1. Wrong, as usual.Copy !req
2. The United State's 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.
- This just in: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?Copy !req
411. Sure. They're very
valuable, like antiques.Copy !req
412. Mother, this is gross.Copy !req
413. I think it's kind of flattering.Copy !req
414. Why do you always call me Mother
when you're mad?Copy !req
415. I know why you're here.
I can still read, you know.Copy !req
416. I saw it in the paper.Copy !req
417. Eddie Blake's funeral is today.Copy !req
418. Finally got his punchline, I guess.Copy !req
419. - Poor Eddie.
- Poor Eddie? After what he did to you?Copy !req
420. Oh, Laurie, you're still young.Copy !req
421. You don't know.Copy !req
422. Things change.Copy !req
423. What happened happened 40 years ago.Copy !req
424. I'm 67 years old.Copy !req
425. Every day, the future
looks a little bit darker.Copy !req
426. But the past...Copy !req
427. even the grimy parts of it...Copy !req
428. keep on getting brighter.Copy !req
429. I've got spots in my eyes.Copy !req
430. Stop it, Eddie.Copy !req
431. - Thank you, Weegee.
- Thank you, Mr. Owl.Copy !req
432. Tomorrow, 3:00, my studio.Copy !req
433. - Little place on 21 st.
- Sounds good.Copy !req
434. Wow, a real photo session.
Wonder how my hair will look?Copy !req
435. Oh, go ahead. I'll be there in five.Copy !req
436. Eddie.Copy !req
437. What the hell are you doing here?
You knew I was changing.Copy !req
438. Sure I did.Copy !req
439. Come on, baby.Copy !req
440. I know what you need.Copy !req
441. You gotta have some kind of reason
for dressing in an outfit like this.Copy !req
442. I said no, Eddie.Copy !req
443. - No spelled Y-E-S.
- No spelled N-O.Copy !req
444. - All right?
- Come on, sweetheart.Copy !req
445. Eddie...Copy !req
446. You little bastard.Copy !req
447. This what you like?Copy !req
448. - This what makes you hot?
- What?Copy !req
449. Things are tough all over, cupcake.Copy !req
450. It rains on the just and the unjust alike.Copy !req
451. The Comedian was a little bit of both.Copy !req
452. And he always thought
he'd get the last laugh.Copy !req
453. Thou knowest, Lord,
the secrets of our hearts.Copy !req
454. Shut not thy merciful ears
to our prayers...Copy !req
455. but spare us, Lord most holy,
O God most mighty...Copy !req
456. O holy and merciful savior.Copy !req
457. Thou most worthy judge eternal.Copy !req
458. Suffer us not at our last hour
for any...Copy !req
459. Fireworks. You gotta be kidding me.Copy !req
460. You know, you'd think this goddamn
country had had enough fireworks.Copy !req
461. You know, if we'd lost here in Vietnam...Copy !req
462. I think it might have driven us crazy.
You know, as a country.Copy !req
463. But we didn't, thanks to you.Copy !req
464. You sound bitter.Copy !req
465. Me? Bitter?Copy !req
466. Fuck, no. I think it's hilarious.Copy !req
467. Oh, Jesus Christ.Copy !req
468. - Mr. Eddie?
- Just what I fucking needed.Copy !req
469. The war is over now.
We must talk about this baby.Copy !req
470. There's nothing to talk about.
See, I'm leaving.Copy !req
471. I'm gonna forget about you...Copy !req
472. and your horrible, sweaty,
little piece-of-shit country.Copy !req
473. Get the fuck out of here.Copy !req
474. - No.
- Get the fuck out of here.Copy !req
475. You will remember.Copy !req
476. You will remember me and my country...Copy !req
477. forever!Copy !req
478. My face!Copy !req
479. Blake. Don't.Copy !req
480. Blake!Copy !req
481. She was pregnant...Copy !req
482. and you gunned her down.Copy !req
483. That's right...Copy !req
484. and you know what? You watched me.Copy !req
485. You could have turned the gun to steam,
the bullets to mercury...Copy !req
486. the bottle into goddamn snowflakes,
but you didn't, did you?Copy !req
487. You really don't give a damn
about human beings.Copy !req
488. You're drifting out of touch, Doc.Copy !req
489. God help us all.Copy !req
490. Medic!Copy !req
491. Most holy and merciful savior.Copy !req
492. He cometh up and is cut down,
like a flower.Copy !req
493. In the midst of life, we are in death.Copy !req
494. Of whom may we seek succor,
but of thee, O Lord?Copy !req
495. Welcome. We'll be starting shortly.Copy !req
496. We're waiting for one more.Copy !req
497. I told you, you wouldn't be
the only one dressed up.Copy !req
498. Welcome, doctor.Copy !req
499. Now we can start.Copy !req
500. Thank you for coming. Acquaint yourselves
with this map of high-crime areas.Copy !req
501. This is all bullshit.Copy !req
502. For a guy who calls himself the Comedian,
I can never tell when you're joking.Copy !req
503. Watchmen. That's the real joke.Copy !req
504. It didn't work 15 years ago,
and it ain't gonna work now...Copy !req
505. because you wanna play
cowboys and Indians.Copy !req
506. Maybe we should agree
on no drinking at meetings.Copy !req
507. Rorschach and I have made headway
on the gang problem by working together.Copy !req
508. A group this size seems like a
publicity stunt. I'm not in it for the ink.Copy !req
509. We can do so much more.Copy !req
510. We can save this world...Copy !req
511. - with the right leadership.
- Yeah.Copy !req
512. And that'd be you, right, Ozzy?Copy !req
513. I mean, hell,
you're the smartest man on the planet.Copy !req
514. It doesn't take a genius
to see the world has problems.Copy !req
515. But it takes a room of morons to think
they're small enough for you to handle.Copy !req
516. You people.Copy !req
517. You hear Moloch's back in town,
get your panties all in a bunch.Copy !req
518. - You think catching him matters?
- Justice matters.Copy !req
519. Justice.Copy !req
520. Justice is coming to all of us.Copy !req
521. No matter what the fuck we do.Copy !req
522. You know, mankind's been trying to kill
each other off since the beginning of time.Copy !req
523. Now we finally have the power
to finish the job.Copy !req
524. Ain't nothing gonna matter once
those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.Copy !req
525. Then Ozymandias here...Copy !req
526. will be the smartest man
on the cinder.Copy !req
527. For as much as it hath pleased...Copy !req
528. almighty God to take onto himself
the soul of our dear departed brother...Copy !req
529. let us therefore commit his body
to the ground.Copy !req
530. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes...Copy !req
531. Watchmen! Police!
Police to protect the people!Copy !req
532. Attention, citizens.
We are trying to maintain order.Copy !req
533. You must clear the streets
until the police strike is over.Copy !req
534. If you could...
Please, there's no need for violence.Copy !req
535. We are trying to retain order on the streets
until the police strike is over.Copy !req
536. Crawl back in your holes
before you get hurt.Copy !req
537. I got rubber bullets. I want my rights!Copy !req
538. You are not the law! We want regular cops!Copy !req
539. No more vigilantes!Copy !req
540. My son's a police officer,
you fucking faggots!Copy !req
541. Goddamn it. All right.
That's how you wanna do it?Copy !req
542. There's no need for violence.Copy !req
543. Fuck you. Fuck you!Copy !req
544. Oh, this is getting heavy.Copy !req
545. Goddamn, I love working
on American soil, Dan.Copy !req
546. Ain't had this much fun
since Woodward and Bernstein.Copy !req
547. How long can we keep this up?Copy !req
548. Congress is pushing through some new bill
that's gonna outlaw masks.Copy !req
549. Our days are numbered.Copy !req
550. Until then, it's like you always say:
We're society's only protection.Copy !req
551. - From what?
- Are you kidding me? From themselves.Copy !req
552. - Son of a bitch.
- No, Comedian, wait!Copy !req
553. Get your stinking hands off me.Copy !req
554. What the hell happened to us?Copy !req
555. What happened to the American dream?Copy !req
556. What happened to the American dream?Copy !req
557. It came true!Copy !req
558. You're looking at it.Copy !req
559. Edgar William Jacobi.Copy !req
560. Also known as Edgar William Vaughn.
Also known as Moloch.Copy !req
561. What are you talking about?Copy !req
562. I'm a retired businessman...Copy !req
563. Lie again, Moloch, I break another finger.Copy !req
564. I did my time.Copy !req
565. I'm not Moloch anymore.Copy !req
566. - What do you want from me?
- Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why?Copy !req
567. I just felt I should...Copy !req
568. pay my respects to the Comedian.Copy !req
569. - How'd you know he was the Comedian?
- He broke in here. A week ago.Copy !req
570. He had his mask off.Copy !req
571. - He was drunk.
- Enemies. For decades.Copy !req
572. - Why should he visit you?
- I don't know.Copy !req
573. I woke up in my bedroom
and there he was.Copy !req
574. He was upset.Copy !req
575. He was crying.Copy !req
576. Crying? The Comedian?Copy !req
577. He was babbling, not making any sense.Copy !req
578. I was pissing in my pants.Copy !req
579. I thought he was gonna kill me.Copy !req
580. What did he say?Copy !req
581. It's a joke.Copy !req
582. It's all a fucking joke.Copy !req
583. You know, I thought I knew how it was.Copy !req
584. I thought I knew how the world was.Copy !req
585. I've done some bad things.Copy !req
586. I did bad things to women. I shot kids.Copy !req
587. In'Nam, you know.Copy !req
588. But that was fucking war.Copy !req
589. This...Copy !req
590. I never done anything like this.Copy !req
591. God, here I am...Copy !req
592. spilling my guts...Copy !req
593. to one of my archenemies.Copy !req
594. But the truth is...Copy !req
595. you're the closest
thing to a friend I got.Copy !req
596. What the fuck does that say?Copy !req
597. Shit.Copy !req
598. And your name...Copy !req
599. your name was on the list...Copy !req
600. along with Janey, you know,
whatever the fuck her name is.Copy !req
601. Manhattan's old girl.Copy !req
602. Mother, forgive me.Copy !req
603. And then he left.Copy !req
604. I swear I don't know
what the hell he was talking about.Copy !req
605. Funny story.Copy !req
606. Sounds unbelievable.Copy !req
607. Probably true.Copy !req
608. So that's it?Copy !req
609. - I'm clean?
- You?Copy !req
610. Clean?Copy !req
611. Amygdalin.Copy !req
612. This phony medication
made from apricot pits.Copy !req
613. - It's illegal.
- Come on.Copy !req
614. Please don't confiscate that.Copy !req
615. I'm trying anything.Copy !req
616. I have cancer.Copy !req
617. What kind of cancer?Copy !req
618. You know the kind
you eventually get better from?Copy !req
619. That ain't the kind I got.Copy !req
620. Rorschach's journal. October 16th.Copy !req
621. Want some of this?
Fifty bucks, I'll suck your cock.Copy !req
622. - Thought about Moloch's story.
- Come on.Copy !req
623. Could all be lies.Copy !req
624. A revenge scheme
planned during his years behind bars.Copy !req
625. Fuck you. I make more in a week
than you make in a year, you fucking homo.Copy !req
626. But if it's true...Copy !req
627. what could have possibly
scared the Comedian...Copy !req
628. enough to cry in front of Moloch?Copy !req
629. What was it he saw?Copy !req
630. And that list he mentioned.Copy !req
631. Edward Blake. The Comedian.Copy !req
632. Born 1918.Copy !req
633. Buried in the rain.Copy !req
634. Murdered.Copy !req
635. Is that what happens to us?
No time for friends?Copy !req
636. Only our enemies leave roses.Copy !req
637. Violent lives ending violently.Copy !req
638. Blake understood.
Humans are savage in nature.Copy !req
639. No matter how much you try
to dress it up...Copy !req
640. to disguise it...Copy !req
641. Blake saw society's true face.Copy !req
642. Chose to be a parody of it. A joke.Copy !req
643. I heard joke once.Copy !req
644. Man goes to doctor, says he's depressed.Copy !req
645. Life seems harsh and cruel.Copy !req
646. Says he feels all alone
in threatening world.Copy !req
647. Doctor says treatment is simple.Copy !req
648. "The great clown Pagliacci is in town.
