Jericho (2006) s01e13 Episode Script

Previously on Jericho: So you and I are gonna be partners now.
Where'd you get that? You're running the store.
You're gonna need protection.
Don't make the same mistake that Gracie made.
Those people out there are gonna be putting flowers and candles on the sidewalk for you.
Who the hell is that? Remember, the gas tank on this thing is on the left-hand side.
If somebody starts shooting at you, make sure it's not on that side.
Okay, anything else? So are we going to see you for Thanksgiving? Oh, I think Mary and I are gonna spend it together.
You're always welcome.
Thanks, but I don't wanna put you in an awkward position.
You could have thought of that before you moved in with your mistress and left your wife with us.
Some of them were on planes.
They landed in the middle of nowhere.
They've been walking for weeks.
They must have gone through hell.
Oh, my God.
Roger.
Is it really you? Darcy, I need you to keep the kids in the house for a while - until I can sort something out.
- Are we in danger, Robert? Moderate frostbite on your toes and fingers.
You need to keep them clean and warm.
Do you have a place to stay? Do you know anyone in Jericho? Actually, I do.
It's freezing in here too.
Mr.
Bintner? Mr.
Bintner? Joe? Temperature dropped so fast.
It's gonna be a long winter.
All right, everyone.
Everyone, please! Please.
Right now we're using the generator to power the town hall for three hours a day, the med center for six.
This is how much fuel we have.
And this is how much we need to get us through the winter.
At current levels of consumption, we will be completely out of gas and diesel in two weeks.
I wonder when the dancing girls show up.
Stop.
There's a way of doing this without scaring the crap out of everybody.
He was elected.
He's just gonna do it his way.
Oh, I'm gonna need a hobby.
Here's what we're working on.
All right, we've got organized firewood crews.
They'll heat the town-hall shelters.
There's a woman in that group of refugees that Bill is processing.
- I think you should talk to her.
- Why? Because she said she used to be a cop in Saint Louis.
Especially with 53 new people among us, we have got to start rethinking things, fast.
Or the people we lost last night won't be the only casualties of this coming winter.
- What about the windmills? - Right.
- Wind power.
- It's a great idea.
- We should be building windmills.
- Harry.
I think you all know Harry Carmichael, our chief engineer down at the mine.
Harry? We've been looking into wind turbines for weeks with Green, but in order to build anything that can be connected to the grid, it's gonna take time.
Time I'm not sure we can afford.
- She's in here.
- Thanks.
Hello, Rob.
We need parts we don't have.
We simply don't have the machining capabilities.
What kind of parts? Mechanical governors to regulate output.
With the EMP damage we're figuring out a lot of this from scratch.
- It's still a long way off.
- Black Jack Fairgrounds.
We walked through it on our way back here.
It's become a trading post.
People from all over the region are trading food, information, machine parts.
They may have what we need.
That's gotta be a 200-mile drive.
That's a lot of gas for a maybe.
If we can get one windmill working, we'd save that much gas in a month.
If we get enough of them we could be off gas for good.
It might not be a bad idea to put a small party together and go check it out.
Is anyone interested in volunteering? I know it was you.
- What? - Those men that grabbed me.
They said that someone on my team sold us all out.
- They said it was you.
- And you believe them? - Tell me why I shouldn't.
- Come on.
You're smart enough to know they'd say anything to get you to talk.
And because you know I owe you my life as much as you owe me yours.
Because you just You just punched me in the face and I didn't hit you back.
- Who else is here? - No one.
Victor showed up just after D-day.
- He only made it for a couple of hours.
- Did you kill him? It was the radiation from Denver.
No one else made it back here to the rally point? No.
Are you gonna tell me how you got out of that room? Three armed guys, cuffs? Three guys and cuffs keep you in that room? One of them got too close.
Then there was only two.
Two is easy.
From there I drove as fast as I could.
Saw the clouds from D.
C.
and Baltimore.
Ran out of gas in West Virginia.
Went from refugee camp to refugee camp however I could.
I'm glad you made it.
You left me.
I know.
So, what now? We caught wind of some raiding parties at interchanges here and here.
But if you're careful, you should be safe the rest of the way.
And once you're at Black Jack, watch your back.
Thieves? Not the thieves you gotta worry about.
It's the guards.
They've got a reputation for being really ruthless.
