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Hello, I'm calling from the crib. I'd like to confirm a proposal. Getting

two hours. I'm coming up on deadline. How much money was involved?

It was over a thousand dollars.

Was it over a thousand dollars?

Yes,

Julie? Mr. Hume is on the way up.

Tell him to come in as soon as he gets here.

Go right in.

I wanted to catch you for a sitting appointment.

Morning.

I'm in here battling with the silver service.

Give me a hand, will you? Sure.

Is your leg giving you trouble?

I'm giving my leg trouble, I'm afraid.

I slipped and fell in my front hall. Oh, I'm sorry.

Oh, it's my fault entirely.

Last year, I replaced some perfectly benevolent carpeting with some perfectly

treacherous paving bricks. Were you hurt?

Oh, no.

A little sore, so I put this hideous thing back on for a couple of days.

But the good news is I can wear my rings again.

Swollen hands and dragon feet. Doesn't that sound like a fat, smaller lyric?

Yes, Julie. The department heads are here, Mrs. Simpson.

Tell them to wait a moment.

Thank you, Mr. Hill. Let me get your signature on this before they come in.

Did you take the insurance meeting yesterday?

Oh, yeah.

The monthly, how's it going, we're killing ourselves to keep the premiums

meeting. Why wasn't I there?

Of course, it only takes one of us to tell Jerry Cardini what an appreciated

he is.

I will resume taking that meeting.

You're in charge of enough as it is.

Lou, your husband's right.

The mayor is planning to appoint Iris Rooney to the police review board first

next week.

Divina, what's your job?

Okay, Iris Rooney, above reproach.

Housewife, volunteer teacher's aide, member of the school board, two terms.

The Republicans and the Democrats are tripping over themselves trying to get

as a congressional candidate two years down the line. Married to Dr. A .C.

Rooney, the man who made facelifts and tummy tucks affordable to the general

public. Come on down. Let's have a cup of coffee and some plain talk about

rhinoplasty.

I've seen a commercial.

Someday you can explain how they television to me.

You mean they don't advertise nose jobs in Indianapolis?

I've been in the city long, and you have, and I'm still not used to it.

But I see a doctor in a bad rug buying television time to convince people that

they don't look good enough. No matter what anyone says, I'm going to think

a swede. He is a swede.

Okay. As soon as the mayor appoints Iris, I want us ready with two stories,

on her and one on the doctor. Wrong, Lou.

Wrong. Well, just speak your mind, Billy. Feel free.

The story's not the doctor. The story's Iris Rooney. You can't give him equal

weight. The husband should get a little fine bar mac.

Billy's got to know that I joined because Iris is such a perfect,

intelligent, crashing bore.

Listen, who the husband is or what he does just is not news. Of course it is.

He's the juice of this story. Go.

First law of journalism at the Indianapolis Stock.

When given a toy, always pick the quack with the bad drop. You didn't give me a

choice, remember?

Oh, yeah.

Employees Day. We're taking suggestions.

This is such a sham. There's going to be a luau at the Maui Gardens again like

it is every year. Maui Gardens.

Yeah. The drinks are all grenadine and paper parasols.

Hey, the Employees Club is democratic. You don't want a luau. Build your

constituency. Get your votes together.

Shouldn't be very hard.

I'm sure we got Rosenthal.

And Burroughs, his kids started screaming last year when they dug the

out of the pit.

And Ken Watanabe, and Billy, and Sweeney, and Rossi. Yeah, Rossi? Find me

place he likes.

And you and me. What are we worried about? Nobody's going to vote for Maui

Gardens.

If I say employees day, what do you say?

Maui Gardens.

Wheat and sour pork chops.

Oh.

All the gals in classified and sarong. You're kidding.

And best of all, Hawaiian magic.

Mr.

Rosenthal? I'm Joe Rossi. Mr. Rosenthal couldn't make it. Dr. Tatsumi.

Ike. Sorry I'm late.

Oh, no problem. I was too.

Uh, coffee, black?

Listen, did you get a chance to read any of the stuff I sent the paper?

