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3	''The Terror: Infamy'' is a ten-part miniseries by AMC. Set during World War II, it centers on a series of bizarre deaths that haunt a Japanese-American community and a young man’s journey to understand and combat the malevolent entity responsible.
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5	The series is a follow-up to ''Series/TheTerror'', but has no plot connection, turning the overarching series into a GenreAnthology.
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7	It stars Derek Mio, Kiki Suzekane, Creator/CThomasHowell, and Creator/GeorgeTakei.
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10	!!"The Terror: Infamy" contains examples of:
11	* AbandonedWarChild: [[spoiler:Chester's biological father was a soldier who died in WWI.]]
12	* AbortedArc: What caused Sgt. Crittenden to kill those Marines beating up Chester was never expounded upon whether he was possessed by Yuko or a result of harsh brainwashing by the Japanese.
13	* ActorAllusion: Creator/GeorgeTakei is an outspoken critic of Japanese internment due to having been interned himself at the age of 5. His final line in the series is also his personal catchphrase, "Oh, my!"
14	* AffablyEvil: Yuko and the Japanese POW.
15	* AgonyOfTheFeet: Henry comes back with toes so badly frost bitten that taking his boots off is excruciatingly painful.
16	* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Luz to an extent with one woman calling her a whore in Japanese, though other main characters make efforts to support her.
17	* AndYourLittleDogToo: When Chester finally gets the chance to talk with Ota, he threatens to kill Chester's family and leaves him visibly shaken.
18	* {{Arcadia}}: Luz's Abuela has a farm in New Mexico that is initially depicted as somewhat idylic... [[spoiler:And then Yuko arrives.]]
19	* ArmiesAreEvil: The majority of the American Armed Forces from the Japanese Americans' viewpoint.
20	* ArtifactTitle: Unlike the [[Series/TheTerror first series]], the title "The Terror" has no plot significance other than to the fact that it's a horror story. It's just there for marketing purposes to connect the series to its predecessor.
21	* ArtisticLicenseCars: Chester and Arthur get into a dramatic car crash when a jeep with a busted tire flips over to land them in a ditch after going over a small mound of dirt.
22	* AssholeVictim:
23	** Mr. Grichuk, Henry's boss, is blatantly racist and forces Henry to hand over his hard-earned Packard. He's killed by the spirit when trying to set the Nakayamas' boat on fire, so it is unlikely that he will be missed.
24	** Hideo Furuya who [[spoiler: threw Yuko out onto the streets when they were married and he discovered that she was already pregnant]].
25	** Dr. Kitamura, a Hispanic-racist DrJerk who was lazy not to put more effort in delivering Luz's twins alive and gets sliced open in the gut for that.
26	** The group of soldiers who were beating up Chester for being Japanese won't be missed after they're burned to death by a flamethrower.
27	** Amy kills [[spoiler: Major Bowen]] after he has her boyfriend Ken Uehara killed, then ties her to a chair with plans to abandon her in dark underground room for recording a conversation in which he admits to having her boyfriend killed and sending it to the WRA.
28	* AstralProjection: A curandero appears to use some version of this.
29	* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Happened to Henry with Chester.
30	--> "When I held my boy in my hands all the cares of the world vanished."
31	* BadassBoast[=/=]VillainousValor: Major Bowen when Ken points the major's 1911 pistol against the former owner:
32	--> Major Bowen: I was at Belleau Wood under General Pershing. You're gonna have to make me bleed my guts out before I surrender!
33	* BaitAndSwitch: Several Japanese children spot a woman in white, with black hair, and say that she must be "the ghost woman," implying that they've stumbled across Yuko. After a cut to a new angle, we discover that it's Luz, in a depressed haze from [[spoiler:losing her twins]]. She's apparently developed a reputation around camp for her strange behavior.
34	* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: To some degree, as Yuko greets Jirou in the afterlife the exact same way that Chiyo greeted her.
35	* BigBad: Yuko Tanabe.
36	* BigBadWannabe: Major Bowen.
37	* BilingualBonus: Zig-zagged; dialog in Japanese is subtitled, but writing is untranslated.
38	* BittersweetEnding: Leans a bit more on the sweet side. Although [[spoiler: Henry dies]] and ''many'' people were killed when they were possessed by Yuko, her spirit is finally at peace and Chester and Luz's child is saved. Five years later, Chester and Luz are happily married, adopted two more children, and set up a photograph studio in Los Angeges. For Yuko and Chester, it counts as a EarnYourHappyEnding.
