''Jericho'': Under New Management

The president's speech at the farm gave him a chance to spout his new agenda on a fresh battleground. He was supposedly trying to heal Jericho's wounds, but not everyone bought it. Earlier, Emily and Eric had spoken with Gray about the new history textbooks, which have completely rewritten the history of the last 50 years. This would imply that the attacks were in the works for a long while. How else would the textbooks be written and published so quickly? Initially, Gray didn't seem to care, but he soon came to his senses that ''something just isn't right'' about this new government. Tomarchio's talk about a new constitution provoked him further. Let's hope he sticks to his guns on this one.

And this new government is definitely one to be questioned. Jake formed an alliance with Alex Utley from the Modesto Bee, only for him to be found dead mere hours after Jake fed him some information. We learned from Alex that nothing gets published unless the new government approves it. If the country is split in two, this leads me to believe that news from the ''other side'' doesn't get through to the Allied States.

You know what I'd like to know? Just where else did the EMP hit? Was it only around Jericho? Was it the whole country? Clocks are working again in town, but the EMP was supposed to have fried all the circuits. There are also newer cars driving around; of course, these could all be cars that weren't anywhere near the EMP site. But still, doesn't it make you wonder?

So, besides the thinly veiled attacks on the Patriot Act (the facial-recognition database that cross-references DMV, library, and voter-registration records) and Valente sending the now clean-shaven Goetz from Ravenwood to take over operations from Major Beck, what else got your attention this episode? Should we be scared of Chavez? How did Eric and Jake's vendetta against Constantino just vanish overnight? And are we going to hear more about the Hudson River virus?

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