守望者(上) Watchmen Chapter I(2024)(EN)Subtitles
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1 00:00:05 Oh, how the ghostof you clings... Nostalgia...
2 00:00:10 Coming upon the Benny Anger show,
3 00:00:12 crime and punishment in America
4 00:00:14 since the Keene Actbanned masked vigilantes,
5 00:00:17 but first, we askthe average citizen,
6 00:00:19 "Is our society now saferwithout those so-called
7 00:00:24 I don't miss the masks.
8 00:00:26 They stirred up more troublethan they were worth.
9 00:00:29 The onlygood ones were the Minutemen
10 00:00:31 The blue guy, Manhattan,he scares me,
11 00:00:33 but, but then he scaresthe Reds too,
12 00:00:36 Meh, America never reallytook to superheroes.
13 00:00:39 Took to superheroes,took to superheroes.
14 00:02:27 Rorschach's Journal.
15 00:02:28 October 12th, 1985.
16 00:02:31 Dog carcass in alleythis morning,
17 00:02:33 tire tread on burst stomach.
18 00:02:35 This city is afraid of me.I have seen its true face.
19 00:02:42 The streetsare extended gutters,
20 00:02:44 and the guttersare full of blood,
21 00:02:46 and when the drainsfinally scab over,
22 00:02:49 all the vermin will drown.
23 00:02:50 Hey! What are ya, blind?
24 00:02:52 You're walkin'through blood here!
25 00:02:53 The accumulated filthof all their sex and murder
26 00:02:55 will foam up about their waists
27 00:02:58 and all the whoresand politicians will
28 00:03:01 save us!
29 00:03:02 And I'll look downand whisper, no.
30 00:03:06 They had a choice.
31 00:03:08 They could have followedin the footsteps of good men.
32 00:03:10 Decent men who believed ina day's work for a day's pay.
33 00:03:13 Instead, they followedthe droppings of lechers
34 00:03:17 Now the whole world standson the brink,
35 00:03:20 staring down into bloody hell,
36 00:03:23 all those intellectualsand smooth talkers...
37 00:03:26 And all of a sudden nobody canthink of anything to say.
38 00:03:29 Hmm, that's quite a drop.
39 00:03:33 So what do you thinkhappened here?
40 00:03:35 Door chain was fastenedon the inside.
41 00:03:37 Busting it down wouldtake two guys.
42 00:03:40 Or one guy on serious drugs.
43 00:03:43 I saw the body.
44 00:03:45 This Blake guy looked beefyenough to protect himself.
45 00:03:49 Muscles like a weight lifter.
46 00:03:51 He would've put upsome kind of fight.
47 00:03:54 Maybe it was a coupleof Knot-Tops and they just
48 00:04:02 Background report saidhe's been doing overseas
49 00:04:07 Lotta classy expenseaccount living.
50 00:04:10 Maybe he just got soft.
51 00:04:17 He don't looktoo soft in this photo.
52 00:04:19 Wonder how he got that scar.
53 00:04:21 Oh, he's shaking handswith Vice President Ford here.
54 00:04:24 I think we can rule him outas a suspect.
55 00:04:26 Oh, ha ha.
56 00:04:28 That'd be funny if we hadany better leads to go on.
57 00:04:31 I mean, what is this?
58 00:04:33 A little money stolen,
59 00:04:35 but no way is thisa straight burglary.
60 00:04:40 Ah, somebody reallyhad it in for this guy.
61 00:04:42 How else did he gooutta the window?
62 00:04:45 Maybe he tripped against it.
63 00:04:52 That's strong glass, man.
64 00:04:53 You'd have to be thrown.
65 00:04:59 Ground floor comin' up.
66 00:05:07 Y'know, this could bejust a simple burglary.
67 00:05:10 Crazy things happenin a city this size.
68 00:05:13 They don't all need motives.
69 00:05:16 So you're saying...
70 00:05:17 Let's not raise too much dustover this one.
71 00:05:21 We don't need anymasked avengers cutting in.
72 00:05:24 Oy! Here we go!
73 00:05:26 You take this vigilantestuff too seriously.
74 00:05:28 Ever since theKeene Act passed in '77,
75 00:05:31 only the governmentsponsored weirdos are active.
76 00:05:34 Rorschach never retired!
77 00:05:36 Even after him and his buddiesfell outta grace.
78 00:05:39 He's still out there somewhere.
79 00:05:41 He's crazierthan a snake's armpit
80 00:05:43 and wanted ontwo counts murder one.
81 00:05:46 We've got a cozylittle homicide here.
82 00:05:49 If Rorschach gets involved,
83 00:05:51 we'll be up to our buttsin corpses.
84 00:07:28 Huh.
85 00:07:44 Hmm.
86 00:07:55 So there I wasin the supermarket
87 00:07:57 buying dog foodfor old Phantom here...
88 00:07:59 I turn the corner and WHAM!
89 00:08:01 I bump intothe Screaming Skull.
90 00:08:04 You remember him?
91 00:08:06 I heard you mention him...
92 00:08:08 Put him away a dozen times.
93 00:08:10 He'd reformedand turned to Jesus.
94 00:08:13 Married, two kids.
95 00:08:14 We traded addresses. Nice guy.
96 00:08:19 Oh, Hollis, almost midnight.I outta go.
97 00:08:22 Oh, sure, Dan,lost track of the time there,
98 00:08:25 talking aboutall that old stuff.
99 00:08:27 You must be bored as hell.
100 00:08:29 You know better than that.
101 00:08:31 These Saturday nightbeer sessions are what
102 00:08:36 You know, it was a cryin' shame
103 00:08:38 they put you youngsters outto grass in '77.
104 00:08:40 You were a better Nite Owlthan I ever was.
105 00:08:43 Hollis, we both know that'sbullshit. But thank you anyway.
106 00:08:47 Hey, watch the language!
107 00:08:49 This is the left hookthat floored Captain Axis, remember?
108 00:08:51 Goodnight!Don't forget to lock up
109 00:08:55 You too, Danny. God bless.
110 00:09:01 Hmm.
111 00:09:37 Where you goin' pig?
112 00:09:39 - The party's right here!- Oh yeah!
113 00:09:44 Hit us with moreof those Katie's, Derf!
114 00:09:46 Yeah, I'm comin' downalready, man.
115 00:09:48 You nevercould keep it up.
116 00:09:54 Hey, let's go breaksome shit, huh!
117 00:09:58 - I wanna get crazy!- Aw, yeah!
118 00:10:01 Call up your boys, Derf!
119 00:10:03 Fire it up!
120 00:10:41 Hello, Daniel.
121 00:10:43 - Rorschach?- Got hungry waiting.
122 00:10:45 Helped myself to some beans.
123 00:10:47 Hope you don't mind.
124 00:10:48 No, no of course I don't mind.
125 00:10:53 You want me to heatthose up for you?
126 00:10:54 No need. Fine like this.
127 00:10:58 So... long time no see.
128 00:11:01 How've you been keeping?
129 00:11:02 Out of prison, so far.Take a look at this.
130 00:11:08 This stain...is that bean juice or--
131 00:11:11 Yeah... human bean juice.
132 00:11:13 Badge belonged to the Comedian.
133 00:11:15 Blood too. He's dead.
134 00:11:17 Wait. The Comedian?
135 00:11:19 Investigateda routine homicide.
136 00:11:21 Victim named Edward Blake.
137 00:11:23 Found the costumein Blake's wardrobe.
138 00:11:26 Seems he was the Comedian.
139 00:11:27 Somebody threw himout of a window.
140 00:11:32 Um, maybe we shouldtalk about this
141 00:11:37 Right down this way.
142 00:11:38 You haven't beendown here in a while.
143 00:11:41 Neither have you. Lots of dust.
144 00:11:53 Oh!
145 00:11:54 Uh, listen...about the Comedian,
146 00:11:58 might it have beenjust an ordinary
147 00:12:01 Maybe the killer didn'teven know who Blake was.
148 00:12:03 An ordinary burglar?Kill the Comedian?
149 00:12:06 Ridiculous.
150 00:12:09 Well, I hear he'd been workingfor the government since '77,
151 00:12:14 knocking over Marxist republicsin South America.
152 00:12:17 - Maybe this wasa political killing.
153 00:12:20 Or maybe someone'spicking off costumed heroes.
154 00:12:24 Don't you think that'smaybe a little paranoid?
155 00:12:26 That what they'resaying about me now?
156 00:12:29 The Comedian was activefor 40 years.
157 00:12:32 Men make a lot of enemiesin that time.
158 00:12:34 How's your friend Hollis Masonthese days?
159 00:12:36 Hollis? What does he--
160 00:12:38 They were both Minutemen,when Blake was 16
161 00:12:41 and Holliswas the first Nite Owl.
162 00:12:43 Hollis said some bad thingsabout the Comedian
163 00:12:46 I don't like whatyou're implying.
164 00:12:47 Hollis is an old man,and he's my friend.
165 00:12:50 If you're thinking of goingover there and scaring him--
166 00:12:52 Implying nothing,only an observation.
167 00:12:55 I just wanted to let you know,
168 00:12:57 in case someone'sgunning for masks.
169 00:13:11 Better go now.
