Jake Green quotes from Jericho

Hawkins

Those are Defense Department projections. They've been doing them since the 50's. They're fallout scenarios in the event of a nuclear attack on 20 US cities. Do you see Jericho? It's outside the fallout zones, Jake, it's got a salt mine, plenty of farmland, and access to an untainted water table.

Jake

So you weren't here to monitor phone calls?

Hawkins

Jericho was a rally point in case we failed in our mission.

Jake

Failed or succeeded?

Jake

Did you wipe out 23 American cities?

Hawkins

Get out of my house!

Jake

Answer the question!

Hawkins

Why would you even think that?

Jake

You've got a working generator and a food supply. It's like you knew the attacks were coming!

Jake

Was that doing it your way?

Hawkins

You asked me to come along.

Jake

What were you gonna do?

Hawkins

To get the truth? Less than you would have. You see, I've done—I've done enough, Jake, to know better. It's the fear of torture that gets results. Actual torture...only works in the movies.

I want you to tell me who your friend is and where I can find him. Things are gonna get very bad for you and your brother if you don't help us, Jake.

Jake

Why would I want to help you?

This is what I know is that you, your friend, and your brother were caught attempting to sabotage this town's sole means of manufacturing.

Jake

You were manufacturing weapons. You were-

So I'm gonna repeat the question -- Where is your friend?

Jake

Why don't you tell me what happened to Heather Lisinski?

Take him back.

Let's go, boy.

Jake

Word's going to get back. It's going to get back to Jericho about what you're doing and there is nothing you can do to stop it!

Johnston

Stanley, what happened out there?

Stanley

I don't know. We were moving towards the mortar truck. And they were waiting, they were waiting on both sides of it for us. They wouldn't, they wouldn't stop firing.

Gray

Stanley, where's everybody else?

Johnston

Where are they, son?

Jake

Stanley?

Stanley

They're, they're all dead. They're all dead.

Hawkins

This satellite must remain a secret.

Johnston

[pauses briefly] Sounds good.

Jake

What, that's it?

Johnston

What do you want me to say? I get it, man has a satellite, doesn't want anyone to know.

Jake

Yeah, but...

Johnston

I am about to go to war with New Bern, Kansas, the home of the nearest Costco - today is already just about as weird as I can handle. I'm not asking any more questions.

Jake

[about his father] He's been shot.

Hawkins

I'm sorry. OK.You know what to do, right? Keep pressure on the wound. And there should be some morphine curettes in the supplies I gave you.

Jake

Yeah, we've got it.

Hawkins

Listen, Jake, people are gonna be looking to you now. You know what I mean?

Jake

Yeah.

Jake, you're outmanned and you're outgunned. There's too many of us and we are too desperate to give up. You cannot win this. I'm giving you one last chance to walk away, to put your guns down and return to town, and no one else will be harmed. Jake, I need an answer. What's it gonna be?

Jake

NUTS!

Sorry, what was that?

Jake

You can go straight to hell.

Sheriff Green? Nice uniform.

Jake

[lifting up casual jacket to show badge pinned to jeans] I'm pacing myself.

Mr. Goetz has already informed me of your previous run-ins.

Jake

Yeah, did he tell you about the massacre he and his men carried out in Rogue River? Did he give you a head count on how many people he murdered in New Bern?

Heather

Three doctors on this radio frequency said the risk of the generic stuff being dangerous is almost nil. But somehow there's only one legally approved source.

Jake

J and R.

It's Fort Knox back there.

Jake

What is that?

Thumb-print scanner. Getting that room ready to house 'classified' information, pretty short list of people that will have access.

Jake

Let me guess, I'm not on it?

But, if it's any consolation, you now hold the distinction of being the first Jericho sheriff, in history, who doesn't have a key to the sheriff's office.

Jake

It's not gonna wait twelve hours.

Well, it's gonna have to. Things are coming apart at the seams in New Bern right now. And you have my word, tomorrow I'm gonna get into this but for tonight I'm trusting that you can keep things under control here. That means Goetz is off limits. No threats, no retribution, no exceptions. Do you understand?

The Rangers are now considered fugitives. I want all of them.

Jake

Good luck finding them.

Until they're produced I'm declaring Jericho to be in a state of open insurrection. Lights, power, food supplies... 9 pm tonight, I'm shutting it all down.

Jake

We've lived without that stuff before; we'll do it again.

Jake

Explain this to me. I hurt everybody that was ever close to me and I get a second chance, but Stanley... Stanley never hurt a soul in his life...

And he lost everything.

Jake

How is that right?

Life doesn't...

Jake

...work on a balance sheet, I know. But it should.

And your punishment is to sit in this hole and die. How does that bring back Bonnie? Or the Stanley you knew? Or the little girl in Iraq?

Jake

It's a start.

It's an ending!

Jake

What choice do I have?

The answer is Beck.

Jake

I don't even know where to start with him. And he's too stubborn to listen.

Your father said that about you once. You turned out real nice.

Jake

It's not about convincing one man he's wrong. It's a... it's a whole system.

You think it's impossible? This has all happened before. If the names weren't Jennings & Rall, they would be names like... the British East India Trading Company. If it wasn't Ravenwood, it'd be the Hessian Mercenaries. And it all comes down to the same thing...

Jake

Revolution.