Jake Green quotes from Jericho

Jake

Bonnie, take them to the storm cellar now!! Go, guys, go!! Emily, we've got to get inside. Emily? Emily, hey. It's going to be ok? Alright I promise. Everything is going to be ok, alright. We've got to go in now, babe. Babe? We've got to get inside before the rain, okay? Come with me. Come on. Run. Run. Get inside!

Jake

We’ve seen it. We’ve seen it 100 times. A man just died in our clinic. Our clinic! He was traveling with his daughter and about 20 other people. Alright, it could’ve been Shep or Gray or any of us. They need our help. Are we going to help them, or are we just gonna sit here watching the same three images over and over?

Jake

It’s up to you Gray. Go on…no? [Jake puts Jonah on the ground and points a gun to his head] This is what you want, right? You make the rules? Decide who lives and dies? Go ahead and do it, you do it here in front of me and Dale, in front of everyone. Not in some back room with your buddies. Don’t let someone else do the dirty work for you, mayor. You want him dead, you take this gun and you blow his brains out. [Gray takes the gun from Jake and points it at Jonah] You better be damn sure he’s guilty because if he’s not, you’re a murderer. Justice will be swift. [Gray lowers the gun]

Johnston

If you convince me that you are living a more productive life, then..

Eric

That's right Jake.

Jake

We were both born on third base, stop pretending you hit a triple. When are you going to realize I am 32 years old?

Johnston

When you do.

Johnston

I can’t just sit around here all day. We’ve got to find the sheriff and his men; we’ve got to get the power back on.

Gail

Okay, now you’re going to stay here as long as it takes. Now, don’t make me take your pants with me.

Johnston

I can run this town without my pants.

Gail

It wouldn’t be the first time.

Jake

There's a story I don't want to hear.

Stanley

I couldn't find an empty pesticide container so I thought this water tank might do.

Heather

No no no, we can't use steel, there is to much risk of static. One spark and the whole thing could blow sky high.

Jake

We don't have time to look for something else!

Heather

We can't, well, who's gonna fill it?

Jake

You know what the hardest part about growing up your son was? It’s not the politics or the expectations, it’s… It’s that I always knew you were a good judge of character and you thought mine was lousy. When I left town, I was determined to prove you wrong but…but instead, everywhere I went I seemed to prove you right. Dad, I wasn’t just in San Diego.

Johnston

I don’t care.

Jake

What?

Johnston

I don’t care. If you need to tell me, I’ll listen, but…wherever you went, whatever you did, it changed you. And a stupid little punk may have left home but a pretty decent fellow came back. I can live with that.

Jake

You were always good at blocking out the bad. Dad, not so much.

Gail

He’s had more to block out. When you left, you left quite a mess. You have no idea the lengths your father went to try to square things.

Jake

Then why didn’t he talk to me?

Gail

Because he knew you’d resent it. And there’s a stubborn streak that runs in the family. Honey….I think you owe him the truth.

Jake

You want me to tell him about my…about my time away?

Gail

This house is too small for big secrets.

Jake

I'm tired of war, no one ever really wins.

Stanley

Me too.

Mimi

We could play crazy eights instead or hearts?

Stanley

No, I'm calling it a night.

Mary

Call it whatever you want but it stopped being night hours ago. Ya'll want coffee?

Mimi

Make mine an Irish.

Jake

So Mimi, what would you be doing if you were back home in DC?

Mimi

Sleeping. You know the hardest thing about sleeping in this dump? The quiet, yeah I don't know how you stand it, it's like my brain is an echo chamber.

Jake

Why do you think I left town?

Johnston

Now look…you know I would like nothing better then to string up the guys who did this, but that’s not the way we do things. Last time you got mixed up with Mitch Cafferty, you left town and a boy was dead.

Jake

I’m not that guy anymore.

Johnston

Yeah? (removes gun from Jake’s waist) Let’s just make sure that it stays that way.

Jake

Look, if I don’t take care of him he’ll come back.

Johnston

We’ve got to do this right.

Jake

He could be out….

Johnston

If this family starts breaking the law how are we supposed to enforce it?

Eric

Well, if we’re sending missiles they must have figured out who attacked us.

God Bless America.

Jake

Could have just decided to take out one of the usual suspects.

Johnston

Which means there could be more missiles headed in our direction.

Gail

Well, is this the federal response we’ve all been waiting for?

Heather

Watch out for giant irradiated ants out there.

Jake

Always do.

Heather

I don't think this is such a good idea.

Jake

No choice.

Heather

Well, then at least let me do some work on the car.

Jake

There is no time. I have to go now... what? Wait, you said it was sturdy.

Heather

Well, sturdy yeah but what if you need to outrun something.

Jake

Why? How fast will it go?

Heather

I don't know, thirty maybe forty miles an hour... best case... down hill... and not for very long. See this is what I'm saying, maybe you should go on horseback.

Jake

A horse is slower than that.

Heather

A horse is less likely to explode.

Jake

[Holds up his gun] I'll take my chances.

Jake

I can talk to Jonah.

Gray

You can talk to Jonah? Find him---

Jake

He lived up to his end of the deal.

Gray

And why the hell are you protecting this guy?

Jake

I’m protecting this town. He can get things we’re gonna need.

Gray

What can he get?

Jake

He can get food; he can get gas, he can get ammo. Could you get that stuff if we needed it tomorrow? Could you? ‘Cause he can. We’ll do this my way now.

I want to talk to Emily.

Jake

She doesn’t want to see you.

She blames me for Chris’s death. Things might be different if she knew whose fault it really was.

Jake

I didn’t send him on that job, all right, you did. I tried to talk him out of it.

He needed a lookout; someone to watch his back. You left him alone.

Jake

A lookout? He needed a father.

All right. Maybe it is time Emily learns the truth about what you did.

Jake

I told her. I told her, I told her everything.

Did she forgive you?

Jake

No.

Neither do I. Get her to see me, or I’ll do business wherever the hell I please.

Jake

I can’t.

Then I guess we don’t have a deal.