About Angela Wilson
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Months after the attacks, winter is still over Jericho, Kan. People are tired, hungry and the laws of man have become the laws of survival. For everyone of every age.
Rations are low. People are screaming at officials, wanting their portions while complaining that the Marines have not arrived with relief. Roger, Emily the Blonde’s fiancé and a survivor of the blasts, figures out that Gray and the others lied about the Marines. He confronts them.
Gray orders all refugees out of the town. It’s time for others to pick up the tab for the wandering, he says. The refugees, led by a temperamental Kyle, hole up in the church. Gray shoots in tear gas. The people run out and one woman dies in the stampede.
That doesn’t change Gray’s mind. He and Roger bicker. Roger – who brought the refugees to Jericho - threatens Gray. Gray pulls a gun. They fight and the mayor is shot. Roger holds him hostage, saying he won’t get help unless the refugees can stay. Jake cuts a deal with Roger that the refugees will get transport and supplies to get them to a FEMA camp. Roger finally agrees after deputies try to take him out with sniper fire.
Ironically, it’s a refugee nurse who saves Gray’s life. Roger is arrested and banished from the town. He won’t let Emily go with him (darn).
While the men fight, Gail Green, Jake’s mother, is frightened by a refugee in her home. Once she calms down, she finds out Kyle just wants some Super Glue to fix his boot. He doesn’t want new boots because these are the last things he has that are his own. Gail gets the townspeople to give up portions of their rations to the refugees. The refugees will reside in the homes of Jericho residents who never returned home after the blasts.
At the start of the season, Gray left Jericho with four other men to find out what happened and find other people (Jericho: Four Horsemen). He came back, damaged, a Mad Hatter becoming more insane each day with memories of the horrible things he saw. Now, Gray is all politician. It’s like he never had that experience – even Roger brings it up during an argument. It seems his character has had a dramatic evolution since the November election. Unfortunately, a politician isn’t nearly as interesting as a man driven mad by the horror of war.
Still, the dramatic tension between Gray and Roger kept the episode’s pace quick and certain. And now, Jake has an opening for the affections of Emily, who finally shows some love for her fiancée with her tearful parting glance at Roger’s back as he walks away from his hometown.
In other Jericho news, Dale gets his pay from the men who broke deals with him and now has his trading post open, girlfriend Skylar at his side. He also has hired Big Guns for the men who try to push him around. Can’t blame the kid. Everyone is out for No. One in this post-nuclear world where survival is law. Dale is a character to watch. They could do great things with the trading post owner and Skylar, the girl who’s family owns the salt mines.
Some kids find the tank in Stanley’s barn, but we don’t see anything else about that on this episode, so maybe it will come to play later on. But will anyone remember that little 30-second ditty when the time comes?
No updates on the disappearing Heather, Ravenwood or Jonas. Will they ever come back?
Robert Hawkins plays cat and mouse with the terrorists. Using the now dead Sarah’s link, he contacts the bad guys to deliver The Package. It’s a set up. He gets them to a warehouse, where he puts a transmitter on their vehicle before sending another message to change locations for the drop.
He tracks them via satellite and gets photographs of the main players and prepares to meet them after they send another message, doubling their first offer for the bomb.
The end shows us residents gathered in Mary’s bar, where they listen to a radio report that tells them terrorists with hard-to-spot, fake FBI IDs were arrested. Deputy Jimmy – who is housing the Hawkins family minus Robert – remembers the ID he found for Robert. This sets up next week, when we are told we are finally going to find out what Robert Hawkins knows – and we caught a glimpse of Baldy Bad Guy, who I hope we meet before season’s end.
The hype better deliver. It’s time to stop teasing and get to the meat of what really happened when the bombs went off.
