1
00:00:05,135 --> 00:00:10,096
[female announcer]
<i>Oh, how the ghost
of you clings... Nostalgia...</i>

2
00:00:10,270 --> 00:00:11,924
[male tv show announcer]
<i>Coming up
on the Benny Anger show,</i>

3
00:00:12,098 --> 00:00:14,100
<i>crime and punishment in America</i>

4
00:00:14,274 --> 00:00:17,016
<i>since the Keene Act
banned masked vigilantes,</i>

5
00:00:17,190 --> 00:00:19,714
<i>but first, we ask
the average citizen,</i>

6
00:00:19,888 --> 00:00:24,545
<i>"Is our society now safer
without those so-called
superheroes?"</i>

7
00:00:24,719 --> 00:00:26,417
[average citizen 1]
<i>I don't miss the masks.</i>

8
00:00:26,591 --> 00:00:29,072
<i>They stirred up more trouble
than they were worth.</i>

9
00:00:29,246 --> 00:00:31,161
[average citizen 2] <i>The only
good ones were the Minutemen
back in the '40s.</i>

10
00:00:31,335 --> 00:00:33,380
[average citizen 3]
<i>The blue guy, Manhattan,
he scares me,</i>

11
00:00:33,554 --> 00:00:36,296
<i>but, but then he scares
the Reds too,
so I ain't complainin'.</i>

12
00:00:36,470 --> 00:00:39,256
[average citizen 4]
<i>Meh, America never really
took to superheroes.</i>

13
00:00:39,430 --> 00:00:42,824
[echoing]
<i>Took to superheroes,
took to superheroes.</i>

14
00:02:27,755 --> 00:02:28,800
[Rorschach]
<i>Rorschach's Journal.</i>

15
00:02:28,974 --> 00:02:30,932
<i>October 12th, 1985.</i>

16
00:02:31,106 --> 00:02:32,978
<i>Dog carcass in alley
this morning,</i>

17
00:02:33,152 --> 00:02:35,241
<i>tire tread on burst stomach.</i>

18
00:02:35,415 --> 00:02:39,463
<i>This city is afraid of me.
I have seen its true face.</i>

19
00:02:42,553 --> 00:02:44,381
<i>The streets
are extended gutters,</i>

20
00:02:44,555 --> 00:02:46,383
<i>and the gutters
are full of blood,</i>

21
00:02:46,557 --> 00:02:49,081
<i>and when the drains
finally scab over,</i>

22
00:02:49,255 --> 00:02:50,604
<i>all the vermin will drown.</i>

23
00:02:50,778 --> 00:02:51,953
[restaurant cook]
Hey! What are ya, blind?

24
00:02:52,127 --> 00:02:53,868
You're walkin'
through blood here!

25
00:02:54,042 --> 00:02:55,479
<i>The accumulated filth
of all their sex and murder</i>

26
00:02:55,653 --> 00:02:58,090
<i>will foam up about their waists</i>

27
00:02:58,264 --> 00:03:01,224
<i>and all the whores
and politicians will
look up and shout,</i>

28
00:03:01,398 --> 00:03:02,790
<i>save us!</i>

29
00:03:02,964 --> 00:03:06,098
<i>And I'll look down
and whisper, no.</i>

30
00:03:06,272 --> 00:03:08,100
<i>They had a choice.</i>

31
00:03:08,274 --> 00:03:10,102
<i>They could have followed
in the footsteps of good men.</i>

32
00:03:10,276 --> 00:03:13,758
<i>Decent men who believed in
a day's work for a day's pay.</i>

33
00:03:13,932 --> 00:03:17,805
<i>Instead, they followed
the droppings of lechers
and communists.</i>

34
00:03:17,979 --> 00:03:20,504
<i>Now the whole world stands
on the brink,</i>

35
00:03:20,678 --> 00:03:23,028
<i>staring down into bloody hell,</i>

36
00:03:23,202 --> 00:03:25,987
<i>all those intellectuals
and smooth talkers...</i>

37
00:03:26,161 --> 00:03:29,382
<i>And all of a sudden nobody can
think of anything to say.</i>

38
00:03:29,556 --> 00:03:32,907
[Bourquin]
Hmm, that's quite a drop.

39
00:03:33,081 --> 00:03:35,475
So what do you think
happened here?

40
00:03:35,649 --> 00:03:37,651
[Fine] Door chain was fastened
on the inside.

41
00:03:37,825 --> 00:03:40,132
Busting it down would
take two guys.

42
00:03:40,306 --> 00:03:42,526
<i>Or one guy on serious drugs.</i>

43
00:03:43,701 --> 00:03:45,659
[Bourquin] <i>I saw the body.</i>

44
00:03:45,833 --> 00:03:49,272
<i>This Blake guy looked beefy
enough to protect himself.</i>

45
00:03:49,446 --> 00:03:51,230
<i>Muscles like a weight lifter.</i>

46
00:03:51,404 --> 00:03:54,277
<i>He would've put up
some kind of fight.</i>

47
00:03:54,451 --> 00:03:58,672
Maybe it was a couple
of Knot-Tops and they just
overpowered him.

48
00:04:02,415 --> 00:04:07,333
Background report said
he's been doing overseas
diplomatic work for years...

49
00:04:07,507 --> 00:04:09,988
Lotta classy expense
account living.

50
00:04:10,162 --> 00:04:12,773
Maybe he just got soft.

51
00:04:12,947 --> 00:04:15,080
[both grunting]

52
00:04:17,343 --> 00:04:19,432
[Bourquin] He don't look
too soft in this photo.

53
00:04:19,606 --> 00:04:21,565
Wonder how he got that scar.

54
00:04:21,739 --> 00:04:24,307
Oh, he's shaking hands
with Vice President Ford here.

55
00:04:24,481 --> 00:04:26,265
I think we can rule him out
as a suspect.

56
00:04:26,439 --> 00:04:27,962
Oh, ha ha.

57
00:04:28,136 --> 00:04:30,965
That'd be funny if we had
any better leads to go on.

58
00:04:31,966 --> 00:04:33,533
I mean, what is this?

59
00:04:33,707 --> 00:04:35,187
<i>A little money stolen,</i>

60
00:04:35,361 --> 00:04:37,711
<i>but no way is this
a straight burglary.</i>

61
00:04:40,061 --> 00:04:42,760
Ah, somebody really
had it in for this guy.

62
00:04:42,934 --> 00:04:44,457
How else did he go
outta the window?

63
00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:47,721
Maybe he tripped against it.

64
00:04:52,160 --> 00:04:53,640
That's strong glass, man.

65
00:04:53,814 --> 00:04:55,163
<i>You'd have to be thrown.</i>

66
00:04:59,254 --> 00:05:01,169
Ground floor comin' up.

67
00:05:07,524 --> 00:05:10,831
Y'know, this could be
just a simple burglary.

68
00:05:11,005 --> 00:05:13,268
Crazy things happen
in a city this size.

69
00:05:13,443 --> 00:05:16,097
They don't all need motives.

70
00:05:16,271 --> 00:05:17,664
So you're saying...

71
00:05:17,838 --> 00:05:21,059
Let's not raise too much dust
over this one.

72
00:05:21,233 --> 00:05:24,628
We don't need any
masked avengers cutting in.

73
00:05:24,802 --> 00:05:26,194
Oy! Here we go!

74
00:05:26,369 --> 00:05:28,632
You take this vigilante
stuff too seriously.

75
00:05:28,806 --> 00:05:31,025
Ever since the
Keene Act passed in '77,

76
00:05:31,199 --> 00:05:34,377
only the government
sponsored weirdos are active.
They don't interfere.

77
00:05:34,551 --> 00:05:36,640
Rorschach never retired!

78
00:05:36,814 --> 00:05:39,294
Even after him and his buddies
fell outta grace.

79
00:05:39,469 --> 00:05:41,775
He's still out there somewhere.

80
00:05:41,949 --> 00:05:43,864
He's crazier
than a snake's armpit

81
00:05:44,038 --> 00:05:46,519
and wanted on
two counts murder one.

82
00:05:46,693 --> 00:05:49,217
We've got a cozy
little homicide here.

83
00:05:49,392 --> 00:05:51,524
If Rorschach gets involved,

84
00:05:51,698 --> 00:05:54,745
we'll be up to our butts
in corpses.

85
00:06:14,678 --> 00:06:15,722
[Rorschach groans]

86
00:07:28,316 --> 00:07:29,230
Huh.

87
00:07:36,194 --> 00:07:37,021
[gasps]

88
00:07:44,768 --> 00:07:45,812
Hmm.

89
00:07:53,777 --> 00:07:55,474
[Dan laughing]

90
00:07:55,648 --> 00:07:57,258
[Hollis] So there I was
in the supermarket

91
00:07:57,432 --> 00:07:59,347
buying dog food
for old Phantom here...

92
00:07:59,522 --> 00:08:01,785
I turn the corner and WHAM!

93
00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:04,570
I bump into
the Screaming Skull.
[laughing]

94
00:08:04,744 --> 00:08:06,093
You remember him?

95
00:08:06,267 --> 00:08:08,487
I heard you mention him...

96
00:08:08,661 --> 00:08:10,707
Put him away a dozen times.

97
00:08:10,881 --> 00:08:12,926
He'd reformed
and turned to Jesus.

98
00:08:13,100 --> 00:08:14,406
Married, two kids.

99
00:08:14,580 --> 00:08:16,843
We traded addresses. Nice guy.

100
00:08:20,020 --> 00:08:22,806
Oh, Hollis, almost midnight.
I outta go.

101
00:08:22,980 --> 00:08:25,156
Oh, sure, Dan,
lost track of the time there,

102
00:08:25,330 --> 00:08:27,201
talking about
all that old stuff.

103
00:08:27,375 --> 00:08:29,464
- You must be bored as hell.
- [laughing]

104
00:08:29,639 --> 00:08:31,466
[Dan]
You know better than that.

105
00:08:31,641 --> 00:08:33,947
These Saturday night
beer sessions are what
keep me going.

106
00:08:35,427 --> 00:08:36,471
[dog whimpers]

107
00:08:36,646 --> 00:08:38,038
You know, it was a cryin' shame

108
00:08:38,212 --> 00:08:40,737
they put you youngsters out
to grass in '77.

109
00:08:40,911 --> 00:08:43,261
You were a better Nite Owl
than I ever was.

110
00:08:43,435 --> 00:08:46,917
Hollis, we both know that's
bullshit. But thank you anyway.

111
00:08:47,091 --> 00:08:49,006
[Hollis]
Hey, watch the language!

112
00:08:49,180 --> 00:08:51,269
This is the left hook
that floored Captain Axis, remember?

113
00:08:51,443 --> 00:08:55,099
Goodnight!
Don't forget to lock up
and take care of yourself.

114
00:08:55,273 --> 00:08:57,188
You too, Danny. God bless.

115
00:09:01,627 --> 00:09:02,454
Hmm.

116
00:09:02,628 --> 00:09:04,325
[siren chirps]

117
00:09:37,968 --> 00:09:39,491
Where you goin' pig?

118
00:09:39,665 --> 00:09:42,059
- The party's right here!
- Oh yeah!

119
00:09:44,278 --> 00:09:46,672
[woman] Hit us with more
of those Katie's, Derf!

120
00:09:46,846 --> 00:09:48,282
[man] Yeah, I'm comin' down
already, man.

121
00:09:48,456 --> 00:09:51,242
[woman] You never
could keep it up. [laughing]

122
00:09:54,201 --> 00:09:56,377
Hey, let's go break
some shit, huh!

123
00:09:56,551 --> 00:09:58,466
[man laughing]

124
00:09:58,641 --> 00:10:00,947
- [woman] I wanna get crazy!
- [man] Aw, yeah!

125
00:10:01,121 --> 00:10:03,123
Call up your boys, Derf!

126
00:10:03,297 --> 00:10:04,951
- [man] Fire it up!
- [laughing]

127
00:10:38,898 --> 00:10:39,812
[munching]

128
00:10:41,771 --> 00:10:43,033
Hello, Daniel.

129
00:10:43,207 --> 00:10:45,818
- Rorschach?
- Got hungry waiting.

130
00:10:45,992 --> 00:10:47,298
Helped myself to some beans.

131
00:10:47,472 --> 00:10:48,560
Hope you don't mind.

132
00:10:48,734 --> 00:10:52,956
No, no of course I don't mind.

133
00:10:53,130 --> 00:10:54,218
You want me to heat
those up for you?

134
00:10:54,392 --> 00:10:56,481
No need. Fine like this.

135
00:10:58,048 --> 00:11:01,094
So... long time no see.

136
00:11:01,268 --> 00:11:02,661
How've you been keeping?

137
00:11:02,835 --> 00:11:05,577
Out of prison, so far.
Take a look at this.

138
00:11:08,188 --> 00:11:11,670
This stain...
is that bean juice or--

139
00:11:11,844 --> 00:11:13,846
Yeah... human bean juice.

140
00:11:14,020 --> 00:11:15,718
Badge belonged to the Comedian.

141
00:11:15,892 --> 00:11:17,676
Blood too. He's dead.

142
00:11:17,850 --> 00:11:19,547
Wait. The Comedian?

143
00:11:19,722 --> 00:11:21,593
Investigated
a routine homicide.

144
00:11:21,767 --> 00:11:23,682
Victim named Edward Blake.

145
00:11:23,856 --> 00:11:26,032
Found the costume
in Blake's wardrobe.

146
00:11:26,206 --> 00:11:27,817
Seems he was the Comedian.

147
00:11:27,991 --> 00:11:30,080
Somebody threw him
out of a window.

148
00:11:32,691 --> 00:11:36,086
Um, maybe we should
talk about this
down in my workshop.

149
00:11:37,174 --> 00:11:38,828
Right down this way.

150
00:11:39,002 --> 00:11:41,265
You haven't been
down here in a while.

151
00:11:41,439 --> 00:11:44,355
Neither have you. Lots of dust.

152
00:11:51,188 --> 00:11:52,537
[machines powering up]

153
00:11:53,494 --> 00:11:54,757
Oh!

154
00:11:54,931 --> 00:11:58,108
Uh, listen...
about the Comedian,

155
00:11:58,282 --> 00:12:00,980
might it have been
just an ordinary
burglary or something?

156
00:12:01,154 --> 00:12:03,374
Maybe the killer didn't
even know who Blake was.

157
00:12:03,548 --> 00:12:06,290
An ordinary burglar?
Kill the Comedian?

158
00:12:06,464 --> 00:12:07,639
Ridiculous.

159
00:12:09,554 --> 00:12:13,906
Well, I hear he'd been working
for the government since '77,

160
00:12:14,080 --> 00:12:17,649
knocking over Marxist republics
in South America.

161
00:12:17,823 --> 00:12:20,347
- Maybe this was
a political killing.
- Maybe.

162
00:12:20,521 --> 00:12:24,090
Or maybe someone's
picking off costumed heroes.

163
00:12:24,264 --> 00:12:26,789
Don't you think that's
maybe a little paranoid?

164
00:12:26,963 --> 00:12:29,661
That what they're
saying about me now?
That I'm paranoid?

165
00:12:29,835 --> 00:12:32,185
The Comedian was active
for 40 years.

166
00:12:32,359 --> 00:12:34,274
Men make a lot of enemies
in that time.

167
00:12:34,448 --> 00:12:36,624
How's your friend Hollis Mason
these days?

168
00:12:36,799 --> 00:12:38,844
Hollis? What does he--

169
00:12:39,018 --> 00:12:40,890
They were both Minutemen,
when Blake was 16

170
00:12:41,064 --> 00:12:43,153
and Hollis
was the first Nite Owl.

171
00:12:43,327 --> 00:12:46,286
Hollis said some bad things
about the Comedian
in that book he wrote.

172
00:12:46,460 --> 00:12:47,853
I don't like what
you're implying.

173
00:12:48,027 --> 00:12:50,073
Hollis is an old man,
and he's my friend.

174
00:12:50,247 --> 00:12:52,075
If you're thinking of going
over there and scaring him--

175
00:12:52,249 --> 00:12:55,295
Implying nothing,
only an observation.

176
00:12:55,469 --> 00:12:56,949
I just wanted to let you know,

177
00:12:57,123 --> 00:12:59,256
in case someone's
gunning for masks.

178
00:13:01,736 --> 00:13:03,434
[sighs]

179
00:13:11,485 --> 00:13:12,791
Better go now.

180
00:13:12,965 --> 00:13:14,924
Things to do.

181
00:13:15,098 --> 00:13:16,621
The tunnel will bring you out
to a warehouse two blocks
north--

182
00:13:16,795 --> 00:13:18,362
I remember.

183
00:13:18,536 --> 00:13:21,452
Used to come here often
back when we were partners.

184
00:13:21,626 --> 00:13:24,063
Those were great times,
Rorschach.

185
00:13:24,237 --> 00:13:25,978
- Whatever happened to them?
- You quit.

