Talk:Robert Hawkins (Jericho character)

language

In "federal response" when he accessed the Dept of State site, it looked like it was in a foreign language. Or was I just too tired? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sabalon (talk • contribs) 08:41, October 19, 2006

• It looked Cyrillic-esque to me. Kyaa the Catlord 12:51, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
• Definitely appeared to be a Russian web site. What's odd is that it appeared to have been a commercial Russian web site, sort of like the front page of a Russian version of Yahoo, with banner ads and everything. I suppose we could presume that with the US government having shut down the Internet with that wacky "Emergency Alert System" banner (*rolls eyes*), Hawkins was using the satellite dish to connect to an unaffected Russian ISP. Or we could presume he's a stinkin' Russian Commie agent! --Aaron 20:36, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

it definitely looks like cyrillic to me. Why do you roll your eyes at the EAS banner taking? China probably has this same thing to keep people from seeing things they don't want them to.

See Talk:Jericho (TV Series). It looks a lot like Turkish version of MSN web site, with some Russian words inserted at random. --Itinerant1 04:59, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

[1] This is the exact page that they mocked up for the episode, this is definitely the Turkish MSN page as indicated above. The text "Web'de Ara" lines up well with the all-be-it very pixilated version available online. Also a match is the links bar: "Açık Artırma | Bilgisayar Güvenliği | Eğlence | Finans | İş & Kariyer | Spor | Tatil" Also, the ad has the words "Kişisel bilgilerinizi koryun" clearly identifiable, and these words are all easily searchable on Google to hit Turkish webpages. If you're wondering why some people see Cyrillic, it's because there is Cyrillic on the page. It appears that two of the areas where pictures are located on the MSN page are replaced with a picture containing the Cyrillic letters: "ЧК" (ch-k), and one piece of large text has been inserted that says: "ВЕСТОЧКА" (v-ye-s-t-o-ch-k-a) which is a Russian word for "News", although it is all in caps, which would be unusual, as Russian uses case much similar to how English does. This likely indicates simply that the page is a prop, and not intended to have any plot significance. --Puellanivis 22:08, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Note: Cyrillic upper and lower cases are generally similar. Uppercase: "ВЕСТОЧКА", lowercase: "Весточка". --Dziban303 21:33, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I'm very aware that Cyrillic upper and lower cases are very similar. Considering all the characters in the word, the only one that is distinct, and not just smaller is the "A". After watching the scene explicitly to watch for which version of this character is used, it is an "A", and since all other characters are the same height, they would be using all capital case. --Puellanivis 17:25, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Cannister's Contents

How and when were the contents of the steel drum Hawkins retrieved during the rain revealed? MrZaius^talk 16:53, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Episode Fallout, right? I can take another watch at the episode, and see if anything is revealed. If it is, I will confirm this information, if it is not, then I'll remove that information as per speculation. --Puellanivis 17:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Am I correct in remembering that Hawkins was building the cinderblock wall in his basement to encase the 55-gallon drum? If so, should this point be added? It seemed apparent to me at the time, but maybe I am remembering incorrectly. --Toby Rush ‹ ✆|✍ › 17:48, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

I watched the 2 sections of Fallout several times that show this drum. In the first scene, he brushes past a box that casually falls open showing rifles of the M16/CAR15 varity. Shouldn't you at least have a simple padlock on a box full of rifles? Anyhow, then you see him wheeling out the drum, which has on top a duffel covered in duct-tape. This is the only item he is shown retrieving so it must be the one he views as most critical to having quick access under current circumstances. At home he is shown starting to build one wall next to the barrel, which is sitting in a corner. He never opened it and it's not been seen since. People have supposed, but it is not shown, that he turns the corner and encases it. Which makes little sense as even a casual search would reveal a funny corner, unless he continued the wall all the way across just to hide that barrel. Since episode 107 mention the terrorists in NYC had a nuke in a drum, this leaves suspicion the drum holds a battlefield nuke. But as of episode 107 contents still unknown. Maybe he keeps all his collectable comic books in it? Most likely explanation is simply that this was the Faraday cage container used to shield his electronics devices like the laptop from EMP effects. A common suggestion for storing small electronic devices to survive an EMP burst, is a metal safe or sealed 55-gallon drum. No grounding is required. --Vincentfox 22:16, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

lol, quite a read going through your revisions of this ;) Unfortunately, anything that people have proposed for Robert being just don't fall into line. If he is a bad guy, why help the city? If he has a nuke, why? I agree that there is a lot of suspicion surrounding Hawkins, but everything just too hazy right now to support anything more than speculation, well except that he's working very hard to keep things secret. Mentioning that there were a cache of M16/CAR15 hidden in his storage unit not in the barrel, and not taken with him would be an interesting detail to add though for sure! But basically, people initially speculated that the barrel contained M-16s, now they're saying it has a nuke, so honestly, I don't think anyone knows quite well what is in the barrel right now. (Presuming that the writers even know themselves... Watching the audio commentary of Lost, they went back and made the paralyzed guy paralyzed... when they made the pilot, that wasn't even on their mind.) --Puellanivis 22:44, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