I'm sorry, no.

You see, this story was originally going to go to someone else, well, Rosenthal,

and your material was put on his desk, so... No.

Well, I ought to give you some background.

Yeah, I think you should.

Okay, 1942.

A couple of months after Pearl Harbor.

President Roosevelt has just authorized the army to remove everybody of Japanese

descent away from sensitive areas in the country.

Like near military installations?

Like... All the states bordering the Pacific Ocean.

Okay, 112 ,000 people.

Aliens, naturalized citizens, even American -born people of Japanese

Everybody spent the remainder of the war in some kind of government camp.

I'm with you.

Five days you had from the time you received your relocation orders to the

you had to report.

Gee, people were trying to unload personal property.

trying to put things in stories, trying to find ways to keep their businesses.

It was really chaos and frightening.

Oh, yeah, frightening.

I remember my dad owned a little floral shop, and we used to live upstairs.

He had just gone into hock buying brand -new refrigerated cases. I mean, if you

got a job in camp at all, it paid you all of $19 a month, $19.

I mean, there was no way he was going to keep up his loan payments.

So Dad sold the shop the day we moved out.

I see.

If you'd like, there are other people I could have you talk to. I mean, they

probably have 112 ,000 similar stories.

So what you're looking for is restitution from Washington.

Well, you can't restore everything we had, but we're going to Washington

Forty years after the fact.

Why? Is there a statute of limitations on being deprived of your constitutional

rights?

Look, I know there's no way to make up for...

The wasted years and undue humiliation and the suffering.

But you see, Congress, Congress does have the power to return some of the

that we lost.

Now that's Katsumi, as in T -A -T -S -U -M -I?

Yeah, and Ike, as in I like Ike.

Look, I don't belong to any kind of committee, so please don't put me down

any kind of spokesman, okay?

Okay.

Do you remember the address of your father's shop?

Yeah.

22391 Wilshire.

That's where the flower shop was?

Well, I tried to tell you, there's no way Congress can give us back everything

we lost.

The guy who bought the land from the Tatsumi family gave him $5 ,000.

Within 10 years, it was worth $50 ,000. Now the land alone is worth half a

million. Everybody in this town can think about the great real estate deal

got away.

Lou, this wasn't a case of bad judgment. They lost ownership of property because

of a government board of property that's made someone else very wealthy.

What's your angle?

Okay, who bought all this property? And what if there were people who did better

than profit?

What if there were people who made out like bandits?

I like it.

Thank you.

Didn't I tell you Dr. Rooney was a story?

Oh, Billy, I'm sorry you got the short end.

What are you talking about?

A deputy attorney general has disinvited me and the photog of my choice to a

raid. Dr. Rooney may be guilty of Medi -Cal fraud, double billing, phony lab

charges, and bait and switch.

Bait and switch? He's a plastic surgeon.

That's what they say.

Tempting people with a special on face, Sandy, and talking them into a full

lift. Ugh.

Some window we live in, huh?

A raid. Oh, you lucky dog.

Gee, if Strait Arrow and Mrs. Rooney were tied up in this, you could probably

come along.

Fat death.

Have fun.

Guaranteed.

Mrs. Alvarez?

Good afternoon. I'm from the State Attorney General's office. I have a

warrant. Please escort the patients out, Gil. All right, ladies. Just stay where

you are, ladies, while we... What's going on here?

Dr. Rooney!

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A &E.

Have you heard from your husband, Mrs. Rudy?

No.

Have you cooperated with the Attorney General's office in their search form?

Yes.

I'm not supposed to get into specifics, but... Yes, I've spoken to the

investigators. Does that make you feel like you're letting your husband down?

Well, of course.

I feel like I'm betraying him. I mean, this is the time I should be standing by

him, and I would be if he hadn't felt he had to run.

Why do you suppose he evaded the warrant?

Ace has made a few enemies in high places, especially in the medical

establishment, and I think he really believed that he wouldn't be treated

in an investigation.

But, of course, running away just makes people who don't know him think he's

guilty.

Do you think he's guilty?

I know he's not.

