Cut to everyone riding around on horseback, "scouting". Looks like a merry game of polo to me. One of them finds a suspicious truck, so they immediately assume that it's a supply truck and get right to it. Hawkins sets up his sniper rifle while Jake and Eric ride up behind the truck. Jake pulls forward to the cab and climbs on, pointing the gun at the driver. Suddenly, a bunch of motorcycles pull up behind them, while a bunch of hooligans trap Hawkins and Emily. A car pulls up and out of it steps Jonah, our old squirrelly friend and Emily's father from the beginning of the season. To review: Jonah is a douchebag. Review complete.
Papa, apparently in the mood to experience the effects of repeatedly running into a wall, is currently trying to bargain with Dale. He wants Dale's "men" to help take out the mortars, but the little sonuvabitch wants more farms before he gives him any help. He brats that it's "just business". I think that Papa should take Dale out back and give him a much-deserved ass-whooping, but instead he winces and asks Dale to just do it. For him. Eh, a beating would be more effective.
Jonah has apparently been getting by for the past few months by robbing trucks for a living. Admirable. He asks Emily to come with him, because every truck-robbing gang sure does need an elementary school teacher. She says she can't leave Jericho (again - why? Is it the free hourly orgasms?), then goes one step further and asks for him and his men to help them defend their fair town. In fact, she promises him half of the town's stuff. Uh, Emily, might want to run that by someone else before you start giving away valuable resources. Because the last time that happened, well, you're at war now. Just saying.
Papa is trying to convince a couple farmers not to give in. Good luck with that. The team returns with Jonah, when Fat Cop arrives to announce that Grey has his seven farms (nice work, Pops) so he's about to call up Constantino and inform him of the happy news. Papa decides that it is in their best interest to "make a deal with the devil". The devil being Jonah. He sends Eric and Stanley off to prevent Grey from making the call. I hope their strategy involves some sort of interpretive dance.
Alas, their plan simply consists of barging in and yelling. Which, as this show has proven time and time again, is ALWAYS effective. Grey is quite fussy at the moment, so he screams and whines for them to leave. But they don't want to. His security goons try to wrestle them out, but they fight back and everyone draws their guns. Really, everyone. I think a few people hiding in garbage cans pop up just so they can draw their guns as well. And we cut to commercial.
And we're back. Eric informs Grey that Jonah has joined them, and that the team is going to be able to take down the mortars. Grey dissolves into a blubbering idiot. And Constantino is calling. Great. Eric tells him not to make the deal, and instructs him to instead stall and buy some time by fabricating a bunch of detailed negotiations. Apparently Grey is "good at this", though from what I've seen the only thing Grey is good at is bitching at everyone for his own failures. And then getting shot.
Team Jericho, meanwhile, have loaded themselves into an enemy truck somehow. I don't know, I think I blacked out for a portion of this plotline. Either way, Papa is now in the cab of the truck with some guy he competed against in a bass fishing competition once. Really. The truck arrives at the enemy camp, and when Papa sticks a gun in the driver's side, he tells his superior that he has chow in the back. The guys at the camp all gather around the back of the truck, all excited that they're getting some food, when...WAHP WAHP. It's a handful of armed men instead! Hilarious!
"Oh boy, food!"
"Hello."
"You're not food!"
Grey, meanwhile, is still yammering on and on to Constantino, arguing the finer points of dairy farms vs. soy farms vs. corn farms. Wow. Apparently Constantino is just as fed up with this debate as I am, as he catches on with what Grey is trying to do and immediately tells him that the negotiation is over. Good on you, Constantino.
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Comments (3)
This was by far the best recap of the entire season!! I laughed out loud a few times. My coworkers are looking at me funny.
My biggest question during this whole episode: Whatever happened to that TANK the good people of Jericho stashed in Stanley's barn? Why aren't they hauling that out?
In any case, I still really like the show, and I think it's really getting good now that they've expanded to what's going on beyond Jericho.
1 of 3 | Posted by mandymax
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Posted on May 7, 2007 7:05 AM
mandy, I agree-great recap! And the show is getting more interesting, at least enough to keep me tuning in every week to see what happens. I'm just tired of the convenient plot lines, the easy outs by the writers. For instance, Emily who up until now has only been helping out in the hospital or other "safe" areas, suddenly decides she has to go on a scouting mission with Jake. Oh, how convenient, because she's along Jonah & his merry men don't shoot Jake & agree to help the town.
And wow did Grey recover quickly from his gunshot. And isn't it great that just when everyone thought the town would have no weapons to defend itself (thanks to Jonah), Hawkins decides that's the moment to unwrap his little present?
Although I have to say they (the writers) may be getting into new territory this week-my bet it's Papa that dies. Which kind of sucks cuz who doesn't love Major Dad?
2 of 3 | Posted by tvaholic
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Posted on May 7, 2007 9:35 AM
I have to admit I kinda fizzled on this show but caught back up this weekend. Great recap! Hawkins is a pretty princess! To make the seasons last shows memorable can Jake be shirtless?
3 of 3 | Posted by campfiregirl
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Posted on May 7, 2007 7:31 PM