About Angela Wilson
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With some fanfare, Marines arrive in a post-nuclear Jericho, where food and fuel are running short and fanatical Mayor Gray Anderson wants to send refugees out of town to save resources. The Marines offer hope, telling the crowd that war with Iran and North Korea is over, but now the United States faces its greatest reconstruction project ever.
Jake trips all over himself flirting with a cute Marine named Maggie. So intent is he on forgetting Emily the Blonde and Heather the Brunette, anti-hero Jake misses the signs that something is amiss until it is almost too late. Jake intercepts radio communication and realizes the Marines are hoodwinking the town. Jake, who shares his suspicions with an equally suspicion Johnstone Greene, confronts the woman. Right when he’s knocked out by the Gunnery Sergeant, Johnstone and the Farmer Calvary enter scene and save the day.
The Marines had lied, making up stuff and inserting rumor and conjection they’d heard in the field. They were trying to rape the town of supplies. No wonder, after Americans turned on them in a world that is falling apart at the seams with greed, jealousy and fright in a country torn apart by an internal, as yet unknown enemy.
Gray wants to string the Marines up, but Johnstone says the people need hope more than anything, and they send the Marines off – with a Jericho escort, of course – with two days of rations, no weapons and no tank. Johnstone suggests Stanley keep the tank in his barn with the foreshadowing comment, “You never know when you might need a tank.”
Meanwhile, Robert Hawkins proves he is a not the brightest Secret Agent Man around. He finally figures out that Sarah has betrayed him to The Big Man – still an UNSUB. Not long after, Sarah realizes Rob is on to her and she takes his family hostage until he can produce the ever important Package.
Rob breaks down the lead concrete-like walls he’d built in an earlier episode to reveal the radiation-infested nuclear bomb that Hawkins failed to detonate on terrorist D-Day. But a fight ensues. After some rough-and-tumble action between Rob and Sarah, Rob’s daughter, Allison, picks up the gun Sarah dropped and shoots the woman in the back. GREAT irony, as Rob has been teaching his daughter to shoot for protection.
Darcy, Hawkins’ wife, takes the children and leaves. She’s afraid more people will follow her wayward federal agent (that’s still TBD) husband.
Hawkins sends a bogus message to The Big Man, saying he is dead. He awaits a rendezvous point. I still wonder if Sarah might not be alive and playing opossum. That would make the rendezvous that much more delicious.
This episode was fairly slow during the first half – but not nearly as bad as the first few episodes. Still, writers picked up the pace in the final moments to leave avid Jericho fans wanting more.
Now, if they can just get us to The Big Man…
Jericho’s back on March 28, when teasers promise that some small townie will die. I hope it’s a major character and not some dweebie walk on. Shake it up a bit, people! That’s what we crave!
Check out Jericho’s site, www.whodroppedthebomb.com for the Jericho Wiki, message boards and a character elimination contest. No MySpace page – at least that I can find – like the NBC phenom Heroes.