186
00:13:28,111 --> 00:13:29,112
[groans softly]

187
00:13:44,214 --> 00:13:48,783
[crowd chanting]
We want cops! No more costumes!

188
00:13:48,958 --> 00:13:52,439
Listen, you little punks!
You better get back
in your rat holes!

189
00:13:52,613 --> 00:13:55,442
I got riot gas,
I got rubber bullets--

190
00:13:55,616 --> 00:13:57,836
- There's no need for this!
- [rioter] Fuck you, Owl!

191
00:13:58,010 --> 00:14:00,186
The police strike is being
negotiated right now!

192
00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:01,971
You vigilantes belong in jail!

193
00:14:02,145 --> 00:14:04,364
My son's a police officer,
you freaks!

194
00:14:04,538 --> 00:14:05,713
Call yourself a Comedian?

195
00:14:05,888 --> 00:14:08,281
More like pig and rapist!

196
00:14:08,455 --> 00:14:09,543
Okay, that does it!

197
00:14:11,328 --> 00:14:13,678
[rioter] Oh my God,
he just shot him!

198
00:14:13,852 --> 00:14:17,638
God, look, I'm sorry.
You haven't left us any choice.

199
00:14:17,812 --> 00:14:21,077
This stuff is dangerous.
Please clear the streets!

200
00:14:21,251 --> 00:14:22,121
Look at 'em!

201
00:14:23,427 --> 00:14:25,342
Run, you suckers!

202
00:14:25,516 --> 00:14:26,865
This is a nightmare!

203
00:14:27,039 --> 00:14:28,432
The whole country's
erupting like this.

204
00:14:28,606 --> 00:14:30,564
How long can we keep this up?

205
00:14:30,738 --> 00:14:34,612
My contacts say
Senator Keene's act is
gonna shut us all down.

206
00:14:34,786 --> 00:14:38,181
Until then, we're society's
only protection.

207
00:14:39,617 --> 00:14:41,053
Protection? From who?

208
00:14:41,227 --> 00:14:43,664
From themselves.

209
00:14:43,838 --> 00:14:47,625
What-- What happened
to the American dream?

210
00:14:47,799 --> 00:14:51,150
It came true.
You're looking at it.

211
00:14:51,324 --> 00:14:54,632
Now let's really put
these jokers through
some changes.

212
00:14:54,806 --> 00:14:56,721
- [gas grenade gun fires]
- [man screaming]

213
00:14:56,895 --> 00:14:58,592
[people coughing]

214
00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:03,815
[sighs]

215
00:15:14,391 --> 00:15:18,961
[Rorschach]
<i>Rorschach's Journal.
October 13th, 1985.</i>

216
00:15:19,135 --> 00:15:24,183
<i>Slept all day. Awakened
by landlady complaining
about the smell.</i>

217
00:15:24,357 --> 00:15:27,839
<i>She has five children
by five different fathers.</i>

218
00:15:28,013 --> 00:15:29,972
<i>I'm sure she cheats on welfare.</i>

219
00:15:30,146 --> 00:15:30,973
[thunder rumbling]

220
00:15:35,716 --> 00:15:37,501
<i>Soon it will be dark.</i>

221
00:15:41,940 --> 00:15:45,291
<i>On Friday night,
a Comedian died in New York.</i>

222
00:15:45,465 --> 00:15:49,817
<i>Somebody knows why.
Somebody knows.</i>

223
00:15:49,992 --> 00:15:51,863
Get lost, you creep!

224
00:15:52,037 --> 00:15:53,996
[Rorschach]
<i>I believe I shall
take my exercise.</i>

225
00:15:57,782 --> 00:15:59,958
- [indistinct chatter]
- [door opens]

226
00:16:00,132 --> 00:16:02,439
[chatter stops]

227
00:16:07,096 --> 00:16:10,273
Huh, Rorschach!
Hey, how you doin', fella?

228
00:16:10,447 --> 00:16:12,536
I'm fine, Happy Harry.
Yourself?

229
00:16:12,710 --> 00:16:17,019
I'm fine! I'm fine!
Just fine and... uh...

230
00:16:18,585 --> 00:16:22,154
Oh, God,
please don't kill anybody.

231
00:16:22,328 --> 00:16:24,765
Guy went sidewalk diving
Friday night.

232
00:16:24,939 --> 00:16:26,898
I don't think he was alone
when it happened.

233
00:16:27,072 --> 00:16:30,380
His name was Edward Blake.
Friend of mine.

234
00:16:30,554 --> 00:16:31,816
[man laughs] You hear that?

235
00:16:32,643 --> 00:16:33,774
He's got friends.

236
00:16:33,948 --> 00:16:35,472
Must've changed his deodorant!

237
00:16:39,606 --> 00:16:40,564
[exhales]

238
00:16:43,001 --> 00:16:45,090
I... I didn't mean
anything, I--

239
00:16:45,264 --> 00:16:46,700
[screaming]

240
00:16:46,874 --> 00:16:49,747
I've just broken
this gentleman's little finger.

241
00:16:49,921 --> 00:16:51,270
Who killed Edward Blake?

242
00:16:53,925 --> 00:16:56,536
Who killed Edward Blake?

243
00:16:56,710 --> 00:16:57,711
[man screaming]

244
00:16:57,885 --> 00:16:59,409
And his index finger.

245
00:16:59,583 --> 00:17:01,411
- Who killed Edward Blake?
- We don't know.

246
00:17:01,585 --> 00:17:05,154
Please, God, leave him alone!
We don't know!

247
00:17:06,720 --> 00:17:09,114
No. No, no, no, no, no, no!

248
00:17:09,288 --> 00:17:11,943
[screams]

249
00:17:12,117 --> 00:17:16,295
[Rorschach]
<i>Nobody knew anything.
Feeling slightly depressed.</i>

250
00:17:16,469 --> 00:17:21,431
<i>I leave the human cockroaches
to discuss their heroin
and child pornography.</i>

251
00:17:21,605 --> 00:17:25,217
<i>I have business
with a better class of person.</i>

252
00:17:26,479 --> 00:17:29,917
The Comedian is dead? Why?

253
00:17:30,092 --> 00:17:34,400
You're supposed to be
the world's smartest man,
Veidt. You tell me.

254
00:17:34,574 --> 00:17:36,924
I never claimed to be
anybody special, Rorschach.

255
00:17:37,099 --> 00:17:41,451
I just have some
over-enthusiastic P.R. men.

256
00:17:41,625 --> 00:17:43,279
Perhaps it was
a political killing.

257
00:17:43,453 --> 00:17:45,803
- Maybe the Soviets...
- Dreiberg said the same.

258
00:17:45,977 --> 00:17:47,587
America has Dr. Manhattan.

259
00:17:47,761 --> 00:17:50,416
Reds would never
dare antagonize us.

260
00:17:50,590 --> 00:17:53,202
I think we've got
a mask-killer.

261
00:17:53,376 --> 00:17:55,508
The Comedian had
plenty of other
political enemies,

262
00:17:55,682 --> 00:17:57,597
even discounting the Russians.

263
00:17:57,771 --> 00:17:59,469
The man was practically a Nazi.

264
00:17:59,643 --> 00:18:02,254
He stood up for his country.
Never let anyone retire him.

265
00:18:02,428 --> 00:18:04,430
Never cashed in
on his reputation.

266
00:18:04,604 --> 00:18:07,738
Never set up a company
selling posters and diet books

267
00:18:07,912 --> 00:18:09,392
and toy soldiers
based on himself.

268
00:18:09,566 --> 00:18:12,221
Never became a prostitute.

269
00:18:12,395 --> 00:18:16,138
If that makes him a Nazi,
you might as well call me
a Nazi too.

270
00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:18,183
Rorschach...

271
00:18:19,619 --> 00:18:21,621
I know we were never friends,

272
00:18:21,795 --> 00:18:24,189
but even so
you're being unfair.

273
00:18:24,363 --> 00:18:26,235
Nobody retired me.

274
00:18:26,409 --> 00:18:28,759
I chose to quit adventuring
and go public

275
00:18:28,933 --> 00:18:31,762
two years before
the police strike made
the Keene Act necessary.

276
00:18:31,936 --> 00:18:33,720
Yes. Good timing.

277
00:18:33,894 --> 00:18:36,201
I came here to warn you
about the mask-killer

278
00:18:36,375 --> 00:18:39,683
so you don't end up
the smartest man
in the morgue.

279
00:18:39,857 --> 00:18:41,859
But I guess there's
worse things to end up as.

280
00:18:44,209 --> 00:18:45,167
Be seeing you.

281
00:18:48,257 --> 00:18:49,171
Sure.

282
00:18:49,997 --> 00:18:50,998
Have a nice day.

283
00:18:55,394 --> 00:18:57,788
[chatter, laughter]

284
00:18:57,962 --> 00:19:03,315
Now, I want to thank everyone
for coming to the first meeting
of the Crimebusters.

285
00:19:03,489 --> 00:19:06,231
For those who know me
only as Captain Metropolis,

286
00:19:06,405 --> 00:19:08,581
the name's Nelson Gardner.

287
00:19:08,755 --> 00:19:10,409
- Call me Nelson.
- [burps]

288
00:19:12,672 --> 00:19:15,197
As you know, this country
hasn't had an organization

289
00:19:15,371 --> 00:19:18,069
of masked adventurers
in over 20 years,

290
00:19:18,243 --> 00:19:20,550
since the Minutemen
were disbanded.

291
00:19:20,724 --> 00:19:23,553
Specialized law enforcement
is standing still.

292
00:19:23,727 --> 00:19:26,164
Crime isn't.

293
00:19:26,338 --> 00:19:29,341
New social evils emerge
every day:

294
00:19:29,515 --> 00:19:33,302
promiscuity, drugs,
campus subversion, you name it.

295
00:19:33,476 --> 00:19:36,696
But, by banding together
as Crimebusters,

296
00:19:36,870 --> 00:19:38,481
- we can make a--
- [The Comedian] Bullshit.

297
00:19:39,438 --> 00:19:41,223
We're all livin' in 1966

298
00:19:41,397 --> 00:19:43,703
while you're
still stuck in '49.

299
00:19:43,877 --> 00:19:45,357
This is all about
you getting old

300
00:19:45,531 --> 00:19:48,273
but still wanting to play
cowboys and Indians.

301
00:19:48,447 --> 00:19:50,884
Th--That's-- That is not true.

302
00:19:51,058 --> 00:19:54,105
Uh, no reason to just
throw the idea away.

303
00:19:54,279 --> 00:19:56,803
Me and Rorschach have
made great headway
into the gang problem

304
00:19:56,977 --> 00:19:58,718
by pooling our efforts.

305
00:19:58,892 --> 00:20:01,982
But a group this size seems
more like a publicity exercise.

306
00:20:02,156 --> 00:20:03,506
Too big and unwieldy.

307
00:20:03,680 --> 00:20:05,421
That's just
an organizational problem.

308
00:20:05,595 --> 00:20:07,249
With the right person
coordinating the group--

309
00:20:07,423 --> 00:20:11,209
Oh, and who would that be?
Any ideas, Ozzy?

310
00:20:11,383 --> 00:20:15,213
I mean, you are the smartest
man in the world, right?

311
00:20:15,387 --> 00:20:18,129
It doesn't take
a genius to see that
America has problems

312
00:20:18,303 --> 00:20:19,870
that need tackling.

313
00:20:20,044 --> 00:20:21,741
And it takes a moron to think
they're small enough

314
00:20:21,915 --> 00:20:23,743
for clowns like you guys
to handle.

315
00:20:23,917 --> 00:20:26,224
None of the world's problems
are insurmountable.

316
00:20:26,398 --> 00:20:30,663
What's going down
in this world, you got no idea!

317
00:20:36,016 --> 00:20:38,410
Believe me.

318
00:20:38,584 --> 00:20:41,239
You people hear Moloch's back
in town and you think,

319
00:20:41,413 --> 00:20:44,416
"Oh, boy! Let's gang up
and bust him!"

320
00:20:44,590 --> 00:20:47,158
Like that matters.

321
00:20:47,332 --> 00:20:49,073
It doesn't mean squat!

322
00:20:49,247 --> 00:20:53,469
In 30 years the nukes are
gonna be flying like maybugs...

323
00:20:53,643 --> 00:20:55,645
[Captain Metropolis] My map!

324
00:20:55,819 --> 00:21:01,041
And Ozzy here is gonna be
the smartest man on the cinder.

325
00:21:01,215 --> 00:21:02,913
[laughs]

326
00:21:03,087 --> 00:21:04,915
[Janey Slater]
Jon, I'd like to go home now.

327
00:21:05,089 --> 00:21:06,351
- Please.
- [Nite Owl II] Listen, Nelson,

328
00:21:06,525 --> 00:21:08,745
maybe this isn't
the best idea...

329
00:21:08,919 --> 00:21:11,313
No, wait, don't leave.

330
00:21:11,487 --> 00:21:13,184
Somebody has to do it...

331
00:21:13,358 --> 00:21:15,447
Somebody has to save the world!

332
00:21:54,834 --> 00:21:57,837
[lightning crackles]

333
00:21:58,011 --> 00:22:00,797
[Rorschach] <i>Meeting with Veidt
left bad taste in mouth.</i>

334
00:22:00,971 --> 00:22:03,016
<i>He is pampered and decadent,</i>

335
00:22:03,190 --> 00:22:06,498
<i>betraying even his own shallow,
liberal affectations.</i>

336
00:22:06,672 --> 00:22:09,022
<i>Dreiberg just as bad.</i>

337
00:22:09,196 --> 00:22:11,808
<i>A flabby failure whimpering
in his basement.</i>

338
00:22:11,982 --> 00:22:14,680
<i>Why are there so few
of the Minutemen left active,</i>

339
00:22:14,854 --> 00:22:18,336
<i>healthy and without
personality disorders?</i>

340
00:22:18,510 --> 00:22:21,339
<i>The first Nite Owl runs
an auto repair shop.</i>

341
00:22:21,513 --> 00:22:24,777
<i>Captain Metropolis
was decapitated
in a car crash.</i>

342
00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:31,044
<i>The first Silk Specter
is a bloated, aging whore...</i>

343
00:22:31,218 --> 00:22:34,221
<i>Dying in a California
rest resort.</i>

344
00:22:34,396 --> 00:22:37,181
<i>Mothman's in an asylum
up in Maine.</i>

345
00:22:37,355 --> 00:22:39,879
<i>The Silhouette retired
in disgrace.</i>

346
00:22:40,053 --> 00:22:44,231
<i>Murdered six weeks later
by a minor adversary
seeking revenge.</i>

347
00:22:44,406 --> 00:22:46,277
<i>Dollar Bill got shot.</i>

348
00:22:46,451 --> 00:22:48,975
<i>Hooded Justice went missing.</i>

349
00:22:49,149 --> 00:22:50,977
<i>The Comedian is dead.</i>

350
00:22:51,151 --> 00:22:53,632
<i>And now I must tell
the indestructible man</i>

351
00:22:53,806 --> 00:22:55,852
<i>that someone
plans to murder him.</i>

352
00:22:57,593 --> 00:22:58,855
[electricity crackling]

353
00:23:03,425 --> 00:23:04,948
Good evening, Rorschach.

354
00:23:05,122 --> 00:23:06,776
Good evening, Dr. Manhattan.

355
00:23:11,389 --> 00:23:13,347
[Laurie]
What're you doing here,
Rorschach?

356
00:23:13,522 --> 00:23:15,698
Aren't you still wanted
by the police?

357
00:23:15,872 --> 00:23:17,613
Good evening, Miss Jupiter.

358
00:23:17,787 --> 00:23:19,179
That's Juspeczyk.

359
00:23:19,353 --> 00:23:21,965
Jupiter was my mother's
publicity name.

360
00:23:22,139 --> 00:23:23,575
Apologies.

361
00:23:23,749 --> 00:23:26,056
Came to warn you both
and bring bad news.

362
00:23:26,230 --> 00:23:27,840
The Comedian is dead.

363
00:23:28,014 --> 00:23:30,843
Yes. He and I are the only
two extranormal operatives

364
00:23:31,017 --> 00:23:34,412
employed by the government,
so I was informed at once.

365
00:23:34,586 --> 00:23:36,893
You don't seem too concerned
about Blake's death.

366
00:23:37,067 --> 00:23:40,984
A live body and a dead body
contain the same number
of particles.

367
00:23:41,158 --> 00:23:43,595
Structurally there's no
discernible difference.

368
00:23:43,769 --> 00:23:47,469
Life and death
are unquantifiable abstracts.

369
00:23:47,643 --> 00:23:49,079
Why should I be concerned?

370
00:23:49,253 --> 00:23:51,298
Besides, Blake was a monster.

371
00:23:51,473 --> 00:23:53,779
You know he tried to rape
my mother when they were
both Minutemen?

