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Previously on Fire Country. Maybe there's someone here who can take over

chief. Maybe that person is standing in front of me right now.

So I would be on. I haven't slept alone in 1 ,033 years. I wonder if Bodie came

and stayed for a while. I don't want to put it on him. I'll do it. Seriously, we

can't have the D .C. run around empty, right?

I have Sharon's number. I will use it.

Oh, Renee.

What the hell is this?

I just had a feeling that something was wrong, so I dug through the stuff. Are

you saying that these pills were potions?

It's just you and me, buddy.

No shame.

Recovery has a lot of twists and turns, man.

Believe me, I know, because I've walked myself inches from the blackjack table

only to turn right back around and hit a meeting.

So I get flirting with your poison, but I can't help you unless you tell me the

truth.

Why do you have these pills?

Someone gave them to me.

And why'd you keep them?

I forgot that I had them.

You lied to Audrey, Bodie.

Audrey did this.

She's worried about you, man, and so am I. Which is why I need you to tell me

the truth. Why do you have these pills?

The truth is, I haven't taken them.

And I wasn't going to.

Manny, where you going?

There's a rapid drug test in your locker.

Not a problem.

I'm clean.

I hope so.

Because Richard thinks you're the problem with 42.

Hey.

Never would have paid you for an arc.

Yeah, make me the problem. That's fine.

Did you tell Manny I wanted those little pills with me thing?

Would you leave that little detail out?

Oh, you think I didn't count them?

You just gave Richard the second reason to kick me out of here.

How could you do this to me?

If I didn't hand over those pills, I was afraid I was going to end up at your

funeral, all right? What pills?

Bodhi?

Bodhi, tell me you are not using again.

I'm clean.

The test is going to show it to you.

I'm not going to stand here and get treated like I'm some kind of junkie.

What do you mean affair? Okay, enough. Stop. You first.

I found this in Vince's guitar case.

Vince was having an affair.

What? No. Vince wasn't the cheating type.

Well, the sign R, like R for Renee.

She was just here reminiscing a little too long about their time together. You

mean his ex from high school? No, there has to be a better explanation.

Like what?

I don't know. Somebody's upset that their house burned down and they're

to extortion.

Right. Doesn't make sense.

All right, my turn.

Bodie got drugs and Audrey found them in his stuff.

Oh, no.

Now, Bodie says he didn't take them, but Audrey got scared and told Manny.

No. And Richard, he says that whoever's going to be the new battalion chief will

probably have to get rid of Bodie.

That'll definitely seal the deal.

But Richard is the new battalion chief, right?

Yeah, well, you know, he's thinking about anointing a new one.

And, um... He thinks it's me.

So you're going to end Bodie's career.

No, we'd be happy to help. Please, please bring them by.

Okay.

Danny, I slept.

I really, really slept. Oh, man, who could have guessed that you snored on my

couch with lonely sleep instead of kicking me out? But thank you. I owe

Sharon.

There it is.

I know that face. Watch.

Those are Bodhi's?

Yeah.

No, he looked me right in the face and he lied.

God, Manny, can't I break my heart again? It's me.

I don't think so, actually.

Look, I know, and now you know, and Audrey knows about it.

But Richards doesn't know.

But Sharon, he told Jake that he's ready to hand over the keys to the new

battalion chief if he can toss Bodie out.

Maybe that's what he needs, to go and get help somewhere else.

What?

No, Sharon, I'm trying to get ahead of this thing.

You know, so we can keep it in the family.

You want to keep this from Richard? No.

No. The guy is smart. No. And if we don't bring it to him first, he'll just

sniff it out. So what are you suggesting? That we go tell the guy who

kick him out of here?

Manny, my son, is a drug addict.

And he's holding pills.

He didn't leave us any other choice.

Schedule one narcotics in the locker of not just a probie, but the problem child

of the station.

All due respect, chief.

Well, he's not a problem.

He has a problem. Well, then he needs to get help. The department recommends a

residential treatment program.

His drug test isn't even back yet. You don't know that rehab's the right course

of action. You know what's not right? What's that? Putting an unstable former

addict in life and death scenarios unchecked.

I don't disagree.

Come on.

You guys can't do this to him. Your division and battalion chief can

do this.

Wow.

Okay.

