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[KETTLE WHISTLING]

MAN 1 [ON TV]: Wrong, as usual.

The United States' lack of action in Eastern Europe...

...proves that the Soviet Union 's aggression at the Afghan border...

...will not be opposed publicly by the United States.

[WHISTLING STOPS]

Issue: The Soviet Union continued its recent series of military exercises...

...conducting a bomb test today in the Bering Sea...

...just 1500 miles off the southern coast of Alaska.

President Richard Nixon issued this warning to the Soviets:

MAN 2: The United States does not start fights.

Let it be clear we maintain our strength...

...in order to maintain peace...

...so any adversary should ask themselves:

"Do the consequences of attacking America...

...outweigh the potential benefits?"

As a result of the Soviet activity...

...the watchdog group of nuclear scientists...

...moved the Doomsday Clock up to five minutes until midnight:

destruction by nuclear war.

Question:

On a scale of zero to 10, zero meaning impossibility...

...10 meaning complete metaphysical certitude...

...what are the chances the Russians will actually attack the United States?

Pat Buchanan.

Zero.

The Soviets would never risk going to war...

...when we have a walking nuclear deterrent on our side.

You're referring, of course, to Dr. Manhattan...

...but does Dr. Manhattan's existence guarantee world peace? Eleanor Clift.

Well, it hasn 't stopped the Soviet Union...

...from stockpiling record amounts of nuclear weapons.

You don ' t think it' s just posturing?

Maybe the reason why the Soviets...

...are doing these bomb tests...

...is because they feel threatened by Dr. Manhattan. Of course.

Maybe the whole world feels like that.

[MTV THEME "MAN ON THE MOON" PLAYS ON TV]

Soviet ships have violated the territorial waters...

[NAT KING COLE'S "UNFORGETTABLE" PLAYS ON TV]

Just a matter of time, I suppose.

[GRUNTING]

[YELLS]

[CHUCKLES]

It's a joke. It's all a joke.

Mother, forgive me.

[ARGUING INDISTINCTLY]

SALLY: I was a hero, goddamn it!

MAN [ON TV]: an act clearly meant to send a signal to the government in Saigon...

...that violence and oppression is not the way to peace.

MAN 1: Fuck you, pigs!

MAN 2: Good luck, Mr. Gorsky.

MAN: Get out of here, vigilantes!

[CHATTERING]

No!

[SIRENS WAILING]

GALLAGHER: Edward Blake. Sixty-seven years old. Six-two, a solid 225.

Guy was built like a linebacker.

FINE: Yeah, I saw the body.

For a guy his age, he was in terrific shape.

GALLAGHER: You mean apart from being dead?

That's plate glass.

You'd have to step on the gas just to put a crack in it.

Had to have been thrown.

Check the bedroom?

Yeah. Drawers opened, tossed through.

Mattress flipped. Probably robbery.

Or made to look like one.

See this?

- Shaking hands with the president. FINE: Whoa.

Think Blake was a spook?

Government or black ops?

GALLAGHER: I think...

...this is way bigger than both of us.

RORSCHACH: Rorschach's journal, October 12th, 1985.

Dog carcass in alley this morning. Tire tread on burst stomach.

This city's afraid of me.

I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters...

...and the gutters are full of blood.

And when the drains finally scab over...

...all the vermin will drown.

The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder...

...will foam up around their waists...

...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, "Save us."

And I'll whisper, "No."

Now the whole world stands on the brink...

...staring down into bloody hell.

All those liberals and intellectuals...

...and smooth talkers...

...and all of a sudden, nobody can think of anything to say.

Beneath me, this awful city.

It screams like an abattoir full of retarded children...

...and the night reeks of fornication and bad consciences.

Huh.

Tonight, a comedian died in New York.

Somebody knows why.

Somebody knows.

[ELEVATOR BELL DINGS]

[ELEVATOR DOOR OPENS]

No, I definitely heard something.

Watch the door.

[GRUNTS]

Shh.

Must've been the wind. Next time you...

MAN: It all started with the gangs. You know, people tend to forget that.

Pirate outfits, ghosts.

They thought it was funny: dress up and pull heists.

[MAN CHUCKLES]

As soon as we'd arrest them, they'd be back on the street.

Nobody could pick them out of a lineup because of the damn masks.

