the man in the high castle season 1 episode 5 recap

Once again, the show is trying to serve too many disparate pieces (and seemingly adding more all the time!) and not weaving them together well. This series feels a bit like this: fragmented, with scenes sitting jagged and intersecting, rather than composed scenes that let us live in them. But it’s broken up into vignettes rather than really letting us sit with these characters at this moment. It’s Rachel and Hank (Jere Shea) just talking in a car on a stakeout, and it’s quite poignant. This scene in “From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice”, however, epitomizes my frustration with this show. “Oh, I’ll still enjoy it.” Rachel - and the rest of the women really - are easily the most developed, human characters in City on a Hill. You’ve sucked every ounce of joy out of ruining this b*****d’s day.” Her partner Hank: “Well, I hope you’re happy. “So yeah, I have a little compassion for this douchebag’s daughter who’s going to have to go through life explaining who she is.” She empathizes with the daughter of the man they’re tailing because she’s going to grow up with the stigma of having a criminal for a father and not know her place in the world. We dig into her past and find out that she’s a daughter of Persian immigrants trying to pass herself off as Italian and getting a job with the Government to make sure she’s got security, hoping to achieve the good old American dream.

Rachel Benham’s (Sarah Shahi) character deepens further in City on a Hill Season 1, Episode 5. He fingers Ward for it - the first time we get any tarnish on Ward’s reputation.

Freda is trying to figure out how a cop shooter got off. Rory Culkin reappears as Clay Roach in “From Injustice Came the Way to Describe Justice” after his initial minuscule cameo in the first episode at the scene of a botched police raid that ended in a cop shooting (at Roach’s hand). She’s hardcore: “Even the mayor crosses the street when he sees her coming.” In the search for the snitch, she turns up junkie-turned-snitch Clay Roach (best name for a police informant ever!). Meanwhile in City on a Hill Episode 5, Michaela Freda (Samantha Soule) is a reporter digging into that shooting and begins searching for a rat for the FBI. It’s really all so he can get his - going directly against the gospel of family that Cathy preached last week. Jimmy (Mark O’Brien) is still trying to squeeze his brother for information so that he can snitch on his brother to Rohr.

It’s working – the relationship between Frankie and Cathy (Amanda Clayton) is beginning to fray. Ward is using the Grand Jury to put pressure on Frankie Ryan (Jonathan Tucker) and the other armored car robbers.

The man in the high castle season 1 episode 5 recap