Jericho, Season 2

Mimi:
[about Trish] Did you see that skin? It's like porcelain. That girl's never had a restless night's sleep in her life. And here I am running five miles a day so my butt doesn't hit my ankles!

Hawkins:
You know, if you were smart, you'd let three months go by. Wait until everything calms down and then you would go in there quietly in the middle of the night and you would kill Constantino in his sleep. 'Cause that I would understand. But this, this is just you making a big show out of it, Jake, and it is both dangerous and stupid.

Mimi:
I'm sorry I asked you to marry me.

Stanley:
No, look, I was gonna ask you!

Mimi:
You were?

Stanley:
I was, yes. I had it all planned out. I was gonna propose the way my father proposed to my mother.

Mimi:
How'd he do it?

Stanley:
He asked her.

Mimi:
What's that?

Stanley:
It's my mother's wedding ring, now please, be quiet. I've never loved anybody the way I love you. And I can't remember my life before you and...and, uh [gets down on one knee] now I really don't think I could live without you. Listen, I'll do whatever it takes to make you happy, I swear to God. So, will you marry me?

[Mimi nods and gasps out a laugh]

Stanley:
See, now..now you can talk.

Mimi:
Yes. Yes.

Mimi:
Tell me you didn't sign this contract.

Stanley:
I didn't sign that contract.

Mimi:
Oh good.

Stanley:
I signed another one. That's a copy.

Stanley:
This is a big day! You get to be an accountant again. Account things, add things up, maybe even a little subtraction, right?

Mimi:
I have to say, I cannot wait to work in that office. You wouldn't believe how organized the Jennings and Rall people are. Everything is bar-coded. I have so missed bar-codes and spreadsheets. I mean every component and package and foodstuff, every ounce is accounted for; where's its been and where its going. Oh, I had forgotten how beautiful order can be.

Stanley:
That's probably the most boring story I've heard in months.

Beck:
Sheriff Green? Nice uniform.

Jake:
[lifting up casual jacket to show badge pinned to jeans] I'm pacing myself.

Mimi:
I'm still trying to figure out how to make our wedding registry vital to national security.

Stanley:
You're already planning our wedding registry?

Mimi:
Oh, since I was twelve. And I've already taken off the list luxury items that we already have such as your Star Wars collectors' glasses.

Tomarchio:
You've lost loved ones, and here you are again; still strong, still proud. This is the best of America. But infighting has left us weak and vulnerable to our enemies. Remnants of the old Federal government has fallen back to Columbus, Ohio. After the attacks that government endlessly debated our response. So, in a vacuum of leadership I acted to let the world know that America was down, but not out! The Federal government of the eastern block states no longer has any governing authority beyond the Mississippi. You've seen the flag. This is the flag of a new country, flying from the Mississippi to the Pacific. The thirteen stripes of red and white still represent the thirteen colonies, but they run in a new direction, just as we must chart a new direction for ourselves. In a few short weeks Mayor Anderson will represent you as we ratify a constitution for this new nation, that will be known to the world by a new name; The Allied States of America! And with this new name, a clean slate. Our debts have been forgiven, and we are open again for business. That means jobs, stocked shelves, a return to life as we knew it. And in the fall we'll have elections where we can all take part in building a new government, as a safer, stronger America. God bless you, and God bless the Allied States of America!

Eric:
[about his mother] You should be glad she's not here. She would have thrown that new history book right in the president's face.

Gray:
Oh, come on…

Eric:
He wasn't elected, Gray. How does a government no one voted for change the constitution? We found time to have an election. Of all people I think you would have remembered that.

Beck:
Mr. Goetz has already informed me of your previous run-ins.

Jake:
Yeah, did he tell you about the massacre he and his men carried out in Rogue River? Did he give you a head count on how many people he murdered in New Bern?

Goetz:
[to Jake] This is a brand new building, and this is my office. In that office is a desk, and on that desk is a folder; the Jennings and Rall corporate dossier for Jake Green. Let me try to put it in perspective for you, Jake. You got a very interesting period of employment with JR. Especially Safa, Iraq. Remember Safa. You heard stories about me, you think you know who I am… I wonder what the people of Safa must think about you?

Heather:
Three doctors on this radio frequency said the risk of the generic stuff being dangerous is almost nil. But somehow there's only one legally approved source.

Jake:
J and R.

Heather:
How many people have you lost since then?

Woman on Radio:
Hard to say… about [static]…twenty.

Heather:
I'm sorry, you're breaking up. It sounds like you've lost twenty people in the last week?

Woman on Radio:
Sorry, two hundred and twenty. Around two-twenty.

Beck:
My wife was in Santa Fe when the attacks came. After that, uh…

Heather:
I'm sorry.

