He was drunk. -Enemies. For decades. 00:56:24.214 --> 00:56:27.257 -Why should he visit you? -I don't know. 00:56:27.425 --> 00:56:30.344 I woke up in my bedroom and there he was. 00:56:30.512 --> 00:56:32.471 He was upset. 00:56:33.056 --> 00:56:34.598 He was crying. 00:56:35.100 --> 00:56:37.393 Crying? The Comedian? 00:56:37.560 --> 00:56:40.562 EDGAR: He was babbling, not making any sense. 00:56:40.730 --> 00:56:43.732 I was pissing in my pants. 00:56:43.900 --> 00:56:46.193 I thought he was gonna kill me. 00:56:46.361 --> 00:56:48.654 RORSCHACH: What did he say? 00:56:49.948 --> 00:56:51.615 It's a joke. 00:56:52.325 --> 00:56:54.910 It's all a fucking joke. 00:56:56.955 --> 00:56:59.331 You know, I thought I knew how it was. 00:56:59.499 --> 00:57:02.543 I thought I knew how the world was. 00:57:03.670 --> 00:57:06.338 I've done some bad things. 00:57:07.006 --> 00:57:10.634 I did bad things to women. I shot kids. 00:57:10.802 --> 00:57:13.053 In 'Nam, you know. 00:57:13.638 --> 00:57:15.055 But that was fucking war. 00:57:16.015 --> 00:57:17.349 This.... 00:57:18.017 --> 00:57:20.686 I never done anything like this. 00:57:23.356 --> 00:57:26.316 God, here I am... 00:57:26.484 --> 00:57:28.569 ...spilling my guts... 00:57:29.028 --> 00:57:30.529 ...to one of my archenemies. 00:57:32.699 --> 00:57:35.033 But the truth is... 00:57:35.660 --> 00:57:40.247 ...you're the closest thing to a friend I got. What the fuck does that say? 00:57:44.169 --> 00:57:46.378 Shit. 00:57:47.881 --> 00:57:49.548 And your name... 00:57:49.716 --> 00:57:52.259 ...your name was on the list... 00:57:52.469 --> 00:57:56.763 ...along with Janey, you know, whatever the fuck her name is. 00:57:56.931 --> 00:57:59.391 Manhattan's old girl. 00:58:03.563 --> 00:58:05.731 Mother, forgive me. 00:58:06.900 --> 00:58:08.567 EDGAR: And then he left. 00:58:09.569 --> 00:58:14.198 I swear I don't know what the hell he was talking about. 00:58:20.914 --> 00:58:22.915 Funny story. 00:58:23.374 --> 00:58:25.709 Sounds unbelievable. 00:58:26.461 --> 00:58:28.420 Probably true. 00:58:28.588 --> 00:58:31.256 So that's it? 00:58:31.424 --> 00:58:35.594 -I'm clean? -You? 00:58:36.763 --> 00:58:38.096 Clean? 00:58:43.061 --> 00:58:44.144 Amygdalin. 00:58:44.312 --> 00:58:47.022 This phony medication made from apricot pits. 00:58:47.190 --> 00:58:50.442 -It's illegal. -Come on. 00:58:52.278 --> 00:58:54.613 Please don't confiscate that. 00:58:55.448 --> 00:58:58.283 I'm trying anything. 00:58:59.744 --> 00:59:01.245 I have cancer. 00:59:02.247 --> 00:59:03.580 What kind of cancer? 00:59:05.458 --> 00:59:08.502 You know the kind you eventually get better from? 00:59:10.421 --> 00:59:12.422 That ain't the kind I got. 00:59:15.635 --> 00:59:19.638 Rorschach's journal. October 16th. 00:59:19.806 --> 00:59:22.641 Want some of this? Fifty bucks, I'll suck your cock. 00:59:22.809 --> 00:59:25.602 -Thought about Moloch's story. -Come on. 00:59:25.770 --> 00:59:27.688 Could all be lies. 00:59:27.855 --> 00:59:32.150 A revenge scheme planned during his years behind bars. 00:59:32.318 --> 00:59:37.447 Fuck you. I make more in a week than you make in a year, you fucking homo. 00:59:37.615 --> 00:59:39.199 But if it's true... 00:59:39.367 --> 00:59:41.660 ...what could have possibly scared the Comedian... 00:59:41.828 --> 00:59:43.662 ...enough to cry in front of Moloch? 00:59:45.039 --> 00:59:46.081 What was it he saw? 00:59:47.834 --> 00:59:49.501 And that list he mentioned. 00:59:53.673 --> 00:59:57.092 Edward Blake. The Comedian. 00:59:57.260 --> 00:59:59.678 Born 1918. 00:59:59.846 --> 01:00:01.847 Buried in the rain. 01:00:02.015 --> 01:00:03.890 Murdered. 01:00:04.058 --> 01:00:08.103 Is that what happens to us? No time for friends? 01:00:09.022 --> 01:00:12.190 Only our enemies leave roses. 01:00:12.525 --> 01:00:15.402 Violent lives ending violently. 01:00:17.363 --> 01:00:22.451 Blake understood. Humans are savage in nature. 01:00:22.619 --> 01:00:25.329 No matter how much you try to dress it up... 01:00:25.496 --> 01:00:27.623 ...to disguise it... 01:00:27.790 --> 01:00:30.917 ...Blake saw society's true face. 01:00:31.085 --> 01:00:35.714 Chose to be a parody of it. A joke. 01:00:35.882 --> 01:00:37.549 I heard joke once. 01:00:38.718 --> 01:00:42.554 Man goes to doctor, says he's depressed. 01:00:42.722 --> 01:00:46.558 Life seems harsh and cruel. 01:00:46.726 --> 01:00:50.604 Says he feels all alone in threatening world. 01:00:50.772 --> 01:00:53.565 Doctor says treatment is simple. 01:00:53.983 --> 01:00:58.403 "The great clown Pagliacci is in town. Go see him. 01:00:58.571 --> 01:01:00.572 That should pick you up." 01:01:01.074 --> 01:01:04.034 Man bursts into tears. 01:01:04.202 --> 01:01:08.538 "But doctor," he says. "I am Pagliacci." 01:01:10.541 --> 01:01:12.250 Good joke. 01:01:12.543 --> 01:01:14.419 Everybody laugh. 01:01:14.587 --> 01:01:16.755 Roll on snare drum. 01:01:17.256 --> 01:01:18.757 Curtains. 01:01:21.094 --> 01:01:22.511 HOLLIS: Hey, Bernie. BERNIE: Yeah? 01:01:22.679 --> 01:01:24.763 HOLLIS: Can I get a Time magazine from you there? 01:01:24.931 --> 01:01:27.099 BERNIE: Sure. -How much you want for it now? 01:01:27.266 --> 01:01:28.517 For you, 2 bucks. 01:01:28.685 --> 01:01:31.269 Two bucks. Going up, huh? 01:01:31.437 --> 01:01:33.939 There you go. Thanks. 01:01:34.107 --> 01:01:35.732 Hey, I like your book. 01:01:36.192 --> 01:01:39.653 Hey, thanks, Bernie. I appreciate it. 01:02:17.233 --> 01:02:19.609 [CAWING] 01:02:24.490 --> 01:02:26.241 [GRUNTS AND COUGHS] 01:02:29.662 --> 01:02:35.000 MARINER: When I awoke, I found myself upon a dismal beachhead... 01:02:35.334 --> 01:02:36.543 ...with my men. 01:02:37.336 --> 01:02:40.046 Pieces of my men. 01:02:46.345 --> 01:02:49.306 It was all I could do for her... 01:02:49.474 --> 01:02:52.809 ...though she had borne me through seas of blood. 01:02:53.019 --> 01:02:57.355 Her damp embrace had prevented me from drifting beyond reach. 01:02:57.523 --> 01:03:02.360 Yet this small comfort was all I could offer. 01:03:12.205 --> 01:03:14.331 One of my crew lay ahead. 01:03:14.499 --> 01:03:17.501 Birds were eating his thoughts and memories. 01:03:17.668 --> 01:03:18.919 Away. Yah! 01:03:19.086 --> 01:03:20.712 Yah! Get away. 01:03:23.382 --> 01:03:26.343 In hell, at least the gulls are contented. 01:03:28.262 --> 01:03:32.015 For my part, I begged that they should take my eyes. 01:03:32.183 --> 01:03:35.310 Thus sparing me future horrors. 01:03:36.938 --> 01:03:38.647 [BREATHING HEAVILY] 01:03:38.940 --> 01:03:41.233 What time do you have to be at your interview? 01:03:41.400 --> 01:03:43.026 JON: Don't worry. 01:03:43.653 --> 01:03:46.154 We've got plenty of time. 01:03:46.322 --> 01:03:48.865 [BILLIE HOLIDAY'S "YOU'RE MY THRILL" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] 01:03:53.204 --> 01:03:55.413 Your finger's like licking a battery. 01:04:15.726 --> 01:04:18.478 God, Jon, stop. What are you doing? 01:04:18.646 --> 01:04:19.980 Please don't be upset. 01:04:20.147 --> 01:04:23.817 I always thought you liked this. 01:04:23.985 --> 01:04:25.402 LAURIE: No. 01:04:26.904 --> 01:04:29.865 I don't-- No. 01:04:30.700 --> 01:04:33.535 I don't want that. 01:04:33.786 --> 01:04:36.955 I don't know what stimulates you anymore. 01:04:39.125 --> 01:04:42.752 Look, I know you were just trying-- 01:04:44.547 --> 01:04:47.007 Are you working in here while we're in bed together? 01:04:47.174 --> 01:04:50.635 My work with Adrian is at a critical stage right now. 01:04:51.095 --> 01:04:54.264 -I didn't think it was necessary to-- -To what? 01:04:54.432 --> 01:04:57.976 To what? To tell me which one of you is giving me a pity fuck? 01:05:07.111 --> 01:05:09.529 My attention was completely focused on you. 01:05:10.156 --> 01:05:12.407 If you think there's a problem with my attitude... 01:05:12.575 --> 01:05:14.826 ...I am prepared to discuss it. 01:05:16.579 --> 01:05:20.332 You know how everything in this world fits together except people. 01:05:20.499 --> 01:05:24.961 What am I to you? Another puzzle to be solved? 01:05:25.129 --> 01:05:28.840 Have your men stand back. I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now. 01:05:29.675 --> 01:05:32.594 You're my only remaining link to the world. 01:05:40.353 --> 01:05:42.979 I don't want that responsibility anymore. 01:05:48.861 --> 01:05:50.987 He's all yours. 01:05:57.036 --> 01:05:59.371 ADRIAN: Don't worry, Jon. She'll be back. 01:06:00.873 --> 01:06:03.041 No, she won't. 01:06:17.139 --> 01:06:21.726 MAN [ON TV]: He's been called many things: Hero, weapon... 01:06:22.228 --> 01:06:24.688 ...linchpin of our national security... 01:06:24.855 --> 01:06:29.401 ...deterrent to nuclear war, or a man to end worlds. 01:06:29.735 --> 01:06:32.278 Later tonight, Dr. Manhattan... 01:06:32.446 --> 01:06:37.409 ...will answer my questions and yours in an exclusive interview... 01:06:37.576 --> 01:06:42.455 ...brought to you commercial-free by Veidt Enterprises. 01:06:42.623 --> 01:06:44.040 [KNOCKING] 01:06:44.208 --> 01:06:46.710 [NAT KING COLE'S "UNFORGETTABLE" PLAYS ON TV] 01:06:57.304 --> 01:06:58.596 Who is it? 01:06:58.764 --> 01:07:00.724 LAURIE: It's Laurie. 01:07:11.610 --> 01:07:14.863 Sorry. I just had this new lock installed. 01:07:15.031 --> 01:07:17.490 I didn't know where else to go. 01:07:17.658 --> 01:07:20.827 Oh, it's okay. Come in. 01:07:28.294 --> 01:07:29.294 What's wrong? 01:07:30.629 --> 01:07:32.255 I left Jon. 01:07:32.965 --> 01:07:35.258 Oh, God. 01:07:35.718 --> 01:07:37.469 I'm so sorry. 01:07:37.636 --> 01:07:40.472 I don't know why I'm here. I just.... 01:07:41.974 --> 01:07:44.476 I don't know anybody else. 01:07:45.311 --> 01:07:48.605 I don't know anybody except for goddamn superheroes. 01:07:49.148 --> 01:07:50.815 That's okay. 01:07:50.983 --> 01:07:53.276 You probably just had an argument or something. 01:07:53.444 --> 01:07:54.819 No, Dan. 01:07:55.321 --> 01:07:58.031 You don't know what it's been like living with him. 01:07:58.199 --> 01:08:01.326 The way he looks at things now, it's like he doesn't... 01:08:01.494 --> 01:08:03.995 ...remember what they are. 01:08:04.330 --> 01:08:06.498 It's like this world, this real world... 01:08:06.665 --> 01:08:10.460 ...to him, it's like walking through mist. 01:08:10.628 --> 01:08:14.172 And people are just shadows. 01:08:15.758 --> 01:08:18.259 Shadows in a fog. 01:08:19.345 --> 01:08:22.722 God, how did everything get so tangled up? 01:08:24.350 --> 01:08:26.351 I'm sorry, Dan. 01:08:27.061 --> 01:08:30.063 This is twice now I've ruined your evening. 01:08:30.523 --> 01:08:33.525 Come on. I'm glad you came over. 01:08:33.692 --> 01:08:37.195 I was just gonna see Hollis for our weekly beer session. 01:08:37.363 --> 01:08:39.364 You're more than welcome to join. 01:08:40.533 --> 01:08:43.868 In fact, I insist. 01:09:12.398 --> 01:09:15.233 [WOMAN GASPING] 01:09:16.360 --> 01:09:19.154 Terrific. Dr. Manhattan arrives and no one thinks to tell me. 01:09:19.321 --> 01:09:21.239 WOMAN: He just-- -We don't have time for makeup. 01:09:21.407 --> 01:09:23.700 That blue is too light for television. 01:09:26.453 --> 01:09:28.454 Is that dark enough? 01:09:30.249 --> 01:09:33.168 PRODUCER: Yeah, that's dark enough. 01:09:33.335 --> 01:09:37.005 BERNIE: The weight of the world's on him, but does he quit? No. 01:09:37.173 --> 01:09:39.424 News vendors always cope. They're the-- 01:09:39.592 --> 01:09:43.178 Oh, God, here comes that homeless guy again. 01:09:43.596 --> 01:09:46.431 I told you, this month's issue still hasn't arrived yet. 01:09:46.599 --> 01:09:50.268 Why do you care about that right-wing rag? Those bastards don't give a damn. 01:09:50.436 --> 01:09:51.436 [HORN HONKS] 01:09:51.604 --> 01:09:53.938 Hold up. Here they come. 01:09:57.693 --> 01:10:00.236 -Seymour. -Bernie, how's tricks? 01:10:00.404 --> 01:10:01.446 BERNIE: Fine, fine. 01:10:01.614 --> 01:10:04.908 See this guy behind me? Been bugging me all week. 01:10:07.786 --> 01:10:11.998 Maybe we should get a cab. These are bad neighborhoods. 01:10:12.166 --> 01:10:15.793 Yeah, well, I'm in a bad mood. 01:10:28.390 --> 01:10:30.642 MAN 1: Girl. MAN 2: What we got here? 01:10:30.809 --> 01:10:33.686 Here's a list of Pentagon-approved no-go areas. 01:10:33.854 --> 01:10:36.648 Afghanistan will obviously come up, but just play it cool... 01:10:36.815 --> 01:10:39.192 ...and try not to get into any tight corners. 01:10:39.360 --> 01:10:43.071 --a renowned nuclear physicist, who, through a terrible accident... 01:10:43.239 --> 01:10:48.993 ...was gifted with extraordinary powers, capable of bending matter to his will. 01:10:49.161 --> 01:10:53.456 Today, the world knows him as Dr. Manhattan. 01:10:53.624 --> 01:10:54.958 Welcome. 01:10:55.125 --> 01:10:57.669 [AUDIENCE APPLAUDING] 01:10:59.964 --> 01:11:01.172 JON: Thank you. 01:11:01.340 --> 01:11:03.299 MAN 3: That's right. 01:11:09.848 --> 01:11:12.642 Ms. Black, you have the first question. 01:11:12.810 --> 01:11:14.227 Dr. Manhattan, as you know... 01:11:14.395 --> 01:11:17.105 ...the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face... 01:11:17.273 --> 01:11:20.858 ...analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction... 01:11:21.193 --> 01:11:24.195 ...midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. 01:11:24.363 --> 01:11:27.532 As of now, it stands at four minutes to midnight. 01:11:28.158 --> 01:11:30.618 Would you agree that we're that close to annihilation? 01:11:31.036 --> 01:11:33.371 My father was a watchmaker. 01:11:34.206 --> 01:11:38.543 He abandoned it when Einstein discovered that time is relative. 01:11:39.712 --> 01:11:41.713 I would only agree that a symbolic clock... 01:11:41.880 --> 01:11:43.881 ...is as nourishing to the intellect... 01:11:44.049 --> 01:11:47.302 ...as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man. 01:11:49.638 --> 01:11:51.389 So you're saying there is no danger. 01:11:51.557 --> 01:11:55.560 JON: Even in a world without nuclear weapons, there would still be danger. 01:12:00.482 --> 01:12:03.401 MAN: And would you say, as so many claim... 01:12:03.569 --> 01:12:05.320 ...that you are, in fact, a god... 01:12:05.487 --> 01:12:08.323 ...given you see the past and future simultaneously? 