Without the cops or the National Guard it's the only way they guarantee it's safe enough to keep commerce going there.
You'd better take two or three of the border-patrol guys with you.
Just in case you run into any surprises.
I'm coming too.
Not a chance in hell.
Would you know a working mechanical governor for a wind turbine if you saw one? Yes.
No, I'm not taking passengers out there.
No.
No.
No.
Jake, Mr.
Carmichael has a family.
I can help.
You need me.
- Mrs.
Green? - What? Eric told me that April's pregnant.
I just - If there's anything that I can do - Mary, I think you've done quite enough.
Always gotta be the first one to jump in the fire, don't you? Somebody's gotta go.
Well, it just seems like that someone is always you.
Gray's having a few bags of salt packed up for us to trade.
Smart.
Who else is going? Apparently Heather.
Gray thinks I should take a couple of the guys from border patrol.
That's it? I'm not sure pulling them off patrol just to watch my back is such a good idea.
Besides, only a handful of them even know what they're doing.
You don't think I can watch your back? Why, do you wanna go? You've already seen what it's like out there.
I just need to see it for myself.
Besides, I'm unemployed, I'm not obsolete.
Did you ask Mom? Son, I'm 59 years old.
I was mayor of this town since the Carter administration.
I'm a retired U.
S.
Army Ranger and a combat veteran.
Of course I asked your mother.
I could go downstairs and warm some water for a bath for you.
I didn't think I was ever gonna finish this.
Hey, we have a guest.
This is Sarah.
Hey, Dale? Dale? Hey, what are you doing back there? - Inventory.
- Is it that bad? Well, Mr.
Houghton just showed up with Mrs.
Leigh's cut of the produce.
- What the hell is that? - Yeah, exactly.
Did you point out that it's rotten? They're all screwing me.
Hardly anyone's honoring their deals.
My dad used to have to deal with stuff like this all the time down at the salt mine.
Well, how did he do it? He just did whatever it took to keep things running.
I'm not shutting this place down.
Actually, I may have good news about that.
But you might have to take a little trip.
Jake? I need to talk to you.
All right.
I shouldn't have sprung this on you.
This is too weird.
What? What's weird? Okay.
I kissed you, a month ago.
We haven't spoken since.
Generally, people speak after something like that.
I'm just gonna, you know I know, I'm - I'm sorry, really - You don't have to apologize.
I'm not upset.
I understand why it happened.
Look, I wanna go because I think I can help get this place back up on its feet.
That's it.
It's not a date.
Mr.
Mayor? I'm not the mayor anymore, Dale.
What is it? I need to come with you.
I wanna take it all.
Trade it for something I can actually use to build this store up again.
Whatever I don't use I'll put towards supplies the town needs.
You're just gonna give it away to the town for nothing? It's the right thing to do, isn't it? I just wanna help.
Well, this is one hell of a crew we're putting together here.
All right.
We'll leave first thing in the morning.
You just happened to know someone who just happened to wander into town? Hey.
Hey, look at me.
I'm not gonna lie to you, but I can't I can't tell you any more than I already have.
So she's a friend, okay? Last time you let someone from that part of your life into our home was four years ago.
- This is different.
- You couldn't tell me who he was.
Then you told me not to worry.
Two weeks later, you left.
I didn't see you again until two months ago.
- This is different.
- Sam cried for weeks.
He was 4 years old.
He didn't understand why you'd wanna leave him.
I just I don't know if I can watch him go through that again.
Rob, what is going on here? Rob? Come here.
What is this? So I'm being watched.
- By who? - My guess, the Old Man.
What? You still have the package, don't you? He's been coordinating this thing from the beginning, feeding us information.
- Why would he turn on us now? - I don't know.
Do you still have a way to reach him? And have you told him that you made contact with me yet? - Not yet.
- Then do it.
You do it and you see what he says.
"Thieves will be strung up"? I need your guns.
Pick them up on the way out.
Go ahead.
They're kidding about the strung up thing, right? They don't mean that literally.
Looks like everyone checks in here at the main tent.
They try and match buyers to the sellers.
They gave me three possibilities of sellers - that might have parts for the windmill.
- It's like eBay.
Stop! Not like eBay.
All right, look, see if you can find the governor.
I'm gonna stick with Dale, see what he can trade for.
Let's do this thing quick and then we're out of here.
Good morning.