39	* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: It's clear that as a result of Pearl Harbor at the time, Caucasian Americans absolutely and immutably views all Japanese with contempt and suspicion, dehumanized them as all threats whatsoever and never unconditionally acknowledging the good in them as loyal fellow American citizens.
40	* BloodFromTheMouth: Not quite blood, but Toshiro is coughing up phlegm due to an illness going around the camp.
41	* BodyHorror:
42	** Mrs. Furuya stabs herself in the ear with her hair ornament and the blood is displayed.
43	** Chester imagines or hallucinates a loose thread on his shirt turning into a part of his slit wrist.
44	** Yuko provides a neverending parade of it:
45	*** She sews her skin back onto her cheek after it peels off like paint.
46	*** She has black veins spreading across her face and her hair falling out with open sores on her head.
47	*** She's frequently shown looking normal with blood dripping from her hairline.
48	*** At the end of episode 4 she has rotting flesh and a dislocated jaw.
49	*** A decaying body wearing Yuko's kimono pulls herself out of a duffel bag using a [[AbnormalLimbRotationRange horror backbend]] before approaching Chester to reveal a blackened rotting flesh.
50	*** Digging out of the [[spoiler:spirit world]] and [[RiseFromYourGrave out of her grave]]... into her body that's been decaying for 21 years.
51	*** Yuko sews a new body together out of secondhand skin with visible [[ScaryStitches stitch lines]] that she paints over, leaving the texture visible under a layer of makeup.
52	*** Yuko rips the skin off her cheek to get rid of the symbols Henry paints there.
53	* BodyInABreadbox: Terajima brings a decaying body with him in his duffel bag.
54	* BrideAndSwitch: Done before the weddings. [[spoiler: Asako was originally supposed to marry Furuya and Yuko was supposed to marry Henry, but she had their papers switched when she found out that Furuya was cruel]].
55	* BrokenBird: Luz and [[spoiler:Yuko]].
56	* BullyingADragon: Bowen, because confronting a malicious spirit in the middle of the night is a great idea.
57	* BuryingASubstitute: Asako cuts off a lock of Chester's hair to keep so "if Chester dies and there's no body, she can cremate the hair. Give him a proper burial."
58	* CandlelitRitual: The curandero involves a fire and a ring of candles around the participants.
59	* CatScare: Chester sets up bells in doorways to have a warning is Yuko is coming. It leads to a false alarm when a rat chews on the ropes
60	* CaughtOnTape: Amy tries to expose Bowen but [[TreacheryCoverUp the tape falls into the hands of one of his friends]].
61	* CherryBlossoms: Used to represent rebirth when Yuko walks out into a field of cherry trees when she [[spoiler: returns to herself in a memory before everything went wrong]].
62	* CoincidentalBroadcast: Chester hears one in the middle of the night talking about the bombing of Hiroshima.
63	* ConspiracyTheorist: Bowen begins to think that people in the camp are after him after an encounter with Yuko. [[spoiler: Though it's not clear if he was faking some of it.]]
64	* CoolOldGuy: Yamato-san, Chester's grandfather, shares a story of catching an enormous tuna fish and, when it was still alive, killing it with one punch.
65	* CreepyHighPitchedVoice: Yuko uses it quite a bit when treating Luz during her pregnancy. Chester gets one when Yuko possesses him.
66	* CurtainClothing: Chester gives Luz a maternity dress that a woman in the camp made out of rice sacks.
67	* DarkSecret:
68	** It quickly becomes apparent that several members of the older generation of the Terminal Islanders somehow know who and what Yuko really is. We finally find out in "Taizo" that [[spoiler: she was Furuya's arranged bride, whom he threw out on the street after discovering she was pregnant from a prior affair. After giving up her baby Taizo for adoption she then committed suicide, with her child then being raised by Asako and Henry as Chester.]]
69	** It turns out that Asako has another one on top of this. Namely that [[spoiler: originally ''she'' was supposed to marry Furuya and Yuko was to marry Henry, but Asako convinced their father to switch things]].
70	* DeadGuyJunior: Luz and Chester name their son Henry.
71	* DeadGuyOnDisplay: In the first episode, the structure supporting a coffin is blown over and the dead woman it contains rolls out.
72	* DeadPersonConversation:
73	** Abuela tells Luz and Chester about a ritual called a curandero that can use a photo or an object to detect if someone is alive. [[spoiler: Chester uses it to meet his brother.]]
74	** Chester has one last conversation with [[spoiler: his dad]] on the fishing boat where he gets to say goodbye.
