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[Toranaga, in Japanese]
Previously on Shogun.

Lord Toranaga has decided
to resign from the Council.

The Taikō required five Regents
for any vote.

[Toranaga] Lady Ochiba
requested to return to Osaka.

Obviously I've granted it.

To do otherwise
would have been a hostile act.

You're not a suckling child!

[in English] I'm assuming
that man's your husband.

His name is Toda Hirokatsu.
Though friends call him Buntaro.

[in Japanese] Wait!

Oh, for Christ's sake,
he could still make it.

[Toranaga] Toda Hirokatsu!

- Shit.
- [Mariko] Sorry.

I am happy to see you have changed
your mind about bathing.

[Mariko] You seem in good spirits.

[Blackthorne]
After a night of good company.

The courtesan was acceptable then.

[Nagakado, in Japanese] Nebara Jozen!

Your presence here is intolerable.

You're savages.

[shouts]

Damn it all.

Why is this happening to us?

Beastly cannon, piles of corpses...
we didn't ask for this.

[rumbling]

[peasant] There's an army coming!

Thousands of them!

[horses whinny]

[combatant shouts]

Toranaga-sama!

[Nagakado] My father's returned...

[Buntaro shouts]

Mariko...

He's alive!

Look who it is!

It's your husband!

[pants]

[breathes shakily]

[Kiyama] Any day,
the Lady Ochiba will be returned to us

from Toranaga's castle in Edo...

Let us ensure that the mother of the Heir

comes home to a safer city
than what she left.

Toranaga must be impeached.

[Sugiyama] I agree.

His escape from Osaka was not
only a mockery of this Council

but also an insult to the Heir.

Ohno...

...what do you think?

Impeach.

How fortifying to see us this united...

It's only...

Toranaga's resignation has made
impeachment impossible

with our Council now incomplete.

Let us vote on his replacement.

Ishido's friend, Ikeda, would make
an excellent Regent.

[laughs]

The man's an idiot.

The seat would stink of countryside.

Perhaps Hiroda?

The seat would stink of Christian.

[servant] Lord Kiyama sends his regrets.

I propose Maeda.

Wonderful choice.

I won't sit on a Council
with that rotten syphilis.

I'd rather slit my own belly.

Sugiyama.

Perhaps you were unaware...

Maeda is Ohno's cousin.

[Sugiyama coughing]

I see why she is called 'Lady of Steel'.

Your first time hunting?

My husband hasn't had cause to invite me.

He's a miracle, your husband.

It took him twenty days to return to us.

I'm in awe that he survived.

A contingent of ronin helped him fight
his way out.

By the time they reached Edo,
only two men were left.

It was a terrible ordeal.

A diary of all that the Anjin has said
or done since you left.

I ask that you remain at the Anjin's house

and continue your duties as interpreter.

And my husband?

I've instructed Buntaro to move
in to the Anjin's house with you.

This way you can serve them both.

Father!

[sighs]

Tell me...

Was it my son's idea
to murder Nebara Jozen?

I don't know.

Killing him was incredibly foolish.

Ishido will likely use it
as a pretext for war.

Father.

Mariko, please give this pheasant
to the Anjin.

A token of my gratitude.

[sighs]

I know you're upset with me.

Did it ever occur to you

that by killing Jozen,

you might have been doing
Yabushige's bidding?

No...

Maybe it was his eager nephew

who tricked you into being so stupid.

Father...

You will address me as Lord!

Stop behaving like a child!

Rotten animals...

Horses are worse than men for treachery.

You so easily fell into their trap.

Broken to another man's fist.

Like a falcon, but without the beauty.

[bird shrieks]

All men are like falcons.

Some are flown straight from the fist,

killing anything that moves.

Others are lazy and tempted by the lure.

But all men can be broken.

Learn to fly them at the right game,

and they will do your hunting for you.

[servant speaks Japanese]

Until you can understand this,

I am stripping the cannon regiment
from your command.

- [rain pattering]
- [thunder rumbling]

[servant] A messenger has arrived.

[gasps]

Lord, it's Jozen.

[breathing shakily]

[in English] As I live and breathe,
the most precious gift there is.

Do you see that?

I do my part, and the old man does his.
Now we're getting somewhere.

You can't understand a word I'm saying,
but when I was your age,

one of my first chores was cleaning game.

My father would poach
from the estate in Chatham.

Watch this.

Please watch this.

