The Plot Against America

Master Philip, Don McCorkle, FBI.

If you wouldn't mind,

I'd like to ask you a few little questions.

So, that shithead was an FBI agent.

Tells me, "You're a red, you're a communist."

You're marked."

We are planning for the upcoming visit

of Herr von Ribbentrop, the German minister.

We would represent

the U.S. Department of Interior at the dinner.

We would in no way be endorsing the Nazi policies

- that affect our communit... - Can we bring Sandy?

I'm here for my son.

Herman, Lindbergh wants to meet our Sandy.

- He's a Nazi. - Charles Lindbergh is a hero.

You are a coward,

and you're dragging everyone down with you!

Now, we open the country to a permanent migration

of Jewish families.

To be clear, the Homestead Act involves voluntary participation

- in the program, correct? - How could it be otherwise?

Boys, your father is home.

You finished your collections early.

Why are you always messing with my things?

Sandy, I didn't touch your things!

What's the matter?

Stay on your side. Stay out of my stuff.

I didn't do it. I didn't!

Then how else did this move over there?

- When did you get this? - Yesterday.

I tried to find out more before I rattled everyone, but...

it seems to be real.

The company's already signed off, so...

This is my sister... and the rabbi.

I'm no fool, this is just revenge.

I saw Karl.

He said the request that specified me

came straight from the Newark office of the OAA.

I don't know what we can do.

- Hey, Dad. - Philip, go back upstairs.

Bess.

He has a right to know.

Philip, where's Sandy?

In our room.

Sandy!

Come down.

I gotta dry off.

Come on, Alvin, let's blow.

- Settle, Shush. - Yeah, settle where?

All the grifts and rackets in Philly or Camden

or down in Atlantic City, and my uncle dumps us here

with the spare change and broken pieces.

Yeah, to start.

He tells us to show up and do whatever Mr. Schapp needs.

So... we do as we're told.

- Pinball Billy Schapp. - Uh-huh.

Who gives a goddamn about this shit?

I need a sit-down with my uncle...

You had a sit-down with your uncle,

and he put us here.

We're on the payroll. We have nowhere to go but up,

so sit your own ass down and show some patience.

Like Mack here.

Hey, Mack, how long you been hauntin' this warehouse?

- Eleven years. - See?

That's not so long.

I'll bet Mack gets promoted any day now.

It's easy for you to make jokes, Alvin,

but I had a good ride running numbers for Abie in Newark.

I'd still be there if not for you.

No, no... if not for Longy Zwillman, you mean.

Wh... Can I help it if that asshole throws you over

- just for knowing me? - It's not like I'm a red.

Yeah, well, me neither, Shush.

But I think that Lindy and Hitler are both shitbags,

and that's close enough, ain't it?

Sorry, Shush. You got dragged, too.

Grab the dolly and bring it around.

Mack, you got a paperclip?

Yeah, look over there.

John Gaver...

Said after last year's Triple Crown, Eddie knows best.

No, that truck's going to Delaware.

Come on, move, guys.

Where'd you learn that?

I'm from Jersey.

See these scratches?

I'm not the first to pop this baby open.

Come on, Shush.

It so happens that the Levin family

has been selected to be participants in a new program,

Homestead 42. Which is...

"designed to give us a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity"

to move to a region of America

"previously inaccessible to city dwellers like us."

And once there,

chances are good that we will be able

to afford to buy a place of our own,

where you two will have separate bedrooms

and a big backyard to play in.

On the other hand, you will be changing schools.

And we will be saying goodbye to Summit Avenue.

Where are we moving to?

Danville, Kentucky.

It's the county seat of Boyle County.

I know where that is.

It's a town near where the Mawhinneys live.

It's nice.

It's quite a coincidence.

Of all of the towns in all of America...

What is the population of Danville?

Uh, it is 6,700.

And how many Jews... in Danville?

Well, they don't provide that information, but...

you already know, Bess.

- Is there even a synagogue? - A synagogue?

I'm sure there isn't a minyan.

- They cannot just... - Boys.

This is a big surprise,

and we're all a little dumbfounded, so...

Ask whatever's on your mind.

And never mind Evelyn,

I cannot believe the company would do this to you.

With all the work that you have done for those people,

all the hours you put in, the effort.

It's not the company, Bess.

They're not the ones that are forcing this.

They aren't? They picked seven Jews.

The entire government of the United States

is leaning on them.

The administration of a popular president

is telling them to cooperate

in a new program of national importance.

You think a life insurance company

can stand up to Charles A. Lindbergh,

the big man in a little plane?

We have rights.

Yes, we do. I can quit my job.

Short of that, the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company does

what the President of the United States asks.

That's how this happens. Everyone is afraid.

How could she?

I lost my head with your sister and that goddamn rabbi.

This is all to punish me.

You were angry.

Your son was being pulled away.

I'll go see her...

apologize.

Don't you dare.

You did nothing wrong.

You will not apologize.

Who do people in Kentucky root for?

Excuse me?

Dad and Sandy root for the Yankees.

I like the Dodgers, but we could also be Giants fans.

What's the team in Kentucky?

Seldon, you hungry? Can I get you something for breakfast?

Oh, I just ate earlier downstairs.

Thank you. Philip, I'll wait for you

- on the stairs, okay? - Mm.

- Morning, Seldon. - Good morning.

Dad, who do they root for in Kentucky?

Uh, baseball? Um... Cubs or Cardinals, probably.

Maybe the White Sox.

They're all in Kentucky?

No, they're all a couple states away.

It's the best they can do.

- What's the Klan? - Excuse me?

The Cooducks Klan?

Ku Klux Klan.

Yeah. That.

Are they in Kentucky?

- No. - Yes. They are.

They are in Kentucky and Ohio and Indiana and Missouri

- and all over that part of the country. - Bess.

What are they?

They are a group that doesn't like Negroes

or Jews or even Catholics.

They, uh...

They're certified idiots

that you don't need to worry about, Philip.

But if we move to Kentucky...

Eat your breakfast, Philip.

I don't want to go.

Why can't we stay here?

Because the company is transferring your father.

Why? Did you do something wrong?

- No. - Such a baby.