01:12:08.490 --> 01:12:10.783 I can only see my own past... 01:12:11.243 --> 01:12:15.121 ...my own future. I am not omniscient. 01:12:15.748 --> 01:12:17.081 KOPPEL: Doug Roth, your question? 01:12:17.249 --> 01:12:20.001 Speaking of your past, Dr. Manhattan... 01:12:20.169 --> 01:12:22.920 ...do you remember a man named Wally Weaver? 01:12:23.088 --> 01:12:28.259 Yes. We were both physicists together at the Gila Flats Research Base. 01:12:28.761 --> 01:12:30.303 He died of cancer. 01:12:31.180 --> 01:12:33.431 -He was a good man. ROTH: How about Edgar Jacobi... 01:12:33.599 --> 01:12:36.517 ...also known as the supervillain Moloch? 01:12:37.478 --> 01:12:41.606 You encountered him several times in the '60s: battles, conflicts. 01:12:41.774 --> 01:12:44.275 Did you know that he has cancer as well? 01:12:45.194 --> 01:12:46.444 I wasn't told. 01:12:46.612 --> 01:12:48.821 ROTH: And what about General Anthony Randolph? 01:12:48.989 --> 01:12:52.450 He was your handler when you first started working for the government. 01:12:52.826 --> 01:12:53.868 Cancer. 01:12:54.036 --> 01:12:56.704 You're suggesting I was the cause. 01:12:57.122 --> 01:13:00.124 ROTH: From where I'm standing, it's starting to look pretty conclusive. 01:13:00.292 --> 01:13:02.293 JON: Even if that's the case, it's irrelevant. 01:13:02.461 --> 01:13:05.296 A live human body and a deceased human body... 01:13:05.464 --> 01:13:07.548 ...have the same number of particles. 01:13:10.302 --> 01:13:12.178 Structurally, there's no difference. 01:13:13.305 --> 01:13:15.598 All right. Let's settle down, please. 01:13:21.480 --> 01:13:22.688 What about Janey Slater? 01:13:23.482 --> 01:13:25.817 You think it makes a difference to her? 01:13:26.860 --> 01:13:28.194 Janey? 01:13:28.529 --> 01:13:30.113 ROTH: Your ex-girlfriend? 01:13:30.280 --> 01:13:33.908 She was a physicist too. You saw each other for 11 years. 01:13:34.076 --> 01:13:35.618 Doug, one question at a time. 01:13:35.786 --> 01:13:39.163 She has cancer as well. Doctors have given her six months. 01:13:39.331 --> 01:13:41.165 Isn't that right, Miss Slater? 01:13:56.682 --> 01:13:58.474 You were the world to me, Jon. 01:13:59.059 --> 01:14:01.310 You were my whole life. 01:14:02.229 --> 01:14:04.856 Do you remember how many times you said you loved me? 01:14:05.023 --> 01:14:06.691 Janey, I wasn't told. 01:14:07.192 --> 01:14:12.530 I stuck by you after the accident. I gave you everything. 01:14:15.492 --> 01:14:17.410 [AUDIENCE MURMURING] 01:14:17.578 --> 01:14:19.245 This is how you repay me? 01:14:19.705 --> 01:14:24.584 -Janey, I wasn't told. I didn't know. -Damn you, Jon. Goddamn you. 01:14:24.751 --> 01:14:26.752 Janey, wait. 01:14:28.172 --> 01:14:30.590 -That's it. This interview is over. MAN: Get up there. 01:14:30.757 --> 01:14:33.134 Get those cameras off. Everybody back off. 01:14:33.302 --> 01:14:37.013 Everybody back off. I need some backup here. Leave him alone. 01:14:37.181 --> 01:14:43.269 Please, if everyone would just go away... 01:14:43.437 --> 01:14:46.355 ...and leave me alone.... 01:14:46.523 --> 01:14:47.899 Do you care to comment? 01:14:48.066 --> 01:14:51.110 I said, leave me alone! 01:15:04.708 --> 01:15:06.709 [BOTH PANTING] 01:15:16.762 --> 01:15:18.638 Jesus. 01:15:19.765 --> 01:15:21.349 Us... 01:15:22.267 --> 01:15:24.101 ...getting mugged. 01:15:26.438 --> 01:15:28.022 Let's go. 01:15:29.775 --> 01:15:31.776 [MEN GROANING] 01:15:33.779 --> 01:15:35.571 I'm shaking. 01:15:39.785 --> 01:15:41.536 You know what? 01:15:41.912 --> 01:15:45.414 I'm wiped. I'm just gonna call it a night. 01:15:45.582 --> 01:15:48.793 Oh, are you sure you don't wanna come by Hollis' with me... 01:15:48.961 --> 01:15:51.212 ...and shake off the adrenaline? 01:15:52.005 --> 01:15:55.132 LAURIE: I think I've had enough hero stuff for one night. 01:15:56.301 --> 01:15:58.636 It helped having you listen. 01:15:58.971 --> 01:16:00.680 DAN: Any time. 01:16:01.390 --> 01:16:03.307 LAURIE: Take care, Dan. 01:16:04.101 --> 01:16:06.394 It's a rough world out there. 01:16:07.854 --> 01:16:09.063 DAN: Be seeing you. 01:16:15.404 --> 01:16:16.737 MARINER: I thought of my family... 01:16:17.656 --> 01:16:19.949 ...my wife, my daughters. 01:16:20.117 --> 01:16:22.118 Vulnerable, unsuspecting. 01:16:22.828 --> 01:16:26.247 Awaiting my return, only to be met by damnation... 01:16:26.415 --> 01:16:28.833 ...bearing down upon them. 01:16:35.340 --> 01:16:36.424 Hey! 01:16:36.592 --> 01:16:38.050 Over here! 01:16:38.677 --> 01:16:40.177 Here! 01:16:46.018 --> 01:16:47.435 Ridley. 01:16:47.603 --> 01:16:48.853 [MARINER GRUNTS] 01:17:03.827 --> 01:17:05.077 A sail. 01:17:05.537 --> 01:17:08.039 Ridley had brought me a sail. 01:17:08.332 --> 01:17:11.459 Perhaps this could be my route back to Davidstown. 01:17:12.836 --> 01:17:17.048 Everything I loved, everything I lived for, depended on my reaching home... 01:17:17.215 --> 01:17:20.551 ...in advance of that terrible Freighter. 01:17:30.103 --> 01:17:32.647 The morning sun found me no less troubled. 01:17:34.316 --> 01:17:35.483 Further down the shore... 01:17:35.651 --> 01:17:39.153 ...some of my crew had become inflated with gas. 01:17:39.571 --> 01:17:41.030 Ugh! 01:17:44.618 --> 01:17:50.206 I shuddered at my own idea, attempting to banish this repulsive notion. 01:17:57.589 --> 01:18:01.926 Even in death, they sought to fulfill their duty... 01:18:02.094 --> 01:18:04.679 ...making our vessel more buoyant. 01:18:05.097 --> 01:18:08.182 And I would do my duty to them in returning them home. 01:18:09.893 --> 01:18:15.147 Rudely jarring my men from eternal rest, and laying them in the bed I prepared... 01:18:15.315 --> 01:18:19.777 ...I hoped my wife and daughters might be tucked in by gentler hands... 01:18:19.945 --> 01:18:21.654 ...when their turn came. 01:18:39.005 --> 01:18:41.382 We shall get home together, my friend. 01:18:44.344 --> 01:18:45.803 I waited for the tide. 01:18:46.638 --> 01:18:50.641 Then, embarking, headed east. 01:18:51.143 --> 01:18:53.811 East, across the night seas. 01:18:53.979 --> 01:18:58.441 East, borne on the bodies of murdered men. 01:18:59.359 --> 01:19:01.861 Hope can be a horrible thing. 01:19:04.865 --> 01:19:06.490 [THUNDER CRASHING] 01:19:13.165 --> 01:19:15.499 [WIND WHISTLING] 01:19:58.794 --> 01:20:00.002 [GROANS] 01:20:00.170 --> 01:20:02.171 [GULLS CAWING] 01:20:06.635 --> 01:20:10.930 With the dawn came the gulls looking for breakfast. 01:20:11.097 --> 01:20:12.223 Ridley. 01:20:15.435 --> 01:20:16.477 Get out. 01:20:22.651 --> 01:20:25.945 I was reminded that I, myself, had not eaten. 01:20:27.906 --> 01:20:32.034 I know it is unappetizing, but it is all we have. 01:20:37.582 --> 01:20:39.375 MAN: He's gone. 01:20:39.876 --> 01:20:41.335 -He's gone! BERNIE: Who's gone? 01:20:41.503 --> 01:20:43.587 -Dr. Manhattan. BERNIE: What? What'd you say? 01:20:43.755 --> 01:20:47.007 Dr. Manhattan's gone. He's left us. 01:20:47.175 --> 01:20:49.718 What? Gone where? 01:20:51.638 --> 01:20:52.972 [KNOCKING ON DOOR] 01:20:55.809 --> 01:20:56.934 You're late. 01:20:57.102 --> 01:21:00.229 Ah, I know. I know. You won't believe what happened. 01:21:00.397 --> 01:21:03.190 Dr. Manhattan just lost it on live TV. 01:21:03.358 --> 01:21:05.067 Wait, what? 01:21:05.235 --> 01:21:08.237 [PEOPLE CLAMORING ON TV] 01:21:10.615 --> 01:21:12.575 I was just with Laurie. She doesn't know. 01:21:13.368 --> 01:21:16.954 HOLLIS: She's gonna know soon enough. The whole world will know. 01:21:17.122 --> 01:21:19.874 I said, leave me alone! 01:21:29.718 --> 01:21:31.927 JON: I am looking at the stars. 01:21:32.429 --> 01:21:34.430 They're so far away... 01:21:34.848 --> 01:21:37.516 ...and their light takes so long to reach us... 01:21:40.270 --> 01:21:44.481 ...all we ever see of stars are their old photographs. 01:21:48.069 --> 01:21:51.906 It is July, 1959, and I am in love. 01:21:52.741 --> 01:21:54.408 MAN: That's great. 01:21:54.576 --> 01:21:56.201 -You can pick it up tomorrow. -Okay. 01:21:56.369 --> 01:21:58.120 -Seventy-five cents. -Okay, thank you. 01:21:58.288 --> 01:21:59.330 Thank you. 01:21:59.497 --> 01:22:03.667 Gosh, Jon, I wish he gave us a little notice. I'm sure I made a face. 01:22:03.835 --> 01:22:08.839 Oh, no, no. I'm sure that you'll look beautiful. 01:22:12.761 --> 01:22:15.095 Her name is Janey Slater. 01:22:15.931 --> 01:22:18.599 She is a physicist, like me. 01:22:19.851 --> 01:22:21.644 I am 30 years old. 01:22:26.358 --> 01:22:30.277 We were introduced by a good friend of mine from college, Wally Weaver. 01:22:34.449 --> 01:22:37.034 It is February 12th, 1981. 01:22:37.202 --> 01:22:40.955 Wally dies of cancer, of which they now say I am the cause. 01:22:47.087 --> 01:22:49.630 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 01:22:57.931 --> 01:23:01.350 That night, Janey and I make love for the first time. 01:23:09.192 --> 01:23:12.194 A month from now, the accident awaits me. 01:23:19.661 --> 01:23:23.163 Oh, I'll catch up with you guys. I think I left my watch inside. 01:23:23.832 --> 01:23:26.083 Hey. Let's just wait a second. 01:23:29.462 --> 01:23:33.882 I cross the room to the Intrinsic Field Center. I find my watch. 01:23:35.427 --> 01:23:38.345 [ALARM BUZZES] 01:23:40.598 --> 01:23:41.765 When I get to the door... 01:23:43.518 --> 01:23:44.727 ...Wally is turning white. 01:23:44.894 --> 01:23:48.939 The program's locked in. We can't override the time lock. 01:23:50.316 --> 01:23:52.276 I am terrified. 01:23:52.444 --> 01:23:53.569 JANEY: Jon? 01:23:58.783 --> 01:24:00.576 I'm sorry, Jon... 01:24:02.495 --> 01:24:04.079 ...but I can't-- 01:24:06.332 --> 01:24:07.875 Janey, don't leave me! 01:24:08.418 --> 01:24:10.419 Don't leave me! 01:24:13.631 --> 01:24:16.050 [MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY] 01:24:42.452 --> 01:24:47.206 It is May 12th, 1959, when I'm introduced to Janey. 01:24:47.665 --> 01:24:49.833 She buys me a beer... 01:24:50.043 --> 01:24:52.878 ...the first time a woman has done this for me. 01:24:54.255 --> 01:24:58.092 As she passes me the cold, perspiring glass... 01:24:58.718 --> 01:24:59.968 ...our fingers touch. 01:25:12.857 --> 01:25:15.025 Yes, Jon, good. 01:25:15.193 --> 01:25:20.697 Now it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence. 01:25:24.536 --> 01:25:25.619 I feel fear... 01:25:26.871 --> 01:25:28.997 ...for the last time. 01:25:45.807 --> 01:25:48.225 A token funeral is held. 01:25:48.393 --> 01:25:50.561 There is nothing to bury. 01:25:50.728 --> 01:25:53.355 Janey frames the snapshot. 01:25:53.565 --> 01:25:56.692 It's the only photograph of me anyone has. 01:25:57.986 --> 01:26:02.865 A circulatory system is seen by the perimeter fence. 01:26:03.241 --> 01:26:04.741 A few days later... 01:26:04.909 --> 01:26:08.120 ...a partially muscled skeleton stands in a hallway... 01:26:08.288 --> 01:26:12.124 ...and screams for a moment before vanishing. 01:26:15.879 --> 01:26:18.088 [RUMBLING] 01:26:37.483 --> 01:26:39.526 Oh, God. 01:26:39.694 --> 01:26:41.236 Jon? 01:26:42.280 --> 01:26:44.114 Is that you? 01:26:44.782 --> 01:26:47.784 Nations around the world reeling from this morning's announcement... 01:26:47.952 --> 01:26:50.621 ...possibly the most significant event in recent history. 01:26:50.788 --> 01:26:54.833 We repeat, the superman exists, and he is American. 01:27:01.216 --> 01:27:03.800 They call me Dr. Manhattan. 01:27:06.137 --> 01:27:08.096 They explain the name has been chosen... 01:27:08.264 --> 01:27:12.476 ...for the ominous associations it will raise in America's enemies. 01:27:17.106 --> 01:27:20.442 The marketing boys say I need a logo. 01:27:29.244 --> 01:27:31.620 If I'm to have a symbol... 01:27:33.581 --> 01:27:36.208 ...it shall be one I respect. 01:27:46.261 --> 01:27:49.304 They are shaping me into something gaudy... 01:27:50.348 --> 01:27:52.516 ...something lethal. 01:27:57.313 --> 01:27:59.856 In January, 1971... 01:28:00.024 --> 01:28:03.986 ...President Nixon asks me to intervene in Vietnam... 01:28:04.153 --> 01:28:06.905 ...something that his predecessors would not ask. 01:28:08.199 --> 01:28:11.034 A week later, the conflict ends. 01:28:11.202 --> 01:28:15.664 Some of the Vietcong forces wanna surrender to me personally. 01:28:19.085 --> 01:28:22.713 Hollis Mason, a retired costume hero, writes a book. 01:28:22.880 --> 01:28:27.718 In it, he calls my arrival the dawn of the superhero. 01:28:28.553 --> 01:28:31.263 I am not sure if I know what that means. 01:28:47.739 --> 01:28:50.866 WALLY: You see, at the time, I was misquoted. 01:28:51.117 --> 01:28:54.202 I never said, "The superman exists and he is American." 01:28:54.370 --> 01:29:00.334 What I said was, "God exists, and he is American." 01:29:00.835 --> 01:29:03.295 Now, if you begin to feel an intense... 01:29:03.463 --> 01:29:07.382 ...and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept... 01:29:07.800 --> 01:29:09.843 ...don't be alarmed. 01:29:10.470 --> 01:29:14.514 That indicates only that you are still sane. 01:29:16.976 --> 01:29:20.103 It is Christmas, 1963. 01:29:20.438 --> 01:29:24.149 Janey tells me she is afraid, and worried. 01:29:24.776 --> 01:29:27.611 She says I am like a god now. 01:29:28.279 --> 01:29:30.447 I tell her I don't think there is a God. 01:29:30.615 --> 01:29:33.283 And if there is, I'm nothing like him. 01:29:38.039 --> 01:29:40.457 I tell her I still want her... 01:29:41.250 --> 01:29:43.251 ...and that I always will. 01:29:46.297 --> 01:29:50.967 As I lie to her, it is September 4th, 1970. 01:29:51.803 --> 01:29:54.679 I am in a room full of people wearing disguises. 01:29:56.140 --> 01:30:00.435 A very young girl looks at me and smiles. 01:30:02.313 --> 01:30:04.314 She's beautiful. 01:30:07.819 --> 01:30:13.740 After each long kiss, she plants a smaller, gentler one upon my lips... 01:30:13.908 --> 01:30:15.492 ...like a signature. 01:30:16.828 --> 01:30:19.996 Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. 01:30:20.498 --> 01:30:25.794 She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. 01:30:25.962 --> 01:30:27.796 It's true. 01:30:29.841 --> 01:30:32.884 She's aging more noticeably every day... 01:30:33.052 --> 01:30:36.138 [INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE] 01:30:39.475 --> 01:30:42.310 ...while I am standing still. 