I just hope he'll come back and let us prove it through the courts.

What about your appointment to the police review board?

I don't know.

I don't think this should affect it, but I don't know.

What do you say is horse racing? I hate horse racing.

Sure,

but it's going to be fun. Santa Anita.

Just give me my deposit back. I'll take care of my own funds. Non -refundable

children. You know that. Hey, wait, wait, wait, wait. I gave you $15 based

our going somewhere. I wanted to go to that implicit contract clinic. Have your

attorney drop me a line.

Come on, animal. Or the law. So come to Santa Anita and ruin everybody else's

day. See? Now, there's an idea.

Well, practically the entire Japanese community figures in terms of wrong and

unnecessary. But you're going to find a lot of others who feel that.

Taking money for what they went through is just adding one disgrace to another.

Like it's dishonorable?

That's the idea.

But there are others who say, listen, all kinds of former attorneys are still

struggling. It suffered a terrible blow that it never recovered from.

People get the idea that all Japanese Americans are doctors or engineers.

Not true.

What do you think?

I think it was 40 years ago.

Don't you have these records on microfiche?

So much easier to get your hands on what you want. You better watch your step

there.

Oops.

Okay. That stinking Pearl Massey.

She leaves the stinking ledgers out so you can trip over them.

I hope she breaks her neck.

What year were you saying again?

1942, February through June.

They make you wear a tie.

Every day.

But you don't see Pearl Massey wearing a tie.

Here, right here.

There you go, those dates.

Oh, good.

Thanks.

Well, so what are you looking up?

I want to see if anybody bought a lot of land in 1942, February through June,

from people with Japanese surnames.

Yeah. I thought I had a lousy job.

Yeah, well... You know something?

They'll suck the creativity right out of you.

You ever notice that?

They'll just suck it out of you until there's nothing left.

Well, you better let me have your pen.

Sorry, what?

You don't think we're going to let you deface records, do you?

Now, let me have your pens.

I wasn't going to make any marks in your book.

Obviously, you've got a pretty good arsenal for an innocent man.

What am I supposed to make notes with?

I don't make up the rules.

If I made up the rules, I wouldn't be wearing a tie.

Now, you can have your pens back when I get this back.

Lou, you were so right.

Ever since Dr. Rooney's arrest, support for Iris has been caving in like a

sandcastle in high tide. Even the mayor is reconsidering. That's a tough break

for her. Unbelievable.

You know that Dr. Rooney turned up, don't you? No, I didn't. Good for Iris.

Where? Suriname.

What? Little country in the northeast part of South America.

She knows where it is. No, I don't.

Suriname? Used to be Dutch controlled.

So I guess that means he's, uh... On the lam.

Exchanging his dollars for Gilders, even as we speak.

Poor Iris.

Married to a skunk. Give us a victimized wife story.

And when Ken gets back from the Attorney General's office, give him the word.

Poor lady.

I'm back.

Where are you with the internment story? Well, I was right. There are a few

names that keep recurring in the land transfer.

Is there people crawling up my back?

No. Thanks.

Leland Willoughby, F .P. Canfield, something called Trans -Pacific Land

Thank you.

What are you doing?

I was just in the basement all day, all right? I'm not crazy about mildew and

silverfish.

Anyhow, if any of these people are still alive and willing to talk, that's my

next step.

there, please.

Please, sir. Go ahead.

You know, you're Monday morning quarterbacking, and I'm just a poor

had to make that decision 40 years ago. True.

Now, I remember buying a few parcels of farmland from some Japanese fellows, and

yes, I made myself a fair profit on that land.

Can you estimate the size of that profit? Sure, I can.

Fair.

More than some and less than others.

There were some very big fellas wheeling and dealing with the folks in Little

Tokyo, buying stores and fishing boats.

Now that you have the benefit of hindsight, Mr. Willoughby, do you think

took advantage of a bad situation?

Well, sure.

It's called enterprise.

I didn't put them in those camps.

Yeah, but didn't you feel that... You know what's funny here?

You're seeing an entirely different event than I lived.