75	** Yamato-san meets an old friend in the afterlife in a dream [[spoiler: and his entire extended family who lived in Hiroshima. When he awakes, he finds out the city has been bombed.]]
76	* DeathByRacism: Grichuk, Dr. Kitamura, a group of soldiers and[[spoiler: Major Bowen]] all had it coming due to their racism.
77	* {{Dedication}}: The series is dedicated to "the over 145,000 loyal Japanese Americans and Japanese Canadians who were imprisoned by their own governments."
78	** The credits in episode 10 show a montage of family members of the cast and crew who were inprisoned during WWII, which camps and/or branches of the military service they were in, and what years they were there.
79	* DemonicPossession: Yuko often makes her victims [[MarionetteMotion move]] [[MeatPuppet without their consent]], sometimes with horrified expressions on their faces.
80	** A guard at the camp named Nessler runs into Yuko and proceeds to throw himself off a guard tower.
81	** Yuko possesses a nurse during Luz's delivery to oversee the birth of [[spoiler: the twins]].
82	** Yuko makes the camp's doctor slice his own stomach open.
83	** Furuya walks into the dining area and tries to strangle his son while talking about [[MadnessMantra seeing swallows everywhere despite being blinded.]]
84	** A soldier named Crittenden appears to be either this (from an unknown source) or severely brainwashed as the result of unspecified "psychological experiments" after being captured by Japanese troops in Guam.
85	** A soldier named Terajima who is sent to the front as a translator.
86	** A Japanese POW named Ota in episode 5 [[spoiler: though he appears to have been faking it]]
87	** [[spoiler: Arthur at the end of episode 5]]
88	** Yuko uses Asako to confront Chester in episode 6.
89	** A doctor at the begining of episode 7 that Yuko uses to put her body back together before killing him.
90	** Bowen when he confronts Yuko without knowing who she is.
91	** Luz's father, Bart, so she can find out where Chester went before killing him.
92	** Yuko attends Chester and Luz's wedding by possessing a family friend.
93	** Yuko possesses Chester while he's undergoing the curandero.
94	** The priest Luz and Chester try to have help them keep Yuko away from Luz's baby.
95	** Luz and Chester's newborn baby
96	** Abuela when Luz hands her the baby
97	** Luz at the end of episode 9
98	** Esperanza, the daughter of a family that stops to help Luz
99	** Henry so he'll [[spoiler: shoot Chester in the knee and himself in the stomach]].
100	* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Chester has a mini existential crisis in episode 5 because he feels useless and unable to do anything for his family or country.
101	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Henry, Chester's father.
102	* DirtyOldMan: Major Bowen shows signs of this as he captures and ties Amy to a chair in an isolated basement.
103	* DrJerk: Dr. Kitamura.
104	* DramaticIrony: For tearjerker purposes with [[spoiler:Chester reading Luz's letter telling him about the twins and finally winning over Henry is intercut with the small funeral the family has for the twins with Luz laying despondent in her bed]].
105	* DramaticWind: Of the more sinister type.
106	** Chester is caught by them repeatedly
107	** Luz says she slipped on a flight of stairs because of one
108	** Luz and Chester are disturbed by one as they kiss goodbye.
109	** One of them, most likely caused Yuko Tanabe, blows over Masayo Furuya's casket, knocking her out of it.
110	** Stan Grichuk is blown into the water and drowned by one, again most likely caused by Tanabe.
111	* DressingToDie: Yuko dresses in her kimono and fixes her hair when she prepares to bury herself.
112	* {{Eagleland}}: The country's system and the Caucasians towards the Japanese Americans are all Type II. Basically, they weren't so different from the [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Nazis towards the Jews]], with the exception of the FinalSolution.
113	* EtherealWhiteDress: Kids playing hide and seek spot "the ghost woman" [[spoiler: Luz mourning for her babies]] standing in a river by the camp.
114	* EyeScream:
115	** Mr. Furuya is rendered blind in a sequence where his eyelids become bloody before his irises are clouded over.
116	** Yuko makes Bart Ojeda impale himself through the eye on a fountain pen.
117	* FallenHero: Major Bowen was a WWI veteran who seen combat in Belleau Wood while serving under General Pershing, but is reduced to a corrupt internment camp supervisor by the time of the show's setting.
118	* FalseReassurance: Amy asks Bowen to be lenient to Ken because he was only trying to get help for people in the camp who were sick. He says he's taken that into consideration before [[spoiler: he orders a group of soldiers to shoot Ken before he can try to leave the room he'd been holding Bowen hostage in]].
