code messages are played over Jerichos opening titles. What do they say?
If you know someone in the Navy, ask them to translate for you. The message changes every week. In the first episode, it was simply “Jericho Pilot.” But the producers have also used it to offer clues on what’s coming up. “In the episode in which a stranger comes to town,” Turteltaub says, “the message was, ‘He knows Rob.'” As in Robert Hawkins (Lennie James), Jericho’s resident mystery man. How is Hawkins able to still get Internet access on his laptop? Wouldn’t the electromagnetic pulse that occurs after a nuclear explosion cripple it along with the rest of the electronic equipment in town? Hawkins’ laptop has a metal alloy body that was designed by the military and Panasonic to protect the software and the inner workings of the computer from an EMP. His Internet access is through military domains, which have backup systems for national emergencies. When are we going to find out if Jake and Hawkins are heroes or villains? Executive producer Carol Barbee says Jake’s whereabouts for the
