Jericho (2006) s01e14 Episode Script

Previously on Jericho: Bring them inside.
Some of them were on planes that landed in the middle of nowhere.
- They've been walking for weeks.
- They must have gone through hell.
Oh, my God.
Roger.
You have moderate frostbite on your toes and fingers.
You need to keep them clean and warm.
- Do you know anyone in Jericho? - Actually, I do.
Hello, Rob.
We're using the generator to power the town hall for three hours a day and the med center for six.
With 53 new people, at current levels of consumption, we will be completely out of gas and diesel in two weeks.
- Mrs.
Green? - What? Eric told me that April's pregnant.
It's the Old Man.
He's coming for us, using us against each other.
We go see him and if he is behind this, we take him out.
We leave first thing in the morning.
- Any luck out there? - Sorry, ma'am.
Nothing? Not even rabbits? Never seen anything like it before.
Nothing moving out there.
Think it was the fallout? Maybe it was the radiation that killed the deer.
There would still be dead animals, carcasses.
I mean, it was weird, like all the game had vanished.
How far out did you go? Oh, 15 miles out by Mill Pond, along the creek there.
Guess we'll have to drive, huh, Jake? Yeah, but we have to be careful about burning the gas rations in the middle of winter.
We need everything we can to run the generator.
Well, we can live without power for now, make fires to stay warm.
We won't see spring if we don't eat.
Stanley and I will have to use whatever gas we can spare, go out west, go out as far as it takes.
The rest of the hunting parties will have to scrounge around locally.
Yeah, and Mimi's coming with us.
What? Well, in case something happens to me, I wanna make sure she knows how to trap and shoot, okay? All right, look, the farther out you get, the hairier the roads are.
Food being as scarce as it is, there's bound to be trouble out there.
That sleeping bag's rated to 40 below, and here's a windproof lighter for you.
You're gonna need them both.
Good hunting.
I'm guessing the good folks of Jericho don't know about all this stuff.
They don't know about a lot of things.
That'll be enough to get us to the Old Man's place? - He is only about two hours away.
- I didn't realize he was so close.
He chose the rally point, wanted it in his backyard.
How long has he been watching you? My guess, since I stopped communications.
A few days ago.
You worried about what we're gonna find out there? You're not? We can handle him.
It's you and me.
Let's get to work.
My grandmother went faster than this and she didn't even have a car.
We have to take it easy.
We only have half a tank.
Well, hopefully we'll make it to Flint Springs.
- What do you mean? - It's got a river.
- It's prime whitetail terrain.
- You know, this is crazy.
I told you that I can't hunt.
Now you want me to kill Bambi.
You're gonna have to learn.
Everyone's doing their part.
- Bonnie's been out twice.
- Good for fricking Bonnie.
Bonnie grew up on a farm, the closest I ever got to the outdoors was the Ralph Lauren section at Neiman Marcus.
There you go, bargain hunting.
Same thing but with a gun.
Bargains? At Neiman's? Sometimes I forget that the biggest designer in your closet is Wrangler.
What are you laughing at? I've never seen you in a domestic squabble before.
- Knock it off.
- This isn't squabbling.
Oh, my God.
These dogs have tags.
Look at all this.
"Wall Drugs.
Wall, South Dakota.
" Do you think that's where all these people were from? Think about it.
South Dakota without heat, electricity or food being trucked in? It's gotta be even worse in North Dakota, Montana.
Oh, my God.
I read about this at Black Jack.
Mass migration, hundreds, thousands of people, heading South.
To outrun winter.
Should we be doing that too? How far is it? Sixty, it's about 60 yards.
So 60 yards with almost one-point-five people per yard.
That's 90, that's almost a hundred people just across.
The way the ground is trampled, you gotta figure five or ten times that amount of people came through here.
Almost a thousand people? Where are they going? South Texas, Mexico.
Any place warmer.
It would take weeks to get there by foot.
God knows how many thousands of people had the same idea.
The borders could be closed.
We don't even know if there still is a Mexico.
We should try to catch up with them.
Well, we can barely feed ourselves, let alone hundreds more.
We gotta keep going.
All right, let's go.
Excuse me, I'll be right back.
Glad you came down.
Thank you.
What time did you? Early.