372
00:23:53,953 --> 00:23:56,347
I'm not here to speculate
on the moral lapses

373
00:23:56,521 --> 00:23:59,263
of men who died
in their country's service.
I came to warn--

374
00:23:59,437 --> 00:24:02,484
Moral lapses?
He broke her ribs! He--

375
00:24:05,138 --> 00:24:07,271
Jon, get this creep
out of here.

376
00:24:08,968 --> 00:24:10,753
You seem to be
upsetting Laurie.

377
00:24:10,927 --> 00:24:12,319
I think you ought to go.

378
00:24:12,494 --> 00:24:13,886
With respect, Dr. Manhattan,

379
00:24:14,060 --> 00:24:15,975
I believe someone
is eliminating masks.

380
00:24:16,149 --> 00:24:18,195
I warned Veidt and Dreiberg
and I intend--

381
00:24:18,369 --> 00:24:20,197
I said I think you ought to go.

382
00:24:20,371 --> 00:24:21,633
Not before I've had my--

383
00:24:23,505 --> 00:24:24,506
Say.

384
00:24:31,034 --> 00:24:32,035
Hmm.

385
00:24:37,519 --> 00:24:40,347
He's gone. Are you still upset?

386
00:24:41,827 --> 00:24:42,654
Jon?

387
00:24:44,700 --> 00:24:47,920
Hey, I was thinking,

388
00:24:48,094 --> 00:24:50,967
I must be really on edge
to let a maggot like Rorschach
get to me like that.

389
00:24:51,141 --> 00:24:52,272
Maybe we--

390
00:24:54,013 --> 00:24:56,538
Maybe I could use a night out.

391
00:24:58,017 --> 00:25:00,106
Rorschach mentioned
Dan Dreiberg.

392
00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:02,195
Haven't seen him in years.

393
00:25:02,369 --> 00:25:04,807
Maybe I'll call him up,
ask him to dinner.

394
00:25:06,678 --> 00:25:08,767
If you don't mind, that is.

395
00:25:08,941 --> 00:25:10,029
Of course not.

396
00:25:16,862 --> 00:25:19,561
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>It is October, 1985.</i>

397
00:25:19,735 --> 00:25:21,519
<i>I am close to locating
a gluino,</i>

398
00:25:21,693 --> 00:25:24,304
<i>which would completely validate
super symmetrical theory.</i>

399
00:25:29,527 --> 00:25:32,051
<i>It is May, 1971.</i>

400
00:25:40,059 --> 00:25:43,715
<i>Having been asked to intervene
in Vietnam by President Nixon,</i>

401
00:25:43,889 --> 00:25:47,371
<i>I am deployed alongside
Edward Blake, the Comedian.</i>

402
00:25:49,242 --> 00:25:52,289
<i>I have never met anyone
so deliberately amoral.</i>

403
00:25:52,463 --> 00:25:54,160
[man screaming]

404
00:25:54,334 --> 00:25:56,859
<i>What Vietnam implies
about the human condition,</i>

405
00:25:57,033 --> 00:26:00,427
<i>few humans will permit
themselves to understand.</i>

406
00:26:00,602 --> 00:26:02,647
<i>But Blake is different.</i>

407
00:26:02,821 --> 00:26:04,736
<i>He understands perfectly.</i>

408
00:26:05,868 --> 00:26:07,217
<i>And he doesn't care.</i>

409
00:26:09,611 --> 00:26:13,440
[The Comedian] The average
Vietnamese doesn't give
a damn who won this war.

410
00:26:13,615 --> 00:26:16,530
But it means plenty
to the US of A.

411
00:26:16,705 --> 00:26:21,013
If we'd lost, I think
it might've driven
the country a little crazy.

412
00:26:21,187 --> 00:26:23,799
Thanks to you, we didn't.

413
00:26:23,973 --> 00:26:25,670
Yet you sound so bitter.

414
00:26:25,844 --> 00:26:29,065
You have some strange attitudes
toward life and war.

415
00:26:29,239 --> 00:26:30,632
Strange?

416
00:26:30,806 --> 00:26:32,677
Once you figure out
everything's a joke,

417
00:26:32,851 --> 00:26:35,680
being a Comedian
is the only thing
that makes sense.

418
00:26:35,854 --> 00:26:37,203
The charred villages,

419
00:26:37,377 --> 00:26:40,642
the boys with necklaces
of human ears...

420
00:26:40,816 --> 00:26:43,122
these are part of the joke?

421
00:26:43,296 --> 00:26:45,603
Never said it was a good joke.

422
00:26:45,777 --> 00:26:48,693
I'm just playing
along with the gag.
Same as him.

423
00:26:48,867 --> 00:26:53,045
First press helicopter
into Saigon since
the cease fire.

424
00:26:53,219 --> 00:26:56,048
Oh, he's got the next election
in the bag.

425
00:26:56,222 --> 00:26:59,661
Me, I'm taking
the first chopper out.

426
00:27:00,487 --> 00:27:02,533
I hate this place.

427
00:27:02,707 --> 00:27:07,581
The temperature, the smell,
this rotten, cheap bourbon--

428
00:27:07,756 --> 00:27:10,019
- [woman] Mr. Eddie?
- Oh, God.

429
00:27:11,585 --> 00:27:14,806
Now war is over,
I must talk to you.

430
00:27:14,980 --> 00:27:17,417
Nothing to talk about.
I'm leaving.

431
00:27:17,591 --> 00:27:19,158
And... and what of me?

432
00:27:19,332 --> 00:27:23,423
I cannot just walk away
from what grow in my belly.

433
00:27:23,597 --> 00:27:24,990
- I cannot forget!
- Too bad,

434
00:27:25,164 --> 00:27:26,949
because that's what
I intend to do.

435
00:27:27,123 --> 00:27:28,428
Forget you,

436
00:27:28,602 --> 00:27:30,300
your cruddy little country,
all of it.

437
00:27:33,477 --> 00:27:35,392
I do not think so.

438
00:27:35,566 --> 00:27:38,569
I think you remember me
and my country.

439
00:27:38,743 --> 00:27:41,964
You remember
as long as you live.

440
00:27:42,138 --> 00:27:45,445
[roaring in pain,
pained breathing]

441
00:27:45,619 --> 00:27:46,838
[The Comedian] My face!

442
00:27:48,318 --> 00:27:50,886
Filthy, stinking,

443
00:27:51,060 --> 00:27:52,670
- worthless...
- Blake, don't--

444
00:27:52,844 --> 00:27:53,889
[woman grunts]

445
00:27:55,586 --> 00:27:58,850
Medic. Gotta find
a goddamn medic.

446
00:27:59,024 --> 00:28:00,417
She was pregnant.

447
00:28:00,591 --> 00:28:02,114
- You gunned her down.
- That's right.

448
00:28:02,288 --> 00:28:03,594
And you know what?

449
00:28:03,768 --> 00:28:05,074
You watched me.

450
00:28:05,248 --> 00:28:07,032
You coulda turned
the gun into steam,

451
00:28:07,206 --> 00:28:10,427
the bullets into mercury
or the bottle into snowflakes!

452
00:28:10,601 --> 00:28:12,603
You coulda teleported her
to goddamn Australia,

453
00:28:12,777 --> 00:28:15,214
but you didn't lift a finger.

454
00:28:15,388 --> 00:28:17,521
You let it happen.

455
00:28:17,695 --> 00:28:19,262
I've watched you.

456
00:28:19,436 --> 00:28:22,613
You don't really give a damn
about human beings.

457
00:28:22,787 --> 00:28:23,875
You never cared
about Janey Slater

458
00:28:24,049 --> 00:28:26,182
even before you ditched her.

459
00:28:26,356 --> 00:28:31,230
Soon you won't be
interested in Sally Jupiter's
little gal, either.

460
00:28:31,404 --> 00:28:33,450
You're drifting
outta touch, Doc.

461
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,018
God help us all.

462
00:28:47,681 --> 00:28:50,075
- [sighs]
- [line ringing]

463
00:28:50,249 --> 00:28:51,468
[telephone ringing]

464
00:28:53,687 --> 00:28:55,341
- Hello?
<i>- H-hello?</i>

465
00:28:55,515 --> 00:28:57,822
<i>- Dan? Uh, this is--</i>
- Laurie?

466
00:28:57,996 --> 00:28:59,606
Laurie Juspeczyk!

467
00:28:59,781 --> 00:29:03,872
<i>Hey, it's been awhile.
How-- How are you?</i>

468
00:29:07,179 --> 00:29:10,226
[Rorschach]
<i>Rorschach's Journal. 11:30 p.m.</i>

469
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,098
<i>Yesterday a Comedian died
in New York.</i>

470
00:29:13,272 --> 00:29:15,187
<i>Nobody cares but me.</i>

471
00:29:15,361 --> 00:29:18,277
<i>Are they right? Is it futile?</i>

472
00:29:18,451 --> 00:29:20,192
<i>Soon there will be war.</i>

473
00:29:20,366 --> 00:29:24,109
<i>Millions will perish and burn
in sickness and misery.</i>

474
00:29:24,283 --> 00:29:27,765
<i>Why does one death matter
against so many?</i>

475
00:29:27,939 --> 00:29:30,289
<i>Because there is good,
and there is evil,</i>

476
00:29:30,463 --> 00:29:34,076
<i>and evil must be punished.</i>

477
00:29:34,250 --> 00:29:39,211
<i>Even in the face of Armageddon
I shall not compromise on this.</i>

478
00:29:39,385 --> 00:29:43,085
<i>But there are so many
deserving of retribution,</i>

479
00:29:43,259 --> 00:29:44,608
<i>and so little time.</i>

480
00:29:44,782 --> 00:29:45,914
[man grunting]

481
00:29:47,393 --> 00:29:52,137
[chuckling]

482
00:29:52,311 --> 00:29:54,661
Oh wow, look at the time.
It's getting pretty late.

483
00:29:54,836 --> 00:29:57,969
[chuckles] Oh, I'm in
no hurry to get back.

484
00:29:58,143 --> 00:29:59,710
The government
only keeps me around

485
00:29:59,884 --> 00:30:02,060
so Jon stays relaxed and happy.

486
00:30:04,193 --> 00:30:07,065
Is, uh, everything okay
with you two?

487
00:30:07,239 --> 00:30:09,546
Fine. Couldn't be better.

488
00:30:13,028 --> 00:30:17,293
[sighs] It's just, I'm 35, Dan,

489
00:30:17,467 --> 00:30:22,080
and all I can think is...
what have I done with my life?

490
00:30:22,254 --> 00:30:24,604
I've spent
eight years semi-retired,

491
00:30:24,778 --> 00:30:28,478
preceded by 10 years
running around
in a stupid costume

492
00:30:28,652 --> 00:30:31,437
because my stupid mother
wanted me to.

493
00:30:31,611 --> 00:30:35,920
Short skirt, neckline going
all the way down to my navel...

494
00:30:36,094 --> 00:30:40,490
- so dreadful.
- Oh, yeah... dreadful.

495
00:30:40,664 --> 00:30:43,449
The Keene Act
was the best thing that
ever happened to us.

496
00:30:44,973 --> 00:30:48,150
Yeah, you're probably right.

497
00:30:55,809 --> 00:30:57,724
Hey, remember that guy

498
00:30:57,899 --> 00:30:59,726
who used to pretend to be
a super-villain

499
00:30:59,901 --> 00:31:01,206
so he could get beaten up?

500
00:31:01,380 --> 00:31:04,557
Oh, um... [laughs]
Captain Carnage!

501
00:31:04,731 --> 00:31:07,169
Yes!

502
00:31:07,343 --> 00:31:09,475
Ya know, I caught him
running out of a jewelers.

503
00:31:09,649 --> 00:31:10,999
I didn't know
what his racket was,

504
00:31:11,173 --> 00:31:12,914
so I start hitting him
and I'm thinking,

505
00:31:13,088 --> 00:31:15,481
"Jeez, he's breathing
awfully hard."

506
00:31:15,655 --> 00:31:17,614
-"Maybe he has asthma."
- [both laughing]

507
00:31:17,788 --> 00:31:19,094
[Dan] He tried that
with me too,

508
00:31:19,268 --> 00:31:21,400
but I'd heard about him,
so I walked away.

509
00:31:21,574 --> 00:31:24,055
He followed me down the street
saying "Punish me!"

510
00:31:24,229 --> 00:31:26,188
I'm saying, "No, get lost!"

511
00:31:26,362 --> 00:31:29,278
- [both laughing]
- [Laurie] What ever
happened to him?

512
00:31:29,452 --> 00:31:30,932
[Dan] He--
he pulled that on Rorschach

513
00:31:31,106 --> 00:31:33,108
and Rorschach dropped him
down an elevator shaft.

514
00:31:33,282 --> 00:31:36,502
[both laughing]

515
00:31:36,676 --> 00:31:39,331
[Laurie] Oh, God,
that's not funny.

516
00:31:39,505 --> 00:31:43,379
[Dan] No, no, I guess not...

517
00:31:45,555 --> 00:31:46,730
[Laurie] That felt good.

518
00:31:49,254 --> 00:31:51,213
Not a lot of laughs around
these days.

519
00:31:51,387 --> 00:31:53,737
[Dan] Well, what do you expect?

520
00:31:54,738 --> 00:31:56,174
The Comedian is dead.

521
00:31:58,568 --> 00:32:00,309
[old-timey music playing]

522
00:32:08,491 --> 00:32:10,232
Oh, look at her,

523
00:32:10,406 --> 00:32:14,149
<i>pretty as a picture
and still keeping her figure.</i>

524
00:32:14,323 --> 00:32:18,109
So what brings you
to the city of the dead?

525
00:32:18,283 --> 00:32:20,938
Being lazy isn't
a terminal condition, mother,

526
00:32:21,112 --> 00:32:23,506
so spare me
the city of the dead crap.

527
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:24,507
Brought you some flowers.

528
00:32:24,681 --> 00:32:27,466
Oh, big spender!

529
00:32:27,640 --> 00:32:28,554
So where's Jon?

530
00:32:30,165 --> 00:32:33,820
He had to go to some
official funeral.

531
00:32:33,995 --> 00:32:36,258
<i>Made him put on pants
and everything.</i>

532
00:32:36,432 --> 00:32:39,913
<i>I didn't feel like going
so he transported me
here to California.</i>

533
00:32:40,088 --> 00:32:42,525
[sighs] Teleporting
always makes me sick.

534
00:32:42,699 --> 00:32:44,875
It's Eddie Blake's funeral,
isn't it?

535
00:32:45,049 --> 00:32:47,486
I saw in the paper.
He got murdered.

536
00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:50,489
Poor Eddie.

537
00:32:50,663 --> 00:32:52,317
How can you say "Poor Eddie"
after he almost--

538
00:32:52,491 --> 00:32:55,407
What happened was 40 years ago.

539
00:32:56,408 --> 00:32:58,019
It's history.

540
00:32:58,193 --> 00:33:02,197
Gettin' old, you get
a different perspective.

541
00:33:02,371 --> 00:33:05,939
<i>The big stuff
looks smaller somehow.</i>

542
00:33:06,114 --> 00:33:10,205
<i>Ya know, that makes just
three of us Minutemen left now.</i>

543
00:33:10,379 --> 00:33:14,818
<i>Me, Hollis and poor Byron
at the asylum in Maine.</i>

544
00:33:14,992 --> 00:33:16,733
<i>Eddie was the youngest.</i>

545
00:33:16,907 --> 00:33:18,604
The Comedian. [chuckling]

546
00:33:18,778 --> 00:33:21,912
Always jokin'
that he'd bury us all.

547
00:33:22,086 --> 00:33:24,915
Always thought
he'd get the last...

548
00:33:25,089 --> 00:33:28,527
laugh. [clears throat]

549
00:33:28,701 --> 00:33:31,313
You and Jon oughta
move out here for the weather.

550
00:33:31,487 --> 00:33:33,184
Lots of sunshine!

551
00:33:33,358 --> 00:33:34,881
What the hell is this?

552
00:33:35,056 --> 00:33:37,014
What are you doing
with this creepy pervert art?

553
00:33:37,188 --> 00:33:39,582
Oh, just some old memorabilia.

554
00:33:39,756 --> 00:33:42,454
Being reminded
that people used to
slobber over me

555
00:33:42,628 --> 00:33:44,978
- is kind of flattering.
- Flattering?

556
00:33:45,153 --> 00:33:48,286
Laurie, I'm 65.

557
00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:52,247
Every day the future
looks a little bit darker.

558
00:33:53,204 --> 00:33:54,553
But the past...

559
00:33:54,727 --> 00:33:56,990
even the grimy parts of it,

560
00:33:58,470 --> 00:34:00,429
keep getting brighter
all the time.

561
00:34:01,691 --> 00:34:02,518
[camera shutter clicking]

562
00:34:07,349 --> 00:34:09,612
[photographer] Okay, that's it!
Nice picture, folks!

563
00:34:09,786 --> 00:34:12,049
[groans] Finally,
I can scratch my armpit.

564
00:34:12,223 --> 00:34:13,790
Got spots in my eyes.

