Nobusuke Tagomi quotes from The Man in the High Castle

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]

Nobusuke Tagomi

Hello. Is that Mrs. Wegener?

Who is this?

Tagomi

This is Tagomi Nobusuke. I met the colonel last year in Stockholm at a trade convention. Would it be possible to speak to him?

Wegener

[German] My husband... is dead. He [cries]

Tagomi

Mm... May I ask what happened?

Wegener

They say he shot himself. He was a traitor.

Tagomi

You must know. Your husband died trying to make the world a better place.

Wegener

And did he? Trying is not enough, is it? [hangs up]

Dad, you know who puts their faith in things like Yarrow Stalks and the i Ching? It's people who don't want to take responsibility for the choices that they've made.

Nobusuke Tagomi

You're wrong. I take responsibility.

You need to let Mom move on with her life. You need to sign the papers.

Nobusuke

That is not your business.

Mom is too polite to say it herself.

Are you well, Trade Minister?

Nobusuke Tagomi

So very tired. But I suspect you know the reason why. You're not from this world, Kotomichi.

Trade Minister...

Tagomi

I learned in the other world, defeat of our Empire, the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where you were injured.

My family, friends... perished in the bombing. As I lay in the hospital recovering from my burns, I learned to escape the pain... in my body and my mind. By accident, I found myself here. A happier world where my family survived.

Tagomi

I believe there's a reason for my traveling, my powers. The armies in the other world made their atomic weapons larger, some a thousand times stronger than the one dropped on Nagasaki. I fear that they will eventually destroy themselves. If General Onoda does not listen to reason, then I must speak to the Crown Prince immediately. Arrange for my trip with great haste.

Trade Minister, travel to Japan is not possible at this time. We will soon be at war.

Tagomi

What?

Hitler is dead. Poisoned. And the Nazis have blamed the Empire. I fear your warning comes too late.

Tagomi

There may be one last hope, Kotomichi.

Nobusuke Tagomi

I threw the I Ching. Hexagram 40. Liberation. Changing line into Hexagram 56. Transition. Most auspicious.

Juliana Crain

I never really got to mourn her, you know.

Tagomi

Now's your chance.

Crain

Focus, Tru.

Tagomi

If you let go of her, the Trudy you lost, you will be liberated. Able to let go of her. And she of you.

[as the room rattles] You've always looked out for me, sis. You don't need to anymore. Take care of yourself, sis. [disappears]

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.

John Smith

Trade Minister.

Nobusuke Tagomi

Good evening, Reichsmarschall. Thank you for coming. Please, sit. I wish to extend my deepest condolences for the loss of your only son. I, too, have experienced the same.

Smith

Thank you. Now on the phone, you mentioned Dr. Wexler and Die Nebenwelt.

Tagomi

Yes. This machine is powerful. Meant to cross the thresholds between worlds.

Smith

The Reich won't be held hostage, Trade Minister. Nor will we engage in negotiations based on ill-gotten and half-baked intelligence.

Tagomi

I had hoped to discuss these matters alone, apart from our government. Because we have achieved peace together once before.

Smith

What do you mean?

Tagomi

Last year, you presented a film in Berlin. You averted war. I provided that film for Chief Inspector Kido.

Smith

I don't know what you're talking about.

Tagomi

It is possible to reach other worlds without the use of technology. The different truths of those worlds are of great value. And of great personal comfort. I received the film from my son. [presents paper] This is a list of 15 German defectors still living in the Pacific States. The Empire has approved the return of them to the Reich. And please, accept this as a gesture of recommitment to our trade agreements. And in return, the Empire ask only that you honor our oil treaties. Thank you for meeting, Reichsmarschall.

Smith

I will see that the Fuhrer gets your list.

Tagomi

I believe our two countries have great value for each other in peace.