119	* FamilyExtermination: Yamato dreams of meeting a friend in the afterlife whose entire family died because they lived in Hiroshima.
120	* FamilyOfChoice: Asako and Henry become this for Luz with Henry [[TearJerker embracing her and telling her to be safe]] [[spoiler: when she leaves the camp]].
121	* FauxAffablyEvil: Major Bowen
122	* TheFifties: The scene in the final episode.
123	* FlashStep: Amy somehow pulls one off when [[spoiler: she's about to be killed by Major Bowen; in the space of a few seconds, she breaks free from the chair she's tied to, grabs it, somehow gets from being in front of Bowen to being directly behind him, and knocks him out, all without either Bowen or the audience seeing her do this]]. As one reviewer noted:
124	--> "If Arya Stark and Matt Murdock had a child, that child couldn't pull that move off."
125	* FleshGolem: Yuko possesses a doctor to put her body back together using skin from other bodies after [[spoiler: the family tries to burn her body in episode 6]].
126	* FoodChains: Averted, Yuko eats food in the afterlife but manages to escape anyway.
127	* ForegoneConclusion: Viewers would already know that flashback episode with Yuko giving birth in 1920 would end badly for her.
128	* TheForties: The series starts in December 1941.
129	* FriendlyEnemy: Chester ends up having a conversation with Ota about how the latter played baseball in Japan, supposedly striking out Lou Gehrig during the [[https://baseballhall.org/discover-more/stories/baseball-history/1934-japan-tour-footage-uncovered 1934 Japan Tour]].
130	* FriendOrFoe: The way Japanese internment was rationalized, and directly invoked by American [=GIs=] when Chester is stationed on Guadalcanal as a translator.
131	* GhostReunionEnding: Averted, though it is what [[spoiler: Yuko]] intended.
132	* GoBackToTheSource: Chester uses a cuarandero to [[spoiler: allow Yuko to return to herself before she left Japan, thus freeing her to pass peacefully into the afterlife]].
133	* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: Played with and ultimately played straight; Chester gives Luz an abortifacient and later, when he proposes to her, she admits that she is scared about it. Ultimately she does not take it and is shown several months pregnant in episode 2.
134	* GrannyClassic: Chester and Luz go to hide at her abuela's house in New Mexico.
135	* GreaterScopeVillain: Chiyo ([[spoiler:for trying to take Yuko hostage as an adoptive daughter for her own selfishness after she killed herself, which in turn influences the latter to do the same]]) and Hideo Furuya ([[spoiler:due to his mistreatment of Yuko that started this mess, Asako who arranged the marriage in the first place is more of an UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom and TheMillstone in this case]]).
136	* HappyFlashback: We see a flashback to [[spoiler: Asako dressing Yuko]] for the photo used to arrange her marriage.
137	* HellIsThatNoise: Unsettling bone cracking sounds accompany some of the movements when a spirit is in play.
138	* HeroicBSOD: Luz experiences one after [[spoiler: the death of her sons]], as does Chester.
139	* HistoricalInJoke: The family hides in [[https://www.atomicheritage.org/history/trinity-test-1945 "government property, in the middle of New Mexico"]] and Chester meets a drunken British scientist who talks about the "Little Boy", aka the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima.
140	* HongKongDub: At the start of episode 3, most of the main characters are watching a Western movie with Japanese audio and sound effects performed live.
141	* IAmNotYourFather: [[spoiler: Asako is actually Chester's aunt who came over to America with Henry to adopt him.]]
142	* IHaveNoSon: For a while, Henry refuses to refer to Chester as his son.
143	* ImAHumanitarian: Implied when Crittenden says "The weak are meat. The strong eat."
144	* ImmigrantParents: Chester's parents immigrated from Japan.
145	* ImperiledInPregnancy: Luz
146	* ImplacableMan: Gender flipped for Yuko. As a ''bakemono'' or ''yurei'', she cannot be put down by conventional means. Sure her physical self might take damage, but eventually she will return.
147	* ImpossibleTask: Henry is asked to ice fish to prove he isn't a spy, despite having no knowledge of how to do it. [[spoiler: He manages it, but possibly not without help.]]
148	* INeverGotAnyLetters: Played with. Luz refuses to read or reply to Chester's letters after leaving the camp, and her dad sends them back to him unopened
149	* IRegretNothing: Asako says that she would [[spoiler: switch papers with Yuko so she could avoid marrying Furuya]] again.
