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<i>How the ghost of you clings.</i>

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<i>Nostalgia.</i>

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<i>Coming up on the</i> Benny Anger <i>show</i>

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<i>crime and punishment in America</i>

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<i>since the Keene Act banned</i>

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<i>masked vigilantes.</i>

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<i>But first, we ask the average citizen</i>

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<i>"Is our society now safer</i>

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<i>without those so-called superheroes?"</i>

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<i>I don't miss the masks.</i>

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<i>They stirred up more trouble
than they were worth.</i>

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<i>The only good ones were
the Minutemen back in the '40s.</i>

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<i>The... The blue guy,
Manhattan, he scares me</i>

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<i>but then he scares the Reds too</i>

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<i>so I ain't complainin'.</i>

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<i>America never really took
to superheroes.</i>

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<i>Took to superheroes.
Took to superheroes.</i>

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<i>Rorschach's Journal.</i>

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<i>October 12th, 1985.</i>

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<i>Dog carcass in alley this morning</i>

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<i>tire tread on burst stomach.</i>

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<i>This city is afraid of me.</i>

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<i>I have seen its true face.</i>

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<i>The streets are extended gutters</i>

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<i>and the gutters are full of blood</i>

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<i>and when the drains finally scab over</i>

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<i>all the vermin will drown.</i>

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Hey! What are ya, blind?
You're walkin' through blood here!

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<i>The accumulated filth
of all their sex and murder</i>

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<i>will foam up about their waists</i>

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<i>and all the whores and politicians</i>

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<i>will look up and shout, "Save us!"</i>

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<i>And I'll look down and whisper, "No."</i>

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<i>They had a choice.</i>

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<i>They could have followed
in the footsteps of good men.</i>

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<i>Decent men who believed
in a day's work for a day's pay.</i>

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<i>Instead, they followed the droppings
of lechers and communists.</i>

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<i>Now the whole world
stands on the brink</i>

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<i>staring down into bloody hell.</i>

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<i>All those intellectuals
and smooth talkers</i>

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<i>and all of a sudden
nobody can think of anything to say.</i>

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That's quite a drop.

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So, what do you think happened here?

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Door chain was fastened
on the inside.

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Busting it down would take two guys.

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Or one guy on serious drugs.

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I saw the body.

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This Blake guy looked
beefy enough to protect himself.

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Muscles like a weight lifter.

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He would've put up
some kind of fight.

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Maybe it was a couple of Knot-Tops

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and they just overpowered him.

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Background report said

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he's been doing
overseas diplomatic work for years.

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Lotta classy expense account living.

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Maybe he just got soft.

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He don't look too soft in this photo.

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Wonder how he got that scar.

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He's shaking hands
with Vice President Ford here.

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I think we can rule him out
as a suspect.

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Ha ha.

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That'd be funny
if we had any better leads to go on.

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I mean, what is this?

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A little money stolen

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but no way is this
a straight burglary.

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Somebody really had it in
for this guy.

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How else did he go outta the window?

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Maybe he tripped against it.

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That's strong glass, man.

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You'd have to be thrown.

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Ground floor, comin' up.

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You know, this could be
just a simple burglary.

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Crazy things happen
in a city this size.

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They don't all need motives.

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So, you're saying...

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Let's not raise too much dust
over this one.

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We don't need
any masked avengers cutting in.

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Oy. Here we go.

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You take this vigilante stuff
too seriously.

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Ever since
the Keene Act passed in '77

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only the government sponsored weirdos

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are active. They don't interfere.

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Rorschach never retired.

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Even after him and his buddies
fell outta grace.

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He's still out there somewhere.

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He's crazier than a snake's armpit

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and wanted on two counts murder one.

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We've got
a cozy little homicide here.

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If Rorschach gets involved

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we'll be up to our butts in corpses.

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So there I was in the supermarket

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buying dog food for old Phantom here.

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I turn the corner and wham!

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I bump into the Screaming Skull.

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You remember him?

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Yeah, I heard you mention him...

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Put him away a dozen times.

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He'd reformed, turned to Jesus.

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Married, two kids.

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We traded addresses.

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Nice guy.

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Oh, Hollis, almost midnight.

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I outta go.

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Sure, Dan. Lost track
of the time there

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talking about all that old stuff.

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You must be bored as hell.

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You know better than that.

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These Saturday night beer sessions
are what keep me going.

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You know, it was a cryin' shame

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they put you youngsters
out to grass in '77.

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You were a better Nite Owl
than I ever was.

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Hollis, we both know that's bullshit.

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But thank you anyway.

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Hey, watch the language.

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This is the left hook
that floored Captain Axis, remember?

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Good night. Don't forget to lock up
and take care of yourself.

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You too, Danny. God bless.

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Where you goin', pig?

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The party's right here!

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Yeah!

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Hit us with
more of those Katie's, Derf.

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I'm comin' down already, man.

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You never could keep it up.

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Hey, let's go break some shit.

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I wanna get crazy.

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Aw, yeah!

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Call up your boys, Derf.

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Fire it up!

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Hello, Daniel.

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Rorschach?

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Got hungry waiting.

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Helped myself to some beans.

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Hope you don't mind.

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No.

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No, of course I don't mind.

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You want me to heat those up for you?

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No need. Fine like this.

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So, long time no see.

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How've you been keeping?

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Out of prison, so far.

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Take a look at this.

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This stain, is that bean juice or...

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Yeah, human bean juice.

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Badge belonged to the Comedian.

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Blood too. He's dead.

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Wait. The Comedian?

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Investigated a routine homicide.

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Victim named Edward Blake.

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Found the costume
in Blake's wardrobe.

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Seems he was the Comedian.

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Somebody threw him out of a window.

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Maybe we should talk about this
down in my workshop.

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Right down this way.

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You haven't been
down here in a while.

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Neither have you.

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Lots of dust.

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Listen, about the Comedian

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might it have just been
an ordinary burglary or something?

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Maybe the killer didn't even know
who Blake was.

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An ordinary burglar?

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Kill the Comedian?

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Ridiculous.

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Well, I hear he'd been working
for the government since '77

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knocking over Marxist republics
in South America.

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Maybe this was a political killing.

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Maybe.

168
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Or maybe someone's
picking off costumed heroes.

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Don't you think
that's maybe a little paranoid?

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That what they're saying
about me now?

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- That I'm paranoid?
- I...

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The Comedian was active for 40 years.

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Men make a lot of enemies
in that time.

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How's your friend
Hollis Mason these days?

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Hollis? What does he...

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They were both Minutemen,
when Blake was 16

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and Hollis was the first Nite Owl.

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Hollis said some bad things
about the Comedian

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in that book he wrote.

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I don't like what you're implying.

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Hollis is an old man

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and he's my friend.

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If you're thinking of going
over there and scaring him...

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Implying nothing

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only an observation.

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I just wanted to let you know

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in case someone's gunning for masks.

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Better go now.

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Things to do.

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The tunnel will bring you out
to a warehouse two blocks north...

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I remember.

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Used to come here often

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back when we were partners.

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Those were great times, Rorschach.

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- Whatever happened to them?
- You quit.

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We want cops!

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- No more costumes!
- We've got to clear the streets.

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Listen, you little punks!

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You better get back
in your rat holes!

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I got riot gas

201
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I got rubber bullets.

202
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- There's no need for this.
- Fuck you, Owl!

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The police strike
is being negotiated right now!

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You vigilantes belong in jail!

205
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My son's a police officer,
you freaks!

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Call yourself a Comedian?

207
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More like pig and rapist!

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Okay, that does it!

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Oh, my God, he just shot him.

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God, look, I'm sorry.

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You haven't left us any choice.

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This stuff is dangerous.

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Please clear the streets!

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Look at 'em!

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Run, you suckers!

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This is a nightmare.

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The whole country's
erupting like this.

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How long can we keep this up?

219
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My contacts say

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Senator Keene's act
is gonna shut us all down.

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Until then,
we're society's only protection.

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Protection? From who?

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From themselves.

224
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What...

225
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What happened to the American dream?

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It came true.

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You're looking at it.

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Now let's really put these jokers
through some changes.

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<i>Rorschach's Journal.</i>

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00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,920
<i>October 13th, 1985.</i>

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<i>Slept all day.</i>

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<i>Awakened by landlady
complaining about the smell.</i>

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<i>She has five children</i>

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<i>by five different fathers.</i>

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<i>I'm sure she cheats on welfare.</i>

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<i>Soon it will be dark.</i>

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<i>On Friday night,
a Comedian died in New York.</i>

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<i>Somebody knows why.</i>

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<i>Somebody knows.</i>

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Get lost, you creep.

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<i>I believe I shall take my exercise.</i>

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Rorschach! Hey!

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How you doin', fella?

244
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I'm fine, Happy Harry. Yourself?

245
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I'm fine. I'm fine.

246
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I'm just fine and...

247
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Oh, God. Please don't kill anybody.

248
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Guy went sidewalk
diving Friday night.

249
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I don't think
he was alone when it happened.

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His name was Edward Blake.

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Friend of mine.

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You hear that?

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He's got friends.

254
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Must've changed his deodorant.

255
00:16:01,560 --> 00:16:02,800
I didn't mean anything. I...

256
00:16:04,440 --> 00:16:06,800
I've just broken
this gentleman's little finger.

257
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Who killed Edward Blake?

258
00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:13,920
Who killed Edward Blake?

259
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And his index finger.

260
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- Who killed Edward Blake?
- We don't know.

261
00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:20,440
Please, God, leave him alone.

262
00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,240
We don't know.

263
00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:25,800
No... no!

264
00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:30,280
<i>Nobody knew anything.</i>

265
00:16:30,560 --> 00:16:32,240
<i>Feeling slightly depressed.</i>

266
00:16:32,880 --> 00:16:34,480
<i>I leave the human cockroaches</i>

267
00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:37,400
<i>to discuss their heroin
and child pornography.</i>

268
00:16:37,800 --> 00:16:41,520
<i>I have business
with a better class of person.</i>

269
00:16:42,680 --> 00:16:45,320
The Comedian is dead? Why?

270
00:16:45,960 --> 00:16:49,000
You're supposed to be
the world's smartest man, Veidt.

271
00:16:49,080 --> 00:16:50,080
You tell me.

272
00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:52,640
I never claimed to be
anybody special, Rorschach.

273
00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:56,120
I just have
some over-enthusiastic PR men.

274
00:16:57,040 --> 00:16:59,600
Perhaps it was a political killing.
Maybe the Soviets...

275
00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:00,880
Dreiberg said the same.

276
00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:02,840
America has Dr. Manhattan.

277
00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:05,320
Reds would never dare antagonize us.

278
00:17:05,680 --> 00:17:07,520
I think we've got a mask-killer.

279
00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:10,520
The Comedian had
plenty of other political enemies

280
00:17:10,600 --> 00:17:12,320
even discounting the Russians.

281
00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:14,000
The man was practically a Nazi.

282
00:17:14,080 --> 00:17:15,360
He stood up for his country.

283
00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:17,000
Never let anyone retire him.

284
00:17:17,080 --> 00:17:19,000
Never cashed in on his reputation.

285
00:17:19,080 --> 00:17:21,800
Never set up a company
selling posters and diet books

286
00:17:21,880 --> 00:17:23,800
and toy soldiers based on himself.

287
00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:26,000
Never became a prostitute.

288
00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:28,120
If that makes him a Nazi

289
00:17:28,200 --> 00:17:30,280
you might as well call me a Nazi too.

290
00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:32,520
Rorschach.

291
00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,000
I know we were never friends

292
00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:37,320
but even so you're being unfair.

293
00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:39,520
Nobody retired me.

294
00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,280
I chose to quit
adventuring and go public

295
00:17:42,360 --> 00:17:45,440
two years before the police strike
made the Keene Act necessary.

296
00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:47,120
Yes. Good timing.

297
00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:49,480
I came here to warn you
about the mask-killer

298
00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:52,120
so you don't end up
the smartest man in the morgue.

299
00:17:52,920 --> 00:17:55,440
But I guess
there's worse things to end up as.

300
00:17:57,120 --> 00:17:58,120
Be seeing you.

