Chief Insp Takeshi Kido quotes from The Man in the High Castle

Chief Inspector Kido

I look around at all your young faces. Well, some not so young anymore. So many young men have come through this department. Not all of them will be going home to Japan today. [pauses, removing his glasses] I was a hard boss. I know. I demanded everything of my men. I rarely gave praise. There were young men who died at my command trying to please me. And even as they died in my arms, I offered no kind word. So, I will say it now. You make me proud. Each one of you. [offers toast and bows] Okuro! [they all drink and Kido dons his glasses] Now... go to the docks and sail back home. Your families miss you terribly. Do not keep them waiting.

Frank Frink

I-- I'm free to go? I am free to go?

Chief Insp Takeshi Kido

You have suffered enough, and I am not a monster.

Frink

If you ever need any more Jews to kill, you know where to find me.

Kido

Yes. I do.

Nobusuke Tagomi

Ah. Inspector, please. [ushers to seats]

Takeshi Kido

No, thank you, Trade Minister. I will not stay long.

Tagomi

I appreciate you coming at such a busy time.

Kido

What could we not discuss on the telephone?

Tagomi

I felt it correct to speak in person. Guests of the Ministry have asked when their passports would be returned. I assured them I would inquire.

Kido

As soon as their identities are verified and their reasons for being in the Pacific States, all of their documents will be returned.

Tagomi

How long do you estimate it will take?

Kido

I offer no estimate. You met with a foreign visitor at his hotel this morning.

Tagomi

I met with several guests. They're honorable businessmen, not assassins. Their time is valuable.

Kido

All of our time is valuable.

Tagomi

I understand what is at stake.

Kido

Do you?

Tagomi

I was with the Royal Couple. So yes, I believe I do.

Kido

Then no doubt you will understand why I must disappoint you, Trade Minister. I am sorry, but in this instance there will be no exceptions. [bows and leaves]

Takeshi Kido

We are looking for the man who killed your guards, but I assume that's not why you asked me here.

You impounded heroin at the docks this afternoon. Am I to conclude that this was in retaliation?

Kido

You may conclude as you wish.

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.

Kido

That is my duty.

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.

Kido

No one need remind me of my duty. I have a suspect close at hand.

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.

Kido

What's your point?

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.

Kido

I do not deny your accusation, nor will I confirm it.

I don't need you to, Chief Inspector. You see, I have the name of the assassin, the real assassin.

Kido

Name your price.

My price cannot be paid with money, Chief Inspector, but it is very, very high.

Takeshi Kido

Go through his desk. Anything official must be destroyed.

I do not understand, sir.

Kido

I think you do, Sergeant.

What is this man's crime?

Kido

The shooting of the Crown Prince.

Hai. But we've been pursuing Frank Frink.

Kido

The witness said Frank never discharged his weapon.

Then why not arrest and interrogate this man?

Kido

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.

But if Frink is gone and we cannot report the capture of the real assassin, how can Tokyo be satisfied?

Kido

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?

Hai.

Kido

The desk. [Yoshida works on it]

I require an explanation for what transpired today.

Chief Insp Takeshi Kido

Hai, Kakka. Taishi Okamura was a traitor. He was Yakuza. And exploiting his position to spy for the Nazis against the Empire.

You have evidence of this?

Kido

Hai. I would not have acted without it. Nor without placing your family in protective custody.

I should have been informed at the same time you made those arrangements.

Kido

I apologize, but I had to act quickly.

I fear you have been here too long, Kido-tai'i. [imitating cowboys shooting] Too many Westerns. [chuckling] We have nothing to learn from the gaijin. I admire your decisiveness, particularly in sensitive situations, as with the attempt on the life of His Highness. I will ensure the clan is aware of Okamura's treachery, but hierarchy must be respected.

Kido

Unquestioningly.

So... now I know everything?

Kido

[bows] Hai, Kakka. [Onoda leaves]

Chief Insp Takeshi Kido

I told you, Nakamura. I have many skills. Interrogating the dead is not one of them.

I am not worthy to replace Sergeant Yoshida.

Kido

Perhaps not.

Before I leave your sight, sir... All the bodies have been examined. No sign of the criminal priest Hagan.

Kido

Find Hagan, bring him to me alive, and you will be my sergeant. If you cannot, resign yourself to a career in the colonial backwater in a conflict zone. If you think San Francisco is miserable in the winter, imagine Manchuria.

Howard Wexler. Who is he?

Chief Insp Takeshi Kido

A defector from the Reich.

Tagomi

Like Diels.

Kido

Only much more valuable. A researcher. I believe it was the same assassin in both cases. Wexler was working with your ministry.

Tagomi

On a project I cannot discuss.

Kido

The Nazis are doing their best to sabotage us. And they are succeeding. These street protests-

Tagomi

The street protests are under control. The agitators are suffering for oil. Kerosene. Gasoline. Heating oil. What are you doing about it, Trade Minister?

Kido

Again, nothing I will discuss with you, Chief Inspector.

Takeshi Kido

You were working with the scientist Wexler, were you not?

Nobusuke Tagomi

Yes, a sensitive project. Synthetic oil.

Kido

These documents are highly-classified Kempeitai files. Where did you get them?

Tagomi

They were brought to me. Is it possible they were in the possession of the Nazi spy at the time of his death?

Kido

Possibly, yes. Whoever killed him appears to have prevented an attempt on your life. Tell me, Trade Minister, why would the Nazis want you dead?

