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Watchmen Script
[KETTLE WHISTLING]
...proves that the Soviet Union 's aggression at the Afghan border...
[WHISTLING STOPS]
Issue: The Soviet Union continued its recent series of military exercises...
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Question:
...what are the chances the Russians will actually attack the United States?
Pat Buchanan.
Zero.
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...but does Dr. Manhattan's existence guarantee world peace? Eleanor Clift.
[GRUNTING]
[YELLS]
[CHUCKLES]
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[ARGUING INDISTINCTLY]
MAN [ON TV]: an act clearly meant to send a signal to the government in Saigon...
[CHATTERING]
No!
[SIRENS WAILING]
GALLAGHER:
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See this?
GALLAGHER: I think...
I've seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters...
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...and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout, "Save us."
Huh.
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Somebody knows.
[GRUNTS]
Shh.
MAN: It all started with the gangs. You know, people tend to forget that.
[MAN CHUCKLES]
Nobody could pick them out of a lineup because of the damn masks.
Pretty soon, the papers get wind of it. They ran with it...
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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.
Truth?
You were a better Nite Owl than I ever was, Danny boy.
- Yeah.
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...for violation of the Keene Act, which banned masked heroes six years ago.
No. You?
Be seeing you.
[METAL SCRAPING]
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Hello, Daniel.
Rorschach.
Daniel...
...Iook at this.
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Maybe.
Paranoid?
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.
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Retribution.
Says me.
No.
Yeah, I remember.
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[GASPS]
MAN: Captain.
- Captain. - Ridley.
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No, sir.
Ridley.
[SCREAMS]
Ridley. Ridley.
No.
No.
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.
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Yeah, I know. The New Frontiersman. Well, it's not here yet.
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[SIGHS]
- I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth. ROTH: I'm sorry. Do you think...
The merchandising arm of Veidt Industries is funding our work with Dr. Manhattan.
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...to see that our Cold War with the Russians isn't ideological...
...ah...
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...that we're the only ones who know each other's identities.
If the Russians do launch their nukes, can Jon really stop them?
...the 1 percent that get through could still kill every living thing on Earth.
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...8:30 p.m.
Silhouette, murdered...
I shall go to them.
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I shall go tell the indestructible man that someone plans to murder him.
JON: Yes...
Try it.
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Goodbye, Rorschach.
Seems like there's a lot of things you don't tell me these days.
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If Adrian and I can solve the energy crisis, war may be averted.
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.
Stop!
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DAN: Did you know that he and H.J. were...? I had no idea.
Captain Carnage.
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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.
What?
Soon.
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Everyone.
Thanks, Dan.
They're making sure I don't do anything to upset the country's most powerful weapon.
I'm sorry.
[VOMITING]
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Margarita?
[CHUCKLES]
Mm.
This little eight-page porno comic they did in the '30s and '40s.
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Things change.
[SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]
SALLY: Wow, a real photo session. Wonder how my hair will look?
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Eddie.
What the hell are you doing here? You knew I was changing.
Sure I did.
You gotta have some kind of reason for dressing in an outfit like this.
Eddie...
[GRUNTING]
[EDDIE LAUGHS]
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You know, you'd think this goddamn country had had enough fireworks.
Me? Bitter?
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...forever!
My face!
Blake. Don't.
Blake!
That's right...
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You could have turned the gun to steam, the bullets to mercury...
...the bottle into goddamn snowflakes, but you didn't, did you?
Medic!
Welcome, doctor.
Thank you for coming. Acquaint yourselves with this map of high-crime areas.
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[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.
[EDDIE CHUCKLES]
But it takes a room of morons to think they're small enough for you to handle.
You people.
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You hear Moloch's back in town, get your panties all in a bunch.
[CHUCKLES]
Justice.
You know, mankind's been trying to kill each other off since the beginning of time.
Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.
...almighty God to take onto himself the soul of our dear departed brother...
[CHATTERING]
[GRUNTS]
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You must clear the streets until the police strike is over.
We are trying to retain order on the streets until the police strike is over.