01:30:43.229 --> 01:30:45.897 I prefer the stillness here. 01:30:46.858 --> 01:30:48.984 I am tired of Earth. 01:30:49.152 --> 01:30:50.819 These people. 01:30:51.362 --> 01:30:55.073 I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. 01:31:17.889 --> 01:31:21.224 They claim their labors are to build a heaven... 01:31:21.809 --> 01:31:25.270 ...yet their heaven is populated with horrors. 01:31:25.730 --> 01:31:28.398 Perhaps the world is not made. 01:31:29.400 --> 01:31:31.401 Perhaps nothing is made. 01:31:32.236 --> 01:31:35.822 A clock without a craftsman. 01:31:36.741 --> 01:31:38.742 It's too late. 01:31:39.202 --> 01:31:41.077 Always has been... 01:31:41.746 --> 01:31:45.165 ...always will be too late. 01:31:47.585 --> 01:31:50.295 FORBES: And you have no idea where he would've gone. 01:31:50.463 --> 01:31:51.755 LAURIE: How would I know? 01:31:51.923 --> 01:31:54.674 Probably on the other side of the world studying molecules. 01:31:54.842 --> 01:31:57.385 FORBES: Our satellites have done a sweep of the planet. 01:31:57.553 --> 01:31:59.846 There's no trace of his energy signature anywhere. 01:32:00.014 --> 01:32:01.306 Really? 01:32:01.474 --> 01:32:04.893 Miss Jupiter, did you and Dr. Manhattan have a fight today? 01:32:05.061 --> 01:32:06.561 None of your fucking business. 01:32:06.729 --> 01:32:10.065 It is when you're on government payroll and you're not doing your job. 01:32:10.900 --> 01:32:14.694 That's as close to the word "whore" as you're gonna get with me, Agent Forbes. 01:32:22.828 --> 01:32:24.329 Smoke? 01:32:24.872 --> 01:32:27.123 My apologies, Miss Jupiter. 01:32:27.291 --> 01:32:30.627 You know how important Dr. Manhattan is to our national security. 01:32:31.546 --> 01:32:33.463 You can imagine our concern. 01:32:33.631 --> 01:32:35.173 I can only imagine. 01:32:41.430 --> 01:32:45.433 EDDIE: Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust. 01:32:45.851 --> 01:32:48.436 Then Ozymandias here... 01:32:48.854 --> 01:32:51.648 ...will be the smartest man on the cinder. 01:33:09.834 --> 01:33:12.919 EDDIE: Laurel? Laurel Jane? 01:33:14.463 --> 01:33:16.256 You're Sally Jupiter's kid. 01:33:17.174 --> 01:33:19.384 You're the Comedian, right? 01:33:19.594 --> 01:33:21.052 You were pretty cool in there. 01:33:21.846 --> 01:33:25.599 You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties. 01:33:26.767 --> 01:33:31.104 You got her eyes, you know. You even have that same funny little mole. 01:33:31.564 --> 01:33:33.481 Take your hands off her. 01:33:33.649 --> 01:33:35.734 Hey, doll. Long time no see. 01:33:35.901 --> 01:33:39.529 Not long enough in my book, Eddie. Get in the car. 01:33:41.073 --> 01:33:43.074 Are there no depths you won't sink to? 01:33:43.242 --> 01:33:47.078 Jesus Christ, Sally. Can't a guy talk to his... 01:33:47.788 --> 01:33:49.497 ...you know, old friend's daughter? 01:33:49.665 --> 01:33:51.791 I mean, what the hell do you think I am? 01:33:51.959 --> 01:33:53.627 MAN: We found him! 01:33:56.672 --> 01:33:58.757 -We found him. FORBES: Where is he? 01:34:02.178 --> 01:34:03.511 Mars. 01:34:09.560 --> 01:34:11.561 Mr. President... 01:34:11.729 --> 01:34:16.358 ...the Soviets have moved their tanks just short of the Afghan border. 01:34:17.902 --> 01:34:19.152 They are testing us... 01:34:19.320 --> 01:34:23.740 ...to see if we manufactured Dr. Manhattan's disappearance... 01:34:23.908 --> 01:34:26.993 ...to coax a move out of them. 01:34:27.161 --> 01:34:31.122 GENERAL 1: If they realize it's not a hoax, they'll probably start with air strikes. 01:34:31.290 --> 01:34:35.377 If they do, they'll have Afghanistan under control in a matter of days. 01:34:35.753 --> 01:34:40.465 A watchdog group of nuclear scientists has moved the Doomsday Clock... 01:34:40.633 --> 01:34:42.884 ...to two minutes until midnight. 01:34:43.052 --> 01:34:46.221 NIXON: Get this shit off the screen. 01:34:46.389 --> 01:34:49.432 Who are these assholes to say when doomsday approaches? 01:34:49.600 --> 01:34:52.060 I say when doomsday is approaching. 01:34:57.733 --> 01:34:59.317 Now, then. 01:35:00.361 --> 01:35:02.862 What about the rest of the Warsaw Pact countries? 01:35:03.030 --> 01:35:07.242 Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany have mobilized their forces. 01:35:07.410 --> 01:35:10.578 But no movement yet. They're playing a wait-and-see. 01:35:10.746 --> 01:35:12.372 Letting the Russians take the lead. 01:35:16.711 --> 01:35:19.921 Bold moves, Henry. That's what's needed right now. 01:35:20.089 --> 01:35:22.841 We can't let these fuckers think we're weak. 01:35:23.008 --> 01:35:27.303 Yes. They must fear the madman Richard Nixon. 01:35:32.351 --> 01:35:35.812 How soon can we be ready for a preemptive strike? 01:35:36.981 --> 01:35:38.022 Two days. 01:35:38.441 --> 01:35:42.318 We have a 54 percent chance of wiping out the entire U.S.S.R... 01:35:42.486 --> 01:35:44.529 ...before they get their missiles airborne. 01:35:46.157 --> 01:35:47.741 What would our losses be? 01:35:47.908 --> 01:35:49.784 Assuming conservative projections... 01:35:49.952 --> 01:35:53.329 ...of how many Soviet warheads are destroyed beforehand... 01:35:53.497 --> 01:35:55.331 ...we'll lose all of the East Coast. 01:35:55.791 --> 01:35:57.333 The last gasp... 01:35:58.169 --> 01:36:00.670 ...of the Harvard establishment. 01:36:01.088 --> 01:36:04.340 Let's see them think their way out of fission. 01:36:04.508 --> 01:36:08.136 With anticipated wind patterns, the fallout drift would head south. 01:36:08.304 --> 01:36:10.513 Mexico would catch the worst of it. 01:36:10.681 --> 01:36:12.766 Most of the farm belt might remain unaffected. 01:36:12.933 --> 01:36:14.642 Not so bad... 01:36:15.436 --> 01:36:17.562 ...all things considered. 01:36:20.149 --> 01:36:21.983 GENERAL 2: Mr. President... 01:36:22.151 --> 01:36:23.777 ...what would you like to do? 01:36:32.119 --> 01:36:34.412 Take us to DEFCON two. 01:36:34.580 --> 01:36:36.581 Begin fueling the bombers. 01:36:37.208 --> 01:36:40.084 Dr. Manhattan has two days. 01:36:40.544 --> 01:36:42.337 After that... 01:36:42.505 --> 01:36:46.132 ...humanity is in the hands of a higher authority than mine. 01:36:46.717 --> 01:36:49.719 Let's just hope he's on our side. 01:36:50.930 --> 01:36:53.056 FORBES: There must be a way to reach him. LAURIE: Excuse me. 01:36:53.224 --> 01:36:54.891 FORBES: Radio transmission, space shuttles-- 01:36:55.059 --> 01:36:56.267 LAURIE: Excuse me. FORBES: What? 01:36:56.435 --> 01:36:58.728 LAURIE: I need to use the restroom. 01:37:07.988 --> 01:37:09.572 [BOTH GRUNTING] 01:37:20.334 --> 01:37:21.918 Don't you understand? 01:37:22.086 --> 01:37:24.754 The only thing that can bring Jon back is Jon. 01:37:24.922 --> 01:37:26.881 If he wants to find me, he will. 01:37:27.049 --> 01:37:29.509 I've been a prisoner in my life long enough. 01:37:29.885 --> 01:37:31.594 MAN: Without Dr. Manhattan around... 01:37:31.762 --> 01:37:34.639 ...to bully the Russians into peace, Mr. Veidt... 01:37:34.807 --> 01:37:39.227 ...people are going to need good, old-fashioned energy to rely on. 01:37:39.395 --> 01:37:41.062 You can understand. 01:37:41.230 --> 01:37:46.317 The world can't just quit on oil and nuclear power cold turkey. 01:37:46.485 --> 01:37:48.736 You'll dismantle our entire economy overnight. 01:37:48.904 --> 01:37:51.656 You're right, Lee. And why free energy? 01:37:51.824 --> 01:37:54.742 Well, "free" is just another word for "socialist." 01:37:54.910 --> 01:37:56.870 We might have to make a public inquiry... 01:37:57.037 --> 01:38:00.290 ...into any past communist affiliations you might have had. 01:38:00.708 --> 01:38:03.585 ADRIAN: Mr. Iacocca, gentlemen... 01:38:04.753 --> 01:38:06.963 ...I respect your position... 01:38:07.131 --> 01:38:11.050 ...and what you've accomplished as captains of industry. I do. 01:38:11.468 --> 01:38:13.970 You wanna know my past? Hm? 01:38:14.763 --> 01:38:17.473 Okay. Happily. 01:38:17.641 --> 01:38:21.144 It's a matter of public record that by 17, both my parents were dead... 01:38:21.312 --> 01:38:23.146 ...leaving me alone. 01:38:24.148 --> 01:38:27.483 I guess you could say I've always been alone. 01:38:27.651 --> 01:38:32.572 They say I'm the smartest man in the world, but the truth is I've often felt stupid... 01:38:32.740 --> 01:38:36.242 ...at being unable to relate to anyone. 01:38:36.410 --> 01:38:39.829 Well, anyone living, that is. 01:38:39.997 --> 01:38:41.956 The only person with whom I felt kinship... 01:38:42.124 --> 01:38:45.251 ...died 300 years before the birth of Christ. 01:38:45.419 --> 01:38:50.798 Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him. 01:38:50.966 --> 01:38:54.010 His vision of a united world was.... 01:38:54.178 --> 01:38:57.138 [STUDIO GROUP'S "EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD" PLAYS OVER SPEAKERS] 01:38:57.306 --> 01:38:59.015 Well, it was unprecedented. 01:38:59.183 --> 01:39:00.850 I wanted... 01:39:01.018 --> 01:39:03.353 ...needed to match his accomplishments... 01:39:03.520 --> 01:39:06.689 ...so I resolved to apply antiquity's teachings to our world today. 01:39:06.857 --> 01:39:10.360 And so began my path to conquest. 01:39:10.527 --> 01:39:13.780 Conquest not of men... 01:39:13.948 --> 01:39:16.783 ...but of the evils that beset them. 01:39:17.034 --> 01:39:21.913 Fossil fuels, oil, nuclear power... 01:39:22.081 --> 01:39:24.916 ...are like a drug, and you, along with foreign interests... 01:39:25.084 --> 01:39:26.709 -...are the pushers. -Now, listen. 01:39:27.294 --> 01:39:28.920 ADRIAN: No. 01:39:31.256 --> 01:39:33.049 You listen. 01:39:34.301 --> 01:39:36.803 The world will survive... 01:39:37.012 --> 01:39:40.431 ...and it deserves more than you've been able to provide. 01:39:40.599 --> 01:39:43.226 So let's cut to it, shall we? 01:39:43.477 --> 01:39:45.937 I'm worth more than all of your corporations combined. 01:39:46.105 --> 01:39:49.732 I could buy and sell you, something you should factor into your decision... 01:39:49.900 --> 01:39:56.197 ...should you choose to make our disagreement public. 01:39:57.658 --> 01:40:00.076 I think you know the way out. 01:40:01.829 --> 01:40:03.579 Gentlemen. 01:40:06.083 --> 01:40:09.585 The toy people wanna talk to you about new villains for the Ozymandias line. 01:40:09.753 --> 01:40:13.214 -Seems all the old villains are dead. -Mr. Veidt? 01:40:13.382 --> 01:40:16.926 -I think I have some ideas. -Mr. Veidt? 01:40:17.094 --> 01:40:19.929 I think we got off on the wrong foot. 01:40:20.097 --> 01:40:22.223 [BEEPS] 01:40:35.446 --> 01:40:36.863 [SCREAMING] 01:40:58.927 --> 01:41:00.636 He's got a poison capsule. 01:41:01.305 --> 01:41:05.767 Don't bite down, you son of a bitch. Who sent you? I want a name. 01:41:05.934 --> 01:41:07.018 Give me a name! 01:41:19.156 --> 01:41:20.448 LAURIE: Suicide pill. 01:41:21.533 --> 01:41:24.494 Potassium cyanide. Guy was dead before he hit the ground. 01:41:24.661 --> 01:41:26.496 WAITRESS: Thanks, hon. 01:41:26.997 --> 01:41:28.998 Then Rorschach was right. 01:41:29.166 --> 01:41:31.334 This wasn't some lone nut. 01:41:31.502 --> 01:41:35.671 It's an organization: well-funded, well-equipped. 01:41:36.632 --> 01:41:38.549 But who'd wanna kill us now? 01:41:39.843 --> 01:41:43.012 I don't know, but it's not safe out here. 01:41:48.519 --> 01:41:50.520 So no word from Jon? 01:41:51.480 --> 01:41:53.106 No. 01:41:53.482 --> 01:41:55.358 Well, listen... 01:41:55.859 --> 01:41:57.568 ...why don't you come stay with me? 01:41:58.904 --> 01:42:01.906 Oh, no. That's sweet, but I wouldn't wanna impose. 01:42:02.366 --> 01:42:05.743 Oh, no. No. Think of it as doing me a favor. 01:42:07.579 --> 01:42:09.914 I wouldn't have to worry about you being out there. 01:42:13.335 --> 01:42:14.544 Okay. 01:42:14.711 --> 01:42:16.295 [HORN HONKS] 01:42:17.631 --> 01:42:23.052 Rorschach's journal, October 21st, 1985. 01:42:23.220 --> 01:42:27.348 On 43rd and 7th, saw Dreiberg and Jupiter leaving diner. 01:42:28.016 --> 01:42:30.685 They didn't know me without my mask. 01:42:31.520 --> 01:42:33.187 An affair? 01:42:33.355 --> 01:42:36.232 Did she break Manhattan's heart to engineer his exile... 01:42:36.400 --> 01:42:39.402 ...to make room for Dreiberg? 01:42:39.570 --> 01:42:43.030 Does Manhattan even have a heart to break? 01:42:44.241 --> 01:42:47.076 The alley was cold, deserted. 01:42:47.244 --> 01:42:51.831 My things were where I left them, waiting for me. 01:42:51.999 --> 01:42:56.377 My coat, my shoes, my spotless gloves. 01:42:57.921 --> 01:42:59.839 My face. 01:43:00.090 --> 01:43:04.010 Putting them on, I abandoned my disguise... 01:43:04.178 --> 01:43:06.304 ...became myself. 01:43:06.805 --> 01:43:09.932 Free from fear or weakness... 01:43:10.100 --> 01:43:11.184 ...or lust. 01:43:11.351 --> 01:43:12.602 [WOMAN SCREAMING] 01:43:12.769 --> 01:43:14.604 Down alley... 01:43:14.771 --> 01:43:16.647 ...heard woman scream. 01:43:16.815 --> 01:43:20.818 First bubbling note of city's evening chorus. 01:43:20.986 --> 01:43:22.778 Attempted rape. 01:43:22.946 --> 01:43:24.113 Mugging. 01:43:24.281 --> 01:43:25.781 Both. 01:43:25.949 --> 01:43:27.116 [RORSCHACH CLEARS THROAT] 01:43:27.284 --> 01:43:28.951 The man turned... 01:43:29.119 --> 01:43:32.288 ...and there was something rewarding in his eyes. 01:43:33.248 --> 01:43:35.708 Sometimes the night is generous to me. 01:43:41.798 --> 01:43:46.135 Veidt's assassin was a local lowlife named Roy Chess. 01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:49.472 At his apartment, I found clues. 01:43:50.682 --> 01:43:53.768 Seems he worked at Pyramid Transnational. 01:43:53.936 --> 01:43:56.479 I've seen the logo before... 01:43:56.897 --> 01:43:58.981 ...at Moloch's. 01:44:29.346 --> 01:44:32.265 Someone tried to shoot the world's smartest man today, Moloch. 01:44:33.100 --> 01:44:35.893 Guy worked for Pyramid Transnational. 01:44:36.061 --> 01:44:38.187 More than a just delivery service, I take it. 01:44:38.355 --> 01:44:42.316 Last time I was here, I saw a pension check written from the same company. 01:44:42.484 --> 01:44:45.987 I'm guessing it's a front set up by whoever wants us masks dead. 01:44:46.154 --> 01:44:49.740 Now, no more lies, Moloch. Who runs Pyramid? 