So a few of us cops, we get together...

...and we figure, what the heck, we'll mask up, too.

We'll finish what the law couldn't.

Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it...

...and oh, boy, we're a national pastime.

It was me, Dollar Bill, Mothman...

...Captain Metropolis, Hooded Justice...

...Silk Spectre and the Comedian.

Oh, don't get me started on him.

I must be drunk already, telling you this sob story again.

I think you were trying to make a point.

Well, my point is that we had it too easy. It wasn't fair what happened to you guys...

You guys who picked up where we left off. - with Nixon forcing you out.

Nixon, oh, that prick. To think I voted for that prick five times.

Hey, it was him or the commies, right?

Oh, wow, it's almost midnight. Gotta go.

Truth?

You were a better Nite Owl than I ever was, Danny boy.

- Hollis, we both know that's bullshit. - Hey.

Watch it with the language.

This is the left hook that floored Captain Axis, remember?

- Yeah. WOMAN [ON TV]: This just in:

The masked vigilante known as Rorschach...

...has assaulted a police officer in the early-morning hours.

Rorschach is on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list...

...for violation of the Keene Act, which banned masked heroes six years ago.

Rorschach reportedly incapacitated...

Forced everyone out except him.

Oh, he' II quit.

When he' s dead.

DAN: Next week? HOLLIS: Well...

...you know, you don't have to keep humoring me like this.

If you got a hot date or something...

Hey, us retired guys have to stick together, right?

You ever miss it?

No. You?

Oh, heck, no.

Be seeing you.

[METAL SCRAPING]

Hello, Daniel.

Rorschach.

Helped myself to some beans. Hope you don't mind.

No, no. Course not.

You want me to heat those up for you?

Fine like this.

How have you been keeping?

RORSCHACH: Out of prison.

Heard about you on the news.

Say you attacked a cop.

RORSCHACH: Minor wound. Won't need hospitalization.

Daniel...

...Iook at this.

DAN: Is this bean juice? RORSCHACH: Human bean juice.

Badge belonged to the Comedian. Blood too. He's dead.

Let's talk downstairs.

DAN: It could have been a burglary.

Maybe the killer didn't know who the Comedian was.

RORSCHACH: An ordinary burglar? Kill the Comedian? Ridiculous.

I heard he'd been working for the government since '77...

...knocking over Marxist republics in South America.

Maybe it was a political killing or something.

Maybe.

Maybe someone's picking off costumed heroes.

DAN: You don't think that's a little paranoid?

That what they say about me now?

Paranoid?

DAN: Look, Comedian made a lot of enemies over the years...

...even among his friends.

RORSCHACH: Speaking of friends, how's Hollis Mason?

He wrote that book. Said some bad things about the Comedian in it.

I don't like what you're implying, and I like being followed even less.

Maybe I was keeping an eye on you, in case someone's gunning for masks.

- You were never that sentimental. - Attack on one is attack on all of us.

What do you suggest we do about it?

Retribution.

- Watchmen are over. - Says Tricky Dick.

Says me.

Nobody knows who you are.

You can give it up, try and have a normal life.

That what you have now? A normal life?

When you walk down the street in a city dying of rabies...

...past the human cockroaches...

...talking about their heroin and child pornography...

...do you really feel normal?

Least I'm not the one still hiding behind a mask.

No.

You're hiding in plain sight.

Be seeing you, Dan.

A maintenance hatch will let you out two blocks north.

Yeah, I remember.

Came here often, when we were partners.

DAN: Those were great times, huh, Rorschach?

- What happened? - You quit.

Rorschach 's journal.

First visit of evening fruitless.

Feel slightly depressed.

Soon there will be war.

Millions will perish in sickness and misery.

Why does one death matter against so many?

Because there is good and evil, and evil must be punished.

Even in the face of armageddon...

...I will not compromise in this.

But there are so many deserving of retribution...

...and so little time.

[GASPS]

MAN: Captain.

- Captain. - Ridley.

Ridley, have you seen any other survivors?

No, sir.

Captain, my foot is caught in some of the wreckage.

- It's pulling me under. - Hold on.

Ridley.

[SCREAMS]

Ridley. Ridley.

No.

No.

VOICES [CHANTING]: More blood, more blood, more blood.

