Jericho · Season 1
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.
Okay, now you’re going to stay here as long as it takes. Now, don’t make me take your pants with me.
I can run this town without my pants.
It wouldn’t be the first time.
[Jake walks in]
There's a story I don't want to hear.
That's a dollar 69.
Ok.
You got the last bag of corn chips.
I'll give you $20 for them!
I couldn't find an empty pesticide container so I thought this water tank might do.
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.
We don't have time to look for something else!
We can't, well, who's gonna fill it?
Earlier today we buried 20 people, refugees from Denver. People we, we didn't know but, were prepared to welcome into our town. Unfortunately they died of radiation poisoning before we could reach them. For those people from Denver and for our own people, for Sheriff Daurs and Deputy Riley, for Deputy Connor and Deputy Saleam. For people out there somewhere out there that we know nothing about that might be suffering and dying right now, I ask that we take a moment of silence.
If you've lost a loved one would you please stand? If someone you love is missing would you please join those standing? We stand because we know that every life matters... we have to fight for every life, even when it seems hopeless, even if we're afraid. Because the battle ahead isn't just for our survival, its for our humanity.
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?
Any word from Shep or Gray?
No, Mayor. Still can’t get them on the radio.
Maybe they got captured by those tanks that Stanley saw?
Those tanks are probably just National Guard, okay?
You don’t know that, they could be China.
Shhh!
They could be China, they could be Iran, Al Qaeda, North Korea; anybody who hates us. They could be coming here and what’s our line of defense? You’re looking at it.
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.
I don’t care.
What?
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.
You were always good at blocking out the bad. Dad, not so much.
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.
Then why didn’t he talk to me?
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.
You want me to tell him about my…about my time away?
This house is too small for big secrets.
You take a shower?
Nothing gets past you.
Go clean the tub and fill it up.
Why?
The water doesn’t get to that shower by magic. If the power goes out again, so do the pumps that get it there, so we store what we can. That is why.
[Allison walks away and into her room]
She is your daughter, Rob, not your employee.
Well, she needs to talk less and listen more.
You need to learn to ease up on her.
Darcy, I don’t know how long I’ll be here, so whatever I gotta teach her, it needs to happen now.
Hello, this is Assistant Secretary Walsh from the Department of Homeland Security. Do not be alarmed. If you are safe, stay where you are. Do not attempt to leave. We will be in contact again shortly. Until then, know that help is on the way.
I'm tired of war, no one ever really wins.
Me too.
We could play crazy eights instead or hearts?
No, I'm calling it a night.
Call it whatever you want but it stopped being night hours ago. Ya'll want coffee?
Make mine an Irish.
So Mimi, what would you be doing if you were back home in DC?
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.
Why do you think I left town?
Come on out here. Hey!
Are all those cities gone?
What do you think?
How do you know?
I don’t for sure [sighs] Okay. Those are the cities I heard about through the HAM radio, and the satellite feed before the EMP.
How come your laptop isn’t fried like everyone else’s?
It’s ruggedized. It is built to withstand an EMP. The, um…the government issues them, baby.
So you’re some kind of spy? That’s why you moved us here. You knew this was going to happen. Why do you have that gun, what’s it for?
Shooting. And I think it’s probably time you learned how. You see the way things are going you may have to defend yourself one day. Do you understand?
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.
I’m not that guy anymore.
Yeah? (removes gun from Jake’s waist) Let’s just make sure that it stays that way.
Look, if I don’t take care of him he’ll come back.
We’ve got to do this right.
He could be out….
If this family starts breaking the law how are we supposed to enforce it?
I have a proposition. The hotel I was staying in closed and since you owe the government more than $180,000
No one’s heard from the government in weeks.
Consider me the government.
Fine then I still get to call you Uncle Sam. Nice watch.
It’s a Rolex.
You got the time?
It’s, um….It just stopped working after the pulse, just like everyone else’s.
Well, how about I pay you when it starts up again?
You’re being an idiot. I am trying to give you a chance to protect your interests.
You’re too kind.
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