1. Wrong, as usual.Copy !req
2. The United States' lack of action
in Eastern Europe...Copy !req
3. proves that the Soviet Union's aggression
at the Afghan border...Copy !req
4. will not be opposed publicly
by the United States.Copy !req
5. The Soviet Union continued
its recent series of military exercises...Copy !req
6. conducting a bomb test today
in the Bering Sea...Copy !req
7. just 1500 miles
off the southern coast of Alaska.Copy !req
8. President Richard Nixon
issued this warning to the Soviets:Copy !req
9. The United States does not start fights.Copy !req
10. Let it be clear we maintain our strength...Copy !req
11. in order to maintain peace...Copy !req
12. so any adversary
should ask themselves:Copy !req
13. "Do the consequences
of attacking America...Copy !req
14. outweigh the potential benefits?"Copy !req
15. As a result of the Soviet activity...Copy !req
16. the watchdog group
of nuclear scientists...Copy !req
17. moved the Doomsday Clock
up to five minutes until midnight:Copy !req
18. destruction by nuclear war.Copy !req
19. On a scale of zero to 10,
zero meaning impossibility...Copy !req
20. 10 meaning
complete metaphysical certitude...Copy !req
21. what are the chances the Russians
will actually attack the United States?Copy !req
22. Pat Buchanan.Copy !req
23. Zero.Copy !req
24. The Soviets
would never risk going to war...Copy !req
25. when we have a walking nuclear deterrent
on our side.Copy !req
26. You're referring, of course,
to Dr. Manhattan...Copy !req
27. but does Dr. Manhattan's existence
guarantee world peace? Eleanor Clift.Copy !req
28. Well, it hasn't
stopped the Soviet Union...Copy !req
29. from stockpiling record amounts
of nuclear weapons.Copy !req
30. You don't think it's just posturing?Copy !req
31. Maybe the reason
why the Soviets...Copy !req
32. are doing these bomb tests...Copy !req
33. is because they feel threatened
by Dr. Manhattan. Of course.Copy !req
34. Maybe the whole world feels like that.Copy !req
35. Soviet ships have violated
the territorial waters—Copy !req
36. Just a matter of time, I suppose.Copy !req
37. It's a joke. It's all a joke.Copy !req
38. Mother, forgive me.Copy !req
39. I was a hero, goddamn it!Copy !req
40. —an act clearly meant to send
a signal to the government in Saigon...Copy !req
41. that violence and oppression
is not the way to peace.Copy !req
42. Fuck you, pigs!Copy !req
43. Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.Copy !req
44. Get out of here, vigilantes!Copy !req
45. No!Copy !req
46. Edward Blake. Sixty-seven
years old. Six-two, a solid 225.Copy !req
47. Guy was built like a linebacker.Copy !req
48. Yeah, I saw the body.Copy !req
49. For a guy his age,
he was in terrific shape.Copy !req
50. You mean apart from being dead?Copy !req
51. That's plate glass.Copy !req
52. You'd have to step on the gas
just to put a crack in it.Copy !req
53. Had to have been thrown.Copy !req
54. Check the bedroom?Copy !req
55. Yeah. Drawers opened, tossed through.Copy !req
56. Mattress flipped. Probably robbery.Copy !req
57. Or made to look like one.Copy !req
58. See this?Copy !req
59. - Shaking hands with the president.
Whoa.Copy !req
60. Think Blake was a spook?Copy !req
61. Government or black ops?Copy !req
62. I think...Copy !req
63. this is way bigger than both of us.Copy !req
64. Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985.Copy !req
65. Dog carcass in alley this morning.
Tire tread on burst stomach.Copy !req
66. This city's afraid of me.Copy !req
67. I've seen its true face.
The streets are extended gutters...Copy !req
68. and the gutters are full of blood.Copy !req
69. And when the drains finally scab over...Copy !req
70. all the vermin will drown.Copy !req
71. The accumulated filth of all their sex
and murder...Copy !req
72. will foam up around their waists...Copy !req
73. and all the whores and politicians
will look up and shout, "Save us."Copy !req
74. And I'll whisper, "No."Copy !req
75. Now the whole world
stands on the brink...Copy !req
76. staring down into bloody hell.Copy !req
77. All those liberals and intellectuals...Copy !req
78. and smooth talkers...Copy !req
79. and all of a sudden,
nobody can think of anything to say.Copy !req
80. Beneath me, this awful city.Copy !req
81. It screams like an abattoir
full of retarded children...Copy !req
82. and the night reeks of fornication
and bad consciences.Copy !req
83. Huh.Copy !req
84. Tonight, a comedian died in New York.Copy !req
85. Somebody knows why.Copy !req
86. Somebody knows.Copy !req
87. No, I definitely heard something.Copy !req
88. Watch the door.Copy !req
89. Shh.Copy !req
90. Must've been the wind. Next time you—Copy !req
91. It all started with the gangs.
You know, people tend to forget that.Copy !req
92. Pirate outfits, ghosts.Copy !req
93. They thought it was funny:
dress up and pull heists.Copy !req
94. As soon as we'd arrest them,
they'd be back on the street.Copy !req
95. Nobody could pick them out of a lineup
because of the damn masks.Copy !req
96. So a few of us cops, we get together...Copy !req
97. and we figure, what the heck,
we'll mask up, too.Copy !req
98. We'll finish what the law couldn't.Copy !req
99. Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it.
They ran with it...Copy !req
100. and oh, boy, we're a national pastime.Copy !req
101. It was me, Dollar Bill, Mothman...Copy !req
102. Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice...Copy !req
103. Silk Spectre and the Comedian.Copy !req
104. Oh, don't get me started on him.Copy !req
105. I must be drunk already,
telling you this sob story again.Copy !req
106. I think you were trying to make a point.Copy !req
107. Well, my point is that we had it too easy.
It wasn't fair what happened to you guys—Copy !req
108. You guys who picked up where we left off.
—with Nixon forcing you out.Copy !req
109. Nixon, oh, that prick. To think I voted
for that prick five times.Copy !req
110. Hey, it was him or the commies, right?Copy !req
111. Oh, wow, it's almost midnight.
Gotta go.Copy !req
112. Truth?Copy !req
113. You were a better Nite Owl
than I ever was, Danny boy.Copy !req
114. - Hollis, we both know that's bullshit.
- Hey.Copy !req
115. Watch it with the language.Copy !req
116. This is the left hook
that floored Captain Axis, remember?Copy !req
117. - Yeah.Copy !req
118. The masked vigilante
known as Rorschach...Copy !req
119. has assaulted a police officer
in the early-morning hours.Copy !req
120. Rorschach is on the FBI's
Ten Most Wanted list...Copy !req
121. for violation of the Keene Act,
which banned masked heroes six years ago.Copy !req
122. Rorschach reportedly incapacitated...Copy !req
123. Forced everyone out except him.Copy !req
124. Oh, he'll quit.Copy !req
125. When he's dead.Copy !req
126. Next week?
Well...Copy !req
127. you know, you don't have to
keep humoring me like this.Copy !req
128. If you got a hot date or something...Copy !req
129. Hey, us retired guys
have to stick together, right?Copy !req
130. You ever miss it?Copy !req
131. No. You?Copy !req
132. Oh, heck, no.Copy !req
133. Be seeing you.Copy !req
134. Hello, Daniel.Copy !req
135. Rorschach.Copy !req
136. Helped myself to some beans.
Hope you don't mind.Copy !req
137. No, no. Course not.Copy !req
138. You want me to heat those up for you?Copy !req
139. Fine like this.Copy !req
140. How have you been keeping?Copy !req
141. Out of prison.Copy !req
142. Heard about you on the news.Copy !req
143. Say you attacked a cop.Copy !req
144. Minor wound.
Won't need hospitalization.Copy !req
145. Daniel...Copy !req
146. look at this.Copy !req
147. Is this bean juice?
Human bean juice.Copy !req
148. Badge belonged to the Comedian.
Blood too. He's dead.Copy !req
149. Let's talk downstairs.Copy !req
150. It could have been a burglary.Copy !req
151. Maybe the killer didn't know
who the Comedian was.Copy !req
152. An ordinary burglar?
Kill the Comedian? Ridiculous.Copy !req
153. I heard he'd been working
for the government since '77...Copy !req
154. knocking over Marxist republics
in South America.Copy !req
155. Maybe it was a political killing
or something.Copy !req
156. Maybe.Copy !req
157. Maybe someone's picking off
costumed heroes.Copy !req
158. You don't think that's a little paranoid?Copy !req
159. That what they say about me now?Copy !req
160. Paranoid?Copy !req
161. Look, Comedian made
a lot of enemies over the years...Copy !req
162. even among his friends.Copy !req
163. Speaking of friends, how's Hollis Mason?Copy !req
164. He wrote that book. Said some bad things
about the Comedian in it.Copy !req
165. I don't like what you're implying,
and I like being followed even less.Copy !req
166. Maybe I was keeping an eye on you,
in case someone's gunning for masks.Copy !req
167. - You were never that sentimental.
- Attack on one is attack on all of us.Copy !req
168. What do you suggest we do about it?Copy !req
169. Retribution.Copy !req
170. - Watchmen are over.
- Says Tricky Dick.Copy !req
171. Says me.Copy !req
172. Nobody knows who you are.Copy !req
173. You can give it up,
try and have a normal life.Copy !req
174. That what you have now?
A normal life?Copy !req
175. When you walk down the street
in a city dying of rabies...Copy !req
176. past the human cockroaches...Copy !req
177. talking about their heroin
and child pornography...Copy !req
178. do you really feel normal?Copy !req
179. Least I'm not the one
still hiding behind a mask.Copy !req
180. No.Copy !req
181. You're hiding in plain sight.Copy !req
182. Be seeing you, Dan.Copy !req
183. A maintenance hatch
will let you out two blocks north.Copy !req
184. Yeah, I remember.Copy !req
185. Came here often,
when we were partners.Copy !req
186. Those were great times, huh,
Rorschach?Copy !req
187. - What happened?
- You quit.Copy !req
188. Rorschach's journal.Copy !req
189. First visit of evening fruitless.Copy !req
190. Feel slightly depressed.Copy !req
191. Soon there will be war.Copy !req
192. Millions will perish
in sickness and misery.Copy !req
193. Why does one death matter
against so many?Copy !req
194. Because there is good and evil,
and evil must be punished.Copy !req
195. Even in the face of armageddon...Copy !req
196. I will not compromise in this.Copy !req
197. But there are so many
deserving of retribution...Copy !req
198. and so little time.Copy !req
199. Captain.Copy !req
200. - Captain.
- Ridley.Copy !req
201. Ridley, have you seen
any other survivors?Copy !req
202. No, sir.Copy !req
203. Captain, my foot is caught
in some of the wreckage.Copy !req
204. - It's pulling me under.
- Hold on.Copy !req
205. Ridley.Copy !req
206. Ridley. Ridley.Copy !req
207. No.Copy !req
208. No.Copy !req
209. More blood, more blood, more blood.Copy !req
210. Delirious from nearly drowning, I saw it.Copy !req
211. The Black Freighter.Copy !req
212. The hell-bound ship's black sails
against the yellow Indies sky.Copy !req
213. I knew again the stench of powder
and men's brains and war.Copy !req
214. More blood, more blood, more blood.Copy !req
215. More blood, more blood, more blood.Copy !req
216. The waves about me were scarlet...Copy !req
217. foaming, horribly warm
in the Freighter's wake.Copy !req
218. In despair, I offered my weathered soul
to almighty God...Copy !req
219. his mercy and his judgment.Copy !req
220. Heh. What do you think, kid?Copy !req
221. We ought to nuke Russia
and let God sort it out.Copy !req
222. Or at the very least,
send Dr. Manhattan over for a visit.Copy !req
223. You know what I'm saying?Copy !req
224. I mean, I ain't trying to be an asshole
or anything, but they're the ones...Copy !req
225. who are agitating us.
Now this is just my opinion.Copy !req
226. But I'm a news vendor, you know,
so I am informed.Copy !req
227. Yeah, I know. The New Frontiersman.
Well, it's not here yet.Copy !req
228. I'd appreciate if you didn't
stand around waiting...Copy !req
229. because I don't know when
it's going to be here.Copy !req
230. I thought you said you was informed.Copy !req
231. - Are you gonna buy that?
- No.Copy !req
232. Oh, Jesus.
Just try again tomorrow, okay?Copy !req
233. Mr. Veidt...Copy !req
234. to date,
you're one of only two Watchmen...Copy !req
235. ever to reveal their true identity
to the world...Copy !req
236. the first being Hollis Mason.Copy !req
237. And you've certainly profited greatly
by it...Copy !req
238. turning your superhero alter ego,
Ozymandias, into a billion-dollar industry:Copy !req
239. Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering.Copy !req
240. I understand there's a movie
in the works.Copy !req
241. - I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth.
I'm sorry. Do you think—Copy !req
242. The Watchmen resent me
for prostituting their struggle?Copy !req
243. It's a fair question.
Yes, it's crossed my mind...Copy !req
244. some of my old colleagues
might see it that way...Copy !req
245. just as you're clearly aware
that biased journalism...Copy !req
246. sells more magazines.Copy !req
247. The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries
is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
248. We recently expanded our research facility
in Antarctica...Copy !req
249. in the hope of developing cheap,
renewable sources of energy...Copy !req
250. that we might eliminate
the world's reliance on fossil fuels.Copy !req
251. Now, it doesn't take
a political scientist...Copy !req
252. to see that our Cold War
with the Russians isn't ideological...Copy !req
253. it's based upon fear.
Fear of not having enough.Copy !req
254. But if we make resources infinite...Copy !req
255. ah...Copy !req
256. we make war obsolete.Copy !req
257. I would hope the other Watchmen
understand that...Copy !req
258. wherever they may be.Copy !req
259. Thanks for your time.Copy !req
260. - You look good, Adrian.