Changed my mind a few times while re-watching the scenes, hence the edits. Anyhow, the rifles were clearly in a standing rectangular plastic box next to the barrel. While getting to the barrel he jostles that box which conveniently falls open. So anyone who says the rifles were in the barrel, is incorrect. Yes there are certain elements of this that feel like Lost, that the writers are jerking viewers around with excruciatingly teased-out mystery for perhaps no reason. Well except for selling soap and Toughbooks that is. The Toughbook while quite rugged, is not particularly EMP-protected so far as I can tell, so I cannot support the statement to that effect on the main page. As I wrote previously, a 55-gallon drum is regarded as ideal and cheap for an EMP box. Or an ammo-can, or a safe. This is the simplest explanation for where all his electronic toys are stored when not in use. --Vincentfox 23:07, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I think this series is a bit better than Lost in that department though. I think the whole idea of Lost was to come up with ridiculous things and just keep adding more mystery and seeing how the public reacts with trying to make something coherent out of it. Nothing at all like Babylon 5, where they had the whole story mapped out from the beginning. Anyways, I think your suggestion of it being a safe-haven for electronic devices is the best idea for the drum so far. --Puellanivis 02:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Oh, as I edited out of earlier comments, an agent left behind would have an obvious use for a battlefield nuke. Assuming an enemy column were crossing near his path he could place the nuke as a mine and destroy them. This seems an implausible military tactic for a long list of reasons, particularly in the middle of Kansas. This made somewhat more sense in Germany during the Cold War. The US during the 1960's even fielded low-yield nuclear mortar and artillery rounds for such usage. I don't see it as a likely scenario. But I suppose some would think it reasonable, perhaps even the writers. Much more likely he's an intelligence officer with a backup capability to seed insurgency if needed, and the barrel held his field equipment that he is later using in the office he constructed, and the office wall was what he was starting construction on. --Vincentfox 23:22, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

It does make more sense, but again remember your previous edits, where you said that if these bombs were from terrorists, that it has little reason to believe that a left-behind operative would have use for such a weapon, as there are no massive groups of enemy combatants to blow up. On the other hand, if this were China (well, first if it were China, the Chinese News Report would have been more accurate about New York) then why would they do such an incomplete job? Not only that, but certainly the president would have been made aware of incoming ICMBs, and whisked away during the State of the Union... --Puellanivis 02:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I just mentioned a nuke as an obvious possibility since others had already trotted it past me, not a likely one. The only reason it even came up is the NYC incident mentions a "drum" and here we have a mysterious guy handling another drum. I mention it mainly to dispose of the idea, it's preposterous for a long list of reason. Even during the hot part of the Cold War, nuclear weapons were never under the control of just one man. Any modern military personnel leaving a nuclear weapon in the care of a single agent seems preposterous, given the obvious concern they could go "Mad Major" and use it for their own ends. China? Come on they need Americans to buy their goods in WalMarts. Of all possible explanations, attacks from China (or Russia) seem exceedingly unlikely. I'll stop there, further speculation in that vein seems off the topic. --Vincentfox 22:52, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

Stub?

Why is this character and each of the other Jericho charcter's tagged with stubs? Enough information has been added that they aren't stubs anymore. --Mjrmtg 19:44, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

see note

What is going on, that message was sent six episodes ago. THis article needs to tell more about Hawkins. You do not even say any thing about Sarah MAson!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 76.203.14.7 (talk) 18:21, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Hawkins The Terrorist

Sarah Mason exclaimed in a flashback, that she didn't like his friends. Sounds like some bad people, terrorists???Lowellriggsiam 21:13, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot (talk) 23:42, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Hawkins' ID's

I disagree with this removal. The nature of Hawkins' IDs is crucial here. If it had merely been phony personal identification, it would have raised questions, but wouldn't have been nearly as alarming to Jake, and he may not have confronted Hawkins to learn the truth the way he did. PSWG1920 (talk) 17:29, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Can you state it somehow without giving the list of the fake id's? I think it would be better. -- Magioladitis (talk) 17:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps, but I don't see the problem with listing them. PSWG1920 (talk) 18:56, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Discussed at "Rowling to Testify in Trial Over Potter Lexicon," New York Times, April 14, 2008. The allegation is that the defendant's work in that case does not qualify as fair use because it "merely compiles and repackages Ms. Rowling’s fictional facts derived wholesale from the Harry Potter works without adding any new creativity, commentary, insight or criticism."

Moreover, its good for you to write the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (writing about fiction), especially the parts for secondary information and undue weight.

I didn't reply immediately to give to other editors the opportunity to respect or reject your opinion. I think your action to restore the names, without having a second opinion supporting it, wasn't good. I won't revert the edit, I hope you accept my concerns or another editors supports me. Friendly, Magioladitis (talk) 16:34, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Comparing this to the J.K. Rowling case is a huge, huge, huge stretch. Also note that I didn't simply revert. I restated it in a manner which showed the significance of these IDs. It was already known (and stated earlier in the article) that Hawkins had an FBI badge and claimed to be an FBI agent, so finding that by itself wouldn't have been cause of alarm for Jake. Finding the other four proved that something was seriously wrong, which led to Jake getting the real story from Hawkins. If it were a long list you could make the case that it didn't belong in an encyclopedia article, but it's not. PSWG1920 (talk) 01:30, 2 May 2008 (UTC)