Jericho Season 1 quotes

Sheriff Green? Nice uniform.

Jake

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

Mimi

I'm still trying to figure out how to make our wedding registry vital to national security.

Stanley

You're already planning our wedding registry?

Mimi

Oh, since I was twelve. And I've already taken off the list luxury items that we already have such as your Star Wars collectors' glasses.

You've lost loved ones, and here you are again; still strong, still proud. This is the best of America. But infighting has left us weak and vulnerable to our enemies. Remnants of the old Federal government has fallen back to Columbus, Ohio. After the attacks that government endlessly debated our response. So, in a vacuum of leadership I acted to let the world know that America was down, but not out! The Federal government of the eastern block states no longer has any governing authority beyond the Mississippi. You've seen the flag. This is the flag of a new country, flying from the Mississippi to the Pacific. The thirteen stripes of red and white still represent the thirteen colonies, but they run in a new direction, just as we must chart a new direction for ourselves. In a few short weeks Mayor Anderson will represent you as we ratify a constitution for this new nation, that will be known to the world by a new name; The Allied States of America! And with this new name, a clean slate. Our debts have been forgiven, and we are open again for business. That means jobs, stocked shelves, a return to life as we knew it. And in the fall we'll have elections where we can all take part in building a new government, as a safer, stronger America. God bless you, and God bless the Allied States of America!

Eric

[about his mother] You should be glad she's not here. She would have thrown that new history book right in the president's face.

Gray

Oh, come on…

Eric

He wasn't elected, Gray. How does a government no one voted for change the constitution? We found time to have an election. Of all people I think you would have remembered that.

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?

[to Jake] This is a brand new building, and this is my office. In that office is a desk, and on that desk is a folder; the Jennings and Rall corporate dossier for Jake Green. Let me try to put it in perspective for you, Jake. You got a very interesting period of employment with JR. Especially Safa, Iraq. Remember Safa. You heard stories about me, you think you know who I am… I wonder what the people of Safa must think about you?

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.

Heather

How many people have you lost since then?

Hard to say… about [static]…twenty.

Heather

I'm sorry, you're breaking up. It sounds like you've lost twenty people in the last week?

Sorry, two hundred and twenty. Around two-twenty.

My wife was in Santa Fe when the attacks came. After that, uh…

Heather

I'm sorry.

I have to hope that she's okay. Until then I do my job. And I, uh, I trust that wherever she is, some army major is looking after her the way I try to look after the people under my charge.

Hawkins

Let's agree on this. You don't make the terms. I do. And if you have information to share, then you just share it. But if you lie to me then know that I will find out, and the next time we speak, it will not be on the phone. Those are the terms.

Agreed. Now can we move on to more urgent business?

Hawkins

I'm listening.

Good. 'Cause you're a day away from being caught.

Stanley

We're talking about booze and cows, here.

Emily

The Stamp Act, the Sugar Act…

Stanley

What are you talking about?

Emily

The Boston Tea Party. Was it just about tea? Every revolution that's ever been fought, they started in rooms like this.

Heather

The government, the army, the news… they're all lying about who's responsible for the attacks.

Hawkins

Yes.

Heather

You're telling the truth.

Hawkins

Yeah.

Heather

Who are you?

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.

[about the file] Jennings and Rall put it all in one place. It was supposed to protect us, but someone got a hold of it. It took our worst nightmare and made it come true.

Hawkins

Okay, how do you know about this?

Because I helped write it.

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?