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I am not a spy.

I am a simple fisherman.

I love this country.

No. No.

No.

Why didn't you take the medicine?

Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched?

Just don't you have to go!

What?

What evil?

Your evil deeds have come to an end.

What are you going to do? I'm going to get rid of you.

I told you to get out of this town, but you didn't listen to me.

It's all his fault.

He has a lot of grudges against the people who went to the ranch.

He's a big guy.

I'm going to get rid of you.

I'm going to get rid of you.

I'm going to get rid of you.

Chester,

you have to go.

Up there.

Hi.

Good night.

How was today?

you

I didn't see you at breakfast.

I ate in the barracks. Seemed easier.

Has it been any better?

With the women in your barrack?

It's the same.

Awkward. Fine.

It's like Catholic school all over again.

And I survived that.

You don't have to do that.

They don't have to do that.

The shirt looks nice on you.

It doesn't.

But low in options.

You can get some new stuff when we go home.

When would that be?

Two weeks.

Or months.

Tops.

Asako-san, any word from Henry-san?

I pray the spirits haven't taken them.

That poor

girl.

But she did.

Doesn't that say something?

Those birds, are they swallows?

I don't know the first thing about birds.

It's not about to start when we're supposed to be building the fence.

Is that the big chief, Bowen?

Major Bowen.

You working hard, boys?

What's your name, son?

Chester. Chester Nakayama.

Nakayama?

I knew a Nagiyama.

Or was it Nakamura?

Either way, he was a hell of a gardener.

When will the fence be completed?

A month at the most, Major. Good.

I don't need anybody going AWOL.

So you boys better build me a nice, solid fence.

You're supposed to be industrious.

I guess it's no surprise that the guy who runs this place is an

asshole.

How long have you been here?

About a month.

You? Got here last week from San Francisco.

My parents and my brother.

All their sisters in Manzanar.

Sounds terrible there. It's terrible here.

And where are you from?

We're from Terminal Island.

Can't miss what you never had, right?

Huh. I never thought I'd see that.

What the hell?

Those guys are neat, right?

I heard that they're recruiting overseas translators.

That's rich.

I thought we were supposed to be the enemy.

But this is tough.

Even guys who've studied in Japan don't pass.

You're not considering it, are you?

They put us in here and expect us to sign up?

Screw that.

Red.

We were just dancing.

He's here at the camp.

Chester.

Let me.

Where were you?

They didn't tell you?

I'll be back soon.

I'll bring you breakfast and go back.

It was a lot of work.

Mr. Yoshida... He was always so diligent.

Even when I decided to become a fisherman, he was...

Spire.

Spire.

Morning,

Pop.

Try some breakfast.

I brought you some warm water to rub your hands and feet.

It should help with the frostbite.

Lucy's starting to be a nurse.

She's just trying to help. I just think you should go.

Hey, Chester.

Mind if I join?

Ken. Oh,

this is Amy.

Nice to meet you. My sister from Terminal Island.

Have you ever been?

No, but I hear it's nice.

It's actually really nice. I imagine, I bet, yeah.

Where are you from?

San Francisco.

If somebody finds love here, that'd be something.

Pity about Yoshida-san.

I never thought he snubbed.

Yes, you never know.

I don't know.

When it happened, Yoshida-san wasn't himself.

You think it was something else?

Bakemono.

Ever used to believe in that old country stuff?

Older country?

They in every country.

You may be anywhere you go.

Go back to bed.

I can't be a secretary to these people.

You need something to do.

Sorry I kept you waiting.

Man went crazy in the mess.

Soldier took an unauthorized leak and somebody destroyed a searchlight.

Goddamn day, it's something.

Come on in.

Have a seat.

So,

My name is Fumi Yoshida. My daughter, Amy, would like to offer her secretarial

services. Does she have any experience?

She knows shorthand and how fast can you type?

60 words per minute.

But more than that, she would love to help her country during a time of war.

Wouldn't you, Amy?

So much paperwork, I could certainly use a new secretary.

Especially one as patriotic as your daughter.

Furuya-san.

Furuya-san.

Furuya-san.

It's Chester.

I brought you some sake. Homemade.

What is Toshiro?

Is he okay?

He's with my mother.

She's taking care of him.

What happened today?

Why did you attack him? I didn't. It wasn't me.

Tell him.

Tell him it wasn't me.

Then what was it?

Do you remember saying something about swallows?

I felt something inside of me.

Haunting you?

Has this happened to you?

No.

But I've seen it.

It doesn't stop.

It's with me, wherever I go.

You're going to be next.

Is that how it's going to be?

Get out of here, or they'll put you in with me.

Chester, you have to go.

Chester, you have to go!

Sorry, but I don't buy it.

He got a lot more marbles than Perugia's. He said he felt like he was

being watched.

And now he cracked up.

Like... Like my dad.

Hey, that day, when he came running to us, he said, you have to go.

Is that the both of us?

No, it was... It was just you.

Chester, you have to go.

Why would he say that?

Okay, they're not wandering.

She's not in there.

Do you know where she is? I think she went to the infirmary.

I don't need a band-aid. I need you to make sure my baby's okay.

Luz, are you okay?

I fell.

I'm fine.

I want this doctor to take the baby, but all he's done is given me a stupid band

-aid for my arm.

He needs you to lie down.

Yeah, just felt a kick.

Oh, my God.

How did this happen?

It was stupid.

