The Man in the High Castle (2015–…): Season 2, Episode 6 - Kintsugi - full transcript

[film projector starts]

♫ Edelweiss, edelweiss ♫

♫ Every morning you greet me ♫

♫ Small and white ♫

♫ Clean and bright ♫

♫ You look happy to see me ♫

♫ Blossom of snow,
may you bloom and grow ♫

♫ Bloom and grow forever ♫

♫ Edelweiss, edelweiss ♫

♫ Bless my homeland forever ♫

[voices]



♫♫ ["Star-spangled Banner"]

[chatter]

Michiko.

Michiko.

[chatter continues]

Oh, hey.

What's with the suit?

What is this?

Mom promised we could use
this place for our meeting.

Meeting?

Uh, Dad, my friends
are counting on me.

Please don't make me
go back on my word.

Keep your word.

We're good, guys.



- Come on.
- Honey, come quick.

- Huh?
- He's learning to wave back.

- What?
- Did you wave? You did.

You learned how to wave, Donny?

Yeah, he started
waving in the car.

Good job.
That's amazing, buddy.

Yeah. Show him.

Should we take a little nap?

Just a little one?

Good morning, O-to-San.

Good Morning, Miss...
Uh, Juliana.

You seem different somehow.

Different? How so?

I don't know.

You seem really well.

Everybody, this is Nori's dad.

- Hi.
- Hello.

[chuckle]

Hey, thanks for letting
us use the place.

We have so much to do.

- Juliana.
- Yeah.

What is this meeting for?

It's one of our
Ban the Bomb meetings.

I'm really glad you're here.

Look, I just need to know
that it's over, George.

I can't just assume
finding you is enough

to stop what I saw
happen in the film.

As simple as that,

just pick up
my direct line to the Castle?

I've got a better chance of
collect calling Grace Kelly.

I sent a message.

We haven't heard back yet.

Word is he's gone AWOL again.

So...

how was dinner?

You could almost
forget they're Nazis.

It won't work coming
at the Smiths straight on,

so my people want you to take
a more indirect approach.

Oh no, I'm not taking
any approach.

The Smiths are not why I'm here.

We've been over that.

Let me talk
to your people, okay?

Explain the situation.

Now, see, that's something
a Nazi spy would say.

We've been over that, too.

Your pop saved my life.

Risking it to give you another
chance feels like payback,

but I'm not gonna
ask my people to risk theirs.

I didn't know that...

About you and my father.
How did he save your life?

[scoff]

Nope.

We're not gonna do that.

You've got to go a long way
to earn my trust.

George, I am not a Nazi.

Well, that's...
That's the thing.

We're gonna need you
to become one.

Helen Smith may not act it,

but she is the queen bee
of the Nazi social scene.

The wives, girlfriends
of top Nazis suck up to her.

So you're going
to suck up to them.

Look, I did
what you asked, okay?

I went there, and I smiled,

and I pretended
everything was fine,

and all I wanted to do
was scream.

We're looking at this... you...
As a long-term investment.

You'll never
be really close to the Smiths

unless their friends accept you.

You think women
like Helen's friends
are going to welcome me?

Once you're in with the Smiths,

you'll be considered
a curiosity.

Or competition. George,

you don't know the first
thing about women, do you?

[scoff]
Well, that may be true,

but it's the deal
keeping you alive.

Are you sure about this,
Jennifer?

Yes, I'm sure.
Mrs. Pack said.

Well, that means
your ballet finishes

at exactly the same time

Thomas' wrestling
practice starts.

I don't mind missing piano.

That's very noble of you, Amy,

but your piano is on
a completely different day.

Don't they understand
how difficult it is

to figure out a schedule
for three kids?

How... How can I be
two places at once?

Thomas keeps saying
he's a man now.
Why can't he walk?

Smith: Don't worry.
We'll work it out.

That is easy to say,
John, but how exactly?

