It's twenty odd years since Pearl Harbor, but two ancient opponents are moving into position for a battle in an attic crammed with skeletons, souvenirs, mementos, old uniforms, and rusted medals.
Ghosts from the dim reaches of the past, that will lead us into the Twilight Zone.Digging through his attic, an American World War II veteran named Fenton finds an old katana.
A young Japanese American named Arthur Takamori comes in looking for work, on a tip from a neighbor.
Fenton shows Takamori the sword and says he took it off a Japanese soldier whom he killed during the war 20 years earlier.
[1] When Fenton leaves to fetch more beer, Takamori takes hold of the sword and says to himself in an astonished way "I'm going to kill him.
[3] In response to an insult from Fenton, Takamori describes his experience as a small child at Pearl Harbor.
The sword, however, appears to be dictating the course of the conversation, and soon Takamori accuses Fenton of being a murderer because he killed an unarmed man.
He has lost his job, his wife is leaving him, he is consumed with hostility and bigotry, and he coaxed Takamori into conversation because he does not want to be left alone.