1 00:00:23,189 --> 00:00:24,918 Wrong, as usual. 2 00:00:25,091 --> 00:00:28,219 The United States' lack of action in Eastern Europe... 3 00:00:28,395 --> 00:00:32,832 ...proves that the Soviet Union's aggression at the Afghan border... 4 00:00:32,999 --> 00:00:36,162 ...will not be opposed publicly by the United States. 5 00:00:38,204 --> 00:00:43,540 Issue: The Soviet Union continued its recent series of military exercises... 6 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:46,941 ...conducting a bomb test today in the Bering Sea... 7 00:00:47,113 --> 00:00:51,049 ...just 1500 miles off the southern coast of Alaska. 8 00:00:51,217 --> 00:00:55,586 President Richard Nixon issued this warning to the Soviets: 9 00:00:55,755 --> 00:00:59,247 The United States does not start fights. 10 00:00:59,426 --> 00:01:03,089 Let it be clear we maintain our strength... 11 00:01:03,263 --> 00:01:06,061 ...in order to maintain peace... 12 00:01:06,232 --> 00:01:09,963 ...so any adversary should ask themselves: 13 00:01:10,136 --> 00:01:13,196 "Do the consequences of attacking America... 14 00:01:13,373 --> 00:01:16,001 ...outweigh the potential benefits?" 15 00:01:16,176 --> 00:01:18,804 As a result of the Soviet activity... 16 00:01:18,978 --> 00:01:21,776 ...the watchdog group of nuclear scientists... 17 00:01:21,948 --> 00:01:27,352 ...moved the Doomsday Clock up to five minutes until midnight... 18 00:01:27,520 --> 00:01:31,820 ...destruction by nuclear war. 19 00:01:32,525 --> 00:01:34,220 Question: 20 00:01:34,494 --> 00:01:37,019 On a scale of zero to 10, zero meaning impossibility... 21 00:01:37,197 --> 00:01:39,529 ...10 meaning complete metaphysical certitude... 22 00:01:39,699 --> 00:01:44,193 ...what are the chances the Russians will actually attack the United States? 23 00:01:44,370 --> 00:01:45,667 Pat Buchanan. 24 00:01:45,839 --> 00:01:47,170 Zero. 25 00:01:47,340 --> 00:01:49,968 The Soviets would never risk going to war... 26 00:01:50,143 --> 00:01:53,977 ...when we have a walking nuclear deterrent on our side. 27 00:01:54,147 --> 00:01:56,615 You're referring, of course, to Dr. Manhattan... 28 00:01:56,783 --> 00:02:00,879 ...but does Dr. Manhattan's existence guarantee world peace? Eleanor Clift. 29 00:02:01,054 --> 00:02:03,784 Well, it hasn't stopped the Soviet Union... 30 00:02:03,957 --> 00:02:08,621 ...from stockpiling record amounts of nuclear weapons. 31 00:02:08,795 --> 00:02:10,490 You don't think it's just posturing? 32 00:02:10,663 --> 00:02:12,255 Maybe the reason why the Soviets... 33 00:02:12,432 --> 00:02:14,957 ...are doing these bomb tests... 34 00:02:15,135 --> 00:02:19,504 ...is because they feel threatened by Dr. Manhattan. Of course. 35 00:02:20,073 --> 00:02:23,201 Maybe the whole world feels like that. 36 00:02:25,211 --> 00:02:27,679 Soviet ships have violated the territorial waters... 37 00:03:04,484 --> 00:03:06,748 Just a matter of time, I suppose. 38 00:04:37,377 --> 00:04:41,040 It's a joke. It's all a joke. 39 00:04:41,681 --> 00:04:43,945 Mother, forgive me. 40 00:08:44,724 --> 00:08:47,693 I was a hero, goddamn it! 41 00:08:49,095 --> 00:08:53,259 ...an act clearly meant to send a signal to the government in Saigon... 42 00:08:53,432 --> 00:08:57,766 ...that violence and oppression is not the way to peace. 43 00:09:35,107 --> 00:09:37,598 Fuck you, pigs! 44 00:10:07,740 --> 00:10:10,868 Good luck, Mr. Gorsky. 45 00:10:56,756 --> 00:10:59,816 Get out of here, vigilantes! 46 00:11:07,533 --> 00:11:09,694 No! 47 00:11:36,662 --> 00:11:42,794 Edward Blake. Sixty-seven years old. Six-two, a solid 225. 48 00:11:43,302 --> 00:11:45,167 Guy was built like a linebacker. 49 00:11:45,337 --> 00:11:47,237 Yeah, I saw the body. 50 00:11:47,406 --> 00:11:49,465 For a guy his age, he was in terrific shape. 51 00:11:49,642 --> 00:11:52,304 You mean apart from being dead? 52 00:11:53,546 --> 00:11:55,036 That's plate glass. 53 00:11:55,214 --> 00:11:58,115 You'd have to step on the gas just to put a crack in it. 54 00:11:58,284 --> 00:12:00,343 Had to have been thrown. 55 00:12:00,519 --> 00:12:01,713 Check the bedroom? 56 00:12:01,887 --> 00:12:04,822 Yeah. Drawers opened, tossed through. 57 00:12:04,990 --> 00:12:08,050 Mattress flipped. Probably robbery. 58 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:09,694 Or made to look like one. 59 00:12:09,862 --> 00:12:11,625 See this? 60 00:12:11,931 --> 00:12:15,162 - Shaking hands with the president. Whoa. 61 00:12:15,334 --> 00:12:17,564 Think Blake was a spook? 62 00:12:17,737 --> 00:12:21,400 Government or black ops? 63 00:12:21,707 --> 00:12:23,607 I think... 64 00:12:23,909 --> 00:12:27,208 ...this is way bigger than both of us. 65 00:12:30,316 --> 00:12:35,618 Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. 66 00:12:35,788 --> 00:12:40,885 Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach. 67 00:12:41,160 --> 00:12:43,390 This city's afraid of me. 68 00:12:43,562 --> 00:12:47,498 I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters... 69 00:12:48,167 --> 00:12:50,567 ...and the gutters are full of blood. 70 00:12:50,736 --> 00:12:53,204 And when the drains finally scab over... 71 00:12:54,273 --> 00:12:56,503 ...all the vermin will drown. 72 00:12:57,143 --> 00:12:59,543 The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder... 73 00:12:59,712 --> 00:13:02,010 ...will foam up around their waists... 74 00:13:02,181 --> 00:13:07,642 ...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, "Save us". 75 00:13:08,621 --> 00:13:12,250 And I'll whisper, "No". 76 00:13:13,759 --> 00:13:16,626 Now the whole world stands on the brink... 77 00:13:16,796 --> 00:13:19,287 ...staring down into bloody hell. 78 00:13:19,465 --> 00:13:22,992 All those liberals and intellectuals... 79 00:13:23,169 --> 00:13:25,160 ...and smooth talkers... 80 00:13:25,337 --> 00:13:28,795 ...and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say. 81 00:13:28,974 --> 00:13:32,137 Beneath me, this awful city. 82 00:13:32,311 --> 00:13:36,077 It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children... 83 00:13:36,248 --> 00:13:40,878 ...and the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences. 84 00:14:51,991 --> 00:14:53,925 Huh. 85 00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:05,597 Tonight, a comedian died in New York. 86 00:15:05,771 --> 00:15:07,136 Somebody knows why. 87 00:15:08,073 --> 00:15:10,337 Somebody knows. 88 00:15:11,076 --> 00:15:17,311 It all started with the gangs. You know, people tend to forget that. 89 00:15:17,983 --> 00:15:21,077 Pirate outfits, ghosts. 90 00:15:21,253 --> 00:15:23,847 They thought it was funny: dress up and pull heists. 91 00:15:25,557 --> 00:15:28,253 As soon as we'd arrest them, they'd be back on the street. 92 00:15:28,427 --> 00:15:32,261 Nobody could pick them out of a lineup because of the damn masks. 93 00:15:32,431 --> 00:15:34,695 So a few of us cops, we get together... 94 00:15:34,867 --> 00:15:38,234 ...and we figure, what the heck, we'll mask up, too. 95 00:15:38,404 --> 00:15:41,100 We'll finish what the law couldn't. 96 00:15:41,907 --> 00:15:45,934 Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it... 97 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:49,774 ...and oh, boy, we're a national pastime. 98 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:53,441 It was me, Dollar Bill, Mothman... 99 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:56,986 ...Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice... 100 00:15:57,156 --> 00:16:00,353 ...Silk Spectre and the Comedian. 101 00:16:00,526 --> 00:16:04,053 Oh, don't get me started on him. 102 00:16:06,198 --> 00:16:10,259 I must be drunk already, telling you this sob story again. 103 00:16:10,436 --> 00:16:12,301 I think you were trying to make a point. 104 00:16:13,205 --> 00:16:19,371 Well, my point is that we had it too easy. It wasn't fair what happened to you guys... 105 00:16:19,545 --> 00:16:23,675 You guys who picked up where we left off. - with Nixon forcing you out. 106 00:16:24,717 --> 00:16:29,177 Nixon, oh, that prick. To think I voted for that prick five times. 107 00:16:29,355 --> 00:16:32,085 Hey, it was him or the commies, right? 108 00:16:34,893 --> 00:16:38,693 Oh, wow, it's almost midnight. Gotta go. 109 00:16:40,232 --> 00:16:41,859 Truth? 110 00:16:42,534 --> 00:16:46,265 You were a better Nite Owl than I ever was, Danny boy. 111 00:16:46,438 --> 00:16:50,169 - Hollis, we both know that's bullshit. - Hey. 112 00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:51,604 Watch it with the language. 113 00:16:51,777 --> 00:16:54,405 This is the left hook that floored Captain Axis, remember? 114 00:16:54,580 --> 00:16:55,604 Yeah. 115 00:16:56,248 --> 00:16:58,341 Next week? Well... 116 00:16:58,517 --> 00:17:03,113 ...you know, you don't have to keep humoring me like this. 117 00:17:03,288 --> 00:17:05,449 If you got a hot date or something... 118 00:17:05,624 --> 00:17:08,422 Hey, us retired guys have to stick together, right? 119 00:17:10,195 --> 00:17:12,060 You ever miss it? 120 00:17:13,265 --> 00:17:15,358 No. You? 121 00:17:15,934 --> 00:17:17,731 Oh, heck, no. 122 00:17:19,038 --> 00:17:20,801 Be seeing you. 123 00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:23,097 Hello, Daniel. 124 00:18:23,836 --> 00:18:24,928 Rorschach. 125 00:18:26,004 --> 00:18:30,304 Helped myself to some beans. Hope you don't mind. 126 00:18:30,476 --> 00:18:32,910 No, no. Course not. 127 00:18:34,513 --> 00:18:37,073 You want me to heat those up for you? 128 00:18:37,249 --> 00:18:38,773 Fine like this. 129 00:18:40,352 --> 00:18:41,546 How have you been keeping? 130 00:18:45,924 --> 00:18:47,721 Out of prison. 131 00:18:48,193 --> 00:18:49,683 So far. 132 00:18:50,662 --> 00:18:51,822 Daniel... 133 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:53,954 ...look at this. 134 00:19:01,206 --> 00:19:03,834 Is this bean juice? Human bean juice. 135 00:19:04,543 --> 00:19:09,037 Badge belonged to the Comedian. Blood too. He's dead. 136 00:19:11,049 --> 00:19:12,516 Let's talk downstairs. 137 00:19:13,318 --> 00:19:15,081 It could have been a burglary. 138 00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:17,950 Maybe the killer didn't know who the Comedian was. 139 00:19:18,123 --> 00:19:22,856 An ordinary burglar? Kill the Comedian? Ridiculous. 140 00:19:24,429 --> 00:19:27,865 I heard he'd been working for the government since '77... 141 00:19:28,033 --> 00:19:31,196 ...knocking over Marxist republics in South America. 142 00:19:31,370 --> 00:19:34,305 Maybe it was a political killing or something. 143 00:19:34,473 --> 00:19:35,735 Maybe. 144 00:19:35,908 --> 00:19:39,173 Maybe someone's picking off costumed heroes. 145 00:19:39,344 --> 00:19:41,437 You don't think that's a little paranoid? 146 00:19:41,613 --> 00:19:44,173 That what they say about me now? 147 00:19:44,416 --> 00:19:45,678 Paranoid? 148 00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:48,684 Look, Comedian made a lot of enemies over the years... 149 00:19:48,854 --> 00:19:50,344 ...even among his friends. 150 00:19:50,522 --> 00:19:52,683 Speaking of friends, how's Hollis Mason? 151 00:19:53,559 --> 00:19:57,518 He wrote that book. Said some bad things about the Comedian in it. 152 00:19:57,696 --> 00:20:01,757 I don't like what you're implying, and I like being followed even less. 153 00:20:02,301 --> 00:20:06,761 Maybe I was keeping an eye on you, in case someone's gunning for masks. 154 00:20:06,939 --> 00:20:11,603 - You were never that sentimental. - Attack on one is attack on all of us. 155 00:20:12,044 --> 00:20:14,478 What do you suggest we do about it? 156 00:20:15,380 --> 00:20:16,540 Retribution. 157 00:20:17,950 --> 00:20:21,249 - Watchmen are over. - Says Tricky Dick. 158 00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:23,183 Says me. 159 00:20:25,791 --> 00:20:27,418 Nobody knows who you are. 160 00:20:27,593 --> 00:20:30,562 You can give it up, try and have a normal life. 161 00:20:30,729 --> 00:20:34,631 That what you have now? A normal life? 162 00:20:35,634 --> 00:20:39,001 When you walk down the street in a city dying of rabies... 163 00:20:39,171 --> 00:20:40,638 ...past the human cockroaches... 164 00:20:40,806 --> 00:20:43,570 ...talking about their heroin and child pornography... 165 00:20:43,742 --> 00:20:45,266 ...do you really feel normal? 166 00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:49,175 Least I'm not the one still hiding behind a mask. 167 00:20:51,049 --> 00:20:52,311 No. 168 00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:56,113 You're hiding in plain sight. 169 00:20:57,489 --> 00:20:59,650 Be seeing you, Dan. 170 00:21:00,158 --> 00:21:02,626 A maintenance hatch will let you out two blocks north. 171 00:21:02,794 --> 00:21:04,523 Yeah, I remember. 172 00:21:04,696 --> 00:21:08,757 Came here often, when we were partners. 173 00:21:08,934 --> 00:21:10,834 Those were great times, huh, Rorschach? 174 00:21:11,336 --> 00:21:14,567 - What happened? - You quit. 175 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:42,824 Mr. Veidt... 176 00:21:43,602 --> 00:21:45,763 ...to date, you're one of only two Watchmen... 177 00:21:45,937 --> 00:21:48,371 ...ever to reveal their true identity to the world... 178 00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:50,474 ...the first being Hollis Mason. 179 00:21:50,642 --> 00:21:53,634 And you've certainly profited greatly by it... 180 00:21:53,812 --> 00:21:59,079 ...turning your superhero alter ego, Ozymandias, into a billion-dollar industry: 181 00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:02,311 Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering. 182 00:22:02,487 --> 00:22:04,546 I understand there's a movie in the works. 183 00:22:04,723 --> 00:22:08,921 - I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth. - I'm sorry. Do you think... 184 00:22:09,094 --> 00:22:11,654 The Watchmen resent me for prostituting their struggle? 185 00:22:11,830 --> 00:22:14,560 It's a fair question. Yes, it's crossed my mind... 186 00:22:14,733 --> 00:22:17,759 ...some of my old colleagues might see it that way... 187 00:22:17,936 --> 00:22:20,928 ...just as you're clearly aware that biased journalism... 188 00:22:21,106 --> 00:22:23,700 ...sells more magazines. 189 00:22:24,209 --> 00:22:28,976 The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan. 190 00:22:29,147 --> 00:22:32,082 We recently expanded our research facility in Antarctica... 191 00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:35,481 ...in the hope of developing cheap, renewable sources of energy... 192 00:22:35,654 --> 00:22:38,646 ...that we might eliminate the world's reliance on fossil fuels. 193 00:22:38,824 --> 00:22:41,258 Now, it doesn't take a political scientist... 194 00:22:41,426 --> 00:22:44,827 ...to see that our Cold War with the Russians isn't ideological... 195 00:22:44,996 --> 00:22:48,488 ...it's based upon fear. Fear of not having enough. 