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There was
an announcement today
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of a breakthrough
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at the Institute
for Extraspatial Studies.
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Researchers there have learned
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of new energy sources
found in previously
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unknown dimensions.
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Tonight,
on the Benny Anger Show.
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Citing rising tensions
with the Soviet Union,
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scientists have moved
the Doomsday Clock
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to 60 seconds to midnight.
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Are we truly so close
to nuclear annihilation?
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But first, we ask
the average citizen,
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"Is America ready for war?"
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So The Gazette
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has this nuclear-attack
procedure article.
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It says dead family members
should be wrapped
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in garbage bags
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and placed outside
for collection.
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It sounds like
America getting ready for war
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means Americans
getting ready to die.
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Getting ready to die.
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It's beautiful work.
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I hope that ship
keeps it properly refrigerated
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on its voyage.
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If it decays--
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It's plenty cold
where it's headed.
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After two years
on this godforsaken island
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creating the thing,
he'll make sure
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it doesn't spoil
before the big reveal.
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But, Ms. Manish,
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I thought you'd be glad to see
the back of that damn thing,
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not sketching the front.
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Well, Mr. Shea,
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I just wanted
some final sketches
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of the facial assembly,
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especially that amazing
beak structure.
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"Amazing"?
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You sound like
the scientists down there.
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So caught up
in their own accomplishment,
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blind to the horror
of this monstrosity
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we dreamed up,
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this nightmare they made real.
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For one man's vision,
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we've all gone through hell
and back.
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But can we go back?
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Think he'll let us off
this island?
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We signed
the non-disclosure agreement,
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we've been well compensated.
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And our ship to the mainland
will be here in a few days.
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Why such dark thoughts, Max?
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Oh, well, yeah.
I'm sure you're right.
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I guess in all this business,
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there are more than a few
uncomfortable parallels
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to an old comic book story
I wrote.
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A vile little yarn from
Tales of The Black Freighter.
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Adrift and starving,
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my darkest imaginings
welled up unchecked,
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spilling from brain to heart
like black ink.
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Taxi!
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I imagine Davidstown
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overrun by The Freighter's
tattooed fiends.
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My wife was almost
certainly dead.
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I remembered her
and my beautiful daughters
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waving goodbye
from the verandah.
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Glad my Rosa
ain't alive to see this.
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All now dead.
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Everything's going to hell.
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-Look at this. Look at this...
-Mm.
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I imagined
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my shipmates'
bloated corpses...
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Doc Manhattan
leaves the planet...
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...and the putrefying shark...
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Russians
on the warpath.
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...carrying
my raft to oblivion.
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-Ozymandias attacked...
-All dead.
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I tell ya.
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It all reads like headlines
from ten years ago,
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before they banned
all the masked avengers in '77.
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Hey, speaking of,
you see this Rorschach item?
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They finally caught him
last week.
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Turns out
he was a customer here, huh?
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Ror-- I mean, Walter Kovacs?
Interesting.
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Incredible, right?
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-Thank you.
-Yeah.
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Makes you wonder
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what makes a guy
like Rorschach tick?
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Could probably go off
at any second.
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Faced with
horrors both intolerable
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and unavoidable,
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I chose madness.
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Hey, settle it down.
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Hey, Rorschach.
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You're pretty famous
around here.
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I'd sure like
to get your autograph.
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I got a pen right here.
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Get that asshole! Kill him!
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Come here, you son of a...
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Get him!
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Rip this guy apart!
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It's payback time,
Rorschach.
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Kill him!
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Enough, Kovacs.
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Down on the ground!
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Got him pinned!
Call for backup.
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This place is about to explode.
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Get that motherfucker!
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You're dead, Rorschach. Dead!
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None of you understand.
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I'm not locked up
in here with you.
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You're locked up
in here with me.
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Dan?
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Uh, Dan?
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Dan, are you down here?
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Oh, my...
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Wow.
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Whoa!
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Shit!
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-Laurie? Laurie? Laurie!
-Dan!
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-Laurie?
-Dan!
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-Laurie!
-Dan!
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Jesus!
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Hold on.
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Laurie,
are you okay?
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I am so sorry.
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I was looking for you,
and... and...
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No, no. I was...
I was just in the...
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Are you... are you okay?
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I think I accidentally
hit a button in your...
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I was... I was just tinkering
with Archie earlier,
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-and I left him on...
-I'm sorry. Archie?
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Yeah.
The Owl Ship.
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It doesn't... it doesn't--
Are you hurt?
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Really...
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-Oh.
-I'm fine.
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Sorry. Um...
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I've-- Well...
I've been a little...
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on edge lately.
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I wasn't going to say it.
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I mean, since you've been
letting me live here all week.
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But, yeah,
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you've been
jumping at shadows.
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I guess I didn't want
to talk about it.
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It's just...
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After the Comedian died,
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Jon, Adrian, and Rorschach
were attacked within days.
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I'm starting to worry--
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You're not taking Rorschach's
mask-killer nonsense seriously,
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-are you?
-Well, um...
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Oh, no.
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Oh, Dan. I'm so sorry.
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No, no. It's... it's fine.
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Had some good times
in this suit, but...
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those times went up in smoke
a long time ago.
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You miss those times?
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Nah.
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Looking back, it was all just
embarrassing, really.
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A school kid's fantasy.
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Well, at least you were
living out your own fantasies.
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I was living out my mother's.
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Well, in a way, I mean,
my dreams were kind of forged
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by the adventures
of the Minutemen.
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I idolized Hollis,
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which defied
my father's plans for me.
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Ooh! Do tell.
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Well... Dad was pushing me
to follow him into banking,
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but I preferred
keeping scorecards
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on crime fighters
over currency.
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Still, he kept me focused,
and I made it into Harvard.
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I was majoring in aeronautics
and zoology when he died.
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And he left me
with a lot of money.
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With no one around
to talk me out of it,
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this happened.
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You made your dreams real.
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A dream made real
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just becomes another
messy reality, doesn't it?
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But, yeah,
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when I was in the moment,
I made it my own.
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I think we both
made it our own.
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See that souvenir case?
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I was keeping my own scorecard
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separate from Hollis'
Nite Owl adventures.
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I was writing
my own future history.
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Well, I couldn't wait to ditch
all that stuff
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from my adventuring days.
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As you can probably tell,
my two boxes of belongings
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that just arrived
from the Rockefeller eviction.
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Honestly, I'm surprised
they bothered
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to send me anything
after... our separation.
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Do you miss Jon?
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I keep thinking I should.
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Even when I was with him,
he was never really there
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unlike all
the government agents
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keeping tabs on us.
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On how I kept Jon happy.
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But, hey, I could only dream
about what you've got here.
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You're lucky to be on your own
with your privacy intact.
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Yeah...
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Lucky.
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Just another
messy reality, huh?
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Is there any other kind?
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And these days it feels like
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reality is crashing down
around us all.
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Now you sound
like Rorschach again.
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Dan, his mask-killer theory
doesn't hold up.
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Jon left Earth
of his own free will.
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Rorschach was caught red-handed
committing murder.
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Where's the conspiracy?
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It's not like Rorschach
to just shoot someone.
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Too easy.
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And those events
timed so closely
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to the attack on Adrian
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and the murder of the Comedian,
too coincidental.
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Rorschach was on to it
from day one.
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Look, I know that mask
has eaten his brains
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over the years,
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but we worked together.
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Rorschach was always
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a brilliant investigator
and tactician.
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So, I can't help but wonder
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if he found any evidence
that links all these events.
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I just wish I could find out
what's in his head.
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Okay, Walter.
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Now, I guess you know
what this is?
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I want you to look at it
and tell me what you see.
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Will you look at it, Walter?
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Will you do that for me?
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What can you see?
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A pretty bird.
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That's great.
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Let's try another, shall we?
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What do you see?
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-A pretty butterfly.
-Wonderful, Walter.
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This is going so well
for our first session.
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This really helps me to speak
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to your psychological fitness
for your trial.
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Let's keep going.
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What do you see on this card?
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And feel free to describe
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all the images
that come to mind.
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Oh, yes!
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Hey! Get lost, you little shit!
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He ain't paying
to see your ugly face.
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Where are you going,
whoreson?
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Don't touch him!
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Son of a bitch
probably got diseases.
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That true, whoreson--
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Get off!
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Well, Walter?
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What do you make of it?
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You keep calling me Walter.
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I don't like you.
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Uh...
you don't like me?
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Fat, wealthy.
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Think you understand pain.
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I'll tell you
about pain, Doctor.
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I'll tell you about...
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Rorschach.
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Born by the mistake
of a whore,
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ward of state by age ten.
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After mother was murdered,
only one childhood regret.
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Not being there
to spit on her remains.
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Became manual worker
in garment industry,
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received special order
for a dress
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00:14:36,176 --> 00:14:39,246
in new Doctor Manhattan
spin-off fabric.
265
00:14:39,313 --> 00:14:42,149
Viscous fluids
between latex layers,
266
00:14:42,216 --> 00:14:44,251
heat and pressure sensitive.
267
00:14:44,318 --> 00:14:47,856
Customer, Kitty Genovese,
never collected order.
268
00:14:47,921 --> 00:14:49,490
Didn't know why.
269
00:14:49,557 --> 00:14:52,960
Black and white,
changing shape but not mixing.
270
00:14:53,026 --> 00:14:54,662
No gray.
271
00:14:54,729 --> 00:14:57,231
Very, very beautiful.
272
00:14:57,297 --> 00:15:01,068
Next day, learned
Kitty Genovese was murdered.
273
00:15:01,135 --> 00:15:03,571
Raped and killed
outside her own apartment.
274
00:15:03,638 --> 00:15:06,206
Nearly 40 neighbors
heard screams.
275
00:15:06,273 --> 00:15:10,244
Nobody did anything.
Nobody called cops.
276
00:15:10,310 --> 00:15:11,979
Some of them even watched.
277
00:15:12,045 --> 00:15:13,380
They watched!
278
00:15:13,447 --> 00:15:15,583
That's when I knew
what people were
279
00:15:15,650 --> 00:15:17,951
behind all the self-deception.
280
00:15:19,521 --> 00:15:22,791
Ashamed for humanity,
I went home.
281
00:15:22,857 --> 00:15:24,958
Took Kitty's unwanted dress
282
00:15:25,025 --> 00:15:26,728
and made a face
I could bear to look at
283
00:15:26,795 --> 00:15:27,961
in the mirror.
284
00:15:29,831 --> 00:15:32,734
1975, worked kidnap case.
285
00:15:32,801 --> 00:15:37,070
Blair Roache. Six years old.
286
00:15:37,137 --> 00:15:38,673
Questioned informants.
287
00:15:38,740 --> 00:15:40,441
One bled answers.
288
00:15:40,508 --> 00:15:41,609
An address.
289
00:15:41,676 --> 00:15:43,944
Disused dressmaker's
in Brooklyn.
290
00:15:46,079 --> 00:15:50,417
I was just Kovacs, then.
Pretending to be Rorschach.
291
00:15:50,484 --> 00:15:54,656
Naive. Soft.
Didn't understand.
292
00:15:55,924 --> 00:15:57,391
Until I found her.
293
00:15:59,393 --> 00:16:03,030
Nothing left but pieces.
Ashes in stove.
294
00:16:04,532 --> 00:16:08,235
Blood on chopping block.
Bones for dogs.
295
00:16:08,302 --> 00:16:09,904
She was consumed by evil.
296
00:16:11,472 --> 00:16:14,809
Never had a chance.
Neither did Kovacs.
297
00:16:14,876 --> 00:16:18,078
Finally understanding
man's true capacity for horror,
298
00:16:18,145 --> 00:16:20,347
Kovacs closed his eyes.
299
00:16:21,749 --> 00:16:24,719
It was Rorschach
who opened them again.
300
00:16:29,724 --> 00:16:32,961
Put dogs down easy.
They didn't know better.
301
00:16:37,030 --> 00:16:38,398
Gerald Grice did.
302
00:16:39,534 --> 00:16:40,535
What-- No. Hey!
303
00:16:40,602 --> 00:16:42,169
Put him down hard.
304
00:16:42,236 --> 00:16:43,805
I told you I didn't
do nothing to that girl.
305
00:16:45,038 --> 00:16:46,373
You have nothing on me.
306
00:16:46,440 --> 00:16:48,075
Come on, man.
What are you doing?
307
00:16:48,141 --> 00:16:49,476
What is this?
308
00:16:49,544 --> 00:16:51,211
Don't bother
sawing through handcuffs.
309
00:16:51,278 --> 00:16:54,181
-Never make it in time.
-Oh, my God. You're crazy!
310
00:16:54,248 --> 00:16:55,617
What... what,
you're gonna burn me?
311
00:16:55,683 --> 00:16:58,853
You can't do this.
Stop! No! Oh, God! No!
312
00:17:03,123 --> 00:17:04,491
No! No!
313
00:17:08,362 --> 00:17:09,731
Once a man
has seen,
314
00:17:09,797 --> 00:17:11,699
he can never
turn his back on it,
315
00:17:11,766 --> 00:17:14,034
never pretend
it doesn't exist,
316
00:17:14,101 --> 00:17:16,403
no matter who orders him
to look away.
317
00:17:16,470 --> 00:17:19,373
I do not do this thing
because it is permitted.
318
00:17:19,439 --> 00:17:22,242
I do it because I have to.
319
00:17:22,309 --> 00:17:25,379
I do it because I am compelled.
320
00:17:26,681 --> 00:17:29,884
I... I see.
321
00:17:29,951 --> 00:17:32,419
No. You don't.
322
00:17:32,486 --> 00:17:34,187
But have patience, Doctor.
323
00:17:34,822 --> 00:17:36,189
You will.
324
00:17:38,793 --> 00:17:41,029
How does Adrian do it?
325
00:17:41,094 --> 00:17:44,666
He's barely older than I am,
but he's in better shape now
326
00:17:44,732 --> 00:17:47,635
than I ever was
in my Nite Owl days.
327
00:17:47,702 --> 00:17:50,838
Back when he retired
from being Ozymandias,
328
00:17:50,905 --> 00:17:55,475
he had me and Jon up to visit
his Grand Antarctic retreat.
329
00:17:55,543 --> 00:17:56,778
Such a show-off.
330
00:17:56,844 --> 00:17:59,847
You visited Karnak?
Did... did you see Bubastis?
331
00:17:59,914 --> 00:18:01,281
Yeah. He sent me off
332
00:18:01,348 --> 00:18:02,650
to go play with his
overgrown house cat.
333
00:18:02,717 --> 00:18:05,185
Genetically modified lynx,
actually.
334
00:18:05,252 --> 00:18:06,921
Fascinating.
335
00:18:06,988 --> 00:18:11,425
The only fascination there
was between Jon and Adrian.
336
00:18:11,491 --> 00:18:12,694
They talked endlessly.
337
00:18:14,829 --> 00:18:17,932
He uses
his Veidt Enterprises fortune
338
00:18:17,999 --> 00:18:19,166
to advance science.
339
00:18:19,232 --> 00:18:21,268
-Nauseating.
-And fund charities.
340
00:18:21,335 --> 00:18:23,037
He makes it seem so easy.
341
00:18:23,103 --> 00:18:26,674
He retired from one fantasy
and just... built another.
342
00:18:26,741 --> 00:18:30,678
He was... just born
with the answer
343
00:18:30,745 --> 00:18:34,782
that no money or power
or a family can give you.