Go see him.Copy !req
649. That should pick you up."Copy !req
650. Man bursts into tears.Copy !req
651. "But doctor," he says. "I am Pagliacci."Copy !req
652. Good joke.Copy !req
653. Everybody laugh.Copy !req
654. Roll on snare drum.Copy !req
655. Curtains.Copy !req
656. Yeah?Copy !req
657. Can I get a Time magazine
from you there?Copy !req
658. - Sure.
- How much you want for it now?Copy !req
659. For you, 2 bucks.Copy !req
660. Two bucks. Going up, huh?Copy !req
661. There you go. Thanks.Copy !req
662. Hey, I like your book.Copy !req
663. Hey, thanks, Bernie. I appreciate it.Copy !req
664. When I awoke,
I found myself upon a dismal beachhead...Copy !req
665. with my men.Copy !req
666. Pieces of my men.Copy !req
667. It was all I could do for her...Copy !req
668. though she had borne me
through seas of blood.Copy !req
669. Her damp embrace had prevented me
from drifting beyond reach.Copy !req
670. Yet this small comfort
was all I could offer.Copy !req
671. One of my crew lay ahead.Copy !req
672. Birds were eating
his thoughts and memories.Copy !req
673. Away. Yah!Copy !req
674. Yah! Get away.Copy !req
675. In hell, at least the gulls are contented.Copy !req
676. For my part,
I begged that they should take my eyes.Copy !req
677. Thus sparing me future horrors.Copy !req
678. What time do you have to be
at your interview?Copy !req
679. Don't worry.Copy !req
680. We've got plenty of time.Copy !req
681. Your finger's like licking a battery.Copy !req
682. God, Jon, stop. What are you doing?Copy !req
683. Please don't be upset.Copy !req
684. I always thought you liked this.Copy !req
685. No.Copy !req
686. I don't... No.Copy !req
687. I don't want that.Copy !req
688. I don't know
what stimulates you anymore.Copy !req
689. Look, I know you were just trying...Copy !req
690. Are you working in here
while we're in bed together?Copy !req
691. My work with Adrian
is at a critical stage right now.Copy !req
692. - I didn't think it was necessary to...
- To what?Copy !req
693. To what? To tell me which one of you
is giving me a pity fuck?Copy !req
694. My attention was completely focused
on you.Copy !req
695. If you think there's a problem
with my attitude...Copy !req
696. I am prepared to discuss it.Copy !req
697. You know how everything in this world
fits together except people.Copy !req
698. What am I to you?
Another puzzle to be solved?Copy !req
699. Have your men stand back.
I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now.Copy !req
700. You're my only remaining link
to the world.Copy !req
701. I don't want that responsibility anymore.Copy !req
702. He's all yours.Copy !req
703. Don't worry, Jon. She'll be back.Copy !req
704. No, she won't.Copy !req
705. He's been called
many things: Hero, weapon...Copy !req
706. linchpin of our national security...Copy !req
707. deterrent to nuclear war,
or a man to end worlds.Copy !req
708. Later tonight, Dr. Manhattan...Copy !req
709. will answer my questions and yours
in an exclusive interview...Copy !req
710. brought to you commercial-free
by Veidt Enterprises.Copy !req
711. Who is it?Copy !req
712. It's Laurie.Copy !req
713. Sorry. I just had this new lock installed.Copy !req
714. I didn't know where else to go.Copy !req
715. Oh, it's okay. Come in.Copy !req
716. What's wrong?Copy !req
717. I left Jon.Copy !req
718. Oh, God.Copy !req
719. I'm so sorry.Copy !req
720. I don't know why I'm here. I just...Copy !req
721. I don't know anybody else.Copy !req
722. I don't know anybody
except for goddamn superheroes.Copy !req
723. That's okay.Copy !req
724. You probably just had an argument
or something.Copy !req
725. No, Dan.Copy !req
726. You don't know what it's been like
living with him.Copy !req
727. The way he looks at things now,
it's like he doesn't...Copy !req
728. remember what they are.Copy !req
729. It's like this world, this real world...Copy !req
730. to him,
it's like walking through mist.Copy !req
731. And people are just shadows.Copy !req
732. Shadows in a fog.Copy !req
733. God, how did everything
get so tangled up?Copy !req
734. I'm sorry, Dan.Copy !req
735. This is twice now
I've ruined your evening.Copy !req
736. Come on. I'm glad you came over.Copy !req
737. I was just gonna see Hollis
for our weekly beer session.Copy !req
738. You're more than welcome to join.Copy !req
739. In fact, I insist.Copy !req
740. Terrific. Dr. Manhattan arrives
and no one thinks to tell me.Copy !req
741. - He just...
- We don't have time for makeup.Copy !req
742. That blue is too light for television.Copy !req
743. Is that dark enough?Copy !req
744. Yeah, that's dark enough.Copy !req
745. The weight of the world's on him,
but does he quit? No.Copy !req
746. News vendors always cope. They're the...Copy !req
747. Oh, God, here comes
that homeless guy again.Copy !req
748. I told you, this month's issue
still hasn't arrived yet.Copy !req
749. Why do you care about that right-wing rag?
Those bastards don't give a damn.Copy !req
750. Hold up. Here they come.Copy !req
751. - Seymour.
- Bernie, how's tricks?Copy !req
752. Fine, fine.Copy !req
753. See this guy behind me?
Been bugging me all week.Copy !req
754. Maybe we should get a cab.
These are bad neighborhoods.Copy !req
755. Yeah, well, I'm in a bad mood.Copy !req
756. Girl. What we got here?Copy !req
757. Here's a list of Pentagon-approved
no-go areas.Copy !req
758. Afghanistan will obviously come up,
but just play it cool...Copy !req
759. and try not to get
into any tight corners.Copy !req
760. A renowned nuclear physicist,
who, through a terrible accident...Copy !req
761. was gifted with extraordinary powers,
capable of bending matter to his will.Copy !req
762. Today, the world knows him
as Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
763. Welcome.Copy !req
764. Thank you.Copy !req
765. That's right.Copy !req
766. Ms. Black, you have the first question.Copy !req
767. Dr. Manhattan, as you know...Copy !req
768. the Doomsday Clock
is a symbolic clock face...Copy !req
769. analogizing humankind's proximity
to extinction...Copy !req
770. midnight representing the threat
of nuclear war.Copy !req
771. As of now, it stands at four minutes
to midnight.Copy !req
772. Would you agree that we're that close
to annihilation?Copy !req
773. My father was a watchmaker.Copy !req
774. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered
that time is relative.Copy !req
775. I would only agree
that a symbolic clock...Copy !req
776. is as nourishing to the intellect...Copy !req
777. as a photograph of oxygen
to a drowning man.Copy !req
778. So you're saying there is no danger.Copy !req
779. Even in a world without nuclear
weapons, there would still be danger.Copy !req
780. And would you say, as so many claim...Copy !req
781. that you are, in fact, a god...Copy !req
782. given you see the past
and future simultaneously?Copy !req
783. I can only see my own past...Copy !req
784. my own future. I am not omniscient.Copy !req
785. Doug Roth, your question?Copy !req
786. Speaking of your past, Dr. Manhattan...Copy !req
787. do you remember a man
named Wally Weaver?Copy !req
788. Yes. We were both physicists together
at the Gila Flats Research Base.Copy !req
789. He died of cancer.Copy !req
790. - He was a good man.
- How about Edgar Jacobi...Copy !req
791. also known as the supervillain Moloch?Copy !req
792. You encountered him several times
in the 60s, battles, conflicts.Copy !req
793. Did you know that he has cancer as well?Copy !req
794. I wasn't told.Copy !req
795. And what about
General Anthony Randolph?Copy !req
796. He was your handler when you first
started working for the government.Copy !req
797. Cancer.Copy !req
798. You're suggesting I was the cause.Copy !req
799. From where I'm standing,
it's starting to look pretty conclusive.Copy !req
800. Even if that's the case, it's irrelevant.Copy !req
801. A live human body
and a deceased human body...Copy !req
802. have the same number of particles.Copy !req
803. Structurally, there's no difference.Copy !req
804. All right. Let's settle down, please.Copy !req
805. What about Janey Slater?Copy !req
806. You think it makes a difference to her?Copy !req
807. Janey?Copy !req
808. Your ex-girlfriend?Copy !req
809. She was a physicist too.
You saw each other for 11 years.Copy !req
810. Doug, one question at a time.Copy !req
811. She has cancer as well.
Doctors have given her six months.Copy !req
812. Isn't that right, Miss Slater?Copy !req
813. You were the world to me, Jon.Copy !req
814. You were my whole life.Copy !req
815. Do you remember how many times
you said you loved me?Copy !req
816. Janey, I wasn't told.Copy !req
817. I stuck by you after the accident.
I gave you everything.Copy !req
818. This is how you repay me?Copy !req
819. - Janey, I wasn't told. I didn't know.
- Damn you, Jon. Goddamn you.Copy !req
820. Janey, wait.Copy !req
821. - That's it. This interview is over.
- Get up there.Copy !req
822. Get those cameras off.
Everybody back off.Copy !req
823. Everybody back off.
I need some backup here. Leave him alone.Copy !req
824. Please, if everyone
would just go away...Copy !req
825. and leave me alone...Copy !req
826. Do you care to comment?Copy !req
827. I said, leave me alone!Copy !req
828. Jesus.Copy !req
829. Us...Copy !req
830. getting mugged.Copy !req
831. Let's go.Copy !req
832. I'm shaking.Copy !req
833. You know what?Copy !req
834. I'm wiped. I'm just gonna call it a night.Copy !req
835. Oh, are you sure you don't wanna
come by Hollis with me...Copy !req
836. and shake off the adrenaline?Copy !req
837. I think I've had enough hero stuff
for one night.Copy !req
838. It helped having you listen.Copy !req
839. Any time.Copy !req
840. Take care, Dan.Copy !req
841. It's a rough world out there.Copy !req
842. Be seeing you.Copy !req
843. I thought of my family...Copy !req
844. my wife, my daughters.Copy !req
845. Vulnerable, unsuspecting.Copy !req
846. A waiting my return,
only to be met by damnation...Copy !req
847. bearing down upon them.Copy !req
848. Hey!Copy !req
849. Over here!Copy !req
850. Here!Copy !req
851. Ridley.Copy !req
852. A sail.Copy !req
853. Ridley had brought me a sail.Copy !req
854. Perhaps this could be my route
back to Davidstown.Copy !req
855. Everything I loved, everything I lived for,
depended on my reaching home...Copy !req
856. in advance of that terrible Freighter.Copy !req
857. The morning sun found me
no less troubled.Copy !req
858. Further down the shore...Copy !req
859. some of my crew
had become inflated with gas.Copy !req
860. Ugh!Copy !req
861. I shuddered at my own idea,
attempting to banish this repulsive notion.Copy !req
862. Even in death,
they sought to fulfill their duty...Copy !req
863. making our vessel more buoyant.Copy !req
864. And I would do my duty to them
in returning them home.Copy !req
865. Rudely jarring my men from eternal rest,
and laying them in the bed I prepared...Copy !req
866. I hoped my wife and daughters
might be tucked in by gentler hands...Copy !req
867. when their turn came.Copy !req
868. We shall get home together, my friend.Copy !req
869. I waited for the tide.Copy !req
870. Then, embarking, headed east.Copy !req
871. East, across the night seas.Copy !req
872. East, borne on the bodies
of murdered men.Copy !req
873. Hope can be a horrible thing.Copy !req
874. With the dawn came the gulls
looking for breakfast.Copy !req
875. Ridley.Copy !req
876. Get out.Copy !req
877. I was reminded
that I, myself, had not eaten.Copy !req
878. I know it is unappetizing,
but it is all we have.Copy !req
879. He's gone.Copy !req
880. - He's gone!