196 00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:52,564 But if we make resources infinite... 197 00:22:52,738 --> 00:22:54,831 ...ah... 198 00:22:55,006 --> 00:22:57,099 ...we make war obsolete. 199 00:22:57,943 --> 00:23:01,777 I would hope the other Watchmen understand that... 200 00:23:02,981 --> 00:23:04,642 ...wherever they may be. 201 00:23:06,752 --> 00:23:08,117 Thanks for your time. 202 00:23:14,359 --> 00:23:17,021 - You look good, Adrian. - Dan. 203 00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:19,425 It's been too long. 204 00:23:21,166 --> 00:23:25,227 So Rorschach thinks someone's hunting the Watchmen, huh? 205 00:23:25,904 --> 00:23:27,769 You think it's possible? 206 00:23:27,939 --> 00:23:30,669 Statistically, one murder doesn't equal a trend. 207 00:23:31,810 --> 00:23:33,778 Rorschach's a sociopath, Dan. 208 00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:37,780 And so was the Comedian. He was practically a Nazi. 209 00:23:38,617 --> 00:23:40,642 You know that better than anyone. 210 00:23:40,819 --> 00:23:43,014 I'm not here because I miss him. 211 00:23:43,188 --> 00:23:44,519 It's occurred to Rorschach... 212 00:23:44,689 --> 00:23:47,658 ...that we're the only ones who know each other's identities. 213 00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,253 Actually, the whole world knows yours. 214 00:23:51,029 --> 00:23:53,497 That's why I'm warning you first. 215 00:23:57,102 --> 00:23:59,093 Thank you, Dan... 216 00:24:00,705 --> 00:24:04,505 ...but I fear there's something much more real to worry about... 217 00:24:04,676 --> 00:24:07,270 ...than Rorschach's mask killer. 218 00:24:08,780 --> 00:24:13,308 If the Russians do launch their nukes, can Jon really stop them? 219 00:24:13,485 --> 00:24:17,114 The Soviets have 51,000 warheads stockpiled. 220 00:24:17,289 --> 00:24:20,486 Even if Jon stops 99 percent of them... 221 00:24:20,659 --> 00:24:24,857 ...the 1 percent that get through could still kill every living thing on Earth. 222 00:24:27,599 --> 00:24:29,965 Even Dr. Manhattan can't be everywhere at once. 223 00:24:44,216 --> 00:24:49,848 Rorschach's journal, October 13th, 1985... 224 00:24:50,021 --> 00:24:52,353 ...8:30 pm. 225 00:24:53,058 --> 00:24:56,960 Meeting with Dreiberg left bad taste in mouth. 226 00:24:57,162 --> 00:25:01,223 A flabby failure who sits whimpering in his basement. 227 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:05,369 Why are so few of us left active... 228 00:25:05,537 --> 00:25:10,406 ...healthy and without personality disorders? 229 00:25:10,575 --> 00:25:13,806 The first Nite Owl runs an auto-repair shop. 230 00:25:13,979 --> 00:25:17,380 The first Silk Spectre is a bloated, aging whore... 231 00:25:17,549 --> 00:25:20,416 ...dying in a California rest resort. 232 00:25:20,585 --> 00:25:23,179 Dollar Bill got his cape stuck in a revolving door... 233 00:25:23,355 --> 00:25:24,879 ...where he got gunned down. 234 00:25:25,490 --> 00:25:27,924 Silhouette, murdered... 235 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:31,195 ...a victim of her own indecent lifestyle. 236 00:25:31,763 --> 00:25:34,755 Mothman's in an asylum in Maine. 237 00:25:38,770 --> 00:25:41,898 Only two names remain on my list. 238 00:25:42,073 --> 00:25:47,170 Both share private quarters at Rockefeller Military Research Center. 239 00:25:47,345 --> 00:25:49,677 I shall go to them. 240 00:25:50,015 --> 00:25:55,453 I shall go tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him. 241 00:26:03,228 --> 00:26:05,025 Good evening, Rorschach. 242 00:26:05,196 --> 00:26:08,688 Dr. Manhattan, you know why I'm here. 243 00:26:08,867 --> 00:26:10,300 Yes... 244 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:13,538 ...but you're going to leave disappointed. 245 00:26:13,705 --> 00:26:17,436 Rorschach. You shouldn't be here. You're a wanted man. 246 00:26:17,609 --> 00:26:19,804 Nice to see you too, Silk Spectre. 247 00:26:19,978 --> 00:26:22,037 I have a real name I've been using. 248 00:26:22,213 --> 00:26:23,237 Try it. 249 00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,508 Whatever you say, Laurie. 250 00:26:25,684 --> 00:26:26,912 What are you doing here? 251 00:26:27,085 --> 00:26:29,417 The Comedian is dead. 252 00:26:29,588 --> 00:26:31,681 Rorschach wants me to look into my future... 253 00:26:32,023 --> 00:26:34,491 ...see if the killer is ever publicly identified. 254 00:26:34,659 --> 00:26:37,753 Already warned Dreiberg. Came to warn you too. 255 00:26:40,465 --> 00:26:42,831 Even if I wanted to help... 256 00:26:43,435 --> 00:26:47,337 ...my future is blocked by some kind of temporal interference. 257 00:26:47,739 --> 00:26:51,800 - I cannot see it clearly. - Interference? Caused by what? 258 00:26:51,977 --> 00:26:55,378 In all likelihood, nuclear holocaust. 259 00:26:56,114 --> 00:27:00,210 If the United States and Soviet Union engage in all-out war... 260 00:27:00,385 --> 00:27:04,378 ...the resulting blast wave would produce a sudden burst of tachyons... 261 00:27:04,556 --> 00:27:09,516 ...particles which travel backward through what you perceive as time... 262 00:27:10,161 --> 00:27:13,494 ...therefore obscuring my vision of the present. 263 00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:15,698 I must return to my work. 264 00:27:15,867 --> 00:27:16,993 Wait a minute. 265 00:27:17,168 --> 00:27:19,659 What if that's why someone wants us out of the way? 266 00:27:19,838 --> 00:27:22,068 So we can't do anything to stop it? 267 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,071 Goodbye, Rorschach. 268 00:27:24,242 --> 00:27:26,506 Took a lot of effort to get in here to see you. 269 00:27:26,678 --> 00:27:28,009 I'm not leaving... 270 00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:31,612 ...till I've had my say. 271 00:27:39,124 --> 00:27:42,059 Seems like there's a lot of things you don't tell me these days. 272 00:27:42,227 --> 00:27:44,923 I didn't wanna worry you prematurely. 273 00:27:45,397 --> 00:27:49,527 If Adrian and I can solve the energy crisis, war may be averted. 274 00:27:49,701 --> 00:27:51,760 But you always say time is simultaneous. 275 00:27:52,470 --> 00:27:55,337 If that's true, then how can you change the future? 276 00:27:55,507 --> 00:28:00,501 If only you could perceive time as I do. 277 00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:01,941 Please let me show you. 278 00:28:07,919 --> 00:28:12,856 Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it! 279 00:28:13,024 --> 00:28:16,084 It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about? 280 00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:18,695 I'm putting food on the table for you and your child. 281 00:28:18,863 --> 00:28:21,627 Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life. 282 00:28:21,800 --> 00:28:25,964 - It was a mistake. One time. - Man tries to rape you... 283 00:28:26,271 --> 00:28:27,636 Stop! 284 00:28:28,406 --> 00:28:29,873 Your mind goes to dark places... 285 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:32,373 ...and you wonder why I keep the worst from you. 286 00:28:36,314 --> 00:28:39,750 - Say hello to Dan for me. - What? 287 00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:44,317 You wanna ask me to go to dinner with you... 288 00:28:46,024 --> 00:28:48,185 ...like we used to... 289 00:28:49,627 --> 00:28:50,753 ...but you won't. 290 00:28:51,529 --> 00:28:53,793 You know I can't. 291 00:28:56,434 --> 00:28:58,698 So you'll call Dan... 292 00:28:59,137 --> 00:29:01,332 ...which is only natural. 293 00:29:01,673 --> 00:29:04,267 You deserve the comfort of an old friend. 294 00:29:38,576 --> 00:29:40,100 Dan Dreiberg's table. 295 00:30:01,266 --> 00:30:05,032 Did you know that he and H.J. were-? I had no idea. 296 00:30:05,537 --> 00:30:08,597 You remember that crazy guy? What'd he call himself? 297 00:30:08,773 --> 00:30:10,263 Captain Carnage. 298 00:30:10,441 --> 00:30:13,638 Used to pretend he was a supervillain just so he could get beat up? 299 00:30:13,812 --> 00:30:16,212 Yeah, he tried that on me once. I just walked away. 300 00:30:16,381 --> 00:30:19,407 He starts following me down the street in broad daylight... 301 00:30:19,584 --> 00:30:22,382 ...yelling, "Punish me! Punish me!" 302 00:30:22,620 --> 00:30:25,145 I'm just saying, "No, get lost". 303 00:30:26,291 --> 00:30:28,759 God, whatever happened to him? 304 00:30:28,927 --> 00:30:31,088 Oh. Um... He pulled that on Rorschach... 305 00:30:31,262 --> 00:30:33,662 ...and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft. 306 00:30:40,138 --> 00:30:42,538 Oh, my God. That's not even funny. 307 00:30:43,241 --> 00:30:45,732 - It's a little funny. - Yep. 308 00:30:47,645 --> 00:30:49,613 I'm glad I ordered the four-legged chicken. 309 00:30:49,781 --> 00:30:51,749 It's really good to see you again. 310 00:30:52,984 --> 00:30:54,508 It's great seeing you too. 311 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,845 Why'd we do it, Dan? Dress up like that? 312 00:30:58,990 --> 00:31:02,323 - No one else would. - Yeah, but do you remember my costume? 313 00:31:02,493 --> 00:31:05,587 All that tight latex? I mean, it was awful. 314 00:31:05,763 --> 00:31:08,732 Uh... Yeah, yeah, awful. 315 00:31:08,900 --> 00:31:11,334 But didn't wanna disappoint Mother. 316 00:31:11,502 --> 00:31:15,495 Wanted her little girl to be just like her and fight bad guys. 317 00:31:16,174 --> 00:31:19,769 I think the Keene Act was the best thing that ever happened to us. 318 00:31:20,845 --> 00:31:23,211 Well, we'll live longer anyway. 319 00:31:26,517 --> 00:31:28,041 What? 320 00:31:29,020 --> 00:31:33,514 Jon thinks, unless he can do something about it... 321 00:31:34,359 --> 00:31:36,384 ...that there's gonna be nuclear war. 322 00:31:36,861 --> 00:31:38,351 Soon. 323 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:42,563 But I don't know what to think. I mean, it's all... 324 00:31:42,734 --> 00:31:45,794 ...quantum mechanics and parallel realities with him. 325 00:31:45,970 --> 00:31:48,734 I never even know what universe he's actually seeing. 326 00:31:50,041 --> 00:31:53,169 He just keeps getting further away from me. 327 00:31:53,878 --> 00:31:55,539 Everyone. 328 00:31:56,648 --> 00:31:59,310 I can't even tell if he actually cares about me anymore... 329 00:31:59,484 --> 00:32:01,509 ...or if he's just pretending. 330 00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:05,155 If he's pretending, it means he cares. 331 00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:11,885 Hold on, I'll get the door. 332 00:32:13,231 --> 00:32:15,028 Thanks, Dan. 333 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,425 - Got it? - Yeah. 334 00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:23,468 I'm sorry. 335 00:32:23,641 --> 00:32:27,543 I invite you out to dinner to catch up and have a few laughs... 336 00:32:27,912 --> 00:32:31,279 ...but there don't seem to be many laughs around these days. 337 00:32:31,449 --> 00:32:35,249 What do you expect? The Comedian's dead. 338 00:34:06,911 --> 00:34:10,472 Laurie? Is that you? 339 00:34:13,184 --> 00:34:16,153 Thought you'd be used to traveling that way by now. 340 00:34:16,821 --> 00:34:20,814 Well, I'm not. I hate it when Jon teleports me. 341 00:34:20,992 --> 00:34:23,859 Well, it beats flying coach. 342 00:34:24,228 --> 00:34:26,219 Margarita? 343 00:34:26,464 --> 00:34:28,625 Mother, it's 2:00 in the afternoon. 344 00:34:31,335 --> 00:34:32,802 Mm. 345 00:34:33,471 --> 00:34:35,769 Remember that guy that writes me letters? 346 00:34:36,140 --> 00:34:39,439 He sent me an item of memorabilia. It's a Tijuana bible. 347 00:34:39,610 --> 00:34:43,774 This little eight-page porno comic they did in the '30s and '40s. 348 00:34:43,948 --> 00:34:47,975 - He sent you this? - Sure. They're very valuable, like antiques. 349 00:34:48,786 --> 00:34:50,481 Mother, this is gross. 350 00:34:50,655 --> 00:34:52,919 I think it's kind of flattering. 351 00:34:53,091 --> 00:34:55,355 Why do you always call me Mother when you're mad? 352 00:34:56,727 --> 00:35:00,788 I know why you're here. I can still read, you know. 353 00:35:01,566 --> 00:35:03,796 I saw it in the paper. 354 00:35:04,469 --> 00:35:07,370 Eddie Blake's funeral is today. 355 00:35:09,173 --> 00:35:12,165 Finally got his punchline, I guess. 356 00:35:12,643 --> 00:35:15,476 - Poor Eddie. - Poor Eddie? After what he did to you? 357 00:35:16,180 --> 00:35:17,704 Oh, Laurie, you're still young. 358 00:35:18,483 --> 00:35:20,417 You don't know. 359 00:35:20,585 --> 00:35:22,348 Things change. 360 00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:25,951 What happened happened 40 years ago. 361 00:35:26,124 --> 00:35:29,389 I'm 67 years old. 362 00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:33,758 Every day, the future looks a little bit darker. 363 00:35:34,599 --> 00:35:36,760 But the past... 364 00:35:37,268 --> 00:35:40,260 ...even the grimy parts of it... 365 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:43,433 ...keep on getting brighter. 366 00:35:48,946 --> 00:35:51,779 I've got spots in my eyes. 367 00:35:55,253 --> 00:35:57,915 Stop it, Eddie. 368 00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:02,257 - Thank you, Weegee. - Thank you, Mr. Owl. 369 00:36:03,461 --> 00:36:06,658 Tomorrow, 3:00, my studio. 370 00:36:06,831 --> 00:36:09,994 - Little place on 21 st. - Sounds good. 371 00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:14,764 Wow, a real photo session. Wonder how my hair will look? 372 00:36:17,074 --> 00:36:20,271 Oh, go ahead. I'll be there in five. 373 00:36:36,761 --> 00:36:37,785 Eddie. 374 00:36:38,863 --> 00:36:42,924 What the hell are you doing here? You knew I was changing. 375 00:36:43,100 --> 00:36:44,692 Sure I did. 376 00:36:46,337 --> 00:36:47,929 Come on, baby. 377 00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:50,363 I know what you need. 378 00:36:50,541 --> 00:36:54,602 You gotta have some kind of reason for dressing in an outfit like this. 379 00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:57,077 I said no, Eddie. 380 00:36:57,715 --> 00:37:02,618 - No spelled Y-E-S. - No spelled N-O. 381 00:37:02,787 --> 00:37:06,223 - All right? - Come on, sweetheart. 382 00:37:10,161 --> 00:37:11,753 Eddie... 383 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:52,330 You little bastard. 384 00:37:58,943 --> 00:37:59,967 This what you like? 385 00:38:00,144 --> 00:38:02,635 - This what makes you hot? - What? 386 00:38:13,124 --> 00:38:16,321 Things are tough all over, cupcake. 387 00:38:16,494 --> 00:38:20,590 It rains on the just and the unjust alike. 388 00:38:20,765 --> 00:38:24,599 The Comedian was a little bit of both. 389 00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:29,437 And he always thought he'd get the last laugh. 