344
00:18:34,849 --> 00:18:36,084
Answer to what?
345
00:18:36,149 --> 00:18:37,819
After taking off the mask,
346
00:18:38,987 --> 00:18:40,420
who are you?
347
00:18:43,057 --> 00:18:46,094
Well, here's to Adrian,
the man with the answers.
348
00:18:46,159 --> 00:18:47,227
Ugh.
349
00:18:49,697 --> 00:18:51,633
Hey, what...
what's in your pocket?
350
00:18:51,699 --> 00:18:55,402
Oh, I, uh...
rescued these from the fire.
351
00:18:55,469 --> 00:18:57,739
My spare Owl Goggles.
Where were they?
352
00:18:57,805 --> 00:19:00,407
In, uh... Archie.
353
00:19:00,474 --> 00:19:03,443
Archie? Well, nice that you two
are so familiar
354
00:19:03,511 --> 00:19:06,114
after teaming up
to destroy my secret lair.
355
00:19:07,548 --> 00:19:11,184
Here. Try them on.
Experience my Owl Vision.
356
00:19:11,251 --> 00:19:12,820
No matter how black it gets,
357
00:19:12,887 --> 00:19:16,189
when you look through these,
everything is clear as day.
358
00:19:16,256 --> 00:19:19,627
Why, Mr. Dreiberg...
359
00:19:19,694 --> 00:19:20,795
You're ravishing.
360
00:19:20,862 --> 00:19:23,296
Oh, they must be broken.
Let me look...
361
00:19:39,981 --> 00:19:43,918
I can't get the-- No,
got it. Sorry.
362
00:19:55,096 --> 00:19:57,598
I'm... so sorry. It's not you.
363
00:19:57,665 --> 00:20:00,001
-It's just...
-Hey, relax. It's okay.
364
00:20:00,068 --> 00:20:02,335
-No, you deserve better.
-Dan...
365
00:20:02,402 --> 00:20:05,540
-I mean, I really want this.
-It doesn't matter.
366
00:20:05,606 --> 00:20:08,442
I know how it is
when something's not right.
367
00:20:09,476 --> 00:20:11,846
We'll just sleep now. Okay?
368
00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:16,651
Just sleep.
369
00:20:16,718 --> 00:20:18,619
Coming up
on the eleven o'clock news.
370
00:20:18,686 --> 00:20:21,421
Russian forces
push further into Afghanistan.
371
00:20:21,488 --> 00:20:24,092
And Pakistan calls on the US
to intervene,
372
00:20:24,158 --> 00:20:27,394
but Russia claims to be
merely securing her borders.
373
00:20:27,461 --> 00:20:30,998
We also have a special report
on noted author Max Shea,
374
00:20:31,065 --> 00:20:33,735
who mysteriously vanished
two years ago.
375
00:20:33,801 --> 00:20:36,104
Hear why investigators'
search for clues
376
00:20:36,170 --> 00:20:37,672
has ended in failure.
377
00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:49,210
Well, well, well.
378
00:21:49,277 --> 00:21:51,078
Hey there, Rorschach.
379
00:21:51,145 --> 00:21:53,214
It's been a long time.
380
00:21:53,281 --> 00:21:55,583
Big Figure. Small world.
381
00:21:57,118 --> 00:21:59,620
"Small world." I like that.
382
00:22:00,621 --> 00:22:02,590
You know, after 20 years,
383
00:22:02,657 --> 00:22:04,158
I guess you thought
you could forget about
384
00:22:04,225 --> 00:22:05,392
what you did to me.
385
00:22:05,458 --> 00:22:08,328
You and that fucking Owl guy.
386
00:22:08,395 --> 00:22:09,597
Funny how these things
387
00:22:09,664 --> 00:22:11,666
come back to haunt us
though, huh?
388
00:22:11,732 --> 00:22:14,969
Speaking of, that guy
you burned is dying.
389
00:22:16,971 --> 00:22:20,074
Maybe tomorrow,
maybe the next day.
390
00:22:20,141 --> 00:22:23,978
But see, he had
lots of friends around here.
391
00:22:24,045 --> 00:22:25,478
And when he dies,
392
00:22:25,546 --> 00:22:28,783
this place blows
and then you die...
393
00:22:28,850 --> 00:22:31,285
by inches.
394
00:22:31,351 --> 00:22:32,485
Tall order.
395
00:22:32,553 --> 00:22:33,921
Smart ass!
396
00:22:33,988 --> 00:22:35,156
Gonna tear this guy
a new hole right now.
397
00:22:35,223 --> 00:22:37,390
Hey, hey, hey. No hurry.
398
00:22:37,457 --> 00:22:39,492
I've waited 20 years.
399
00:22:39,560 --> 00:22:43,798
He'll get his soon enough.
And nobody's gonna care.
400
00:22:43,865 --> 00:22:46,868
I hear even his shrink
resigned today.
401
00:22:46,934 --> 00:22:50,403
You're alone in the valley
of the shadow, Rorschach,
402
00:22:50,470 --> 00:22:52,974
where your past
has a long reach.
403
00:22:53,040 --> 00:22:56,210
And the only thing
between you and it
404
00:22:56,277 --> 00:22:59,614
is one... crummy... lock.
405
00:23:00,314 --> 00:23:01,682
Think about it.
406
00:23:20,668 --> 00:23:22,303
You okay?
407
00:23:22,370 --> 00:23:26,374
Bad dreams.
Bad realities.
408
00:23:26,439 --> 00:23:28,809
I hope it's not
what happened earlier.
409
00:23:29,844 --> 00:23:32,280
It's the mask-killer thing.
410
00:23:32,346 --> 00:23:34,582
Four of us taken down,
411
00:23:34,649 --> 00:23:36,851
war looming on the horizon,
412
00:23:36,918 --> 00:23:39,854
I'm... terrified
it's all connected
413
00:23:39,921 --> 00:23:41,522
and the worst
is yet to come.
414
00:23:41,589 --> 00:23:45,059
And I can't do anything
to stop it.
415
00:23:45,126 --> 00:23:48,428
It all just
makes me feel so...
416
00:23:48,495 --> 00:23:51,832
so... impotent.
417
00:23:53,301 --> 00:23:55,136
So, I ran down here.
418
00:23:55,202 --> 00:23:56,570
For all the good that did.
419
00:23:56,637 --> 00:23:58,072
It's not like
taking the ship out
420
00:23:58,139 --> 00:23:59,573
can set things straight.
421
00:24:01,943 --> 00:24:02,810
Why not?
422
00:24:04,444 --> 00:24:05,813
You're serious?
423
00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,550
I used to be a masked
avenger too, remember.
424
00:24:09,617 --> 00:24:11,185
I'm used to going out
at 3:00 in the morning
425
00:24:11,252 --> 00:24:12,853
and doing something stupid.
426
00:24:20,027 --> 00:24:23,531
Wait, I... I burned
your suit, remember?
427
00:24:25,633 --> 00:24:28,636
Spare goggles,
spare suit.
428
00:24:41,215 --> 00:24:42,583
-Dan?
-Mm-hm?
429
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:52,593
I'm ready.
430
00:25:01,202 --> 00:25:02,670
Let's go.
431
00:25:02,737 --> 00:25:04,338
Hope we don't get caught.
432
00:25:29,330 --> 00:25:30,264
Whoa!
433
00:25:56,390 --> 00:26:00,594
This is great.
Really great.
434
00:26:03,431 --> 00:26:05,032
Dan, trouble on your right.
435
00:26:07,101 --> 00:26:07,968
Hold on!
436
00:26:18,746 --> 00:26:20,881
Building looks clear.
437
00:26:20,948 --> 00:26:21,816
No, wait.
438
00:26:21,882 --> 00:26:22,783
-There!
-Somebody, please!
439
00:26:24,885 --> 00:26:27,154
Looks like four adults.
Can we pick them up?
440
00:26:27,221 --> 00:26:28,155
Already on it!
441
00:26:33,562 --> 00:26:34,795
Please stay calm.
442
00:26:34,862 --> 00:26:36,531
We're here to rescue you.
443
00:26:36,597 --> 00:26:38,165
Step back from the window.
444
00:26:44,905 --> 00:26:47,274
Madre de Dios!
445
00:26:47,341 --> 00:26:48,843
Mother of God is right.
446
00:26:48,909 --> 00:26:51,378
Oh, I'm an entirely
different Spectre.
447
00:26:51,445 --> 00:26:53,614
And certainly
nobody's mother.
448
00:26:53,681 --> 00:26:55,015
Vamonos, por favor.
449
00:26:55,584 --> 00:26:56,717
Let's go.
450
00:26:56,784 --> 00:26:58,819
-Gracias.
-Thanks.
451
00:27:04,692 --> 00:27:06,327
-Welcome aboard.
-Hey!
452
00:27:06,393 --> 00:27:08,195
You're that... Owl guy.
453
00:27:08,262 --> 00:27:09,130
Who?
454
00:27:09,196 --> 00:27:10,631
Dark Owl!
455
00:27:10,698 --> 00:27:12,766
Who wants to hear
some music?
456
00:27:28,716 --> 00:27:30,351
Oh!
457
00:27:30,417 --> 00:27:32,153
-Salud.
-Thanks.
458
00:27:32,219 --> 00:27:33,320
Gracias.
459
00:27:33,387 --> 00:27:34,889
What the hell just happened?
460
00:27:38,292 --> 00:27:40,094
Did that just happen?
461
00:27:40,161 --> 00:27:41,695
You do know
they might lock us up
462
00:27:41,762 --> 00:27:42,730
with Rorschach for this.
463
00:27:42,796 --> 00:27:44,031
Yeah.
464
00:27:44,098 --> 00:27:46,066
And World War III
might start tomorrow.
465
00:28:13,294 --> 00:28:14,962
Dan!
466
00:28:15,029 --> 00:28:17,264
-Tonight was good.
-It was.
467
00:28:19,099 --> 00:28:21,468
I'd hoped tonight might wake
something inside you.
468
00:28:21,536 --> 00:28:22,537
Oh, it did.
469
00:28:24,939 --> 00:28:27,642
Insatiable, huh?
470
00:28:27,708 --> 00:28:30,911
So, what should we do next?
471
00:28:34,114 --> 00:28:37,751
We... should spring Rorschach.
472
00:28:38,687 --> 00:28:39,820
What?
473
00:28:42,990 --> 00:28:44,758
In my ravings,
474
00:28:44,825 --> 00:28:46,595
desperate for company,
475
00:28:46,661 --> 00:28:50,565
I conversed
with my perished shipmates.
476
00:28:50,632 --> 00:28:54,468
Their voices spoke
from beneath the raft.
477
00:28:54,536 --> 00:28:58,839
The conversation
of the dead, dreary...
478
00:28:58,906 --> 00:29:00,307
Oh, man.
Ten days to nuclear war, Derf.
479
00:29:00,374 --> 00:29:01,942
-...bitter.
-That's what they said on TV.
480
00:29:02,009 --> 00:29:03,310
...endlessly sad.
481
00:29:03,377 --> 00:29:06,581
Oh, Jesus, Derf,
just get me some Katies,
482
00:29:06,648 --> 00:29:08,249
so I can get high, man.
483
00:29:08,315 --> 00:29:10,951
Interminable
bad news from mouths
484
00:29:11,018 --> 00:29:13,354
wherein
the little fishes dart.
485
00:29:13,420 --> 00:29:15,756
It's that Manhattan guy
who brought this down on us.
486
00:29:15,823 --> 00:29:18,526
Oh! The new papers
just arrived.
487
00:29:18,593 --> 00:29:20,160
There's a riot at the prison.
488
00:29:21,161 --> 00:29:22,363
-Give me that!
-Whoa! Hey!
489
00:29:22,429 --> 00:29:23,864
We got friends there.
490
00:29:23,931 --> 00:29:26,467
"Vigilante sparks prison riot.
Five dead."
491
00:29:26,534 --> 00:29:27,901
Rorschach again.
492
00:29:27,968 --> 00:29:29,236
Making headlines
493
00:29:29,303 --> 00:29:31,071
after some other heroes
made the news
494
00:29:31,138 --> 00:29:32,507
for the tenement fire rescue.
495
00:29:32,574 --> 00:29:33,807
Goddamn masks!
496
00:29:33,874 --> 00:29:35,209
Come on.
Let's round up the guys.
497
00:29:35,276 --> 00:29:37,077
There's gonna be hell
to pay for this.
498
00:29:37,144 --> 00:29:40,381
If I didn't know any better,
I'd say it was all connected.
499
00:29:40,447 --> 00:29:41,882
We talked together,
500
00:29:41,949 --> 00:29:43,951
my rotted fellows and I
501
00:29:44,018 --> 00:29:45,486
of life...
502
00:29:45,553 --> 00:29:47,288
A news vendor
senses these things.
503
00:29:47,354 --> 00:29:48,723
...and endings...
504
00:29:48,789 --> 00:29:50,525
It all spells trouble.
505
00:29:50,592 --> 00:29:52,993
...of the terrible sentence
506
00:29:53,060 --> 00:29:55,095
upon us all.
507
00:29:57,831 --> 00:30:01,001
We'll get murdered in the chaos
by cops or criminals.
508
00:30:01,068 --> 00:30:03,203
-Either way--
-No, wait. Look.
509
00:30:03,270 --> 00:30:05,105
We'd already planned
on distracting the guards.
510
00:30:05,172 --> 00:30:07,341
The prison riot
does the job for us.
511
00:30:07,408 --> 00:30:09,209
I can tune into
police radio chatter,
512
00:30:09,276 --> 00:30:10,712
and we'll get
up-to-the-minute intel
513
00:30:10,779 --> 00:30:12,681
on positions and strategies.
514
00:30:12,747 --> 00:30:14,348
This is our ticket inside.
515
00:30:14,415 --> 00:30:16,050
He is a homicidal maniac
516
00:30:16,116 --> 00:30:19,887
you hope will validate
this long-shot theory of yours.
517
00:30:21,556 --> 00:30:24,158
Is busting out Rorschach
really worth risking our butts?
518
00:30:25,225 --> 00:30:25,959
Mm.
519
00:30:26,026 --> 00:30:27,995
Your butt's in safe hands.
520
00:30:30,665 --> 00:30:33,233
If not, I'll be kicking yours.
521
00:30:36,504 --> 00:30:37,371
Hollis?
522
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,974
Oh, just thought I'd check in
after you missed
523
00:30:41,041 --> 00:30:42,476
our beer session
the other night.
524
00:30:42,544 --> 00:30:43,944
I'm sorry, Hollis.
525
00:30:44,011 --> 00:30:46,113
I just got caught up
in a book. Dozed off.
526
00:30:46,947 --> 00:30:47,816
Coffee?
527
00:30:47,881 --> 00:30:49,183
Sure.
528
00:30:52,119 --> 00:30:54,756
So... seen the news lately?
529
00:30:54,823 --> 00:30:56,023
Can't miss the headlines
530
00:30:56,090 --> 00:30:57,759
about this war
they say is coming.
531
00:30:57,826 --> 00:31:00,027
There was a smaller story
yesterday
532
00:31:00,094 --> 00:31:01,895
about a tenement fire,
533
00:31:01,962 --> 00:31:04,431
and a highly unusual rescue.
534
00:31:09,269 --> 00:31:12,473
Nope. Nope.
535
00:31:12,540 --> 00:31:13,974
-Nope.
