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(S01E06) Well, well, well...so Hawkins has been gone from his family for the past four years, eh? Just like Jake. Hmmmm...
That was the most interesting revelation in tonight's episode. It was mostly a mix of tedious scenes and a few plot developments we had to have to move the plot along and set up future events
Oh, and horses. Lots and lots of horses.
An EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) takes out all the power and anything with a circuit (laptops, watches, etc) just when Hawkins has sent a message to somebody to find out if the rockets are "ours" or "theirs," but with no explanation as to what exactly he means. Luckily he has a lot of those green glow in the dark sticks you snap to give you light. He gives them to his family.
Meanwhile, we learn a little bit more about the trouble that Jake was into years ago that made him leave town (looks like they're really pushing this part of the plot now). It involved his former best friend Mitch, a friend of Mitch's who was killed, and Jake having to leave town. At the Green's home, the horses start to act up, and Jake's mom goes to see what's going on with them. Just then, the horses run out of the barn, and two of them have men on top of them. Jake's mom hurts her arm, but otherwise she's OK. Jake thinks it's Mitch and his buddies, so he goes to the airport (?) to see. Yup, there are the horses, all in a corrall. I have no idea why Mitch stole the horses during a possible nuclear war (to eat? to sell? to ride off into the sunset?), but Dale is there too. He's been roped into helping them, and Jake knows he might go down the same path as he did when he was a kid and he wants to help him. But Mitch knocks him out from behind.
Jake's brother (back with his wife and ditching the bartender who's in love with him, for now anyway) shows up with others and save Jake, but Mitch escapes on a horse while shooting a shotgun. I thought this was a rather stupid scene, like something out of Matt Houston or Charlie's Angels. Thank God Jake didn't jump on another horse and chase him. Mitch gets away. Bonnie comes to bail out Dale with her credit card, but Jake just lets him go.
The government woman who has come to close down Stanley's farm has a deal: let her stay there and she'll subtract what he owes the government as her rent. I wsa waiting for him to say, "fine, my rent is $10,000 a day," but he just makes wiseass remarks. Stanley then notices that his crops are all ruined with worms and maggots and beetles (I was eating at this point and it kinda grossed me out), and he needs pesticide. The cranky lady at the store won't give him hers unless they make a deal, and Johnston insists the crops be used for everyone in the town. Stanley doesn't want to do that. The government woman pays someone to steal pesticides for him, and hides them in his barn. The police find them, so Stanley is about to do something drastic, but the entire town shows up to help him with his crops. All while a country-ish pop song plays in the background, of course (it was Jakob Dylan).
Hawkins daughter goes snooping, and not only finds the map with all the possibly destroyed towns marked with a push pin, but finds out his laptop is working. Hawkins tries to explain. He also decides to give her shooting lessons outside, just in case she needs to know...
A so-so episode, with a bit of filler. But not bad. I like that the characters were made a little stronger and that the mystery of Hawkins (and Jake) is beginning to deepen. And I liked that scene in the field near the end, where Hawkins' daughter asks dad if Jake is a good man or a bad man, and he replies "there's no such thing."
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