[Reichsmarschall for North America George Lincoln Rockwell graces the remembrance for Thomas Smith]
We gather here today to honor a true hero of the Reich. When the hour of decision came for Thomas Smith, he rose to the occasion in a way that admirably reflected upon his father. Without wavering, without self-pity, Thomas Smith, on his own, made the ultimate sacrifice for a community, a country, a cause. Surely, Thomas Smith shall forever stand a peerless exemplar of Aryan youth. And as we remember this day, let us absorb a great lesson: In the hour of decision, in the hour of crisis, when we look for leadership, and for courage, to whom do we look? We look to people covered in medals. But sometimes, we are better served when we look to a boy. A boy with a dream in his heart.
[Kido pays his respects to Sgt Yoshida's grave. Nakamura visits him in the wake of a botched raid on Hagan]
I told you, Nakamura. I have many skills. Interrogating the dead is not one of them.
SNSgt Nakamura
I am not worthy to replace Sergeant Yoshida.
NNakamura
Before I leave your sight, sir... All the bodies have been examined. No sign of the criminal priest Hagan.
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.
[John Smith summons Thelma Harris over what she wrote regarding Mrs Adler]
OJOberstgruppenfuhrer John Smith
May I call you Thelma?
THThelma Harris
Of course.
Good. Tell me, Thelma, you happily married?
Must be so difficult for you. Marriage is hard work.
But especially for a couple like you. With your sorts of secrets.
You'd just lose your job, right? But your husband, well, he'd lose everything, considering the law. And his... friend? Roger? [sees Harris react] Oh, I don't judge. I assure you.
No, but I understand how vulnerable you must feel, how... susceptible to unscrupulous operators. Like our friend Mr. Hoover. Constant threat of exposure. That's no way to live.
HHarris
No. No, sir, it's... it's not.
Well, I can help you. If you'd like.
HHarris
Sir, that would be wonderful. But what do I have to do?
Just keep doing what you're doing. Just have to let me know what that is. At all times. So I can help you. Help keep you and your husband safe. Do you understand?
Very good. I'll have Major Metzger see you out.
HHarris
Thank you, uh, O... Oberstgruppenfuhrer.
[Nobusuke Tagomi takes custody of Juliana Crain and the other Trudy Walker]
I threw the I Ching. Hexagram 40. Liberation. Changing line into Hexagram 56. Transition. Most auspicious.
I never really got to mourn her, you know.
If you let go of her, the Trudy you lost, you will be liberated. Able to let go of her. And she of you.
TWTrudy Walker
[as the room rattles] You've always looked out for me, sis. You don't need to anymore. Take care of yourself, sis. [disappears]
[Joe Blake has tracked down Oberfuehrer Diels]
OOOberfuhrer Oliver Diels
Smith has sent you, hasn't he? That vengeful bastard.
You should've stayed loyal to the Reich.
DDiels
The old regime needed to go. Heydrich and your father, they understood that.
My father confessed his faults. Renounced his conspiracy against the Fuhrer.
DDiels
Then your father died a traitor. [falls down after a shot to the chest]
My father died a hero. [shoots Diels in the face]
[John Smith visits the Ahnenerbe Institute]
JMDr Josef Mengele
The Ahnenerbe Institute will remain focused on the sciences, under my purview. Reichsfuehrer Himmler asked that I introduce you to some of our more immediate efforts in advance of his visit. [shows Smith a cart full of the films] The late Fuhrer's entire film archive. At your disposal, with Himmler's compliments.
OJOberstgruppenfuehrer John Smith
Yes, I watched some of these in Berlin. Surprising number of them are insignificant or counterfeit.
MMengele
And many are not so easily explained. Events, outcomes that cannot be dismissed as fake. The late Fuhrer knew these films, in the hands of our enemies, could be weaponized against the Reich. One of the archival projects is to sort, catalogue, and segregate the genuine from the ersatz. The Reichsfuehrer has entrusted this task to you.
MMengele
Just you, Oberstgruppenfuehrer. The films are part of several interrelated research projects. Our coordinated efforts will separate truth from noise.
[Nicole Dormer's new film tribute to Thomas Smith, An American Hero, is shown before GNR officials]
[narration] But it is among Thomas' own generation, among his fellow classmates, that he is most honored.
