To Viv (no. 11): Bonnie is deaf, and uses American Sign Language, lip reading, and spoken language. Not too surprising that with her brother, and other people she is very close to, and that are fluent in sign language, that she would primarily use sign language - especially when she wants to exclude Mimi, who surely doesn't know sign language. Think of it as her first language. She's not mute, as evidenced by her speaking so well with the people in town, who probably wouldn't know more than the rudimentaries of sign language.

To Nez (no. 2): I've only been reading this site for a little while, but it seems that they don't post until after they see the episode, at the same time we see the episode - so it shouldn't really be spoilers for anyone. Personally, I always tend to watch everything a day late, so I make sure I don't look at the episode review/synopsis until after I've seen it, because I know they will recap all the major points.

Here's my .02

a) Hawkin's wife will be the traitor. That's why she pulls the gun on Hawkins in the preview for Feb. She had her son ask dad to go outside and play football (Remember, the boy says "I dunno" when asked why at this time he had to play football) to be captured during a satellite fly-over.

b) Dale killing Mitch was about as predictable as, well, Dale getting the store.

c) With the generator helping power stuff, why not have someone be on alert with either the television or ham radio for news and information? Perhaps Homeland Security is trying to contact the population again.

d) Grey is gonna screw up in the first few eps and ask that Mayor Green take back over. Hopefully, Grey then shuts up.

e) Bonnie getting the farm? That's what she said. "My farm". And what's with her and the jerk? It started to look like she was going to flirt with Dale.

f) You're right - ENOUGH of the wet streets. It's like the kids playing in the water fountain that could be contaminated. Someone needs to watch for things like that. I am interested in knowing what the trick with wet streets is when filming?

g) The contrails were funny. That's about as good as a ep of Studio 60 a few weeks back having a Bartlet sign on the set.

h) Whoever the idiot that said "Lets use the generator to light up downtown" is, shoot him. I can think of things that are more important to use electricity with. I think the only reason the generator was introduced was to get around problems with lighting the sets.

i) Jonah gets saved by Jake and Mayor Green. With Jonah work with the townies more often? Is he a changed man?

ok.. a lot of comments, I know.

In what town does the changing of mayoral responsibilities take place the day after the election? Just because Johnston was defeated in the election doesn't mean he would all of sudden not be mayor the very next day. Other than that... loved the episode.

Somebody explain this to me because i am totally confused. Bonnie talks for a little while and then goes back to the hand signals deal. Is she a mute or not? This episode for a "fall finale" was a big letdown. They already showed the important scenes last week. But will watch again in Feb though.

This was a really bad episode. It was predictable from start to finish. There was only about 5 minutes worth of good stuff! I don't need constant answers to all the questions but this is ridiculous. The amount of stupid soap opera stuff is crazy!


I mean who CARES about Mimi and Stanley hooking up, who cares about the Roger,Heather,Jake,Emily rectangle. Arg it pains me because i like the premise and the characters!

And people who say 'well stop watching it you don't like it', well i'll continue watching because im still half interested in what happens next(in the main plot, nto the 14 stupid sub-plots) and that there's nothing else playing!


Sure they leave us with a semi cliffhanger of Dale shooting Mitch and Hawkings getting that message. But that doesn't justify the other 45 boring minutes!

For a fall finale before taking a big break you better have a HUGE and SOLID episode filled with answers and more questions and big cliffhangers. This one just didn't cut it.

After realising that the writers of this show had to do "it" for an 8 o'clock time slot, I have accepted my fate and have stopped wishing it was more.

I feel that the writting has dramtically imporved show after show and can I say, I'm actually looking forward to Feb?

I too feel as if Jake is the "tratior" although I am not entirely comfortable with Hawkins yet.

The only thing I wish for the show is that they stop giving us the complete obvious. When the "new people" walked into town, I *knew* one of them would be Roger. And then Mitchell got shot, you knew who was on the other end of the gun.

Yeah that preview for next year appears to finally reveal what happened with the bombs. Here is my interpretation of the preview:

1. The fleet of white trucks. These trucks carried nuclear bombs. They were driven to U.S. cities and detonated.

2. Hawkins is FBI and worked undercover to infiltrate this group.

3. The "traitor" of this terrorist group is... Jake.

My conclusion: Jake first got involved with them while working for a military contractor in Iraq. The group consists of Americans who want to overthrow the Federal government. Jake joined them originally thinking that they were merely a political group of disgruntled former U.S. soldiers who wanted America out of the Middle East. But he eventually discovered that they were really anarchists who had a dangerous plan.

In the pilot episode, Jake stopped off in Jericho on his way to one of the major cities, where he was determined to stop one of the bombs from being detonated.

Hawkins has one of the nuclear drums, which he has sealed up in the basement of his house.

I am extremely disappointed in the romance pairing so far. April is far finer than Mary. Eric is nuts, as well as unfeeling about his future child. Heather is a far better love interest for Jake than Angel. Please reconsider, writers, in Feb. and fix this so obvious pair of mismatchs. Even Gail can't see these pairings.

Great episode! And I *think* I know who the traitor is now.
Poor Dale. I hope he finds a real good hiding place for that gun!
Why does Bonnie hate Mimi so much? Looks like she's about to make a BIG mistake.

I liked this episode; I thought it had extra chilling moments - like the moment in jail, with Jake coaxing Gray to kill Jonas; like Dale shooting Mitch; like the out-of-towners; like Hawkins secret buddy. Good stuff. Even though I detest that Gray became mayor (he scares me, and should scare those people who voted for him), I think it is an excellent story-development. I like that Jonas left town. He is one good-bad guy that should only show his face once in a while. Can't wait til he comes back into town - to bring help or trouble. To the love triangle - I say to the writers, scratch that. I can't believe February!