390 00:38:29,974 --> 00:38:33,034 Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts. 391 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:36,977 Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers... 392 00:38:37,148 --> 00:38:41,744 ...but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty... 393 00:38:41,919 --> 00:38:44,979 ...O holy and merciful savior. 394 00:38:45,656 --> 00:38:48,386 Thou most worthy judge eternal. 395 00:38:48,559 --> 00:38:51,892 Suffer us not at our last hour for any... 396 00:39:49,487 --> 00:39:51,921 Fireworks. You gotta be kidding me. 397 00:39:52,089 --> 00:39:56,822 You know, you'd think this goddamn country had had enough fireworks. 398 00:39:57,728 --> 00:40:00,322 You know, if we'd lost here in Vietnam... 399 00:40:00,498 --> 00:40:05,458 ...I think it might have driven us crazy. You know, as a country. 400 00:40:06,237 --> 00:40:09,934 But we didn't, thanks to you. 401 00:40:11,909 --> 00:40:13,843 You sound bitter. 402 00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:15,672 Me? Bitter? 403 00:40:15,846 --> 00:40:18,906 Fuck, no. I think it's hilarious. 404 00:40:25,256 --> 00:40:27,087 Oh, Jesus Christ. 405 00:40:27,258 --> 00:40:30,250 - Mr. Eddie? - Just what I fucking needed. 406 00:40:30,428 --> 00:40:35,491 The war is over now. We must talk about this baby. 407 00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:39,794 There's nothing to talk about. See, I'm leaving. 408 00:40:39,970 --> 00:40:41,301 I'm gonna forget about you... 409 00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:44,305 ...and your horrible, sweaty, little piece-of-shit country. 410 00:40:44,875 --> 00:40:46,035 Get the fuck out of here. 411 00:40:47,778 --> 00:40:49,643 - No. - Get the fuck out of here. 412 00:40:49,814 --> 00:40:51,179 You will remember. 413 00:40:52,950 --> 00:40:55,680 You will remember me and my country... 414 00:40:56,554 --> 00:40:58,181 ...forever! 415 00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:02,656 My face! 416 00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:06,022 Blake. Don't. 417 00:41:06,831 --> 00:41:08,128 Blake! 418 00:41:15,005 --> 00:41:17,496 She was pregnant... 419 00:41:18,776 --> 00:41:20,505 ...and you gunned her down. 420 00:41:20,678 --> 00:41:21,940 That's right... 421 00:41:22,112 --> 00:41:24,046 ...and you know what? You watched me. 422 00:41:24,215 --> 00:41:27,207 You could have turned the gun to steam, the bullets to mercury... 423 00:41:27,384 --> 00:41:30,979 ...the bottle into goddamn snowflakes, but you didn't, did you? 424 00:41:32,923 --> 00:41:35,756 You really don't give a damn about human beings. 425 00:41:36,927 --> 00:41:39,760 You're drifting out of touch, Doc. 426 00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:43,527 God help us all. 427 00:41:45,536 --> 00:41:46,833 Medic! 428 00:41:53,677 --> 00:41:56,840 Most holy and merciful savior. 429 00:41:57,781 --> 00:42:02,013 He cometh up and is cut down, like a flower. 430 00:42:02,853 --> 00:42:07,051 In the midst of life, we are in death. 431 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:12,989 Welcome to the first meeting- - This is bullshit. 432 00:42:13,163 --> 00:42:17,532 For a guy who calls himself the Comedian, I can never tell when you're joking. 433 00:42:17,701 --> 00:42:21,102 Watchmen. That's the real joke. 434 00:42:21,272 --> 00:42:24,070 It didn't work 15 years ago, and it ain't gonna work now... 435 00:42:24,241 --> 00:42:26,368 ...because you wanna play cowboys and Indians. 436 00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:28,910 Maybe we should agree on no drinking at meetings. 437 00:42:30,714 --> 00:42:34,445 Rorschach and I have made headway on the gang problem by working together. 438 00:42:34,618 --> 00:42:38,952 A group this size seems like a publicity stunt. I'm not in it for the ink. 439 00:42:39,123 --> 00:42:40,920 We can do so much more. 440 00:42:41,091 --> 00:42:43,286 We can save this world... 441 00:42:44,895 --> 00:42:48,058 - ...with the right leadership. - Yeah. 442 00:42:50,401 --> 00:42:52,164 And that'd be you, right, Ozzy? 443 00:42:52,336 --> 00:42:55,100 I mean, hell, you're the smartest man on the planet. 444 00:42:55,272 --> 00:42:57,934 It doesn't take a genius to see the world has problems. 445 00:42:58,309 --> 00:43:01,972 But it takes a room of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle. 446 00:43:02,947 --> 00:43:06,883 You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time. 447 00:43:07,051 --> 00:43:11,886 Now we finally have the power to finish the job. 448 00:43:12,122 --> 00:43:15,751 Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust. 449 00:43:18,896 --> 00:43:20,921 Then Ozymandias here... 450 00:43:21,932 --> 00:43:24,196 ...will be the smartest man on the cinder. 451 00:43:33,110 --> 00:43:35,169 For as much as it hath pleased... 452 00:43:35,446 --> 00:43:40,315 ...almighty God to take onto himself the soul of our dear departed brother... 453 00:43:41,719 --> 00:43:45,780 ...let us therefore commit his body to the ground. 454 00:43:45,956 --> 00:43:49,414 Earth to earth, ashes to ashes... 455 00:44:08,712 --> 00:44:14,981 Watchmen! Police! Police to protect the people! 456 00:44:19,523 --> 00:44:23,550 Attention, citizens. We are trying to maintain order. 457 00:44:23,727 --> 00:44:28,164 You must clear the streets until the police strike is over. 458 00:44:28,332 --> 00:44:31,495 If you could- Please, there's no need for violence. 459 00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:34,763 Goddamn it. All right. That's how you wanna do it? 460 00:44:46,483 --> 00:44:48,144 There's no need for violence. 461 00:44:48,318 --> 00:44:51,446 Fuck you. Fuck you! 462 00:44:57,695 --> 00:44:59,424 Oh, this is getting heavy. 463 00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:26,721 Goddamn, I love working on American soil, Dan. 464 00:45:26,890 --> 00:45:29,324 Ain't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein. 465 00:45:29,493 --> 00:45:31,120 How long can we keep this up? 466 00:45:31,295 --> 00:45:34,890 Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks. 467 00:45:35,065 --> 00:45:36,327 Our days are numbered. 468 00:45:36,500 --> 00:45:40,766 Until then, it's like you always say: We're society's only protection. 469 00:45:40,938 --> 00:45:45,500 - From what? - Are you kidding me? From themselves. 470 00:45:45,676 --> 00:45:47,871 - Son of a bitch. No, Comedian, wait! 471 00:45:49,413 --> 00:45:51,313 Get your stinking hands off me. 472 00:45:53,484 --> 00:45:55,952 What the hell happened to us? 473 00:46:00,257 --> 00:46:02,589 What happened to the American dream? 474 00:46:03,427 --> 00:46:06,260 What happened to the American dream? 475 00:46:06,430 --> 00:46:08,557 It came true! 476 00:46:08,732 --> 00:46:10,757 You're looking at it. 477 00:47:31,582 --> 00:47:33,049 Edgar William Jacobi. 478 00:47:33,217 --> 00:47:37,051 Also known as Edgar William Vaughn. Also known as Moloch. 479 00:47:41,091 --> 00:47:43,355 What are you talking about? 480 00:47:44,294 --> 00:47:45,727 I'm a retired businessman... 481 00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:50,864 Lie again, Moloch, I break another finger. 482 00:47:51,034 --> 00:47:53,059 I did my time. 483 00:47:53,237 --> 00:47:56,035 I'm not Moloch anymore. 484 00:47:56,640 --> 00:48:01,077 - What do you want from me? - Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why? 485 00:48:01,245 --> 00:48:04,703 I just felt I should... 486 00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:08,784 ...pay my respects to the Comedian. 487 00:48:11,255 --> 00:48:15,988 - How'd you know he was the Comedian? - He broke in here. A week ago. 488 00:48:16,159 --> 00:48:18,491 He had his mask off. 489 00:48:18,962 --> 00:48:22,454 - He was drunk. - Enemies. For decades. 490 00:48:22,633 --> 00:48:25,659 - Why should he visit you? - I don't know. 491 00:48:25,836 --> 00:48:28,771 I woke up in my bedroom and there he was. 492 00:48:28,939 --> 00:48:30,907 He was upset. 493 00:48:31,475 --> 00:48:32,999 He was crying. 494 00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:35,808 Crying? The Comedian? 495 00:48:35,979 --> 00:48:38,971 He was babbling, not making any sense. 496 00:48:39,149 --> 00:48:42,141 I was pissing in my pants. 497 00:48:42,319 --> 00:48:44,617 I thought he was gonna kill me. 498 00:48:44,788 --> 00:48:47,052 What did he say? 499 00:48:48,358 --> 00:48:50,019 It's a joke. 500 00:48:50,761 --> 00:48:53,321 It's all a fucking joke. 501 00:48:55,365 --> 00:48:57,765 You know, I thought I knew how it was. 502 00:48:57,935 --> 00:49:00,961 I thought I knew how the world was. 503 00:49:02,105 --> 00:49:04,767 I've done some bad things. 504 00:49:05,442 --> 00:49:09,037 I did bad things to women. I shot kids. 505 00:49:09,212 --> 00:49:11,476 In 'Nam, you know. 506 00:49:12,049 --> 00:49:13,482 But that was fucking war. 507 00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:15,782 This... 508 00:49:16,453 --> 00:49:19,115 I never done anything like this. 509 00:49:21,792 --> 00:49:24,727 God, here I am... 510 00:49:24,895 --> 00:49:26,988 ...spilling my guts... 511 00:49:27,464 --> 00:49:28,954 ...to one of my archenemies. 512 00:49:31,134 --> 00:49:33,466 But the truth is... 513 00:49:34,071 --> 00:49:38,667 ...you're the closest thing to a friend I got. What the fuck does that say? 514 00:49:42,579 --> 00:49:44,774 Shit. 515 00:49:46,316 --> 00:49:47,977 And your name... 516 00:49:48,151 --> 00:49:50,676 ...your name was on the list... 517 00:49:50,887 --> 00:49:55,187 ...along with Janey, you know, whatever the fuck her name is. 518 00:49:55,359 --> 00:49:57,793 Manhattan's old girl. 519 00:50:01,999 --> 00:50:04,160 Mother, forgive me. 520 00:50:05,335 --> 00:50:06,996 And then he left. 521 00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:12,601 I swear I don't know what the hell he was talking about. 522 00:50:19,349 --> 00:50:21,317 Funny story. 523 00:50:21,785 --> 00:50:24,117 Sounds unbelievable. 524 00:50:24,888 --> 00:50:26,822 Probably true. 525 00:50:26,990 --> 00:50:29,686 So that's it? 526 00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:33,990 - I'm clean? - You? 527 00:50:35,198 --> 00:50:36,529 Clean? 528 00:50:41,471 --> 00:50:42,563 Amygdalin. 529 00:50:42,739 --> 00:50:45,435 This phony medication made from apricot pits. 530 00:50:45,609 --> 00:50:48,840 - It's illegal. - Come on. 531 00:50:50,714 --> 00:50:53,046 Please don't confiscate that. 532 00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:56,682 I'm trying anything. 533 00:50:58,155 --> 00:50:59,645 I have cancer. 534 00:51:00,657 --> 00:51:01,988 What kind of cancer? 535 00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:06,920 You know the kind you eventually get better from? 536 00:51:08,832 --> 00:51:10,823 That ain't the kind I got. 537 00:51:14,071 --> 00:51:18,030 Rorschach's journal. October 16th. 538 00:51:18,208 --> 00:51:21,041 Want some of this? Fifty bucks, I'll suck your cock. 539 00:51:21,244 --> 00:51:24,008 - Thought about Moloch's story. - Come on. 540 00:51:24,181 --> 00:51:26,115 Could all be lies. 541 00:51:26,283 --> 00:51:30,583 A revenge scheme planned during his years behind bars. 542 00:51:30,754 --> 00:51:35,851 Fuck you. I make more in a week than you make in a year, you fucking homo. 543 00:51:36,026 --> 00:51:37,618 But if it's true... 544 00:51:37,794 --> 00:51:40,058 ...what could have possibly scared the Comedian... 545 00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:42,095 ...enough to cry in front of Moloch? 546 00:51:43,467 --> 00:51:44,491 What was it he saw? 547 00:51:46,269 --> 00:51:47,930 And that list he mentioned. 548 00:51:52,109 --> 00:51:55,510 Edward Blake. The Comedian. 549 00:51:55,679 --> 00:51:58,079 Born 1918. 550 00:51:58,248 --> 00:52:00,273 Buried in the rain. 551 00:52:00,450 --> 00:52:02,315 Murdered. 552 00:52:02,486 --> 00:52:06,513 Is that what happens to us? No time for friends? 553 00:52:07,457 --> 00:52:10,620 Only our enemies leave roses. 554 00:52:10,927 --> 00:52:13,828 Violent lives ending violently. 555 00:52:15,799 --> 00:52:20,862 Blake understood. Humans are savage in nature. 556 00:52:21,037 --> 00:52:23,733 No matter how much you try to dress it up... 557 00:52:23,907 --> 00:52:26,034 ...to disguise it... 558 00:52:26,209 --> 00:52:29,337 ...Blake saw society's true face. 559 00:52:29,513 --> 00:52:34,143 Chose to be a parody of it. A joke. 560 00:52:34,317 --> 00:52:35,978 I heard joke once. 561 00:52:37,154 --> 00:52:40,954 Man goes to doctor, says he's depressed. 562 00:52:41,124 --> 00:52:44,992 Life seems harsh and cruel. 563 00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:49,030 Says he feels all alone in threatening world. 564 00:52:49,199 --> 00:52:51,997 Doctor says treatment is simple. 565 00:52:52,402 --> 00:52:56,839 "The great clown Pagliacci is in town. Go see him. 566 00:52:57,007 --> 00:52:58,998 That should pick you up". 567 00:52:59,509 --> 00:53:02,444 Man bursts into tears. 568 00:53:02,612 --> 00:53:06,946 "But doctor," he says. "I am Pagliacci". 569 00:53:08,952 --> 00:53:10,681 Good joke. 570 00:53:10,954 --> 00:53:12,854 Everybody laugh. 571 00:53:13,023 --> 00:53:15,184 Roll on snare drum. 572 00:53:15,692 --> 00:53:17,182 Curtains. 573 00:53:25,635 --> 00:53:27,899 What time do you have to be at your interview? 574 00:53:28,071 --> 00:53:29,698 Don't worry. 575 00:53:30,340 --> 00:53:32,831 We've got plenty of time. 576 00:53:39,883 --> 00:53:42,078 Your finger's like licking a battery. 577 00:54:02,405 --> 00:54:05,169 God, Jon, stop. What are you doing? 578 00:54:05,342 --> 00:54:06,673 Please don't be upset. 579 00:54:06,843 --> 00:54:10,506 I always thought you liked this. 580 00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:12,079 No. 581 00:54:13,583 --> 00:54:16,552 I don't- No. 582 00:54:17,387 --> 00:54:20,220 I don't want that. 583 00:54:20,490 --> 00:54:23,653 I don't know what stimulates you anymore. 584 00:54:25,795 --> 00:54:29,424 Look, I know you were just trying... 585 00:54:31,234 --> 00:54:33,702 Are you working in here while we're in bed together? 586 00:54:33,870 --> 00:54:37,306 My work with Adrian is at a critical stage right now. 587 00:54:37,774 --> 00:54:40,937 - I didn't think it was necessary to- - To what? 588 00:54:41,111 --> 00:54:44,638 To what? To tell me which one of you is giving me a pity fuck? 589 00:54:53,790 --> 00:54:56,224 My attention was completely focused on you. 590 00:54:56,826 --> 00:54:59,090 If you think there's a problem with my attitude... 591 00:54:59,262 --> 00:55:01,492 ...I am prepared to discuss it. 592 00:55:03,266 --> 00:55:06,997 You know how everything in this world fits together except people. 593 00:55:07,170 --> 00:55:11,630 What am I to you? Another puzzle to be solved? 594 00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:15,505 Have your men stand back. I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now. 595 00:55:16,346 --> 00:55:19,281 You're my only remaining link to the world. 