565
00:34:13,964 --> 00:34:15,270
Here lemme take a look,

566
00:34:15,444 --> 00:34:17,794
maybe I can
fish 'em out for you.

567
00:34:17,968 --> 00:34:21,232
[laughs] Oh, Eddie,
give me a break.

568
00:34:21,406 --> 00:34:22,625
[Nite Owl] Okay everybody,
we're good.

569
00:34:22,799 --> 00:34:24,409
So let's meet
in the lobby in five.

570
00:34:24,583 --> 00:34:25,628
We'll go back
to the Owl's Nest
for a beer.

571
00:34:25,802 --> 00:34:28,239
You go on ahead,
I gotta change.

572
00:34:44,821 --> 00:34:46,127
[gasps]

573
00:34:46,301 --> 00:34:47,606
- Hi.
- Eddie,

574
00:34:47,780 --> 00:34:49,130
what are you doing here?

575
00:34:49,304 --> 00:34:50,609
You knew I was changing...

576
00:34:50,783 --> 00:34:53,830
Sure did. You announced it
loud enough.

577
00:34:54,004 --> 00:34:57,921
C'mon, baby.
I know what you need...

578
00:34:58,095 --> 00:35:00,793
know why you wear
an outfit like that.

579
00:35:00,967 --> 00:35:02,708
Eddie, no--

580
00:35:02,882 --> 00:35:05,842
Spelled Y-E-S.

581
00:35:06,016 --> 00:35:07,104
- Spelled N-O!
- [grunts]

582
00:35:09,019 --> 00:35:09,889
[laughs]

583
00:35:11,761 --> 00:35:12,718
[groans]

584
00:35:13,676 --> 00:35:15,982
- Eddie...
- [grunts]

585
00:35:16,157 --> 00:35:17,158
[gasping]

586
00:35:18,942 --> 00:35:20,117
[Sally breathing painfully]

587
00:35:24,861 --> 00:35:26,689
[Comedian breathing heavily]

588
00:35:26,863 --> 00:35:29,344
What... what's happening?

589
00:35:29,518 --> 00:35:30,867
Eddie, what are you doing?

590
00:35:31,041 --> 00:35:33,304
[Hooded Justice]
You sick little bastard!

591
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:38,091
- I'm going to break your neck!
- [laughing]

592
00:35:39,049 --> 00:35:42,008
[The Comedian grunting]

593
00:35:52,062 --> 00:35:54,412
This is what you like,
isn't it?

594
00:35:54,586 --> 00:35:57,023
This is what gets you hot.

595
00:35:57,198 --> 00:35:59,461
Get out.

596
00:35:59,635 --> 00:36:01,985
Oh, sure. Sure, I'm going.

597
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,162
But I got your number...

598
00:36:05,336 --> 00:36:07,120
And one of these days,

599
00:36:07,295 --> 00:36:09,601
the joke's gonna be on you.

600
00:36:11,951 --> 00:36:14,519
[thunder rumbling]

601
00:36:14,693 --> 00:36:17,392
[minister] Thou hast set
our misdeeds before thee,

602
00:36:17,566 --> 00:36:22,092
and our secret sins
in the light
of thy countenance.

603
00:36:22,266 --> 00:36:25,965
As much as it hath pleased
Almighty God of his great mercy

604
00:36:26,139 --> 00:36:30,753
to take unto himself
the soul of our dear brother
here departed.

605
00:36:30,927 --> 00:36:33,277
We therefore commit his body
to the ground,

606
00:36:33,451 --> 00:36:39,544
earth to earth, ashes to ashes,
dust to dust.

607
00:36:39,718 --> 00:36:44,245
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.

608
00:36:44,419 --> 00:36:51,295
Thy kingdom come,
thy will be done,
on Earth as it is in heaven.

609
00:36:51,469 --> 00:36:54,255
Give us this day
our daily bread,

610
00:36:54,429 --> 00:36:55,908
and forgive us our trespasses

611
00:36:56,082 --> 00:36:59,782
as we forgive those
that trespass against us.

612
00:36:59,956 --> 00:37:02,524
And lead us not
into temptation,

613
00:37:02,698 --> 00:37:04,569
but deliver us from evil.

614
00:37:05,309 --> 00:37:06,223
Amen.

615
00:37:44,130 --> 00:37:46,132
[gasps]

616
00:37:46,307 --> 00:37:49,005
Edgar William Jacobi.
Also known as Moloch.

617
00:37:49,179 --> 00:37:50,615
I don't know what
you're talking about,

618
00:37:50,789 --> 00:37:51,747
you've got the wrong person,

619
00:37:51,921 --> 00:37:53,096
I'm a retired businessman.

620
00:37:53,270 --> 00:37:55,664
Lying. Do it again, broken arm.

621
00:37:55,838 --> 00:37:58,101
Oh, God, I spent
the '70s in jail.

622
00:37:58,275 --> 00:37:59,624
I'm not Moloch anymore.

623
00:37:59,798 --> 00:38:01,670
I just want to be left alone.

624
00:38:03,062 --> 00:38:04,760
You attended
funeral today. Why?

625
00:38:04,934 --> 00:38:07,632
I... just felt I should.

626
00:38:07,806 --> 00:38:09,591
I've been thinking
about the Comedian a lot--

627
00:38:09,765 --> 00:38:11,332
How do you know Edward Blake
was the Comedian?

628
00:38:11,506 --> 00:38:13,638
He broke in to see me
two weeks ago!

629
00:38:13,812 --> 00:38:15,205
His mask was off!

630
00:38:15,379 --> 00:38:17,642
Enemies for 40 years!
Why should he visit you?

631
00:38:17,816 --> 00:38:19,035
I don't know!

632
00:38:19,209 --> 00:38:21,516
I just woke up
and he was there!

633
00:38:21,690 --> 00:38:23,300
I thought he was
going to kill me.

634
00:38:23,474 --> 00:38:26,956
He was drunk,
not making sense--

635
00:38:28,131 --> 00:38:30,525
[crying] It's a joke.

636
00:38:30,699 --> 00:38:32,614
It's all a joke.

637
00:38:32,788 --> 00:38:35,007
I thought I knew
how the world was,

638
00:38:35,181 --> 00:38:38,010
but then I found out
about this gag,

639
00:38:38,184 --> 00:38:40,143
this joke...

640
00:38:40,317 --> 00:38:43,015
You're part of it, Moloch,
old pal, you know that?

641
00:38:43,189 --> 00:38:46,671
I saw your name on the list,
you and Janey Slater.

642
00:38:46,845 --> 00:38:49,631
If I thought you were
in on this, I'd kill you, understand?

643
00:38:49,805 --> 00:38:52,198
I mean, you fought
that big blue geek.

644
00:38:52,373 --> 00:38:54,113
You know what his head's like.

645
00:38:54,287 --> 00:38:56,289
Who knows which way
he'll jump if anyone
messes with him?

646
00:38:58,422 --> 00:39:01,338
I never shoulda looked
out that airship window.

647
00:39:01,512 --> 00:39:02,905
Never seen that island.

648
00:39:03,079 --> 00:39:05,081
Never got involved.

649
00:39:05,255 --> 00:39:07,823
See, on that island,

650
00:39:07,997 --> 00:39:11,609
they got writers and artists
and scientists,

651
00:39:11,783 --> 00:39:14,830
and what they're doing
is just...

652
00:39:16,788 --> 00:39:17,702
[panting]

653
00:39:19,443 --> 00:39:21,837
I've done some bad things.

654
00:39:22,838 --> 00:39:24,753
Did bad things to women.

655
00:39:24,927 --> 00:39:27,712
Shot kids in 'Nam...

656
00:39:27,886 --> 00:39:33,283
but I never did anything
like... like...

657
00:39:33,457 --> 00:39:36,939
[crying] Oh, mother.

658
00:39:37,113 --> 00:39:38,462
Forgive me.

659
00:39:38,636 --> 00:39:42,161
Forgive me, forgive me,
forgive me...

660
00:39:42,335 --> 00:39:45,034
[laughs] It's a joke.

661
00:39:45,208 --> 00:39:46,644
But I don't get it!

662
00:39:46,818 --> 00:39:48,733
What's so goddamned funny!

663
00:39:48,907 --> 00:39:50,474
Somebody explain it to me!

664
00:39:50,648 --> 00:39:53,564
Somebody please
explain it to me.

665
00:39:53,738 --> 00:39:55,827
And then he left.

666
00:39:56,001 --> 00:39:57,916
I don't know what
the hell it was about.

667
00:39:58,090 --> 00:39:59,701
[Rorschach] Hmm.

668
00:39:59,875 --> 00:40:01,093
Funny story.

669
00:40:01,267 --> 00:40:02,443
Sounds unbelievable.

670
00:40:02,617 --> 00:40:03,835
Probably true.

671
00:40:04,009 --> 00:40:06,708
So that's it?

672
00:40:06,882 --> 00:40:08,405
- I'm clean?
- No.

673
00:40:08,579 --> 00:40:10,146
Searched house
before you got back.

674
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,148
Found phony medication.

675
00:40:12,322 --> 00:40:13,628
Outlawed years ago.

676
00:40:14,367 --> 00:40:15,934
[sighs]

677
00:40:16,108 --> 00:40:21,374
Well, when you're desperate,
you'll try anything.

678
00:40:21,549 --> 00:40:25,248
I... I have cancer.

679
00:40:25,422 --> 00:40:28,294
Cancer? What kind?

680
00:40:28,469 --> 00:40:31,689
You know the kind of cancer
you eventually get better from?

681
00:40:31,863 --> 00:40:33,386
[breathing heavily]

682
00:40:33,561 --> 00:40:34,779
This ain't it.

683
00:40:38,566 --> 00:40:41,786
Wrote down name of company.
Will report them later.

684
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,528
You're off the hook for now.

685
00:40:44,702 --> 00:40:45,877
Stay out of trouble.

686
00:40:53,755 --> 00:40:57,802
<i>Rorschach's Journal.
October 16th, 1985.</i>

687
00:40:57,976 --> 00:41:00,457
<i>Thought about Moloch's story
on the way to cemetery.</i>

688
00:41:00,631 --> 00:41:03,982
<i>Could be all lies,
part of a revenge scheme.</i>

689
00:41:04,156 --> 00:41:06,202
<i>But if true, then what?</i>

690
00:41:06,376 --> 00:41:09,771
<i>References to an island,
to Dr. Manhattan...</i>

691
00:41:09,945 --> 00:41:12,382
<i>might he be at risk?</i>

692
00:41:12,556 --> 00:41:16,691
<i>Edward Morgan Blake.
45 years, a Comedian.</i>

693
00:41:16,865 --> 00:41:18,606
<i>Buried in the rain.</i>

694
00:41:18,780 --> 00:41:20,651
<i>Is this what happens to us?</i>

695
00:41:20,825 --> 00:41:23,611
<i>A life of conflict with
no time for friends,</i>

696
00:41:23,785 --> 00:41:26,962
<i>so that when it's done,
only our enemies leave roses?</i>

697
00:41:28,441 --> 00:41:31,227
<i>Blake saw the cracks
in society,</i>

698
00:41:31,401 --> 00:41:34,143
<i>saw the little men in masks
trying to hold it together,</i>

699
00:41:34,317 --> 00:41:37,494
<i>and treated it like a joke.</i>

700
00:41:37,668 --> 00:41:40,105
<i>Saw the true face
of the 20th century</i>

701
00:41:40,279 --> 00:41:43,152
<i>and became a reflection of it,
a parody.</i>

702
00:41:45,850 --> 00:41:47,330
<i>No one else saw the joke.</i>

703
00:41:51,073 --> 00:41:52,596
<i>- That's why he was lonely.</i>
- [screaming]

704
00:41:53,815 --> 00:41:57,166
[screaming]

705
00:41:59,385 --> 00:42:01,039
<i>Heard joke once.</i>

706
00:42:01,213 --> 00:42:04,303
<i>Man goes to doctor,
says he's depressed.</i>

707
00:42:04,477 --> 00:42:06,610
<i>Life seems harsh and cruel.</i>

708
00:42:06,784 --> 00:42:09,570
<i>Says he feels all alone
in a threatening world.</i>

709
00:42:09,744 --> 00:42:11,572
<i>Doctor says,
"Treatment is simple."</i>

710
00:42:11,746 --> 00:42:15,314
<i>"Great clown Pagliacci
is in town. Go see him."</i>

711
00:42:15,488 --> 00:42:16,838
<i>"That will pick you up."</i>

712
00:42:17,012 --> 00:42:18,491
<i>Man bursts into tears.</i>

713
00:42:18,666 --> 00:42:20,276
<i>Says, "But doctor...</i>

714
00:42:20,450 --> 00:42:22,408
<i>I am Pagliacci."</i>

715
00:42:25,324 --> 00:42:26,325
<i>Good joke.</i>

716
00:42:33,289 --> 00:42:34,812
[comic book narrator]
<i>Delirious,</i>

717
00:42:34,986 --> 00:42:37,641
<i>I saw that hell-bound
ship's black sails</i>

718
00:42:37,815 --> 00:42:40,905
<i>against the yellow Indies sky,</i>

719
00:42:41,079 --> 00:42:43,995
<i>and knew again
the stench of powder,</i>

720
00:42:44,169 --> 00:42:47,608
<i>and men's brains, and war.</i>

721
00:42:47,782 --> 00:42:51,437
<i>The severed heads nailed
to its prow liplessly mouthed,</i>

722
00:42:51,612 --> 00:42:54,440
<i>"No use! All's lost!"</i>

723
00:42:54,615 --> 00:42:57,356
[Bernard] <i>We outta nuke Russia
and let God sort it out.</i>

724
00:42:57,530 --> 00:43:00,316
[comic book narrator]
<i>The freighter's hideous
crew called out,</i>

725
00:43:00,490 --> 00:43:03,232
<i>"More blood! More blood!"</i>

726
00:43:03,406 --> 00:43:04,929
Nuke 'em till they glow.

727
00:43:05,103 --> 00:43:07,628
That's my opinion,
for what it's worth, ya know?

728
00:43:07,802 --> 00:43:09,107
Inna final analysis.

729
00:43:09,281 --> 00:43:11,588
Man, I'm tryin' to read here.

730
00:43:11,762 --> 00:43:14,286
[comic book narrator]
<i>It's tar-streaked hull
rolled over me.</i>

731
00:43:14,460 --> 00:43:18,247
<i>In despair,
I sank beneath the waves,</i>

732
00:43:18,421 --> 00:43:21,206
<i>offering up
my wretched soul to God,</i>

733
00:43:21,380 --> 00:43:25,384
<i>his mercy and his judgment.</i>

734
00:43:25,558 --> 00:43:27,125
<i>Waking from nightmare,</i>

735
00:43:27,299 --> 00:43:31,260
<i>I found myself upon
a dismal beachhead,</i>

736
00:43:31,434 --> 00:43:37,919
<i>amongst dead men and...
the pieces of dead men.</i>

737
00:43:38,093 --> 00:43:39,877
I'm informed on these things.

738
00:43:40,051 --> 00:43:41,879
I see every paper in the world.

739
00:43:42,053 --> 00:43:44,316
See, everything's connected.

740
00:43:44,490 --> 00:43:46,710
[comic book narrator]
<i>I begged that the gulls
should take my eyes...</i>

741
00:43:46,884 --> 00:43:49,321
A news vendor
understands that reality.

742
00:43:49,495 --> 00:43:51,410
<i>...thus sparing me the horrors.</i>

743
00:43:51,584 --> 00:43:53,674
The weight o' the world's
on him, but he can take it.

744
00:43:53,848 --> 00:43:56,285
<i>But at least I was alive.</i>

745
00:43:56,459 --> 00:43:58,113
[man] He's a survivor.

746
00:43:58,287 --> 00:44:00,506
<i>And I knew that life
had no worse news to offer me.</i>

747
00:44:00,681 --> 00:44:01,551
[man] Good afternoon.

748
00:44:02,595 --> 00:44:04,423
Is it here yet?

749
00:44:04,597 --> 00:44:06,425
Oh! Your copy of today's
<i>New Frontiersman,</i> coming up.

750
00:44:06,599 --> 00:44:09,254
I keep it for ya
every day, don't I? Uh...

751
00:44:10,995 --> 00:44:13,128
Hey, how's the end
of the world coming?

752
00:44:13,302 --> 00:44:15,608
Today for certain.

753
00:44:15,783 --> 00:44:17,915
You won't forget to keep
my paper for me tomorrow?

754
00:44:18,089 --> 00:44:19,612
[Bernard] Sure will!