First of all, in 42, we weren't so darn sure that this was a war we were going

to win.

And I was taking one big risk in buying that land.

Second, I caught hell from a lot of people for giving those farmers cash.

I was accused of trading with the enemy.

Yeah, but those farmers were American citizens.

I wish I'd had you with me then.

You would have told them, good.

You knew Dr. Mooney was a rat. I knew you.

rat. I know he was a rat. It's not even my story. You say Iris didn't know.

Wives don't always know. Husbands don't always know. There's stuff about me that

Rossi knows that Ted doesn't know.

For instance?

For instance?

My access code to the VDT.

Ooh, deep dark secret.

Well, it is. And Ted doesn't know it.

What about Newt?

Oh, Newt? No, he doesn't.

Newt?

This nerd? A bartender. He's crazy about Billy. Keeps sending her ten -pound

tins of beer nuts.

Ted doesn't know.

No, nobody knew until now.

Was that embarrassing, Pete? No.

It's okay, Billy. I'm sure that the ten -pound tins of beer nuts that you send

me every Christmas are other beer nuts.

Listen, could we get back to the point?

Which was that part of the trust of being married is knowing it's okay not

know everything.

Only last week I found out that Ted still sees his ex -wife.

Aha.

Oh, you two are such big babies.

Suzanne and Fred have a piece of rental property together, and they meet once a

month to discuss it.

Yeah, I've got to look over the rent check, make sure it's for the right

What else have they got to do?

See that it's not post -dated.

Oh, yeah. Must be a lot of things. I'm sure it takes hours. Are you interested

in a serious discussion?

Shall we move?

Okay, okay, okay.

A deluded innocent like Billy aside.

In the real world, real wives know what real husbands are doing. Well, what

about political wives, Watergate, Abscanum? Is it possible they don't

No. Of course it's possible. There are a lot of guys who keep their wives in the

dark about what they do at work.

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of those wives are the last to know.

But Iris Rooney is not your traditional political wife.

She's the political.

Right, and she pleads naivete, and people believe her.

Who's going to want somebody that blind to what's going on in office? Okay, you

just sell her down the river with her husband. But I hope she puts up a fight,

because there's a principle here. Guilt by association.

And it's just not fair.

You know.

You know.

Yeah, well, sorry, babe. The employees club is asked to go 50 -50 with them on

the bus run to Santa Anita and back.

Santa Anita, is that where we're going?

Molly Martin's got outvoted. No thanks to you. Feel free to wear your flowered

shirt to the track.

He's kidding. I don't actually own a flowered shirt.

It'll cost the paper 150 bucks.

What do you think, Mr. Pinchon?

Well, let me get back to you.

Sure. I'll send you a note on it tomorrow.

Actually, Santa Anita ought to be fun.

You going to be joining us, Mr. Pinchon?

What? You're to move for a day at the races.

Let me get back to you.

Yeah.

Oh, well, thanks. Yeah, we'll be right there.

Hey, did you hear the buzzer? It must be on the fridge.

Excuse us just a minute, Mrs. Pinchot. Composing has a thing.

Thank you, Tom.

What's wrong?

Nothing. I just made that up about composing.

I sensed that when you answered a phone. It didn't ring.

Mrs. Finch, I didn't know what you were talking about.

Okay. About Santa Anita?

She didn't know what I was saying about the buses either.

Are you sure?

When she says, I'll get back to you, that's the way she stalls.

She gets these lapses ever since her stroke and she just loses where she is

the conversation.

I had no idea.

Stupid of me to lay all this on her so late in the day. I should have caught

earlier when she wasn't tired.

Is she okay?

I don't know.

She's trying like crazy to keep us in the dark about what her problems are.

I do know getting through the day is a struggle, and I worry about the toll

struggle is taking.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A &E.

Trans -Pacific Land Company, right? You sure you got the right one this time?

Yeah, isn't that funny? I mean, there being a trans -Pacific lamp company

incorporated the same year?

Yes, sir.

I'm going to have to ask you to give me your pens.

Lou, you're going to be pleased.