- Dan.Copy !req
261. It's been too long.Copy !req
262. So Rorschach thinks
someone's hunting the Watchmen, huh?Copy !req
263. You think it's possible?Copy !req
264. Statistically, one murder
doesn't equal a trend.Copy !req
265. Rorschach's a sociopath, Dan.Copy !req
266. And so was the Comedian.
He was practically a Nazi.Copy !req
267. You know that better than anyone.Copy !req
268. I'm not here because I miss him.Copy !req
269. It's occurred to Rorschach...Copy !req
270. that we're the only ones
who know each other's identities.Copy !req
271. Actually, the whole world knows yours.Copy !req
272. That's why I'm warning you first.Copy !req
273. Thank you, Dan...Copy !req
274. but I fear there's something
much more real to worry about...Copy !req
275. than Rorschach's mask killer.Copy !req
276. If the Russians do launch their nukes,
can Jon really stop them?Copy !req
277. The Soviets have 51,000
warheads stockpiled.Copy !req
278. Even if Jon stops 99 percent of them...Copy !req
279. the 1 percent that get through
could still kill every living thing on Earth.Copy !req
280. Even Dr. Manhattan
can't be everywhere at once.Copy !req
281. Rorschach's journal,
October 13th, 1985...Copy !req
282. 8:30 p.m.Copy !req
283. Meeting with Dreiberg
left bad taste in mouth.Copy !req
284. A flabby failure who sits
whimpering in his basement.Copy !req
285. Why are so few of us left active...Copy !req
286. healthy and without
personality disorders?Copy !req
287. The first Nite Owl
runs an auto-repair shop.Copy !req
288. The first Silk Spectre
is a bloated, aging whore...Copy !req
289. dying in a California rest resort.Copy !req
290. Dollar Bill got his cape stuck
in a revolving door...Copy !req
291. where he got gunned down.Copy !req
292. Silhouette, murdered...Copy !req
293. a victim of her own indecent lifestyle.Copy !req
294. Mothman's in an asylum in Maine.Copy !req
295. Even Adrian Veidt, possible homosexual.Copy !req
296. Must investigate further.Copy !req
297. Only two names remain on my list.Copy !req
298. Both share private quarters
at Rockefeller Military Research Center.Copy !req
299. I shall go to them.Copy !req
300. I shall go tell the indestructible man
that someone plans to murder him.Copy !req
301. Good evening, Rorschach.Copy !req
302. Dr. Manhattan, you know why I'm here.Copy !req
303. Yes...Copy !req
304. but you're going to leave disappointed.Copy !req
305. Rorschach. You shouldn't be here.
You're a wanted man.Copy !req
306. Nice to see you too, Silk Spectre.Copy !req
307. I have a real name I've been using.Copy !req
308. Try it.Copy !req
309. Whatever you say, Laurie.Copy !req
310. What are you doing here?Copy !req
311. The Comedian is dead.Copy !req
312. Rorschach wants me
to look into my future...Copy !req
313. see if the killer is ever
publicly identified.Copy !req
314. Already warned Dreiberg.
Came to warn you too.Copy !req
315. Even if I wanted to help...Copy !req
316. my future is blocked
by some kind of temporal interference.Copy !req
317. - I cannot see it clearly.
- Interference? Caused by what?Copy !req
318. In all likelihood, nuclear holocaust.Copy !req
319. If the United States and Soviet Union
engage in all-out war...Copy !req
320. the resulting blast wave would produce
a sudden burst of tachyons...Copy !req
321. particles which travel backward
through what you perceive as time...Copy !req
322. therefore obscuring my vision
of the present.Copy !req
323. I must return to my work.Copy !req
324. Wait a minute.Copy !req
325. What if that's why
someone wants us out of the way?Copy !req
326. So we can't do anything to stop it?Copy !req
327. Goodbye, Rorschach.Copy !req
328. Took a lot of effort
to get in here to see you.Copy !req
329. I'm not leaving—Copy !req
330. —till I've had my say.Copy !req
331. Seems like there's a lot of things
you don't tell me these days.Copy !req
332. I didn't wanna worry you prematurely.Copy !req
333. If Adrian and I can solve the energy crisis,
war may be averted.Copy !req
334. But you always say time is simultaneous.Copy !req
335. If that's true,
then how can you change the future?Copy !req
336. If only you could perceive time as I do.Copy !req
337. Please let me show you.Copy !req
338. Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before.
I was a hero, goddamn it!Copy !req
339. It's not my fault you got old.
What do you have to complain about?Copy !req
340. I'm putting food on the table
for you and your child.Copy !req
341. Call your friend Eddie.
Maybe he can give you a better life.Copy !req
342. - It was a mistake. One time.
- Man tries to rape you—Copy !req
343. Stop!Copy !req
344. Your mind goes to dark places...Copy !req
345. and you wonder
why I keep the worst from you.Copy !req
346. - Say hello to Dan for me.
- What?Copy !req
347. You wanna ask me
to go to dinner with you...Copy !req
348. like we used to...Copy !req
349. but you won't.Copy !req
350. You know I can't.Copy !req
351. So you'll call Dan...Copy !req
352. which is only natural.Copy !req
353. You deserve the comfort of an old friend.Copy !req
354. Dan Dreiberg's table.Copy !req
355. Did you know that
he and H.J. were—? I had no idea.Copy !req
356. You remember that crazy guy?
What'd he call himself?Copy !req
357. Captain Carnage.Copy !req
358. Used to pretend he was a supervillain
just so he could get beat up?Copy !req
359. Yeah, he tried that on me once.
I just walked away.Copy !req
360. He starts following me down the street
in broad daylight...Copy !req
361. yelling, "Punish me! Punish me!"Copy !req
362. I'm just saying, "No, get lost."Copy !req
363. God, whatever happened to him?Copy !req
364. Oh. Um...
He pulled that on Rorschach...Copy !req
365. and Rorschach
dropped him down an elevator shaft.Copy !req
366. Oh, my God. That's not even funny.Copy !req
367. - It's a little funny.
- Yep.Copy !req
368. I'm glad I ordered
the four-legged chicken.Copy !req
369. It's really good to see you again.Copy !req
370. It's great seeing you too.Copy !req
371. Why'd we do it, Dan? Dress up like that?Copy !req
372. - No one else would.
- Yeah, but do you remember my costume?Copy !req
373. All that tight latex?
I mean, it was awful.Copy !req
374. Uh... Yeah, yeah, awful.Copy !req
375. But didn't wanna disappoint Mother.Copy !req
376. Wanted her little girl to be just like her
and fight bad guys.Copy !req
377. I think the Keene Act was the best thing
that ever happened to us.Copy !req
378. Well, we'll live longer anyway.Copy !req
379. What?Copy !req
380. Jon thinks, unless he can do something
about it...Copy !req
381. that there's gonna be nuclear war.Copy !req
382. Soon.Copy !req
383. But I don't know what to think.
I mean, it's all...Copy !req
384. quantum mechanics
and parallel realities with him.Copy !req
385. I never even know
what universe he's actually seeing.Copy !req
386. He just keeps getting further away
from me.Copy !req
387. Everyone.Copy !req
388. I can't even tell
if he actually cares about me anymore...Copy !req
389. or if he's just pretending.Copy !req
390. If he's pretending, it means he cares.Copy !req
391. Hold on, I'll get the door.Copy !req
392. Thanks, Dan.Copy !req
393. - Got it?
- Yeah.Copy !req
394. You always get
a government escort to dinner?Copy !req
395. They're making sure I don't do anything to
upset the country's most powerful weapon.Copy !req
396. I'm sorry.Copy !req
397. I invite you out to dinner to catch up
and have a few laughs...Copy !req
398. but there don't seem to be many laughs
around these days.Copy !req
399. What do you expect?
The Comedian's dead.Copy !req
400. Laurie? Is that you?Copy !req
401. Thought you'd be used
to traveling that way by now.Copy !req
402. Well, I'm not.
I hate it when Jon teleports me.Copy !req
403. Well, it beats flying coach.Copy !req
404. Margarita?Copy !req
405. Mother, it's 2:00 in the afternoon.Copy !req
406. Mm.Copy !req
407. Remember that guy
that writes me letters?Copy !req
408. He sent me an item of memorabilia.
It's a Tijuana bible.Copy !req
409. This little eight-page porno comic
they did in the '30s and '40s.Copy !req
410. - He sent you this?
- Sure. They're very valuable, like antiques.Copy !req
411. Mother, this is gross.Copy !req
412. I think it's kind of flattering.Copy !req
413. Why do you always call me Mother
when you're mad?Copy !req
414. I know why you're here.
I can still read, you know.Copy !req
415. I saw it in the paper.Copy !req
416. Eddie Blake's funeral is today.Copy !req
417. Finally got his punchline, I guess.Copy !req
418. - Poor Eddie.
- Poor Eddie? After what he did to you?Copy !req
419. Oh, Laurie, you're still young.Copy !req
420. You don't know.Copy !req
421. Things change.Copy !req
422. What happened happened 40 years ago.Copy !req
423. I'm 67 years old.Copy !req
424. Every day, the future
looks a little bit darker.Copy !req
425. But the past...Copy !req
426. even the grimy parts of it...Copy !req
427. keep on getting brighter.Copy !req
428. I've got spots in my eyes.Copy !req
429. Stop it, Eddie.Copy !req
430. - Thank you, Weegee.
- Thank you, Mr. Owl.Copy !req
431. Tomorrow, 3:00, my studio.Copy !req
432. - Little place on 21st.
- Sounds good.Copy !req
433. Wow, a real photo session.
Wonder how my hair will look?Copy !req
434. Oh, go ahead. I'll be there in five.Copy !req
435. Eddie.Copy !req
436. What the hell are you doing here?
You knew I was changing.Copy !req
437. Sure I did.Copy !req
438. Come on, baby.Copy !req
439. I know what you need.Copy !req
440. You gotta have some kind of reason
for dressing in an outfit like this.Copy !req
441. I said no, Eddie.Copy !req
442. - No spelled Y-E-S.
- No spelled N-O.Copy !req
443. - All right?
- Come on, sweetheart.Copy !req
444. Eddie...Copy !req
445. You little bastard.Copy !req
446. This what you like?Copy !req
447. - This what makes you hot?
- What?Copy !req
448. Things are tough all over, cupcake.Copy !req
449. It rains on the just and the unjust alike.Copy !req
450. The Comedian was a little bit of both.Copy !req
451. And he always thought
he'd get the last laugh.Copy !req
452. Thou knowest, Lord,
the secrets of our hearts.Copy !req
453. Shut not thy merciful ears
to our prayers...Copy !req
454. but spare us, Lord most holy,
O God most mighty...Copy !req
455. O holy and merciful savior.Copy !req
456. Thou most worthy judge eternal.Copy !req
457. Suffer us not at our last hour
for any—Copy !req
458. Fireworks. You gotta be kidding me.Copy !req
459. You know, you'd think this goddamn
country had had enough fireworks.Copy !req
460. You know, if we'd lost here in Vietnam...Copy !req
461. I think it might have driven us crazy.
You know, as a country.Copy !req
462. But we didn't, thanks to you.Copy !req
463. You sound bitter.Copy !req
464. Me? Bitter?Copy !req
465. Fuck, no. I think it's hilarious.Copy !req
466. Oh, Jesus Christ.Copy !req
467. - Mr. Eddie?
- Just what I fucking needed.Copy !req
468. The war is over now.
We must talk about this baby.Copy !req
469. There's nothing to talk about.
See, I'm leaving.Copy !req
470. I'm gonna forget about you...Copy !req
471. and your horrible, sweaty,
little piece-of-shit country.Copy !req
472. Get the fuck out of here.Copy !req
473. - No.
- Get the fuck out of here.Copy !req
474. You will remember.Copy !req
475. You will remember me and my country...Copy !req
476. forever!Copy !req
477. My face!Copy !req
478. Blake. Don't.Copy !req
479. Blake!Copy !req
480. She was pregnant...Copy !req
481. and you gunned her down.Copy !req
482. That's right...Copy !req
483. and you know what? You watched me.Copy !req
484. You could have turned the gun to steam,
the bullets to mercury...Copy !req
485. the bottle into goddamn snowflakes,
but you didn't, did you?Copy !req
486. You really don't give a damn
about human beings.Copy !req
487. You're drifting out of touch, doc.Copy !req
488. God help us all.Copy !req
489. Medic!Copy !req
490. Most holy and merciful savior.Copy !req
491. He cometh up and is cut down,
like a flower.Copy !req
492. In the midst of life, we are in death.Copy !req
493. Of whom may we seek succor,
but of thee, O Lord?Copy !req
494. Welcome. We'll be starting shortly.Copy !req
495. We're waiting for one more.Copy !req
496. I told you, you wouldn't be
the only one dressed up.Copy !req
497. Welcome, doctor.Copy !req
498. Now we can start.Copy !req
499. Thank you for coming. Acquaint yourselves
with this map of high-crime areas.Copy !req
500. This is all bullshit.Copy !req
501. For a guy who calls himself the Comedian,
I can never tell when you're joking.Copy !req
502. Watchmen. That's the real joke.Copy !req
503. It didn't work 15 years ago,
and it ain't gonna work now...Copy !req
504. because you wanna play
cowboys and Indians.Copy !req
505. Maybe we should agree
on no drinking at meetings.Copy !req
506. Rorschach and I have made headway
on the gang problem by working together.Copy !req
507. A group this size seems like
a publicity stunt. I'm not in it for the ink.Copy !req
508. We can do so much more.Copy !req
509. We can save this world...Copy !req
510. - ... with the right leadership.
- Yeah.Copy !req
511. And that'd be you, right, Ozzy?Copy !req
512. I mean, hell,
you're the smartest man on the planet.Copy !req
513. It doesn't take a genius
to see the world has problems.Copy !req
514. But it takes a room of morons to think
they're small enough for you to handle.Copy !req
515. You people.Copy !req
516. You hear Moloch's back in town,
get your panties all in a bunch.Copy !req
517. - You think catching him matters?
- Justice matters.Copy !req
518. Justice.Copy !req
519. Justice is coming to all of us.Copy !req
520. No matter what the fuck we do.Copy !req
521. You know, mankind's been trying to kill
each other off since the beginning of time.Copy !req
522. Now we finally have the power
to finish the job.Copy !req
523. Ain't nothing gonna matter once
those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.Copy !req
524. Then Ozymandias here...Copy !req
525. will be the smartest man
on the cinder.Copy !req
526. For as much as it hath pleased...Copy !req
527. almighty God to take onto himself
the soul of our dear departed brother...Copy !req
528. let us therefore commit his body
to the ground.Copy !req
529. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes...Copy !req
530. Watchmen! Police!
Police to protect the people!Copy !req
531. Attention, citizens.
We are trying to maintain order.Copy !req
532. You must clear the streets
until the police strike is over.Copy !req
533. If you could—
Please, there's no need for violence.Copy !req
534. We are trying to retain order on the streets
until the police strike is over.Copy !req
535. Crawl back in your holes
before you get hurt.Copy !req
536. - I got rubber bullets.
I want my rights!Copy !req
537. - You are not the law!
