<P> In a flashback, it is revealed that Doctor Manhattan intervened in Ozymandias's murder of the Comedian and transported the latter to Metropolis . In the present, Ozymandias escapes after a brief fight with the Comedian . Meanwhile, Rorschach II tries to convince Batman to help locate Doctor Manhattan by presenting him with Kovacs's journal . Batman tells Rorschach II to make himself at home while he reads . In a retirement home, the elderly Johnny Thunder stares out the window during a thunderstorm while waiting for his family to take him out to dinner while his fellow residents argue over what to watch on TV . Johnny Thunder's family doesn't show up . The news talks about "The Superman Theory" which is described as the U.S. Government experimenting on humans through a "Department of Metahuman Affairs" like Metamorpho, Man - Bat, and Lady Clayface . Back in Metropolis, Lex Luthor is undergoing surgery at Metropolis General Hospital while "his attacker remains in serious but stable conditions". Elsewhere, Marionette and Mime stumble into a bar in Joker's territory and end up killing several of Joker's men . After drinking a toast to finding their son, they decide to go in search of the Joker . While Rorschach II sleeps, he has a nightmare of Veidt's genetic - engineered monster attacking New York . When he awakens, Batman tells him that he has tracked a temporal anomaly to Arkham Asylum . However, Rorschach II discovers that Batman has tricked him when he is locked up in Arkham, being told by Batman that he belongs there . Batman then leaves as Rorschach II shouts at him . </P> <P> While incarcerated at Arkham Asylum, Rorschach II remembers his past as Reggie Long, the son of Malcolm Long who evaluated the original Rorschach . When his parents were killed by the monster that Ozymandias unleashed, Reggie was not in range of the psychic trauma it unleashed . Back in the present, Rorschach II is beaten up by the guards . He is then greeted by a therapist named Dr. Mason Matthews who evaluates him on his history and why Batman placed him here . Rorschach II recaps the day when the alien monster's attack killed everyone and that firefighters rescued him from his car where he was then taken to a mental hospital . While there, he encountered an elderly man on the roof who stated that he saw what he had to see and flew off, with Reggie being grabbed by the guards and taken back to his cell . While taking a Rorschach test, Reggie met the old man who was recaptured and introduces himself as Mothman (a former Minutemen member) as they started to listen to Veidt's plans to help the people of New York get through the tragedy . Back in the present, Rorschach II is taken back to his cell as he wonders who and where Doctor Manhattan is . A "Jane Doe" sees him from her cell door and takes interest in him . Back in the past, Reggie and Mothman grow closer as Mothman plans to train Reggie to defend himself against the guard Jason . Reggie later saw the news that Veidt had been accused of engineering the massacre where Reggie and other survivors are going to be transferred to another facility . Reggie then sets fire to the mental hospital . Mothman sees the fire and states that it is calling to him and walks towards the fire . After finding the original Rorschach's stuff, he tracks down Veidt's hideout and confronts Veidt who wants to be put out of his misery due to his brain cancer and being filled with remorse . Reggie decides to spare Veidt . Back in the present, Rorschach II is freed by "Jane Doe", who is revealed to be the Pre-Zero Hour version of Saturn Girl, the cause of the voices in Rorschach II's head . At the Batcave, Batman tells Alfred Pennyworth that he now understands Rorschach II as it is implied that Bruce Wayne posed as Dr. Matthews all along . </P>

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