Jericho (2006) s02e05 Episode Script

Termination for Cause

Previously on Jericho Jake, this is Ted Lewis.
- Hey, how you doing? - We grew up together over in New Bern.
And this is Russell and Mike.
Hey.
Yeah, we met.
I'm Major Beck, I want you to be my liaison to the people of New Bern and Jericho.
I'm sending you a private contractor who knows the area.
He'll take care of the day-to-day administration of the town while you find the terrorist.
Western states have all fallen in with Cheyenne.
They're strong and getting stronger.
This is our new mission.
Expose Cheyenne's secret before they take over the whole country.
I have one of the bombs.
What is this? Targets, specifications, contingencies.
Jennings & Rall put it all in one place.
How do you know about this? Because I helped write it.
Mimi, this is Trish Merrick.
She's with Jennings & Rall.
I'm so glad we have you on board, I can't even tell you.
There's a $10,000 discrepancy.
Someone took it.
I'm the chief administrator of this town and I want your ledger.
Bonnie, right? Is Mimi Clark inside? Mimi going to be okay? She's lost a lot of blood.
What do you got? Weapons were nine millimeters.
The tire tracks out front look like a Humvee.
Ravenwood.
But why? What would they want here? Whatever they wanted, Mimi wasn't supposed to survive.
What do we do? Gather the rangers at the med center.
She needs protection.
Ravenwood does not get near her.
Major.
Tell the other squad to get moving.
We'll rendezvous in 30.
What is it? There was a shooting out at Richmond Farm.
- I heard from Goetz already.
- What'd he say? Said he went out on J&R business, someone opened fire on him, killed three of his men.
You believe that? Do you know something I don't? There's a survivor.
- She's unconscious but when she - Sir, we're ready and standing by.
- I'm sorry, Jake, I've got to go.
- Where are you going? off outside the J&R office in New Bern.
Took out six of my men.
I'll be back in 12 hours.
- It's not going to wait 12 hours.
- It's going to have to.
Things are coming apart at the seams in New Bern right now.
And you have my word, tomorrow I'm going to 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? One entrance.
Small exit.
Is she going to be okay? I'm going to need this room clear now.
- Please.
- Come on.
Come on.
Beck's gone to New Bern.
We're on our own.
Bill, Marty, you take the front.
Greg and Dave, you take the back.
Any sign of Goetz, you let me know before you do anything, all of you.
Stan.
- Taking her to the morgue? - Yeah.
I'm going.
He shouldn't be alone.
I'll keep an eye on him.
They just checked Mimi Clark into the medical center for a gunshot wound.
She was in the house? Mrs.
Hawkins, here's your prescription.
Hey.
What are you doing here? Well, everyone under the age of 18 in your house is running a fever, and Jake! Jake! Goetz is outside.
Stay here.
Jake.
I understand Mimi Clark is inside.
I'm going to need to see her.
Jake, don't do something stupid.
Mimi Clark is a witness to the killings of three of my men.
She may have even been one of the shooters.
- She's got some questions to answer.
- You not getting inside this building.
Then I think we have a problem.
Be very careful about this decision you're making, Jake.
Because if you kill a Ravenwood contractor, Cheyenne will classify this town as an insurgent enclave.
When they crack down, everyone suffers.
You don't want that.
Then it looks like it's going to be a long night.
Is this a road you really want to go down? You come inside this building you'll find out.
Thank you, ma'am.
We'll get back to you at 0200 with another update.
Red One out.
Good night.
Heather.
Russell? How did you get in here? It wasn't easy.
We had to slip past the checkpoints and armed patrols.
Things are bad in New Bern, Heather.
And you are making matters worse for us.
What are you talking about? 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? So based on this report, I'd say you were a former J&R employee, right? Looking to make sure the company's sins are exposed.
Something like that.
So why not just blow the whistle? - What do you need me for? - I don't need you.
I need your bomb.