01:44:54.621 --> 01:44:56.247 FINE [OVER BULLHORN]: Rorschach. 01:44:56.415 --> 01:44:58.791 This is the police. We know you're in there. 01:44:58.959 --> 01:45:00.835 No. No! 01:45:01.003 --> 01:45:04.130 If there's anybody in there with you, send them out unharmed. 01:45:04.298 --> 01:45:07.216 No. No, no, no! 01:45:07.384 --> 01:45:11.804 Framed. Walked right into it. Stupid, stupid, stupid! 01:45:11.972 --> 01:45:13.597 Never, never surrender. 01:45:13.765 --> 01:45:16.767 All right. I hope you're ready, hero. 01:45:16.935 --> 01:45:17.977 When you are. 01:45:40.667 --> 01:45:41.709 One... 01:45:46.715 --> 01:45:47.757 ...two... 01:45:51.762 --> 01:45:52.845 ...three. 01:46:44.815 --> 01:46:46.607 Come on. 01:46:57.411 --> 01:46:58.828 MAN: Son of a bitch. 01:46:59.830 --> 01:47:02.206 -Christ, he stinks. -Get that mask off him. 01:47:02.374 --> 01:47:05.209 -I got it. -No. No! 01:47:05.377 --> 01:47:08.087 My face! Give me back my face! 01:47:08.922 --> 01:47:11.549 The masked vigilante Rorschach was apprehended... 01:47:11.716 --> 01:47:15.553 ...and identified as Walter Kovacs, a 35-year-old white male. 01:47:15.720 --> 01:47:18.806 Little's known about Kovacs, but he was charged with the murder... 01:47:18.974 --> 01:47:22.810 ...of Edgar Jacobi, found shot in the head in his home in the Bronx. 01:47:22.978 --> 01:47:26.021 Police officers were injured and Jacobi's home was set ablaze... 01:47:26.189 --> 01:47:28.732 ...during the violent course of the capture. 01:47:32.529 --> 01:47:33.863 MAN 1: Rorschach! 01:47:34.030 --> 01:47:37.741 I'm gonna fuck you like I fucked your mother! 01:47:44.374 --> 01:47:47.334 MAN 2: Come on out, Rorschach! 01:47:50.213 --> 01:47:52.882 BERNIE: I knew this guy was a kook. 01:47:53.425 --> 01:47:54.842 But Rorschach.... 01:47:55.010 --> 01:47:57.761 Usually I got an intuition about these kind of things. 01:47:57.929 --> 01:48:00.347 -Thought the dude would be bigger. -It goes to show you, kid... 01:48:00.515 --> 01:48:02.349 -...you never know. -Hey, let me get a Gazette. 01:48:02.517 --> 01:48:06.353 Yeah. Hey, you see this? He was a customer of mine. 01:48:06.521 --> 01:48:09.482 -Used to come here all the time. -No shit? 01:48:11.359 --> 01:48:14.069 Hey, Bernie. Any good news? 01:48:16.323 --> 01:48:17.907 [MARINER RETCHES] 01:48:23.872 --> 01:48:27.249 MARINER: Whoever we are, wherever we reside... 01:48:27.417 --> 01:48:30.252 ...we exist on the whim of murderers. 01:48:34.925 --> 01:48:37.885 I hardly recognized my old friend Ridley. 01:48:38.053 --> 01:48:41.180 I could not bring myself to tell him he was a horrible reflection... 01:48:41.348 --> 01:48:43.265 ...of his former self. 01:48:43.558 --> 01:48:48.103 I really must get him home before.... Before he gets any worse. 01:48:48.271 --> 01:48:50.397 Before he succumbs. 01:48:50.857 --> 01:48:56.362 I've heard that on less than a pint daily, a man might survive drinking saltwater. 01:48:56.530 --> 01:48:57.863 RIDLEY: Captain? 01:48:58.031 --> 01:48:59.490 What are you doing, captain? 01:49:02.035 --> 01:49:04.870 I'm headed for Davidstown. That's what. 01:49:05.330 --> 01:49:08.040 I need to warn everyone. 01:49:08.208 --> 01:49:09.792 [RIDLEY LAUGHS] 01:49:10.502 --> 01:49:14.046 You think you'll reach Davidstown in advance of the Black Freighter? 01:49:14.422 --> 01:49:18.592 Isolation has made you mad, captain. Mad, indeed. 01:49:19.594 --> 01:49:20.928 But we must try. 01:49:21.096 --> 01:49:22.304 You are a fool. 01:49:22.472 --> 01:49:24.974 You alone survived the Freighter's attack. 01:49:25.141 --> 01:49:29.353 Fortune has smiled upon you, and you spit in its face. 01:49:29.521 --> 01:49:34.900 Turn your wretched craft around and go far away, as far away as you can. 01:49:36.987 --> 01:49:40.948 No. No, my family. I must protect them. 01:49:42.200 --> 01:49:43.993 The Black Freighter is already there. 01:49:44.786 --> 01:49:46.412 Your wife, dead. 01:49:46.580 --> 01:49:49.206 -Your children, dead. -Shut your mouth. 01:49:49.374 --> 01:49:53.711 You have failed your family, like you have failed your crew. 01:49:55.672 --> 01:49:57.506 [MEN SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY] 01:49:57.674 --> 01:49:59.633 [SCREAMING] 01:49:59.801 --> 01:50:01.385 [GROWLING] 01:50:15.066 --> 01:50:18.527 You'll end up dead like them. You give your life in vain. 01:50:18.695 --> 01:50:20.904 I give my life in nobility. 01:50:21.072 --> 01:50:22.615 [LAUGHS] 01:50:23.783 --> 01:50:26.869 Even if I fail in my attempt, I take solace in the fact that I will see... 01:50:27.037 --> 01:50:28.579 ...my family again in heaven. 01:50:28.747 --> 01:50:30.080 Heaven? 01:50:30.248 --> 01:50:32.333 Oh, there is no heaven, captain. 01:50:32.876 --> 01:50:34.960 Believe me, sir. 01:50:35.128 --> 01:50:37.296 I would know by now. 01:50:43.970 --> 01:50:45.679 MAN: Walter Kovacs. 01:50:45.847 --> 01:50:48.557 Is that your name? Walter? 01:50:48.725 --> 01:50:52.770 Well, let me explain your situation here, Walter. 01:50:52.937 --> 01:50:54.521 You cooperate with me... 01:50:54.689 --> 01:50:59.193 ...and I may be able to convince them that you should be treated medically. 01:50:59.361 --> 01:51:02.905 In a hospital. I believe that would be good for you. 01:51:03.073 --> 01:51:09.119 But the authorities wanna put you with the general population. 01:51:09.996 --> 01:51:13.082 -Prison's a prison. -Uh-huh. Yes. 01:51:13.667 --> 01:51:17.086 But the difference is, down there... 01:51:17.671 --> 01:51:19.046 ...you'd be eaten alive. 01:51:20.006 --> 01:51:24.259 You're responsible for a lot of them being in prison here, Walter. 01:51:27.305 --> 01:51:28.764 Tell me what you see. 01:51:33.937 --> 01:51:35.604 A pretty butterfly. 01:51:39.442 --> 01:51:41.276 What about now? What do you see here? 01:51:46.366 --> 01:51:47.449 Mom? 01:51:47.784 --> 01:51:49.159 Is he hurting you? 01:51:49.327 --> 01:51:52.204 You got a fucking kid in here. I get that at home. 01:51:52.372 --> 01:51:55.916 Bastard. I should have had that abortion. 01:52:05.552 --> 01:52:07.469 Some nice flowers. 01:52:13.184 --> 01:52:14.852 BOY 1: I heard this guy's mom's a whore. 01:52:17.147 --> 01:52:19.898 Did you catch any diseases from her? 01:52:20.066 --> 01:52:24.862 Huh? Whoreson. Listen to me, retard. 01:52:26.156 --> 01:52:29.408 BOY 2: Hey, you think she'd suck my dick for a dollar? 01:52:39.043 --> 01:52:40.711 [SCREAMING] 01:52:48.011 --> 01:52:49.178 Clouds. 01:52:54.100 --> 01:52:56.852 Tell me about Rorschach. Will you do that, Walter? 01:52:57.020 --> 01:53:00.522 You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you. 01:53:01.608 --> 01:53:05.819 You don't like me. All right, why is that, exactly? 01:53:05.987 --> 01:53:07.362 You're fat. 01:53:07.947 --> 01:53:11.074 Wealthy. Liberal sensibilities. 01:53:11.242 --> 01:53:13.243 What you call compassion. 01:53:13.411 --> 01:53:15.704 Wanting to protect and understand the guilty. 01:53:15.872 --> 01:53:19.792 This rotting society, what it calls rehabilitation. 01:53:19.959 --> 01:53:21.418 Nothing short of compromise. 01:53:21.586 --> 01:53:24.171 Is it a compromise to want to make you well? 01:53:24.339 --> 01:53:28.550 There are other men in here with behavior more extreme than mine, doctor. 01:53:29.219 --> 01:53:32.221 Of course, they're not famous, are they? 01:53:32.597 --> 01:53:35.307 You wanna know about Rorschach? 01:53:36.768 --> 01:53:38.560 I'll tell you about Rorschach. 01:53:39.854 --> 01:53:42.356 Once a man has seen society's black underbelly... 01:53:42.524 --> 01:53:45.150 ...he can never turn his back on it. 01:53:45.318 --> 01:53:47.903 Never pretend, like you do... 01:53:48.196 --> 01:53:52.407 ...that it doesn't exist, no matter who orders him to look the other way. 01:53:52.700 --> 01:53:56.245 We don't do this thing... 01:53:56.412 --> 01:53:58.539 ...because it's permitted. 01:53:59.165 --> 01:54:01.750 We do it because we have to. 01:54:02.460 --> 01:54:04.753 We do it because we're compelled. 01:54:06.589 --> 01:54:09.007 I was investigating a kidnap case. 01:54:10.760 --> 01:54:12.594 Blaire Roche. 01:54:12.762 --> 01:54:16.223 Six-year-old girl. I was young then. 01:54:17.100 --> 01:54:19.434 Too soft on criminals. 01:54:20.353 --> 01:54:21.979 I let them live. 01:54:23.273 --> 01:54:28.986 Broke a man's arm to get a tip. Led me to the missing girl's location. 01:54:36.619 --> 01:54:39.037 I knew the girl was here... 01:54:39.205 --> 01:54:42.749 ...but when I searched the place, I saw nothing. 01:54:43.626 --> 01:54:46.044 And then I found her. 01:55:17.327 --> 01:55:20.746 [DOGS SNARLING] 01:55:35.386 --> 01:55:37.262 MAN: Fred. 01:55:38.139 --> 01:55:39.973 Barney. 01:55:40.141 --> 01:55:42.851 Who's gonna bark for Daddy? 01:55:48.316 --> 01:55:51.568 It was dark when the murderer got back. 01:55:53.321 --> 01:55:54.905 As dark as it gets. 01:56:33.569 --> 01:56:38.407 Oh, God. Who's out there? Who is it? 01:56:40.243 --> 01:56:41.368 Who is it? 01:56:41.536 --> 01:56:42.911 [FLOORBOARD CREAKS] 01:56:47.875 --> 01:56:49.668 [GROANS] 01:56:52.088 --> 01:56:55.507 What? What the fuck? Who the fuck are you? 01:56:55.675 --> 01:57:00.178 What the fuck do you want? You killed my dogs, man! 01:57:05.184 --> 01:57:09.730 You think I had something to do with that girl? I found that. 01:57:09.897 --> 01:57:12.357 What evidence have you got? That's nothing. 01:57:20.283 --> 01:57:23.076 Okay. I confess. 01:57:24.287 --> 01:57:26.955 I kidnapped her. I killed her. 01:57:27.749 --> 01:57:29.124 Arrest me. 01:57:29.959 --> 01:57:31.668 What? Arrest me! 01:57:31.836 --> 01:57:33.128 [RORSCHACH BREATHING HEAVILY] 01:57:33.296 --> 01:57:35.255 I did it! I said I did it! 01:57:35.423 --> 01:57:36.840 Christ. 01:57:37.008 --> 01:57:41.303 Look, I've got a problem, man. Fucking take me in. I need help. 01:57:42.138 --> 01:57:48.852 No, don't. Don't do that. Take me in. Don't! No! 01:57:53.816 --> 01:57:57.319 Men get arrested. 01:57:58.738 --> 01:58:00.781 Dogs get put down. 01:58:08.873 --> 01:58:11.041 Tremors of impact shook my arm. 01:58:12.460 --> 01:58:14.795 Warm blood splashed my face. 01:58:16.005 --> 01:58:20.133 Whatever was left of Walter Kovacs died that night with that little girl. 01:58:21.135 --> 01:58:23.345 From then on, there was only Rorschach. 01:58:24.889 --> 01:58:27.682 See, doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. 01:58:28.142 --> 01:58:32.312 Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. 01:58:33.481 --> 01:58:36.900 If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. 01:58:38.820 --> 01:58:40.654 From then on, I knew: 01:58:41.989 --> 01:58:44.324 God doesn't make the world this way. 01:58:46.327 --> 01:58:47.828 We do. 01:58:54.210 --> 01:58:56.545 I can't help him. 01:59:08.641 --> 01:59:10.433 Hey, Rorschach. 01:59:11.435 --> 01:59:13.436 Hey, you're pretty famous, right? 01:59:13.980 --> 01:59:16.064 MAN 1: Rorschach, I heard your mother was a whore. 01:59:16.232 --> 01:59:19.818 Hey, you know what? I'm pretty famous too. 01:59:19.986 --> 01:59:22.529 -Ain't that right? That's right. MAN 2: That's right. 01:59:24.157 --> 01:59:27.409 Maybe I can give you an autograph. What you say, big boy? 01:59:35.418 --> 01:59:37.586 [SCREAMING] 01:59:42.592 --> 01:59:46.178 None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. 01:59:46.345 --> 01:59:48.430 OFFICER: All right, that's it! 01:59:49.265 --> 01:59:51.725 You're locked in here with me. 02:00:44.737 --> 02:00:47.447 [HUMMING] 02:01:05.841 --> 02:01:08.009 [BELL RINGING] 02:01:10.471 --> 02:01:11.513 DAN: Laurie! 02:01:12.723 --> 02:01:14.057 Shit. 02:01:15.059 --> 02:01:16.977 DAN: Hold on. -Fuck. 02:01:20.231 --> 02:01:21.731 I got it, I got it, I got it. 02:01:26.404 --> 02:01:29.823 I'm so sorry. I was snooping and must have hit the wrong button. 02:01:29.991 --> 02:01:31.408 -Are you hurt? -No, no. 02:01:31.575 --> 02:01:34.703 -Okay. -I'm fine. I just feel so bad. 02:01:34.870 --> 02:01:36.871 No, don't worry. 02:01:37.039 --> 02:01:40.333 It's happened before. Comedian did it back in '77. 02:01:41.419 --> 02:01:43.253 Archie survived that. 02:01:43.713 --> 02:01:45.046 LAURIE: Archie? 02:01:45.756 --> 02:01:49.217 Oh. Well, uh, short for Archimedes... 02:01:49.385 --> 02:01:50.927 ...Merlin's pet owl. 02:01:52.054 --> 02:01:53.722 Stupid nickname. 02:01:54.765 --> 02:01:57.517 LAURIE: How did you ever afford all this stuff, anyway? 02:01:57.685 --> 02:02:03.231 Well, my dad was in corporate banking and left me a lot of money when he died... 02:02:03.941 --> 02:02:07.277 ...which always surprised me. I mean, he was.... 02:02:07.945 --> 02:02:10.572 I think he was disappointed I went into crime fighting... 02:02:10.740 --> 02:02:12.449 ...instead of following him. 02:02:13.242 --> 02:02:20.248 Guess I was just more interested in birds and airplanes, mythology and.... 02:02:20.666 --> 02:02:24.669 Plus, there were enough other guys doing this so that I didn't feel ridiculous. 02:02:25.588 --> 02:02:26.796 Like Hollis. 02:02:26.964 --> 02:02:28.465 Yeah. 02:02:29.258 --> 02:02:32.010 Yeah, he was my hero. 02:02:33.054 --> 02:02:36.431 Man, I remember the first time that I met him... 02:02:37.350 --> 02:02:40.268 ...I just felt so connected, you know? 02:02:40.436 --> 02:02:42.771 To something that mattered. 02:02:45.608 --> 02:02:48.276 Must be nice having a secret identity. 02:02:48.944 --> 02:02:51.112 A secret place that nobody knows about. 02:02:51.280 --> 02:02:56.284 You can just come down here and hang out without anyone checking up on you. 02:02:57.745 --> 02:03:00.080 Nobody watching you. 02:03:03.417 --> 02:03:04.459 Wanna try those on? 02:03:15.262 --> 02:03:16.930 There we go. 02:03:20.101 --> 02:03:22.102 Wow, these rock. 02:03:24.939 --> 02:03:27.232 They amplify the spectral range. 02:03:27.400 --> 02:03:29.526 Thermal imaging. 02:03:31.195 --> 02:03:33.196 They work even better in the dark. 02:03:38.119 --> 02:03:39.869 You can see me, right? 02:03:42.039 --> 02:03:44.707 I can see everything. 02:03:47.461 --> 02:03:50.964 I remember, no matter how black it got... 02:03:51.298 --> 02:03:55.427 ...whenever I looked through those goggles, everything was as clear as day. 02:03:57.721 --> 02:04:00.056 This must be the way Jon sees the world. 