We want regular cops!Copy !req
538. No more vigilantes!Copy !req
539. My son's a police officer,
you fucking faggots!Copy !req
540. Goddamn it. All right.
That's how you wanna do it?Copy !req
541. There's no need for violence.Copy !req
542. Fuck you. Fuck you!Copy !req
543. Oh, this is getting heavy.Copy !req
544. Goddamn, I love working
on American soil, Dan.Copy !req
545. Ain't had this much fun
since Woodward and Bernstein.Copy !req
546. How long can we keep this up?Copy !req
547. Congress is pushing through some new bill
that's gonna outlaw masks.Copy !req
548. Our days are numbered.Copy !req
549. Until then, it's like you always say:
We're society's only protection.Copy !req
550. - From what?
- Are you kidding me? From themselves.Copy !req
551. - Son of a bitch.
No, Comedian, wait!Copy !req
552. Get your stinking hands off me.Copy !req
553. What the hell happened to us?Copy !req
554. What happened to the American dream?Copy !req
555. What happened to the American dream?Copy !req
556. It came true!Copy !req
557. You're looking at it.Copy !req
558. Edgar William Jacobi.Copy !req
559. Also known as Edgar William Vaughn.
Also known as Moloch.Copy !req
560. What are you talking about?Copy !req
561. I'm a retired businessman—Copy !req
562. Lie again, Moloch, I break another finger.Copy !req
563. I did my time.Copy !req
564. I'm not Moloch anymore.Copy !req
565. - What do you want from me?
- Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why?Copy !req
566. I just felt I should...Copy !req
567. pay my respects to the Comedian.Copy !req
568. - How'd you know he was the Comedian?
- He broke in here. A week ago.Copy !req
569. He had his mask off.Copy !req
570. - He was drunk.
- Enemies. For decades.Copy !req
571. - Why should he visit you?
- I don't know.Copy !req
572. I woke up in my bedroom
and there he was.Copy !req
573. He was upset.Copy !req
574. He was crying.Copy !req
575. Crying? The Comedian?Copy !req
576. He was babbling, not making any sense.Copy !req
577. I was pissing in my pants.Copy !req
578. I thought he was gonna kill me.Copy !req
579. What did he say?Copy !req
580. It's a joke.Copy !req
581. It's all a fucking joke.Copy !req
582. You know, I thought I knew how it was.Copy !req
583. I thought I knew how the world was.Copy !req
584. I've done some bad things.Copy !req
585. I did bad things to women. I shot kids.Copy !req
586. In 'Nam, you know.Copy !req
587. But that was fucking war.Copy !req
588. This...Copy !req
589. I never done anything like this.Copy !req
590. God, here I am...Copy !req
591. spilling my guts...Copy !req
592. to one of my archenemies.Copy !req
593. But the truth is...Copy !req
594. you're the closest thing to a friend I got.
What the fuck does that say?Copy !req
595. Shit.Copy !req
596. And your name...Copy !req
597. your name was on the list...Copy !req
598. along with Janey, you know,
whatever the fuck her name is.Copy !req
599. Manhattan's old girl.Copy !req
600. Mother, forgive me.Copy !req
601. And then he left.Copy !req
602. I swear I don't know
what the hell he was talking about.Copy !req
603. Funny story.Copy !req
604. Sounds unbelievable.Copy !req
605. Probably true.Copy !req
606. So that's it?Copy !req
607. - I'm clean?
- You?Copy !req
608. Clean?Copy !req
609. Amygdalin.Copy !req
610. This phony medication
made from apricot pits.Copy !req
611. - It's illegal.
- Come on.Copy !req
612. Please don't confiscate that.Copy !req
613. I'm trying anything.Copy !req
614. I have cancer.Copy !req
615. What kind of cancer?Copy !req
616. You know the kind
you eventually get better from?Copy !req
617. That ain't the kind I got.Copy !req
618. Rorschach's journal. October 16th.Copy !req
619. Want some of this?
Fifty bucks, I'll suck your cock.Copy !req
620. - Thought about Moloch's story.
- Come on.Copy !req
621. Could all be lies.Copy !req
622. A revenge scheme
planned during his years behind bars.Copy !req
623. Fuck you. I make more in a week
than you make in a year, you fucking homo.Copy !req
624. But if it's true...Copy !req
625. what could have possibly
scared the Comedian...Copy !req
626. enough to cry in front of Moloch?Copy !req
627. What was it he saw?Copy !req
628. And that list he mentioned.Copy !req
629. Edward Blake. The Comedian.Copy !req
630. Born 1918.Copy !req
631. Buried in the rain.Copy !req
632. Murdered.Copy !req
633. Is that what happens to us?
No time for friends?Copy !req
634. Only our enemies leave roses.Copy !req
635. Violent lives ending violently.Copy !req
636. Blake understood.
Humans are savage in nature.Copy !req
637. No matter how much you try
to dress it up...Copy !req
638. to disguise it...Copy !req
639. Blake saw society's true face.Copy !req
640. Chose to be a parody of it. A joke.Copy !req
641. I heard joke once.Copy !req
642. Man goes to doctor, says he's depressed.Copy !req
643. Life seems harsh and cruel.Copy !req
644. Says he feels all alone
in threatening world.Copy !req
645. Doctor says treatment is simple.Copy !req
646. "The great clown Pagliacci is in town.
Go see him.Copy !req
647. That should pick you up."Copy !req
648. Man bursts into tears.Copy !req
649. "But doctor," he says. "I am Pagliacci."Copy !req
650. Good joke.Copy !req
651. Everybody laugh.Copy !req
652. Roll on snare drum.Copy !req
653. Curtains.Copy !req
654. Hey, Bernie.
Yeah?Copy !req
655. Can I get a Time magazine
from you there?Copy !req
656. Sure.
- How much you want for it now?Copy !req
657. For you, 2 bucks.Copy !req
658. Two bucks. Going up, huh?Copy !req
659. There you go. Thanks.Copy !req
660. Hey, I like your book.Copy !req
661. Hey, thanks, Bernie. I appreciate it.Copy !req
662. When I awoke,
I found myself upon a dismal beachhead...Copy !req
663. with my men.Copy !req
664. Pieces of my men.Copy !req
665. It was all I could do for her...Copy !req
666. though she had borne me
through seas of blood.Copy !req
667. Her damp embrace had prevented me
from drifting beyond reach.Copy !req
668. Yet this small comfort
was all I could offer.Copy !req
669. One of my crew lay ahead.Copy !req
670. Birds were eating
his thoughts and memories.Copy !req
671. Away. Yah!Copy !req
672. Yah! Get away.Copy !req
673. In hell, at least the gulls are contented.Copy !req
674. For my part,
I begged that they should take my eyes.Copy !req
675. Thus sparing me future horrors.Copy !req
676. What time do you have to be
at your interview?Copy !req
677. Don't worry.Copy !req
678. We've got plenty of time.Copy !req
679. Your finger's like licking a battery.Copy !req
680. God, Jon, stop. What are you doing?Copy !req
681. Please don't be upset.Copy !req
682. I always thought you liked this.Copy !req
683. No.Copy !req
684. I don't— No.Copy !req
685. I don't want that.Copy !req
686. I don't know
what stimulates you anymore.Copy !req
687. Look, I know you were just trying—Copy !req
688. Are you working in here
while we're in bed together?Copy !req
689. My work with Adrian
is at a critical stage right now.Copy !req
690. - I didn't think it was necessary to—
- To what?Copy !req
691. To what? To tell me which one of you
is giving me a pity fuck?Copy !req
692. My attention was completely focused
on you.Copy !req
693. If you think there's a problem
with my attitude...Copy !req
694. I am prepared to discuss it.Copy !req
695. You know how everything in this world
fits together except people.Copy !req
696. What am I to you?
Another puzzle to be solved?Copy !req
697. Have your men stand back.
I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now.Copy !req
698. You're my only remaining link
to the world.Copy !req
699. I don't want that responsibility anymore.Copy !req
700. He's all yours.Copy !req
701. Don't worry, Jon. She'll be back.Copy !req
702. No, she won't.Copy !req
703. He's been called
many things: Hero, weapon...Copy !req
704. linchpin of our national security...Copy !req
705. deterrent to nuclear war,
or a man to end worlds.Copy !req
706. Later tonight, Dr. Manhattan...Copy !req
707. will answer my questions and yours
in an exclusive interview...Copy !req
708. brought to you commercial-free
by Veidt Enterprises.Copy !req
709. Who is it?Copy !req
710. It's Laurie.Copy !req
711. Sorry. I just had this new lock installed.Copy !req
712. I didn't know where else to go.Copy !req
713. Oh, it's okay. Come in.Copy !req
714. What's wrong?Copy !req
715. I left Jon.Copy !req
716. Oh, God.Copy !req
717. I'm so sorry.Copy !req
718. I don't know why I'm here. I just...Copy !req
719. I don't know anybody else.Copy !req
720. I don't know anybody
except for goddamn superheroes.Copy !req
721. That's okay.Copy !req
722. You probably just had an argument
or something.Copy !req
723. No, Dan.Copy !req
724. You don't know what it's been like
living with him.Copy !req
725. The way he looks at things now,
it's like he doesn't...Copy !req
726. remember what they are.Copy !req
727. It's like this world, this real world...Copy !req
728. to him,
it's like walking through mist.Copy !req
729. And people are just shadows.Copy !req
730. Shadows in a fog.Copy !req
731. God, how did everything
get so tangled up?Copy !req
732. I'm sorry, Dan.Copy !req
733. This is twice now
I've ruined your evening.Copy !req
734. Come on. I'm glad you came over.Copy !req
735. I was just gonna see Hollis
for our weekly beer session.Copy !req
736. You're more than welcome to join.Copy !req
737. In fact, I insist.Copy !req
738. Terrific. Dr. Manhattan arrives
and no one thinks to tell me.Copy !req
739. He just—
- We don't have time for makeup.Copy !req
740. That blue is too light for television.Copy !req
741. Is that dark enough?Copy !req
742. Yeah, that's dark enough.Copy !req
743. The weight of the world's on him,
but does he quit? No.Copy !req
744. News vendors always cope. They're the—Copy !req
745. Oh, God, here comes
that homeless guy again.Copy !req
746. I told you, this month's issue
still hasn't arrived yet.Copy !req
747. Why do you care about that right-wing rag?
Those bastards don't give a damn.Copy !req
748. Hold up. Here they come.Copy !req
749. - Seymour.
- Bernie, how's tricks?Copy !req
750. Fine, fine.Copy !req
751. See this guy behind me?
Been bugging me all week.Copy !req
752. Maybe we should get a cab.
These are bad neighborhoods.Copy !req
753. Yeah, well, I'm in a bad mood.Copy !req
754. Girl.
What we got here?Copy !req
755. Here's a list of Pentagon-approved
no-go areas.Copy !req
756. Afghanistan will obviously come up,
but just play it cool...Copy !req
757. and try not to get
into any tight corners.Copy !req
758. —a renowned nuclear physicist,
who, through a terrible accident...Copy !req
759. was gifted with extraordinary powers,
capable of bending matter to his will.Copy !req
760. Today, the world knows him
as Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
761. Welcome.Copy !req
762. Thank you.Copy !req
763. That's right.Copy !req
764. Ms. Black, you have the first question.Copy !req
765. Dr. Manhattan, as you know...Copy !req
766. the Doomsday Clock
is a symbolic clock face...Copy !req
767. analogizing humankind's proximity
to extinction...Copy !req
768. midnight representing the threat
of nuclear war.Copy !req
769. As of now, it stands at four minutes
to midnight.Copy !req
770. Would you agree that we're that close
to annihilation?Copy !req
771. My father was a watchmaker.Copy !req
772. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered
that time is relative.Copy !req
773. I would only agree
that a symbolic clock...Copy !req
774. is as nourishing to the intellect...Copy !req
775. as a photograph of oxygen
to a drowning man.Copy !req
776. So you're saying there is no danger.Copy !req
777. Even in a world without nuclear
weapons, there would still be danger.Copy !req
778. And would you say, as so many claim...Copy !req
779. that you are, in fact, a god...Copy !req
780. given you see the past
and future simultaneously?Copy !req
781. I can only see my own past...Copy !req
782. my own future. I am not omniscient.Copy !req
783. Doug Roth, your question?Copy !req
784. Speaking of your past, Dr. Manhattan...Copy !req
785. do you remember a man
named Wally Weaver?Copy !req
786. Yes. We were both physicists together
at the Gila Flats Research Base.Copy !req
787. He died of cancer.Copy !req
788. - He was a good man.
How about Edgar Jacobi...Copy !req
789. also known as the supervillain Moloch?Copy !req
790. You encountered him several times
in the '60s: battles, conflicts.Copy !req
791. Did you know that he has cancer as well?Copy !req
792. I wasn't told.Copy !req
793. And what about
General Anthony Randolph?Copy !req
794. He was your handler when you first
started working for the government.Copy !req
795. Cancer.Copy !req
796. You're suggesting I was the cause.Copy !req
797. From where I'm standing,
it's starting to look pretty conclusive.Copy !req
798. Even if that's the case, it's irrelevant.Copy !req
799. A live human body
and a deceased human body...Copy !req
800. have the same number of particles.Copy !req
801. Structurally, there's no difference.Copy !req
802. All right. Let's settle down, please.Copy !req
803. What about Janey Slater?Copy !req
804. You think it makes a difference to her?Copy !req
805. Janey?Copy !req
806. Your ex-girlfriend?Copy !req
807. She was a physicist too.
You saw each other for 11 years.Copy !req
808. Doug, one question at a time.Copy !req
809. She has cancer as well.
Doctors have given her six months.Copy !req
810. Isn't that right, Miss Slater?Copy !req
811. You were the world to me, Jon.Copy !req
812. You were my whole life.Copy !req
813. Do you remember how many times
you said you loved me?Copy !req
814. Janey, I wasn't told.Copy !req
815. I stuck by you after the accident.
I gave you everything.Copy !req
816. This is how you repay me?Copy !req
817. - Janey, I wasn't told. I didn't know.
- Damn you, Jon. Goddamn you.Copy !req
818. Janey, wait.Copy !req
819. - That's it. This interview is over.