- Who's gone?Copy !req
881. - Dr. Manhattan.
- What? What'd you say?Copy !req
882. Dr. Manhattan's gone. He's left us.Copy !req
883. What? Gone where?Copy !req
884. You're late.Copy !req
885. Ah, I know. I know.
You won't believe what happened.Copy !req
886. Dr. Manhattan just lost it on live TV.Copy !req
887. Wait, what?Copy !req
888. I was just with Laurie. She doesn't know.Copy !req
889. She's gonna know soon enough.
The whole world will know.Copy !req
890. I said, leave me alone!Copy !req
891. I am looking at the stars.Copy !req
892. They're so far away...Copy !req
893. and their light takes so long
to reach us...Copy !req
894. all we ever see of stars
are their old photographs.Copy !req
895. It is July, 1959, and I am in love.Copy !req
896. That's great.Copy !req
897. - You can pick it up tomorrow.
- Okay.Copy !req
898. - Seventy-five cents.
- Okay, thank you.Copy !req
899. Thank you.Copy !req
900. Gosh, Jon, I wish he
gave us a little notice.Copy !req
901. I'm sure I made a face.Copy !req
902. Oh, no, no.
I'm sure that you'll look beautiful.Copy !req
903. Her name is Janey Slater.Copy !req
904. She is a physicist, like me.Copy !req
905. I am 30 years old.Copy !req
906. We were introduced by a good friend
of mine from college, Wally Weaver.Copy !req
907. It is February 12th, 1981.Copy !req
908. Wally dies of cancer,
of which they now say I am the cause.Copy !req
909. That night, Janey and I make love
for the first time.Copy !req
910. A month from now,
the accident awaits me.Copy !req
911. Oh, I'll catch up with you guys.
I think I left my watch inside.Copy !req
912. Hey. Let's just wait a second.Copy !req
913. I cross the room to the
Intrinsic Field Center. I find my watch.Copy !req
914. When I get to the door...Copy !req
915. Wally is turning white.Copy !req
916. The program's locked in.
We can't override the time lock.Copy !req
917. I am terrified.Copy !req
918. Jon?Copy !req
919. I'm sorry, Jon...Copy !req
920. but I can't...Copy !req
921. Janey, don't leave me!Copy !req
922. Don't leave me!Copy !req
923. It is May 12th, 1959,
when I'm introduced to Janey.Copy !req
924. She buys me a beer...Copy !req
925. the first time a woman
has done this for me.Copy !req
926. As she passes me the cold,
perspiring glass...Copy !req
927. our fingers touch.Copy !req
928. Yes, Jon, good.Copy !req
929. Now it's just a question of reassembling
the components in the correct sequence.Copy !req
930. I feel fear...Copy !req
931. for the last time.Copy !req
932. A token funeral is held.Copy !req
933. There is nothing to bury.Copy !req
934. Janey frames the snapshot.Copy !req
935. It's the only photograph of me
anyone has.Copy !req
936. A circulatory system is seen
by the perimeter fence.Copy !req
937. A few days later...Copy !req
938. a partially muscled skeleton
stands in a hallway...Copy !req
939. and screams for a moment
before vanishing.Copy !req
940. Oh, God.Copy !req
941. Jon?Copy !req
942. Is that you?Copy !req
943. Nations around the world
reeling from this morning's announcement...Copy !req
944. possibly the most significant event
in recent history.Copy !req
945. We repeat, the superman exists,
and he is American.Copy !req
946. They call me Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
947. They explain the name
has been chosen...Copy !req
948. for the ominous associations
it will raise in America's enemies.Copy !req
949. The marketing boys say I need a logo.Copy !req
950. If I'm to have a symbol...Copy !req
951. it shall be one I respect.Copy !req
952. They are shaping me
into something gaudy...Copy !req
953. something lethal.Copy !req
954. In January, 1971...Copy !req
955. President Nixon asks me to intervene
in Vietnam...Copy !req
956. something that his predecessors
would not ask.Copy !req
957. A week later, the conflict ends.Copy !req
958. Some of the Vietcong forces
wanna surrender to me personally.Copy !req
959. Hollis Mason, a retired costume hero,
writes a book.Copy !req
960. In it, he calls my arrival
the dawn of the superhero.Copy !req
961. I am not sure if I know what that means.Copy !req
962. You see, at the time, I was misquoted.Copy !req
963. I never said, " The superman exists
and he is American."Copy !req
964. What I said was, "God exists,
and he is American."Copy !req
965. Now, if you begin to feel an intense...Copy !req
966. and crushing feeling of religious terror
at the concept...Copy !req
967. don't be alarmed.Copy !req
968. That indicates only
that you are still sane.Copy !req
969. It is Christmas, 1963.Copy !req
970. Janey tells me she is afraid, and worried.Copy !req
971. She says I am like a god now.Copy !req
972. I tell her I don't think there is a God.Copy !req
973. And if there is, I'm nothing like him.Copy !req
974. I tell her I still want her...Copy !req
975. and that I always will.Copy !req
976. As I lie to her, it is September 4th, 1970.Copy !req
977. I am in a room
full of people wearing disguises.Copy !req
978. A very young girl looks at me and smiles.Copy !req
979. She's beautiful.Copy !req
980. After each long kiss, she plants a smaller,
gentler one upon my lips...Copy !req
981. like a signature.Copy !req
982. Janey accuses me of chasing jailbait.Copy !req
983. She bursts into angry tears,
asking if it's because she's getting older.Copy !req
984. It's true.Copy !req
985. She's aging more noticeably every day...Copy !req
986. while I am standing still.Copy !req
987. I prefer the stillness here.Copy !req
988. I am tired of Earth.Copy !req
989. These people.Copy !req
990. I'm tired of being caught
in the tangle of their lives.Copy !req
991. They claim their labors
are to build a heaven...Copy !req
992. yet their heaven is populated
with horrors.Copy !req
993. Perhaps the world is not made.Copy !req
994. Perhaps nothing is made.Copy !req
995. A clock without a craftsman.Copy !req
996. It's too late.Copy !req
997. Always has been...Copy !req
998. always will be too late.Copy !req
999. And you have no idea
where he would've gone.Copy !req
1000. How would I know?Copy !req
1001. Probably on the other side
of the world studying molecules.Copy !req
1002. Our satellites have done
a sweep of the planet.Copy !req
1003. There's no trace of his
energy signature anywhere.Copy !req
1004. Really?Copy !req
1005. Miss Jupiter, did you and
Dr. Manhattan have a fight today?Copy !req
1006. None of your fucking business.Copy !req
1007. It is when you're on government payroll
and you're not doing your job.Copy !req
1008. That's as close to the word "whore"
as you're gonna get with me, Agent Forbes.Copy !req
1009. Smoke?Copy !req
1010. My apologies, Miss Jupiter.Copy !req
1011. You know how important Dr. Manhattan
is to our national security.Copy !req
1012. You can imagine our concern.Copy !req
1013. I can only imagine.Copy !req
1014. Ain't nothing gonna matter once
those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.Copy !req
1015. Then Ozymandias here...Copy !req
1016. will be the smartest man
on the cinder.Copy !req
1017. Laurel? Laurel Jane?Copy !req
1018. You're Sally Jupiter's kid.Copy !req
1019. You're the Comedian, right?Copy !req
1020. You were pretty cool in there.Copy !req
1021. You know, your mom, she was one
of the all-time champion beauties.Copy !req
1022. You got her eyes, you know.
You even have that same funny little mole.Copy !req
1023. Take your hands off her.Copy !req
1024. Hey, doll. Long time no see.Copy !req
1025. Not long enough in my book, Eddie.
Get in the car.Copy !req
1026. Are there no depths you won't sink to?Copy !req
1027. Jesus Christ, Sally.
Can't a guy talk to his...Copy !req
1028. you know, old friend's daughter?Copy !req
1029. I mean, what the hell do you think I am?Copy !req
1030. We found him!Copy !req
1031. - We found him.
- Where is he?Copy !req
1032. Mars.Copy !req
1033. Mr. President...Copy !req
1034. the Soviets have moved their tanks
just short of the Afghan border.Copy !req
1035. They are testing us...Copy !req
1036. to see if we manufactured
Dr. Manhattan's disappearance...Copy !req
1037. to coax a move out of them.Copy !req
1038. If they realize it's not a hoax,
they'll probably start with air strikes.Copy !req
1039. If they do, they'll have Afghanistan
under control in a matter of days.Copy !req
1040. A watchdog group of nuclear scientists
has moved the Doomsday Clock...Copy !req
1041. to two minutes until midnight.Copy !req
1042. Get this shit off the screen.Copy !req
1043. Who are these assholes to say
when doomsday approaches?Copy !req
1044. I say when doomsday is approaching.Copy !req
1045. Now, then.Copy !req
1046. What about the rest
of the Warsaw Pact countries?Copy !req
1047. Czechoslovakia, Poland and East Germany
have mobilized their forces.Copy !req
1048. But no movement yet.
They're playing a wait-and-see.Copy !req
1049. Letting the Russians take the lead.Copy !req
1050. Bold moves, Henry.
That's what's needed right now.Copy !req
1051. We can't let these fuckers
think we're weak.Copy !req
1052. Yes. They must fear the madman
Richard Nixon.Copy !req
1053. How soon can we be ready
for a preemptive strike?Copy !req
1054. Two days.Copy !req
1055. We have a 54 percent chance
of wiping out the entire U.S.S. R...Copy !req
1056. before they get their missiles airborne.Copy !req
1057. What would our losses be?Copy !req
1058. Assuming conservative projections...Copy !req
1059. of how many Soviet warheads
are destroyed beforehand...Copy !req
1060. we'll lose all of the East Coast.Copy !req
1061. The last gasp...Copy !req
1062. of the Harvard establishment.Copy !req
1063. Let's see them think their way
out of fission.Copy !req
1064. With anticipated wind patterns,
the fallout drift would head south.Copy !req
1065. Mexico would catch the worst of it.Copy !req
1066. Most of the farm belt
might remain unaffected.Copy !req
1067. Not so bad...Copy !req
1068. all things considered.Copy !req
1069. Mr. President...Copy !req
1070. what would you like to do?Copy !req
1071. Take us to DEFCON two.Copy !req
1072. Begin fueling the bombers.Copy !req
1073. Dr. Manhattan has two days.Copy !req
1074. After that...Copy !req
1075. humanity is in the hands
of a higher authority than mine.Copy !req
1076. Let's just hope he's on our side.Copy !req
1077. There must be a way to reach him.
Excuse me.Copy !req
1078. Radio transmission, space shuttles...Copy !req
1079. Excuse me.
What?Copy !req
1080. I need to use the restroom.Copy !req
1081. Don't you understand?Copy !req
1082. The only thing that can
bring Jon back is Jon.Copy !req
1083. If he wants to find me, he will.Copy !req
1084. I've been a prisoner in my life
long enough.Copy !req
1085. Without Dr. Manhattan around...Copy !req
1086. to bully the Russians into peace,
Mr. Veidt...Copy !req
1087. people are going to need good,
old-fashioned energy to rely on.Copy !req
1088. You can understand.Copy !req
1089. The world can't just quit on oil
and nuclear power cold turkey.Copy !req
1090. You'll dismantle
our entire economy overnight.Copy !req
1091. You're right, Lee. And why free energy?Copy !req
1092. Well, "free" is just another word
for "socialist."Copy !req
1093. We might have to
make a public inquiry...Copy !req
1094. into any past communist affiliations
you might have had.Copy !req
1095. Mr. Lacocca, gentlemen...Copy !req
1096. I respect your position...Copy !req
1097. and what you've accomplished
as captains of industry. I do.Copy !req
1098. You wanna know my past? Hm?Copy !req
1099. Okay. Happily.Copy !req
1100. It's a matter of public record that by 17,
both my parents were dead...Copy !req
1101. leaving me alone.Copy !req
1102. I guess you could say
I've always been alone.Copy !req
1103. They say I'm the smartest man in the world,
but the truth is I've often felt stupid...Copy !req
1104. at being unable to relate to anyone.Copy !req
1105. Well, anyone living, that is.Copy !req
1106. The only person
with whom I felt kinship...Copy !req
1107. died 300 years
before the birth of Christ.Copy !req
1108. Alexander of Macedonia,
or Alexander the Great, as you know him.Copy !req
1109. His vision of a united world was...Copy !req
1110. Well, it was unprecedented.Copy !req
1111. I wanted...Copy !req
1112. needed to match
his accomplishments...Copy !req
1113. so I resolved to apply antiquity's
teachings to our world today.Copy !req
1114. And so began my path to conquest.Copy !req
1115. Conquest not of men...Copy !req
1116. but of the evils that beset them.Copy !req
1117. Fossil fuels, oil, nuclear power...Copy !req
1118. are like a drug, and you,
along with foreign interests...Copy !req
1119. - ... are the pushers.
