He also reveals that he’d rather be doing anything else, but he has no choice other than to continue on this path.
He says he’s following in his father’s footsteps. She asks him why a guy like him is driving a truck. They get back to Canon City just before the diner opens. They arrive at dawn and watch the sunrise. He takes her to a bridge over a dam in the Rocky Mountains. She meets him outside and they decide to go for a drive. Juliana can’t sleep and sees Joe outside smoking. Kido supervises while Frank is beaten, then taken to a dank cell. Many of the series’ central themes are introduced in these first 2 episodes: The near impossibility of making rational choices about big issues when people one loves are in immediate danger and how that is exploited by torturers and oppressors The choice between fighting and suffering for justice, possibly even dying for the cause, or surviving through moral compromise in the form of expedience, opportunism and collaboration The incompetence, near apathy and disorganization of the North American resistance movement The overall role of apathy and amorality on all sides in allowing oppression to continue And the power of art, literature and music to influence hearts and minds, whether it’s the Christian Bible, Mark Twain’s Huck Finn, a catchy pop tune or an effective visual advertisement. Frank must decide between protecting his family and fighting for the freedom he longs for. Kido, under pressure to find Juliana and the film, takes drastic steps to get Frank to talk. In San Francisco, tensions between the Germans and the Japanese continue to escalate. Juliana also gets to know a customer at the diner. In the Neutral Zone, Juliana and Joe get to know each other better as they await communication from their contacts. Smith and one of his surrogate sons, Erich Raeder, are attacked, showing that the apparent stability of the Reich is maintained through the frequent use of violent force.
John Smith’s family is introduced and his son Thomas is held up as a shining example of Nazi youth.
In episode 2 of The Man in the High Castle the relationships and events which will drive the rest of the series become much more clear.