-Now, wait.
536
00:31:14,041 --> 00:31:15,810
-Ah-ha.
-Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
537
00:31:15,876 --> 00:31:17,244
You're saying Dr. Manhattan
538
00:31:17,311 --> 00:31:19,748
leaving the planet
was orchestrated?
539
00:31:19,814 --> 00:31:21,014
Timed between the attacks
540
00:31:21,081 --> 00:31:23,016
on Blake, Adrian,
and Rorschach, yes.
541
00:31:23,083 --> 00:31:24,719
It's too coincidental.
542
00:31:24,786 --> 00:31:27,955
The cancer-scare media assault
on Jon had to be manufactured.
543
00:31:28,021 --> 00:31:29,289
Laurie lived with him,
544
00:31:29,356 --> 00:31:30,825
and she never
contracted cancer.
545
00:31:30,891 --> 00:31:32,226
But I did some digging.
546
00:31:32,292 --> 00:31:34,729
The cancer victims
mentioned in Nova Express
547
00:31:34,796 --> 00:31:37,632
were all employed at some point
by the same company.
548
00:31:37,699 --> 00:31:39,299
Again, too coincidental.
549
00:31:39,366 --> 00:31:41,603
I think somebody used
these specific people
550
00:31:41,669 --> 00:31:43,904
and the press
to prompt Jon's exile,
551
00:31:43,971 --> 00:31:45,973
and I think it's part of a plan
552
00:31:46,039 --> 00:31:48,777
to start World War III.
553
00:31:48,843 --> 00:31:51,211
Whoa!
That's a long-shot theory.
554
00:31:51,278 --> 00:31:52,747
Laurie said as much, too.
555
00:31:52,814 --> 00:31:55,416
And this company,
connecting the cancer victims,
556
00:31:55,482 --> 00:31:56,183
who are they?
557
00:31:56,250 --> 00:31:57,351
And how do they connect
558
00:31:57,418 --> 00:31:59,253
to Blake, Adrian,
and Rorschach?
559
00:31:59,319 --> 00:32:01,388
The company's called
Dimensional Developments.
560
00:32:01,455 --> 00:32:04,224
Beyond the name,
I've hit a wall
561
00:32:04,291 --> 00:32:06,628
investigating
their corporate structure.
562
00:32:06,694 --> 00:32:07,928
What about Adrian?
563
00:32:07,995 --> 00:32:09,463
He's connected
to the corporate world
564
00:32:09,531 --> 00:32:10,799
and would certainly
be motivated to help.
565
00:32:10,865 --> 00:32:12,867
Without stronger evidence,
566
00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:15,570
sharing this conspiracy theory
with a man in his position
567
00:32:15,637 --> 00:32:17,505
might put him
in a compromising situation.
568
00:32:17,572 --> 00:32:20,675
I mean, he... he might
have to report us, but...
569
00:32:21,709 --> 00:32:23,110
but I'm working another lead
570
00:32:23,177 --> 00:32:25,946
that, uh, should break loose
very soon.
571
00:32:26,013 --> 00:32:28,683
I'm sure
you'll crack the case, kid.
572
00:32:28,750 --> 00:32:30,885
I believe in you.
573
00:32:30,951 --> 00:32:32,554
And thanks
for sharing the details.
574
00:32:32,620 --> 00:32:33,621
Mm.
575
00:32:33,688 --> 00:32:35,088
It feels like
the old days again.
576
00:32:36,490 --> 00:32:38,158
Hey, we Nite Owls
have to stick together.
577
00:32:38,225 --> 00:32:41,228
Well, that's why
I paid a visit, Dan.
578
00:32:41,295 --> 00:32:43,531
If I can figure out
who made the rescue
579
00:32:43,598 --> 00:32:44,965
at the tenement fire,
580
00:32:45,032 --> 00:32:46,333
so can the police.
581
00:32:50,037 --> 00:32:52,172
Crap. We're out of time.
582
00:33:24,338 --> 00:33:25,507
Well, no going back now.
583
00:33:26,306 --> 00:33:28,242
If we don't crack this case,
584
00:33:28,308 --> 00:33:30,477
there may be no going back
for any of us.
585
00:33:34,916 --> 00:33:37,585
Go, go, go.
We got shots fired.
586
00:33:37,652 --> 00:33:39,186
Officer down!
South-west corner!
587
00:33:39,253 --> 00:33:40,822
Surrender,
or you will be fired on!
588
00:33:40,889 --> 00:33:43,725
Aren't you glad
they keep you in solitary?
589
00:33:43,791 --> 00:33:45,894
Now our reunion
won't be interrupted
590
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:47,562
by the mob out there.
591
00:33:47,629 --> 00:33:49,597
Lawrence, hurry up
with the arc welder.
592
00:33:52,834 --> 00:33:56,436
What's the matter, Rorschach?
Too warm in there?
593
00:33:56,504 --> 00:33:59,072
Well, it's gonna get
plenty warmer.
594
00:33:59,139 --> 00:34:00,708
Yeah. You notice how,
all of a sudden,
595
00:34:00,775 --> 00:34:03,511
he ain't giving you no,
"tall order, small world" shit?
596
00:34:03,578 --> 00:34:06,014
Maybe he figured out
once we cut through these bars,
597
00:34:06,079 --> 00:34:07,849
we're gonna make him
a little shorter.
598
00:34:07,916 --> 00:34:09,116
Fat chance.
599
00:34:09,182 --> 00:34:10,985
Fat? You lousy bastard!
600
00:34:11,051 --> 00:34:14,187
We got a jail full of guys
out here who hate your guts.
601
00:34:14,254 --> 00:34:15,355
What have you got?
602
00:34:15,422 --> 00:34:17,224
Your arms.
603
00:34:17,291 --> 00:34:18,526
Hey! What the hell?
604
00:34:18,593 --> 00:34:20,227
Lawrence, you stupid
son of a bitch!
605
00:34:20,294 --> 00:34:21,261
Now we can't get to the lock.
606
00:34:21,328 --> 00:34:22,564
Sorry, Figure.
607
00:34:22,630 --> 00:34:24,032
Michael can still cut
through the bars.
608
00:34:24,097 --> 00:34:25,232
That'll take too long.
609
00:34:25,299 --> 00:34:26,433
This riot won't last,
610
00:34:26,500 --> 00:34:27,735
and I don't want
to be interrupted.
611
00:34:27,802 --> 00:34:29,202
-Sorry, Lawrence...
-No!
612
00:34:29,269 --> 00:34:30,772
...but you're in the way
of my revenge.
613
00:34:30,838 --> 00:34:33,073
-No, boss!
-Michael, cut through him.
614
00:34:33,140 --> 00:34:35,677
-No, no, wait!
-Nothing personal, Larry.
615
00:34:35,743 --> 00:34:37,477
Wait! Hey!
616
00:34:45,653 --> 00:34:46,654
One-nothing.
617
00:34:46,721 --> 00:34:48,623
Your move.
618
00:34:48,690 --> 00:34:49,691
Come and get me.
619
00:34:54,562 --> 00:34:56,096
That thing
ain't one of ours.
620
00:34:56,163 --> 00:34:57,765
Open fire!
621
00:34:57,832 --> 00:34:59,601
Land your aircraft
or we will use deadly force.
622
00:34:59,667 --> 00:35:02,336
Police radio says this area
is controlled by prisoners.
623
00:35:02,402 --> 00:35:03,771
Ear plugs in.
Hitting the screechers.
624
00:35:08,543 --> 00:35:09,611
Ugh!
625
00:35:13,748 --> 00:35:15,182
Shoot that thing down!
626
00:35:23,123 --> 00:35:24,458
Hurry up with that lock.
627
00:35:24,525 --> 00:35:26,861
I wanna smell
this son of a bitch cooking.
628
00:35:26,928 --> 00:35:30,330
Then I'm gonna carve him up
like a Thanksgiving turkey.
629
00:35:31,032 --> 00:35:32,399
We're in.
630
00:35:33,935 --> 00:35:35,202
Look at him
631
00:35:35,268 --> 00:35:38,138
climbing up onto his bed
like a scared kid.
632
00:35:38,205 --> 00:35:40,307
We got you now,
you little bastard.
633
00:35:57,592 --> 00:36:00,193
Never disposed of sewage
with toilet before.
634
00:36:00,260 --> 00:36:01,361
Obvious, really.
635
00:36:01,929 --> 00:36:03,263
Two-nothing.
636
00:36:03,330 --> 00:36:04,666
Your move.
637
00:36:14,942 --> 00:36:16,878
How will we find him
in all of this?
638
00:36:16,944 --> 00:36:18,178
Assuming he's not dead.
639
00:36:18,245 --> 00:36:19,814
He attracts this horror
and madness.
640
00:36:19,881 --> 00:36:21,082
This is where he lives.
641
00:36:21,149 --> 00:36:24,217
Help! Somebody
get this guy! Help!
642
00:36:24,284 --> 00:36:25,753
Hey, Rorschach!
643
00:36:28,723 --> 00:36:29,489
Hey!
644
00:36:29,557 --> 00:36:30,625
Help!
645
00:36:35,997 --> 00:36:37,699
Rorschach!
646
00:36:37,765 --> 00:36:39,399
Hey, man.
We came to bust you out.
647
00:36:39,466 --> 00:36:41,301
Excuse me.
I have to visit men's room.
648
00:36:41,368 --> 00:36:42,670
Oh, for Christ's sake!
649
00:36:42,737 --> 00:36:44,639
Well, when you gotta go,
you gotta go.
650
00:36:44,706 --> 00:36:46,206
Look,
we got masks in here!
651
00:36:46,273 --> 00:36:47,642
That's Nite Owl! Get 'em!
652
00:36:47,709 --> 00:36:50,044
Hey! We are trying
to stop a war!
653
00:36:55,883 --> 00:36:59,821
Um... guess I'm kind
of bitter about...
654
00:36:59,887 --> 00:37:00,988
losing the house.
655
00:37:01,055 --> 00:37:02,557
I better radio the ship.
656
00:37:04,559 --> 00:37:05,960
Did what had to be done.
657
00:37:06,027 --> 00:37:07,729
Can leave now.
658
00:37:07,795 --> 00:37:09,296
-Are you sure?
-This way.
659
00:37:09,362 --> 00:37:10,665
Did you wash your hands?
660
00:37:10,732 --> 00:37:12,033
Archie's
covering our exit.
661
00:37:12,100 --> 00:37:13,000
Did you flush?
662
00:37:13,067 --> 00:37:13,735
Flushed twice.
663
00:37:14,869 --> 00:37:16,704
A little clogged.
664
00:37:16,771 --> 00:37:18,271
Don't let them escape!
665
00:37:18,338 --> 00:37:19,607
Track them
with the lights!
666
00:37:19,674 --> 00:37:21,308
Land your aircraft now!
667
00:37:21,374 --> 00:37:23,878
I repeat!
Land your aircraft!
668
00:37:26,279 --> 00:37:29,117
Everybody
will be looking for us up here.
669
00:37:29,183 --> 00:37:31,953
I know a place to hide
and plan our next move.
670
00:37:32,019 --> 00:37:34,254
Good seeing you
in uniform, Daniel.
671
00:37:34,321 --> 00:37:36,557
Like old times.
672
00:37:36,624 --> 00:37:39,160
Never liked your uniform,
Ms. Juspeczyk.
673
00:37:39,227 --> 00:37:40,561
-Nothing personal.
-Ugh!
674
00:37:40,628 --> 00:37:42,462
Can't believe we agree
on something.
675
00:37:42,530 --> 00:37:45,233
Jesus.
676
00:37:45,298 --> 00:37:47,400
-Hello.
-Jon.
677
00:37:47,467 --> 00:37:49,170
They said you were on Mars.
678
00:37:49,237 --> 00:37:50,605
I am on Mars.
679
00:37:50,671 --> 00:37:53,174
We have a conversation
scheduled there.
680
00:37:53,241 --> 00:37:55,176
You're going to try
to convince me
681
00:37:55,243 --> 00:37:57,377
to save this world.
682
00:37:57,444 --> 00:37:59,947
To-- I have to convince you?
683
00:38:00,014 --> 00:38:03,151
Jon, we really need your help
here on Earth.
684
00:38:03,217 --> 00:38:05,586
This is all
so deus ex machina.
685
00:38:05,653 --> 00:38:08,956
The god out of the machine.
Yes, I suppose it is.
686
00:38:09,857 --> 00:38:11,025
Nevertheless,
687
00:38:11,092 --> 00:38:13,528
an hour into the future,
we are on Mars talking.
688
00:38:13,594 --> 00:38:16,363
-Mars? We don't have time--
-Dan.
689
00:38:16,429 --> 00:38:17,999
I think
I'd better go with him.
690
00:38:18,065 --> 00:38:20,500
Maybe we'll find
a way out of this mess.
691
00:38:20,568 --> 00:38:21,769
I'll be okay.
692
00:38:21,836 --> 00:38:23,303
Laurie, wait.
693
00:38:23,370 --> 00:38:24,705
Take care.
694
00:38:30,211 --> 00:38:31,913
Pity they won't be
working with us.
695
00:38:32,580 --> 00:38:35,583
Yeah. Yeah, it is.
696
00:38:43,257 --> 00:38:44,192
Here we are.
697
00:38:44,258 --> 00:38:45,325
What do you think?
698
00:38:48,196 --> 00:38:50,330
Oh, of course. Forgive me.
699
00:38:50,397 --> 00:38:53,000
Sometimes these things
slip my mind.
700
00:38:56,604 --> 00:38:58,005
Are you okay?
701
00:39:00,041 --> 00:39:03,476
Jesus! Jon,
you stupid son of a...
702
00:39:06,514 --> 00:39:09,416
Holy shit.
703
00:39:09,482 --> 00:39:12,787
This is where
we debate Earth's destiny.
704
00:39:20,027 --> 00:39:24,599
Truly, life is hell...
705
00:39:24,665 --> 00:39:29,303
And death's rough hand,
our only deliverance.
706
00:39:29,369 --> 00:39:33,440
I would endure no more bubbling
dialogues from the dead.
707
00:39:33,507 --> 00:39:35,843
No more ramblings
of damnation.
708
00:39:35,910 --> 00:39:38,312
No more judgments
of our sins.
709
00:39:39,981 --> 00:39:41,716
...vigilante
known as Nite Owl,
710
00:39:41,782 --> 00:39:43,017
entered the riot
and freed suspected murderer,
711
00:39:43,084 --> 00:39:44,285
Walter Kovacs,
712
00:39:44,352 --> 00:39:45,786
also known as Rorschach.
713
00:39:45,853 --> 00:39:48,356
Both escaped police capture
by aircraft.
714
00:39:48,455 --> 00:39:49,991
Argh!
715
00:39:50,057 --> 00:39:51,458
More details
are still coming in.
716
00:39:51,525 --> 00:39:53,194
-Goddamn it!
-Derf! What the hell?
717
00:39:53,261 --> 00:39:54,427
Hey, hey, hey.
718
00:39:54,494 --> 00:39:55,529
We don't want no trouble
around here.
719
00:39:55,596 --> 00:39:56,898
Shut up, old man.
720
00:39:56,964 --> 00:39:58,532
These super bastards
get away with everything
721
00:39:58,599 --> 00:40:00,400
while our guys
catch hell in that riot.
722
00:40:00,467 --> 00:40:01,869
It ain't fair!
