[John Smith talks to Joe Blake about his latest call to Juliana Crain]
You think she knows more about the film than she's saying?
Yes. Absolutely. Sorry. She just said it was different, sir. Different to the others.
What's your feeling, Joe? Do you think that she can get to it on her own, using her contacts there?
Perhaps you're going to have to help her. You're going on another trip, Joe, and you'd better hope you find that film. You call in every day. Tell me everyone you meet, every little detail, everything. No omissions, no mistakes. I noticed yesterday you were very good with my little girls. Is that because of... Buddy? [Blake is quiet at the other end of the line] Heil Hitler, hmm?
[Robert Childan is not too pleased to see Frank Frink propose to him about selling fake antique guns]
I'm not an arms supplier, pal. I sell antiques, authentic items only, and fake guns aren't my thing. [has an idea] Tell me something, Frink-san, how good a craftsman are you? I mean, seriously, how good?
Could you make this? [shows an issue of Collect Americana magazine with an image of Sitting Bull's necklace] Because I've got a chump lined up to buy it. [Frink looks at the image] Japanese. Their brains are different. I'm sure they eat from English bone china, and they listen to Negro music, but it's all just on the surface, ersatz as the day is long. Condescending bastards look down on me. Here. Look at this. [shows Zippos] Two Zippo lighters. Yeah. Look the same, don't they? Go ahead, hold them. [Frink holds lighters] One of them has "historicity" in it.
It's worth 100,000 yen on a collector's market. Don't you feel it?
One of those two Zippo lighters was in Franklin D. Roosevelt's pocket the day he was assassinated, so it's got historicity as much as any object ever had. And the other one has nothing.
That's your point? It's all a giant racket?
And they're playing it on themselves. I mean, a gun goes through a famous battle, and it's just the same as if it hadn't unless you know. It's all in here, [points to nape] in the mind. So who's to say our jeweled choker isn't Sitting Bull's original?
All right, so which one is it?
Won't he spot that it's a fake?
The man's already got a forgery in his esteemed collection: pistol aged by an acid chemical. He can't distinguish what's fake from what's real.
Let's screw him over. 80,000 yen split two ways.
Just make sure it looks good enough.
60-40. I got materials to cover.
[John Smith talks to Dr Adler at his office over Thomas' latest consultation]
ADr Adler
Um... this, um... this won't be easy for you to hear. Thomas didn't just pull a muscle wrestling, Obergruppenführer. He had a tremor.
AAdler
I wish I could tell you that it was just growing pains, but your son has a serious disease. Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome. The symptoms, vague at first, are loss of coordination, weakness in the arms, difficulty hearing...
That's... That's nonsense. My son is the picture of health.
AAdler
I'm afraid he isn't. Within months, perhaps a year, there will be paralysis.
That's a mistake, doctor. You're making a mistake.
AAdler
I would never tell you this were I not certain. He scored 10 out of 10 on the indicators in the Brandt-Sievers nerve test.
Okay. So what's the... What's the treatment?
AAdler
Obergruppenführer, we're talking about a Class A congenital disorder. There is no treatment.
What do you mean, there is no treatment? No, I'm not accepting that, no. There's got to be some other tests you can run. I want a second opinion.
AAdler
You have the option, but you should be aware that if he is submitted to others for examination, this becomes an institutional issue.
AAdler
Yes, of course. By virtue of your position, I feel what must be done can be done in the kinder setting of your home. I will hold your son's file outside the system, give you the time you need. As for, uh, medical assistance... [opens case] a syringe and an ampule of an effective combination: morphine, scopolamine, and Prussic acid. Absolutely painless. If you like, I can show you how to locate a vein in the back of the hand.
[Reinhard Heydrich visits Rudolph Wegener at his suite]
Colonel. You look rested.
You've had time to reflect on your situation.
I have. This is a list of names, not just my wife and children, but her father and the rest of her family.
Ten lives in exchange for yours.
You need not worry, Colonel. Come. You have a rocket to board.
What is it you expect me to do there?
I thought it was obvious, Colonel. The Führer is old and ill, standing in the way of the empire he built.
Am I meant to talk to him?
No, Colonel Wegener. You're meant to kill him.
[Yakuza oyabun Taishi Okamura meets Chief Insp Kido]
We are looking for the man who killed your guards, but I assume that's not why you asked me here.
TOTaishi Okamura
You impounded heroin at the docks this afternoon. Am I to conclude that this was in retaliation?
You may conclude as you wish.
OOkamura
Such behavior is futile, Chief Inspector. The Yakuza cannot be destroyed any more than the sun can destroy the shade. This has been understood in our homeland for centuries. I cannot destroy the shadows you cast, but I can and will contain it.
OOkamura
Just as it is your duty to arrest the man who shot the Crown Prince. I'm told if you do not make an arrest by tomorrow, Tokyo demands that you commit seppuku.
No one need remind me of my duty. I have a suspect close at hand.
OOkamura
You mean that hakujin? The one who works in the replica factory? The real assassin fired from a clock tower with a sniper's rifle. Your so-called inconclusive ballistics report told you as much.
OOkamura
I believe you have pursued a false suspect to disguise a truth you have known from the start - that the assassin is a Nazi agent. If it were known that a Nazi fired at our Prince, that would be an act of war, a war many in the Reich would be happy to see but one our Empire would almost certainly lose.
I do not deny your accusation, nor will I confirm it.
OOkamura
I don't need you to, Chief Inspector. You see, I have the name of the assassin, the real assassin.
OOkamura
My price cannot be paid with money, Chief Inspector, but it is very, very high.
