Frankly I had almost forgotten about it - one of the perils of the split season format.
Well, we know a bit more about Hawkins.
According to Wikipedia, the opening Morse was “Bloodshed”
Brian
Any Radioactive Zombies this time?
I’m guessing no…
No zombies. But we did finally learn some of the backstory of what happened before the bombs went off.
All in all, a very interesting episode. Answered a lot of questions.
So is Hawkins a terrorist, an undercover guy infiltating the terrorists, or were the attacks the work of some part of wacko Government conspiracy?
I am betting that it’s a coup. Hawkins went undercover with the chick from the beginning of the episode to try to disrupt and take it down, but he found out that his superiors were in on it as well and decided his only chance was to grab his family and get somewhere safe.
I enjoyed the episode… BUT there appears to be a big discontinuity in how Hawkins’s family views him. He basically kidnapped them, AND they have to know that he knows something about the bombs. Why would they not turn him in? Why would they trust him even as much as they do?
I was also puzzled by what was in Hawkins’s truck, as it sure didn’t look like a nuke.
Umm…how would you know what one looked like? It was supposed to be a nuke like the ones that took out the other cities.
It looked like a conventional bomb… ie, a big barrel of something with something else duct taped to the top. Nukes are extraordinarly precise things. You don’t normally need to duct-tape things to the top of them.
This all made me suspect that Hawkins’s plot involved something OTHER than nukes, or at least he thought it did, but he was co-opted, or there was a different plot, or something.
I can certainly imagine some whacked out think-they-are-patriots group setting off small chemical bombs in big US cities in an effort to drum up support for a cause they favor, or some such goofy plot. But nukes are so ridiculously destructive that it’s hard to think of any remotely plausible motive anyone could have for nuking lots of US cities other than actively destroying the US.
Bolding mine. “Plausible” is anathema to Jericho’s writers. Or maybe Jericho and plausible make an oxymoron. Hell, I don’t know the proper term, but trying to make sense of anything on this show is a waste of time. Better to enjoy it, if you can, for what it is.
I’m trying to remember the first episode. Jake goes to Jericho, asks his dad for money, visits with a few people, drives off, gets in wreck well outside of town as the nukes go off. In this episode, he’s running from California to Kansas and is apparently going into town as the nukes go off.
12 hours before the bombs he is apparently in San Diego sending his friend’s wife off on a bus to be incinerated in Houston. It’s 22 hours to Kansas per mapquest. Am I remembering all of this wrong? He wouldn’t even be close to Kansas when the bombs went off.
That’s what I was thinking. How the hell do you drive from SD to Kansas in 12 hours? Seems silly to screw around with the timeframe like that-- would the plot have suffered if they pushed the SD activities back 12 hours or so? You’d probably have to average 100+ mph to travel that distance in 12 hours.
I didn’t see any duct tape, just materials to tie the bomb to the sides of the truck so that it didn’t move in transit. Internally, nukes are extremely precise, but there’s nothing implausible about having an oddly shaped exterior. I didn’t see anything too implausible anyway - it was just a cylinder on a stand. Not especially dissimilar to the actual rocket warheads I’ve seen, IIRC.
So, his target was Colombus, but for some reason, he decided to bug out. So they kidnapped his girlfriend and told him to deliver the bomb or she dies. Instead, he gathered his family and ran to Jericho, right?
Does that mean he has a nuke sitting in storage in Jericho somewhere?
Oh, and there was also a fairly sophisticated looking arming mechanism on the bomb. Seems pretty clear that it was implied that they were all nukes, and I don’t see anything especially implausible - and I’m certainly not a defender of this show’s plausibility.
In one of the early episodes - maybe when the black rain is falling - he goes to his secret stash of goodies and does something. Can’t remember if he brought some small arms home or what. I think I remember seeing a larger object under a tarp. Could be he kept his bomb “just in case”.
I recall seeing what looked like a duffle bag duct taped to the top of the main cylinder, when the cops opened up the truck to see what was in it.
Well, what are you gonna do, take it to the dump? Leave it in a ditch?
The title card said it was Albuquerque that he was putting her on the bus in. And I know that it takes about twelve hours to get to Topeka. My family used to drive it every year.
Hey now, let’s not confuse this with facts! Can’t you see that you’re spoiling the fun of the usual bashers of the show?
And doesn’t he actually wall something up in his basement?
Thats what he did. He walled it up in his basement.