(Check point outside of Jericho)

Stanley: All right, keep alert. Jake said the New Bern guys might be coming right behind them.

Jimmy: Maybe they're already here.

(They see a light off in the distance)

Stanley: What is that?

(Mayor's Office)

Gray: What happened?

Johnston: We got a major problem, Gray.

Gray: Where’s Eric?

Johnston: He’s fine. He’s at the med center.

Gray: What, is it about the mine?

Jake: It’s a lot worse than that.

(Jericho check point - A boy walks up with a lantern)

Stanley: Who are you? Stop moving. Hey, you hear me? I’m talkin to you. Hey! Freeze! Who are you?

(Mayor's Office)

Jake: I think we killed, uh, six in New Bern.

Hawkins: Eight. I counted eight.

(Stanley walks in with the boy from New Bern)

Gray: Who’s this?

Stanley: He says he’s from New Bern, wanted to talk to you.

Gray: What is this about?

(The boy turns on a radio and places it on the desk - Gray picks it up)

Gray: Hello.

Phil: Am I speaking to Gray Anderson?

Gray: Yes.

Phil: This is Phil Constantino. Henry, you can come home now son. We’re still cleaning the blood of eight deputies off the streets of New Bern, so you need to understand out position. We need seven farms including the Jackson farm, the Herbert farm, and the Richmond farm and we need half the salt mine. You have four hours to respond.

Gray: I -- I don’t understand. What are you asking us to do?

Phil: Jericho is about to be invaded. For the sake of your people, I’m asking you to surrender.

(Mayor's Office)

Jake: We have border patrol on duty at all the check points and all the new road blocks, but we’re scrambling to cover everywhere else.

Gray: All right, did you see anything out there?

Jake: No, nothing.

Gray: What is he actually going to do -- just march in here and start shooting us? We were high school rivals five months ago.

Jake: They tortured my brother to find out how many troops we have, what weapons…

Johnston: They have made hundreds of mortars.

Hawkins: My guess is they can hit us from far as two miles out.

Gray: Having them and using them on people are two different things.

Hawkins: Yeah, that’s what they said about nuclear bombs.

Gray: How much time's left?

Jimmy: Fifty minutes.

(Med. Center - Nursing staff is running around - Eric watches a doctor operate - He gets flashbacks from April’s surgery)

Gail: “Fetal heart rate is less than five beats per minute.”

Dr. Kenchy: “Just hold pressure, hold pressure right there. Right there, press, harder…damn it.”

Gail: “I can’t hear anything."

Eric: “What is going on?"

Dr. Kenchy: “I’m trying to save April.”

Eric: “What, what do you mean it's stopped?"

Gail: “Do something."

(Gail touches Eric and his flashbacks end)

Gail: Eric.

Eric: Yeah, hey, Mom. (She hugs him)

Gail: Oh, God. Come on, come on, let's get you fixed up, OK? Come on, sweetheart.

(Town Hall - People chattering)

Gray: Uh, we’re not going to give anything to these people.

Dale: Mrs. Herbert.

Mrs. Herbert: I just wanted to offer the town a solution.

Dale: You cannot give away that farm.

Mrs. Herbert: Gray said it’s too far out of town for the Rangers' help. I can’t stand out there with a riffle.

Dale: Then I’ll defend it.

Mrs. Herbert: Really.

Dale: Are you abandoning it?

Mrs. Herbert: The bank owns half of that farm anyway. You just…do what ever you want, Dale.

Dale: Well, wait. Lets be clear. If I defend it, then it’s all mine.

Mrs. Herbert: If you can defend it.

Skylar: Dale, how are we going to defend that farm?

(Dale goes up to his guys)

Dale: Get me every refugee you can find.

Man: All right.

(Med. Center - Gail is helping Eric put on a shirt)

Gail: Careful.

(Mary walks in)

Eric: Mary.

Mary: Was so scared when you didn’t come back, I thought…

Eric: I’m back.

Mary: Oh, God. (She hugs him)

Eric: Ow.

Mary: Sorry, I didn’t want to hurt you.