301
00:18:00,920 --> 00:18:01,920
Sure.

302
00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:03,800
Have a nice day.

303
00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:11,000
Now, I want to thank everyone

304
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:15,520
for coming to the first meeting
of the Crimebusters.

305
00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:18,320
For those who know me
only as Captain Metropolis

306
00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:20,560
the name's Nelson Gardner.

307
00:18:20,640 --> 00:18:21,800
Call me Nelson.

308
00:18:24,360 --> 00:18:26,080
As you know, this country hasn't had

309
00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:27,840
an organization of masked adventurers

310
00:18:27,920 --> 00:18:29,400
in over 20 years

311
00:18:29,720 --> 00:18:31,800
since the Minutemen were disbanded.

312
00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:35,000
Specialized law enforcement
is standing still.

313
00:18:35,080 --> 00:18:36,920
Crime isn't.

314
00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:40,440
New social evils emerge every day

315
00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:44,240
promiscuity, drugs,
campus subversion, you name it.

316
00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:47,480
But, by banding together
as the Crimebusters

317
00:18:47,560 --> 00:18:49,200
- we can make a...
- Bullshit.

318
00:18:50,040 --> 00:18:51,800
We're all living in 1966

319
00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,120
while you're still stuck in '49.

320
00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:56,040
This is all about you getting old

321
00:18:56,120 --> 00:18:58,640
but still wanting to play
cowboys and Indians.

322
00:18:58,720 --> 00:18:59,800
That's...

323
00:18:59,880 --> 00:19:01,200
That is not true.

324
00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:04,160
No reason
to just throw the idea away.

325
00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:06,760
Me and Rorschach have made
great headway into the gang problem

326
00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:08,160
by pooling our efforts.

327
00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:09,840
But a group this size seems

328
00:19:09,920 --> 00:19:11,760
more like a publicity exercise.

329
00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,960
Too big and unwieldy.

330
00:19:13,040 --> 00:19:15,040
That's just
an organizational problem.

331
00:19:15,120 --> 00:19:16,816
With the right person
coordinating the group...

332
00:19:16,840 --> 00:19:19,120
Oh, and who would that be?

333
00:19:19,200 --> 00:19:20,720
Any ideas, Ozzy?

334
00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:24,400
I mean, you are
the smartest man in the world, right?

335
00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,880
It doesn't take a genius to see

336
00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:28,280
that America has
problems that need tackling.

337
00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:29,880
And it takes a moron to think

338
00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:32,640
they're small enough
for clowns like you guys to handle.

339
00:19:32,720 --> 00:19:34,960
None of the world's problems
are insurmountable.

340
00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:37,120
What's going down in this world

341
00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:39,120
you got no idea.

342
00:19:44,360 --> 00:19:45,520
Believe me.

343
00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,960
You people hear Moloch's back in town

344
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,320
and you think, "Oh, boy.
Let's gang up and bust him."

345
00:19:52,760 --> 00:19:54,400
Like that matters.

346
00:19:55,360 --> 00:19:56,800
It doesn't mean squat.

347
00:19:57,120 --> 00:20:01,120
In 30 years, the nukes
are gonna be flying like maybugs.

348
00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,200
My map!

349
00:20:03,280 --> 00:20:08,480
And Ozzy here is gonna be
the smartest man on the cinder.

350
00:20:10,280 --> 00:20:12,120
Jon, I'd like to go home now.

351
00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:13,480
- Listen, Nelson,
- Please.

352
00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:15,800
Maybe this isn't the best idea.

353
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:17,800
No, wait, don't leave.

354
00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:19,800
Somebody has to do it.

355
00:20:20,080 --> 00:20:22,160
Somebody has to save the world.

356
00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:05,400
<i>Meeting with Veidt
left bad taste in mouth.</i>

357
00:21:05,800 --> 00:21:07,320
<i>He is pampered and decadent</i>

358
00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:10,920
<i>betraying even his own
shallow, liberal affectations.</i>

359
00:21:11,280 --> 00:21:12,720
<i>Dreiberg just as bad.</i>

360
00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,920
<i>A flabby failure
whimpering in his basement.</i>

361
00:21:16,240 --> 00:21:19,800
<i>Why are there so few
of the Minutemen left active, healthy</i>

362
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,120
<i>without personality disorders?</i>

363
00:21:22,560 --> 00:21:25,000
<i>The first Nite Owl runs
an auto repair shop.</i>

364
00:21:25,400 --> 00:21:28,600
<i>Captain Metropolis was decapitated
in a car crash.</i>

365
00:21:31,520 --> 00:21:34,400
<i>The first Silk Spectre
is a bloated, aging whore.</i>

366
00:21:34,760 --> 00:21:37,200
<i>Dying in a California rest resort.</i>

367
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:40,320
<i>Mothman's in an asylum up in Maine.</i>

368
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:42,800
<i>The Silhouette retired in disgrace.</i>

369
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:47,000
<i>Murdered six weeks later
by a minor adversary seeking revenge.</i>

370
00:21:47,400 --> 00:21:49,120
<i>Dollar Bill got shot.</i>

371
00:21:49,400 --> 00:21:51,200
<i>Hooded Justice went missing.</i>

372
00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:53,520
<i>The Comedian is dead.</i>

373
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:56,400
<i>And now I must tell
the indestructible man</i>

374
00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:58,520
<i>that someone plans to murder him.</i>

375
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:07,200
Good evening, Rorschach.

376
00:22:07,480 --> 00:22:09,000
Good evening, Dr. Manhattan.

377
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,000
What are you doing here, Rorschach?

378
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,320
Aren't you still wanted
by the police?

379
00:22:17,920 --> 00:22:19,320
Good evening, Miss Jupiter.

380
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:20,600
That's Juspeczyk.

381
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:23,200
Jupiter was
my mother's publicity name.

382
00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:24,760
Apologies.

383
00:22:24,840 --> 00:22:26,920
Came to warn you both
and bring bad news.

384
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:28,800
The Comedian is dead.

385
00:22:29,040 --> 00:22:32,080
Yes. He and I are
the only two extra normal operatives

386
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:33,400
employed by the government

387
00:22:33,480 --> 00:22:35,040
so I was informed at once.

388
00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:37,920
You don't seem too concerned
about Blake's death.

389
00:22:38,120 --> 00:22:39,880
A live body and a dead body

390
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,760
contain the same number of particles.

391
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:44,120
Structurally there's
no discernible difference.

392
00:22:44,360 --> 00:22:48,040
Life and death are
unquantifiable abstracts.

393
00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:49,400
Why should I be concerned?

394
00:22:49,600 --> 00:22:51,400
Besides, Blake was a monster.

395
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,096
You know he tried to rape my mother
when they were both Minutemen.

396
00:22:54,120 --> 00:22:56,520
I'm not here to speculate
on the moral lapses

397
00:22:56,600 --> 00:22:58,800
of men who died
in their country's service.

398
00:22:58,880 --> 00:23:00,480
- I came to warn...
- Moral lapses?

399
00:23:00,560 --> 00:23:02,600
He broke her ribs! He...

400
00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,960
Jon, get this creep out of here.

401
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:10,480
You seem to be upsetting Laurie.

402
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:11,800
I think you ought to go.

403
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,320
With respect, Dr. Manhattan

404
00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:15,400
I believe someone
is eliminating masks.

405
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:17,120
I warned Veidt and Dreiberg

406
00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:19,400
- and I intend...
- I said I think you ought to go.

407
00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:20,720
Not before I've had my...

408
00:23:22,520 --> 00:23:23,520
say.

409
00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:36,800
He's gone.

410
00:23:37,480 --> 00:23:38,720
Are you still upset?

411
00:23:40,120 --> 00:23:41,120
Jon?

412
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:45,080
Hey, I was thinking

413
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:47,200
I must be really on edge

414
00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,000
to let a maggot like Rorschach
get to me like that. Maybe we...

415
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:54,280
Maybe I could use a night out.

416
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:57,640
Rorschach mentioned Dan Dreiberg.

417
00:23:57,720 --> 00:23:59,120
Haven't seen him in years.

418
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,120
Maybe I'll call him up,
ask him to dinner.

419
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:05,960
If you don't mind, that is.

420
00:24:06,040 --> 00:24:07,200
Of course not.

421
00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:15,800
<i>It is October, 1985.</i>

422
00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:18,120
<i>I am close to locating a gluino</i>

423
00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:20,920
<i>which would completely validate
super symmetrical theory.</i>

424
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,320
<i>It is May, 1971.</i>

425
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:39,440
<i>Having been asked to intervene
in Vietnam by President Nixon</i>

426
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,920
<i>I am deployed alongside
Edward Blake, the Comedian.</i>

427
00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:48,120
<i>I have never met
anyone so deliberately amoral.</i>

428
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,800
<i>What Vietnam implies
about the human condition</i>

429
00:24:52,120 --> 00:24:55,200
<i>few humans will permit
themselves to understand.</i>

430
00:24:55,640 --> 00:24:57,520
<i>But Blake is different.</i>

431
00:24:57,760 --> 00:24:59,520
<i>He understands perfectly.</i>

432
00:25:00,640 --> 00:25:02,080
<i>And he doesn't care.</i>

433
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,400
The average Vietnamese
doesn't give a damn

434
00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:08,000
who won this war.

435
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:10,720
But it means plenty to the US of A.

436
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:14,640
If we'd lost, I think it might've
driven the country a little crazy.

437
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:16,600
Thanks to you

438
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:17,960
we didn't.

439
00:25:18,040 --> 00:25:19,760
Yet you sound so bitter.

440
00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:22,920
You have some strange attitudes
toward life and war.

441
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,000
Strange?

442
00:25:24,280 --> 00:25:26,360
Once you figure out
everything's a joke

443
00:25:26,440 --> 00:25:29,120
being a Comedian's
the only thing that makes sense.

444
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:30,800
The charred villages

445
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,120
the boys with necklaces of human ears

446
00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,200
these are part of the joke?

447
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:38,200
Never said it was a good joke.

448
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:41,800
I'm just playing along
with the gag. Same as him.

449
00:25:42,040 --> 00:25:44,240
First press helicopter into Saigon

450
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,520
since the cease fire.

451
00:25:46,440 --> 00:25:48,800
He's got the next election
in the bag.

452
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,080
Me?

453
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:52,320
I'm taking the first chopper out.

454
00:25:53,040 --> 00:25:54,800
I hate this place.

455
00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:57,560
The temperature, the smell

456
00:25:57,640 --> 00:25:59,920
this rotten, cheap bourbon.

457
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:01,200
Mr. Eddie?

458
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:02,400
Oh, God.

459
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:06,880
Now war is over, I must talk to you.

460
00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:09,400
Nothing to talk about. I'm leaving.

461
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:11,000
And... And what of me?

462
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:14,880
I cannot just walk away
from what grow in my belly.

463
00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:15,960
I cannot forget.

464
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,440
Too bad, because
that's what I intend to do.

465
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:19,520
Forget you

466
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:20,920
your cruddy little country

467
00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,000
all of it!

468
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,320
I do not think so.

469
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,600
I think you remember
me and my country.

470
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,120
You remember as long as you live.

471
00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:37,400
My face.

472
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:40,120
Filthy

473
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:41,360
stinking

474
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,200
- worthless!
- Blake, don't.

475
00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:46,840
Medic.

476
00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,120
Gotta find a goddamn medic.

477
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:50,400
She was pregnant.

478
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,280
- You gunned her down.
- That's right.

479
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,400
And you know what?

480
00:26:53,480 --> 00:26:54,880
You watched me.

481
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,960
You could a turned the gun into steam

482
00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:58,320
the bullets into mercury

483
00:26:58,400 --> 00:27:00,120
or the bottle into snowflakes.

484
00:27:00,200 --> 00:27:02,320
You could a teleported her
to goddamn Australia

485
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,920
but you didn't lift a finger.

486
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:06,520
You let it happen.

487
00:27:07,120 --> 00:27:08,520
I've watched you.

488
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,720
You don't really give a damn
about human beings.

489
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:13,440
You never cared about Janey Slater

490
00:27:13,520 --> 00:27:15,200
even before you ditched her.