596 00:55:27,057 --> 00:55:29,651 I don't want that responsibility anymore. 597 00:55:35,532 --> 00:55:37,659 He's all yours. 598 00:55:43,707 --> 00:55:46,073 Don't worry, Jon. She'll be back. 599 00:55:47,544 --> 00:55:49,739 No, she won't. 600 00:56:03,827 --> 00:56:08,389 He's been called many things: Hero, weapon... 601 00:56:08,898 --> 00:56:11,366 ...linchpin of our national security... 602 00:56:11,534 --> 00:56:16,062 ...deterrent to nuclear war, or a man to end worlds. 603 00:56:16,406 --> 00:56:18,966 Later tonight, Dr. Manhattan... 604 00:56:19,142 --> 00:56:24,102 ...will answer my questions and yours in an exclusive interview... 605 00:56:24,280 --> 00:56:29,149 ...brought to you commercial-free by Veidt Enterprises. 606 00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:45,262 Who is it? 607 00:56:45,435 --> 00:56:47,403 It's Laurie. 608 00:56:58,281 --> 00:57:01,546 Sorry. I just had this new lock installed. 609 00:57:01,718 --> 00:57:04,186 I didn't know where else to go. 610 00:57:04,354 --> 00:57:07,517 Oh, it's okay. Come in. 611 00:57:14,964 --> 00:57:15,988 What's wrong? 612 00:57:17,300 --> 00:57:18,927 I left Jon. 613 00:57:19,636 --> 00:57:21,934 Oh, God. 614 00:57:22,405 --> 00:57:24,134 I'm so sorry. 615 00:57:24,307 --> 00:57:27,140 I don't know why I'm here. I just... 616 00:57:28,678 --> 00:57:31,146 I don't know anybody else. 617 00:57:31,981 --> 00:57:35,280 I don't know anybody except for goddamn superheroes. 618 00:57:35,852 --> 00:57:37,513 That's okay. 619 00:57:37,687 --> 00:57:39,951 You probably just had an argument or something. 620 00:57:40,123 --> 00:57:41,488 No, Dan. 621 00:57:42,025 --> 00:57:44,721 You don't know what it's been like living with him. 622 00:57:44,894 --> 00:57:48,022 The way he looks at things now, it's like he doesn't... 623 00:57:48,198 --> 00:57:50,666 ...remember what they are. 624 00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:53,161 It's like this world, this real world... 625 00:57:53,336 --> 00:57:57,136 ...to him, it's like walking through mist. 626 00:57:57,307 --> 00:58:00,868 And people are just shadows. 627 00:58:02,445 --> 00:58:04,936 Shadows in a fog. 628 00:58:06,049 --> 00:58:09,416 God, how did everything get so tangled up? 629 00:58:11,020 --> 00:58:13,011 I'm sorry, Dan. 630 00:58:13,756 --> 00:58:16,748 This is twice now I've ruined your evening. 631 00:58:17,193 --> 00:58:20,185 Come on. I'm glad you came over. 632 00:58:20,363 --> 00:58:23,890 I was just gonna see Hollis for our weekly beer session. 633 00:58:24,067 --> 00:58:26,058 You're more than welcome to join. 634 00:58:27,237 --> 00:58:30,536 In fact, I insist. 635 00:59:03,039 --> 00:59:05,837 Terrific. Dr. Manhattan arrives and no one thinks to tell me. 636 00:59:06,009 --> 00:59:07,909 He just- - We don't have time for makeup. 637 00:59:08,077 --> 00:59:10,375 That blue is too light for television. 638 00:59:13,149 --> 00:59:15,140 Is that dark enough? 639 00:59:17,387 --> 00:59:20,754 Yeah, that's dark enough. 640 00:59:23,059 --> 00:59:25,584 Seymour. Bernie, how's tricks? 641 00:59:25,762 --> 00:59:29,163 See this guy behind me? Been bugging me all week. 642 00:59:41,177 --> 00:59:43,441 Girl. What we got here? 643 00:59:43,613 --> 00:59:46,480 Here's a list of Pentagon-approved no-go areas. 644 00:59:46,649 --> 00:59:49,447 Afghanistan will obviously come up, but just play it cool... 645 00:59:49,619 --> 00:59:51,985 ...and try not to get into any tight corners. 646 00:59:52,155 --> 00:59:55,852 ...a renowned nuclear physicist, who, through a terrible accident... 647 00:59:56,025 --> 01:00:01,793 ...was gifted with extraordinary powers, capable of bending matter to his will. 648 01:00:01,965 --> 01:00:06,231 Today, the world knows him as Dr. Manhattan. 649 01:00:06,402 --> 01:00:07,733 Welcome. 650 01:00:12,742 --> 01:00:13,970 Thank you. 651 01:00:14,143 --> 01:00:16,077 That's right. 652 01:00:22,619 --> 01:00:25,417 Ms. Black, you have the first question. 653 01:00:25,588 --> 01:00:27,021 Dr. Manhattan, as you know... 654 01:00:27,190 --> 01:00:29,886 ...the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face... 655 01:00:30,059 --> 01:00:33,620 ...analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction... 656 01:00:33,963 --> 01:00:36,955 ...midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. 657 01:00:37,133 --> 01:00:40,296 As of now, it stands at four minutes to midnight. 658 01:00:40,937 --> 01:00:43,405 Would you agree that we're that close to annihilation? 659 01:00:43,806 --> 01:00:46,138 My father was a watchmaker. 660 01:00:46,976 --> 01:00:51,310 He abandoned it when Einstein discovered that time is relative. 661 01:00:52,482 --> 01:00:54,473 I would only agree that a symbolic clock... 662 01:00:54,651 --> 01:00:56,642 ...is as nourishing to the intellect... 663 01:00:56,819 --> 01:01:00,084 ...as a photograph of oxygen to a drowning man. 664 01:01:02,425 --> 01:01:04,154 So you're saying there is no danger. 665 01:01:04,327 --> 01:01:08,320 Even in a world without nuclear weapons, there would still be danger. 666 01:01:13,269 --> 01:01:16,170 And would you say, as so many claim... 667 01:01:16,339 --> 01:01:18,102 ...that you are, in fact, a god... 668 01:01:18,274 --> 01:01:21,107 ...given you see the past and future simultaneously? 669 01:01:21,277 --> 01:01:23,575 I can only see my own past... 670 01:01:24,013 --> 01:01:27,915 ...my own future. I am not omniscient. 671 01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:29,883 Doug Roth, your question? 672 01:01:30,053 --> 01:01:32,783 Speaking of your past, Dr. Manhattan... 673 01:01:32,955 --> 01:01:35,719 ...do you remember a man named Wally Weaver? 674 01:01:35,892 --> 01:01:41,023 Yes. We were both physicists together at the Gila Flats Research Base. 675 01:01:41,531 --> 01:01:43,089 He died of cancer. 676 01:01:43,966 --> 01:01:46,230 - He was a good man. How about Edgar Jacobi... 677 01:01:46,402 --> 01:01:49,303 ...also known as the supervillain Moloch? 678 01:01:50,273 --> 01:01:54,369 You encountered him several times in the '60s: battles, conflicts. 679 01:01:54,577 --> 01:01:57,045 Did you know that he has cancer as well? 680 01:01:57,980 --> 01:01:59,208 I wasn't told. 681 01:01:59,382 --> 01:02:01,612 And what about General Anthony Randolph? 682 01:02:01,784 --> 01:02:05,220 He was your handler when you first started working for the government. 683 01:02:05,621 --> 01:02:06,645 Cancer. 684 01:02:06,823 --> 01:02:09,485 You're suggesting I was the cause. 685 01:02:09,892 --> 01:02:12,884 From where I'm standing, it's starting to look pretty conclusive. 686 01:02:13,062 --> 01:02:15,087 Even if that's the case, it's irrelevant. 687 01:02:15,264 --> 01:02:18,062 A live human body and a deceased human body... 688 01:02:18,234 --> 01:02:20,327 ...have the same number of particles. 689 01:02:23,072 --> 01:02:24,972 Structurally, there's no difference. 690 01:02:31,581 --> 01:02:33,742 All right. Let's settle down, please. 691 01:02:42,525 --> 01:02:43,753 What about Janey Slater? 692 01:02:44,527 --> 01:02:46,859 You think it makes a difference to her? 693 01:02:47,930 --> 01:02:49,261 Janey? 694 01:02:49,599 --> 01:02:51,157 Your ex-girlfriend? 695 01:02:51,334 --> 01:02:54,963 She was a physicist too. You saw each other for 11 years. 696 01:02:55,138 --> 01:02:56,662 Doug, one question at a time. 697 01:02:56,839 --> 01:03:00,206 She has cancer as well. Doctors have given her six months. 698 01:03:00,376 --> 01:03:02,207 Isn't that right, Miss Slater? 699 01:03:17,727 --> 01:03:19,524 You were the world to me, Jon. 700 01:03:20,129 --> 01:03:22,359 You were my whole life. 701 01:03:23,299 --> 01:03:25,893 Do you remember how many times you said you loved me? 702 01:03:26,068 --> 01:03:27,763 Janey, I wasn't told. 703 01:03:28,237 --> 01:03:33,607 I stuck by you after the accident. I gave you everything. 704 01:03:38,648 --> 01:03:40,309 This is how you repay me? 705 01:03:40,750 --> 01:03:45,653 - Janey, I wasn't told. I didn't know. - Damn you, Jon. Goddamn you. 706 01:03:45,822 --> 01:03:47,813 Janey, wait. 707 01:03:49,225 --> 01:03:51,659 - That's it. This interview is over. Get up there. 708 01:03:51,828 --> 01:03:54,194 Get those cameras off. Everybody back off. 709 01:03:54,363 --> 01:03:58,060 Everybody back off. I need some backup here. Leave him alone. 710 01:03:58,234 --> 01:04:04,332 Please, if everyone would just go away... 711 01:04:04,507 --> 01:04:07,408 ...and leave me alone... 712 01:04:07,577 --> 01:04:08,976 Do you care to comment? 713 01:04:09,145 --> 01:04:12,171 I said, leave me alone! 714 01:04:22,645 --> 01:04:24,840 I am looking at the stars. 715 01:04:25,348 --> 01:04:27,339 They're so far away... 716 01:04:27,784 --> 01:04:30,446 ...and their light takes so long to reach us... 717 01:04:33,189 --> 01:04:37,387 ...all we ever see of stars are their old photographs. 718 01:04:40,363 --> 01:04:44,197 It is July, 1959, and I am in love. 719 01:04:45,034 --> 01:04:46,695 That's great. 720 01:04:46,869 --> 01:04:48,496 - You can pick it up tomorrow. - Okay. 721 01:04:48,671 --> 01:04:50,400 - Seventy-five cents. - Okay, thank you. 722 01:04:50,573 --> 01:04:51,597 Thank you. 723 01:04:51,774 --> 01:04:55,972 Gosh, Jon, I wish he gave us a little notice. I'm sure I made a face. 724 01:04:56,145 --> 01:05:01,139 Oh, no, no. I'm sure that you'll look beautiful. 725 01:05:05,054 --> 01:05:07,386 Her name is Janey Slater. 726 01:05:08,224 --> 01:05:10,886 She is a physicist, like me. 727 01:05:12,161 --> 01:05:13,924 I am 30 years old. 728 01:05:18,635 --> 01:05:22,571 We were introduced by a good friend of mine from college, Wally Weaver. 729 01:05:26,175 --> 01:05:28,735 It is February 12th, 1981. 730 01:05:28,911 --> 01:05:32,677 Wally dies of cancer, of which they now say I am the cause. 731 01:05:50,199 --> 01:05:53,600 That night, Janey and I make love for the first time. 732 01:05:59,609 --> 01:06:02,601 A month from now, the accident awaits me. 733 01:06:09,786 --> 01:06:13,278 Oh, I'll catch up with you guys. I think I left my watch inside. 734 01:06:13,956 --> 01:06:16,186 Hey. Let's just wait a second. 735 01:06:18,928 --> 01:06:23,331 I cross the room to the Intrinsic Field Center. I find my watch. 736 01:06:30,039 --> 01:06:31,199 When I get to the door... 737 01:06:32,975 --> 01:06:34,169 ...Wally is turning white. 738 01:06:34,344 --> 01:06:38,405 The program's locked in. We can't override the time lock. 739 01:06:39,782 --> 01:06:41,113 I am terrified. 740 01:06:41,284 --> 01:06:42,308 Jon? 741 01:06:48,257 --> 01:06:50,020 I'm sorry, Jon... 742 01:06:51,928 --> 01:06:53,486 ...but I can't... 743 01:06:55,765 --> 01:06:57,289 Janey, don't leave me! 744 01:06:57,834 --> 01:06:59,825 Don't leave me! 745 01:07:29,365 --> 01:07:33,961 It is May 12th, 1959, when I'm introduced to Janey. 746 01:07:34,370 --> 01:07:36,338 She buys me a beer... 747 01:07:36,506 --> 01:07:39,373 ...the first time a woman has done this for me. 748 01:07:40,042 --> 01:07:43,534 As she passes me the cold, perspiring glass... 749 01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:46,041 ...our fingers touch. 750 01:07:56,225 --> 01:07:58,386 Yes, Jon, good. 751 01:07:58,561 --> 01:08:04,056 Now it's just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence. 752 01:08:07,904 --> 01:08:08,996 I feel fear... 753 01:08:10,239 --> 01:08:12,366 ...for the last time. 754 01:08:28,591 --> 01:08:30,923 A token funeral is held. 755 01:08:31,260 --> 01:08:33,251 There is nothing to bury. 756 01:08:33,596 --> 01:08:35,928 Janey frames the snapshot. 757 01:08:36,265 --> 01:08:39,098 It's the only photograph of me anyone has. 758 01:08:40,403 --> 01:08:45,272 A circulatory system is seen by the perimeter fence. 759 01:08:45,675 --> 01:08:47,142 A few days later... 760 01:08:47,310 --> 01:08:50,541 ...a partially muscled skeleton stands in a hallway... 761 01:08:50,713 --> 01:08:54,547 ...and screams for a moment before vanishing. 762 01:09:18,741 --> 01:09:20,766 Oh, God. 763 01:09:20,943 --> 01:09:22,467 Jon? 764 01:09:23,513 --> 01:09:25,344 Is that you? 765 01:09:25,615 --> 01:09:28,743 Nations around the world reeling from this morning's announcement... 766 01:09:28,918 --> 01:09:31,546 ...possibly the most significant event in recent history. 767 01:09:31,721 --> 01:09:35,680 We repeat, the superman exists, and he is American. 768 01:09:42,164 --> 01:09:44,758 They call me Dr. Manhattan. 769 01:09:55,344 --> 01:09:57,278 They explain the name has been chosen... 770 01:09:57,446 --> 01:10:01,678 ...for the ominous associations it will raise in America's enemies. 771 01:10:03,686 --> 01:10:06,712 They are shaping me into something gaudy... 772 01:10:07,790 --> 01:10:09,917 ...something lethal. 773 01:10:13,696 --> 01:10:16,221 In January, 1971... 774 01:10:16,399 --> 01:10:20,358 ...President Nixon asks me to intervene in Vietnam... 775 01:10:20,536 --> 01:10:23,869 ...something that his predecessors would not ask. 776 01:10:25,107 --> 01:10:27,940 A week later, the conflict ends. 777 01:10:28,110 --> 01:10:32,547 Some of the Vietcong forces wanna surrender to me personally. 778 01:10:34,383 --> 01:10:37,978 Hollis Mason, a retired costume hero, writes a book. 779 01:10:38,154 --> 01:10:42,215 In it, he calls my arrival the dawn of the superhero. 780 01:10:57,907 --> 01:11:00,671 I am not sure if I know what that means. 781 01:11:00,843 --> 01:11:03,937 You see, at the time, I was misquoted. 782 01:11:04,213 --> 01:11:07,273 I never said, "The superman exists and he is American". 783 01:11:07,450 --> 01:11:13,411 What I said was, "God exists, and he is American". 784 01:11:13,923 --> 01:11:16,391 Now, if you begin to feel an intense... 785 01:11:16,559 --> 01:11:20,461 ...and crushing feeling of religious terror at the concept... 786 01:11:20,896 --> 01:11:22,921 ...don't be alarmed. 787 01:11:23,566 --> 01:11:27,593 That indicates only that you are still sane. 788 01:11:29,238 --> 01:11:31,798 It is Christmas, 1963. 789 01:11:32,708 --> 01:11:35,472 Janey tells me she is afraid, and worried. 790 01:11:37,213 --> 01:11:39,340 She says I am like a god now. 791 01:11:40,549 --> 01:11:42,779 I tell her I don't think there is a God... 792 01:11:43,619 --> 01:11:46,349 ...and if there is, I'm nothing like him. 793 01:11:47,023 --> 01:11:49,457 I tell her I still want her... 794 01:11:50,226 --> 01:11:52,285 ...and that I always will. 795 01:11:53,295 --> 01:11:57,959 As I lie to her, it is September 4th, 1970. 796 01:11:58,801 --> 01:12:02,362 I am in a room full of people wearing disguises. 797 01:12:03,139 --> 01:12:08,133 A very young girl looks at me and smiles. 798 01:12:08,911 --> 01:12:10,902 She's beautiful. 799 01:12:11,814 --> 01:12:17,810 After each long kiss, she plants a smaller, gentler one upon my lips... 800 01:12:17,987 --> 01:12:19,978 ...like a signature. 