170 00:13:12 Things to do.
171 00:13:15 The tunnel will bring you outto a warehouse two blocks
172 00:13:16 I remember.
173 00:13:18 Used to come here oftenback when we were partners.
174 00:13:21 Those were great times, Rorschach.
175 00:13:24 - Whatever happened to them?- You quit.
176 00:13:44 We want cops! No more costumes!
177 00:13:48 Listen, you little punks!You better get back
178 00:13:52 I got riot gas,I got rubber bullets--
179 00:13:55 - There's no need for this!- Fuck you, Owl!
180 00:13:57 The police strike is beingnegotiated right now!
181 00:14:00 You vigilantes belong in jail!
182 00:14:02 My son's a police officer,you freaks!
183 00:14:04 Call yourself a Comedian?
184 00:14:05 More like pig and rapist!
185 00:14:08 Okay, that does it!
186 00:14:11 Oh my God,he just shot him!
187 00:14:13 God, look, I'm sorry.You haven't left us any choice.
188 00:14:17 This stuff is dangerous.Please clear the streets!
189 00:14:21 Look at 'em!
190 00:14:23 Run, you suckers!
191 00:14:25 This is a nightmare!
192 00:14:26 The whole country'serupting like this.
193 00:14:28 How long can we keep this up?
194 00:14:30 My contacts saySenator Keene's act is
195 00:14:34 Until then, we're society'sonly protection.
196 00:14:39 Protection? From who?
197 00:14:41 From themselves.
198 00:14:43 What-- What happenedto the American dream?
199 00:14:47 It came true.You're looking at it.
200 00:14:51 Now let's really putthese jokers through
201 00:15:14 Rorschach's Journal.October 13th, 1985.
202 00:15:19 Slept all day. Awakenedby landlady complaining
203 00:15:24 She has five childrenby five different fathers.
204 00:15:27 I'm sure she cheats on welfare.
205 00:15:35 Soon it will be dark.
206 00:15:41 On Friday night,a Comedian died in New York.
207 00:15:45 Somebody knows why.Somebody knows.
208 00:15:49 Get lost, you creep!
209 00:15:51 I believe I shalltake my exercise.
210 00:16:07 Huh, Rorschach!Hey, how you doin', fella?
211 00:16:10 I'm fine, Happy Harry.Yourself?
212 00:16:12 I'm fine! I'm fine!Just fine and... uh...
213 00:16:18 Oh, God,please don't kill anybody.
214 00:16:22 Guy went sidewalk divingFriday night.
215 00:16:24 I don't think he was alonewhen it happened.
216 00:16:27 His name was Edward Blake.Friend of mine.
217 00:16:30 You hear that?
218 00:16:32 He's got friends.
219 00:16:33 Must've changed his deodorant!
220 00:16:42 I... I didn't meananything, I--
221 00:16:46 I've just brokenthis gentleman's little finger.
222 00:16:49 Who killed Edward Blake?
223 00:16:53 Who killed Edward Blake?
224 00:16:57 And his index finger.
225 00:16:59 - Who killed Edward Blake?- We don't know.
226 00:17:01 Please, God, leave him alone!We don't know!
227 00:17:06 No. No, no, no, no, no, no!
228 00:17:12 Nobody knew anything.Feeling slightly depressed.
229 00:17:16 I leave the human cockroachesto discuss their heroin
230 00:17:21 I have businesswith a better class of person.
231 00:17:26 The Comedian is dead? Why?
232 00:17:30 You're supposed to bethe world's smartest man,
233 00:17:34 I never claimed to beanybody special, Rorschach.
234 00:17:37 I just have someover-enthusiastic P.R. men.
235 00:17:41 Perhaps it wasa political killing.
236 00:17:43 - Maybe the Soviets...- Dreiberg said the same.
237 00:17:45 America has Dr. Manhattan.
238 00:17:47 Reds would neverdare antagonize us.
239 00:17:50 I think we've gota mask-killer.
240 00:17:53 The Comedian hadplenty of other
241 00:17:55 even discounting the Russians.
242 00:17:57 The man was practically a Nazi.
243 00:17:59 He stood up for his country.Never let anyone retire him.
244 00:18:02 Never cashed inon his reputation.
245 00:18:04 Never set up a companyselling posters and diet books
246 00:18:07 and toy soldiersbased on himself.
247 00:18:09 Never became a prostitute.
248 00:18:12 If that makes him a Nazi,you might as well call me
249 00:18:17 Rorschach...
250 00:18:19 I know we were never friends,
251 00:18:21 but even soyou're being unfair.
252 00:18:24 Nobody retired me.
253 00:18:26 I chose to quit adventuringand go public
254 00:18:28 two years beforethe police strike made
255 00:18:31 Yes. Good timing.
256 00:18:33 I came here to warn youabout the mask-killer
257 00:18:36 so you don't end upthe smartest man
258 00:18:39 But I guess there'sworse things to end up as.
259 00:18:44 Be seeing you.
260 00:18:48 Sure.
261 00:18:49 Have a nice day.
262 00:18:57 Now, I want to thank everyonefor coming to the first meeting
263 00:19:03 For those who know meonly as Captain Metropolis,
264 00:19:06 the name's Nelson Gardner.
265 00:19:08 Call me Nelson.
266 00:19:12 As you know, this countryhasn't had an organization
267 00:19:15 of masked adventurersin over 20 years,
268 00:19:18 since the Minutemenwere disbanded.
269 00:19:20 Specialized law enforcementis standing still.
270 00:19:23 Crime isn't.
271 00:19:26 New social evils emergeevery day:
272 00:19:29 promiscuity, drugs,campus subversion, you name it.
273 00:19:33 But, by banding togetheras Crimebusters,
274 00:19:36 - we can make a--- Bullshit.
275 00:19:39 We're all livin' in 1966
276 00:19:41 while you'restill stuck in '49.
277 00:19:43 This is all aboutyou getting old
278 00:19:45 but still wanting to playcowboys and Indians.
279 00:19:48 Th--That's-- That is not true.
280 00:19:51 Uh, no reason to justthrow the idea away.
281 00:19:54 Me and Rorschach havemade great headway
282 00:19:56 by pooling our efforts.
283 00:19:58 But a group this size seemsmore like a publicity exercise.
284 00:20:02 Too big and unwieldy.
285 00:20:03 That's justan organizational problem.
286 00:20:05 With the right personcoordinating the group--
287 00:20:07 Oh, and who would that be?Any ideas, Ozzy?
288 00:20:11 I mean, you are the smartestman in the world, right?
289 00:20:15 It doesn't takea genius to see that
290 00:20:18 that need tackling.
291 00:20:20 And it takes a moron to thinkthey're small enough
292 00:20:21 for clowns like you guysto handle.
293 00:20:23 None of the world's problemsare insurmountable.
294 00:20:26 What's going downin this world, you got no idea!
295 00:20:35 Believe me.
296 00:20:38 You people hear Moloch's backin town and you think,
297 00:20:41 "Oh, boy! Let's gang upand bust him!"
298 00:20:44 Like that matters.
299 00:20:47 It doesn't mean squat!
300 00:20:49 In 30 years the nukes aregonna be flying like maybugs...
301 00:20:53 My map!
302 00:20:55 And Ozzy here is gonna bethe smartest man on the cinder.
303 00:21:03 Jon, I'd like to go home now.
304 00:21:05 - Please.- Listen, Nelson,
305 00:21:06 maybe this isn'tthe best idea...
306 00:21:08 No, wait, don't leave.
307 00:21:11 Somebody has to do it...
308 00:21:13 Somebody has to save the world!
309 00:21:57 Meeting with Veidtleft bad taste in mouth.
310 00:22:00 He is pampered and decadent,
311 00:22:03 betraying even his own shallow,liberal affectations.
312 00:22:06 Dreiberg just as bad.
313 00:22:09 A flabby failure whimperingin his basement.
314 00:22:11 Why are there so fewof the Minutemen left active,
315 00:22:14 healthy and withoutpersonality disorders?
316 00:22:18 The first Nite Owl runsan auto repair shop.
317 00:22:21 Captain Metropoliswas decapitated
318 00:22:27 The first Silk Specteris a bloated, aging whore...
319 00:22:31 Dying in a Californiarest resort.
320 00:22:34 Mothman's in an asylumup in Maine.
321 00:22:37 The Silhouette retiredin disgrace.
322 00:22:40 Murdered six weeks laterby a minor adversary
323 00:22:44 Dollar Bill got shot.
324 00:22:46 Hooded Justice went missing.
325 00:22:49 The Comedian is dead.
326 00:22:51 And now I must tellthe indestructible man
327 00:22:53 that someoneplans to murder him.
328 00:23:03 Good evening, Rorschach.
329 00:23:05 Good evening, Dr. Manhattan.
330 00:23:11 What're you doing here,Rorschach?
331 00:23:13 Aren't you still wantedby the police?
332 00:23:15 Good evening, Miss Jupiter.
333 00:23:17 That's Juspeczyk.
334 00:23:19 Jupiter was my mother'spublicity name.
335 00:23:22 Apologies.
336 00:23:23 Came to warn you bothand bring bad news.
337 00:23:26 The Comedian is dead.