723
00:40:01,936 --> 00:40:03,537
Though
dreading such a black,
724
00:40:03,604 --> 00:40:05,773
breathless end, I leapt...
725
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:07,241
Hey, the news guy
mentioned Nite Owl.
726
00:40:07,308 --> 00:40:10,244
...feet first into cold,
727
00:40:10,311 --> 00:40:11,846
dank mortality.
728
00:40:11,913 --> 00:40:13,981
Derf, he's the guy who wrote
that book about the masks.
729
00:40:14,048 --> 00:40:16,317
My dad takes his car
to his repair shop.
730
00:40:16,384 --> 00:40:17,785
-Do you know where that is?
-Yeah.
731
00:40:17,852 --> 00:40:19,452
It's just down the street...
732
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:20,721
But the ocean's depths
733
00:40:20,788 --> 00:40:23,291
refused to swallow me.
734
00:40:23,357 --> 00:40:26,560
I lifted my uncomprehending
eyes to the heavens
735
00:40:26,627 --> 00:40:28,829
and saw instead the earth.
736
00:40:28,896 --> 00:40:30,698
This guy likes
to play in riots...
737
00:40:30,765 --> 00:40:32,533
I had reached my destination.
738
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,168
...so let's give him a riot.
739
00:40:34,235 --> 00:40:36,370
Yeah.
Yeah. Let's mess this guy up!
740
00:40:36,436 --> 00:40:37,838
-Hell, yeah!
-Bah!
741
00:40:37,905 --> 00:40:39,407
They'd left me for dead.
742
00:40:39,472 --> 00:40:42,977
The fiends who'd doubtless
butchered my kin.
743
00:40:43,044 --> 00:40:47,480
But now I was returned
upon my corpse boat,
744
00:40:47,548 --> 00:40:50,418
a spectre of revenge,
745
00:40:50,483 --> 00:40:52,987
riding the flow tide home.
746
00:40:53,054 --> 00:40:54,689
Yeah! Yeah!
747
00:40:54,755 --> 00:40:57,058
-This it?
-Yeah. Upstairs.
748
00:41:03,931 --> 00:41:05,967
Okay, okay.
I hear you.
749
00:41:06,033 --> 00:41:07,702
You can quit banging.
750
00:41:07,768 --> 00:41:09,270
Just give me a second.
751
00:41:09,337 --> 00:41:10,304
-Get him!
-Yeah!
752
00:41:11,572 --> 00:41:13,607
Get that dog!
753
00:41:13,674 --> 00:41:15,242
Worry about yourself, scumbag.
754
00:41:29,123 --> 00:41:30,490
No.
755
00:41:31,826 --> 00:41:33,227
-Derf!
-Oh, man.
756
00:41:33,294 --> 00:41:34,662
Derf! That's enough!
757
00:41:34,729 --> 00:41:37,531
He's a goner.
We gotta get out of here!
758
00:41:45,773 --> 00:41:48,042
This is where
we hold our conversation.
759
00:41:49,643 --> 00:41:52,013
It commences when you
surprise me with the news
760
00:41:52,079 --> 00:41:54,015
that you and Dreiberg
are sleeping together.
761
00:41:54,081 --> 00:41:57,151
You... know about me and Dan?
762
00:41:57,218 --> 00:42:00,921
No. But in a few moments,
you're going to tell me.
763
00:42:00,988 --> 00:42:04,058
Ugh! Jon, I can't take
your predestination crap
764
00:42:04,125 --> 00:42:05,059
right now.
765
00:42:05,126 --> 00:42:06,127
It makes no sense
766
00:42:06,193 --> 00:42:07,762
that you can be surprised
by anything
767
00:42:07,828 --> 00:42:10,664
when you can see time
in all directions.
768
00:42:10,731 --> 00:42:14,168
Everything is preordained,
even my responses.
769
00:42:14,235 --> 00:42:16,704
So the most powerful being
in the universe
770
00:42:16,771 --> 00:42:19,907
is just... a puppet
following a script?
771
00:42:19,974 --> 00:42:21,909
We are all puppets, Laurie.
772
00:42:21,976 --> 00:42:23,778
I am just a puppet
who can see the strings.
773
00:42:25,112 --> 00:42:28,449
There is no future.
There is no past.
774
00:42:28,517 --> 00:42:30,084
Time is simultaneous.
775
00:42:30,151 --> 00:42:33,387
Ugh! Jon, how can I debate
Earth's destiny
776
00:42:33,454 --> 00:42:35,122
when you know the outcome?
777
00:42:35,189 --> 00:42:36,924
Help me understand here.
778
00:42:40,594 --> 00:42:43,097
What was your
earliest memory?
779
00:42:44,465 --> 00:42:45,566
I don't know.
780
00:42:46,734 --> 00:42:48,836
When my folks split,
I guess.
781
00:42:48,903 --> 00:42:50,237
He couldn't understand
782
00:42:50,304 --> 00:42:51,639
why I'd hold a grudge...
783
00:42:51,705 --> 00:42:53,207
I remember them arguing,
but...
784
00:42:53,274 --> 00:42:55,510
It's different for him.
785
00:42:55,576 --> 00:42:58,112
And I just couldn't
sustain the anger anymore.
786
00:42:58,179 --> 00:43:00,081
God! You need therapy.
787
00:43:00,147 --> 00:43:02,517
No. It's gone.
788
00:43:02,583 --> 00:43:04,585
No. It is not.
789
00:43:05,352 --> 00:43:06,555
It is still here.
790
00:43:06,620 --> 00:43:08,222
Let yourself see it.
791
00:43:09,790 --> 00:43:11,292
Look, for starters,
792
00:43:11,358 --> 00:43:12,927
he was there, okay?
793
00:43:12,993 --> 00:43:14,628
And he was actually gentle.
794
00:43:14,695 --> 00:43:17,231
I was five, I think.
795
00:43:17,298 --> 00:43:20,668
Do you have any idea
what gentleness means
796
00:43:20,734 --> 00:43:22,103
for a guy like that?
797
00:43:22,169 --> 00:43:23,637
I snuck downstairs
798
00:43:23,704 --> 00:43:25,639
to play with a snow globe.
799
00:43:25,706 --> 00:43:27,708
It means
a broken marriage
800
00:43:27,775 --> 00:43:29,877
and an uncertain future
for our child.
801
00:43:29,944 --> 00:43:33,147
My child! That's what this
is all about, remember?
802
00:43:33,214 --> 00:43:34,648
My dad was always
803
00:43:34,715 --> 00:43:36,016
-yelling at me...
-Laurel Jane!
804
00:43:36,083 --> 00:43:37,418
...because he knew
I wasn't his.
805
00:43:37,485 --> 00:43:38,652
What are you doing down here?
806
00:43:40,187 --> 00:43:42,890
Pretty sure my real dad
was Hooded Justice,
807
00:43:42,957 --> 00:43:44,859
my mom's old boyfriend.
808
00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:47,495
Anyway, I...
809
00:43:47,562 --> 00:43:49,697
My dad
was a domineering bully
810
00:43:49,763 --> 00:43:51,866
like most of the men
I've been...
811
00:43:54,603 --> 00:43:56,904
But Dan's... not like that.
812
00:43:57,506 --> 00:43:59,306
He's gentle.
813
00:43:59,373 --> 00:44:01,775
Someone you can pour
your troubles out to.
814
00:44:02,710 --> 00:44:04,912
A receptive lover.
815
00:44:04,979 --> 00:44:08,415
You mean...
you're sleeping with Dreiberg?
816
00:44:09,383 --> 00:44:11,252
But... you already know.
817
00:44:11,318 --> 00:44:13,320
-You said--
-I said many times
818
00:44:13,387 --> 00:44:14,889
that you were my only link,
819
00:44:14,955 --> 00:44:17,057
my only concern
with the world.
820
00:44:17,124 --> 00:44:20,361
What does it say
that when you left me,
821
00:44:20,427 --> 00:44:21,495
I left Earth?
822
00:44:21,563 --> 00:44:23,731
Now that you
have replaced me,
823
00:44:23,797 --> 00:44:26,167
that link is shattered.
824
00:44:27,636 --> 00:44:30,037
Don't you see the futility
of asking me to save a world
825
00:44:30,104 --> 00:44:32,339
I no longer have
any stake in?
826
00:44:32,406 --> 00:44:34,975
Jon, don't be ridiculous.
827
00:44:35,042 --> 00:44:38,112
Earth's too important
to hinge on one relationship.
828
00:44:38,179 --> 00:44:39,213
Not to me.
829
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,682
My red world here
means more to me
830
00:44:41,749 --> 00:44:43,450
than your blue one.
831
00:44:43,518 --> 00:44:45,319
I will show you.
832
00:45:16,784 --> 00:45:19,119
Cowering down here
in sludge
833
00:45:19,186 --> 00:45:22,557
doing nothing but conjuring
names on screens.
834
00:45:22,624 --> 00:45:24,526
Computer unnecessary.
835
00:45:24,593 --> 00:45:27,361
This face is all I need.
836
00:45:27,428 --> 00:45:29,330
Give me smallest finger
on man's hand.
837
00:45:29,396 --> 00:45:31,999
I'll produce information
about mask killer.
838
00:45:32,066 --> 00:45:34,101
Hey, you needed
your spare costume,
839
00:45:34,168 --> 00:45:35,637
I needed time for research.
840
00:45:35,704 --> 00:45:38,372
And now we need to put
our heads together on this.
841
00:45:38,439 --> 00:45:40,774
You said the Comedian
told Moloch about an island
842
00:45:40,841 --> 00:45:42,042
and a plot against Jon,
843
00:45:42,109 --> 00:45:43,377
and I think the plot
844
00:45:43,444 --> 00:45:45,179
had to be the cancer-scare
media attack
845
00:45:45,246 --> 00:45:46,747
that sent Jon off the planet.
846
00:45:46,814 --> 00:45:48,182
Now, check this out.
847
00:45:48,249 --> 00:45:49,718
I finally got a breakthrough
848
00:45:49,783 --> 00:45:51,519
investigating
Dimensional Developments,
849
00:45:51,586 --> 00:45:54,623
the company that employed
Jon's alleged cancer victims.
850
00:45:54,689 --> 00:45:55,956
They also owned
851
00:45:56,023 --> 00:45:57,525
the Institute
for Extraspatial Studies.
852
00:45:57,592 --> 00:45:59,960
And look, Nova Express
is connected.
853
00:46:00,027 --> 00:46:01,495
They published
the cancer list.
854
00:46:01,563 --> 00:46:04,064
And all of these companies
appear to be funded
855
00:46:04,131 --> 00:46:06,166
by Pyramid Deliveries.
856
00:46:06,233 --> 00:46:07,067
Pyramid?
857
00:46:07,134 --> 00:46:08,902
That means
something to you?
858
00:46:08,969 --> 00:46:11,506
Moloch's illegal
cancer meds...
859
00:46:11,573 --> 00:46:13,173
delivered by Pyramid.
860
00:46:13,240 --> 00:46:16,944
God, Moloch was in deep.
And probably didn't know it.
861
00:46:17,011 --> 00:46:18,546
If his place was bugged
by these companies...
862
00:46:18,613 --> 00:46:21,115
They'd know about
Comedian's visit to Moloch.
863
00:46:21,181 --> 00:46:23,518
And that Comedian discovered
the plot against Jon.
864
00:46:23,585 --> 00:46:25,019
Know of my investigation,
865
00:46:25,085 --> 00:46:26,787
know how to frame me.
866
00:46:26,854 --> 00:46:28,322
-But what about Veidt?
-Hm.
867
00:46:28,389 --> 00:46:31,425
The assassination attempt
on Adrian doesn't fit the--
868
00:46:31,492 --> 00:46:33,060
Hold... hold on.
869
00:46:33,127 --> 00:46:34,995
Location
is Mason's Auto repairs.
870
00:46:35,462 --> 00:46:36,497
Hollis?
871
00:46:36,564 --> 00:46:38,032
Additional units needed
872
00:46:38,098 --> 00:46:39,199
to canvass the area
for Knot-Tops.
873
00:46:39,266 --> 00:46:40,801
-Coroner en route.
-No.
874
00:46:40,868 --> 00:46:42,570
Body ID-ed as...
875
00:46:42,637 --> 00:46:44,338
-No.
-...Hollis Mason.
876
00:46:44,405 --> 00:46:45,406
Oh, God! Hollis?
877
00:46:45,472 --> 00:46:47,875
Oh, Christ! No!
878
00:46:48,309 --> 00:46:49,644
Sorry.
879
00:46:49,711 --> 00:46:50,878
He was a good man.
880
00:46:50,944 --> 00:46:52,714
I wasn't there.
881
00:46:52,781 --> 00:46:55,149
I should have...
I should have been there.
882
00:46:55,215 --> 00:46:56,651
It could be random killing.
883
00:46:56,718 --> 00:46:58,485
Could be
another mask killer.
884
00:46:58,553 --> 00:47:02,423
Squeeze underworld,
find answers. Take revenge.
885
00:47:02,489 --> 00:47:03,991
No.
We don't have time.
886
00:47:04,058 --> 00:47:05,025
We have to--
887
00:47:05,092 --> 00:47:06,427
His own fault.
888
00:47:06,493 --> 00:47:09,597
Was lazing too long.
Forgot how to do things.
889
00:47:09,664 --> 00:47:11,999
Lazing? Lazing?
890
00:47:12,066 --> 00:47:13,568
Who the hell
do you think you are?
891
00:47:13,635 --> 00:47:16,370
You live off people
while insulting them.
892
00:47:16,437 --> 00:47:18,005
And the only reason
nobody complains
893
00:47:18,072 --> 00:47:21,041
is because they think
you're a goddamn lunatic!
894
00:47:25,513 --> 00:47:30,317
Do you know how hard
it is being your friend?
895
00:47:34,355 --> 00:47:37,925
Daniel, you are
a good friend.
896
00:47:38,459 --> 00:47:39,561
I know that.
897
00:47:39,627 --> 00:47:43,464
I'm sorry that
it is sometimes difficult.
898
00:47:47,368 --> 00:47:50,003
No. I'm the one
who should be sorry.
899
00:47:50,070 --> 00:47:51,438
Shouldn't have
said all that.
900
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:53,742
Let's forget it, huh?
901
00:47:53,808 --> 00:47:55,610
We don't have time for this.
902
00:47:55,677 --> 00:47:57,846
Agreed. The end is nigh.
903
00:47:57,911 --> 00:47:59,279
And Adrian's assassin
904
00:47:59,346 --> 00:48:01,448
is the next piece
of the puzzle.
905
00:48:01,516 --> 00:48:03,150
Let's hope
the world's smartest man
906
00:48:03,217 --> 00:48:05,486
can help us
put it all together
907
00:48:05,553 --> 00:48:06,920
before it's too late.
908
00:48:17,931 --> 00:48:19,500
Mr. President,
909
00:48:19,567 --> 00:48:21,268
Russian tanks
are massing in East Germany
910
00:48:21,335 --> 00:48:23,671
in response to alleged
"Western alarmism."
911
00:48:23,738 --> 00:48:25,339
CIA thinks this is genuine.
912
00:48:25,406 --> 00:48:27,307
Both our countries have been
on full alert this past week.
913
00:48:27,374 --> 00:48:28,976
One spark
and it could all go up.