801 01:12:21,323 --> 01:12:24,486 Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait. 802 01:12:24,994 --> 01:12:30,261 She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older. 803 01:12:30,433 --> 01:12:32,264 It's true. 804 01:12:34,336 --> 01:12:37,362 She's aging more noticeably every day... 805 01:12:43,946 --> 01:12:46,779 ...while I am standing still. 806 01:12:47,717 --> 01:12:50,379 I prefer the stillness here. 807 01:12:51,353 --> 01:12:53,446 I am tired of Earth. 808 01:12:53,622 --> 01:12:55,283 These people. 809 01:12:55,858 --> 01:12:59,555 I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives. 810 01:13:22,384 --> 01:13:25,717 They claim their labors are to build a heaven... 811 01:13:26,288 --> 01:13:29,746 ...yet their heaven is populated with horrors. 812 01:13:30,226 --> 01:13:32,888 Perhaps the world is not made. 813 01:13:33,896 --> 01:13:35,887 Perhaps nothing is made. 814 01:13:36,732 --> 01:13:40,293 A clock without a craftsman. 815 01:13:41,237 --> 01:13:43,228 It's too late. 816 01:13:43,672 --> 01:13:45,572 Always has been... 817 01:13:46,208 --> 01:13:48,403 ...always will be... 818 01:13:48,978 --> 01:13:50,605 ...too late. 819 01:13:56,118 --> 01:13:57,813 Mr. President... 820 01:13:58,154 --> 01:14:02,591 ...the Soviets have moved their tanks to just short of the Afghan border. 821 01:14:03,259 --> 01:14:04,487 They are testing us... 822 01:14:04,660 --> 01:14:09,063 ...to see if we manufactured Dr. Manhattan's disappearance... 823 01:14:09,231 --> 01:14:11,961 ...to coax a move out of them. 824 01:14:14,103 --> 01:14:17,470 How soon can we be ready for a preemptive strike? 825 01:14:18,941 --> 01:14:19,965 Two days. 826 01:14:20,342 --> 01:14:24,039 We have a 54 percent chance of wiping out the entire U.S.S.R... 827 01:14:24,213 --> 01:14:26,272 ...before they get their missiles airborne. 828 01:14:26,849 --> 01:14:28,510 Assuming conservative projections... 829 01:14:28,684 --> 01:14:31,380 ...of how many Soviet warheads we destroy beforehand... 830 01:14:32,188 --> 01:14:34,019 ...we'll lose all of the East Coast. 831 01:14:34,790 --> 01:14:36,314 The last gasp... 832 01:14:37,193 --> 01:14:39,661 ...of the Harvard establishment. 833 01:14:40,095 --> 01:14:43,360 Let's see them think their way out of fission. 834 01:14:43,532 --> 01:14:47,093 With anticipated wind patterns, the fallout drift would head south. 835 01:14:47,269 --> 01:14:49,499 Mexico would catch the worst of it. 836 01:14:49,672 --> 01:14:51,731 Most of the farm belt might remain unaffected. 837 01:14:51,907 --> 01:14:53,534 Not so bad... 838 01:14:54,143 --> 01:14:56,941 ...all things considered. 839 01:14:59,748 --> 01:15:01,579 Mr. President... 840 01:15:01,750 --> 01:15:03,377 ...what would you like to do? 841 01:15:11,727 --> 01:15:14,025 Take us to DEFCON two. 842 01:15:14,196 --> 01:15:16,187 Begin fueling the bombers. 843 01:15:16,799 --> 01:15:19,700 Dr. Manhattan has two days. 844 01:15:20,135 --> 01:15:21,932 After that... 845 01:15:22,104 --> 01:15:25,733 ...humanity is in the hands of a higher authority than mine. 846 01:15:26,342 --> 01:15:29,311 Let's just hope he's on our side. 847 01:15:30,546 --> 01:15:32,241 Without Dr. Manhattan around... 848 01:15:32,414 --> 01:15:35,315 ...to bully the Russians into peace, Mr. Veidt... 849 01:15:35,484 --> 01:15:39,887 ...people are going to need good, old-fashioned energy to rely on. 850 01:15:40,055 --> 01:15:41,716 You can understand. 851 01:15:41,891 --> 01:15:46,988 The world can't just quit on oil and nuclear power cold turkey. 852 01:15:47,162 --> 01:15:49,392 You'll dismantle our entire economy overnight. 853 01:15:49,565 --> 01:15:52,329 You're right, Lee. And why free energy? 854 01:15:52,501 --> 01:15:55,402 Well, "free" is just another word for "socialist". 855 01:15:55,571 --> 01:15:57,539 We might have to make a public inquiry... 856 01:15:57,706 --> 01:16:00,971 ...into any past communist affiliations you might have had. 857 01:16:01,377 --> 01:16:04,244 Mr. Lacocca, gentlemen... 858 01:16:05,414 --> 01:16:07,644 ...I respect your position... 859 01:16:07,816 --> 01:16:11,718 ...and what you've accomplished as captains of industry. I do. 860 01:16:12,121 --> 01:16:14,612 You wanna know my past? Hm? 861 01:16:15,424 --> 01:16:18,154 Okay. Happily. 862 01:16:18,327 --> 01:16:21,785 It's a matter of public record that by 17, both my parents were dead... 863 01:16:21,964 --> 01:16:23,795 ...leaving me alone. 864 01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:28,167 I guess you could say I've always been alone. 865 01:16:28,337 --> 01:16:33,240 They say I'm the smartest man in the world, but the truth is I've often felt stupid... 866 01:16:33,409 --> 01:16:36,901 ...at being unable to relate to anyone. 867 01:16:37,079 --> 01:16:40,480 Well, anyone living, that is. 868 01:16:40,649 --> 01:16:42,617 The only person with whom I felt kinship... 869 01:16:42,785 --> 01:16:45,913 ...died 300 years before the birth of Christ. 870 01:16:46,088 --> 01:16:51,458 Alexander of Macedonia, or Alexander the Great, as you know him. 871 01:16:51,627 --> 01:16:54,653 His vision of a united world was... 872 01:16:57,967 --> 01:16:59,662 Well, it was unprecedented. 873 01:16:59,835 --> 01:17:01,530 I wanted... 874 01:17:01,704 --> 01:17:04,002 ...needed to match his accomplishments... 875 01:17:04,173 --> 01:17:07,370 ...so I resolved to apply antiquity's teachings to our world today. 876 01:17:07,543 --> 01:17:11,035 And so began my path to conquest. 877 01:17:11,213 --> 01:17:14,444 Conquest not of men... 878 01:17:14,616 --> 01:17:17,449 ...but of the evils that beset them. 879 01:17:17,686 --> 01:17:22,589 Fossil fuels, oil, nuclear power... 880 01:17:22,758 --> 01:17:25,591 ...are like a drug, and you, along with foreign interests... 881 01:17:25,761 --> 01:17:27,388 - ...are the pushers. - Now, listen. 882 01:17:27,963 --> 01:17:29,590 No. 883 01:17:31,934 --> 01:17:33,731 You listen. 884 01:17:34,966 --> 01:17:37,457 The world will survive... 885 01:17:37,668 --> 01:17:41,104 ...and it deserves more than you've been able to provide. 886 01:17:41,272 --> 01:17:43,866 So let's cut to it, shall we? 887 01:17:44,142 --> 01:17:46,610 I'm worth more than all of your corporations combined. 888 01:17:46,777 --> 01:17:50,372 I could buy and sell you, something you should factor into your decision... 889 01:17:50,548 --> 01:17:56,851 ...should you choose to make our disagreement public. 890 01:17:58,322 --> 01:18:00,756 I think you know the way out. 891 01:18:02,493 --> 01:18:04,222 Gentlemen. 892 01:18:06,731 --> 01:18:10,223 The toy people wanna talk to you about new villains for the Ozymandias line. 893 01:18:10,401 --> 01:18:13,859 - Seems all the old villains are dead. - Mr. Veidt? 894 01:18:14,038 --> 01:18:17,599 - I think I have some ideas. - Mr. Veidt? 895 01:18:17,775 --> 01:18:20,573 I think we got off on the wrong foot. 896 01:18:57,215 --> 01:18:58,910 He's got a poison capsule. 897 01:18:59,584 --> 01:19:04,044 Don't bite down, you son of a bitch. Who sent you? I want a name. 898 01:19:04,222 --> 01:19:05,314 Give me a name! 899 01:19:17,435 --> 01:19:18,732 Suicide pill. 900 01:19:19,837 --> 01:19:22,772 Potassium cyanide. Guy was dead before he hit the ground. 901 01:19:22,940 --> 01:19:24,771 Thanks, hon. 902 01:19:25,276 --> 01:19:27,301 Then Rorschach was right. 903 01:19:27,478 --> 01:19:29,639 This wasn't some lone nut. 904 01:19:29,814 --> 01:19:33,944 It's an organization: well-funded, well-equipped. 905 01:19:36,145 --> 01:19:38,079 But who'd wanna kill us now? 906 01:19:39,381 --> 01:19:42,509 I don't know, but it's not safe out here. 907 01:19:48,057 --> 01:19:50,025 So no word from Jon? 908 01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:52,587 No. 909 01:19:52,962 --> 01:19:54,862 Well, listen... 910 01:19:55,364 --> 01:19:57,059 ...why don't you come stay with me? 911 01:19:58,400 --> 01:20:01,392 Oh, no. That's sweet, but I wouldn't wanna impose. 912 01:20:01,871 --> 01:20:05,238 Oh, no. No. Think of it as doing me a favor. 913 01:20:07,076 --> 01:20:09,408 I wouldn't have to worry about you being out there. 914 01:20:12,815 --> 01:20:14,043 Okay. 915 01:20:17,119 --> 01:20:22,557 Rorschach's journal, October 21 st, 1985. 916 01:20:22,725 --> 01:20:26,821 On 43rd and 7th, saw Dreiberg and Jupiter leaving diner. 917 01:20:27,496 --> 01:20:30,158 They didn't know me without my mask. 918 01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:32,661 An affair? 919 01:20:32,835 --> 01:20:36,771 Did she break Manhattan's heart to engineer his exile... 920 01:20:36,939 --> 01:20:38,873 ...make room for Dreiberg? 921 01:20:39,675 --> 01:20:42,872 Does Manhattan even have a heart to break? 922 01:20:47,349 --> 01:20:51,683 Veidt's assassin was a local lowlife named Roy Chess. 923 01:20:52,254 --> 01:20:55,018 At his apartment, I found clues. 924 01:20:56,191 --> 01:20:59,922 Seems he worked at Pyramid Transnational. 925 01:21:01,230 --> 01:21:02,527 I've seen the logo before... 926 01:21:03,799 --> 01:21:04,959 ...at Moloch's. 927 01:21:09,204 --> 01:21:12,139 Someone tried to shoot the world's smartest man today, Moloch. 928 01:21:12,975 --> 01:21:15,773 Guy worked for Pyramid Transnational. 929 01:21:15,945 --> 01:21:18,072 More than a just delivery service, I take it. 930 01:21:18,247 --> 01:21:22,183 Last time I was here, I saw a pension check written from the same company. 931 01:21:22,351 --> 01:21:25,843 I'm guessing it's a front set up by whoever wants us masks dead. 932 01:21:26,021 --> 01:21:29,616 Now, no more lies, Moloch. Who runs Pyramid? 933 01:21:34,496 --> 01:21:36,123 Rorschach. 934 01:21:36,298 --> 01:21:38,664 This is the police. We know you're in there. 935 01:21:38,834 --> 01:21:40,699 No. No! 936 01:21:40,869 --> 01:21:43,997 If there's anybody in there with you, send them out unharmed. 937 01:21:44,173 --> 01:21:47,108 No. No, no, no! 938 01:21:47,276 --> 01:21:51,679 Framed. Walked right into it. Stupid, stupid, stupid! 939 01:21:51,847 --> 01:21:53,474 Never, never surrender. 940 01:21:53,649 --> 01:21:56,641 All right. I hope you're ready, hero. 941 01:21:56,819 --> 01:21:57,843 When you are. 942 01:22:20,542 --> 01:22:21,566 One... 943 01:22:26,582 --> 01:22:27,640 ...two... 944 01:22:31,654 --> 01:22:32,712 ...three. 945 01:23:24,707 --> 01:23:26,470 Come on. 946 01:23:37,286 --> 01:23:38,719 Son of a bitch. 947 01:23:39,688 --> 01:23:42,088 - Christ, he stinks. - Get that mask off him. 948 01:23:42,257 --> 01:23:45,090 - I got it. - No. No! 949 01:23:45,260 --> 01:23:47,956 My face! Give me back my face! 950 01:23:48,797 --> 01:23:51,425 The masked vigilante Rorschach was apprehended... 951 01:23:51,600 --> 01:23:55,434 ...and identified as Walter Kovacs, a 35-year-old white male. 952 01:23:55,604 --> 01:23:58,664 Little's known about Kovacs, but he was charged with the murder... 953 01:23:58,841 --> 01:24:02,675 ...of Edgar Jacobi, found shot in the head in his home in the Bronx. 954 01:24:02,845 --> 01:24:05,871 Police officers were injured and Jacobi's home was set ablaze... 955 01:24:06,048 --> 01:24:08,608 ...during the violent course of the capture. 956 01:24:12,421 --> 01:24:13,718 Rorschach! 957 01:24:13,889 --> 01:24:17,620 I'm gonna fuck you like I fucked your mother! 958 01:24:24,266 --> 01:24:27,201 Come on out, Rorschach! 959 01:24:27,369 --> 01:24:29,599 Walter Kovacs. 960 01:24:29,772 --> 01:24:32,639 Is that your name? Walter? 961 01:24:32,808 --> 01:24:36,869 Well, let me explain your situation here, Walter. 962 01:24:37,045 --> 01:24:38,603 You cooperate with me... 963 01:24:38,781 --> 01:24:43,275 ...and I may be able to convince them that you should be treated medically. 964 01:24:43,452 --> 01:24:47,013 In a hospital. I believe that would be good for you. 965 01:24:47,189 --> 01:24:53,219 But the authorities wanna put you with the general population. 966 01:24:54,096 --> 01:24:57,156 - Prison's a prison. - Uh-huh. Yes. 967 01:24:57,766 --> 01:25:01,202 But the difference is, down there... 968 01:25:01,770 --> 01:25:03,135 ...you'd be eaten alive. 969 01:25:04,106 --> 01:25:08,338 You're responsible for a lot of them being in prison here, Walter. 970 01:25:11,413 --> 01:25:12,880 Tell me what you see. 971 01:25:18,053 --> 01:25:19,714 A pretty butterfly. 972 01:25:23,525 --> 01:25:25,356 What about now? What do you see here? 973 01:25:30,465 --> 01:25:31,523 Mom? 974 01:25:31,900 --> 01:25:33,265 Is he hurting you? 975 01:25:33,435 --> 01:25:36,302 You got a fucking kid in here. I get that at home. 976 01:25:36,471 --> 01:25:39,998 Bastard. I should have had that abortion. 977 01:25:49,651 --> 01:25:51,585 Some nice flowers. 978 01:25:57,292 --> 01:25:58,953 I heard this guy's mom's a whore. 979 01:26:01,263 --> 01:26:03,993 Did you catch any diseases from her? 980 01:26:04,166 --> 01:26:08,967 Huh? Whoreson. Listen to me, retard. 981 01:26:10,272 --> 01:26:13,503 Hey, you think she'd suck my dick for a dollar? 982 01:26:32,127 --> 01:26:33,253 Clouds. 983 01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:40,930 Tell me about Rorschach. Will you do that, Walter? 984 01:26:41,103 --> 01:26:44,630 You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you. 985 01:26:45,707 --> 01:26:49,905 You don't like me. All right, why is that, exactly? 986 01:26:50,078 --> 01:26:51,443 You're fat. 987 01:26:52,047 --> 01:26:55,175 Wealthy. Liberal sensibilities. 988 01:26:55,550 --> 01:26:58,246 You wanna know about Rorschach? 989 01:26:59,721 --> 01:27:01,848 I'll tell you about Rorschach. 990 01:27:03,725 --> 01:27:06,159 I was investigating a kidnap case. 991 01:27:07,896 --> 01:27:09,761 Blaire Roche. 992 01:27:09,932 --> 01:27:13,368 Six-year-old girl. I was young then. 993 01:27:14,236 --> 01:27:16,568 Too soft on criminals. 994 01:27:17,506 --> 01:27:19,133 I let them live. 995 01:27:20,409 --> 01:27:26,143 Broke a man's arm to get a tip. Led me to the missing girl's location. 996 01:27:33,755 --> 01:27:36,189 I knew the girl was here... 997 01:27:36,358 --> 01:27:39,885 ...but when I searched the place, I saw nothing. 998 01:27:40,762 --> 01:27:43,196 And then I found her. 999 01:28:34,816 --> 01:28:38,081 It was dark when the murderer got back. 1000 01:28:40,989 --> 01:28:43,253 As dark as it gets. 1001 01:29:10,352 --> 01:29:15,221 Oh, God. Who's out there? Who is it? 1002 01:29:17,025 --> 01:29:18,151 Who is it? 1003 01:29:28,870 --> 01:29:32,306 What? What the fuck? Who the fuck are you? 1004 01:29:32,474 --> 01:29:36,968 What the fuck do you want? You killed my dogs, man! 1005 01:29:41,983 --> 01:29:46,511 You think I had something to do with that girl? I found that. 1006 01:29:46,688 --> 01:29:49,156 What evidence have you got? That's nothing. 1007 01:29:57,065 --> 01:29:59,863 Okay. I confess. 1008 01:30:01,069 --> 01:30:03,765 I kidnapped her. I killed her. 1009 01:30:04,539 --> 01:30:05,938 Arrest me. 1010 01:30:06,741 --> 01:30:08,470 What? Arrest me! 1011 01:30:10,078 --> 01:30:12,046 I did it! I said I did it! 1012 01:30:12,214 --> 01:30:13,647 Christ. 