Late, I guess.
I didn't wanna wake you.
You looked so peaceful.
Peaceful? Really? Did you have another one of those bad dreams? Can you put it there? Guess neither one of us got much sleep.
All I could do was think about all these people down here, you know.
I remembered about the clothes we had in the attic so I thought that sweater looked familiar.
Yeah, that woman was on layover in Kansas City when the bombs went off.
Her husband and two kids were waiting for her at home.
- Where? - Denver.
I led these people here.
For better or for worse, this is their home now.
It's on me to make sure that they're taken care of.
Of course.
What can I do to help, huh? Talk to them, follow your instincts.
Truth is, I'm winging this myself.
- I'll be outside.
- Yeah.
I should be back before dark.
And if you're not? Just tell me when I should start to worry.
This is the last time.
Okay? After today, I'm here.
For good.
Huh? Okay, I'll hold you to that.
Hi, honey.
How did it go this morning? Whole thing was a bust.
I'm sorry, hon.
Jake's out there now.
Hopefully, he and Stanley will have better luck than I did.
- Is April here? - No, she's at the clinic.
She promised me she'd take a nap.
Well, I hope it is warmer in that clinic than it is in this house.
I think this house has dropped ten degrees in the last hour.
Feels like a storm's coming in.
We better seal up these windows best way we can.
I'm going around collecting old sheets and linens.
We'll shove them underneath the doors.
Oh, oh, oh, look what I found hidden in Jake's closet.
Lord knows how long that's been there.
Oh, at least he was drinking the good stuff.
I used to hide the most awful rotgut in the world behind my mother's china cabinet.
What do you think? On an empty stomach? I'll get the glasses.
Why would anyone destroy all this? If they wanted it out of commission, then they could've just taken it.
It would be worth a fortune after the EMP.
Maybe there wasn't time.
Or maybe they just didn't care about this stuff.
Hey.
- How long? - Couple of days, give or take.
But we just heard from him yesterday.
We heard from someone, remote uplink.
Somebody else using his access codes.
Who could have done this? Wager for the first kill.
I'm in for a dozen eggs.
Two hours chopping wood.
Tax return consultation.
How about foot massages for a week? For me, not for him.
- We'll talk.
- Stanley, stop.
- What are they doing? - They're blocking the whole road.
More like staking it out.
All right, turn around.
And go where? I don't know.
Just do it, all right? Turn around.
Find another road.
- Jake.
- I see it.
Damn it.
Why are they following us? Stanley, gun it! This should get us back to the highway.
Then what? Try to make it back home.
Find the patrol.
Maybe they'll give up by then or run out of gas.
Yeah, if we don't first.
Stanley, Stanley.
Hold on! It doesn't look like he put up much of a fight.
He was probably out before he knew what hit him.
He must have trusted whoever did it.
Thing is, whoever it was, they knew what they were doing there, but not over here.
I mean, look at this.
It's a mess, but the drives, they look like they're still intact.
The Old Man had information on the entire team.
Contact information, background Last known whereabouts.
Let's find out where everybody is.
We can't outrun them.
- How far till Jericho? - Too far.
- Oh, God.
- Jake.
Stay down.
Stay down! Give me that drive you got there.
Must feel good to be back in the saddle, huh? I wish we didn't have to come out here in the first place.
What, are you getting soft on me? Too much domestic bliss? Not quite bliss.
There.
There it is.
We're in.
- Karaoke bullfighter, right? - Excuse me? At that bar in Barcelona.
You decked a bullfighter who tried to get you to stop singing that song "Stairway to Heaven.
" Did Roger tell you that? He also mentioned you like Oreo ice cream and white daisies.
Don't be mad at him.
He was trying to keep us entertained.
He kept talking, and somehow we kept moving.
Hey, how are you doing? I'm a little tired.
I'm gonna head home and get cleaned up.
Think I'll stay here for a little longer if you don't mind.
Yeah.
Yeah, of course.
- Sure? - Yeah, I'm sure.
Looks like you owe these folks a rematch.
So I will see you when I see you? Okay.
- To Jake.
- To Jake.
Who would've thought six months ago you'd be toasting him? Well, God knows Eric wouldn't have hidden the bottle.