914
00:48:29,042 --> 00:48:32,012
Our analysis of a first strike
against their nuclear silos
915
00:48:32,079 --> 00:48:33,480
shows a good chance
of success.
916
00:48:33,548 --> 00:48:36,216
Casualties on our side
could be 10-20 million.
917
00:48:36,283 --> 00:48:37,918
Well, in the first wave,
anyway.
918
00:48:37,985 --> 00:48:40,254
Our tactical and strategic
forces worldwide
919
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,990
are standing by
on DEFCON 2.
920
00:48:43,056 --> 00:48:44,491
What are your instructions,
Mr. President?
921
00:48:44,559 --> 00:48:46,059
Hm.
922
00:48:46,895 --> 00:48:50,164
We sit, and we wait.
923
00:48:55,870 --> 00:49:00,608
Look, Jon. We don't have time
to go sightseeing on Mars,
924
00:49:00,675 --> 00:49:03,210
and this debate
is going nowhere fast.
925
00:49:03,277 --> 00:49:05,312
Can you please
just spare me the agony
926
00:49:05,379 --> 00:49:07,615
and tell me
how this conversation ends?
927
00:49:07,682 --> 00:49:09,983
It ends in tears.
928
00:49:10,050 --> 00:49:12,854
I return to Earth
at some point in my future,
929
00:49:12,921 --> 00:49:15,155
and I find streets
full of corpses.
930
00:49:15,222 --> 00:49:17,859
But the details are vague.
931
00:49:17,926 --> 00:49:18,959
What?
932
00:49:19,026 --> 00:49:20,494
What do you mean "vague"?
933
00:49:20,562 --> 00:49:24,164
There is some kind of static
obscuring the future,
934
00:49:24,231 --> 00:49:26,734
preventing any clear
impression.
935
00:49:26,801 --> 00:49:30,003
The electromagnetic pulse
of mass warhead detonations
936
00:49:30,070 --> 00:49:31,639
could conceivably cause that.
937
00:49:31,706 --> 00:49:32,907
Oh, my God.
938
00:49:32,973 --> 00:49:35,342
Jon, we can't just
fly around Mars
939
00:49:35,409 --> 00:49:37,377
if missiles are about
to launch back home.
940
00:49:37,444 --> 00:49:40,682
Humanity might be on
the brink of extinction.
941
00:49:40,748 --> 00:49:42,617
Doesn't that bother you?
942
00:49:42,684 --> 00:49:45,018
No, Laurie.
That does not bother me.
943
00:49:45,085 --> 00:49:48,623
Life is a highly overrated
phenomenon.
944
00:49:48,690 --> 00:49:52,861
Mars gets along perfectly
without a single microorganism.
945
00:49:52,927 --> 00:49:56,931
Its surface is a constantly
changing topographical map,
946
00:49:56,997 --> 00:50:02,704
flowing and shifting in ripples
10,000 years wide.
947
00:50:02,770 --> 00:50:05,172
It is called chaotic terrain.
948
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:09,109
Yeah, well, our lives
have chaotic terrain, too.
949
00:50:09,176 --> 00:50:10,444
I mean, think about
when we first met
950
00:50:10,512 --> 00:50:12,012
at that Crimebusters thing
in the '60s.
951
00:50:12,079 --> 00:50:13,247
...banding together
as the Crimebusters.
952
00:50:13,313 --> 00:50:14,916
It doesn't mean
squat!
953
00:50:14,983 --> 00:50:17,484
Remember
how that all fell to pieces?
954
00:50:17,552 --> 00:50:19,821
It was even more chaotic
after you left.
955
00:50:23,691 --> 00:50:27,529
Laurel Jane, right?
Sally's kid?
956
00:50:28,763 --> 00:50:30,732
Uh... yeah.
957
00:50:30,798 --> 00:50:33,668
I caught your act in there.
You were pretty cool.
958
00:50:33,735 --> 00:50:37,237
Hm. You didn't grow up
too bad yourself.
959
00:50:37,304 --> 00:50:39,007
Thanks.
960
00:50:39,072 --> 00:50:41,910
Your, uh, mom
ever talk about me much?
961
00:50:41,976 --> 00:50:42,977
Mm, not really.
962
00:50:43,043 --> 00:50:44,779
Figures.
963
00:50:46,313 --> 00:50:48,282
You got her eyes,
964
00:50:48,348 --> 00:50:49,817
even that little mole.
965
00:50:49,884 --> 00:50:52,854
Ain't got her hair,
but otherwise you're like her.
966
00:50:52,921 --> 00:50:53,988
You're a looker.
967
00:50:54,054 --> 00:50:56,189
Take your hands off her!
968
00:50:56,256 --> 00:50:58,358
Hey, Sal.
Long time no see.
969
00:50:58,425 --> 00:51:00,294
Not long enough
in my book.
970
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:02,462
Are there any depths
you won't sink to?
971
00:51:02,530 --> 00:51:05,165
We were just talking.
Can't a man talk to his...
972
00:51:05,232 --> 00:51:06,768
his old friend's daughter?
973
00:51:06,834 --> 00:51:08,036
What do you think I am?
974
00:51:08,101 --> 00:51:09,637
I know what you are,
Edward Blake!
975
00:51:09,704 --> 00:51:11,171
I've known for 25 years.
976
00:51:11,238 --> 00:51:13,473
And don't you
ever forget that.
977
00:51:13,541 --> 00:51:16,044
I thought we'd settled
all that a long time ago.
978
00:51:16,109 --> 00:51:17,845
Things like that
don't get settled,
979
00:51:17,912 --> 00:51:20,447
and they're not gonna happen
to my daughter.
980
00:51:20,515 --> 00:51:22,850
Come on.
We're leaving right now.
981
00:51:25,753 --> 00:51:27,922
Of course,
in the moment,
982
00:51:27,989 --> 00:51:30,223
I didn't know
what that bastard had done.
983
00:51:30,290 --> 00:51:32,560
Mom drove us three blocks...
984
00:51:33,761 --> 00:51:35,262
...stopped the car,
985
00:51:35,329 --> 00:51:37,732
and then it all came
pouring out.
986
00:51:38,766 --> 00:51:42,070
Her pain, her fears,
987
00:51:42,135 --> 00:51:44,739
and what Blake did to her.
988
00:51:44,806 --> 00:51:48,208
I carried that with me
for years.
989
00:51:49,409 --> 00:51:53,014
At some point,
I crossed paths with Blake
990
00:51:53,081 --> 00:51:54,949
and a few too many drinks.
991
00:51:55,016 --> 00:51:57,018
And I was a mean drunk.
992
00:51:57,085 --> 00:51:59,286
Juspeczyk, huh?
993
00:51:59,353 --> 00:52:02,422
Took your grandmother's
name over Jupiter?
994
00:52:02,489 --> 00:52:05,125
I see you didn't take
your father's last name either.
995
00:52:05,192 --> 00:52:07,427
-What's that to you?
-Nothing.
996
00:52:07,494 --> 00:52:10,632
Still see your mom in you.
997
00:52:10,698 --> 00:52:12,867
She was a peach.
998
00:52:12,934 --> 00:52:15,335
Is that what you told her
before you beat her,
999
00:52:15,402 --> 00:52:16,871
before you tried to rape her?
1000
00:52:16,938 --> 00:52:19,139
What kind of a man
forces a woman into having sex
1001
00:52:19,206 --> 00:52:20,207
against her will?
1002
00:52:20,273 --> 00:52:24,411
Only... once.
1003
00:52:24,478 --> 00:52:25,847
With seven scotches in me,
1004
00:52:25,913 --> 00:52:26,881
and one in my hand,
1005
00:52:26,948 --> 00:52:28,215
I let him have it.
1006
00:52:29,684 --> 00:52:31,451
And then,
you got angry,
1007
00:52:31,519 --> 00:52:32,520
and teleported us out of there.
1008
00:52:36,223 --> 00:52:37,859
At least then
you seemed to understand
1009
00:52:37,925 --> 00:52:41,029
the chaotic terrain
of our lives.
1010
00:52:41,095 --> 00:52:42,864
Why does it matter less now?
1011
00:52:43,564 --> 00:52:45,600
I read atoms, Laurie.
1012
00:52:45,667 --> 00:52:47,401
I see the ancient spectacle
1013
00:52:47,467 --> 00:52:49,704
that birthed the world
beneath us.
1014
00:52:49,771 --> 00:52:54,441
Beside this, human life
is brief and mundane.
1015
00:53:05,920 --> 00:53:07,320
I'm done.
1016
00:53:08,089 --> 00:53:09,423
Land this thing.
1017
00:53:10,290 --> 00:53:11,458
Take me home.
1018
00:53:12,927 --> 00:53:14,227
As you wish.
1019
00:53:36,150 --> 00:53:37,885
You said this would end
in tears.
1020
00:53:38,753 --> 00:53:40,387
You were wrong.
1021
00:53:40,454 --> 00:53:43,256
Maybe you're wrong about
streets full of corpses, too.
1022
00:53:43,323 --> 00:53:46,194
Laurie, you complained
that I refused
1023
00:53:46,259 --> 00:53:48,062
to see existence
in human terms.
1024
00:53:48,129 --> 00:53:51,331
But you are refusing to see
through my viewpoint.
1025
00:53:51,398 --> 00:53:53,067
If you would
just allow yourself
1026
00:53:53,134 --> 00:53:54,936
to see the whole continuum,
1027
00:53:55,002 --> 00:53:58,773
the patterns of life,
then you would understand.
1028
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:01,609
Instead, you deliberately
shut out understanding
1029
00:54:01,676 --> 00:54:03,878
as if you are afraid.
1030
00:54:03,945 --> 00:54:05,012
Her pain...
1031
00:54:05,079 --> 00:54:06,080
I'm not afraid.
1032
00:54:06,147 --> 00:54:07,280
And what Blake did to her.
1033
00:54:08,216 --> 00:54:10,051
I'm just through
with looking back
1034
00:54:10,118 --> 00:54:11,351
on my stupid memories.
1035
00:54:11,418 --> 00:54:14,188
I carried that
with me for years.
1036
00:54:14,254 --> 00:54:15,957
I'm know what you are,
Edward Blake.
1037
00:54:16,023 --> 00:54:17,491
I've known for 25 years.
1038
00:54:17,558 --> 00:54:19,227
What kind of a man
forces a woman into having sex
1039
00:54:19,292 --> 00:54:20,393
against her will?
1040
00:54:20,460 --> 00:54:23,164
What happened
was 40 years ago.
1041
00:54:23,231 --> 00:54:26,433
-It's history.
-Only... once.
1042
00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:27,935
I'm not afraid.
1043
00:54:28,002 --> 00:54:29,369
Even the grimy
parts of it...
1044
00:54:29,436 --> 00:54:31,038
I'm not...
1045
00:54:31,105 --> 00:54:32,607
...keep getting
brighter all the time.
1046
00:54:32,673 --> 00:54:33,473
God! You need therapy.
1047
00:54:33,541 --> 00:54:34,842
My child!
1048
00:54:34,909 --> 00:54:35,943
My dad was always
1049
00:54:36,010 --> 00:54:36,711
yelling at me...
1050
00:54:36,778 --> 00:54:37,812
Laurel Jane!
1051
00:54:37,879 --> 00:54:39,247
...because he knew
it wasn't his.
1052
00:54:39,312 --> 00:54:41,149
Laurel Jane, right?
Sally's kid?
1053
00:54:41,215 --> 00:54:44,552
Can't a man talk to his...
his old friend's daughter?
1054
00:54:45,086 --> 00:54:46,621
He's...
1055
00:54:46,687 --> 00:54:47,420
You didn't grow up
too bad yourself.
1056
00:54:47,487 --> 00:54:48,421
He's not my...
1057
00:54:48,488 --> 00:54:49,489
Still see your mom in you.
1058
00:54:49,557 --> 00:54:50,958
You got her eyes.
1059
00:54:51,025 --> 00:54:53,828
Your, uh, mom ever
talk about me much?
1060
00:54:53,895 --> 00:54:55,129
No.
1061
00:54:55,196 --> 00:54:56,264
And I just couldn't sustain
1062
00:54:56,329 --> 00:54:57,364
the anger anymore.
1063
00:54:57,430 --> 00:54:58,800
And he was actually gentle.
1064
00:54:58,866 --> 00:55:01,035
I thought we'd settled
all that a long time ago.
1065
00:55:01,102 --> 00:55:02,335
Getting old,
1066
00:55:02,402 --> 00:55:03,704
you get
a different perspective.
1067
00:55:03,771 --> 00:55:05,206
Can't a man
talk to his...
1068
00:55:05,273 --> 00:55:08,810
...his old friend's daughter?
1069
00:55:11,646 --> 00:55:12,947
No.
1070
00:55:13,681 --> 00:55:17,785
No!
1071
00:55:18,318 --> 00:55:19,987
No, no, no.
1072
00:55:21,255 --> 00:55:23,057
Blake, you bastard!
1073
00:55:25,458 --> 00:55:29,564
I will never, ever
call you my father!
1074
00:56:02,395 --> 00:56:03,598
You're right.
1075
00:56:05,333 --> 00:56:06,534
My life's a joke.
1076
00:56:07,969 --> 00:56:10,972
My life... all life...
1077
00:56:12,273 --> 00:56:13,440
meaningless.
1078
00:56:13,507 --> 00:56:15,343
I disagree.
1079
00:56:15,408 --> 00:56:17,712
What?
1080
00:56:18,913 --> 00:56:21,682
I do not think
your life is meaningless.
1081
00:56:23,416 --> 00:56:26,320
But... why?
1082
00:56:26,386 --> 00:56:29,489
You... changed my mind.
1083
00:56:30,658 --> 00:56:32,459
For my entire existence,
1084
00:56:32,526 --> 00:56:36,330
I have longed to see
a thermodynamic miracle,
1085
00:56:36,396 --> 00:56:37,832
an event with odds
1086
00:56:37,899 --> 00:56:39,867
so great against it
ever happening,
1087
00:56:39,934 --> 00:56:42,970
that it is effectively
impossible
1088
00:56:43,037 --> 00:56:46,908
like oxygen spontaneously
turning into gold.
1089
00:56:47,575 --> 00:56:49,610
In every human coupling,
1090
00:56:49,677 --> 00:56:54,048
a thousand-million sperms
vie for a single egg.
1091
00:56:54,115 --> 00:56:57,450
Multiply those odds
by countless generations,
1092
00:56:57,518 --> 00:57:00,721
against the odds
of your ancestors being alive,
1093
00:57:01,289 --> 00:57:02,290
meeting,
1094
00:57:02,356 --> 00:57:04,659
siring this precise son,
1095
00:57:04,725 --> 00:57:07,061
that exact daughter,
1096
00:57:07,128 --> 00:57:10,731
until one day,
your mother loves a man
1097
00:57:10,798 --> 00:57:13,567
she has every reason to hate.
1098
00:57:13,634 --> 00:57:15,703
And out of that union,
1099
00:57:15,770 --> 00:57:18,239
of the
thousand-million children
1100
00:57:18,306 --> 00:57:20,107
competing for fertilization,
1101
00:57:21,008 --> 00:57:22,076
it was you,
1102
00:57:23,077 --> 00:57:25,680
only you that emerged.
1103
00:57:26,847 --> 00:57:29,684
To distill so specific a form
1104
00:57:29,750 --> 00:57:32,485
from that chaos
of improbability,
1105
00:57:32,553 --> 00:57:35,923
is like turning air
into gold.