[Chief Inspector Kido and Sgt Yoshida police the room of the now-dead SS sniper pinned in the Crown Prince assassination]
Go through his desk. Anything official must be destroyed.
HYHiroyuki Yoshida
I do not understand, sir.
I think you do, Sergeant.
YYoshida
What is this man's crime?
The shooting of the Crown Prince.
YYoshida
Hai. But we've been pursuing Frank Frink.
The witness said Frank never discharged his weapon.
YYoshida
Then why not arrest and interrogate this man?
Because that is exactly what the Nazis would want us to do. There'd be war. A war that currently our Empire cannot win. Nobody must ever know about this, Sergeant.
YYoshida
But if Frink is gone and we cannot report the capture of the real assassin, how can Tokyo be satisfied?
Whatever sacrifice is necessary. That is my burden alone, and I shall carry it. Yours is to remain silent and to act as my Kaishaku-nin. Now do you understand, Yoshida-san?
The desk. [Yoshida works on it]
[Rudolph Wegener talks to his children one more time with his ex-wife Katharina present]
[in German, as he embraces and carries Otto] It is far from easy to be a good man. In fact, as one gets older, it becomes more and more difficult to know... what a good man is. Yet it also becomes increasingly important... [looks at Katharina] to at least try.
[Reinhard Heydrich and his adjutant trap John Smith at a log cabin]
[as he prepares coffee] What is the power of the films? Do you know why the Führer prizes them so highly?
You'd have to address any questions on that subject to the Führer himself.
The Führer is a spent force, John. We both know that. I don't believe for a second that sharing the land of your birth with the Japanese sits well with you.
I'm sure the Führer has his reasons.
Loyalty is an overrated virtue, John, championed by the bovine, dignified by the weak to justify their weakness. It's certainly not worthy of you.
Ultimately, John, we owe our hearts and our minds not to any one man but to an idea, and that idea is under threat. It is up to the best of us to step forward now as both the Führer and nature demands. The strong must overcome the weak.
[Rudolph Wegener comes face-to-face with Adolf Hitler, and has a pistol pointed at him]
AHAdolf Hitler
I know Heydrich sent you to kill me [faces Wegener] and I don't believe that you are capable of doing it. Of killing anyone, ever again. You were lost, Rudolph, the moment you lost faith in the Reich. Not to me, but to yourself.
I was lost the moment I committed evil in your name.
HHitler
Killing me might reconcile you with your past, but it will also prompt the people who sent you to attack Japan immediately. You must take responsibility for the one, or the other.
I know that the sins are my own.
HHitler
Your only sin is your weakness, but you can still choose to die honorably. You will spare Otto and Klaudia your shame, and I will spare their lives.
[shaken at Hitler's stipulation] God forgive me.
[General Onoda addresses fellow Japanese officials]
GHGen. Hidehisa Onoda, IJA
Today we enter the tiger's cave. We enter it because two weeks ago, Science Minister Shimura found a capsule in his pocket, and inside the capsule was microfilm smuggled from the Reich Research Council in Berlin. The contents of the microfilm has been confirmed. At long last, we, too, possess the data to build a Heisenberg device. When it is completed, the device must be in range of North American Nazi targets [Tagomi tries to listen but temporarily clams up] of New York City. This is our moment. We must not hesitate to seize it.
[Hawthorne Abendsen tries to explain to Juliana the nature of his movies]
Each one of these films show a reality like ours, but not ours... Some of us are just the same. Rotten or kind in one reality, rotten or kind in the next, but most people are different, depending on whether they have food in their belly or they're hungry, safe or scared. So you watch these films. You tell the Resistance what you learn about the people you see and the things. Things that could happen here, too. That's why... That's why the Nazis want these films. Not the Nazis, just old Adolf. That demented bastard's too paranoid to let anyone else see them.
[Nobusuke Tagomi calls up the Wegener household]
Hello. Is that Mrs. Wegener?
KWKatharina Wegener
Who is this?
This is Tagomi Nobusuke. I met the colonel last year in Stockholm at a trade convention. Would it be possible to speak to him?
[German] My husband... is dead. He [cries]
Mm... May I ask what happened?
They say he shot himself. He was a traitor.
You must know. Your husband died trying to make the world a better place.
And did he? Trying is not enough, is it? [hangs up]
[Joe Blake appears at a construction site]
SMSite Manager
Well, look what the wind blew in.
Look, I'm sorry to show up like this, sir, but... things took a little longer than I thought.
SMSite Manager
Last funeral I went to, the whole thing lasted about an hour. You've been gone best part of three weeks.
Right. I'm sorry, sir. I'm here now.
SMSite Manager
And you expected me to keep the forklift open?
No, not expected, sir. Hoped.
SMSite Manager
Who the hell do you think you are, Blake?
I don't think I'm anybody, sir. I just want to show up and do an honest day's work, if you'll let me.
SMSite Manager
Well, you want to grab a sledgehammer and break concrete, I guess that'll be okay. That honest enough for you?
Thank you, sir. [starts working]
[Frank Frink reads a letter Juliana just left for him]
Dear Frank, I don't even know if this letter will reach you, but if you are reading this, I'm begging you, please get out of the city now. You might know already that I didn't follow the plan. But I am leaving town now. One day I hope I'll get the chance to explain everything and that you'll understand. You're the kindest, most generous man I've ever met, Frank. I'd given up on everyone and everything, and you put me back on my feet. You brought me back to life one step at a time. Frank. It's okay. I want you to know that my feelings for you were and always will be more real than anything I've ever known. Whatever happens, I don't believe our fate is inevitable. And you shouldn't, either. I don't know if we can change it, but I believe we have to try. You'll always be with me, Frank, and I hope I'll always be with you.