02:04:02.560 --> 02:04:05.395 We should probably head up. Food's getting cold. 02:04:05.646 --> 02:04:07.730 Put those away when you're done. 02:04:16.699 --> 02:04:19.033 MAN [ON TV]: Soviet ambassador to the U.N. had no comment... 02:04:19.201 --> 02:04:21.494 ...when asked if Dr. Manhattan's disappearance... 02:04:21.662 --> 02:04:23.997 ...has fueled Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. 02:04:24.165 --> 02:04:25.874 Dan. 02:04:26.584 --> 02:04:28.334 Jon sees a lot of things... 02:04:30.713 --> 02:04:33.047 ...but he doesn't see me. 02:04:40.181 --> 02:04:41.723 Well, uh.... 02:04:41.891 --> 02:04:43.892 [DAN CLEARS THROAT] 02:04:59.909 --> 02:05:01.493 Oh. 02:05:35.319 --> 02:05:36.653 Sorry. 02:05:38.656 --> 02:05:39.989 Come here. 02:05:45.955 --> 02:05:47.205 What's the matter? 02:05:47.373 --> 02:05:49.791 -If you could just move a little.... -Okay. 02:05:49.959 --> 02:05:52.210 Yeah. There you go. 02:05:58.717 --> 02:06:01.344 Dan, what's wrong? 02:06:03.013 --> 02:06:04.138 Sorry, I.... 02:06:06.308 --> 02:06:08.518 Yeah, I just need a couple minutes. 02:06:10.688 --> 02:06:12.647 Oh, hell. 02:06:14.400 --> 02:06:16.234 It's okay. 02:06:17.653 --> 02:06:22.073 Maybe we were just moving too fast. 02:06:25.661 --> 02:06:28.288 We've got all the time in the world. 02:06:29.790 --> 02:06:31.791 We'll take it slow. 02:06:45.764 --> 02:06:48.099 It's been a long time, Rorschach. 02:06:48.767 --> 02:06:50.268 RORSCHACH: Big Figure. 02:06:50.603 --> 02:06:52.437 Small world. 02:06:53.772 --> 02:06:55.273 I like that. 02:06:56.025 --> 02:06:58.443 But you know, it is a small world in here. 02:06:58.861 --> 02:07:01.654 And I've been in it for, how long now, Lloyd? 02:07:01.822 --> 02:07:03.948 LLOYD: Almost 15 years, Mr. Figure. 02:07:04.283 --> 02:07:05.617 That's right. 02:07:06.619 --> 02:07:10.121 Fifteen years since you and that Owl fella put me away. 02:07:13.125 --> 02:07:14.292 So... 02:07:14.793 --> 02:07:19.547 ...Rorschach, that guy you burned is dying. Could go any minute. 02:07:19.715 --> 02:07:24.927 You know, by my count, there are more than 50 people in here that you put away. 02:07:25.095 --> 02:07:29.432 I been talking to every one of them and they're all dying to get a piece of you. 02:07:29.600 --> 02:07:32.894 This place is gonna explode! 02:07:34.480 --> 02:07:37.148 Then, you die by inches. 02:07:38.067 --> 02:07:39.734 Tall order. 02:07:39.985 --> 02:07:42.487 I'm gonna tear this guy a new hole. 02:07:43.155 --> 02:07:46.157 Relax, Lawrence. Soon. 02:07:46.992 --> 02:07:48.326 Come on. 02:08:59.189 --> 02:09:01.399 [GASPS] 02:09:15.956 --> 02:09:17.373 [CRASHING] 02:09:22.212 --> 02:09:24.297 MARINER: Know this, my friends. 02:09:24.465 --> 02:09:25.548 Hades is wet. 02:09:26.884 --> 02:09:28.468 Hades is lonely. 02:09:44.318 --> 02:09:48.070 And in that instant, we knew each other. 02:09:50.032 --> 02:09:51.783 [GRUNTING] 02:10:24.483 --> 02:10:26.734 I'm sorry, my friend. 02:10:46.964 --> 02:10:49.882 My raft had grown increasingly grotesque... 02:10:50.467 --> 02:10:53.511 ...reflecting my own transformation. 02:10:55.430 --> 02:10:57.265 [THUNDER CRASHING] 02:11:07.109 --> 02:11:11.153 Adrift, my darkest imaginings welled up unchecked... 02:11:11.321 --> 02:11:14.448 ...spilling from brain to heart like black ink... 02:11:14.616 --> 02:11:17.076 ...impossible to remove. 02:11:25.919 --> 02:11:28.921 The vessel had surely reached Davidstown already. 02:11:29.756 --> 02:11:34.135 I pictured quiet streets overrun by the fiends from the Black Freighter. 02:11:34.303 --> 02:11:37.555 My wife, my children, most certainly dead. 02:11:37.723 --> 02:11:39.724 My crew, dead. 02:11:39.892 --> 02:11:43.561 The beast I ride on, dead. 02:11:52.487 --> 02:11:55.448 VOICES [CHANTING]: More blood, more blood, more blood. 02:12:09.755 --> 02:12:11.088 GIRL: Father? 02:12:11.256 --> 02:12:13.716 It can't be. Oh, Lord, it can't be. 02:12:13.884 --> 02:12:17.136 Father, help us. Please. 02:12:17.304 --> 02:12:18.346 MARINER: Wait. 02:12:20.015 --> 02:12:21.057 I'm coming. 02:12:21.850 --> 02:12:23.184 Hurry, my dear. 02:12:23.936 --> 02:12:26.854 Wait. Anyone but them. 02:12:27.022 --> 02:12:28.648 Anyone. 02:12:28.899 --> 02:12:30.483 Anyone. 02:12:34.738 --> 02:12:36.989 I'd swallowed too much seawater. 02:12:37.157 --> 02:12:39.992 I'd swallowed too much horror. 02:12:43.455 --> 02:12:44.705 God has damned me. 02:12:45.874 --> 02:12:48.501 God has damned us all. 02:12:48.669 --> 02:12:54.590 Truly, life is hell, and death's rough hand our only deliverance. 02:12:55.342 --> 02:12:57.468 I can endure no more. 02:12:57.636 --> 02:13:01.555 I want to join my family desperately. 02:13:09.356 --> 02:13:11.190 MAN: Yo, man. 02:13:11.733 --> 02:13:13.567 What you reading? 02:13:14.736 --> 02:13:16.237 Nothing, man. 02:13:17.614 --> 02:13:20.199 -Nothing, huh? -Hey, hey! You leave that kid alone! 02:13:20.367 --> 02:13:22.076 Shut up, old man! 02:13:28.917 --> 02:13:30.710 [LAUGHS] 02:13:30.877 --> 02:13:33.587 You're reading a comic book? What are you, retarded? 02:13:33.755 --> 02:13:35.756 [MEN LAUGHING] 02:13:40.887 --> 02:13:43.931 Aw, hey, where you going, short bus? 02:13:54.192 --> 02:13:55.526 Dan? 02:14:02.367 --> 02:14:04.035 Is everything all right? 02:14:06.371 --> 02:14:09.290 I'm tired of being afraid. 02:14:10.375 --> 02:14:12.752 Afraid of war... 02:14:13.545 --> 02:14:17.131 ...afraid of the mask killer... 02:14:18.717 --> 02:14:21.927 ...and afraid of this goddamn suit... 02:14:22.095 --> 02:14:24.055 ...and how much I need it. 02:14:24.890 --> 02:14:26.557 Me too. 02:14:28.060 --> 02:14:29.351 So to hell with it. 02:14:30.228 --> 02:14:31.562 Let's take Archie out. 02:14:37.486 --> 02:14:38.652 You're serious. 02:14:38.820 --> 02:14:41.322 I used to be a masked avenger too, remember? 02:14:41.490 --> 02:14:44.742 I'm used to going out at 3 in the morning and doing something stupid. 02:14:50.749 --> 02:14:53.375 [HUMMING] 02:15:46.471 --> 02:15:48.556 MAN [OVER RADIO]: Rapid burner. Be advised, all units. 02:15:48.723 --> 02:15:51.308 Tenement fire at 5th and Grand. Rapid burner. 02:15:51.476 --> 02:15:52.810 Let's go. 02:15:57.566 --> 02:15:59.942 LAURIE: I can see it. DAN: All right, hold on. 02:16:10.787 --> 02:16:12.246 LAURIE: Dan, there are kids in there. 02:16:12.414 --> 02:16:14.582 Everyone, stay where you are and remain calm. 02:16:14.749 --> 02:16:16.917 We're gonna get you out of there. 02:16:17.085 --> 02:16:19.253 The roof's starting to cave. Get me in there. 02:16:19.421 --> 02:16:20.921 DAN: I'm gonna get you close. 02:17:19.648 --> 02:17:21.023 Let's go. 02:17:21.191 --> 02:17:22.358 Come on. 02:17:22.525 --> 02:17:24.151 All right, let's move it, people. 02:17:30.867 --> 02:17:35.663 Mom, is that guy in the space rocket...? 02:17:36.122 --> 02:17:38.332 Is that Jesus? 02:17:38.500 --> 02:17:40.334 No, baby. 02:17:41.253 --> 02:17:43.379 DAN: Watch your step. LAURIE: All right. 02:17:45.715 --> 02:17:46.757 We're all set. 02:17:47.801 --> 02:17:49.468 Is that everyone? 02:18:13.535 --> 02:18:15.828 MAN: Bye. GIRL: Bye! 02:18:19.416 --> 02:18:21.000 LAURIE: I can't believe we did that. 02:18:22.961 --> 02:18:25.421 -They'll lock us up with Rorschach. -Who cares? 02:18:25.588 --> 02:18:27.548 World War III could start tomorrow. 02:18:29.676 --> 02:18:31.010 Right? 02:18:32.679 --> 02:18:34.013 Right. 02:20:39.597 --> 02:20:42.349 [EKG FLATLINING] 02:20:42.642 --> 02:20:45.310 [ALARM WAILING] 02:20:46.271 --> 02:20:47.771 [MEN YELLING INDISTINCTLY] 02:20:47.939 --> 02:20:49.231 [SCREAMS] 02:20:49.399 --> 02:20:50.816 [THUDS] 02:20:53.194 --> 02:20:55.362 [SCREAMING] 02:20:59.117 --> 02:21:01.034 MAN: Come back here! 02:21:03.621 --> 02:21:05.330 He's dead, Rorschach. 02:21:05.498 --> 02:21:09.710 While everyone's distracted, we thought we'd bring you a housewarming gift. 02:21:09.878 --> 02:21:12.045 Something from the machine shop. 02:21:13.673 --> 02:21:15.299 Hey, boss, you notice? 02:21:15.467 --> 02:21:18.510 None of that "small world, tall order" crap. 02:21:18.678 --> 02:21:21.889 He knows once we slice open his lock, he's next on the block. 02:21:22.348 --> 02:21:23.474 Fat chance. 02:21:24.184 --> 02:21:25.309 You're dead, Rorschach! 02:21:25.477 --> 02:21:29.146 We got a prison full of killers out here. What do you got? 02:21:30.732 --> 02:21:31.899 [SCREAMING] 02:21:32.066 --> 02:21:34.526 Your hands, my pleasure. 02:21:34.694 --> 02:21:35.903 [CRACKING] 02:21:36.529 --> 02:21:38.530 LLOYD: Can't reach the lock. Should I cut the bars? 02:21:38.698 --> 02:21:41.992 This riot won't last. I been waiting 15 years for this. 02:21:43.119 --> 02:21:46.497 I'm sorry, Lawrence, but you're in the way of my revenge. 02:21:50.210 --> 02:21:51.919 Nothing personal, big guy. 02:21:52.086 --> 02:21:53.212 [SAW BUZZING] 02:21:53.379 --> 02:21:55.380 Boss! Wait! 02:22:09.521 --> 02:22:11.313 Now you find out what the score is. 02:22:11.773 --> 02:22:14.900 One-nothing. Come and get me. 02:22:20.949 --> 02:22:22.616 Come on. 02:22:22.784 --> 02:22:24.409 DAN: So I've been thinking. 02:22:25.328 --> 02:22:29.498 I feel that we have an obligation to our fraternity. 02:22:30.333 --> 02:22:33.418 -I think we ought to spring Rorschach. LAURIE: What? 02:22:33.586 --> 02:22:35.337 DAN: Someone set him up. 02:22:36.172 --> 02:22:39.800 And this whole cancer thing with Jon, it just doesn't make sense. 02:22:39.968 --> 02:22:41.885 You didn't get it. 02:22:42.178 --> 02:22:44.638 Yeah, but breaking into a maximum-security prison... 02:22:44.806 --> 02:22:48.475 -...is a little different than putting out a fire. -Yeah, you're right. 02:22:49.352 --> 02:22:51.186 It'll be more fun. 02:22:55.358 --> 02:22:58.360 Hurry, Lloyd. I wanna smell this son of a bitch cooking. 02:23:03.658 --> 02:23:05.367 Yes. 02:23:10.123 --> 02:23:11.164 No. 02:23:25.054 --> 02:23:29.891 Never disposed of sewage with a toilet before. Obvious, really. 02:23:30.727 --> 02:23:34.021 Two-nothing. Your move. 02:23:37.358 --> 02:23:39.026 BIG FIGURE: Get out of the way! 02:24:05.928 --> 02:24:07.804 How do we know he's still alive? 02:24:10.058 --> 02:24:11.266 DAN: He's alive. 02:24:23.029 --> 02:24:24.571 No. No. 02:24:25.239 --> 02:24:26.615 Where's my face? 02:24:29.160 --> 02:24:30.911 Don't kill me. 02:24:34.582 --> 02:24:35.957 Your turn, doctor. 02:24:36.125 --> 02:24:39.336 Tell me, what do you see? 02:26:05.506 --> 02:26:07.215 Don't move! 02:26:15.516 --> 02:26:17.267 Rorschach. 02:26:17.769 --> 02:26:20.562 Daniel. Miss Jupiter. 02:26:20.730 --> 02:26:24.149 Excuse me. Have to visit men's room. 02:26:24.692 --> 02:26:26.651 Oh, for chrissake. 02:26:41.083 --> 02:26:43.585 [TOILET FLUSHES] 02:27:03.856 --> 02:27:05.982 RORSCHACH: Good to see you in uniform, Daniel. 02:27:06.150 --> 02:27:09.569 Should've known all you needed was nice pair of legs to motivate you. 02:27:09.737 --> 02:27:13.990 LAURIE: You're such an asshole, Rorschach. -Spare me indignation. 02:27:15.243 --> 02:27:18.245 Picked hell of a time to be unfaithful to Jon. 02:27:18.412 --> 02:27:21.248 Get tired of being patriotic, or someone put you up to it? 02:27:21.415 --> 02:27:24.084 You don't know what the fuck you're talking about! 02:27:24.252 --> 02:27:28.088 Hey! Would you two stop? You can argue later. 02:27:28.256 --> 02:27:32.008 I had to turn the screechers off, so we'll be drawing fire soon. 02:27:36.013 --> 02:27:38.390 Stop! Stop or we will shoot! 02:28:17.263 --> 02:28:19.389 Are you all right? 02:28:20.808 --> 02:28:23.018 Yeah. Just... 02:28:23.477 --> 02:28:24.728 ...heavy, you know? 02:28:25.521 --> 02:28:27.647 War, jailbreak. 02:28:28.149 --> 02:28:33.028 Don't worry about it. Okay? Everything's gonna be fine. 02:28:38.034 --> 02:28:41.077 -Hello, Laurie. -Jon. 02:28:41.245 --> 02:28:44.873 -TV said you were on Mars. -I am on Mars. 02:28:45.458 --> 02:28:47.834 You and I are about to have a conversation there. 02:28:48.002 --> 02:28:49.502 What are you talking about? 02:28:49.670 --> 02:28:52.339 You're going to try to convince me to save the world. 02:28:58.220 --> 02:29:01.222 -Laurie, don't. -Dan, trust me. 02:29:01.390 --> 02:29:03.058 I have to go. 02:29:08.731 --> 02:29:10.732 Beautiful, isn't it? 02:29:10.900 --> 02:29:12.859 [GAGGING] 02:29:14.070 --> 02:29:15.403 [BREATHES] 02:29:15.571 --> 02:29:18.531 Forgive me. These things sometimes slip my mind. 02:29:19.909 --> 02:29:21.743 It won't happen again. 02:29:23.412 --> 02:29:25.413 LAURIE: That's comforting. 02:29:27.750 --> 02:29:29.417 Oh, my God. 02:29:30.086 --> 02:29:31.920 I'm on Mars. 02:29:35.925 --> 02:29:39.803 MAN: Hey. Nice ass. WOMAN: Hey, asshole. 02:29:39.971 --> 02:29:42.555 MAN: Hey, let's see if that comic-book retard's up here. 02:29:43.391 --> 02:29:45.308 Hey, hey, hey. Yo. 02:29:45.476 --> 02:29:50.188 You all hear? Some super-owl dude just busted Rorschach out of prison. 02:29:50.356 --> 02:29:52.065 -Rorschach? -Yeah. 02:29:52.233 --> 02:29:54.109 That fool put my cousin in a wheelchair. 02:29:54.276 --> 02:29:57.153 You mean Nite Owl. Him and Rorschach used to be partners. 02:29:57.321 --> 02:29:59.990 -Yeah. -Maybe he messed your cousin up too. 02:30:00.157 --> 02:30:02.409 -Didn't he write a book or something? -Yeah. 02:30:02.576 --> 02:30:06.413 You know, he lives over a garage right near here. 02:30:06.580 --> 02:30:09.249 -Yeah? -Does he, now? 02:30:12.003 --> 02:30:13.169 SALLY [ON PHONE]: Hello? 02:30:14.171 --> 02:30:16.172 HOLLIS: Sally? 02:30:16.340 --> 02:30:19.259 -Hollis? -Yeah. 02:30:19.510 --> 02:30:23.430 Yes, Hollis Mason. Jesus. 02:30:24.223 --> 02:30:28.852 All this time you've had my number and you wait until our sunset years to use it? 02:30:29.020 --> 02:30:31.813 HOLLIS: Well, it seemed like a special occasion, Sal. 02:30:31.981 --> 02:30:33.106 What? 02:30:33.274 --> 02:30:37.527 The TV is reporting there was a tenement fire last night. 02:30:38.404 --> 02:30:41.197 There were trapped people rescued by airship... 02:30:41.365 --> 02:30:46.953 ...and they say the pilot was dressed like an owl. 02:30:47.121 --> 02:30:49.289 And it seems he had a sexy woman with him. 02:30:49.457 --> 02:30:52.083 Laurie? My daughter, Laurie? 