"edelweiss *" "* Small and white *" "* Clean and bright * may you bloom and grow *" "* Bloom and grow forever * edelweiss *" "* Bless my homeland forever *" "Joe." "I..." "I really wanted to be wrong about you." "But here we are in my office in the middle of the night." "I know you've been lying to me but I wanted to know how far you'd go." "Truth time." "Tell me about the girl." "New gift." ""New gift needs to go behind the curtain." "This one wasn't made in Kansas."" " [door opens] - [gasps]" "I'm sorry." "too." "You've been crying?" "for Laura and the kids." "After..." "I had this rage inside me." "I felt like I was going to lose my mind." "And I..." "I knew... like you. to shoot the Jap prince." "I bought the bullets." "I was about to do it." "I was just about to." "uh... this little... this little Japanese boy." "And when I..." "I looked into his eyes... [sigh] I don't know." "It was... uh..." "It was like..." "like I saw myself." "I..." "I knew killing that guy... it wasn't the answer." "Joe:" "Her name is Juliana." "Juliana Crain." "She had a film." "She thought the SD agent was her contact." "He tried to kill her." "She put up a fight." "He went off the bridge. and that's it." "That's all there is." "Joe?" "Do you have feelings for her?" "Ah." "car crash." "right?" "The body burnt beyond recognition." " No." " No?" "We wanted to look like it was her." "You wanted to protect her." "She's just a girl." "Get dressed." "Get your things." "Where are we going?" "[phone rings] [ring]" "[ring]" "Hello." "it's me." "I'm sorry to call so early." "Could you please come over here and sit with your mom?" "She's been in a..." "a mood the last few days." "She took a sleeping pill last night." "She's still asleep." "Why?" "What is it?" "What's wrong with her?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's what happened to Frank's sister and the kids." "I don't know." "Could you just come over here?" "I got to go in early." "Jules." "Who was that?" "Arnold." "God." "What does he want?" "He said Mom's upset." "He wants me to go over there." "Are you okay?" "he works for the Japanese." "Arnold works at the Post Office." "he works in a surveillance room inside the Nippon Building listening to people's calls." "and I saw him." " Did he see you?" " No." "Are they making him do it? it looked like he was in charge." "my God." "He's been lying to all of us." "Jules." "We both do." "[phone rings]" "Incorporated." "Moshi moshi." "this is Mrs. Kasoura." "[speaking Japanese] but you weren't at home." "I am struggling to keep those pieces I set aside for you from being snapped up. would you like to come for dinner at our house this evening?" "I'd be honored." "And I could bring the pieces with me then." "no." "My husband said there's no need." "This evening is only dinner." "as a... just as a friend?" "who... who else will be attending?" "No one else." "Just you." "Would 5:30 suit?" "We do not keep late hours." "5:30." "Just me?" "It's an honor." "Thank you." "is that we're weak." "he wants her." "It's natural." "It's animal." "We have to learn" "Joe." "Juliana Crain is not a suitable choice for romance." "Joe." "An enemy of the state." "And so are you if you try to protect her." "We should have put a bullet in your brain already." "Joe?" "You can use your budding romance in the services of the Fatherland." "Our sources in San Francisco tell us a new film has been found." "Find Juliana Crain." "Find the film." "I'll be prepared to accept that you've learned from your mistakes." "the girl dies with you." "Is that clear?" "sir." " Good." "Call her." "That's her number." "Be pleasant." "Reminisce." "Ask her how she got the film." "[ring]" "Hello." "Just a second." "It's for you." "Who is it?" "Hello." "It's me." "It's Joe." "How did you get my number?" "I pulled in a favor." "I can't talk right now." "Let me call you back tonight." "Okay." "how about you take my number?" "All right." "Go ahead." "JL5-0172." "it might be late in your time." "Is that all right?" "That's fine." "Bye." "Bye." "Was that him?" "Yeah." "What did he want?" "I don't know." "He didn't say much." "I told him I couldn't talk." "right?" "Okay." "I believe you." "I'll see you tonight." "Okay." "Smith:" "Put