Eric: No, I’m OK.

(Gracie’s Market - Many people are loudly talking)

Dale: Listen up, guys. Hey!

Man1: They said you had some food here.

Dale: Yeah, I -- I do have food. As of this morning I own the second biggest farm in Jericho. Now, I’m gonna need some men to defend it if we’re invaded.

Man1: What do we get?

Dale: A promise of three meals a day.

Man1: You want us to risk out lives for a promise?

(Many people agree and begin to walk out)

Dale: Listen, listen. Since you’ve been here you’ve been asking for a place to live, food. You came here as refugees and you’re still being treated like second class citizens. That’s no way to live. If you fight for my farm and we win, then everybody gets an equal split. It’ll be your farm. You’ll have stake in this town that nobody can take away from you. You’ll never have to ask anyone for anything ever again. So?

(Loud chattering of agreement as they all get in line to sign up)

(Mayor's Office)

Gray: Constantino said four hours.

Jimmy: It’s already been four hours.

(Town Hall - Emily walks)

Emily: Jake. (She hugs him) You OK?

Jake: Come here.

(Mayor's Office - Stanley walks in)

Hawkins: What did we hear from the Rangers?

Stanley: Runners came in; they haven’t seen anything.

Bill: Should we call Constantino?

Gray: I don’t have anything to tell him. I’m not just giving the town away.

(Town Hall)

Jake: There’s something I need to tell you.

Emily: It’s crazy. Everybody’s saying that New Bern’s gonna attack.

Jake: We don’t know. Look, somethin' happened to Heather. She found out New Bern was building mortars. She tried to stop them and they, they caught her. Nobody’s seen her since.

Emily: What did they do to her?

Jake: I don’t know.

Emily: Is she dead? Jake, is she dead? Jake?

(Before he can answer mortar rounds are heard as they hit Jericho)

(Mayor's Office)

Johnston: Get away from the windows.

(Town Hall)

Jake: Are you hurt? Are you hurt?

Emily: I’m good, I’m good.

Jake: All right, wait here. You wait here.

(Jake goes out into the street and sees the destruction from the mortars - People are running around screaming, some lying in the street - Jake stops to check a man)

Jake: Hey, you OK? Somebody help.

(Jake sees his mom lying in the street)

Jake: Mom! Mom! Mom!

(More mortar rounds are heard as Jake leans over his mom to protect her)

(Middle of street - people running around - Jake is sitting against a building holding his mom)

Johnston: Jake, you OK? Honey!

Eric: Hey.

Johnston: Look at me, look at me.

Gail: I can’t hear.

Johnston: I know, sweetie, that’ll come back.

Eric: I’m right here, Mom.

Gail: What’s happening?

Johnston: It’s all right, sweetie. Everything’s gonna be fine. Let’s get you to the med center, come on.

Gray: Get everybody off the street. There might be more coming. We gotta open the shelters and the town hall and the medical center. Move!

Jimmy: Constantino. He’s on the radio.

(Mayor's Office)

Gray: Constantino, you son of a *****, what the hell are you doing?

Phil: I’m sorry for your troubles.

Gray: We got a dozen injured people in the street here.

Phil: I warned you what would happen if you didn’t meet our demands.

Gray: DEMANDS! I will make it my purpose in life to see that you are held accountable for what you’ve just done.

Phil: Take another hour.

Gray: No! Do not fire any more of those things in here.

Phil: One hour, Gray. We need seven farms. It was just two mortars this time. Next time there’ll be three. Try to retaliate, refuse our demands, we’ll send more. We’ll do this day and night for as long as it takes.

Gray: All right, the patrols said they looked like they were fired from the west. Get as many Rangers as you can, all right? Go out there, find those mortars and we are gonna take them out. Move!

(Middle of street - People running around, little fires going on - Hawkins is helping people out of the street)

Hawkins: Hey, hey, hey.

Darcy: Rob!

Hawkins: Come on.

Darcy: Rob.

Hawkins: Hey Darcy, you OK?

Darcy: Yeah, what happened?

