Jericho quotes

Jake

At the FBI what were you working on?

Hawkins

I was sent here to monitor phone calls made in the area to a suspected terrorist cell.

Jake

And what'd you find out?

Hawkins

Nothing. Trail went dead. We about done here?

Jake

Not even close. Tell me about her: Sarah Mason.

Hawkins

She's gone. [realizing gun's empty, chuckles] You're pretty thorough.

Jake

I also took care of the one in the cabinet and the one behind the water heater. There's only one loaded gun in this house, and it's mine. Sit down.

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.

Bonnie

[signing] Thank you.

Stanley

For what?

Bonnie

Letting Sean stay.

Stanley

You're welcome.

Bonnie

And for not calling him an idiot, even when he is one.

Stanley

Okay, if you know that...

Mimi

[clears throat] Sorry, just a little frog in my throat. Don't let me interrupt your nice sibling bonding moment. That's what it is, right?

Bonnie

[continues signing] Sean can be an idiot, but he can also be really great. All guys are like that, you have to put up with the "idiot" stuff...to get to the "great" stuff.

Stanley

[chuckles] Yeah? And where did you come by that little pearl of wisdom?

Mimi

What'd she say about me?

Mimi

I never thought I'd be so thankful to live on a farm. From now on I promise I'll only complain intermittently.

Stanley

We don't have much, but we'll always have enough.

Dude. All they need to do is get the Internet back up. After that it's a piece of cake.

Stanley

Why is that?

Well you could do anything! I mean you could run for President, make a virtual White house. Fly a plane into that! I mean, virtual cities and towns, nothing to nuke!

Bonnie

Yeah, but, where will we get... stuff?

What stuff?

Stanley

I dunno... food, clothes, blankets, fuel...

Not a problem. After the Internet's back up you just order all that stuff!

Mimi

You know Stanley, you would not believe how helpful Sean has been around here with the livestock, and the house, and... just everything!

Bonnie

It's true.

Johnston

So anyhow, it’s like 3 am, I’ve got this flashlight in my face. Gail’s over on her side of the bed trying to find the phone to call the cops and finally I located the light switch. It’s Eric, who’s standing there and he says, “I can’t go to sleep until I confess – I’m drunk.” I said, “You’re what?” He said, “I’m drunk. It won’t ever happen again, I don’t know what I was thinking.” Meantime he looks perfectly normal, his speech isn’t slurred or anything. Gail starts grilling him, turns out he has had a beer and a half. I said to him, “Son, do you have any idea how much beer it takes to get drunk?” He said, “No, I don’t.” I said, “Well get out of here and don’t wake me up again until you do!”

Mimi

You know, you listen to me, Stanley. Your sister's not a child any more. You can't just throw this fit and kick Sean's ass and think that's going to be the end of it.

Stanley

Well, I hope you're going to explain to me why I can't.

Mimi

Because if you do, she's just going to latch on that much tighter; unless they get really angry, in which case the age-old teenage remedy is to run away, which used to mean that you'd hear from them in a few days when they ran out of bus money. Nowadays, chances are much better that you'll find their bodies on the side of a road. Look, right now it is under our roof and it's a pain in the ass, I know. But it's a safe and manageable pain in the ass and I suggest you let him stay here before it turns into more than that.

Jericho’s continuous acts of aggression against this town are unjustified.

Johnston

What ‘continuous acts of aggression’? We’re neighbors, for God’s sake.

I didn’t hear much talk of neighbors when you sent Ravenwood to our front door.

Johnston

We blew everything to hell and gone trying to defend ourselves against those mercenaries. We had no idea where they were heading next.

You didn’t try and warn us? You couldn’t help us while they were raiding what little we had left? Shooting whoever got in their way? My deputies, my friends?

Eric

[about his torture] It’s not about Hawkins. They wanna know about Jericho. What our defenses are like, do we have any troops, where are they posted, do we have a stock pile of weapons, that sort of thing.

Eric

We will. We’re not gonna die in here.

Emily

For what it's worth, you and Mary have a lot in common.

Gail

What -- we both love Eric?

Emily

No, I was actually going to say you're both pretty tough broads. You're both a little hard-headed. In a bar fight -- even money.

So, what's the plan?

Hawkins

Plan? There's gonna be an explosion in town. Hopefully it'll cause enough chaos that we can somehow get Jake and Eric out of there.

I think I can help you with that. I have an in with Constantino.

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!

You want us to risk our lives for a promise? [refugees begin to leave]

Listen – listen! Since you’ve been here you’ve been asking for a place to live, food. You came here as refugees and you’re still being treated as second-class citizens. That’s no way to live. If you fight for my farm and we win, then everybody gets an equal split. It’ll be your farm. You’ll have a stake in this town that nobody can take away from you. You’ll never have to ask anyone for anything ever again. So, who wants a future?

Emily

Help us fight. We'll give you half. Half of all the weapons, food, and fuel that we take. And if New Bern's army is as big as you say it is, you'll do a lot better than hittin' one truck at a time out here.

You've got more of me in you than you're ever going to admit.