Joe Mizushima

Murray Markowitz

Mindy Markowitz

Lonny Flash

Roxy Jones

Sister Harriet

**Joseph "Joe" Mizushima** is one of the main characters in *Hunters*.

Joe is the combat and weapons expert of the Hunters team. He is a Vietnam War veteran and is known to suffer from PTSD owing to his experiences in the war. He is portrayed by Louis Ozawa.

## Biography

### Early Life

Joe Mizushima was born in the United States. During World War II, Joe and his family were sent to a Japanese internment camp while his father enlisted in the United States Army to fight the Nazis and was killed on the battlefield.

### Military Career

When the Vietnam War broke out, Joe enlisted in the military and served three tours in Vietnam. His time in the military impacted him and as such, deals with a great deal of trauma and PTSD.

### Meeting Meyer Offerman

Following his military service, Joe took a job as an assembly line factory worker at Offerman Ventures. When Meyer Offerman saw him beat up a group of workers who were picking on him, he hired Joe to work for him as one of his Nazi hunters, which he accepts given that his father had fought the Nazis in WW2 and had died as a result.

### The Hunters American Campaign

#### Meeting Jonah Heidelbaum

Joe and the Hunters are introduced to Jonah Heidelbaum, the grandson of Ruth Heidelbaum, by Meyer Offerman.

#### Discovering the Nazi Broadcast

Jonah deciphers a written message and realizes it’s in relation to one of the Nazi’s, Karl Holstedder.

After being introduced to the gang, Jonah gets to work with the others. Its here we learn that Holstedder used to host his own singing horror show inside the holocaust camp called The Star Of Buchenwald.

With a plan in action, the hunters circle Holstedder’s house before converging in the main atrium, proceeding to tie him down and give him what the Jews never had – a fair trial. With witness statements from Buchenwald, Lonny stumbles upon a hidden room and after picking the lock, he and Rox head in and find a homegrown radio set-up, one that appears to be broadcasting a message.

When they ask Karl, he refuses to engage, leading them to torture him through a grueling sound endurance test. Eventually Jonah convinces Geyer and the others to stop, and it’s here Holstedder announces that he was just following orders in playing tapes.

With the group preoccupied with the broadcast, Jonah heads into the room and gives the man a glass of water. Unfortunately, this is just the distraction he needs, proceeding to smash the glass and hold Jonah up with a shard of glass to his throat. Although Joe saves him from his fate, the ensuing blast also kills the broadcast, forcing the Hunters to leave.

While Visions of Safta Danced in His Head

Back at headquarters the next day, the group discuss the 74 different nazis on the wall they are aware of. Meyer rallies the troops, tasking them with watching Holstedder’s house and as they conduct a stake out, Lonny notices movement inside. As they head in to take a look, Roxy is immediately ambushed by a lady called Maryanne. Thankfully she gets the upper-hand and impales the Nazi through the neck.

Back at HQ, Sister Harriet feeds back what the group have found regarding their next target.

The Pious Thieves

After a mis-step from Mindy inside the bank, Sister Harriet hustles for information with one of her contacts. Back at HQ they look over schematics of the bank and discuss a plan of action to break into the bank. The gang put their plan into action and break into the bank. With the hostage situation working perfectly as a distraction for the others to break into the vault, Jonah arrives and manages to stop Joe from being killed by a rogue officer. Mindy opens the safety deposit box but finds nothing there. However, there’s a secret compartment behind the wall that leads down to a hidden basement. Once there, they find a whole stash of Nazi loot, which they quickly take photos of for evidence.

At Night, All Birds are Black

Joe practices self-defence moves with Jonah. The group then reconvene, proceeding to look over a photo of The Wolf and his associates, deciding to set their attention on a political activist known as Tilder Sauer.

Sister Harriet and Joe talk to Jonah about the lone wolf mentality and the sacrifices they have to make in this line of work.

Jonah holds Dieter up at gunpoint at his estate and takes him away during the midst of the 4th of July celebrations, where Joe, Sister Harriet and Jonah surround him and hear his story. It turns out the CIA and NASA recruited him, and as they continue to ask questions he divulges a whole host of names for people operating in America.

It’s valuable intel and enough for Sister Harriet to take this list and begin asking around for one of the men he mentioned named Kenneth Swiggens. Upon finding him, she speaks in German and advises he leave. Bundling him in the car, they drive off together leaving Jonah and Joe stranded after killing Dieter.