02:30:52.251 --> 02:30:53.501 [HOLLIS CHUCKLES] 02:30:53.669 --> 02:30:56.796 I can't get over Laurie back in costume. 02:30:56.964 --> 02:31:00.467 Maybe she'll finally thank me for getting her started in the first place. 02:31:00.634 --> 02:31:04.220 You know, Sal, by the sound of your voice... 02:31:04.388 --> 02:31:06.139 ...you're sounding younger than ever. 02:31:06.307 --> 02:31:08.600 Oh. Why, bless you, Hollis. 02:31:09.268 --> 02:31:11.311 But that's probably just senility. 02:31:12.480 --> 02:31:13.897 [KNOCKING] 02:31:14.065 --> 02:31:16.983 Well, it's been great talking to you, Sal... 02:31:17.151 --> 02:31:19.527 ...but someone's knocking. 02:31:20.071 --> 02:31:25.075 SALLY: Well, don't get too misty-eyed thinking about old times. 02:31:25.951 --> 02:31:27.786 You take care now, Hollis. 02:31:27.953 --> 02:31:29.245 Ah, you too. 02:31:29.413 --> 02:31:30.663 Bye. 02:31:31.207 --> 02:31:32.707 Bye. 02:31:34.376 --> 02:31:36.002 [KNOCKING] 02:31:36.170 --> 02:31:38.463 MAN 1: We're looking for Mr. Owl. 02:31:39.340 --> 02:31:41.508 Yeah. Hold your horses. 02:31:41.675 --> 02:31:43.259 MAN 1: Mr. Owl, you there? 02:31:43.844 --> 02:31:45.220 MAN 2: Trick or treat. 02:31:45.387 --> 02:31:46.679 [MAN 2 CHUCKLES] 02:31:46.847 --> 02:31:48.431 MAN 1: You should've stayed retired, Owl. 02:32:26.137 --> 02:32:27.178 [HOLLIS GRUNTS] 02:32:45.072 --> 02:32:46.948 [MAN GRUNTING] 02:32:53.664 --> 02:32:55.248 RORSCHACH: I hate this. 02:32:55.416 --> 02:32:59.627 Cowering in cave, hiding from authorities. 02:32:59.879 --> 02:33:03.089 Cops are out there hunting us. Unless you wanna go back to prison... 02:33:03.257 --> 02:33:05.717 ...we'd be stupid to expose ourselves without a plan. 02:33:05.885 --> 02:33:08.136 And what would that be? 02:33:08.470 --> 02:33:12.182 Once we've established a pattern... 02:33:12.600 --> 02:33:14.726 ...we can break into Pyramid, see what we find. 02:33:14.894 --> 02:33:17.312 RORSCHACH: Did that. Dead end. 02:33:17.479 --> 02:33:22.108 I think it's a front company for whoever's really behind it, but can't prove it. 02:33:25.029 --> 02:33:29.365 We need to hit up underworld contacts, squeeze people. 02:33:29.533 --> 02:33:32.285 Sure, why don't we just pick names out of a phone book? 02:33:32.453 --> 02:33:34.579 You forgot how we do things, Daniel. 02:33:34.747 --> 02:33:39.209 You've gone too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women. 02:33:39.376 --> 02:33:41.461 Okay, no. Listen, I've had it with that. 02:33:41.629 --> 02:33:43.671 God, who do you think you are, Rorschach? 02:33:43.839 --> 02:33:45.965 You live off people while insulting them... 02:33:46.133 --> 02:33:49.928 ...and no one complains because they think you're a goddamn lunatic. 02:34:01.899 --> 02:34:03.733 I'm sorry. 02:34:06.403 --> 02:34:08.571 I shouldn't have said that, man. 02:34:10.574 --> 02:34:11.908 Daniel... 02:34:13.410 --> 02:34:15.870 ...you are a good friend. 02:34:18.749 --> 02:34:21.918 I know it can be difficult with me sometimes. 02:34:28.425 --> 02:34:29.926 Forget it. 02:34:31.095 --> 02:34:32.762 It's okay, man. 02:34:34.014 --> 02:34:35.640 Let's do it your way. 02:34:46.860 --> 02:34:49.988 [WAYLON JENNINGS' "CLYDE" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS] 02:34:54.702 --> 02:34:55.994 Oh, God. 02:34:56.161 --> 02:35:00.540 Pyramid Transnational. Anyone heard of it? 02:35:08.007 --> 02:35:09.507 Oh, you bastards. 02:35:09.675 --> 02:35:12.760 I buy everyone a round and you sell me out like this? 02:35:13.971 --> 02:35:17.265 Back off, or I'll stick this glass in your squidgy face. 02:35:17.433 --> 02:35:18.808 [GRUNTS] 02:35:18.976 --> 02:35:21.894 Everybody stay calm. We'll try to keep this brief. 02:35:24.023 --> 02:35:26.190 Roy Chess. On Pyramid payroll. 02:35:26.358 --> 02:35:30.862 Tried to kill Adrian Veidt. Dead now. Did you know him? 02:35:31.030 --> 02:35:32.697 No. 02:35:32.865 --> 02:35:33.906 [MAN GROANING] 02:35:34.074 --> 02:35:35.325 Yeah, yeah! 02:35:35.492 --> 02:35:38.411 -I hired him. I knew him from the inside. -You're a felon. 02:35:38.579 --> 02:35:41.581 I was. I've been straight ever since I got out, I swear. 02:35:41.749 --> 02:35:45.460 I barely knew Chess that well, but I was told to hire from the old life. 02:35:45.627 --> 02:35:49.255 -Told by whom? -My contact, Miss Slater. 02:35:49.423 --> 02:35:52.008 Janey Slater works for Pyramid too? 02:35:52.176 --> 02:35:56.137 Yeah, she was real nice. She said hiring ex-cons was part of the company program. 02:35:56.305 --> 02:36:00.016 Give people a second chance. God, please let go! I'm telling the truth! 02:36:04.146 --> 02:36:07.398 Janey Slater, Manhattan's old girlfriend. 02:36:07.566 --> 02:36:10.276 Adrian might help us find out who's underwriting Pyramid. 02:36:10.444 --> 02:36:11.486 Follow the money. 02:36:11.653 --> 02:36:14.947 WOMAN [ON TV]: --former member of the Minutemen Hollis Mason found murdered... 02:36:15.115 --> 02:36:17.450 ...in his apartment less than an hour ago. 02:36:17.618 --> 02:36:21.704 Witnesses reported seeing members of a local gang known as the Knot-Tops... 02:36:21.872 --> 02:36:25.124 ...leaving the area right around the estimated time of death. 02:36:25.292 --> 02:36:28.252 Reporting live, Tiffany Burns.... 02:36:30.589 --> 02:36:33.591 -Who did it? -I knew you were gonna victimize me, man. 02:36:33.759 --> 02:36:35.885 What about my civil rights? Just because I'm wearing-- 02:36:36.053 --> 02:36:39.138 -Tell me who did it! -A lot of people dress like this. 02:36:40.474 --> 02:36:42.350 Who murdered Hollis Mason? 02:36:48.023 --> 02:36:50.316 You tell your friends they're dead. 02:36:50.484 --> 02:36:54.028 I'm gonna take out this entire rat hole neighborhood. 02:36:54.196 --> 02:36:56.697 I'll break your neck! 02:36:57.282 --> 02:37:00.284 Daniel, not in front of the civilians. 02:37:00.869 --> 02:37:03.663 Oh, goddamn. Goddamn, Hollis. 02:37:13.715 --> 02:37:16.884 JON: This is where we hold our conversation. 02:37:17.511 --> 02:37:21.389 In it, you reveal to me that you and Dreiberg have been sleeping together. 02:37:22.558 --> 02:37:25.935 -You know about me and Dan? -Not yet. 02:37:26.228 --> 02:37:29.063 But in a few moments you're going to tell me. 02:37:31.400 --> 02:37:36.446 If you already know the future, then why were you surprised when I left you? 02:37:36.613 --> 02:37:38.823 Or when that reporter ambushed you? 02:37:38.991 --> 02:37:42.618 Why even argue about it if you already know how this is gonna end? 02:37:43.787 --> 02:37:46.038 I have no choice. 02:37:47.374 --> 02:37:50.293 Everything is preordained. 02:37:50.461 --> 02:37:52.795 Even my responses. 02:37:53.755 --> 02:37:57.383 And you're just going through the motions. 02:37:57.551 --> 02:38:00.928 The most powerful thing in the universe is still just a puppet. 02:38:04.057 --> 02:38:06.726 We are all puppets, Laurie. 02:38:07.686 --> 02:38:10.188 I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. 02:38:10.355 --> 02:38:12.064 And what if you're wrong? 02:38:12.232 --> 02:38:16.736 Why does my perception of time distress you so? 02:38:16.904 --> 02:38:18.779 Because it's inhuman. 02:38:18.947 --> 02:38:21.365 Because it makes me insane. 02:38:21.533 --> 02:38:25.411 You always say you wanna comfort me. Well, it isn't working. 02:38:32.836 --> 02:38:35.338 Look, I don't wanna fight. 02:38:36.840 --> 02:38:39.592 I'm sorry I slept with Dan. 02:38:40.135 --> 02:38:42.178 You slept with Dan? 02:38:43.889 --> 02:38:46.891 You just said that you already knew about that. 02:38:47.601 --> 02:38:51.604 I said often... 02:38:52.272 --> 02:38:56.609 ...that you were my only remaining link to humanity. 02:38:59.029 --> 02:39:00.530 Why would I save a world... 02:39:00.697 --> 02:39:02.823 ...I no longer have any stake in? 02:39:04.952 --> 02:39:06.994 Then do it for me. 02:39:07.871 --> 02:39:09.288 If you really care. 02:39:09.456 --> 02:39:12.875 When you left me, I left Earth. 02:39:13.043 --> 02:39:15.962 Does that not show you that I care? 02:39:19.132 --> 02:39:22.093 My red world here, now... 02:39:23.095 --> 02:39:25.972 ...means more to me than your blue one. 02:39:26.765 --> 02:39:28.474 Let me show you. 02:39:46.618 --> 02:39:49.537 KISSINGER: Bombers are fueled and ready, sir. 02:39:58.880 --> 02:40:01.132 It's time, gentlemen. 02:40:03.218 --> 02:40:05.636 Take us to DEFCON one. 02:40:12.894 --> 02:40:16.022 RORSCHACH: Not in penthouse. Not in office. 02:40:16.189 --> 02:40:19.066 What nocturnal proclivities entice a man with everything... 02:40:19.234 --> 02:40:21.027 ...out into the night at this hour? 02:40:23.071 --> 02:40:24.947 Daniel? 02:40:26.199 --> 02:40:27.950 You with me? 02:40:28.744 --> 02:40:31.871 -Yeah. -Then what are you doing? 02:40:33.999 --> 02:40:35.750 DAN: I'm gonna look for Adrian's itinerary. 02:40:35.917 --> 02:40:38.711 RORSCHACH: Maybe he keeps on file. 02:40:43.216 --> 02:40:45.676 -Something's not right. -Agreed. 02:40:45.844 --> 02:40:50.598 Janey Slater, Moloch, Roy Chess all work for Pyramid. 02:40:50.766 --> 02:40:55.394 Moloch said the Comedian mentioned list with his and Slater's name on it. 02:40:55.562 --> 02:40:58.898 Whoever owns Pyramid could be giving these people cancer. 02:40:59.066 --> 02:41:01.525 Setting Manhattan up. 02:41:13.288 --> 02:41:14.747 [BEEPING] 02:41:15.666 --> 02:41:16.832 Funny. 02:41:17.000 --> 02:41:20.503 Ancient pharaohs looked forward to the end of the world. 02:41:20.671 --> 02:41:25.716 Believed cadavers would rise, reclaim hearts from golden jars. 02:41:26.343 --> 02:41:28.969 Must currently be holding breath in anticipation. 02:41:29.137 --> 02:41:30.388 Pharaohs? 02:41:33.266 --> 02:41:34.934 [COMPUTER BEEPING] 02:41:37.270 --> 02:41:39.271 Got a psych profile on Manhattan. 02:41:39.940 --> 02:41:42.400 See what the corporate head-peepers say. 02:41:44.444 --> 02:41:46.946 "Subject continues to retreat emotionally. 02:41:49.282 --> 02:41:52.326 If the only remaining ties were to be severed... 02:41:52.953 --> 02:41:56.914 ...we predict total detachment from the human condition." 02:42:01.002 --> 02:42:02.795 DAN: I'm in. 02:42:31.658 --> 02:42:32.992 No. 02:42:35.162 --> 02:42:40.916 MAN: Congratulations, Mr. Veidt. Dr. Manhattan's energy reactor is online. 02:42:41.084 --> 02:42:44.962 Your support and your enthusiasm... 02:42:45.130 --> 02:42:47.423 ...is what has led to this triumph. 02:42:47.591 --> 02:42:51.635 On behalf of the research team, we salute you. 02:42:51.803 --> 02:42:54.221 -Cheers. -Cheers. 02:42:55.015 --> 02:42:59.143 ADRIAN: What in life does not deserve celebrating? 02:43:00.061 --> 02:43:04.190 This is the new Karnak. 02:43:04.357 --> 02:43:07.943 This represents the culmination of a dream more than 2000 years old... 02:43:08.111 --> 02:43:14.366 ...a dream now assured because of your unquestioning assistance. 02:43:16.536 --> 02:43:18.204 And for this... 02:43:19.039 --> 02:43:21.373 ...I am ashamed... 02:43:22.542 --> 02:43:26.879 ...ashamed that you must now share such inadequate a reward. 02:43:28.548 --> 02:43:30.549 To the pharaohs... 02:43:31.468 --> 02:43:34.470 ...their greatest secrets entrusted to their servants... 02:43:35.096 --> 02:43:39.433 ...buried alive with them in sand-floored chambers. 02:43:40.310 --> 02:43:42.728 Sleep well, gentlemen. 02:43:43.396 --> 02:43:46.732 Our new, peaceful world will be indebted... 02:43:47.067 --> 02:43:49.610 ...to your great sacrifice. 02:43:50.570 --> 02:43:52.738 Bubastis. 02:43:56.910 --> 02:43:59.912 Rorschach's journal. Final entry. 02:44:00.247 --> 02:44:02.748 Veidt's behind everything. 02:44:02.916 --> 02:44:04.542 Why? 02:44:04.709 --> 02:44:06.752 What's his endgame? 02:44:06.920 --> 02:44:10.589 I cannot imagine a more dangerous opponent. 02:44:10.799 --> 02:44:14.260 Used to joke he was fast enough to catch a bullet. 02:44:14.427 --> 02:44:17.304 He could kill us both alone in the snow. 02:44:17.472 --> 02:44:21.183 That's where we're going now: Antarctica. 02:44:21.351 --> 02:44:24.103 Whether I'm alive or dead upon this reading... 02:44:24.271 --> 02:44:28.566 ...I hope the world survives long enough for this journal to reach you. 02:44:28.733 --> 02:44:31.277 I live my life free of compromise... 02:44:31.444 --> 02:44:35.406 ...and step into the shadow without complaint or regret. 02:44:36.032 --> 02:44:39.034 Rorschach, November 1st. 02:44:44.791 --> 02:44:47.209 Oh, God help us. 02:44:50.297 --> 02:44:52.715 -It's a little early for you, huh? -Yeah. 02:44:52.883 --> 02:44:55.134 I wanted to finish the story before school. 02:45:00.599 --> 02:45:04.059 Listen, now you just keep it, okay? 02:45:05.186 --> 02:45:07.813 -Huh? -It's yours. 02:45:07.981 --> 02:45:10.900 I mean, life's too short, right? 02:45:11.151 --> 02:45:12.484 Yeah. 02:45:12.819 --> 02:45:14.153 Uh.... 02:45:14.321 --> 02:45:15.905 Thanks, man. 02:45:29.169 --> 02:45:30.628 [MARINER SCREAMS] 02:45:41.348 --> 02:45:43.682 Why does death pass me by? 02:45:46.770 --> 02:45:48.437 Davidstown? 02:45:49.689 --> 02:45:51.398 Davidstown. 02:45:51.691 --> 02:45:54.109 I was only miles away. 02:45:54.277 --> 02:45:56.028 By now the town was overrun. 02:45:56.571 --> 02:45:59.615 The fiends imagined themselves safe from me. 02:45:59.783 --> 02:46:01.158 But now I was home. 02:46:01.326 --> 02:46:03.702 And revenge would be mine. 02:46:03.870 --> 02:46:05.871 [HORSE NEIGHS] 02:46:11.378 --> 02:46:14.088 No, not the brigands from the Black Freighter. 02:46:14.255 --> 02:46:17.383 The man I recognized, a moneylender from Davidstown. 02:46:17.759 --> 02:46:19.885 With Davidstown certainly captured... 02:46:20.053 --> 02:46:23.222 ...why would this scoundrel and his wench be allowed free passage... 02:46:23.390 --> 02:46:24.640 ...for this midnight tryst? 02:46:24.808 --> 02:46:26.058 Had he collaborated? 02:46:26.226 --> 02:46:27.643 Had he betrayed my people? 02:46:28.061 --> 02:46:30.813 -My family? WOMAN: Come and get it, babe. 02:46:31.272 --> 02:46:32.481 Here. 02:46:33.775 --> 02:46:35.985 [WOMAN MOANING] 02:46:36.569 --> 02:46:38.988 [GASPS AND SCREAMS] 02:46:41.574 --> 02:46:43.742 My heart grew cold. 02:46:43.910 --> 02:46:47.079 Was my wife comforted before her execution... 