1013 01:30:13,815 --> 01:30:18,115 Look, I've got a problem, man. Fucking take me in. I need help. 1014 01:30:18,920 --> 01:30:25,655 No, don't. Don't do that. Take me in. Don't! No! 1015 01:30:30,632 --> 01:30:34,124 Men get arrested. 1016 01:30:35,537 --> 01:30:37,562 Dogs get put down. 1017 01:30:42,377 --> 01:30:44,538 Tremors of impact shook my arm. 1018 01:30:45,947 --> 01:30:48,279 Warm blood splashed my face. 1019 01:30:49,518 --> 01:30:53,614 Whatever was left of Walter Kovacs died that night with that little girl. 1020 01:30:54,623 --> 01:30:56,853 From then on, there was only Rorschach. 1021 01:30:58,393 --> 01:31:01,157 See, doctor, God didn't kill that little girl. 1022 01:31:01,630 --> 01:31:05,794 Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs. 1023 01:31:06,968 --> 01:31:10,404 If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind. 1024 01:31:12,307 --> 01:31:14,138 From then on, I knew: 1025 01:31:15,477 --> 01:31:17,809 God doesn't make the world this way. 1026 01:31:19,814 --> 01:31:21,304 We do. 1027 01:31:21,983 --> 01:31:23,177 Hey, Rorschach. 1028 01:31:24,786 --> 01:31:26,777 Hey, you're pretty famous, right? 1029 01:31:27,522 --> 01:31:29,615 Rorschach, I heard your mother was a whore. 1030 01:31:29,791 --> 01:31:33,352 Hey, you know what? I'm pretty famous too. 1031 01:31:33,528 --> 01:31:36,053 - Ain't that right? That's right. That's right. 1032 01:31:37,699 --> 01:31:40,930 Maybe I can give you an autograph. What you say, big boy? 1033 01:31:56,151 --> 01:31:59,712 None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you. 1034 01:31:59,888 --> 01:32:01,981 All right, that's it! 1035 01:32:02,824 --> 01:32:05,258 You're locked in here with me. 1036 01:33:07,122 --> 01:33:08,180 Laurie! 1037 01:33:09,391 --> 01:33:10,722 Shit. 1038 01:33:11,726 --> 01:33:13,626 Hold on. - Fuck. 1039 01:33:16,898 --> 01:33:18,388 I got it, I got it, I got it. 1040 01:33:23,071 --> 01:33:26,472 I'm so sorry. I was snooping and must have hit the wrong button. 1041 01:33:26,641 --> 01:33:28,074 - Are you hurt? - No, no. 1042 01:33:28,243 --> 01:33:31,337 - Okay. - I'm fine. I just feel so bad. 1043 01:33:31,513 --> 01:33:33,504 No, don't worry. 1044 01:33:33,682 --> 01:33:36,981 It's happened before. Comedian did it back in '77. 1045 01:33:38,086 --> 01:33:39,917 Archie survived that. 1046 01:33:40,355 --> 01:33:41,686 Archie? 1047 01:33:42,424 --> 01:33:45,882 Oh. Well, uh, short for Archimedes... 1048 01:33:46,061 --> 01:33:47,585 ...Merlin's pet owl. 1049 01:33:48,697 --> 01:33:50,358 Stupid nickname. 1050 01:33:51,433 --> 01:33:54,163 How did you ever afford all this stuff, anyway? 1051 01:33:54,336 --> 01:33:59,865 Well, my dad was in corporate banking and left me a lot of money when he died... 1052 01:34:00,608 --> 01:34:03,941 ...which always surprised me. I mean, he was... 1053 01:34:04,612 --> 01:34:07,240 I think he was disappointed I went into crime fighting... 1054 01:34:07,415 --> 01:34:09,110 ...instead of following him. 1055 01:34:09,884 --> 01:34:16,881 Guess I was just more interested in birds and airplanes, mythology and... 1056 01:34:18,293 --> 01:34:20,955 Must be nice having a secret identity. 1057 01:34:21,629 --> 01:34:23,790 A secret place that nobody knows about. 1058 01:34:23,965 --> 01:34:28,959 You can just come down here and hang out without anyone checking up on you. 1059 01:34:30,472 --> 01:34:32,804 Nobody watching you. 1060 01:34:36,144 --> 01:34:37,202 Wanna try those on? 1061 01:34:47,989 --> 01:34:49,650 There we go. 1062 01:34:52,827 --> 01:34:54,818 Wow, these rock. 1063 01:34:57,665 --> 01:34:59,963 They amplify the spectral range. 1064 01:35:00,135 --> 01:35:02,262 Thermal imaging. 1065 01:35:03,938 --> 01:35:05,929 They work even better in the dark. 1066 01:35:10,845 --> 01:35:12,608 You can see me, right? 1067 01:35:14,783 --> 01:35:17,445 I can see everything. 1068 01:35:20,188 --> 01:35:23,680 I remember, no matter how black it got... 1069 01:35:24,025 --> 01:35:28,155 ...whenever I looked through those goggles, everything was as clear as day. 1070 01:35:30,465 --> 01:35:32,797 This must be the way Jon sees the world. 1071 01:35:35,303 --> 01:35:38,136 We should probably head up. Food's getting cold. 1072 01:35:38,373 --> 01:35:40,466 Put those away when you're done. 1073 01:35:49,184 --> 01:35:51,243 Soviets are finding themselves bogged down... 1074 01:35:51,419 --> 01:35:53,148 ...in bloody house-to-house fighting. 1075 01:35:53,321 --> 01:35:55,881 Casualties on both sides are said to be in the hundreds. 1076 01:35:56,057 --> 01:35:59,117 Civilian deaths are also alarmingly high. 1077 01:35:59,294 --> 01:36:00,989 Dan. 1078 01:36:01,729 --> 01:36:03,458 Jon sees a lot of things... 1079 01:36:05,867 --> 01:36:08,165 ...but he doesn't see me. 1080 01:36:15,310 --> 01:36:16,834 Well, uh... 1081 01:36:35,063 --> 01:36:36,621 Oh. 1082 01:37:10,465 --> 01:37:11,796 Sorry. 1083 01:37:13,801 --> 01:37:15,132 Come here. 1084 01:37:21,075 --> 01:37:22,337 What's the matter? 1085 01:37:22,510 --> 01:37:24,944 - If you could just move a little... - Okay. 1086 01:37:25,113 --> 01:37:26,137 Yeah. There you go. 1087 01:37:26,314 --> 01:37:28,475 Soviet ambassador to the U.N. had no comment... 1088 01:37:28,650 --> 01:37:30,914 ...when asked if Dr. Manhattan's disappearance... 1089 01:37:31,085 --> 01:37:33,679 ...has fueled Soviet aggression in Afghanistan. 1090 01:37:33,855 --> 01:37:36,483 Dan, what's wrong? 1091 01:37:38,159 --> 01:37:39,285 Sorry, I... 1092 01:37:41,429 --> 01:37:43,659 Yeah, I just need a couple minutes. 1093 01:37:45,833 --> 01:37:47,858 Oh, hell. 1094 01:37:49,671 --> 01:37:52,003 It's been a long time, Rorschach. 1095 01:37:52,674 --> 01:37:54,164 Big Figure. 1096 01:37:54,509 --> 01:37:56,340 Small world. 1097 01:37:57,679 --> 01:37:59,169 I like that. 1098 01:37:59,948 --> 01:38:02,348 But you know, it is a small world in here. 1099 01:38:02,784 --> 01:38:05,548 And I've been in it for, how long now, Lloyd? 1100 01:38:05,720 --> 01:38:07,847 Almost 15 years, Mr. Figure. 1101 01:38:08,189 --> 01:38:09,520 That's right. 1102 01:38:10,525 --> 01:38:14,017 Fifteen years since you and that Owl fella put me away. 1103 01:38:17,031 --> 01:38:18,191 So... 1104 01:38:18,700 --> 01:38:23,467 ...Rorschach, that guy you burned is dying. Could go any minute. 1105 01:38:23,638 --> 01:38:28,837 You know, by my count, there are more than 50 people in here that you put away. 1106 01:38:29,010 --> 01:38:33,344 I been talking to every one of them and they're all dying to get a piece of you. 1107 01:38:33,514 --> 01:38:36,813 This place is gonna explode! 1108 01:38:38,386 --> 01:38:41,048 Then, you die by inches. 1109 01:38:41,990 --> 01:38:43,651 Tall order. 1110 01:38:43,891 --> 01:38:46,382 I'm gonna tear this guy a new hole. 1111 01:38:47,061 --> 01:38:50,053 Relax, Lawrence. Soon. 1112 01:38:50,898 --> 01:38:52,229 Come on. 1113 01:40:13,648 --> 01:40:14,979 Dan? 1114 01:40:21,823 --> 01:40:23,484 Is everything all right? 1115 01:40:25,827 --> 01:40:28,762 I'm tired of being afraid. 1116 01:40:29,831 --> 01:40:32,197 Afraid of war... 1117 01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:36,561 ...afraid of the mask killer... 1118 01:40:38,172 --> 01:40:41,369 ...and afraid of this goddamn suit... 1119 01:40:41,542 --> 01:40:43,510 ...and how much I need it. 1120 01:40:44,345 --> 01:40:46,006 Me too. 1121 01:40:47,515 --> 01:40:48,812 So to hell with it. 1122 01:40:49,684 --> 01:40:51,015 Let's take Archie out. 1123 01:40:56,958 --> 01:40:58,084 You're serious. 1124 01:40:58,259 --> 01:41:00,784 I used to be a masked avenger too, remember? 1125 01:41:00,962 --> 01:41:04,193 I'm used to going out at 3 in the morning and doing something stupid. 1126 01:42:06,194 --> 01:42:08,025 Rapid burner. Be advised, all units. 1127 01:42:08,196 --> 01:42:10,756 Tenement fire at 5th and Grand. Rapid burner. 1128 01:42:10,932 --> 01:42:12,263 Let's go. 1129 01:42:17,038 --> 01:42:19,404 I can see it. All right, hold on. 1130 01:42:30,351 --> 01:42:31,682 Dan, there are kids in there. 1131 01:42:31,853 --> 01:42:34,014 Everyone, stay where you are and remain calm. 1132 01:42:34,188 --> 01:42:36,383 We're gonna get you out of there. 1133 01:42:36,557 --> 01:42:38,718 The roof's starting to cave. Get me in there. 1134 01:42:38,893 --> 01:42:40,360 I'm gonna get you close. 1135 01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:40,485 Let's go. 1136 01:43:40,655 --> 01:43:42,782 Watch your step. All right. 1137 01:43:45,126 --> 01:43:46,150 We're all set. 1138 01:43:47,194 --> 01:43:48,855 Is that everyone? 1139 01:44:13,421 --> 01:44:15,719 Bye. Bye! 1140 01:44:19,327 --> 01:44:20,885 I can't believe we did that. 1141 01:44:22,863 --> 01:44:25,331 - They'll lock us up with Rorschach. - Who cares? 1142 01:44:25,499 --> 01:44:27,467 World War llI could start tomorrow. 1143 01:44:29,570 --> 01:44:30,901 Right? 1144 01:44:32,573 --> 01:44:33,904 Right. 1145 01:46:40,534 --> 01:46:42,434 Come back here! 1146 01:46:45,039 --> 01:46:46,734 He's dead, Rorschach. 1147 01:46:46,907 --> 01:46:51,105 While everyone's distracted, we thought we'd bring you a housewarming gift. 1148 01:46:51,278 --> 01:46:53,439 Something from the machine shop. 1149 01:46:55,049 --> 01:46:56,676 Hey, boss, you notice? 1150 01:46:56,851 --> 01:46:59,877 None of that "small world, tall order" crap. 1151 01:47:00,054 --> 01:47:03,285 He knows once we slice open his lock, he's next on the block. 1152 01:47:03,724 --> 01:47:04,850 Fat chance. 1153 01:47:05,559 --> 01:47:06,685 You're dead, Rorschach! 1154 01:47:06,861 --> 01:47:10,524 We got a prison full of killers out here. What do you got? 1155 01:47:13,467 --> 01:47:15,901 Your hands, my pleasure. 1156 01:47:17,905 --> 01:47:19,896 Can't reach the lock. Should I cut the bars? 1157 01:47:20,074 --> 01:47:23,373 This riot won't last. I been waiting 15 years for this. 1158 01:47:24,512 --> 01:47:27,879 I'm sorry, Lawrence, but you're in the way of my revenge. 1159 01:47:31,585 --> 01:47:33,314 Nothing personal, big guy. 1160 01:47:34,755 --> 01:47:36,746 Boss! Wait! 1161 01:47:50,037 --> 01:47:51,834 Now you find out what the score is. 1162 01:47:52,273 --> 01:47:55,401 One-nothing. Come and get me. 1163 01:48:01,448 --> 01:48:03,109 Come on. 1164 01:48:03,284 --> 01:48:04,911 So I've been thinking. 1165 01:48:05,786 --> 01:48:09,950 I feel that we have an obligation to our fraternity. 1166 01:48:10,791 --> 01:48:13,851 - I think we ought to spring Rorschach. What? 1167 01:48:14,028 --> 01:48:15,791 Someone set him up. 1168 01:48:16,630 --> 01:48:20,225 And this whole cancer thing with Jon, it just doesn't make sense. 1169 01:48:20,401 --> 01:48:22,335 You didn't get it. 1170 01:48:22,636 --> 01:48:25,070 Yeah, but breaking into a maximum-security prison... 1171 01:48:25,239 --> 01:48:28,902 - ...is a little different than putting out a fire. - Yeah, you're right. 1172 01:48:29,810 --> 01:48:31,641 It'll be more fun. 1173 01:48:35,816 --> 01:48:38,808 Hurry, Lloyd. I wanna smell this son of a bitch cooking. 1174 01:48:44,091 --> 01:48:45,820 Yes. 1175 01:48:50,564 --> 01:48:51,588 No. 1176 01:49:05,512 --> 01:49:10,347 Never disposed of sewage with a toilet before. Obvious, really. 1177 01:49:11,185 --> 01:49:14,484 Two-nothing. Your move. 1178 01:49:17,491 --> 01:49:18,549 Get out of the way! 1179 01:49:52,221 --> 01:49:53,779 No. No. 1180 01:49:54,423 --> 01:49:55,822 Where's my face? 1181 01:49:58,360 --> 01:50:00,089 Don't kill me. 1182 01:50:03,766 --> 01:50:05,165 Your turn, doctor. 1183 01:50:05,334 --> 01:50:08,531 Tell me, what do you see? 1184 01:51:34,690 --> 01:51:36,419 Don't move! 1185 01:51:44,700 --> 01:51:46,463 Rorschach. 1186 01:51:46,969 --> 01:51:49,767 Daniel. Miss Jupiter. 1187 01:51:49,938 --> 01:51:53,339 Excuse me. Have to visit men's room. 1188 01:51:53,876 --> 01:51:55,844 Oh, for chrissake. 1189 01:52:56,672 --> 01:52:58,799 Are you all right? 1190 01:53:00,242 --> 01:53:02,437 Yeah. Just... 1191 01:53:02,878 --> 01:53:04,140 ...heavy, you know? 1192 01:53:04,947 --> 01:53:07,040 War, jailbreak. 1193 01:53:07,583 --> 01:53:12,452 Don't worry about it. Okay? Everything's gonna be fine. 1194 01:53:17,459 --> 01:53:20,485 - Hello, Laurie. - Jon. 1195 01:53:20,662 --> 01:53:24,291 - TV said you were on Mars. - I am on Mars. 1196 01:53:24,867 --> 01:53:27,267 You and I are about to have a conversation there. 1197 01:53:27,436 --> 01:53:28,903 What are you talking about? 1198 01:53:29,071 --> 01:53:31,733 You're going to try to convince me to save the world. 1199 01:53:37,646 --> 01:53:40,638 - Laurie, don't. - Dan, trust me. 1200 01:53:40,816 --> 01:53:42,477 I have to go. 1201 01:53:48,156 --> 01:53:50,147 Beautiful, isn't it? 1202 01:53:54,997 --> 01:53:57,932 Forgive me. These things sometimes slip my mind. 1203 01:53:59,334 --> 01:54:01,165 It won't happen again. 1204 01:54:02,838 --> 01:54:04,829 That's comforting. 1205 01:54:07,175 --> 01:54:08,836 Oh, my God. 1206 01:54:09,511 --> 01:54:11,342 I'm on Mars. 1207 01:54:12,848 --> 01:54:17,182 We need to hit up underworld contacts, squeeze people. 1208 01:54:17,352 --> 01:54:20,082 Sure, why don't we just pick names out of a phone book? 1209 01:54:20,255 --> 01:54:22,382 You forgot how we do things, Daniel. 1210 01:54:22,557 --> 01:54:27,017 You've gone too soft. Too trusting. Especially with women. 1211 01:54:27,195 --> 01:54:29,288 Okay, no. Listen, I've had it with that. 1212 01:54:29,464 --> 01:54:31,489 God, who do you think you are, Rorschach? 1213 01:54:31,667 --> 01:54:33,760 You live off people while insulting them... 1214 01:54:33,936 --> 01:54:37,736 ...and no one complains because they think you're a goddamn lunatic. 1215 01:54:49,718 --> 01:54:51,549 I'm sorry. 1216 01:54:54,222 --> 01:54:56,383 I shouldn't have said that, man. 1217 01:54:58,393 --> 01:54:59,724 Daniel... 1218 01:55:01,229 --> 01:55:03,697 ...you are a good friend. 1219 01:55:06,568 --> 01:55:09,731 I know it can be difficult with me sometimes. 1220 01:55:16,244 --> 01:55:17,734 Forget it. 1221 01:55:18,914 --> 01:55:20,575 It's okay, man. 1222 01:55:21,850 --> 01:55:23,442 Let's do it your way. 1223 01:55:42,504 --> 01:55:43,801 Oh, God. 1224 01:55:43,972 --> 01:55:48,341 Pyramid Transnational. Anyone heard of it? 1225 01:55:55,817 --> 01:55:57,307 Oh, you bastards. 1226 01:55:57,486 --> 01:56:00,580 I buy everyone a round and you sell me out like this? 1227 01:56:01,790 --> 01:56:05,089 Back off, or I'll stick this glass in your squidgy face. 1228 01:56:06,795 --> 01:56:09,730 Everybody stay calm. We'll try to keep this brief. 1229 01:56:09,898 --> 01:56:12,196 Roy Chess. On Pyramid payroll. 1230 01:56:12,367 --> 01:56:16,861 Tried to kill Adrian Veidt. Dead now. Did you know him? 1231 01:56:17,039 --> 01:56:18,734 No. 1232 01:56:20,075 --> 01:56:21,337 Yeah, yeah! 1233 01:56:21,510 --> 01:56:24,445 - I hired him. I knew him from the inside. - You're a felon. 1234 01:56:24,613 --> 01:56:27,582 I was. I've been straight ever since I got out, I swear. 