Akane No Mai

"Akane no Mai" is the fifth episode of the second season of Westworld, and the fifteenth episode overall.
==Synopsis==
== Plot ==
=== Retrieve and Reset ===
In the Westworld Mesa Hub, Bernard watches as the Delos Extraction Team pile up the bodies of Hosts in the corridors in the Behaviour levels labs. Up in the Control Room, Karl Strand watches on as the bodies of the humans are placed in body bags, the body of one female extraction team member holding his attention before he takes a call from Maling. She's collecting hosts from the new lake and tells him dredging is at 50%, and they should have the rest of the hosts by the end of the day. They've also started draining the Valley and wants to know if he just wants the bodies or all their belongings as well. Everything, he tells her, down to the last stetson. He also wants her to start to see if the hosts can't be 'cracked open' and reset on their original loops to get them working for them again. She acknowledges and tells him she has 2 teams out looking for Peter Abernathy. Good, Strand tells her, and orders her to bring him to personally when he's found.
Bernard moves around the Behaviour lab as technicians remove Control Units from hosts lined up on gurneys. Across the corridor, Strand arrives and asks Antoine Costa for an update. Antioine tells him that it's not good. They're pulling what they can off the retrieved hosts. Buts what is unsettling is what is in about a 1/3 of them What, Strand asks. Nothing, Costa tells him, not even wiped, rather like they're 'virgin', like they've never held data to begin with. No user prints, nothing. But that's not the worst of it he tells him, handing him his table to have a look, showing him the remains of the Cradle, the fires out, but utterly destroyed, along with all of the hosts' backups it contained. So, with the blank hosts, they've effectively lost a 1/3 of their IP in a single blow. Looking to Bernard across the corridor, he suggests it was quite a story Bernard game them. And one hell of an ending. 
Bernard gazing through the glass at Teddy, his body lying in one of the piles. "How did all of these disparate threads come together to create this nightmare?" Strand asks of Costa, "If we figure that out, we'll know how the story turns."
===Welcome to Shogun World===
Amid the gently falling snow, Maeve and her group (Hector Escaton, Armistice, Lee Sizemore, Felix Lutz, Sylvester) watch the approaching katana wielding man, Maeve barely missing the slice of the blade. Maeve is about to give the order to fire to Hector and Armistice when they are all lassoed by the man's cohorts. Maeve tells them not to worry, and tells the man to lower his sword and have his gang back off, they mean them no harm. The man slowly lowers his sword, Maeve cockily telling her people it's all under control, before the man tells his gant to "Gag this one." nodding at Maeve, her face falling. 
Quietly fuming, the gag over her mouth, Maeve walks trussed up along Sizemore, as their captors ride on horseback. The leader of the gang enjoying poking Hector in the back repeatedly with a sodegarami, a weapon used by Samurai Police, as they make their way past a number of dead Edo period soldiers, their insides on the outsides courtesy of the katana wielding gang, something Sylvester is less than happy about, snapping at Felix about speaking to them, Felix snapping back "I'm from Hong Kong, Asshole!!" Sizemore tells Maeve, that Shogun World is an experience designed for people who find Westworld, 'too tame'. "We based this Park on Japan's Edo Period. For the true aficionado of artful gore." 