150	* IShouldHaveBeenBetter: Chester about Luz and the twins, saying that if he'd known [[spoiler: he was Yuko's son]] he could have protected them.
151	* ItsAllMyFault: Asako asks Yuko is she knows that "this was all my fault". Specifically, she's referring to how [[spoiler: she swapped arranged marriages with her sister]].
152	* JustifiedTitle: The title refers both to FDR's "Infamy Speech" in which he declared December 7, 1941 "as a date which will live in infamy," as well as the legacy of the internment camps.
153	** Episode 5 "Shatter like a Pearl": a Japanese diary translated by Chester states that "We have no goals save that our bodies might shatter like glorious shards of pearl."
154	** Episode 6 "Taizo": the title is revealed to be [[spoiler: Chester's birth name]].
155	* KillItWithFire: The approach the Nakayamas and Yamato-san take when trying to get rid of Yuko.
156	** Sgt. Crittenden, either possessed or brainwashed, burns several Marines beating Chester with a flamethrower.
157	* KillTheHostBody: Yamato-san says that destroying Yuko's body will cause her spirit to disappear as well.
158	* LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: [[spoiler: Amy Yoshida is traumatized by having to kill Major Bowen in self-defense and is haunted by the possibility that the WRA might come after her. The Terminal Island residents know about this and pledge to keep her secret and move on from this incident.]]
159	* LightIsNotGood:
160	** The color white is associated with death and mourning in Japanese culture.
161	** Yuko turns the lights on in an unused building at the edge of the camp to lure people into investigating.
162	* LongLostRelative: [[spoiler:Chester is revealed to have a twin named Jirou, though this twin was nowhere to be seen in Yuko's flashbacks.]]
163	* LostInTranslation: Not so much lost as confused; Arthur translates ''tama'' as "jade", Chester translates it as "pearl".
164	* LoveMakesYouEvil: Yuko appears to be partially motivated by getting [[spoiler: her sons]] back.
165	* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:Chester's biological mother is Yuko. She is also Asako's sister.]]
166	* MailOrderBride: Asako says that [[spoiler:Yuko]] was [[spoiler:Furuya]]'s "picture bride."
167	* ManBitesMan: A Japanese POW named Ota bites the ear off an interrogator.
168	* TheMatchmaker: Luz's dad tries to do this to her, and she is understandably uninterested.
169	* MeaningfulName: All Japanese names have clear meanings from the characters they're commonly written in, but it isn't clear whether these have anything to do with the show.
170	** Yamato: The only one that has immediately obvious meaning, The literal meaning is great harmony, but Yamato is also an archaic name for the nation of Japan, and the name of the current imperial family. As such, it's appropriate for name for the leader of Terminal Island's community.
171	** Nobuhiro: to prolong abundance/tolerance/prosperity
172	** Nakayama: central mountain
173	** Asako: morning child
174	** Yoshida: lucky rice-field
175	** Fumi: history
176	** Tanabe: side of the rice paddy
177	** Yuko: excellent child
178	** Furuya: old valley or old room
179	** Toshiro: talented son or intelligent son
180	** Hideo: excellent man or excellent son
181	** Ogawa: small river
182	** Taizo: third son
183	** Jirou: second son. Jirou and Taizo are revealed to be twins.
184	** Taro: first son, which is what Henry named his fishing boat.
185	* MonochromePast: Chester meets [[spoiler: his twin brother]] Jirou in a photograph of the latter when he was 7 years old.
186	* MustMakeAmends: Accurately deconstructed. When leaving the camp, Asako and Henry are each given $25 (around $350 USD in 2019) as "reparations."
187	* MyCountryRightOrWrong: The Japanese POW is duty-bound to die for the Emperor despite being humanized as an ex-baseball player who Chester was able to bond with.
188	* MySecretPregnancy: [[spoiler:Yuko reveals that she's pregnant after marrying Furuya in 1919. Justified in that she thought hiding it and going to America was her best chance]].
189	* TheNeidermeyer: Almost all of the American military characters, especially the Caucasians and Major Bowen.
190	* NeverMyFault: Major Bowen [[spoiler:has Ken executed rather then imprisoned alive as he initially promised in retaliation for taking him hostage, despite the former having acted erratic after being under Yuko's influence towards Ken and threatening him at gunpoint the night before that prompts Ken to disarm and overpower him in self-defense that leads to the hostage situation]].
191	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Henry explains that the symbols they painted on Yuko's face would have kept her trapped in her physical body, but the fire burnt them off.
