Tensions rise as the Japanese Empire attempts secret peace talks with the BCR (Black Communist Rebellion), threatening the stability of the Japanese Pacific States.

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In Smith’s timeline, he stood by and watched as Danny was loaded onto a truck bound for a concentration camp, ignoring Danny’s desperate pleas for help to protect his own rising status in the Reich.

The emotional core of the episode is the confrontation between Smith and the alternate-world version of his best friend, .