As a female member of the group rides back to talk to it's leader, Maeve realizes she can understand them. Sizemore reveals that they all can. Maeve's are at the surface because she's a Madam, and needs to have access to dozens of languages for the guests. But all of the hosts have that capability buried somewhere in their code. The point is, he goes on, that the fact the Shogun World hosts didn't immediately switch to English the moment he opened his mouth, means that the same 'malfunctioning shit show' that played out in Westworld has made it's way to this Park too. It's also, he tells Maeve, while her 'vocal voodoo' didn't work on them. She used the wrong language. With a replica of Mount Fuji in the distance, they reach a Japanese 'Han' situated in a valley. One that, on their entry, seems decidedly familiar in terms of personas and events, Armistice commenting on that, before she and the others are all pulled to one side of the street by their bonds. Hector and Armistice noticing a butterfly drawn into a small sand garden beside a building. "A Mariposa," she realizes. On the street, a police officer walks slowly out, recognizing the horse, that the gang leader is riding as belonging to Yoriko Yamamoto, the local police chief, and naming the gang leader a "Miscreant". The gang leader agrees that it is, as is the Sodegarami, which he promptly uses to slash the officers throat. As Armistice and Hector watch on open mouthed, the gang leader dismounts and finishes him off, exactly like Hector does in Sweetwater. As he heads into the Han's version of the Mariposa, the female member of the gang hands it's leader a rope tethered to the horse, as he draws his katana. Before the woman removes her Jingasa, revealing a dragon tattoo, beginning on the side of her face. "I'll be damned," Armistice stares, stunned, "It's us!" Sizemore grumpily admits that he 'may' have copied a 'bit' from Westworld, before adding defensively that they should try writing 300 stories in 3 weeks. As Shogun World's version of Armistice, Hanaryo, receives her quiver of arrows from her fellow gang member, she walks behind the group and quickly fires off an arrow between Sizemore and Sylvester's heads, shooting down another town police officer. Sylvester incredulously asking if they're actually human shields now, Sizemore welcoming him to Shogun World. 
As the mayhem goes on outside, the gang leader heads inside where an indignant Chinese dignitary plays the "Do you know who I am?!" card, only to be told he knows exactly who he is, and how much gold he's brought with him, before being cut down. At that the Geisha House leader, Akane, the equivalent of Maeve confronts him, naming him Musashi,in an exchange almost the equivalent of Hector and Maeve's when he first robbed the Mariposa, down to his moving her as the safe falls to the floor, to be tied up in a net for the horse to drag away. 
Outside, Hanaryo continues to clear the street. Armistice helps her by warning of an enemy behind here, and Hanaryo releases them. The scene plays out in the tavern, with Musashi's men deciding to take Sakura, the equivalent of Westworld's Clementine Pennyfeather with them - but they are interrupted by Maeve who enters and demands, in Japanese, that they stop fighting and take a more civilized approach to things. Akane, recognizing herself in Maeve, and that they have much in common, agrees.
===Mirror Versed ===
The piano in the Mariposa Saloon strikes up. signaling the train/guests/Teddy's arrival into Sweetwater. Only now it's discordant, the pre-recorded roll of music thrown off its timing by the blood spattered across it. The 'train' arriving made up of Dolores and her/Wyatt's gang, with the captured tech, Phil, bound and on foot. Teddy riding at its head down the main street, looks about quietly aghast at the streets filled with bodies, unable to tell if they are host or human 
"Hell of a home coming," he calls back to Dolores. But she refutes the idea that Sweetwater was ever their home. "You and I were born long before this place ever existed." Still, he notes, it was the place he always came back to, something always carrying him back. Trotting past him amused, she nods down the street, "Something like that?" she asks, riding towards the train, still parked at the station, bodies strewn both in and around it. Observing that the trains taken some hits the past few days, Dolores notes wryly "But who hasn't?" Dismounting she gives her orders to her people to give the train a thorough inspection from engine to axel, then have it fixed and stripped for speed. 
Calling on Teddy to go with her, she and he followed by Clementine go into the wrecked Mariposa. A host caught in its loop still playing poker with no one else at the table amid the blood and bodies, while a loan sex worker host, the replacement Clementine going through the motions of seducing imaginary or dead prospective 'customers'. On Teddy asking her why they need the train, Dolores explains, while grabbing a bottle of whiskey from the bar, that they've taken her father, and they're going to get him back. Uncharacteristically taking a long swig of the hard liquor, she hands him the bottle, Teddy knowingly parroting a former line of his "Well it ain't doing any good sitting in that bottle' before taking a swig himself. 