Send him away.

But you send him out of here, you send me with him.

Manny, please, come on. Sharon, no, I can get him through this.

I'll tell you what.

If Bodie's drug test comes back clean, then I take full responsibility for him

at work today.

All right?

42 is not 42 without Bodie, Sharon. You know that.

Jeez, please.

Listen to me.

It's a silo ladder evacuation in Chesham Valley Farmhouse. What's it going to

be, DC Leone? Am I roaming with Bodie and Perez, or am I down two

Bodie's rapid drug test came back. And?

Negative. Yes!

I did not think it was going to go that way. I'm happy to hear it. Both of you

guys, I've got him, okay? Okay, but if he's a risk to himself, then every

person on... I got him.

I got him, okay?

All right, ma 'am, we're going to get you down. Just hold on.

All right.

You're going to give incident command a whirl on this one.

Wait, what? No, not me.

Crawford, he's one of the battalion chiefs. He's trained, he's studied. Very

well be, but you stuck your neck out, risked your own career, hitching your

to Bodie. Crawford didn't do that. The only way to be responsible for Bodie is

be responsible for the whole game.

We vouch for him.

He says wins are yours, but his loss is also yours. So let's see how you run

this thing.

Hey, you vouch for me?

Of course I did, and I'd do it again. I know you won't make me regret it. I'm

stuck on the ladder. Can you help me? Don't worry, ma 'am. Just hold on, all

right? We're going to get you down.

This damn old ladder broke beneath me as I was climbing up. Just stay calm.

Yeah, that rung she's standing on looks unstable.

Yeah. Looks rusted out.

What's your move, I see?

Uh... Look, stop. We improvise.

That hay cart. Get it under her in case she falls.

42. Let's go. On it.

Let's go.

My name is Captain Manny Bennett.

I'm Silvana.

We're on it, ma 'am. Just hang on tight. You can do it.

Hurry. Come on. Hurry.

Push.

Please get me down, Manny.

We're going to do everything we can.

This thing's going to go.

Giovanna, stay calm.

I need you to listen to me. When you let go, you've got to tuck your head, okay?

42, hurry up! Come on, let's go!

Hold on, we're almost there! We're gonna catch you!

How much time do we have?

Uh, you're one minute out. Did Greencrest explain why the inmate

being rerouted to 42?

Uh... Just that they were on a call. There's some minor burns, and they

them to get checked before they drive all the way back to Blue Lake.

Okay.

Oh!

That's a vessel. Blue Lake's calling him.

Uh, DC Leonie, we spoke on the phone.

Thanks for letting us use your station. Uh, my pleasure. Uh, gentlemen, there's

water right over here, and if you're injured, just line up there so we can

a look at you.

I need to check status on the whole book via the monitors.

Yes, it's right in there in my office. All right, thanks.

Oh, my goodness.

Hey, Big Mike.

I didn't hear you guys landed at another camp.

Yeah, after we lost, we were up and went back to county for a bit. Been with

this crew for a few weeks now.

That's good news. Now you get fresh air, help in the community.

Beats, you know, being behind bars, right?

We've been on a whole lot of fire since we joined. Oh, that's been a beast.

At least in prison we got beds.

Yeah, good meds. A bad case of swamp foot needs tending.

Well, take it easy on that foot.

Hydrate, okay?

Everything okay?

It's not the warm reunion I was expecting, but...

Bad news, change of plans, buttercups. The wind is kicking at the Holbrook

Straight back to it for us.

Another day in paradise.

Um, I think these guys need a break.

Like I'm seeing dehydration, exhaustion, some really dangerous stuff.

I don't make the orders.

I take them.

Cal Fire says we gotta go.

Let's go.

Can you move your toes?

Nothing feels broken.

Oh.

Are you done getting Gary down, too?

Gary? Who's Gary?

My husband.

He went up before me to open the silo. Didn't you see him?

All right, man. Let's get you down.

Cody, take a look.

Watch your step. There you go.

No one there, Kat.

Okay, are you sure? You sure he went up there?

He's up there.

That's why I got caught on the ladder. I was hollering at him to get the hell

down.

Oh, he must have... Fallen in.

Oh, God.

Okay. James, come here.

Leone.