1235 01:56:27,749 --> 01:56:31,480 I barely knew Chess that well, but I was told to hire from the old life. 1236 01:56:31,653 --> 01:56:35,248 - Told by whom? - My contact, Miss Slater. 1237 01:56:35,424 --> 01:56:38,018 Janey Slater works for Pyramid too? 1238 01:56:38,193 --> 01:56:42,152 Yeah, she was real nice. She said hiring ex-cons was part of the company program. 1239 01:56:42,330 --> 01:56:46,027 Give people a second chance. God, please let go! I'm telling the truth! 1240 01:56:50,172 --> 01:56:53,403 Janey Slater, Manhattan's old girlfriend. 1241 01:56:53,575 --> 01:56:56,271 Adrian might help us find out who's underwriting Pyramid. 1242 01:56:56,445 --> 01:56:57,878 Follow the money. 1243 01:57:00,348 --> 01:57:03,511 This is where we hold our conversation. 1244 01:57:04,252 --> 01:57:09,315 In it, you ask me to stop the imminent nuclear war. 1245 01:57:09,858 --> 01:57:12,520 But why would I save a world... 1246 01:57:12,694 --> 01:57:14,958 ...I no longer have any stake in? 1247 01:57:17,065 --> 01:57:19,124 Then do it for me. 1248 01:57:20,001 --> 01:57:21,400 If you really care. 1249 01:57:21,570 --> 01:57:25,006 When you left me, I left Earth. 1250 01:57:25,173 --> 01:57:28,074 Does that not show you that I care? 1251 01:57:31,279 --> 01:57:34,214 My red world here, now... 1252 01:57:35,217 --> 01:57:38,118 ...means more to me than your blue one. 1253 01:57:38,887 --> 01:57:40,616 Let me show you. 1254 01:57:58,740 --> 01:58:01,675 Bombers are fueled and ready, sir. 1255 01:58:11,019 --> 01:58:13,249 It's time, gentlemen. 1256 01:58:15,357 --> 01:58:17,757 Take us to DEFCON one. 1257 01:58:23,131 --> 01:58:26,225 Not in penthouse. Not in office. 1258 01:58:26,401 --> 01:58:29,302 What nocturnal proclivities entice a man with everything... 1259 01:58:29,471 --> 01:58:31,234 ...out into the night at this hour? 1260 01:58:31,406 --> 01:58:33,169 I'm gonna look for Adrian's itinerary. 1261 01:58:33,341 --> 01:58:36,105 Maybe he keeps on file. 1262 01:58:40,782 --> 01:58:43,250 - Something's not right. - Agreed. 1263 01:58:43,418 --> 01:58:48,185 Janey Slater, Moloch, Roy Chess all work for Pyramid. 1264 01:58:48,356 --> 01:58:52,986 Moloch said the Comedian mentioned list with his and Slater's name on it. 1265 01:58:53,161 --> 01:58:56,460 Whoever owns Pyramid could be giving these people cancer. 1266 01:58:56,631 --> 01:58:59,099 Setting Manhattan up. 1267 01:59:13,248 --> 01:59:14,408 Funny. 1268 01:59:14,583 --> 01:59:18,075 Ancient pharaohs looked forward to the end of the world. 1269 01:59:18,253 --> 01:59:23,281 Believed cadavers would rise, reclaim hearts from golden jars. 1270 01:59:23,925 --> 01:59:26,553 Must currently be holding breath in anticipation. 1271 01:59:26,728 --> 01:59:27,956 Pharaohs? 1272 01:59:34,836 --> 01:59:36,861 Got a psych profile on Manhattan. 1273 01:59:37,505 --> 01:59:39,973 See what the corporate head-peepers say. 1274 01:59:42,010 --> 01:59:44,535 "Subject continues to retreat emotionally. 1275 01:59:46,848 --> 01:59:49,908 If the only remaining ties were to be severed... 1276 01:59:50,518 --> 01:59:54,477 ...we predict total detachment from the human condition". 1277 01:59:58,593 --> 02:00:00,356 I'm in. 1278 02:00:29,224 --> 02:00:30,555 No. 1279 02:00:32,727 --> 02:00:38,495 Congratulations, Mr. Veidt. Dr. Manhattan's energy reactor is online. 1280 02:00:38,667 --> 02:00:42,535 Your support and your enthusiasm... 1281 02:00:42,704 --> 02:00:45,002 ...is what has led to this triumph. 1282 02:00:45,173 --> 02:00:49,200 On behalf of the research team, we salute you. 1283 02:00:49,377 --> 02:00:51,811 - Cheers. - Cheers. 1284 02:00:52,580 --> 02:00:56,710 What in life does not deserve celebrating? 1285 02:00:57,652 --> 02:01:01,748 This is the new Karnak. 1286 02:01:01,923 --> 02:01:05,518 This represents the culmination of a dream more than 2000 years old... 1287 02:01:05,694 --> 02:01:11,963 ...a dream now assured because of your unquestioning assistance. 1288 02:01:14,102 --> 02:01:15,763 And for this... 1289 02:01:16,604 --> 02:01:18,936 ...I am ashamed... 1290 02:01:20,108 --> 02:01:24,442 ...ashamed that you must now share such inadequate a reward. 1291 02:01:26,114 --> 02:01:28,105 To the pharaohs... 1292 02:01:29,050 --> 02:01:32,042 ...their greatest secrets entrusted to their servants... 1293 02:01:32,687 --> 02:01:37,021 ...buried alive with them in sand-floored chambers. 1294 02:01:37,892 --> 02:01:40,292 Sleep well, gentlemen. 1295 02:01:40,962 --> 02:01:44,295 Our new, peaceful world will be indebted... 1296 02:01:44,632 --> 02:01:47,192 ...to your great sacrifice. 1297 02:01:48,136 --> 02:01:50,331 Bubastis. 1298 02:01:54,509 --> 02:01:57,501 Rorschach's journal. Final entry. 1299 02:01:57,846 --> 02:02:00,337 Veidt's behind everything. 1300 02:02:00,515 --> 02:02:02,107 Why? 1301 02:02:02,283 --> 02:02:04,342 What's his endgame? 1302 02:02:04,519 --> 02:02:08,182 I cannot imagine a more dangerous opponent. 1303 02:02:08,390 --> 02:02:11,826 Used to joke he was fast enough to catch a bullet. 1304 02:02:11,993 --> 02:02:14,894 He could kill us both alone in the snow. 1305 02:02:15,063 --> 02:02:18,760 That's where we're going now: Antarctica. 1306 02:02:18,933 --> 02:02:21,697 Whether I'm alive or dead upon this reading... 1307 02:02:21,870 --> 02:02:26,136 ...I hope the world survives long enough for this journal to reach you. 1308 02:02:26,307 --> 02:02:28,867 I live my life free of compromise... 1309 02:02:29,043 --> 02:02:32,979 ...and step into the shadow without complaint or regret. 1310 02:02:33,615 --> 02:02:36,607 Rorschach, November 1 st. 1311 02:02:36,785 --> 02:02:40,312 Can't you just tell me how this ends and save us the trouble? 1312 02:02:41,289 --> 02:02:43,189 It ends with you in tears. 1313 02:02:43,358 --> 02:02:46,953 Tears? So you don't come back to Earth. 1314 02:02:47,128 --> 02:02:50,564 At some point, yes. 1315 02:02:51,633 --> 02:02:54,568 The streets are filled with death. 1316 02:02:54,736 --> 02:02:56,795 Jon, please. 1317 02:02:56,971 --> 02:03:01,533 You have to stop this. Everyone will die. 1318 02:03:01,709 --> 02:03:06,043 And the universe will not even notice. 1319 02:03:08,483 --> 02:03:12,715 In my opinion, the existence of life... 1320 02:03:13,588 --> 02:03:16,580 ...is a highly overrated phenomenon. 1321 02:03:18,493 --> 02:03:20,791 Just look around you. 1322 02:03:23,531 --> 02:03:27,865 Mars gets along perfectly well without so much as a microorganism. 1323 02:03:28,503 --> 02:03:33,065 Here, it's a constantly changing topographical map... 1324 02:03:33,241 --> 02:03:39,180 ...flowing and shifting around the pole in ripples 10,000 years wide. 1325 02:03:40,014 --> 02:03:41,504 So tell me... 1326 02:03:41,683 --> 02:03:46,052 ...how would all of this be greatly improved by an oil pipeline? 1327 02:03:46,521 --> 02:03:48,512 By a shopping mall? 1328 02:03:52,861 --> 02:03:57,161 So it's too much to ask for a miracle? 1329 02:03:57,332 --> 02:03:59,459 Miracles, by their definition, are meaningless. 1330 02:03:59,634 --> 02:04:01,124 Oh, God, Jon! 1331 02:04:01,302 --> 02:04:06,365 - Only what can happen does happen. - Just stop your bullshit. 1332 02:04:07,442 --> 02:04:09,967 Land this thing. Now. 1333 02:04:10,144 --> 02:04:12,704 As you wish. 1334 02:04:18,319 --> 02:04:19,377 You know what? 1335 02:04:19,554 --> 02:04:22,250 You can send me back to Earth to fry with Dan and my mom... 1336 02:04:22,423 --> 02:04:24,789 ...and all the other worthless humans. 1337 02:04:24,959 --> 02:04:28,395 But know that you were wrong. You said this ended with me in tears... 1338 02:04:28,563 --> 02:04:32,727 ...and look: nothing. Maybe you were wrong about everything. 1339 02:04:32,901 --> 02:04:38,168 You complain that I refuse to see life on life's terms... 1340 02:04:38,907 --> 02:04:42,673 ...yet you continuously refuse to see things from my perspective. 1341 02:04:42,844 --> 02:04:47,247 - You shut out what you're afraid of. - I'm not afraid. 1342 02:04:47,415 --> 02:04:52,443 You want me to see things your way? Go ahead, show me. Do that thing you do. 1343 02:04:59,594 --> 02:05:04,691 Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it! 1344 02:05:04,866 --> 02:05:07,926 It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about? 1345 02:05:08,102 --> 02:05:10,229 I put food on the table for you and your child. 1346 02:05:10,405 --> 02:05:13,203 Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life. 1347 02:05:13,942 --> 02:05:16,638 Even the grimy parts of it... 1348 02:05:17,011 --> 02:05:19,241 ...keep on getting brighter. 1349 02:05:19,581 --> 02:05:21,378 You're Sally Jupiter's kid. 1350 02:05:22,283 --> 02:05:24,080 You're the Comedian, right? 1351 02:05:24,852 --> 02:05:26,581 You were pretty cool in there. 1352 02:05:26,988 --> 02:05:30,583 You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties. 1353 02:05:30,758 --> 02:05:35,195 - You got her eyes, you know. You got- - Take your hands off her. 1354 02:05:35,363 --> 02:05:37,490 Hey, doll. Long time no see. 1355 02:05:37,665 --> 02:05:40,429 Not long enough in my book, Eddie. Get in the car. 1356 02:05:40,935 --> 02:05:42,800 Now. 1357 02:05:43,771 --> 02:05:45,762 Are there no depths you won't sink to? 1358 02:05:45,940 --> 02:05:49,774 Jesus Christ, Sally. Can't a guy talk to his... 1359 02:05:50,478 --> 02:05:52,173 ...you know, old friend's daughter? 1360 02:05:54,482 --> 02:05:55,813 Drive. 1361 02:06:01,823 --> 02:06:04,621 It was a mistake. One time. 1362 02:06:04,926 --> 02:06:08,089 Guy tries to rape you, and years later, you let him finish the job? 1363 02:06:08,329 --> 02:06:11,025 What? Were you drunk or just lonely? 1364 02:06:11,199 --> 02:06:14,134 Am I ever gonna live this down? 1365 02:06:17,505 --> 02:06:18,631 Laurie. 1366 02:06:23,511 --> 02:06:24,842 No. 1367 02:06:26,848 --> 02:06:29,339 No, not him. 1368 02:06:29,517 --> 02:06:31,610 The Comedian... 1369 02:06:32,020 --> 02:06:34,113 ...was your father. 1370 02:06:35,590 --> 02:06:37,285 No. 1371 02:06:40,595 --> 02:06:46,295 No! No! No! 1372 02:07:18,900 --> 02:07:20,891 My life is just... 1373 02:07:21,569 --> 02:07:23,696 ...one big joke. 1374 02:07:23,871 --> 02:07:26,431 I don't think your life is a joke. 1375 02:07:28,076 --> 02:07:30,067 Yeah, well... 1376 02:07:31,913 --> 02:07:36,077 ...I'm sorry if I don't trust your sense of humor. 1377 02:07:44,258 --> 02:07:45,919 Will you smile... 1378 02:07:47,595 --> 02:07:50,063 ...if I admit I was wrong? 1379 02:07:52,934 --> 02:07:54,925 About what? 1380 02:07:56,938 --> 02:07:58,428 Miracles. 1381 02:08:00,108 --> 02:08:03,271 Events with astronomical odds of occurring... 1382 02:08:04,112 --> 02:08:06,603 ...like oxygen turning into gold. 1383 02:08:06,781 --> 02:08:11,616 I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect... 1384 02:08:12,286 --> 02:08:14,652 ...that in human coupling... 1385 02:08:15,456 --> 02:08:19,324 ...millions upon millions of cells compete to create life... 1386 02:08:19,794 --> 02:08:22,592 ...for generation after generation... 1387 02:08:23,464 --> 02:08:26,524 ...until finally, your mother... 1388 02:08:26,901 --> 02:08:28,095 ...loves a man... 1389 02:08:28,736 --> 02:08:32,331 ...Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate... 1390 02:08:32,507 --> 02:08:36,500 ...and out of that contradiction, against unfathomable odds... 1391 02:08:37,178 --> 02:08:39,078 ...it's you... 1392 02:08:40,815 --> 02:08:42,146 Only... 1393 02:08:42,817 --> 02:08:44,307 ...you. 1394 02:08:45,153 --> 02:08:46,415 ...that emerged. 1395 02:08:46,988 --> 02:08:51,482 To distill so specific a form... 1396 02:08:51,659 --> 02:08:53,923 ...from all that chaos... 1397 02:08:55,830 --> 02:08:58,799 ...is like turning air into gold. 1398 02:09:03,171 --> 02:09:05,162 A miracle. 1399 02:09:08,676 --> 02:09:10,166 And so... 1400 02:09:10,678 --> 02:09:12,509 ...I was wrong. 1401 02:09:14,515 --> 02:09:18,349 Now dry your eyes, and let's go home. 1402 02:09:45,880 --> 02:09:49,907 We got a bearing on that artificial structure. Heat signature's off the charts. 1403 02:09:50,885 --> 02:09:53,979 - Veidt. - I don't like the way Archie's kicking. 1404 02:10:02,396 --> 02:10:05,229 - The engines. - They're icing up. Hold onto something. 1405 02:10:06,000 --> 02:10:08,025 Daniel, you're coming in too low. 1406 02:10:10,905 --> 02:10:14,068 Don't wish to interfere, but perhaps should pull up sharply... 1407 02:10:14,242 --> 02:10:18,178 I know! I'm trying. I'm trying to pull him up, goddamn it! 1408 02:10:45,439 --> 02:10:49,068 I'm gonna redirect the heat from the flamethrower to speed up deicing... 1409 02:10:49,243 --> 02:10:52,110 ...but it's gonna take a while and we don't have time to wait. 1410 02:10:53,614 --> 02:10:55,081 You need something warmer. 1411 02:10:55,616 --> 02:10:57,777 Fine like this. 1412 02:11:27,281 --> 02:11:29,146 What is it, girl? 1413 02:11:31,452 --> 02:11:33,147 Mm. 1414 02:11:58,746 --> 02:12:01,010 Adrian's a pacifist. 1415 02:12:01,215 --> 02:12:05,845 He's a vegetarian, for chrissakes. He's never killed anyone in his life. 1416 02:12:06,020 --> 02:12:07,419 Hitler was vegetarian. 1417 02:12:07,588 --> 02:12:12,116 You're squeamish, leave him to me. We won't get second chance. 1418 02:13:23,364 --> 02:13:24,695 Gentlemen. 1419 02:13:25,199 --> 02:13:29,135 - Welcome. - Adrian, we know everything. 1420 02:13:29,303 --> 02:13:31,066 Then what's there to discuss, Dan? 1421 02:13:31,238 --> 02:13:34,230 Plenty. You killed Comedian. 1422 02:13:34,408 --> 02:13:35,932 May he rest in peace. 1423 02:13:36,444 --> 02:13:39,038 Blake figured it out first. 1424 02:13:39,213 --> 02:13:43,274 Nixon had him keeping tabs on us, making sure we weren't rocking the boat. 1425 02:13:44,218 --> 02:13:46,482 Blake found out what I was doing here in Karnak... 1426 02:13:46,654 --> 02:13:50,715 ...and by the time he visited poor Moloch, he was cracking badly. 1427 02:13:50,891 --> 02:13:54,156 Even I couldn't predict he'd be the one to have a change of heart. 1428 02:13:54,895 --> 02:13:56,419 So... 1429 02:13:57,465 --> 02:13:59,399 ...I had to kill him. 1430 02:13:59,967 --> 02:14:03,733 Then I neutralized Jon. No easy task. 1431 02:14:03,904 --> 02:14:06,372 I put roughly $2 billion into tachyon research... 1432 02:14:06,540 --> 02:14:08,565 ...to block Jon's vision of the future. 1433 02:14:08,742 --> 02:14:11,006 You used his psych profile to manipulate him. 1434 02:14:11,512 --> 02:14:12,979 Got him to leave the planet. 1435 02:14:13,147 --> 02:14:16,548 I've known Jon long enough to see he isn't devoid of emotion. 1436 02:14:16,717 --> 02:14:20,619 His subtle facial twitches wouldn't be noticed by the layman, but to me... 1437 02:14:20,788 --> 02:14:22,619 ...he might as well have been sobbing. 1438 02:14:22,990 --> 02:14:26,118 All I needed to do was tug on the thread. 1439 02:14:26,293 --> 02:14:28,193 The sudden flood of emotion Jon felt... 1440 02:14:28,362 --> 02:14:31,957 ...when he came to believe he'd given cancer to the people he loved... 