Get up there.Copy !req
820. Get those cameras off.
Everybody back off.Copy !req
821. Everybody back off.
I need some backup here. Leave him alone.Copy !req
822. Please, if everyone
would just go away...Copy !req
823. and leave me alone...Copy !req
824. Do you care to comment?Copy !req
825. I said, leave me alone!Copy !req
826. Jesus.Copy !req
827. Us...Copy !req
828. getting mugged.Copy !req
829. Let's go.Copy !req
830. I'm shaking.Copy !req
831. You know what?Copy !req
832. I'm wiped. I'm just gonna call it a night.Copy !req
833. Oh, are you sure you don't wanna
come by Hollis' with me...Copy !req
834. and shake off the adrenaline?Copy !req
835. I think I've had enough hero stuff
for one night.Copy !req
836. It helped having you listen.Copy !req
837. Any time.Copy !req
838. Take care, Dan.Copy !req
839. It's a rough world out there.Copy !req
840. Be seeing you.Copy !req
841. I thought of my family...Copy !req
842. my wife, my daughters.Copy !req
843. Vulnerable, unsuspecting.Copy !req
844. Awaiting my return,
only to be met by damnation...Copy !req
845. bearing down upon them.Copy !req
846. Hey!Copy !req
847. Over here!Copy !req
848. Here!Copy !req
849. Ridley.Copy !req
850. A sail.Copy !req
851. Ridley had brought me a sail.Copy !req
852. Perhaps this could be my route
back to Davidstown.Copy !req
853. Everything I loved, everything I lived for,
depended on my reaching home...Copy !req
854. in advance of that terrible Freighter.Copy !req
855. The morning sun found me
no less troubled.Copy !req
856. Further down the shore...Copy !req
857. some of my crew
had become inflated with gas.Copy !req
858. Ugh!Copy !req
859. I shuddered at my own idea,
attempting to banish this repulsive notion.Copy !req
860. Even in death,
they sought to fulfill their duty...Copy !req
861. making our vessel more buoyant.Copy !req
862. And I would do my duty to them
in returning them home.Copy !req
863. Rudely jarring my men from eternal rest,
and laying them in the bed I prepared...Copy !req
864. I hoped my wife and daughters
might be tucked in by gentler hands...Copy !req
865. when their turn came.Copy !req
866. We shall get home together, my friend.Copy !req
867. I waited for the tide.Copy !req
868. Then, embarking, headed east.Copy !req
869. East, across the night seas.Copy !req
870. East, borne on the bodies
of murdered men.Copy !req
871. Hope can be a horrible thing.Copy !req
872. With the dawn came the gulls
looking for breakfast.Copy !req
873. Ridley.Copy !req
874. Get out.Copy !req
875. I was reminded
that I, myself, had not eaten.Copy !req
876. I know it is unappetizing,
but it is all we have.Copy !req
877. He's gone.Copy !req
878. - He's gone!
Who's gone?Copy !req
879. - Dr. Manhattan.
What? What'd you say?Copy !req
880. Dr. Manhattan's gone. He's left us.Copy !req
881. What? Gone where?Copy !req
882. You're late.Copy !req
883. Ah, I know. I know.
You won't believe what happened.Copy !req
884. Dr. Manhattan just lost it on live TV.Copy !req
885. Wait, what?Copy !req
886. I was just with Laurie. She doesn't know.Copy !req
887. She's gonna know soon enough.
The whole world will know.Copy !req
888. I said, leave me alone!Copy !req
889. I am looking at the stars.Copy !req
890. They're so far away...Copy !req
891. and their light takes so long
to reach us...Copy !req
892. all we ever see of stars
are their old photographs.Copy !req
893. It is July, 1959, and I am in love.Copy !req
894. That's great.Copy !req
895. - You can pick it up tomorrow.
- Okay.Copy !req
896. - Seventy-five cents.
- Okay, thank you.Copy !req
897. Thank you.Copy !req
898. Gosh, Jon, I wish he gave us a little notice.
I'm sure I made a face.Copy !req
899. Oh, no, no.
I'm sure that you'll look beautiful.Copy !req
900. Her name is Janey Slater.Copy !req
901. She is a physicist, like me.Copy !req
902. I am 30 years old.Copy !req
903. We were introduced by a good friend
of mine from college, Wally Weaver.Copy !req
904. It is February 12th, 1981.Copy !req
905. Wally dies of cancer,
of which they now say I am the cause.Copy !req
906. That night, Janey and I make love
for the first time.Copy !req
907. A month from now,
the accident awaits me.Copy !req
908. Oh, I'll catch up with you guys.
I think I left my watch inside.Copy !req
909. Hey. Let's just wait a second.Copy !req
910. I cross the room to the
Intrinsic Field Center. I find my watch.Copy !req
911. When I get to the door...Copy !req
912. Wally is turning white.Copy !req
913. The program's locked in.
We can't override the time lock.Copy !req
914. I am terrified.Copy !req
915. Jon?Copy !req
916. I'm sorry, Jon...Copy !req
917. but I can't—Copy !req
918. Janey, don't leave me!Copy !req
919. Don't leave me!Copy !req
920. It is May 12th, 1959,
when I'm introduced to Janey.Copy !req
921. She buys me a beer...Copy !req
922. the first time a woman
has done this for me.Copy !req
923. As she passes me the cold,
perspiring glass...Copy !req
924. our fingers touch.Copy !req
925. Yes, Jon, good.Copy !req
926. Now it's just a question of reassembling
the components in the correct sequence.Copy !req
927. I feel fear...Copy !req
928. for the last time.Copy !req
929. A token funeral is held.Copy !req
930. There is nothing to bury.Copy !req
931. Janey frames the snapshot.Copy !req
932. It's the only photograph of me
anyone has.Copy !req
933. A circulatory system is seen
by the perimeter fence.Copy !req
934. A few days later...Copy !req
935. a partially muscled skeleton
stands in a hallway...Copy !req
936. and screams for a moment
before vanishing.Copy !req
937. Oh, God.Copy !req
938. Jon?Copy !req
939. Is that you?Copy !req
940. Nations around the world
reeling from this morning's announcement...Copy !req
941. possibly the most significant event
in recent history.Copy !req
942. We repeat, the superman exists,
and he is American.Copy !req
943. They call me Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
944. They explain the name
has been chosen...Copy !req
945. for the ominous associations
it will raise in America's enemies.Copy !req
946. The marketing boys say I need a logo.Copy !req
947. If I'm to have a symbol...Copy !req
948. it shall be one I respect.Copy !req
949. They are shaping me
into something gaudy...Copy !req
950. something lethal.Copy !req
951. In January, 1971...Copy !req
952. President Nixon asks me to intervene
in Vietnam...Copy !req
953. something that his predecessors
would not ask.Copy !req
954. A week later, the conflict ends.Copy !req
955. Some of the Vietcong forces
wanna surrender to me personally.Copy !req
956. Hollis Mason, a retired costume hero,
writes a book.Copy !req
957. In it, he calls my arrival
the dawn of the superhero.Copy !req
958. I am not sure if I know what that means.Copy !req
959. You see, at the time, I was misquoted.Copy !req
960. I never said, "The superman exists
and he is American."Copy !req
961. What I said was, "God exists,
and he is American."Copy !req
962. Now, if you begin to feel an intense...Copy !req
963. and crushing feeling of religious terror
at the concept...Copy !req
964. don't be alarmed.Copy !req
965. That indicates only
that you are still sane.Copy !req
966. It is Christmas, 1963.Copy !req
967. Janey tells me she is afraid, and worried.Copy !req
968. She says I am like a god now.Copy !req
969. I tell her I don't think there is a God.Copy !req
970. And if there is, I'm nothing like him.Copy !req
971. I tell her I still want her...Copy !req
972. and that I always will.Copy !req
973. As I lie to her, it is September 4th, 1970.Copy !req
974. I am in a room
full of people wearing disguises.Copy !req
975. A very young girl looks at me and smiles.Copy !req
976. She's beautiful.Copy !req
977. After each long kiss, she plants a smaller,
gentler one upon my lips...Copy !req
978. like a signature.Copy !req
979. Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait.Copy !req
980. She bursts into angry tears,
asking if it's because she's getting older.Copy !req
981. It's true.Copy !req
982. She's aging more noticeably every day...Copy !req
983. while I am standing still.Copy !req
984. I prefer the stillness here.Copy !req
985. I am tired of Earth.Copy !req
986. These people.Copy !req
987. I'm tired of being caught
in the tangle of their lives.Copy !req
988. They claim their labors
are to build a heaven...Copy !req
989. yet their heaven is populated
with horrors.Copy !req
990. Perhaps the world is not made.Copy !req
991. Perhaps nothing is made.Copy !req
992. A clock without a craftsman.Copy !req
993. It's too late.Copy !req
994. Always has been...Copy !req
995. always will be too late.Copy !req
996. And you have no idea
where he would've gone.Copy !req
997. How would I know?Copy !req
998. Probably on the other side
of the world studying molecules.Copy !req
999. Our satellites have done
a sweep of the planet.Copy !req
1000. There's no trace of his
energy signature anywhere.Copy !req
1001. Really?Copy !req
1002. Miss Jupiter, did you and
Dr. Manhattan have a fight today?Copy !req
1003. None of your fucking business.Copy !req
1004. It is when you're on government payroll
and you're not doing your job.Copy !req
1005. That's as close to the word "whore"
as you're gonna get with me, Agent Forbes.Copy !req
1006. Smoke?Copy !req
1007. My apologies, Miss Jupiter.Copy !req
1008. You know how important Dr. Manhattan
is to our national security.Copy !req
1009. You can imagine our concern.Copy !req
1010. I can only imagine.Copy !req
1011. Ain't nothing gonna matter once
those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.Copy !req
1012. Then Ozymandias here...Copy !req
1013. will be the smartest man
on the cinder.Copy !req
1014. Laurel? Laurel Jane?Copy !req
1015. You're Sally Jupiter's kid.Copy !req
1016. You're the Comedian, right?Copy !req
1017. You were pretty cool in there.Copy !req
1018. You know, your mom, she was one
of the all-time champion beauties.Copy !req
1019. You got her eyes, you know.
You even have that same funny little mole.Copy !req
1020. Take your hands off her.Copy !req
1021. Hey, doll. Long time no see.Copy !req
1022. Not long enough in my book, Eddie.
Get in the car.Copy !req
1023. Are there no depths you won't sink to?Copy !req
1024. Jesus Christ, Sally.
Can't a guy talk to his...Copy !req
1025. you know, old friend's daughter?Copy !req
1026. I mean, what the hell do you think I am?Copy !req
1027. We found him!Copy !req
1028. - We found him.
Where is he?Copy !req
1029. Mars.Copy !req
1030. Mr. President...Copy !req
1031. the Soviets have moved their tanks
just short of the Afghan border.Copy !req
1032. They are testing us...Copy !req
1033. to see if we manufactured
Dr. Manhattan's disappearance...Copy !req
1034. to coax a move out of them.Copy !req
1035. If they realize it's not a hoax,
they'll probably start with air strikes.Copy !req
1036. If they do, they'll have Afghanistan
under control in a matter of days.Copy !req
1037. A watchdog group of nuclear scientists
has moved the Doomsday Clock...Copy !req
1038. to two minutes until midnight.Copy !req
1039. Get this shit off the screen.Copy !req
1040. Who are these assholes to say
when doomsday approaches?Copy !req
1041. I say when doomsday is approaching.Copy !req
1042. Now, then.Copy !req
1043. What about the rest
of the Warsaw Pact countries?Copy !req
1044. Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany
have mobilized their forces.Copy !req
1045. But no movement yet.
They're playing a wait-and-see.Copy !req
1046. Letting the Russians take the lead.Copy !req
1047. Bold moves, Henry.
That's what's needed right now.Copy !req
1048. We can't let these fuckers
think we're weak.Copy !req
1049. Yes. They must fear the madman
Richard Nixon.Copy !req
1050. How soon can we be ready
for a preemptive strike?Copy !req
1051. Two days.Copy !req
1052. We have a 54 percent chance
of wiping out the entire U.S.S.R...Copy !req
1053. before they get their missiles airborne.Copy !req
1054. What would our losses be?Copy !req
1055. Assuming conservative projections...Copy !req
1056. of how many Soviet warheads
are destroyed beforehand...Copy !req
1057. we'll lose all of the East Coast.Copy !req
1058. The last gasp...Copy !req
1059. of the Harvard establishment.Copy !req
1060. Let's see them think their way
out of fission.Copy !req
1061. With anticipated wind patterns,
the fallout drift would head south.Copy !req
1062. Mexico would catch the worst of it.Copy !req
1063. Most of the farm belt
might remain unaffected.Copy !req
1064. Not so bad...Copy !req
1065. all things considered.Copy !req
1066. Mr. President...Copy !req
1067. what would you like to do?Copy !req
1068. Take us to DEFCON two.Copy !req
1069. Begin fueling the bombers.Copy !req
1070. Dr. Manhattan has two days.Copy !req
1071. After that...Copy !req
1072. humanity is in the hands
of a higher authority than mine.Copy !req
1073. Let's just hope he's on our side.Copy !req
1074. There must be a way to reach him.
Excuse me.Copy !req
1075. Radio transmission, space shuttles—Copy !req
1076. Excuse me.
What?Copy !req
1077. I need to use the restroom.Copy !req
1078. Don't you understand?Copy !req
1079. The only thing that can
bring Jon back is Jon.Copy !req
1080. If he wants to find me, he will.Copy !req
1081. I've been a prisoner in my life
long enough.Copy !req
1082. Without Dr. Manhattan around...Copy !req
1083. to bully the Russians into peace,
Mr. Veidt...Copy !req
1084. people are going to need good,
old-fashioned energy to rely on.Copy !req
1085. You can understand.Copy !req
1086. The world can't just quit on oil
and nuclear power cold turkey.Copy !req
1087. You'll dismantle
our entire economy overnight.Copy !req
1088. You're right, Lee. And why free energy?Copy !req
1089. Well, "free" is just another word
for "socialist."Copy !req
1090. We might have to
make a public inquiry...Copy !req
1091. into any past communist affiliations
you might have had.Copy !req
1092. Mr. Iacocca, gentlemen...Copy !req
1093. I respect your position...Copy !req
1094. and what you've accomplished
as captains of industry. I do.Copy !req
1095. You wanna know my past? Hm?Copy !req
1096. Okay. Happily.Copy !req
1097. It's a matter of public record that by 17,
both my parents were dead...Copy !req
1098. leaving me alone.Copy !req
1099. I guess you could say
I've always been alone.Copy !req
1100. They say I'm the smartest man in the world,
but the truth is I've often felt stupid...Copy !req
1101. at being unable to relate to anyone.Copy !req
1102. Well, anyone living, that is.Copy !req
1103. The only person
with whom I felt kinship...Copy !req
1104. died 300 years
before the birth of Christ.Copy !req
1105. Alexander of Macedonia,
or Alexander the Great, as you know him.Copy !req
1106. His vision of a united world was...Copy !req
1107. Well, it was unprecedented.Copy !req
1108. I wanted...Copy !req
1109. needed to match
his accomplishments...Copy !req
1110. so I resolved to apply antiquity's
teachings to our world today.Copy !req
1111. And so began my path to conquest.Copy !req
1112. Conquest not of men...Copy !req
1113. but of the evils that beset them.Copy !req
1114. Fossil fuels, oil, nuclear power...Copy !req
1115. are like a drug, and you,
along with foreign interests...Copy !req
1116. - ... are the pushers.