I was walking out to use the latrine, and, you know, with the wind and the

rain, I lost my footing on the steps.

Because of the wind?

You just fell.

I told you it was too bad.

You sure it was an accident?

Of course.

What else could it be?

Who's that?

What are you doing?

Where are you taking me?

Please!

Please! I've done nothing!

Do you remember me?

I do.

But why?

Do you remember what you called me that night?

I don't remember.

You did, didn't you?

You called me...

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Yeah.

But if it was suicide, why not just kill yourself in the stockade?

Maybe he wasn't.

I heard that the kid who found the body saw a woman in the woods.

What kind of woman?

In a kimono, like Meiji times or something. That kid didn't see shit.

Our own army, they're killing us.

One by one.

Weird way for them to do it.

Hey. Well, the other day when Luce fell. Yeah, it was an accident.

What if it wasn't?

I can't stop thinking about what your dad said to me at the racetrack.

That again?

And your mom?

She said there's evil around me.

What if she's right?

So what? You really think if you go, it'll follow you?

Good luck trying to leave this place.

Have you done any translation work before?

Going to Japanese language school?

Mostly, I just speak some at home.

Let's start with the military translation.

Okay, so this is a step-by-step guide to using a rifle.

An Arisaka type, or a Yuhan, maybe.

It says to...

Manually adjust the seeing device.

Oh, the sight, I guess.

From a 5 to a 2.5.

Sorry, there are a lot of weapon returns I'm unfamiliar with.

Look at this.

We found that on a soldier.

Dear Toshiko, may you... Oh, it's We Made It to New Guinea.

Been thick.

The air is thick.

Not like Osaka.

Cherry blossoms fall.

An orchid.

This is a poem.

Inside the letter.

Um, the window.

Um...

Where I was born, maybe.

I will be dreaming of it tomorrow. I hope to be home for the

next bloom.

Anything else?

That's all that it says.

I appreciate you coming in.

Sir.

Please.

I have people depending on me.

In order to help them, I have to get out of here.

I appreciate that, but I need people who can translate letters like this with

ease.

Translate?

Or break the code?

What code?

The weird Tonka. The one I can barely translate. The language is... What's a

Tonka?

A five-line poem.

5-7-5-7-7.

31 beats.

My mom used to read books of them.

What's strange about this poem?

The wording is unusual, and not just because it's poetry.

The author switched things around so that the first syllable of each

line, when you say it together in a row, spells something out.

That's Salamala, isn't it?

That spot in New Guinea from the news a while back?

I'm guessing you knew that already.

Just curious.

How many other guys saw it?

You're joining the army?

It's an opportunity to earn a real wage.

More than I've made ever.

It says you're shipping out in two days.

I can't be right.

Where are they even sending you?

And for how long?

I'll start in Minnesota for training.

Then wherever I'm needed.

But I'll send all the money home.

Home?

What home?

I know it's a shock.

I do.

You're running away.

My parents, they'll take care of you. I don't want them to take care of me. I

need to know that you'll be okay. Then stay.

There has to be another way.

Other people here are managing. I'm not like other people.

And that's what you want from me?

To have a plan?

That's what I'm doing. That's what this is.

It's for you.

All of this.

It's for you.

And the baby.

translator. I won't see any combat.

Nice.

Amusing.

If I close my eyes?

I could maybe forget where we are.

Maybe.

You know, I've never danced together.

And if you're leaving, we should rectify that.

I see you found the sake.

So... Mom told you I'm leaving?

I'm gonna be a translator in a new military intelligence service.

With other Nisei.

So what's keeping you?

Go.

Luther's gonna move in here, Pop.

And you... I

know you've been through a lot.

I do.

But Mom can't do everything.

I need you to get out of bed and take care of this family.

And that includes Luz.

I sacrificed so much for you, and this is how you repay it?

By leaving your family so you can run off and be a spy.

You told me to enlist.

That was before I knew what they were capable of.

Roosevelt.

The government.

They see us as rats.

Once we win the war, they won't look at us like that again.

I used to think like that.

You treat people good.

They see the good in you.

The truth.

But you get old.

You learn.

They don't.

They beat me.

They left me in the cold.

And now you join them.

But they sent you back here.

You're here now.

With Ma.

You have a grandbaby on the way. And yet... You just sit here.

That's no way to live.

It's not.

But this is what we do.

Come on.

It's you.

You run away.

Go. If you have to go, Chester.

You have to go.

At least I'm doing something.

How much did you tell Luz?

Just that it's a good job.

She's worried enough as it is.

I can, Guy.

You're being nice to you.

You're going to look so handsome in uniform.

I'm a woman who is making dresses.

In case you get sick of wearing my shirt.

How did you pay for it?

I traded my camera for it.

Sister.

Write as much as you can.

What's she doing?

If Chester dies and there's no body, she can cremate the hair.

Give him a proper burial.

Asako-san!

Do you know there's another doctor at the camp?

Why, what's wrong?

I feel fine, but I don't want to see Dr. Kitamura again.

A woman in the mess told me about a midwife in the new barracks north of the

guard tower.

Why don't I come with you?

I can make it.

Arigato.

I'm sorry.

I don't understand.

Can you tell me if the head is down?

The head down?

My cute baby.

Can a Yuder control other people?

Someone needs to find Yuko. It's Yuko.

Hey! Yurika! I know you're here.

The weak are meat.

The strong eat.