- John Blackthorne: You're telling me the lords here don't know?
- Father Domingo: It's too late for that now.
- John Blackthorne: You don't understand. I must tell them. That's my way out.
- Father Domingo: You can't play their game. Their rules are too opaque, their hearts too guarded.
- John Blackthorne: You don't know me.
- Father Domingo: I've known a thousand of you.
- John Blackthorne: My master asks for you to draw a map of the world.
- Toda Mariko: Oh. Thank you. Um... This is the limit... of what I know. The earth is round. Like a fruit. Uh, Japan is here. My country, England... is on the other side of the world. We came by way of Magellan's Pass. We are the first outsiders to use it because the Spanish and the Portuguese kept it secret. And for us, it was safer to sail this way. Because we had to avoid a Portuguese base in Macao.
- [soft gasps]
- Toda Mariko: It employs Japanese mercenaries. I'm told you call them ronin. A secret Catholic fortress, used for guns. Employed during an uprising some years ago. My master asks that, later, you write this map and mark the Portuguese bases. If I may, I will explain now. This is the way Portugal and Spain carved up the New World that split undiscovered land between them. Your country falls... into the Portuguese half. So it belongs to them. I'm sorry, sir, but... I assure you their arrogance is unbelievable. Please tell him it's written into legal documents. Each Spanish and Portuguese king has the right to lay claim to any non-Catholic land they discover and to replace its government with Catholic rule.
- Yoshii Toranaga: This is a lie.
- Father Domingo: Another soul for every hour of the day.It's nothing for you to fear now.You'll die a martyr.On the cross, perhaps.
- John Blackthorne: I'm sorry, Father, I didn't come all this way around the world just to die on a cross.
- Toda Mariko: He asks what you seek here.
- John Blackthorne: To vanquish our common enemies.
- Toda Mariko: My master says you should not war against the Portuguese in Japan. You are outnumbered. It is hopeless.
- John Blackthorne: Unless I win.
- Father Martin Alvito: This is Lord General Ishido. Toranaga's chief rival. If you value your life, do not say a word.
- Father Domingo: Dear God, you're a child in the wilderness. You don't know their games. Toranaga is a prisoner in Osaka castle. Isolated by his rivals on the Council of Regents. There's Sugiyama, descended from the richest samurai family in Japan. Ohno, a feared warrior, whose affliction of leprosy led him into the arms of the Church. And Kiyama, a man whose faith in Christ is guided only by his greed and ambition. All of them are in the palm of Ishido, caretaker of the castle. Any day now, these men will vote on Toranaga's demise.
- Father Domingo: I came here in '72, clutching my rosary, visions of the souls I would save. Then I learned the true tenets of the cloth: silk, gold and guns. These Jesuits care nothing for their souls. They've made an idol of that cursed Black Ship. That's how they dominate trade. The Chinese hate Japan. So all trade goes through the Portuguese. It's usury. The late Taiko even tried to put a stop to it, but the Church had incited the rebellion, smuggled guns from that secret base in Macao... I met a man who said he'd been to that fortress, said there were Japanese soldiers... hundreds of them... all converted to Catholicism.
- Yoshii Toranaga: [to Kashigi Yabushige, translated] You have a way of being in the right place at the right time
- Father Domingo: Toranaga was born Minowara. A name that carries great weight in Japan. For centuries, his ancestors dominated this country, carrying with them a divine mandate.
- John Blackthorne: Mandate?
- Father Domingo: A title, revered through the ages. The ultimate rank a mortal can achieve. Shogun.
- Father Domingo: Hear me, my son.I alone will tell you the truth. If Toranaga claimed you as an ally, you'll never leave Japan alive.