338 00:23:27 Yes. He and I are the onlytwo extranormal operatives
339 00:23:30 employed by the government,so I was informed at once.
340 00:23:34 You don't seem too concernedabout Blake's death.
341 00:23:37 A live body and a dead bodycontain the same number
342 00:23:41 Structurally there's nodiscernible difference.
343 00:23:43 Life and deathare unquantifiable abstracts.
344 00:23:47 Why should I be concerned?
345 00:23:49 Besides, Blake was a monster.
346 00:23:51 You know he tried to rapemy mother when they were
347 00:23:53 I'm not here to speculateon the moral lapses
348 00:23:56 of men who diedin their country's service.
349 00:23:59 Moral lapses?He broke her ribs! He--
350 00:24:05 Jon, get this creepout of here.
351 00:24:08 You seem to beupsetting Laurie.
352 00:24:10 I think you ought to go.
353 00:24:12 With respect, Dr. Manhattan,
354 00:24:14 I believe someoneis eliminating masks.
355 00:24:16 I warned Veidt and Dreibergand I intend--
356 00:24:18 I said I think you ought to go.
357 00:24:20 Not before I've had my--
358 00:24:23 Say.
359 00:24:30 Hmm.
360 00:24:37 He's gone. Are you still upset?
361 00:24:41 Jon?
362 00:24:44 Hey, I was thinking,
363 00:24:48 I must be really on edgeto let a maggot like Rorschach
364 00:24:51 Maybe we--
365 00:24:53 Maybe I could use a night out.
366 00:24:57 Rorschach mentionedDan Dreiberg.
367 00:25:00 Haven't seen him in years.
368 00:25:02 Maybe I'll call him up,ask him to dinner.
369 00:25:06 If you don't mind, that is.
370 00:25:08 Of course not.
371 00:25:16 It is October, 1985.
372 00:25:19 I am close to locatinga gluino,
373 00:25:21 which would completely validatesuper symmetrical theory.
374 00:25:29 It is May, 1971.
375 00:25:40 Having been asked to intervenein Vietnam by President Nixon,
376 00:25:43 I am deployed alongsideEdward Blake, the Comedian.
377 00:25:49 I have never met anyoneso deliberately amoral.
378 00:25:54 What Vietnam impliesabout the human condition,
379 00:25:56 few humans will permitthemselves to understand.
380 00:26:00 But Blake is different.
381 00:26:02 He understands perfectly.
382 00:26:05 And he doesn't care.
383 00:26:09 The averageVietnamese doesn't give
384 00:26:13 But it means plentyto the US of A.
385 00:26:16 If we'd lost, I thinkit might've driven
386 00:26:21 Thanks to you, we didn't.
387 00:26:23 Yet you sound so bitter.
388 00:26:25 You have some strange attitudestoward life and war.
389 00:26:29 Strange?
390 00:26:30 Once you figure outeverything's a joke,
391 00:26:32 being a Comedianis the only thing
392 00:26:35 The charred villages,
393 00:26:37 the boys with necklacesof human ears...
394 00:26:40 these are part of the joke?
395 00:26:43 Never said it was a good joke.
396 00:26:45 I'm just playingalong with the gag.
397 00:26:48 First press helicopterinto Saigon since
398 00:26:53 Oh, he's got the next electionin the bag.
399 00:26:56 Me, I'm takingthe first chopper out.
400 00:27:00 I hate this place.
401 00:27:02 The temperature, the smell,this rotten, cheap bourbon--
402 00:27:07 - Mr. Eddie?- Oh, God.
403 00:27:11 Now war is over,I must talk to you.
404 00:27:14 Nothing to talk about.I'm leaving.
405 00:27:17 And... and what of me?
406 00:27:19 I cannot just walk awayfrom what grow in my belly.
407 00:27:23 - I cannot forget!- Too bad,
408 00:27:25 because that's whatI intend to do.
409 00:27:27 Forget you,
410 00:27:28 your cruddy little country,all of it.
411 00:27:33 I do not think so.
412 00:27:35 I think you remember meand my country.
413 00:27:38 You rememberas long as you live.
414 00:27:45 My face!
415 00:27:48 Filthy, stinking,
416 00:27:51 - worthless...- Blake, don't--
417 00:27:55 Medic. Gotta finda goddamn medic.
418 00:27:58 She was pregnant.
419 00:28:00 - You gunned her down.- That's right.
420 00:28:02 And you know what?
421 00:28:03 You watched me.
422 00:28:05 You coulda turnedthe gun into steam,
423 00:28:07 the bullets into mercuryor the bottle into snowflakes!
424 00:28:10 You coulda teleported herto goddamn Australia,
425 00:28:12 but you didn't lift a finger.
426 00:28:15 You let it happen.
427 00:28:17 I've watched you.
428 00:28:19 You don't really give a damnabout human beings.
429 00:28:22 You never caredabout Janey Slater
430 00:28:24 even before you ditched her.
431 00:28:26 Soon you won't beinterested in Sally Jupiter's
432 00:28:31 You're driftingoutta touch, Doc.
433 00:28:34 God help us all.
434 00:28:53 - Hello?- H-hello?
435 00:28:55 - Dan? Uh, this is--- Laurie?
436 00:28:57 Laurie Juspeczyk!
437 00:28:59 Hey, it's been awhile.How-- How are you?
438 00:29:07 Rorschach's Journal. 11:30 p.m.
439 00:29:10 Yesterday a Comedian diedin New York.
440 00:29:13 Nobody cares but me.
441 00:29:15 Are they right? Is it futile?
442 00:29:18 Soon there will be war.
443 00:29:20 Millions will perish and burnin sickness and misery.
444 00:29:24 Why does one death matteragainst so many?
445 00:29:27 Because there is good,and there is evil,
446 00:29:30 and evil must be punished.
447 00:29:34 Even in the face of ArmageddonI shall not compromise on this.
448 00:29:39 But there are so manydeserving of retribution,
449 00:29:43 and so little time.
450 00:29:52 Oh wow, look at the time.It's getting pretty late.
451 00:29:54 Oh, I'm inno hurry to get back.
452 00:29:58 The governmentonly keeps me around
453 00:29:59 so Jon stays relaxed and happy.
454 00:30:04 Is, uh, everything okaywith you two?
455 00:30:07 Fine. Couldn't be better.
456 00:30:12 It's just, I'm 35, Dan,
457 00:30:17 and all I can think is...what have I done with my life?
458 00:30:22 I've spenteight years semi-retired,
459 00:30:24 preceded by 10 yearsrunning around
460 00:30:28 because my stupid motherwanted me to.
461 00:30:31 Short skirt, neckline goingall the way down to my navel...
462 00:30:36 - so dreadful.- Oh, yeah... dreadful.
463 00:30:40 The Keene Actwas the best thing that
464 00:30:44 Yeah, you're probably right.
465 00:30:55 Hey, remember that guy
466 00:30:57 who used to pretend to bea super-villain
467 00:30:59 so he could get beaten up?
468 00:31:01 Oh, um...Captain Carnage!
469 00:31:04 Yes!
470 00:31:07 Ya know, I caught himrunning out of a jewelers.
471 00:31:09 I didn't knowwhat his racket was,
472 00:31:11 so I start hitting himand I'm thinking,
473 00:31:13 "Jeez, he's breathingawfully hard."
474 00:31:15 "Maybe he has asthma."
475 00:31:17 He tried thatwith me too,
476 00:31:19 but I'd heard about him,so I walked away.
477 00:31:21 He followed me down the streetsaying "Punish me!"
478 00:31:24 I'm saying, "No, get lost!"
479 00:31:26 What everhappened to him?
480 00:31:29 He--he pulled that on Rorschach
481 00:31:31 and Rorschach dropped himdown an elevator shaft.
482 00:31:36 Oh, God,that's not funny.
483 00:31:39 No, no, I guess not...
484 00:31:45 That felt good.
485 00:31:49 Not a lot of laughs aroundthese days.
486 00:31:51 Well, what do you expect?
487 00:31:54 The Comedian is dead.
488 00:32:08 Oh, look at her,
489 00:32:10 pretty as a pictureand still keeping her figure.
490 00:32:14 So what brings youto the city of the dead?
491 00:32:18 Being lazy isn'ta terminal condition, mother,
492 00:32:21 so spare methe city of the dead crap.
493 00:32:23 Brought you some flowers.
494 00:32:24 Oh, big spender!
495 00:32:27 So where's Jon?
496 00:32:30 He had to go to someofficial funeral.
497 00:32:33 Made him put on pantsand everything.
498 00:32:36 I didn't feel like goingso he transported me
499 00:32:40 Teleportingalways makes me sick.
500 00:32:42 It's Eddie Blake's funeral,isn't it?
501 00:32:45 I saw in the paper.He got murdered.
502 00:32:48 Poor Eddie.
503 00:32:50 How can you say "Poor Eddie"after he almost--
504 00:32:52 What happened was 40 years ago.
505 00:32:56 It's history.
506 00:32:58 Gettin' old, you geta different perspective.
507 00:33:02 The big stufflooks smaller somehow.
508 00:33:06 Ya know, that makes justthree of us Minutemen left now.
509 00:33:10 Me, Hollis and poor Byronat the asylum in Maine.
