The other day at work I was asked to take a non-English-speaking Chinese housekeeper to the hospital because she became dizzy after a shower curtain rod fell on her head. This episode of Jericho was kind of like that situation, in that it led to confusion, laughter, and ultimately disappointment, as I did not actually get to go with her in the end, and Jericho still doesn't make any sense.
But that doesn't mean we don't love it. We begin this week with Jake and Fat Cop breaking into someone's house and yelling their name. Victor? Vendor? Bender? Robots aren't just hanging around Jericho, Jake. Try the future. They inch up the stairs and find a pile of blankets, which causes Jake to struggle up a face of Extreme Disappointment. He lifts the blankets to find a rather white old gentlemen, dead with an expression that says, "How on earth did Sanjaya survive another week?" Fat Cop says it's because the temperature dropped so fast, which just conjures up images of The Day After Tomorrow, in which I picture Jake being chased through the streets of Jericho by a deadly layer of frost. Someone let me make a movie, already.
"Shouldn't have gone with that burrito, Jake."
Conveniently enough, a town meeting is taking place about this very issue (the generator problem, that is, not fast-moving ice or Jake Gyllenhaal). Winter's here and there's not enough power to heat people's homes. Grey is at the helm, gabbing on and on about how totally screwed they all are. He joyfully announces that at the current levels of consumption, they'll all be out of gas and diesel in only two weeks. Papa Green, sadly sitting in the audience and not busting out his rockin' Mayor skillz, mumbles to Mama that Grey is only succeeding in scaring everyone. Heather pipes up, and I immediately think that her solution is going to be something like harvesting the blood of unicorns to power the rainbow machine. Instead, she suggests that they should be building windmills. Hey, Heather? Shut up. Harry, some sort of energy dude, shows up to give them all some more grim statistics. There is general dismay and a round of grumbling.
Meanwhile, Fat Cop has informed Hawkins of the presence of his sexy mystery woman. Hawkins skips on over to the Sheriff's office and he Looks at her. This means Something. But I'm not yet sure What.
Henry the energy guy is on Hour 2 of shooting down Heather's windmill idea, saying that they don't have the parts that they need. Roger, of the Returned Legion of Zombies, pipes up and tells everyone about the Black Jack Fairgrounds. He and his undead buddies wandered through there during one of their marches of death, and discovered that it has become a sort of trading post, with people exchanging food, information, machine parts, and Wiis. Grey balks, but Heather's whining is too powerful for one man to stop, so she eventually convinces him and the town to put a small gang together to go check it out. Any volunteers? Every single citizen looks back at Jake, who's all like "Wha? Me? I'm just a simple circus performer! I know nothing of these machine parts you speak of! What is bomb?"
Credits. They still play little snippets of Morse Code over the title screen, and they used to list what they meant over on Wikipedia but some douchebag took it out. Anyone out there understand Morse Code? It's imperative to national security, dammit!
Over at the Sheriff Office of Luuurve, Sara punches Hawkins in the face. And it's about time someone did, I say. She says someone on the team sold them out and she knows it's him, but Hawkins denies everything. Why? Well she punched him but he didn't punch back, so that means...something. This is quite the battle of wits we've found ourselves in. She relents and asks if anyone else has showed up, and Hawkins tells her about Victor, that guy who turned up earlier in the season who looked like he had been microwaved. Anyway, he only survived a few hours and didn't spill the beans about anything. No one else made it back to the rally point, which by now we all know is Jericho. How did she escape, by the way? Well, due to her classes in Jack Bauer Kickassery, she was able to take out all three of her captors and escape, running from refugee camp to refugee camp. Hawkins is glad she made it. She points out that he left her. He knows. A smoldering love fest, that's what this is.
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Comments (4)
Thanks for the recap! We missed a little bit and you filled it in. I'm having fun with this show. It's like reading a good comic book.
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Posted on March 4, 2007 10:42 PM
You're right, those Hawkins sure do a lot of dish washing.
I almost gave up on it last year, but the show has gotten more interesting this season.
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Posted on March 5, 2007 6:58 AM
This show is so ridiculous, it's entertaining. I'm glad it's back!
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Posted on March 5, 2007 12:29 PM
The Hawkins family is always burning tons of candles at a time. Shouldn't the town have run out of candles, like, five weeks ago? Where does everyone keep getting brand-new candles from?
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Posted on March 5, 2007 12:55 PM