Following a lengthy hiatus that included being cancelled, Jericho returned last week. Jake and Eric wanted revenge for their father’s death, but some convincing from Major Beck coerced them into not being able to follow through with that. Some more of the back story of what’s happened also unfolded, and now Hawkins is trying to figure out a way to stop Cheyenne, a corrupt power which is close to combining the western half of the country and overtaking everything.
Mimi wakes up to a rose and a note telling her to go outside. Stanley’s prepared her a breakfast to celebrate her first day on the job with Jennings & Rall, the company that tried to screw him over. He’s happy that things are starting to get back to something resembling normal. Just then, a helicopter lands on his lawn. The President wants to address the nation from his front porch.
Sheriff Jake is not quite sure what he’s supposed to be doing as far as keeping order, since the Secret Service is swarming the place and all.
Hawkins and Chavez are working on a plan to change history. Either that or get themselves killed.
The President will be arriving a couple hours ahead of schedule, giving them even less time to prepare. To make matters worse, Beck sends Chavez out on patrol, so Darcy offers to steal the walkie talkie her husband needs.
History has been completely rewritten by the new government. Emily (who’s supposed to teach from the new textbooks) doesn’t like it, but Gray doesn’t care.
Darcy steals the walkie talkie as planned. Nobody notices but Jake, who’s busy checking out a database that’s quick to condemn people. He goes to confront Hawkins, and while there, he’s stopped by someone who wants to search him to find the missing walkie talkie.
Hawkins walks right into the location intended to serve as the security for the President and starts killing people. Real secure. He sits himself down at a computer and begins downloading. Eventually, Jake realizes this was all just a distraction. Limited staff at this office, since everybody was scrambling to find the walkie talkie, meant easy access to the information.
A reporter from California is telling Jake the way things are now. He only reports what he’s allowed to report, and nobody wants to hear the truth any more anyway.
Chavez gets busted by Beck, not entirely a surprise to him, and he tells Jake to go find Hawkins. Unbeknownst to Jake, Chavez gave the password for the files to him. They find out the bomb is an ex-Soviet nuke. With Chavez out of the picture, they need to figure things out on their own. Jake thinks the reporter may be interested, so he discusses it with him, and since it’s the biggest story in American history (but perhaps too big), he does seem like he wants to take the risk. It’s not long, though, before the reporter is dead of a “heart attack.”
Jake wants answers, but Hawkins tells him he’ll never get them and that they’re just lucky the reporter’s dead so he can’t give them up.
The new government, which assumed power without public support or input, plans to ratify a new Constitution as the Allied States of America.
Chavez’s information comes back showing he’s assumed the identity of a dead soldier. Beck tries to get in touch with the people who are transporting him, but that won’t be easy since they’re all dead. It turns out Jake gave him something to pick the lock on his handcuffs.
Gray didn’t say anything at the President’s speech, but he tells Eric that when he goes to the convention, he will ask questions. He also asks Eric to be the mayor while he’s gone.
Beck is informed by his boss that his job will be to find Sarah and that he’ll be replaced as far as day-to-day operations.
Jennings & Rall tried to trace Mimi’s family at Stanley’s request. They found nothing, but she’s okay with that since she’s got a new family now.
Jake suggests things with Beck are getting pretty dicey. It’s about to get worse. Now Ravenwood’s in charge.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of Jericho Season 2 episode 3 Jennings & Rall, which airs Tuesday at 10/9c on CBS.