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[John Smith has browbeaten Joe Blake over the failure of his Canon City mission]
Do you know why you failed? You are one component in a complex machine that only works if every part does exactly what it's supposed to do in sync with the whole. Now, if you decide, without knowing what the other components are doing, to simply go your own way, eventually that machine is going to break down. Don't ever disobey a direct order from me again, Joe.
[Kido visits Trade Minister Tagomi]
Ah. Inspector, please. [ushers to seats]
No, thank you, Trade Minister. I will not stay long.
I appreciate you coming at such a busy time.
What could we not discuss on the telephone?
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.
As soon as their identities are verified and their reasons for being in the Pacific States, all of their documents will be returned.
How long do you estimate it will take?
I offer no estimate. You met with a foreign visitor at his hotel this morning.
I met with several guests. They're honorable businessmen, not assassins. Their time is valuable.
All of our time is valuable.
I understand what is at stake.
Do you?
I was with the Royal Couple. So yes, I believe I do.
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]
[Juliana Crain tries to apply for work at the Japanese Authority office, but the personnel director, Mr Eto, thinks differently]
There may be a role you are suited to, subject to references, here in personnel. Alongside your other work, it would involve undertaking certain personal services as and when I require them.
What kind of services?
You wish to work here?
Yes, sir.
It is an honor for a girl like you to be employed here.
I know that, sir.
It is not for you to question your duties. You simply do. [tries to unzip his pants] Do you want the job or not?
[Having been accepted to work in the Japanese Authority office, Juliana Crain is shown around by Tagomi's aide-de-camp Kotomichi]
Mr. Tagomi expects complete loyalty and discretion. You will not speak of anything you hear or see, and you will not leave this level without my express permission. This is a government building, Miss Crain, patrolled by armed soldiers. Do not go anywhere without prior authorization.
You find yourself a good woman Joe.
And until then, find as many bad ones as possible.
You must trust the woman in your life, with your life, Joe!
[Arnold Walker and Juliana Crain talk at a diner over why they are working at the Japanese Authority Building]
What the hell do you think you're doing snooping around the Nippon Building? [to waiter] Two coffees, please.
I could say the same to you.
What choice do you think I had? I had a family to support. How do you think I kept all of you safe? I swallowed my pride, and I did what I had to do. Did you have any idea that your sister was involved with these insurgents? I heard her on the wire. So did all the other listeners. I had to throw myself on the mercy of...Our benevolent employers. I had to identify her. I told them she was a kid. I told them she was my kid. I mean, hell, I worked for them for 16 years. It's got to be worth something.
Sixteen years?
Did you know she had a film?
She did. And now there's another one.
Juliana, you listen to me very carefully. You cannot get involved in this.
There's something different about this one, isn't there?
I don't know what it is, but I can tell you they got us working around the clock trying to find it. They screamed at me so loud, I thought they were going to shoot us both. But everything I said checked out, so they let her and that idiot boyfriend of hers escape to the Neutral Zone. And thank God, Juliana, because if anything happened to Trudy...I'd be finished.
[John Smith talks to Joe Blake about his latest call to Juliana Crain]
You think she knows more about the film than she's saying?
Yes. Absolutely. Sorry. She just said it was different, sir. Different to the others.
What's your feeling, Joe? Do you think that she can get to it on her own, using her contacts there?
Maybe. I don't know.
Perhaps you're going to have to help her. You're going on another trip, Joe, and you'd better hope you find that film. You call in every day. Tell me everyone you meet, every little detail, everything. No omissions, no mistakes. I noticed yesterday you were very good with my little girls. Is that because of... Buddy? [Blake is quiet at the other end of the line] Heil Hitler, hmm?
[Robert Childan is not too pleased to see Frank Frink propose to him about selling fake antique guns]
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?
I'm good. Real good.
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.
What the fuck is that?
It's worth 100,000 yen on a collector's market. Don't you feel it?
100,000?
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.
That's your point? It's all a giant racket?
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?
All right, so which one is it?
This one.
Won't he spot that it's a fake?
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.
Let's screw him over. 80,000 yen split two ways.
Just make sure it looks good enough.
60-40. I got materials to cover.
[John Smith talks to Dr Adler at his office over Thomas' latest consultation]
Um... this, um... this won't be easy for you to hear. Thomas didn't just pull a muscle wrestling, Obergruppenführer. He had a tremor.
A tremor?
I wish I could tell you that it was just growing pains, but your son has a serious disease. Landouzy-Dejerine syndrome. The symptoms, vague at first, are loss of coordination, weakness in the arms, difficulty hearing...
That's... That's nonsense. My son is the picture of health.
I'm afraid he isn't. Within months, perhaps a year, there will be paralysis.
That's a mistake, doctor. You're making a mistake.
I would never tell you this were I not certain. He scored 10 out of 10 on the indicators in the Brandt-Sievers nerve test.
Okay. So what's the... What's the treatment?
Obergruppenführer, we're talking about a Class A congenital disorder. There is no treatment.
What do you mean, there is no treatment? No, I'm not accepting that, no. There's got to be some other tests you can run. I want a second opinion.
You have the option, but you should be aware that if he is submitted to others for examination, this becomes an institutional issue.
Oh, I see.
Yes, of course. By virtue of your position, I feel what must be done can be done in the kinder setting of your home. I will hold your son's file outside the system, give you the time you need. As for, uh, medical assistance... [opens case] a syringe and an ampule of an effective combination: morphine, scopolamine, and Prussic acid. Absolutely painless. If you like, I can show you how to locate a vein in the back of the hand.
[Reinhard Heydrich visits Rudolph Wegener at his suite]
Colonel. You look rested.
Hardly.
You've had time to reflect on your situation.
I have. This is a list of names, not just my wife and children, but her father and the rest of her family.
Ten lives in exchange for yours.
That's the deal.
You need not worry, Colonel. Come. You have a rocket to board.
Where am I going?
Berlin.
What is it you expect me to do there?
I thought it was obvious, Colonel. The Führer is old and ill, standing in the way of the empire he built.
Am I meant to talk to him?
No, Colonel Wegener. You're meant to kill him.
[John Smith sees Heydrich talking to his family]
The duty of maintaining order is never as thrilling as the challenge of establishing it.
[Yakuza oyabun Taishi Okamura meets Chief Insp 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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Name your price.
My price cannot be paid with money, Chief Inspector, but it is very, very high.
[Chief Inspector Kido and Sgt Yoshida police the room of the now-dead SS sniper pinned in the Crown Prince assassination]
Go through his desk. Anything official must be destroyed.
I do not understand, sir.
I think you do, Sergeant.
What is this man's crime?
The shooting of the Crown Prince.
Hai. But we've been pursuing Frank Frink.
The witness said Frank never discharged his weapon.
Then why not arrest and interrogate this man?
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?
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.
The desk. [Yoshida works on it]
[Rudolph Wegener talks to his children one more time with his ex-wife Katharina present]
[in German, as he embraces and carries Otto] It is far from easy to be a good man. In fact, as one gets older, it becomes more and more difficult to know... what a good man is. Yet it also becomes increasingly important... [looks at Katharina] to at least try.
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