491
00:27:15,440 --> 00:27:19,600
Soon you won't be interested
in Sally Jupiter's little gal either.

492
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:22,080
You're drifting outta touch, Doc.

493
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,720
God help us all.

494
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,120
- Hello?
- <i>Hello?</i>

495
00:27:43,360 --> 00:27:44,800
<i>Dan? This is...</i>

496
00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:47,400
Laurie? Laurie Juspeczyk!

497
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:51,320
<i>Hey, it's been a while.
How... How are you?</i>

498
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,200
<i>Rorschach's Journal. 11:30 p.m.</i>

499
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,920
<i>Yesterday a Comedian died
in New York.</i>

500
00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:01,800
<i>Nobody cares but me.</i>

501
00:28:02,360 --> 00:28:04,680
<i>Are they right? Is it futile?</i>

502
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:06,720
<i>Soon there will be war.</i>

503
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,400
<i>Millions will perish and burn</i>

504
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,200
<i>in sickness and misery.</i>

505
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,320
<i>Why does one death matter
against so many?</i>

506
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:16,760
<i>Because there is good,
and there is evil</i>

507
00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,440
<i>and evil must be punished.</i>

508
00:28:20,440 --> 00:28:22,200
<i>Even in the face of Armageddon</i>

509
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,920
<i>I shall not compromise on this.</i>

510
00:28:25,400 --> 00:28:28,320
<i>But there are so many
deserving of retribution</i>

511
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,920
<i>and so little time.</i>

512
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:39,040
Wow, look at the time.

513
00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,200
It's getting pretty late.

514
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,320
I'm in no hurry to get back.

515
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:44,960
The government only keeps me around

516
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,200
so Jon stays relaxed and happy.

517
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,040
Is everything okay with you two?

518
00:28:52,120 --> 00:28:53,120
Fine.

519
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:54,560
Couldn't be better.

520
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,920
It's just, I'm 35, Dan.

521
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:03,400
And all I can think is

522
00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,120
what have I done with my life?

523
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,800
I've spent eight years semi-retired

524
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:12,560
preceded by 10 years
running around in a stupid costume

525
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,320
because my stupid mother
wanted me to.

526
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:18,600
Short skirt, neckline going
all the way down to my navel.

527
00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:20,840
So dreadful.

528
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:23,520
Oh, yeah, dreadful.

529
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:26,920
The Keene Act was the best thing
that ever happened to us.

530
00:29:28,360 --> 00:29:29,520
Yeah

531
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,520
you're probably right.

532
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:40,720
Hey, remember that guy

533
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:42,640
who used to pretend
to be a super-villain

534
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,000
so he could get beaten up?

535
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,400
Captain Carnage.

536
00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:49,200
Yes!

537
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,880
You know, I caught him
running out of a jewelers.

538
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:53,176
I didn't know what his racket was

539
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:55,160
so I start hitting him
and I'm thinking

540
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,800
"Jeez, he's breathing awfully hard.

541
00:29:58,120 --> 00:29:59,760
Maybe he has asthma."

542
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:01,040
He tried that with me too

543
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,280
but I'd heard about him
so I walked away.

544
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,560
He followed me down the street

545
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:05,920
saying "Punish me."

546
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:08,120
I'm saying, "No, get lost!"

547
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:10,880
What ever happened to him?

548
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,400
He... He pulled that on Rorschach

549
00:30:12,520 --> 00:30:14,680
and Rorschach dropped him
down an elevator shaft.

550
00:30:19,000 --> 00:30:20,560
God, that's not funny.

551
00:30:20,640 --> 00:30:21,840
No, no.

552
00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:24,200
I guess not.

553
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:27,520
That felt good.

554
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:32,000
Not a lot of laughs
around these days.

555
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,200
Well, what do you expect?

556
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:36,760
The Comedian is dead.

557
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:49,920
Oh, look at her

558
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,480
<i>pretty as a picture</i>

559
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,520
<i>and still keeping her figure.</i>

560
00:30:54,080 --> 00:30:57,400
So, what brings you
to the city of the dead?

561
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:00,400
Being lazy isn't
a terminal condition, mother

562
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,640
so spare me
the city of the dead crap.

563
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:03,960
Brought you some flowers.

564
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:06,520
Big spender.

565
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,120
So, where's Jon?

566
00:31:09,160 --> 00:31:12,520
He had to go
to some official funeral.

567
00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:14,640
Made him put on pants and everything.

568
00:31:15,040 --> 00:31:16,080
I didn't feel like going

569
00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,120
so he transported me here
to California.

570
00:31:19,440 --> 00:31:21,160
Teleporting always
makes me feel sick.

571
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:23,400
It's Eddie Blake's funeral, isn't it?

572
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:24,640
I saw in the paper.

573
00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:25,920
He got murdered.

574
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:28,840
- Poor Eddie.
- How can you

575
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,480
say "poor Eddie" after he almost...

576
00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:33,480
What happened was 40 years ago.

577
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:35,480
It's history.

578
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,400
Gettin' old, you get
a different perspective.

579
00:31:40,120 --> 00:31:42,400
The big stuff looks smaller somehow.

580
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:44,680
You know

581
00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,680
that makes just
three of us Minutemen left now.

582
00:31:47,760 --> 00:31:51,400
Me, Hollis and poor Byron
at the asylum in Maine.

583
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:53,720
Eddie was the youngest.

584
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,120
The Comedian.

585
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:58,520
Always jokin' that he'd bury us all.

586
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:00,920
Always thought he'd get the last...

587
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:02,920
laugh.

588
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,920
You and Jon ought a move
out here for the weather.

589
00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:09,440
Lots of sunshine.

590
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:10,800
What the hell is this?

591
00:32:11,120 --> 00:32:13,440
What are you doing
with this creepy pervert art?

592
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,840
Oh, just some old memorabilia.

593
00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,600
Being reminded that
people used to slobber over me

594
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,800
- is kind of flattering.
- Flattering?

595
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:23,600
Laurie, I'm 65.

596
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:27,800
Every day the future looks
a little bit darker.

597
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:29,720
But the past

598
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,400
even the grimy parts of it...

599
00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,840
keep getting brighter all the time.

600
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,640
Okay, that's it. Nice picture, folks.

601
00:32:44,720 --> 00:32:47,040
Finally, I can scratch my armpit.

602
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:48,400
Got spots in my eyes.

603
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:50,120
Here, let me take a look.

604
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,080
Maybe I can fish 'em out for ya.

605
00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:55,400
Oh, Eddie, give me a break.

606
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:56,600
Okay, everybody, we're good.

607
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:58,200
Let's meet in the lobby in five.

608
00:32:58,280 --> 00:32:59,960
We'll go back
to the Owl's Nest for a beer.

609
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:02,480
You go on ahead, I gotta change.

610
00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:21,080
- Hi.
- Eddie

611
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:22,320
what are you doing here?

612
00:33:22,400 --> 00:33:23,640
You knew I was changing...

613
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,280
Sure did. You announced it
loud enough.

614
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:31,080
Come on, baby. I know what you need

615
00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:33,800
know why you wear
an outfit like that.

616
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,000
Eddie, no!

617
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,280
Spelled Y-E-S.

618
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:39,600
Spelled N-O!

619
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:47,040
Eddie.

620
00:33:59,200 --> 00:34:01,200
What... What's happening?

621
00:34:01,280 --> 00:34:02,360
Eddie, what are you doing?

622
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,960
You sick little bastard!

623
00:34:06,840 --> 00:34:09,440
I'm gonna break your neck.

624
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,000
This is what you like, isn't it?

625
00:34:25,240 --> 00:34:27,400
This is what gets you hot.

626
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:29,840
Get out.

627
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,400
Oh, sure. Sure, I'm going.

628
00:34:33,520 --> 00:34:35,000
But I got your number.

629
00:34:35,600 --> 00:34:37,080
And one of these days

630
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:39,840
the joke's gonna be on you.

631
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,000
"Thou hast set
our misdeeds before thee

632
00:34:47,280 --> 00:34:50,920
and our secret sins
in the light of thy countenance.

633
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:55,360
As much as it hath pleased
Almighty God of his great mercy

634
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:59,320
to take unto himself the soul
of our dear brother here departed.

635
00:35:00,080 --> 00:35:02,120
We therefore commit
his body to the ground

636
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,680
earth to earth, ashes to ashes

637
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:07,400
dust to dust.

638
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:12,400
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name.

639
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,200
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done

640
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,000
on Earth as it is in heaven.

641
00:35:19,800 --> 00:35:22,120
Give us this day our daily bread

642
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:24,120
and forgive us our trespasses

643
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,320
as we forgive those
that trespass against us.

644
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,200
And lead us not into temptation

645
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:32,520
but deliver us from evil.

646
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,080
"Amen."

647
00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:13,560
Edgar William Jacobi.

648
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,840
Also known as Moloch.

649
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:16,600
I don't know
what you're talking about

650
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:17,776
you've got the wrong person.

651
00:36:17,800 --> 00:36:19,000
I'm a retired business...

652
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,120
Lying. Do it again, broken arm.

653
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:23,800
Oh, God, I spent the '70s in jail.

654
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:25,360
I'm not Moloch anymore.

655
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:27,200
I just want to be left alone.

656
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,200
You attended funeral today. Why?

657
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:32,920
I just felt I should.

658
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,800
I've been thinking
about the Comedian a lot.

659
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,456
How do you know
Edward Blake was the Comedian?

660
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,760
He broke in to see me two weeks ago.

661
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:39,840
His mask was off.

662
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:41,240
Enemies for 40 years.

663
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:42,440
Why should he visit you?

664
00:36:42,720 --> 00:36:43,880
I don't know.

665
00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,080
I just woke up and he was there.

666
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:47,960
I thought he was gonna kill me.

667
00:36:48,040 --> 00:36:51,520
He was drunk, not making sense.

668
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:54,400
It's a joke.

669
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,600
It's all a joke.

670
00:36:57,000 --> 00:36:59,200
I thought I knew how the world was

671
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:02,120
but then I found out about this gag

672
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,600
this joke.

673
00:37:04,160 --> 00:37:06,800
You're part of it, Moloch,
old pal, you know that?

674
00:37:06,880 --> 00:37:08,280
I saw your name on the list

675
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:10,120
you and Janey Slater.

676
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:11,656
If I thought you were in on this

677
00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:13,240
I'd kill you, you understand?

678
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:15,760
I mean, you fought
that big blue geek.

679
00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:17,040
You know what his head's like.

680
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:18,256
Who knows which way he'll jump

681
00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:19,520
if anyone messes with him?

682
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,480
I never shoulda looked out
that airship window.

683
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:25,920
Never seen that island.

684
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,440
Never got involved.

685
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,320
See, on that island

686
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,200
they got writers
and artists, scientists

687
00:37:34,280 --> 00:37:37,200
and what they're
doing is just...

688
00:37:41,760 --> 00:37:44,000
I've done some bad things.

689
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:46,800
Did bad things to women.

690
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,120
Shot kids in 'Nam

691
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,880
but I never did anything like...

692
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:55,160
like...

693
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:57,920
Oh, mother.

694
00:37:58,640 --> 00:37:59,880
Forgive me.

695
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,400
Forgive me, forgive me, forgive...

696
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:06,160
It's a joke.

697
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:07,720
But I don't get it!

698
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:09,720
What's so goddamned funny?

699
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:11,320
Somebody explain it to me!

700
00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,920
Somebody please explain it to me!

701
00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:16,200
And then he left.

702
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:18,320
I don't know
what the hell it was about.

703
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:21,520
Funny story.

704
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,080
Sounds unbelievable.

705
00:38:23,160 --> 00:38:24,280
Probably true.

706
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:26,720
So, that's it?

707
00:38:27,240 --> 00:38:28,760
- I'm clean?
- No.

708
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:30,520
Searched house before you got back.

709
00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:31,920
Found phony medication.

710
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:33,800
Outlawed years ago.

711
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:38,720
Well, when you're desperate

712
00:38:39,240 --> 00:38:40,600
you'll try anything.

713
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:42,320
I...

714
00:38:43,160 --> 00:38:44,520
I have cancer.

