Jericho

Previously on Jericho: Goetz returned to town, but Jake Green won the first battle. Hawkins started to convince Major Beck that Valente and the Cheyenne government aren't all that great. Jennings and Rall employee Trish helped the town and promised to whisk Bonnie away to the big city, most likely to meet boys and experiment with drugs (which Shoshannah Stern already did on Weeds).

Bad-ass Dale Turner (Erik Knudsen) does some shady dealings at Stanley's farm. Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) chastises him, and the next morning Goetz threatens to evict Dale from the store unless he registers with Jennings and Rall.

The town gathers at Bailey's and everyone is angry at J&R's unfair business practices. Jake wants to help, and he asks Stanley (Brad Beyer) to offer up his farm for safe passage in and out of town. Stanley is vehemently opposed to revolution. This leaves the rest of the gang (Eric, Mary and Emily) to try and find a replacement. Instead, Mary uses her feminine wiles to coerce a military man into letting Dale drive through the checkpoint.

At J&R, a Jericho resident sells out Dale's involvement in smuggling in goods. So when Dale tries to get through, unfortunately for him, Goetz shows up. They take him away, and when Stanley and Bonnie see it, they go to help, because Ravenwood is not the police. When Jake arrives to bust Dale out, he finds out Goetz already sent him to a military prison.

Jake goes ahead and blocks the road, asking the driver of the prison truck to call Major Beck. Jake wants Beck to say Dale is a terror informant to keep him in Jericho. Major Beck once again comes through as one of the good guys, and Dale is released into Jake's custody.

Mimi (Alicia Coppola) is working at the hectic J&R, and she notices a $10,000 discrepancy in the accounting ledger due to the exchange of currency, because there's apparently new money. She brings it to Trish, who says she'll take care of it. She talks to Goetz about the possible embezzlement, and he gives her the brush off.

Goetz checks in with Mimi, who is overly certain. He asks to see her personal ledger, which she refuses because she's an independent accountant. Goetz, of course, makes veiled threats forcing her to bring him her ledger. She heads to the Richmond farm to retrieve the ledger, but is followed by Ravenwood. Bonnie goes outside to tell them Mimi isn't there, but they don't listen and knock down the doors.

Bonnie busts out the shotgun and starts blowing Ravenwood guys away while Mimi hides in the closet.  Bonnie with a shotgun is perhaps the coolest thing this show has ever done.  Goetz arrives, and we see Mimi has been shot. Worse, Bonnie is dead. NOOOOOOOOO! They promised it would hurt, and it does. How could you kill poor, sweet Bonnie?


The mystery man from last week calls Robert Hawkins (Lennie James) and identifies himself as John Smith. He seems to know everything and offers to help, if Robert promises not to try to find him. Hawkins agrees to nothing, but John Smith is fine with that, then tells Hawkins he's a day away from being caught. The problem is that Major Beck is getting a radioactive readout of the area, and since it will expose the location of the bomb, Hawkins asks Jake to steal the binder containing the maps from Beck.

Unfortunately, Beck's office is being sealed with a thumb-print scanner Jake doesn't have access, but Heather (Sprague Grayden) does. Jake wants to bring her in on the conspiracy, which Hawkins is obviously opposed to it, but he obliges because there's no alternative. Hawkins and Jake sit her down and explain it all. She freaks out a bit, as expected, but still agrees to go along with it.

To get Major Beck out of his office, Hawkins tells him he has a spy who sighted Sarah Mason in Nebraska. This lets Heather sneak in and take the map page while Hawkins takes Beck to a burned down farm house, the same safe house Hawkins and Sarah went to last season. They find a hard drive, which contains the information from Sarah's phone, and it even has the photos of the meet with Valente. Beck, no idiot, recognizes him. Too bad for Hawkins, Beck is too smart, and starts to put the pieces together about Hawkins' involvement in this whole thing, but Robert doesn't break.

John Smith calls back to tell Hawkins that Project Boxcar is the codename for the Cheyenne government's operation to destroy all evidence of the attacks. More surprising, the attacks are partly to blame on J&R, which wrote up a document detailing the vulnerabilities in America's defenses, and it was essentially a roadmap on how to destroy the country that fell into the wrong hands.

Next week on Jericho: Mimi is taken to the hospital, and Goetz wants to talk to her. Buddy, Jake Green and the rest of the town ain't letting you anywhere near her, and if you're lucky, they won't kill you.


-John Kubicek, BuddyTV Senior Writer
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