755
00:44:19,787 --> 00:44:21,440
[comic book narrator]
<i>I had a sudden memory</i>

756
00:44:21,614 --> 00:44:23,486
<i>of clinging fast to someone
through the tempest.</i>

757
00:44:24,705 --> 00:44:26,968
<i>Our fateful ship's figurehead,</i>

758
00:44:27,142 --> 00:44:29,100
<i>now lying at my feet,</i>

759
00:44:29,274 --> 00:44:33,409
<i>blindfolded by seaweed,
smiling.</i>

760
00:44:33,583 --> 00:44:36,238
<i>I thought better
of removing the kelp
from her eyes,</i>

761
00:44:36,412 --> 00:44:41,983
<i>not wishing her to suffer
the terrible distractions
of that grim tideline.</i>

762
00:44:42,157 --> 00:44:45,029
<i>She had borne me
through seas of blood,</i>

763
00:44:45,203 --> 00:44:48,163
<i>had nourished me
in the heart of the storm.</i>

764
00:44:48,337 --> 00:44:52,210
<i>This small comfort
was all I could offer,</i>

765
00:44:52,384 --> 00:44:55,344
<i>for I could not love her
as she had loved me.</i>

766
00:44:56,867 --> 00:45:02,177
[giggles, groans]

767
00:45:02,351 --> 00:45:05,397
Mmm... Jon...

768
00:45:05,571 --> 00:45:08,487
don't you have to do
a TV interview soon?

769
00:45:08,661 --> 00:45:12,143
No. We have plenty of time.

770
00:45:12,317 --> 00:45:13,710
- [screams]
- Laurie?

771
00:45:13,884 --> 00:45:16,931
Oh, God! Jon,
just be one person again!

772
00:45:17,105 --> 00:45:20,761
Don't be upset. I'm sorry.
I thought you'd enjoy it.

773
00:45:20,935 --> 00:45:22,371
I was just trying
to please you.

774
00:45:22,545 --> 00:45:23,720
I-I-I know.

775
00:45:23,894 --> 00:45:26,679
I know. I'm sorry
I over-reacted.

776
00:45:26,854 --> 00:45:29,508
You just startled me is all.

777
00:45:29,682 --> 00:45:30,814
I'm fine. It doesn't--

778
00:45:34,470 --> 00:45:35,776
Laurie?

779
00:45:35,950 --> 00:45:38,822
- Are you okay?
- Am I okay?

780
00:45:38,996 --> 00:45:40,868
This whole time
you've been working out here

781
00:45:41,042 --> 00:45:42,521
while we were in bed?

782
00:45:42,695 --> 00:45:44,697
My work's
at an important stage.

783
00:45:44,872 --> 00:45:47,700
- It didn't seem necessary to--
- To what?

784
00:45:47,875 --> 00:45:50,834
Give me your full attention?

785
00:45:51,008 --> 00:45:52,618
For once?

786
00:45:52,793 --> 00:45:54,838
If there's a problem
with my attitude,

787
00:45:55,012 --> 00:45:56,753
I'm prepared to discuss it.

788
00:46:02,019 --> 00:46:03,194
I hate you.

789
00:46:06,371 --> 00:46:07,416
Laurie?

790
00:46:42,494 --> 00:46:45,410
[couple giggling]

791
00:47:01,774 --> 00:47:02,775
I left Jon.

792
00:47:02,950 --> 00:47:05,909
Oh, I... I'm sorry, I--

793
00:47:06,083 --> 00:47:10,783
And I'm sorry
to dump this on you,

794
00:47:10,958 --> 00:47:14,222
but you don't know
what it's like,
living with him.

795
00:47:17,529 --> 00:47:20,010
For him...

796
00:47:20,184 --> 00:47:23,535
<i>the real world is like
walking through mist,</i>

797
00:47:23,709 --> 00:47:27,800
and all the people
are just shadows.

798
00:47:27,975 --> 00:47:30,586
<i>I mean, the way
he looks at things,</i>

799
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,197
<i>like he can't remember
what they are,</i>

800
00:47:33,371 --> 00:47:36,722
<i>and he doesn't
particularly care.</i>

801
00:47:36,897 --> 00:47:39,943
Sometimes I look at myself
and I don't understand

802
00:47:40,117 --> 00:47:44,774
how things got so tangled up.

803
00:47:44,948 --> 00:47:46,080
[sighs]

804
00:47:53,957 --> 00:47:56,481
- Hey, can we go out?
- Oh!

805
00:47:56,655 --> 00:47:58,005
- Get some air?
- Um...

806
00:47:59,310 --> 00:48:01,399
[chuckles]
I'll get my coat.

807
00:48:01,573 --> 00:48:02,705
[chuckles]

808
00:48:02,879 --> 00:48:03,836
[Dan] <i>Let's go.</i>

809
00:48:07,492 --> 00:48:12,845
[both laughing]

810
00:48:14,369 --> 00:48:16,240
- Oh! Dr. Manhattan!
- Dr. Osterman...

811
00:48:16,414 --> 00:48:17,981
We need to get you
into make-up.

812
00:48:18,155 --> 00:48:20,549
That blue is-is
far too light for broadcast.

813
00:48:20,723 --> 00:48:23,117
- Is this dark enough?
- That's perfect!

814
00:48:23,291 --> 00:48:26,772
Here's a list of no-go
talking points compiled
by army intelligence.

815
00:48:26,947 --> 00:48:29,514
Afghanistan will come up
but play it cool...

816
00:48:29,688 --> 00:48:33,692
<i>And try not to get into
any tight corners.</i>

817
00:48:36,043 --> 00:48:39,611
Ladies and gentlemen,
we have something really
special for you tonight.

818
00:48:39,785 --> 00:48:41,570
In his first live interview,

819
00:48:41,744 --> 00:48:44,181
let's have a hand
for Doctor Manhattan himself,

820
00:48:44,355 --> 00:48:48,185
Dr. Jon Osterman! [laughs]

821
00:48:48,359 --> 00:48:51,188
So, uh... what's up, Doc?

822
00:48:51,362 --> 00:48:53,756
Well, you'll forgive
the levity, doctor,

823
00:48:53,930 --> 00:48:56,498
<i>but the news overseas
has everyone a little tense.</i>

824
00:48:56,672 --> 00:49:02,243
[laughs] <i>So, before
I throw you to our hungry
reporters here tonight,</i>

825
00:49:02,417 --> 00:49:05,463
<i>let me kick things off
with this...</i>

826
00:49:05,637 --> 00:49:08,379
If the Reds act up
in Afghanistan,

827
00:49:08,553 --> 00:49:11,730
are you prepared
to enter hostilities?

828
00:49:11,904 --> 00:49:15,908
There is no situation
in Afghanistan currently
requiring my attention.

829
00:49:16,083 --> 00:49:18,389
Ahem. If I can jump in.

830
00:49:18,563 --> 00:49:20,609
Doug Roth. <i>Nova Express.</i>

831
00:49:20,783 --> 00:49:24,482
Dr Osterman...
Do you remember Wally Weaver?

832
00:49:24,656 --> 00:49:27,181
<i>The newspapers called him
Dr. Manhattan's buddy.</i>

833
00:49:27,355 --> 00:49:30,358
<i>- He died of cancer in '71...</i>
- [Dr. Manhattan] <i>I remember.</i>

834
00:49:31,881 --> 00:49:33,578
I attended Wally's funeral

835
00:49:33,752 --> 00:49:37,495
How about Edgar W. Jacobi,
aka Moloch?

836
00:49:37,669 --> 00:49:40,542
<i>You and he battled it out many
times over the years.</i>

837
00:49:40,716 --> 00:49:42,979
<i>Did you know he's
also battling terminal cancer?</i>

838
00:49:44,589 --> 00:49:47,592
No. I did not know that.
I would rather not--

839
00:49:47,766 --> 00:49:49,899
And are you aware
that Janey Slater,

840
00:49:50,073 --> 00:49:52,554
with whom you were
romantically linked
for several years,

841
00:49:52,728 --> 00:49:55,339
- is suffering from lung cancer?
- [audience murmuring]

842
00:49:57,472 --> 00:49:59,778
[thugs grunting]

843
00:50:00,997 --> 00:50:03,913
No, I... I wasn't told. I--

844
00:50:04,087 --> 00:50:06,046
Or that she has
six months to live?

845
00:50:06,220 --> 00:50:07,743
<i>I recently interviewed
Ms. Slater.</i>

846
00:50:07,917 --> 00:50:09,353
<i>Her story's hitting
the streets right now.</i>

847
00:50:11,747 --> 00:50:13,705
- What are you suggesting?
- Jon,

848
00:50:13,879 --> 00:50:16,926
Doug has reports
of over two dozen
of your former associates

849
00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:18,536
who have been
similarly afflicted--

850
00:50:18,710 --> 00:50:20,147
No, I--

851
00:50:20,321 --> 00:50:22,236
Do you have any response
to these allegations?

852
00:50:22,410 --> 00:50:23,889
[Laurie grunting]

853
00:50:26,936 --> 00:50:28,633
- Are we gonna get cancer?
- Is this guy radioactive?

854
00:50:29,547 --> 00:50:30,853
Leave me alone.

855
00:50:31,027 --> 00:50:33,160
Do you think
you gave Ms. Slater cancer

856
00:50:33,334 --> 00:50:34,465
<i>by sleeping with her?</i>

857
00:50:37,512 --> 00:50:39,470
I said--

858
00:50:39,644 --> 00:50:41,820
How does it feel knowing
you may have doomed
hundreds of people?

859
00:50:41,994 --> 00:50:45,346
Leave me alone!

860
00:50:45,520 --> 00:50:47,087
[energy pulsing]

861
00:50:53,136 --> 00:50:55,095
[groans]

862
00:51:01,362 --> 00:51:02,493
[breathing heavily]

863
00:51:12,547 --> 00:51:16,507
[breathing heavily]

864
00:51:17,465 --> 00:51:18,640
Um...

865
00:51:19,815 --> 00:51:22,557
- You okay?
- Yeah. Fine.

866
00:51:22,731 --> 00:51:24,820
Um... I...

867
00:51:24,994 --> 00:51:27,518
We just need to get
our breath back.

868
00:51:27,692 --> 00:51:30,260
- We should--
- I'm just gonna go
grab a hotel.

869
00:51:30,434 --> 00:51:31,914
Think my relationship over.

870
00:51:32,088 --> 00:51:33,350
Oh. Of course.

871
00:51:33,524 --> 00:51:36,092
Thanks for listening, Dan.
Take care.

872
00:51:36,266 --> 00:51:37,049
Sure...

873
00:51:37,224 --> 00:51:38,747
W-w...

874
00:51:38,921 --> 00:51:40,488
[sighs]

875
00:51:40,662 --> 00:51:42,185
You too, Laurie...

876
00:51:43,578 --> 00:51:44,405
<i>Bye.</i>

877
00:51:52,935 --> 00:51:56,634
[comic book narrator]
<i>The freighter's murderous
onslaught had surprised us.</i>

878
00:51:56,808 --> 00:51:59,507
- [cannon fire]
- [shouting]

879
00:51:59,681 --> 00:52:03,772
<i>We'd been blasted to fragments
before we could warn Davidstown
of the hell-ship's approach.</i>

880
00:52:05,165 --> 00:52:07,558
<i>I thought of my family there,</i>

881
00:52:07,732 --> 00:52:11,432
<i>vulnerable, unsuspecting,</i>

882
00:52:11,606 --> 00:52:14,826
<i>unaware of the damnation
that bore down upon them.</i>

883
00:52:16,915 --> 00:52:22,094
<i>Crazed with helplessness,
I cursed God and wept,</i>

884
00:52:22,269 --> 00:52:24,575
<i>wondering if he wept also.</i>

885
00:52:24,749 --> 00:52:28,753
<i>But then, what use
are his tears if he
also denied me help?</i>

886
00:52:31,408 --> 00:52:36,718
<i>That night I slept badly
beneath cold, distant stars</i>

887
00:52:36,892 --> 00:52:39,677
<i>pondering the cold, distant god</i>

888
00:52:39,851 --> 00:52:43,072
<i>in whose hands the fate
of Davidstown rested.</i>

889
00:52:45,857 --> 00:52:47,250
<i>Was he really there?</i>

890
00:52:48,556 --> 00:52:50,340
<i>Had he been there once...</i>

891
00:52:51,646 --> 00:52:53,343
<i>But now departed?</i>

892
00:52:53,517 --> 00:52:57,478
Hey, this base is off limits.
You don't belong... here.

893
00:52:59,088 --> 00:53:00,785
I believe you are correct.

894
00:53:02,526 --> 00:53:05,268
Please tell your superiors
and Laurie Juspeczyk

895
00:53:05,442 --> 00:53:06,661
that I am leaving.

896
00:53:07,662 --> 00:53:08,924
Leaving for Mars.

897
00:53:21,197 --> 00:53:24,287
Gone? What do you mean
he's gone?

898
00:53:24,461 --> 00:53:28,813
Ma'am, your meal ticket
flew the coop after
last night's broadcast.

899
00:53:28,987 --> 00:53:31,947
Dr. Manhattan, the linchpin
of America's security,

900
00:53:32,121 --> 00:53:33,601
has left Earth.

901
00:53:33,775 --> 00:53:35,385
[General] <i>Mr. President...</i>

902
00:53:35,559 --> 00:53:37,387
The Russians are invading
Afghanistan and Pakistan.

903
00:53:37,561 --> 00:53:40,216
If this keeps up,
they'll try taking
Western Europe next.

904
00:53:40,390 --> 00:53:44,133
[President Nixon groans]
If Dr. Manhattan
wanted to live on a red planet,

905
00:53:44,307 --> 00:53:46,309
he should've stayed home.

906
00:53:46,483 --> 00:53:48,833
Keep running the numbers
for our losses in a nuclear
exchange.

907
00:53:49,007 --> 00:53:52,054
And be ready
for a first strike
in seven days.

908
00:53:52,228 --> 00:53:53,838
[Rorschach]
Good morning, Daniel.

909
00:53:54,012 --> 00:53:55,492
Brought you your paper.

910
00:53:55,666 --> 00:53:59,148
The Comedian murdered,
Dr. Manhattan exiled...

911
00:53:59,322 --> 00:54:02,456
Two of us gone.
All within a week.

912
00:54:02,630 --> 00:54:07,461
Who next? Veidt?
Juspeczyk? Me? You?

913
00:54:07,635 --> 00:54:10,594
These days, nobody's safe.

914
00:54:31,180 --> 00:54:33,356
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>The photograph
is in my hand.</i>

915
00:54:35,402 --> 00:54:37,969
<i>It is the photograph of a man
and a woman.</i>

916
00:54:39,710 --> 00:54:42,800
<i>They are at
an amusement park in 1959.</i>

917
00:54:44,802 --> 00:54:46,848
<i>In exactly 38 seconds,</i>

918
00:54:47,022 --> 00:54:50,504
<i>I drop the photograph
to the sand and walk away.</i>

919
00:54:50,678 --> 00:54:54,290
<i>It is already there,
31 seconds into the future.</i>

920
00:54:54,464 --> 00:54:56,336
<i>The photograph is in my hands.</i>

921
00:54:56,510 --> 00:54:58,860
<i>I found it in a derelict bar
27 hours ago.</i>

922
00:54:59,034 --> 00:55:00,514
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>Twenty-four seconds.</i>

923
00:55:00,688 --> 00:55:02,777
<i>It is still there,
27 hours into the past.</i>

924
00:55:02,951 --> 00:55:04,213
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>Twenty-one seconds.</i>

925
00:55:04,387 --> 00:55:05,780
<i>I am still there,
looking at it.</i>

926
00:55:05,954 --> 00:55:06,781
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>Eighteen seconds.</i>

927
00:55:06,955 --> 00:55:09,000
<i>It is October, 1985.</i>

928
00:55:09,174 --> 00:55:10,698
<i>- I'm on Mars.
- Fourteen seconds.</i>

929
00:55:10,872 --> 00:55:13,744
<i>- It is July, 1959.
- Eleven seconds.</i>

930
00:55:13,918 --> 00:55:16,007
<i>I am at the
Palisades Amusement Park.</i>

931
00:55:16,181 --> 00:55:19,271
<i>- Eight. Seven. Six.
- I am tired of looking
at the photograph.</i>

932
00:55:19,446 --> 00:55:22,057
<i>- Five. Four. Three. Two. One.
- I open my fingers.</i>

933
00:55:22,231 --> 00:55:23,667
<i>It falls to the sand.</i>

934
00:55:27,279 --> 00:55:30,326
<i>I am going to look
at the stars.</i>

935
00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:33,111
<i>They are so far away,</i>

936
00:55:33,285 --> 00:55:37,377
<i>and their light takes
so long to reach us.</i>

937
00:55:37,551 --> 00:55:41,772
<i>All we ever see of the stars
are their old photographs.</i>

938
00:55:51,129 --> 00:55:52,957
<i>I am watching the stars,</i>

939
00:55:53,131 --> 00:55:56,396
<i>admiring their complex
trajectories</i>

940
00:55:56,570 --> 00:55:57,875
<i>through space,</i>

941
00:55:58,876 --> 00:56:01,618
<i>through time.</i>

942
00:56:01,792 --> 00:56:05,709
<i>My father admired the sky
for its precision.</i>

943
00:56:05,883 --> 00:56:07,276
<i>He repaired watches.</i>

944
00:56:09,583 --> 00:56:11,759
<i>It is August, 1945.</i>

945
00:56:11,933 --> 00:56:13,717
<i>I sit in a Brooklyn kitchen,</i>

946
00:56:13,891 --> 00:56:17,068
<i>fascinated by an arrangement
of cogs on black velvet.</i>

947
00:56:17,242 --> 00:56:18,635
<i>I am 16 years old.</i>

948
00:56:18,809 --> 00:56:20,811
Jon? Jon? What are you doing?