You guys get up there with the climbing guard and the ladder, all right? He

doesn't have much time left. He may have already been swallowed up. Let's go.

Eve, Blue Lakes is pulling out if you want to say goodbye to your guys.

I could have sworn we had some leftover antibiotics in here somewhere.

You not feeling well? No.

I have a foot infection, and my guys are being worked into an early grave, and

it's just killing me because I don't know how to help.

And now, if Three Rock hadn't burned... Please, don't do that to yourself. I

mean, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't filled with what -ifs and if -onlys

today. Heard about the...

pill thing and you don't have to worry because manny's got him today yeah which

i just have to accept and hope that neither of them get fired for it well

know look i don't want bode leaving 42 either but there's one thing i do know

about him is that bode's resilient yeah just like the rest of your free rock

crew yo we need some help out here now

Can you hear me? I can't.

Okay, he's unresponsive, airway is clear.

Shallow reps, what happened?

He was just waiting to get on the carrier and then bam.

Hey, know what it is. We're going to focus, right?

Right. Gloves.

It's got to be like quicksand in there for him.

Rescue Team 1 ready to descend into the silo with the equipment.

Silo I see. Rescue Team 1 copy.

Hey, look, we don't know how long he's been in there. I mean, the pressure of

the grain may be causing him to suffocate already.

Yeah, well, do you have a suggestion?

All right, well, you know that they're going to be knocking the dust down with

water, so saw him to the side at the level of the evacuee, in and out, fast.

Look, safety's my priority on this, Jake, all right? And the safest way to

extract it through the top. Okay. And we'll now listen to me. We'll speed up

process by having to sit on a charge hose. But, you know, we try your way.

Sparks from your saw can mix with the grain particles, gasses in the air.

and cause a dust explosion. Exactly. I know. My point is that, look, maybe the

speed is worth the risk.

Both good points.

But Perez has the mic today.

Your call.

Careful, the springs are old.

I can handle myself, James.

Just worry about your own side of things.

That'd be a long day with that attitude.

You can blame me till you're blue in the face. Tell yourself whatever you need

to.

Only you know the truth about those pills.

Attention,

springs are released, command. We got room now for the equipment.

Good work, team one, charging the line.

Hey, Gary, this dust is combustible, so we're going to wet down the grain.

Try to stay still. It won't be long now.

Are you finally coming?

Stay calm, all right? We're going to get you out.

Just a little bit longer, Gary.

I'm slipping deeper in.

Help!

Hey, sir, you've got to stay still. That grain is going to act like quicksand.

The more you struggle, the faster you're going to sink.

Don't worry about your wife. She had a scare, but she's all right.

My wife's the reason I'm thinking of this damn silo in the first place.

Man, this is Rescue Team 1 preparing to descend.

Rescue Team 1, descend with care.

Be safe.

What the hell are those things?

Can't you just pull me out?

You got a ton of pressure on you right now, Gary.

That's probably why you're struggling to breathe.

Like a... Like a well -established tree, okay? If we try and just yank you out

of here, it's gonna tear off your roots.

For the love of God, Sylvana.

Look what you got me into.

Sam, she pushed you?

No.

She wouldn't stop nagging me about a silo renovation.

Doesn't seem like a bad idea considering the ladder snapped.

It was a bad idea.

Huge fight later, I insisted on doing the renovation myself. I come up here,

follows me, harangues me to pay a professional.

Ladder snaps and she screams like a wounded wildebeest.

Makes me lose my damn footing.

Next thing I know, I'm inhaling corn feed like a vacuum cleaner.

Hang on. We're going to get you out of here.

Yeah, and maybe don't blame your wife for being afraid that Thilo could hurt

you.

I don't know. I think, you know, sometimes you've got to let a person

own business.

You two a thing or something?

Right now, Gary, just a couple firefighters getting you out of here.

Manny, this is taking too long. Well, I stand by my call.

And frankly, as your captain, I don't really owe you an explanation.

I get it. Sure, I see.

But let me ask.

Do you think Bodie will learn anything if we let things slide?

Is that what I did?

I let it slide?

He had pills.

He's an addict.

Why is he on this call?

Two plus two, it's that simple for you, huh?

All right, well, let me ask you something, man.

What do you know about being an addict?

Or dealing with someone in recovery, huh?

