The Man in the High Castle
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Are these the same person?
Do we all have the potential to go down very different paths if the world around us changes?
If he had never gone, Kidos fate in this very episode would be different.
There are always a couple episodes ofThe Man in the High Castleevery season that fall into the latter category.
Jennifer Smith doesnt want mom to come back to the Nazis.
She wants to go back to Uncle Hank, but mom knows that even talking about that is dangerous.
Someday Ill help you, she says.
Meanwhile, in the other reality, Helens son Thomas is talking about enlisting.
They definitely have something to fight for.
Before that, Juliana gets a gun from a buddy.
The poor boy has serious PTSD, but he comes at dad hard, calling him a puppet.
Thats not going to work with a sociopath who values loyalty above all else.
He kicks him out and says hes not his son.
This will not end well.
Finally, the auction assault gets underway.
So hes home when everything is about to go down.
The support from BCR gets scattered, but Price and his guy take the stage and start shooting anyway.
Their main target is only wounded, but Bell gets out and finishes the job herself.
Back at the BCR headquarters, some squabbling about what went down ensues.
Three of the Resistance men are dead, but they got most of their targets.
You know those Japanese generals they hate?
Some of them have been encouraging their people to pull out of the Japanese Pacific States entirely.
Violence in any timeline often just begets more violence.
Speaking of violence, we end with the death of John Smith … sorta.
The same man who killed her in one time will be her savior in another.
And then hes forced into action.
They struggle and she falls out of the car.
The other John Smith comes to the rescue, but hes stabbed in the melee.
And John Smith dies … so the other John Smith can live?
Join the Resistance
Never forget the Doppelganger Rule.
And with there being only one Smith kid left in each timeline, only Helen Smith remains in both.
Anyone want to bet this changes too?
Its not just John Wayne.
It would probably go for a fortune today.
We are near the endgame here, with only a handful of episodes to go.
Maybe that changes with chapter four.
