Hawthorne Abendsen quotes from The Man in the High Castle

Hawthorne Abendsen

Each one of these films show a reality like ours, but not ours... Some of us are just the same. Rotten or kind in one reality, rotten or kind in the next, but most people are different, depending on whether they have food in their belly or they're hungry, safe or scared. So you watch these films. You tell the Resistance what you learn about the people you see and the things. Things that could happen here, too. That's why... That's why the Nazis want these films. Not the Nazis, just old Adolf. That demented bastard's too paranoid to let anyone else see them.

Hawthorne Abendsen

[narrating] Robert Street has just learned that the American dream is nothing more than an Aryan man's nightmare. And for Robert Street, that nightmare has only just begun. You may not know me, but you might've seen one of my films, those terrifying visions where the Allies won the war. My name is Hawthorne Abendsen, and I am the Man in the High Castle.

You about ready to go, Mr. A?

Hawthorne Abendsen

There's a stack inside. Would you bring it out for me, please?

Don't want to get that nice suit all rumpled up, huh?

Abendsen

Mm-mm.

[as he picks up a stash of films and puts in the truck] There's a... There's a strong smell inside.

Abendsen

You noticed.

Like gas.

Abendsen

That's the smell of leaving, Lem, the smell of moving on.

What about the rest of them?

Abendsen

Nothing like a good spring cleaning. [lights match that burns down his hideout]

Reichsmarschall John Smith

I'm sorry this happened, Abendsen.

Hawthorne Abendsen

You're the reason it happened, John. She knew there was no other way to escape a life sentence.

Smith

It didn't have to be a life sentence. If you just cooperated, you could've had your freedom.

Abendsen

What the hell do you know about freedom?

Smith

Come on.

Abendsen

What's it gonna take to kill me, John? What do I have to do?

Smith

Oh, I'm not gonna let you die.

Abendsen

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!