![]() ![]() He walks to his own apartment to find Rorschach has already broken in and was helping himself to cold beans.ĭaniel seems shocked and nervous to find Rorschach there. Daniel says it’s nearly midnight, so he should get going, but thanks Hollis for sharing a beer with him each week and catching up. Hollis jokes that Daniel was the better Nite Owl of the the two of them. Later that evening, Dan Dreiberg is visiting Hollis Mason at the latter's home above Mason's Auto Repairs in what Dreiberg calls a "late night beer session." They reminisce about their past days as heroes-they are both now retired. Rorschach realizes that Eddie Blake was the true identity of the legendary masked adventurer, the Comedian. He searches through the drawers and closet to find a hidden switch that opens up a compartment with a large assortment of items, including a silenced MAC-10 machine gun, a combat knife, a leather costume, and a picture of him with a group of costumed adventurers. Later that night Rorschach enters Blake's apartment by shooting his grappling hook gun from the street up into the apartment's shattered window. As the two detectives make their way out of the building, a doomsayer stands in the street, holding a sign that says, “ The end is nigh.” One of them remarks that the Keene Act of 1977 outlawed most vigilantes, but Rorschach is still out in the streets, acting on his own, and he’s crazy. The detectives decide to continue their investigation discreetly so that “masked avengers” don’t get involved. In his apartment, there’s a picture of him shaking Vice-President Gerald Ford’s hand-it seems he was some sort of American “diplomat.” Photos of Blake show that he is huge, like a weightlifter, and covered in scars. One of the detectives suspects it was a simple breaking and entering job, but the other is skeptical. In a brief flashback, Blake wears a smiley-face badge as he’s thrown through the window. ![]() They’ll ask Rorschach to save them then, but he’ll refuse.ĭetectives Steven Fine and Joe Bourquin look through Eddie Blake’s apartment, a man who was recently murdered when an intruder threw him through the window of his high-rise apartment. ![]() Someday, it will be too late for all of them. Truman, but instead they choose to live in filth and follow advice of liberals and smooth talkers. They could follow in the footsteps of good men like his father or President Harry S. While a man hoses a large pool of blood off of a city sidewalk, Rorschach reflects that this city and its criminals fear him. Plot summary See also: Rorschach's journal. ![]()
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