a wire tap on his home phone." "sir." "Joe." "[door opens]" " Hey." " Hi." "Jules." "Thank you so much for coming." "they got me going in early. they have us working all hours." "How come?" "Is there something special going on?" "Juliana?" "Look who's up." "There she is." "she's going to sit with you for a while." " I got to go to work." " Okay." "You girls have a good time." "Jules." "Thanks." " Mm-hmm." "Take care." "right?" "Said I was going crazy." "he just said he was worried about you." "What's going on?" "I didn't want to tell you because I didn't want you to worry." "I got it into my head that we lost your sister." "I got the same feeling I had when your father died." "This tight knot in my gut. and I knew he was gone. but then I woke up this morning... just like that." "just like nothing ever happened." "So everything's okay." "Do you want some coffee?" " Joe!" " Hey!" "buddy." "How you doing?" " Better now." " Yeah?" "Everything okay?" "some kids down the block were teasing him because he doesn't have a dad." "right?" "How did you get on with that homework that we did?" "I got a B+." "You got a B+?" "That's better than I ever did." "How about..." "I brought you back a little something." "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." "The man said it's a good one." "all right?" "Joe and me need a little time to talk." "You didn't call." "I thought something had happened to you." "Has something happened?" "No." "Why?" "I'm expecting an important call. and I need you and Buddy to be quiet." "then?" "You're going to go again?" "No." "Just the one job." "Now I'm back." "I hate sleeping alone without you." "I don't feel safe." "I hate it when you're away." "Trudy." "[Japanese chanting]" "I marvel at your magic way with the flowers." "If only I could learn your secret." "No secret." "they grow." "you must water them." "Oh. [Chuckle]" "Chief Inspector Kido is here." "Ah." "Chief Inspector Kido." "Have you been offered some tea?" "I've learned you have in your employment Juliana Crain." "Yes." "That's correct." "She is the sister to a known subversive." "Thank you for the information." "I will take it seriously." "There is no doubt about it. to save you from embarrassment." "Chief Inspector." "The responsibility for the girl and all her actions lies with you." "Miss Crain." "Trade Minister." "I apologize." "I have caused you embarrassment." "I should have told you and I will resign." "Or you will dismiss me." "No." "In life there are too many questions with a lack of time to answer them." "You may not understand this." "000 year-old book." "I ask it questions as if it were alive." "It is alive." "It tells me you have a purpose." "It says superior person in an inferior position." "Accepting a task graciously brings good fortune to all." "Miss Crain." "We cannot see ahead alone. my wife and I." "We..." "We grew flowers." "I'm sorry for your loss." "Please." "Send this to the personnel department to add this room number to your clearance." "why do you disregard" "Chief Inspector Kido's warning?" "What do you owe this woman that you would risk so much for her?" "Find out about her sister." "All right!" "Listen up!" "Bob?" "Hey!" "Everybody's going to be sent home early." "so just form a line right here." "Then they're going to shake down the factory." "get out of here." "From the Trade Minister." "Juliana." "What are you doing here?" "Same as you." "I work here." "Meet me at the diner on the corner after you've finished." "[Japanese chatter]" "Frank." " Hey." " Hey." "please." "you guys." "You're early." "Kempeitai are turning over the factory." "listen." "pick some stuff up." "Just don't go far." "Here you go." "Why are they doing that?" "I'm not sure." "How are you doing?" "last night helped." "Thanks." "But the truth is I don't know." "I understand." "I have to say I don't understand you." "Yeah?" "Why is that? but you raise them Jewish?" "That's right." "I know you get how dangerous that is for you and for them." "I'm not going to pretend that it's easy." "I struggled with it for a while." "But... this is who I am." "This is who my ancestors were." "I'm not going to let them take that away from me." "And you think it's worth