[in English] Now, we'll hang it up
for a few days to mature,

maybe a week, depending on the weather.

[huffs] There we are.

[in Japanese] So sorry, but...

the bird will rot, no?

You understand, 'rot'?

[grunts]

[in English] Yes, yes.

There will be a terrible stench.

But this is a gift from Toranaga-sama.

It must be the best pheasant
this village has ever prepared.

Now, this next part is very important.

No one is to touch this bird.

[in Japanese] Understand?

Forbidden, yes?

Um.

If touch... die!

We'll order him knives
of his own from Mishima.

From now on,
nothing he uses will touch our food.

[cook] There's a fine cook
in the next village.

When I want another cook I will tell you.

Lady Fuji...

The Anjin may eat whatever he wishes
in his own house...

Forgive me for interrupting...

Lord Toda is here to see you.

[Fuji] Uncle.

It's wonderful to see you returned safely.

Where is Mariko?

Ordered to Lord Toranaga's camp.

Should I send for her?

I am ordered to quarter here.

Bad enough my wife must live
under a roof with the Anjin.

But now, I am to do the same.

You've narrowly escaped death.

We'll see to it you are well-cared for.

How is it being consort to a barbarian?

Sorry...

I am consort to a hatamoto,
I wouldn't know.

Does he make you pillow?

No.

Thankfully

the Anjin prefers the company
of other women.

Barbarians should stick
with barbarian women.

Tell the Anjin I'll be back for dinner.

[Yabushige]
The training has gone quite well.

The barbarian's cannon tactics

offer surprising new advantages.

I look forward to a demonstration.

[speaks Japanese]

Though I will be sure to keep my distance

after what happened to Nebara Jozen.

[speaks Japanese]

"Return to Osaka,

and pledge loyalty to Ishido."

I heard those are your orders.

As always, you see through everything.

What are you going to do?

Of course I remain with you.

They'll declare you a fugitive.

True.

But since that sunrise in Osaka,

you and I are bound by fate.

Is that so?

Or maybe it was you who manipulated my son

into attacking Jozen?

No, I would never...

That way you could delay
your response to Ishido,

and continue playing both sides.

Lord... Nagakado decided

Jozen could not be allowed
to report on the cannon...

Nagakado is not clever enough
to think of such an idea.

[breathes loudly]

You're right.
I'm afraid it was my nephew Omi.

He was drinking saké with Nagakado
the night before.

Perhaps his words planted the wrong idea.

That Omi.
I will discipline him on your behalf.

Discipline?

[speaks Japanese]

[chuckles]

He found a way to force
our enemies to attack.

Why would I need to discipline
such a promising young man?

[speaks Japanese]

If I were to attack them
in the stronghold of Osaka,

I would surely lose.

But thanks to your nephew

they are sure to take offense,

and must draw out to attack us here.

We can entrench ourselves.

Drain their numbers.

[chuckles]

Exactly as you say.
I was thinking the same thing.

Inform your nephew...

I'm giving him command
of the Anjin's artillery.

[speaks Japanese]

A deserving reward for Omi.

[grunting]

This man is a loyal, hard worker...

A perfect cover for the spy
you still haven't found.

[snorts]

He's toying with me.

Batting me around
like a bird with its prey.

In my own province no less!

Toranaga has given you command
of the cannon regiment.

Train them well.

Uncle, if it's your wish,
I will relinquish command to you.

[speaks Japanese]

What did you just say?

Do you imagine
the regiment belongs to you?

How can you relinquish
what already belongs to me?

[speaks Japanese]

Find Toranaga's spy.

[sighs]

Go to Osaka.

We should fix things with Ishido

for when this all turns to shit.

Things were worse in Korea.

We had to eat silkworms cooked in shoyu.

People don't die from flies.

You and me...

we're both cursed.

First, the Anjin contaminates our kitchen
like a vengeful tatarigami.

And now your husband is back
from the dead.

One more reason for us to eat.

He'll be here soon.

If you think the Anjin is in danger,

you'll tell me, right?

Why would he be in danger?

[in English] I understand your husband is
to stay with us now?

Is there anything you feel
I should be preparing for?

Dinner?

Dinner.

And you will be a gracious host.

[grunting]

[in Japanese] Without a good rock,

a garden is just a place of growing.

[Blackthorne] I agree, Uejirou.

Welcome to my home, Lord Buntaro.

It's Lord Toda.

