Rorschach Vol 1 1

Appearing in "System"
Featured Characters: Supporting Characters: Villains: Locations:
 * Rorschach (Walter Kovacs Jr.) (First Appearance)
 * Daniel Dreiberg (First Appearance)
 * Laurie Juspeczyk (First Appearance)
 * Sylvia Kovacs (First Appearance) (Flashback Only)
 * Red Johnson (Only Appearance) (Death)
 * New York Police Department (First Appearance)
 * New York
 * Empire State Building

Synopsis for "System"
Rorschach starts out his narration through journal entries with, "All like a system, New York's crime." He is then seen holding a parolled child molester named Red Johnson by his leg from the top of the Empire State Building. He asks the man, "Why do you think you're still alive?" The man responds with foul language and an inquiry if Rorschach is crazy. Rorschach tells him that he should be asking New York that. He then drops him to the ground below, to his death. He falls onto a police car. The officer, alarmed, jumps out of the car and looks to find a note. He unfolds it and it reads, "Your unfinished work." with an R and a reversed R placed back to back at the bottom.

Rorschach goes on to explain that his city is one with soft cops "capable but unwilling to get their hands dirty." He walks past cops dragging away a murderer from a crime scene. He then is later back at his apartment in Hell's Kitchen, and then the narration ends with, "The world has already died if its future is in the hands of fools afraid to get the job done."