No more vigilantes!
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Congress is pushing through some new bill that's gonna outlaw masks.
Until then, it's like you always say: We're society's only protection.
[MAN GRUNTS]
It came true!
[GROANING]
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[GROANS]
I did my time.
- What do you want from me? - Heard you attended Blake's funeral. Why?
- How'd you know he was the Comedian? - He broke in here. A week ago.
He was upset.
He was crying.
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It's a joke.
This...
...spilling my guts...
...you're the closest thing to a friend I got. What the fuck does that say?
Shit.
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Funny story.
Sounds unbelievable.
Probably true.
So that's it?
Clean?
Amygdalin.
I have cancer.
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Fuck you. I make more in a week than you make in a year, you fucking homo.
Born 1918.
Murdered.
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Good joke.
Everybody laugh.
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Curtains.
[CAWING]
...with my men.
Pieces of my men.
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Away. Yah!
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
LAURIE: No.
I don't... No.
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You know how everything in this world fits together except people.
Have your men stand back. I'm teleporting the reactor to Karnak now.
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MAN [ON TV]: He's been called many things: Hero, weapon...
[KNOCKING]
Who is it?
What's wrong?
I left Jon.
Oh, God.
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I'm so sorry.
That's okay.
No, Dan.
You don't know what it's been like living with him.
Shadows in a fog.
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I was just gonna see Hollis for our weekly beer session.
In fact, I insist.
[WOMAN GASPING]
BERNIE: The weight of the world's on him, but does he quit? No.
Why do you care about that right-wing rag? Those bastards don't give a damn.
[HORN HONKS]
- Seymour.
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...was gifted with extraordinary powers, capable of bending matter to his will.
Welcome.
[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]
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JON: Even in a world without nuclear weapons, there would still be danger.
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Yes. We were both physicists together at the Gila Flats Research Base.
He died of cancer.
I wasn't told.
He was your handler when you first started working for the government.
Cancer.
ROTH: From where I'm standing, it's starting to look pretty conclusive.
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Janey?
She was a physicist too. You saw each other for 11 years.
She has cancer as well. Doctors have given her six months.
Do you remember how many times you said you loved me?
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[AUDIENCE MURMURING]
- Janey, I wasn't told. I didn't know. - Damn you, Jon. Goddamn you.
Janey, wait.
Everybody back off. I need some backup here. Leave him alone.
[BOTH PANTING]
Jesus.
Us...
...getting mugged.
Let's go.
[MEN GROANING]
I'm shaking.
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Oh, are you sure you don't wanna come by Hollis' with me...
LAURIE: I think I've had enough hero stuff for one night.
Vulnerable, unsuspecting.
Hey!
Over here!
Here!
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Ridley.
[MARINER GRUNTS]
A sail.
Ugh!
Rudely jarring my men from eternal rest, and laying them in the bed I prepared...
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[THUNDER CRASHING]
[WIND WHISTLING]
[GROANS]
[GULLS CAWING]
Ridley.
Get out.
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[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
You're late.
Wait, what?
HOLLIS: She's gonna know soon enough. The whole world will know.
MAN:
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That' s great.
Thank you.
Gosh, Jon, I wish he gave us a little notice. I'm sure I made a face.
I am 30 years old.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
That night, Janey and I make love for the first time.
Oh, I'll catch up with you guys. I think I left my watch inside.
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[ALARM BUZZES]
I am terrified.
JANEY: Jon?
...but I can't...
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Now it' s just a question of reassembling the components in the correct sequence.
I feel fear...
[RUMBLING]
Oh, God.
Jon?
Is that you?
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...something lethal.
In January, 1971...
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...don't be alarmed.
It is Christmas, 1963.
She's beautiful.
After each long kiss, she plants a smaller, gentler one upon my lips...
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...like a signature.
She bursts into angry tears, asking if it's because she's getting older.
It's true.
[INAUDIBLE DIALOGUE]
I am tired of Earth.
These people.
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Really?
Miss Jupiter, did you and Dr. Manhattan have a fight today?