Hawkins: It’s New Bern, they're firing mortars at us. (She sees his gunshot wound)

Darcy: Are you OK?

Hawkins: Yeah. Look, we gotta get the kids and you gotta get outta here.

Darcy: Where are we gonna go?

Hawkins: There’s a, there’s a safe house I know of, if we could just get there. It’s in Montana.

Darcy: Go to Montana on these roads? What are the chances of getting there?

Hawkins: I don’t know. I don’t know.

(Streets of Jericho)

Johnston: You heard from Constantino?

Gray: No. No, but I sent out a squad of Rangers to take out the mortars.

Johnston: I should have been with 'em.

Gray: Well, you weren’t here and I couldn’t wait.

(Streets of Jericho)

Darcy: What should we do?

Hawkins: I don’t know. Hey, hey, hey, we’ve got to get underground, now. Hey everybody, you have got to get underground. You, get everybody underground.

Darcy: Let’s go home, let’s go home.

Hawkins: OK.

(Hawkins House - Basement)

Hawkins: I might have to go back to town.

Darcy: Sam. Sam, get away from there.

Allison: Hey Dad, there’s more water in the garage. You want me to get it?

Hawkins: That there’s the safest room in the house, it’s concrete wall reinforced. It’s where we should be, Dee. Come on.

(Hawkins lead them into his safe room)

Hawkins: Come on in.

Sam: This is cool.

Darcy: Sam, Allison, go in the other room.

Sam: Why can’t…

Allison: Come on Sam, let's go.

Sam: But this room's boring.

Hawkins: No more secrets.

(Town Hall Basement)

Johnston: Mortars didn’t come from very far off. How much time do we have?

Gray: About four minutes left.

Stanley: This is Stanley Richmond. Anderson, can you hear me?

Gray: We hear you.

Stanley: OK, we’re about a hundred yards away from the mortar canons. There’s two of them sittin' on flat bed trucks.

Gray: OK, can you get to them?

Stanley: Yeah, yeah, I think so. There’s a path leading into the clearing.

Johnston: Tell him he’s gotta send scouts out on both flanks.

Gray: There’s no time to reposition.

Johnston: They have to know what they're going into.

Gray: I’m not gonna give them another chance to drop bombs on us.

Johnston: Gray, these men are not soldiers. They need to know.

Gray: Johnston, you can stay or you can go, but how this happens is my call.

(Eric grabs the radio)

Eric: Stanley, get out of there! Don’t do it.

Man: Let go.

Man2: (He pulls a gun and directs it at Eric) Hey, hey, hey! Hey!

Gray: Stanley.

Stanley: What should we do?

Gray: Take em’ out.

Stanley: Got it.

(Hawkins Basement)

Darcy: So why now?

Hawkins: You know, I always thought that I could keep you safe, but now, today, I’m just not so sure.

Darcy: Nothing's safe, not anymore.

Hawkins: But you know, in -- in the middle of all of this, in this madness, the only thing that makes any sense to me, I mean really, the only thing is you and the kids. Took me a while to realize that and I’m sorry, I am so sorry.

Darcy: I missed you. I missed you. (She hugs and kisses him)

(Town Hall)

Bill: How do we know if it worked?

Gray: Come on.

(The lights go out as more mortar rounds hit Jericho)

Gray: Stanley? STANLEY! Stanley!

(Stanley and his men walk into town as the new damage to Jericho is seen)

Gray: Is he shot?

(Stanley is in shock)

Jake: Stanley. Hey sit down, sit down.

Gray: Get them to the med center. Is he all right?

Jake: Are you shot? (Jake takes of his coat and checks if he is wounded)

(Hawkins and Mimi run up)

Johnston: Where is everybody else? Stanley, what happened out there?

Stanley: I -- I don’t know. We were moving towards the mortar truck and they were waitin', they were waitin' on both sides of it for us. They wouldn’t -- they wouldn’t stop f-f-f-iring.

Johnston: Stanley, where is everybody else? Where are they, Son?

Stanley: They're -- they're all dead. They're all dead.

Mimi: This is insane. This is insane.