[door opens]

What is it, son?

I, um, I got a letter.

What does it say?

It's from
the Commander's Office.

Ten Hitler Youth members
have been selected

to go on a month-long
expedition,

"to civilize and educate

those unfortunates
living outside the Reich."

I've been chosen to go.

To the Neutral Zone?

To South America.

Well, that's, uh...

that's quite an...

That's quite an honor, son.
Congratulations.

Jennifer:
When do you go?

He's not going.

- What?
- Helen...

Thomas, I'm... I'm sorry.

I am very proud of you,
obviously, but this...

It's out of the question.

Isn't it?

Uh, why, um,

why is it out of the question?

We'll discuss it later.

There's nothing to discuss.

I thought you'd be pleased.

I said later.

Whoa.

You need not eat it all.

I wanted you to have a choice.

In future, you'll let me know

which dishes
you particularly enjoy.

Uh, thank you, Silvia,

but you don't have to
wait on me like this.

But I want to.

Hmm.

Thank you.

Where's my father?

The Reichsminister
had to leave early,

but he has a car
waiting for you.

He cleared his schedule

to spend the day
showing you Berlin.

[speaking German]

You'll need to change.

Was the suit I laid out
for you not to your liking?

Oh. That.

Heusmann's family.

Your parents...
were never married.

After your mother took you,
your father met Margot.

They were very happy,

and they had two handsome
boys: Dieter and Rolf.

I see.

Where are they now?

They were killed in
an Allied bombing raid

outside of Hanover.

Were there others,

or am I the only one
he has left?

This is not something
I can answer.

You should speak with
the Reichsminister.

[doorbell rings]

- Julia.
- Helen. Hi.

I just wanted to say
thank you so much for dinner.

I had such a great time.

Oh, it's sweet of you
to come all the way over.

You could have just called.

Oh, I just wanted
to bring you this.

That's very sweet.

[women laughing]

I'm sorry.
I've come at a bad time.

That's just bridge club.

Bridge. I always wanted
to learn how to play.

Maybe you could
teach me some time?

The girls would love
to meet you.

Uh, why don't you come in?

I... Okay. Thank you.

Girls, this is Miss Julia Mills.

Uh, Mrs. Alice Adler.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Mrs. Mary Dawson
and Mrs. Lucy Collins.

Juliana: Hello.

Sorry for interrupting
your game.

Oh, don't be silly.

The girls are just trying
to distract me anyway.

Would you like
some coffee, sweetheart?

- Thank you.
- Okay.

Julia wants to learn to play.

She's just moved here
from the out West... Seattle.

They don't have bridge in
the Pacific States anymore?

We play Mahjong.

I suppose those Japs made
you give up everything

when they came marching in.

Between that
and their delusional
sense of superiority.

How did you stomach it?

I don't know.
You just, um...

go on living, I guess.

If you call that living.

Mm.

Mary: So it turns out

I was right
about Marjory's nanny.

The girl was
genetically a Semite.

Imagine someone like that
having access to children.

With that and genetic defects,

there should be
compulsory screening.

Mary: Hmm.

Alice:
Gerry used to say that.

Lucy: Was she reported?

Mary:
Of course.

I couldn't live with myself

if I hadn't said something.

Your play.

Hmm?

Your play, dear.

Are you all right?

Oh yes.
Of course, I'm fine.

I suppose you must've seen
a lot of that sort of thing.

The Japs are very lax with
their racial laws, so I hear.

- Well...
- I don't blame you

for staying single, Miss Mills.

Without any proper regulation
for genetic hygiene,

you could very well end up
being married to anyone.

Mary:
Don't be ridiculous,
Lucy. You'd know.

How could you tell?

Because they have
certain traits.

But how...

- [gasping]
- Oh! I'm so sorry!

I don't know how that happened.

Let me get you a cloth, please.

- I'll do it.
- It's all right.

[honking]

I wasn't sure you'd come.