715
00:38:45,040 --> 00:38:47,120
Cancer? What kind?

716
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:51,000
You know the kind of cancer
you eventually get better from?

717
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:54,040
This ain't it.

718
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,160
Wrote down name of company.

719
00:38:59,240 --> 00:39:00,520
Will report them later.

720
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:02,880
You're off the hook for now.

721
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:04,640
Stay out of trouble.

722
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:13,160
<i>Rorschach's Journal.</i>

723
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,600
<i>October 16th, 1985.</i>

724
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:18,520
<i>Thought about Moloch's story
on the way to cemetery.</i>

725
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:20,000
<i>Could be all lies</i>

726
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:21,600
<i>part of a revenge scheme.</i>

727
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:23,400
<i>But if true, then what?</i>

728
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:25,800
<i>References to an island</i>

729
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:27,400
<i>to Dr. Manhattan.</i>

730
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:28,920
<i>Might he be at risk?</i>

731
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:31,600
<i>Edward Morgan Blake.</i>

732
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,720
<i>Forty-five years a Comedian.</i>

733
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:35,720
<i>Buried in the rain.</i>

734
00:39:36,200 --> 00:39:37,880
<i>Is this what happens to us?</i>

735
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,720
<i>A life of conflict
with no time for friends</i>

736
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:42,240
<i>so that when it's done</i>

737
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:44,120
<i>only our enemies leave roses?</i>

738
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,120
<i>Blake saw the cracks in society</i>

739
00:39:48,240 --> 00:39:51,120
<i>saw the little men in masks
trying to hold it together</i>

740
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:52,720
<i>and treated it like a joke.</i>

741
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:53,800
My map!

742
00:39:54,200 --> 00:39:56,400
<i>Saw the true face of the 20th century</i>

743
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:58,480
<i>and became a reflection of it</i>

744
00:39:58,560 --> 00:39:59,560
<i>a parody.</i>

745
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:03,520
<i>No one else saw the joke.</i>

746
00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:08,680
<i>That's why he was lonely.</i>

747
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:16,320
<i>Heard joke once.</i>

748
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:18,120
<i>Man goes to doctor</i>

749
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:19,600
<i>says he's depressed.</i>

750
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:21,920
<i>Life seems harsh and cruel.</i>

751
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,520
<i>Says he feels all alone
in a threatening world.</i>

752
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:26,800
<i>"Doctor says, "Treatment is simple.</i>

753
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,000
<i>Great clown Pagliacci
is in town. Go see him.</i>

754
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:31,560
<i>"That'll pick you up."</i>

755
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:33,520
<i>Man bursts into tears</i>

756
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:35,200
<i>"says, "But Doctor</i>

757
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,320
<i>I am Pagliacci."</i>

758
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,000
<i>Good joke.</i>

759
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:48,720
<i>Delirious</i>

760
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,920
<i>I saw that hell-bound
ship's black sails</i>

761
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,200
<i>against the yellow Indies sky.</i>

762
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,960
<i>And knew again the stench of powder</i>

763
00:40:58,040 --> 00:41:01,000
<i>and men's brains, and war.</i>

764
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:05,240
<i>The severed heads nailed
to its prow liplessly mouthed</i>

765
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,800
<i>"No use! All's lost!"</i>

766
00:41:07,880 --> 00:41:10,720
We ought a nuke Russia
and let God sort it out.

767
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,400
<i>The freighter's hideous crew
called out</i>

768
00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,400
<i>"More blood! More blood!"</i>

769
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,000
Nuke 'em till they glow.

770
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:20,720
That's my opinion,
for what it's worth, ya know?

771
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,160
In a final analysis.

772
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,120
Man, I'm tryin' to read here.

773
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:26,800
<i>It's tar-streaked hull
rolled over me.</i>

774
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:30,520
<i>In despair, I sank beneath the waves</i>

775
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,400
<i>offering up my wretched soul to God</i>

776
00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,720
<i>his mercy and his judgment.</i>

777
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:39,360
<i>Waking from nightmare</i>

778
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:42,600
<i>I found myself
upon a dismal beachhead</i>

779
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:45,600
<i>amongst dead men</i>

780
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,680
<i>and the pieces of dead men.</i>

781
00:41:49,760 --> 00:41:51,400
I'm informed on these things.

782
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:53,600
I see every paper in the world.

783
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,840
See, everything's connected.

784
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,200
<i>I begged that
the gulls should take my eyes.</i>

785
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,600
A news vender
understands that reality.

786
00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:02,640
<i>Thus sparing me the horrors.</i>

787
00:42:02,720 --> 00:42:04,800
The weight of the world's on him,
but he can take it.

788
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:07,320
<i>But at least I was alive.</i>

789
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,400
He's a survivor.

790
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,200
<i>And I knew that life had
no worse news to offer me.</i>

791
00:42:11,320 --> 00:42:12,320
Good afternoon.

792
00:42:13,360 --> 00:42:14,360
Is it here yet?

793
00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,040
Oh. Your copy of
today's <i>New Frontiersman</i> coming up.

794
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:18,800
I keep it for ya every day, don't I?

795
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:23,520
Hey, how's the end
of the world coming?

796
00:42:23,600 --> 00:42:25,320
Today, for certain.

797
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:28,080
You won't forget to keep
my paper for me tomorrow?

798
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,160
Sure will.

799
00:42:29,240 --> 00:42:30,640
<i>I had a sudden memory</i>

800
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:33,320
<i>of clinging fast to someone
through the tempest.</i>

801
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,720
<i>Our fateful ship's figurehead</i>

802
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:38,800
<i>now lying at my feet</i>

803
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:42,200
<i>blindfolded by seaweed, smiling.</i>

804
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,560
<i>I thought better
of removing the kelp from her eyes</i>

805
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:47,160
<i>not wishing her to suffer</i>

806
00:42:47,240 --> 00:42:50,400
<i>the terrible distractions
of that grim tideline.</i>

807
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,880
<i>She had borne me
through seas of blood</i>

808
00:42:54,120 --> 00:42:56,800
<i>had nourished me
in the heart of the storm.</i>

809
00:42:57,200 --> 00:43:00,400
<i>This small comfort
was all I could offer</i>

810
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,000
<i>for I could not love her
as she had loved me.</i>

811
00:43:11,800 --> 00:43:13,200
Jon.

812
00:43:13,640 --> 00:43:16,560
Don't you have to do
a TV interview soon?

813
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:19,520
No. We have plenty of time.

814
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:22,160
- Laurie?
- Oh, God!

815
00:43:22,240 --> 00:43:24,680
Jon, just be one person again!

816
00:43:24,840 --> 00:43:26,280
Don't be upset. I'm sorry.

817
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:27,920
I thought you would enjoy it.

818
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,840
I was just trying to please you.

819
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:31,080
I... I know.

820
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:34,000
I know. I'm sorry, I overreacted.

821
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,520
You just startled me, is all.

822
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:37,960
I'm fine. It doesn't...

823
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:42,400
Laurie?

824
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:45,200
- Are you okay?
- Am I okay?

825
00:43:45,720 --> 00:43:47,680
This whole time
you've been working out here

826
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:49,200
while we were in bed?

827
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:51,320
My work is at an important stage.

828
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:52,640
It didn't seem necessary

829
00:43:52,720 --> 00:43:53,880
- to...
- To what?

830
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:56,600
Give me your full attention?

831
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:58,560
For once?

832
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:01,080
If there is a problem
with my attitude

833
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,880
I am prepared to discuss it.

834
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:09,000
I hate you.

835
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,040
Laurie?

836
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:06,200
I left Jon.

837
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,200
Oh, I'm... I'm sorry, I...

838
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:12,200
And I'm sorry to dump this on you...

839
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,120
But you don't know
what it's like, living with him.

840
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:21,600
For him...

841
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,000
the real world is like
walking through mist

842
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,840
and all the people are just shadows.

843
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:32,840
I mean, the way he looks at things

844
00:45:32,920 --> 00:45:35,360
like, he can't remember what they are

845
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,080
and he doesn't particularly care.

846
00:45:38,800 --> 00:45:41,880
Sometimes I look at myself
and I don't understand

847
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:46,320
how things got so tangled up.

848
00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:56,120
Hey.

849
00:45:56,360 --> 00:45:57,760
- Can we go out?
- Well...

850
00:45:57,840 --> 00:45:59,040
- Get some air?
- I...

851
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:02,680
I'll get my coat.

852
00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:04,720
Let's go.

853
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:16,640
- Dr. Manhattan.
- Dr. Osterman.

854
00:46:16,720 --> 00:46:18,320
We need to get you into make-up.

855
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:20,800
That blue is... is
far too light for broadcast.

856
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:21,920
Is this dark enough?

857
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:23,240
That's perfect.

858
00:46:23,360 --> 00:46:25,000
Here is a list of
no-go talking points

859
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:26,840
compiled by army intelligence.

860
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:29,040
Afghanistan will come up
but play it cool.

861
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:33,320
And try not to get
into any tight corners.

862
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:36,640
Ladies and gentlemen, we have

863
00:46:36,720 --> 00:46:38,720
something really special
for you tonight.

864
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:40,920
In his first live interview

865
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:43,400
let's have a hand
for Doctor Manhattan himself

866
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:45,920
Dr. Jon Osterman!

867
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,960
So, what's up, Doc?

868
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,520
Well, you'll forgive
the levity, doctor

869
00:46:52,600 --> 00:46:55,400
but the news overseas
has everyone a little tense.

870
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:00,720
So, before I throw you
to our hungry reporters here tonight

871
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:03,200
let me kick things off with this.

872
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:06,400
If the Reds act up in Afghanistan

873
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:09,800
are you prepared
to enter hostilities?

874
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,120
There is no situation in Afghanistan

875
00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:14,000
currently requiring my attention.

876
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:16,320
If I can jump in.

877
00:47:16,760 --> 00:47:18,400
Doug Roth. <i>Nova Express.</i>

878
00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:19,640
Dr Osterman.

879
00:47:19,720 --> 00:47:21,520
Do you remember Wally Weaver?

880
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:24,600
The newspapers called him
Dr. Manhattan's buddy.

881
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:27,680
- He died of cancer in '71.
- I remember.

882
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:30,760
I attended Wally's funeral

883
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,000
How about Edgar W. Jacobi,
aka Moloch?

884
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,000
You and he battled it out
many times over the years.

885
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,000
Do you know
he's also battling terminal cancer?

886
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,320
No. I did not know that.

887
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:45,000
- I would rather not.
- And are you aware

888
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:46,440
that Janey Slater

889
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,000
with whom you were
romantically linked for several years

890
00:47:49,240 --> 00:47:51,520
is suffering from lung cancer?

891
00:47:57,120 --> 00:47:59,800
No, I... I wasn't told. I...

892
00:47:59,880 --> 00:48:01,920
Or that she has six months to live?

893
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:03,680
I recently interviewed Ms. Slater.

894
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:05,400
Her story's hitting
the streets right now.

895
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:08,680
- What are you suggesting?
- Jon

896
00:48:08,800 --> 00:48:12,360
Doug has reports of over two dozen
of your former associates

897
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,000
who have been similarly afflicted.

898
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,080
- No, I...
- Do you have any response

899
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:17,200
to these allegations?

900
00:48:21,840 --> 00:48:23,880
- Are we gonna get cancer?
- Dude looks radioactive.

901
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:25,400
Leave me alone.

902
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,960
Do you think
you gave Ms. Slater cancer

903
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:29,320
by sleeping with her?

904
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:33,480
- I said...
- How does it feel

905
00:48:33,560 --> 00:48:36,320
knowing you may have doomed
hundreds of people?

906
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:40,120
Leave me alone!

907
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:14,720
- You okay?
- Yeah. Fine.

908
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:17,040
I...

909
00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:19,200
We just need to get our breath back.

910
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,120
- We should...
- I'm just gonna go grab a hotel.

911
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,280
Think my relationship over.

912
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:25,600
Oh. Of course.

913
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:27,920
Thanks for listening, Dan. Take care.

914
00:49:28,200 --> 00:49:29,200
Sure.

915
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,000
You too, Laurie.

916
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:36,360
Bye.