- Now, listen.Copy !req
1120. No.Copy !req
1121. You listen.Copy !req
1122. The world will survive...Copy !req
1123. and it deserves more
than you've been able to provide.Copy !req
1124. So let's cut to it, shall we?Copy !req
1125. I'm worth more
than all of your corporations combined.Copy !req
1126. I could buy and sell you, something
you should factor into your decision...Copy !req
1127. should you choose
to make our disagreement public.Copy !req
1128. I think you know the way out.Copy !req
1129. Gentlemen.Copy !req
1130. The toy people wanna talk to you about
new villains for the Ozymandias line.Copy !req
1131. - Seems all the old villains are dead.
- Mr. Veidt?Copy !req
1132. - I think I have some ideas.
- Mr. Veidt?Copy !req
1133. I think we got off on the wrong foot.Copy !req
1134. He's got a poison capsule.Copy !req
1135. Don't bite down, you son of a bitch.
Who sent you? I want a name.Copy !req
1136. Give me a name!Copy !req
1137. Suicide pill.Copy !req
1138. Potassium cyanide.
Guy was dead before he hit the ground.Copy !req
1139. Thanks, hon.Copy !req
1140. Then Rorschach was right.Copy !req
1141. This wasn't some lone nut.Copy !req
1142. It's an organization:
Well-funded, well-equipped.Copy !req
1143. But who'd wanna kill us now?Copy !req
1144. I don't know, but it's not safe out here.Copy !req
1145. So no word from Jon?Copy !req
1146. No.Copy !req
1147. Well, listen...Copy !req
1148. why don't you come stay with me?Copy !req
1149. Oh, no.
That's sweet, but I wouldn't wanna impose.Copy !req
1150. Oh, no. No.
Think of it as doing me a favor.Copy !req
1151. I wouldn't have to worry about you
being out there.Copy !req
1152. Okay.Copy !req
1153. Rorschach's journal, October 21st, 1985.Copy !req
1154. On 43rd and 7th, saw Dreiberg
and Jupiter leaving diner.Copy !req
1155. They didn't know me without my mask.Copy !req
1156. An affair?Copy !req
1157. Did she break Manhattan's heart
to engineer his exile...Copy !req
1158. to make room for Dreiberg?Copy !req
1159. Does Manhattan even have a heart
to break?Copy !req
1160. The alley was cold, deserted.Copy !req
1161. My things were where I left them,
waiting for me.Copy !req
1162. My coat, my shoes, my spotless gloves.Copy !req
1163. My face.Copy !req
1164. Putting them on,
I abandoned my disguise...Copy !req
1165. became myself.Copy !req
1166. Free from fear or weakness...Copy !req
1167. or lust.Copy !req
1168. Down alley...Copy !req
1169. heard woman scream.Copy !req
1170. First bubbling note
of city's evening chorus.Copy !req
1171. Attempted rape.Copy !req
1172. Mugging.Copy !req
1173. Both.Copy !req
1174. The man turned...Copy !req
1175. and there was something
rewarding in his eyes.Copy !req
1176. Sometimes the night is generous to me.Copy !req
1177. Veidt's assassin was a local lowlife
named Roy Chess.Copy !req
1178. At his apartment, I found clues.Copy !req
1179. Seems he worked
at Pyramid Transnational.Copy !req
1180. I've seen the logo before...Copy !req
1181. at Moloch's.Copy !req
1182. Someone tried to shoot
the world's smartest man today, Moloch.Copy !req
1183. Guy worked for Pyramid Transnational.Copy !req
1184. More than a just delivery service,
I take it.Copy !req
1185. Last time I was here, I saw a pension check
written from the same company.Copy !req
1186. I'm guessing it's a front set up
by whoever wants us masks dead.Copy !req
1187. Now, no more lies, Moloch.
Who runs Pyramid?Copy !req
1188. Rorschach.Copy !req
1189. This is the police.
We know you're in there.Copy !req
1190. No. No!Copy !req
1191. If there's anybody in there with you,
send them out unharmed.Copy !req
1192. No. No, no, no!Copy !req
1193. Framed. Walked right into it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid!Copy !req
1194. Never, never surrender.Copy !req
1195. All right.
I hope you're ready, hero.Copy !req
1196. When you are.Copy !req
1197. One...Copy !req
1198. two...Copy !req
1199. three.Copy !req
1200. Come on.Copy !req
1201. Son of a bitch.Copy !req
1202. - Christ, he stinks.
- Get that mask off him.Copy !req
1203. - I got it.
- No. No!Copy !req
1204. My face! Give me back my face!Copy !req
1205. The masked vigilante Rorschach
was apprehended...Copy !req
1206. and identified
as Walter Kovacs, a 35-year-old white male.Copy !req
1207. Little's known about Kovacs,
but he was charged with the murder...Copy !req
1208. of Edgar Jacobi, found shot in the head
in his home in the Bronx.Copy !req
1209. Police officers were injured
and Jacobi's home was set ablaze...Copy !req
1210. during the violent course
of the capture.Copy !req
1211. Rorschach!Copy !req
1212. I'm gonna fuck you
like I fucked your mother!Copy !req
1213. Come on out, Rorschach!Copy !req
1214. I knew this guy was a kook.Copy !req
1215. But Rorschach...Copy !req
1216. Usually I got an intuition
about these kind of things.Copy !req
1217. - Thought the dude would be bigger.
- It goes to show you, kid...Copy !req
1218. - you never know.
- Hey, let me get a Gazette.Copy !req
1219. Yeah. Hey, you see this?
He was a customer of mine.Copy !req
1220. - Used to come here all the time.
- No shit?Copy !req
1221. Hey, Bernie. Any good news?Copy !req
1222. Whoever we are, wherever we reside...Copy !req
1223. we exist on the whim of murderers.Copy !req
1224. I hardly recognized my old friend Ridley.Copy !req
1225. I could not bring myself to tell him
he was a horrible reflection...Copy !req
1226. of his former self.Copy !req
1227. I really must get him home before...
Before he gets any worse.Copy !req
1228. Before he succumbs.Copy !req
1229. I've heard that on less than a pint daily,
a man might survive drinking saltwater.Copy !req
1230. Captain?Copy !req
1231. What are you doing, captain?Copy !req
1232. I'm headed for Davidstown. That's what.Copy !req
1233. I need to warn everyone.Copy !req
1234. You think you'll reach Davidstown
in advance of the Black Freighter?Copy !req
1235. Isolation has made you mad, captain.
Mad, indeed.Copy !req
1236. But we must try.Copy !req
1237. You are a fool.Copy !req
1238. You alone survived the Freighter's attack.Copy !req
1239. Fortune has smiled upon you,
and you spit in its face.Copy !req
1240. Turn your wretched craft around
and go far away, as far away as you can.Copy !req
1241. No. No, my family. I must protect them.Copy !req
1242. The Black Freighter is already there.Copy !req
1243. Your wife, dead.Copy !req
1244. - Your children, dead.
- Shut your mouth.Copy !req
1245. You have failed your family,
like you have failed your crew.Copy !req
1246. You'll end up dead like them.
You give your life in vain.Copy !req
1247. I give my life in nobility.Copy !req
1248. Even if I fail in my attempt,
I take solace in the fact that I will see...Copy !req
1249. my family again in heaven.Copy !req
1250. Heaven?Copy !req
1251. Oh, there is no heaven, captain.Copy !req
1252. Believe me, sir.Copy !req
1253. I would know by now.Copy !req
1254. Walter Kovacs.Copy !req
1255. Is that your name? Walter?Copy !req
1256. Well, let me explain
your situation here, Walter.Copy !req
1257. You cooperate with me...Copy !req
1258. and I may be able to convince them
that you should be treated medically.Copy !req
1259. In a hospital. I believe
that would be good for you.Copy !req
1260. But the authorities wanna put you
with the general population.Copy !req
1261. - Prison's a prison.
- Uh-huh. Yes.Copy !req
1262. But the difference is, down there...Copy !req
1263. you'd be eaten alive.Copy !req
1264. You're responsible for a lot of them
being in prison here, Walter.Copy !req
1265. Tell me what you see.Copy !req
1266. A pretty butterfly.Copy !req
1267. What about now? What do you see here?Copy !req
1268. Mom?Copy !req
1269. Is he hurting you?Copy !req
1270. You got a fucking kid in here.
I get that at home.Copy !req
1271. Bastard.
I should have had that abortion.Copy !req
1272. Some nice flowers.Copy !req
1273. I heard this guy's mom's a whore.Copy !req
1274. Did you catch any diseases from her?Copy !req
1275. Huh? Whoreson. Listen to me, retard.Copy !req
1276. Hey, you think she'd suck my dick
for a dollar?Copy !req
1277. Clouds.Copy !req
1278. Tell me about Rorschach.
Will you do that, Walter?Copy !req
1279. You keep calling me Walter.
I don't like you.Copy !req
1280. You don't like me.
All right, why is that, exactly?Copy !req
1281. You're fat.Copy !req
1282. Wealthy. Liberal sensibilities.Copy !req
1283. What you call compassion.Copy !req
1284. Wanting to protect
and understand the guilty.Copy !req
1285. This rotting society,
what it calls rehabilitation.Copy !req
1286. Nothing short of compromise.Copy !req
1287. Is it a compromise
to want to make you well?Copy !req
1288. There are other men in here with behavior
more extreme than mine, doctor.Copy !req
1289. Of course, they're not famous, are they?Copy !req
1290. You wanna know about Rorschach?Copy !req
1291. I'll tell you about Rorschach.Copy !req
1292. Once a man has seen society's
black underbelly...Copy !req
1293. he can never turn his back on it.Copy !req
1294. Never pretend, like you do...Copy !req
1295. that it doesn't exist, no matter who
orders him to look the other way.Copy !req
1296. We don't do this thing...Copy !req
1297. because it's permitted.Copy !req
1298. We do it because we have to.Copy !req
1299. We do it because we're compelled.Copy !req
1300. I was investigating a kidnap case.Copy !req
1301. Blaire Roche.Copy !req
1302. Six-year-old girl. I was young then.Copy !req
1303. Too soft on criminals.Copy !req
1304. I let them live.Copy !req
1305. Broke a man's arm to get a tip.
Led me to the missing girl's location.Copy !req
1306. I knew the girl was here...Copy !req
1307. but when I searched the place,
I saw nothing.Copy !req
1308. And then I found her.Copy !req
1309. Fred.Copy !req
1310. Barney.Copy !req
1311. Who's gonna bark for Daddy?Copy !req
1312. It was dark when the murderer got back.Copy !req
1313. As dark as it gets.Copy !req
1314. Oh, God.
Who's out there? Who is it?Copy !req
1315. Who is it?Copy !req
1316. What? What the fuck?
Who the fuck are you?Copy !req
1317. What the fuck do you want?
You killed my dogs, man!Copy !req
1318. You think I had something to do
with that girl? I found that.Copy !req
1319. What evidence have you got?
That's nothing.Copy !req
1320. Okay. I confess.Copy !req
1321. I kidnapped her. I killed her.Copy !req
1322. Arrest me.Copy !req
1323. What? Arrest me!Copy !req
1324. I did it! I said I did it!Copy !req
1325. Christ.Copy !req
1326. Look, I've got a problem, man.
Fucking take me in. I need help.Copy !req
1327. No, don't. Don't do that.
Take me in. Don't! No!Copy !req
1328. Men get arrested.Copy !req
1329. Dogs get put down.Copy !req
1330. Tremors of impact shook my arm.Copy !req
1331. Warm blood splashed my face.Copy !req
1332. Whatever was left of Walter Kovacs
died that night with that little girl.Copy !req
1333. From then on, there was only Rorschach.Copy !req
1334. See, doctor, God didn't kill
that little girl.Copy !req
1335. Fate didn't butcher her
and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.Copy !req
1336. If God saw what any of us did that night,
he didn't seem to mind.Copy !req
1337. From then on, I knew:Copy !req
1338. God doesn't make the world this way.Copy !req
1339. We do.Copy !req
1340. I can't help him.Copy !req
1341. Hey, Rorschach.Copy !req
1342. Hey, you're pretty famous, right?Copy !req
1343. Rorschach, I heard your mother
was a whore.Copy !req
1344. Hey, you know what?
I'm pretty famous too.Copy !req
1345. Ain't that right? That's right. That's right.Copy !req
1346. Maybe I can give you an autograph.
What you say, big boy?Copy !req
1347. None of you seem to understand.
I'm not locked in here with you.Copy !req
1348. All right, that's it!Copy !req
1349. You're locked in here with me.Copy !req
1350. Laurie!Copy !req
1351. Shit.Copy !req
1352. - Hold on.