It sounded urgent.

What's wrong?

Another fight with your father?

The way we met...

That was no coincidence, was it?

My father sent you
to persuade me to stay.

This is why you called me here?

I just want to know

because I've had enough
people lying to me.

Okay.

Yes, your father asked me
to talk to you.

Is that how you afford
your fancy car

and your nice dresses?

Doing what powerful men
ask you to?

Whatever issues you're
having with your father,

don't blame me.
Go be angry with him.

You don't know
anything about me.

Wait a second. Just wait.

You're right.

Please, can we just start over?

And be honest with one another?

Hello.

I'm Nicole.

All right.

I'm Joe.

Nice to meet you.

Now can you please get me
the hell out of here?

Get in.

Josef!

Stop, please!

Josef!

Lucy:
Is it coming out?

It doesn't matter.

It was a donation anyway.

I didn't have much
when I moved here.

Now I feel even worse.

No, don't be silly.
It's fine.

I must say your dress
is very beautiful.

Thank you.

It is, isn't it?

I couldn't believe
how well it fit.

Well, even I can see that,

and I don't know
anything about fashion.

John might have warned me

you were such a stylish
group of women.

How exactly do you
know the family?

A mutual friend.

John and Helen
have been so kind to me.

He's amazing.

And she just gives and gives.

Well, it's not coming out.

Why don't you let me replace it?

No, you don't have to do that.

But I want to.

Okay.

Nicole: I love the way
the light falls on the leaves.

It reminds me that whatever
I think is so important,

the trees don't care.

Did your mother ever
speak of the Fatherland?

My mother? Uh, heh.

No, she... she never
talked about the past.

She said it unhealthy,

that I should focus
on the future.

You don't have to talk
if you don't want to.

Yesterday I found out
I'm a bastard.

You proved that this morning.

My mother lied to me.

My father didn't run out on us.

She took me away from him.

I'm sorry, Joe.

I'm Lebensborn.

Does that spook you?

Why would it?

Welcome to the club.

Wait, wait, wait. Heh.

Wait. Y-You're...

- We're not...
- [chuckle]

No.

Would I have kissed you
like that?

Calm down.

Being Lebensborn isn't
the worst thing in the world.

Really? Finding out you come
from a breeding program?

We didn't have any choice
in how we were born.

That housekeeper Silvia looks
at me like I'm some sort of...

Chosen one?

Our parents' generation
had some strange ideas.

Do I seem special to you?

[chuckle] No, not at all.

You're completely boring.

The only thing special about me

is that I refuse
to let my father

marry me off to some fossil.

I will decide
what to do with my life

and my future,
thank you very much.

So...

have you had enough?

Not even close.

I'm actually supposed
to be somewhere,

but why don't you come?

It might be just
the thing you need.

What's that?

A different kind of space.

[speaking Japanese]

Raeder: Sir,
we have a priority message

from San Francisco Station.

Our agents believe
they have located

the most recent hideout
of High Castle.

How recent?

It was a barn, torched
within the last 24 hours.

And it appears
that the fire destroyed
a large cache of films.

Hundreds.

And that's very unfortunate.

Our agents are continuing
to search the area.

Can you remind
our Yakuza friends

of the exact conditions
of payment?

- I want High Castle alive.
- Yes, sir.

Erich. How are you?
How's your mother?

We're both very well, Mrs....

Helen. Thank you.

Uh, it's a pleasure
to see you here.

We had arranged to talk,

but I don't think we set a time.

Now would be ideal for me,

if it's convenient, of course.

I'll have the Standartenführers

await further orders, sir.

No calls, please, Erich.

John...

This couldn't wait
till I got home?

He's not going, John.

I will not allow it.

I stop breathing

the moment Thomas
walks out that front door,

and I only start again
when he is back home.

You want to let him
go to South America?

- Helen...
- He will be found out,

and you know what that means.

