"Why We Fight" is the twenty-second episode of season one of the CBS drama Jericho. It was broadcast as the season finale; after the broadcast, CBS announced that the series had been cancelled, a decision they reversed on June 6th when they picked it up for seven more episodes. Why We Fight is also the title of a series of US World War II-era propaganda films directed by Frank Capra.
The episode begins with Jericho residents in the town hall as J...
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"Why We Fight" is the twenty-second episode of season one of the CBS drama Jericho. It was broadcast as the season finale; after the broadcast, CBS announced that the series had been cancelled, a decision they reversed on June 6th when they picked it up for seven more episodes. Why We Fight is also the title of a series of US World War II-era propaganda films directed by Frank Capra.
The episode begins with Jericho residents in the town hall as Jake Green returns from a scouting mission; he tells the gathered crowd that they are both greatly outnumbered and outgunned by opposing forces from New Bern. Robert Hawkins tells Jake and Johnston Green that he has access to a satellite he can use to track New Bern forces. The Jericho troops decide to make their defense on the Richmond farm. Jake and Hawkins realize that the only way to defend themselves is to use the M1 Abrams tank taken from the fake US Marines. They use the tank to successfully defend the farm from New Bern's initial attack...
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