Frank Frink quotes from The Man in the High Castle

Frank Frink

Hey, what is this?

Juliana Crain

It's newsreel film.

Frink

Yeah, I see that.

Crain

[elated at scenes of the flag-raising on Mt Suribachi] It shows us winning the war.

Frink

But we didn't win the war.

Crain

That's what they told us.

Frink

Jesus, I know what this is.

Crain

What?

Frink

The Man in the High Castle.

Crain

The who?

Frink

Some guy they told me about, he makes these anti-fascist movies.

Crain

[notes footage of VJ-Day celebrations] Makes them GIs in Times Square.

Frink

I know they look real.

Crain

They look real because they are real.

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.

Frank Frink

[given three rounds for his Colt45 revolver] Only three?

Robert Childan

This is an antique store, not an armory, and I can't guarantee they'll fire. They're 100 yen apiece.

Frink

[gives yen notes] 300. [sees Childan write in a logbook] What is that?

Childan

I'm required by law to keep a registry of all sales of restricted items. So these bullets were purchased by Mr. Satoshi Matsuda, a collector on his way back to Tibet. But I will need to see your identity card on the chance I need to revisit this matter with you, and that is non-negotiable.

Frink

All right, all right. Come on.

Childan

I suggest you work on your patience, Mr. Frink.

Robert Childan

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?

Frank Frink

I'm good. Real good.

Childan

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.

Frink

What the fuck is that?

Childan

It's worth 100,000 yen on a collector's market. Don't you feel it?

Frink

100,000?

Childan

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.

Frink

That's your point? It's all a giant racket?

Childan

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?

Frink

All right, so which one is it?

Childan

This one.

Frink

Won't he spot that it's a fake?

Childan

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.

Frink

Let's screw him over. 80,000 yen split two ways.

Childan

Just make sure it looks good enough.

Frink

60-40. I got materials to cover.

Frank Frink

Why didn't you tell me about it?

It's just a patch of dirt, really. About ten hours from here. We were relocated there by the U.S. Army. My family and thousands of other Japanese people. American citizens suddenly considered enemy aliens. My dad said, "Sara, one fine day, they'll win, and they'll open that gate." He meant the Japanese Empire. And one fine day, they did win.

Frink

One fine day for you.

Yeah. They won. But they looked at us, an all they could see was that we left Japan. We weren't Americans, but we weren't Japanese, either. We were...hangyakunin.

Frink

Yeah, traitors. So you hate the Americans. You hate the Pons. Who are you fighting for?

I don't hate anyone.

Frank Frink

What is this?

It's a memorial... for Karen. There are people here from the state of Washington, Baja, the Salt Lake. Come on.

As we gather tonight, we remember that the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those that are crushed in spirit. Remember too, that we are of good courage and would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord surrounded by the loved ones who went before us. Of course, the Lord can see Karen, even though we cannot. For precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. So let us lay this saint to rest. And let us not linger, children, for the wolves will soon be upon our door.

Frank, Hitler is dying, and when he goes, there's going to be a Resistance uprising, not to mention a very good chance that this entire city's going to be wiped off the planet -

Frank Frink

- by an A bomb.

Who told you that?

Frink

You don't think I'm crazy? Who, Arnold?

Juliana. She called me.

Frink

Ju... But how did she... Yeah. Yeah, her Nazi boyfriend.

Hold on. Wait a minute. Frank. She is in the Reich, but she's not with the Nazis. She's working with the Resistance.

Frink

No, she's lying to you, Arnold. She's been lying...

It did not come from her, Frank. It came from an old war buddy of mine and the kind of guy who would give up his life for you. He wouldn't lie.

Frink

And did he know about your day job?

All right. [scoffs at being called out over his former Kempeitai job] Frank, that's fair. [walks around then faces him] I wouldn't expect you to understand what I did for my family, but do not call my daughter a liar! She never betrayed you. She never betrayed any of us. And I'm here today because she asked me to come and tell you and Ed to get the hell out of this city... because she still cares about you.

Frank Frink

Take them back with you. I want you to put them up.

Yeah, there's there's something you should know. Um, people are not only putting up your art. They're copying it. Young people, especially. They're they're making it their own. [shows Frank pictures of graffiti resembling his work]

Frink

Ah, this is fantastic.

Yeah.

Frink

All the more reason why we-

Look, they're arresting people, Frank.

Frink

I don't want anyone to get hurt.

Well, look, in a way, it's out of your hands. Th these sunrises, they'd they don't even belong to you anymore. But this, this is really gonna get the Pons' attention, and not in a good way.

Frink

You said people need to see - all this.

Yeah, and and, one day, the time will be right. And when it is, I promise you that we will wallpaper these sons of bitches like nobody's business.

Frank Frink

I just wanted to redeem myself. Anyway, seemed like helping the Resistance was the only way to make any sense out of what was left of my life. It was a mistake.

And you you tried to tell me.

Frink

Ed, I killed people. I killed people directly. And I got them killed after, too.

You know, the Japs' reprisals were, uh, were terrible. You can't blame yourself for that.

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]