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I know what you feel, Ingeles.

I feel sorry for you.

It happened to me once.

He was Ingeles, too... the thief.

May his ship drown, and he burn in hell forever.

Come on, let's get back to my ship.

You never saw a slaver move like this...

even with an infidel Turk whipping them to a lather.

Those are samurai rowers, Ingeles.

They'll stroke till they drop dead

if Lord Toranaga wants them to.

How far is this place you're taking me?

Osaka? Oh... 300-odd sea miles,

and we'll be there in less than 40 hours.

Hey, Captain-san!

West-southwest.

I guess you know your compass, Ingeles.

These galleys normally hug the coast for safety,

but that would take too much time,

and time is important.

Toranaga asked me to pilot Otura to Anjiro and back quickly,

and there's a bonus for me if we're on time.

You work for Toranaga?

Me work for him? Hell, no.

I was just visiting Osaka... my captain and me.

This was just a favor.

They're not good ocean sailors, the Japmen.

They're great pirates, fighters,

and coastal sailors...

but the deep frightens them.

What are they going to do with me?

Whatever the hell they want to do.

What's your own ship like?

Oh, I'm the pilot of...

I keep forgetting... that you're the enemy, Ingeles.

Portugal and England have been allies for centuries.

But we're not now.

Go below, Ingeles. Get some rest.

If you want to sleep, use my cabin.

You're tired and so am I.

Tired men make mistakes.

How do you feel, Ingeles?

Rested.

What do you think?

I think there'll be a storm.

When?

Before the day is out.

Now, that is a safe guess.

If this were your ship, what would you do?

How far is the nearest land?

Oh... three, maybe four hours.

If we run for cover, it'll cost me my bonus.

Oh, Madonna.

I'm a tired man.

Then go sleep.

I'll take the watch for you.

If the wind changes, I'll wake you.

All right, Ingeles, I think I'll trust you.

God knows why.

Maintain this course.

At the next turn, go four degrees more westerly,

and at the next, six more westerly.

Wakarimasu ka?

Hai. Four degrees westerly it is.

Go below, Pilot. Your bunk's comfortable.

Ah, priest, what have you given me?

God curse me and my lack of wits.

There's a storm there, all right,

and this craft won't take much water.

How was your sleep?

Short.

And more than I would've had if you weren't here.

Can't be tai-fun.

What?

Tai-fun... huge winds.

Worst storms you've ever seen.

We're not in the tai-fun season.

When's that?

It's not now, enemy.

Still, it looks rotten enough,

so maybe I'll take your miserable advice

and head for land.

Steer nor' by west.

Nor' by west, aye.

Hey, Captain-san!

Isogi, wakarimasu ka? Isogi!

Isogi!

What's that... isogi... "Hurry up"?

Well, there's no harm in you

learning a little bit of Japman talk, Ingeles.

All you need here is about ten words,

and then you can make the buggers dance

if you want them to.

That's if they're the right words...

and if they're in the mood.

Wakarimasu ka?

Wakarimasu.

Hey, Ingeles...

I think maybe you learn too damn fast.

Go forward. Get them to start bailing!

Make them understand. Hurry, hurry!

Ship oars! Stop rowing!

Stop rowing!

What do you think, Ingeles?

You do what you want, whatever I think,

but she won't take much water.

We'll go down like a stone.

Ah...

And next time I go forward,

tell me you're putting her into the wind!

Ah, that was the hand of God, Ingeles.

A wave slapped her rump around.

We'll keep her into the wind, then when the time's right,

we'll make a stab for the shore.

My nose tells me that, if we turn and run,

we're going to flounder!

If we don't turn, we'll never make it!

Well, for God's sake, Ingeles, what would you do?

Wait till we're just past the near headland,

then fall off from the wind

and make those rowers pull for their lives!

That's dangerous.

I know!

All right.

I'll go forward. You take the helm.

Watch me, and when I signal,

go west-nor'west for the shore.

You watch me very closely.

I will!

Hey.

You'll wait for my order, and obey my orders.

Do you want me to take the helm or not?

I have to trust you again, Ingeles,

and I hate trusting you!