dying for? but you can't live your life in fear. in Boston." "Jesus." "Frank." "lynch mobs were murdering Jews because suddenly we were less than human." "What did you do?" "those of us who came out in one piece. and we vowed revenge." "got kids to raise." "And Hitler and the Nazis..." "I don't care how it looks." "They won't last." "One thing I realized about my people is we've got a different sense of time. but we'll survive." "We always do." "You've just got to find something to hold on to." "faith." "I don't have any of that." "what about art?" "You're supposed to be an artist." "Why are you making fake guns?" "Because no one wants to buy my art." "So do it for yourself." "Frank." "It gives us hope." "I don't know." "I don't know where it would get me." "Yeah." "Right." "You don't need anybody to keep you down because you got your own little inner fascist right there telling you what you can and cannot do." "That's how you let them win." "I can source that metal for you." "Bud." "Joe." "are you?" "No." "Of course not." "I wouldn't do that to you and Buddy." "Arigato." "[speaking Japanese]" "Robert Childan here to see the Kasouras." "[knock on door]" "you look [speaking Japanese]" "I'm afraid I may be early." "Not too early." "Mr. Childan. to invite your most favorable attitude." "Most kind of you." "Selected from the finest objets d'art of America's dying culture. a flavor of our bygone days." "Flappers used to wear them in the 1920's." "I saw you looking at them in the store." "but still..." "Thank you." "a drink?" "Whiskey?" "Mr. Kasoura." "Tasteful." "Oh." "Very tasteful." "the harmony." "Kasoura-san." "call me Paul." "And Betty." "Then I am Robert." "Mm." "Is this your collection?" "Would you like to see it?" "yes." "Thank you." "The pistol is our prized possession." "Colt .44 from 1860." "Issued to the Union Army." "Boys in blue brought it into the second Bull Run." "Please." "Thank you. how do you verify what's real from any fakes?" "I have a practiced eye." "What a wonderful sense of history it exudes." "Betty:" "Dinner is ready." "Shall we?" "What the hell do you think you're doing snooping around the Nippon Building?" "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?" "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 worked for them for 16 years." "It's got to be worth something." "16 years?" "Did you know she had a film?" "No." "She did." "And now there's another one." "you listen to me very carefully." "You cannot get involved in this." "isn't there?" "but I can tell you they got us working around the clock trying to find it." "I thought they were going to shoot us both. so they let her and that idiot boyfriend of hers escape to the Neutral Zone." "because if anything happened to Trudy..." "I'd be finished." "this steak is delicious." "We like to eat American food." "Betty." "Thank you." "do you like music?" "Hmm?" "Kid Ory?" "Dixieland jazz." "I'm afraid" "I'm not familiar with Negro music." "sometimes Bach." "Perhaps if I played you a selection from the New Orleans Rhythm Kings." "he does not know it." "yesterday I saw an American say to his friend" "is it not?" "yes..." "And "old" is also impolite. and we address strangers as friends" " to show we're angry." " Ah." ""pal" or "buddy."" "back off." "it's confusing." "really." "Subtle." "perhaps you can help me with a book I'm reading." "It's a novel from the 1930's by U.S. author Nathaniel West." "The novel is Miss Lonely-hearts. but I can't seem to grasp the author's meaning." "I fear." "Hmm." "What a shame." "who believe there must be sin to account for it." "Mr. West suggest due to his being a Semite. then Semites would be running the world today." "you would agree would be most... [ring]" "[ring] [ring]" "Hello." "Joe." "It's Juliana." "Is this a good time?" "Yeah." "I couldn't talk from home." "The lines are tapped." "I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to say goodbye." "That's okay." "Don't worry about it." "So how you been?" "okay." "Did you hear anything about this new film?" "What do you know about it?" "just rumors that there is one." "yeah." "Not much." "uh... just there's something different about this one." "What do you mean?" "Different how?" "I