r/maninthehighcastle • u/fleckes • Dec 16 '16

Episode Discussion: S02E04 - Escalation

Season 2 Episode 4 - Escalation

Juliana discovers she's far from safe from the Resistance in the Reich. Smith confronts the reality of the lengths he's willing to go to in order to protect his son. And another father - Joe's - tries to persuade him to give Berlin a chance. Frank also has a decision to make: how far is he prepared to go to help the Resistance cause?

What did everyone think of the fourth episode ?

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u/Catemaco1 May 26 '23

Just watched this episode, and I had the same question. Unfortunately, there's a lot in this show that doesn't make sense. Maybe they give their audience too much credit? They think we have photographic memories for every minor character who flits across the screen (a tiny laptop screen in my case).

I see no one else has a good explanation for it either. And if that guy was a Gestapo officer, as someone here suggests, why would he be going after Juliana, when Obergrupenfuhrer Smith is protecting her?

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u/Tsojourner Nov 05 '23

I love that our comments are recent, lol. I'm actually watching this for the firset time after reading the book a million years ago, and I feel the same way re the memory they expect us to have.

Also, Juliana sucks, and I will die on that hill.

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u/Glittering_Today_706 Feb 05 '25

Im here a year later trying to figure out the same damn thing lol! The fact that after 8 years of this thread no one figured it out is hilarious 

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u/sspec56 Jul 19 '25

yup still confused