After Beck and his men break down the doors of nearly every house in Jericho looking for Jake and all the Rangers, Jake turns himself in and takes the fall for Goetz"s execution. Of course, Beck"s not that much of an idiot, and he already knows that Stanley"s the one responsible. How does he know? Because dumb-ass Russell from New Bern is too much of a pussy to withstand Beck"s interrogations. Lucky for Jericho, Jake is not only made of much sterner stuff, but he has his dead grampy communicating to him from the great beyond, telling him to hang tough and spark a revolution.
Hawkins finally gets the all-important phone call from Chavez in Texas and is on his way down to the Lone Star state with the bomb when John Smith calls him up and asks, all stalkerish, why he"s taking the bomb to Texas. Hawkins is next cornered by John Smith"s personal SWAT team, but it"s in the dead of night, so Hawkins crashes his stolen J&R truck and escapes. The bad part is that he leaves the bomb behind. When John Smith has the nerve to contact him the next day, Hawkins learns that John Smith didn"t just author the J&R report that was used as the blueprint for the attacks, he acted on the report. So, John Smith, not Valente, carried out the September attacks that killed millions of people across the country. Yeah, you"re not the only one completely and utterly confused.
After untold days and nights in a dirty, well-lighted place for torture, Jake finally gets a visit from Ma Green. She pleads with her swollen, dehydrated son to give Beck whatever he wants, but then she hisses -- sort of scarily, actually -- in his ear to tough it out, since Eric and the Rangers are about to bust him out, which they do. The people of Jericho also wreak havoc on J&R"s headquarters with homemade Molotov cocktails (you just know they lit them with their never-ending stash of candles), which makes Beck very sad.
Now that John Smith has Hawkins" bomb, he"s going to finish the job he started by taking out all of Cheyenne. Totally and completely freaked -- combined with extreme rage at being played -- Hawkins meets up with Jake, barely notices that he"s been through his own hell, and tells him they need to get their asses to Wyoming to stop that nuclear attack.
Will next week be the last Jericho ever? Only time and CBS executives will tell. Sigh.