1106
00:57:35,990 --> 00:57:39,160
That is
the crowning unlikelihood,
1107
00:57:40,361 --> 00:57:43,431
the thermodynamic miracle.
1108
00:57:43,496 --> 00:57:45,733
But, if I'm...
1109
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:50,037
if my birth
is a thermodynamic miracle,
1110
00:57:50,104 --> 00:57:55,042
you could say that about
anyone else in the world.
1111
00:57:55,109 --> 00:57:58,779
Yes. The world
is so full of people,
1112
00:57:58,846 --> 00:58:01,449
so crowded
with these miracles,
1113
00:58:01,515 --> 00:58:03,150
that they become commonplace.
1114
00:58:04,085 --> 00:58:05,553
And we forget...
1115
00:58:05,619 --> 00:58:09,857
I forget what they truly are.
1116
00:58:11,125 --> 00:58:14,762
Now, from your vantage point,
1117
00:58:14,829 --> 00:58:16,664
I see the Earth.
1118
00:58:18,165 --> 00:58:19,934
Dry your eyes, Laurie,
1119
00:58:20,001 --> 00:58:23,037
for you are life,
rarer than a quark
1120
00:58:23,104 --> 00:58:26,841
and unpredictable beyond
the dreams of Heisenberg,
1121
00:58:26,907 --> 00:58:30,211
the clay in which the forces
that shape all things
1122
00:58:30,277 --> 00:58:33,114
leave their fingerprints
most clearly.
1123
00:58:34,882 --> 00:58:39,020
Dry your eyes,
and let's go home.
1124
00:58:45,059 --> 00:58:47,361
Not like him.
Building deserted.
1125
00:58:47,428 --> 00:58:50,831
-Works here late every night.
-Found his daily planner.
1126
00:58:50,898 --> 00:58:55,102
Yesterday's entry...
"Leave for Karnak."
1127
00:58:55,169 --> 00:58:57,738
That's his private base
in the Antarctic.
1128
00:58:57,805 --> 00:58:59,707
So much
for asking him for help.
1129
00:58:59,774 --> 00:59:03,644
This chart,
analysis of global crises.
1130
00:59:03,711 --> 00:59:06,814
War, famine,
environmental decline.
1131
00:59:06,881 --> 00:59:09,116
Crisis lines converge
mid '90s.
1132
00:59:09,183 --> 00:59:10,484
Optimistic.
1133
00:59:10,551 --> 00:59:12,219
Crisis arrives decade early,
1134
00:59:12,286 --> 00:59:14,221
unless we get lead
on Pyramid Deliveries.
1135
00:59:19,093 --> 00:59:20,327
Oh, shit.
1136
00:59:22,897 --> 00:59:27,134
Veidt Enterprises holdings
includes Pyramid Deliveries,
1137
00:59:27,201 --> 00:59:29,370
Dimensional Developments,
1138
00:59:29,437 --> 00:59:30,838
Nova Express,
1139
00:59:30,905 --> 00:59:33,407
the Institute
for Extraspatial Studies.
1140
00:59:33,474 --> 00:59:35,943
Adrian owns them, Rorschach.
1141
00:59:36,010 --> 00:59:39,747
He owns and controls
all of them.
1142
00:59:39,814 --> 00:59:41,715
But Veidt was target
of assassin.
1143
00:59:42,650 --> 00:59:44,819
Maybe, maybe not.
1144
00:59:44,885 --> 00:59:47,655
We need to find Adrian fast.
1145
00:59:53,594 --> 00:59:54,628
Rorschach's journal,
1146
00:59:54,695 --> 00:59:57,064
November 1st, 1985.
1147
00:59:57,131 --> 00:59:58,466
Final entry.
1148
00:59:58,533 --> 01:00:00,634
Dreiberg convinced Veidt
is behind everything.
1149
01:00:00,701 --> 01:00:03,304
Cannot imagine
more dangerous opponent.
1150
01:00:03,370 --> 01:00:04,839
Faster than either of us.
1151
01:00:04,905 --> 01:00:07,274
Could kill us both there
in Antarctic snow.
1152
01:00:07,341 --> 01:00:08,909
Nobody would ever know.
1153
01:00:08,976 --> 01:00:10,911
Return from mission
seems unlikely.
1154
01:00:12,646 --> 01:00:14,381
Hope the world
survives long enough
1155
01:00:14,448 --> 01:00:16,016
for anyone to read this,
1156
01:00:16,083 --> 01:00:18,686
so people will know the truth
of this conspiracy
1157
01:00:18,752 --> 01:00:21,288
that Adrian Veidt
is responsible.
1158
01:00:21,355 --> 01:00:23,991
For my own part,
I regret nothing.
1159
01:00:24,058 --> 01:00:26,260
I've lived life
free from compromise.
1160
01:00:27,928 --> 01:00:32,099
I step into the shadow now,
without complaint.
1161
01:00:58,759 --> 01:01:01,362
Not the sort of snow
you're used to in California,
1162
01:01:01,428 --> 01:01:03,063
Mr. Roth.
1163
01:01:03,130 --> 01:01:06,066
I am as pleasantly
surprised by a coke-joke
1164
01:01:06,133 --> 01:01:08,002
from the world-famous
Adrian Veidt,
1165
01:01:08,068 --> 01:01:11,772
as I am your gracious
invitation to Karnak here.
1166
01:01:11,839 --> 01:01:13,908
Your Antarctic retreat
is breathtaking,
1167
01:01:13,974 --> 01:01:15,743
to say the least.
1168
01:01:15,809 --> 01:01:17,411
And the name, Karnak.
1169
01:01:17,478 --> 01:01:19,013
Egyptian in origin, correct?
1170
01:01:19,079 --> 01:01:21,516
Yes. You've done
your homework.
1171
01:01:21,583 --> 01:01:24,852
Not enough
to keep up with you, I'm sure.
1172
01:01:24,919 --> 01:01:26,453
Hello, Mr. Veidt.
1173
01:01:26,521 --> 01:01:28,822
You'll be happy to know
the delivery arrived
1174
01:01:28,889 --> 01:01:30,457
in perfect condition.
1175
01:01:30,525 --> 01:01:32,293
Excellent news, my friends.
1176
01:01:32,359 --> 01:01:34,629
I've brought you
an excellent wine to celebrate.
1177
01:01:34,695 --> 01:01:38,999
Ah. Ramses II,
also known as Ozymandias,
1178
01:01:39,066 --> 01:01:40,635
your namesake as a superhero.
1179
01:01:40,701 --> 01:01:43,771
Tell us more about your path
to becoming Ozymandias.
1180
01:01:44,405 --> 01:01:45,906
Oh, certainly.
1181
01:01:45,973 --> 01:01:50,411
I'd say my journey began
after my parents died.
1182
01:01:50,477 --> 01:01:52,079
They left me
with a lot of money,
1183
01:01:52,146 --> 01:01:54,549
but I gave it all to charity
when I was 17.
1184
01:01:54,616 --> 01:01:58,185
I wanted to prove that I could
accomplish anything I wanted...
1185
01:01:58,252 --> 01:02:01,155
-Shall we prepare your dinner?
-No.
1186
01:02:01,222 --> 01:02:02,723
Work comes first.
1187
01:02:02,790 --> 01:02:04,693
...only guidance
was inspiration
1188
01:02:04,792 --> 01:02:08,128
from the one human
with whom I felt any kinship,
1189
01:02:09,531 --> 01:02:11,265
Alexander of Macedonia.
1190
01:02:11,332 --> 01:02:13,434
As a brilliant,
young army commander,
1191
01:02:13,500 --> 01:02:15,769
Alexander swept through
many countries,
1192
01:02:15,836 --> 01:02:17,505
ruled without barbarism,
1193
01:02:17,572 --> 01:02:19,773
and instituted the world's
greatest center of learning
1194
01:02:19,840 --> 01:02:21,308
in Egypt.
1195
01:02:21,375 --> 01:02:22,943
Determined to measure
my success against his,
1196
01:02:23,010 --> 01:02:24,278
I retraced my hero's steps...
1197
01:02:24,345 --> 01:02:25,779
Nova Express interview
1198
01:02:25,846 --> 01:02:28,449
is ready for your review
before broadcast.
1199
01:02:28,516 --> 01:02:30,685
The planet is currently
swarming in events,
1200
01:02:30,751 --> 01:02:32,587
and I need
to review them all.
1201
01:02:32,654 --> 01:02:35,557
I need information
in its most concentrated form.
1202
01:02:35,624 --> 01:02:37,491
...where some say
you've even learned
1203
01:02:37,559 --> 01:02:39,594
how to catch a bullet
in your bare hands!
1204
01:02:39,661 --> 01:02:43,063
We shall retire
to enjoy your generous gift.
1205
01:02:43,130 --> 01:02:46,200
We know that you prefer
to be alone down here.
1206
01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:48,135
Yes.
1207
01:02:48,202 --> 01:02:49,303
Alexander united
the civilized world...
1208
01:02:49,370 --> 01:02:50,204
All alone.
1209
01:02:50,271 --> 01:02:51,472
But only while he lived.
1210
01:02:51,539 --> 01:02:52,806
Just me and the world.
1211
01:02:52,873 --> 01:02:53,742
The wisdom
of the pharaohs
1212
01:02:53,807 --> 01:02:55,142
inspired the world
1213
01:02:55,209 --> 01:02:56,544
for generations
beyond their passing.
1214
01:02:56,611 --> 01:02:58,812
Adopting Ramses II's
Greek name,
1215
01:02:58,879 --> 01:03:00,281
and Alexander's
free-booting style,
1216
01:03:00,347 --> 01:03:03,551
I began my path...
to conquest.
1217
01:03:03,618 --> 01:03:05,486
Conquest not of men,
1218
01:03:05,553 --> 01:03:07,855
but the evils
that beset them.
1219
01:03:15,496 --> 01:03:18,065
The channels change
every 100 seconds
1220
01:03:18,132 --> 01:03:20,067
creating random images,
1221
01:03:20,134 --> 01:03:21,835
allowing subliminal hints
of the future
1222
01:03:21,902 --> 01:03:23,103
to come through.
1223
01:03:23,170 --> 01:03:25,707
A jigsaw puzzle model
of tomorrow.
1224
01:03:25,774 --> 01:03:27,241
I see a juxtaposition
1225
01:03:27,308 --> 01:03:30,311
of wish-fulfillment violence
and infantile imagery,
1226
01:03:30,377 --> 01:03:36,317
evocative of desire to regress,
be free of responsibility.
1227
01:03:36,383 --> 01:03:39,486
I see increased sexual imagery,
implying an erotic undercurrent
1228
01:03:39,554 --> 01:03:41,889
not uncommon
in times of conflict.
1229
01:03:42,691 --> 01:03:44,391
This all says war.
1230
01:03:47,895 --> 01:03:49,564
I will invest accordingly.
1231
01:03:52,534 --> 01:03:55,169
Everybody's scared.
You can feel it.
1232
01:03:55,235 --> 01:03:56,538
I estimated
1233
01:03:56,604 --> 01:03:58,172
I was not far
from Davidstown...
1234
01:03:58,238 --> 01:04:00,140
Just waiting for the nukes
to start dropping.
1235
01:04:00,207 --> 01:04:01,776
I was sure that by now
1236
01:04:01,842 --> 01:04:03,110
the place had been overrun
1237
01:04:03,177 --> 01:04:04,779
by the Freighter's brigands.
1238
01:04:04,845 --> 01:04:06,447
At the end of my journey,
1239
01:04:06,514 --> 01:04:09,883
all that remained to me now
was revenge
1240
01:04:09,950 --> 01:04:14,656
against those who had killed
my family, my crew,
1241
01:04:14,723 --> 01:04:16,924
and left me for dead.
1242
01:04:18,258 --> 01:04:19,627
Davidstown
slept,
1243
01:04:19,694 --> 01:04:22,664
deserted save for silence.
1244
01:04:22,731 --> 01:04:25,499
Hard to believe
we're finally going home.
1245
01:04:25,567 --> 01:04:27,301
I'll drink to that.
1246
01:04:28,869 --> 01:04:32,439
I arrived
at my former residence,
1247
01:04:32,507 --> 01:04:36,243
careful not to rouse the
butchers occupying it.
1248
01:04:43,317 --> 01:04:47,254
Unaware that
death was among them...
1249
01:04:47,321 --> 01:04:53,561
They'd know its dark embrace
without ever understanding why.
1250
01:04:55,764 --> 01:04:58,031
One, however, was awake.
1251
01:04:59,366 --> 01:05:01,368
Frantic, lest he should
raise alarms,
1252
01:05:01,435 --> 01:05:02,570
I set upon him.
1253
01:05:02,637 --> 01:05:04,238
In cataract darkness,
1254
01:05:04,304 --> 01:05:05,607
I bludgeoned him.
1255
01:05:05,673 --> 01:05:08,510
His screams
unnervingly shrill.
1256
01:05:08,576 --> 01:05:12,479
No pirates came,
but something worse.
1257
01:05:12,547 --> 01:05:15,349
I looked up
into faces familiar,
1258
01:05:15,416 --> 01:05:17,585
save for their terror.
1259
01:05:17,652 --> 01:05:19,654
The children wailed.
1260
01:05:19,721 --> 01:05:21,989
I looked
down at the figure beneath me.
1261
01:05:22,055 --> 01:05:27,094
Through puffed and bloodied
lips she mouthed my name.
1262
01:05:27,161 --> 01:05:30,030
There came an understanding
so large,
1263
01:05:30,097 --> 01:05:33,934
it left no room for sanity.
1264
01:05:34,001 --> 01:05:39,339
I ran, but the knowledge
of my damnation paced me,
1265
01:05:39,406 --> 01:05:43,711
gloating, celebrating
its awful victory.
1266
01:05:43,778 --> 01:05:47,014
Behind me,
a Lynch mob howled.
1267
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:50,951
Eventually, I came
to an ash-colored shore,
1268
01:05:51,018 --> 01:05:54,455
a dismal black ocean
stretching before me.
1269
01:05:54,522 --> 01:05:58,560
How had I reached this
appalling position,
1270
01:05:58,626 --> 01:06:02,429
with love, only love, as my
guide?
1271
01:06:03,263 --> 01:06:05,633
How had my noble intentions,
1272
01:06:06,634 --> 01:06:07,802
led me to atrocity?
1273
01:06:18,513 --> 01:06:23,651
Pausing,
I stood, panting, sobbing,
1274
01:06:23,718 --> 01:06:26,019
...listening to
the windborne sound
1275
01:06:26,086 --> 01:06:28,923
of my pursuers draw closer.
1276
01:06:28,989 --> 01:06:35,395
Planning to resume my flight,
I raised my head and saw her.
1277
01:06:35,462 --> 01:06:39,567
The black freighter and its
accursed inhabitants
1278
01:06:39,634 --> 01:06:43,638
seemed to be waiting,
waiting for me.
1279
01:06:43,705 --> 01:06:45,105
They'd come to Davidstown
1280
01:06:45,172 --> 01:06:48,208
to collect the only prize
they'd ever valued.
1281
01:06:48,275 --> 01:06:52,145
Claim the only soul
they'd ever truly wanted.
1282
01:06:52,814 --> 01:06:55,315
I was a horror,
1283
01:06:55,382 --> 01:06:59,554
amongst horrors I must dwell.