949
00:56:20,985 --> 00:56:22,552
Practicing on your
old pocket-watch
before I leave for school--

950
00:56:22,726 --> 00:56:25,337
Forget watches.
Have you seen the news?

951
00:56:25,512 --> 00:56:29,864
They dropped an atomic bomb
on Japan! A whole city, gone!

952
00:56:30,038 --> 00:56:32,432
- This changes everything!
- Father, what are you--

953
00:56:32,606 --> 00:56:34,782
- I'm doing what
is best for you.
- Wait!

954
00:56:34,956 --> 00:56:37,915
This atomic science
is what the world will need,

955
00:56:38,089 --> 00:56:40,918
not pocket watches!

956
00:56:41,092 --> 00:56:46,968
Professor Einstein says
that time differs
from place to place.

957
00:56:47,142 --> 00:56:52,626
If time is not true,
what purpose have watchmakers?

958
00:56:52,800 --> 00:56:55,542
Wait! No!

959
00:56:55,716 --> 00:56:59,502
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>Forty years ago,
cogs rain on Brooklyn.</i>

960
00:56:59,676 --> 00:57:02,505
<i>One hundred and fifteen minutes
into the future,</i>

961
00:57:02,679 --> 00:57:05,943
<i>meteorites penetrate
the rarefied Martian
atmosphere.</i>

962
00:57:08,816 --> 00:57:10,818
<i>It is 1958.</i>

963
00:57:10,992 --> 00:57:14,038
<i>I am graduating
with a PhD in atomic physics.</i>

964
00:57:15,736 --> 00:57:19,087
<i>It is May 12th, 1959,</i>

965
00:57:19,261 --> 00:57:23,004
<i>my first day
at the Gila Flats Test Base.</i>

966
00:57:23,178 --> 00:57:25,136
<i>Wally Weaver shows me around.</i>

967
00:57:26,877 --> 00:57:28,923
What's this place?

968
00:57:29,097 --> 00:57:30,533
[Wally Weaver]
This is where the intrinsic
field experiments happen.

969
00:57:30,707 --> 00:57:33,449
They're, uh, trying to prove
there's some field

970
00:57:33,623 --> 00:57:36,104
holdin' stuff together
besides gravity.

971
00:57:36,278 --> 00:57:38,454
This is our time-lock
test vault,

972
00:57:38,628 --> 00:57:41,283
for when they're tryin'
to separate objects
from their intrinsic fields.

973
00:57:41,457 --> 00:57:43,938
It makes sure
no radiation gets out.

974
00:57:51,032 --> 00:57:54,209
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>Wally steers me
to a crowded bar.</i>

975
00:57:54,383 --> 00:57:57,473
<i>There is a sudden
sense of deja vu.</i>

976
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,348
So, you must be the new guy.

977
00:58:03,523 --> 00:58:05,568
Pretty young
for a research scientist.

978
00:58:05,742 --> 00:58:08,528
Well, my dad sort of
pushed me into it.

979
00:58:09,572 --> 00:58:11,052
Happens to me a lot.

980
00:58:11,226 --> 00:58:13,489
Other people seem to make
all my moves for me.

981
00:58:13,663 --> 00:58:16,927
[chuckles] I'm Janey Slater.

982
00:58:17,101 --> 00:58:19,103
Can I buy you a drink?

983
00:58:19,277 --> 00:58:20,191
[photographer]
<i>Hey, young lovers!</i>

984
00:58:20,365 --> 00:58:21,584
[laughter]

985
00:58:21,758 --> 00:58:23,543
There!
That's a beautiful picture!

986
00:58:23,717 --> 00:58:24,544
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>The photograph lies
in the sand.</i>

987
00:58:24,718 --> 00:58:26,763
<i>It is July, 1959.</i>

988
00:58:26,937 --> 00:58:29,418
<i>By the shooting gallery,
Janey's watch falls off</i>

989
00:58:29,592 --> 00:58:32,290
<i>and a man steps on it.</i>

990
00:58:32,464 --> 00:58:34,423
<i>- I tell her I can fix it.</i>
- I can fix it.

991
00:58:36,207 --> 00:58:38,166
<i>It is 1963.</i>

992
00:58:38,340 --> 00:58:40,864
<i>We're making love
after an argument,</i>

993
00:58:41,038 --> 00:58:45,347
<i>our tenderness
in direct proportion
to its violence.</i>

994
00:58:45,521 --> 00:58:49,960
<i>It is 1966, and she's
packing a suitcase, crying.</i>

995
00:58:53,485 --> 00:58:55,792
<i>It is August, 1959.</i>

996
00:58:55,966 --> 00:58:58,012
<i>We have only been together
for a month.</i>

997
00:58:58,186 --> 00:59:01,493
- So Jon...
<i>- The accident
is waiting for me.</i>

998
00:59:01,668 --> 00:59:03,452
...did you fix my watch yet?

999
00:59:03,626 --> 00:59:07,064
Sure did, it's right-- Oh.

1000
00:59:07,238 --> 00:59:09,197
[laughs]

1001
00:59:09,371 --> 00:59:11,068
Must've left it in my lab coat

1002
00:59:11,242 --> 00:59:13,636
when we were resetting
the intrinsic chamber.

1003
00:59:13,810 --> 00:59:14,637
Be right back.

1004
00:59:17,161 --> 00:59:19,773
<i>The accident is almost
upon me now.</i>

1005
00:59:37,399 --> 00:59:38,879
[door locks]

1006
00:59:42,099 --> 00:59:43,405
[machine powering up]

1007
00:59:47,757 --> 00:59:49,890
- Janey! Janey!
- Jon?

1008
00:59:50,064 --> 00:59:51,935
- Open the door!
- I can't!

1009
00:59:52,109 --> 00:59:53,589
Open the door!

1010
00:59:53,763 --> 00:59:55,939
It's on a timelock
for the next experiment! I--

1011
00:59:56,113 --> 00:59:57,811
- I can't override it!
- No.

1012
00:59:59,247 --> 01:00:01,336
Oh, God, it's starting!

1013
01:00:03,033 --> 01:00:04,861
Oh my God! Janey!

1014
01:00:05,035 --> 01:00:06,863
- It's my fault!
- No!

1015
01:00:07,037 --> 01:00:08,169
No! Janey!

1016
01:00:08,343 --> 01:00:09,779
- Please!
- I can't stay and watch...

1017
01:00:09,953 --> 01:00:11,912
Please, I... I just can't.

1018
01:00:12,086 --> 01:00:13,870
- Don't go!
- I'm sorry.

1019
01:00:14,044 --> 01:00:15,829
No! No! No! No! No! No!

1020
01:00:16,003 --> 01:00:16,873
Janey!

1021
01:00:19,136 --> 01:00:20,050
[alarm goes off]

1022
01:00:20,224 --> 01:00:22,357
No...

1023
01:00:22,531 --> 01:00:24,794
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>The shields slide back
from the particle cannons.</i>

1024
01:00:24,968 --> 01:00:28,102
<i>The atoms in the test chamber
begin screaming.</i>

1025
01:00:28,276 --> 01:00:30,800
<i>I look at the watch in my hand.</i>

1026
01:00:30,974 --> 01:00:32,628
<i>Good as new.</i>

1027
01:00:32,802 --> 01:00:34,412
<i>And the light...</i>

1028
01:00:34,586 --> 01:00:36,937
<i>the light is taking me
to pieces.</i>

1029
01:00:38,895 --> 01:00:41,550
[screaming]

1030
01:00:47,556 --> 01:00:49,253
<i>It is September.</i>

1031
01:00:49,427 --> 01:00:52,169
<i>A token funeral service
is held.</i>

1032
01:00:52,343 --> 01:00:53,997
<i>There is nothing to bury.</i>

1033
01:00:56,565 --> 01:00:58,567
<i>It is October.</i>

1034
01:00:58,741 --> 01:01:01,962
<i>Janey places the only photo
anyone has of me in the bar.</i>

1035
01:01:02,136 --> 01:01:04,312
[Janey sobbing]

1036
01:01:05,182 --> 01:01:06,793
<i>It is November.</i>

1037
01:01:06,967 --> 01:01:08,490
[energy crackling]

1038
01:01:08,664 --> 01:01:11,711
<i>A human nervous system
briefly materializes.</i>

1039
01:01:13,756 --> 01:01:15,715
<i>It is November 10th now.</i>

1040
01:01:15,889 --> 01:01:18,979
<i>A circulatory system is seen
walking through the kitchen.</i>

1041
01:01:19,153 --> 01:01:20,284
Wha... What?

1042
01:01:20,458 --> 01:01:22,809
<i>November 14th.</i>

1043
01:01:22,983 --> 01:01:26,290
<i>A partially muscled
skeleton appears outside
the perimeter fence.</i>

1044
01:01:26,464 --> 01:01:29,554
<i>It screams for 30 seconds
before vanishing.</i>

1045
01:01:29,729 --> 01:01:30,817
[screaming]

1046
01:01:30,991 --> 01:01:32,732
<i>Really, it is just a question</i>

1047
01:01:32,906 --> 01:01:36,039
<i>of reassembling the components
in the correct sequence.</i>

1048
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:43,612
[gasps]

1049
01:01:46,136 --> 01:01:47,355
[energy crackling]

1050
01:01:47,529 --> 01:01:48,965
[gasps]

1051
01:02:00,934 --> 01:02:02,109
Jon?

1052
01:02:03,893 --> 01:02:05,155
Jon?

1053
01:02:05,329 --> 01:02:07,767
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>It is Christmas, 1959.</i>

1054
01:02:07,941 --> 01:02:11,248
So, do you like it?

1055
01:02:11,422 --> 01:02:15,513
I mean, is a ring the sort
of thing that you like

1056
01:02:15,687 --> 01:02:17,951
now that you're, uh...

1057
01:02:18,125 --> 01:02:20,344
[photographer] <i>Like that symbol
on your helmet?</i>

1058
01:02:20,518 --> 01:02:22,477
Marketing boys say
you need a symbol.

1059
01:02:22,651 --> 01:02:24,827
<i>It's February, 1960.</i>

1060
01:02:25,001 --> 01:02:27,308
Your symbol is meaningless.

1061
01:02:27,482 --> 01:02:28,831
If I am to have a symbol,

1062
01:02:29,005 --> 01:02:31,791
a hydrogen atom
would be more appropriate.

1063
01:02:31,965 --> 01:02:34,402
A symbol I respect.

1064
01:02:34,576 --> 01:02:37,448
It's atomic structure
is a perfect grid.

1065
01:02:37,622 --> 01:02:39,059
I like it very much.

1066
01:02:39,233 --> 01:02:40,060
[Janey exhales]

1067
01:02:41,148 --> 01:02:42,758
Janey? What's wrong?

1068
01:02:43,933 --> 01:02:45,369
I'm scared, Jon.

1069
01:02:46,066 --> 01:02:48,155
Of me?

1070
01:02:48,329 --> 01:02:50,635
<i>They assign me the name
Dr. Manhattan</i>

1071
01:02:50,810 --> 01:02:55,684
<i>for the ominous
associations it will raise
in American enemies.</i>

1072
01:02:55,858 --> 01:02:59,253
<i>They're shaping me into
something gaudy and lethal.</i>

1073
01:02:59,427 --> 01:03:04,780
I'm just scared because
everything feels... weird.

1074
01:03:04,954 --> 01:03:06,651
[Dr. Manhattan] <i>March, 1960.</i>

1075
01:03:06,826 --> 01:03:09,219
[newscaster]
<i>We repeat: the superman exists</i>

1076
01:03:09,393 --> 01:03:10,830
<i>and he's American.</i>

1077
01:03:11,004 --> 01:03:12,701
[British newscaster]
<i>Pentagon sources say</i>

1078
01:03:12,875 --> 01:03:15,617
<i>this Dr. Manhattan can control
atomic structure itself.</i>

1079
01:03:15,791 --> 01:03:18,620
[in Spanish] <i>There's been
no response from the Kremlin.</i>

1080
01:03:18,794 --> 01:03:21,753
It's as if
everything's changed

1081
01:03:21,928 --> 01:03:23,930
[Dr. Manhattan] <i>November, 1960.</i>

1082
01:03:24,104 --> 01:03:26,541
- [man screaming]
<i>- The newspapers
call me a crime-fighter,</i>

1083
01:03:26,715 --> 01:03:30,632
<i>so the Pentagon says
I must fight crime.</i>

1084
01:03:30,806 --> 01:03:34,157
<i>The morality of my activities
escapes me.</i>

1085
01:03:34,331 --> 01:03:37,857
Not just you. Everything.

1086
01:03:38,031 --> 01:03:40,163
[Dr. Manhattan] <i>May, 1962.</i>

1087
01:03:40,337 --> 01:03:44,254
<i>A masked man retires to open
an auto-repair business.</i>

1088
01:03:44,428 --> 01:03:46,996
With someone like you around,
the whole situation changes.

1089
01:03:47,170 --> 01:03:48,650
You can do anything.

1090
01:03:48,824 --> 01:03:51,174
All I got to offer
is a good left hook.

1091
01:03:51,348 --> 01:03:53,916
And some mean wrenching skills
under the hood.

1092
01:03:54,090 --> 01:03:57,528
Well, the new electric
cars I've designed
should be simpler.

1093
01:03:58,181 --> 01:03:59,139
Electric?

1094
01:04:00,662 --> 01:04:03,230
They say you can do
anything, Jon.

1095
01:04:03,404 --> 01:04:05,580
They say you're like a...

1096
01:04:05,754 --> 01:04:07,147
like a god now.

1097
01:04:07,321 --> 01:04:09,366
[Dr. Manhattan]
<i>September, 1961.</i>

1098
01:04:09,540 --> 01:04:11,368
<i>John Kennedy is
asking what it's like
to be a superhero.</i>

1099
01:04:11,542 --> 01:04:12,413
[President Kennedy]
So, what's it like
to be a superhero?

1100
01:04:12,587 --> 01:04:13,588
You should know.

1101
01:04:13,762 --> 01:04:15,372
<i>I tell him he should know.</i>

1102
01:04:15,546 --> 01:04:16,330
<i>- He nods, laughing.</i>
- [President Kennedy laughs]

1103
01:04:18,375 --> 01:04:20,856
I don't think
there is a god, Janey.

1104
01:04:21,030 --> 01:04:24,207
If there is, I'm not him.

1105
01:04:24,381 --> 01:04:26,470
<i>November, 1963.</i>

1106
01:04:26,644 --> 01:04:30,474
<i>In Dallas, his head
snaps forward and then
back. Two shots.</i>

1107
01:04:30,648 --> 01:04:33,825
I can't believe this.
So you knew he'd get shot?

1108
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:35,610
Then why didn't you
do something?

1109
01:04:35,784 --> 01:04:37,829
I cannot prevent the future.

1110
01:04:38,004 --> 01:04:40,876
To me, it is already happening.

1111
01:04:41,050 --> 01:04:43,183
I'm still the same person.

1112
01:04:43,357 --> 01:04:44,793
Nothing's changed.

1113
01:04:46,621 --> 01:04:48,362
<i>It is 1966.</i>

1114
01:04:48,536 --> 01:04:50,538
<i>A young woman sits to my right.</i>

1115
01:04:50,712 --> 01:04:53,715
<i>She looks at me and smiles.</i>

1116
01:04:53,889 --> 01:04:57,371
Stop staring at that girl!
Pay attention!

1117
01:04:57,545 --> 01:05:01,157
I'll always want you.

1118
01:05:01,331 --> 01:05:04,813
<i>As I lie, I hear
her sobbing in 1966.</i>

1119
01:05:04,987 --> 01:05:07,381
[Janey sobbing]

1120
01:05:07,555 --> 01:05:10,993
<i>It is May, 1966.</i>

1121
01:05:11,167 --> 01:05:13,169
My name's Laurie.

1122
01:05:13,343 --> 01:05:16,868
Do you have another name,
apart from Dr. Manhattan.

1123
01:05:17,043 --> 01:05:18,914
[crying] You pig.

1124
01:05:20,655 --> 01:05:21,873
My name's Jon.

1125
01:05:22,048 --> 01:05:24,615
[crying] I knew
you were seeing her!

1126
01:05:27,183 --> 01:05:30,099
It's nice of you to come out
on patrol with me.

1127
01:05:30,273 --> 01:05:33,755
Your um, girlfriend
won't mind, will she?