[in English] My husband wishes for you
to address him as Toda-sama,

as Buntaro is reserved
only for those close to him.

Tell Toda-sama it's a relief
he was able to escape Osaka,

and an honor for him to have observed
our cannon regiment today.

[in Japanese] The Anjin says

only a great warrior
could have survived as you did.

He is also honored that you saw
the cannon regiment he trained.

My bow can fly faster,
and at a greater range than any cannon.

[in English] He believes that in the hands
of a true samurai,

the bow and sword will
always outmatch the cannon.

Oh.

Well, perhaps we should have
a friendly contest sometime.

[insect buzzing]

[sniffs]

[in Japanese]
Did something die in this house?

Excuse me, dinner is served.

[in English] Now, for my esteemed guests
on this wonderful evening,

I am proud to present to you tastes
from my home country.

We call it English rabbit stew.

Now, admittedly, I had to substitute
a few of the ingredients, sake for sherry,

and a few other things,
but that's the beauty of a good stew.

It all tastes like gravy in the end.

Mariko?

We are particular eaters, Anjin-sama.

It is our loss.

It's not the same without sherry anyway.

Now, here you go. [grunts]

Oh, please, eat.

[scoffs]

[in Japanese] Look how he eats.

Like a baby monkey.

[in English] What did he say?

My husband comments on the way
you eat your noodles.

The sound you make while eating
reveals the depth of your pleasure.

Oh. [laughs]

[slurps]

[slurps]

[scoffs]

[in Japanese] Clever monkey.

He learns tricks fast, doesn't he?

You know where I come from, only
women drink from a tiny cup like that.

[in Japanese]
The Anjin says that in his country,

bigger cups are used for drinking.

[in English] The polite size of the sake
cup helps us to enjoy the drink and...

This is how we drink.

[grunts]

[grunts]

[groans]

[in Japanese] If the Anjin asks for more
saké, tell him this was the last of it.

And pour that stew into the sea.

[pants]

[Blackthorne, in English] Seeing as
we're toasting, I have a toast to propose.

If you cheat, cheat death.

If you steal, steal the heart of a woman.

If you lie, lie in the everlasting warmth
of her bosom.

And if you drink, drink with me.

[sighs]

[in Japanese]
It's like being in a barbarian land.

Soon we'll be eating with our feet.

[in English] What did he say?

Perhaps it is getting late.

I think Fuji-sama appears to be tired.
Fuji-sama...

[in Japanese] You must be tired.

[Blackthorne, in English] Oh, nonsense.

Mariko-sama, ask your husband
if he could share

the... the story of his escape in Osaka.

Never too late for a good story.

Go on, ask him then.

[in Japanese] Forgive me.

But the Anjin...

has heard great tales of
your heroism in escaping Osaka.

He says he would like to hear them.

Heroism is for the dead,

and stories are for children.

The Anjin has said improper things,
I apologize.

Perhaps it is more acceptable
to boast in his country.

Then ask about his battles.

Isn't he the great samurai
who trains Lord Toranaga's regiment?

[in English] He would like to know
about a war you have fought in.

Ah, I don't know.

All of my war stories are full of holes.

[Mariko] Please listen.

My husband is tired
and has had a lot to drink.

You must tell him a story.

But choose your words carefully.

[in Japanese] No.

War

Talk

You

Kodai!

Bring a bow!

[sighs]

Have him choose a post.

[in English] The gateway of your house.

He asks you to choose a post.

What? He's going to shoot it?

The left or the right post.

- Oh, the man can't even see straight!
- Please.

Choose.

Right.

[in Japanese] Right post.

[in English] Mariko-sama, you should move.

[breathes shakily]

Mariko-sama, move.

Mariko-sama!

[gasps, pants]

[in Japanese] Uncle...

[in English] Mariko-sama,
get out of the fucking way!

Oh, for...

[sighs]

Please tell him that,
while I understand that in this country,

like mine, a man's wife is his property.

But I believe strongly...

that his wife merits better.

[Mariko, in Japanese]
He says that a wife is property

and a husband may do what he wants.

But the Anjin...

wonders if you should
treat your wife with more courtesy.

[laughs]

[Buntaro] Makes me laugh.

You of all people...

That you deserve courtesy.

Tell him what your name is.

Tell him!

[Mariko, in English]
I am to tell you about my family.

[in Japanese] Tell him about
the disgusting, filthy line you come from.