It is when you're on government payroll and you're not doing your job.
That's as close to the word "whore" as you're gonna get with me, Agent Forbes.
Smoke?
EDDIE: Ain't nothing gonna matter once those nukes start flying. We'll all be dust.
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You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties.
You got her eyes, you know. You even have that same funny little mole.
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Mars.
Mr. President...
...the Soviets have moved their tanks just short of the Afghan border.
GENERAL 1: If they realize it's not a hoax, they'll probably start with air strikes.
Now, then.
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Two days.
With anticipated wind patterns, the fallout drift would head south.
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Not so bad...
After that...
[BOTH GRUNTING]
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The world can't just quit on oil and nuclear power cold turkey.
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Okay. Happily.
It's a matter of public record that by 17, both my parents were dead...
...leaving me alone.
They say I'm the smartest man in the world, but the truth is I've often felt stupid...
[STUDIO GROUP'S "EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD" PLAYS OVER SPEAKERS]
I wanted...
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ADRIAN: No.
You listen.
I could buy and sell you, something you should factor into your decision...
Gentlemen.
The toy people wanna talk to you about new villains for the Ozymandias line.
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[BEEPS]
[SCREAMING]
Don't bite down, you son of a bitch. Who sent you? I want a name.
Give me a name!
No.
Well, listen...
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Okay.
[HORN HONKS]
An affair?
My face.
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I abandoned my disguise...
...became myself.
...or lust.
[WOMAN SCREAMING]
Down alley...
A ttempted rape.
Mugging.
Both.
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Someone tried to shoot the world ' s smartest man today, Moloch.
Last time I was here, I saw a pension check written from the same company.
No. No!
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One...
...two...
...three.
Come on.
Little 's known about Kovacs, but he was charged with the murder...
...of Edgar Jacobi, found shot in the head in his home in the Bronx.
Police officers were injured and Jacobi's home was set ablaze...
MAN 1: Rorschach!
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But Rorschach...
[MARINER RETCHES]
I really must get him home before... Before he gets any worse.
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Before he succumbs.
I've heard that on less than a pint daily, a man might survive drinking saltwater.
RIDLEY: Captain?
[RIDLEY LAUGHS]
Fortune has smiled upon you, and you spit in its face.
Turn your wretched craft around and go far away, as far away as you can.
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You have failed your family, like you have failed your crew.
[SCREAMING]
[GROWLING]
You'll end up dead like them. You give your life in vain.
[LAUGHS]
Even if I fail in my attempt, I take solace in the fact that I will see...
Heaven?
...and I may be able to convince them that you should be treated medically.
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But the authorities wanna put you with the general population.
A pretty butterfly.
Mom?
Is he hurting you?
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for a dollar?
[SCREAMING]
Clouds.
You're fat.
There are other men in here with behavior more extreme than mine, doctor.
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...that it doesn't exist, no matter who orders him to look the other way.
Blaire Roche.
Broke a man 's arm to get a tip. Led me to the missing girl's location.
[DOGS SNARLING]
MAN: Fred.
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Barney.
As dark as it gets.
Who is it?
[FLOORBOARD CREAKS]
[GROANS]
Okay. I confess.
Arrest me.
Christ.
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Look, I've got a problem, man. Fucking take me in. I need help.
Whatever was left of Walter Kovacs died that night with that little girl.
Fate didn't butcher her and destiny didn't feed her to those dogs.
If God saw what any of us did that night, he didn't seem to mind.
We do.
Hey, Rorschach.
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Maybe I can give you an autograph. What you say, big boy?
[SCREAMING]
None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with you.
[HUMMING]
[BELL RINGING]
DAN: Laurie!
Shit.
I'm so sorry. I was snooping and must have hit the wrong button.
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LAURIE: Archie?
Stupid nickname.
LAURIE: How did you ever afford all this stuff, anyway?
Well, my dad was in corporate banking and left me a lot of money when he died...
Guess I was just more interested in birds and airplanes, mythology and...
Plus, there were enough other guys doing this so that I didn't feel ridiculous.