Steady as she goes!

Hard aport... now!

Hard aport... aye!

Pull, you buggers!

One, two, one, two, one, two!

one, two, one...

Damn you, Rodrigues!

Rodrigues?

Rodrigues?

Yabu-san, thank you for saving his life.

Thank you for your courage.

Thank you, you black-eyed son of a whore.

Hai, Omi-san.

Omi-san says you may come up, one by one.

Lord Kasigi Yabu has said

that you may live in the world of men again,

but the smallest breaking of a rule,

and you'll all be put back in this pit.

What about the pilot?

What's happened to him?

If you don't come out now, you will stay down there.

Where's the other man?

Captain-General Spillbergen's dead, God rest his soul.

He's down there lying in the filth.

Omi-san wants you to bow to him.

He wants us to come. Come on.

So, now I owe you a life, Ingeles.

Oh!

God curse you.

It was Kasigi Yabu who saved your miserable body.

Curse him.

No. No, those Jappos

would never have come after me if it weren't for you.

The curse is thine.

There's a bottle of grog over there.

Here...

Ah. You'd make a foul nurse, Ingeles.

It's your black heart.

Bring the bottle over here.

How do you feel?

Mmm, better... considering my head's on fire,

and my mouth tastes like a barrel of pig swill.

Hey, eh-eh-eh... just give me the bottle.

This, uh, Toranaga...

why does he want to see me?

I don't know.

By the Blessed Virgin, I don't know,

but since I owe you something,

here's some truth in part payment.

Never forget that the Japmen

are six-faced and have three hearts...

so be careful, Ingeles... be careful what you say,

be careful how you move...

even be careful how you think,

especially with Toranaga.

Toranaga.

What's he like?

Same as the rest of them, only worse.

They had 600 years of civil war in this country, Ingeles,

till about 35 years ago,

when this monkey-sama by the name of Goroda

conquered half of all Japan and made himself ichi ban,

lord of the whole rotten country.

And you know who helped him? Toranaga.

Then... well, I guess it was 16 years ago...

one of his own generals killed Goroda,

and another general stepped right into his sandals...

General Nakamura.

And do you know who helped him?

Toranaga.

Right, Ingeles.

Toranaga... and another big monkey-sama, Ishido.

Toranaga in the east, Ishido in the west.

Sooner or later, there'll be another bloody civil war.

Madonna, I think I got drunk last night, Ingeles.

Where are we?

On course, Pilot.

You're the pilot now.

Ooh... oh, a person could think that that was funny.

You're supposed to be the prisoner.

You could be taking us anywhere.

But you...

you wouldn't do that.

If they were taking me to Ishido's castle,

I'd be damned if I'd be sailing them there.

Ishido?

I thought they were taking me to Toranaga.

And so they are, Ingeles,

except that Toranaga is in Osaka Castle

for the meeting of the Regents

and Osaka Castle belongs to Ishido...

and what a butcher he is.

Hell, they all are.

Everything in this bloody country's upside-down.

What are you steering?

South by southwest.

How do you know? Who told you?

You did.

Me?

Madonna, it's all in a haze.

You looked in my rutter!

Ah, Ingeles, life is so strange...

and if I live, it is by the grace of God,

helped by a heretic and a Japman.

There's the sod-eating-sama.

I'd better go and thank him.

You're a dangerous man, Ingeles.

Maybe we'd all be better off if they killed you.

Osaka...

the white castle city of Lord Ishido.

An escort of 20 samurai was on the dock,

wearing the brown uniform of Toranaga's army.

Under the command of Toranaga's youngest son,

Lord Naga.

Konnichi wa, Naga-san.

Bow, Ingeles, it's Toranaga's fifth son.

Konnichi wa.

Konnichi wa, Rodrigues-san.

Konnichi wa.

All right, that should keep him happy. Come on.

Now what's the matter?

You're staying onboard, Ingeles.

Why?

Wouldn't do any good to ask.

When Toranaga's ready, you'll find out.

Go with God, Ingeles.

And you.

Good evening, Pilot.

Good evening, Father.

I have a package for His Eminence.