Good morning.
Last night you fell asleep mid-sentence.
- I did? - Yes, you did.
Standing up right there at the sink, shaving.
You were gonna tell me what you've seen out there and Roger, I I don't wanna push.
I can't even imagine how awful it was for you out there, I just A lot of it was.
Listen, if I tell you something, will you promise not to think I've lost it? Of course.
Out there, I saw something.
I haven't told anybody about it.
I can't explain it.
Thing is, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
From there, I ended up in a tent city outside of Lexington.
So, what are they like? The camps? Each is different.
Some are overcrowded, dangerous.
Some are better run.
Did you see people with radiation poisoning? - Some, yes.
- What do they look like? Lots of burns, tissue loss, some vomiting.
Allie, Sam, upstairs.
How do you know my dad? We work together.
Do you know how to play football? Of course I do.
Doesn't everybody? - Not everybody.
- Samuel, now.
Come on.
You know, these kids have been through enough.
I'm sorry.
Look, I don't know you, and I really don't want to.
I know the kind of people my husband works with.
And no matter how close the two of you are, I don't need my kids exposed to that world.
I've been married to this man for a long time.
I got pretty good at reading between the lines.
Thanks, Mary.
Why don't you and I sit down together and have a drink? Hey, how much? - Beg pardon? - How much? How much for what? I don't know.
An hour? An hour of what? - Wait, what? No! - How about a half hour? - Is everything all right? - I'm not a hooker, pal.
- Then what are you doing here? - All right, that's enough That's enough, man.
- Is there a problem here? - Hey, no, no.
No problem.
Everything's fine.
No kidding, buddy.
You don't wanna mess with the guards.
It gets ugly fast.
Thanks for the help.
Heather.
My God.
- Oh, I can't believe you're here.
- I know.
- Jake, this is Ted Lewis.
- Hey, how you doing? We grew up together over in New Bern.
This is Russell and Mike.
- Hey.
- We already met.
I was so worried about you.
We were gonna send a party to make contact with you guys but the roads were just so dangerous.
What are you guys doing here? We're looking for parts for a windmill generator.
Unsuccessfully.
Hey, there's a guy we deal with here who doesn't always report to the main tent, but sometimes he's got those specialty items nobody else has.
- Do you wanna see him? - Yeah, let's check it out.
All right.
Hey, hey, hey, get this stuff out of here before somebody sees it.
- Why, what's wrong with it? - Nickel.
- Silver stuff is all alloyed with it.
- So? So nickel absorbs radioactivity.
Stuff that's looted from hot zones is making people sick.
Nobody wants it.
This stuff was nowhere near the fallout.
Look, if I can't sell it, I can't sell it.
What do you want me to tell you? What else you got? So, what does have value here? Not much of what you got.
Check the board over there.
- Why salt? - It's a preservative.
It's an antibiotic.
You need 1500 milligrams of it a day to survive.
Romans actually used it as currency.
Whole African empires were based on the control and the supply of it.
Wars have been fought over salt.
Food, medical supplies, a generator, all airdropped, all from China.
What? Yeah, we got an airdrop too.
Thing is, it was from Germany.
It's aid.
I mean, it must be coming from all over the world.
Well, if aid's coming from all over the world, then who did this to us? Group of thugs a few weeks back.
Guys claiming to be government contractors.
So the mayor felt we should make security a priority.
He resigned his office and appointed Sheriff Constantino acting city manager.
Contractors, who were they? Security detail from a company called Ravenwood.
They came in looking for supplies.
A few of the shop owners resisted and they got violent.
Killed three and injured eight.
They drove off with a truckload of our diesel.
But since then the sheriff's managed to keep control of things.
Crime really isn't a problem for us anymore.
How did he manage that? - What is this? - News.
Where does all this come from? People pass through here from all over.
Everyone brings a little piece of the puzzle.
Something to write on? Yeah.
Yeah.
You guys don't get out much, do you? It gets better.
- What are the stars for? - Capitals.
Of what? Federal government.
Federal government? But There are six stars up there.
Where's the president? Which one? Six presidents.
I don't understand.
Who's in charge of the military? You're assuming there's only one of those.
All right, come on, let's go.
Isn't there a line of succession so that there's only one successor? The word is HHS Secretary Charles is supposed to be next in line, but there are five other guys who think that the attacks changed the rules.