192	* NosyNeighbor: One turns in Chester and Luz when they try to hide and leave the state.
193	* NowItsMyTurn: Toshiro says that he wants to join the army because he's seen everyone around him die and now "all I want to do is kill."
194	* OffBridgeOntoVehicle: Chester jumps [[SoftWater into a river]] to escape a truck taking him to another camp.
195	* TheOmniscient: Yamato somehow knows everything that happened with [[spoiler: Amy and Major Bowen]].
196	* OneDropRule: A soldier flat out says that anyone who has even "one drop of Japanese blood", they'll either be put in the internment camps or worse. He does this while he and his compatriots are forcing Luz and her fellow hospital workers to surrender a group of Japanese orphans in their care to them. This is, sadly, quite true to history.
197	* ParentalSubstitute: Played with, Yuko meets Chiyo, one of her ancestors, in the afterlife who says she's been longing for a child.
198	* ThePerfectCrime: Possibly, no one appears to have discovered that [[spoiler: Amy killed Major Bowen]]. The finale shows that five years later Yamato-san and quite likely most of the others at the camp figured it out, but nobody with the War Relocation Authority ever did.
199	* ThePlague: A mysterious illness starts spreading through the camp and both of the doctors get too sick to care for patients.
200	* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Invoked by Luz when she travels to the racetrack with Chester, justifying it by saying they have to lock her up too because she's pregnant with his baby.
201	* PleaseWakeUp: Said by Asako when she finds [[spoiler: Henry shot]].
202	* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: The American forces in regards to their treatment of Japanese Americans. Also, the [[AsianRudeness Japanese Americans towards]] Mexican American Luz, possibly to use her as an outlet for venting their stress and passing resentment for their own issues at being demeaned and dehumanized by Caucasians' mistreatment from themselves.
203	* POWCamp: All Japanese-Americans were sent to various ones of the internment camp variety.
204	* ProtectiveCharm: Yamato-san has rice paper sutras with him in prison that he eats as protection against spirits.
205	* PunchClockVillain: Ota, the Japanese POW, at [[JerkassFacade first glance seems]] to be the typical fanatical and savage DefiantCaptive who bites off an interrogator's ear and makes threats towards Chester's family. Then he mellows down and reveals his humanizing and redeeming qualities as an ex-baseball player who once played against an American all-star team that he fondly looks back at as he confides to Chester. Chester later unties him so that he can commit {{Seppuku}} out of MyCountryRightOrWrong, and Ota gives him Admiral Takahashi's birthdate and birthplace to give Chester's superior a lead [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe as thanks for treating him more humanely then the other interrogators]].
206	* QuicksandSucks: [[spoiler: Chiyo's daughter]] is trapped in the sand in the rock gardens and reaches out to grab anyone who sets foot on it [[DraggedOffToHell to drag them down with her]].
207	* RapeAsDrama: Attempted by [[spoiler: Bowen on Amy]].
208	* ReadingTeaLeaves: Chester has his read by Yuko.
209	* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Chester's Shore Patrol FriendOnTheForce Marlon. Also his commanding officer on Guadalcanal, who backs Chester and his fellow translator to the hilt, defends them against racist abuse from other American soldiers, and brags about how valuable they are to the war effort.
210	* RedStringOfFate: In a similar symbolic way, Luz and Chester are draped in a large rosary during their wedding.
211	* ReplacementGoldfish: [[spoiler: Yuko intended for Luz's twins, Enrique and Hikaru, to replace her own, Jirou and Taizo (Chester).]]
212	* {{Revenge}}: Amy Yoshida was consumed with revenge against Major Bowen [[spoiler: and got it]], but admits to Yamato-san that it only left her empty. He tells her that it was him or her, and that she did the only thing she could.
213	* RevolversAreJustBetter: Chester arms himself with a revolver when trying to run away from Yuko.
214	* RiddleForTheAges: Oh boy this season has a lot of unanswered questions.
215	** We will never know for sure if Major Bowen really did believe in the ''yurei''. For one, he was possessed by Yuko but somehow managed not to be killed by the vengeful spirit. After this happens, he sometimes gives out hints that he does believe in the ghost, but we don't find out for sure since he was [[spoiler: killed in self-defense by Amy before we could find out.]]
216	** Was Sgt. Crittenden possessed by Yuko or merely brainwashed by his Japanese captors?
217	** Arthur's fate after the Jeep crash is never explored again.