Like Hollis.
Yeah.
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You can just come down here and hang out without anyone checking up on you.
There we go.
Thermal imaging.
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Dan.
Well, uh...
Oh.
Sorry.
Come here.
Sorry, I...
Oh, hell.
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It's okay.
Small world.
I like that.
That's right.
Fifteen years since you and that Owl fella put me away.
So...
You know, by my count, there are more than 50 people in here that you put away.
I been talking to every one of them and they're all dying to get a piece of you.
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Tall order.
Come on.
[GASPS]
[CRASHING]
Hades is wet.
Hades is lonely.
[GRUNTING]
[THUNDER CRASHING]
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...impossible to remove.
I pictured quiet streets overrun by the fiends from the Black Freighter.
My crew, dead.
GIRL: Father?
MARINER: Wait.
I'm coming.
Hurry, my dear.
Anyone.
Anyone.
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Truly, life is hell, and death 's rough hand our only deliverance.
Nothing, man.
[LAUGHS]
[MEN LAUGHING]
Dan?
Afraid of war...
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Me too.
You're serious.
I'm used to going out at 3 in the morning and doing something stupid.
[HUMMING]
Let's go.
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Let's go.
Come on.
Is that Jesus?
No, baby.
Is that everyone?
Right?
Right.
[EKG FLATLINING]
[ALARM WAILING]
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[SCREAMS]
[THUDS]
[SCREAMING]
He knows once we slice open his lock, he's next on the block.
Fat chance.
[SCREAMING]
[CRACKING]
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[SAW BUZZING]
Boss! Wait!
Come on.
And this whole cancer thing with Jon, it just doesn't make sense.
...is a little different than putting out a fire. - Yeah, you're right.
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Yes.
No.
No. No.
Where's my face?
Don't move!
Rorschach.
[TOILET FLUSHES]
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Should've known all you needed was nice pair of legs to motivate you.
Yeah. Just...
War, jailbreak.
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I have to go.
[GAGGING]
[BREATHES]
Oh, my God.
I'm on Mars.
You all hear? Some super-owl dude just busted Rorschach out of prison.
- Rorschach? - Yeah.
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HOLLIS: Sally?
- Hollis? - Yeah.
All this time you've had my number and you wait until our sunset years to use it?
What?
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[HOLLIS CHUCKLES]
Maybe she'll finally thank me for getting her started in the first place.
[KNOCKING]
SALLY: Well, don't get too misty-eyed thinking about old times.
Bye.
Bye.
[KNOCKING]
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[MAN 2 CHUCKLES]
[HOLLIS GRUNTS]
[MAN GRUNTING]
Cops are out there hunting us. Unless you wanna go back to prison...
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I'm sorry.
Daniel...
Forget it.
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Oh, God.
[GRUNTS]
Tried to kill Adrian Veidt. Dead now. Did you know him?
No.
[MAN GROANING]
Yeah, yeah!
I barely knew Chess that well, but I was told to hire from the old life.
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Yeah, she was real nice. She said hiring ex-cons was part of the company program.
Give people a second chance. God, please let go! I'm telling the truth!
WOMAN [ON TV]: former member of the Minutemen Hollis Mason found murdered...
- Who did it? - I knew you were gonna victimize me, man.
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In it, you reveal to me that you and Dreiberg have been sleeping together.
If you already know the future, then why were you surprised when I left you?
Why even argue about it if you already know how this is gonna end?
I have no choice.
Everything is preordained.
Even my responses.
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You always say you wanna comfort me. Well, it isn't working.
I said often...
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Daniel?
Moloch said the Comedian mentioned list with his and Slater's name on it.
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[BEEPING]
Funny.
Pharaohs?
[COMPUTER BEEPING]
No.
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- Cheers. - Cheers.
This represents the culmination of a dream more than 2000 years old...
...I am ashamed...
To the pharaohs...
Bubastis.
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Why?
...I hope the world survives long enough for this journal to reach you.
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Yeah.
Uh...
Thanks, man.
[MARINER SCREAMS]
Davidstown?