917
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,200
<i>The freighter's murderous onslaught</i>

918
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:47,600
<i>had surprised us.</i>

919
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:51,080
<i>We'd been blasted to fragments</i>

920
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,600
<i>before we could warn Davidstown
of the hell-ship's approach.</i>

921
00:49:56,080 --> 00:49:57,880
<i>I thought of my family there</i>

922
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:01,520
<i>vulnerable, unsuspecting</i>

923
00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:05,400
<i>unaware of the damnation</i>
that bore down upon them.

924
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,320
<i>Crazed with helplessness</i>

925
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,000
<i>I cursed God and wept</i>

926
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:14,320
<i>wondering if he wept also.</i>

927
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,680
<i>But then, what use are his tears</i>

928
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:18,680
<i>if he also denied me help?</i>

929
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,760
<i>That night I slept badly</i>

930
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:26,400
<i>beneath cold, distant stars</i>

931
00:50:26,480 --> 00:50:29,200
<i>pondering the cold, distant god</i>

932
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:32,320
<i>in whose hands
the fate of Davidstown rested.</i>

933
00:50:35,120 --> 00:50:36,600
<i>Was he really there?</i>

934
00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:39,400
<i>Had he been there once.</i>

935
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,200
<i>But now departed?</i>

936
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,240
Hey, this base is off-limits.

937
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:46,320
You don't belong here.

938
00:50:47,760 --> 00:50:49,440
I believe you are correct.

939
00:50:51,040 --> 00:50:53,720
Please tell your superiors
and Laurie Juspeczyk

940
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:55,240
that I am leaving.

941
00:50:56,040 --> 00:50:57,280
Leaving for Mars.

942
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:10,120
Gone?

943
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:12,040
What do you mean he's gone?

944
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,760
Ma'am, your meal ticket flew the coop

945
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:16,440
after last night's broadcast.

946
00:51:16,520 --> 00:51:19,440
Dr. Manhattan, the linchpin
of America's security

947
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:21,000
has left Earth.

948
00:51:21,360 --> 00:51:24,520
Mr. President, The Russians are
invading Afghanistan and Pakistan.

949
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,320
If this keeps up, they'll try
taking Western Europe next.

950
00:51:28,440 --> 00:51:31,120
If Dr. Manhattan wanted
to live on a red planet

951
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:32,240
he should've stayed home.

952
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,320
Keep running the numbers
for our losses in a nuclear exchange.

953
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,200
And be ready
for a first strike in seven days.

954
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:40,000
Good morning, Daniel.

955
00:51:40,520 --> 00:51:42,040
- Brought you your paper.
- What?

956
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:43,440
The Comedian murdered

957
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,320
Dr. Manhattan exiled.

958
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:48,000
Two of us gone. All within a week.

959
00:51:48,680 --> 00:51:53,120
Who next? Veidt? Juspeczyk? Me? You?

960
00:51:53,520 --> 00:51:56,520
These days, nobody's safe.

961
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,320
<i>The photograph is in my hand.</i>

962
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:22,800
<i>It is the photograph
of a man and a woman.</i>

963
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:27,360
<i>They are at an amusement park
in 1959.</i>

964
00:52:29,200 --> 00:52:31,240
<i>In exactly 38 seconds</i>

965
00:52:31,320 --> 00:52:34,400
<i>I drop the photograph
to the sand and walk away.</i>

966
00:52:34,800 --> 00:52:35,960
<i>It is already there</i>

967
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:37,960
<i>31 seconds into the future.</i>

968
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,320
<i>- Thirty seconds.
- The photograph is in my hands.</i>

969
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:41,920
<i>I found it in a derelict bar</i>

970
00:52:42,000 --> 00:52:43,760
<i>- 27 hours ago.
- Twenty-five seconds.</i>

971
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:44,880
<i>It is still there</i>

972
00:52:44,960 --> 00:52:46,600
<i>27 hours into the past.</i>

973
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:47,680
<i>Twenty-one seconds.</i>

974
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:49,480
<i>I am still there, looking at it.</i>

975
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,480
<i>- Eighteen seconds.
- It is October, 1985.</i>

976
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,240
<i>- I am on Mars.
- Fourteen seconds.</i>

977
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,000
<i>- It is July, 1959.
- Eleven seconds.</i>

978
00:52:57,080 --> 00:52:59,080
<i>I am at the Palisades Amusement Park.</i>

979
00:52:59,160 --> 00:53:00,400
<i>- Eight. Seven.
- I am tired</i>

980
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:01,960
<i>- of looking at the photograph.
- Six.</i>

981
00:53:02,040 --> 00:53:04,800
<i>- Five. Four. Three.
- I open my fingers.</i>

982
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:06,600
<i>- Two. One.
- It falls to the sand.</i>

983
00:53:09,880 --> 00:53:12,000
<i>I am going to look at the stars.</i>

984
00:53:13,080 --> 00:53:14,920
<i>They are so far away</i>

985
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,920
<i>and their light takes
so long to reach us.</i>

986
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,920
<i>All we ever see of the stars</i>

987
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:23,720
<i>are their old photographs.</i>

988
00:53:32,800 --> 00:53:34,640
<i>I am watching the stars</i>

989
00:53:34,720 --> 00:53:37,400
<i>admiring their complex trajectories</i>

990
00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:39,320
<i>through space</i>

991
00:53:40,280 --> 00:53:41,800
<i>through time.</i>

992
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:44,920
<i>My father admired the sky</i>

993
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,400
<i>for its precision.</i>

994
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:48,280
<i>He repaired watches.</i>

995
00:53:50,520 --> 00:53:52,600
<i>It is August, 1945.</i>

996
00:53:52,800 --> 00:53:54,400
<i>I sit in a Brooklyn kitchen</i>

997
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:57,520
<i>fascinated by an arrangement</i>
of cogs on black velvet.

998
00:53:57,840 --> 00:53:59,240
<i>I am 16 years old.</i>

999
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:00,720
Jon? What are you doing?

1000
00:54:00,800 --> 00:54:03,096
Practicing on your old pocket-watch
before I leave for school.

1001
00:54:03,120 --> 00:54:04,360
Forget watches.

1002
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:05,680
Have you seen the news?

1003
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:07,960
They dropped an atomic bomb on Japan.

1004
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:09,600
A whole city, gone.

1005
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:11,200
This changes everything.

1006
00:54:11,280 --> 00:54:12,560
Father, what are you...

1007
00:54:12,640 --> 00:54:14,720
- I'm doing what is best for you.
- Wait.

1008
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,200
- This atomic science is
- Dad.

1009
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:17,520
What the world will need

1010
00:54:17,840 --> 00:54:19,320
not pocket watches.

1011
00:54:20,680 --> 00:54:25,800
Professor Einstein says that
time differs from place to place.

1012
00:54:26,640 --> 00:54:29,360
If time is not true

1013
00:54:29,440 --> 00:54:31,880
what purpose have watchmakers?

1014
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:33,320
Wait! No!

1015
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,800
<i>Forty years ago,
cogs rain on Brooklyn.</i>

1016
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:41,000
<i>150 minutes into the future</i>

1017
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,640
<i>meteorites penetrate
the rarefied Martian atmosphere.</i>

1018
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:48,800
<i>It is 1958.</i>

1019
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:52,400
<i>I am graduating
with a PhD in atomic physics.</i>

1020
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:56,120
<i>It is May 12th, 1959</i>

1021
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,320
<i>my first day
at the Gila Flats Test Base.</i>

1022
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:02,800
<i>Wally Weaver shows me around.</i>

1023
00:55:04,600 --> 00:55:05,840
What's this place?

1024
00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,120
This is where the intrinsic
field experiments happen.

1025
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:09,440
They're trying to prove

1026
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:13,200
there's some field holdin'
stuff together besides gravity.

1027
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:15,640
This is our time-lock test vault

1028
00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:18,560
for when they're tryin' to separate
objects from their intrinsic fields.

1029
00:55:18,840 --> 00:55:21,120
It makes sure no radiation gets out.

1030
00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,120
<i>Wally steers me to a crowded bar.</i>

1031
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:34,080
<i>There is a sudden sense of déjà vu.</i>

1032
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,120
So, you must be the new guy.

1033
00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:41,760
Pretty young
for a research scientist.

1034
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:44,600
Well, my dad
sort of pushed me into it.

1035
00:55:45,600 --> 00:55:46,800
Happens to me a lot.

1036
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:49,720
Other people seem
to make all my moves for me.

1037
00:55:51,040 --> 00:55:52,400
I'm Janey Slater.

1038
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,320
Can I buy you a drink?

1039
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:56,000
<i>Hey, young lovers.</i>

1040
00:55:56,600 --> 00:55:58,280
There. That's a beautiful picture.

1041
00:55:58,360 --> 00:55:59,680
<i>The photograph lies on the sand.</i>

1042
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,880
<i>It is July, 1959.</i>

1043
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:03,320
<i>By the shooting gallery</i>

1044
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:04,680
<i>Janey's watch falls off</i>

1045
00:56:04,760 --> 00:56:06,120
<i>and a man steps on it.</i>

1046
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,520
<i>- I tell her I can fix it.</i>
- I can fix it.

1047
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:12,800
<i>It is 1963.</i>

1048
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,320
<i>We're making love after an argument</i>

1049
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:19,000
<i>our tenderness in direct proportion
to its violence.</i>

1050
00:56:20,040 --> 00:56:21,760
<i>It is 1966</i>

1051
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,320
<i>and she's packing a suitcase, crying.</i>

1052
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,800
<i>It is August, 1959.</i>

1053
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,920
<i>We have only been together
for a month.</i>

1054
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:33,120
So Jon...

1055
00:56:33,200 --> 00:56:35,480
<i>The accident is waiting for me.</i>

1056
00:56:35,560 --> 00:56:37,320
Did you fix my watch yet?

1057
00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,480
Sure did, it's right...

1058
00:56:42,880 --> 00:56:44,640
I must've left it in my lab coat

1059
00:56:44,720 --> 00:56:46,600
when we were resetting
the intrinsic chamber.

1060
00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:48,200
Be right back.

1061
00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:52,920
<i>The accident is almost upon me now.</i>

1062
00:57:19,760 --> 00:57:20,760
Janey!

1063
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:21,880
- Jon?
- Janey.

1064
00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:23,800
- Open the door!
- I... I can't.

1065
00:57:23,880 --> 00:57:25,720
- Open the door!
- It's on a time lock

1066
00:57:25,800 --> 00:57:27,280
for the next experiment! I...

1067
00:57:27,760 --> 00:57:29,120
I can't override it!

1068
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:33,800
Oh, God, it's starting.

1069
00:57:34,080 --> 00:57:35,160
Oh, my God.

1070
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:36,400
Janey!

1071
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:37,960
- It's my fault.
- No.

1072
00:57:38,240 --> 00:57:39,240
No. Janey.

1073
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:41,520
- Please.
- I can't stay and watch.

1074
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:42,960
- Please, I just can't.
- Don't go.

1075
00:57:43,000 --> 00:57:44,880
- Don't go!
- I'm so sorry.

1076
00:57:44,960 --> 00:57:46,880
No... no!

1077
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:47,960
Janey!

1078
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:51,560
No.

1079
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:54,880
<i>The shields slide back
from the particle cannons.</i>

1080
00:57:55,400 --> 00:57:57,920
<i>The atoms in the test chamber
begin screaming.</i>

1081
00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:00,520
<i>I look at the watch in my hand.</i>

1082
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:02,200
<i>Good as new.</i>

1083
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:03,960
<i>And the light...</i>

1084
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:07,040
<i>the light is taking me to pieces.</i>

1085
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:18,320
<i>It is September.</i>

1086
00:58:18,920 --> 00:58:20,920
<i>A token funeral service is held.</i>

1087
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,320
<i>There is nothing to bury.</i>

1088
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:27,120
<i>It is October.</i>

1089
00:58:27,800 --> 00:58:31,080
<i>Janey places the only photo
anyone has of me in the bar.</i>

1090
00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:35,320
<i>It is November.</i>

1091
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,200
<i>A human nervous system
briefly materializes.</i>

1092
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:44,160
<i>It is November 10th now.</i>

1093
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,320
<i>A circulatory system is seen
walking through the kitchen.</i>

1094
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:48,640
Wha... What?