don't know." "Um..." "Joe?" "What's your news?" "[beep beep]" "Operator:" "Please insert more coins. or just give me your number there." "[speaks Japanese] Please insert more coins." "[dial tone]" "Hello?" "Hello?" "Who is she?" "She's no one." "It doesn't matter." "I have to go out." "closes]" "Mr. Childan." "I did." "Thank you." "um... it's still early." "you see. so there's much that is strange." "to the Japanese way of life. next time you must come to me." "dinner next week?" "I can make rice and miso soup. but thank you for your time tonight." "uh... then?" "It was instructive." "Thank you." "Instructive?" "Of course." "I hope I've proved a useful research opportunity." "Arigato for your hospitality." ""Did you hear anything about this new film?"" "yeah." "Not much."" "uh..."" ""just there's something different about this one."" " "Different how?" " I don't know."" "how..."" "You think she knows more about the film" " than she's saying?" " Yes." "Absolutely." "sir." "Different to the others." "Joe? using her contacts there?" "Maybe." "I don't know." "Perhaps you're going to have to help her." "and you'd better hope you find that film." "You call in every day. everything." "no mistakes." "I noticed yesterday you were very good with my little girls." "Is that because of..." "Buddy?" "[pat pat] hmm?" "What do you want?" "I've got a proposition for you." "How about I make you guns to sell?" "We split the profits 50-50." "Get out of here." "don't make out that you're above it." "You sold me bullets." "What's wrong with guns to fire them from?" "look." "and then it's done." "pal. and fake guns aren't my thing. how good a craftsman are you?" "how good?" "I'm good." "Real good." "Could you make this?" "Because I've got a chump lined up to buy it." "Japanese." "Their brains are different. ersatz as the day is long." "Condescending bastards look down on me." "Here." "Look at this." "Two Zippo lighters." "don't they?" "hold them." "One of them has "historicity" in it." "What the fuck is that?" "000 yen on a collector's market." "Don't you feel it?" "000?" "One of those two Zippo lighters was in Franklin D. Roosevelt's pocket 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." "and it's just the same as if it hadn't in the mind." "So who's to say our jeweled choker isn't Sitting Bull's original?" "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:" "He can't distinguish what's fake from what's real." "Let's screw him over." "000 yen split two ways." "Just make sure it looks good enough." "60-40." "I got materials to cover." "[door closes] [footsteps]" " Jules?" " Yeah." "Where have you been?" "I was with Arnold." "so I had to go and talk to him." "What did he say?" "He said... that he did it to support us." "And that he thinks he saved Trudy." "He thinks he's the one who got the Japanese to let her go to the Neutral Zone." "Did you tell him she's dead?" "No." "What's wrong?" "I saw Trudy. and I saw her." "You saw the pons shoot her." "but I..." "I saw her." "we have to get out of here." "The Kempeitai came to the factory today looking for the shooter." "Do you think they were looking for you?" "Ed told me they didn't ask for anyone by name." "I got out before they saw me." "the Kempeitai won't let this go" "I have to get out of here." "either." "we go to the Neutral Zone?" "Yeah." "You've got to trust me." "Frank." "What if she is still around somehow?" "Jules." "She's gone." "Trudy Walker." "We don't know what she was involved in?" "Trade Minister." "even though I told you nothing." "Your compassion has placed me under your debt." "You have a sister:" "Trudy Walker." "She..." "You know she's missing." "It's not easy." "I have to tell you." "She's dead." "uh... how do you know?" "I was given information by Japanese authorities." "I'm sorry." "Did they tell you anything?" "Where she is?" "Her body." "It's a horrible place to see." "truth is of the highest importance and only with the truth can one move forward." "ask her to forgive us." "And bid her spirit to cross the river to Anoyo on the other side." "[speaking Japanese]" "Thank you." "[airplane zooms]" "Taxi." "You wait!" "Japanese go first!" "[birds squawking]" "[insects buzzing]" "[crying]"