MARINER: Delirious from nearly drowning, I saw it.

The Black Freighter.

The hell-bound ship 's black sails against the yellow Indies sky.

I knew again the stench of powder and men 's brains and war.

VOICES [CHANTING]: More blood, more blood, more blood.

More blood, more blood, more blood.

MARINER: The waves about me were scarlet...

...foaming, horribly warm in the Freighter' s wake.

In despair, I offered my weathered soul to almighty God...

...his mercy and his judgment.

MAN: Heh. What do you think, kid?

We ought to nuke Russia and let God sort it out.

Or at the very least, send Dr. Manhattan over for a visit.

You know what I'm saying?

I mean, I ain't trying to be an asshole or anything, but they're the ones...

...who are agitating us. Now this is just my opinion.

But I'm a news vendor, you know, so I am informed.

Yeah, I know. The New Frontiersman. Well, it's not here yet.

I'd appreciate if you didn't stand around waiting...

...because I don't know when it's going to be here.

I thought you said you was informed.

- Are you gonna buy that? - No.

Oh, Jesus. Just try again tomorrow, okay?

[SIGHS]

MAN: Mr. Veidt...

...to date, you're one of only two Watchmen...

...ever to reveal their true identity to the world...

...the first being Hollis Mason.

And you've certainly profited greatly by it...

...turning your superhero alter ego, Ozymandias, into a billion-dollar industry:

Toys, lunchboxes, genetic engineering.

I understand there's a movie in the works.

- I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth. ROTH: I'm sorry. Do you think...

The Watchmen resent me for prostituting their struggle?

It's a fair question. Yes, it's crossed my mind...

...some of my old colleagues might see it that way...

...just as you're clearly aware that biased journalism...

...sells more magazines.

The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan.

We recently expanded our research facility in Antarctica...

...in the hope of developing cheap, renewable sources of energy...

...that we might eliminate the world's reliance on fossil fuels.

Now, it doesn't take a political scientist...

...to see that our Cold War with the Russians isn't ideological...

...it's based upon fear. Fear of not having enough.

But if we make resources infinite...

...ah...

...we make war obsolete.

I would hope the other Watchmen understand that...

...wherever they may be.

Thanks for your time.

- You look good, Adrian. - Dan.

It's been too long.

ADRIAN: So Rorschach thinks someone's hunting the Watchmen, huh?

You think it's possible?

Statistically, one murder doesn't equal a trend.

Rorschach's a sociopath, Dan.

And so was the Comedian. He was practically a Nazi.

You know that better than anyone.

I'm not here because I miss him.

It's occurred to Rorschach...

...that we're the only ones who know each other's identities.

Actually, the whole world knows yours.

That's why I'm warning you first.

Thank you, Dan...

...but I fear there's something much more real to worry about...

...than Rorschach's mask killer.

If the Russians do launch their nukes, can Jon really stop them?

The Soviets have 51,000 warheads stockpiled.

Even if Jon stops 99 percent of them...

...the 1 percent that get through could still kill every living thing on Earth.

Even Dr. Manhattan can't be everywhere at once.

Rorschach 's journal, October 13th, 1985...

...8:30 p.m.

Meeting with Dreiberg left bad taste in mouth.

A flabby failure who sits whimpering in his basement.

Why are so few of us left active...

...healthy and without personality disorders?

The first Nite Owl runs an auto-repair shop.

The first Silk Spectre is a bloated, aging whore...

...dying in a California rest resort.

Dollar Bill got his cape stuck in a revolving door...

...where he got gunned down.

Silhouette, murdered...

...a victim of her own indecent lifestyle.

Mothman 's in an asylum in Maine.

Even Adrian Veidt, possible homosexual.

Must investigate further.

Only two names remain on my list.

Both share private quarters at Rockefeller Military Research Center.

I shall go to them.

I shall go tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.

JON: Good evening, Rorschach.

RORSCHACH: Dr. Manhattan, you know why I'm here.

JON: Yes...

...but you're going to leave disappointed.

Rorschach. You shouldn't be here. You're a wanted man.

RORSCHACH: Nice to see you too, Silk Spectre.

I have a real name I've been using.

Try it.

Whatever you say, Laurie.

What are you doing here?

JON: The Comedian is dead.

