Takehaya quotes from The Last Ship

Takehaya

America, I want you to see this. You have inhabited our lands and our seas for far too long. The plague has killed, but you're killed more. We want you out. So, Jeffrey Michener, you will hear my demands. There are two U.S. Navy destroyers at the port in Okinawa. You will order them to turn around and move out of Asian waters. I have already executed one of your sailors. Do not test me. If you do not comply within 36 hours, the executions will continue.

Takehaya

Your friends will die, but you will live, and you'll be tied to me for as long as your heart pumps blood.

What's with all the blood, anyway? Cure not good enough for you?

Takehaya

The American cure is no cure. We were wiped out.

Then you didn't have the real cure.

Takehaya

[shows vial] My dose. Made in USA.

Doesn't make any sense.

Takehaya

The virus would've killed me. But I got lucky. I got shot. A transfusion from a cured person. The next morning, the symptoms were gone. But... it didn't last.

That's why you started hunting fresh blood. Our blood. You went to a lot of trouble to get me and my people. Why us?

Takehaya

You needed to pay for what you did to my country.

Look. We had... we had reports of possible mutation. What if those reports are right? What you're doing is making things worse. You can't send the ships back to America, you got to send them into Japan. Let them investigate. Our doctors will help. They'll help. I give you my word.

Takehaya

Your word means nothing.

CAPT Tom Chandler

I want details about what happened after you received the cure. You can keep fighting us, thinking we're monsters, or you can cooperate, help us figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.

Takehaya

I heard the call over the radio. The Americans are coming with the cure. We rushed to the port, thousands of us. Survivors. The ships arrived. American ships. And we lined up to receive our injections. They told us to spread out, to pass the cure on to the rest of our people. Soon... there was no way to tell who had the cure and who did not.... because everyone died.

But other than the U.S. Navy, who had custody of the cargo once it landed? Could someone have tampered with the doses on the pier?

Takehaya

No.

How can you be so sure? We delivered to dozens of countries on this ship. We always worked with the local partners...

Takehaya

I was a local partner, Captain. My crew was there. We'd made sure everyone received a dose. I was in charge. I was responsible.

That's why you wanted those ships out of Okinawa. That's why you wanted to punish the people that brought you the cure. But why work with Peng?

Takehaya

I did not work with Peng.

Oh, come on. The coincidence is too great. You kidnapped my men in Haiphong at precisely the same moment Peng blows up my plane in Hong Kong?

Takehaya

I do not call that coincidence, Captain. I call that luck.

CAPT Mike Slattery

That's what Peng's hoarding. He could fire those missiles over uncured populations, so when the cure finally does arrive... It doesn't work.

Sasha Cooper

That boat was headed to Taiwan on a run. Jesse saw the missile near Vietnam.

Takehaya

And my wife saw the mist in Japan. By the time we got to the ports to receive the cure, it was already too late.

CAPT Tom Chandler

Peng's only destroyer now belongs to me. You should know Cobra Team found a payload of anti-cure missile on board. According to the crew, that's the last of it.

Takehaya

So... it is done. The rest of Asia won't suffer as we did.

Let's get you home.

Takehaya

I am home, Captain Chandler. I want to remain here... [Exhales deeply] On Japanese soil.

Takehaya.

Takehaya

Kaito. My name is Kaito. Like my son.