1441 02:14:32,133 --> 02:14:34,260 ...was all the excuse he needed to leave Earth. 1442 02:14:34,435 --> 02:14:38,269 Your bullshit assassin. You paid him to throw us off. 1443 02:14:38,439 --> 02:14:43,103 Mr. Chess gave his life in the service of a higher cause, Dan. 1444 02:14:45,246 --> 02:14:48,340 I put a cyanide capsule in his mouth... 1445 02:14:48,516 --> 02:14:51,110 ...leaving only one loose end: 1446 02:14:51,719 --> 02:14:55,155 You, and your mask-killer theory... 1447 02:14:55,322 --> 02:14:58,450 ...one you followed with the tenacity of a true sociopath. 1448 02:14:58,626 --> 02:15:00,321 I tipped off the police. 1449 02:15:00,494 --> 02:15:02,894 Once you were in prison, I was able to move forward. 1450 02:15:03,063 --> 02:15:05,691 Sorry to disappoint you. 1451 02:15:18,879 --> 02:15:21,347 We were supposed to make the world a better place. 1452 02:15:21,515 --> 02:15:23,244 Dan, that's exactly what I am doing. 1453 02:15:23,417 --> 02:15:24,748 Nuclear war? 1454 02:15:24,919 --> 02:15:27,080 Human extinction? 1455 02:15:36,730 --> 02:15:41,633 Of course, my moral safeguards gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice. 1456 02:15:41,802 --> 02:15:44,771 A few key regions around the globe... 1457 02:15:44,939 --> 02:15:50,400 New York, Los Angeles, Moscow, Hong Kong. 1458 02:15:50,578 --> 02:15:52,239 ...disintegrated in an instant. 1459 02:15:52,980 --> 02:15:56,313 Fifteen million people killed... 1460 02:15:56,483 --> 02:15:58,542 ...by Dr. Manhattan himself. 1461 02:15:59,753 --> 02:16:02,551 The world's punishment for flirting with World War III. 1462 02:16:02,723 --> 02:16:03,849 Jon wouldn't do that. 1463 02:16:04,425 --> 02:16:07,121 A fact no one outside this room ever has to know. 1464 02:16:07,761 --> 02:16:11,561 The energy breakthrough I was working on just came to fruition. 1465 02:16:12,166 --> 02:16:16,159 All these years, Jon was helping me replicate his power... 1466 02:16:16,337 --> 02:16:18,862 ...unaware of how I planned to use it. 1467 02:16:19,039 --> 02:16:21,030 You see... 1468 02:16:21,942 --> 02:16:24,342 ...the Comedian was right. 1469 02:16:25,045 --> 02:16:30,039 Humanity's savage nature will inevitably lead to global annihilation. 1470 02:16:30,217 --> 02:16:33,015 So in order to save this planet... 1471 02:16:33,287 --> 02:16:35,346 ...I had to trick it... 1472 02:16:35,723 --> 02:16:39,750 ...with the greatest practical joke in human history. 1473 02:16:40,027 --> 02:16:43,428 - Killing millions. - To save billions. 1474 02:16:43,964 --> 02:16:45,932 A necessary crime. 1475 02:16:46,100 --> 02:16:48,261 You know we can't let you do that. 1476 02:16:49,703 --> 02:16:51,830 "Do that," Rorschach? 1477 02:16:52,006 --> 02:16:53,633 I'm not a comic-book villain. 1478 02:16:54,475 --> 02:16:56,739 Do you think I'd explain my masterstroke to you... 1479 02:16:56,910 --> 02:17:01,074 ...if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome? 1480 02:17:03,817 --> 02:17:06,615 I triggered it 35 minutes ago. 1481 02:18:46,086 --> 02:18:49,078 Jesus Christ, Henry. 1482 02:18:49,256 --> 02:18:51,451 Why the hell didn't we get a launch detection? 1483 02:18:53,360 --> 02:18:57,797 It's not the Soviets, sir. 1484 02:18:58,365 --> 02:19:01,528 Intel indicates the energy signature... 1485 02:19:01,702 --> 02:19:04,136 ...was generated by... 1486 02:19:05,105 --> 02:19:07,539 ...Dr. Manhattan. 1487 02:19:10,377 --> 02:19:11,935 Jon. 1488 02:19:14,948 --> 02:19:16,074 Interference. 1489 02:19:16,683 --> 02:19:18,583 Cataclysmic interference. 1490 02:19:28,295 --> 02:19:31,059 I can't believe it happened. 1491 02:19:32,065 --> 02:19:35,557 This wasn't caused by nuclear warheads. 1492 02:19:39,640 --> 02:19:40,937 It was me. 1493 02:19:42,976 --> 02:19:44,568 I... 1494 02:19:45,145 --> 02:19:46,169 ...did this. 1495 02:19:46,814 --> 02:19:50,272 - What do you mean, you did this? - Not directly. 1496 02:19:51,251 --> 02:19:53,947 It was made to look like I did it. 1497 02:19:56,990 --> 02:19:58,423 Adrian. 1498 02:20:04,698 --> 02:20:06,689 Speak of the devil. 1499 02:20:09,837 --> 02:20:10,861 Jon- I know. 1500 02:20:11,038 --> 02:20:13,199 Must stop him. Killed Blake, killed millions. 1501 02:20:13,373 --> 02:20:14,704 Wait here. 1502 02:20:25,853 --> 02:20:28,219 Adrian, stop this. 1503 02:20:29,690 --> 02:20:31,555 The tachyons were clever... 1504 02:20:32,693 --> 02:20:37,027 ...but even if I can't predict where you are, I can turn the walls to glass. 1505 02:20:38,365 --> 02:20:40,833 I should thank you. 1506 02:20:42,002 --> 02:20:45,199 I'd almost forgotten the excitement of not knowing... 1507 02:20:46,206 --> 02:20:49,198 ...the delights of uncertainty. 1508 02:20:53,380 --> 02:20:55,041 Forgive me, girl. 1509 02:21:18,005 --> 02:21:19,700 You're such an asshole. 1510 02:21:53,640 --> 02:21:55,574 Veidt, you bastard. 1511 02:21:55,742 --> 02:21:58,210 - If you've hurt her, I'Il- - Dan... 1512 02:21:59,947 --> 02:22:04,543 ...grow up. My new world demands less obvious heroism. 1513 02:22:04,718 --> 02:22:06,709 Your... 1514 02:22:06,887 --> 02:22:11,847 ...schoolboy heroics are redundant. What have they achieved? 1515 02:22:13,460 --> 02:22:16,327 Failing to prevent Earth's salvation... 1516 02:22:17,297 --> 02:22:19,697 ...is your only triumph. 1517 02:22:19,900 --> 02:22:21,800 I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. 1518 02:22:22,603 --> 02:22:26,095 I'm very disappointed. 1519 02:22:38,485 --> 02:22:41,648 Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. 1520 02:22:42,322 --> 02:22:44,722 It didn't kill Osterman. 1521 02:22:47,327 --> 02:22:49,693 Did you really think it would kill me? 1522 02:22:50,998 --> 02:22:54,161 I have walked across the surface of the sun. 1523 02:22:54,668 --> 02:22:57,831 I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast... 1524 02:22:58,005 --> 02:23:01,065 ...they can hardly be said to have occurred at all... 1525 02:23:01,241 --> 02:23:04,870 ...but you, Adrian, you're just a man. 1526 02:23:06,013 --> 02:23:08,504 The world's smartest man... 1527 02:23:08,682 --> 02:23:11,242 ...poses no more threat to me... 1528 02:23:11,418 --> 02:23:14,546 ...than does its smartest termite. 1529 02:23:16,823 --> 02:23:18,290 What's that? 1530 02:23:18,692 --> 02:23:20,557 Another ultimate weapon? 1531 02:23:21,194 --> 02:23:22,923 Yes. 1532 02:23:24,531 --> 02:23:25,998 You could say that. 1533 02:23:29,536 --> 02:23:31,470 ...came under attack. 1534 02:23:32,305 --> 02:23:35,638 Millions of lives were suddenly ended... 1535 02:23:35,976 --> 02:23:41,175 ...in an act of evil perpetrated by Dr. Manhattan himself. 1536 02:23:42,983 --> 02:23:46,919 Since the attacks, I have been in constant contact... 1537 02:23:47,087 --> 02:23:50,079 ...with the premier of the U.S.S.R. 1538 02:23:50,490 --> 02:23:53,323 Putting aside our past differences... 1539 02:23:53,660 --> 02:23:55,821 ...we have both pledged to unite... 1540 02:23:56,163 --> 02:23:59,496 ...against this common enemy. 1541 02:24:00,000 --> 02:24:01,991 With the rest of the world... 1542 02:24:02,436 --> 02:24:04,461 ...we will prevail. 1543 02:24:07,007 --> 02:24:09,999 This is a day we shall never forget. 1544 02:24:10,177 --> 02:24:14,375 And yet we go forward to defend the human race... 1545 02:24:14,548 --> 02:24:19,178 ...and all that is good and just in our world. 1546 02:24:20,520 --> 02:24:24,752 Thank you. God bless us all. 1547 02:24:25,125 --> 02:24:26,922 Do you see? 1548 02:24:29,129 --> 02:24:31,597 Two superpowers retreating from war. 1549 02:24:33,200 --> 02:24:35,634 I've saved the earth from hell. 1550 02:24:35,802 --> 02:24:37,770 We both have. 1551 02:24:38,238 --> 02:24:40,433 This is as much your victory as it is mine. 1552 02:24:45,245 --> 02:24:46,735 Now we can return... 1553 02:24:48,181 --> 02:24:49,739 ...do what we were meant to. 1554 02:24:49,916 --> 02:24:52,885 We were meant to exact justice. 1555 02:24:53,220 --> 02:24:56,553 - Everyone's gonna know what you've done. - Will they? 1556 02:24:56,723 --> 02:25:01,524 By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today. 1557 02:25:01,695 --> 02:25:05,131 - Peace based on a lie. - But peace... 1558 02:25:05,298 --> 02:25:07,493 - ...nonetheless. - He's right. 1559 02:25:08,068 --> 02:25:12,027 Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to nuclear destruction again. 1560 02:25:12,205 --> 02:25:15,072 No. We can't do this. 1561 02:25:15,242 --> 02:25:17,005 On Mars... 1562 02:25:18,512 --> 02:25:20,343 ...you taught me the value of life. 1563 02:25:21,314 --> 02:25:23,748 If we hope to preserve it here... 1564 02:25:24,551 --> 02:25:26,576 ...we must remain silent. 1565 02:25:30,423 --> 02:25:32,357 Keep your own secrets. 1566 02:25:39,232 --> 02:25:40,426 Don't even think about it. 1567 02:25:43,036 --> 02:25:44,765 Rorschach. 1568 02:25:46,540 --> 02:25:48,064 Wait. 1569 02:25:49,109 --> 02:25:51,202 Never compromise. 1570 02:25:51,578 --> 02:25:54,445 Not even in the face of armageddon. 1571 02:25:54,848 --> 02:25:57,840 That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. 1572 02:26:08,895 --> 02:26:12,422 I've made myself feel every death... 1573 02:26:13,900 --> 02:26:19,805 ...see every innocent face I've murdered to save humanity. 1574 02:26:25,378 --> 02:26:29,075 - You understand, don't you? Without condoning... 1575 02:26:30,750 --> 02:26:32,650 ...or condemning... 1576 02:26:37,057 --> 02:26:38,991 ...I understand. 1577 02:26:46,399 --> 02:26:49,527 Out of my way. People have to be told. 1578 02:26:50,403 --> 02:26:52,337 You know I can't let you do that. 1579 02:26:53,573 --> 02:26:56,565 Suddenly you discover humanity? 1580 02:26:58,011 --> 02:26:59,842 Convenient. 1581 02:27:08,555 --> 02:27:13,117 If you'd cared from the start, none of this would have happened. 1582 02:27:16,897 --> 02:27:19,866 I can change almost anything... 1583 02:27:24,437 --> 02:27:26,769 ...but I can't change human nature. 1584 02:27:28,108 --> 02:27:31,509 Of course you must protect Veidt's new utopia. 1585 02:27:32,779 --> 02:27:36,112 What's one more body amongst foundations? 1586 02:27:42,289 --> 02:27:44,154 Well, what are you waiting for? 1587 02:27:47,627 --> 02:27:49,458 Do it. 1588 02:27:55,568 --> 02:27:56,592 Do it! 1589 02:27:59,306 --> 02:28:02,673 No! 1590 02:28:20,160 --> 02:28:25,928 I'm leaving this galaxy for one a little less complicated. 1591 02:28:26,099 --> 02:28:28,590 I thought you said you cared about life again. 1592 02:28:28,768 --> 02:28:30,167 I do. 1593 02:28:31,504 --> 02:28:34,405 I think maybe I'll create some. 1594 02:28:38,511 --> 02:28:40,843 Goodbye, Laurie. 1595 02:29:16,082 --> 02:29:17,242 Come on. 1596 02:29:19,719 --> 02:29:21,311 Come on! 1597 02:29:25,725 --> 02:29:27,056 Dan... 1598 02:29:27,527 --> 02:29:30,291 ...a world united and at peace. 1599 02:29:31,164 --> 02:29:32,358 There had to be sacrifice. 1600 02:29:32,532 --> 02:29:36,901 No! You haven't idealized mankind, you've deformed it. 1601 02:29:37,070 --> 02:29:38,833 You've mutilated it. 1602 02:29:39,205 --> 02:29:41,366 That's your legacy. 1603 02:29:49,916 --> 02:29:52,714 That's the real practical joke. 1604 02:30:45,305 --> 02:30:49,298 We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. 1605 02:30:49,476 --> 02:30:52,934 You are about to participate in a great adventure. 1606 02:30:53,113 --> 02:30:56,276 You are about to experience the awe and mystery... 1607 02:30:56,449 --> 02:31:02,251 ...which reaches from the inner mind to the outer limits. 1608 02:31:03,456 --> 02:31:05,651 Sure you don't want a drink? 1609 02:31:06,659 --> 02:31:07,683 I'm okay. 1610 02:31:08,761 --> 02:31:09,989 Cheers. 1611 02:31:11,431 --> 02:31:14,559 There's something I need to get off my chest. 1612 02:31:15,835 --> 02:31:18,326 I know that Eddie Blake was my father. 1613 02:31:21,341 --> 02:31:23,104 Laurel. 1614 02:31:24,110 --> 02:31:26,442 What you must think of me. 1615 02:31:27,280 --> 02:31:29,805 I'm sorry I never told you. 1616 02:31:29,983 --> 02:31:31,780 I should have... 1617 02:31:31,951 --> 02:31:36,081 ...but I don't know, I just felt ashamed. I felt stupid. 1618 02:31:36,256 --> 02:31:38,190 It doesn't matter. 1619 02:31:39,025 --> 02:31:44,292 People's lives take them strange places. They do strange things... 1620 02:31:44,864 --> 02:31:47,799 ...and, well, sometimes they can't talk about them. 1621 02:31:47,967 --> 02:31:50,299 I know how that is... 1622 02:31:51,037 --> 02:31:53,631 ...but I just want you to know... 1623 02:31:54,207 --> 02:31:57,040 ...that you never did anything wrong by me. 1624 02:32:01,214 --> 02:32:05,480 You asked me why I wasn't mad at him. 1625 02:32:07,053 --> 02:32:09,544 Because he gave me you. 1626 02:32:14,561 --> 02:32:15,653 Thanks, Mom. 1627 02:32:18,398 --> 02:32:20,195 I love you. 1628 02:32:27,740 --> 02:32:31,938 - Hello, Miss Jupiter. - Oh, Sally, please. 1629 02:32:33,580 --> 02:32:38,176 Excuse me. Gotta go freshen up. I'll be right back. 1630 02:32:48,695 --> 02:32:52,859 - So how's it going up here? - Good. How's it going down there? 1631 02:32:53,032 --> 02:32:56,524 Good. I think I've got everything working. 1632 02:32:56,703 --> 02:33:01,333 All of Archie's systems are upgraded. Finished the tinkering for now... 1633 02:33:01,507 --> 02:33:03,737 ...so all we gotta do is take her out. 1634 02:33:03,910 --> 02:33:06,970 Well, that sounds like a date. 1635 02:33:18,291 --> 02:33:20,555 Are we gonna be all right? 1636 02:33:22,629 --> 02:33:26,929 Long as people think Jon's still watching us, we'll be all right... 1637 02:33:27,133 --> 02:33:28,998 ...in the end. 1638 02:33:30,637 --> 02:33:32,798 I know what Jon would say: 1639 02:33:32,972 --> 02:33:34,997 Nothing ends. 1640 02:33:36,909 --> 02:33:39,503 Nothing ever ends. 1641 02:34:26,859 --> 02:34:30,625 Seymour, we got nothing to write about anymore. 1642 02:34:30,797 --> 02:34:32,162 Everyone in the country... 1643 02:34:32,332 --> 02:34:34,596 ...every country in the world are holding hands... 1644 02:34:34,767 --> 02:34:38,032 ...and singing songs about peace and love. 1645 02:34:38,538 --> 02:34:41,405 It's like living in a goddamn global hippie commune. 1646 02:34:41,574 --> 02:34:45,510 Well, Ronald Reagan says he's gonna be running for president in '88. 1647 02:34:45,678 --> 02:34:47,509 We could run a piece on that. 1648 02:34:47,680 --> 02:34:50,843 Seymour, we don't dignify absurdities with coverage. 1649 02:34:51,017 --> 02:34:54,851 This is still America, damn it. Who wants a cowboy in the White House? 1650 02:34:55,588 --> 02:34:59,820 Okay. I could look for something in the crank file. 1651 02:34:59,992 --> 02:35:01,584 Crank file. 1652 02:35:01,761 --> 02:35:03,752 Whatever. Take some initiative. 1653 02:35:03,930 --> 02:35:06,558 Run whatever you like. I leave it entirely in your hands. 1654 02:35:13,072 --> 02:35:17,771 Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985. 1655 02:35:17,944 --> 02:35:22,404 Tonight, a comedian died in New York.