It's concrete evidence that cannot be refuted as easily as words on a page.
Taking on both J&R and the Cheyenne government will require nothing less.
And how high up is the connection between the two of them? How high do you think? I think Valente.
Think bigger.
You mean the president? Ten years ago John Tomarchio was a young star within the Jennings & Rall Corporation.
The company was a major donor to his first campaign for elected office.
His cabinet, his advisers, all littered with former J&R employees.
At the highest levels, that government and this company are one and the same.
The barricades are about halfway there.
Another ten mi I guess we knew this was coming.
Let's get the other barricades done now.
We don't have much time.
I need an extra pair of hands.
Someone to hold a light.
All my guys are on the doors.
Excuse me, madam - Darcy.
- You're hired.
Armed civilians, possibly hostages, sir.
Four hours, copy that.
Thank you, sir.
Looks like it's just going to be the 12 of us for awhile.
Should we start planning for a breech? Or should we just go to phase two? By the time Beck gets back here this thing will be over and done with.
Let's start banging on some doors.
Got it.
Is she okay? Well, she has been shot.
The bullet entered the pectoralis musculature, and missed the subclavean vessels and the chest cavity.
I'm sorry, I have no idea what any of that means.
It means, all things considered, this situation could have been a lot worse.
Eleven blade, please.
Hey, Stanley.
Stanley, this isn't your fault.
What are you talking about? Well, when when April died all I could think about was I hadn't done enough, that that it was my fault.
When my parents died I did that.
I I blamed myself.
I hated myself for being alive.
But there was this little girl to take care of.
I sort of pulled myself out of it.
I know.
This is harder.
Your parents, that that was an accident an act of God.
Aren't they all? I don't blame myself.
Jake.
What? What is it? I don't know, but Goetz is getting out.
He's got someone with him.
Fred.
Hello.
Gary, it's your wife.
Hello.
Hey.
Okay, okay.
All right, calm down.
Yeah.
Okay.
All right.
I love you, too.
It's Chloe.
She's outside.
They just went into the house and got her.
Look, I'm with you guys.
I am, but She's scared out of her mind.
You should go.
- It's just that she's out - It's all right.
Go.
It's okay, Gary.
They're going after our families? D? Darcy? Hey! D? Mr.
Hawkins? Can I help you? Is it all right if we come in? Well We stopped by a half hour ago.
I guess you weren't home yet.
What can I do for you? Sir, are you related to Darcy Hawkins? Yeah.
What's happened? All right, a group of armed men has taken control of the medical center.
We believe she's among the hostages inside.
Really? Okay, so what can I do? Well, we need you to come down and talk to her on the phone.
Just try to convince her to leave a very dangerous situation.
I don't understand.
If she's being held hostage, how can me talking to her get her out of there? We'll explain all of that on scene, but we do need to go now.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm parked out front.
I just Let me just get my keys.
Sir? It would be best if you just came with us.
Okay.
Where is my wife? Hey, Mimi.
Where am I? You're at the med center.
You're going to be fine.
Where are Stanley and Bonnie? The nurse She'll be back in a minute.
I told her I'd keep an eye on you.
Let me go get her.
Wait, please.
Where's Stanley? Stanley's downstairs.
And Bonnie? I'm sorry.
As soon as Beck declared us the aggressors in the fight with Jericho, he put us in a choke hold.
Curfews, military courts, armed checkpoints.
The resistance came together soon after that.
For weeks, we were a step ahead of him.
Then, all of a sudden, he was on to us.
Some of those tips you've been giving Beck, they've made things very difficult for us.
They've cost us lives.
The moment Constantino figured out it was you, he issued the bounty.
So wait a minute.
You're working with Constantino? Russell, he's a murderer.
You think I don't know that? A lot of reasonable people are lining up behind him.
Beck's left us no alternative.
So, if you came to kill me, why am I still alive? I came here to convince you to stop doing what you're doing.
And to bring back a little trophy.
