Jericho: Vox Populi

6 Weeks after the bombs…

Well, it looks like Jericho is quite willing to throw the cards up in the air and completely change everything. Gracie died!


I figured she’d be convalescing in the clinic until something happened and she got back on her feet to be redeemed from being a psycho profiteering bitch from hell, but nope. She died outright. Then we have Mitchell claiming that Jonah did it and went awol. WE have Gray leading armed men through town, being a total asshole vigilante. Finally when we do get Jonah, Gray wins the election! OMG! Fuck! Not cool man, not cool. Robert finally tried to shirk off his overlords, and make a life in Jericho… not to that warm a reception. Dale gets Gracie’s store, and is promptly threatened by Mitchell, which of course changes his mind about who killed Gracie. In a rather tense scene we have Jake telling Gray that he can’t make Jonah disappear, especially when he’s innocent. They decide to exile him from Jericho. Stanley and Mimi are bedding each other, much to Bonnies disgust.

The reason the synopsis is so scattered, and not the usual scene by scene… well the ending. The ending of this episode is the real meat and gravy of the show. Just as Emily and Jake get together, kiss, and decide to become an item a group of stragglers comes into town, looking horrible, and like they walked through hell. Amongst them is Emily’s Fiancé, Roger!

Dale Shoots Mitchell!

Bonnie drives off with the town bad element.

Roberts’s overlords tell him quite graphically that they know exactly where he is, and they will be seeing him quite soon.

OMFG! Ok, good episode. Most of the turkey chase for Jonah was ho hum, but then we get to the end of the episode and realize how much has changed. The Greens are out of power. Gracie is dead. Jonah is out of power. Mitchell is dead. Dale is in charge of the store. Bonnie is going over to the dark side. Stanley and Mimi are starting to domesticate each other. Gray is in charge. And most of all Roger is in Jericho….

Oohhhh I cannot wait for episodes to begin again. I hate how they do this to me, get things to the point where I’m on the edge of my seat and make me wait. Not good for my nerves.

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Jericho: Red flag

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Well, the episode basically centers around an unusual arrival. Basically that of relief supplies. The thing that confuses the townsfolk is this, the planes are soviet planes that haven't been made since the seventies, and the supplies are all Chinese...


to start the episode Jake and some of the new militia are turkey hunting for thanksgiving, and are worried that they won't be able to fight when the time comes because they cannot shoot turkey. out of nowhere they hear noise and see big planes on the horizon, the first planes they've seen since the attacks. They start to drop something with parachutes.. Jake opens one and it turns out to be food. Apparently they packets have been dropped all over town, and is causing quite the stir. In the center of town the people are gathered wondering what to do when the mayor tells them they can't eat the food. The mayor and some of the others think that this might be another attack,that the food might be poisoned. Of course the townsfolk,who are starting to get really skinny due to lack of food. Mayor Green takes the food and asks Gracie if they can store it in her store, but he interrupts a raid by Jonah and some of his boys. they had a deal with Gracie to supply her store in exchange for certain things, but things are getting scarce and they are taking what they want. The mayor makes a new deal with Gracie, one of the conditions being that her price gouging is over, so that she can store the food there. Meanwhile, back at the ranch Mimi comes to Stanley telling him that they have some parcels. She tells him about the two drops they got. One like the others, and another one is a rather large generator. She sends Mimi to town to tell everyone their good luck.

Gray tells the mayor that they need this food, and to prove that he thinks its not poisoned he breaks open some crackers and eats them. He seems to suffer no ill effects.

the Hawkins are starting their Thanksgiving dinner with no turkey and the kids are kind of miffed that Robert missed the thanksgivings before this one.

Jonahs men steal the generator from Stanley, and rough him up pretty well in the process. When he stumbles back into town Jake and the mayor mount a posse to get the generator back from Jonah.

We get a pretty serious shootout at Jonahs compound, but out of nowhere the flatbed truck with the generator comes screaming through the gates. Emily is driving it. She snuck into the compound and stole it out from under Jonahs Nose. The men regroup and head back to town.

While packing the parachutes away they make a discovery. RF-ID tags the US military uses for its equipment are in the parachutes. Who sent the food is a complete mystery.

The new generator set up. Robert goes and gets his family. they are made at first he missed his thanksgiving again, but this time he takes them out and shows them the generator. when the switch is flipped lights in the town start to come on. Robert tells his son, "this is what daddy did at work today"

Gracie is happy with the way things turned out, she goes into her darkened store. But out of nowhere somewhere grabs her from behind covers her mouth and stabs her in the gut. She drops like a sack of bricks to the floor.

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.