Rorschach wants me to look into my future...

...see if the killer is ever publicly identified.

Already warned Dreiberg. Came to warn you too.

Even if I wanted to help...

...my future is blocked by some kind of temporal interference.

- I cannot see it clearly. - Interference? Caused by what?

In all likelihood, nuclear holocaust.

If the United States and Soviet Union engage in all-out war...

...the resulting blast wave would produce a sudden burst of tachyons...

...particles which travel backward through what you perceive as time...

...therefore obscuring my vision of the present.

I must return to my work.

RORSCHACH: Wait a minute.

What if that's why someone wants us out of the way?

So we can't do anything to stop it?

Goodbye, Rorschach.

RORSCHACH: Took a lot of effort to get in here to see you.

I'm not leaving...

- till I've had my say.

Seems like there's a lot of things you don't tell me these days.

I didn't wanna worry you prematurely.

If Adrian and I can solve the energy crisis, war may be averted.

LAURIE: But you always say time is simultaneous.

If that's true, then how can you change the future?

If only you could perceive time as I do.

Please let me show you.

Magic. Dreams. That is what I had before. I was a hero, goddamn it!

It's not my fault you got old. What do you have to complain about?

I'm putting food on the table for you and your child.

Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life.

- It was a mistake. One time. - Man tries to rape you...

Stop!

Your mind goes to dark places...

...and you wonder why I keep the worst from you.

- Say hello to Dan for me. - What?

You wanna ask me to go to dinner with you...

...like we used to...

...but you won't.

You know I can't.

So you'll call Dan...

...which is only natural.

You deserve the comfort of an old friend.

LAURIE: Dan Dreiberg's table.

DAN: Did you know that he and H.J. were...? I had no idea.

You remember that crazy guy? What'd he call himself?

Captain Carnage.

Used to pretend he was a supervillain just so he could get beat up?

Yeah, he tried that on me once. I just walked away.

He starts following me down the street in broad daylight...

...yelling, "Punish me! Punish me!"

I'm just saying, "No, get lost."

God, whatever happened to him?

Oh. Um... He pulled that on Rorschach...

...and Rorschach dropped him down an elevator shaft.

Oh, my God. That's not even funny.

- It's a little funny. - Yep.

WOMAN: I'm glad I ordered the four-legged chicken.

It's really good to see you again.

It's great seeing you too.

Why'd we do it, Dan? Dress up like that?

- No one else would. - Yeah, but do you remember my costume?

All that tight latex? I mean, it was awful.

Uh... Yeah, yeah, awful.

But didn't wanna disappoint Mother.

Wanted her little girl to be just like her and fight bad guys.

I think the Keene Act was the best thing that ever happened to us.

Well, we'll live longer anyway.

What?

Jon thinks, unless he can do something about it...

...that there's gonna be nuclear war.

Soon.

But I don't know what to think. I mean, it's all...

...quantum mechanics and parallel realities with him.

I never even know what universe he's actually seeing.

He just keeps getting further away from me.

Everyone.

I can't even tell if he actually cares about me anymore...

...or if he's just pretending.

If he's pretending, it means he cares.

Hold on, I'll get the door.

Thanks, Dan.

- Got it? - Yeah.

You always get a government escort to dinner?

They're making sure I don't do anything to upset the country's most powerful weapon.

I'm sorry.

I invite you out to dinner to catch up and have a few laughs...

...but there don't seem to be many laughs around these days.

What do you expect? The Comedian's dead.

[VOMITING]

Laurie? Is that you?

Thought you'd be used to traveling that way by now.

Well, I'm not. I hate it when Jon teleports me.

Well, it beats flying coach.

Margarita?

Mother, it's 2:00 in the afternoon.

[CHUCKLES]

Mm.

Remember that guy that writes me letters?

He sent me an item of memorabilia. It's a Tijuana bible.

This little eight-page porno comic they did in the '30s and '40s.

- He sent you this? - Sure. They're very valuable, like antiques.

Mother, this is gross.

I think it's kind of flattering.

Why do you always call me Mother when you're mad?

I know why you're here. I can still read, you know.

I saw it in the paper.

Eddie Blake's funeral is today.

Finally got his punchline, I guess.

- Poor Eddie. - Poor Eddie? After what he did to you?

Oh, Laurie, you're still young.

