[Smith visits Abendsen after he discovers Caroline committed suicide]
I'm sorry this happened, Abendsen.
You're the reason it happened, John. She knew there was no other way to escape a life sentence.
It didn't have to be a life sentence. If you just cooperated, you could've had your freedom.
What the hell do you know about freedom?
What's it gonna take to kill me, John? What do I have to do?
Oh, I'm not gonna let you die.
Yeah. We'll see about that. You keep coming to me for answers, well, here's the last answer you're ever getting from me: you're cursed, John Smith, you're damned. You fucked with the Fates- and they don't like that. You'll never know peace, John. [as Smith leaves] You'll wander forever between the worlds- lost! LOST!
[Bell Mallory and the BCR forces storm the now-empty Japanese Authority office, but sees a figure smoking at the governor-general's table while music is played]
The BCR has claimed this place in the name of the people of San Francisco. You'd do well to be on the next ship out of here.
OOkami
[nurses cigarette, but puts it down] We're not going anywhere.
OOkami
The services we provide are always in demand. No matter who occupies the throne.
You have no place in San Francisco anymore.
OOkami
You're going to need us. To restore electricity. Water. The oil pipeline. [calmly stands up] It's one thing to overthrow a government. It's another thing to be the government.
We've come this far. We don't need you.
OOkami
[walks to the door but politely bows to Mallory as everybody has their guns aimed at him. takes one last look] You know how to find us. [leaves]
[General Whitcroft has played for Smith a sampling of ARBI Director J Edgar Hoover's plans for universal surveillance]
BWBill Whitcroft
[turns off tape] There's more, John. Your housekeeper, your wife's friends, your old neighbors. If you had a dog, he would be informing on you. I don't have to tell you they mean to use all this against you in Berlin. There's, um another way.
WWhitcroft
You know I'm loyal to you above all. All right, it's been 25 years -
WWhitcroft
We have 103 nukes in silos across the country. On our own we are a superpower. We could go our own way, John. Our military will fall in behind you. We tear up that flag, there's nothing Berlin can do about it. Unless they wanted World War III.
You realize you could be shot for saying that?
WWhitcroft
I'm willing to take that chance. Look, I'll follow you wherever you go.
I have to go to Berlin, Bill. If anything should happen to me, then, uh Helen and the girls need to be taken to safety without delay.
I've made detailed plans for their well-being. They're in my safe. [gives key] This is the key.
WWhitcroft
You don't have to do this, John.
I think we both know that's not true.
[Chief Inspector Kido wakes up to Empire TV-San Francisco's farewell broadcast]
EAETV Announcer
[in Japanese] Soon, the last ship leaves for Japan and with it the life we have made here. This concludes the final broadcast of Empire TV San Francisco. Farewell. Long live the Emperor! [Cut to Rising Sun flag and Kimigayo as background music.]
[tries to sing along] Continue for a thousand, eight thousand generations, until the pebbles... [simply listens until the end]
[Kido suddenly has visions of watching a Nippon Professional Baseball game... with his son Toru as a child]
Okudaira was a good trade for Yanaihara.
Aren't you going to eat your manju?
TTakeshi
You can have it.
Coach Egawa says he may move me to shortstop next season.
TTakeshi
Shortstop. That is a very important position. Very demanding. You must have impressed Coach Egawa.
[watches match] Ground ball to second.
Someday, I want to grow up and play shortstop for the Yomiuri Giants.
TTakeshi
Do not let your imagination run away with you.
TTakeshi
You will serve in the Army.
[glumly] I'm sorry, Father.
TTakeshi
[looks in the distance] If you work hard enough, you will become a fine ballplayer. We will go to the park and practice fielding ground balls. [looks back at Toru] How does that sound - ? [but sees Toru is no longer there]
[The OKW discuss attacking the former Japanese Pacific States with a full combined ground and air assault]
SOSS Oberstgruppenfuhrer Adolf Eichmann
[in German, details animation in map] The conquest of the North American West will unfold in stages. First, the Luftwaffe will disable critical command-and-control infrastructure and carpet-bomb population centers. San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and so on.
Forgive me, General how much value to the Reich will these cities have if they're reduced to rubble?
