Original subtitles

[speaking Japanese]

[Blackthorne] We've reached it.

Portugal's secret empire.

The orders are still on.

What part of this is still on?

- I must know if my crew is alive. - Please!

He has surrendered.

The old great warlord

who tricked his own loyal vassals

into a noiseless smothering.

[both screaming]

[horses neighing]

[farmers murmuring]

[coughing]

Saeki-sama's army will camp

at Edo's boundary, where they will wait for Toranaga-sama

to mourn his son.

For how long?

The customary 49 days.

And after that?

They will deliver us to Osaka.

[sighs]

♪ ♪

[coughing]

[Mariko] My lord instructed me

to give these to you upon entry to the city.

For the completion of your service.

When we submit to the council, you're not required to join us,

since you no longer choose to stand with us anyway.

Fuji-sama will manage the land until your return.

I cannot say how my lord's successors may deal with you.

[Blackthorne] A fine strategy he has.

At least Nagakado-sama died fighting.

Your men are here in the city.

The crew from your ship.

You must be eager to be reunited.

And my translator, what becomes of her?

Mariko-sama...

don't go to Osaka.

My allegiance forbids me from doing anything else.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[panting]

[man shouting in Japanese]

[chuckles softly]

♪ ♪

[laughter]

[liquid pouring]

[monks chanting in Japanese]

[chanting in Japanese]

[ringing echoes]

[monks chanting in Japanese]

♪ ♪

[baby crying]

Thank you for your kind attempt

at translation, Father. Alas, you are wrong.

I must say, I am impressed.

You have made your own way out here.

Thank you, Father. Ah...

Except I seem to find Catholics

in every sordid corner of this country.

Like the cacaruch.

It was not you I came to Edo for.

I have urgent business with Toranaga-sama.

Strange that you are living out here.

Typically a hatamoto

is given residence within the confines

of his lord's castle.

What are your plans...

...now he has cut you loose?

Well, to start, I will reunite with my crew.

Get back aboard my vessel.

And then pay a visit to that Black Ship

I've heard so much about.

Tell me.

Will you wear those clothes when you see your men?

Ah, yes.

[laughs]

Yes, I intend to.

Thank you, Father.

♪ ♪

[Alvito] Lady Maria.

I am so glad to see you are safe.

I only wish it were a happier time.

How is your lord?

I've not seen him since we returned to the city.

[Toranaga speaks Japanese, coughs]

[coughing]

[grunts]

[Toranaga sighs]

Toranaga-sama.

The Church did not send me on this mission, Lord.

I have come on my own.

I know these are dire times.

And many in Edo have lost hope.

- [Mariko translating in Japanese] - But not me.

Ochiba no kata has manipulated Ishido

out of hatred for you, and I see no cause for her anger.

Unlike Ishido,

- you love the Heir. - [Mariko translating in Japanese]

If you form an alliance with his mother,

the Heir will be free to turn against Ishido.

[sighs softly]

[grunts]

[Toranaga grunts, coughs]

[sighs]

[coughs]

[birds chirping]

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

[slurping]

♪ ♪

[door slides open]

[door slides closed]

[crying]

[breathes shakily]

[man speaks indistinctly, cackles]

[glass shatters]

[men singing sea chantey in distance]

[insect buzzing]

[sniffs]

[exhales]

Stinks like Billingsgate at low tide.

- [woman speaks Japanese] - [Salamon laughs]

[Salamon] Come on.

What's wrong? Come on, beautiful.

You're my good doxy, you are.

[laughs]

Whoa, whoa.

- Come back, come back. - [woman] No.

[Salamon] You're beautiful.

Pilot?

John Blackthorne.

Is that you?

Hello, Salamon.

How are you?

We'd given you up for dead.

How many of us left?

Six.

Barely hanging on.

Right.

Well, I've been given...

clearance

for us to return to Erasmus.

I have a few friends.

A good crew we could train. I've been training

some of them on the cannon already.

To do what?

To help us.

Home.

Nah.

Where does the pilot...

want to take us this time?

Maybe Africa or...

back to the Americas.

Since you're here, Pilot, tell me something.

When we left Santa Maria,

were there really Spanish ships

to the south and to the north of us?

Had to come here?

I'd just hate to think

that we spent these months wasting away

because our pilot had ambitions

of his own.

First Englishman through the Strait.

Ready to make his name.

We had orders.

We could have turned home and you know it.

Our orders ended

when the captain general sent a shot out the back of his head.

That you come to realize that we are here--

what is left of us-- is because of you!

I'll speak to the rest of the men myself.

First take off those skirts.

Then we'll careen her, we'll scrape her,

and the extra men we need, you leave that to me.

I said take them off! [grunts]

You son of a bitch.

[panting]

[men clamoring in distance]

He's goddamn...

filthy.

[Blackthorne groans]

Tell him, I understand we've had our differences in the past,

him and me.

But now is the time

when my choices are few.

I once offered to sail for Toranaga-sama

against his enemies.

Now he is determined to die.

Fine.

And I wish to forge allegiances benefitting this country,

economically and strategically.

I still have my ship.

I can train a crew.

I just need a new banner to sail under.

You wish to sail on Yabushige-sama's behalf?

I don't wish it. He is a shitface.

But he is a brave shitface, and that is the truth.

So I must ask.

[laughs]

Yabushige-sama politely declines your request.

Oh.

Even Yabushige-sama stands with Toranaga-sama.

Only you waver.

Then let me explain again.

There is no explaining treachery,

especially against your sworn lord.

I am free of any obligations to him,

he has made that very clear.

If he were in my position,

he would do the same.

Hmm?

This weapon...

...is not mine.

Tell you the truth, I feel embarrassed wearing it

most of the time.

Perhaps there existed a...

a moment in which I fooled myself

into believing that I could one day belong

to this place, but that moment is leagues behind me.

[Blackthorne] Having said that...

I don't know where that leaves me.

But I do know that now I'm left

to whittle what fate I can for myself.

Since I first saw you,

near death...

on that cliff

many months ago...

...I've known you were a man who understood the importance

of taking fate into his own hands.

Hmm.

[grunts]

He refuses your offer.

Says it is a betrayal of our lord.

You see, once loyalty begins, it does not have an end.

Otherwise, it would not be loyalty.

But loyal turns senseless very quickly

when the order is suicide.

Would you like me to translate that?

Or was that for me?

[soft groaning]

[gasping sharply]

Mm.

[exhales]

♪ ♪

[brown samurai] Toranaga-sama onari!

[Toranaga coughs]

[groaning]

[coughs]

[thunder rumbling]

[sighs]

[crying]

[groaning]

[Buntaro yells]

♪ ♪

[laughs softly]

[coughs]

♪ ♪

[indistinct chatter]

[mutters]

[grunts]

[speaks Japanese]

[panting]

Hmm.

Ah. Yeah.

- [speaks Japanese] - [laughs]

[man speaks Japanese]

Someone's coming.

[coughing]

[breathing deeply]

Captioned by Media Access Group at WGBH access.wgbh.org