510 00:33:14 Eddie was the youngest.
511 00:33:16 The Comedian.
512 00:33:18 Always jokin'that he'd bury us all.
513 00:33:22 Always thoughthe'd get the last...
514 00:33:25 laugh.
515 00:33:28 You and Jon oughtamove out here for the weather.
516 00:33:31 Lots of sunshine!
517 00:33:33 What the hell is this?
518 00:33:35 What are you doingwith this creepy pervert art?
519 00:33:37 Oh, just some old memorabilia.
520 00:33:39 Being remindedthat people used to
521 00:33:42 - is kind of flattering.- Flattering?
522 00:33:45 Laurie, I'm 65.
523 00:33:48 Every day the futurelooks a little bit darker.
524 00:33:53 But the past...
525 00:33:54 even the grimy parts of it,
526 00:33:58 keep getting brighterall the time.
527 00:34:07 Okay, that's it!Nice picture, folks!
528 00:34:09 Finally,I can scratch my armpit.
529 00:34:12 Got spots in my eyes.
530 00:34:13 Here lemme take a look,
531 00:34:15 maybe I canfish 'em out for you.
532 00:34:17 Oh, Eddie,give me a break.
533 00:34:21 Okay everybody,we're good.
534 00:34:22 So let's meetin the lobby in five.
535 00:34:24 We'll go backto the Owl's Nest
536 00:34:25 You go on ahead,I gotta change.
537 00:34:46 - Hi.- Eddie,
538 00:34:47 what are you doing here?
539 00:34:49 You knew I was changing...
540 00:34:50 Sure did. You announced itloud enough.
541 00:34:53 C'mon, baby.I know what you need...
542 00:34:58 know why you wearan outfit like that.
543 00:35:00 Eddie, no--
544 00:35:02 Spelled Y-E-S.
545 00:35:05 Spelled N-O!
546 00:35:13 Eddie...
547 00:35:26 What... what's happening?
548 00:35:29 Eddie, what are you doing?
549 00:35:30 You sick little bastard!
550 00:35:35 I'm going to break your neck!
551 00:35:52 This is what you like,isn't it?
552 00:35:54 This is what gets you hot.
553 00:35:57 Get out.
554 00:35:59 Oh, sure. Sure, I'm going.
555 00:36:03 But I got your number...
556 00:36:05 And one of these days,
557 00:36:07 the joke's gonna be on you.
558 00:36:14 Thou hast setour misdeeds before thee,
559 00:36:17 and our secret sinsin the light
560 00:36:22 As much as it hath pleasedAlmighty God of his great mercy
561 00:36:26 to take unto himselfthe soul of our dear brother
562 00:36:30 We therefore commit his bodyto the ground,
563 00:36:33 earth to earth, ashes to ashes,dust to dust.
564 00:36:39 Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name.
565 00:36:44 Thy kingdom come,thy will be done,
566 00:36:51 Give us this dayour daily bread,
567 00:36:54 and forgive us our trespasses
568 00:36:56 as we forgive thosethat trespass against us.
569 00:36:59 And lead us notinto temptation,
570 00:37:02 but deliver us from evil.
571 00:37:05 Amen.
572 00:37:46 Edgar William Jacobi.Also known as Moloch.
573 00:37:49 I don't know whatyou're talking about,
574 00:37:50 you've got the wrong person,
575 00:37:51 I'm a retired businessman.
576 00:37:53 Lying. Do it again, broken arm.
577 00:37:55 Oh, God, I spentthe '70s in jail.
578 00:37:58 I'm not Moloch anymore.
579 00:37:59 I just want to be left alone.
580 00:38:03 You attendedfuneral today. Why?
581 00:38:04 I... just felt I should.
582 00:38:07 I've been thinkingabout the Comedian a lot--
583 00:38:09 How do you know Edward Blakewas the Comedian?
584 00:38:11 He broke in to see metwo weeks ago!
585 00:38:13 His mask was off!
586 00:38:15 Enemies for 40 years!Why should he visit you?
587 00:38:17 I don't know!
588 00:38:19 I just woke upand he was there!
589 00:38:21 I thought he wasgoing to kill me.
590 00:38:23 He was drunk,not making sense--
591 00:38:28 It's a joke.
592 00:38:30 It's all a joke.
593 00:38:32 I thought I knewhow the world was,
594 00:38:35 but then I found outabout this gag,
595 00:38:38 this joke...
596 00:38:40 You're part of it, Moloch,old pal, you know that?
597 00:38:43 I saw your name on the list,you and Janey Slater.
598 00:38:46 If I thought you werein on this, I'd kill you, understand?
599 00:38:49 I mean, you foughtthat big blue geek.
600 00:38:52 You know what his head's like.
601 00:38:54 Who knows which wayhe'll jump if anyone
602 00:38:58 I never shoulda lookedout that airship window.
603 00:39:01 Never seen that island.
604 00:39:03 Never got involved.
605 00:39:05 See, on that island,
606 00:39:07 they got writers and artistsand scientists,
607 00:39:11 and what they're doingis just...
608 00:39:19 I've done some bad things.
609 00:39:22 Did bad things to women.
610 00:39:24 Shot kids in 'Nam...
611 00:39:27 but I never did anythinglike... like...
612 00:39:33 Oh, mother.
613 00:39:37 Forgive me.
614 00:39:38 Forgive me, forgive me,forgive me...
615 00:39:42 It's a joke.
616 00:39:45 But I don't get it!
617 00:39:46 What's so goddamned funny!
618 00:39:48 Somebody explain it to me!
619 00:39:50 Somebody pleaseexplain it to me.
620 00:39:53 And then he left.
621 00:39:55 I don't know whatthe hell it was about.
622 00:39:58 Hmm.
623 00:39:59 Funny story.
624 00:40:01 Sounds unbelievable.
625 00:40:02 Probably true.
626 00:40:03 So that's it?
627 00:40:06 - I'm clean?- No.
628 00:40:08 Searched housebefore you got back.
629 00:40:10 Found phony medication.
630 00:40:12 Outlawed years ago.
631 00:40:16 Well, when you're desperate,you'll try anything.
632 00:40:21 I... I have cancer.
633 00:40:25 Cancer? What kind?
634 00:40:28 You know the kind of canceryou eventually get better from?
635 00:40:33 This ain't it.
636 00:40:38 Wrote down name of company.Will report them later.
637 00:40:41 You're off the hook for now.
638 00:40:44 Stay out of trouble.
639 00:40:53 Rorschach's Journal.October 16th, 1985.
640 00:40:57 Thought about Moloch's storyon the way to cemetery.
641 00:41:00 Could be all lies,part of a revenge scheme.
642 00:41:04 But if true, then what?
643 00:41:06 References to an island,to Dr. Manhattan...
644 00:41:09 might he be at risk?
645 00:41:12 Edward Morgan Blake.45 years, a Comedian.
646 00:41:16 Buried in the rain.
647 00:41:18 Is this what happens to us?
648 00:41:20 A life of conflict withno time for friends,
649 00:41:23 so that when it's done,only our enemies leave roses?
650 00:41:28 Blake saw the cracksin society,
651 00:41:31 saw the little men in maskstrying to hold it together,
652 00:41:34 and treated it like a joke.
653 00:41:37 Saw the true faceof the 20th century
654 00:41:40 and became a reflection of it,a parody.
655 00:41:45 No one else saw the joke.
656 00:41:51 That's why he was lonely.
657 00:41:59 Heard joke once.
658 00:42:01 Man goes to doctor,says he's depressed.
659 00:42:04 Life seems harsh and cruel.
660 00:42:06 Says he feels all alonein a threatening world.
661 00:42:09 Doctor says,"Treatment is simple."
662 00:42:11 "Great clown Pagliacciis in town. Go see him."
663 00:42:15 "That will pick you up."
664 00:42:16 Man bursts into tears.
665 00:42:18 Says, "But doctor...
666 00:42:20 I am Pagliacci."
667 00:42:25 Good joke.
668 00:42:33 Delirious,
669 00:42:34 I saw that hell-boundship's black sails
670 00:42:37 against the yellow Indies sky,
671 00:42:41 and knew againthe stench of powder,
672 00:42:44 and men's brains, and war.
673 00:42:47 The severed heads nailedto its prow liplessly mouthed,
674 00:42:51 "No use! All's lost!"
675 00:42:54 We outta nuke Russiaand let God sort it out.
676 00:42:57 The freighter's hideouscrew called out,
677 00:43:00 "More blood! More blood!"
678 00:43:03 Nuke 'em till they glow.
679 00:43:05 That's my opinion,for what it's worth, ya know?
680 00:43:07 Inna final analysis.
681 00:43:09 Man, I'm tryin' to read here.
682 00:43:11 It's tar-streaked hullrolled over me.
683 00:43:14 In despair,I sank beneath the waves,
684 00:43:18 offering upmy wretched soul to God,
685 00:43:21 his mercy and his judgment.
686 00:43:25 Waking from nightmare,
687 00:43:27 I found myself upona dismal beachhead,
688 00:43:31 amongst dead men and...the pieces of dead men.
689 00:43:38 I'm informed on these things.
690 00:43:40 I see every paper in the world.