I think we've got some kind of story here.

You got time for me to draw you a picture?

Sure.

It's late February 1942.

Ido Kasamatsu is digging an irrigation channel in a corner of his cauliflower

field when his wife comes running across the field.

He's been married less than a year.

And she's holding their evacuation orders.

He's got five days to pack up and go.

And he's got a 100 -acre farm he's paying off.

So he knows right away he's not going to be able to keep the farm unless he can

lease it.

But he's also thinking he's going to need cash because he doesn't know when

he'll be back.

So he starts putting out some feelers to people with money. And he hears of a

wealthy man who happens to be interested in real estate.

Ito Kasamatsu made the best deal he could. He got $8 ,000 cash, paid off his

mortgage. and went to the internment camp with $600.

From there, he enlisted in the 442nd Infantry, all Japanese American, most

decorated unit in the history of this country.

I know.

Their casualty rate was sky high, too.

He enlisted hoping that if he fought bravely enough, people at home would

of his family's loyalty.

His wife gave birth to a little girl one month after hearing her husband was

killed in action.

You want to hear about the guy who bought the land?

Yeah.

When the war was over, he built a subdivision.

100 acres of three -bedroom, VA -approved houses that sold like

He made a bundle.

On that and on 10 or 12 other deals like it, all made on land owned by Japanese

-Americans.

There's a story.

Find him and see if I'll talk. He's dead.

But his widow's alive and still in L .A.

Can you track her down?

I have.

To the eighth floor.

The widow's Mrs. Pinchon.

No. My God, absolutely no.

Listen, Rossi didn't go after Mrs. Pinchon. It was coincidence.

But in fact, Matthew Pinchon was a major profiteer from the evacuation order.

Find someone else.

I can't believe you're suggesting we give our publisher special treatment.

not suggesting, I'm assisting.

That woman had a stroke that almost killed her less than a year ago.

You're going to accuse her of war profiteering in the newspaper she owns?

We're not accusing her of anything.

Everything Lossie's found so far is in Matthew Pinchon's name.

You saw her in this office, Lou. We have no idea how sick she still is. I'm not

going to test her strength by publicly humiliating her.

I think that if we simply let her... Over my dead body, pal.

Well, did you make a pitch to Charlie yet? Did he go for it?

No, pick someone else for your play, Rossi.

What? Kill the pincon angle, that's it.

What?

Could I have a reason, please?

The reason is I say so.

Listen, Lou.

Could we sit down and discuss this?

Rossi, the universe does not revolve around you, even at this paper.

Will you just once take no for an answer like the rest of us have to do?

You sure Pinchon knows? She knows, she knows. Lou told you? What difference

it make? It was killed in her interest. Now I've got to go back to those clammy

archives this afternoon.

First you've got to calm down.

I know, I know, I know.

Here, crush my milk carton.

Come on.

Come on, do it.

I wanted to tell you that your interview with Iris Rooney has been canceled.

No, why?

She's not calling off the fight.

I think so.

Oh, poor woman.

Yeah. She was stopped at the airport on her way to Suriname.

Oh. Well, maybe she's just... Her suitcases contained four bathing suits

$350 ,000 in Kruger ants.

in the city room.

Mr. Grant been giving you a hard time.

You know.

Of course. He gives us all a hard time.

What have you been working on lately?

Japanese -American petition for redress over their internment.

Oh, yes. That was an embarrassing moment in our past.

Our past? Whose?

Well, the city's. The country's. Ours!

What do you remember about that time?

I remember the Monday after Pearl Harbor, the local grocer, Japanese

a large butcher paper sign in the front window saying, I am American.

And a flag.

And I remember rumors that the grocer was poisoning the vegetables.

Stupid rumors.

What about the Trans -Pacific Land Company?

Well, that's something I haven't heard in ages.

You recognize the name?

Grand Pacific was my late husband's real estate company.

Okay, Max, there you go.

Oh, he's got such a kick out of that business.

Why was that?

Oh, I don't know.

I guess building things.

He liked to be able to say, let's put a community here and then see it happen.