1128
01:05:33,929 --> 01:05:35,887
[Dr. Manhattan] <i>As I lie...</i>

1129
01:05:36,062 --> 01:05:39,021
- I hate you.
<i>- ...I see her walking
out on me in 1985.</i>

1130
01:05:40,283 --> 01:05:42,459
<i>She is beautiful.</i>

1131
01:05:42,633 --> 01:05:46,550
<i>After each kiss,
she plants a smaller,
gentler one on my face,</i>

1132
01:05:46,724 --> 01:05:48,726
<i>like a signature.</i>

1133
01:05:48,900 --> 01:05:52,165
<i>I pull her closer,
never wanting to lose her.</i>

1134
01:05:52,339 --> 01:05:53,557
<i>Knowing that I shall.</i>

1135
01:06:01,826 --> 01:06:03,872
<i>I am tired of their world...</i>

1136
01:06:07,615 --> 01:06:09,660
<i>of these people.</i>

1137
01:06:09,834 --> 01:06:12,098
Alone!

1138
01:06:12,272 --> 01:06:15,536
<i>I am tired of being caught
in the tangle of their lives.</i>

1139
01:06:17,842 --> 01:06:20,454
<i>In Arizona,
I am taking the photo...</i>

1140
01:06:21,411 --> 01:06:22,804
<i>and I am gone.</i>

1141
01:06:24,719 --> 01:06:27,591
<i>Gone to Mars.</i>

1142
01:06:32,118 --> 01:06:35,556
<i>And I have decided
to create something.</i>

1143
01:06:36,470 --> 01:06:37,819
[ground rumbling]

1144
01:06:42,780 --> 01:06:45,522
<i>A world grows up around me.</i>

1145
01:06:47,611 --> 01:06:49,526
<i>Am I shaping it,</i>

1146
01:06:49,700 --> 01:06:52,573
<i>or do its predetermined
contours guide my hand?</i>

1147
01:06:53,965 --> 01:06:56,925
<i>The world changed
because of me.</i>

1148
01:06:57,099 --> 01:07:01,016
<i>But what if I hadn't left
the watch in the test chamber?</i>

1149
01:07:01,190 --> 01:07:03,671
<i>What if I had not gone back?</i>

1150
01:07:03,845 --> 01:07:06,587
<i>Or waited, just a moment?</i>

1151
01:07:07,849 --> 01:07:09,720
<i>Am I to blame, then?</i>

1152
01:07:09,894 --> 01:07:10,939
<i>Or Janey?</i>

1153
01:07:12,375 --> 01:07:13,333
<i>Or my father?</i>

1154
01:07:15,074 --> 01:07:16,336
<i>Which of us is responsible?</i>

1155
01:07:20,253 --> 01:07:22,429
<i>Who makes the world?</i>

1156
01:07:22,603 --> 01:07:24,692
<i>Perhaps the world is not made.</i>

1157
01:07:25,823 --> 01:07:27,521
<i>Perhaps nothing is made.</i>

1158
01:07:28,739 --> 01:07:31,351
<i>Perhaps it simply is,</i>

1159
01:07:31,525 --> 01:07:35,572
<i>has been,
and will always be there.</i>

1160
01:07:35,746 --> 01:07:39,010
<i>A clock without a craftsman.</i>

1161
01:07:40,621 --> 01:07:42,405
<i>I am standing on a balcony,</i>

1162
01:07:42,579 --> 01:07:44,581
<i>as I once stood
on a fire escape,</i>

1163
01:07:44,755 --> 01:07:48,324
<i>trying to catch the falling
cogs and wheels.</i>

1164
01:07:48,498 --> 01:07:50,283
<i>But it is too late.</i>

1165
01:07:50,457 --> 01:07:51,849
<i>Always has been.</i>

1166
01:07:53,199 --> 01:07:55,070
<i>Always will be.</i>

1167
01:07:57,028 --> 01:07:58,987
<i>Above the
Nodous Gordii mountains,</i>

1168
01:07:59,161 --> 01:08:02,773
<i>like jewels
in a maker-less mechanism,</i>

1169
01:08:02,947 --> 01:08:05,602
<i>the first meteorites
begin to fall.</i>

1170
01:08:19,181 --> 01:08:22,924
[Edgar Jacobi] Oh, God,
not again. [gasping in pain]

1171
01:08:23,098 --> 01:08:24,621
[crashing and thudding]

1172
01:08:25,927 --> 01:08:27,146
What do you want from me?

1173
01:08:27,320 --> 01:08:29,017
[Rorschach] Nothing.
Old and alone.

1174
01:08:29,191 --> 01:08:30,584
Thought you might
appreciate company.

1175
01:08:30,758 --> 01:08:32,194
Can I come out, then?

1176
01:08:32,847 --> 01:08:33,891
No.

1177
01:08:34,065 --> 01:08:35,893
- Deep breath.
- [inhales]

1178
01:08:36,067 --> 01:08:38,722
You said Comedian visited here.
Mentioned a list.

1179
01:08:38,896 --> 01:08:40,507
You and Janey Slater
were on it.

1180
01:08:40,681 --> 01:08:42,683
Talked about someone
messing with Dr. Manhattan.

1181
01:08:42,857 --> 01:08:45,207
- [pounding]
- Days later, Manhattan
publicly disgraced.

1182
01:08:45,381 --> 01:08:46,730
Forced into exile.

1183
01:08:46,904 --> 01:08:49,168
Allegations he'd
given people cancer.

1184
01:08:49,342 --> 01:08:51,257
Janey Slater. You.

1185
01:08:52,910 --> 01:08:54,956
Tough break.

1186
01:08:55,130 --> 01:08:57,176
I think Blake's list
was cancer list.

1187
01:08:57,350 --> 01:08:59,178
Somebody wrote it.
Somebody put your name on it.

1188
01:08:59,352 --> 01:09:01,092
Somebody gave it to the media.

1189
01:09:01,267 --> 01:09:03,530
Comedian and Dr. Manhattan were
always your biggest enemies.

1190
01:09:03,704 --> 01:09:04,835
Now they're both gone.

1191
01:09:05,009 --> 01:09:07,011
Very convenient.
Who is it, Moloch?

1192
01:09:07,186 --> 01:09:08,970
- Who's behind this?
- [inhales] I don't know!

1193
01:09:09,144 --> 01:09:11,277
- Not convincing.
- I don't know!

1194
01:09:11,451 --> 01:09:13,061
I don't know!

1195
01:09:13,235 --> 01:09:16,107
I swear to God,
I don't know who it was!

1196
01:09:16,282 --> 01:09:18,284
- [sobbing]
- Hmm. Better.

1197
01:09:20,895 --> 01:09:22,679
If anything should
refresh memory,

1198
01:09:22,853 --> 01:09:24,594
contact me by leaving note,

1199
01:09:24,768 --> 01:09:27,815
trash can opposite Gunga Diner,
at 40th and 7th.

1200
01:09:32,428 --> 01:09:37,128
<i>Rorschach's journal.
October 21st, 1985. 2:35 AM.</i>

1201
01:09:37,303 --> 01:09:39,566
<i>Jacobi visit useless.
Knows nothing.</i>

1202
01:09:39,740 --> 01:09:42,482
<i>Has simply been used.
But by who?</i>

1203
01:09:42,656 --> 01:09:43,700
<i>Russians?</i>

1204
01:09:43,874 --> 01:09:45,398
<i>Comedian mentioned an island,</i>

1205
01:09:45,572 --> 01:09:47,835
<i>artists and writers
living on it.</i>

1206
01:09:48,009 --> 01:09:49,489
<i>Doesn't fit.</i>

1207
01:09:49,663 --> 01:09:52,100
<i>Waiting for a flash
of enlightenment</i>

1208
01:09:52,274 --> 01:09:54,233
<i>in all this blood and thunder.</i>

1209
01:10:01,762 --> 01:10:03,633
[comic book narrator]
<i>Everything I loved,</i>

1210
01:10:03,807 --> 01:10:06,332
<i>everything I lived for,</i>

1211
01:10:06,506 --> 01:10:11,685
<i>depended on my reaching
Davidstown in advance
of that terrible freighter.</i>

1212
01:10:11,859 --> 01:10:14,557
<i>It was then I conceived
of building a raft.</i>

1213
01:10:14,731 --> 01:10:19,214
<i>But the island's trees
did not look buoyant enough
to reach Davidstown,</i>

1214
01:10:19,388 --> 01:10:21,521
<i>not unaided.</i>

1215
01:10:21,695 --> 01:10:26,656
<i>Suddenly, I found myself
considering
a repulsive notion...</i>

1216
01:10:26,830 --> 01:10:31,748
<i>Birthed from the gas-bloated
stomachs of the buried men.</i>

1217
01:10:31,922 --> 01:10:35,665
<i>I shuddered
at my loathsome scheme.</i>

1218
01:10:35,839 --> 01:10:38,973
<i>But I had no choice.</i>

1219
01:10:39,147 --> 01:10:41,280
<i>I pulled men up
from underground,</i>

1220
01:10:41,454 --> 01:10:43,673
<i>sand trickling
from their sockets.</i>

1221
01:10:43,847 --> 01:10:47,198
<i>I tore their clothes to ribbons
to bind them together.</i>

1222
01:10:47,373 --> 01:10:50,637
<i>I fixed their bodies
to the bottom of the raft.</i>

1223
01:10:50,811 --> 01:10:52,421
<i>As the ebb tide rose,</i>

1224
01:10:52,595 --> 01:10:56,599
<i>I embarked, heading east.</i>

1225
01:10:56,773 --> 01:10:59,907
<i>East, across the night seas.</i>

1226
01:11:00,081 --> 01:11:03,693
<i>Borne on the naked backs
of murdered men.</i>

1227
01:11:05,129 --> 01:11:06,740
<i>Lent speed by my hunger,</i>

1228
01:11:06,914 --> 01:11:08,698
<i>I ripped a seagull
from the air.</i>

1229
01:11:08,872 --> 01:11:10,309
- [man yells]
- [seagull screeches]

1230
01:11:10,483 --> 01:11:13,834
<i>I had not eaten
since the shipwreck.</i>

1231
01:11:14,008 --> 01:11:19,230
<i>Chewing on raw meat,
I drifted on toward Davidstown.</i>

1232
01:11:19,405 --> 01:11:21,102
<i>My home was there.</i>

1233
01:11:21,276 --> 01:11:23,974
<i>And nothing would
take it from me.</i>

1234
01:11:24,148 --> 01:11:26,281
[Laurie sighs] So...
the government said

1235
01:11:26,455 --> 01:11:28,370
I can't live on the base
now that Jon's gone.

1236
01:11:28,544 --> 01:11:31,112
And they canceled
my credit cards.

1237
01:11:31,286 --> 01:11:33,462
Now all I have left
is my savings.

1238
01:11:33,636 --> 01:11:35,943
What-- Where...
where will you stay?

1239
01:11:36,117 --> 01:11:37,248
Did you call your mother?

1240
01:11:37,423 --> 01:11:39,381
I'd rather sleep
on a street grate.

1241
01:11:39,555 --> 01:11:41,818
It just burns my ass
to be so damn...

1242
01:11:43,254 --> 01:11:44,343
disposable.

1243
01:11:45,474 --> 01:11:47,911
- Well, I um--
- Anyway,

1244
01:11:48,085 --> 01:11:51,437
I appreciate you
buying me lunch, Dan.

1245
01:11:51,611 --> 01:11:53,569
Don't worry about me,

1246
01:11:53,743 --> 01:11:55,310
I'll find someplace cheap
to stay.

1247
01:11:59,096 --> 01:12:00,663
- Laurie!
- Yeah?

1248
01:12:00,837 --> 01:12:03,274
You could, uh, always
stay at my place.

1249
01:12:03,449 --> 01:12:04,885
There's plenty of room.

1250
01:12:05,059 --> 01:12:06,669
Oh, I-I don't want to impose.

1251
01:12:06,843 --> 01:12:08,628
Hey... you're not.

1252
01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:10,194
Truly.

1253
01:12:11,718 --> 01:12:13,633
I mean, we're both friends.

1254
01:12:13,807 --> 01:12:15,374
We're both in
the same line of work.

1255
01:12:15,548 --> 01:12:17,114
And we're both, uh...

1256
01:12:17,288 --> 01:12:19,116
We're both leftovers.

1257
01:12:19,290 --> 01:12:20,814
[both chuckle]

1258
01:12:21,510 --> 01:12:23,860
[Dan] Yeah.

1259
01:12:24,034 --> 01:12:26,733
[comic book narrator]
<i>I'd swallowed too much
bird flesh,</i>

1260
01:12:26,907 --> 01:12:29,692
<i>too much horror.</i>

1261
01:12:29,866 --> 01:12:33,130
<i>I grew faint
and dozed fitfully.</i>

1262
01:12:33,304 --> 01:12:38,353
<i>The Black Freighter's
hideous banner flapped
dismally in my dreams.</i>

1263
01:12:38,527 --> 01:12:42,662
<i>Its death's-head banner
flies above us all.</i>

1264
01:12:42,836 --> 01:12:49,059
<i>And the heads nailed
to the ship's black prow
are our heads.</i>

1265
01:12:49,233 --> 01:12:54,630
<i>Truly, whoever we are,
wherever we reside,</i>

1266
01:12:54,804 --> 01:12:58,068
<i>we exist on the whim
of murderers.</i>

1267
01:12:59,809 --> 01:13:01,768
[Yvonne] Your four o'clock
is here, Mr. Veidt.

1268
01:13:01,942 --> 01:13:04,945
[comic book narrator]
<i>Beneath my raft,
something moved.</i>

1269
01:13:05,119 --> 01:13:07,077
It's the meeting
with the toy company, isn't it?

1270
01:13:07,251 --> 01:13:10,516
Yes. They want some
new characters in
their Ozymandias line.

1271
01:13:10,690 --> 01:13:13,257
They said maybe
some of your major villains.

1272
01:13:13,432 --> 01:13:16,696
The major villains
are all dead.

1273
01:13:16,870 --> 01:13:20,961
[comic book narrator]
<i>Irrationally, my first thought
was of the corpses,</i>

1274
01:13:21,135 --> 01:13:22,876
<i>bursting their bonds,</i>

1275
01:13:23,050 --> 01:13:26,183
<i>attempting to clamber up
into the air and dryness.</i>

1276
01:13:31,493 --> 01:13:32,799
Did you see the news?

1277
01:13:32,973 --> 01:13:34,975
Some guy went crazy
and killed his kid

1278
01:13:35,149 --> 01:13:38,065
because he was afraid
there's gonna be a nuclear war.

1279
01:13:38,239 --> 01:13:40,763
I'm sorry,
but that's just dumb.

1280
01:13:40,937 --> 01:13:43,418
Nobody's so crazy
that they'll start a war.

1281
01:13:43,592 --> 01:13:47,422
I don't understand why
everyone's so down and scared.

1282
01:13:47,596 --> 01:13:50,469
Well, perhaps they lack
your youth and enthusiasm.

1283
01:13:50,643 --> 01:13:52,993
Well, I have to be upbeat
to work in this place.

1284
01:13:53,167 --> 01:13:55,386
All this Egyptian decor
is very morbid.

1285
01:13:55,561 --> 01:13:58,041
[comic book narrator]
<i>In the darkening water
I heard a splash.</i>

1286
01:13:58,215 --> 01:13:59,826
[Yvonne] Very obsessed
with death.

1287
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,698
[comic book narrator]
<i>Shadowy forms approached.</i>

1288
01:14:02,872 --> 01:14:05,875
<i>Were they boats
come to rescue me?</i>

1289
01:14:06,049 --> 01:14:09,357
Actually death wasn't morbid
to the ancient Egyptians.

1290
01:14:09,531 --> 01:14:11,620
They saw death
as an inevitable step

1291
01:14:11,794 --> 01:14:14,754
in beginning a voyage
of spiritual discovery.

1292
01:14:14,928 --> 01:14:16,233
I find that very comforting.

1293
01:14:16,407 --> 01:14:19,280
[comic book narrator]
<i>No, not boats.</i>

1294
01:14:19,454 --> 01:14:20,803
<i>Fins.</i>

1295
01:14:20,977 --> 01:14:22,979
Well, I think it's--
Oh, God, he's got a gun!

1296
01:14:23,153 --> 01:14:24,067
[screaming]

1297
01:14:25,678 --> 01:14:29,203
[comic book narrator]
<i>Teeth shredded my raft.</i>

1298
01:14:29,377 --> 01:14:32,249
[comic book narrator]
<i>Tiny, prehistoric eyes
glistened with rage.</i>

1299
01:14:33,729 --> 01:14:35,339
[grunts]

1300
01:14:35,514 --> 01:14:36,993
[comic book narrator]
<i>It became tangled in my ropes.</i>

1301
01:14:37,167 --> 01:14:40,388
<i>Terrified, I took up
a splinter of mast.</i>

1302
01:14:40,562 --> 01:14:43,434
<i>The shark's stained marble eye
looked up at me...</i>

1303
01:14:43,609 --> 01:14:45,306
<i>And in that instant...</i>

1304
01:14:45,480 --> 01:14:47,221
<i>We knew each other!</i>

1305
01:14:47,395 --> 01:14:48,918
What have you got
in your mouth? No!