- Now, listen.Copy !req
1117. No.Copy !req
1118. You listen.Copy !req
1119. The world will survive...Copy !req
1120. and it deserves more
than you've been able to provide.Copy !req
1121. So let's cut to it, shall we?Copy !req
1122. I'm worth more
than all of your corporations combined.Copy !req
1123. I could buy and sell you, something
you should factor into your decision...Copy !req
1124. should you choose
to make our disagreement public.Copy !req
1125. I think you know the way out.Copy !req
1126. Gentlemen.Copy !req
1127. The toy people wanna talk to you about
new villains for the Ozymandias line.Copy !req
1128. - Seems all the old villains are dead.
- Mr. Veidt?Copy !req
1129. - I think I have some ideas.
- Mr. Veidt?Copy !req
1130. I think we got off on the wrong foot.Copy !req
1131. He's got a poison capsule.Copy !req
1132. Don't bite down, you son of a bitch.
Who sent you? I want a name.Copy !req
1133. Give me a name!Copy !req
1134. Suicide pill.Copy !req
1135. Potassium cyanide.
Guy was dead before he hit the ground.Copy !req
1136. Thanks, hon.Copy !req
1137. Then Rorschach was right.Copy !req
1138. This wasn't some lone nut.Copy !req
1139. It's an organization:
well-funded, well-equipped.Copy !req
1140. But who'd wanna kill us now?Copy !req
1141. I don't know, but it's not safe out here.Copy !req
1142. So no word from Jon?Copy !req
1143. No.Copy !req
1144. Well, listen...Copy !req
1145. why don't you come stay with me?Copy !req
1146. Oh, no.
That's sweet, but I wouldn't wanna impose.Copy !req
1147. Oh, no. No.
Think of it as doing me a favor.Copy !req
1148. I wouldn't have to worry about you
being out there.Copy !req
1149. Okay.Copy !req
1150. Rorschach's journal, October 21st, 1985.Copy !req
1151. On 43rd and 7th, saw Dreiberg
and Jupiter leaving diner.Copy !req
1152. They didn't know me without my mask.Copy !req
1153. An affair?Copy !req
1154. Did she break Manhattan's heart
to engineer his exile...Copy !req
1155. to make room for Dreiberg?Copy !req
1156. Does Manhattan even have a heart
to break?Copy !req
1157. The alley was cold, deserted.Copy !req
1158. My things were where I left them,
waiting for me.Copy !req
1159. My coat, my shoes, my spotless gloves.Copy !req
1160. My face.Copy !req
1161. Putting them on,
I abandoned my disguise...Copy !req
1162. became myself.Copy !req
1163. Free from fear or weakness...Copy !req
1164. or lust.Copy !req
1165. Down alley...Copy !req
1166. heard woman scream.Copy !req
1167. First bubbling note
of city's evening chorus.Copy !req
1168. Attempted rape.Copy !req
1169. Mugging.Copy !req
1170. Both.Copy !req
1171. The man turned...Copy !req
1172. and there was something
rewarding in his eyes.Copy !req
1173. Sometimes the night is generous to me.Copy !req
1174. Veidt's assassin was a local lowlife
named Roy Chess.Copy !req
1175. At his apartment, I found clues.Copy !req
1176. Seems he worked
at Pyramid Transnational.Copy !req
1177. I've seen the logo before...Copy !req
1178. at Moloch's.Copy !req
1179. Someone tried to shoot
the world's smartest man today, Moloch.Copy !req
1180. Guy worked for Pyramid Transnational.Copy !req
1181. More than a just delivery service,
I take it.Copy !req
1182. Last time I was here, I saw a pension check
written from the same company.Copy !req
1183. I'm guessing it's a front set up
by whoever wants us masks dead.Copy !req
1184. Now, no more lies, Moloch.
Who runs Pyramid?Copy !req
1185. Rorschach.Copy !req
1186. This is the police.
We know you're in there.Copy !req
1187. No. No!Copy !req
1188. If there's anybody in there with you,
send them out unharmed.Copy !req
1189. No. No, no, no!Copy !req
1190. Framed. Walked right into it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid!Copy !req
1191. Never, never surrender.Copy !req
1192. All right.
I hope you're ready, hero.Copy !req
1193. When you are.Copy !req
1194. One...Copy !req
1195. two...Copy !req
1196. three.Copy !req
1197. Come on.Copy !req
1198. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
1199. - Christ, he stinks.
- Get that mask off him.Copy !req
1200. - I got it.
- No. No!Copy !req
1201. My face! Give me back my face!Copy !req
1202. The masked vigilante Rorschach
was apprehended...Copy !req
1203. and identified
as Walter Kovacs, a 35-year-old white male.Copy !req
1204. Little's known about Kovacs,
but he was charged with the murder...Copy !req
1205. of Edgar Jacobi, found shot in the head
in his home in the Bronx.Copy !req
1206. Police officers were injured
and Jacobi's home was set ablaze...Copy !req
1207. during the violent course
of the capture.Copy !req
1208. Rorschach!Copy !req
1209. I'm gonna fuck you
like I fucked your mother!Copy !req
1210. Come on out, Rorschach!Copy !req
1211. I knew this guy was a kook.Copy !req
1212. But Rorschach...Copy !req
1213. Usually I got an intuition
about these kind of things.Copy !req
1214. - Thought the dude would be bigger.
- It goes to show you, kid...Copy !req
1215. - ... you never know.
- Hey, let me get a Gazette.Copy !req
1216. Yeah. Hey, you see this?
He was a customer of mine.Copy !req
1217. - Used to come here all the time.
- No shit?Copy !req
1218. Hey, Bernie. Any good news?Copy !req
1219. Whoever we are, wherever we reside...Copy !req
1220. we exist on the whim of murderers.Copy !req
1221. I hardly recognized my old friend Ridley.Copy !req
1222. I could not bring myself to tell him
he was a horrible reflection...Copy !req
1223. of his former self.Copy !req
1224. I really must get him home before...
Before he gets any worse.Copy !req
1225. Before he succumbs.Copy !req
1226. I've heard that on less than a pint daily,
a man might survive drinking saltwater.Copy !req
1227. Captain?Copy !req
1228. What are you doing, captain?Copy !req
1229. I'm headed for Davidstown. That's what.Copy !req
1230. I need to warn everyone.Copy !req
1231. You think you'll reach Davidstown
in advance of the Black Freighter?Copy !req
1232. Isolation has made you mad, captain.
Mad, indeed.Copy !req
1233. But we must try.Copy !req
1234. You are a fool.Copy !req
1235. You alone survived the Freighter's attack.Copy !req
1236. Fortune has smiled upon you,
and you spit in its face.Copy !req
1237. Turn your wretched craft around
and go far away, as far away as you can.Copy !req
1238. No. No, my family. I must protect them.Copy !req
1239. The Black Freighter is already there.Copy !req
1240. Your wife, dead.Copy !req
1241. - Your children, dead.
- Shut your mouth.Copy !req
1242. You have failed your family,
like you have failed your crew.Copy !req
1243. You'll end up dead like them.
You give your life in vain.Copy !req
1244. I give my life in nobility.Copy !req
1245. Even if I fail in my attempt,
I take solace in the fact that I will see...Copy !req
1246. my family again in heaven.Copy !req
1247. Heaven?Copy !req
1248. Oh, there is no heaven, captain.Copy !req
1249. Believe me, sir.Copy !req
1250. I would know by now.Copy !req
1251. Walter Kovacs.Copy !req
1252. Is that your name? Walter?Copy !req
1253. Well, let me explain
your situation here, Walter.Copy !req
1254. You cooperate with me...Copy !req
1255. and I may be able to convince them
that you should be treated medically.Copy !req
1256. In a hospital. I believe
that would be good for you.Copy !req
1257. But the authorities wanna put you
with the general population.Copy !req
1258. - Prison's a prison.
- Uh-huh. Yes.Copy !req
1259. But the difference is, down there...Copy !req
1260. you'd be eaten alive.Copy !req
1261. You're responsible for a lot of them
being in prison here, Walter.Copy !req
1262. Tell me what you see.Copy !req
1263. A pretty butterfly.Copy !req
1264. What about now? What do you see here?Copy !req
1265. Mom?Copy !req
1266. Is he hurting you?Copy !req
1267. You got a fucking kid in here.
I get that at home.Copy !req
1268. Bastard.
I should have had that abortion.Copy !req
1269. Some nice flowers.Copy !req
1270. I heard this guy's mom's a whore.Copy !req
1271. Did you catch any diseases from her?Copy !req
1272. Huh? Whoreson. Listen to me, retard.Copy !req
1273. Hey, you think she'd suck my dick
for a dollar?Copy !req
1274. Clouds.Copy !req
1275. Tell me about Rorschach.
Will you do that, Walter?Copy !req
1276. You keep calling me Walter.
I don't like you.Copy !req
1277. You don't like me.
All right, why is that, exactly?Copy !req
1278. You're fat.Copy !req
1279. Wealthy. Liberal sensibilities.Copy !req
1280. What you call compassion.Copy !req
1281. Wanting to protect
and understand the guilty.Copy !req
1282. This rotting society,
what it calls rehabilitation.Copy !req
1283. Nothing short of compromise.Copy !req
1284. Is it a compromise
to want to make you well?Copy !req
1285. There are other men in here with behavior
more extreme than mine, doctor.Copy !req
1286. Of course, they're not famous, are they?Copy !req
1287. You wanna know about Rorschach?Copy !req
1288. I'll tell you about Rorschach.Copy !req
1289. Once a man has seen society's
black underbelly...Copy !req
1290. he can never turn his back on it.Copy !req
1291. Never pretend, like you do...Copy !req
1292. that it doesn't exist, no matter who
orders him to look the other way.Copy !req
1293. We don't do this thing...Copy !req
1294. because it's permitted.Copy !req
1295. We do it because we have to.Copy !req
1296. We do it because we're compelled.Copy !req
1297. I was investigating a kidnap case.Copy !req
1298. Blaire Roche.Copy !req
1299. Six-year-old girl. I was young then.Copy !req
1300. Too soft on criminals.Copy !req
1301. I let them live.Copy !req
1302. Broke a man's arm to get a tip.
Led me to the missing girl's location.Copy !req
1303. I knew the girl was here...Copy !req
1304. but when I searched the place,
I saw nothing.Copy !req
1305. And then I found her.Copy !req
1306. Fred.Copy !req
1307. Barney.Copy !req
1308. Who's gonna bark for Daddy?Copy !req
1309. It was dark when the murderer got back.Copy !req
1310. As dark as it gets.Copy !req
1311. Oh, God.
Who's out there? Who is it?Copy !req
1312. Who is it?Copy !req
1313. What? What the fuck?
Who the fuck are you?Copy !req
1314. What the fuck do you want?
You killed my dogs, man!Copy !req
1315. You think I had something to do
with that girl? I found that.Copy !req
1316. What evidence have you got?
That's nothing.Copy !req
1317. Okay. I confess.Copy !req
1318. I kidnapped her. I killed her.Copy !req
1319. Arrest me.Copy !req
1320. What? Arrest me!Copy !req
1321. I did it! I said I did it!Copy !req
1322. Christ.Copy !req
1323. Look, I've got a problem, man.
Fucking take me in. I need help.Copy !req
1324. No, don't. Don't do that.
Take me in. Don't! No!Copy !req
1325. Men get arrested.Copy !req
1326. Dogs get put down.Copy !req
1327. Tremors of impact shook my arm.Copy !req
1328. Warm blood splashed my face.Copy !req
1329. Whatever was left of Walter Kovacs
died that night with that little girl.Copy !req
1330. From then on, there was only Rorschach.Copy !req
1331. See, doctor, God didn't kill that little girl.Copy !req
1332. Fate didn't butcher her
and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.Copy !req
1333. If God saw what any of us did that night,
he didn't seem to mind.Copy !req
1334. From then on, I knew:Copy !req
1335. God doesn't make the world this way.Copy !req
1336. We do.Copy !req
1337. I can't help him.Copy !req
1338. Hey, Rorschach.Copy !req
1339. Hey, you're pretty famous, right?Copy !req
1340. Rorschach, I heard your mother
was a whore.Copy !req
1341. Hey, you know what?
I'm pretty famous too.Copy !req
1342. - Ain't that right? That's right.
That's right.Copy !req
1343. Maybe I can give you an autograph.
What you say, big boy?Copy !req
1344. None of you seem to understand.
I'm not locked in here with you.Copy !req
1345. All right, that's it!Copy !req
1346. You're locked in here with me.Copy !req
1347. Laurie!Copy !req
1348. Shit.Copy !req
1349. Hold on.
- Fuck.Copy !req
1350. I got it, I got it, I got it.Copy !req
1351. I'm so sorry. I was snooping
and must have hit the wrong button.Copy !req
1352. - Are you hurt?
- No, no.Copy !req
1353. - Okay.
- I'm fine. I just feel so bad.Copy !req
1354. No, don't worry.Copy !req
1355. It's happened before.
Comedian did it back in '77.Copy !req
1356. Archie survived that.Copy !req
1357. Archie?Copy !req
1358. Oh. Well, uh, short for Archimedes...Copy !req
1359. Merlin's pet owl.Copy !req
1360. Stupid nickname.Copy !req
1361. How did you ever afford
all this stuff, anyway?Copy !req
1362. Well, my dad was in corporate banking
and left me a lot of money when he died...Copy !req
1363. which always surprised me.
I mean, he was...Copy !req
1364. I think he was disappointed
I went into crime fighting...Copy !req
1365. instead of following him.Copy !req
1366. Guess I was just more interested in
birds and airplanes, mythology and...Copy !req
1367. Plus, there were enough other guys
doing this so that I didn't feel ridiculous.Copy !req
1368. Like Hollis.Copy !req
1369. Yeah.Copy !req
1370. Yeah, he was my hero.Copy !req
1371. Man, I remember the first time
that I met him...Copy !req
1372. I just felt so connected, you know?Copy !req
1373. To something that mattered.Copy !req
1374. Must be nice having a secret identity.Copy !req
1375. A secret place that nobody knows about.Copy !req
1376. You can just come down here and hang out
without anyone checking up on you.Copy !req
1377. Nobody watching you.Copy !req
1378. Wanna try those on?Copy !req
1379. There we go.Copy !req
1380. Wow, these rock.Copy !req
1381. They amplify the spectral range.Copy !req
1382. Thermal imaging.Copy !req
1383. They work even better in the dark.Copy !req
1384. You can see me, right?Copy !req
1385. I can see everything.Copy !req
1386. I remember, no matter how black it got...Copy !req
1387. whenever I looked through those goggles,
everything was as clear as day.Copy !req
1388. This must be the way Jon sees the world.Copy !req
1389. We should probably head up.
Food's getting cold.Copy !req
1390. Put those away when you're done.Copy !req
1391. Soviet ambassador
to the U.N. had no comment...Copy !req
1392. when asked if Dr. Manhattan's
disappearance...Copy !req
1393. has fueled Soviet aggression
in Afghanistan.Copy !req
1394. Dan.Copy !req
1395. Jon sees a lot of things...Copy !req
1396. but he doesn't see me.Copy !req
1397. Well, uh...Copy !req
1398. Oh.Copy !req
1399. Sorry.Copy !req
1400. Come here.Copy !req
1401. What's the matter?Copy !req
1402. - If you could just move a little...
