Jericho (2006–2008): Season 1, Episode 20 - One If by Land - full transcript

Previously on Jericho:

Hello, Jonah.

The guy did four years at Lansing
for extortion and assault.

Why are you talking to him?

It's okay.
It didn't have anything to do with you.

He's my father.
It has everything to do with me.

Jonah agrees to leave town

- and not come back.
- Exile.

Johnston, you SOB
How the hell did you lose an election?

The question is how did you
get to be in charge in New Bern?

They get tired
of you being the sheriff?



No, I'm still sheriff.
Just got a little more authority.

This thing work?
Can you get power from it?

- Probably sometime tomorrow.
- Let's get it up fast as we can.

Can we buy more of these things?

You got one of the only salt mines
around for 400 miles.

We're gonna need food.

Ten wind turbines for, let's say,
10 percent of your spring crop.

Okay. Look, we'll give you the food.

We're gonna need ten Jericho men
to help us build them.

Stanley, I didn't know
you were coming back today.

Wasn't safe for us there anymore.

- Where's my brother?
- He hasn't been seen for a few days.

You can't just ride into New Bern
and start breaking china.

It's a full inventory of Jericho.



Sliced it up like they own it.

They're making mortar rounds.
They're getting ready for war.

Hold it.

There is gonna be
an explosion in town.

Hopefully, we can somehow
get Jake and Eric out of there.

Jake!

Everybody, go!

All right, keep alert.

Jake said the New Bern guys
might be coming right behind them.

Maybe they're already here.

What is that?

What happened?

We got a major problem, Gray.

Where's Eric?

He's fine. He's at the med center.

Well, is it about the mine?

It's a lot worse than that.

Who are you?

Stop moving.

Hey, you hear me?

I'm talking to you. Hey, freeze!

Who are you?

I think we killed six in New Bern.

Eight.

I counted eight.

- Who's this?
- Says he's from New Bern.

- Wanted to talk to you.
- What is this about?

Hello?

Am I speaking to Gray Anderson?

Yes.

This is Phil Constantino.

Henry,
you can come home now, son.

We're still cleaning
the blood of eight deputies

off the sidewalks of New Bern,

so you need to understand
our position.

We need seven farms,
including the Jackson farm,

the Herbert farm
and the Richmond farm.

And we need half the salt mine.

You have four hours to respond.

I don't understand.
What are you asking us to do?

Jericho is about to be invaded.

For the sake of your people,
I'm asking you to surrender.

We have border patrol on duty
at all the checkpoints and roadblocks,

but we're scrambling
to cover everywhere else.

- Did you see anything out there?
- No, nothing.

What is he actually going to do?

Just march in here
and start shooting us?

We were high school football rivals
five months ago.

They tortured my brother
to find out how many troops we have.

They have made
hundreds of mortars.

My guess is they can hit us
from as far as two miles out.

Having them and using them
on people are two different things.

Yeah, that's what they said
about nuclear bombs.

- How much time left?
- Fifty minutes.

Fetal heartbeat is less than
five beats per minute.

Just hold the pressure.

Hold the pressure right there.
Right there.

Press. Harder.

- Damn it.
- I can't hear anything.

- What is going on?
- I'm trying to save April.

- What do you mean, it's stopped?
- Do something.

- Eric?
- Here I am, Mom.

Oh, God.

Come on.

Come on,
let's get you fixed up, okay?

Come on, sweetheart. Come on.

We're not gonna give anything
to these people.

We're not giving our land.

- Nobody's gonna give up their farms.
- Mrs. Herbert?

I just wanted to offer the town
a solution.

You cannot give away that farm.

Gray said it's too far out of town
for the Rangers to help.

I can't stand out there with a rifle.

- Then I'll defend it.
- Really?

Are you abandoning it?

The bank owns
half of that farm anyway.

You just do whatever you want,
Dale.

Wait, let's be clear.

If I defend it, then it's all mine.

If you can defend it.

Dale, how are we
gonna defend that farm?

Get me every refugee you can find.

All right.

Careful.

All right, yeah, that's a good idea.

Mary.

I was so scared.

When you didn't come back,
I thought...

I'm back.

Oh, God.

I'm sorry. Oh, no. Did I hurt you?

No.

I'm okay.

Listen up, guys.

Hey, they said
you had some food here.

Yeah, I do have food.

As of this morning, I own
the second biggest farm in Jericho.

Now, I'm gonna need men
to defend it if we're invaded.

- What do we get?
- The promise of three meals a day.

You want us to risk our lives
for a promise?

No way. No, man, I'm not doing it.

Listen, listen.

Since you've been here, you've been
asking for a place to live, food.

You came here as refugees,

and you're still being treated
like second-class citizens.

That's no way to live.

If you fight for my farm and we win,

then everybody gets an equal split.