On his handing it back to her they're interrupted by the New Clementine talking to the not present Maeve. Apologizing and saying the exact words about her not getting much sleep the night before. Clementine, still ghost like after her lobotomy, listens in a daze to her replacement, her mouth moving in time with the lines she used to say, visibly upset. Teddy, concerned for her, moves towards her checking on her, and she looks to him bewildered and shaken. New Clementine puts the moves on Teddy, stroking his arm, parroting Clementine's "You're new. Not much of a rind on you..." line, only for Dolores to put a stop to it . She sends Clementine back outside to rejoin the others. "Like I told you Teddy," Dolores says to him, "This place was never home" As she heads back outside, she calls back to him "Lets' ride, some place I wanna see." Teddy tips his hat to New Clementine and follows her. New Clem is left standing on her own in the ruined saloon.
===A Twist In The Tale===
Maeve and Sizemore dressed like the ret of their party, bar Armistice, in period Japanese clothing, are seated in the Geisha House, watching the Shogun World equivalent of Clementine, Sakura as she dances. Tea has been served. Things are, as Maeve requested, much more civilized - but now so slow that she's visibly impatient, muttering to Sizemore about her desire to get on with things, and to get to her daughter. Sizemore tries to calm her, saying that just like Westworld, hospitality is a precursor to a new quest in a narrative - unlike Westworld however, Shogun World hosts can become homicidally violent if offended. 
Hector cross legged, stares at the meditating Musashi, finally rising off of Sizemore and Maeve's conversation to say adamantly that he doesn't trust his counterpart, and asks if he can off him. Maeve tells him no in no uncertain terms, askign what's wrong with him. When Hector goes back to glaring at Musashi, Sizemore tells Maeve that Hector is behaving strangely because he's out of his normal environment - and they're all acting a bit strange, pointing out Armistice and Hanaryo, who are sitting cross legged opposite one another, strangely mirroring one another's movements. The dance finishes and Akane is approached by a man who tells her he is an emissary from The Shogun, who wants Sakura to dance for him. Akane politely tells him that Sakura commands a hefty price for even one dance. But the Emissary tells her she misunderstands. The Shogun wants to buy Sakura outright from her. Sakura immediately frightened by that. Akane tells him that she is not for sale. That she found Akane on the streets when she was a child starving and abused, and that it took her years to put the light back in her eyes. As Maeve and Sizemore watch on, Sizemore explains that this is all part of the narrative and that Akane will be forced to give the younger woman up, Sizemore says that it's a narrative called Army of Blood.
The emissary dismisses Akane's story saying that when one wishes to purchase milk one does not wish to hear the history of the cow, and tells her to name her price. As Sakura cowers behind Akane, Akane turns to comfort her then turns back to the emissary - and tells him that this is her price, rapidly pulling a needle like knife from her hair as she bows, rising to stab him through the eye, killing him. Stunning Sizemore. And horrifying Musashi who rushes in to ask Akane what she's done? Akane is not interested in discussion, of what she's done, only what needs to be done next, saying that they need to be far away when The Shogun realizes what has happened. Sizemore immediately suggests to Sakura, in Japanese, that they go to Snow Lake. Seizing on it, Sakura agrees explaining to Akane that is the place she was born, and the only place she has known peace. As the other's discuss it, Sizemore privately explains to Maeve that Snow Lake is Sakura's Cornerstone, but more pertinently for their needs there is also an access point back to the tunnels there, that will get them back on track in the hunt for Maeve's daughter. Maeve is duly impressed, though her compliment to Sizemore is as duly left handed as ever. Musashi says they will need to fight their way through, and Maeve immediately offers their services, telling him they are useful in a fight. Musashi accepts, and tells them to gather their things, they will leave under cover of night. 
