so two weeks in a row, it takes the whole episode just to get to an interesting part with "Mr. Hawkins". maybe i should just always fast-forward to the last 5 minutes.

i take that back, i did think the short scene with skeetgyver finding the planes was interesting. but that's about it.

of all the times to cheat on your wife, during a fallout, coupled with a blackout, doesn't seem like the best time. I'd assume his wife would want to know where he is.

So...

What was up with Skeet's reaction when the Black guy said who he was?

Yeah - but it will be nice to see the nerd tap that popular chick.

I'm definitely enjoying the show though. It won't win any awards but it keeps me entertained.

You know, if this was LOST, skeetgyver would of kept the information from the black box to himself, so at least we got to hear it.

Yes having your affair during a nuclear attack, not the smartest thing.

If it was like Lost... we would have commerical breaks every five minutes.

I like the show and look forward to the next episode.

I thought this was, by far, the best episode of the series so far. If I hadn't enjoyed tonight, I would've given up on it, but I'll stick around a few more weeks at least.

Anyone see what he had in the storage locker? Were the guns in the 50 gal drum or somewhere else? And why brick up the drum?

Also, anyone have a screenshot of the US map from the news broadcast? Some details there on what has been nuked.

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I liked it too, although I can't explain why.

I gave them the benefit of the doubt earlier but they are really playing fast and loose with the geography and science. Why was the meat safe to eat if everyone in town had to be underground to avoid radiation poisoning? I know, they they just "cooked" the radiation out of it.
I thought the airplane discovery scene was good, very "Planet of the Apes". I'll keep watching.

They found out that the rain wasn't radioactive.

Anyone speak Chinese or Japanese or whatever language was being used during the broadcast? Just seeing if we could get a translation.

BTW, can someone fill me in on exactly what the situation is with the power in town? Is it on or off? Some places don't seem to have power at all, yet that damn TV in the bar is running 24/7. If they're running it off a generator, seems like a big waste of power, doesn't it?

I'd provide a translation of the Mandarin for you, but unfortunately I don't know any ex-cops from St. Louis. (They got up to speed after 9/11, you know).

I guess the bar is the local gathering place for everyone. So they have the power on there but not at the hardware store, Dave's Discount Shoe Depot, etc.

So true. When I saw them playing the tape I almost spit up my drink. What a pathetic joke.

And WTF happened to all that radiocative dust? It DISSOLVED in the rain?! Good Christ, if a radioactive cloud really passed over Jericho, their effing Geiger counters would be clicking off the dial for decades -- rain or no rain. If anything, the rain would make the radioactive affects worse.

You know, I had the same problem with Surface last year. If you're going to make a scifi show, don't use Hollywood chimps as writers. Use writers who have, as a bare minimum, a basic understanding of science and technology. Otherwise your audience will laugh you all the way to the unemployment line.

This show's on life support AFAIC.

We tested more than a couple of hundred nuclear weapons in above ground tests on the Nevada test range in the 50's and 60's. While there was some increase in radiation in surrounding areas, it was not very dramatic. Only HUGE hydrogen weapons (several megaton) were tested in the Pacific.

Of course with the "attacker" not unidentified, it is hard to speculate on whether his bombs might be far dirtier than ours.

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Really? Have a chat with the folks who lived around Chernobyl and ask them about "dramatic". And that was a reactor whose effects were largely contained. A hydrogen bomb (and any modern attack would be with Hydrogen bombs) would be far far far worse.

The map on the TV showed these cities with red circle markings around them

Philadelphia
Atlanta GA
Chicago IL
Dallas TX
Denver CO
San Diego CA
Fort Bragg CA
Portland OR

Upon closer inspection of the far shot of the map there are 2 hits in CA.
The second looks to be Fort Bragg.

That's what I was thinking too. The map makes it look like a handful of major cities were targeted, although surprisingly Washington is not one of them. My guess at this point are small-scale nukes - probably smuggled in by terrorists.

Now the question is if only 7-8 cities were hit, would that necessarily bring down all ground-to-air communications?

Looked like NYC to me instead of Philly. I also thought there were 2 in California - San Fran and either LA or SD.

Dallas was not on last week's pushpin map IIRC, but it's definately on that news pic.

Yes, I also saw 2 in California. I would guess San Diego, based on the push pins and San Fran.

A reactor is all fission. Although I would disagree Chernobyl was "well contained." TMI was well contained, Chernobyl vented an enormous amount of nuclear waste.

Our nuclear weapons are all fusion-enhanced and have TINY fission cores. For comparable yield, fusion weapons are much cleaner. And in any case, hundreds of nuclear weapons have been set off on US soil, above ground, in tests. Certainly at ground zero, effects linger. You can only stay at Trinity site a few hours, and you can't roam around some of the Nevada test range. Still it is not that far to Las Vegas and some other important cities. There was NOT a several hundred mile swath of fallout and destruction.

If Denver was nuked, you wouldn't want to hang around, but the fallout a couple of hundred miles away would be minor, and a rain storm that started in Denver would have washed it out long before Jericho.

Definately looks closer to NYC than Philly on the map, but we were shown Philadelphia was one last week.

philly's only 100 miles from new york, and that's a pretty zoomed-out map.