1095
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:50,000
<i>November 14th.</i>

1096
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:51,760
<i>A partially muscled skeleton</i>

1097
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:54,000
<i>appears outside the perimeter fence.</i>

1098
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,120
<i>It screams for 30 seconds</i>

1099
00:58:56,200 --> 00:58:57,280
<i>before vanishing.</i>

1100
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,440
<i>Really, it is just a question</i>

1101
00:59:00,520 --> 00:59:02,200
<i>of reassembling the components</i>

1102
00:59:02,280 --> 00:59:03,600
<i>in the correct sequence.</i>

1103
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:28,560
Jon?

1104
00:59:30,280 --> 00:59:31,440
Jon?

1105
00:59:31,520 --> 00:59:34,040
<i>It is Christmas, 1959.</i>

1106
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:35,120
So

1107
00:59:35,880 --> 00:59:37,120
Do you like it?

1108
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:38,680
I mean

1109
00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:41,600
is a ring
the sort of thing that you like

1110
00:59:41,680 --> 00:59:42,880
now that you're...

1111
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:45,600
Like that symbol on your helmet?

1112
00:59:46,520 --> 00:59:48,200
Marketing boys say you need a symbol.

1113
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:50,480
<i>It is February, 1960.</i>

1114
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,360
Your symbol is meaningless.

1115
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,240
If I am to have a symbol

1116
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:57,120
a hydrogen atom
would be more appropriate.

1117
00:59:57,200 --> 00:59:58,720
A symbol I respect.

1118
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:02,400
It's atomic structure
is a perfect grid.

1119
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:04,200
I like it very much.

1120
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:07,640
Janey? What's wrong?

1121
01:00:08,720 --> 01:00:10,120
I'm scared, Jon.

1122
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:12,400
Of me?

1123
01:00:12,880 --> 01:00:15,320
<i>They assign me the name Dr. Manhattan</i>

1124
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:18,720
<i>for the ominous associations
it will raise in American enemies.</i>

1125
01:00:20,080 --> 01:00:23,400
<i>They're shaping me
into something gaudy and lethal.</i>

1126
01:00:23,480 --> 01:00:25,320
I'm just scared

1127
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:28,520
because everything feels weird.

1128
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:30,520
<i>March, 1960.</i>

1129
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:33,120
<i>We repeat. The superman exists</i>

1130
01:00:33,200 --> 01:00:34,520
<i>and he's American.</i>

1131
01:00:34,600 --> 01:00:35,960
<i>Pentagon sources say</i>

1132
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,160
<i>this Dr. Manhattan can control
atomic structure itself.</i>

1133
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,240
<i>There has been no response
from the Kremlin.</i>

1134
01:00:42,080 --> 01:00:43,080
It's as if

1135
01:00:43,480 --> 01:00:45,000
everything's changed.

1136
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:46,800
<i>November, 1960.</i>

1137
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:49,600
<i>The newspapers call me
a crime-fighter</i>

1138
01:00:49,800 --> 01:00:52,520
<i>so the Pentagon says
I must fight crime.</i>

1139
01:00:53,600 --> 01:00:56,920
<i>The morality of my activities
escapes me.</i>

1140
01:00:57,000 --> 01:00:58,200
Not just you.

1141
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:00,240
Everything.

1142
01:01:00,600 --> 01:01:02,520
<i>May, 1962.</i>

1143
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:04,200
<i>A masked man retires</i>

1144
01:01:04,280 --> 01:01:06,120
<i>to open an auto-repair business.</i>

1145
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,320
With someone like you around,
the whole situation changes.

1146
01:01:09,560 --> 01:01:10,680
You can do anything.

1147
01:01:10,920 --> 01:01:13,000
All I got to offer
is a good left hook.

1148
01:01:13,280 --> 01:01:15,920
And some mean wrenching skills
under the hood.

1149
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:19,320
Well, the new electric cars
I've designed should be simpler.

1150
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:20,960
Electric?

1151
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:24,400
They say you can do anything, Jon.

1152
01:01:24,880 --> 01:01:26,000
They say you're like a...

1153
01:01:27,200 --> 01:01:28,560
like a god now.

1154
01:01:28,640 --> 01:01:30,680
<i>September, 1961.</i>

1155
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:31,880
- <i>John Kennedy is asking</i>
- So

1156
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:33,696
- <i>what it's like to be a superhero.</i>
- What's it like to be a superhero?

1157
01:01:33,720 --> 01:01:35,200
<i>I tell him he should know.</i>

1158
01:01:35,720 --> 01:01:37,320
<i>He nods, laughing.</i>

1159
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:41,520
I don't think there is a god, Janey.

1160
01:01:41,840 --> 01:01:44,520
If there is, I'm not him.

1161
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:47,040
<i>November, 1963.</i>

1162
01:01:47,120 --> 01:01:49,920
<i>In Dallas, his head snaps
forward and then back.</i>

1163
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:51,000
- I just...
- <i>Two shots.</i>

1164
01:01:51,080 --> 01:01:52,080
I can't believe this.

1165
01:01:52,160 --> 01:01:54,160
So you knew he'd get shot?

1166
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:55,840
Then why didn't you do something?

1167
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,040
I cannot prevent the future.

1168
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,320
To me, it is already happening.

1169
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:02,720
I'm still the same person.

1170
01:02:03,240 --> 01:02:04,520
Nothing's changed.

1171
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,000
<i>It is 1966.</i>

1172
01:02:08,200 --> 01:02:09,920
<i>A young woman sits to my right.</i>

1173
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:12,600
<i>She looks at me and smiles.</i>

1174
01:02:13,320 --> 01:02:15,000
Stop staring at that girl.

1175
01:02:15,240 --> 01:02:16,280
Pay attention.

1176
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,120
I'll always want you.

1177
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:24,000
<i>As I lie, I hear her sobbing in 1966.</i>

1178
01:02:26,400 --> 01:02:29,800
<i>It is May, 1966.</i>

1179
01:02:29,880 --> 01:02:31,200
My name's Laurie.

1180
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:33,600
Do you have another name

1181
01:02:33,800 --> 01:02:35,480
apart from Dr. Manhattan?

1182
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:37,400
You pig!

1183
01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:40,120
My name's Jon.

1184
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:42,880
I knew you were seeing her.

1185
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:48,000
It's nice of you
to come out on patrol with me.

1186
01:02:48,400 --> 01:02:51,400
Your girlfriend won't mind, will she?

1187
01:02:51,720 --> 01:02:52,800
<i>As I lie...</i>

1188
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,280
- I hate you.
<i>- I see her walking out on me</i>

1189
01:02:55,360 --> 01:02:56,720
<i>in 1985.</i>

1190
01:02:57,840 --> 01:02:59,120
<i>She is beautiful.</i>

1191
01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,880
<i>After each kiss, she plants
a smaller, gentler one on my face</i>

1192
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:05,200
<i>like a signature.</i>

1193
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:07,240
<i>I pull her closer</i>

1194
01:03:07,320 --> 01:03:08,720
<i>never wanting to lose her.</i>

1195
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:10,600
<i>Knowing that I shall.</i>

1196
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:20,720
<i>I am tired of their world...</i>

1197
01:03:23,240 --> 01:03:25,920
- Gave Ms. Slater cancer...
- <i>of these people.</i>

1198
01:03:26,000 --> 01:03:27,120
Alone!

1199
01:03:28,520 --> 01:03:31,720
<i>I'm tired of being caught
in the tangle of their lives.</i>

1200
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,600
<i>In Arizona, I am taking the photo</i>

1201
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:38,440
<i>and I am gone.</i>

1202
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,320
<i>Gone to Mars.</i>

1203
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:49,000
<i>And I have decided</i>

1204
01:03:49,560 --> 01:03:50,960
<i>to create something.</i>

1205
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,320
<i>A world grows up around me.</i>

1206
01:04:02,440 --> 01:04:03,720
<i>Am I shaping it</i>

1207
01:04:04,360 --> 01:04:07,200
<i>or do its predetermined
contours guide my hand?</i>

1208
01:04:08,400 --> 01:04:10,600
<i>The world changed because of me.</i>

1209
01:04:11,440 --> 01:04:14,720
<i>But what if I hadn't left the watch
in the test chamber?</i>

1210
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:17,120
<i>What if I had not gone back?</i>

1211
01:04:17,960 --> 01:04:20,720
<i>Or waited, just a moment?</i>

1212
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:23,320
<i>Am I to blame, then?</i>

1213
01:04:23,800 --> 01:04:24,840
<i>Or Janey?</i>

1214
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:27,120
<i>Or my father?</i>

1215
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:30,120
<i>Which of us is responsible?</i>

1216
01:04:33,760 --> 01:04:35,120
<i>Who makes the world?</i>

1217
01:04:35,920 --> 01:04:37,800
<i>Perhaps the world is not made.</i>

1218
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:40,720
<i>Perhaps nothing is made.</i>

1219
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:43,720
<i>Perhaps it simply is</i>

1220
01:04:44,600 --> 01:04:45,600
<i>has been</i>

1221
01:04:46,320 --> 01:04:48,000
<i>and will always be there.</i>

1222
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,600
<i>A clock without a craftsman.</i>

1223
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,000
<i>I am standing on a balcony</i>

1224
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,080
<i>as I once stood on a fire escape</i>

1225
01:04:57,160 --> 01:05:00,120
<i>trying to catch
the falling cogs and wheels.</i>

1226
01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:02,000
<i>But it is too late.</i>

1227
01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:04,080
<i>Always has been.</i>

1228
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:07,200
<i>Always will be.</i>

1229
01:05:08,960 --> 01:05:10,920
<i>Above the Nodous Gordii mountains</i>

1230
01:05:11,000 --> 01:05:14,000
<i>like jewels in a maker-less mechanism</i>

1231
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,280
<i>the first meteorites begin to fall.</i>

1232
01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:31,880
Oh, God, not again.

1233
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:37,880
What do you want from me?

1234
01:05:37,960 --> 01:05:39,600
Nothing. Old and alone.

1235
01:05:39,680 --> 01:05:41,240
Thought you might appreciate company.

1236
01:05:41,320 --> 01:05:42,600
Can I come out, then?

1237
01:05:43,320 --> 01:05:44,320
No.

1238
01:05:44,400 --> 01:05:45,400
Deep breath.

1239
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:47,920
You said Comedian visited here.

1240
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:49,080
Mentioned a list.

1241
01:05:49,160 --> 01:05:50,720
You and Janey Slater were on it.

1242
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:52,920
Talked about someone messing
with Dr. Manhattan.

1243
01:05:53,120 --> 01:05:55,280
Days later,
Manhattan publicly disgraced.

1244
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:56,800
Forced into exile.

1245
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:58,920
Allegations he'd given people cancer.

1246
01:05:59,120 --> 01:06:00,920
Janey Slater. You.

1247
01:06:02,520 --> 01:06:03,520
Tough break.

1248
01:06:04,640 --> 01:06:06,520
I think Blake's list was cancer list.

1249
01:06:06,600 --> 01:06:08,560
Somebody wrote it.
Somebody put your name on it.

1250
01:06:08,640 --> 01:06:09,880
Somebody gave it to the media.

1251
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,840
Comedian and Dr. Manhattan
were always your biggest enemies.

1252
01:06:12,920 --> 01:06:13,920
Now they're both gone.

1253
01:06:14,200 --> 01:06:16,120
Very convenient. Who is it, Moloch?

1254
01:06:16,400 --> 01:06:18,080
- Who's behind this?
- I don't know!

1255
01:06:18,160 --> 01:06:19,920
- Not convincing.
- I don't know!

1256
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:21,960
I don't know!

1257
01:06:22,040 --> 01:06:23,560
I swear to God

1258
01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:25,400
I don't know who it was!

1259
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:27,280
Better.

1260
01:06:29,480 --> 01:06:31,000
If anything should refresh memory

1261
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:32,800
contact me by leaving note

1262
01:06:33,040 --> 01:06:34,760
trash can opposite Gunga Diner

1263
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:36,080
at 40th and 7th.