You and Jake have always had much more in common than you wanted to admit.
Going hunting.
All those weekends.
Boy, that kid could sit in a deer stand for hours.
We wouldn't say a word to each other, just be in the woods together.
I was always afraid that Jake would forget about that.
You know, that he'd grow up only remembering the bad times.
That he wouldn't remember that we'd been close.
That we were buddies once.
He remembers.
Deep down.
That's why you mean so much to him.
Boy, that wind sounds awful.
I hope Stanley and Jake are okay out there.
Stanley? Stanley? Stanley! Jake? Jake! What happened? Jake, Stanley's not moving.
- What? - Stanley's not moving.
- Jake? - Oh, my God.
Go hide.
- Go hide.
- No.
- Go ahead.
- No, no, Stanley.
- You'll be fine.
- No.
Go hide.
Mimi! Come on, help me with Stanley.
I can't move.
Ritts, Woodworth, Pierce.
That's half the team.
- We're being hunted.
- It's worse than that.
It's Woodworth and his wife.
They were in Richmond.
That's his daughter.
- Anyone close to us is in danger too.
- No loose ends.
Don't worry about your family.
We're not gonna let anything happen to them.
It's just us, Chavez and Cheung left.
We'll get back out on the field, stay in the weeds until we can connect with the chief.
Hey, look at this.
What is that? If we are being hunted, there is the hunter.
Stanley? Are you okay? - Yeah.
- Can you get up? Yeah.
- Your leg? - I think I busted my ankle.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm okay.
I'm just stuck.
- Let me try to get this - Stanley, don't.
We can't do this ourselves.
You might make it worse.
Maybe you could dig me out.
All right, help me get the shovels.
They're in the bed of the truck.
It's gone.
All right, get the jack.
The jack's back there.
They took everything.
How was your bath? Lukewarm, then cold, then pretty much icy.
- Look, remember this? - Oh, yeah, Times Square.
New Year's Eve, 2005.
- Wasted.
- Yeah, that hangover was epic.
Hey Do you remember the last thing I said to you the night before you left Jericho? That I was selfish, that I didn't listen.
Something like that? You have no idea how that ate at me while you were gone.
- I just kept thinking that was - You were right.
You know, today, seeing you with those people, it was like you'd found yourself.
I'm still just trying to figure it out, you know.
We're not these people anymore.
No.
But I'll tell you the one thing that hasn't changed.
The one constant.
I love you.
And it's gonna take a whole lot more than the end of the world to change that.
- How are your legs? - I don't know, I can't feel anything.
The ground's frozen solid.
It's sucking the heat right out of you.
- Why can't we build a fire? - You smell the fumes? You have to get back to town.
All right, I'm gonna go try and go.
No, you can't on that ankle.
- I'll go.
- No, those guys are still out there.
They went the other way.
All right, Jericho has a patrol five miles out of town.
All right, we can't have come more than ten.
Jake, it's too dangerous.
- What are our options? - With no bags, no fire? One of you goes or we all die here.
All right, fine, fine.
I threw a flashlight over there somewhere.
You might need it.
Listen.
Stay on the shoulder the whole time, okay? If you see any headlights or you hear any engines, get low and hide.
All right? Now, you're gonna wanna head southeast.
Stanley, that doesn't mean anything to me.
Okay.
Okay, okay.
Stay on this road.
Stay on this road and then you make, you make your first left.
Okay, and you're gonna go about a mile and then you're gonna make your second right.
And you're gonna make another right and then another left.
And then once you get to the crossroads of the highway, you're home free.
You'll see a big sign pointing to the way to Jericho, okay? Got it? Left, second right.
- Right, left.
- Right.
- Mimi, I - Don't worry.
Don't worry.
I'll be careful.
Okay.
Okay.
Here's what we're gonna do.
I know a place, it's safe.
We take Darcy and the kids out of Jericho and stash them before you and I get back on the move.
- I am not leaving them alone.
- I don't think you have a choice.
No, see, because I've got leverage.
If they kill me, they will never find the package.
It's not you they're gonna kill.
It'll be Sam or Darcy or me.
Anything they can use to get to you.
Anything they can use to get to me.
The body.
These, these These half-smashed drives.
This whole This whole setup.
