In Man in the High Castle's ninth episode, "Kindness," helping each other is a big thing this episode. We start off with Frank at the bus stop with Ed waiting for Juliana. Ed tells Frank get on the bus and that he will send Juliana on another bus. Frank can't leave without her, telling Ed that maybe something bad happened. Meanwhile, Joe and Juliana are being held captive by the Yakuza. Lemmel and Karen, the Resistance operatives, pay the Yakuza ten thousand yen to get her back. But the Yakuza are keeping Joe for fifty thousand yen. Juliana says she will get the money. Juliana heads back to her apartment but she is stopped by a hiding Ed. He takes her back to his house where Frank is staying. Juliana tells them about her and Joe getting kidnapped by the Yakuza. Juliana asks Frank if she can use his forty six thousand yen to get Joe back. Franks agrees, but only if he is the one to get Joe back. While Lemmel and Karen are trying to figure out how to get Joe back, the Obergruppenführer is dealing with a potential uprising against him. He visits Erik, the man that was shot when the Obergruppenführer convoy was attacked. He tell him that he is very suspicious of Heydrich, a high ranking officer like the Obergruppenführer. He hands Erik a letter and tells him that if anything happens to him, to get this letter directly to Hitler. Heydrich has plan of his own though. He has released Rudolph from custody in the hopes of trying to exploit his connections and good will with the Führer. After telling Rudolph that what he has done is treason, he then says he has a mission for him to go to back to Berlin and kill Hitler. Meanwhile, Frank is on his way to save Joe. Before Frank meets up with the Yakuza, he goes to where he has hidden the gun he was going to use to kill the crown prince. Frank shows up where the Yakuza are holding Joe. He surprisingly gets Joe back without any fight. But of course, Joe has to have the film. The Yakuza say no. As they are leaving, Joe grabs the gun from Frank and shoots and kills the two Yakuza guards and tells the head of the Yakuza to hand over the tape, which he does. Frank and Joe narrowly escape from the Yakuza. They head back to Ed's place; Frank is ready to leave but the bus terminal is now asking for sufficient identification. Ed then gives them some money and says goodbye for now. The only person Juliana and Frank can turn to is Joe. The ask Joe if he can help them get out of town. Joe calls the Obergruppenführer telling him that he has the film but he had to kill two Yakuza members in the process. Joe also says that he needs help getting Juliana and Frank out of the city. The Obergruppenführer refuses to help Juliana and Frank. The Obergruppenführer has more important things to focus on rather than helping them. He discovers that Connolly is working Heydrich, who planed the hit on the Obergruppenführer and got Erik injured. The Obergruppenführer asks Connolly to meet him on the roof and for some reason, he accepts. As they are talking, the Obergruppenführer tells Connolly that he knows he is working for Heydrich, and he pushes him off the roof and tells everyone he committed suicide. Meanwhile, inspector Kido is doing a cover up of his own. He meets with the Yakuza boss to talk about Frank and Joe. The Yakuza boss lets Kido know that Frank wasn't the shooter and that he thinks they are covering something up. He thinks that a sniper from an opposing tower shot the crown prince and it was a Nazi agent. He says that Kido is covering this up because it is an act of war. While the Nazis are ready for a fight, the Japanese aren't. This makes Frank Kido's scapegoat. But it seems the crown prince, after being shot, has a renewed interest in taking on the Nazis. Meanwhile, Juliana and Frank are waiting at a school that they told Joe to meet them at. While waiting, Frank asks her what makes this film so different. This makes Juliana set it up in the auditorium of the school. They turn the film on and see a war torn country and then the see a firing squad putting people on their knees for execution. The last man we see getting put on there knees is Frank. Each man is executed one by one even Frank but another shocking thing is the camera pulls back and you see that it was Joe who killed Frank.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorCollege student majoring in graphic design. This blog is for my english class. Archives
April 2017
Categories |