What kind of trophy? Goetz.
Will you go up and check on Mimi for me? Don't you think we should both go up? I'll be right up.
Just give me a minute or two.
Thanks.
I know, I know I love you.
What are you doing here? We're switching posts? Hey, I'm talking to you.
Who is it? Jimmy, open the door.
Mr.
Hawkins? Yeah.
I come bearing gifts.
We've got 12 men.
From the looks of it, they've got about the same.
They've got three less than they had before.
And that one will come in handy if they try and threaten anybody else's family.
- They tried to use you as bait? - They tried.
- Where's my wife, Jake? - She's helping with Mimi.
Tell me what the hell's going on here.
We did a sweep of the area.
We found Burke and Sloan by the rear entrance.
- They're dead.
- Dead? - What about Stanton and Bulger? - Still no sign of them.
All right, do another sweep.
I want to know what's going on.
Fred.
You okay? Yeah.
Yes, ma'am.
Yeah.
Why don't why don't you go get some water? Yeah.
Thank you.
Hey.
Where's Stanley? He's with Bonnie.
He'll be up soon.
Excuse me.
Do you have any idea why all this might be happening? Because Goetz is embezzling money from Jennings & Rall.
I have the proof, my ledger.
Killing civilians they can excuse, but you put your hands in their pocket, suddenly J&R's a lot less forgiving.
Zero tolerance.
My ledger was at the house.
I'm sure he has it by now.
Is there any way to recreate that information? If you had access to the system? Maybe.
Hawkins.
I need your help.
Isn't that what I've been doing? Well, this is a little bit different.
It's outside the scope of our usual conversation.
I have to be very careful about sticking my neck out when, where and for whom.
Now, listen to me.
I don't know what it is you want from me, but I know you are not feeding me information for my own benefit.
So I will promise you this if you do not do this favor for me, then our relationship will end right here and right now.
- Here you go.
- Thank you.
Is there anyone in the J&R office that you think you can trust? Why? Because we need to reconstitute the information from that ledger.
Now, is there anyone that could help you to do that? Well, there is someone.
Good.
Make the call.
What do you want me to tell her? Tell herto gather all the information and send it to this address.
This is the personal e-mail for the director of operations of Ravenwood.
How did you get this? Don't ask.
Jake.
We got a problem.
Are you all right? He came at me out of nowhere.
Frank, where's your gun? There's no way he cut through that tape.
No.
Not without help.
- One of us.
- Yeah.
Be First, we gotta find our Ravenwood friend.
How many men have you got guarding the exits? Two at each.
But if he starts picking them off, then Goetz can get in, and we can't afford to pull anyone off of Mimi's door.
- Jake, we have got to find him.
- We'll find him, but after that, we gotta find a way out.
Jake Yeah.
Are you sure? Yeah, pretty sure.
Well, there's a way that may become useful.
Jimmy.
Bill.
You guys are just gonna snatch Goetz off the street? Execute him in cold blood? I got a handful of guys out looking for him right now.
Russell.
What happened to you? Goetz executed three of my neighbors in New Bern a few months ago, and this government promoted him.
Beck has been strangling my home town for weeks, And this same government tells me that I'm in the wrong.
I've had enough.
We punish Goetz in New Bern,.
And we show Beck that we're not going away any time soon.
I know things are bad, but the minute you guys threw in with Constantino, you gave up the high ground.
Beck's going to fight you.
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna be helping him do it.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Word of advice? Pray I can get Goetz because if I don't, it's not gonna be me that Constantino sends after you next.
Hello.
Trish.
Mimi? Trish, Bonnie's dead.
Oh, my God.
What happened? It was Goetz.
And his men.
They killed her for the ledger.
Trish, I need your help.
What can I do? I hope this works.
It'll work.
Just have to make it a little bigger.
It's too small? What, you don't think I can fit through that hole? You're gonna want to make it bigger.
Go through the backup folders in that directory.