Okay.

Sit down.

Helen, sit down, please.

We are going to let him go.

Thomas will fly
to Buenos Aires,
all right?

And from there,
he's going to travel

to meet the others
on his expedition.

But he's not going to
make the rendezvous

because, somewhere in the
foothills of the Andes,

he's going to be
kidnapped by Semites.

You did this.

Now, this is going to look like,

to the rest of the world,

a terrorist act
on a high-profile target,

but Thomas,
he's going to be okay.

He'll be safe.

In South America?

He could live
for decades, Helen.

This way, he's going
to be comfortable.

He's going to be safe.

No one's going to be
able to reach him.

How can you be sure?

Because I will personally
spearhead the search for him

and for his kidnappers.

Now, you, of course, will
be bereft, as will I,

and publicly we'll never give up

trying to bring our son home.

But ultimately, Helen...

we will fail.

Now, if you have any questions,

you have to ask me now...

because, I'm afraid,
once you've left this room,

we must never
talk about this again.

Will I ever see him again?

Maybe, one day.

When and if it is safe.

It's the only way, Helen.

[chatter]

♫♫ [harmonica]

Must bring back memories.

Sorry. Memories?

You're Nori's dad, right?

Yes.

I'm Jimmy.

Hello.

You must've been there...

In Japan, I mean, you know...

When they dropped the Big Ones?

Big Ones?

Hiroshima? Nagasaki?

I've seen photos.

Horrible, isn't it?

What we do to one another.

Human beings, I mean.

Yes.

Please excuse me.

Yeah, sure.

Woman: Yeah, we...

Juliana:
I can take a break from...

[chatter, stapling]

- Great.
- We'll see.

Okay.

Hey, what do you think?

I love that.

- Yeah.
- Great.

Honey, how are you doing?

Oh, yeah, we're getting there.

- I think these are dry.
- Juliana: Okay.

That one, too.
You can hang those up.

Getting there.
Here, you, uh...

Does everyone have
everything they need?

Hey, Joey, do you
want to grab these?

[chatter]

[singing in Japanese]

[speaking Japanese]

What's going on?

Hey, honey, we're running low

on poster board
and some staples.

You want to maybe
go down to the shop

with your dad and pick some up?

Please?

You up for running
an errand, Dad?

Hmm.

These are from Frankfurt.

A French designer, of course.

Say what you will about them,

but they do know how to cut
for the female form.

I love the palette this year.

It's so chic, don't you think?

Yeah, it's lovely.

Oh, this is
the special collection.

Ordinarily, you wouldn't
have access to these,

but since you're with me...

[chuckle]

I read that the Reich issues

a standard clothing
allowance to everyone.

Well, yes,

but not everyone has to
attend formal functions.

My husband Henry oversees
the television networks here.

He reports directly
to Reichsminister Goebbels.

I'm sorry. I should probably
know what that means.

Henry helps...

decide what people think...

Or at least what makes it
onto the news.

To hear him describe it,
it's the same thing.

Let's try her in the black.

It'll show off
that darling waist.

And I'll try
the vine and floral.

So how long have you
and Henry been married?

Five happy years.

Oh, don't worry.

With your looks, you won't
stay on the shelf for long.

Oh, no.

That's your plan, isn't it?

Cozy up to the Smiths,

get them to marry you off
to somebody important?

I'm joking.

Silly. [giggle]

- Let's try these on.
- All right.

Wow, that looks
so beautiful on you.

That... You...
Fits you perfectly.

Come here.

Look, we could be sisters.

Don't worry.
This is my treat.

Charge these
to Mr. Collins.

Of course.

- Thank you, Lucy.
- Hmm.

♫♫ [rock n' roll on radio]

[chatter]

Who are these people?

The future of the Reich.

Wait, they're not all...

Lebensborn?
Ja, some.

You'll know which
after the sun goes down.

We glow in the dark.