1284
01:06:59,621 --> 01:07:02,456
I swam towards the
anchored freighter.
1285
01:07:03,791 --> 01:07:05,359
A rope snaked down.
1286
01:07:06,126 --> 01:07:09,196
Spluttering, I grabbed it.
1287
01:07:09,263 --> 01:07:12,199
And from the decks above,
a cheer went up,
1288
01:07:13,400 --> 01:07:16,604
both gross and black.
1289
01:07:16,671 --> 01:07:20,440
It's stench
affronting heaven.
1290
01:07:40,093 --> 01:07:41,061
Manners.
1291
01:07:47,467 --> 01:07:48,536
Now.
1292
01:07:49,403 --> 01:07:51,171
What can I do for you?
1293
01:07:51,238 --> 01:07:54,241
We know
you're behind everything.
1294
01:07:54,308 --> 01:07:57,110
The Comedian's murder,
Jon's exile.
1295
01:07:57,177 --> 01:07:58,312
Christ! Adrian,
1296
01:07:58,378 --> 01:07:59,747
we're on the brink
of World War III
1297
01:07:59,814 --> 01:08:01,081
because of you.
1298
01:08:01,148 --> 01:08:02,817
Well, Nixon
and his attack dog, Blake,
1299
01:08:02,884 --> 01:08:05,218
most certainly did more
in that regard.
1300
01:08:05,285 --> 01:08:06,654
Have you ever read
the last speech
1301
01:08:06,721 --> 01:08:08,088
Kennedy was supposed
to deliver?
1302
01:08:13,695 --> 01:08:16,764
"We in this country,
in this generation,
1303
01:08:16,831 --> 01:08:20,500
are by destiny,
rather than by choice,
1304
01:08:20,568 --> 01:08:23,403
the watchmen
on the walls of freedom."
1305
01:08:23,470 --> 01:08:27,775
But in a world of tyranny,
crosshairs watched him.
1306
01:08:27,842 --> 01:08:29,109
Blake's, most probably.
1307
01:08:29,176 --> 01:08:30,143
What the hell
1308
01:08:30,210 --> 01:08:31,445
are you getting at, Adrian?
1309
01:08:31,512 --> 01:08:33,514
It was then
that I began to realize
1310
01:08:33,581 --> 01:08:35,717
my adventuring
was a...
1311
01:08:35,783 --> 01:08:38,452
hollow crusade
against such forces,
1312
01:08:38,519 --> 01:08:41,455
a dark comedy clarified
by the Comedian himself
1313
01:08:41,522 --> 01:08:42,857
in '66.
1314
01:08:42,924 --> 01:08:45,860
I'm sure you remember
the Crimebusters fiasco,
1315
01:08:45,927 --> 01:08:48,630
where he discussed
nuclear war's inevitability.
1316
01:08:49,797 --> 01:08:51,966
He opened my eyes
to the truth.
1317
01:08:52,033 --> 01:08:54,368
Only the best comedians
accomplish that.
1318
01:08:54,434 --> 01:08:57,905
That's when I understood
what I must do.
1319
01:08:57,972 --> 01:09:01,075
Alexander's methods,
unification by conquest
1320
01:09:01,141 --> 01:09:02,376
would not halt the race
1321
01:09:02,442 --> 01:09:03,778
toward mutually-assured
destruction
1322
01:09:03,845 --> 01:09:05,479
between East and West.
1323
01:09:05,546 --> 01:09:06,914
But Alexander was also known
1324
01:09:06,981 --> 01:09:10,250
for untying the unsolvable
Gordian knot...
1325
01:09:11,085 --> 01:09:12,587
by severing it with a sword.
1326
01:09:12,654 --> 01:09:14,689
The same
unconventional solution
1327
01:09:14,756 --> 01:09:15,723
would be required
1328
01:09:15,790 --> 01:09:17,491
to untangle
our global problems.
1329
01:09:18,126 --> 01:09:19,426
And my sword
1330
01:09:19,493 --> 01:09:21,996
would be history's
greatest practical joke.
1331
01:09:22,063 --> 01:09:24,297
A joke discovered
by Comedian.
1332
01:09:26,366 --> 01:09:28,435
Blake was returning
from Nicaragua by airship
1333
01:09:28,502 --> 01:09:30,638
when he spotted
my private island.
1334
01:09:30,705 --> 01:09:33,641
He investigated and discovered
my artists and scientists
1335
01:09:33,708 --> 01:09:37,411
creating a genetically-altered,
monstrous new life-form
1336
01:09:37,477 --> 01:09:39,312
and our research
in teleportation.
1337
01:09:39,947 --> 01:09:41,448
Teleportation?
1338
01:09:41,516 --> 01:09:43,084
But only Jon can teleport.
1339
01:09:43,151 --> 01:09:46,253
Jon proved it possible,
and certainly more desirable
1340
01:09:46,319 --> 01:09:48,221
than the electric vehicles
he developed.
1341
01:09:48,288 --> 01:09:50,558
So, I capitalized
on his endeavors
1342
01:09:50,625 --> 01:09:53,895
by developing the basic patent
for the public spark-hydrants
1343
01:09:53,961 --> 01:09:55,630
that power his vehicles.
1344
01:09:55,697 --> 01:09:57,632
I financed
Dimensional Developments,
1345
01:09:57,699 --> 01:09:59,834
and the Institute
for Extraspatial Studies
1346
01:09:59,901 --> 01:10:00,935
with the proceeds.
1347
01:10:01,002 --> 01:10:03,203
Both developed new technologies
1348
01:10:03,270 --> 01:10:06,140
spun-off from Jon's
government research.
1349
01:10:06,206 --> 01:10:08,375
But without his guiding mind,
1350
01:10:08,442 --> 01:10:11,478
teleportation proved...
limited.
1351
01:10:11,546 --> 01:10:14,115
Anything living
died explosively on arrival.
1352
01:10:14,182 --> 01:10:15,750
Talking in circles.
1353
01:10:15,817 --> 01:10:18,318
You murdered Comedian
to keep him quiet.
1354
01:10:18,385 --> 01:10:19,721
Unfortunately for Blake,
1355
01:10:19,787 --> 01:10:21,756
I was monitoring
Moloch's residence
1356
01:10:21,823 --> 01:10:24,625
when his practiced
cynicism cracked,
1357
01:10:24,692 --> 01:10:27,662
and he began to spill fragments
of my plan.
1358
01:10:27,729 --> 01:10:30,198
I regret
his accidental involvement.
1359
01:10:30,263 --> 01:10:33,568
With the fate of the world,
and all humanity at stake,
1360
01:10:33,634 --> 01:10:36,503
I couldn't risk the possibility
of Blake revealing my plan
1361
01:10:36,571 --> 01:10:39,507
in its entirety to anyone...
1362
01:10:39,574 --> 01:10:40,975
...especially to Jon.
1363
01:10:41,809 --> 01:10:42,677
Being too powerful
1364
01:10:42,744 --> 01:10:45,245
and unpredictable
to fit my plans,
1365
01:10:45,312 --> 01:10:47,447
I plotted his removal
for years.
1366
01:10:47,515 --> 01:10:49,150
Thus his past associates
1367
01:10:49,217 --> 01:10:51,185
were exposed to radiation
and cultivated as weapons
1368
01:10:51,251 --> 01:10:55,523
against Jon's increasingly
fragile attachment to mankind.
1369
01:10:55,590 --> 01:10:57,925
With Jon and Blake
neutralized,
1370
01:10:57,992 --> 01:11:01,662
your mask-killer investigation
then needed stopping.
1371
01:11:01,729 --> 01:11:03,463
I staged
my own assassination attempt
1372
01:11:03,531 --> 01:11:07,135
to place me beyond suspicion
and cast doubt on the theory.
1373
01:11:07,201 --> 01:11:10,638
The unwitting assassin I hired
was fed a cyanide capsule.
1374
01:11:10,705 --> 01:11:13,440
And Rorschach was framed
for Moloch's murder
1375
01:11:13,508 --> 01:11:15,076
to close the loose ends.
1376
01:11:17,612 --> 01:11:19,680
Adrian, you're talking about
faulty teleportation
1377
01:11:19,747 --> 01:11:22,717
and genetic monsters
and ending war.
1378
01:11:22,784 --> 01:11:26,587
How does any of this
mad science make sense?
1379
01:11:26,654 --> 01:11:28,556
My plan is quite simple.
1380
01:11:28,623 --> 01:11:30,625
Teleport my creature
to New York.
1381
01:11:30,691 --> 01:11:33,628
The ensuing explosion
will wipe out half the city.
1382
01:11:33,694 --> 01:11:35,863
The aftermath will convince
the governments of Earth
1383
01:11:35,930 --> 01:11:38,699
that we are under attack
by beings from another world.
1384
01:11:38,766 --> 01:11:40,768
Instead of fighting
each other,
1385
01:11:40,835 --> 01:11:43,370
for the first time
the human race will unite
1386
01:11:43,436 --> 01:11:44,739
against a common foe
1387
01:11:44,806 --> 01:11:48,676
and usher in a new age
of global peace.
1388
01:11:53,080 --> 01:11:54,882
Adrian, listen to me.
1389
01:11:55,415 --> 01:11:57,018
You're not well.
1390
01:11:57,084 --> 01:11:58,418
You need help.
1391
01:11:58,485 --> 01:11:59,921
I'm just glad we got here
1392
01:11:59,987 --> 01:12:02,355
before you had a chance
to try and do it.
1393
01:12:02,924 --> 01:12:04,357
Do it?
1394
01:12:04,424 --> 01:12:07,028
Dan, I'm not
some comic book villain.
1395
01:12:07,094 --> 01:12:09,597
Do you seriously think
I'd explain my masterstroke
1396
01:12:09,664 --> 01:12:11,532
if there was even
the slightest chance of you
1397
01:12:11,599 --> 01:12:13,067
affecting its outcome?
1398
01:12:14,101 --> 01:12:15,837
I did it 35 minutes ago.
1399
01:12:31,552 --> 01:12:34,655
Oh, man.
1400
01:12:36,023 --> 01:12:36,924
Hm.
1401
01:12:38,826 --> 01:12:43,430
Well, it's 11:25.
About time to close up, kid.
1402
01:12:43,496 --> 01:12:45,933
Hey, how many times
you gonna read that junk?
1403
01:12:46,000 --> 01:12:48,269
This story
don't make sense, man.
1404
01:12:48,336 --> 01:12:49,770
That's why I got
to read it over.
1405
01:12:49,837 --> 01:12:52,707
And my name's Bernie,
not "kid."
1406
01:12:52,773 --> 01:12:54,542
Bernie?
Short for Bernard?
1407
01:12:54,609 --> 01:12:55,977
No kidding.
1408
01:12:56,043 --> 01:12:57,578
That's my name... too.
1409
01:12:58,045 --> 01:12:59,013
Whoa...
1410
01:13:07,021 --> 01:13:08,122
What the...
1411
01:13:08,189 --> 01:13:09,690
Ah, Jesus, Derf...
1412
01:13:17,365 --> 01:13:18,833
Holy...
1413
01:14:20,460 --> 01:14:22,596
Oh, my God!
1414
01:14:22,663 --> 01:14:24,799
Oh, my God!
1415
01:14:31,605 --> 01:14:33,808
What... what the hell is that?
1416
01:14:33,874 --> 01:14:37,278
I had expected us to return
to Earth much earlier.
1417
01:14:37,345 --> 01:14:39,046
The interference I had noticed,
1418
01:14:39,113 --> 01:14:41,716
it was not a warhead detonation
after all.
1419
01:14:42,416 --> 01:14:43,718
So what...
1420
01:14:44,585 --> 01:14:45,686
Tachyons.
1421
01:14:45,753 --> 01:14:47,388
A squall of tachyons.
1422
01:14:47,455 --> 01:14:49,323
But where can they be
coming from?
1423
01:14:49,390 --> 01:14:53,194
I had almost forgotten
the delights of uncertainty.
1424
01:14:53,260 --> 01:14:54,862
Jon...
1425
01:14:54,929 --> 01:14:57,999
I am picking up a strong pulse
from the south-polar region.
1426
01:14:58,065 --> 01:15:00,134
Jon, get me out of here,
please.
1427
01:15:01,302 --> 01:15:02,236
Of course.
1428
01:15:05,773 --> 01:15:07,174
No one will doubt
1429
01:15:07,241 --> 01:15:10,544
the Earth has met a force
so dreadful
1430
01:15:10,611 --> 01:15:12,646
that it must be repelled,
1431
01:15:13,581 --> 01:15:15,983
all former enmities aside.
1432
01:15:17,551 --> 01:15:20,488
No one must ever
know the truth.
1433
01:15:20,554 --> 01:15:23,124
Those who were involved
are dead.
1434
01:15:23,190 --> 01:15:27,428
Killers killed by killers
who killed each other.
1435
01:15:27,495 --> 01:15:29,230
A lethal pyramid.
1436
01:15:30,431 --> 01:15:33,567
And what about us?
1437
01:15:39,273 --> 01:15:40,808
Veidt, of course.
1438
01:15:40,875 --> 01:15:44,245
Who else has the intelligence
for tachyon interference?
1439
01:15:44,311 --> 01:15:45,746
He must have anticipated
1440
01:15:45,813 --> 01:15:47,882
my possible discovery
of his plot for some time.
1441
01:15:47,948 --> 01:15:51,152
All that stuff in New York,
Adrian planned it?
1442
01:15:51,218 --> 01:15:54,188
Yes. He killed Blake
and half of New York.
1443
01:15:55,289 --> 01:15:56,490
Excuse me, Rorschach.
1444
01:15:56,557 --> 01:15:58,826
I am informing Laurie
ten seconds ago.
1445
01:15:58,893 --> 01:16:01,128
These tachyons are muddling
things up.
1446
01:16:01,195 --> 01:16:02,163
Jon, wait!
1447
01:16:05,433 --> 01:16:08,035
-Jon!
-No!
1448
01:16:08,102 --> 01:16:09,103
Have to stop him.
1449
01:16:09,170 --> 01:16:10,805
Killed Blake
and half of New York.
1450
01:16:10,871 --> 01:16:13,574
Yes. He killed Blake
and half of New York.
1451
01:16:13,641 --> 01:16:14,909
Excuse me, Rorschach.
1452
01:16:14,975 --> 01:16:17,244
I am informing Laurie
ten seconds ago.
1453
01:16:17,311 --> 01:16:20,681
These tachyons
are muddling things up.
1454
01:16:29,857 --> 01:16:32,326
The static is stronger here.
1455
01:16:33,861 --> 01:16:37,465
Hiding behind these tachyons
was clever, Veidt.
1456
01:16:37,532 --> 01:16:40,201
But this game is stupid.
1457
01:16:42,736 --> 01:16:44,205
Very well.
1458
01:16:44,271 --> 01:16:46,240
If I must follow this through
to the bitter end...
1459
01:17:05,392 --> 01:17:06,861
Dan.
1460
01:17:17,972 --> 01:17:20,808
Bubastis, forgive me.
1461
01:17:25,880 --> 01:17:27,414
Veidt, don't!
1462
01:17:38,125 --> 01:17:41,362
Huh. I wasn't actually sure
that would work.
1463
01:17:41,428 --> 01:17:42,363
Veidt...
1464
01:17:44,298 --> 01:17:45,833
you're an asshole.