FSFemale student
[in interview] I loved Thomas. I did. [sniffles] You know, ever since I met him in the second grade, he was always talking about the future. His plans. Everything that he dreamed about doing to make the Reich an even better place.
Thomas spoke about the future. Did he ever talk about his father?
SStudent
All the time. Thomas idolized him.
[voiceover] Oberstgruppenfuehrer Smith is one of the American Reich's most decorated soldiers. [footage of Volkshalle rally] And just last fall, Smith was honored by Reichsfuehrer Himmler for saving the Reich from the traitor Heusmann. At this time of Smith's greatest triumph, his son Thomas was walking to his death. [cut to Thomas' tribute at his school] At the ceremony at Thomas Smith's high school, I witnessed an astonishing moment.
[in tribute speech] A boy with a dream in his heart.
[describing footage] Thomas' younger sister, Amy, instinctively stood to salute her brother. Child after child followed suit. And I wondered, what kind of man inspired such devotion and passion in his children? [cut to Smith] That man, John Smith. He bears a responsibility of being father to children and father to the entire nation. It's that immense and that simple.
[Frank Frink explains his new artworks to Mark Sampson and gives him samples]
Take them back with you. I want you to put them up.
MSMark Sampson
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]
All the more reason why we-
SSampson
Look, they're arresting people, Frank.
I don't want anyone to get hurt.
SSampson
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.
You said people need to see - all this.
SSampson
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.
[a woman meets with Ed and Robert Childan about a certain artifact]
WWoman
The Duke gave me this just before he left to fight with the Rebels.
And this is the belt buckle he wore in Stagecoach?
WWoman
Mm-hmm. Stagecoach is my favorite Ford.
Yeah, I just Feels a wee bit apocryphal.
EEd
That means he doesn't believe you.
WWoman
O ye of little faith. He told me to keep it as a memento till he came back, which, of course, he never did. [shows picture]
Oh. Now, that's a horse of a different color.
WWoman
That's me, that's the Duke, and there's the buckle.
Yeah. Yeah, I can see that.
WWoman
He was killed in action at the Battle of Dayton.
EEd
Everyone knows that. I mean, John Wayne. Wu?
We'll give you five marks for this and the photo.
WWoman
That's the only picture I have of the Duke and me.
Well, buckle's not worth a pfennig without the photo.
WWoman
Well, could you see your way clear to seven? I, I got my rent to make, and and seven marks might get me through.
I'll tell you what I'll do -
EEd
15. We'll pay her 15.
WWoman
Fifteen. That's fair. Right?
[Nicole Dormer is not pleased with a shoot of workmen weakly sledgehammering a bust of Abraham Lincoln]
Cut! Okay, cut. This is the old America. You are the new America. I want to see you full of power, energy. [to cameraman] In fact, get the camera off the sticks and move it in closer. Follow them. We need to feel the kinetic potential, the vitality of the new American Nazi youth. Okay, boys, what you're doing here is important work. You're erasing the past, replacing it with a better world, a world that is entirely yours. We ready? Okay, back to the start, please. Ready. And action! [the workmen start smashing the marble with more strength; instructing cameraman] Now get down low, underneath them, as they work. Shoot up. Make him look heroic.
[Kido visits Tagomi]
TMTrade Minister Nobusuke Tagomi
Howard Wexler. Who is he?
A defector from the Reich.
Only much more valuable. A researcher. I believe it was the same assassin in both cases. Wexler was working with your ministry.
On a project I cannot discuss.
The Nazis are doing their best to sabotage us. And they are succeeding. These street protests-
The street protests are under control. The agitators are suffering for oil. Kerosene. Gasoline. Heating oil. What are you doing about it, Trade Minister?
Again, nothing I will discuss with you, Chief Inspector.
[Helen Smith resumes her counselling sessions with Dr Ryan after John Smith arranges it for her]
RDr. Ryan
Why don't we start with something easy? You know, a memory. Could be anything.
RRyan
Well, anything to do with Thomas. Why don't you sit back, shut your eyes if that helps, and, uh, go back to a moment.
SSmith
Needn't be anything big.
RRyan
Could be something nice and simple.