- Fuck.Copy !req
1353. I got it, I got it, I got it.Copy !req
1354. I'm so sorry. I was snooping
and must have hit the wrong button.Copy !req
1355. - Are you hurt?
- No, no.Copy !req
1356. - Okay.
- I'm fine. I just feel so bad.Copy !req
1357. No, don't worry.Copy !req
1358. It's happened before.
Comedian did it back in 77.Copy !req
1359. Archie survived that.Copy !req
1360. Archie?Copy !req
1361. Oh. Well, uh, short for Archimedes...Copy !req
1362. Merlin's pet owl.Copy !req
1363. Stupid nickname.Copy !req
1364. How did you ever afford
all this stuff, anyway?Copy !req
1365. Well, my dad was in corporate banking
and left me a lot of money when he died...Copy !req
1366. which always surprised me.
I mean, he was...Copy !req
1367. I think he was disappointed
I went into crime fighting...Copy !req
1368. instead of following him.Copy !req
1369. Guess I was just more interested in
birds and airplanes, mythology and...Copy !req
1370. Plus, there were enough other guys
doing this so that I didn't feel ridiculous.Copy !req
1371. Like Hollis.Copy !req
1372. Yeah.Copy !req
1373. Yeah, he was my hero.Copy !req
1374. Man, I remember the first time
that I met him...Copy !req
1375. I just felt so connected, you know?Copy !req
1376. To something that mattered.Copy !req
1377. Must be nice having a secret identity.Copy !req
1378. A secret place that nobody knows about.Copy !req
1379. You can just come down here and hang out
without anyone checking up on you.Copy !req
1380. Nobody watching you.Copy !req
1381. Wanna try those on?Copy !req
1382. There we go.Copy !req
1383. Wow, these rock.Copy !req
1384. They amplify the spectral range.Copy !req
1385. Thermal imaging.Copy !req
1386. They work even better in the dark.Copy !req
1387. You can see me, right?Copy !req
1388. I can see everything.Copy !req
1389. I remember, no matter how black it got...Copy !req
1390. whenever I looked through those goggles,
everything was as clear as day.Copy !req
1391. This must be the way Jon sees the world.Copy !req
1392. We should probably head up.
Food's getting cold.Copy !req
1393. Put those away when you're done.Copy !req
1394. Soviet ambassador
to the U.N. had no comment...Copy !req
1395. when asked if Dr. Manhattan's
disappearance...Copy !req
1396. has fueled Soviet aggression
in Afghanistan.Copy !req
1397. Dan.Copy !req
1398. Jon sees a lot of things...Copy !req
1399. but he doesn't see me.Copy !req
1400. Well, uh...Copy !req
1401. Oh.Copy !req
1402. Sorry.Copy !req
1403. Come here.Copy !req
1404. What's the matter?Copy !req
1405. - If you could just move a little...
- Okay.Copy !req
1406. Yeah. There you go.Copy !req
1407. Dan, what's wrong?Copy !req
1408. Sorry, I...Copy !req
1409. Yeah, I just need a couple minutes.Copy !req
1410. Oh, hell.Copy !req
1411. It's okay.Copy !req
1412. Maybe we were just moving too fast.Copy !req
1413. We've got all the time in the world.Copy !req
1414. We'll take it slow.Copy !req
1415. It's been a long time, Rorschach.Copy !req
1416. Big Figure.Copy !req
1417. Small world.Copy !req
1418. I like that.Copy !req
1419. But you know, it is a small world in here.Copy !req
1420. And I've been in it for,
how long now, Lloyd?Copy !req
1421. Almost 15 years, Mr. Figure.Copy !req
1422. That's right.Copy !req
1423. Fifteen years since you
and that Owl fella put me away.Copy !req
1424. So...Copy !req
1425. Rorschach, that guy you burned is dying.
Could go any minute.Copy !req
1426. You know, by my count, there are more
than 50 people in here that you put away.Copy !req
1427. I been talking to every one of them
and they're all dying to get a piece of you.Copy !req
1428. This place is gonna explode!Copy !req
1429. Then, you die by inches.Copy !req
1430. Tall order.Copy !req
1431. I'm gonna tear this guy a new hole.Copy !req
1432. Relax, Lawrence. Soon.Copy !req
1433. Come on.Copy !req
1434. Know this, my friends.Copy !req
1435. Hades is wet.Copy !req
1436. Hades is lonely.Copy !req
1437. And in that instant, we knew each other.Copy !req
1438. I'm sorry, my friend.Copy !req
1439. My raft had grown
increasingly grotesque...Copy !req
1440. reflecting my own transformation.Copy !req
1441. Adrift, my darkest imaginings
welled up unchecked...Copy !req
1442. spilling from brain to heart
like black ink...Copy !req
1443. impossible to remove.Copy !req
1444. The vessel had surely reached
Davidstown already.Copy !req
1445. I pictured quiet streets overrun
by the fiends from the Black Freighter.Copy !req
1446. My wife, my children,
most certainly dead.Copy !req
1447. My crew, dead.Copy !req
1448. The beast I ride on, dead.Copy !req
1449. More blood, more blood, more blood.Copy !req
1450. Father?Copy !req
1451. It can't be. Oh, Lord, it can't be.Copy !req
1452. Father, help us. Please.Copy !req
1453. Wait.Copy !req
1454. I'm coming.Copy !req
1455. Hurry, my dear.Copy !req
1456. Wait. Anyone but them.Copy !req
1457. Anyone.Copy !req
1458. Anyone.Copy !req
1459. I'd swallowed too much seawater.Copy !req
1460. I'd swallowed too much horror.Copy !req
1461. God has damned me.Copy !req
1462. God has damned us all.Copy !req
1463. Truly, life is hell, and death's rough hand
our only deliverance.Copy !req
1464. I can endure no more.Copy !req
1465. I want to join my family desperately.Copy !req
1466. Yo, man.Copy !req
1467. What you reading?Copy !req
1468. Nothing, man.Copy !req
1469. - Nothing, huh?
- Hey, hey! You leave that kid alone!Copy !req
1470. Shut up, old man!Copy !req
1471. You're reading a comic book?
What are you, retarded?Copy !req
1472. Aw, hey, where you going, short bus?Copy !req
1473. Dan?Copy !req
1474. Is everything all right?Copy !req
1475. I'm tired of being afraid.Copy !req
1476. Afraid of war...Copy !req
1477. afraid of the mask killer...Copy !req
1478. and afraid of this goddamn suit...Copy !req
1479. and how much I need it.Copy !req
1480. Me too.Copy !req
1481. So to hell with it.Copy !req
1482. Let's take Archie out.Copy !req
1483. You're serious.Copy !req
1484. I used to be a masked avenger too,
remember?Copy !req
1485. I'm used to going out at 3 in the morning
and doing something stupid.Copy !req
1486. Rapid burner. Be advised, all units.Copy !req
1487. Tenement fire at 5th and Grand.
Rapid burner.Copy !req
1488. Let's go.Copy !req
1489. I can see it.
All right, hold on.Copy !req
1490. Dan, there are kids in there.Copy !req
1491. Everyone, stay where you are
and remain calm.Copy !req
1492. We're gonna get you out of there.Copy !req
1493. The roof's starting to cave.
Get me in there.Copy !req
1494. I'm gonna get you close.Copy !req
1495. Let's go.Copy !req
1496. Come on.Copy !req
1497. All right, let's move it, people.Copy !req
1498. Mom, is that guy in the space rocket?Copy !req
1499. Is that Jesus?Copy !req
1500. No, baby.Copy !req
1501. Watch your step.
All right.Copy !req
1502. We're all set.Copy !req
1503. Is that everyone?Copy !req
1504. Bye.
Bye!Copy !req
1505. I can't believe we did that.Copy !req
1506. - They'll lock us up with Rorschach.
- Who cares?Copy !req
1507. World War III could start tomorrow.Copy !req
1508. Right?Copy !req
1509. Right.Copy !req
1510. Come back here!Copy !req
1511. He's dead, Rorschach.Copy !req
1512. While everyone's distracted, we thought
we'd bring you a housewarming gift.Copy !req
1513. Something from the machine shop.Copy !req
1514. Hey, boss, you notice?Copy !req
1515. None of that "small world,
tall order" crap.Copy !req
1516. He knows once we slice open his lock,
he's next on the block.Copy !req
1517. Fat chance.Copy !req
1518. You're dead, Rorschach!Copy !req
1519. We got a prison full of killers out here.
What do you got?Copy !req
1520. Your hands, my pleasure.Copy !req
1521. Can't reach the lock. Should I cut the bars?Copy !req
1522. This riot won't last.
I been waiting 15 years for this.Copy !req
1523. I'm sorry, Lawrence, but you're in the way
of my revenge.Copy !req
1524. Nothing personal, big guy.Copy !req
1525. Boss! Wait!Copy !req
1526. Now you find out what the score is.Copy !req
1527. One-nothing. Come and get me.Copy !req
1528. Come on.Copy !req
1529. So I've been thinking.Copy !req
1530. I feel that we have an obligation
to our fraternity.Copy !req
1531. - I think we ought to spring Rorschach.
- What?Copy !req
1532. Someone set him up.Copy !req
1533. And this whole cancer thing with Jon,
it just doesn't make sense.Copy !req
1534. You didn't get it.Copy !req
1535. Yeah, but breaking
into a maximum-security prison...Copy !req
1536. - is a little different than putting out a fire.
- Yeah, you're right.Copy !req
1537. It'll be more fun.Copy !req
1538. Hurry, Lloyd. I wanna
smell this son of a bitch cooking.Copy !req
1539. Yes.Copy !req
1540. No.Copy !req
1541. Never disposed of sewage
with a toilet before. Obvious, really.Copy !req
1542. Two-nothing. Your move.Copy !req
1543. Get out of the way!Copy !req
1544. How do we know he's still alive?Copy !req
1545. He's alive.Copy !req
1546. No. No.Copy !req
1547. Where's my face?Copy !req
1548. Don't kill me.Copy !req
1549. Your turn, doctor.Copy !req
1550. Tell me, what do you see?Copy !req
1551. Don't move!Copy !req
1552. Rorschach.Copy !req
1553. Daniel. Miss Jupiter.Copy !req
1554. Excuse me. Have to visit men's room.Copy !req
1555. Oh, for chrissake.Copy !req
1556. Good to see you in uniform, Daniel.Copy !req
1557. Should've known all you needed
was nice pair of legs to motivate you.Copy !req
1558. - You're such an asshole, Rorschach.