Tagomi

A provocation.

Kido

Revenge.

Tagomi

A warning.

Kido

So, any number of reasons.

Tagomi

Let me ask you something, Chief Inspector. What are you going to do about the traitor in your midst?

Takeshi Kido

Would you like a drink, Trade Minister? [Tagomi sits down] If you want my cooperation, you must provide me with some answers. It is time for the truth.

Nobusuke Tagomi

What is it you wish to know?

Kido

Trudy Walker. The woman I killed is the same woman I arrested months later. They are not different people, as you suggested, they are the same.

Tagomi

They are, indeed, different individuals.

Kido

They are not. They have the same physical characteristics, even the same fingerprints.

Tagomi

But one is from this world.

Kido

The other?

Tagomi

The other is not of this world. They are different people, separate lives. Separate histories. Different memories.

Kido

How do you know this?

Tagomi

I am a traveler. I have visited another world akin to ours, but but different.

Kido

You visited another world?

Tagomi

Where I got the film of the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb test. The one that dissuaded the Nazis from attacking us. In that world, the Allies won the war. It was their bomb, the Americans, not ours. We deceived them into thinking we had the bomb.

Kido

And Miss Crain?

Tagomi

Dr. Hamahashi has confirmed. The Nazis are building a machine to invade and conquer those parallel worlds. Miss Crain is trying to stop them. I told you she's on our side.

Kido

At least for now.

Chief Insp Takeshi Kido

This was once the site of an American-Japanese internment camp. Manzanar.

Frank Frink

Mm.

Kido

I was there in 1945 when the camps were liberated. I have seen those painted all over San Francisco and the Neutral Zone. I never imagined they were yours. You have been speaking to me this whole time.

Frink

I've been speaking to a lot of people. They've started to listen. It's beginning.

Kido

I know I am a part of what you did. I executed your sister. Your niece and nephew.

Frink

I did what I did out of anger. I, uh, I never wanted to survive. Never thought I'd have to face what I'd done. It changed me.

Kido

How? How have you changed?

Frink

Well, I'm... I'm free.

Kido

So you are not afraid of death?

Frink

No. No, not anymore. You? Only a death without honor.

Kido

Honor. Out of weakness, I let you go. That was my mistake. [goes back to the car, as Sato presents him his samurai sword]

Frink

[as Kido changes into his Kempeitai military uniform] Sh'ma Yisrael Adonai Eloheinu Adonai Echad... [continues singing until Kido decapitates him]

Takeshi Kido

There will be no report. The incident will be forgotten, but it cannot happen again.

Toru Kido

I can't forget. I can't forget what I've done.

What? What have you done?

Toru

What my unit did in Manchuria. To the villagers.

It was war. It is in the past.

Toru

I can still hear their voices.

You did those things for your country. You have no reason to be ashamed.

Toru

It is not shame that I feel. Something more than shame.

We must look forward now, and draw our strength from the Empire.

Toru

The Empire. The Empire is not strong. The Empire is losing.

Losing?

Toru

In China. The TV says we are winning there, but it is a lie.

Enough.

Toru

We believe what we're told. We don't ask questions. I was not a soldier. You are not a detective. We are both puppets.

I will not be spoken to this way. We are bound to our duty.

Toru

Duty? And what of your duty to your family? You left us. [as the elder Kido manhandles him out of the room over what he just said] No, NO!

Get out of this house. Stand up. You are not my son. [Toru leaves]

Takeshi Kido

There is one matter I wanted to discuss with you in private. Outside the office.

Of course, sir.

Kido

Per General Yamori's orders, the Tagomi murder case is now closed. The assassin found, the weapon retrieved, conclusive evidence... and yet, something unfortunate has come to light. We found a partial print on the clip inside the pistol. It is yours. [laughs as Capt Iijima feels uneasy] Do not worry, Captain. I have spoken with General Yamori. He has told me everything. I have redacted the incriminating evidence. I only mention this so that next time, you will be more careful in covering your tracks.

Thank you for the correction, Chief Inspector. Next time - I promise to be more vigilant.

Kido

Good.

Chief Inspector Kido

This file holds the evidence that Captain Iijima was the man who shot Trade Minister Tagomi. Iijima was working under the orders of General Yamori.

I am shocked, but I am not surprised. This occupation has turned our people against themselves. I understand your son served in Manchuria.

Kido

Yes, Your Highness.

I hope for a day we no longer need to send our sons to war. I will see that this information is delivered to the Emperor himself. There will be consequences. Chief Inspector, I know where your political sympathies lie.

Kido

My loyalties will always lie with the Emperor.

This must not have been easy.

Kido

It was my duty. Nothing more.

[stops and security detail deploys in a wheel around her] Before I go, I must ask you to be truthful with me one more time. When I've made my report to the Emperor, he will ask me one question. And the answer I give... will depend on what you report.

Kido

I understand, Your Highness.

Can we hold this territory?

Kido

I believe that in time with enough firepower and troops, we can finish these Negro rebels. But the price will be paid with the blood and souls of the sons of Japan. I once felt that any price was worth paying. We can prevail, Crown Princess... but I no longer believe we should.

I realize what you've just said goes against your every instinct. For that, you have my respect, Tai-sa. Rest assured, I will bring your message to the Emperor. [Kido bows and the team ushers her to her limo]