[in English] I am daughter
of the late Lord Akechi Jinsai.

Mariko-sama, you don't have to do this.

[in Japanese]
Daughter of the treacherous assassin.

Just make up a story.
He'll never know the difference.

My father's Lord was Kuroda-sama,
ruler of Japan before the Taikō.

Kuroda-sama was corrupt and murderous,

and so my father killed him
out of love for the Realm. [sniffs]

For this,
he was hunted along with my family.

All of my brothers, sisters...

and my mother.

They all knelt before my father who
was forced to execute them, one by one...

before committing seppuku himself.

I was just married
and not permitted to fight.

Each year,
on the anniversary of my family's murder,

I ask my husband to let me
take action against this injustice.

But I can do nothing.

Because my husband orders me to live.

I ask you to remember The Eightfold Fence.

Excuse me.

Who gave you permission to leave?

Mariko!

[breathes sharply]

- [snoring, grunts]
- [thudding]

- [Mariko grunting]
- [banging]

[Mariko sobbing]

[Buntaro] This is your fault.

Do you understand?

- [Mariko sobs]
- [Blackthorne grunts]

[Buntaro] Say something!

- [gasps, grunting]
- [banging continues]

[panting]

[Fuji pants]

Get out of the way. I said move. Damn you.

[Fuji] My uncle has already left.

Get out of the way!

[in Japanese] Now!

[pants]

[Mariko sobs]

[in English] Get back! [sobs]

[in Japanese]
He should not have seen this.

- [sighs]
- [in English] Oh, Christ.

[in Japanese] I tried to stop him

but he won't listen.

I ask that you both leave.

Please leave!

[sobs]

If you disturb this home,
you dishonor the Anjin.

[sobbing]

What is there to dishonor?

This house is cursed.

[sobbing]

[in English] Buntaro!

Look at me!

Oh, what are you doing?

Get up!

[Buntaro, in Japanese]
I've disturbed the harmony of your home.

Please forgive me.

Saké.

[in English] Sake?

Is that your excuse?

Get up, you bastard, on your feet!

[spectator whispers]

[in Japanese] Because of the saké.

[in English] Sake.

You piece of shit.

[in Japanese]
Their feathers are too damp, Muraji.

I agree.

But hiding the pigeons here

was your idea in the first place.

[scoffs]

Yabushige is hunting
for a spy in your village.

Lord, please allow me to surrender myself.

[Toranaga] Not a chance.

Your real name is Tonomoto Akinao,

my long-serving, prized samurai.

You will remain my spy.

Then what's to be done?

[Toranaga] Find him another spy.

We can't go on like this.

The stench of death,
arrows sticking from our walls...

Villagers are starting to whisper
there's a tatarigami in your house.

[in English] Morning.
Where is Mariko-sama?

[in Japanese]
Anjin, I have a favor to ask.

This awful smell. May we get rid of it?

I don't understand anything you're saying.
Where is she?

[Fuji sighs, grunts]

[horse approaching]

[Blackthorne] You all right?

All of this is my doing.

Mariko-sama, your husband's brutality
is no fault of yours.

We should not be seen together.

Ah, the pox on that.

Don't put it behind that folded fence
of yours, whatever you call it.

[stutters] I see you.

Your disgust for him.

If you wanna be free of that
shitless coward, then be free of him.

Still, you understand so little.

Your swords.

Fuji-sama believes they were
given to her father as a battle honor.

The truth is he died a coward,
begging for his life.

Her grandfather bought them
from a drunken samurai

for three bags of rice
to spare her the embarrassment.

But she knows nothing, and we say nothing.

Because our silence is what she merits.

I will give my husband nothing.

Not even my hatred.

Because that is what he merits.

It's a good story, Mariko-sama.

And I understand the sentiment,
but you take it too far.

Honestly, shuffling around with your
manners and your buried self for what?

I would not expect for you to understand.

Oh, forgive me,
but you'd die to avenge your father.

You'd live in anguish
to spite your husband.

Which is it?

What becomes of you?

My life is mine, and yours is yours.

If you can't see that,
you'll never be free of this prison.

No, Anjin-sama.

It is you who is imprisoned.

If freedom is all you ever live for,
you will never be free of yourself.

I will honor my duty as your translator.

But from this day forward,

the only words we share
will be from others' lips.

What's the matter with everyone?

What is it?

Pheasant.

[in Japanese] Bird

Who

Took

It was Uejirou.