SSmith
Uh, they they heard me scream and wail when Thomas was walking to that van. I wept, I pleaded, and all of my neighbors housewives and my friends they heard me beg him to stop. Stop and go back in the house. Don't do this. I'm so so ashamed.
RRyan
But any mother would've wept and pleaded. Don't you think?
SSmith
My son was a hero, I was a weakling.
RRyan
No. No, no. It takes strength to grieve openly.
RRyan
It's the weak who conceal their feelings behind a tough façade. Now, just by me saying this, you won't magically let go of your shame. But, if it makes it any easier, there is nothing more important to the Aryan state than a powerful mother who brings the full force of her emotions and convictions to daily life in the Reich.
[Helen Smith fumes at John over ARBI Director J Edgar Hoover suddenly visiting the Smiths' apartment investigating her over Alice Adler's death]
OJOberstgruppenfuhrer John Smith
Trust me, Helen,
Trust you, John? The last time -
We're not relying on Hoover's help.
Because he came bursting in here with two of his men. Who's to stop him from coming back and arresting me?
[John Smith is summoned to meet with Reichsmarschall George Lincoln Rockwell, with Heinrich Himmler and ARBI Director J Edgar Hoover by his side. Smith is curious why he is there]
Let's start with Dr. Adler, whom you eulogized following his sudden demise from a heart attack. A man who'd just gotten a clean bill of health from his own cardiologist. So what caused Adler's fatal coronary?
OJOberstgruppenfuehrer John Smith
Undetected coronary blockage, I'd assume. You- you tell me, George.
I can't tell you, because Gerry Adler was cremated before a proper postmortem could be performed, per Alice Adler's pleas to anyone who'd listen. And then Alice went suddenly silent, too. She died in a botched burglary, according to the police. But now, [glances at Hoover] ARBI agents have come up with a fascinating conclusion: the burglar - if indeed it was a burglar - who murdered Mrs. Adler was another woman. Meantime, evidence has come to light of Smith's scheme to sneak his ailing son out of the country, and then stage a kidnap plot to spirit Thomas to an Argentinian safe haven. [staring down Smith] It's treason to cover up your son's illness, and treason to use your office to spirit away your sick son. Not to mention assassinating a high-ranking Nazi official, Dr. Adler, and his wife.
Do you have evidence to back up these accusations?
Mein Fuehrer, we have the motive, the means and the proof.
JEJ Edgar Hoover
I'm sorry, Reichsmarschall, but I'm afraid you're confused.
[nonplussed] Confused. How?
HHoover
The charges you've leveled against Oberstgrueppenfuehrer Smith are unfounded. They're mere conjecture.
[glares at Hoover] Why the fuck would you say that? [goes and opens a briefcase he left on a nearby table; only a few crumpled papers are left inside] I don't understand. You showed me all those cables from Buenos Aires. [to Smith] Helen Smith's button, stained with Alice Adler's blood. [slams briefcase on table] Edgar. Where is it all?
Am I to understand there is no evidence to support these claims of treason?
HHoover
I have no evidence whatsoever, Mein Fuehrer.
It is, in fact, treason, to falsely accuse a senior Party member of such crimes!
[In German, to guards] Get him out of here!
[shouting furiously in German] Go away! Out of my sight! Out of this country! Immediately!
[as he's manhandled out of the room] Edgar, you set me up. A put-up job?! I will fucking crush you!
[Juliana Crain talks to Joe Blake about what she saw in his belongings, without implying she was perusing them at all]
Listen, Juliana, to resist is to invite the kind of pain that I went through. And trust me you do not want that.
And what is it that you think I want?
You want to join me. For a world full of perfection and happiness.
Just wake up! This is the world we live in. One that can be perfected, but not by your idea of goodness. Make peace with that, and there's a way out of this.
But what does it mean Die Nebenwelt?
It means "the next world," a parallel world. And when we reach it, and the world after that, and the world after that, the Reich will be everywhere. It dwarfs my father's greatest dreams. Now get dressed.
Or what? Hmm? You know, I've watched you kill me so many times. You know what happens next? You take that gun and you put it under your chin, and you blow your own fucking brain -
You're gonna take me to Tagomi. And then you're gonna take me to High Castle.