EEichmann
[in English] The aerial assault will break the will of the population. Next, our Panzer divisions will cross the border from the Neutral Zone in a blitzkrieg strike. Supported by our Wehrmacht battalions, we will have control of the West Coast within a week.
FHFuhrer Heinrich Himmler
Smith. You are a skeptic?
Invading the West is one thing, [to Himmler, nodding respectfully] Mein Fuhrer. Holding it is another.
EEichmann
The BCR are crude savages. They rely on animal instinct.
That's what the Japanese thought.
EEichmann
We use different methods, Reichsmarschall, and they have never failed to achieve results, as you know.
The question is not whether or how or when, Smith. For that is our destiny. The question is who. Who will lead the conquest of North America? A prize second only to Europa herself. Do you really believe that you deserve it, Smith? Or should I bestow it on someone else? [points] Eichmann, perhaps? Or Goertzmann?
EEichmann
Mein Fuhrer, perhaps this duty can only be entrusted to a member of the German Herrenvolk.
What do you say to that, Smith?
[stands up] America is a rebel nation, [nods] mein Fuhrer. A German commander might - if you'll forgive me - promote unrest in the military. Only an American can truly control it.
But you do not control America, Smith. Rebellion is rampant, and I have a bullet wound to prove it!
EEichmann
Is the problem that he can't control America? Or is it that he won't?
What are you insinuating, Eichmann?
He is asking where your true loyalties lie, Smith. And I have been wondering the same thing myself. But tonight, at last, we are all going to learn the truth about John Smith.
[Himmler talks to John Smith about J Edgar Hoover's revelations of him]
[takes a drink] When a man gets to be my age, he needs a son. I thought of you as that son, John. I saw myself in you. If anyone had hurt you, shot you, as those assassins did me, I would have hunted them down and strangled them with my bare hands. But you did nothing to avenge me. Where's the tribute to the man who gave you everything? When did you even visit me when I was sick? Nothing. [Smith is blank] Say something, Smith. If not for yourself, then for your family. Say something in your defense!!
What can I say, mein Fuhrer? You're... You're right. I never loved you. I never saw you as a, a father. I saw you as a, a petty little tyrant. You're a mediocre man. [sees Himmler coughing at the words and retreats to his oxygen tank] A failed chicken farmer. The very thought that you see yourself in me, it sickens me. [Himmler inhales from the tank, but upon noticing something different, Smith makes him breathe the gas in until he dies. Smith turns off the oxygen tank, which is actually a tank of Zyklon B.]
[opening scene]
PDProduction director
Okay, quiet, everyone. Cameras rolling. We go live in five... four...
AAnnouncer
Ladies and gentlemen, the Reichsfuhrer of North America.
RJReichsfuhrer John Smith
My fellow Americans. The last few days have been difficult for us all. Heinrich Himmler was a father to our people. We mourn his loss. But with his passing comes an opportunity for rebirth and renewal. A change has come to the Western states, and with it, a chance to take our divided land and bring it back together. A great transformation is coming. Soon, we will be one nation again.
[Helen Smith and her daughters have just watched Bell Mallory's pirate broadcast from the former Empire TV San Francisco studios. Jennifer is moved]
JSJennifer Smith
Amy, go to your room.
ASAmy Smith
You're not my mother, you can't tell me to go to my room.
JJennifer
You don't want to hear this.
[ushers Amy] Sweetheart. It's, it's time for bed. Come on, I'll tuck you in in a minute.
JJennifer
It was you. You and Daddy. You killed them.
JJennifer
The Negroes, the Jews, all those people. What happened to them?
JJennifer
I need to hear it from you.
Okay, uh, they, they they sent them to camps.
JJennifer
And what did they do in the camps?
They forced them to work.
JJennifer
Then what? Where are they now?
They're gone. They killed them.
JJennifer
And you and Daddy were a part of it.
Yes. Yes, we were. It It was a different time. We felt like our world... It had just ended, it was a decision that we made for one day that led to 20 years.
JJennifer
You could have escaped to the Neutral Zone.
Yeah, we could have, yes. But we didn't.
JJennifer
So you joined the Party instead. Daddy was in the SS.
I did it because I well, I believed in it. Not at first, but later I-I - I believed in all of it.
JJennifer
The camps where they killed - the Jews and the Negroes?
All of it. All of it. They told us it was necessary. I didn't ask any questions. I didn't even think about those people until... oh... [gets emotional] Until we became those people.