Senator Morrisette in Oregon, Senator Tomarchio in Wyoming.
They're all staking a claim, gathering support.
Well, then what happens? How do they figure out who's in charge? Either they start making deals, compromise Or? Or they fight.
Six bags of soybean seed and still this is not enough.
Maybe this whole thing was a bad idea.
It's a start.
Dale, wait up.
It'd be a lot easier if you'd close the store, wouldn't it? But instead you're out here trying to keep it going.
I think Gracie would be proud of you.
I think your mom would be proud of you too.
When my mom died, there was nothing I could do about it.
Then after Mrs.
Leigh Mitchell Cafferty is gonna get his due, whether Gray finds him or not.
Sooner or later, he's gonna cross the wrong person.
One of these days it's gonna catch up with him.
I don't like to drink while I'm working.
To be honest, I had difficulty understanding how many ways I dislike you.
You made a list? - Mrs.
Green, I don't think l - Wait.
This will work a lot better if you just sit there and listen to what I have to say.
What you and Eric did to April was awful.
But she's gonna get through this because she is one strong woman.
But there's a baby on the way, and it happens to be my grandchild.
And I intend to do everything I can to protect it from this world.
But what you've done, I can't protect it from.
You've divided the family.
And as hard as that child's life is going to be, you have made it so much more difficult.
I don't think that's something I'll ever be able to forgive.
Okay.
When I was a kid, my mom split on my dad and I.
She left with this guy she met in Denver.
This isn't about you.
This'll work a lot better if you just sit there and listen to what I have to say.
I lay awake at night terrified that I have put April in the same position my dad was in.
Terrified that I have put this child in the same position that I was in.
My mistake was falling in love with your son.
I never should have let it happen, but it did.
I know the cost.
I know how wrong it is.
But the problem is he loves me too.
I don't know how you undo that.
So if you wanna go on hating me, and never accept me, I can't say I blame you.
So I went to find help.
I was more messed up than I thought.
I wandered for days, eventually passed out in this field.
So there I was, out in Nebraska, feeling like that was the place I was going to die.
And then the strangest thing happened.
There was a light in the sky.
A bright light with a ring around it.
I went towards it.
Ten miles later, I stumbled into the refugee camp.
That light saved my life.
Hey, I've been looking all over for you.
Did you find the part? I think so.
Did you see the news? You looking to trade for a mechanical governor? - Yeah.
- Okay, let's talk trade.
Eight bags of salt at 35 pound per? Russell, what do they think? They're the first ones to think of this? Now, these parts are in high demand.
I'm not giving it away.
- What more is it gonna take? - What more? I turned away a guy just this morning, and he offered 80 gallons of diesel for the thing.
Hey, listen, we have more salt than you can imagine.
We have the largest salt mine for 400 miles and we've got men to mine it.
If you ever wanna see any of it, we need to make this deal right now.
Today.
You understand? Look, here, listen.
I'll vouch for them, all right? All right.
All right, we got a deal.
Wait here.
I'll go get it.
These things aren't easy to make, you know.
Not the good ones, anyway.
- Dad, this is Russell.
- Hi.
Good to meet you.
Mr.
Mayor? No kidding, Dale.
I am not the mayor anymore.
There's blood on them.
- Need some help there? - What the hell is this? Are you conducting an inspection or are we doing a deal? No, we're not supporting that.
We'll find another solution.
Well, then we're all done here, aren't we? Why don't you get out? Get out of here.
Get out! Get out! Get out! You too, get out of here.
Get out of here.
- Guys, I'm so sorry.
We had no idea - We need that part.
- And we'll have to figure out a way to - Where's Dale? Dale, where'd you get off to? Don't just wander off like that.
Come on.
Did you steal that? He's a bad guy.
He can't get away with that.
We gotta get that back before they realize it's missing.
- I went out the back.
No one saw me.
- Hey, hold it! Hold it! Hold it! Hand him over.
He made a mistake, all right? He'll give back what he took.
There's no harm done, all right? Excuse me.
You know, he really is sorry and the property is back where it belongs.
You can explain it to management.
I'm just asking you, use a little discretion, that's all.
Please.
Excuse me, but could I talk to whoever's in charge here? Look, old man, I told you That's enough! Hey.
How long have you been with the FBI? Fourteen years.
Started right out of college.