691 00:43:42 See, everything's connected.
692 00:43:44 I begged that the gullsshould take my eyes...
693 00:43:46 A news vendorunderstands that reality.
694 00:43:49 ...thus sparing me the horrors.
695 00:43:51 The weight o' the world'son him, but he can take it.
696 00:43:53 But at least I was alive.
697 00:43:56 He's a survivor.
698 00:43:58 And I knew that lifehad no worse news to offer me.
699 00:44:00 Good afternoon.
700 00:44:02 Is it here yet?
701 00:44:04 Oh! Your copy of today'sNew Frontiersman, coming up.
702 00:44:06 I keep it for yaevery day, don't I? Uh...
703 00:44:10 Hey, how's the endof the world coming?
704 00:44:13 Today for certain.
705 00:44:15 You won't forget to keepmy paper for me tomorrow?
706 00:44:18 Sure will!
707 00:44:19 I had a sudden memory
708 00:44:21 of clinging fast to someonethrough the tempest.
709 00:44:24 Our fateful ship's figurehead,
710 00:44:27 now lying at my feet,
711 00:44:29 blindfolded by seaweed, smiling.
712 00:44:33 I thought betterof removing the kelp
713 00:44:36 not wishing her to sufferthe terrible distractions
714 00:44:42 She had borne methrough seas of blood,
715 00:44:45 had nourished mein the heart of the storm.
716 00:44:48 This small comfortwas all I could offer,
717 00:44:52 for I could not love heras she had loved me.
718 00:45:02 Mmm... Jon...
719 00:45:05 don't you have to doa TV interview soon?
720 00:45:08 No. We have plenty of time.
721 00:45:12 Laurie?
722 00:45:13 Oh, God! Jon,just be one person again!
723 00:45:17 Don't be upset. I'm sorry.I thought you'd enjoy it.
724 00:45:20 I was just tryingto please you.
725 00:45:22 I-I-I know.
726 00:45:23 I know. I'm sorryI over-reacted.
727 00:45:26 You just startled me is all.
728 00:45:29 I'm fine. It doesn't--
729 00:45:34 Laurie?
730 00:45:35 - Are you okay?- Am I okay?
731 00:45:38 This whole timeyou've been working out here
732 00:45:40 while we were in bed?
733 00:45:42 My work'sat an important stage.
734 00:45:44 - It didn't seem necessary to--- To what?
735 00:45:47 Give me your full attention?
736 00:45:50 For once?
737 00:45:52 If there's a problemwith my attitude,
738 00:45:54 I'm prepared to discuss it.
739 00:46:01 I hate you.
740 00:46:06 Laurie?
741 00:47:01 I left Jon.
742 00:47:02 Oh, I... I'm sorry, I--
743 00:47:06 And I'm sorryto dump this on you,
744 00:47:10 but you don't knowwhat it's like,
745 00:47:17 For him...
746 00:47:20 the real world is likewalking through mist,
747 00:47:23 and all the peopleare just shadows.
748 00:47:27 I mean, the wayhe looks at things,
749 00:47:30 like he can't rememberwhat they are,
750 00:47:33 and he doesn'tparticularly care.
751 00:47:36 Sometimes I look at myselfand I don't understand
752 00:47:40 how things got so tangled up.
753 00:47:53 - Hey, can we go out?- Oh!
754 00:47:56 - Get some air?- Um...
755 00:47:59 I'll get my coat.
756 00:48:02 Let's go.
757 00:48:14 - Oh! Dr. Manhattan!- Dr. Osterman...
758 00:48:16 We need to get youinto make-up.
759 00:48:18 That blue is-isfar too light for broadcast.
760 00:48:20 - Is this dark enough?- That's perfect!
761 00:48:23 Here's a list of no-gotalking points compiled
762 00:48:26 Afghanistan will come upbut play it cool...
763 00:48:29 And try not to get intoany tight corners.
764 00:48:36 Ladies and gentlemen,we have something really
765 00:48:39 In his first live interview,
766 00:48:41 let's have a handfor Doctor Manhattan himself,
767 00:48:44 Dr. Jon Osterman!
768 00:48:48 So, uh... what's up, Doc?
769 00:48:51 Well, you'll forgivethe levity, doctor,
770 00:48:53 but the news overseashas everyone a little tense.
771 00:48:56 So, beforeI throw you to our hungry
772 00:49:02 let me kick things offwith this...
773 00:49:05 If the Reds act upin Afghanistan,
774 00:49:08 are you preparedto enter hostilities?
775 00:49:11 There is no situationin Afghanistan currently
776 00:49:16 Ahem. If I can jump in.
777 00:49:18 Doug Roth. Nova Express.
778 00:49:20 Dr Osterman...Do you remember Wally Weaver?
779 00:49:24 The newspapers called himDr. Manhattan's buddy.
780 00:49:27 - He died of cancer in '71...- I remember.
781 00:49:31 I attended Wally's funeral
782 00:49:33 How about Edgar W. Jacobi,aka Moloch?
783 00:49:37 You and he battled it out manytimes over the years.
784 00:49:40 Did you know he'salso battling terminal cancer?
785 00:49:44 No. I did not know that.I would rather not--
786 00:49:47 And are you awarethat Janey Slater,
787 00:49:50 with whom you wereromantically linked
788 00:49:52 is suffering from lung cancer?
789 00:50:00 No, I... I wasn't told. I--
790 00:50:04 Or that she hassix months to live?
791 00:50:06 I recently interviewedMs. Slater.
792 00:50:07 Her story's hittingthe streets right now.
793 00:50:11 - What are you suggesting?- Jon,
794 00:50:13 Doug has reportsof over two dozen
795 00:50:17 who have beensimilarly afflicted--
796 00:50:18 No, I--
797 00:50:20 Do you have any responseto these allegations?
798 00:50:26 - Are we gonna get cancer?- Is this guy radioactive?
799 00:50:29 Leave me alone.
800 00:50:30 Do you thinkyou gave Ms. Slater cancer
801 00:50:33 by sleeping with her?
802 00:50:37 I said--
803 00:50:39 How does it feel knowingyou may have doomed
804 00:50:41 Leave me alone!
805 00:51:17 Um...
806 00:51:19 - You okay?- Yeah. Fine.
807 00:51:22 Um... I...
808 00:51:24 We just need to getour breath back.
809 00:51:27 - We should--- I'm just gonna go
810 00:51:30 Think my relationship over.
811 00:51:32 Oh. Of course.
812 00:51:33 Thanks for listening, Dan.Take care.
813 00:51:36 Sure...
814 00:51:37 W-w...
815 00:51:40 You too, Laurie...
816 00:51:43 Bye.
817 00:51:52 The freighter's murderousonslaught had surprised us.
818 00:51:59 We'd been blasted to fragmentsbefore we could warn Davidstown
819 00:52:05 I thought of my family there,
820 00:52:07 vulnerable, unsuspecting,
821 00:52:11 unaware of the damnationthat bore down upon them.
822 00:52:16 Crazed with helplessness,I cursed God and wept,
823 00:52:22 wondering if he wept also.
824 00:52:24 But then, what useare his tears if he
825 00:52:31 That night I slept badlybeneath cold, distant stars
826 00:52:36 pondering the cold, distant god
827 00:52:39 in whose hands the fateof Davidstown rested.
828 00:52:45 Was he really there?
829 00:52:48 Had he been there once...
830 00:52:51 But now departed?
831 00:52:53 Hey, this base is off limits.You don't belong... here.
832 00:52:59 I believe you are correct.
833 00:53:02 Please tell your superiorsand Laurie Juspeczyk
834 00:53:05 that I am leaving.
835 00:53:07 Leaving for Mars.
836 00:53:21 Gone? What do you meanhe's gone?
837 00:53:24 Ma'am, your meal ticketflew the coop after
838 00:53:28 Dr. Manhattan, the linchpinof America's security,
839 00:53:32 has left Earth.
840 00:53:33 Mr. President...
841 00:53:35 The Russians are invadingAfghanistan and Pakistan.
842 00:53:37 If this keeps up,they'll try taking
843 00:53:40 If Dr. Manhattanwanted to live on a red planet,
844 00:53:44 he should've stayed home.
845 00:53:46 Keep running the numbersfor our losses in a nuclear exchange.
846 00:53:48 And be readyfor a first strike
847 00:53:52 Good morning, Daniel.
848 00:53:53 Brought you your paper.
849 00:53:55 The Comedian murdered,Dr. Manhattan exiled...
850 00:53:59 Two of us gone.All within a week.
851 00:54:02 Who next? Veidt?Juspeczyk? Me? You?
852 00:54:07 These days, nobody's safe.
853 00:54:31 The photographis in my hand.
854 00:54:35 It is the photograph of a manand a woman.
855 00:54:39 They are atan amusement park in 1959.
856 00:54:44 In exactly 38 seconds,
857 00:54:46 I drop the photographto the sand and walk away.
858 00:54:50 It is already there,31 seconds into the future.
859 00:54:54 The photograph is in my hands.
860 00:54:56 I found it in a derelict bar27 hours ago.
861 00:54:58 Twenty-four seconds.
862 00:55:00 It is still there,27 hours into the past.