#### Capturing Moritz Ehrlich

The fractured remnants of the group discuss Harriet’s betrayal and what it means for them while Meyer stitches up Jonah following his run-in with Dieter in the previous episode. Before they can go after new targets, the group prepare for the upcoming wedding.

Joe visits Eric Greene at Edgewood, asking him for the name of the Director Of Medicine. Despite being mentally ill, Joe does eventually manage to extract the name of Timothy Randall from him.

Jonah speaks to the other hunters about the upcoming plan, where they learn through scattered bits of intel that the Nazis are planning to create a fourth reich in America. Before they can continue, Sister Harriet arrives, leading Joe to march up and grab her. She shows them Moritz in the trunk of her car; a wedding gift for Murray and Mindy.

#### New York City Blackout

Joe and Lonny follow a lead regarding Timothy Randall which brings them to a counselling session for veterans.

They eventually track down the files they need and find out where Randall lives, leading them to spy on a woman named Una from afar. They wait for her to leave before heading into the house and looking for The Ghost. Creeping through the house with guns at the ready, they eventually find him hooked up to a life support machine. As they contemplate what to do, downstairs Una returns home with her child as Joe and Lonny race after her thanks to Jonah fumbling with his gun.

Back at Meyer’s, Jonah presents the music box and together the group begin to decipher what it all means. Given the morse code only revealed dates, the music box is much more exact, showing coordinates to several different areas across the city, including Grand Central Station. With this information, they deduce that they could be looking at a biological weapon being released, which matches up to what they found at The Ghost’s house.

Before they can act on this intel, Millie and other FBI agents arrive with a warrant to search the house. Within one of the rooms Millie finds the remnants of the fire that broke out earlier in the show. Sensing he’s not being wholly truthful, Millie arrests Meyer for the murder of Heinz Richter.

With the attack imminent, Joe visits Roxy and tells her to leave the city

Day turns to night, and the group converge at the station, where Jonah finds Travis walking casually down the stairs. He hurries after him, keeping an eye from afar while the other half of the group follow clues to the second location, which leads them to a utility plant. Una meets an untimely demise despite her attempts at ambushing Joe, thanks to Sister Harriet arriving and saving the day with a cliched final word and a gunshot to the brain.

#### Assassination of Wehner von Braun

Lonny returns alive to HQ while Meyer introduces the group to Millie, who joins them in their base of operations. This leads them to a beautiful funeral where they say goodbye to Murray.

As the group start closing in on those who are pulling the strings, they set their sights on a man called Von Braun. After speaking to Simon, who berates what they’re doing and tells them they need to stop hunting for the sake of their own heritage, Jonah begins questioning what they’re doing too. It’s here Meyer admits to killing 11 men the night in the camp, in a bid to save Ruth, and admitting he hasn’t been the same since.

At the same time, Meyer, Joe and Jonah descend on Von Braun and question him over his morality and the Fourth Reich. When he fails to talk, Jonah looks set to torture him with electrical cables until he finally reveals what’s going on and who’s pulling the strings – it’s The Colonel. He was the one who helped create “The Solution” – a weapon that’s in absolutely everything and happens to be corn syrup. However, Jonah doesn’t believe him and begins shocking the man until Joe cuts the power and forces him back into the car.

#### Battle at Schidler Corporation

The Hunters plan to break in and infiltrate the Nazi corn syrup operation.

With Sister Harriet watching from afar, Mindy on the radio and Joe and Jonah breaking in the back, Lonny poses as a scientist and heads in through the front door. Although Lonny starts to follow the instructions, static interference on the radio causes him to be stuck on his own. He manages to break the machines though, only to be caught by The Colonel and Travis in the main chamber.

After holding them off momentarily, the rest of the group burst in, and a gunfight ensues and the corn syrup fries.

#### Kidnapped

Jonah Heidelbaum sits with the group and reveals the truth about who Meyer Offerman really was. Having cut the head off the snake, Joe leaves in anger only to be run over and bundled into the back of a car outside.

In Argentina, Joe is brought before The Colonel who’s still alive. As he’s sat down to eat with the family, including four identical blonde children, an aging Adolf Hitler arrives and begins eating with the group.

## References

1. ↑ In the Belly of the Whale
2. ↑ The Mourner's Kaddish
3. ↑ (Ruth 1:16)
4. ↑ Shalom Motherf\*\*\*er
5. ↑ The Jewish Question
6. ↑ The Great Ole Nazi Cookout of '77
7. ↑ Eilu v' Eilu