It doesn't matter!
The ratings keep dropping every week!
CBS will cancel the show again very soon & all the peanuts on Earth won't bring it back again.

@Greasy Thumb Guzik: Fucksauce!

But yeah that was pretty awesome. Raises intering questions about whats despicable, considering the desecration of Goetz's body.

that was a great, great episode. Hawkins is The Man!

Hawkins totally snapped that goons neck without hesitation. His badassness known no bounds ...

Hawkins > Jack Bauer

I really do love this show ... SIGH ... I guess I should resign myself to the fact that its over.

Whatever happened with the Republic of Texas plotline?

Is that next week?

I've been enjoying this show a ton, despite the often stupid bits.

@Seth L: Hawkins' buddy is still making his way to Texas with the evidence.

Hawkins' source was already revealed last week as having big connections to the contractor that controls Ravenwood (I forget the name... KBR? K & R? KFC?).

And Goetz had the same authority in season 1; it's just no one believed him at the time, and he didn't have the army to back him up.

@doubledumbassonyou: John Hawkins (if that is, indeed, his real name...) is the new Jack Bauer.

Robert Hawkins Takes names and Nukes.

Also, while Im throughly enjoying this second series, I would be sorry to see it go but not beside myself with grief, everything IS happening a bit conveniently but I personally put that down to not having the time to expand on every point thats raised through to a natural conclusion, hence the skipping ahead. Still though, I cant wait to see what happens next week :D

@doubledumbassonyou: That was the second best part of the episode, the best being when Stanley murdered Goetz.

From the first mention of the missing $10,000, I thought "why? Why would he steal such a small, arbitrary amount?"

Why didn't they just leave the gun with the dead guy out in the wilderness, and make it look like suicide? He was busted embezzling, after all, suicide is plausible. Army guy wouldn't get pissed off at them, they just shrug if any questions come up, it's clap-your-hands-together done!

See, that's sort of the point where I stopped watching. All these clever McGyvers who are smart enough to hack into military computers and steal nukes and stuff can't pull a simple cover-up?

@Munkles: newburn wanted him as a symbol for their resolve to get people fired up. I think its fairly obvious that that there is gonna be a rebellion in both towns against the new government.

by the way how about the mom staying up at the farm for the whole season?

oh and yes Hawkins is better than Baue.

Stanley got a big cheer at my house.
I hate it when shows won't kill a bad guy when he deserves it.

Have to say that the show totally blew me away (pun intended). I wasn't sure if Stanley was going to do it or not, and when he just calmly walked up and shot Goetz in the head, man that was classic. Who wouldn't do that if given the opportunity and the circumstances? I'm sad that the show isn't going to make it to a third season (though hopeful that it will) and I will definately miss it if it doesn't. I have to say too, I love reading the comments on this site almost as much as I enjoy reading the stories.

This is becoming less a TV show and more a guide for surviving Halliburton. =D

@reddingofish: I agree with you there. The worst ever was in the movie Saw. "you know you are holding a shotgun, if you just shot him this would be all over."
Lost has a little bit of that too with Ben.

@steven_scareplanes: Of course there's gonna be a rebellion; in the trailer for next week, people keep talking about a "new American revolution".

@gdcol1969: I'd hardly describe Stanley as "calm"; his hand was shaking the whole time, and he puked after he did it, likely to show that he's not gonna turn into the shows new stone killer.

@Frozen-Tex: I was pretty stoked they had Stanely throw up. The most honest reaction to violence.
And yeah- this is a survival course on how to survive that mega company Halliburton.

The end of Goetz reminded me of the four contractors strung up on the bridge in Falluja the spring of 2004. Fits with the insurgent theme.

@Frozen-Tex: Roger that..thanks for the correction.

@psdbny: I agree whole-heartedly about Stanley throwing up.

Yeah, I just finished watching this ep. It's like the writers are re-imagining the occupation of Iraq as happening in the United States. They even have 3 factions, west, east and Texas. I wasn't a big fan of the first season, but these 5 episodes have been some pretty great television.

I could not agree with you more about the Iraq metaphor.

I'm loving this season of Jericho for the same reason I started watching BSG. For a time, Galactica was the only source of writing in the American mass media where anyone had the balls to question the Bush Crime Family and the war of lies. That show got me though through 5 years of serious political stress.

Now I have the luxury of watching the writers at Jericho as they draw crystal clear comparisons to Haliburton and Cheney. Holy crap.

Thank god for that.

@Munkles:

Don't forget about the half dozen redshirts also dead there. Kinda hard to call them *all* suicides.