The townspeople are upset with Jennings & Rall who are slowly taking financial control of the city's farms and businesses. Gracie's Supermarket and Bailey's Tavern are among the local businesses losing money because of Jennings & Rall's new restrictions and rules. Dale Turner has been secretly continuing to import and export from local tradeposts and has been using Stanley's farm to get in and out of town (because that is the only area along Jericho's borders that is not under supervision of Ravenwood or the military). Stanley demands that Dale stops using his farm because he is afraid that Jennings & Rall will take away his farm.