I will see that he receives it.

Oh, forgive me, Father,

but I swore that I would place it in his hands myself.

Wait here.

Ah, it's good to see you, Father Alvito.

I'm pleased your journey was a safe one.

Ah, by the grace of God.

You must tell me about it later,

but now His Eminence is waiting.

Vasco Rodrigues, Your Eminence.

You have a package for me, my son?

From Father Sebastio in Anjiro.

I swore to place it in your hands.

Would that all vows were so dutifully obeyed.

Thank you, my son.

It's the English pilot's rutter.

Yes... I want you to read it all tonight.

If the rutter proves that they're pirates,

which, of course, they are,

then the man has damned himself.

Yes, Your Eminence.

Why has he come here?

Why now, when we're almost safe again?

As God is my judge, if I didn't know better,

I'd believe that the Spaniards,

or their Benedictine lackeys,

had deliberately guided him here to plague us.

Perhaps they did, Your Eminence.

May God show them the error of their ways.

Where are we going? Toranaga-sama?

You understand, um, uh...

wakarimasu ka?

Where?

You're an unpleasant little bugger, aren't you?

Hai?

Hai.

That's what I thought.

Anjin-san...

Dozo.

Yoshi Toranaga, Lord of the Kwanto.

My name is Martin Alvito

of the Society of Jesus, Captain-Pilot.

Lord Toranaga has asked me to interpret for him.

First, tell him that we are enemies.

All in good time.

Vasco Rodrigues has told me of your bravery.

Tell Lord Toranaga

that I do not trust you to translate what I say.

You would be wise to reconsider.

Lord Toranaga has favored me with his confidence

for many years.

Perhaps I should point out

that I'm quite apart from Father Sebastio,

who is, unfortunately, overzealous,

and does not speak Japanese very well.

His own experience here is limited,

and your sudden presence took away God's grace from him...

regrettably.

Tell him.

You may tell him yourself.

The Japanese word for "enemy" is teki.

If you point to me and say that word,

Lord Toranaga will understand clearly what you mean.

Teki.

Hmm?

Mariko...

Hai.

Since you have objected to my translating your words,

Lord Toranaga will have the Lady Toda

explain your responses.

I can have no objection to that,

but since the lady is to convey my words,

I would like to be introduced.

Lord Toranaga has agreed.

What is your full name?

Pilot-Major John Blackthorne.

Pilot-Major John Blackthorne,

may I present the Lady Toda Buntaro-Mariko.

I am honored, Lady.

"If you are English,

why were you leading Dutch ships?"

That is not unusual.

Holland and England are allies,

and I was glad for the opportunity

to sail into these waters.

No English ships were planning to come this far,

but we're a trading fleet,

though we have letters of mark

to attack the enemy in the New World.

We came to Japan to trade.

"What are letters of mark?"

Legal licenses issued by the Crown, our government,

giving authority to war on the enemy.

"And since your enemy is here,

do you plan to war on them here?"

If they war on me.

"What you do at sea or in your own countries

"is your own affair,

"but here, there is one law for all,

"and foreigners are in our land by permission only.

"Any public mischief or quarrel

"will be dealt with immediately by death.

"My laws are clear and will be obeyed.

Do you understand?"

Yes, Sire, but we come in peace.

We came here to trade.

Could we discuss trade, Sire?

I need to careen my ship and make repairs.

We can pay for everything.

And then there's the question...

"When I wish to discuss trade or anything else,

"I will tell you.

"Meanwhile, please confine yourself

to answering the questions."

"So, you joined the expedition to trade for profit...

not because of duty or loyalty, for money?"

Yes.

It is our custom to be paid, Sire.

And I have a share in all...

all goods captured from the enemy.

"So, you are a mercenary?"

I was hired as senior pilot to lead the expedition, yes.

But I am not a pirate.

But I am not a pirate.

"What is a pirate?"

An outlaw:

a man who kills,

rapes, and plunders for personal profit.

"Isn't that the same as a mercenary?

"Isn't that what you are,

a pirate and the leader of pirates?"

No, Sire, I am not a pirate.

The Portuguese and Spanish will tell you that

because we're at war.