What about the cost?

Well, I don't think cost was very important to Matthew then.

After the war, there was a terrible housing shortage. People needed homes,

he provided them.

That meant the cost to the people he bought the land from.

Excuse me, Mrs. Pincham, but I know where Trans -Pacific got its land.

Well, it was mostly farmland, as I recall.

Your husband was one of the people who brought pressure on the White House to

sign the internment order.

By 1943, he owned 7 ,000 acres in Los Angeles and Orange County, all purchased

from Japanese Americans, all purchased at ridiculous prices.

telling you something you don't know?

Ma 'am?

Do you have...

Papers.

Documentation, yes.

Can I see them?

run this as a story?

Charlie and Luke killed it.

I thought you knew.

Matthew was my husband.

The Tribune was his newspaper.

And this story is news.

It's grave robbery.

No.

I... Mrs. Pinton, let me tell you... No!

Please, get away from me.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A &E.

Come in.

I heard what Joe Rossi did.

I want to apologize for him.

I'm afraid I handled the whole thing very badly.

I know I did.

I just hit the roof.

Which, of course, is going to make a guy like Rossi dig in.

Well... I can understand him wanting to go toe -to -toe with someone on this.

But to choose you... To choose me...

Yes?

Well, after what you've been through.

Am I unfit to hold my own in a fight, Mr. Hill?

Of course you're not. It's just that he should have taken his gripe to me.

Why?

Isn't this my problem? Are you running things now?

Believe me, I'm always well aware which of us is the publisher.

Then why do I see you moving in on my job at every opportunity?

Is that what you see?

Oh, smokes.

Is that what you're thinking?

I'm making my move?

Look at the evidence.

Who's presiding at all the meetings?

With the shop stewards, legal affairs, the insurance people?

Those damn insurance meetings. I preside at them. Yeah.

And I meet with the shop stewards and legal affairs.

Because you can't do everything like you used to.

And because...

We've been together 20 years, and I'm the one you can absolutely trust.

I see.

It's you and me, ma 'am. I'm the only other person who knows every strength

weakness of this paper.

We're the ones who can count the number of close calls by the lumps on our

skulls, you and me.

And right now, I gotta say, I'm feeling a little resentful that you're the one

doing the listening and I'm the one doing the telling.

First of all,

I am improving by inches.

I go to therapy.

Another stroke is not likely.

Please go on.

So I can handle bad news.

Truly.

Okay.

Second of all, I can handle Mr.

Rossi with my brace on my leg.

And one hand tied behind my back.

Go get him.

Yeah. Yeah.

You see, horse number seven is carrying too much weight.

So by a process of elimination, you end up with Alberta's green.

Now, in the fifth race... No, no, no, no, no, no. I want to hear... Adam's

system. Adam, you have a system? Sure.

You play the podium the same way you play the stock market.

Blue chips. The horse and jockey with the best combined record, huh?

Is that how you play the market? I don't play the market. I thought that's what

you meant.

No, no. You look for a horse or a jockey with one or more of the letter X. Then

you lay a heavy bet.

Right. Thanks a lot, Adam. Hey, it worked with Xerons.

Ladies and gentlemen, your marker at the 2 -mile -6.

Give it up.

Stop it.

ever used for the internment?

You mean the track? World War II internment?

Yeah,

it was.

As a temporary relocation center.

I remember those little horses running along the grandstand.

I used to dream about that.

You were interned? They put up hard paper buildings in the parking lot,

they?

Yeah, I think.

I know they renovated the stables for the larger families.

Aren't you from Indiana?

We lived there after the war.

My mom never wanted to see California again.

Uh, excuse me.

Lou Grant will continue in a moment here on A &E.

Manzanar. Boy, I never thought I'd say that word aloud.

Why?

Because my parents never said it.

How old were you? About three or four.

My brother and I talked about it once.

We'd both been grounded one weekend because I'd picked a fight with him.

This was in Indianapolis.

I was about 11.

My brother was so mad at me, he said he would tell all my friends that I'd been

in the concentration camp.

I said I had not.