While they are waiting for nightfall and the time to leave, the Shogun's Ninjas attack the tavern. Maeve intervenes by telling the Ninjas to fight one another - they obey. One of them grabs her from behind and prevents her from saying any more. She is almost losing consciousness when she discovers she does not need to speak to direct other hosts. She tells the host attacking her to kill himself, and he does. The others retreat - having kidnapped Sakura.
The Shogun's army parade into town - Sizemore protesting that they never do that. The commander, Tanaka, calls Akane out and the group discusses what to do inside the brothel. Maeve says she has a plan and Musashi goes out to meet Tanaka in order to buy some time for her. Hector and Armistice soon join Musashi in a fight outside, where they are quickly defeated and captured. In the distraction, Maeve, Sizemore, Akane, Feilix and Sylvester all escape out the back of the brothel.
===A Kind Man===
The place that Dolores said she wants to see, is revealed to be 'their tree'. Both of them dismounting, Dolores, looks out at the view, growing a little nostalgic, recalling how the two of them spent a lot of time there, watching the herd, talking about making a life together. "Someday" Teddy recalls, now knowing that phrase as part of the trap they were in...Dolores nodding quietly, guessing she just wanted to see it one last time. Before he takes her by surprise by asking "What if Someday was right now?" Off her confusion, he explains that he knows there's a fight coming. One that's going to change them in ways they can't even begin to predict. He admits he's still waking up to 'what' he is. But if that means he's free then they both are. "Free to walk away." 
He tells her that she can't tell him that somewhere out there in all that beauty there's not a spot for them. Taking in his words Dolores looks out into the beauty he's talking about for a long moment. Before she asks him if she ever told him about the year they almost lost the herd. She recounts how a strain of 'Blue Tongue' ripped through the herd. Her father trying everything to stop it before he realized it wasn't being spread from cow to cow, but rather by the flies. He worried over it all night, she remembers, trying to figure out how to stop a sickness like that, one with wings. Pausing, she quietly asks Teddy how he would have handled it if it was him. Thinking on it, Teddy, again showing his compassion, decides he would give them shelter. House the weakest in a barn away from the flies until it passed. Reaching out to touch his cheek Dolores tells him "You're a kind man," before going on to tell him how her father burned them, the weak, the infected. Making a pyre and stench that went on for days, but flies hate smoke and the danger passed, the herd surviving. Taking in her implication that kindness doesn't always lead to survival, Teddy frowns a little, before Dolores assures him she'll think on what he said. The two of them returning to their horses. 
===The Shogun===
Sizemore puts it to Maeve that if the Shogun is awake enough to risk deploying his Ninjas and his army, then the odds of their surviving have dropped to less than zero. He suggests they ditch Akane and just hit out for Snow Lake and its access point, not seeing any reason to risk their lives for some 'sex machine'. Maeve stares at him, pointedly, Sizemore remembering who he's talking to, tries to exclude her from what he means, but Maeve angrily confronts him, reminding him that 'the machines' name is 'Sakura', and he can't keep doing this, constantly giving the hosts people to love and then getting upset when they actually do love and care about them. Sizemore argues that it's just 'code', but she furiously insists that he's wrong. Reminding him that she's coded to care about no one but herself, and yet here she is willing to risk her life for someone else. "Well so much for your so called daughter," he responds snidely. Maeve, gives up on him ,telling him that if he wants to go it alone he's welcome to, but warns him if he mentions her daughter again she will snap him like a twig. 
Slightly chastened, Sizemore likens that to what she did to the Ninja, who self impaled himself. Wanting to know how she did it. She explains that she thinks she is finding a new voice. 
They set off to the Shogun, Felix and Sylvester being made to pull a cart. They pass the bodies of a QA team tied to trees with their heads in wooden cages. Sizemore takes a toilet break off to the side and takes a radio from a QA corpse.
They reach the Shogun's camp - somehow Sizemore is being carried by Felix and Sylvester.