1264
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:44,800
<i>Rorschach's journal.
October 21st, 1985.2:35 a.m.</i>

1265
01:06:45,120 --> 01:06:47,280
<i>Jacobi visit useless. Knows nothing.</i>

1266
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,800
<i>Has simply been used. But by who?</i>

1267
01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:51,240
<i>Russians?</i>

1268
01:06:51,480 --> 01:06:53,000
<i>Comedian mentioned an island</i>

1269
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:54,800
<i>artists and writers living on it.</i>

1270
01:06:55,480 --> 01:06:56,480
<i>Doesn't fit.</i>

1271
01:06:56,960 --> 01:06:59,200
<i>Waiting for a flash of enlightenment</i>

1272
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:01,400
<i>in all this blood and thunder.</i>

1273
01:07:08,560 --> 01:07:10,200
<i>Everything I loved</i>

1274
01:07:10,560 --> 01:07:12,520
<i>everything I lived for</i>

1275
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:15,040
<i>depended on my reaching Davidstown</i>

1276
01:07:15,120 --> 01:07:17,520
<i>in advance
of that terrible freighter.</i>

1277
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:20,960
<i>It was then I conceived</i>
of building a raft.

1278
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,920
<i>But the island's trees did not look
buoyant enough to reach Davidstown</i>

1279
01:07:25,520 --> 01:07:26,720
<i>not unaided.</i>

1280
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:32,200
<i>Suddenly, I found myself
considering a repulsive notion</i>

1281
01:07:32,600 --> 01:07:36,600
<i>birthed from the gas-bloated stomachs
of the buried men.</i>

1282
01:07:37,520 --> 01:07:40,200
<i>I shuddered at my loathsome scheme.</i>

1283
01:07:41,240 --> 01:07:43,320
<i>But I had no choice.</i>

1284
01:07:44,440 --> 01:07:46,440
<i>I pulled men up from underground</i>

1285
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:48,520
<i>sand trickling from their sockets.</i>

1286
01:07:48,920 --> 01:07:51,600
<i>I tore their clothes to ribbons
to bind them together.</i>

1287
01:07:52,320 --> 01:07:54,920
<i>I fixed their bodies
to the bottom of the raft.</i>

1288
01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:57,120
<i>As the ebb tide rose</i>

1289
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:00,840
<i>I embarked, heading east.</i>

1290
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:04,200
<i>East, across the night seas.</i>

1291
01:08:04,520 --> 01:08:08,000
<i>Borne on the naked backs
of murdered men.</i>

1292
01:08:09,320 --> 01:08:11,000
<i>Lent speed by my hunger</i>

1293
01:08:11,080 --> 01:08:12,720
<i>I ripped a seagull from the air.</i>

1294
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:16,600
<i>I had not eaten since the shipwreck.</i>

1295
01:08:17,880 --> 01:08:20,120
<i>Chewing on raw meat</i>

1296
01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:22,800
<i>I drifted on toward Davidstown.</i>

1297
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:24,720
<i>My home was there.</i>

1298
01:08:24,800 --> 01:08:27,520
<i>And nothing would take it from me.</i>

1299
01:08:28,800 --> 01:08:30,680
So, the government said
I can't live on the base

1300
01:08:30,760 --> 01:08:31,800
now that Jon's gone.

1301
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:34,000
And they canceled my credit cards.

1302
01:08:34,440 --> 01:08:36,600
Now all I have left is my savings.

1303
01:08:36,680 --> 01:08:39,000
What... Where... Where will you stay?

1304
01:08:39,160 --> 01:08:40,160
Did you call your mother?

1305
01:08:40,240 --> 01:08:42,280
I'd rather sleep on a street grate.

1306
01:08:42,360 --> 01:08:44,520
It just burns my ass to be so damn...

1307
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,120
disposable.

1308
01:08:48,080 --> 01:08:49,320
Well, I...

1309
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:50,560
Anyway, I...

1310
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,080
I appreciate
you buying me lunch, Dan.

1311
01:08:53,960 --> 01:08:55,040
Don't worry about me.

1312
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:57,480
I'll find some place cheap to stay.

1313
01:09:01,120 --> 01:09:02,680
- Laurie!
- Yeah?

1314
01:09:02,760 --> 01:09:05,200
You could always stay at my place.

1315
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:06,800
There's plenty of room.

1316
01:09:06,880 --> 01:09:08,560
I... I don't want to impose.

1317
01:09:08,640 --> 01:09:10,320
Hey, you're not.

1318
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:11,880
Truly.

1319
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:15,120
I mean, we're both friends.

1320
01:09:15,200 --> 01:09:16,800
We're both in the same line of work.

1321
01:09:16,880 --> 01:09:18,000
And we're both...

1322
01:09:18,560 --> 01:09:20,000
We're both leftovers.

1323
01:09:22,560 --> 01:09:23,560
Yeah.

1324
01:09:25,000 --> 01:09:27,680
<i>I'd swallowed too much bird flesh</i>

1325
01:09:27,760 --> 01:09:29,920
<i>too much horror.</i>

1326
01:09:30,600 --> 01:09:33,120
<i>I grew faint and dozed fitfully.</i>

1327
01:09:33,920 --> 01:09:35,560
<i>The Black Freighter's hideous banner</i>

1328
01:09:35,640 --> 01:09:37,720
<i>flapped dismally in my dreams.</i>

1329
01:09:38,920 --> 01:09:41,720
<i>Its death's-head banner
flies above us all.</i>

1330
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:46,800
<i>And the heads nailed
to the ship's black prow</i>

1331
01:09:47,280 --> 01:09:48,720
<i>are our heads.</i>

1332
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,160
<i>Truly, whoever we are</i>

1333
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,200
<i>wherever we reside</i>

1334
01:09:54,520 --> 01:09:57,720
<i>we exist on the whim of murderers.</i>

1335
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,280
Your four o'clock is here, Mr. Veidt.

1336
01:10:01,600 --> 01:10:03,920
<i>Beneath my raft, something moved.</i>

1337
01:10:04,400 --> 01:10:06,280
It's the meeting
with the toy company, isn't it?

1338
01:10:06,360 --> 01:10:08,160
Yes. They want some new characters

1339
01:10:08,240 --> 01:10:09,720
in their Ozymandius line.

1340
01:10:09,800 --> 01:10:12,320
They said maybe
some of your major villains.

1341
01:10:12,400 --> 01:10:14,200
The major villains are all dead.

1342
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:16,760
<i>Irrationally</i>

1343
01:10:17,560 --> 01:10:19,720
<i>my first thought was of the corpses</i>

1344
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:21,200
<i>bursting their bonds</i>

1345
01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:22,520
<i>attempting to clamber up</i>

1346
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,600
<i>into the air and dryness.</i>

1347
01:10:29,800 --> 01:10:31,080
Did you see the news?

1348
01:10:31,240 --> 01:10:33,120
Some guy went crazy
and killed his kid

1349
01:10:33,200 --> 01:10:36,120
because he was afraid
there's going to be a nuclear war.

1350
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:38,120
I'm sorry, but that's just dumb.

1351
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:41,240
Nobody's so crazy
that they'll start a war.

1352
01:10:41,320 --> 01:10:45,120
I don't understand
why everyone's so down and scared.

1353
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:48,000
Well, perhaps they lack
your youth and enthusiasm.

1354
01:10:48,080 --> 01:10:50,360
Well, I have to be upbeat
to work in this place.

1355
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:52,720
All this Egyptian decor
is very morbid.

1356
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:55,280
<i>In the darkening water
I heard a splash.</i>

1357
01:10:55,360 --> 01:10:56,880
Very obsessed with death.

1358
01:10:56,960 --> 01:10:59,120
<i>Shadowy forms approached.</i>

1359
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,760
<i>Were they boats come to rescue me?</i>

1360
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:04,760
Actually death wasn't morbid

1361
01:11:04,840 --> 01:11:06,200
to the ancient Egyptians.

1362
01:11:06,440 --> 01:11:08,200
They saw death as an inevitable step

1363
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,920
in beginning a voyage
of spiritual discovery.

1364
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:12,720
I find that very comforting.

1365
01:11:12,800 --> 01:11:15,080
<i>No, not boats.</i>

1366
01:11:15,800 --> 01:11:16,800
<i>Fins.</i>

1367
01:11:16,880 --> 01:11:18,000
Well, I think it's...

1368
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:19,400
Oh, God, he's got a gun!

1369
01:11:21,960 --> 01:11:23,400
<i>Teeth shredded my raft.</i>

1370
01:11:23,480 --> 01:11:25,200
Help! Somebody, help!

1371
01:11:25,280 --> 01:11:26,920
<i>Tiny, prehistoric eyes</i>

1372
01:11:27,000 --> 01:11:28,320
<i>glistened with rage.</i>

1373
01:11:28,720 --> 01:11:29,760
Oh, God!

1374
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,400
<i>It became tangled in my ropes.</i>

1375
01:11:32,560 --> 01:11:34,880
<i>Terrified, I took up
a splinter of mast.</i>

1376
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:38,880
<i>The shark's stained marble eye
looked up at me.</i>

1377
01:11:38,960 --> 01:11:40,600
<i>And in that instant</i>

1378
01:11:40,880 --> 01:11:42,440
<i>we knew each other!</i>

1379
01:11:42,520 --> 01:11:44,120
What have you got in your mouth? No!

1380
01:11:44,200 --> 01:11:45,320
No, don't bite down.

1381
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:47,240
Don't bite down, you scum!

1382
01:11:47,320 --> 01:11:49,120
<i>The leviathan attempted to swim away</i>

1383
01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,640
<i>dragging my raft in its bloody wake.</i>

1384
01:11:51,720 --> 01:11:53,200
I want to know who's behind this!

1385
01:11:53,280 --> 01:11:55,200
- <i>I hung on desperately,</i>
- No.

1386
01:11:55,280 --> 01:11:57,880
<i>Cursing in the bitter stinging spray.</i>

1387
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:01,200
Damn.

1388
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:03,200
Cyanide capsule.

1389
01:12:12,040 --> 01:12:13,800
<i>Eventually, the shark died.</i>

1390
01:12:14,480 --> 01:12:18,120
<i>And shortly thereafter,
stopped swimming.</i>

1391
01:12:23,440 --> 01:12:24,640
Good evening, Jacobi.

1392
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:26,480
Was wondering
why you wanted to see me.

1393
01:12:27,480 --> 01:12:29,600
Then, someone tried to shoot
the world's smartest man.

1394
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:32,600
Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandius

1395
01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:34,160
someone's killing masks, Jacobi.

1396
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:35,600
Someone wants us dead.

1397
01:12:36,000 --> 01:12:37,200
Maybe you can enlighten me.

1398
01:12:44,280 --> 01:12:45,520
- <i>Rorschach!</i>
- No.

1399
01:12:45,600 --> 01:12:46,600
<i>This is the police!</i>

1400
01:12:46,680 --> 01:12:48,080
No... no!

1401
01:12:48,600 --> 01:12:49,680
We know you're in there.

1402
01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:50,800
It's all over.

1403
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:52,920
If there's anyone in there with you

1404
01:12:53,000 --> 01:12:54,000
- send them out
- Framed.

1405
01:12:54,080 --> 01:12:55,656
- Unharmed.
- Set-up. Walked right into it.

1406
01:12:55,680 --> 01:12:57,736
- And then come out and surrender
- Stupid, stupid, stupid.

1407
01:12:57,760 --> 01:12:59,720
- With your hands...
- Never. Never surrender.

1408
01:13:00,440 --> 01:13:02,920
- Need weapons.
- You have 30 seconds!

1409
01:13:04,640 --> 01:13:06,520
There's no escape Rorschach.

1410
01:13:07,680 --> 01:13:09,320
- It's the end of the line.
- Yes.

1411
01:13:10,480 --> 01:13:11,480
Time's up.

1412
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:13,440
Ready when you are.

1413
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:30,400
Get him.

1414
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:56,840
Get him.

1415
01:13:56,920 --> 01:13:57,960
Get up, get up!

1416
01:13:58,320 --> 01:13:59,320
- Get the cuffs!
- No!