(Jake tries to grab Gray)

Man: Hey, hey, back off.

(Some people grab Gray as Hawkins and Johnston pull Jake away)

(Johnston looks at Jake)

Johnston: Bailey’s. Now.

(Bailey’s)

Jake: Stanley said the mortars were on trucks here, right here, just east of Shaw Creek bridge.

Johnston: They're gonna fire and move. Check the tracks to see which direction they were headed. And Jake, just scout 'em; we’re not going to do anything else half-cocked. First we find 'em, then we’ll formulate a plan of attack.

Jake: Got it.

Hawkins: Just scout 'em.

Emily: I’m coming with you. It was not a request.

(Jake hands her a gun)

Jake: All right.

(Outside of town - Jake, Eric and Emily are on horseback)

Jake: From the tracks I’d say three, maybe four firing trucks headed down that road. They can hit the town from anywhere once they get to Route 6.

Eric: Hey, Hawkins spotted a five ton truck coming this way from New Bern about three miles back.

Jake: Could be a supply truck heading to the next mortar site.

Eric: Jake, we can get it.

Jake: All right, let’s go.

(Outside town - Hawkins has a sniper set up and is aimed at the truck - Jake and Eric are riding up behind the truck - Jake rides up to the driver's side - Hawkins takes out the passenger)

Jake: Stop the truck now. Stop it.

(Jonah’s men pull up on dirt bikes)

Jonah: They're all right. Let 'em go. Well, you two finally turned to a life of crime.

(Gracie’s Market)

Johnston: We’re gonna need your men.

Dale: My men don’t fight for Gray Anderson.

Johnston: We’re asking you to help defend the town. We lose, you don’t have anything.

Skylar: If we fight with you, we keep Mrs. Herbert’s farm.

Dale: And we get the abandoned Surry farm also.

Johnston: You already own half a salt mine and a percent of every farm in the county, now you want more?

Dale: It’s just business.

Johnston: This isn’t about business. I’m asking you to do this for me.

(Outside Jericho - Jonah’s men are going through the supplies from the truck)

Emily: We need your help.

Jonah: (Yells to his men) Let’s get ready to move. They’ll be lookin' for this truck. (Looks at Emily) Last time I was in town those people were trying to lynch me. They can all go to hell.

Emily: Just listen to me.

Jonah: No, you listen to me. I’ve been watchin' New Bern move weapons and supplies for the last three days. This is going to be a blood bath. The best thing you can do is come with me.

Emily: Jericho’s my home.

Jonah: And I’m your father, It’s survival of the strongest and fittest out there.

Emily: You think I’m safe with you robbing trucks?!

Jonah: I haven’t lost a man yet. And if New Bern doesn’t get Jericho, somebody else will. Emily, come with me.

Emily: No. Give us the maps, help us take out the mortars, help us fight. We’ll give you half, half of our weapons, food, fuel of what we take. And if New Bern’s army is as big as you say it is, you’ll do a whole lot better than hitting one truck at a time out here.

Jonah: You got more of me in you than you’re ever gonna admit. (Yells to men) Change of plans.

(Bailey’s)

Man: When the Federal Government comes back, we have our deeds, we’ll get our farms back then.

Johnston: What if the government doesn’t come back? What if this is the way it stays? They are coming here intent on killing us.

Man: Gray says we’re only three farms away from a deal, and besides, we’re not prepared to fight.

Johnston: I will get us prepared. You talk to those farmers. You don’t let 'em give in.

Man: Who else you got willin' to fight, Johnston? The cops? The Rangers?

(Jake walks in followed by Emily, Eric, Hawkins and Jonah)

Hawkins: There are eleven potential mortar sites, the question is which one is next?

Jake: The driver said this one, if we can trust him.

Johnston: Stanley, how are the trucks guarded?

Jonah: They have men hiding in the brush.

Johnston: I’m not sure I’m taking your deal.

Jonah: They have nearly thirty guys guarding that mortar truck. I see nine here.

Jimmy: Gray’s got the seven farms he needs. He’s gonna call New Bern and give them up.