It's dangerous out there, isn't it? I don't think your mom wants me talking to you about that.
I'm not a kid.
It's pretty bad.
My dad's been teaching me how to shoot.
I wonder if that's why.
He's been teaching you how to shoot? A little.
I'm not sure if I like it.
It's a weird feeling, but it's the first time I can remember the two of us actually doing something together.
Where's your father? It's the Old Man.
He's coming for us, using us against each other.
He knows where you are.
We need to go.
We need to move now.
- No, I don't know.
- You don't know? This country is gonna be what we make of it.
There are only a handful of other people that know what we know.
We have to keep fighting.
We have to stay alive.
No.
We go see him.
And if he is behind this, we take him out.
Take him out? Yeah, I mean, how long can we run? How long can my family run? No, we pay him a visit, we eliminate the threat.
We go straight at him, there is a chance we don't come back.
You're leaving.
When she walked in that door I knew right away you'd be leaving.
You have nothing to worry about.
It's not me that I'm worried about.
Hey, our children need a father.
Whatever you're gonna do, it can't be more important than that.
Do you trust her? I have to.
If she's a threat to this family's safety, if she's a threat to you, you kill her.
Understand? Get in! Hurry! - Go! - Go! Go! Go! Stop the car.
Jake, this car will not fit through that barricade.
Stop the car now! Jake! Thanks, I don't know how this would have turned out if it weren't for you guys.
- You'll make it up to us someday.
- However we can help.
Those windmills you're looking to build, I was thinking the guys down at the old brake assembly, maybe they can convert part of their plant, help build what you need.
I know the town could use a good source of salt.
Yeah.
Looks like we're gonna be seeing a lot of each other.
- See you, guys.
Take care.
- Pleasure.
- Thank you so much.
- No problem.
What? Jake, I saw the governor.
I saw how it's put together.
I was talking to Ted, and I think between the two of us, we can help to make more of them.
But I have to go with him.
- Them? Wait a minute - No.
Think about it.
We don't have the resources to do this the right way.
They've got the machines and the guys who know how to use them.
With a dozen full-size windmills you could power the whole town.
Run the med center.
Forget about gas.
You're just gonna leave? Right now? It won't be for very long.
Just a few days.
But I know I can help.
I think I need to do this.
You think this is a good idea? You know why things didn't work out between us? I'm not dangerous.
I'm crossword puzzles, and flannel pajamas, and the occasional light beer.
I was never gonna be hazardous to you.
- That's how you tick.
- No, it isn't.
Of course it is.
But it's okay.
If it wasn't, your dad would probably be dead right now.
You and I would have never met on that bus.
So I'm taking a page out of your book.
I'm throwing caution to the wind.
I'm gonna help turn the lights on for everyone back home.
Just for a few days.
You worried about me? Come back in one piece.
- Dad? - Yeah? We're out of the good toothpaste.
Oh, well, here's the new stuff that Mr.
Daley made.
- This isn't toothpaste.
- Yeah, it is.
Are you playing a joke on me? No.
Hey, you know, when you were teething you never cried.
See, because most babies, they cry, but not you.
And your mom was worried, and the doctors were worried, but not me.
Because I knew that you weren't sick, you weren't hurt, you were just brave.
Because you're the bravest person I know.
You always have been.
- Dad? - Yeah? What are you talking about? Sam, I have to go to work tomorrow.
It's a very important meeting, but it's quite far away, so I might not be back for a day or two and I just wanted you to know that.
Are you mad at me? What? You're leaving.
Hey.
You listen to me.
There is nothing that you, your sister or your mother could ever do that will make me wanna leave you.
I I love you.
You understand that, right? Hey, welcome home.
Success? - You get the part? - We had it.
Then we lost it.
- Where's Heather? - Getting the lights back on.
You do realize that what happened today was unnecessary.
- Yes.
- And stupid.
You got a lot of responsibility now.
You're gonna have to learn how to be smart.
I understand.
And you, you knew that this car was not gonna fit through that gate.
I know.
I heard you talking to me and I knew you were right.
Why didn't you stop the car? I don't know.
Hey, what'd you get? Look at all this stuff.
Oh, you did great.
This is nothing.
Skylar, how much of the salt mine does your family own? I don't know, why? Because I think we may be rich.
You okay? Yeah.
Look I am glad you made it.
We leave first thing in the morning.