It'll be your farm.

You'll have a stake in this town
that nobody can take away from you.

You'll never have to ask anyone
for anything ever again.

So?

Who wants a future?

- Yeah, I'm in, all right?
- I don't think so.

All right, where do I sign?

Constantino said four hours.

It's already been four hours.

Jake.

You okay?

Come here.

What do we hear from the Rangers?

Runners came in.
They haven't seen anything.

Should we call Constantino?

I don't have anything to tell him.

And I'm not just gonna
give the town away.

There's something I need to tell you.

It's crazy. Everybody's saying
that New Bern's gonna attack us.

We don't know. Look...

Something happened to Heather.

She found out New Bern
was building mortars.

She tried to stop them and they...

They caught her.
Nobody's seen her since.

- What did they do to her?
- I don't know.

Is she dead?

Jake, is she dead?

Jake?

Get away from the windows.

- Are you hurt?
- No, no.

- Are you hurt?
- I'm good, I'm good.

Wait here. You wait here.

Hey, you okay? Okay.

Somebody help.

Mom.

Mom! Mom!

Oh, my God.

- Right there.
- Saw him down there.

Jake, you okay? Honey?

Come on, sweetheart, look at me.

- Look at me.
- I can't hear.

I know, sweetie.
That will come back.

- We're right here, Mom.
- What's happening?

It's all right, sweetie.
Everything's gonna be fine.

Let's get you to the med center.
Come on.

Get everybody off the street.
There might be more coming.

We gotta open the shelters
in the town hall

and the medical center. Move!

Constantino. He's on the radio.

Constantino, you son of a bitch.
What the hell are you doing?

I'm sorry for your troubles.

We got a dozen injured people
on the street here.

I warned you what would happen
if you didn't meet our demands.

Demands?

I will make it my purpose in life

to see you are held accountable
for what you've just done.

Take another hour.

You do not fire any more
of those things in here.

One hour, Gray.
We need seven farms.

It was just two mortars this time.
Next time, there'll be three.

Try to retaliate
or refuse our demands,

we'll send more.

We'll do this day and night
for as long as it takes.

Okay, the patrols said they looked
like they were fired from the west.

Get as many Rangers as you can,
all right?

Go out there, find those mortars
and we are gonna take them out.

Move.

Hey, hey, hey.

Just wait, we'll go and look.
We have to help here first.

Rob.

Come on.

- Rob.
- Darcy, you okay?

Yeah. What happened?

New Bern,
they're firing mortars at us.

- Are you okay?
- I... Yeah.

Look, we gotta get the kids
and you gotta get out of here.

Where are we gonna go?

There's a safe house I know
if we can just get there.

It's in Montana.

Go to Montana on these roads?

What are our chances
of getting there?

Okay, I don't know. I don't know.

- Come on.
- All right.

You heard from Constantino?

No, no, but I sent out
a squad of Rangers

to try to take out the mortars.

I should have been with them.

You weren't here
and I couldn't wait.

Okay, let's go.

- What should we do?
- Give us a hand.

I don't know.

- Have you seen Gray?
- Hey, hey, hey.

We have gotta get underground.
Now.

Hey. Hey, everybody.

You have gotta get underground.

You, get everybody underground.

Let's go home.

Let's go home.

Okay.

I have to go back to town.

Sam, Sam, get away from there.

Dad, there's more water
in the garage.

You want me to get it?

Yeah, that's the safest room
in the house.

It's concrete, rebar, reinforced.

It's where we should be, D.

Come on.

Come on in.

This is cool.

Sam, Allison, go in the other room.

- Why can't?
- Come on, Sam, let's go.

But this room's boring.

No more secrets.

The mortars
didn't come from very far off.

- How much time do we have?
- About four minutes left.

This is Stanley Richmond.
Mayor Anderson, can you hear me?

We hear you.

Okay, we're about a hundred yards
away from the mortar cannons.

There's two of them
sitting on the back of a flatbed truck.

Where are you, Stanley?

We're in the woods
by the old Shaw Creek Bridge,

about two miles west of town.

There's about ten men
guarding the truck.

- They're parked in the clearing.
- Can you get to them?

Yeah. Yeah, I think so. There's a path
leading into the clearing.

- Tell him he's gotta send scouts out.
- There's no time to reposition.

They have to know
what they're going into.

I'm not gonna give them
a chance to drop bombs on us.

These men are not soldiers.
They need to know...

You can stay or you can go,
but how this happens is my call.

Stanley, get out of there. Don't do it.

- Let go.
- Hey, hey.

Stanley.

Well, what should we do?

Take them out.

Got it.

So why now?

You know, I always thought
that I could keep you safe.

But now, today,

I'm just not so sure.

Nothing is safe.

Not anymore.