Johnston: If he surrenders those farms, New Bern will occupy them in thirty minutes. We’ll never get rid of 'em.

Stanley: So what do we do?

Johnston: I guess I’m about to make a deal with the devil.

Jonah: You flatter me.

Johnston: Stanley, Eric, Jimmy, get back over to Town Hall. Do what ever it takes, but don’t let Gray make that call.

Jimmy: What do you mean, do what ever it takes? What are you saying?

Johnston: I’m saying its time to pick a side.

(Town Hall Basement)

Bill: Jimmy, why’d you bring Eric in here?

Jimmy: We just want to talk for a second.

Eric: Don’t make that deal with Constantino.

Gray: It’s not a debate.

Stanley: If you make this deal, they're not going to stop with seven farms. People are going to starve to death, Gray.

Eric: And that’s if they don’t kill us outright when the food gets scarce.

Gray: I need you to leave, now.

Eric: Come on, Gray.

(One of Gray’s men tries to push Stanley out of the room)

Stanley: Get your hands off me.

Eric: Why are you so ready to give up?

Stanley: I almost gave my life for this town, Gray. You better listen to me, you understand?

Eric: It wasn’t your fault that those men died, Gray.

Gray: GET 'EM OUTTA HERE!!!

(They begin to shout at each other and eventually they all pull guns on each other)

Eric: We got men out there, Gray.

Gray: What?

Eric: We have men out there.

Gray: (Gray looks at his men) Put 'em down, put -- put 'em down.

Eric: You, too, put 'em down.

Gray: Who is out there? Who is out there and what are they doing?

Eric: Jake, Hawkins and my dad, and they're gonna try and take out the mortars.

Gray: Just -- just the three of them? What do they think they're gonna do?

Stanley: You can not give up those farms, do you understand?

Gray: We can’t fight, we can’t fight. You saw what happened this morning. We’re not ready for this. I have been talking to Constantino and I promised him that we will not retaliate if he just gives us time to put this deal together.

Stanley: We’ve got maps of all of New Bern’s positions, their supply line, everything.

Gray: Where did you get this stuff?

Stanley: We’ve got trucks, we’ve got fuel, we’ve got guns.

Gray: Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you talking about? Where did you get all this?

Eric: Jonas Prowse is fighting with us. He’s got about thirty men fighting with him, thirty men!

Gray: Well, he could get us all killed.

(A radio signal from New Bern comes in)

Phil: This is New Bern, over.

Eric: Don’t go near that radio, Gray.

Phil: Mayor Anderson, are you there?

(Outside Jericho, preparing to ambush some of the New Bern men - Johnston is in the truck with the driver from New Bern)

New Bern Driver: Johnston Green, right? Two years ago you came over to New Bern, finished fourth in a bass fishing contest up at Bigget Lake. I finished second.

(Jake, Hawkins and Jonah's men climb into the back of the truck)

Johnston: Let’s go.

(Town Hall Basement)

Phil: Mayor Anderson, your time is running out.

Gray: I have to tell Constantino that I did not send them out there.

Eric: Gray, don’t make that deal. Buy us some time to take out those mortars. Negotiate with Constantino.

(Back of truck)

Hawkins: So when we pop outta here, it gets bad, Jonah will have our backs, right? (Jake just looks at him) You are filling me with confidence, Jake.

Jake: Emily’s with him. He’ll be there.

(Town Hall Basement)

Phil: Mayor Anderson, are you there?

Gray: Yeah, I’m here, Phil.

Phil: What’s your decision?

Eric: You’re a good business man, Gray. You know how to do it.

Gray: Well, we don’t want to fight, so what about the, uh, Lavine and Hyde’s dairy farms instead of the Richmond farm?

Phil: That’s less acreage.

Gray: Yeah, yeah, I know, but, uh, then you would have a dairy and a soybean farm. Also Hyde’s has fifty acres of corn, and I gotta tell ya, that deal would be a lot easier to sell to my people.

(Truck pulls up at the next mortar site - New Bern men are talking - One of the men goes and talks to the driver)

Man: Where you been? You were supposed to be here three hours ago.