218	** The Latina teenager named Esperanza is left traumatized after [[spoiler: possessed Luz]] kills her parents. Judging by her state, she will need a lot of counseling.
219	* RippleEffectIndicator: To some extent. [[spoiler: Jirou]] disappears from the photo after Yuko gets her hands on him.
220	* SceneryPorn: The Japanese villa and garden in episode 6.
221	* ScreamingBirth: Played straight when Luz gives birth to her [[spoiler: twins, and to her and Chester's son later on]].
222	* {{Seppuku}}: [[spoiler: Chester gives Ota his knife back so he can commit suicide and [[HonorBeforeReason preserve his honor]] rather than be taken to a POW camp in Guam]].
223	* {{Slimeball}}: Major Bowen.
224	* SpookyPhotographs: Chester takes them [[CameraFiend throughout the series]].
225	* SpySpeak: Chester figures out a [[ReadingTheEnemysMail letter from a Japanese soldier]] using the metaphor variety that has a location hidden in a poem.
226	* StartOfDarkness: The first half of Episode 6 shows Yuko's past in 1919.
227	* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler: A possessed Wilson Yoshida steals a rifle from a U.S. Army MP and aims it at several other [=MPs=] before being gunned down.]]
228	* SurvivalMantra: Henry Nakayama repeating "I am not a spy. I'm a simple fisherman. I love this country." while held in a POW facility. [[spoiler: The last part gradually becomes less and less emphatic and ultimately disappears as despair sets in once Henry realizes his and his family's Type I {{Eagleland}} treatment has expired and they now must endure its Type II treatment.]]
229	* SwitchToEnglish: Bowen tells Asako and Henry to speak in English when they're talking to Chester.
230	* TakeMeInstead: Chester plans to give himself up to [[spoiler: Yuko so she'll leave his and Luz's son alone. More specifically, his big plan is to kill himself then have Rocillo use the ''cuaranderismo'' magic to have Yuko take a child version of his spirit]].
231	* ThatManIsDead: Invoked by Luz about herself before her pregnancy.
232	* TheTelevisionTalksBack: Chester sees a character in a Western movie telling him "you have to go" in the voice of Yoshida-san.
233	* ThisIsntHeaven: When she wakes up after [[spoiler:jumping off a bridge, Yuko wonders if she's back in Japan, but discovers that is actually in a kind of pocket afterlife constructed for members of her bloodline]].
234	* TimeSkip: The series has quite a few. Some are indicated on screen with text at the bottom, others are done through visual clues (i.e. Luz's pregnancy), or rely on viewer knowledge of the war.
235	* TitleDrop: Many of the episode titles are lines used within the episodes. For example, in "All the Demons Are Still in Hell," when Henry rejects Yamato-san's offer of ''sutra'' to ward off the ''obake'', Yamato-san asks him if he really believes that all the demons are still in hell.
236	* TragicMonster: Yuko. She is [[spoiler:Chester's biological mother, and she only wants to live in a perfect world with her son(s)]].
237	* TragicStillbirth: [[spoiler: The doctor says something about a problem with the umbilical cord causing Luz to lose both of her children at birth]].
238	* TraumaCongaLine: Several characters experience this.
239	** Our antagonist Yuko Tanabe. [[spoiler: First she got secretly pregnant in 1919 from a soldier who fought in World War I, causing her arranged husband Hideo Furuya to banish her in anger. A year later living on the streets, she realizes she could not take care of her twin sons and places them for adoption. Due to depression, she commits suicide and ends up as a ''bakemono'', a hungry vengeful spirit that will never rest]]. Indeed a FateWorseThanDeath.
240	** Chester and Luz experience this. First they have to deal with an unplanned premarital pregnancy, back when that was a [[DeliberateValuesDissonance shameful and unacceptable thing]]. Luz winds up getting kicked out of her dad's house. Then Pearl Harbor happens and Chester is rounded up to be shipped off to an internment camp. Luz goes with him, only to be mocked and ostracized by the other women in the camp. Then [[spoiler: their twin sons are stillborn]], sending them both into a spiral of grief and despair. All the while, they're being stalked by Yuko, who wants to [[spoiler: steal their unborn children as her own, murders both their fathers, and generally makes their lives hell]].
241	* TrustPassword: The Nakayamas and the Ojedas set up one in "Come and Get Me" with the Spanish nursery rhyme "''Los Pollitos''" to try to keep Yuko out so that she can't get Chester and Luz's baby. When they sing "''Los pollitos dicen pio, pio, pio, cuando tienen hambre...''" the person at the other end of the door is supposed to finish with "''Cuando tienen frio''." Unfortunately, Yuko somehow overhears the password, possesses the priest Father Ysidro, and uses it to get in.