JJennifer
You got all this.
We didn't do it for this. We did it to keep you alive.
JJennifer
You didn't keep Thomas alive, did you?
Oh, God, Jennifer, don't you think that I know that?
JJennifer
They took him away.
I am begging you, please, please, please.
JJennifer
They poisoned him!
JJennifer
He was my brother! I loved him too! Ye- I know how you must see us, but everything we have was bought with other people's lives.
You were our children. Our babies.
JJennifer
How many were there? In America? In Europe, in Africa, how many?
I-I don't - I don't know.
JJennifer
And they're gonna do it all over again, aren't they? And Daddy's gonna be in charge, isn't he?
JJennifer
I don't ever want to be like you.
You shouldn't have to be. [Jennifer storms out]
[Kido has agreed to join the Ninkyo Dantai Yakuza to save his son, and is seeing him off on a trawler bound for Japan]
[tries to talk to Toru but sees Yakuza man in earshot] Tell me, in the gokudo, do I outrank you?
YMYakuza member
Yes, saiko-komon.
Then go away. [man leaves. to Toru] There are things that must be said.
TTakeshi
I have failed you as a father. The first duty of a parent is to protect his child.
TTakeshi
Let me finish. I never showed my true affection for you. I have so many regrets. I can only say that you will always be my son.
Come home with me. The invasion will begin soon.
TTakeshi
There is no going back. I have much to atone for, and I must start here.
[in Japanese] Goodbye, father. [boards ship. As the ship leaves, Toru salutes his father one last time]
[Helen Smith admits being contacted by the Resistance and John confirms the existence of another Thomas]
This, this portal you're talking about I-I mean, what?
You've seen it yourself, Helen. You've seen the movies. Well, I've been there. He's alive.
I have had that fantasy so many times, but it's just that, John, it's a fantasy.
[sits down and clasps her hands] I've seen him. Helen, I've seen our beautiful boy. He's real. He's real as you and me. I want you to - I want you to have the same thing I had, Helen, I want you to see him yourself.
[emotional] Well, of course I want that, but -
He's not sick, he's healthy, he's strong. He's doing so well. He's - There is a war, and he has enlisted. He is so much like our Thomas.
Uh, but he's-he's not. He's not our Thomas.
I can see what's gonna happen. Helen, he's gonna die all over again unless we do something. We can save him.
[surprised at the idea] You want to bring this boy here? As what, as a-a prisoner?
Now, I've struggled with that. I know it's not gonna be easy, but, uh, I don't think we have any choice. I can't lose him again. He's gonna hate us, but he's gonna be alive, and I can live with that.
Well, I can't, I can't. I can't live with that.
When you see him again, you're gonna change your mind.
No, No! Thomas is dead. Amy isn't ours anymore. Her mind belongs to the state, and Jennifer, well, Jennifer has rejected us. We had three chances and we wasted them all.
That-that's where you're wrong, Helen.
If there is a better version of me out there somewhere, I want her to have my son, because you and I, we don't deserve to have a child.
You're saying you have a chance to see your son again and you're not gonna take it?
I wouldn't want him to see what we have become.
So why come to me? Something tells me you didn't just run 600 miles to say hi to a friend.
All my life I've been wanting to do more. Be more. And now I am. And the first chance I get to help someone, I screw up. I was chasing the bad guy and... and someone died.
If you really do this, you're gonna make mistakes. I've made mistakes. But the good you do will far outweigh the bad.
What if Wells is right? What if I'm not a hero. What if I'm some guy who was struck by lightning?
I don't think that bolt of lighting struck you, Barry. I think it chose you...
I'm just not sure I'm like you, Oliver. I don't know if I can be some vigilante.
You can be better. Because you can inspire people in a way that I never could. Watching over your city like a guardian angel, making a difference, saving people in a flash. Take your own advice. Wear a mask.
I wasn't the only one affected by the particle accelerator, was I?
You said the city was safe. That there was no residual danger. But that's not true. So what really happened that night?
WWells
Well, the accelerator went active. We all felt like heroes and then... it all went wrong. A dimensional barrier ruptured unleashing unknown energies into our world. Anti-matter dark energy. X-elements.
Those are all theoretical.
WWells
And how theoretical are you?