863 00:55:02 Twenty-one seconds.
864 00:55:04 I am still there,looking at it.
865 00:55:05 Eighteen seconds.
866 00:55:06 It is October, 1985.
867 00:55:09 - I'm on Mars.- Fourteen seconds.
868 00:55:10 - It is July, 1959.- Eleven seconds.
869 00:55:13 I am at thePalisades Amusement Park.
870 00:55:16 - Eight. Seven. Six.- I am tired of looking
871 00:55:19 - Five. Four. Three. Two. One.- I open my fingers.
872 00:55:22 It falls to the sand.
873 00:55:27 I am going to lookat the stars.
874 00:55:30 They are so far away,
875 00:55:33 and their light takesso long to reach us.
876 00:55:37 All we ever see of the starsare their old photographs.
877 00:55:51 I am watching the stars,
878 00:55:53 admiring their complex trajectories
879 00:55:56 through space,
880 00:55:58 through time.
881 00:56:01 My father admired the skyfor its precision.
882 00:56:05 He repaired watches.
883 00:56:09 It is August, 1945.
884 00:56:11 I sit in a Brooklyn kitchen,
885 00:56:13 fascinated by an arrangementof cogs on black velvet.
886 00:56:17 I am 16 years old.
887 00:56:18 Jon? Jon? What are you doing?
888 00:56:20 Practicing on yourold pocket-watch
889 00:56:22 Forget watches.Have you seen the news?
890 00:56:25 They dropped an atomic bombon Japan! A whole city, gone!
891 00:56:29 - This changes everything!- Father, what are you--
892 00:56:32 - I'm doing whatis best for you.
893 00:56:34 This atomic scienceis what the world will need,
894 00:56:38 not pocket watches!
895 00:56:41 Professor Einstein saysthat time differs
896 00:56:47 If time is not true,what purpose have watchmakers?
897 00:56:52 Wait! No!
898 00:56:55 Forty years ago,cogs rain on Brooklyn.
899 00:56:59 One hundred and fifteen minutesinto the future,
900 00:57:02 meteorites penetratethe rarefied Martian atmosphere.
901 00:57:08 It is 1958.
902 00:57:10 I am graduatingwith a PhD in atomic physics.
903 00:57:15 It is May 12th, 1959,
904 00:57:19 my first dayat the Gila Flats Test Base.
905 00:57:23 Wally Weaver shows me around.
906 00:57:26 What's this place?
907 00:57:29 This is where the intrinsicfield experiments happen.
908 00:57:30 They're, uh, trying to provethere's some field
909 00:57:33 holdin' stuff togetherbesides gravity.
910 00:57:36 This is our time-locktest vault,
911 00:57:38 for when they're tryin'to separate objects
912 00:57:41 It makes sureno radiation gets out.
913 00:57:50 Wally steers meto a crowded bar.
914 00:57:54 There is a suddensense of deja vu.
915 00:58:00 So, you must be the new guy.
916 00:58:03 Pretty youngfor a research scientist.
917 00:58:05 Well, my dad sort ofpushed me into it.
918 00:58:09 Happens to me a lot.
919 00:58:11 Other people seem to makeall my moves for me.
920 00:58:13 I'm Janey Slater.
921 00:58:17 Can I buy you a drink?
922 00:58:19 Hey, young lovers!
923 00:58:21 There!That's a beautiful picture!
924 00:58:23 The photograph liesin the sand.
925 00:58:24 It is July, 1959.
926 00:58:26 By the shooting gallery,Janey's watch falls off
927 00:58:29 and a man steps on it.
928 00:58:32 - I tell her I can fix it.- I can fix it.
929 00:58:36 It is 1963.
930 00:58:38 We're making loveafter an argument,
931 00:58:40 our tendernessin direct proportion
932 00:58:45 It is 1966, and she'spacking a suitcase, crying.
933 00:58:53 It is August, 1959.
934 00:58:55 We have only been togetherfor a month.
935 00:58:58 - So Jon...- The accident
936 00:59:01 ...did you fix my watch yet?
937 00:59:03 Sure did, it's right-- Oh.
938 00:59:09 Must've left it in my lab coat
939 00:59:11 when we were resettingthe intrinsic chamber.
940 00:59:13 Be right back.
941 00:59:17 The accident is almostupon me now.
942 00:59:47 - Janey! Janey!- Jon?
943 00:59:50 - Open the door!- I can't!
944 00:59:52 Open the door!
945 00:59:53 It's on a timelockfor the next experiment! I--
946 00:59:56 - I can't override it!- No.
947 00:59:59 Oh, God, it's starting!
948 01:00:02 Oh my God! Janey!
949 01:00:04 - It's my fault!- No!
950 01:00:06 No! Janey!
951 01:00:08 - Please!- I can't stay and watch...
952 01:00:09 Please, I... I just can't.
953 01:00:12 - Don't go!- I'm sorry.
954 01:00:14 No! No! No! No! No! No!
955 01:00:15 Janey!
956 01:00:20 No...
957 01:00:22 The shields slide backfrom the particle cannons.
958 01:00:24 The atoms in the test chamberbegin screaming.
959 01:00:28 I look at the watch in my hand.
960 01:00:30 Good as new.
961 01:00:32 And the light...
962 01:00:34 the light is taking meto pieces.
963 01:00:47 It is September.
964 01:00:49 A token funeral serviceis held.
965 01:00:52 There is nothing to bury.
966 01:00:56 It is October.
967 01:00:58 Janey places the only photoanyone has of me in the bar.
968 01:01:05 It is November.
969 01:01:08 A human nervous systembriefly materializes.
970 01:01:13 It is November 10th now.
971 01:01:15 A circulatory system is seenwalking through the kitchen.
972 01:01:19 Wha... What?
973 01:01:20 November 14th.
974 01:01:22 A partially muscledskeleton appears outside
975 01:01:26 It screams for 30 secondsbefore vanishing.
976 01:01:30 Really, it is just a question
977 01:01:32 of reassembling the componentsin the correct sequence.
978 01:02:00 Jon?
979 01:02:03 Jon?
980 01:02:05 It is Christmas, 1959.
981 01:02:07 So, do you like it?
982 01:02:11 I mean, is a ring the sortof thing that you like
983 01:02:15 now that you're, uh...
984 01:02:18 Like that symbolon your helmet?
985 01:02:20 Marketing boys sayyou need a symbol.
986 01:02:22 It's February, 1960.
987 01:02:24 Your symbol is meaningless.
988 01:02:27 If I am to have a symbol,
989 01:02:28 a hydrogen atomwould be more appropriate.
990 01:02:31 A symbol I respect.
991 01:02:34 It's atomic structureis a perfect grid.
992 01:02:37 I like it very much.
993 01:02:41 Janey? What's wrong?
994 01:02:43 I'm scared, Jon.
995 01:02:46 Of me?
996 01:02:48 They assign me the nameDr. Manhattan
997 01:02:50 for the ominousassociations it will raise
998 01:02:55 They're shaping me intosomething gaudy and lethal.
999 01:02:59 I'm just scared becauseeverything feels... weird.
1000 01:03:04 March, 1960.
1001 01:03:06 We repeat: the superman exists
1002 01:03:09 and he's American.
1003 01:03:10 Pentagon sources say
1004 01:03:12 this Dr. Manhattan can controlatomic structure itself.
1005 01:03:15 There's beenno response from the Kremlin.
1006 01:03:18 It's as ifeverything's changed
1007 01:03:21 November, 1960.
1008 01:03:24 The newspaperscall me a crime-fighter,
1009 01:03:26 so the Pentagon saysI must fight crime.
1010 01:03:30 The morality of my activitiesescapes me.
1011 01:03:34 Not just you. Everything.
1012 01:03:37 May, 1962.
1013 01:03:40 A masked man retires to openan auto-repair business.
1014 01:03:44 With someone like you around,the whole situation changes.
1015 01:03:47 You can do anything.
1016 01:03:48 All I got to offeris a good left hook.
1017 01:03:51 And some mean wrenching skillsunder the hood.
1018 01:03:54 Well, the new electriccars I've designed
1019 01:03:58 Electric?
1020 01:04:00 They say you can doanything, Jon.
1021 01:04:03 They say you're like a...
1022 01:04:05 like a god now.
1023 01:04:07 September, 1961.
1024 01:04:09 John Kennedy isasking what it's like
1025 01:04:11 So, what's it liketo be a superhero?
1026 01:04:12 You should know.
1027 01:04:13 I tell him he should know.
1028 01:04:15 He nods, laughing.
1029 01:04:18 I don't thinkthere is a god, Janey.
1030 01:04:20 If there is, I'm not him.
1031 01:04:24 November, 1963.
1032 01:04:26 In Dallas, his headsnaps forward and then
1033 01:04:30 I can't believe this.So you knew he'd get shot?
1034 01:04:33 Then why didn't youdo something?
1035 01:04:35 I cannot prevent the future.
1036 01:04:37 To me, it is already happening.
1037 01:04:41 I'm still the same person.
1038 01:04:43 Nothing's changed.
1039 01:04:46 It is 1966.
1040 01:04:48 A young woman sits to my right.
1041 01:04:50 She looks at me and smiles.