1417
01:13:59,400 --> 01:14:00,936
- Don't let him get away!
- It was a setup.

1418
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:02,800
- Cuff him!
- Somebody framed me, somebody...

1419
01:14:02,880 --> 01:14:05,200
- No! No! No! My face!
- Jesus, he stinks!

1420
01:14:05,600 --> 01:14:06,800
Give me back my face!

1421
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:08,480
Give me back my face!

1422
01:14:08,560 --> 01:14:10,720
Give me back my face!

1423
01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,120
<i>After eating their fill</i>

1424
01:14:19,200 --> 01:14:21,200
<i>the sharks departed.</i>

1425
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:28,200
<i>For the moment, I was safe.</i>

1426
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:34,200
<i>That night, eating shark</i>

1427
01:14:34,280 --> 01:14:37,400
<i>I would have chuckled
at the inversions of natural roles</i>

1428
01:14:38,800 --> 01:14:43,120
<i>had not my parched laughter
seemed so hateful.</i>

1429
01:14:45,760 --> 01:14:49,600
<i>My raft grew increasingly grotesque</i>

1430
01:14:50,280 --> 01:14:53,880
<i>reflecting my own
gradual transformation.</i>

1431
01:14:55,320 --> 01:14:58,000
<i>With such thoughts to comfort me</i>

1432
01:14:58,520 --> 01:15:01,200
<i>I drifted on, mast-less</i>

1433
01:15:01,280 --> 01:15:02,600
<i>into the dawn.</i>

1434
01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:19,160
<i>Hey, kids, tune in</i>

1435
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:22,600
<i>for the animated adventures
of Ozymandius.</i>

1436
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:25,640
<i>This Saturday morning,
sponsored by Meltdown.</i>

1437
01:15:27,920 --> 01:15:30,080
<i>In the May of this year, 1962</i>

1438
01:15:30,160 --> 01:15:32,320
<i>that's exactly what I opted to do.</i>

1439
01:15:32,760 --> 01:15:33,880
<i>I retired.</i>

1440
01:15:34,080 --> 01:15:35,120
<i>To mend cars.</i>

1441
01:15:35,520 --> 01:15:37,320
<i>Probably for the rest of my life.</i>

1442
01:15:37,920 --> 01:15:39,016
<i>As I see it, part of the art</i>

1443
01:15:39,040 --> 01:15:40,120
<i>of being a hero is</i>

1444
01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:41,256
<i>knowing when you don't need</i>

1445
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:42,280
<i>to be one anymore</i>

1446
01:15:42,560 --> 01:15:44,680
<i>realizing that the game has changed</i>

1447
01:15:44,760 --> 01:15:46,400
<i>and that the stakes are different</i>

1448
01:15:46,720 --> 01:15:48,576
<i>and that there isn't
necessarily a place for you</i>

1449
01:15:48,600 --> 01:15:49,960
<i>in this strange new pantheon</i>

1450
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:51,400
<i>of extraordinary people.</i>

1451
01:15:51,840 --> 01:15:53,280
<i>The world has moved on</i>

1452
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:54,616
<i>and I'm content to watch it</i>

1453
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:55,640
<i>from my armchair</i>

1454
01:15:55,720 --> 01:15:57,040
<i>with a beer by my side</i>

1455
01:15:57,120 --> 01:15:58,280
<i>and the smell of fresh oil</i>

1456
01:15:58,360 --> 01:15:59,520
<i>still on my fingers.</i>

1457
01:16:00,240 --> 01:16:01,816
<i>Part of my contentment
comes from knowing</i>

1458
01:16:01,840 --> 01:16:02,880
<i>that there have maybe been</i>

1459
01:16:02,920 --> 01:16:04,600
some overall consequence

1460
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:06,920
<i>of my 23 years behind the mask.</i>

1461
01:16:07,320 --> 01:16:09,136
<i>This knowledge came to me
in the shape of a letter</i>

1462
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:10,720
<i>from a young man whose name</i>

1463
01:16:10,800 --> 01:16:12,400
<i>I'm not at liberty to reveal.</i>

1464
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:14,480
<i>He told me of his great admiration</i>

1465
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:16,200
<i>for my efforts as Nite Owl</i>

1466
01:16:16,480 --> 01:16:17,520
<i>and proposed that</i>

1467
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:18,880
<i>since I'd retired and would</i>

1468
01:16:18,960 --> 01:16:20,240
<i>no longer be using the name</i>

1469
01:16:20,560 --> 01:16:22,000
<i>perhaps he could borrow it</i>

1470
01:16:22,080 --> 01:16:23,080
<i>since he intended</i>

1471
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:24,160
<i>to follow my example</i>

1472
01:16:24,240 --> 01:16:25,600
<i>and become a crime-fighter.</i>

1473
01:16:26,400 --> 01:16:28,280
<i>I've visited his home since then</i>

1474
01:16:28,360 --> 01:16:29,400
<i>and seen some of</i>

1475
01:16:29,480 --> 01:16:30,520
<i>the fabulous technology</i>

1476
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:31,800
<i>he intends to bring to bear</i>

1477
01:16:31,880 --> 01:16:33,120
<i>on the war against crime.</i>

1478
01:16:33,440 --> 01:16:35,080
<i>I was certainly far too impressed</i>

1479
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:36,160
<i>to refuse him the use</i>

1480
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:37,560
<i>of what I'd always thought</i>

1481
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:39,280
<i>was a dumb name to begin with.</i>

1482
01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,680
<i>So, by the time this sees print</i>

1483
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:43,600
<i>there may well be a new Nite Owl</i>

1484
01:16:43,680 --> 01:16:45,520
<i>patrolling the streets of New York.</i>

1485
01:16:46,240 --> 01:16:47,720
<i>Also, Sally Jupiter tells me</i>

1486
01:16:47,800 --> 01:16:49,600
<i>that as soon as
little Laurie's old enough</i>

1487
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:51,320
<i>she wants to be a superheroine</i>

1488
01:16:51,400 --> 01:16:52,600
<i>just like her mom.</i>

1489
01:16:52,920 --> 01:16:54,760
<i>So who knows? It seems as if</i>

1490
01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:56,520
<i>from being a novelty nine-day wonder</i>

1491
01:16:56,600 --> 01:16:57,880
<i>the superhero has become</i>

1492
01:16:57,960 --> 01:16:59,600
<i>a part of American life.</i>

1493
01:16:59,840 --> 01:17:01,320
<i>It's here to stay.</i>

1494
01:17:01,720 --> 01:17:03,200
<i>For better, for worse.</i>

1495
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:07,520
<i>How the ghost of you clings</i>

1496
01:17:08,160 --> 01:17:09,440
<i>Nostalgia.</i>

1497
01:17:12,480 --> 01:17:13,480
<i>We argued.</i>

1498
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:15,880
<i>And I said, Jon</i>

1499
01:17:15,960 --> 01:17:17,360
<i>you know how every damn thing</i>

1500
01:17:17,440 --> 01:17:18,880
<i>in this world fits together</i>

1501
01:17:18,960 --> 01:17:20,000
<i>except people.</i>

1502
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:22,120
<i>It's okay, Ms. Slater.</i>

1503
01:17:22,360 --> 01:17:23,800
<i>We can stop here if you need to.</i>

1504
01:17:23,880 --> 01:17:24,880
<i>No. No, I want the world</i>

1505
01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:26,320
<i>to know all the details.</i>

1506
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:29,280
<i>I'm glad you contacted me.</i>

1507
01:17:29,400 --> 01:17:30,640
<i>It's a relief to finally</i>

1508
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:32,000
<i>tell the truth about him.</i>

1509
01:17:32,680 --> 01:17:34,760
<i>Well, after helping</i> Nova Express

1510
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,600
<i>with our investigations</i>

1511
01:17:36,680 --> 01:17:38,720
<i>and sharing your story with the world</i>

1512
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:40,000
<i>how do you feel?</i>

1513
01:17:40,640 --> 01:17:41,800
<i>Bitter as hell.</i>

1514
01:17:42,640 --> 01:17:44,800
<i>And I don't need anyone's sympathy.</i>

1515
01:17:45,120 --> 01:17:46,800
<i>That won't cure my cancer.</i>

1516
01:17:47,680 --> 01:17:49,680
<i>After learning of your condition</i>

1517
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:50,760
<i>and the others</i>

1518
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:52,960
<i>Dr. Osterman teleported to Mars</i>

1519
01:17:53,040 --> 01:17:55,040
<i>sending shock waves across the globe.</i>

1520
01:17:55,760 --> 01:17:57,400
<i>Any comment about that?</i>

1521
01:17:57,800 --> 01:17:59,520
<i>It figures.</i>

1522
01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:02,200
<i>He dumped me for some 16-year-old</i>

1523
01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:03,680
<i>who ran around in her underwear.</i>

1524
01:18:03,760 --> 01:18:04,880
<i>Now everyone's shocked</i>

1525
01:18:04,960 --> 01:18:06,520
<i>that he dumped Earth for Mars?</i>

1526
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,456
<i>They're all just worried
because he's not here</i>

1527
01:18:09,480 --> 01:18:11,560
<i>to stop us from nuking each other.</i>

1528
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:13,840
<i>Worried they're all gonna die</i>

1529
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:15,680
<i>in a radioactive wasteland.</i>

1530
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:22,000
<i>Well, Mr. Roth, here's your comment.</i>

1531
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:24,800
<i>Welcome to my world.</i>

1532
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:34,360
So, seen the news lately?

1533
01:18:34,440 --> 01:18:35,480
Can't miss the headlines

1534
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:37,240
about this war they say is coming.

1535
01:18:37,360 --> 01:18:39,520
There was a smaller story yesterday

1536
01:18:39,920 --> 01:18:41,320
about a tenement fire?

1537
01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:45,760
If I can figure out
who made the rescue

1538
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:48,600
so can the police.

1539
01:18:50,960 --> 01:18:53,920
You're not taking Rorschach's
mask-killer nonsense seriously?

1540
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:55,080
We worked together.

1541
01:18:55,160 --> 01:18:57,800
Rorschach was always a brilliant
investigator and tactician

1542
01:18:57,880 --> 01:18:59,760
so I wonder if he found any evidence

1543
01:18:59,840 --> 01:19:01,400
that links all these events.

1544
01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:05,400
<i>The four of us, taken down.</i>

1545
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:08,520
<i>War looming on the horizon.</i>

1546
01:19:08,600 --> 01:19:10,680
<i>I'm terrified it's all connected</i>

1547
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:12,120
<i>and the worst is yet to come</i>

1548
01:19:12,200 --> 01:19:15,720
<i>and I can't do anything to stop it.</i>

1549
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:17,360
No!

1550
01:19:17,440 --> 01:19:18,600
Rorschach again.

1551
01:19:18,800 --> 01:19:19,920
They finally caught him.

1552
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:21,680
There's a riot at the prison.

1553
01:19:23,440 --> 01:19:25,120
We got a jail full of guys out here

1554
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:26,240
who hates your guts!

1555
01:19:26,320 --> 01:19:27,320
What do you got?

1556
01:19:27,800 --> 01:19:28,800
Your arms.

1557
01:19:30,800 --> 01:19:32,200
Come and get me.

1558
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:34,840
<i>If we don't crack this case</i>

1559
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:36,920
<i>there may be no going back
for any of us.</i>

1560
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:40,200
<i>Everybody's scared.</i>

1561
01:19:40,680 --> 01:19:41,680
<i>You can feel it.</i>

1562
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,720
<i>We'll get murdered in the chaos.</i>

1563
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,720
Just waitin' for the nukes
to start droppin'.

1564
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,640
You are going to try
to convince me to save this world.

1565
01:19:49,720 --> 01:19:52,320
Humanity might be
on the brink of extinction.

1566
01:19:52,600 --> 01:19:54,000
Doesn't that bother you?

1567
01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:57,640
This face is all I need.

1568
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:00,480
Never compromise.

1569
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:03,000
Do it!

1570
01:20:05,160 --> 01:20:06,720
<i>This all says war.</i>

1571
01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:09,200
<i>I will invest accordingly.</i>

1571
01:20:10,305 --> 01:21:10,245