See, I was right about Beck: he's totally pissed off about Goetz's death because it's a symbol of lawlessness. "You're not a judge," he tells Jake when Jake takes the blame -- Beck feels, and rightly so, that it was not the place of the Rangers in a lawful society to decide who lives and who dies. (And poor Stanley! I have a terrible feeling that he's not gonna handle very well in the long run what he did...) Beck is going on and on about the people of Jericho "taking the law into their own hands." As I knew he would.

This is what Beck has got to realize: there is no law anymore. This is what it's all going to come down to by the end of the next episode: Which side is he gonna choose, the side of right, or the side of J&R? Cuz he doesn't realize, as "Sedition" opens, that he's not on the side of right... but he starts to get the idea throughout this episode. Heather telling him that she can't see the difference anymore between Beck and New Bern's tyrant Constantino rattles him, and he's rattled more by her saying she's not sure if she can keep defending him. And then Jake gets to him by telling him that what they're living in now is "not a country, it's a company, and you're just middle management." Beck is still pissed off by the end of this episode -- did you notice how hard he slammed his helmet into the window? -- but now he's starting to get mad at himself.

I hope. I hope he joins the "open insurrection" that is Jericho now. I hope he comes to realize that, as Jake's subconscious was telling him in that dream about his grandfather, that "this has all happened before": Jennings & Rall is the British East India Company, Ravenwood are the Hessian mercenaries, and revolution is all but inevitable.

Ooh, and I was right, too, about the fingers Jennings & Rall had into the old federal system. Smith says it: "J&R was a cancer grown deep into the bone of this government." "This" meaning, perhaps, that Cheyenne is pretty much the same cadre of bastards who made up the now-dead U.S. government.

There's way too much stuff to be resolved in one more episode, and plenty of potential for years' more show. The fans on the message board at the official Jericho site are all excited because they've interpreted the coming attractions for next week as meaning that the show has been or will be renewed for another year, because the upcoming episode was called the "season finale" and not the "series finale." We'll see...

Next week: Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Cheyenne?

(Get a full recap or watch the entire episode at CBS's official site for the show.)

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