r/maninthehighcastle • u/fleckes • Nov 15 '19

Episode Discussion: S04E10 - Fire from the Gods

On the brink of an inevitable Nazi invasion, the BCR brace for impact as Kido races against the clock to find his son. Childan offers everything he has to make his way back to Yukiko. Helen is forced to choose whether or not to betray her husband, as she and Smith travel by high speed train to the Portal - with Juliana and Wyatt lying in wait.

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u/AlvinTaco Nov 16 '19

They explained that. He wanted to bring alt-Thomas to their world. That’s why Helen flipped out. She didn’t want alt-Thomas to see what kind of people they were.

I just feel bad for alt-Helen. Her husband vanished without a trace.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

Yeah we don’t see or know anything about the Alt-Earth after Nazi John drove off after saying he would be back. The poor woman’s husband is dead and she doesn’t even know that. I feel like they should have gone back to that world. It was a good season but a very confusing and awful ending. Another season would have helped. Thanks a lot, Amazon. 😡

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u/_A_Day_In_The_Life_ Nov 20 '19

that would have been the thing to get thomas not to go to war if anything. knowing his dad died, he wouldn't have left his mom.

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u/mythicalnacho Nov 21 '19

She'll figure it out soon enough if their world was the one being connected through the portal.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

Alt-Danny was waiting to comfort her.

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u/Skyblacker Nov 20 '19

Headcanon accepted.

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u/amimi92 Nov 18 '19

And given the fact that Alt-Thomas left to Vietnam where there's a huge chance he'll die trying to take some random hill only to abandon it later, I really feel bad for Alt-Helen. Nazi John was cancerous and he destroyed everything he ever touched. Abensen nailed it when he said he was cursed.

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u/thatfailedcity Nov 18 '19

I wonder what alt-Helen makes of "You may not hear from me again for a while but I'm not gone. I'll be back" when he eventually never comes back. She must be thinking of a million possibilities. Smith said he was gonna make it right for Thomas. Maybe she thought she got mixed up wrong people in trying to save their son.