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High Castle Question (spoiler)

posted 10 years ago by caviar1234
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It's a great episode until the very end, the case is very 'straightforward', just like Foyle quoted many times at the very beginning, we know who did it all along, the only question is why. But the end just leaves too many things unresolved. What I don't get:
1.Did Foyle and Valentine just let the Russian agent who killed Del Mar get away with it?
2.What's the nature of the relastionship between Del Mar and his wife? And why did she give Sam the Keys?
3.How did Del Mar manage to murder Herman Linz?
4.What's the result of Adam's subplot invoving Vera Stephens?

[–] letess 10 years ago

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1. Yes, apparently. Foyle and Valentine and the Russian agent - launches into the Cold War and the Russians. Perhaps, in another episode but it isn't in the series.
2. Del Mar and Edith - This whole episode explores women and their relationship to men. Women were useful during the war and for the first time felt alive and significant. Edith was overpowered by two very powerful men who thought of her as a child. She had been reduced to nothing but choosing frocks. It was the one thing she could do for a fellow female. Sam said she was in danger and at that moment in time she could do something that her husband didn't have control of - setting a woman free. She knew he was probably going to have Sam killed.
3. Del Mar's mission was to stamp out anything bad being linked to Global Oil especially assisting the Germans during wartime. When he heard Foyle went to Germany, he most likely contracted someone to kill Linz probably by bribing a guard. Linz knew he was in danger when he read the London paper.
4. Adam learned from Vera how important it was for a woman to be appreciated and that she may actually like working. This was helpful in understanding Sam and something that had eluded him. I think he would have fought for Vera if the man who replaced her hadn't suffered during the war and was promised a job when he returned.

Another question, what happened to the diamonds?

[–] caviar1234 10 years ago

Thank you for your reply, letess. It's very helpful, though I still think the death of Linz needs a more clear explaination in the show. As for the diamonds, I think it's most likely that Foyle allowed the widow to keep it. And another question just came to me, after interviewing Knowles' widow for the first time, Foyle says she's definitvely not telling the truth, how could he tell that?

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[–] Tiqa 10 years ago

It didn't seem like a minor subplot to me so much as another layer that added to the richness of the setting. Horowitz never goes out of his way to preach or educate. More a glimpse into a world.

[–] franklinlj 10 years ago

Sure, the interesting thing is, he does not usually preach, but finds out what the contemp arguments were, and let's the chars argue them out, while the audience listens in. For example, the works director explains the policy women returning home is to restore family life and the population. This is a hard truth that is not often mentioned: that in emergencies, basic inequality comes to the surface, and must be acknowledged for survival. Once peace and prosperity return, then we try to get back on the upward path.

Another part of this is Sam's admitting that she can not take risks when pregnant - more inequality. The last time I recall seeing anything like this was a WW1 documentary that stated bluntly that any Power that had used women in combat would have been destroyed as a nation - all those casualties.

The thing about the presentation of the job dispute is that we do not find out who is 'right' - did the boss promise to hold the mans job till he came back? Was the woman told the job was permanent? We do not find out. Horowitz does not settle the disputes, he merely uses it to highlight the larger problem. This subtlety makes him one of the most interesting people working in TV today.

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