He stops and turns his gun on his superior. They march outside to a firing squad where Kido is told he will give the order.
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Kido starts to crack even more at this horrible lie, and then Inokuchi is sentenced to death.
In a horrible turn, the powers that be decide to pin the murder on Inokuchi - if it was an inside job, he worked with the patsy Mingus Jones to do it. Kido knows it was, but he’s caught between truth and loyalty to his superior. During the hearing, Inokuchi asks Kido to confirm that Tagomi’s assassination was an inside job. While Amy is learning to toe the party line, Inspector Kido finally stands up against one in the court-martialing of Inokuchi. She even suggests that perhaps mommy dearest needs to go to a Reeducation Camp. She’s feeding into the belief that her mother isn’t loyal enough to her father, or to the Nazi party and the Aryan race. These scenes add depth to the show, revealing how much these characters have been through to get to this point.īack in New York, Amy Smith is turning out to be an annoying kid. It gets a parallel a few scenes later when it’s revealed that Yukiko was forced to marry her rapist when she was just a child. It’s an interesting dilemma - which path stops the conflict without sacrificing control or need? And how can groups of people possibly agree on the best path to take? There’s a harrowing scene with Bell, in which she discusses being mutilated so she couldn’t breed when she was 13 and living in an internment camp. Just as the Japanese seem unclear what to do next, the BCR is in a state of flux after the carnage that destroyed the chance for peace. It’s close to a coup when they order the Princess to her room under armed guard. Things get particularly tense when the Crown Princess claims that Inokuchi was acting on her orders, but the military hawks do not seem to care. Meanwhile, Kido himself talks to Inokuchi, the man who is going to be court martialed for daring to negotiate with the BCR. The writers subtly parallel one lost son with another in a brief interlude with Kido’s troubled boy in an opium den. It’s almost too tragic for John to take, and he vows to somehow fix what he’s done. The image of Thomas marching with men in uniform is meant to recall that of Reichmarshall Smith handing his ill son over to the Nazis for termination in the other reality.
Consider if John had never jumped into this world - Thomas probably would have at least tried to wait till his dad came home from his latest sales trip to make such a major decision. Did John’s aggression push his son into danger again? What a horrible thought. After a fight with Helen, who can tell this man is a bit different than the husband who left the house a few days earlier, Thomas comes home and drops a bombshell - he’s enlisted in the Marines and ships out shortly for Vietnam. With no knowledge that Juliana Crain is planning to come back into his life, John Smith is still in the alternate reality, and he’s about to learn the very harsh truth that the grass isn’t always greener on the other side of the multiverse. It’s hard to see exactly where this is going, although perhaps we need to accept the idea that The Man in the High Castle doesn’t end with the Nazis leaving the United States? Could they do that? Would you be satisfied watching four season of a story of resistance that doesn’t end with that resistance clearly victorious? You may have to be, because it seems like any other solution at this point would be rushed. And then what? The Nazi empire topples after the death of someone they seem to be wanting to push out anyway? That seems unlikely. Her plan is to play on Helen’s dissatisfaction with life in the Nazi party and get close enough to the Smith family to finally put a bullet in the head of her husband. It turns out that the endgame for Juliana Crain after four seasons will see her back where she’s been before - close to Helen Smith, disappointed wife of a leader of the American Reich.