1042 01:04:53 Stop staring at that girl!Pay attention!
1043 01:04:57 I'll always want you.
1044 01:05:01 As I lie, I hearher sobbing in 1966.
1045 01:05:07 It is May, 1966.
1046 01:05:11 My name's Laurie.
1047 01:05:13 Do you have another name,apart from Dr. Manhattan.
1048 01:05:17 You pig.
1049 01:05:20 My name's Jon.
1050 01:05:22 I knewyou were seeing her!
1051 01:05:27 It's nice of you to come outon patrol with me.
1052 01:05:30 Your um, girlfriendwon't mind, will she?
1053 01:05:33 As I lie...
1054 01:05:36 - I hate you.- ...I see her walking
1055 01:05:40 She is beautiful.
1056 01:05:42 After each kiss,she plants a smaller,
1057 01:05:46 like a signature.
1058 01:05:48 I pull her closer,never wanting to lose her.
1059 01:05:52 Knowing that I shall.
1060 01:06:01 I am tired of their world...
1061 01:06:07 of these people.
1062 01:06:09 Alone!
1063 01:06:12 I am tired of being caughtin the tangle of their lives.
1064 01:06:17 In Arizona,I am taking the photo...
1065 01:06:21 and I am gone.
1066 01:06:24 Gone to Mars.
1067 01:06:32 And I have decidedto create something.
1068 01:06:42 A world grows up around me.
1069 01:06:47 Am I shaping it,
1070 01:06:49 or do its predeterminedcontours guide my hand?
1071 01:06:53 The world changedbecause of me.
1072 01:06:57 But what if I hadn't leftthe watch in the test chamber?
1073 01:07:01 What if I had not gone back?
1074 01:07:03 Or waited, just a moment?
1075 01:07:07 Am I to blame, then?
1076 01:07:09 Or Janey?
1077 01:07:12 Or my father?
1078 01:07:15 Which of us is responsible?
1079 01:07:20 Who makes the world?
1080 01:07:22 Perhaps the world is not made.
1081 01:07:25 Perhaps nothing is made.
1082 01:07:28 Perhaps it simply is,
1083 01:07:31 has been,and will always be there.
1084 01:07:35 A clock without a craftsman.
1085 01:07:40 I am standing on a balcony,
1086 01:07:42 as I once stoodon a fire escape,
1087 01:07:44 trying to catch the fallingcogs and wheels.
1088 01:07:48 But it is too late.
1089 01:07:50 Always has been.
1090 01:07:53 Always will be.
1091 01:07:56 Above theNodous Gordii mountains,
1092 01:07:59 like jewelsin a maker-less mechanism,
1093 01:08:02 the first meteoritesbegin to fall.
1094 01:08:19 Oh, God,not again.
1095 01:08:25 What do you want from me?
1096 01:08:27 Nothing.Old and alone.
1097 01:08:29 Thought you mightappreciate company.
1098 01:08:30 Can I come out, then?
1099 01:08:32 No.
1100 01:08:34 Deep breath.
1101 01:08:36 You said Comedian visited here.Mentioned a list.
1102 01:08:38 You and Janey Slaterwere on it.
1103 01:08:40 Talked about someonemessing with Dr. Manhattan.
1104 01:08:42 Days later, Manhattanpublicly disgraced.
1105 01:08:45 Forced into exile.
1106 01:08:46 Allegations he'dgiven people cancer.
1107 01:08:49 Janey Slater. You.
1108 01:08:52 Tough break.
1109 01:08:55 I think Blake's listwas cancer list.
1110 01:08:57 Somebody wrote it.Somebody put your name on it.
1111 01:08:59 Somebody gave it to the media.
1112 01:09:01 Comedian and Dr. Manhattan werealways your biggest enemies.
1113 01:09:03 Now they're both gone.
1114 01:09:04 Very convenient.Who is it, Moloch?
1115 01:09:07 - Who's behind this?- I don't know!
1116 01:09:09 - Not convincing.- I don't know!
1117 01:09:11 I don't know!
1118 01:09:13 I swear to God,I don't know who it was!
1119 01:09:16 Hmm. Better.
1120 01:09:20 If anything shouldrefresh memory,
1121 01:09:22 contact me by leaving note,
1122 01:09:24 trash can opposite Gunga Diner,at 40th and 7th.
1123 01:09:32 Rorschach's journal.October 21st, 1985. 2:35 AM.
1124 01:09:37 Jacobi visit useless.Knows nothing.
1125 01:09:39 Has simply been used.But by who?
1126 01:09:42 Russians?
1127 01:09:43 Comedian mentioned an island,
1128 01:09:45 artists and writersliving on it.
1129 01:09:47 Doesn't fit.
1130 01:09:49 Waiting for a flashof enlightenment
1131 01:09:52 in all this blood and thunder.
1132 01:10:01 Everything I loved,
1133 01:10:03 everything I lived for,
1134 01:10:06 depended on my reachingDavidstown in advance
1135 01:10:11 It was then I conceivedof building a raft.
1136 01:10:14 But the island's treesdid not look buoyant enough
1137 01:10:19 not unaided.
1138 01:10:21 Suddenly, I found myself consideringa repulsive notion...
1139 01:10:26 Birthed from the gas-bloatedstomachs of the buried men.
1140 01:10:31 I shudderedat my loathsome scheme.
1141 01:10:35 But I had no choice.
1142 01:10:39 I pulled men upfrom underground,
1143 01:10:41 sand tricklingfrom their sockets.
1144 01:10:43 I tore their clothes to ribbonsto bind them together.
1145 01:10:47 I fixed their bodiesto the bottom of the raft.
1146 01:10:50 As the ebb tide rose,
1147 01:10:52 I embarked, heading east.
1148 01:10:56 East, across the night seas.
1149 01:11:00 Borne on the naked backsof murdered men.
1150 01:11:05 Lent speed by my hunger,
1151 01:11:06 I ripped a seagullfrom the air.
1152 01:11:10 I had not eatensince the shipwreck.
1153 01:11:13 Chewing on raw meat,I drifted on toward Davidstown.
1154 01:11:19 My home was there.
1155 01:11:21 And nothing wouldtake it from me.
1156 01:11:24 So...the government said
1157 01:11:26 I can't live on the basenow that Jon's gone.
1158 01:11:28 And they canceledmy credit cards.
1159 01:11:31 Now all I have leftis my savings.
1160 01:11:33 What-- Where...where will you stay?
1161 01:11:36 Did you call your mother?
1162 01:11:37 I'd rather sleepon a street grate.
1163 01:11:39 It just burns my assto be so damn...
1164 01:11:43 disposable.
1165 01:11:45 - Well, I um--- Anyway,
1166 01:11:48 I appreciate youbuying me lunch, Dan.
1167 01:11:51 Don't worry about me,
1168 01:11:53 I'll find someplace cheapto stay.
1169 01:11:59 - Laurie!- Yeah?
1170 01:12:00 You could, uh, alwaysstay at my place.
1171 01:12:03 There's plenty of room.
1172 01:12:05 Oh, I-I don't want to impose.
1173 01:12:06 Hey... you're not.
1174 01:12:09 Truly.
1175 01:12:11 I mean, we're both friends.
1176 01:12:13 We're both inthe same line of work.
1177 01:12:15 And we're both, uh...
1178 01:12:17 We're both leftovers.
1179 01:12:21 Yeah.
1180 01:12:23 I'd swallowed too muchbird flesh,
1181 01:12:26 too much horror.
1182 01:12:29 I grew faintand dozed fitfully.
1183 01:12:33 The Black Freighter'shideous banner flapped
1184 01:12:38 Its death's-head bannerflies above us all.
1185 01:12:42 And the heads nailedto the ship's black prow
1186 01:12:49 Truly, whoever we are,wherever we reside,
1187 01:12:54 we exist on the whimof murderers.
1188 01:12:59 Your four o'clockis here, Mr. Veidt.
1189 01:13:01 Beneath my raft,something moved.
1190 01:13:05 It's the meetingwith the toy company, isn't it?
1191 01:13:07 Yes. They want somenew characters in
1192 01:13:10 They said maybesome of your major villains.
1193 01:13:13 The major villainsare all dead.
1194 01:13:16 Irrationally, my first thoughtwas of the corpses,
1195 01:13:21 bursting their bonds,
1196 01:13:23 attempting to clamber upinto the air and dryness.
1197 01:13:31 Did you see the news?
1198 01:13:32 Some guy went crazyand killed his kid
1199 01:13:35 because he was afraidthere's gonna be a nuclear war.
1200 01:13:38 I'm sorry,but that's just dumb.
1201 01:13:40 Nobody's so crazythat they'll start a war.
1202 01:13:43 I don't understand whyeveryone's so down and scared.
1203 01:13:47 Well, perhaps they lackyour youth and enthusiasm.
1204 01:13:50 Well, I have to be upbeatto work in this place.
1205 01:13:53 All this Egyptian decoris very morbid.
1206 01:13:55 In the darkening waterI heard a splash.
1207 01:13:58 Very obsessedwith death.
1208 01:13:59 Shadowy forms approached.
1209 01:14:02 Were they boatscome to rescue me?
1210 01:14:06 Actually death wasn't morbidto the ancient Egyptians.