But you know,

in the middle of all of this...

In this madness,

the only thing
that makes sense to me...

I mean, really, the only thing,

is you and the kids.

Took me a while to realize that

and I'm sorry. I am so sorry.

I missed you.

I missed you.

How do we know if it worked?

Come on.

Stanley?

Stanley!

Stanley?

Is he shot?

Stanley. Hey, sit down, sit down.

Get them to the med center.

- Is he all right?
- Are you shot?

Where's everybody else?

Stanley, what happened out there?

I don't know.

We were moving towards
the mortar truck,

and they were waiting.

They were waiting
on both sides of it for us.

They wouldn't stop firing.

Stanley, where's everybody else?

Where are they, son?

Stanley?

They're all dead.

They're all dead.

This is insane.

This is insane.

- Son of a bitch.
- Hey, hey, hey.

- Back off.
- Come on.

Break it up.

Bailey's, now.

Stanley said the mortars
were on trucks here.

Right here,
just east of Shaw Creek Bridge.

Well, they're gonna fire and move.
Check the tracks.

See which direction they were headed.
And, Jake, just scout them.

We're not gonna do
anything else half-cocked.

First we find them,
then we'll formulate a plan of attack.

- Got it.
- Just scout them.

I'm coming with you.

It was not a request.

All right.

From the tracks,
I'd say three, maybe four trucks

headed down that fire road.

They could hit the town from anywhere
once they get to Route 6.

Hey!

Hawkins spotted a 5-ton truck

coming this way from New Bern,
about three miles back.

Could be a supply truck
heading to the next mortar site.

Jake, we can get it.

All right. Let's go.

Stop the truck now. Stop it.

They're all right. Let them go.

Well, you two finally turned
to a life of crime.

We're gonna need your men.

My men don't fight
for Gray Anderson.

No, we're asking you
to help defend the town.

We lose, you don't have anything.

If we fight with you,
we keep Mrs. Herbert's farm.

And we get
the abandoned Surrey farm also.

You already own half a salt mine

and a percentage of every farm
in the county. Now you want more?

- It's just business.
- This isn't about business.

I'm asking you to do this for me.

We need your help.

Let's get ready to move.
They'll be looking for this truck.

Last time I was in town,
those people were trying to lynch me.

They can all go to hell.

Just listen to me.

No, you listen to me.

I've been watching New Bern
moving weapons and supplies

for the last three days.

This is gonna be a bloodbath.

The best thing you can do
is come with me.

Jericho's my home.

And I'm your father.

It's survival of the fastest
and strongest out here.

You think I'm safer with you
robbing trucks?

I haven't lost a man yet.

And if New Bern doesn't get Jericho,
somebody else will.

Emily, come with me.

No.

Give us the maps.
Help us take out the mortars.

Help us fight.

We'll give you half.

Half of all weapons,
food and fuel that we take.

And if New Bern's army
is as big as you say it is,

you'll do a whole lot better than
hitting one truck at a time out here.

You got more of me in you
than you're ever going to admit.

Change of plans.

When the federal government
comes back, we have our deeds.

We'll get our farms back then.

What if the government
doesn't come back?

What if this is the way it stays?

They are coming here
intent on killing us.

Gray says we're only
three farms away from a deal.

- Besides, we're not prepared to fight.
- I will get us prepared.

You talk to those farmers.
You don't let them give in.

Who else you got willing to fight,
Johnston?

The cops? The Rangers?

Dad.

There are 11 potential mortar sites.

The question is, which one is next?

The driver said this one.

If we can trust him.

Stanley,
how were the trucks guarded?

- They had men hidden in the brush.
- I'm not sure I'm taking your deal.

They have nearly 30 guys
guarding that mortar truck.

I see nine here.

Gray's got
the seven farmers he needs.

He's gonna call New Bern
and give them up.

Surrenders those farms, New Bern
will occupy them in 30 minutes.

We'll never get rid of them.

So, what do we do?

I guess I'm about to make a deal
with the devil.

You flatter me.

Stanley, Eric, Jimmy,
get back over to town hall.

Do whatever it takes,
but don't let Gray make that call.

What do you mean,
whatever it takes?

- What are you saying?
- I'm saying it's time to pick a side.

Why did you bring Eric in here?

I just wanna talk to you for a second.

Don't make that deal
with Constantino.

This is not a debate.

If you make this deal, they're not
gonna stop with seven farms.

People are gonna starve to death,
Gray.

That's if they don't kill us outright
when the food gets scarce.

I need you to leave. Now.

Come on, Gray.

- Get your hands off.
- Why are you ready to give up?

I almost gave my life for this town,
Gray.

You better listen to me, understand?

- It wasn't your fault those men died.
- Get them out of here!

- Just listen.
- Get them out of here!

