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I thought he had just been tortured.
I don't think so. Kotomichi has also made some interesting comments to Tagomi, "You can't stop meditating" and "You're too good for this world".
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It seems there's some emotional bridge being set up between our(?) reality and their. i.e. the two art works by Frank with that "sadness": the one fake that the rich Japanese woman sensed, and the necklace that trade minister had seemed to be drawn to throughout the episode (likely due to that aura) and at the end used to Sliders to our world (at least mentally). Also my guess is that Julie's mom's sense that her other daughter was still alive was her sensing that in our reality her daughter is alive... although most likely she just BSC.
Frank is somehow linked to the wu stuff. I like how Tagomi can meditate on the wu and dimensionally shift while the Germans have the film. The Japanese way is spiritual, while the Germans use brute force by technology.
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The film showing Joe killing Frank can't be from either the show's universe nor our own. It can't be from their's because Frank is obviously still alive. It can't be from ours because the war ended in the 40s and that killing would have to take place in the 60s. I guess there is a third universe where WW2 is still going in the 60s?
I don't think it is. The film starts with a nuclear detonation and Juliana comments that it isn't like the other films. The next view is of a destroyed Golden Gate bridge. I think it's the future if the Cold War scenario isn't achieved: a nuked SF and genocide of the remaining semites.
Overall, I loved it. I haven't rewatched scenes like this since Lost. However, by the end of it, I was annoyed with the Joe-Juliana-Frank romantic triangle. I think I would like Joe more if we saw some of his past. His struggle between completing missions and his emotions for Juliana, the girl he just met, seemed shallow. Frank needs to grow a pair. I thought maybe the prison stint and losing his sister and the kids would accomplish that - and it almost did. But time and time again Juliana and her, "I'm so sorry, Frank", has him rolling over for her. And what's with his reaction to Joe calling her? When she admits that the east coast operative is a man, he instantly infers infidelity and storms out. Just seemed like a waste of a great storyline: losing his family, exploring his Jewish heritage, and turning to forgery to fund his escape. I just wish he would have continued down the vengeful, nothing to lose path instead of throwing everything he worked for away on buying Joe's release for Juliana.
