Juliana goes in place of her sister Trudy and attempts to find her contact, which ultimately fails when The Marshall nearly kills her and Joe Blake. Yet even with glimmers of hope through the characters of the Resistance,The Man in the High Castlefunctions as a cautionary tale, one that is unrelenting and unforgiving both in depiction of its characters and communication of its core message. No, the actress who plays Juliana seems incapable of showing barely any emotional range outside of a neutral glare or looking down. To lose such a young boy to thisodious world order is one of the most unconscionable losses in the series. She goes home and watches the film, which shows what the world would look like had the Allies won the war. Joseph "Joe" Blake (born Josef Heusmann, April 10, 1935 - c. 1963) was the Lebensborn illegitimate son of Reichsminister without Portfolio Martin Heusmann and Elsa Heusmann. (We also accept donations year-round, so you are able to donate whenever is convenient for you.). companion; Joe meets Juliana during his time in Canon City. Juliana leaves the next morning to take on Trudy's responsibility without even giving him so much as a headsup in case anything goes wrong or if he wants to go into hiding for the time being. Joe Blake . He transported a copy of the forbidden film The Grasshopper Lies Heavy to the Neutral Zone as part of his mission to infiltrate the American Resistance. She breaks out of the trunk while the car is passing Japanese soldiers, and narrowly escapes while a firefight breaks out. . She walks many twisted paths, but throughout them all there is a face that haunts her. He shows her his collection of films from alternate realities and asks her to identify a man spotted in most of them. She is quite optimistic and, unlike Frank, believes wholeheartedly in the films and their ability to change life as she knows it. Directly before Julianna was granted political asylum in New York City, Joe was sent to Berlin on direct orders from Smith, as well as the Reichsminister Martin Heusmann, who Joe later finds out is his father. Juliana meets secret Resistance operative George Dixon. Somehow, without much effort at all, John had managed to capture Joe, both heart and soul. Juliana and Joe find each other again (and again, and again). She's always doing the absolute wrong thing, but it works out for her bc she's the poorly written lead! He was in a relationship with a woman who lives in Brooklyn, Rita. Every person she interacts with she ends up completely fucking up their lives and she hardly ever shows the slightest hint of sympathy or compassion. While attempting to meet George Dixon, she is followed and shot at by a Resistance operative. After he resigns, Rita begins to suspect that Joe has developed feelings for Julianna, and so she breaks off things with him. Joe remains on a boat filled with fishermen, after quite a while on the boat a group of Reich pilots drop a excessively large sum of money onto the ship and land. "He thinks of what they could have done to her, could still be doing to her, because there's no way they let her go untouched after that, and his hands start to shake as shame, disgust and fear take over.