If someone had wanted to destroy all this, why leave the house standing, huh? Why not just burn it all down? Someone wanted us to see all this.
We're being played.
Why would anyone go through all that trouble? I don't know.
But this is all too big now.
There's too many angles to cover.
Too many unknowns.
- I need to get home.
- Robert, wait.
What? Let's think about this.
What's the plan? What are you going to do? You know, maybe the plan all along was to get us out here.
I gotta protect my family, Sarah.
And what about the package? It'll need to be moved.
Come on.
It's not so bad, right? Hey, we've been through worse.
Remember the time we got stuck on the roof of the town hall in the middle of a lightning storm? We were so afraid the lightning was gonna blow up the fireworks.
You squealed like a little girl, wanting to jump off that roof.
That was you.
Your voice hadn't changed yet.
Oh, please.
I had you beat by like six months.
Drink some water.
- It's frozen right through.
- What? Stanley.
I saw an abandoned cabin about a quarter mile up the road.
- You need to get inside.
- No.
It'll hurt, but you can make it.
- Jake, I'm staying.
- Listen to me.
There's no point in both of us freezing to death out here.
- She's coming back.
- When? She's been gone for like an hour.
It'll take her a little while to reach the patrol.
But when she does, she'll find someone.
- I know she'll find someone.
- Unless somebody finds her first.
Look, it's gonna get dark soon.
You need to go.
No.
You wouldn't leave me any more than I'm leaving you.
Mimi's strong.
She'll find her way.
Wait.
He said keep going east.
Southeast.
And look for a sign.
Oh, God.
God, I hate this place.
Oh, God.
I hate this place.
Jake.
Jake! Come on, man, you can't fall asleep.
You gotta stay up, come on.
You stopped shivering.
Come on, you gotta talk to me.
Come on, come on, buddy.
You gotta talk to me.
Talk to me, buddy, come on.
- I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
- For what? Five years ago.
Sorry I left the way I did.
Hey, it's okay.
It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter.
I was gonna call.
- I was gonna call.
- I know, listen.
I want you to forget about it, okay? We never got to go backpacking in Costa Rica.
You know what? We're still gonna get to go backpacking in Costa Rica, okay? We're gonna, we're gonna learn how to surf.
We're gonna sleep on the beach.
As soon as the planes are up and running again.
It's gonna be you and me.
Hell, you can fly us there yourself, huh? Come on, come on.
Tell me something good, man.
I haven't talked to you in five years.
You've been gone for five years.
Tell me, hey, tell me about San Diego.
How was it? - Warm.
- Warm, right.
Beaches, blonds, huh? What were you doing there? - Flying, flying planes.
- Really? That's cool, man.
Your grandfather would have been psyched, huh? Did you have a girl there? I know you had a girl.
She's dead.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
What do you mean? You don't know that.
I mean, it all depends on where she was when the bombs went off, right? I mean, she could have made it, right? - Tell me what her name was.
- She's dead.
It was my fault.
- It's not your fault.
- Let me lay down.
- Jake, no.
- Let me lay down, come on.
It wasn't your fault.
Come on.
Stay with me, you gotta stay with me.
Come on, come on.
Come on, Jake.
Stay with me, Jake.
Come on, man.
Come on.
Stay with me.
Okay, okay, okay.
Gotta keep moving, gotta keep moving.
Please don't hurt me.
Please don't hurt me.
Please don't hurt me! - Please don't hurt me.
- It's Mimi.
- Mimi? - It's Gail and Johnston Green.
- Honey, you're safe.
- Oh, thank God.
Come on, baby, let's get out of here.
Come on.
Those are hideous.
Are those the sheets from your old apartment? Because you can't expect anyone to sleep on those.
If anyone asks, we'll pretend someone else donated them.
Your dress.
Guess I shouldn't be seeing this, huh? The day's sort of come and gone so - It'll come again.
- You think? I do.
Tell you what, I got a pack of ramen noodles with your name on it, what do you say? Great.
I'll deliver this to the shelter and come back and wash up.
Roger, wait.
I'll come with you.
Jake? Jake.
It's Mom and Dad, honey.
- Stanley, are you all right, sweetheart? - Stanley, Stanley.
Need to go get in the truck and get warm, now.