Beck:
I have to hope that she's okay. Until then I do my job. And I, uh, I trust that wherever she is, some army major is looking after her the way I try to look after the people under my charge.

Deputy Sheriff Kohler:
It's Fort Knox back there.

Jake:
What is that?

Deputy Sheriff Kohler:
Thumb-print scanner. Getting that room ready to house 'classified' information, pretty short list of people that will have access.

Jake:
Let me guess, I'm not on it?

Deputy Sheriff Kohler:
But, if it's any consolation, you now hold the distinction of being the first Jericho sheriff, in history, who doesn't have a key to the sheriff's office.

Jake:
Stanley asked me to return this to you. [hands over bottle of alcohol] Find another way into town, quit using his property.

Dale:
It's the safest way in.

Jake:
It's not a suggestion, Dale.

Jake:
It's not gonna wait twelve hours.

Beck:
Well, it's gonna have to. Things are coming apart at the seams in New Bern right now. And you have my word, tomorrow I'm gonna get into this but for tonight I'm trusting that you can keep things under control here. That means Goetz is off limits. No threats, no retribution, no exceptions. Do you understand?

Russell (to Heather):
The resistance in New Bern has placed a bounty on your head. We were sent to collect it. Is there a place we can talk?

Eric:
When April died all I could think about was I hadn't done enough. That it was my fault.

Stanley:
When my parents died I did that. I blamed myself, and I hated myself for being alive. But there was this little girl to take care of.

Jake:
It's not about convincing one man he's wrong. It's a whole system.

E. J. Green:
You think it's impossible? This has all happened before. If the names weren't Jennings & Rall, they would be names like... the British East India Trading Company. If it wasn't Ravenwood, it'd be the Hessian Mercenaries. And it all comes down to the same thing...

Jake:
Revolution.

Hawkins:
Let's agree on this. You don't make the terms. I do. And if you have information to share, then you just share it. But if you lie to me then know that I will find out, and the next time we speak, it will not be on the phone. Those are the terms.

Voice on Phone:
Agreed. Now can we move on to more urgent business?

Hawkins:
I'm listening.

Voice on Phone:
Good. 'Cause you're a day away from being caught.

Stanley:
We're talking about booze and cows, here.

Emily:
The Stamp Act, the Sugar Act…

Stanley:
What are you talking about?

Emily:
The Boston Tea Party. Was it just about tea? Every revolution that's ever been fought, they started in rooms like this.

Heather:
The government, the army, the news… they're all lying about who's responsible for the attacks.

Hawkins:
Yes.

Heather:
You're telling the truth.

Hawkins:
Yeah.

Heather:
Who are you?

Hawkins:
So why not just blow the whistle? What do you need me for?

Voice on Phone:
I don't need you. I need your bomb.

Mike:
Punish Goetz in New Bern, we show Beck we're not going away any time soon.

Heather:
I know things are bad, but the minute you threw in with Constantino you gave up the high ground. Beck's gonna fight you. I'm sorry, but I'm gonna be helping him do it.

Beck:
The Rangers are now considered fugitives. I want all of them.

Jake:
Good luck finding them.

Beck:
Until they're produced I'm declaring Jericho to be in a state of open insurrection. Lights, power, food supplies... 9 pm tonight, I'm shutting it all down.

Jake:
We've lived without that stuff before; we'll do it again.

Beck:
[about capturing the Rangers] How long and how much this town suffers is up to its citizens. Somebody knows where those men are.

Heather:
The Rangers were saving lives back when you couldn't have found Jericho on a map.

Jake:
It's my fault. No one else's. I'm the sheriff. I...

Beck:
You were sheriff.

Jake:
I'm the only one to blame. The only one, so my terms are simple. My surrender for the amnesty of the other Rangers.

Beck:
I accept your surrender. [Pauses] But not the terms.

Hawkins:
[prepping to retrieve the bomb] I'm asking for your help but I can't afford for you to go off book out there and I don't have any room for debate, so if you've got any questions, now's the time.

Jake:
Yeah, I've got a question. How do we find the bomb?

Hawkins:
No idea. Anything else?

Heather:
He said this government is corrupt and illegitimate. That it lied about who attacked us to seize power.

Beck:
You're naive.

Heather:
And you're a coward.

Beck:
Excuse me?

Heather:
You know there's something wrong with this country, and you refuse to open your eyes and see it.

Hawkins:
What happens in the next few hours could determine the course of things for years to come. Y'know, maybe our history for the next hundred years. That is the responsibility we got here. And if that comes at a terrible cost, then so be it, because that's the only way things get better and the way people stay free. That's why I do what I do.

Jake:
I think we started a war today. Let me guess, not your first?

Hawkins:
Jake, this war was coming with or without us. I just hope we did enough to make it a fair fight.

Hawkins:
So how does it feel?

Jake:
What?

Hawkins:
Making history.