1306
01:14:49,092 --> 01:14:52,226
Don't bite down.
Don't bite down, you scum!

1307
01:14:52,400 --> 01:14:54,228
[comic book narrator]
<i>The leviathan
attempted to swim away...</i>

1308
01:14:54,402 --> 01:14:56,796
<i>Dragging my raft
in its bloody wake.</i>

1309
01:14:56,970 --> 01:14:58,449
I want to know
who's behind this!

1310
01:14:58,624 --> 01:15:00,626
[comic book narrator]
<i>I hung on desperately,</i>

1311
01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:03,716
<i>cursing in the bitter
stinging spray.</i>

1312
01:15:03,890 --> 01:15:06,022
[dying gurgle]

1313
01:15:06,196 --> 01:15:08,851
Damn... cyanide capsule.

1314
01:15:18,252 --> 01:15:20,559
[comic book narrator]
<i>Eventually the shark died.</i>

1315
01:15:20,733 --> 01:15:24,563
<i>And shortly thereafter,
stopped swimming.</i>

1316
01:15:30,046 --> 01:15:31,395
[Rorschach]
Good evening, Jacobi.

1317
01:15:31,570 --> 01:15:34,137
Was wondering why
you wanted to see me.

1318
01:15:34,311 --> 01:15:36,575
Then someone tried to shoot
the world's smartest man.

1319
01:15:36,749 --> 01:15:39,578
Comedian, Dr. Manhattan,
Ozymandias...

1320
01:15:39,752 --> 01:15:41,231
someone's killing
masks, Jacobi.

1321
01:15:41,405 --> 01:15:42,972
Someone wants us dead.

1322
01:15:43,146 --> 01:15:44,408
Maybe you can enlighten me.

1323
01:15:45,801 --> 01:15:46,759
Hmm...

1324
01:15:51,807 --> 01:15:52,852
[Detective Fine over speaker]
<i>Rorschach!</i>

1325
01:15:53,026 --> 01:15:54,114
- No.
<i>- This is the police!</i>

1326
01:15:54,288 --> 01:15:56,116
No, no, no, no!

1327
01:15:56,290 --> 01:15:58,640
<i>We know you're in there,
it's all over!</i>

1328
01:15:58,814 --> 01:16:00,903
<i>If there's anyone
in there with you,</i>

1329
01:16:01,077 --> 01:16:02,731
<i>- send them out unharmed!</i>
- Framed. Set-up.

1330
01:16:02,905 --> 01:16:04,907
Walked right into it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.

1331
01:16:05,081 --> 01:16:06,648
<i>Then come out
and surrender with your
hands clearly visible.</i>

1332
01:16:06,822 --> 01:16:09,390
Never. Never surrender.
Need weapons.

1333
01:16:09,564 --> 01:16:11,174
<i>You have 30 seconds!</i>

1334
01:16:12,959 --> 01:16:15,831
<i>There's no escape Rorschach.</i>

1335
01:16:16,005 --> 01:16:17,790
<i>- It's the end of the line.</i>
- Yes.

1336
01:16:19,095 --> 01:16:20,401
<i>Time's up!</i>

1337
01:16:20,575 --> 01:16:22,055
Ready when you are.

1338
01:16:31,020 --> 01:16:32,805
[officers screaming]

1339
01:17:04,314 --> 01:17:05,185
[gasps]

1340
01:17:07,709 --> 01:17:09,580
[Rorschach] Get up, get up!

1341
01:17:09,755 --> 01:17:11,147
- No pain, no--
- [Bourquin] Get him!
Don't let him get away!

1342
01:17:11,321 --> 01:17:12,279
- It was a setup.
- [officer] Cuff him!

1343
01:17:12,453 --> 01:17:13,889
Somebody framed me, somebody--

1344
01:17:14,063 --> 01:17:16,413
No! No! No! My face!

1345
01:17:16,587 --> 01:17:17,850
- Give me back my face!
- [cuffs clicking]

1346
01:17:18,024 --> 01:17:19,416
Give me back my face!

1347
01:17:19,590 --> 01:17:21,984
Give me back my face!

1348
01:17:28,687 --> 01:17:32,908
[comic book narrator]
<i>After eating their fill,
the sharks departed.</i>

1349
01:17:37,608 --> 01:17:40,263
<i>For the moment, I was safe.</i>

1350
01:17:44,267 --> 01:17:46,400
<i>That night, eating shark,</i>

1351
01:17:46,574 --> 01:17:51,013
<i>I would have chuckled
at the inversions
of natural roles</i>

1352
01:17:51,187 --> 01:17:55,583
<i>had not my parched laughter
seemed so hateful.</i>

1353
01:17:58,455 --> 01:18:03,069
<i>My raft grew
increasingly grotesque,</i>

1354
01:18:03,243 --> 01:18:06,855
<i>reflecting my own
gradual transformation.</i>

1355
01:18:08,422 --> 01:18:11,599
<i>With such thoughts
to comfort me,</i>

1356
01:18:11,773 --> 01:18:15,995
<i>I drifted on,
mast-less into the dawn.</i>

1357
01:18:32,359 --> 01:18:36,711
[radio announcer] <i>Hey kids,
tune in for the animated
adventures of Ozymandias.</i>

1358
01:18:36,885 --> 01:18:40,106
<i>This Saturday morning
sponsored by Meltdown!</i>

1359
01:18:41,107 --> 01:18:42,586
[radio tuning]

1360
01:18:42,761 --> 01:18:44,675
[Hollis] <i>In the May
of this year, 1962,</i>

1361
01:18:44,850 --> 01:18:47,287
<i>that's exactly what
I opted to do.</i>

1362
01:18:47,461 --> 01:18:48,636
<i>I retired.</i>

1363
01:18:48,810 --> 01:18:50,203
<i>To mend cars.</i>

1364
01:18:50,377 --> 01:18:52,683
<i>Probably for the rest
of my life.</i>

1365
01:18:52,858 --> 01:18:54,773
<i>As I see it,
part of the art of being a hero</i>

1366
01:18:54,947 --> 01:18:57,558
<i>is knowing when you don't
need to be one anymore,</i>

1367
01:18:57,732 --> 01:18:59,821
<i>realizing that the game
has changed,</i>

1368
01:18:59,995 --> 01:19:01,823
<i>and that the stakes
are different,</i>

1369
01:19:01,997 --> 01:19:03,825
<i>and that there isn't
necessarily a place for you</i>

1370
01:19:03,999 --> 01:19:07,220
<i>in this strange new pantheon
of extraordinary people.</i>

1371
01:19:07,394 --> 01:19:09,004
<i>The world has moved on,</i>

1372
01:19:09,178 --> 01:19:11,180
<i>and I'm content to watch it
from my armchair</i>

1373
01:19:11,354 --> 01:19:13,008
<i>with a beer by my side</i>

1374
01:19:13,182 --> 01:19:15,968
<i>and the smell of fresh oil
still on my fingers.</i>

1375
01:19:16,142 --> 01:19:17,839
<i>Part of my contentment
comes from knowing</i>

1376
01:19:18,013 --> 01:19:20,581
<i>that there have maybe been
some overall consequence</i>

1377
01:19:20,755 --> 01:19:23,410
<i>of my 23 years behind the mask.</i>

1378
01:19:23,584 --> 01:19:25,455
<i>This knowledge came to me
in the shape of a letter</i>

1379
01:19:25,629 --> 01:19:29,242
<i>from a young man whose name
I'm not at liberty to reveal.</i>

1380
01:19:29,416 --> 01:19:32,811
<i>He told me of his great
admiration for my efforts
as Nite Owl</i>

1381
01:19:32,985 --> 01:19:34,856
<i>and proposed that,</i>

1382
01:19:35,030 --> 01:19:37,119
<i>since I'd retired and would
no longer be using the name,</i>

1383
01:19:37,293 --> 01:19:38,773
<i>perhaps he could borrow it,</i>

1384
01:19:38,947 --> 01:19:40,949
<i>since he intended
to follow my example</i>

1385
01:19:41,123 --> 01:19:43,256
<i>and become a crime-fighter.</i>

1386
01:19:43,430 --> 01:19:45,432
<i>I've visited his home
since then</i>

1387
01:19:45,606 --> 01:19:47,651
<i>and seen some
of the fabulous technology</i>

1388
01:19:47,826 --> 01:19:50,524
<i>he intends to bring to bear
on the war against crime.</i>

1389
01:19:50,698 --> 01:19:52,395
<i>I was certainly
far too impressed</i>

1390
01:19:52,569 --> 01:19:54,920
<i>to refuse him the use
of what I'd always thought</i>

1391
01:19:55,094 --> 01:19:57,096
<i>was a dumb name to begin with.</i>

1392
01:19:57,270 --> 01:19:59,489
<i>So by the time this sees print,</i>

1393
01:19:59,663 --> 01:20:01,274
<i>there may well be
a new Nite Owl</i>

1394
01:20:01,448 --> 01:20:03,885
<i>patrolling the streets
of New York.</i>

1395
01:20:04,059 --> 01:20:05,626
<i>Also, Sally Jupiter tells me</i>

1396
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:07,497
<i>that as soon as
little Laurie's old enough</i>

1397
01:20:07,671 --> 01:20:10,849
<i>she wants to be a superheroine
just like her mom.</i>

1398
01:20:11,023 --> 01:20:12,938
<i>So who knows? It seems as if,</i>

1399
01:20:13,112 --> 01:20:14,765
<i>from being a novelty
nine-day wonder,</i>

1400
01:20:14,940 --> 01:20:18,073
<i>the superhero has become
a part of American life.</i>

1401
01:20:18,247 --> 01:20:20,032
<i>It's here to stay.</i>

1402
01:20:20,206 --> 01:20:21,903
<i>For better, or for worse.</i>

1403
01:20:22,077 --> 01:20:24,210
[radio tuning]

1404
01:20:24,384 --> 01:20:28,344
[female announcer]
<i>Oh, how the ghost of you
clings... Nostalgia...</i>

1405
01:20:30,129 --> 01:20:32,783
[Janey Slater coughs]
<i>We argued.</i>

1406
01:20:32,958 --> 01:20:34,960
<i>And I said, Jon,</i>

1407
01:20:35,134 --> 01:20:37,353
<i>you know how every
damn thing in this world</i>

1408
01:20:37,527 --> 01:20:39,486
<i>fits together except people.</i>

1409
01:20:39,660 --> 01:20:41,575
[Doug] <i>It's okay, Ms. Slater.</i>

1410
01:20:41,749 --> 01:20:44,143
<i>We can stop here
if you need to.</i>

1411
01:20:44,317 --> 01:20:47,146
[Janey] <i>No. No, I want
the world to know
all the details.</i>[coughs]

1412
01:20:47,320 --> 01:20:49,322
<i>I'm glad you contacted me.</i>

1413
01:20:49,496 --> 01:20:52,455
<i>It's a relief to finally
tell the truth about him.</i>
[coughs]

1414
01:20:52,629 --> 01:20:56,546
[Doug] <i>Well, after helping
Nova Express with
our investigations,</i>

1415
01:20:56,720 --> 01:20:58,897
<i>and sharing your story
with the world,</i>

1416
01:20:59,071 --> 01:21:00,333
<i>how do you feel?</i>

1417
01:21:00,507 --> 01:21:02,770
[Janey] <i>Heh, bitter as hell.</i>
[coughs]

1418
01:21:02,944 --> 01:21:05,294
<i>Oh, and I don't need
anyone's sympathy.</i>

1419
01:21:05,468 --> 01:21:07,993
<i>That won't cure my cancer.</i>

1420
01:21:08,167 --> 01:21:10,169
[Doug] <i>After learning
of your condition,</i>

1421
01:21:10,343 --> 01:21:13,563
<i>and the others, Dr. Osterman
teleported to Mars,</i>

1422
01:21:13,737 --> 01:21:16,436
<i>sending shockwaves
across the globe.</i>

1423
01:21:16,610 --> 01:21:18,525
<i>Any comment about that?</i>

1424
01:21:18,699 --> 01:21:20,875
[Janey scoffs] <i>It figures.</i>

1425
01:21:21,049 --> 01:21:23,182
<i>He dumped me
for some 16-year-old</i>

1426
01:21:23,356 --> 01:21:24,966
<i>who ran around
in her underwear.</i>

1427
01:21:25,140 --> 01:21:27,534
<i>Now everyone's shocked
that he dumped Earth for Mars?</i>

1428
01:21:27,708 --> 01:21:28,752
[chuckles]

1429
01:21:28,927 --> 01:21:31,103
<i>Ah, they're all just worried</i>

1430
01:21:31,277 --> 01:21:33,496
<i>because he's not here
to stop us from nuking
each other.</i>[coughs]

1431
01:21:33,670 --> 01:21:37,152
<i>Worried they're all
going to die in a
radioactive wasteland.</i>

1432
01:21:37,326 --> 01:21:40,547
[laughs, coughs]

1433
01:21:40,721 --> 01:21:44,725
<i>Well, Mr. Roth,
here's your comment...</i>

1434
01:21:44,899 --> 01:21:46,727
<i>welcome to my world.</i>

1435
01:21:54,256 --> 01:21:56,867
[Hollis]
<i>So, seen the news lately?</i>

1436
01:21:57,042 --> 01:21:59,827
[Dan] <i>Can't miss
the headlines about this war
they say is coming.</i>

1437
01:22:00,001 --> 01:22:02,090
There was a smaller story
yesterday...

1438
01:22:02,264 --> 01:22:03,962
about a tenement fire?

1439
01:22:05,180 --> 01:22:06,703
[people yelling]

1440
01:22:06,877 --> 01:22:08,618
<i>If I can figure out
who made the rescue,</i>

1441
01:22:10,446 --> 01:22:11,578
so can the police.

1442
01:22:14,102 --> 01:22:17,105
You're not taking Rorschach's
maskkiller nonsense seriously?

1443
01:22:17,279 --> 01:22:19,368
[Dan] <i>We worked together.</i>

1444
01:22:19,542 --> 01:22:21,414
<i>Rorschach was always
a brilliant investigator
and tactician,</i>

1445
01:22:21,588 --> 01:22:24,808
so I wonder if he found
any evidence that links
all these events.

1446
01:22:26,593 --> 01:22:29,726
<i>The four of us, taken down.</i>

1447
01:22:29,900 --> 01:22:32,294
<i>War looming on the horizon.</i>

1448
01:22:32,468 --> 01:22:34,644
<i>I'm terrified it's all
connected</i>

1449
01:22:34,818 --> 01:22:36,211
<i>and the worst is yet to come,</i>

1450
01:22:36,385 --> 01:22:39,867
<i>and I can't do anything
to stop it.</i>

1451
01:22:40,041 --> 01:22:41,564
No! [echoing]

1452
01:22:41,738 --> 01:22:44,437
Rorschach again...
They finally caught him.

1453
01:22:44,611 --> 01:22:46,221
<i>There's a riot at the prison.</i>

1454
01:22:48,049 --> 01:22:50,704
We got a jail full of guys
out here who hates your guts!

1455
01:22:50,878 --> 01:22:51,748
What do you got?

1456
01:22:52,575 --> 01:22:53,707
Your arms.

1457
01:22:53,881 --> 01:22:54,969
[screaming in pain]

1458
01:22:55,665 --> 01:22:58,233
Come and get me.

1459
01:22:58,407 --> 01:22:59,843
[Dan] <i>If we don't crack
this case,</i>

1460
01:23:00,018 --> 01:23:01,932
<i>there may be no going back
for any of us.</i>

1461
01:23:04,109 --> 01:23:05,849
[Bernard] <i>Everybody's scared.</i>

1462
01:23:06,024 --> 01:23:07,503
<i>You can feel it.</i>

1463
01:23:07,677 --> 01:23:09,288
[Laurie] <i>We'll get murdered
in the chaos.</i>

1464
01:23:09,462 --> 01:23:12,204
Just waitin' for the nukes
to start droppin'.

1465
01:23:12,378 --> 01:23:15,207
You are going to try
to convince me
to save this world.

1466
01:23:15,381 --> 01:23:18,558
[Laurie] <i>Humanity might be
on the brink of extinction.</i>

1467
01:23:18,732 --> 01:23:20,560
Doesn't that bother you?

1468
01:23:20,734 --> 01:23:24,433
[Rorschach]
This face is all I need.

1469
01:23:24,607 --> 01:23:26,392
<i>Never compromise.</i>

1470
01:23:28,133 --> 01:23:29,003
Do it!!

1471
01:23:31,527 --> 01:23:33,660
[Ozymandias] <i>This all says war.</i>

1472
01:23:33,834 --> 01:23:35,488
<i>I will invest accordingly.</i>