Maeve offers the Shogun a fine gold statue - a humble gift - which he rejects and throws back. As the Shogun speaks it becomes obvious that he is not well, cortical fluid is leaking from his left ear. He reveals that he has deafened his troops - so that Maeve cannot influence them.
The Shogun parades Sakura in front of them, and Akane stands and talks to him. He doesn't understand why they haven't fled after killing his emissary. Akane offers any price for Sakura - He asks that Akane dance for him, and then Sakura is hers.
===A spot for the night===
Arrived back into Sweetwater, night having fallen, Dolores and Teddy watch the ongoing work on the train. Dolores figuring the train will be ready by morning, Teddy asks "To go where?". Angela arriving to answer "Exactly where we thought." Tossing a captured security force operative off her horse, alive, she tells them she caught up with the men who took Peter, and though she couldn't get him back she took the operative. It took a while but she got the information on where they took Peter from him. Kicking him to make him talk he tells them, to the Mesa. '"We're going home." Dolores tells Teddy, before she instructs Angela to load everything up on the train, as they're leaving at first light. As Angela heads off, Dolores looks to Teddy and suggests they find a spot for the night. 
The two of them head to the Coronado Hotel. The place silent and empty as they go upstairs. Dolores going into one of the bedrooms, where a lamp has already been lit, she takes a seat on the bed, Teddy staying a respectful distance away as she grows a little pensive. After a moment she brings up what he asked earlier. About their walking away, making it on their own. Wanting to know would he want her to say yes, even if she was only going to disappoint him? Clearly nervous about his response, she watches as he walks towards her, taking a seat on the bed. Looking to her, he reminds her he's no stranger coming from outside looking for a pretty lie. "I've known you, my whole life. Where we go, we go eyes open. Together." Vulnerable, she nods, and leans in to his gentle kiss as he initiates it. Something new passing between them as they draw back and their eyes meet. Her nervousness taking on an anticipatory air they come together again, making love, falling asleep wrapped around each other. After 35 years, spending their first night together!
===The Shogun's Camp===
Sakura reveals to Maeve and Akane that the Shogun has had a picture of a cherry tree (reflecting her name, which means "cherry blossom") carved into her back. She's in great pain and Akane comforts her by telling a version of the story Maeve always tells, about being who she wants to be.
Maeve tells Akane about her daughter, and about the wider world - offering her freedom. Akane declines, looking at Sakura.
==="Some of us will have to burn." ===
Still in bed, Teddy awakes before dawn in the hotel room to find Dolores moving through the room dressed, and telling him quietly there's something she needs to show him. Dressed and out on the street, walking down the boardwalk, Dolores takes him aback by confessing that, for days now, she's been questioning her feelings for him, "How much is real? How much is just some story I was made to believe?" Dolores leads him into the now ransacked H. Sharp General Store where she used to buy her groceries in, starting their loop, Teddy watching in trepidation as, by lamplight, Dolores herself picks up a can of condensed milk, and sets it aside on the counter. When she looks back at him however, her face is full of emotion, "But tonight I know. It was all true." 
Relieved and happy that her love for him is real, Teddy walks slowly to her and they kiss. Telling her that 'they' (humans) made them to perform for them, and each other, but that's over. He saw the real her tonight, he says, and she saw him. She agrees softly, "I did see you, Teddy." Turning from him, she picks up one of the lanterns adding "These past few days I've seen you so clearly." Leading him towards a back room, she takes him into a slaughter room where a decomposing, fly ridden carcass of beef is rotting away. Teddy clamping his hand over his nose at the stench, is appalled at the sight, as Dolores puts the lantern down staring at the rotting meat, murmuring, "And I've seen you're not going to make it." Confused and deeply unsettled Teddy wants to know what this is about. Looking back at him with a pained expression she answers, "This, is what I don't want you to become." Becoming more and more ominous in her manner, she refers back to her story about the blue tongue plague that affected her father's herd, telling him 'there's a swarm coming'. Opening a rear door, she lets in Phil, pad in his hand along with some of her men, telling Teddy that if they're going to survive some of them are going to have to burn. 