[in English] Our gardener?

Old bastard should get a medal
just for being able to climb up there.

It's fine.

It's been up there long enough anyway.

[in Japanese] Uejirou, good.

Fetch him.

Uejirou is dead.

Dead?

How?

Lord.

Because you said it was forbidden.

'If touch... die!'

[in English] What have you done?

You put that old man to death
over a stinking, God-cursed pheasant.

[sniffles]

What the hell is wrong with you?

[in Japanese]
It is my responsibility to bear.

[in English] Why in Christ's name
didn't you ask me?

[Fuji, in Japanese] Please...

Please take my life.

[breathing shakily]

[in English] Go away.

All of you!

[breathes shakily]

Go away!

[in Japanese] It was my fault
for being difficult with my husband.

I beg your forgiveness.

Buntaro may do
whatever he wishes to his wife.

But right now I cannot have
my translator harmed.

[horse whinnies]

[Nagakado] Lord, you have another visitor.

Excuse me.

[Blackthorne, in English] Lord.

When we were at sea, we discussed
my training your army in European combat.

I feel I have now fulfilled that duty.

I ask that my ship and my men be returned
to me so that I may leave and not return.

[in Japanese] Your arrangement
about training the cannon regiment...

He believes it is now complete.

And...

he would like to leave Japan permanently.

There's a shadow on both of you.

[in English] He asks what troubles you.

I am troubled by your whole damn country.

Life has no value to you.

Only the meaningless rituals
you are trapped in.

Like Uejirou, who died for nothing.

[in Japanese] He's upset about
a matter with his gardener.

He will stop acting like a child.

[Mariko] It is my understanding that
you ordered no one to touch that bird.

And by law,
your house could not disobey that order.

Nor could they allow the rotting pheasant
to ruin the peace of the village.

The bird meant nothing to me.

Your words gave it meaning.

[Toranaga]
I can't be bothered with this nonsense.

Hmm.

[in English] A meeting was called
with Muraji who is the village headman.

But he determined it was a house problem.

So someone had to steal it and bury it.

And Uejirou announced that he had been
sick lately, so he volunteered.

He died for a great purpose.

It was a better end
than he could have hoped for.

I killed him.

Lord, forgive me. I killed that old man.

There is no use dwelling
on what cannot be undone.

How can you believe that?

We live and we die.

[birds squawking]

[Mariko] We control nothing beyond that.

[rumbling]

- [samurai shouting]
- [rumbling intensifies]

[samurai shouting]

[rumbling intensifies]

[samurai shouting]

[in Japanese] Don't move!

[samurai shouting]

[grunts]

[gasps]

[panting, grunts]

[in English] Jesus!

[in Japanese] Father!

[Blackthorne, in English]
Where the hell is he? [panting]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[grunting, panting]

He's here!

[panting, grunting]

[in Japanese] Father!

[Blackthorne] Clear his head!

There he is.

[samurai straining, panting]

- [speaks Japanese]
- [grunting]

[coughing, wheezing]

[gasping]

[Nagakado] Any injuries?

[Mariko] Lord!

[coughing, breathing heavily]

[Mariko] Your swords...

[panting]

These belonged to Fuji's father.

They may not be much but I'd be honored
if you would accept this gift.

[sighs]

[laughing, panting]

[in Japanese] Thank you.

[samurai shouting]

[Nagakado] Father.

Look...

- [samurai shouting, speaking Japanese]
- [rumbling]

[villagers sobbing, shouting]

[horse whinnies]

[villager shouts]

[gasps]

[sighs]

We only discovered these
after the earthquake.

As my uncle said,

there was a filthy spy all along.

Who lives here?

An old gardener.

Name was Uejirou.

Worked for the barbarian.

Died just yesterday.

Lucky for him.

[Yaechiyo] Mother!

Glad you've returned safely, Lady Ochiba.

I owe you my gratitude, Lord Ishido.

I'm told my release from Edo was
thanks to your Council

putting pressure on Toranaga.

The Regents are pleased
for your safe return.

I'm also told
the Council was outmaneuvered.

That Toranaga has once again
conspired and paralyzed it.

I will restore the Council.

When?

[chuckles, sighs]

Forgive my impatience.

But I fear for my son's future.

If anyone attempted to harm
the Taikō's heir,

I would give my life.

In that case...

The time for politics has come to an end.

The Council will answer to me.