OH MY GOD! TELL ME THAT THEY DIDN"T JUST KILL BONNIE WHAT THE HELL YOU CAN"T KILL A DEAF GIRL WITH ONLY THREE EPISODES LEFT IN THE SEASON SOMEONE GET ME A DRINK!
Pant, pant. Okay. Trying to calm down here. Yeah. So, Frodale"s smuggling business is getting thwarted by both military checkpoints and J&R business registration requirements, and he"s not the only business suffering in Jericho. However, when Stanley is asked if Frodale can use the Richmond farm as a way to thwart the checkpoints, Stanley will have none of it. (You can"t blame him, though, because he definitely thinks the Boston Tea Party is a bunch of old ladies with Wedgewood and furnished souls. Poor Stanley.) So, instead of going through Stanley, Mary sort of seduces a checkpoint soldier into looking the other way. However, before Frodale can even take advantage of this, Goetz arrests him; but he"s later rescued by Jake, Eric, and Stanley, with a little help from Beck.
Upon learning from his Mystery Cellphone Man that information will reach Beck exposing the location of the bomb, Hawkins tells Jake it"s up to him to get and destroy that information. Because Beck"s office is in the process of being turned into a SCIF, accepting only eight privileged thumbs, Jake is in a pickle. However, since Heather"s little thumb is one of the few and the proud, Jake convinces Hawkins she"s their only hope. Heather takes some convincing herself before she slips into Beck"s office and removes the necessary information.
In J&R news, Mimi discovers that SOMEONE is embezzling money from J&R, and when Trish confronts Goetz with the discovery, Goetz first menaces Mimi at the office and then shows up at the Richmond Farmhouse to get into a shootout with Bonnie. By the end of the episode, Bonnie is dead, Mimi is critical, and I am stunned. This is an unbelievably wicked show.