Staring at her, appalled, Teddy looks around to find more of her men behind him, then back at her sorrowful expression as she gazes at him. His expression hardening as he takes in her betrayal. Dolores orders her men to hold him, Teddy struggling as they grab him, muffling his mouth as he tries to call out her name to get her to stop. Despite her voice cracking, she still remains resolute, saying she wishes there was another way, but "Where we're going is no place for a man like you." His compassion and kindness now viewed as a weakness in her eyes. "I'm so sorry," she whispers, her eyes closed, face creased with conflict, pain and sorrow. The on watching Phil asks her if she's sure she wants to do this, warning her that 'with changes this extreme' without a full reset, Teddy may not hold together. Tears in her eyes, she tells Teddy "To grow, we all need to suffer." Teddy finally realizing in horror what she means to do to him, his insistent 'No' stifled by the hand over his mouth, unable to do anything as Phil calls up his profile and initiates the changes Dolores wants. Teddy's eyes widening as the new code starts to overwrite his. 
===Dance of Akane (Akane No Mai)===
As they gather for the dance of Akane and Sakura, the Shogun says he wants the witch where he can see her. His guards seating Maeve to his right.
Akane and Sakura start their dance but the Shogun stops them almost immediately. Walking up to the low stage towards them, he unexpectedly draws his sword and drives it through Sakura, killing her. Gifting her, Sakura's body, he tells Akane that he is returning to her as promised. Akane, though stunned, shaken and grief stricken manages to maintain her stoicism, as he makes her continue her dance; Maeve appalled at what has happened, but unable to do anything but watch, keeps her eyes on Akane as she proceeds in her dance. Her graceful movements, gaining the Shogun's approval as her movements across the stage bring her closer to him, 
Dancing before him, she raises her arms as part of the dance...and on doing so removes a large serrated metal needle from her hair/headdress and drives it into his face, just below his ear. Maeve stunned, watches as Akane viciously saws the needle around his face, blood spewing as she decapitates his upper head from his lower face, the Shogun rising, then dropping dead. Dropping to her own knees, Akane covered in his blood and looking back at Sakura's body, Akane awaits her own fate at the hands of the Shogun's samurai. Placing the blame at Maeve's feet too they drag her forward to kneel along side of Akane, ordering their necks bared. 
Maeve tells Akane that she is a true mother. Akane quietly thanking her. As the Samurai raise their swords. preparing to execute Maeve and Akane, Maeve rises up on her knees, her face a picture of concentration as she takes hold of them, the two men struggling against it but unable to resist. The pair of them killing each other. Sizemore, Felix and Sylvester scramble to get out of the way as the Shogun's men turn on each other, and start to slaughter one another, the victor in each case killing himself. 
One of the men mortally wounded manages to reach the gong on the platform and ring it, to summon the rest of the army. While blood flies behind Maeve, Akane rises and walks to the body of Sakura, kneeling beside it. Maeve in turn rises and walks to the encampment edge, to join Sizemore and the others. On seeing the rest of the Shogun's army rushing to attack, Sizemore wants to know what they're going to do now. Drawing a sword from the ground, Maeve placidly raises it, reminding him that she's found a new voice. "Now," she says, preparing herself to control them "we use it." 
== Trivia ==
*The title "Akane no Mai" likely refers to 「アカネの舞」 ("Akane's Dance") or 「茜の舞」 ("Deep Red Dance"), a possible play on words.
*This is the first appearance of Shogun-World, signposted in The Well Tempered Clavier
*Besides the plot device of the scenarios being copied, the arrival in the Japanese town is an almost shot-for-shot remake of the Sweetwater bank robbery from "The Original," right down to the camera angles and character movements.