242	* UncannyAtmosphere: Several times.
243	** Chester meets a Japanese woman with his friends in a brothel. The same Japanese woman gives deep philosophical statements. [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil For those who have seen the trailers]], [[ForegoneConclusion we already know who this is.]]
244	** As a ForegoneConclusion, the part when Yuko Tanabe was about to jump off the bridge, a woman in a kimono approaches her and tells her about the consequences of committing suicide. It's obvious that the woman in a kimono was a ghost.
245	** Speaking of the same woman, we get to find out who she is. Her name is [[spoiler: Chiyo, a distant ancestor of Yuko Tanabe]]. She built a paradise-looking home in the afterlife.
246	* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Amy tells Yamato that she though she would feel better after [[spoiler: killing Bowen]], but it didn't change anything.
247	* VengefulGhost: Yuko.
248	* VillainOfAnotherStory: The [[TheGhost unseen]] Admiral Takahashi, the leader of the Japanese forces on Guadalcanal.
249	* VillainousRescue: Sgt. Crittenden uses a flamethrower [[spoiler: to kill the Marines beating Chester up for being a Japanese-American]], thus indirectly saving Chester's life. Whether this was because he was possessed by Yuko or due to the brainwashing enforced by his Japanese captors is unknown.
250	* WardensAreEvil: Major Bowen.
251	* WartimeWedding: Chester and Luz.
252	* WeHardlyKnewYe:
253	** Sgt. Crittenden, the brainwashed marine in Guadalcanal.
254	** Chiyo, [[spoiler: who apparently is Yuko's past ancestor]]. Her backstory is only slightly revealed before she is dragged off to Hell.
255	** The drunk British man Chester encounters in the New Mexico bunker. He is knocked out cold by Chester's father before we even get to find out more about him and why he was there in the first place.
256	* WeHaveReserves: Walt Yoshida tells Toshiro that the all-Nisei 442nd Regimental Combat Team is being sent into situations deemed "too dangerous" for white soldiers. [[note]] It's debatable whether the 442nd was ever intentionally used in this way. Their overall commander certainly didn't seem to mind spending their lives, but there is no historical evidence that they were specifically used as a cannon fodder unit. That said, they made a reputation for themselves as hard-charging, relentless fighters, so were often sent into areas of heavy combat, especially in the Vosges Mountains and at the Gothic Line in Italy.[[/note]]
257	* WhamShot:
258	** The ending shot of the first episode "A Sparrow in a Swallow's Nest" shows the following date on the background clock: Sunday, December 7th. This is followed by an air raid siren, sailors picking up rifles, and fighter planes flying overhead.
259	** The beginning scene of "Into The Afterlife" begins with the date August 1945. Nobuhiro Yamato has a dream where he meets an childhood friend in the afterlife, including the latter's entire family. Their origin: Hiroshima.
260	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse:
261	** Esperanza (a minor character introduced in episode 10) is made an orphan when Yuko possesses her and kills her parents. After showing the family where Yuko went, she disappears from the narrative.
262	** Last we see of [[spoiler: Jirou Tanabe, he is left sitting in Yuko's "perfect world," while Yuko now exists forever in a moment in time in which she was pregnant with both Chester/Taizo and Jirou. However, WordOfGod confirms that [[https://www.thewrap.com/the-terror-infamy-showrunner-breaks-down-yukos-ending-and-explains-what-happened-to-chesters-brother/ Jirou's soul became free after Yuko found peace]], symbolized by the peaceful wind that passes by Chester at the final episode.]]
263	** Chester escapes from military custody and should be a wanted man, but nothing more is ever said about it.
264	* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: Chester takes photos of everyone for the Obon festival some number of years after the final confrontation with Yuko, and it appears that he and Luz now have two younger twins. It's indicated that they adopted them and Luz in particular is hoping to adopt more.
265	* WindmillScenery: There's one on Luz's abuela's farm.
266	* WithUsOrAgainstUs: Men in the camp are told to fill out a questionnaire about their loyalty to the US, and warned that not doing so [[AccompliceByInaction will be seen as treason]].
267	* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Yuko.
268	* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Invoked by Major Bowen when he's talking to Amy.
269	-->"You're reasonable, but the rest of 'em... Holy Moses."
270	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: The Terminal Island residents return to find that their homes have all been demolished and fenced off as "government property."

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