You don't know.

Things change.

What happened happened 40 years ago.

I'm 67 years old.

Every day, the future looks a little bit darker.

But the past...

...even the grimy parts of it...

...keep on getting brighter.

I've got spots in my eyes.

[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]

Stop it, Eddie.

- Thank you, Weegee. - Thank you, Mr. Owl.

Tomorrow, 3:00, my studio.

- Little place on 21 st. - Sounds good.

SALLY: Wow, a real photo session. Wonder how my hair will look?

Oh, go ahead. I'll be there in five.

Eddie.

What the hell are you doing here? You knew I was changing.

Sure I did.

Come on, baby.

I know what you need.

You gotta have some kind of reason for dressing in an outfit like this.

I said no, Eddie.

- No spelled Y-E-S. - No spelled N-O.

- All right? - Come on, sweetheart.

Eddie...

[GRUNTING]

[EDDIE LAUGHS]

You little bastard.

This what you like?

- This what makes you hot? - What?

Things are tough all over, cupcake.

It rains on the just and the unjust alike.

The Comedian was a little bit of both.

And he always thought he'd get the last laugh.

MAN: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts.

Shut not thy merciful ears to our prayers...

...but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty...

...O holy and merciful savior.

Thou most worthy judge eternal.

Suffer us not at our last hour for any...

EDDIE: Fireworks. You gotta be kidding me.

You know, you'd think this goddamn country had had enough fireworks.

You know, if we'd lost here in Vietnam...

...I think it might have driven us crazy. You know, as a country.

But we didn't, thanks to you.

You sound bitter.

Me? Bitter?

Fuck, no. I think it's hilarious.

[JANIS JOPLIN'S "ME AND BOBBY McGEE" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

Oh, Jesus Christ.

- Mr. Eddie? - Just what I fucking needed.

The war is over now. We must talk about this baby.

There's nothing to talk about. See, I'm leaving.

I'm gonna forget about you...

...and your horrible, sweaty, little piece-of-shit country.

Get the fuck out of here.

- No. - Get the fuck out of here.

You will remember.

You will remember me and my country...

...forever!

My face!

Blake. Don't.

Blake!

She was pregnant...

...and you gunned her down.

That's right...

...and you know what? You watched me.

You could have turned the gun to steam, the bullets to mercury...

...the bottle into goddamn snowflakes, but you didn't, did you?

You really don't give a damn about human beings.

You're drifting out of touch, doc.

God help us all.

Medic!

MAN: Most holy and merciful savior.

He cometh up and is cut down, like a flower.

In the midst of life, we are in death.

Of whom may we seek succor, but of thee, O Lord?

Welcome. We'll be starting shortly.

We're waiting for one more.

I told you, you wouldn't be the only one dressed up.

Welcome, doctor.

Now we can start.

Thank you for coming. Acquaint yourselves with this map of high-crime areas.

This is all bullshit.

For a guy who calls himself the Comedian, I can never tell when you're joking.

Watchmen. That's the real joke.

It didn't work 15 years ago, and it ain't gonna work now...

...because you wanna play cowboys and Indians.

Maybe we should agree on no drinking at meetings.

[LAUGHS]

Rorschach and I have made headway on the gang problem by working together.

A group this size seems like a publicity stunt. I'm not in it for the ink.

ADRIAN: We can do so much more.

We can save this world...

[EDDIE CHUCKLES]

...with the right leadership. - Yeah.

And that'd be you, right, Ozzy?

I mean, hell, you're the smartest man on the planet.

It doesn't take a genius to see the world has problems.

But it takes a room of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle.

You people.

You hear Moloch's back in town, get your panties all in a bunch.

- You think catching him matters? - Justice matters.

[CHUCKLES]

Justice.

Justice is coming to all of us.

No matter what the fuck we do.

You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time.

Now we finally have the power to finish the job.

Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.

Then Ozymandias here...

...will be the smartest man on the cinder.

MAN: For as much as it hath pleased...

...almighty God to take onto himself the soul of our dear departed brother...

...let us therefore commit his body to the ground.

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes...

[CHATTERING]

[GRUNTS]

Watchmen! Police! Police to protect the people!

DAN: Attention, citizens. We are trying to maintain order.

You must clear the streets until the police strike is over.