02:46:47.247 --> 02:46:51.291 ...while this collaborator and his pirate masters sneered? 02:46:51.751 --> 02:46:54.086 My decision was hurried, but not difficult. 02:46:54.254 --> 02:46:55.587 MAN: Who are you? What? 02:46:55.755 --> 02:46:57.506 [YELLING] 02:46:58.258 --> 02:47:01.760 His head burst, as if pressurized by the guilt within. 02:47:06.766 --> 02:47:07.850 [GASPS] 02:47:08.018 --> 02:47:09.768 [CHOKING] 02:47:11.312 --> 02:47:13.897 A buccaneer's whore deserves no pity. 02:47:18.028 --> 02:47:20.195 Two figures had ridden here. 02:47:20.363 --> 02:47:23.198 Two must ride back. 02:47:27.328 --> 02:47:29.747 A pirate sentry. 02:47:29.914 --> 02:47:34.001 I trotted unhurriedly to avoid suspicion. 02:47:34.961 --> 02:47:38.088 Their violation did not stop with the good people of Davidstown... 02:47:38.256 --> 02:47:42.426 ...but had cut deeply, infecting my beloved homeland. 02:47:42.594 --> 02:47:45.888 My Davidstown was not as I last saw it. 02:47:46.056 --> 02:47:49.975 Already it was afflicted with the curse of the Black Freighter. 02:47:50.143 --> 02:47:56.482 Soon, I would venture amongst evil men, butchers who now reside in my home... 02:47:56.649 --> 02:47:58.317 ...and make them fear me. 02:48:00.904 --> 02:48:05.824 Upon my return home, I found the streets conspicuously silent. 02:48:07.827 --> 02:48:10.662 I entered my former residence noiselessly. 02:48:11.331 --> 02:48:17.169 Careful not to rouse the pirate butchers occupying it from their debauched slumber. 02:48:23.009 --> 02:48:25.010 Unaware that death was amongst them... 02:48:25.345 --> 02:48:30.432 ...they would know its dark embrace without ever understanding why. 02:48:30.600 --> 02:48:33.644 One, however, was awake. Frantic. 02:48:33.812 --> 02:48:35.187 Lest he should raise alarms... 02:48:35.355 --> 02:48:39.149 ...I set upon him as he entered the night-wrapped chamber. 02:48:39.859 --> 02:48:41.902 No pirates come, but something worse. 02:48:42.070 --> 02:48:43.112 [GIRL GASPS] 02:48:43.571 --> 02:48:44.613 Father? 02:48:44.781 --> 02:48:49.409 I look up into faces familiar, save for their terror. 02:48:49.702 --> 02:48:53.038 Through puffed and bloodied lips, she mouthed my name. 02:48:53.206 --> 02:48:56.500 My love, why? 02:49:01.005 --> 02:49:06.510 There came an understanding so large it left no room for sanity. 02:49:07.303 --> 02:49:09.012 So I ran. 02:49:09.514 --> 02:49:11.390 MAN 1: What's happened to her? 02:49:12.267 --> 02:49:13.725 MAN 2: You. 02:49:15.061 --> 02:49:20.816 The knowledge of my damnation paced me, shouting, celebrating its awful victory. 02:49:20.984 --> 02:49:22.734 My deduction was flawless. 02:49:22.902 --> 02:49:24.987 The Black Freighter was heading to Davidstown. 02:49:25.155 --> 02:49:28.031 -It should have arrived. MAN 3: He went that way! 02:49:28.825 --> 02:49:32.369 LAURIE: Can't you just tell me how this ends and save us the trouble? 02:49:33.329 --> 02:49:35.247 JON: It ends with you in tears. 02:49:35.415 --> 02:49:39.001 Tears? So you don't come back to Earth. 02:49:39.169 --> 02:49:42.588 At some point, yes. 02:49:43.673 --> 02:49:46.592 The streets are filled with death. 02:49:46.759 --> 02:49:48.844 Jon, please. 02:49:49.012 --> 02:49:53.599 You have to stop this. Everyone will die. 02:49:53.766 --> 02:49:58.103 And the universe will not even notice. 02:50:00.523 --> 02:50:04.776 In my opinion, the existence of life... 02:50:05.612 --> 02:50:08.614 ...is a highly overrated phenomenon. 02:50:10.533 --> 02:50:12.826 Just look around you. 02:50:15.580 --> 02:50:19.917 Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a microorganism. 02:50:20.543 --> 02:50:25.130 Here, it's a constantly changing topographical map... 02:50:25.298 --> 02:50:31.220 ...flowing and shifting around the pole in ripples 10,000 years wide. 02:50:32.055 --> 02:50:33.555 So tell me... 02:50:33.723 --> 02:50:38.101 ...how would all of this be greatly improved by an oil pipeline? 02:50:38.561 --> 02:50:40.562 By a shopping mall? 02:50:44.901 --> 02:50:49.196 So it's too much to ask for a miracle? 02:50:49.364 --> 02:50:51.490 Miracles, by their definition, are meaningless. 02:50:51.658 --> 02:50:53.158 Oh, God, Jon! 02:50:53.326 --> 02:50:58.413 -Only what can happen does happen. -Just stop your bullshit. 02:50:59.499 --> 02:51:02.000 Land this thing. Now. 02:51:02.168 --> 02:51:04.753 JON: As you wish. 02:51:10.343 --> 02:51:11.426 LAURIE: You know what? 02:51:11.594 --> 02:51:14.304 You can send me back to Earth to fry with Dan and my mom... 02:51:14.472 --> 02:51:16.848 ...and all the other worthless humans. 02:51:17.016 --> 02:51:20.435 But know that you were wrong. You said this ended with me in tears... 02:51:20.603 --> 02:51:24.773 ...and look: nothing. Maybe you were wrong about everything. 02:51:24.941 --> 02:51:30.195 You complain that I refuse to see life on life's terms... 02:51:30.947 --> 02:51:34.700 ...yet you continuously refuse to see things from my perspective. 02:51:34.867 --> 02:51:39.288 -You shut out what you're afraid of. -I'm not afraid. 02:51:39.455 --> 02:51:44.501 You want me to see things your way? Go ahead, show me. Do that thing you do. 02:51:51.634 --> 02:51:56.722 Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it! 02:51:56.889 --> 02:51:59.975 It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about? 02:52:00.143 --> 02:52:02.269 I put food on the table for you and your child. 02:52:02.437 --> 02:52:05.230 Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life. 02:52:05.982 --> 02:52:08.692 SALLY: Even the grimy parts of it... 02:52:09.068 --> 02:52:11.278 ...keep on getting brighter. 02:52:11.612 --> 02:52:15.240 You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties. 02:52:15.408 --> 02:52:19.828 -You got her eyes, you know. You got-- -Take your hands off her. 02:52:19.996 --> 02:52:22.122 EDDIE: Hey, doll. Long time no see. 02:52:22.290 --> 02:52:25.083 Not long enough in my book, Eddie. Get in the car. 02:52:25.585 --> 02:52:27.419 Now. 02:52:28.421 --> 02:52:30.422 Are there no depths you won't sink to? 02:52:30.590 --> 02:52:34.426 Jesus Christ, Sally. Can't a guy talk to his... 02:52:35.094 --> 02:52:36.803 ...you know, old friend's daughter? 02:52:39.098 --> 02:52:40.432 Drive. 02:52:46.439 --> 02:52:49.274 SALLY: It was a mistake. One time. 02:52:49.567 --> 02:52:52.736 Guy tries to rape you, and years later, you let him finish the job? 02:52:52.945 --> 02:52:55.655 What? Were you drunk or just lonely? 02:52:55.823 --> 02:52:58.784 Am I ever gonna live this down? 02:53:02.121 --> 02:53:03.288 Laurie. 02:53:08.127 --> 02:53:09.461 No. 02:53:11.464 --> 02:53:13.965 No, not him. 02:53:14.133 --> 02:53:16.259 The Comedian... 02:53:16.636 --> 02:53:18.762 ...was your father. 02:53:20.223 --> 02:53:21.932 No. 02:53:25.228 --> 02:53:30.941 No! No! No! 02:53:31.734 --> 02:53:34.653 [CRACKING] 02:54:03.516 --> 02:54:05.517 My life is just... 02:54:06.185 --> 02:54:08.353 ...one big joke. 02:54:08.521 --> 02:54:11.064 I don't think your life is a joke. 02:54:12.692 --> 02:54:14.693 Yeah, well... 02:54:16.529 --> 02:54:20.699 ...I'm sorry if I don't trust your sense of humor. 02:54:28.875 --> 02:54:30.542 Will you smile... 02:54:32.211 --> 02:54:34.713 ...if I admit I was wrong? 02:54:37.550 --> 02:54:39.551 LAURIE: About what? 02:54:41.554 --> 02:54:43.054 Miracles. 02:54:44.724 --> 02:54:47.893 Events with astronomical odds of occurring... 02:54:48.728 --> 02:54:51.229 ...like oxygen turning into gold. 02:54:51.397 --> 02:54:56.234 I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect... 02:54:56.903 --> 02:54:59.279 ...that in human coupling... 02:55:00.072 --> 02:55:03.950 ...millions upon millions of cells compete to create life... 02:55:04.410 --> 02:55:07.245 ...for generation after generation... 02:55:08.080 --> 02:55:11.166 ...until finally, your mother... 02:55:11.542 --> 02:55:12.751 ...loves a man... 02:55:13.377 --> 02:55:16.963 ...Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate... 02:55:17.131 --> 02:55:21.134 ...and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds... 02:55:21.802 --> 02:55:23.720 ...it's you-- 02:55:25.431 --> 02:55:26.765 Only... 02:55:27.433 --> 02:55:28.934 ...you. 02:55:29.769 --> 02:55:31.061 --that emerged. 02:55:31.604 --> 02:55:36.107 To distill so specific a form... 02:55:36.275 --> 02:55:38.568 ...from all that chaos... 02:55:40.446 --> 02:55:43.448 ...is like turning air into gold. 02:55:47.787 --> 02:55:49.788 A miracle. 02:55:53.292 --> 02:55:54.793 And so... 02:55:55.294 --> 02:55:57.128 ...I was wrong. 02:55:59.131 --> 02:56:02.968 Now dry your eyes, and let's go home. 02:56:30.496 --> 02:56:34.541 We got a bearing on that artificial structure. Heat signature's off the charts. 02:56:35.501 --> 02:56:38.628 -Veidt. -I don't like the way Archie's kicking. 02:56:47.013 --> 02:56:49.848 -The engines. -They're icing up. Hold onto something. 02:56:50.641 --> 02:56:52.684 Daniel, you're coming in too low. 02:56:55.521 --> 02:56:58.690 Don't wish to interfere, but perhaps should pull up sharply-- 02:56:58.858 --> 02:57:02.819 I know! I'm trying. I'm trying to pull him up, goddamn it! 02:57:30.056 --> 02:57:33.725 DAN: I'm gonna redirect the heat from the flamethrower to speed up deicing... 02:57:33.893 --> 02:57:36.728 ...but it's gonna take a while and we don't have time to wait. 02:57:38.230 --> 02:57:39.731 You need something warmer. 02:57:40.232 --> 02:57:42.400 Fine like this. 02:58:10.680 --> 02:58:11.763 [BUBASTIS GROWLS] 02:58:11.931 --> 02:58:13.765 What is it, girl? 02:58:16.102 --> 02:58:17.769 Mm. 02:58:43.379 --> 02:58:45.630 DAN: Adrian's a pacifist. 02:58:45.840 --> 02:58:50.468 He's a vegetarian, for chrissakes. He's never killed anyone in his life. 02:58:50.636 --> 02:58:52.053 Hitler was vegetarian. 02:58:52.221 --> 02:58:56.766 You're squeamish, leave him to me. We won't get second chance. 02:59:02.148 --> 02:59:05.817 [CHATTERING ON TVS] 03:00:08.005 --> 03:00:09.339 Gentlemen. 03:00:09.840 --> 03:00:13.760 -Welcome. -Adrian, we know everything. 03:00:13.928 --> 03:00:15.720 Then what's there to discuss, Dan? 03:00:15.888 --> 03:00:18.890 Plenty. You killed Comedian. 03:00:19.058 --> 03:00:20.558 May he rest in peace. 03:00:21.060 --> 03:00:23.686 Blake figured it out first. 03:00:23.854 --> 03:00:27.899 Nixon had him keeping tabs on us, making sure we weren't rocking the boat. 03:00:28.859 --> 03:00:31.110 Blake found out what I was doing here in Karnak... 03:00:31.278 --> 03:00:35.365 ...and by the time he visited poor Moloch, he was cracking badly. 03:00:35.533 --> 03:00:38.785 Even I couldn't predict he'd be the one to have a change of heart. 03:00:39.537 --> 03:00:41.079 So... 03:00:42.081 --> 03:00:44.040 ...I had to kill him. 03:00:44.583 --> 03:00:48.378 Then I neutralized Jon. No easy task. 03:00:48.546 --> 03:00:51.005 I put roughly $2 billion into tachyon research... 03:00:51.173 --> 03:00:53.216 ...to block Jon's vision of the future. 03:00:53.384 --> 03:00:55.635 RORSCHACH: You used his psych profile to manipulate him. 03:00:56.136 --> 03:00:57.595 Got him to leave the planet. 03:00:57.763 --> 03:01:01.182 I've known Jon long enough to see he isn't devoid of emotion. 03:01:01.350 --> 03:01:05.270 His subtle facial twitches wouldn't be noticed by the layman, but to me... 03:01:05.437 --> 03:01:07.272 ...he might as well have been sobbing. 03:01:07.606 --> 03:01:10.775 All I needed to do was tug on the thread. 03:01:10.943 --> 03:01:12.819 The sudden flood of emotion Jon felt... 03:01:12.987 --> 03:01:16.614 ...when he came to believe he'd given cancer to the people he loved... 03:01:16.782 --> 03:01:18.908 ...was all the excuse he needed to leave Earth. 03:01:19.076 --> 03:01:22.912 DAN: Your bullshit assassin. You paid him to throw us off. 03:01:23.080 --> 03:01:27.750 ADRIAN: Mr. Chess gave his life in the service of a higher cause, Dan. 03:01:29.879 --> 03:01:32.964 I put a cyanide capsule in his mouth... 03:01:33.132 --> 03:01:35.758 ...leaving only one loose end: 03:01:36.343 --> 03:01:39.804 You, and your mask-killer theory... 03:01:39.972 --> 03:01:43.099 ...one you followed with the tenacity of a true sociopath. 03:01:43.267 --> 03:01:44.976 I tipped off the police. 03:01:45.144 --> 03:01:47.520 Once you were in prison, I was able to move forward. 03:01:47.688 --> 03:01:50.315 RORSCHACH: Sorry to disappoint you. 03:02:03.495 --> 03:02:05.997 DAN: We were supposed to make the world a better place. 03:02:06.165 --> 03:02:07.874 ADRIAN: Dan, that's exactly what I am doing. 03:02:08.042 --> 03:02:09.375 DAN: Nuclear war? 03:02:09.543 --> 03:02:11.711 Human extinction? 03:02:21.347 --> 03:02:26.267 ADRIAN: Of course, my moral safeguards gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice. 03:02:26.435 --> 03:02:29.395 A few key regions around the globe-- 03:02:29.563 --> 03:02:35.026 New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Hong Kong. 03:02:35.194 --> 03:02:36.861 --disintegrated in an instant. 03:02:37.613 --> 03:02:40.949 Fifteen million people killed... 03:02:41.116 --> 03:02:43.201 ...by Dr. Manhattan himself. 03:02:44.370 --> 03:02:47.205 The world's punishment for flirting with World War III. 03:02:47.373 --> 03:02:48.498 Jon wouldn't do that. 03:02:49.041 --> 03:02:51.751 A fact no one outside this room ever has to know. 03:02:52.378 --> 03:02:56.214 The energy breakthrough I was working on just came to fruition. 03:02:56.799 --> 03:03:00.802 All these years, Jon was helping me replicate his power... 03:03:00.970 --> 03:03:03.513 ...unaware of how I planned to use it. 03:03:03.681 --> 03:03:05.682 You see... 03:03:06.558 --> 03:03:08.977 ...the Comedian was right. 03:03:09.687 --> 03:03:14.691 Humanity's savage nature will inevitably lead to global annihilation. 03:03:14.858 --> 03:03:17.652 So in order to save this planet... 03:03:17.903 --> 03:03:19.988 ...I had to trick it... 03:03:20.364 --> 03:03:24.409 ...with the greatest practical joke in human history. 03:03:24.660 --> 03:03:28.079 -Killing millions. -To save billions. 03:03:28.580 --> 03:03:30.581 A necessary crime. 03:03:30.749 --> 03:03:32.917 RORSCHACH: You know we can't let you do that. 03:03:34.336 --> 03:03:36.462 "Do that," Rorschach? 03:03:36.630 --> 03:03:38.256 I'm not a comic-book villain. 