Jericho Recap: Walls of Jericho
4 days after the first explosion and 1 day after the fallout was washed from the sky by rain, the residents of Jericho start to run into some more problems. Gathered at Bailey's Tavern, the power starts to falter as the generator is giving out because the gas is running dry. So everyone starts to run around wondering if they can get just five gallons of gas from each car. Then Jake and Stanley stop at the gas station and start pumping out of the big tanks, and that keeps things going for a while to the chagrin of Jake's brother Eric, who gets back to the clinic after Jake and Stanley have already filled it up in the nick of time.
Meanwhile a stranger from Denver has shown up with severe radiation poisoning. It's so bad that he has suffered third-degree burns over most of his body, and many of the people in the town don't even want to touch him.
But Jake comes through once again, as he finds the man in the pharmacy (nice thing about a small town - there is just one pharmacy, so you don't have to be specific about which one when you call it in). Once in the clinic, they find out the man's name is Victor, and he left some other people - including his daughter - near a lake.
Unfortunately Victor dies while being questioned by Mister Hawkins, but we do learn quite a bit about Mister Hawkins in the episode. While we've always suspected that Mister Hawkins isn't who he says, we find him grilling the family on their past in St. Louis, so obviously they don't come from there. But when Jake steps out of the room, Hawkins gets right in the face of Victor and talks about how only families were allowed, and now they are a man down - implying he brought his family out of Denver, and the team is now a man down, so he was likely behind the bomb, if not across the country, at least in Denver. Very interesting.
While Jake tries to round up some other people to go help these others, everyone else is busily watching a loop of a few images from someplace in the midwest, that may or may not be Cincinnati. Essentially it is just a bunch of people running around, and no sense can be made of it. We also see an image from last week's broadcat that is even clearer than was shown during the episode, and does indeed look like Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver and Philadelphia are shown being hit.
Finally Jake gets a few people to help out those at Bass Lake, but by the time they get there, everyone is already dead, so they end up burying a bunch of bodies. What I didn't get is it looks like they took about five cars. With a gas shortage, why didn't they take a big vehicle like a bus instead, so they'd have more room to transport people?