Davidstown.
[HORSE NEIGHS]
...why would this scoundrel and his wench be allowed free passage...
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Had he collaborated?
Here.
[WOMAN MOANING]
[YELLING]
[GASPS]
[CHOKING]
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A pirate sentry.
Their violation did not stop with the good people of Davidstown...
Soon, I would venture amongst evil men, butchers who now reside in my home...
Careful not to rouse the pirate butchers occupying it from their debauched slumber.
...they would know its dark embrace without ever understanding why.
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[GIRL GASPS]
Father?
My love, why?
So I ran.
MAN 2: You.
The knowledge of my damnation paced me, shouting, celebrating its awful victory.
LAURIE: Can 't you just tell me how this ends and save us the trouble?
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Jon, please.
...flowing and shifting around the pole in ripples 10,000 years wide.
So tell me...
By a shopping mall?
- Only what can happen does happen. - Just stop your bullshit.
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You can send me back to Earth to fry with Dan and my mom...
But know that you were wrong. You said this ended with me in tears...
- You shut out what you're afraid of. - I'm not afraid.
You want me to see things your way? Go ahead, show me. Do that thing you do.
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?
Call your friend Eddie. Maybe he can give you a better life.
SALLY:
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You know, your mom, she was one of the all-time champion beauties.
- You got her eyes, you know. You got... - Take your hands off her.
Now.
Drive.
Guy tries to rape you, and years later, you let him finish the job?
Laurie.
No.
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The Comedian...
No.
[CRACKING]
My life is just...
Yeah, well...
Miracles.
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...Ioves a man...
...Edward Blake, the Comedian, a man she has every reason to hate...
...it's you...
Only...
...you.
- that emerged.
A miracle.
And so...
We got a bearing on that artificial structure. Heat signature's off the charts.
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I know! I'm trying. I'm trying to pull him up, goddamn it!
DAN: I'm gonna redirect the heat from the flamethrower to speed up deicing...
...but it's gonna take a while and we don't have time to wait.
[BUBASTIS GROWLS]
Mm.
He's a vegetarian, for chrissakes. He's never killed anyone in his life.
[CHATTERING ON TVS]
Gentlemen.
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Nixon had him keeping tabs on us, making sure we weren 't rocking the boat.
So...
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ADRIAN: Mr. Chess gave his life in the service of a higher cause, Dan.
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Human extinction?
- disintegrated in an instant.
You see...
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A necessary crime.
...if there were even the slightest possibility you could affect the outcome?
MARINER: Eventually, I came to a dismal black ocean stretching endlessly before me.
The righteous anger fueling my ingenious, awful scheme was but delusion.
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They'd come to wait until they could collect the only prize they valued.
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[PIRATES SNARLING]
I was a horror.
Sorry, but you can keep this garbage. Wasting all my damn time.
Hey, hey. You know, all this time you've been coming here...
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
...Dr. Manhattan.
Jon.
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Interference.
Cataclysmic interference.
It was me.
I...
...did this.
Adrian.
Wait here.
...but even if I can't predict where you are, I can turn the walls to glass.
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[GUN COCKS]
[GASPS]
Your...
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What's that?
Yes.
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We both have.
By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today.
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Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to nuclear destruction again.
On Mars...
Rorschach.
Wait.
Never compromise.
...or condemning...
...I understand.
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Convenient.
If you'd cared from the start, none of this would have happened.
Do it.
Do it!
No!
JON: I'm leaving this galaxy for one a little less complicated.
JON: I do.
Goodbye, Laurie.
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[DAN YELLING]
Come on.
Come on!
Dan...
MAN [ON TV]: We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set.
I ' m okay.
Cheers.
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Laurel.
I should have...
It doesn't matter.
Thanks, Mom.
I love you.
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All of Archie's systems are upgraded. Finished the tinkering for now...
Long as people think Jon's still watching us, we'll be all right...
Nothing ends.
Well, Ronald Reagan says he's gonna be running for president in '88.
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This is still America, damn it. Who wants a cowboy in the White House?
Crank file.
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