Jericho Recap: Pilot
Jericho, Kansas is one of those small towns where you might like to live - unless you live there. But things are changing in the world we live in and more people may want to move to a small town in the near future. The very near future.
Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) has returned to Jericho after a several-year absence. Only no one knows exactly why. He tells one person one story and the next person an entirely different one. I suppose we'll find out more about that in the weeks to come. The reason he's really there is to try and get some of his inheritance from his father (Gerald McRaney, looking a bit old). That doesn't work, so Jake heads back towards his regular life, whatever that may be.
On the way, a nuclear mushroom cloud envelops Denver, and a car coming the other direction isn't paying attention and they crash head-first into Jake's car, so he's stopped in his tracks. As he starts the long hike back to town, he comes across a school bus of kids taking a detour on a dirt road they shouldn't be on, and he helps to bring them back safely to town. In the process, he meets the teacher of the kids, and I think it likely we'll see a love interest develop there, but for now it was just a glance here and there.
Our unwilling hero Jake also performs an impromptu tracheotomy on a girl who bruised her throat as the bus came to a sudden stop against an unlucky deer. I'm not sure that bundle of juice box straws would have worked that well, but I'll let it slide for now. Other than that, the rest of the story wasn't bad.
The police, on the hunt for Jake and the missing kids, found a bus, but by the time they figured out it was a prisoner transport bus and not a school bus, it was too late - so it looks like most of the police force will be out of action, at least for the foreseeable future. Though it was getting dark, you'd think the somber colors of the bus and the bars may have been noticeable, but what do I know?