- Spare me indignation.Copy !req
1559. Picked hell of a time
to be unfaithful to Jon.Copy !req
1560. Get tired of being patriotic,
or someone put you up to it?Copy !req
1561. You don't know what the fuck
you're talking about!Copy !req
1562. Hey! Would you two stop?
You can argue later.Copy !req
1563. I had to turn the screechers off,
so we'll be drawing fire soon.Copy !req
1564. Stop! Stop or we will shoot!Copy !req
1565. Are you all right?Copy !req
1566. Yeah. Just...Copy !req
1567. heavy, you know?Copy !req
1568. War, jailbreak.Copy !req
1569. Don't worry about it. Okay?
Everything's gonna be fine.Copy !req
1570. - Hello, Laurie.
- Jon.Copy !req
1571. - TV said you were on Mars.
- I am on Mars.Copy !req
1572. You and I are about
to have a conversation there.Copy !req
1573. What are you talking about?Copy !req
1574. You're going to try to convince me
to save the world.Copy !req
1575. - Laurie, don't.
- Dan, trust me.Copy !req
1576. I have to go.Copy !req
1577. Beautiful, isn't it?Copy !req
1578. Forgive me. These things sometimes
slip my mind.Copy !req
1579. It won't happen again.Copy !req
1580. That's comforting.Copy !req
1581. Oh, my God.Copy !req
1582. I'm on Mars.Copy !req
1583. Hey. Nice ass.
Hey, asshole.Copy !req
1584. Hey, let's see if that comic-book
retard's up here.Copy !req
1585. Hey, hey, hey. Yo.Copy !req
1586. You all hear? Some super-owl dude
just busted Rorschach out of prison.Copy !req
1587. - Rorschach?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1588. That fool put my cousin in a wheelchair.Copy !req
1589. You mean Nite Owl.
Him and Rorschach used to be partners.Copy !req
1590. - Yeah.
- Maybe he messed your cousin up too.Copy !req
1591. - Didn't he write a book or something?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1592. You know, he lives over a garage
right near here.Copy !req
1593. - Yeah?
- Does he, now?Copy !req
1594. Hello?Copy !req
1595. Sally?Copy !req
1596. - Hollis?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1597. Yes, Hollis Mason. Jesus.Copy !req
1598. All this time you've had my number and
you wait until our sunset years to use it?Copy !req
1599. Well, it seemed like
a special occasion, Sal.Copy !req
1600. What?Copy !req
1601. The TV is reporting there was
a tenement fire last night.Copy !req
1602. There were trapped people
rescued by airship...Copy !req
1603. and they say the pilot
was dressed like an owl.Copy !req
1604. And it seems he had
a sexy woman with him.Copy !req
1605. Laurie? My daughter, Laurie?Copy !req
1606. I can't get over Laurie back in costume.Copy !req
1607. Maybe she'll finally thank me
for getting her started in the first place.Copy !req
1608. You know, Sal,
by the sound of your voice...Copy !req
1609. you're sounding younger than ever.Copy !req
1610. Oh. Why, bless you, Hollis.Copy !req
1611. But that's probably just senility.Copy !req
1612. Well, it's been great talking to you, Sal...Copy !req
1613. but someone's knocking.Copy !req
1614. Well, don't get too misty-eyed
thinking about old times.Copy !req
1615. You take care now, Hollis.Copy !req
1616. Ah, you too.Copy !req
1617. Bye.Copy !req
1618. Bye.Copy !req
1619. We're looking for Mr. Owl.Copy !req
1620. Yeah. Hold your horses.Copy !req
1621. Mr. Owl, you there?Copy !req
1622. Trick or treat.Copy !req
1623. You should've stayed retired, Owl.Copy !req
1624. I hate this.Copy !req
1625. Cowering in cave,
hiding from authorities.Copy !req
1626. Cops are out there hunting us.
Unless you wanna go back to prison...Copy !req
1627. we'd be stupid to expose ourselves
without a plan.Copy !req
1628. And what would that be?Copy !req
1629. Once we've established a pattern...Copy !req
1630. we can break into Pyramid,
see what we find.Copy !req
1631. Did that. Dead end.Copy !req
1632. I think it's a front company for whoever's
really behind it, but can't prove it.Copy !req
1633. We need to hit up underworld contacts,
squeeze people.Copy !req
1634. Sure, why don't we just pick names
out of a phone book?Copy !req
1635. You forgot how we do things, Daniel.Copy !req
1636. You've gone too soft. Too trusting.
Especially with women.Copy !req
1637. Okay, no. Listen, I've had it with that.Copy !req
1638. God, who do you
think you are, Rorschach?Copy !req
1639. You live off people
while insulting them...Copy !req
1640. and no one complains because they think
you're a goddamn lunatic.Copy !req
1641. I'm sorry.Copy !req
1642. I shouldn't have said that, man.Copy !req
1643. Daniel...Copy !req
1644. you are a good friend.Copy !req
1645. I know it can be difficult
with me sometimes.Copy !req
1646. Forget it.Copy !req
1647. It's okay, man.Copy !req
1648. Let's do it your way.Copy !req
1649. Oh, God.Copy !req
1650. Pyramid Transnational.
Anyone heard of it?Copy !req
1651. Oh, you bastards.Copy !req
1652. I buy everyone a round
and you sell me out like this?Copy !req
1653. Back off, or I'll stick this glass
in your squidgy face.Copy !req
1654. Everybody stay calm.
We'll try to keep this brief.Copy !req
1655. Roy Chess. On Pyramid payroll.Copy !req
1656. Tried to kill Adrian Veidt. Dead now.
Did you know him?Copy !req
1657. No.Copy !req
1658. Yeah, yeah!Copy !req
1659. - I hired him. I knew him from the inside.
- You're a felon.Copy !req
1660. I was. I've been straight
ever since I got out, I swear.Copy !req
1661. I barely knew Chess that well,
but I was told to hire from the old life.Copy !req
1662. - Told by whom?
- My contact, Miss Slater.Copy !req
1663. Janey Slater works for Pyramid too?Copy !req
1664. Yeah, she was real nice. She said hiring
ex-cons was part of the company program.Copy !req
1665. Give people a second chance.
God, please let go! I'm telling the truth!Copy !req
1666. Janey Slater, Manhattan's old girlfriend.Copy !req
1667. Adrian might help us
find out who's underwriting Pyramid.Copy !req
1668. Follow the money.Copy !req
1669. former member of the
Minutemen Hollis Mason found murdered...Copy !req
1670. in his apartment less than
an hour ago.Copy !req
1671. Witnesses reported seeing members
of a local gang known as the Knot-Tops...Copy !req
1672. leaving the area right around
the estimated time of death.Copy !req
1673. Reporting live, Tiffany Burns...Copy !req
1674. - Who did it?
- I knew you were gonna victimize me, man.Copy !req
1675. What about my civil rights?
Just because I'm wearing...Copy !req
1676. - Tell me who did it!
- A lot of people dress like this.Copy !req
1677. Who murdered Hollis Mason?Copy !req
1678. You tell your friends they're dead.Copy !req
1679. I'm gonna take out this entire
rathole neighborhood.Copy !req
1680. I'll break your neck!Copy !req
1681. Daniel, not in front of the civilians.Copy !req
1682. Oh, goddamn. Goddamn, Hollis.Copy !req
1683. This is where we hold our conversation.Copy !req
1684. In it, you reveal to me that you and
Dreiberg have been sleeping together.Copy !req
1685. - You know about me and Dan?
- Not yet.Copy !req
1686. But in a few moments
you're going to tell me.Copy !req
1687. If you already know the future, then why
were you surprised when I left you?Copy !req
1688. Or when that reporter ambushed you?Copy !req
1689. Why even argue about it
if you already know how this is gonna end?Copy !req
1690. I have no choice.Copy !req
1691. Everything is preordained.Copy !req
1692. Even my responses.Copy !req
1693. And you're just going through
the motions.Copy !req
1694. The most powerful thing in the universe
is still just a puppet.Copy !req
1695. We are all puppets, Laurie.Copy !req
1696. I'm just a puppet
who can see the strings.Copy !req
1697. And what if you're wrong?Copy !req
1698. Why does my perception of time
distress you so?Copy !req
1699. Because it's inhuman.Copy !req
1700. Because it makes me insane.Copy !req
1701. You always say you wanna comfort me.
Well, it isn't working.Copy !req
1702. Look, I don't wanna fight.Copy !req
1703. I'm sorry I slept with Dan.Copy !req
1704. You slept with Dan?Copy !req
1705. You just said that you already
knew about that.Copy !req
1706. I said often...Copy !req
1707. that you were my only
remaining link to humanity.Copy !req
1708. Why would I save a world...Copy !req
1709. I no longer have any stake in?Copy !req
1710. Then do it for me.Copy !req
1711. If you really care.Copy !req
1712. When you left me, I left Earth.Copy !req
1713. Does that not show you that I care?Copy !req
1714. My red world here, now...Copy !req
1715. means more to me than your blue one.Copy !req
1716. Let me show you.Copy !req
1717. Bombers are fueled and ready, sir.Copy !req
1718. It's time, gentlemen.Copy !req
1719. Take us to DEFCON one.Copy !req
1720. Not in penthouse. Not in office.Copy !req
1721. What nocturnal proclivities
entice a man with everything...Copy !req
1722. out into the night at this hour?Copy !req
1723. Daniel?Copy !req
1724. You with me?Copy !req
1725. - Yeah.
- Then what are you doing?Copy !req
1726. I'm gonna look for Adrian's itinerary.Copy !req
1727. Maybe he keeps on file.Copy !req
1728. - Something's not right.
- Agreed.Copy !req
1729. Janey Slater, Moloch, Roy Chess
all work for Pyramid.Copy !req
1730. Moloch said the Comedian mentioned list
with his and Slater's name on it.Copy !req
1731. Whoever owns Pyramid
could be giving these people cancer.Copy !req
1732. Setting Manhattan up.Copy !req
1733. Funny.Copy !req
1734. Ancient pharaohs looked forward
to the end of the world.Copy !req
1735. Believed cadavers would rise,
reclaim hearts from golden jars.Copy !req
1736. Must currently be holding breath
in anticipation.Copy !req
1737. Pharaohs?Copy !req
1738. Got a psych profile on Manhattan.Copy !req
1739. See what the corporate head-peepers say.Copy !req
1740. "Subject continues
to retreat emotionally.Copy !req
1741. If the only remaining ties
were to be severed...Copy !req
1742. we predict total detachment
from the human condition."Copy !req
1743. I'm in.Copy !req
1744. No.Copy !req
1745. Congratulations, Mr. Veidt.
Dr. Manhattan's energy reactor is online.Copy !req
1746. Your support and your enthusiasm...Copy !req
1747. is what has led to this triumph.Copy !req
1748. On behalf of the research team,
we salute you.Copy !req
1749. - Cheers.
- Cheers.Copy !req
1750. What in life
does not deserve celebrating?Copy !req
1751. This is the new Karnak.Copy !req
1752. This represents the culmination of a dream
more than 2000 years old...Copy !req
1753. a dream now assured
because of your unquestioning assistance.Copy !req
1754. And for this...Copy !req
1755. I am ashamed...Copy !req
1756. ashamed that you must now share
such inadequate a reward.Copy !req
1757. To the pharaohs...Copy !req
1758. their greatest secrets
entrusted to their servants...Copy !req
1759. buried alive with them
in sand-floored chambers.Copy !req
1760. Sleep well, gentlemen.Copy !req
1761. Our new, peaceful world
will be indebted...Copy !req
1762. to your great sacrifice.Copy !req
1763. Bubastis.Copy !req
1764. Rorschach's journal. Final entry.Copy !req
1765. Veidt's behind everything.Copy !req
1766. Why?Copy !req
1767. What's his endgame?Copy !req
1768. I cannot imagine
a more dangerous opponent.Copy !req
1769. Used to joke he was fast enough
to catch a bullet.Copy !req
1770. He could kill us both alone in the snow.Copy !req
1771. That's where we're going now:
Antarctica.Copy !req
1772. Whether I'm alive or dead
upon this reading...Copy !req
1773. I hope the world survives long enough
for this journal to reach you.Copy !req
1774. I live my life free of compromise...Copy !req
1775. and step into the shadow
without complaint or regret.Copy !req
1776. Rorschach, November 1st.Copy !req
1777. Oh, God help us.Copy !req
1778. - It's a little early for you, huh?
