CBS Jericho

10/11/2006 Episode "Day Four"

So who is this guy who moves to a new town, seemingly prepared for the worst?

Let's see what we know so far.

He claims to have a police background.
He and his family do not want people to know their true identity or background.
He is familiar with effects of nuclear explosion/fallout.
He is familiar with interrogation (adrenalin to bring consciousness)

My guess is that this may not be a big conspiracy as it may seem. It could be a handfull of government people (perhaps CIA, maybe not) (handfull to say 20) who knew the attack was imminent (at least some degree of possible advance warning), picked Jericho as a safe place to ride out the nuclear threat and its aftermath.

It may be that they have or had this forehand knowlege and prepared for the worst. In a crisis situation it may be very prudent not to let anyone know that you have a stockpile of weapons or useful knowlege and/or preparedness for this disaster. However civil society may seem after such disaster you really must expect the worst. You can be benevolent but you certainly cannot be foolhardy when it comes to your own, your family's survival. When people become desparate, all bets are off.

This guy just may have the tools, the knowlege, the preparedness to survive where many others may not.

Now while he was at his laptop he was clearly sending a file, or at least a message but to whom ...and more importantly HOW??? If you address the how then the who really doesn't matter. You have to ask if he was sending a message locally within the town or to someone outside of town, somewhere. If the message sent was destined locally it could have been through WIMAX, of course assuming the hardware on the other end survived. If it was meant for someone outside Jericho it would most likely be over a secure network. There was no satellite phone connected to the computer that we saw so that would be a possibility but would it work in a basement? That would take more preparation that what we saw.

Again I will say that at least with what we know at this point this could be one person, part of a group numbering up to 20 or so and their families who picked Jericho to ride out the storm.

We'll see how much my mind changes in the next couple of episodes.