*The set for the Japanese town was built directly adjacent to the Sweetwater set: some of the Sweetwater buildings were repurposed with slightly altered facades.http://collider.com/westworld-shogun-world-explained/#images
*Evan Rachel Wood hated shooting 'the horrible twist' of Dolores changing Teddy. “It was horrible,” Reflecting on the day of the shoot, Wood remembers that she “literally couldn’t stop crying. After every take, I had to walk away and start weeping, because I love Teddy."https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/westworld-dolores-teddy-twist-explained-1113902/ 
*Blue Tongue - the disease that narratively affected the Abernathy herd when Dolores 'was a girl', and first referred to by Peter Abernathy in Virtu e Fortuna is an acute disease, that is solely spread by flies, with high morbidity and mortality. It mostly affects sheep, but also infects cattle, and other domestic animals, It causes high fever, excessive salivation, swelling of the face and tongue, and cyanosis of the tongue. The Swelling of the lips and tongue gives the tongue its typical blue appearance. Treatment generally involves culling of infected animals.
*The description of the disease spread by flies, is, not only a test of Teddy's character, but the setting of the ground for a major plot point that will come into play in a major way in Season 4.
==Cast==
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Main Cast=
*Evan Rachel Wood as Dolores Abernathy
*Thandie Newton as Maeve Millay
*Jeffrey Wright as Bernard Lowe
*James Marsden as Teddy Flood
*Tessa Thompson as Charlotte Hale
*Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Armistice
*Fares Fares as Antoine Costa	
*Simon Quarterman as Lee Sizemore
*Talulah Riley as Angela
*Rodrigo Santoro as Hector Escaton
*Angela Sarafyan as Clementine Pennyfeather
*Gustaf Skarsgård as Karl Strand
*with Ed Harris as Man in Black (archive footage)
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* Rinko Kikuchi as Akane
* Betty Gabriel as Maling
* Hiroyuki Sanada as Musashi
* Tao Okamoto as Hanaryo
* Kiki Sukezane as Sakura
* Masayoshi Haneda as Tanaka
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* Masaru Shinozuka as Shogun
* Leonardo Nam as Lutz
* Ptolemy Slocum as Sylvester
* Lili Simmons as New Clementine
* Rebecca Henderson as Goldberg
|-|Co-Starring=
* Greg Audino as Benson
* Taishi Mizuno as Koda
* James Taku Leng as Diplomat
* Jasmyn Rae as Maeve's Daughter
* Patrick Cage as Phil
* Shin Shimizu as Doshin	
* Sonny Saito as Emissary
* Ike Kawaguchi as Stern Guard
* Avery Wada as Daimyo
* Mark Anthony Vazquez as Walkie PMC
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==Deaths==
*10 unnamed Shōgunworld villagers (Physical Body)
*1 unnamed shogun's emissary (Physical Body)
*5 unnamed shogun's ninjas (Physical Body)
*1 unnamed shogun's ninja (Physical Body, Suicide)
*At least 22 shogun's soldiers (Physical Body)
*Sakura (Physical Body)
*Shogun (Physical Body)
==Quotes==
Armistice - "I'll be damned. It's us!"
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Sylvester - "We're human shields now?!?" 
Sizemore - "Welcome to Shogun World!" 
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Lee Sizemore - "It’s not plagiarism; it’s supply and demand."
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Dolores Abernathy to Teddy Flood - 
== Music ==
*Paint It Black — Rolling Stones. In a callback to Hector and Armistice's arrival into Sweetwater in S1's The Original, another cover of the song is played during the attack on the tea house in Shogun World.
*C.R.E.A.M. — Wu-Tang Clan. A cover of the song is played during the geisha dance.
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==External links==
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* at the Rotten tomatoes(rating 90%)
* at en.wikipedia.org
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* at HBO
==References==
fr:Akane No Mai
ru:Танец Аканэ
Category:Season two episodes