[chuckle]

Come on.
I think it's time

you experienced
a real Berlin party.

♫♫ [jazz]

Take it slow, Joe.

We can't be drunk
and do the journey.

Nicki, schatzi!

[speaking German]

Joe, meet Hans.
Hans, meet Joe.

Nice to meet you.

Ah, yes. Heusmann's son.

You have been
hiking with Nicole?

- Mm-hmm.
- Good.

Then you've done
the physical part.

Excuse me?

The outside, the exterior,

the bounty of nature
that man cannot perfect

because it is already perfect.

Monika, please don't
scare away our guest.

Are you scared?

Because it's turning
to the interior world

that our personal realm
is deeper, darker, chaotic.

I have no idea what
you're talking about.

It's an environmentalist
thing, Joe.

No concern of yours.

Of course it is.

The environment
is all of our concern.

Your father's project,
Atlantropa,

it is being peddled
as an economic miracle,

but it is an abomination.

How could stemming
the Mediterranean

be good for the Reich?

I don't know, Hans.

I don't know anything about it.

Oh, it will have catastrophic
effects on the earth.

Our planet will pay
a heavy price.

And so will you two
if we have to hear
a political lecture.

Come on, let's pick out
the perfect spot.

If they get down
off their high horses,
then they can join us.

Mm.

[speaking French]

[laughter, chatter]

Have you had much
experience with drugs?

What kind of drugs?

Lysergic acid.
Have you done it?

You'd remember.

One of my father's
biggest sellers.

He only supplies it
to the military,

but I have my ways.

Our parents' generation

uses it for mind control...

Interrogating
prisoners, for example.

But we use it...

as mind expansion,
as you'll see.

No pressuring.
You can sit this out, Joe.

You seem like you're open to it,

but if you're not ready yet
to explore inner space...

It's deeper, darker, chaotic.

You said that already.

You can trust me, Joe.

I'll be here for you
the whole time.

They behave as if were
the end of the world.

It might be.

Fear is never to be trusted.

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.

You're wrong.

I take responsibility.

You need to let Mom
move on with her life.

You need to sign the papers.

That is not your business.

Mom is too polite
to say it herself.

She's too...

Japanese.

I was born there,
but I'm an American now.

Yes.

You are.

So how long have you known John?

Not long at all.

- Here you are.
- Oh, thank you.

Dreadfully handsome, isn't he?

Don't worry.
We all think so.

And Helen wouldn't be
annoyed to hear it.

She knows what she's got.

Who did you say introduced you?

A friend of mine worked for him.

Joe Blake?

Oh. A friend
or friend?

Well, now I'll just
have to find you

somewhere suitably glamorous

to wear your pretty new dress.

Thanks again, Lucy.

What is it?

Lucy? You all right?

[sigh]
Everything's normal.

[shudder]
That's the problem.

Another month and no baby.

Apparently,
these things take time.

We've been trying
for three years.

You should see the way
Henry looks at me now.

His disappointment.

Lucy, I'm so sorry.

[sobbing]
It's my fault.

It must be.

But I'm too afraid
to take the test.

Henry's career would be over.

Something's wrong with me.

Something's...

broken.

Uh...

there are more important
things, aren't there?

Not in the Reich.

Motherhood is everything.

You know, the Japanese have
a philosophy called Kintsugi.

They take the pieces

of something
that's fallen apart,

and they put it back
together with gold.

Imperfection can
be beautiful, Lucy.

You won't tell Helen...

or the others.

Of course not.

I can trust you, right?

Of course. Come on.

[distorted sounds, voices]

[eerie voice]

[growling]

Nicole. Hans.

[growling]

Juliana.

It really is you.

Everything's all right, Joe.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry I killed them.
I didn't mean to.

I know.

- I killed you, too.
- No.

It's okay.

I'm alive.

So are you.

Where did she... you... go?

I'm dead, too.