If you could... Please, there's no need for violence.

We are trying to retain order on the streets until the police strike is over.

Crawl back in your holes before you get hurt.

- I got rubber bullets. MAN 1: I want my rights!

- You are not the law! MAN 2: We want regular cops!

No more vigilantes!

My son's a police officer, you fucking faggots!

Goddamn it. All right. That's how you wanna do it?

There's no need for violence.

Fuck you. Fuck you!

Oh, this is getting heavy.

Goddamn, I love working on American soil, Dan.

Ain't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein.

How long can we keep this up?

Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks.

Our days are numbered.

Until then, it's like you always say: We're society's only protection.

- From what? - Are you kidding me? From themselves.

- Son of a bitch. DAN: No, Comedian, wait!

[MAN GRUNTS]

Get your stinking hands off me.

What the hell happened to us?

What happened to the American dream?

What happened to the American dream?

It came true!

You're looking at it.

Edgar William Jacobi.

Also known as Edgar William Vaughn. Also known as Moloch.

[GROANING]

What are you talking about?

I'm a retired businessman...

[GROANS]

Lie again, Moloch, I break another finger.

I did my time.

I'm not Moloch anymore.

- What do you want from me? - Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why?

I just felt I should...

...pay my respects to the Comedian.

- How'd you know he was the Comedian? - He broke in here. A week ago.

He had his mask off.

- He was drunk. - Enemies. For decades.

- Why should he visit you? - I don't know.

I woke up in my bedroom and there he was.

He was upset.

He was crying.

Crying? The Comedian?

EDGAR: He was babbling, not making any sense.

I was pissing in my pants.

I thought he was gonna kill me.

RORSCHACH: What did he say?

It's a joke.

It's all a fucking joke.

You know, I thought I knew how it was.

I thought I knew how the world was.

I've done some bad things.

I did bad things to women. I shot kids.

In 'Nam, you know.

But that was fucking war.

This...

I never done anything like this.

God, here I am...

...spilling my guts...

...to one of my archenemies.

But the truth is...

...you're the closest thing to a friend I got. What the fuck does that say?

Shit.

And your name...

...your name was on the list...

...along with Janey, you know, whatever the fuck her name is.

Manhattan's old girl.

Mother, forgive me.

EDGAR: And then he left.

I swear I don't know what the hell he was talking about.

Funny story.

Sounds unbelievable.

Probably true.

So that's it?

- I'm clean? - You?

Clean?

Amygdalin.

This phony medication made from apricot pits.

- It's illegal. - Come on.

Please don't confiscate that.

I'm trying anything.

I have cancer.

What kind of cancer?

You know the kind you eventually get better from?

That ain't the kind I got.

Rorschach 's journal. October 16th.

Want some of this? Fifty bucks, I'll suck your cock.

- Thought about Moloch 's story. - Come on.

Could all be lies.

A revenge scheme planned during his years behind bars.

Fuck you. I make more in a week than you make in a year, you fucking homo.

But if it's true...

...what could have possibly scared the Comedian...

...enough to cry in front of Moloch?

What was it he saw?

And that list he mentioned.

Edward Blake. The Comedian.

Born 1918.

Buried in the rain.

Murdered.

Is that what happens to us? No time for friends?

Only our enemies leave roses.

Violent lives ending violently.

Blake understood. Humans are savage in nature.

No matter how much you try to dress it up...

...to disguise it...

...Blake saw society's true face.

Chose to be a parody of it. A joke.

I heard joke once.

Man goes to doctor, says he's depressed.

Life seems harsh and cruel.

Says he feels all alone in threatening world.

Doctor says treatment is simple.

"The great clown Pagliacci is in town. Go see him.

That should pick you up."

Man bursts into tears.

"But doctor," he says. "I am Pagliacci."

Good joke.

Everybody laugh.

Roll on snare drum.

Curtains.

HOLLIS: Hey, Bernie. BERNIE: Yeah?

HOLLIS: Can I get a Time magazine from you there?

BERNIE: Sure. - How much you want for it now?

For you, 2 bucks.

Two bucks. Going up, huh?

There you go. Thanks.

Hey, I like your book.

Hey, thanks, Bernie. I appreciate it.