1465
01:17:59,713 --> 01:18:01,550
Oh, shit.
1466
01:18:04,351 --> 01:18:05,686
Laurie!
1467
01:18:09,056 --> 01:18:10,691
Something else I wasn't sure
I would--
1468
01:18:16,463 --> 01:18:18,933
I am disappointed, Veidt.
1469
01:18:18,999 --> 01:18:20,868
Very disappointed.
1470
01:18:34,081 --> 01:18:38,118
Restructuring myself
was the first trick I learned.
1471
01:18:38,185 --> 01:18:40,287
Did you really think
it would kill me?
1472
01:18:41,488 --> 01:18:43,824
I have walked across the sun.
1473
01:18:43,891 --> 01:18:46,393
I have seen events
so tiny and so fast
1474
01:18:46,460 --> 01:18:49,496
that they can hardly be said
to have occurred at all.
1475
01:18:49,564 --> 01:18:50,431
But you?
1476
01:18:50,497 --> 01:18:53,067
You are just a man.
1477
01:18:53,133 --> 01:18:55,469
And this world's smartest man
1478
01:18:55,537 --> 01:18:59,406
means nothing more to me
than its smartest termite.
1479
01:19:01,075 --> 01:19:02,977
What is that, Veidt?
1480
01:19:03,043 --> 01:19:05,346
Another ultimate weapon?
1481
01:19:05,412 --> 01:19:07,214
You could say that.
1482
01:19:07,281 --> 01:19:08,516
This just in...
1483
01:19:08,583 --> 01:19:09,718
We have terrifying images...
1484
01:19:09,783 --> 01:19:11,952
Oh, Christ...
1485
01:19:12,019 --> 01:19:13,622
What you are about to see
may shock you.
1486
01:19:13,688 --> 01:19:15,624
...it's an utterly
horrible scene here.
1487
01:19:15,690 --> 01:19:18,492
...an institute
researching other dimensions.
1488
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:20,662
...millions have
died here this evening.
1489
01:19:20,729 --> 01:19:23,330
No! No!
1490
01:19:23,397 --> 01:19:24,965
Could it be alien contact?
1491
01:19:25,032 --> 01:19:26,735
Has the Earth been invaded?
1492
01:19:26,800 --> 01:19:28,135
Global concern is growing...
1493
01:19:28,202 --> 01:19:29,937
...and world leaders
are issuing
1494
01:19:30,004 --> 01:19:31,539
statements of support
across the globe.
1495
01:19:31,606 --> 01:19:33,307
We're hearing now
that Russian leader
1496
01:19:33,374 --> 01:19:34,743
Gorbachev said,
1497
01:19:34,808 --> 01:19:36,611
they're evaluating the new
threat in New York...
1498
01:19:36,678 --> 01:19:39,113
...increasing calls
for an immediate peace summit
1499
01:19:39,179 --> 01:19:40,881
in Geneva from world leaders...
1500
01:19:40,948 --> 01:19:42,550
in a global
concerted effort...
1501
01:19:42,617 --> 01:19:44,519
Even Russia
is suspending military action.
1502
01:19:44,586 --> 01:19:46,954
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is good news.
1503
01:19:47,021 --> 01:19:48,489
The war is over.
1504
01:19:48,556 --> 01:19:50,124
War is over.
1505
01:19:50,190 --> 01:19:52,059
The war is over.
1506
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:55,429
I did it. I did it!
1507
01:19:56,497 --> 01:19:59,333
I saved Earth from hell!
1508
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:02,704
And next I will lift her up
toward utopia.
1509
01:20:02,771 --> 01:20:04,271
Wait. Next?
1510
01:20:04,338 --> 01:20:07,107
You really think
you can get away with this?
1511
01:20:09,977 --> 01:20:11,613
If you expose me,
1512
01:20:11,680 --> 01:20:15,082
you will undo the peace
that millions died to achieve.
1513
01:20:15,784 --> 01:20:17,384
If you kill me,
1514
01:20:17,451 --> 01:20:20,220
you risk investigations
that will reveal what happened.
1515
01:20:21,556 --> 01:20:23,824
He is correct.
1516
01:20:23,891 --> 01:20:25,292
Exposing this plot
1517
01:20:25,359 --> 01:20:29,096
results in greater destruction
on Earth.
1518
01:20:29,163 --> 01:20:32,634
On Mars,
you demonstrated life's value.
1519
01:20:32,701 --> 01:20:37,071
If we would preserve life here,
we must remain silent.
1520
01:20:39,507 --> 01:20:42,943
You're right. Jesus.
1521
01:20:49,517 --> 01:20:50,518
Rorschach...
1522
01:20:51,452 --> 01:20:53,854
we... we...
1523
01:20:55,856 --> 01:20:58,092
We have to compromise on this.
1524
01:21:00,762 --> 01:21:02,996
No.
1525
01:21:03,063 --> 01:21:05,499
Not even
in the face of Armageddon.
1526
01:21:05,567 --> 01:21:07,301
Never compromise.
1527
01:21:09,604 --> 01:21:12,906
Well, in all likelihood,
he is of no consequence.
1528
01:21:12,973 --> 01:21:16,076
Rorschach is hardly
a reliable witness.
1529
01:21:17,378 --> 01:21:18,379
Still...
1530
01:21:21,448 --> 01:21:25,052
I think I shall meditate
in my orrery now.
1531
01:21:25,119 --> 01:21:27,287
Jon?
1532
01:21:37,799 --> 01:21:38,966
Where are you going?
1533
01:21:39,032 --> 01:21:40,367
Back to America.
1534
01:21:40,434 --> 01:21:43,137
People must be told.
Evil must be punished.
1535
01:21:43,203 --> 01:21:46,173
You know,
I cannot let you do that.
1536
01:21:48,208 --> 01:21:51,979
Of course.
To protect Veidt's new utopia.
1537
01:21:52,045 --> 01:21:54,516
One more body
amongst foundations
1538
01:21:54,582 --> 01:21:56,250
makes little difference.
1539
01:21:57,585 --> 01:21:58,452
Well...
1540
01:22:00,020 --> 01:22:01,288
what are you waiting for?
1541
01:22:02,524 --> 01:22:03,991
Do it.
1542
01:22:06,160 --> 01:22:07,695
Rorschach...
1543
01:22:12,801 --> 01:22:13,934
Do it.
1544
01:22:18,338 --> 01:22:19,173
Do it!
1545
01:22:24,044 --> 01:22:25,914
No!
1546
01:22:25,979 --> 01:22:28,215
-No, no.
-Dan.
1547
01:22:28,783 --> 01:22:29,684
God.
1548
01:22:29,751 --> 01:22:30,885
I'm here, Dan.
1549
01:22:30,951 --> 01:22:32,186
No.
1550
01:22:32,252 --> 01:22:33,688
I'm so sorry.
1551
01:22:47,468 --> 01:22:49,169
Hello, Jon.
1552
01:22:50,638 --> 01:22:52,574
I was hoping
we'd have a chance to talk.
1553
01:22:54,642 --> 01:22:57,044
I know I've journeyed
across the backs
1554
01:22:57,110 --> 01:22:59,980
of murdered innocents
to save humanity.
1555
01:23:01,014 --> 01:23:02,717
But someone
had to take the weight
1556
01:23:02,784 --> 01:23:06,253
of that awful necessary crime.
1557
01:23:06,320 --> 01:23:09,624
Unlike Rorschach,
I understand,
1558
01:23:10,625 --> 01:23:13,460
without condoning
or condemning.
1559
01:23:13,528 --> 01:23:17,665
Human affairs cannot
be my concern any longer.
1560
01:23:17,732 --> 01:23:23,136
I am leaving this galaxy
for one... less complicated.
1561
01:23:23,203 --> 01:23:26,173
But you'd regained interest
in human life.
1562
01:23:26,240 --> 01:23:28,510
Yes, I have.
1563
01:23:30,244 --> 01:23:32,212
I think I would like
to create some.
1564
01:23:34,214 --> 01:23:35,082
Goodbye, Adrian.
1565
01:23:35,148 --> 01:23:36,651
Before you leave,
1566
01:23:38,318 --> 01:23:40,187
I did the right thing,
didn't I?
1567
01:23:41,556 --> 01:23:43,123
It all worked out in the end.
1568
01:23:44,659 --> 01:23:46,059
In the end?
1569
01:23:47,294 --> 01:23:49,329
Nothing ends, Adrian.
1570
01:23:51,599 --> 01:23:53,300
Nothing ever ends.
1571
01:24:12,687 --> 01:24:15,657
Well, despite
nearly killing me
1572
01:24:15,723 --> 01:24:17,291
with a heart attack,
1573
01:24:17,357 --> 01:24:19,761
this is quite a Christmas gift.
1574
01:24:19,827 --> 01:24:24,197
I'm just so happy
to have my little Laurel back.
1575
01:24:24,264 --> 01:24:27,301
-Hair color, aside.
-Mother, remember?
1576
01:24:27,367 --> 01:24:29,671
It's Sandra
and Sam Hollis, now.
1577
01:24:29,737 --> 01:24:31,039
Aw!
1578
01:24:31,104 --> 01:24:34,642
And Hollis would be so proud
that you took his name.
1579
01:24:34,709 --> 01:24:38,312
It was the least I could do
to honor him.
1580
01:24:38,378 --> 01:24:40,447
He was like
a second father to me.
1581
01:24:40,515 --> 01:24:43,518
And that's why
I wanted to visit.
1582
01:24:45,218 --> 01:24:49,624
Mom, I found out
who my real dad was.
1583
01:24:51,626 --> 01:24:53,260
Oh, Jesus.
1584
01:24:53,327 --> 01:24:56,096
Oh, Laurel.
I'm so sorry.
1585
01:24:56,163 --> 01:24:57,532
Mom...
1586
01:24:57,599 --> 01:25:00,500
-What you must think...
-Mom, it doesn't matter.
1587
01:25:02,870 --> 01:25:05,707
People's lives
take them strange places.
1588
01:25:06,507 --> 01:25:07,842
They do strange things,
1589
01:25:07,909 --> 01:25:10,310
and sometimes
they can't talk about them.
1590
01:25:12,179 --> 01:25:13,514
I know how that is.
1591
01:25:16,684 --> 01:25:19,119
I love you, Mom.
1592
01:25:19,186 --> 01:25:22,222
You never did anything
wrong by me.
1593
01:25:26,460 --> 01:25:29,664
Bye, Sam. Bye, Sandra.
1594
01:25:29,731 --> 01:25:31,498
And don't wait too long
to have children.
1595
01:25:31,566 --> 01:25:33,101
I'm an old woman.
1596
01:25:33,166 --> 01:25:35,469
-Goodbye, Mom.
-Bye, Ms. Jupiter.
1597
01:25:35,536 --> 01:25:36,704
You know, maybe that wasn't
1598
01:25:36,771 --> 01:25:38,372
such a bad idea
of your mother's-
1599
01:25:38,438 --> 01:25:40,008
Forget it.
1600
01:25:40,074 --> 01:25:41,375
Not yet.
1601
01:25:41,441 --> 01:25:42,677
You've been talking about
adventuring again,
1602
01:25:42,744 --> 01:25:44,912
and I'm not staying home
changing diapers.
1603
01:25:46,413 --> 01:25:49,050
Nite Owl and Silk Spectre
sounds pretty awesome.
1604
01:25:49,117 --> 01:25:51,451
-I think I want a new name.
-Mm?
1605
01:25:51,519 --> 01:25:53,621
And a better costume
for protection.
1606
01:25:53,688 --> 01:25:56,791
-Mm-hm.
-Something leather.
1607
01:25:56,858 --> 01:25:58,026
Sure.
1608
01:25:58,092 --> 01:25:59,560
And a mask.
1609
01:25:59,627 --> 01:26:01,328
Uh...
1610
01:26:01,395 --> 01:26:03,497
-Maybe a gun.
-Mm...
1611
01:26:10,638 --> 01:26:11,939
Seymour,
where have you been?
1612
01:26:12,006 --> 01:26:13,440
Dimension X?
1613
01:26:13,508 --> 01:26:14,742
I just got lunch
from Burgers 'n' Borscht.
1614
01:26:14,809 --> 01:26:15,943
Don't say it!
1615
01:26:16,010 --> 01:26:17,679
I won't have Russian
spoken in this office,
1616
01:26:17,745 --> 01:26:19,514
ass-kissing peace accord
or not.
1617
01:26:19,580 --> 01:26:21,248
What are you doing?
1618
01:26:21,314 --> 01:26:22,850
Well, I was gonna
eat my lunch.
1619
01:26:22,917 --> 01:26:24,418
Three million New Yorkers died,
1620
01:26:24,484 --> 01:26:25,820
and you weren't one of them.
1621
01:26:25,887 --> 01:26:27,287
Seymour, damn it!
1622
01:26:27,354 --> 01:26:29,524
You've got two more pages
to fill before you eat.
1623
01:26:29,590 --> 01:26:30,792
I thought
your column--
1624
01:26:30,858 --> 01:26:32,060
Well, you thought wrong.
1625
01:26:32,126 --> 01:26:33,628
Nobody's allowed
to say bad things
1626
01:26:33,695 --> 01:26:35,663
about our "good old buddies,"
the Russians anymore.
1627
01:26:35,730 --> 01:26:37,598
So bang goes
a two-page column.
1628
01:26:37,665 --> 01:26:38,900
Get some filler somewhere.
1629
01:26:38,966 --> 01:26:40,434
Robert Redford says
1630
01:26:40,500 --> 01:26:41,936
he'll be running for president
in '88.
1631
01:26:42,003 --> 01:26:44,172
Seymour,
do not dignify absurdities
1632
01:26:44,237 --> 01:26:45,673
with coverage.
1633
01:26:45,740 --> 01:26:47,775
Nobody wants a cowboy actor
in the White House.
1634
01:26:47,842 --> 01:26:49,977
Then I guess
it's something
1635
01:26:50,044 --> 01:26:51,145
from the crank file?
1636
01:26:51,211 --> 01:26:52,747
Yes, yes.
1637
01:26:52,814 --> 01:26:55,348
Whatever's within
your limited abilities.
1638
01:26:55,415 --> 01:26:58,953
Just take responsibility
for once in your life.
1639
01:26:59,020 --> 01:27:00,755
Run whatever you want.
1640
01:27:00,822 --> 01:27:04,525
I leave it entirely
in your hands.
1641
01:27:06,728 --> 01:27:09,797
♪ Can you contain
The Mmeltdowns? ♪
1642
01:27:09,864 --> 01:27:11,799
The atomic age
bite-sized snack
1643
01:27:11,866 --> 01:27:14,135
that'll make you glow
from head to toe.
1644
01:27:14,202 --> 01:27:17,071
♪ Can you contain
The Mmeltdowns? ♪
1645
01:27:17,138 --> 01:27:19,372
A chain reaction
of flavor satisfaction
1646
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,642
that'll make
your taste buds explode.
1647
01:27:21,709 --> 01:27:25,146
♪ Can you contain
The Mmeltdowns? ♪
1648
01:27:25,213 --> 01:27:28,049
Fruity fallout
and a delicious molten center
1649
01:27:28,116 --> 01:27:30,450
that'll blow you
all the way to China.
1650
01:27:30,518 --> 01:27:32,820
♪ Can you contain
The Mmeltdowns? ♪
1651
01:27:32,887 --> 01:27:35,355
Mm, Mmetldowns!