- Okay.Copy !req
1403. Yeah. There you go.Copy !req
1404. Dan, what's wrong?Copy !req
1405. Sorry, I...Copy !req
1406. Yeah, I just need a couple minutes.Copy !req
1407. Oh, hell.Copy !req
1408. It's okay.Copy !req
1409. Maybe we were just moving too fast.Copy !req
1410. We've got all the time in the world.Copy !req
1411. We'll take it slow.Copy !req
1412. It's been a long time, Rorschach.Copy !req
1413. Big Figure.Copy !req
1414. Small world.Copy !req
1415. I like that.Copy !req
1416. But you know, it is a small world in here.Copy !req
1417. And I've been in it for,
how long now, Lloyd?Copy !req
1418. Almost 15 years, Mr. Figure.Copy !req
1419. That's right.Copy !req
1420. Fifteen years since you
and that Owl fella put me away.Copy !req
1421. So...Copy !req
1422. Rorschach, that guy you burned is dying.
Could go any minute.Copy !req
1423. You know, by my count, there are more
than 50 people in here that you put away.Copy !req
1424. I been talking to every one of them
and they're all dying to get a piece of you.Copy !req
1425. This place is gonna explode!Copy !req
1426. Then, you die by inches.Copy !req
1427. Tall order.Copy !req
1428. I'm gonna tear this guy a new hole.Copy !req
1429. Relax, Lawrence. Soon.Copy !req
1430. Come on.Copy !req
1431. Know this, my friends.Copy !req
1432. Hades is wet.Copy !req
1433. Hades is lonely.Copy !req
1434. And in that instant, we knew each other.Copy !req
1435. I'm sorry, my friend.Copy !req
1436. My raft had grown
increasingly grotesque...Copy !req
1437. reflecting my own transformation.Copy !req
1438. Adrift, my darkest imaginings
welled up unchecked...Copy !req
1439. spilling from brain to heart
like black ink...Copy !req
1440. impossible to remove.Copy !req
1441. The vessel had surely reached
Davidstown already.Copy !req
1442. I pictured quiet streets overrun
by the fiends from the Black Freighter.Copy !req
1443. My wife, my children,
most certainly dead.Copy !req
1444. My crew, dead.Copy !req
1445. The beast I ride on, dead.Copy !req
1446. More blood, more blood, more blood.Copy !req
1447. Father?Copy !req
1448. It can't be. Oh, Lord, it can't be.Copy !req
1449. Father, help us. Please.Copy !req
1450. Wait.Copy !req
1451. I'm coming.Copy !req
1452. Hurry, my dear.Copy !req
1453. Wait. Anyone but them.Copy !req
1454. Anyone.Copy !req
1455. Anyone.Copy !req
1456. I'd swallowed too much seawater.Copy !req
1457. I'd swallowed too much horror.Copy !req
1458. God has damned me.Copy !req
1459. God has damned us all.Copy !req
1460. Truly, life is hell, and death's rough hand
our only deliverance.Copy !req
1461. I can endure no more.Copy !req
1462. I want to join my family desperately.Copy !req
1463. Yo, man.Copy !req
1464. What you reading?Copy !req
1465. Nothing, man.Copy !req
1466. - Nothing, huh?
- Hey, hey! You leave that kid alone!Copy !req
1467. Shut up, old man!Copy !req
1468. You're reading a comic book?
What are you, retarded?Copy !req
1469. Aw, hey, where you going, short bus?Copy !req
1470. Dan?Copy !req
1471. Is everything all right?Copy !req
1472. I'm tired of being afraid.Copy !req
1473. Afraid of war...Copy !req
1474. afraid of the mask killer...Copy !req
1475. and afraid of this goddamn suit...Copy !req
1476. and how much I need it.Copy !req
1477. Me too.Copy !req
1478. So to hell with it.Copy !req
1479. Let's take Archie out.Copy !req
1480. You're serious.Copy !req
1481. I used to be a masked avenger too,
remember?Copy !req
1482. I'm used to going out at 3 in the morning
and doing something stupid.Copy !req
1483. Rapid burner. Be advised, all units.Copy !req
1484. Tenement fire at 5th and Grand.
Rapid burner.Copy !req
1485. Let's go.Copy !req
1486. I can see it.
All right, hold on.Copy !req
1487. Dan, there are kids in there.Copy !req
1488. Everyone, stay where you are
and remain calm.Copy !req
1489. We're gonna get you out of there.Copy !req
1490. The roof's starting to cave.
Get me in there.Copy !req
1491. I'm gonna get you close.Copy !req
1492. Let's go.Copy !req
1493. Come on.Copy !req
1494. All right, let's move it, people.Copy !req
1495. Mom, is that guy in the space rocket...?Copy !req
1496. Is that Jesus?Copy !req
1497. No, baby.Copy !req
1498. Watch your step.
All right.Copy !req
1499. We're all set.Copy !req
1500. Is that everyone?Copy !req
1501. Bye.
Bye!Copy !req
1502. I can't believe we did that.Copy !req
1503. - They'll lock us up with Rorschach.
- Who cares?Copy !req
1504. World War III could start tomorrow.Copy !req
1505. Right?Copy !req
1506. Right.Copy !req
1507. Come back here!Copy !req
1508. He's dead, Rorschach.Copy !req
1509. While everyone's distracted, we thought
we'd bring you a housewarming gift.Copy !req
1510. Something from the machine shop.Copy !req
1511. Hey, boss, you notice?Copy !req
1512. None of that "small world,
tall order" crap.Copy !req
1513. He knows once we slice open his lock,
he's next on the block.Copy !req
1514. Fat chance.Copy !req
1515. You're dead, Rorschach!Copy !req
1516. We got a prison full of killers out here.
What do you got?Copy !req
1517. Your hands, my pleasure.Copy !req
1518. Can't reach the lock. Should I cut the bars?Copy !req
1519. This riot won't last.
I been waiting 15 years for this.Copy !req
1520. I'm sorry, Lawrence, but you're in the way
of my revenge.Copy !req
1521. Nothing personal, big guy.Copy !req
1522. Boss! Wait!Copy !req
1523. Now you find out what the score is.Copy !req
1524. One-nothing. Come and get me.Copy !req
1525. Come on.Copy !req
1526. So I've been thinking.Copy !req
1527. I feel that we have an obligation
to our fraternity.Copy !req
1528. - I think we ought to spring Rorschach.
What?Copy !req
1529. Someone set him up.Copy !req
1530. And this whole cancer thing with Jon,
it just doesn't make sense.Copy !req
1531. You didn't get it.Copy !req
1532. Yeah, but breaking
into a maximum-security prison...Copy !req
1533. - ... is a little different than putting out a fire.
- Yeah, you're right.Copy !req
1534. It'll be more fun.Copy !req
1535. Hurry, Lloyd. I wanna
smell this son of a bitch cooking.Copy !req
1536. Yes.Copy !req
1537. No.Copy !req
1538. Never disposed of sewage
with a toilet before. Obvious, really.Copy !req
1539. Two-nothing. Your move.Copy !req
1540. Get out of the way!Copy !req
1541. How do we know he's still alive?Copy !req
1542. He's alive.Copy !req
1543. No. No.Copy !req
1544. Where's my face?Copy !req
1545. Don't kill me.Copy !req
1546. Your turn, doctor.Copy !req
1547. Tell me, what do you see?Copy !req
1548. Don't move!Copy !req
1549. Rorschach.Copy !req
1550. Daniel. Miss Jupiter.Copy !req
1551. Excuse me. Have to visit men's room.Copy !req
1552. Oh, for chrissake.Copy !req
1553. Good to see you in uniform, Daniel.Copy !req
1554. Should've known all you needed
was nice pair of legs to motivate you.Copy !req
1555. You're such an asshole, Rorschach.
- Spare me indignation.Copy !req
1556. Picked hell of a time
to be unfaithful to Jon.Copy !req
1557. Get tired of being patriotic,
or someone put you up to it?Copy !req
1558. You don't know what the fuck
you're talking about!Copy !req
1559. Hey! Would you two stop?
You can argue later.Copy !req
1560. I had to turn the screechers off,
so we'll be drawing fire soon.Copy !req
1561. Stop! Stop or we will shoot!Copy !req
1562. Are you all right?Copy !req
1563. Yeah. Just...Copy !req
1564. heavy, you know?Copy !req
1565. War, jailbreak.Copy !req
1566. Don't worry about it. Okay?
Everything's gonna be fine.Copy !req
1567. - Hello, Laurie.
- Jon.Copy !req
1568. - TV said you were on Mars.
- I am on Mars.Copy !req
1569. You and I are about
to have a conversation there.Copy !req
1570. What are you talking about?Copy !req
1571. You're going to try to convince me
to save the world.Copy !req
1572. - Laurie, don't.
- Dan, trust me.Copy !req
1573. I have to go.Copy !req
1574. Beautiful, isn't it?Copy !req
1575. Forgive me. These things sometimes
slip my mind.Copy !req
1576. It won't happen again.Copy !req
1577. That's comforting.Copy !req
1578. Oh, my God.Copy !req
1579. I'm on Mars.Copy !req
1580. Hey. Nice ass.
Hey, asshole.Copy !req
1581. Hey, let's see if that comic-book
retard's up here.Copy !req
1582. Hey, hey, hey. Yo.Copy !req
1583. You all hear? Some super-owl dude
just busted Rorschach out of prison.Copy !req
1584. - Rorschach?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1585. That fool put my cousin in a wheelchair.Copy !req
1586. You mean Nite Owl.
Him and Rorschach used to be partners.Copy !req
1587. - Yeah.
- Maybe he messed your cousin up too.Copy !req
1588. - Didn't he write a book or something?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1589. You know, he lives over a garage
right near here.Copy !req
1590. - Yeah?
- Does he, now?Copy !req
1591. Hello?Copy !req
1592. Sally?Copy !req
1593. - Hollis?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1594. Yes, Hollis Mason. Jesus.Copy !req
1595. All this time you've had my number and
you wait until our sunset years to use it?Copy !req
1596. Well, it seemed like
a special occasion, Sal.Copy !req
1597. What?Copy !req
1598. The TV is reporting there was
a tenement fire last night.Copy !req
1599. There were trapped people
rescued by airship...Copy !req
1600. and they say the pilot
was dressed like an owl.Copy !req
1601. And it seems he had
a sexy woman with him.Copy !req
1602. Laurie? My daughter, Laurie?Copy !req
1603. I can't get over Laurie back in costume.Copy !req
1604. Maybe she'll finally thank me
for getting her started in the first place.Copy !req
1605. You know, Sal,
by the sound of your voice...Copy !req
1606. you're sounding younger than ever.Copy !req
1607. Oh. Why, bless you, Hollis.Copy !req
1608. But that's probably just senility.Copy !req
1609. Well, it's been great talking to you, Sal...Copy !req
1610. but someone's knocking.Copy !req
1611. Well, don't get too misty-eyed
thinking about old times.Copy !req
1612. You take care now, Hollis.Copy !req
1613. Ah, you too.Copy !req
1614. Bye.Copy !req
1615. Bye.Copy !req
1616. We're looking for Mr. Owl.Copy !req
1617. Yeah. Hold your horses.Copy !req
1618. Mr. Owl, you there?Copy !req
1619. Trick or treat.Copy !req
1620. You should've stayed retired, Owl.Copy !req
1621. I hate this.Copy !req
1622. Cowering in cave,
hiding from authorities.Copy !req
1623. Cops are out there hunting us.
Unless you wanna go back to prison...Copy !req
1624. we'd be stupid to expose ourselves
without a plan.Copy !req
1625. And what would that be?Copy !req
1626. Once we've established a pattern...Copy !req
1627. we can break into Pyramid,
see what we find.Copy !req
1628. Did that. Dead end.Copy !req
1629. I think it's a front company for whoever's
really behind it, but can't prove it.Copy !req
1630. We need to hit up underworld contacts,
squeeze people.Copy !req
1631. Sure, why don't we just pick names
out of a phone book?Copy !req
1632. You forgot how we do things, Daniel.Copy !req
1633. You've gone too soft. Too trusting.
Especially with women.Copy !req
1634. Okay, no. Listen, I've had it with that.Copy !req
1635. God, who do you
think you are, Rorschach?Copy !req
1636. You live off people
while insulting them...Copy !req
1637. and no one complains because they think
you're a goddamn lunatic.Copy !req
1638. I'm sorry.Copy !req
1639. I shouldn't have said that, man.Copy !req
1640. Daniel...Copy !req
1641. you are a good friend.Copy !req
1642. I know it can be difficult
with me sometimes.Copy !req
1643. Forget it.Copy !req
1644. It's okay, man.Copy !req
1645. Let's do it your way.Copy !req
1646. Oh, God.Copy !req
1647. Pyramid Transnational.
Anyone heard of it?Copy !req
1648. Oh, you bastards.Copy !req
1649. I buy everyone a round
and you sell me out like this?Copy !req
1650. Back off, or I'll stick this glass
in your squidgy face.Copy !req
1651. Everybody stay calm.
We'll try to keep this brief.Copy !req
1652. Roy Chess. On Pyramid payroll.Copy !req
1653. Tried to kill Adrian Veidt. Dead now.
Did you know him?Copy !req
1654. No.Copy !req
1655. Yeah, yeah!Copy !req
1656. - I hired him. I knew him from the inside.
- You're a felon.Copy !req
1657. I was. I've been straight
ever since I got out, I swear.Copy !req
1658. I barely knew Chess that well,
but I was told to hire from the old life.Copy !req
1659. - Told by whom?
- My contact, Miss Slater.Copy !req
1660. Janey Slater works for Pyramid too?Copy !req
1661. Yeah, she was real nice. She said hiring
ex-cons was part of the company program.Copy !req
1662. Give people a second chance.
God, please let go! I'm telling the truth!Copy !req
1663. Janey Slater, Manhattan's old girlfriend.Copy !req
1664. Adrian might help us
find out who's underwriting Pyramid.Copy !req
1665. Follow the money.Copy !req
1666. —former member of the
Minutemen Hollis Mason found murdered...Copy !req
1667. in his apartment less than
an hour ago.Copy !req
1668. Witnesses reported seeing members
of a local gang known as the Knot-Tops...Copy !req
1669. leaving the area right around
the estimated time of death.Copy !req
1670. Reporting live, Tiffany Burns...Copy !req
1671. - Who did it?