- Yeah.Copy !req
1779. I wanted to finish
the story before school.Copy !req
1780. Listen, now you just keep it, okay?Copy !req
1781. - Huh?
- It's yours.Copy !req
1782. I mean, life's too short, right?Copy !req
1783. Yeah.Copy !req
1784. Uh...Copy !req
1785. Thanks, man.Copy !req
1786. Why does death pass me by?Copy !req
1787. Davidstown?Copy !req
1788. Davidstown.Copy !req
1789. I was only miles away.Copy !req
1790. By now the town was overrun.Copy !req
1791. The fiends imagined themselves
safe from me.Copy !req
1792. But now I was home.Copy !req
1793. And revenge would be mine.Copy !req
1794. No, not the brigands
from the Black Freighter.Copy !req
1795. The man I recognized,
a moneylender from Davidstown.Copy !req
1796. With Davidstown certainly captured...Copy !req
1797. why would this scoundrel
and his wench be allowed free passage...Copy !req
1798. for this midnight tryst?Copy !req
1799. Had he collaborated?Copy !req
1800. Had he betrayed my people?Copy !req
1801. - My family?
- Come and get it, babe.Copy !req
1802. Here.Copy !req
1803. My heart grew cold.Copy !req
1804. Was my wife comforted
before her execution...Copy !req
1805. while this collaborator
and his pirate masters sneered?Copy !req
1806. My decision was hurried,
but not difficult.Copy !req
1807. Who are you? What?Copy !req
1808. His head burst,
as if pressurized by the guilt within.Copy !req
1809. A buccaneer's whore deserves no pity.Copy !req
1810. Two figures had ridden here.Copy !req
1811. Two must ride back.Copy !req
1812. A pirate sentry.Copy !req
1813. I trotted unhurriedly to avoid suspicion.Copy !req
1814. Their violation did not stop
with the good people of Davidstown...Copy !req
1815. but had cut deeply,
infecting my beloved homeland.Copy !req
1816. My Davidstown was not as I last saw it.Copy !req
1817. Already it was afflicted
with the curse of the Black Freighter.Copy !req
1818. Soon, I would venture amongst evil men,
butchers who now reside in my home...Copy !req
1819. and make them fear me.Copy !req
1820. Upon my return home,
I found the streets conspicuously silent.Copy !req
1821. I entered my former residence
noiselessly.Copy !req
1822. Careful not to rouse the pirate butchers
occupying it from their debauched slumber.Copy !req
1823. Unaware that death was amongst them...Copy !req
1824. they would know its dark embrace
without ever understanding why.Copy !req
1825. One, however, was awake. Frantic.Copy !req
1826. Lest he should raise alarms...Copy !req
1827. I set upon him as he entered
the night-wrapped chamber.Copy !req
1828. No pirates come, but something worse.Copy !req
1829. Father?Copy !req
1830. I look up into faces familiar,
save for their terror.Copy !req
1831. Through puffed and bloodied lips,
she mouthed my name.Copy !req
1832. My love, why?Copy !req
1833. There came an understanding so large
it left no room for sanity.Copy !req
1834. So I ran.Copy !req
1835. What's happened to her?Copy !req
1836. You.Copy !req
1837. The knowledge of my damnation paced me,
shouting, celebrating its awful victory.Copy !req
1838. My deduction was flawless.Copy !req
1839. The Black Freighter
was heading to Davidstown.Copy !req
1840. It should have arrived. He went that way!Copy !req
1841. Can't you just tell me how
this ends and save us the trouble?Copy !req
1842. It ends with you in tears.Copy !req
1843. Tears? So you don't come back to Earth.Copy !req
1844. At some point, yes.Copy !req
1845. The streets are filled with death.Copy !req
1846. Jon, please.Copy !req
1847. You have to stop this. Everyone will die.Copy !req
1848. And the universe will not even notice.Copy !req
1849. In my opinion, the existence of life...Copy !req
1850. is a highly overrated phenomenon.Copy !req
1851. Just look around you.Copy !req
1852. Mars gets along perfectly well
without so much as a microorganism.Copy !req
1853. Here, it's a constantly changing
topographical map...Copy !req
1854. flowing and shifting around the pole
in ripples 10,000 years wide.Copy !req
1855. So tell me...Copy !req
1856. how would all of this be greatly improved
by an oil pipeline?Copy !req
1857. By a shopping mall?Copy !req
1858. So it's too much to ask for a miracle?Copy !req
1859. Miracles, by their definition,
are meaningless.Copy !req
1860. Oh, God, Jon!Copy !req
1861. - Only what can happen does happen.
- Just stop your bullshit.Copy !req
1862. Land this thing. Now.Copy !req
1863. As you wish.Copy !req
1864. You know what?Copy !req
1865. You can send me back to Earth
to fry with Dan and my mom...Copy !req
1866. and all the other worthless humans.Copy !req
1867. But know that you were wrong.
You said this ended with me in tears...Copy !req
1868. and look, nothing.
Maybe you were wrong about everything.Copy !req
1869. You complain that I refuse to see life
on life's terms...Copy !req
1870. yet you continuously refuse
to see things from my perspective.Copy !req
1871. - You shut out what you're afraid of.
- I'm not afraid.Copy !req
1872. You want me to see things your way?
Go ahead, show me. Do that thing you do.Copy !req
1873. Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before.
I was a hero, goddamn it!Copy !req
1874. It's not my fault you got old.
What do you have to complain about?Copy !req
1875. I put food on the table
for you and your child.Copy !req
1876. Call your friend Eddie.
Maybe he can give you a better life.Copy !req
1877. Even the grimy parts of it...Copy !req
1878. keep on getting brighter.Copy !req
1879. You know, your mom, she was one
of the all-time champion beauties.Copy !req
1880. - You got her eyes, you know. You got...
- Take your hands off her.Copy !req
1881. Hey, doll. Long time no see.Copy !req
1882. Not long enough in my book, Eddie.
Get in the car.Copy !req
1883. Now.Copy !req
1884. Are there no depths you won't sink to?Copy !req
1885. Jesus Christ, Sally.
Can't a guy talk to his...Copy !req
1886. you know, old friend's daughter?Copy !req
1887. Drive.Copy !req
1888. It was a mistake. One time.Copy !req
1889. Guy tries to rape you, and years later,
you let him finish the job?Copy !req
1890. What? Were you drunk or just lonely?Copy !req
1891. Am I ever gonna live this down?Copy !req
1892. Laurie.Copy !req
1893. No.Copy !req
1894. No, not him.Copy !req
1895. The Comedian...Copy !req
1896. was your father.Copy !req
1897. No.Copy !req
1898. No! No! No!Copy !req
1899. My life is just...Copy !req
1900. one big joke.Copy !req
1901. I don't think your life is a joke.Copy !req
1902. Yeah, well...Copy !req
1903. I'm sorry if I don't
trust your sense of humor.Copy !req
1904. Will you smile...Copy !req
1905. if I admit I was wrong?Copy !req
1906. About what?Copy !req
1907. Miracles.Copy !req
1908. Events with astronomical odds
of occurring...Copy !req
1909. like oxygen turning into gold.Copy !req
1910. I've longed to witness such an event,
and yet I neglect...Copy !req
1911. that in human coupling...Copy !req
1912. millions upon millions of cells
compete to create life...Copy !req
1913. for generation after generation...Copy !req
1914. until finally, your mother...Copy !req
1915. loves a man...Copy !req
1916. Edward Blake, the Comedian,
a man she has every reason to hate...Copy !req
1917. and out of that contradiction,
against unfathomable odds...Copy !req
1918. it's you...Copy !req
1919. Only...Copy !req
1920. you.Copy !req
1921. That emerged.Copy !req
1922. To distill so specific a form...Copy !req
1923. from all that chaos...Copy !req
1924. is like turning air into gold.Copy !req
1925. A miracle.Copy !req
1926. And so...Copy !req
1927. I was wrong.Copy !req
1928. Now dry your eyes, and let's go home.Copy !req
1929. We got a bearing on that artificial structure.
Heat signature's off the charts.Copy !req
1930. - Veidt.
- I don't like the way Archie's kicking.Copy !req
1931. - The engines.
- They're icing up. Hold onto something.Copy !req
1932. Daniel, you're coming in too low.Copy !req
1933. Don't wish to interfere,
but perhaps should pull up sharply...Copy !req
1934. I know! I'm trying.
I'm trying to pull him up, goddamn it!Copy !req
1935. I'm gonna redirect the heat from
the flamethrower to speed up deicing...Copy !req
1936. but it's gonna take a while
and we don't have time to wait.Copy !req
1937. You need something warmer.Copy !req
1938. Fine like this.Copy !req
1939. What is it, girl?Copy !req
1940. Mm.Copy !req
1941. Adrian's a pacifist.Copy !req
1942. He's a vegetarian, for chrissakes.
He's never killed anyone in his life.Copy !req
1943. Hitler was vegetarian.Copy !req
1944. You're squeamish, leave him to me.
We won't get second chance.Copy !req
1945. Gentlemen.Copy !req
1946. - Welcome.
- Adrian, we know everything.Copy !req
1947. Then what's there to discuss, Dan?Copy !req
1948. Plenty. You killed Comedian.Copy !req
1949. May he rest in peace.Copy !req
1950. Blake figured it out first.Copy !req
1951. Nixon had him keeping tabs on us,
making sure we weren't rocking the boat.Copy !req
1952. Blake found out what I was doing
here in Karnak...Copy !req
1953. and by the time he visited poor Moloch,
he was cracking badly.Copy !req
1954. Even I couldn't predict he'd be the one
to have a change of heart.Copy !req
1955. So...Copy !req
1956. I had to kill him.Copy !req
1957. Then I neutralized Jon. No easy task.Copy !req
1958. I put roughly $2 billion
into tachyon research...Copy !req
1959. to block Jon's vision of the future.Copy !req
1960. You used his psych profile
to manipulate him.Copy !req
1961. Got him to leave the planet.Copy !req
1962. I've known Jon long enough
to see he isn't devoid of emotion.Copy !req
1963. His subtle facial twitches wouldn't be
noticed by the layman, but to me...Copy !req
1964. he might as well have been sobbing.Copy !req
1965. All I needed to do was tug on the thread.Copy !req
1966. The sudden flood of emotion Jon felt...Copy !req
1967. when he came to believe
he'd given cancer to the people he loved...Copy !req
1968. was all the excuse he needed
to leave Earth.Copy !req
1969. Your bullshit assassin.
You paid him to throw us off.Copy !req
1970. Mr. Chess gave his life
in the service of a higher cause, Dan.Copy !req
1971. I put a cyanide capsule in his mouth...Copy !req
1972. leaving only one loose end:Copy !req
1973. You, and your mask-killer theory...Copy !req
1974. one you followed
with the tenacity of a true sociopath.Copy !req
1975. I tipped off the police.Copy !req
1976. Once you were in prison,
I was able to move forward.Copy !req
1977. Sorry to disappoint you.Copy !req
1978. We were supposed to make the world
a better place.Copy !req
1979. Dan, that's exactly what I am doing.Copy !req
1980. Nuclear war?Copy !req
1981. Human extinction?Copy !req
1982. Of course, my moral safeguards
gave me pause at the necessary sacrifice.Copy !req
1983. A few key regions around the globe...Copy !req
1984. New York, Los Angeles, Moscow,
Hong Kong.Copy !req
1985. Disintegrated in an instant.Copy !req
1986. Fifteen million people killed...Copy !req
1987. by Dr. Manhattan himself.Copy !req
1988. The world's punishment
for flirting with World War III.Copy !req
1989. Jon wouldn't do that.Copy !req
1990. A fact no one outside this room
ever has to know.Copy !req
1991. The energy breakthrough I was working on
just came to fruition.Copy !req
1992. All these years, Jon was helping me
replicate his power...Copy !req
1993. unaware of how I planned to use it.Copy !req
1994. You see...Copy !req
1995. the Comedian was right.Copy !req
1996. Humanity's savage nature
will inevitably lead to global annihilation.Copy !req
1997. So in order to save this planet...Copy !req
1998. I had to trick it...Copy !req
1999. with the greatest practical joke
in human history.Copy !req
2000. - Killing millions.
