Oh, yeah. This is it, people; this is the show. Let"s see, before the peanuts that peanuts-eth all day, Hawkins was awesome, Jake was crying, Eric was dumber than frozen snot, Mimi was clever, and Mayor Dad was dead. What? You want specifics, you say?
Here we go. Hawkins does indeed stop that barreling train with that tank, but it sort of doesn"t really matter, because those helicopters bring army and bombs and peacekeeping efforts. The head peacekeeper -- one Major "Hottie" Beck -- sits gasp-sobbing Jake and evil bearded Constantino down like two kids in the principal"s office and tells them to bury the Mayor Dad-stained hatchet and move on. (Memo: there will be no hatchet-burying today.)
After breaking free from the chains of debt, Stanley proposes to Mimi. But only after she proposes to him first, and also reverses his original debt-freeing contract and secures one that actually frees him from debt instead of pushing him further in it. Point is: Stanley"s kind of slow and stupid, but he"s still pretty darling.
While Jake and Emily slobber all over each other, which would be incredibly off-putting if they weren"t already so wooden as a couple, the more interesting chick-on-Jake interaction comes when Jake sees that Heather"s still alive and well and back in Jericho. They share quite the sweet, heartfelt hug, after which Heather is reluctantly recruited by Maj. Beck to be the liaison between New Bern and Jericho.
Remember that hatchet-burying that so wasn"t happening? Right, well, Eric and Jake decide to rally the Jericho Rangers and canter over to New Bern to shoot Constantino right between his pretty blue eyes, but first Hawkins tells Jake off for being a grandstanding idiot, and then Maj. Beck shows Jake a healthy spread of dead bodies, and this all has the effect of putting Jake right off his bloodlust. For now. (Something else that might pacify Jake: he"s now Jericho"s sheriff, but anyone who"s seen The Dukes of Hazzard knows how law-abiding sheriffs can be.)
Meanwhile, Hawkins hides out with Darcy in Gramps Green"s hunting lodge and only noses out to tell Jake he"s an idiot for going after Constantino while Maj. Beck is still around. However, Darcy -- who is working in Maj. Beck"s office -- brings back intel that the new government in Cheyenne is still looking for Sarah and also brings back Chavez, a Black Ops pal of Hawkins"s, who is doing undercover duty with Maj. Beck"s detail. Hawkins and Chavez pool their brains and learn that Valente is still pretty bad and probably bedded down with the new Cheyenne government, and also that the Cheyenne government is perpetrating a big ass lie about the bombs being dispatched from Iran and North Korea. Oh, and a minor point, the evil Cheyenne, Valente-backed government pretty much bombed the poo out of Iran and North Korea, so, you know, the rest of the world hates America even more than before.