- Listen to what I have to say.
- Back off.

Hey, hey.

Whoa, whoa, hey.

Calm down. Put them down.

Put them down.

I mean it. Put them down.

I said, we have men out there.

- We have men out there, Gray.
- What?

- We have men out there.
- Put them down, put them down.

- Put them down!
- You too, put them down.

Who is out there? Who is out there
and what are they doing?

Jake, Hawkins, my dad.

They're gonna try
and take out the mortars.

With just the three of them?
What do they think they're gonna do?

You cannot give up those farms,
do you understand?

We can't fight. We can't fight.

You saw what happened
this morning.

We're not ready for this.

And I have been talking
to Constantino.

And I promised him
that we will not retaliate

if he just gives us time
to put this deal together.

We've got maps of New Bern's
positions, their supply line, everything.

- Where did you get this?
- We've got trucks.

We've got fuel, we've got guns.

What are you talking about?
Where did you get this?

Jonah Prowse is fighting with us.

He's got about 30 men
fighting with him. Thirty men.

Well, he could get us all killed.

This is New Bern. Over.

Don't go near that radio, Gray.

Mayor Anderson, are you there?

Johnston Green, right?

Two years ago,
you came over to New Bern

and finished fourth
in the bass-fishing contest

up at Big Hill Lake.

I finished second.

Let's go.

Mayor Anderson,
your time is running out.

No, I should try to tell Constantino
that I did not send them out there.

Gray, don't make that deal.

Buy us some time
to take out those mortars.

Negotiate with Constantino.

So we pop out of here,

it gets bad,
Jonah will have our backs, right?

You are filling me with confidence,
Jake.

Emily's with him. He'll be there.

Mayor Anderson, are you there?

Yeah, I'm here, Phil.

What's your decision?

You're a good businessman, Gray.

You know how to do it.

Well, we don't wanna fight.

So...

Well, what about the Levine
and the Hides' dairy farms

instead of the Richmond farm?

That's less acreage.

Yeah. Yeah, I know.

But then you would have
a dairy and a soybean farm,

and also,
Hides has 50 acres of corn.

I gotta tell you, that deal would be
a lot easier to sell to my people.

The truck's here.

Where you been?

Supposed to be here
three hours ago.

Got sniped at
by a gang over near Calvert.

Had to come all the way back round
through Van Ness.

Got a half a barbecued venison
in the back.

Good.

God, we need it.

We got chow.

Okay, we'll eat in shifts.

Don't pull everybody
off the perimeter at the same time.

Don't move.

Drop your weapons.

Get in the truck. Move.

My people are telling me

that all the cattle out at Hides' farm
have been slaughtered for food.

Really? I don't think so,
but I can find out for you.

Let's talk about the salt mine now.

You've already got
25 percent of the mine.

Can't we just leave it at that?

What are you doing, Gray?

What are you talking about?

This negotiation is over.

No, Phil, come on.

Thirty seconds, Gray,
or I send more mortars.

But we almost have a deal here, Phil.
Come on.

Phil?

They're here. They're in the camp.

They've come to the camp.

Come on, get up there.

Where the hell is Jonah?

He doesn't wanna get hit
in that crossfire.

Cease fire.

- Cease fire.
- Stop.

No!

This one's yours.
Meet you back at the camp.

Wait. What are you talking about?

- Deal's changed.
- Hell it has.

It's a new split.

I get all the weapons, the food,
the fuel, the guns, everything.

- Deal's fifty-fifty.
- And what do we get?

You get bombs
not falling on your head.

- Listen here, Jonah.
- Hey.

- This is about to get a lot worse.
- Jake.

We need those guns.

Why are you doing this?

You owe me a lot more than that.

I am a thief, not a soldier.

You promised you'd help us.

You shouldn't be near me.

You're a schoolteacher, kid.

A schoolteacher.

Go on.

We're just gonna let him go?
We need those guns.

Guns.

Guns are easy.

You had this the whole time
and you didn't say anything?

I never thought
I was gonna call this town my home.

Let's get them loaded up.

What's he doing?

- Why hasn't he fired the mortars?
- Did we take them out?

He would've come back
on the radio.

We took out the mortars.

Hell, yeah.

Gray?

Are you there?

Yeah.

Now you've brought this
on yourself.

There's no deals, no mercy.
We're coming.

This means war.

Do you hear me, Gray?

Johnston,

I need your help.

Stanley,
get me every runner you can find.

Wanna get orders out
to all the patrols.

Most of you have no idea what to do

or what's coming.

Some of you do.

This isn't a fight about land

or about this town.

This is a fight for our very existence.

Pray for each other.

While you're at it, pray for the men
and women of New Bern.

Pray that God forgives us.

Every able-bodied person

who needs a gun

16 years of age or older

line up.