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The Complete Guide to The Man in the High Castle Season 3 – Premiering 10/5
WW2 historian Paul K. DiCostanzo breaks down Amazon’s upcoming The Man in the High Castle season 3, and the hidden WW2 history driving it.
Juliana Crain: The Man in the High Castle Lynchpin
Amazon Studios Juliana Crain, one of the most wanted fugitives in the Reich or the Pacific States.
For all intents and purposes, Juliana Crain (Alexa Davalos) is/was/will be the lynch pin to the fate of every other character in The Man in the High Castle.
Juliana’s so-called “unnatural mind” has the attention of Hawthorne Abendsen. No matter the circumstances of where she falls in a given universe, Juliana always takes the high road and is willing to try to find the best in others, regardless of the expectations for the role they’re supposed to play in that world.
For two seasons Juliana has torn across the former United States trying to understand the untimely death of her younger half-sister Trudy (Conor Leslie) – as well as to find the “way out.”
Though Juliana does not yet have all of the answers, she does appear to have her sister back – or more accurately, one of infinite sisters from another universe. This is Phillip K. Dick after all.
Yet this discovery does not signal an end to Juliana’s journey, or that she has somehow escaped the trail of destruction she has left behind. Juliana is guilty of violently coercing a high ranking Nazi official to broadcast the death of Hitler before the Reich desired, and stands complicit in his death as he was executed for doing so. Nor is it clear how Juliana’s relationship with John Smith will impact the nature of how those crimes are prosecuted, or the fact she fled while under his exclusive protection.
Juliana also murdered another three members of the resistance – albeit in genuine self-defense – including Trudy’s biological father, the late George Dixon (Tate Donovan).
It may be easy to conclude Abendsen presented Trudy to Juliana out of kindness and decency; including for all she has done to prevent a nuclear war. Abendsen however is also likely considering new possibilities for how Juliana can be useful preventing similar incidents in the future; or perhaps being instrumental taking a greater chunk out of the Germans and Japanese.
This remains to be seen. Still, Juliana will not be able to escape her actions forever, as there is no woman more wanted both in the Pacific States and the Reich entering The Man in the High Castle Season 3.
What also remains to be seen are the details of Frank Frink’s presumed fate following his suicide bombing of Kempetai HQ in San Francisco.