- To save billions.Copy !req
2001. A necessary crime.Copy !req
2002. You know we can't let you do that.Copy !req
2003. "Do that," Rorschach?Copy !req
2004. I'm not a comic-book villain.Copy !req
2005. Do you think
I'd explain my masterstroke to you...Copy !req
2006. if there were even the slightest possibility
you could affect the outcome?Copy !req
2007. I triggered it 35 minutes ago.Copy !req
2008. Eventually, I came to a dismal
black ocean stretching endlessly before me.Copy !req
2009. How had I reached
this appalling position with love...Copy !req
2010. only love, as my guide?Copy !req
2011. The moneylender floated at my feet.Copy !req
2012. Noble intentions had led me to atrocity.Copy !req
2013. The righteous anger fueling my ingenious,
awful scheme was but delusion.Copy !req
2014. Where was my error?Copy !req
2015. Planning to resume my flight,
I raised my head and saw her.Copy !req
2016. The vessel seemed to be waiting,
not hovering to strike.Copy !req
2017. And, gradually, I understood
what innocent intent had brought me to...Copy !req
2018. and waded out beyond my depth.Copy !req
2019. The unspeakable truth
loomed unavoidably before me...Copy !req
2020. as I swam
towards the anchored Freighter.Copy !req
2021. Its dark and lurching mast
filled all my vision.Copy !req
2022. All my well-meaning plans
had come to this.Copy !req
2023. The world I tried to save
was lost beyond recall.Copy !req
2024. A rope snaked down.Copy !req
2025. Sputtering, I grabbed it.Copy !req
2026. And from the decks above,
a cheer went up...Copy !req
2027. both gross and black,
its stench affronting heaven.Copy !req
2028. There had been no plan
to capture Davidstown.Copy !req
2029. They'd come to wait until they could collect
the only prize they valued.Copy !req
2030. Claim the only soul they truly wanted.Copy !req
2031. I was a horror.Copy !req
2032. Amongst horrors must I dwell.Copy !req
2033. - Man, this shit don't make no sense.
- You're telling me.Copy !req
2034. Sorry, but you can keep this garbage.
Wasting all my damn time.Copy !req
2035. Hey, hey. You know, all this time
you've been coming here...Copy !req
2036. I never caught your name.Copy !req
2037. - Bernard.
- Bernard? You're kidding.Copy !req
2038. That's... Heh. That's my name too.Copy !req
2039. Not that big a deal.
There's lots of people called Bernard.Copy !req
2040. Jesus Christ, Henry.Copy !req
2041. Why the hell
didn't we get a launch detection?Copy !req
2042. It's not the Soviets, sir.Copy !req
2043. Intel indicates the energy signature...Copy !req
2044. was generated by...Copy !req
2045. Dr. Manhattan.Copy !req
2046. Jon.Copy !req
2047. Interference.Copy !req
2048. Cataclysmic interference.Copy !req
2049. I can't believe it happened.Copy !req
2050. This wasn't caused by nuclear warheads.Copy !req
2051. It was me.Copy !req
2052. I...Copy !req
2053. did this.Copy !req
2054. - What do you mean, you did this?
- Not directly.Copy !req
2055. It was made to look like I did it.Copy !req
2056. Adrian.Copy !req
2057. Speak of the devil.Copy !req
2058. Jon...
I know.Copy !req
2059. Must stop him.
Killed Blake, killed millions.Copy !req
2060. Wait here.Copy !req
2061. Adrian, stop this.Copy !req
2062. The tachyons were clever...Copy !req
2063. but even if I can't predict where you are,
I can turn the walls to glass.Copy !req
2064. I should thank you.Copy !req
2065. I'd almost forgotten the excitement
of not knowing...Copy !req
2066. the delights of uncertainty.Copy !req
2067. Forgive me, girl.Copy !req
2068. You're such an asshole.Copy !req
2069. Veidt, you bastard.Copy !req
2070. - If you've hurt her, I'll...
- Dan...Copy !req
2071. grow up. My new world
demands less obvious heroism.Copy !req
2072. Your...Copy !req
2073. schoolboy heroics are redundant.
What have they achieved?Copy !req
2074. Failing to prevent Earth's salvation...Copy !req
2075. is your only triumph.Copy !req
2076. I'm disappointed in you, Adrian.Copy !req
2077. I'm very disappointed.Copy !req
2078. Reassembling myself
was the first trick I learned.Copy !req
2079. It didn't kill Osterman.Copy !req
2080. Did you really think it would kill me?Copy !req
2081. I have walked across the surface
of the sun.Copy !req
2082. I have witnessed events
so tiny and so fast...Copy !req
2083. they can hardly be said
to have occurred at all...Copy !req
2084. but you, Adrian, you're just a man.Copy !req
2085. The world's smartest man...Copy !req
2086. poses no more threat to me...Copy !req
2087. than does its smartest termite.Copy !req
2088. What's that?Copy !req
2089. Another ultimate weapon?Copy !req
2090. Yes.Copy !req
2091. You could say that.Copy !req
2092. Came under attack.Copy !req
2093. Millions of lives were suddenly ended...Copy !req
2094. in an act of evil
perpetrated by Dr. Manhattan himself.Copy !req
2095. Since the attacks,
I have been in constant contact...Copy !req
2096. with the premier of the U. S. S.R.Copy !req
2097. Putting aside our past differences...Copy !req
2098. we have both pledged to unite...Copy !req
2099. against this common enemy.Copy !req
2100. With the rest of the world...Copy !req
2101. we will prevail.Copy !req
2102. This is a day we shall never forget.Copy !req
2103. And yet we go forward
to defend the human race...Copy !req
2104. and all that is good
and just in our world.Copy !req
2105. Thank you. God bless us all.Copy !req
2106. Do you see?Copy !req
2107. Two superpowers retreating from war.Copy !req
2108. I've saved the earth from hell.Copy !req
2109. We both have.Copy !req
2110. This is as much your victory as it is mine.Copy !req
2111. Now we can return...Copy !req
2112. do what we were meant to.Copy !req
2113. We were meant to exact justice.Copy !req
2114. - Everyone's gonna know what you've done.
- Will they?Copy !req
2115. By exposing me, you would sacrifice
the peace so many died for today.Copy !req
2116. - Peace based on a lie.
- But peace...Copy !req
2117. - nonetheless.
- He's right.Copy !req
2118. Exposing Adrian would only doom the world
to nuclear destruction again.Copy !req
2119. No. We can't do this.Copy !req
2120. On Mars...Copy !req
2121. you taught me the value of life.Copy !req
2122. If we hope to preserve it here...Copy !req
2123. we must remain silent.Copy !req
2124. Keep your own secrets.Copy !req
2125. Don't even think about it.Copy !req
2126. Rorschach.Copy !req
2127. Wait.Copy !req
2128. Never compromise.Copy !req
2129. Not even in the face of Armageddon.Copy !req
2130. That's always been the difference
between us, Daniel.Copy !req
2131. I've made myself feel every death...Copy !req
2132. see every innocent face
I've murdered to save humanity.Copy !req
2133. - You understand, don't you?
- Without condoning...Copy !req
2134. or condemning...Copy !req
2135. I understand.Copy !req
2136. Out of my way. People have to be told.Copy !req
2137. You know I can't let you do that.Copy !req
2138. Suddenly you discover humanity?Copy !req
2139. Convenient.Copy !req
2140. If you'd cared from the start,
none of this would have happened.Copy !req
2141. I can change almost anything...Copy !req
2142. but I can't change human nature.Copy !req
2143. Of course
you must protect Veidt's new utopia.Copy !req
2144. What's one more body
amongst foundations?Copy !req
2145. Well, what are you waiting for?Copy !req
2146. Do it.Copy !req
2147. Do it!Copy !req
2148. No!Copy !req
2149. I'm leaving this galaxy
for one a little less complicated.Copy !req
2150. I thought you said you cared
about life again.Copy !req
2151. I do.Copy !req
2152. I think maybe I'll create some.Copy !req
2153. Goodbye, Laurie.Copy !req
2154. Come on.Copy !req
2155. Come on!Copy !req
2156. Dan...Copy !req
2157. a world united and at peace.Copy !req
2158. There had to be sacrifice.Copy !req
2159. No! You haven't idealized mankind,
you've deformed it.Copy !req
2160. You've mutilated it.Copy !req
2161. That's your legacy.Copy !req
2162. That's the real practical joke.Copy !req
2163. We repeat, there is
nothing wrong with your television set.Copy !req
2164. You are about to participate
in a great adventure.Copy !req
2165. You are about to experience
the awe and mystery...Copy !req
2166. which reaches from the inner mind
to the outer limits.Copy !req
2167. Sure you don't want a drink?Copy !req
2168. I'm okay.Copy !req
2169. Cheers.Copy !req
2170. There's something I need
to get off my chest.Copy !req
2171. I know that Eddie Blake was my father.Copy !req
2172. Laurel.Copy !req
2173. What you must think of me.Copy !req
2174. I'm sorry I never told you.Copy !req
2175. I should have...Copy !req
2176. but I don't know, I just felt ashamed.
I felt stupid.Copy !req
2177. It doesn't matter.Copy !req
2178. People's lives take them strange places.
They do strange things...Copy !req
2179. and, well,
sometimes they can't talk about them.Copy !req
2180. I know how that is...Copy !req
2181. but I just want you to know...Copy !req
2182. that you never did anything wrong
by me.Copy !req
2183. You asked me why I wasn't mad at him.Copy !req
2184. Because he gave me you.Copy !req
2185. Thanks, Mom.Copy !req
2186. I love you.Copy !req
2187. - Hello, Miss Jupiter.
- Oh, Sally, please.Copy !req
2188. Excuse me. Gotta go freshen up.
I'll be right back.Copy !req
2189. - So how's it going up here?
- Good. How's it going down there?Copy !req
2190. Good. I think I've got everything working.Copy !req
2191. All of Archie's systems are upgraded.
Finished the tinkering for now...Copy !req
2192. so all we gotta do is take her out.Copy !req
2193. Well, that sounds like a date.Copy !req
2194. Are we gonna be all right?Copy !req
2195. Long as people think Jon's
still watching us, we'll be all right...Copy !req
2196. in the end.Copy !req
2197. I know what Jon would say:Copy !req
2198. Nothing ends.Copy !req
2199. Nothing ever ends.Copy !req
2200. Seymour, we got nothing
to write about anymore.Copy !req
2201. Everyone in the country...Copy !req
2202. every country in the world
are holding hands...Copy !req
2203. and singing songs
about peace and love.Copy !req
2204. It's like living in a goddamn
global hippie commune.Copy !req
2205. Well, Ronald Reagan says he's gonna
be running for president in 88.Copy !req
2206. We could run a piece on that.Copy !req
2207. Seymour, we don't dignify absurdities
with coverage.Copy !req
2208. This is still America, damn it.
Who wants a cowboy in the White House?Copy !req
2209. Okay. I could look for something
in the crank file.Copy !req
2210. Crank file.Copy !req
2211. Whatever. Take some initiative.Copy !req
2212. Run whatever you like.
I leave it entirely in your hands.Copy !req
2213. Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985.Copy !req
2214. Tonight, a comedian died in New York.Copy !req