Jake Green

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Jake Green

First appearance	Pilot
Statistics
Gender	Male
Age	32
Occupation	Uncertain
Relatives	Johnston Green (father) Gail Green (mother) Eric Green (brother)
Portrayed by	Skeet Ulrich
Created by	Stephen Chbosky

Johnston Jacob "Jake" Green, Jr. is a character on the US post-apocalyptic drama Jericho. He is played by Skeet Ulrich. He is a primary character of the series.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

In the Pilot, Jake returns to his home town of Jericho, Kansas, after a five-year absence to pay his respects to his recently deceased grandfather. He tells friends different stories as to what he was doing while he was away, which include playing minor league baseball and serving in both the Army and Navy. Eventually it is revealed that he came to claim money that he inherited from his grandfather, which his father Johnston, also Jericho's mayor, refuses to hand over. Despite the urging of his mother, Gail, to stay, Jake leaves.

However, not long after leaving town, his watch dies, and the radio station he was listening to turns to static just as a mushroom cloud appears in the direction of Denver, Colorado. Distracted, he doesn't see an oncoming car stray into his lane, and there is a collision. The two people in the other car die; Jake injures his leg. While Jake is walking back to Jericho, two children approach him; they have come from a school bus that crashed nearby. Jake returns to the bus with the children, where he finds the driver dead. He performs an emergency tracheotomy on a girl who injured her throat when the bus crashed. Jake then drives the bus and its passengers back to Jericho, earning new respect from his father.

The next day, as a storm harboring deadly radioactive fallout approaches town, Jake takes charge of getting the decrepit fallout shelter underneath the medical center up to scratch. However, when his efforts fail, he leads a group of survivors to an abandoned salt mine where, after sealing the mine entrance, Jake rushes off to rescue his former fiancé Emily, who was unwittingly in the company of two escaped prisoners posing as Sheriff's deputies. Shooting one of the prisoners dead, Jake takes cover with the hostages in a farmer's storm cellar.

As the storm disappears and the town faces an unknown future, Jake starts to take on a leadership role in trying to get help for the citizens of Jericho.

[edit] Jake's background

Country	Date Entered	Date Exited
Honduras	11 August 2003	21 August 2003
Mexico	22 September 2003	2 October 2003
Colombia	22 April 2004	29 April 2004
Venezuela	18 May 2004	3 June 2004
Qatar	13 July 2004	25 July 2004
Colombia	11 August 2004	21 August 2004
Peru	1 October 2004	9 October 2004
Guatemala	5 November 2004	2 December 2004

Initially, the show shed little light on Jake's background, and when asked he provided different answers, which may or may not be true. However, he has displayed some surprising and remarkable abilities, such as performing an emergency tracheotomy, and is shown to be very knowledgable about mechanical devices (such as a ventilation system and a flight recorder) and explosives. In one episode, both Stanley Richmond and Robert Hawkins question Jake about his intricate knowledge on how water pumps work, and he gives Hawkins the flippant answer that he was once a pool man.

Jake is also shown to be accurate with a revolver at a distance, shooting and killing an escaped prisoner from many yards away. He is also shown wearing dog tags after showering. In episode 5, Robert Hawkins looks up Jake on the Department of State database, and finds that he has visited several countries, and that his passport (issued 02 Mar 2004) is flagged.

It is revealed in the ninth episode, Crossroads, that Jake was once engaged to Emily Sullivan before he left Jericho, although there appears to have been some kind of falling-out between them, which is revealed (or implied) in the sixth episode to have been as a result of a failed robbery attempt that left Emily's brother dead. However, it is clear that schoolteacher Heather Lisinski is interested in Jake, after he rescues her and the students from the stranded school bus in the pilot episode. He offers to walk her home in the fourth episode, but they are sidetracked by events. In the seventh episode, Jake is kissed by Heather -- unexpectedly and passionately -- before Jake and Eric leave to retrieve medicine for their father.

At the beginning of the series, Jake says that he had been living in San Diego, and that he had temporarily been in Denver before he came to Jericho. This would have placed him in two major cities very close to the time that they were attacked.

In episode 8, Rogue River, Jake tells Payton (the military contractor) in the hospital that he "drove trucks" in Iraq while working for "another contractor," and had known a lot of fellow Ravenwood members previously. To add to episode 8, in a sneak peak of episode 12 or 13 found on the CBS intertube site, it is shown that Jake is a skilled aircraft pilot and has done work in Iraq and Afghanistan not directly for the US military.

[edit] Trivia

Jake states that he is 32 years old in the pilot. If his age and the birth date on his passport is accurate, then the series is set in the year 2009.
Jake's birth date on his passport is 21 January 1977, but it is likely a fake. Eric's birthday on his driver's license is 21 September 1977. It is unlikely that only eight months separated their births, and it appears that Eric is the older brother. However, if Jake is 32 and still the younger brother, then the series is set in the 2010s.