Driver: Yeah I got sniped at by a gang over near Calvary, had to come all the way back rough through, back through Vanase. I got a half a barbequed venison in the back.

Man: God, we need it. (Whistles to the men) We got chow. Hey, we’ll eat in shifts. Don’t pull everybody off the perimeter at the same time.

(They open the back of the truck and come face to face with the men from Jericho)

Hawkins: Don’t move. Drop your weapons.

Jake: Get in the truck. Move!

(Town Hall Basement)

Phil: My people are telling me that all the cattle at Hyde’s farm have been slaughtered for food.

Gray: Really? I don’t think so, I can find out for you. Let’s talk about the salt mine now, you’ve already got twenty five percent of the mine. Can’t we just leave it at that?

Phil: What are you doing, Gray?

Gray: What are you talking about?

Phil: This negotiation is over.

Gray: No, Phil, come on.

Phil: Thirty seconds, Gray, or I send more mortars.

Gray: But we almost have a deal here Phil, come on! Phil!

(Mortar site - the driver jumps out of the truck)

Driver: They're here.

Man2: Jericho’s in the camp.

(A shootout starts between Jericho and New Bern)

Hawkins: Where the hell is Jonah?

Johnston: He doesn’t want to get hit in our cross fire. Cease fire, cease fire.

Hawkins: Stop!

(From behind the New Bern men, Jonah and his men come out shooting - They kill all of the New Bern men)

Johnston: No!

(Jonah finds the driver alive and kills him point blank - Emily is standing behind him in shock at what he just did)

(Jonah’s and the Jericho men start loading the supplies into separate trucks)

Jonah: This one's yours. We’ll meet you back at the camp.

Jake: Wait -- what are you talking about?

Jonah: Deal's changed.

Jake: The hell it has!

Jonah: It’s a new split. I get all the weapons, the food, the fuel, the guns, everything.

Emily: Deals fifty-fifty.

Jake: And what do we get?

Jonah: You get to have bombs not falling on your head.

Jake: Listen here, Jonah.

Johnston: Hey.

(Johnston and Hawkins grab Jake and pull him away before he can do anything)

Jake: This is about to get a lot worse.

Hawkins: Jake.

Jake: We need those guns.

Emily: Why are you doing this? (Jonah turns away from her) You owe me a lot more than that.

Jonah: I am a thief, not a soldier.

Emily: You promised you’d help us.

Jonah: You shouldn’t be near me. You’re a schoolteacher, kid, a schoolteacher. Go on.

(Jonah and his men drive away with the supplies)

Jake: You’re just gonna let him go? We need those guns.

Hawkins: Guns, guns are easy.

(Hawkins leads Jake into a storage shed filled with guns)

Jake: You’ve had this the whole time and you didn’t say anything?

Hawkins: I never thought I was gonna call this town my home. Let’s get 'em loaded up.

(Town Hall Basement)

Gray: Oh, what’s he doin'?!

Eric: Why hasn’t he fired the mortars?

Stanley: Did we take 'em out?

Bill: He would have come back on the radio.

(Johnston walks in)

Johnston: We took out the mortars.

Bill: Hell yeah.

(A signal comes over the radio)

Phil: Gray, Gray, are you there?

Gray: Yeah.

Phil: Now you’ve brought this on yourself. There’s no deals, no mercy. We’re comin'. This means war. Do you hear me, Gray?

(Gray shuts off the radio)

Gray: Johnston, I need your help.

Johnston: Stanley, get me every runner you can find. I wanna get orders out to all the patrols.

(Johnston shakes Gray’s hand)

(Night - Middle of Jericho - The whole town is there)

Johnston: Most of you have no idea what to do or what’s coming. Some of you do. This isn’t a fight about land or about this town. This is a fight for our very existence. Pray for each other. While you're at it, pray for the men and women of New Bern. Pray that God forgives us.

Jake: Every able-bodied person who needs a gun, sixteen years of age or older, line up.

(Jake and Hawkins begin to hand out guns to those that need them - Allison walks up - Hawkins hands one to his daughter and kisses her on the forehead)