- I knew you were gonna victimize me, man.Copy !req
1672. What about my civil rights?
Just because I'm wearing—Copy !req
1673. - Tell me who did it!
- A lot of people dress like this.Copy !req
1674. Who murdered Hollis Mason?Copy !req
1675. You tell your friends they're dead.Copy !req
1676. I'm gonna take out this entire
rat hole neighborhood.Copy !req
1677. I'll break your neck!Copy !req
1678. Daniel, not in front of the civilians.Copy !req
1679. Oh, goddamn. Goddamn, Hollis.Copy !req
1680. This is where we hold our conversation.Copy !req
1681. In it, you reveal to me that you and
Dreiberg have been sleeping together.Copy !req
1682. - You know about me and Dan?
- Not yet.Copy !req
1683. But in a few moments
you're going to tell me.Copy !req
1684. If you already know the future, then why
were you surprised when I left you?Copy !req
1685. Or when that reporter ambushed you?Copy !req
1686. Why even argue about it
if you already know how this is gonna end?Copy !req
1687. I have no choice.Copy !req
1688. Everything is preordained.Copy !req
1689. Even my responses.Copy !req
1690. And you're just going through
the motions.Copy !req
1691. The most powerful thing in the universe
is still just a puppet.Copy !req
1692. We are all puppets, Laurie.Copy !req
1693. I'm just a puppet
who can see the strings.Copy !req
1694. And what if you're wrong?Copy !req
1695. Why does my perception of time
distress you so?Copy !req
1696. Because it's inhuman.Copy !req
1697. Because it makes me insane.Copy !req
1698. You always say you wanna comfort me.
Well, it isn't working.Copy !req
1699. Look, I don't wanna fight.Copy !req
1700. I'm sorry I slept with Dan.Copy !req
1701. You slept with Dan?Copy !req
1702. You just said that you already
knew about that.Copy !req
1703. I said often...Copy !req
1704. that you were my only
remaining link to humanity.Copy !req
1705. Why would I save a world...Copy !req
1706. I no longer have any stake in?Copy !req
1707. Then do it for me.Copy !req
1708. If you really care.Copy !req
1709. When you left me, I left Earth.Copy !req
1710. Does that not show you that I care?Copy !req
1711. My red world here, now...Copy !req
1712. means more to me than your blue one.Copy !req
1713. Let me show you.Copy !req
1714. Bombers are fueled and ready, sir.Copy !req
1715. It's time, gentlemen.Copy !req
1716. Take us to DEFCON one.Copy !req
1717. Not in penthouse. Not in office.Copy !req
1718. What nocturnal proclivities
entice a man with everything...Copy !req
1719. out into the night at this hour?Copy !req
1720. Daniel?Copy !req
1721. You with me?Copy !req
1722. - Yeah.
- Then what are you doing?Copy !req
1723. I'm gonna look for Adrian's itinerary.Copy !req
1724. Maybe he keeps on file.Copy !req
1725. - Something's not right.
- Agreed.Copy !req
1726. Janey Slater, Moloch, Roy Chess
all work for Pyramid.Copy !req
1727. Moloch said the Comedian mentioned list
with his and Slater's name on it.Copy !req
1728. Whoever owns Pyramid
could be giving these people cancer.Copy !req
1729. Setting Manhattan up.Copy !req
1730. Funny.Copy !req
1731. Ancient pharaohs looked forward
to the end of the world.Copy !req
1732. Believed cadavers would rise,
reclaim hearts from golden jars.Copy !req
1733. Must currently be holding breath
in anticipation.Copy !req
1734. Pharaohs?Copy !req
1735. Got a psych profile on Manhattan.Copy !req
1736. See what the corporate head-peepers say.Copy !req
1737. "Subject continues
to retreat emotionally.Copy !req
1738. If the only remaining ties
were to be severed...Copy !req
1739. we predict total detachment
from the human condition."Copy !req
1740. I'm in.Copy !req
1741. No.Copy !req
1742. Congratulations, Mr. Veidt.
Dr. Manhattan's energy reactor is online.Copy !req
1743. Your support and your enthusiasm...Copy !req
1744. is what has led to this triumph.Copy !req
1745. On behalf of the research team,
we salute you.Copy !req
1746. - Cheers.
- Cheers.Copy !req
1747. What in life
does not deserve celebrating?Copy !req
1748. This is the new Karnak.Copy !req
1749. This represents the culmination of a dream
more than 2000 years old...Copy !req
1750. a dream now assured
because of your unquestioning assistance.Copy !req
1751. And for this...Copy !req
1752. I am ashamed...Copy !req
1753. ashamed that you must now share
such inadequate a reward.Copy !req
1754. To the pharaohs...Copy !req
1755. their greatest secrets
entrusted to their servants...Copy !req
1756. buried alive with them
in sand-floored chambers.Copy !req
1757. Sleep well, gentlemen.Copy !req
1758. Our new, peaceful world
will be indebted...Copy !req
1759. to your great sacrifice.Copy !req
1760. Bubastis.Copy !req
1761. Rorschach's journal. Final entry.Copy !req
1762. Veidt's behind everything.Copy !req
1763. Why?Copy !req
1764. What's his endgame?Copy !req
1765. I cannot imagine
a more dangerous opponent.Copy !req
1766. Used to joke he was fast enough
to catch a bullet.Copy !req
1767. He could kill us both alone in the snow.Copy !req
1768. That's where we're going now:
Antarctica.Copy !req
1769. Whether I'm alive or dead
upon this reading...Copy !req
1770. I hope the world survives long enough
for this journal to reach you.Copy !req
1771. I live my life free of compromise...Copy !req
1772. and step into the shadow
without complaint or regret.Copy !req
1773. Rorschach, November 1st.Copy !req
1774. Oh, God help us.Copy !req
1775. - It's a little early for you, huh?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1776. I wanted to finish
the story before school.Copy !req
1777. Listen, now you just keep it, okay?Copy !req
1778. - Huh?
- It's yours.Copy !req
1779. I mean, life's too short, right?Copy !req
1780. Yeah.Copy !req
1781. Uh...Copy !req
1782. Thanks, man.Copy !req
1783. Why does death pass me by?Copy !req
1784. Davidstown?Copy !req
1785. Davidstown.Copy !req
1786. I was only miles away.Copy !req
1787. By now the town was overrun.Copy !req
1788. The fiends imagined themselves
safe from me.Copy !req
1789. But now I was home.Copy !req
1790. And revenge would be mine.Copy !req
1791. No, not the brigands
from the Black Freighter.Copy !req
1792. The man I recognized,
a moneylender from Davidstown.Copy !req
1793. With Davidstown certainly captured...Copy !req
1794. why would this scoundrel
and his wench be allowed free passage...Copy !req
1795. for this midnight tryst?Copy !req
1796. Had he collaborated?Copy !req
1797. Had he betrayed my people?Copy !req
1798. - My family?
Come and get it, babe.Copy !req
1799. Here.Copy !req
1800. My heart grew cold.Copy !req
1801. Was my wife comforted
before her execution...Copy !req
1802. while this collaborator
and his pirate masters sneered?Copy !req
1803. My decision was hurried,
but not difficult.Copy !req
1804. Who are you? What?Copy !req
1805. His head burst,
as if pressurized by the guilt within.Copy !req
1806. A buccaneer's whore deserves no pity.Copy !req
1807. Two figures had ridden here.Copy !req
1808. Two must ride back.Copy !req
1809. A pirate sentry.Copy !req
1810. I trotted unhurriedly to avoid suspicion.Copy !req
1811. Their violation did not stop
with the good people of Davidstown...Copy !req
1812. but had cut deeply,
infecting my beloved homeland.Copy !req
1813. My Davidstown was not as I last saw it.Copy !req
1814. Already it was afflicted
with the curse of the Black Freighter.Copy !req
1815. Soon, I would venture amongst evil men,
butchers who now reside in my home...Copy !req
1816. and make them fear me.Copy !req
1817. Upon my return home,
I found the streets conspicuously silent.Copy !req
1818. I entered my former residence
noiselessly.Copy !req
1819. Careful not to rouse the pirate butchers
occupying it from their debauched slumber.Copy !req
1820. Unaware that death was amongst them...Copy !req
1821. they would know its dark embrace
without ever understanding why.Copy !req
1822. One, however, was awake. Frantic.Copy !req
1823. Lest he should raise alarms...Copy !req
1824. I set upon him as he entered
the night-wrapped chamber.Copy !req
1825. No pirates come, but something worse.Copy !req
1826. Father?Copy !req
1827. I look up into faces familiar,
save for their terror.Copy !req
1828. Through puffed and bloodied lips,
she mouthed my name.Copy !req
1829. My love, why?Copy !req
1830. There came an understanding so large
it left no room for sanity.Copy !req
1831. So I ran.Copy !req
1832. What's happened to her?Copy !req
1833. You.Copy !req
1834. The knowledge of my damnation paced me,
shouting, celebrating its awful victory.Copy !req
1835. My deduction was flawless.Copy !req
1836. The Black Freighter
was heading to Davidstown.Copy !req
1837. - It should have arrived.
He went that way!Copy !req
1838. Can't you just tell me how
this ends and save us the trouble?Copy !req
1839. It ends with you in tears.Copy !req
1840. Tears? So you don't come back to Earth.Copy !req
1841. At some point, yes.Copy !req
1842. The streets are filled with death.Copy !req
1843. Jon, please.Copy !req
1844. You have to stop this. Everyone will die.Copy !req
1845. And the universe will not even notice.Copy !req
1846. In my opinion, the existence of life...Copy !req
1847. is a highly overrated phenomenon.Copy !req
1848. Just look around you.Copy !req
1849. Mars gets along perfectly well
without so much as a microorganism.Copy !req
1850. Here, it's a constantly changing
topographical map...Copy !req
1851. flowing and shifting around the pole
in ripples 10,000 years wide.Copy !req
1852. So tell me...Copy !req
1853. how would all of this be greatly improved
by an oil pipeline?Copy !req
1854. By a shopping mall?Copy !req
1855. So it's too much to ask for a miracle?Copy !req
1856. Miracles, by their definition,
are meaningless.Copy !req
1857. Oh, God, Jon!Copy !req
1858. - Only what can happen does happen.
- Just stop your bullshit.Copy !req
1859. Land this thing. Now.Copy !req
1860. As you wish.Copy !req
1861. You know what?Copy !req
1862. You can send me back to Earth
to fry with Dan and my mom...Copy !req
1863. and all the other worthless humans.Copy !req
1864. But know that you were wrong.
You said this ended with me in tears...Copy !req
1865. and look: nothing.
Maybe you were wrong about everything.Copy !req
1866. You complain that I refuse to see life
on life's terms...Copy !req
1867. yet you continuously refuse
to see things from my perspective.Copy !req
1868. - You shut out what you're afraid of.
- I'm not afraid.Copy !req
1869. You want me to see things your way?
Go ahead, show me. Do that thing you do.Copy !req
1870. Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before.
I was a hero, goddamn it!Copy !req
1871. It's not my fault you got old.
What do you have to complain about?Copy !req
1872. I put food on the table
for you and your child.Copy !req
1873. Call your friend Eddie.
Maybe he can give you a better life.Copy !req
1874. Even the grimy parts of it...Copy !req
1875. keep on getting brighter.Copy !req
1876. You know, your mom, she was one
of the all-time champion beauties.Copy !req
1877. - You got her eyes, you know. You got—
- Take your hands off her.Copy !req
1878. Hey, doll. Long time no see.Copy !req
1879. Not long enough in my book, Eddie.
Get in the car.Copy !req
1880. Now.Copy !req
1881. Are there no depths you won't sink to?Copy !req
1882. Jesus Christ, Sally.
Can't a guy talk to his...Copy !req
1883. you know, old friend's daughter?Copy !req
1884. Drive.Copy !req
1885. It was a mistake. One time.Copy !req
1886. Guy tries to rape you, and years later,
you let him finish the job?Copy !req
1887. What? Were you drunk or just lonely?Copy !req
1888. Am I ever gonna live this down?Copy !req
1889. Laurie.Copy !req
1890. No.Copy !req
1891. No, not him.Copy !req
1892. The Comedian...Copy !req
1893. was your father.Copy !req
1894. No.Copy !req
1895. No! No! No!Copy !req
1896. My life is just...Copy !req
1897. one big joke.Copy !req
1898. I don't think your life is a joke.Copy !req
1899. Yeah, well...Copy !req
1900. I'm sorry if I don't
trust your sense of humor.Copy !req
1901. Will you smile...Copy !req
1902. if I admit I was wrong?Copy !req
1903. About what?Copy !req
1904. Miracles.Copy !req
1905. Events with astronomical odds
of occurring...Copy !req
1906. like oxygen turning into gold.Copy !req
1907. I've longed to witness such an event,
and yet I neglect...Copy !req
1908. that in human coupling...Copy !req
1909. millions upon millions of cells
compete to create life...Copy !req
1910. for generation after generation...Copy !req
1911. until finally, your mother...Copy !req
1912. loves a man...Copy !req
1913. Edward Blake, the Comedian,
a man she has every reason to hate...Copy !req
1914. and out of that contradiction,
against unfathomable odds...Copy !req
1915. it's you—Copy !req
1916. Only...Copy !req
1917. you.Copy !req
1918. —that emerged.Copy !req
1919. To distill so specific a form...Copy !req
1920. from all that chaos...Copy !req
1921. is like turning air into gold.Copy !req
1922. A miracle.Copy !req
1923. And so...Copy !req
1924. I was wrong.Copy !req
1925. Now dry your eyes, and let's go home.Copy !req
1926. We got a bearing on that artificial structure.
Heat signature's off the charts.Copy !req
1927. - Veidt.
- I don't like the way Archie's kicking.Copy !req
1928. - The engines.
- They're icing up. Hold onto something.Copy !req
1929. Daniel, you're coming in too low.Copy !req
1930. Don't wish to interfere,
but perhaps should pull up sharply—Copy !req
1931. I know! I'm trying.
I'm trying to pull him up, goddamn it!Copy !req
1932. I'm gonna redirect the heat from
the flamethrower to speed up deicing...Copy !req
1933. but it's gonna take a while
and we don't have time to wait.Copy !req
1934. You need something warmer.Copy !req
1935. Fine like this.Copy !req
1936. What is it, girl?Copy !req
1937. Mm.Copy !req
1938. Adrian's a pacifist.Copy !req
1939. He's a vegetarian, for chrissakes.
He's never killed anyone in his life.Copy !req
1940. Hitler was vegetarian.Copy !req
1941. You're squeamish, leave him to me.
We won't get second chance.Copy !req
1942. Gentlemen.Copy !req
1943. - Welcome.