03:03:39.091 --> 03:03:41.384 Do you think I'd explain my masterstroke to you... 03:03:41.552 --> 03:03:45.722 ...if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? 03:03:48.434 --> 03:03:51.269 I triggered it 35 minutes ago. 03:04:15.419 --> 03:04:20.840 MARINER: Eventually, I came to a dismal black ocean stretching endlessly before me. 03:04:21.592 --> 03:04:24.969 How had I reached this appalling position with love... 03:04:25.137 --> 03:04:28.139 ...only love, as my guide? 03:04:29.767 --> 03:04:32.852 The moneylender floated at my feet. 03:04:33.020 --> 03:04:35.813 Noble intentions had led me to atrocity. 03:04:35.981 --> 03:04:42.195 The righteous anger fueling my ingenious, awful scheme was but delusion. 03:04:42.362 --> 03:04:44.322 Where was my error? 03:04:44.740 --> 03:04:49.827 Planning to resume my flight, I raised my head and saw her. 03:04:52.122 --> 03:04:56.542 The vessel seemed to be waiting, not hovering to strike. 03:04:56.710 --> 03:05:00.880 And, gradually, I understood what innocent intent had brought me to... 03:05:01.799 --> 03:05:04.509 ...and waded out beyond my depth. 03:05:05.677 --> 03:05:08.679 The unspeakable truth loomed unavoidably before me... 03:05:08.847 --> 03:05:11.724 ...as I swam towards the anchored Freighter. 03:05:11.892 --> 03:05:16.229 Its dark and lurching mast filled all my vision. 03:05:16.396 --> 03:05:19.357 All my well-meaning plans had come to this. 03:05:19.525 --> 03:05:23.319 The world I tried to save was lost beyond recall. 03:05:24.196 --> 03:05:26.030 A rope snaked down. 03:05:26.198 --> 03:05:28.366 Sputtering, I grabbed it. 03:05:28.534 --> 03:05:31.202 And from the decks above, a cheer went up... 03:05:31.370 --> 03:05:35.748 ...both gross and black, its stench affronting heaven. 03:05:38.544 --> 03:05:40.920 There had been no plan to capture Davidstown. 03:05:41.755 --> 03:05:45.800 They'd come to wait until they could collect the only prize they valued. 03:05:47.010 --> 03:05:50.138 Claim the only soul they truly wanted. 03:05:50.305 --> 03:05:52.640 [PIRATES SNARLING] 03:05:56.145 --> 03:05:58.229 I was a horror. 03:05:59.064 --> 03:06:02.400 Amongst horrors must I dwell. 03:06:11.910 --> 03:06:15.913 -Man, this shit don't make no sense. -You're telling me. 03:06:17.249 --> 03:06:20.585 Sorry, but you can keep this garbage. Wasting all my damn time. 03:06:20.752 --> 03:06:23.921 Hey, hey. You know, all this time you've been coming here... 03:06:24.089 --> 03:06:25.590 ...I never caught your name. 03:06:27.301 --> 03:06:30.303 -Bernard. -Bernard? You're kidding. 03:06:30.470 --> 03:06:34.557 That's-- Heh. That's my name too. 03:06:35.184 --> 03:06:38.436 Not that big a deal. There's lots of people called Bernard. 03:06:38.604 --> 03:06:40.938 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 03:08:03.647 --> 03:08:06.649 Jesus Christ, Henry. 03:08:06.817 --> 03:08:09.026 Why the hell didn't we get a launch detection? 03:08:10.904 --> 03:08:15.366 It's not the Soviets, sir. 03:08:15.909 --> 03:08:19.078 Intel indicates the energy signature... 03:08:19.246 --> 03:08:21.706 ...was generated by... 03:08:22.666 --> 03:08:25.084 ...Dr. Manhattan. 03:08:27.921 --> 03:08:29.505 Jon. 03:08:32.509 --> 03:08:33.634 Interference. 03:08:34.219 --> 03:08:36.137 Cataclysmic interference. 03:08:45.856 --> 03:08:48.607 LAURIE: I can't believe it happened. 03:08:49.609 --> 03:08:53.112 This wasn't caused by nuclear warheads. 03:08:57.200 --> 03:08:58.492 It was me. 03:09:00.537 --> 03:09:02.121 I... 03:09:02.706 --> 03:09:03.748 ...did this. 03:09:04.374 --> 03:09:07.835 -What do you mean, you did this? -Not directly. 03:09:08.795 --> 03:09:11.505 It was made to look like I did it. 03:09:14.551 --> 03:09:15.968 Adrian. 03:09:22.267 --> 03:09:24.268 Speak of the devil. 03:09:27.397 --> 03:09:28.439 DAN: Jon-- JON: I know. 03:09:28.607 --> 03:09:30.775 RORSCHACH: Must stop him. Killed Blake, killed millions. 03:09:30.942 --> 03:09:32.276 Wait here. 03:09:43.413 --> 03:09:45.790 Adrian, stop this. 03:09:47.250 --> 03:09:49.126 The tachyons were clever... 03:09:50.253 --> 03:09:54.590 ...but even if I can't predict where you are, I can turn the walls to glass. 03:09:55.926 --> 03:09:58.386 I should thank you. 03:09:59.554 --> 03:10:02.765 I'd almost forgotten the excitement of not knowing... 03:10:03.767 --> 03:10:06.769 ...the delights of uncertainty. 03:10:10.941 --> 03:10:12.608 Forgive me, girl. 03:10:33.130 --> 03:10:34.588 [GUN COCKS] 03:10:35.549 --> 03:10:37.258 You're such an asshole. 03:11:07.622 --> 03:11:08.873 [GASPS] 03:11:11.209 --> 03:11:13.127 DAN: Veidt, you bastard. 03:11:13.295 --> 03:11:15.754 -If you've hurt her, I'll-- -Dan... 03:11:17.507 --> 03:11:22.094 ...grow up. My new world demands less obvious heroism. 03:11:22.262 --> 03:11:24.263 Your... 03:11:24.431 --> 03:11:29.393 ...schoolboy heroics are redundant. What have they achieved? 03:11:31.021 --> 03:11:33.898 Failing to prevent Earth's salvation... 03:11:34.858 --> 03:11:37.234 ...is your only triumph. 03:11:37.444 --> 03:11:39.361 JON: I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. 03:11:40.155 --> 03:11:43.657 I'm very disappointed. 03:11:56.046 --> 03:11:59.215 Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. 03:11:59.883 --> 03:12:02.259 It didn't kill Osterman. 03:12:04.888 --> 03:12:07.264 Did you really think it would kill me? 03:12:08.558 --> 03:12:11.727 I have walked across the surface of the sun. 03:12:12.229 --> 03:12:15.397 I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast... 03:12:15.565 --> 03:12:18.609 ...they can hardly be said to have occurred at all... 03:12:18.777 --> 03:12:22.446 ...but you, Adrian, you're just a man. 03:12:23.573 --> 03:12:26.075 The world's smartest man... 03:12:26.368 --> 03:12:28.786 ...poses no more threat to me... 03:12:28.954 --> 03:12:32.122 ...than does its smartest termite. 03:12:34.376 --> 03:12:35.834 What's that? 03:12:36.253 --> 03:12:38.128 Another ultimate weapon? 03:12:38.755 --> 03:12:40.464 Yes. 03:12:42.092 --> 03:12:43.551 You could say that. 03:12:47.097 --> 03:12:49.014 --came under attack. 03:12:49.849 --> 03:12:53.185 Millions of lives were suddenly ended... 03:12:53.520 --> 03:12:58.732 ...in an act of evil perpetrated by Dr. Manhattan himself. 03:13:00.527 --> 03:13:04.488 Since the attacks, I have been in constant contact... 03:13:04.656 --> 03:13:07.658 ...with the premier of the U.S.S.R. 03:13:08.034 --> 03:13:10.869 Putting aside our past differences... 03:13:11.204 --> 03:13:13.372 ...we have both pledged to unite... 03:13:13.707 --> 03:13:17.042 ...against this common enemy. 03:13:17.544 --> 03:13:19.545 With the rest of the world... 03:13:20.005 --> 03:13:22.006 ...we will prevail. 03:13:24.551 --> 03:13:27.553 This is a day we shall never forget. 03:13:27.721 --> 03:13:31.932 And yet we go forward to defend the human race... 03:13:32.100 --> 03:13:36.729 ...and all that is good and just in our world. 03:13:38.064 --> 03:13:42.318 Thank you. God bless us all. 03:13:42.694 --> 03:13:44.486 ADRIAN: Do you see? 03:13:46.698 --> 03:13:49.158 Two superpowers retreating from war. 03:13:50.744 --> 03:13:53.203 I've saved the earth from hell. 03:13:53.371 --> 03:13:55.331 We both have. 03:13:55.790 --> 03:13:58.000 This is as much your victory as it is mine. 03:14:02.797 --> 03:14:04.298 Now we can return... 03:14:05.717 --> 03:14:07.301 ...do what we were meant to. 03:14:07.552 --> 03:14:10.429 We were meant to exact justice. 03:14:10.764 --> 03:14:14.099 -Everyone's gonna know what you've done. -Will they? 03:14:14.267 --> 03:14:19.063 By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today. 03:14:19.230 --> 03:14:22.691 -Peace based on a lie. -But peace... 03:14:22.859 --> 03:14:25.069 -...nonetheless. -He's right. 03:14:25.612 --> 03:14:29.573 Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to nuclear destruction again. 03:14:29.741 --> 03:14:32.618 No. We can't do this. 03:14:32.786 --> 03:14:34.578 On Mars... 03:14:36.081 --> 03:14:37.915 ...you taught me the value of life. 03:14:38.875 --> 03:14:41.293 If we hope to preserve it here... 03:14:42.087 --> 03:14:44.129 ...we must remain silent. 03:14:47.967 --> 03:14:49.927 Keep your own secrets. 03:14:56.768 --> 03:14:57.976 Don't even think about it. 03:15:00.605 --> 03:15:02.314 Rorschach. 03:15:04.109 --> 03:15:05.609 Wait. 03:15:06.653 --> 03:15:08.779 Never compromise. 03:15:09.114 --> 03:15:11.990 Not even in the face of armageddon. 03:15:12.409 --> 03:15:15.411 That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. 03:15:26.464 --> 03:15:29.967 I've made myself feel every death... 03:15:31.469 --> 03:15:37.349 ...see every innocent face I've murdered to save humanity. 03:15:42.939 --> 03:15:46.650 -You understand, don't you? JON: Without condoning... 03:15:48.319 --> 03:15:50.195 ...or condemning... 03:15:54.617 --> 03:15:56.535 ...I understand. 03:16:03.960 --> 03:16:07.087 Out of my way. People have to be told. 03:16:07.964 --> 03:16:09.882 You know I can't let you do that. 03:16:11.134 --> 03:16:14.136 Suddenly you discover humanity? 03:16:15.555 --> 03:16:17.389 Convenient. 03:16:26.107 --> 03:16:30.694 If you'd cared from the start, none of this would have happened. 03:16:34.449 --> 03:16:37.409 I can change almost anything... 03:16:41.998 --> 03:16:44.333 ...but I can't change human nature. 03:16:45.668 --> 03:16:49.046 Of course you must protect Veidt's new utopia. 03:16:50.340 --> 03:16:53.675 What's one more body amongst foundations? 03:16:59.849 --> 03:17:01.725 Well, what are you waiting for? 03:17:05.188 --> 03:17:07.022 Do it. 03:17:13.112 --> 03:17:14.154 Do it! 03:17:16.866 --> 03:17:20.244 No! 03:17:37.720 --> 03:17:43.475 JON: I'm leaving this galaxy for one a little less complicated. 03:17:43.643 --> 03:17:46.144 LAURIE: I thought you said you cared about life again. 03:17:46.312 --> 03:17:47.729 JON: I do. 03:17:49.065 --> 03:17:51.942 I think maybe I'll create some. 03:17:56.072 --> 03:17:58.407 Goodbye, Laurie. 03:18:18.303 --> 03:18:21.513 [DAN YELLING] 03:18:33.651 --> 03:18:34.818 Come on. 03:18:37.280 --> 03:18:38.864 Come on! 03:18:43.286 --> 03:18:44.620 Dan... 03:18:45.079 --> 03:18:47.831 ...a world united and at peace. 03:18:48.708 --> 03:18:49.917 There had to be sacrifice. 03:18:50.084 --> 03:18:54.463 No! You haven't idealized mankind, you've deformed it. 03:18:54.631 --> 03:18:56.381 You've mutilated it. 03:18:56.758 --> 03:18:58.926 That's your legacy. 03:19:07.477 --> 03:19:10.270 That's the real practical joke. 03:20:02.865 --> 03:20:06.868 MAN [ON TV]: We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. 03:20:07.036 --> 03:20:10.497 You are about to participate in a great adventure. 03:20:10.665 --> 03:20:13.834 You are about to experience the awe and mystery... 03:20:14.002 --> 03:20:19.798 ...which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits. 03:20:21.009 --> 03:20:23.218 SALLY: Sure you don't want a drink? 03:20:24.220 --> 03:20:25.262 I'm okay. 03:20:26.305 --> 03:20:27.556 Cheers. 03:20:28.975 --> 03:20:32.102 There's something I need to get off my chest. 03:20:33.396 --> 03:20:35.897 I know that Eddie Blake was my father. 03:20:38.901 --> 03:20:40.652 Laurel. 03:20:41.654 --> 03:20:43.989 What you must think of me. 03:20:44.824 --> 03:20:47.367 I'm sorry I never told you. 03:20:47.535 --> 03:20:49.327 I should have... 03:20:49.495 --> 03:20:53.623 ...but I don't know, I just felt ashamed. I felt stupid. 03:20:53.791 --> 03:20:55.751 It doesn't matter. 03:20:56.586 --> 03:21:01.840 People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things... 03:21:02.425 --> 03:21:05.343 ...and, well, sometimes they can't talk about them. 03:21:05.511 --> 03:21:07.846 I know how that is... 03:21:08.598 --> 03:21:11.183 ...but I just want you to know... 03:21:11.768 --> 03:21:14.603 ...that you never did anything wrong by me. 03:21:18.775 --> 03:21:23.028 You asked me why I wasn't mad at him. 03:21:24.614 --> 03:21:27.115 Because he gave me you. 03:21:32.121 --> 03:21:33.205 Thanks, Mom. 03:21:35.958 --> 03:21:37.751 I love you. 03:21:45.301 --> 03:21:49.513 -Hello, Miss Jupiter. -Oh, Sally, please. 03:21:51.140 --> 03:21:55.727 Excuse me. Gotta go freshen up. I'll be right back. 03:22:06.239 --> 03:22:10.408 -So how's it going up here? -Good. How's it going down there? 03:22:10.576 --> 03:22:14.079 Good. I think I've got everything working. 03:22:14.247 --> 03:22:18.875 All of Archie's systems are upgraded. Finished the tinkering for now... 03:22:19.043 --> 03:22:21.294 ...so all we gotta do is take her out. 03:22:21.462 --> 03:22:24.548 Well, that sounds like a date. 03:22:35.852 --> 03:22:38.103 Are we gonna be all right? 03:22:40.189 --> 03:22:44.484 Long as people think Jon's still watching us, we'll be all right... 03:22:44.694 --> 03:22:46.570 ...in the end. 03:22:48.197 --> 03:22:50.365 I know what Jon would say: 03:22:50.533 --> 03:22:52.576 Nothing ends. 03:22:54.453 --> 03:22:57.080 Nothing ever ends. 03:23:44.420 --> 03:23:48.173 Seymour, we got nothing to write about anymore. 03:23:48.341 --> 03:23:49.716 Everyone in the country... 03:23:49.884 --> 03:23:52.135 ...every country in the world are holding hands... 03:23:52.303 --> 03:23:55.597 ...and singing songs about peace and love. 03:23:56.098 --> 03:23:58.975 It's like living in a goddamn global hippie commune. 03:23:59.143 --> 03:24:03.063 Well, Ronald Reagan says he's gonna be running for president in '88. 03:24:03.231 --> 03:24:05.065 We could run a piece on that. 03:24:05.233 --> 03:24:08.401 Seymour, we don't dignify absurdities with coverage. 03:24:08.569 --> 03:24:12.405 This is still America, damn it. Who wants a cowboy in the White House? 03:24:13.157 --> 03:24:17.369 Okay. I could look for something in the crank file. 03:24:17.536 --> 03:24:19.162 Crank file. 03:24:19.330 --> 03:24:21.331 Whatever. Take some initiative. 03:24:21.499 --> 03:24:24.125 Run whatever you like. I leave it entirely in your hands. 03:24:30.633 --> 03:24:35.345 Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. 03:24:35.513 --> 03:24:39.975 Tonight, a comedian died in New York. 03:35:20.741 --> 03:35:22.742 [ENGLISH SDH] 03:35:22.766 --> 03:35:33.766 Telegram Channel and Instagram Page .:: @bollbolljan_com ::.