[CAWING]

[GRUNTS AND COUGHS]

MARINER: When I awoke, I found myself upon a dismal beachhead...

...with my men.

Pieces of my men.

It was all I could do for her...

...though she had borne me through seas of blood.

Her damp embrace had prevented me from drifting beyond reach.

Yet this small comfort was all I could offer.

One of my crew lay ahead.

Birds were eating his thoughts and memories.

Away. Yah!

Yah! Get away.

In hell, at least the gulls are contented.

For my part, I begged that they should take my eyes.

Thus sparing me future horrors.

[BREATHING HEAVILY]

What time do you have to be at your interview?

JON: Don't worry.

We've got plenty of time.

[BILLIE HOLIDAY'S "YOU' RE MY THRILL" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]

Your finger's like licking a battery.

God, Jon, stop. What are you doing?

Please don't be upset.

I always thought you liked this.

LAURIE: No.

I don't... No.

I don't want that.

I don't know what stimulates you anymore.

Look, I know you were just trying...

Are you working in here while we're in bed together?

My work with Adrian is at a critical stage right now.

- I didn't think it was necessary to... - To what?

To what? To tell me which one of you is giving me a pity fuck?

My attention was completely focused on you.

If you think there's a problem with my attitude...

...I am prepared to discuss it.

You know how everything in this world fits together except people.

What am I to you? Another puzzle to be solved?

Have your men stand back. I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now.

You're my only remaining link to the world.

I don't want that responsibility anymore.

He's all yours.

ADRIAN: Don't worry, Jon. She'll be back.

No, she won't.

MAN [ON TV]: He's been called many things: Hero, weapon...

...linchpin of our national security...

...deterrent to nuclear war, or a man to end worlds.

Later tonight, Dr. Manhattan...

...will answer my questions and yours in an exclusive interview...

...brought to you commercial-free by Veidt Enterprises.

[KNOCKING]

[NAT KING COLE'S "UNFORGETTABLE" PLAYS ON TV]

Who is it?

LAURIE: It's Laurie.

Sorry. I just had this new lock installed.

I didn't know where else to go.

Oh, it's okay. Come in.

What's wrong?

I left Jon.

Oh, God.

I'm so sorry.

I don't know why I'm here. I just...

I don't know anybody else.

I don't know anybody except for goddamn superheroes.

That's okay.

You probably just had an argument or something.

No, Dan.

You don't know what it's been like living with him.

The way he looks at things now, it's like he doesn't...

...remember what they are.

It's like this world, this real world...

...to him, it's like walking through mist.

And people are just shadows.

Shadows in a fog.

God, how did everything get so tangled up?

I'm sorry, Dan.

This is twice now I've ruined your evening.

Come on. I'm glad you came over.

I was just gonna see Hollis for our weekly beer session.

You're more than welcome to join.

In fact, I insist.

[WOMAN GASPING]

Terrific. Dr. Manhattan arrives and no one thinks to tell me.

WOMAN: He just... - We don't have time for makeup.

That blue is too light for television.

Is that dark enough?

PRODUCER: Yeah, that's dark enough.

BERNIE: The weight of the world's on him, but does he quit? No.

News vendors always cope. They're the...

Oh, God, here comes that homeless guy again.

I told you, this month's issue still hasn't arrived yet.

Why do you care about that right-wing rag? Those bastards don't give a damn.

[HORN HONKS]

Hold up. Here they come.

- Seymour. - Bernie, how's tricks?

BERNIE: Fine, fine.

See this guy behind me? Been bugging me all week.

Maybe we should get a cab. These are bad neighborhoods.

Yeah, well, I'm in a bad mood.

MAN 1: Girl. MAN 2: What we got here?

Here's a list of Pentagon-approved no-go areas.

Afghanistan will obviously come up, but just play it cool...

...and try not to get into any tight corners.

- a renowned nuclear physicist, who, through a terrible accident...

...was gifted with extraordinary powers, capable of bending matter to his will.

Today, the world knows him as Dr. Manhattan.

Welcome.

[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

JON: Thank you.

MAN 3: That's right.

Ms. Black, you have the first question.

Dr. Manhattan, as you know...

...the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face...

...analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction...

...midnight representing the threat of nuclear war.

As of now, it stands at four minutes to midnight.

Would you agree that we're that close to annihilation?

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