- Adrian, we know everything.Copy !req
1944. Then what's there to discuss, Dan?Copy !req
1945. Plenty. You killed Comedian.Copy !req
1946. May he rest in peace.Copy !req
1947. Blake figured it out first.Copy !req
1948. Nixon had him keeping tabs on us,
making sure we weren't rocking the boat.Copy !req
1949. Blake found out what I was doing
here in Karnak...Copy !req
1950. and by the time he visited poor Moloch,
he was cracking badly.Copy !req
1951. Even I couldn't predict he'd be the one
to have a change of heart.Copy !req
1952. So...Copy !req
1953. I had to kill him.Copy !req
1954. Then I neutralized Jon. No easy task.Copy !req
1955. I put roughly $2 billion
into tachyon research...Copy !req
1956. to block Jon's vision of the future.Copy !req
1957. You used his psych profile
to manipulate him.Copy !req
1958. Got him to leave the planet.Copy !req
1959. I've known Jon long enough
to see he isn't devoid of emotion.Copy !req
1960. His subtle facial twitches wouldn't be
noticed by the layman, but to me...Copy !req
1961. he might as well have been sobbing.Copy !req
1962. All I needed to do was tug on the thread.Copy !req
1963. The sudden flood of emotion Jon felt...Copy !req
1964. when he came to believe
he'd given cancer to the people he loved...Copy !req
1965. was all the excuse he needed
to leave Earth.Copy !req
1966. Your bullshit assassin.
You paid him to throw us off.Copy !req
1967. Mr. Chess gave his life
in the service of a higher cause, Dan.Copy !req
1968. I put a cyanide capsule in his mouth...Copy !req
1969. leaving only one loose end:Copy !req
1970. You, and your mask-killer theory...Copy !req
1971. one you followed
with the tenacity of a true sociopath.Copy !req
1972. I tipped off the police.Copy !req
1973. Once you were in prison,
I was able to move forward.Copy !req
1974. Sorry to disappoint you.Copy !req
1975. We were supposed to make the world
a better place.Copy !req
1976. Dan, that's exactly what I am doing.Copy !req
1977. Nuclear war?Copy !req
1978. Human extinction?Copy !req
1979. Of course, my moral safeguards
gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice.Copy !req
1980. A few key regions around the globe—Copy !req
1981. New York, Los Angeles, Moscow,
Hong Kong.Copy !req
1982. —disintegrated in an instant.Copy !req
1983. Fifteen million people killed...Copy !req
1984. by Dr. Manhattan himself.Copy !req
1985. The world's punishment
for flirting with World War III.Copy !req
1986. Jon wouldn't do that.Copy !req
1987. A fact no one outside this room
ever has to know.Copy !req
1988. The energy breakthrough I was working on
just came to fruition.Copy !req
1989. All these years, Jon was helping me
replicate his power...Copy !req
1990. unaware of how I planned to use it.Copy !req
1991. You see...Copy !req
1992. the Comedian was right.Copy !req
1993. Humanity's savage nature
will inevitably lead to global annihilation.Copy !req
1994. So in order to save this planet...Copy !req
1995. I had to trick it...Copy !req
1996. with the greatest practical joke
in human history.Copy !req
1997. - Killing millions.
- To save billions.Copy !req
1998. A necessary crime.Copy !req
1999. You know we can't let you do that.Copy !req
2000. "Do that," Rorschach?Copy !req
2001. I'm not a comic-book villain.Copy !req
2002. Do you think
I'd explain my masterstroke to you...Copy !req
2003. if there were even the slightest possibility
you could affect the outcome?Copy !req
2004. I triggered it 35 minutes ago.Copy !req
2005. Eventually, I came to a dismal
black ocean stretching endlessly before me.Copy !req
2006. How had I reached
this appalling position with love...Copy !req
2007. only love, as my guide?Copy !req
2008. The moneylender floated at my feet.Copy !req
2009. Noble intentions had led me to atrocity.Copy !req
2010. The righteous anger fueling my ingenious,
awful scheme was but delusion.Copy !req
2011. Where was my error?Copy !req
2012. Planning to resume my flight,
I raised my head and saw her.Copy !req
2013. The vessel seemed to be waiting,
not hovering to strike.Copy !req
2014. And, gradually, I understood
what innocent intent had brought me to...Copy !req
2015. and waded out beyond my depth.Copy !req
2016. The unspeakable truth
loomed unavoidably before me...Copy !req
2017. as I swam
towards the anchored Freighter.Copy !req
2018. Its dark and lurching mast
filled all my vision.Copy !req
2019. All my well-meaning plans
had come to this.Copy !req
2020. The world I tried to save
was lost beyond recall.Copy !req
2021. A rope snaked down.Copy !req
2022. Sputtering, I grabbed it.Copy !req
2023. And from the decks above,
a cheer went up...Copy !req
2024. both gross and black,
its stench affronting heaven.Copy !req
2025. There had been no plan
to capture Davidstown.Copy !req
2026. They'd come to wait until they could collect
the only prize they valued.Copy !req
2027. Claim the only soul they truly wanted.Copy !req
2028. I was a horror.Copy !req
2029. Amongst horrors must I dwell.Copy !req
2030. - Man, this shit don't make no sense.
- You're telling me.Copy !req
2031. Sorry, but you can keep this garbage.
Wasting all my damn time.Copy !req
2032. Hey, hey. You know, all this time
you've been coming here...Copy !req
2033. I never caught your name.Copy !req
2034. - Bernard.
- Bernard? You're kidding.Copy !req
2035. That's— Heh. That's my name too.Copy !req
2036. Not that big a deal.
There's lots of people called Bernard.Copy !req
2037. Jesus Christ, Henry.Copy !req
2038. Why the hell
didn't we get a launch detection?Copy !req
2039. It's not the Soviets, sir.Copy !req
2040. Intel indicates the energy signature...Copy !req
2041. was generated by...Copy !req
2042. Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
2043. Jon.Copy !req
2044. Interference.Copy !req
2045. Cataclysmic interference.Copy !req
2046. I can't believe it happened.Copy !req
2047. This wasn't caused by nuclear warheads.Copy !req
2048. It was me.Copy !req
2049. I...Copy !req
2050. did this.Copy !req
2051. - What do you mean, you did this?
- Not directly.Copy !req
2052. It was made to look like I did it.Copy !req
2053. Adrian.Copy !req
2054. Speak of the devil.Copy !req
2055. Jon—
I know.Copy !req
2056. Must stop him.
Killed Blake, killed millions.Copy !req
2057. Wait here.Copy !req
2058. Adrian, stop this.Copy !req
2059. The tachyons were clever...Copy !req
2060. but even if I can't predict where you are,
I can turn the walls to glass.Copy !req
2061. I should thank you.Copy !req
2062. I'd almost forgotten the excitement
of not knowing...Copy !req
2063. the delights of uncertainty.Copy !req
2064. Forgive me, girl.Copy !req
2065. You're such an asshole.Copy !req
2066. Veidt, you bastard.Copy !req
2067. - If you've hurt her, I'll—
- Dan...Copy !req
2068. grow up. My new world
demands less obvious heroism.Copy !req
2069. Your...Copy !req
2070. schoolboy heroics are redundant.
What have they achieved?Copy !req
2071. Failing to prevent Earth's salvation...Copy !req
2072. is your only triumph.Copy !req
2073. I'm disappointed in you, Adrian.Copy !req
2074. I'm very disappointed.Copy !req
2075. Reassembling myself
was the first trick I learned.Copy !req
2076. It didn't kill Osterman.Copy !req
2077. Did you really think it would kill me?Copy !req
2078. I have walked across the surface
of the sun.Copy !req
2079. I have witnessed events
so tiny and so fast...Copy !req
2080. they can hardly be said
to have occurred at all...Copy !req
2081. but you, Adrian, you're just a man.Copy !req
2082. The world's smartest man...Copy !req
2083. poses no more threat to me...Copy !req
2084. than does its smartest termite.Copy !req
2085. What's that?Copy !req
2086. Another ultimate weapon?Copy !req
2087. Yes.Copy !req
2088. You could say that.Copy !req
2089. —came under attack.Copy !req
2090. Millions of lives were suddenly ended...Copy !req
2091. in an act of evil
perpetrated by Dr. Manhattan himself.Copy !req
2092. Since the attacks,
I have been in constant contact...Copy !req
2093. with the premier of the U.S.S.R.Copy !req
2094. Putting aside our past differences...Copy !req
2095. we have both pledged to unite...Copy !req
2096. against this common enemy.Copy !req
2097. With the rest of the world...Copy !req
2098. we will prevail.Copy !req
2099. This is a day we shall never forget.Copy !req
2100. And yet we go forward
to defend the human race...Copy !req
2101. and all that is good
and just in our world.Copy !req
2102. Thank you. God bless us all.Copy !req
2103. Do you see?Copy !req
2104. Two superpowers retreating from war.Copy !req
2105. I've saved the earth from hell.Copy !req
2106. We both have.Copy !req
2107. This is as much your victory as it is mine.Copy !req
2108. Now we can return...Copy !req
2109. do what we were meant to.Copy !req
2110. We were meant to exact justice.Copy !req
2111. - Everyone's gonna know what you've done.
- Will they?Copy !req
2112. By exposing me, you would sacrifice
the peace so many died for today.Copy !req
2113. - Peace based on a lie.
- But peace...Copy !req
2114. - ... nonetheless.
- He's right.Copy !req
2115. Exposing Adrian would only doom the world
to nuclear destruction again.Copy !req
2116. No. We can't do this.Copy !req
2117. On Mars...Copy !req
2118. you taught me the value of life.Copy !req
2119. If we hope to preserve it here...Copy !req
2120. we must remain silent.Copy !req
2121. Keep your own secrets.Copy !req
2122. Don't even think about it.Copy !req
2123. Rorschach.Copy !req
2124. Wait.Copy !req
2125. Never compromise.Copy !req
2126. Not even in the face of armageddon.Copy !req
2127. That's always been the difference
between us, Daniel.Copy !req
2128. I've made myself feel every death...Copy !req
2129. see every innocent face
I've murdered to save humanity.Copy !req
2130. - You understand, don't you?
Without condoning...Copy !req
2131. or condemning...Copy !req
2132. I understand.Copy !req
2133. Out of my way. People have to be told.Copy !req
2134. You know I can't let you do that.Copy !req
2135. Suddenly you discover humanity?Copy !req
2136. Convenient.Copy !req
2137. If you'd cared from the start,
none of this would have happened.Copy !req
2138. I can change almost anything...Copy !req
2139. but I can't change human nature.Copy !req
2140. Of course
you must protect Veidt's new utopia.Copy !req
2141. What's one more body
amongst foundations?Copy !req
2142. Well, what are you waiting for?Copy !req
2143. Do it.Copy !req
2144. Do it!Copy !req
2145. No!Copy !req
2146. I'm leaving this galaxy
for one a little less complicated.Copy !req
2147. I thought you said you cared
about life again.Copy !req
2148. I do.Copy !req
2149. I think maybe I'll create some.Copy !req
2150. Goodbye, Laurie.Copy !req
2151. Come on.Copy !req
2152. Come on!Copy !req
2153. Dan...Copy !req
2154. a world united and at peace.Copy !req
2155. There had to be sacrifice.Copy !req
2156. No! You haven't idealized mankind,
you've deformed it.Copy !req
2157. You've mutilated it.Copy !req
2158. That's your legacy.Copy !req
2159. That's the real practical joke.Copy !req
2160. We repeat, there is
nothing wrong with your television set.Copy !req
2161. You are about to participate
in a great adventure.Copy !req
2162. You are about to experience
the awe and mystery...Copy !req
2163. which reaches from the inner mind
to the outer limits.Copy !req
2164. Sure you don't want a drink?Copy !req
2165. I'm okay.Copy !req
2166. Cheers.Copy !req
2167. There's something I need
to get off my chest.Copy !req
2168. I know that Eddie Blake was my father.Copy !req
2169. Laurel.Copy !req
2170. What you must think of me.Copy !req
2171. I'm sorry I never told you.Copy !req
2172. I should have...Copy !req
2173. but I don't know, I just felt ashamed.
I felt stupid.Copy !req
2174. It doesn't matter.Copy !req
2175. People's lives take them strange places.
They do strange things...Copy !req
2176. and, well,
sometimes they can't talk about them.Copy !req
2177. I know how that is...Copy !req
2178. but I just want you to know...Copy !req
2179. that you never did anything wrong
by me.Copy !req
2180. You asked me why I wasn't mad at him.Copy !req
2181. Because he gave me you.Copy !req
2182. Thanks, Mom.Copy !req
2183. I love you.Copy !req
2184. - Hello, Miss Jupiter.
- Oh, Sally, please.Copy !req
2185. Excuse me. Gotta go freshen up.
I'll be right back.Copy !req
2186. - So how's it going up here?
- Good. How's it going down there?Copy !req
2187. Good. I think I've got everything working.Copy !req
2188. All of Archie's systems are upgraded.
Finished the tinkering for now...Copy !req
2189. so all we gotta do is take her out.Copy !req
2190. Well, that sounds like a date.Copy !req
2191. Are we gonna be all right?Copy !req
2192. Long as people think Jon's
still watching us, we'll be all right...Copy !req
2193. in the end.Copy !req
2194. I know what Jon would say:Copy !req
2195. Nothing ends.Copy !req
2196. Nothing ever ends.Copy !req
2197. Seymour, we got nothing
to write about anymore.Copy !req
2198. Everyone in the country...Copy !req
2199. every country in the world
are holding hands...Copy !req
2200. and singing songs
about peace and love.Copy !req
2201. It's like living in a goddamn
global hippie commune.Copy !req
2202. Well, Ronald Reagan says he's gonna
be running for president in '88.Copy !req
2203. We could run a piece on that.Copy !req
2204. Seymour, we don't dignify absurdities
with coverage.Copy !req
2205. This is still America, damn it.
Who wants a cowboy in the White House?Copy !req
2206. Okay. I could look for something
in the crank file.Copy !req
2207. Crank file.Copy !req
2208. Whatever. Take some initiative.Copy !req
2209. Run whatever you like.
I leave it entirely in your hands.Copy !req
2210. Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985.Copy !req
2211. Tonight, a comedian died in New York.Copy !req