Well, the man that Jake and Heather find is not on the side of the road, he is actually inside the pharmacy, where he had broken in, maybe to get some drugs for pain. He is taken to the clinic by Jake ,Heather, Stanley, and Eric. Once at the clinic, the man ( Victor Miller, as we later learn) is treated by Eric’s wife. He is badly burned, barely hanging on for dear life. He manages when questioned the first time, to stammer that “they” are coming. Jake and the others want to know who these others are, but cant get any more from Victor.

Meanwhile at the Bar ( where I would be , in case of a bombing of my country) the TV is showing a loop, of what someone says seems to be Cincinnati, people are running away in terror. This is all that plays on the TV now.

Soon, we see that both the bar and the clinic are running out of gas. Jake and Heather come up with the idea of getting gas from the local station.

Jake, Stanley and Heather all go to gather gas from one of the local stations. The station manager is reluctant at first to give them the gas, but Jake explains to him that no one is around anymore to give him grief for giving up the gas. The three use a pump and siphon about 500 gallons into a large metal container, which Heather is not too happy about, due to the explosive draw backs. They are successful and we see them drive the gas back to town, and not a second to soon, since the generator at the clinic had given up the ghost, leaving Jake’s mother to give our poor survivor Victor, mouth to mouth. As soon as Jake, Heather and Stanley get back to the clinic, they realize the top of the container is stuck, and Heather cautions them that they can not just move the top with allot of vibrations, since that is what the gas has been doing the whole ride back to town and had built up allot of fumes. As she is saying this, Stanley just takes a pole and bashes it into the top , making it come right off, with no explosions. He then says, “that was stupid”. They get the gas into the clinics generator, and all the lights and machines come back on. This also lets poor Victor get one more chance as well.One of the local police officers, Jimmy, comes to Hawkins, asking for his help in securing peace before all hell breaks loose in town. He is reluctant but accepts, in my opinion from a personal gain point. Hawkins and Jimmy go to Skylar Stevens house, where she and her friends are having a party. They are there to talk with her about her use of too much gas to make power, since someone had complained. Jimmy kicks all the kids out, and Hawkins sees his daughter there. She tried to hide her face from him, but that did not work. He tells her to get home, and she leaves.

The other part of the two remaining Jericho Police force, Bill radios that he has found Shep’s truck and wants Jake and the others to come to it. When Jake, Hawkins and Billy arrive at the truck, they see the window has been smashed out, and inside is a coat with of all things a wallet in it. This wallet belongs to none other than our mysterious stranger Victor. The men decide that they need to find out what Victor knows about Shep, what happend to him and such, and they go back to the clinic to question him. Here we see yet again, that Hawkins is not who he seems or says he is. He convinces Eric and the others that they need to question Victor , and that he can do this by giving Victor an Adrenaline shot, which Jake is in opposition to doing. Eric over rules by agreeing to it, but Jake says he wants to be in the room with Hawkins and Victor. We see Hawkins giving the shot to Victor, and he jolts awake. When he looks at Hawkins, we are made sure that there is something sinister going on, the look in his eyes is of terror. He manages to tell Jake that his little girl and some others are at a lake outside of town, and need help. He begins to succumb to the painful burns, and Hawkins tells Jake he needs morphine for the pain. Jake leaves to get some, and that is where Hawkins makes his move, and leans over Victor saying, ” We said families only!” Ahhhhh, the plot thickens, as someone I can not recall used to say.

Now we have more questions, who is the “WE” Hawkins is talking about? My husbands theory is that this is some group who is about a cleansing, that these folks ( of whom Hawkins and Victor are a part of) knew these bombs were going to go off, and maybe Victor was back in Denver when he should not have been. Victor also tells Hawkins that there was a “traitor” in the group, and that he ( Hawkins) knows who it is…. but he gives no name.
Poor Victor tells Hawkins he had to go back, something about saving people. And then we see or we are lead to think, Hawkins either kills Victor, or Victor dies of his illness. I think Hawkins finished him off personally.

Jake and some of the people from the bar ( after much convincing on Jake’s part) go to the lake outside of town, hoping to help these folks that Victor said were there and needed help. Sadly, when Jake and the others get to the lake area, all are dead. They bury the victims there by the lake and return to town. Later that night, the Mayor and the towns people gather at a church, to remember the people at the lake, as well as all the people who have died or are missing due to the attacks. He said something that was interesting and worth remembering now, that this was more than a battle for their survival, it was also a battle for their humanity.

Toward the end we see Hawkins back on that PC and he is conversing in an email type program to a mysterious other , typing “we have a traitor”. He hears someone come down to the basement, where he has his secret lab type room, and he ends his transmission and comes out to find his son coloring. Hawkins asks him, where did you go to school Sam? Sam gives the correct answer, and Hawkins asks a few other questions which Sam answers each time, you do. Until the final question, which was who will take care of you always, and Sam answers Mom will. This hurts Hawkins a bit, and I say good because I don’t like him.

All in all, I am still firmly hooked on this show. And this episode was more true it seemed than the last. Maybe I am too easily wooed, who knows. I am very interested to know what the Dept of Homeland security is on the phone stating that the people are not to attempt to leave, as we saw in the views of next weeks show.

whew, that was allot of typing, and hopefully I got it all correct. Any places where I did not, let me know and we can fix. What did you all think???????