Jericho: Crossroads

Crossroads
First aired: 11/15/2006Writer: Robert Levine Director: Paul McCrane Guest star: Richard Speight, Jr. (Bill) , D.B. Sweeney (Goetz), Christopher Wiehl (Roger McNamara), James Remar (Jonah Prowse), Aasif Mandvi (Kenchy Dhuwalia), Candace Bailey (Skylar Stevens), Clare Carey (Mary Bailey), Bob Stephenson (Jimmy), Darby Stanchfield (April Green), Alicia Coppola (Mimi Clark)

To start we have a bunch of Hummers at Stanley’s farm. They are filling their tanks with Stanley’s gas. He warns them off, but they say they work with the federal government, and that they will reimburse them, they are in charge of helping people get what they need, food medicine, and things. The leader CXXXXX asks about Eric Green but Stanley tells him that he can’t help him. Jake has been sitting up all night since they escaped from Ravenwood. Eric tries to ask him about where he’s been but he deflects by asking Eric about Mary. Just then Stanly, Bonnie, and Mimi show up and tell Jake and Eric about the men. Jake knows that they are the mercenaries from Ravenwood.

Jake is trying to describe to the townsfolk who Ravenswood are. Robert advises that they fortify and try and keep the scouts from Ravenswood from getting into town. Jake advises them to block Tacoma Bridge, but Stanley’s and about 30 other families are on that side of the bridge. They will just have to come into town until things blow over.


April is giving Gail an update on the mayor’s health. He’s going to be ok. April hasn’t told Eric that she’s pregnant…

Jake some townsfolk are fortifying the bridge, and Robert accuses Jake off attracting the Ravenswood people.

Emily and Heather are looking over Emily’s wedding dress; Heather had brought her some flowers as a sort of wedding bouquet. Emily was supposed to be married today, and Heather is trying to keep her occupied.


Robert and Jake are manning the fortifications, and Jake says that this isn’t the first time Robert had a run-in with Ravenswood, Robert wants to know if he even knew he was in over his head.

Eric and April are talking; April tells her that she drew up the divorce papers when she didn’t think they had a future together, but she does now. Eric admits that he doesn’t think they have a future anyway. He’s in love with someone else. Mary. She calls him a son of a bitch and walks out.

At the battlements the hummers start to arrive. People are panicking and running behind the makeshift barricade of wrecked cars. The Ravenswood men tell the people of Jericho that they have to clear the road, that they are here on government orders to collect supplies and that their cooperation is mandatory. They start a small shooting skirmish. The Ravenswood people make an ultimatum that they have four hours to clear the road. Jake and Robert decide to destroy the bridge.

Back at the town hall Eric is gathering up ammo and weapons with the other men. Jericho. Jake, Gray, and Robert are trying to talk Eric into letting them blow up the bridge. Eric doesn’t want to. It would isolate everyone on that side of the bridge, the farms, and Stanley, and whatever.

Heather and Emily are getting ready for their Hike. Heathers truck is a rattle contraption and involves a lot of TLC to keep it from exploding. The bells of Jericho Toll…

Emily sort of spaces out and fantasizes about her wedding day, dress, flowers, and Heather as her maid of honour. The town is beautiful, and so is everything else.

Heather comes back out and tells her that they can’t hike because everyone was told to stay indoors.

Robert and Gray are going against Eric’s wishes and are making explosives to destroy the bridge. Jake goes to tell the people on the other side to come over.

Mary, Heather, and Emily have the last bottle of single malt scotch. That’s phase two.

Jake goes to Stanley’s and tells them that the bridge is going. Stanley is planning on staying with the farm.

Bonnie and Stanley are staying; Mimi tells Stanley that he is the connection that Bonnie is staying for, not the house.

The girls are drinking at Mary’s and the doctor sidles up to Emily and ask what she’s celebrating. They talk for a bit about how bad it is in the world since the bombs.

Eric confronts Gray over what he’s doing. He tells him that they have gone over his head and are going to blow the bridge.

Back at the Greens, eric talks to his father. His mother tries to talk him about his marriage, but he;s too intent on talking to his father about the bridge. His father tells him to stop them no matter what he has to do.

Eric goes to the bridge and takes a truck and drives across towards the Ravenswood people. The flare goes up that the Ravenswood people are coming. They know they can’t save Eric. There isn’t any time.

Back at the bar the girls are playing darts and Emily is talking with the doctor. He was in Los Vegas with no water or power, threw himself at the Red Cross and they took him to Kansas. Emily admits that she was supposed to be married tonight. She fantasizes again about the way her pre wedding party was supposed to be. She wanted to listen to polyester bride over and over again. She starts to fantasize through Heather that she was marrying for security instead of love, and will be bored.

Jake is trying to blow the bridge as the Ravenswood people get closer, but they are on top of him. He tells them that the bridge is wired but if they don’t turn around they will blow it. Jake tells him what he knows about Rogue River. Jake has the bomb attached to a kill switch, and if the snipers kill him it will go off. Robert starts picking off the Ravenswood men with a sniper rifle; this causes them to rethink their plans. They have a bit of a showdown, and then cars start to show up. It’s Eric, Jonah, and a the survivalists. They have Ravenswood surrounded. The Ravenswood people leave, but tell them basically that the government will send them back to “rebuild” Jericho, he sounds quite threatening.

Jonas tells the people of Jericho that the next time they want to blow up his way into town they should talk to him, and that they should learn to fight for themselves.

Emily is fantasizing about the way things could have been. She’s talking to her “dead” fiancé and he’s telling her that she’s attached to Jericho, and she knows why.

There is an angry mob and they still want to blow the bridge. They are led by Gray. Mayor Green shows up and tells them Gray isn’t in charge. He is telling them how important the bridge is. Gray tells the Mayor that the people should decide what to do.

Jake goes to his father, and tells him that they need a security force. Trained, and sanctioned by the mayor. The Mayor gives Jake a book, a US Ranger guide his father, Jakes grandfather used when he landed at Normandy. He tells Jake to make sure they do it right. Gail confronts Eric; Eric has no plans on going back home. Gail tells him that April will have a home with them as long as she wants one. Eric just walks off.

Robert thinks they got lucky with Ravenswood.

Emily is in the church and hears thunder. Jake comes in and calls her name. They talk about what the day is. They start to talk about Roger, and how he proposed, and how he proposed to her when they were teenagers. Emily asks him why he came back. He goes to her and they hug. He asks her if she is sure that’s what she wanted… The thunder rolls outside and it starts to rain. It was another fantasy, Jake wasn’t there.


Credits…

Well, good episode, not as shocking as Rogue River last week, but set up some good tension, and setup how out of their league the people of Jericho really are. The Ravenswood people could really have crippled them, but they did as Robert said, luck out. Emily really does want Jake, and I think that it’s not that good of a pairing. I think that Heather and Jake would be a much better couple. Eric is out of the Green house, and the marriage is on the rocks. I’m guessing he goes to Mary.




Coming up on Jericho….

Red Flag
First aired: 11/22/2006Writer: Mike Ostrowski Director: Martha Mitchell Guest star: Darby Stanchfield (April Green)
Supplies are dropped by air into Jericho and the Green's and Hawkins think that they know where they came from.