The scene -- taken verbatim from the source material -- takes place after Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley) is captured and incarcerated in prison. Deprived of his iconic mask, his bruised and bandaged face exposed, Rorschach is waiting on line in the mess hall when a hulking inmate starts giving him a hard time. We see Rorschach’s craggy face tighten just before he completely loses it—not that he ever had “it” to begin with. Rorschach nails the guy in the face with a metal food tray and then douses him in burning hot fryer oil. The inmate falls to his knees, crying like a baby while his skin melts away.

As guards restrain him, Rorschach growls, “You don’t seem to understand. I’m not locked in here with you. You’re locked in here with me.” The scene was short, intense and completely badass. Add that to the first 18 exhilarating minutes of the film that WB showed to get the panel started, and you can see why the crowd was so pumped up.

Dave Gibbons, who illustrated the “Watchmen” comic, was on stage to answer questions. He went to great lengths to defend the fact that director Zack Snyder has changed the beloved novel’s ending for the movie—a decision for which Snyder has come under fire. Gibbons also dismissed the notion of filming a “Watchmen” sequel or prequel in the future, even though there’s nothing he can do to stop one from being made. His advice? “Leave well enough alone.”

Following “Watchmen” were the makers of the new “Friday the 13th”, who screened the first five minutes of their film. To summarize the footage: sex, screaming teenagers, knives, running, blood, death, blood, Camp Crystal Lake, knives, there’s someone out there, running, oh god, blood, blood, no please no no, machete in the head. Yeah, absolutely terrifying and a worthy reboot of a franchise that had been run into the ground after about nine too many corndog sequels.

Finishing up the panel was McG and his highly anticipated “Terminator Salvation.” While the director declared that the 5-minute clip package he was about to show was a “world exclusive,” he’d actually played the same footage at the “Terminator” roadshow in New York last month (check out our report from that event here).

McG did make news by offering what amounted to a non-denial confirmation that Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger will be contributing to the movie, though in what capacities McG declined to state. Later at a roundtable for media, he said he’s also been in touch with Robert Patrick (who played the liquid metal T-1000) and Michael Biehn (who played Kyle Reese in the original film).

What other scenes are you dying to see from “Watchmen”? Do you think we need a 12th version of “Friday the 13th”? And how badly do you want to see Hamilton and Schwarzenegger in the fourth “Terminator” flick?