What did he say?

"What I said is no concern of yours.

When I wish you to know something,

I will tell you."

I'm sorry, Lord Toranaga, I did not mean to be rude.

"Then hold your tongue until I require an answer."

Lord Toranaga says that I have told him

that Holland was a vassal of the Spanish

until a few years ago.

He asks you if that is true.

Yes.

"Then your ally Holland

"is fighting against its lawful king.

Is that true?"

They're fighting against Spain, yes, but...

"Isn't that rebellion?

Yes or no?"

Yes, but there are mitigating circumstances,

serious mitigating circumstances.

"There are no mitigating circumstances

when it comes to rebellion against a sovereign lord."

Unless you win.

"Yes, Mr. Foreigner with the impossible name,

"yes... you name the one mitigating factor.

Will you win?"

Yes.

Hai, we will win.

How long did it take you to travel here?

Almost two years.

Exactly one year, 11 months and two days.

"How did you come? By what route?"

By the Pass of Magellan.

If I had my maps and rutters, I could show you clearly.

But they were stolen.

They were removed from my cabin

with my letters of mark and all my papers.

"You claim all your papers were removed?"

Yes.

You are to come over here, Captain-Pilot,

away from the door.

If you value your life,

don't move suddenly or say anything.

What's going on?

You will be a dead man the next time you speak.

Lord Ishido, master of Osaka Castle.

Lord Toranaga asks that you stand.

Move slowly and do not speak.

Lord Ishido says you are a pirate.

Captain-Pilot, you are to follow this man.

Where am I going?

You are to be detained.

Where?

For how long?

I do not know, my son.

Until Lord Toranaga decides.

Thank you for your help, Lady.

You are quite welcome, Pilot-Major Blackthorne.

Like hell, I will.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Uh... me, Anjin-san.

Anjin-san. You?

Anjin-san.

Anjin-san.

Ji... Jirobei.

Jirobei-san.

Hai.

I don't understand.

Wakarimasin.

Ah...

In nomine patri et fili

et spiritus sancti.

Mother of God!

Art thou real?

Yes. Who are you?

Oh, Blessed Virgin.

Real. "Who are you?"

I-I, I-I am Friar Domingo

of the Sacred Order of Saint Francis.

My prayers have been answered.

I thought I was seeing another apparition... a ghost.

The evil spirit... yes, I-I've seen so many,

so many.

How long have you been here?

Yesterday. And you?

Oh, a long time.

I-I don't know.

I was put here in September, in the year of our Lord 1598.

It's May now... 1600.

1600?

Come with me, my son.

They are my flock.

They are all my sons in the blessed Lord Jesus.

I've made so many converts here.

This one's John.

That's Mark...

Methuselah.

Please...

Sit down, my son.

You must be tired.

One of my flock says that you are a pilot, an anjin.

Is this so?

Yes.

You came from Manila?

No, I've never been in Asia before.

Why-why are you here?

Jesuits put me here, my son.

Jesuits and their filthy lies.

You are not Spanish?

No. Nor Portuguese?

Was your ship Portuguese?

Tell me the truth, before God.

No, Father, it was not Portuguese...

before God.

Of course.

Your ship was Spanish.

Huh. Spanish.

And you were shipwrecked, like us.

Foully thrown into this jail.

Falsely accused by those devil Jesuits.

God curse them,

and show them the error of their treachery.

You said you had never been in Asia before?

This is my first time.

You will be like a child

in the wilderness, my son. Yes.

Oh, there's so much to tell.

Did you know that Jesuits are merely traders?

Gunrunners?

Usurers?

And that the Black Ship is worth a million in gold

to them every year?

Black Ship?

What is the Black Ship?

That is why the Jesuits are here, my son.

They control all the silk trade, all the trade with China.

Selling silk in Japan alone is worth a fortune to them,

and once a year, the Black Ship takes their ungodly profits

back to Europe,

to fill their filthy coffers ever further.

You have never heard of this, my son?

No, never.

How did that happen?

The Jesuits have forced His Holiness the Pope

to grant them total power over all Asia...

them and their dogs, the Portuguese.