Nicole: Alive, dead,
we're just specks of dust.

We blow away in the wind.

But it makes no difference.

We make no difference.

Dead or alive is all the same.

That is the beauty, Joe.

No.

You saved my life.

Please tell me it matters.

Of course it does, Joe.

It means you need
to make it matter.

What the f...

[sigh]

[chatter]

Ohh.

[knocking]

You rested.

That's good.

Mm. Yeah,
I guess I did.

I think I should to go...

Is there a problem?

Just... Did Hans
see us last night?

[chuckle]

Don't worry about him.

Even if he did,
he was busy with Monika.

Monika likes you.

You can have her, too.

I don't want Monika.

I'm ready to go
see my father now.

Good.

[speaking Japanese]

I felt sorry for her.

George:
Remember she's a Nazi.

I know.
I didn't expect to.

What about you?
You ever want to have kids?

Why do you ask?

Uh, your mom told me you
were like a mother to Trudy,

the way you looked after her.

Ma wasn't always around,

so a lot of the time
it was just the two of us.

You know, Trudy
had the best imagination.

As long as I could turn it
into a story or a game,

she wasn't afraid of anything.

I used to tell her

that if we waved
at the Japanese bombers

that they would just keep flying

and they'd leave us alone.

And no bombs would fall
on us as long as we sang.

We used to skip to the shelter

singing "Follow
the Yellow Brick Road."

You remind me of her.

Was it you who got her
involved in the Resistance?

It was her boyfriend,

but I introduced
her to Randall, so...

it's my fault.

I don't know.

Once Trudy made her mind
up about something,

there was no
talking her out of it.

You shouldn't blame yourself.

Thank you for saying that.

When she found you,

Did she say anything
about a way out?

What?

It was just something she said

one of the last times we spoke.

She said
she'd found the answer
to everything and...

she'd found the way out.

You think she knew
she was going to die?

That's not what she meant.

You sure?

How was school?

Okay. Thanks.

You're too old to sulk, Thomas.

Sorry, Father.
It's just, uh...

I just wanted to tell everyone

that I got picked
for the expedition.

You wanted to brag.

No.

Okay, maybe...
Maybe a little.

And especially to that
big-mouth Barker.

But I didn't.

I thought it through
and didn't say anything,

since I don't know
if I'm going or not.

That's very wise.

So, uh...

you said we'd talk
about it tonight.

No. I said we'd
talk about it later.

Well, when's that?

Well, it's unspecified.

That's the beauty of it,
you see...

- [door opens]
- Speaking of beauty.

[chuckle]

Well, at least they'll learn
how to set a table properly,

if nothing else...

in South America.

You mean...

Y-You mean
you're letting me go?

We're letting you go.

Ohh!

You guys are the best.

Ahh.

Tonight I call upon
Chairman Khrushchev

to halt and eliminate
this clandestine, reckless,

and provocative threat
to world peace

and to stable relations
between our two nations.

I call upon him
further to abandon

this course of world domination

and to join in
an historic effort

to end the perilous arms race

and to transform
the history of man.

He has an opportunity now

to move the world back

from the abyss of destruction

by withdrawing these
weapons from Cuba,

by refraining from any action

which will widen or deepen
the present crisis,

and then by participating
in a search

for peaceful
and permanent solutions.

My fellow citizens,
let no one doubt

that this is a difficult
and dangerous epoch

on which we have set out.

No one can foresee precisely

what course it will take

or what costs or casualties
will be incurred.

Many months in which
both our patience

and our will will be tested,

months in which many
threats and denunciations

will keep us aware
of our dangers.

But the greatest danger of all

would be to do nothing.

Our goal is not
the victory of might

but the vindication of right,

not peace at
the expense of freedom

but both peace and freedom,
here in this hemisphere

and we hope around the world.

God willing, that goal
will be achieved.

.srt Extracted, Resynced by
Dan4Jem, XII.MMXVI