That's where you'll find the numbers that Goetz altered.
Okay.
I got 'em.
Now what do you want me to do with them? I'm gonna give you an e-mail address and a code for the subject line.
Mimi, I am so sorry.
It's not your fault.
Mimi, I am the one who told Goetz.
I know.
Will you do this for me? Yeah.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Hey.
Hey.
I'm so sorry.
Mimi, stop.
I'm so sorry.
No.
I never should have opened my mouth.
I should've kept my mouth shut.
Listen to me.
You were in danger.
Bonnie did what she needed to do to protect you and you're alive.
Wherever she is now I swear, she's glad she did it.
Yeah.
What kind of gun? - What?! - What kind of gun did Frank have? Nine millimeter Beretta.
Seven! Five! Four! Three! Two! What do you want to do with him? You're never getting out of here alive.
All the exits are covered.
Sure about that? What was all that? We got a fix on him and traded fire.
Did you get him? No, he got away.
He's probably still inside.
Let's pull Marty and Dave off the front entrance to help guard Mimi.
Fred, take their place.
They've been there all night.
They need some rest.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Sure.
Goetz.
The back door is gonna be clear.
Really? - Five minutes.
- Got it.
Out.
We're in! - Tell me what the hell's going on here.
- They're gone, sir.
I can see that.
Where'd they go? I don't know.
Another exit somewhere off near the pharmacy.
There are no exits over there.
Sir, I think you should see this.
- What the hell's through this hole? - Farm equipment store.
Apparently, it's all one structure.
It doesn't make any sense.
Got the whole perimeter covered.
Didn't say anything to me about this.
No kidding.
They made you for the mole, genius.
I heard them say something about moving the woman to her farm.
Hide her there until Beck returns.
What do you want us to do? Mount up.
Redirect the reinforcements to the Route 23 junction.
- Catch up with them on the move.
- Let's go.
Are they gone? - Jake, wait.
- Are they gone? All clear.
Let's go.
Jake, Jake, I had no choice.
He said he'd take my farm.
He threatened my wife.
Go home, Fred.
- Jake, please - Go home, Fred.
Go home.
Jake, they've got reinforcements coming.
They said they're meeting a hundred Ravenwood men at the crossroads.
and Cherry Valley Road.
Let's go.
Hey, not yet.
Check your mags.
Are those reinforcements? No.
Watch this.
I'm Director Jamison, Ravenwood Regional HQ.
All you guys saddle up.
We're moving out.
Sir, I'm in the middle of an operation here.
No, you're not.
Take their rifles! Let's move! Where we going? They're being redeployed.
You're fired.
What are you talking about? You can't fire me.
No, I can't, but he can.
In fact, he already did.
Feel better? I hope you rot in hell.
Leave 'em here.
They can walk back.
Roll out! Now? Yeah, now.
Goetz! Goetz! Goetz, I want to see your hands! Remember, we need him alive! No way.
Who is that?! Cease fire! Cease fire! Hold your fire! What the hell are you doing here?! I came for him.
I've had my guys tracking him all night, waiting for their chance to make the grab.
- Thanks.
- No way, Russell.
You can't have him.
Want to bet? - I'm handing him over to Beck.
- Handing him over? If he winds up dead, Beck will wreak havoc on both these towns.
He has three killings to answer for in New Bern.
Yeah, well, he's in Jericho, and he's under arrest for Bonnie Richmond's murder.
We're fighting an army that has more guns than we do, more men than we do.
What we need is resolve.
And Goetz, he's the fuel for that resolve.
Stanley.
Stanley.
Stanley.
Stay back.
Jake, that doesn't matter.
Whether Goetz goes missing or his body's found, Beck is gonna put the pieces together.
You know he will.
The minute that body hit the ground, this became a whole different deal.
So what's your status, Cap? This sector's clear, sir.
No sign of insurgent activity.
Roger that.
Out.
- What is it? - Sir you're gonna want to see this for yourself.

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