Did you know that all other religious orders

are forbidden here? Yeah.

The Jesuits deal in gold, reveling in their profits

against the direct orders of His Holiness, Pope Clement,

and of our King Phillip.

Yes, and even against the laws of this land.

They meddle in politics, and lie and cheat

and bear false witness against us, my son.

Their lies and poison put me here.

I must tend my flock.

There are converts here and... little time.

Sit here, my son.

You will be safe here.

Shimsama.

Domo arigato.

Korewa Anjin-san.

Oh, I'm sorry, my son.

I... I did not mean to disturb you.

We thought...

We thought you might be thirsty when you awaken.

Dozo.

Thank you.

How do you say that in Japanese?

Domo.

Sometimes you say "arigato."

A woman must always be very polite.

She says "arigato goziemashita."

What's his name?

He's Gonzalez.

No, his, uh, Japanese name.

Ah, yes, ah, uh... Kagoya.

But that just means "porter."

They don't have names.

Only the samurai have names.

What do you mean?

Only the samurai have names.

First names and surnames,

and everyone else is known by what they do.

Porter or...

fisherman, cook...

Domo, Kagoya-san.

Only yesterday you said you-you came here

only yesterday.

What occurred with you, my son?

When we landed, there was a Jesuit there.

Jesuits come from hell.

God curse them.

Oh... God forgive my foolish rage.

Ayiko Yodoro!

Ji Nomi!

Nokoro Hajiro!

Koyano Kanski!

Kanski, suyi!

What's going to happen to him?

He will be executed.

Are you sure?

His Calvary is outside the door.

May the Holy Madonna take his soul swiftly

and give him everlasting reward.

What did he do?

He broke the law, my son...

their law.

The Japanese are a simple people.

They have only one punishment: death.

You forget about imprisonment.

That is not one of their punishments, my son.

To them, prison...

is a temporary place where they keep a man

till they decide his sentence,

and that sentence is always death.

Oh, only the guilty come here,

for just a little while.

But you've been here almost two years.

Oh, one day they will send for me

like all the others.

This is a resting place between the hell of Earth

and the glory of Everlasting Life.

But you're not guilty of anything.

Then I am the one exception.

Perhaps...

perhaps it is the will of God.

Perhaps those devil Jesuits

are keeping me alive to torture me. Yeah.

It is so hard to be patient.

So very hard.

What is it, my son?

Nothing, Father.

Go back to sleep.

There is nothing to fear.

We are all in God's hands.

Ah.

How are you today, my son?

Fine. Thank you, Father.

And you?

I'm quite well. Thank you.

How do you say that in Japanese?

Domo, genki desu.

Domo, genki desu.

Mm-hmm.

Has anyone ever tried to break out of here?

No, no.

Why should they?

There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

To help an escaped prisoner is punishable by death.

You're here, even if all you do is not report a crime.

Even that will take you to the cross.

Do not think of it, my son.

- No. - No.

- Tell me more, Father... - Hmm?

about the Black Ship.

Have you ever seen one?

Oh, yes. They are the greatest ships in the world.

Almost 2,000 tons.

As many as 200 men are needed to sail one.

How many guns do they hold?

Mm, sometimes 20 or 30.

Three decks.

Three decks.

Then she probably lumbers when the wind's abeam.

Huh? I don't understand.

Big but slow.

The Black Ship? Ah, yes.

Domo.

Denkides.

Ah! Oh, you remembered.

If only I had ink and quill and paper,

I could write the words down for you.

Would you teach me anyway, Father?

I want to learn.

Yes, of course.

Here.

Let-let us trace the words in the dirt.

You'll remember them.

Now.

Dozo is "please."

Water.

Mizu.

Yeah.

And "please wait"...

Mate... kudasai.

Mate kudasai.

Mate kudasai. Now you write.

Anjin-san!

Your confession, my son, say it quickly.

I don't think I...

Very quickly, my son, and I will give you absolution.

Be quick for your immortal soul.

Just say that you... you confess

before God all things past and present.

Say it now.

The Blessed Virgin will watch over you.

Go with God, Father.