- Where's Mimi? - I'm right here.
- She's fine.
- Stanley, I'm right here.
Wake up, wake up.
Wake up, Jake.
Wake up, wake up, thank God.
We're gonna help you, honey.
Yeah, we saw the storm coming.
And we started to worry when you hadn't come back.
- Sweetheart.
- Okay.
Honey, we're not gonna be able to get this truck off of him.
I need you to take these guys back to town and get me some help out here.
Signal when you're coming back so I know it's you.
- I'll flash the lights.
- All right, go, go, go! Jake.
Jake, look at me, son.
Look here, you're gonna make it, son.
I know you.
I know what you're made of.
You're gonna be all right.
You're gonna make it.
Stay with me now.
Darcy? Allie? Sam? Robert.
Please, the kids are sleeping.
- I'm sorry.
- What are you doing? Oh, I'm sorry.
Hey.
Jake, you'll be home real soon.
But you gotta stay with me now.
Come on.
Dad, leave me alone.
I'm not going anywhere.
But you gotta hang on.
Now, they'll be here soon, son.
Dad, I'm sorry.
Son, you got nothing to be sorry about.
Open your eyes, Jake.
Come on now.
Look at me.
Look at me, Jake.
I can see her.
See who? The girl.
What girl? Jake, I think you're hallucinating, son.
No, listen to me.
When I was in Iraq, there was a girl.
She couldn't have been more than 10 or 1 2.
Don't talk now, son.
Save your energy.
We can talk when we get home.
I killed her, Dad.
I killed a little girl.
Hurry up! Jake.
Jake.
Open your eyes, Jake.
- Open your eyes.
- Son, we'll get you out.
- Jake.
- All right, everyone on three.
One, two, three.
All right, he's free.
Get the board in here.
One, two, three.
Okay.
You were right.
I need to get my family as far away from me as possible.
I've been thinking and there's no other choice.
- You're doing the right thing.
- Yeah.
Listen.
After they're safe, you and me need to get back in the field.
That's half our team gone, Sarah.
And whoever did that did it for a reason.
How are you gonna tell Darcy? I'll tell her after I've moved them.
She'll never agree if she knows I won't be staying with them.
He's better off here than the med center.
We're still on emergency power, and it's warmer here.
Here, honey.
- What about his injuries? - The cut on his head isn't very deep.
And neither one of his legs are broken.
- He's very lucky.
- I'm freezing.
I'm gonna go get you some more blankets.
You're still hypothermic.
It's just gonna take a few hours for your body to stabilize.
- Can we have a minute? - Oh, sure.
Dad.
What I told you out there.
Please forget it.
Please.
I'm afraid I can't do that.
I've seen a lot of things in my time, Jake.
I've been to war.
I know what war can do.
I know what men can do.
Terrible, terrible things.
I know what I did.
You can talk to me.
When you're ready, son.
When you're ready.
Are you okay? Yeah.
How's the sprain? I think it'd be better with painkillers, but I'm not gonna complain.
You know, for a while there, I didn't think I'd ever feel anything again.
When I was out there, just for a moment, I didn't think I was gonna make it.
And I stopped, to rest.
And then I just didn't even wanna move.
But you did.
- Yeah.
- You did make it.
And I knew you would.
Your lips are still cold.
Yeah, maybe you can warm them.
That's the worst line I've ever heard.
I know.
I've got others.
- Shut up.
- Okay.
Tomorrow morning, we're leaving.
We're leaving? For where? - I don't know yet.
- You don't know? Darcy, when I came to get you in D.
C.
, I told you it wasn't safe.
But I couldn't tell you why.
I'm going for a walk.
I have something in my possession, and there's people out there that want it.
They will stop at nothing to get it.
And that puts you, me and the kids in danger here.
Okay, so then we go.
I trust you.
Robert, do you? Do you trust me? - You're late.
- You're impatient.
Yeah.
Then listen to me.
Okay? Sarah is not on our side.
Now, whatever's gone on between the two of you, I'm telling you, Robert, she's not here to help us.
- Have you located the package? - Soon.
Hawkins is starting to put the pieces together.
- He needs to be eliminated.
- I know.
We've already eliminated the other three targets without incident.
Why are you stalling on this one? Because this one is different.