And he said the whole family was.

That's what Manzanar was.

And I thought, what if somebody found out?

So I gave him my coin collection to shut him up.

Ken? I was too stupid at the time to realize he would never tell because he

just as ashamed of it as I was.

Ken, do you think Manzanar was a concentration camp?

The word scare people because of the comparison with Nazi Germany.

Of course, those were death camps in Germany.

I don't know.

Why didn't you say something about this? You know I've been writing this piece.

You want to know why?

Because then I'm a victim.

Of the worst part.

Because victims can't fight back.

They're pitied and taken care of. And I want to have control of my life, all

right?

They took a piece of my childhood away.

Just let me have the rest without shame.

Mr. Rossi, your information was correct.

Matthew Pinchon, through Trans -Pacific Land Corporation, purchased many parcels

of farmland from Japanese Americans in 1942.

All those transactions were perfectly legal. They're a matter of public

However, Trans -Pacific Land Corporation no longer exists.

Its assets were incorporated into the Los Angeles Tribune newspaper company in

1961. Mrs. Pinch, I... That is all I have to say about a subject which is and

should be a closed chapter in this newspaper's history.

Thanks.

Now, the Tribune is issuing a statement on another matter today.

I thought you would like to hear it in advance of the competition.

What's that?

The Los Angeles Tribune newspaper company announces today the formation of

Trans -Pacific Foundation, whose purpose is to serve the Japanese -American

community of Southern California by underwriting low -interest loans for

businesses and granting scholarships to students of Japanese descent. And I've

included the paperwork in case you want to look at the figures.

Where's the money coming from for this?

It's all in the paperwork. That is...

All I have to say.

Okay.

Thanks. Thank you.

Make sure he keeps his opinions out of that story.

Mrs. Pigeon, I'm certain he realizes that you had nothing to do with your

husband's land deals. I tell you, watch what he writes.

I will not be made the valiant widow.

Oh, wait a minute.

It's pretty clear that you knew nothing of your husband's business dealings.

I didn't know the details of his business, but I knew the man.

I knew he thought rules applied only in Canasta.

I knew he thought every transaction had a winner and a loser, and he was always

damn sure which one he'd be.

So?

So... I married him for it.

I loved him for it.

He never doubted himself.

I was filled with doubts.

I've worked for you for five years.

I know you don't operate that way.

That's immaterial here. The fact is, I have lived a very comfortable life on a

bounty of Matthew Pinchon's deals.

For 40 years, I've been wearing a ring without ever finding out what the

Japanese inscription inside it meant.

Matthew gave me that Christmas 1942.

Do you think I don't know where that came from?

Who was the loser in that deal?

I see.

So Mr.

Rossi can write, I am ignorant of the trans -Pacific land scandal.

But he must not write that I am innocent.

I was not.

Mr.

Watanabe. Oh, Mrs. Pinchot.

Do you read Japanese?

I speak it better than I read it.

Sit down, please.

Can you translate that inscription?

Nice ring.

Mitsumori. Looks like...

The name Mitsumori.

Is that a family name?

Yeah. This looks like something a father would give his son.

It's unusual for something like this to leave a family.

My husband bought it.

Are you sure?

Japanese people wouldn't want to sell something so personal.

Well, my husband could drive a pretty hard bargain.

How difficult do you suppose it would be to find the Mitsumori family? I'd like

to return this.

Well, it isn't too common a name.

All I know is my husband purchased their property before they were interned.

Would that be enough for me to go on?

Could be.

I could help you.

Would you want help?

I could give you a hand.

Yes.

Come in, Mr. Guantanamo.

I found the Mitsumoris.

The daughter of the man who sold you the ring is still in the area.

Wonderful.

I'll write her.

What is her address?

Santa Monica.

Listen, we...

Got to talking and it turns out we're both at Manzanar.

I was at Manzanar.

So, we're going to get together and I can give her the ring in person.

Good.

I have it all boxed.

I know she'll appreciate this.

I'll give you a full report.

Mr. Watanabe, wait.

I am a gutless wonder.

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