1211 01:14:09 They saw deathas an inevitable step
1212 01:14:11 in beginning a voyageof spiritual discovery.
1213 01:14:14 I find that very comforting.
1214 01:14:16 No, not boats.
1215 01:14:19 Fins.
1216 01:14:20 Well, I think it's--Oh, God, he's got a gun!
1217 01:14:25 Teeth shredded my raft.
1218 01:14:29 Tiny, prehistoric eyesglistened with rage.
1219 01:14:35 It became tangled in my ropes.
1220 01:14:37 Terrified, I took upa splinter of mast.
1221 01:14:40 The shark's stained marble eyelooked up at me...
1222 01:14:43 And in that instant...
1223 01:14:45 We knew each other!
1224 01:14:47 What have you gotin your mouth? No!
1225 01:14:49 Don't bite down.Don't bite down, you scum!
1226 01:14:52 The leviathanattempted to swim away...
1227 01:14:54 Dragging my raftin its bloody wake.
1228 01:14:56 I want to knowwho's behind this!
1229 01:14:58 I hung on desperately,
1230 01:15:00 cursing in the bitterstinging spray.
1231 01:15:06 Damn... cyanide capsule.
1232 01:15:18 Eventually the shark died.
1233 01:15:20 And shortly thereafter,stopped swimming.
1234 01:15:30 Good evening, Jacobi.
1235 01:15:31 Was wondering whyyou wanted to see me.
1236 01:15:34 Then someone tried to shootthe world's smartest man.
1237 01:15:36 Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias...
1238 01:15:39 someone's killingmasks, Jacobi.
1239 01:15:41 Someone wants us dead.
1240 01:15:43 Maybe you can enlighten me.
1241 01:15:45 Hmm...
1242 01:15:51 Rorschach!
1243 01:15:52 - No.- This is the police!
1244 01:15:54 No, no, no, no!
1245 01:15:56 We know you're in there,it's all over!
1246 01:15:58 If there's anyonein there with you,
1247 01:16:01 - send them out unharmed!- Framed. Set-up.
1248 01:16:02 Walked right into it.Stupid, stupid, stupid.
1249 01:16:05 Then come outand surrender with your
1250 01:16:06 Never. Never surrender.Need weapons.
1251 01:16:09 You have 30 seconds!
1252 01:16:12 There's no escape Rorschach.
1253 01:16:15 - It's the end of the line.- Yes.
1254 01:16:19 Time's up!
1255 01:16:20 Ready when you are.
1256 01:17:07 Get up, get up!
1257 01:17:09 - No pain, no--- Get him!
1258 01:17:11 - It was a setup.- Cuff him!
1259 01:17:12 Somebody framed me, somebody--
1260 01:17:14 No! No! No! My face!
1261 01:17:16 Give me back my face!
1262 01:17:17 Give me back my face!
1263 01:17:19 Give me back my face!
1264 01:17:28 After eating their fill,the sharks departed.
1265 01:17:37 For the moment, I was safe.
1266 01:17:44 That night, eating shark,
1267 01:17:46 I would have chuckledat the inversions
1268 01:17:51 had not my parched laughterseemed so hateful.
1269 01:17:58 My raft grewincreasingly grotesque,
1270 01:18:03 reflecting my owngradual transformation.
1271 01:18:08 With such thoughtsto comfort me,
1272 01:18:11 I drifted on,mast-less into the dawn.
1273 01:18:32 Hey kids,tune in for the animated
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1275 01:18:42 In the Mayof this year, 1962,
1276 01:18:44 that's exactly whatI opted to do.
1277 01:18:47 I retired.
1278 01:18:48 To mend cars.
1279 01:18:50 Probably for the restof my life.
1280 01:18:52 As I see it,part of the art of being a hero
1281 01:18:54 is knowing when you don'tneed to be one anymore,
1282 01:18:57 realizing that the gamehas changed,
1283 01:18:59 and that the stakesare different,
1284 01:19:01 and that there isn'tnecessarily a place for you
1285 01:19:03 in this strange new pantheonof extraordinary people.
1286 01:19:07 The world has moved on,
1287 01:19:09 and I'm content to watch itfrom my armchair
1288 01:19:11 with a beer by my side
1289 01:19:13 and the smell of fresh oilstill on my fingers.
1290 01:19:16 Part of my contentmentcomes from knowing
1291 01:19:17 that there have maybe beensome overall consequence
1292 01:19:20 of my 23 years behind the mask.
1293 01:19:23 This knowledge came to mein the shape of a letter
1294 01:19:25 from a young man whose nameI'm not at liberty to reveal.
1295 01:19:29 He told me of his greatadmiration for my efforts
1296 01:19:32 and proposed that,
1297 01:19:34 since I'd retired and wouldno longer be using the name,
1298 01:19:37 perhaps he could borrow it,
1299 01:19:38 since he intendedto follow my example
1300 01:19:41 and become a crime-fighter.
1301 01:19:43 I've visited his homesince then
1302 01:19:45 and seen someof the fabulous technology
1303 01:19:47 he intends to bring to bearon the war against crime.
1304 01:19:50 I was certainlyfar too impressed
1305 01:19:52 to refuse him the useof what I'd always thought
1306 01:19:55 was a dumb name to begin with.
1307 01:19:57 So by the time this sees print,
1308 01:19:59 there may well bea new Nite Owl
1309 01:20:01 patrolling the streetsof New York.
1310 01:20:04 Also, Sally Jupiter tells me
1311 01:20:05 that as soon aslittle Laurie's old enough
1312 01:20:07 she wants to be a superheroinejust like her mom.
1313 01:20:10 So who knows? It seems as if,
1314 01:20:13 from being a noveltynine-day wonder,
1315 01:20:14 the superhero has becomea part of American life.
1316 01:20:18 It's here to stay.
1317 01:20:20 For better, or for worse.
1318 01:20:24 Oh, how the ghost of youclings... Nostalgia...
1319 01:20:30 We argued.
1320 01:20:32 And I said, Jon,
1321 01:20:35 you know how everydamn thing in this world
1322 01:20:37 fits together except people.
1323 01:20:39 It's okay, Ms. Slater.
1324 01:20:41 We can stop hereif you need to.
1325 01:20:44 No. No, I wantthe world to know
1326 01:20:47 I'm glad you contacted me.
1327 01:20:49 It's a relief to finallytell the truth about him.
1328 01:20:52 Well, after helpingNova Express with
1329 01:20:56 and sharing your storywith the world,
1330 01:20:59 how do you feel?
1331 01:21:00 Heh, bitter as hell.
1332 01:21:02 Oh, and I don't needanyone's sympathy.
1333 01:21:05 That won't cure my cancer.
1334 01:21:08 After learningof your condition,
1335 01:21:10 and the others, Dr. Ostermanteleported to Mars,
1336 01:21:13 sending shockwavesacross the globe.
1337 01:21:16 Any comment about that?
1338 01:21:18 It figures.
1339 01:21:21 He dumped mefor some 16-year-old
1340 01:21:23 who ran aroundin her underwear.
1341 01:21:25 Now everyone's shockedthat he dumped Earth for Mars?
1342 01:21:28 Ah, they're all just worried
1343 01:21:31 because he's not hereto stop us from nuking
1344 01:21:33 Worried they're allgoing to die in a
1345 01:21:40 Well, Mr. Roth,here's your comment...
1346 01:21:44 welcome to my world.
1347 01:21:54 So, seen the news lately?
1348 01:21:56 Can't missthe headlines about this war
1349 01:21:59 There was a smaller story yesterday...
1350 01:22:02 about a tenement fire?
1351 01:22:06 If I can figure outwho made the rescue,
1352 01:22:10 so can the police.
1353 01:22:14 You're not taking Rorschach'smaskkiller nonsense seriously?
1354 01:22:17 We worked together.
1355 01:22:19 Rorschach was alwaysa brilliant investigator
1356 01:22:21 so I wonder if he foundany evidence that links
1357 01:22:26 The four of us, taken down.
1358 01:22:29 War looming on the horizon.
1359 01:22:32 I'm terrified it's all connected
1360 01:22:34 and the worst is yet to come,
1361 01:22:36 and I can't do anythingto stop it.
1362 01:22:39 No!
1363 01:22:41 Rorschach again...They finally caught him.
1364 01:22:44 There's a riot at the prison.
1365 01:22:48 We got a jail full of guysout here who hates your guts!
1366 01:22:50 What do you got?
1367 01:22:52 Your arms.
1368 01:22:55 Come and get me.
1369 01:22:58 If we don't crackthis case,
1370 01:22:59 there may be no going backfor any of us.
1371 01:23:04 Everybody's scared.
1372 01:23:05 You can feel it.
1373 01:23:07 We'll get murderedin the chaos.
1374 01:23:09 Just waitin' for the nukesto start droppin'.
1375 01:23:12 You are going to tryto convince me
1376 01:23:15 Humanity might beon the brink of extinction.
1377 01:23:18 Doesn't that bother you?
1378 01:23:20 This face is all I need.
1379 01:23:24 Never compromise.
1380 01:23:28 Do it!!
1381 01:23:31 This all says war.
1382 01:23:33 I will invest accordingly.