That's what I thought.

And I say this with love, all right?

But you're letting your ambition cloud your judgment on this one.

You want to talk about safety?

I'm trying to keep Bodhi alive.

That, besides saving these farmers' lives, is my priority as I see.

You copy?

All right, Big Mike.

Looks like your vitals are stable.

Definitely feeling better.

So that means we can head back out.

Hey, can we have a word for a sec?

We'll be right back, then.

So I grew up on a ranch, and my horses got better treatment than these guys.

The malnutrition, the dehydration, the exhaustion.

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Let's not get carried away, okay? We're doing the

best we can.

Mm -hmm.

Look, I'm trying to help these guys.

The more they work, the more money they bank, the more days get knocked off

their sentences.

Okay, I hear you.

And look, I used to be an M .A. Captain, too, but sometimes it's not about what

they want, it's about what they need.

Call your supervisor and take these guys off the board for 72 hours.

And when my boss says, the fire's for any neighborhood.

You tell him what my daddy used to tell me.

You work a horse too hard, what do you get?

Dead horse.

Mm -hmm.

Yes, sir.

I grew up on a ranch, too.

I made the call.

Appreciate you, Cap.

Come on, Gary. Stay with us.

It's hard to breathe.

Your lungs have been compressed for a long time. We're going to get you out of

here.

Pulse box has dropped.

Eighty -nine.

Command rescue one.

Patient is now critical.

What's the ETA on egress?

Copy. How much time are we looking at? Eight to ten minutes tops.

And then he's severely hypoxic.

It's not enough time to lift him out.

What's that mean, hypoxic? Ma 'am, we're working on getting him out.

Take her to the back.

Manny, what if we go with my plan?

Saw him to the side, but below grain level. Let the grain spill out, get him

fast. Still a huge risk for justice question, Jake. Then you back me up.

Listen, this isn't about being battalion chief anymore.

I heard you, but this is the best plan.

It's a big call, Perez. What's it going to be?

We can do this.

Come on, Manny.

We need a decision, fast.

It's now or never.

Manny, we can do this.

What's it going to be, Manny?

Rescue one. Tether yourself to the victim.

Prepare to plunge with the grain line.

Copy. We've got to get some water on that.

All right, Gary, we're getting you out. Come on.

Stay with us.

You're doing great.

You're doing great.

Wait for the home!

How was that sound?

A dust explosion.

Manny! Jake! Hey!

Jake! Jake!

Jake!

Hey, man, you sure? I'm good. I'm good. I'm good.

Man,

rescue one. Gary's turning blue.

We need a real egress ASAP.

This is just going to keep happening. There's not enough time.

What if there were two of you?

What you're going to cut is IC?

No, you can't do that, especially with this wrist.

That's why you never ask.

Come on.

What was your name again?

Bodie.

We're about to get you out.

Best you want. We got two saws on the cut now. It should be soon.

Hang in there.

Tell her.

My wife, Sylvie.

It wasn't her fault.

You're going to tell her yourself when you get out of here, okay?

She'd love to hear it.

Believe me.

D .O .C. denied our request for 72.

They need to understand they can't work people to the bone. My hands are tied.

We're short of an act of God.

We've got to go back out.

I got an idea.

Alright, patient's at 83.

We cannot do CPR in the cereal box. We gotta get out of here now.

Command, rescue one.

Patient is fading fast.

Rescue one, we're almost there. Brace yourself for sudden egress.

Copy, command. We don't have much more time.

On three!

One!

Where's my husband?

Please step back.

He's in there.

Why?

Hey, James!

James, you okay?

I'm full of popcorn, but... Yeah!

Over here. Gary.

Gary.

I

should

have gotten those repairs, Sylvie.

I'm sorry.

Yes, you should have.

But I love you.

Last year's harvest.

Gone. No, it's not.

We'll take care of it.

But how?

It's all out of the silo.

We'll find a way.

We always do.

You look

like

a mom who just got all of her kids to bed.

We used to celebrate that with a risque cable movie and two glasses of wine.

Okay. Well, DMI.

That was a good call today, telling the DOC that the carrier was busted.

Well, luckily their captain went along with the story.

And if he hadn't?

Taking a fire axe to the tires.

Oh, you care.

Yeah.

But still, I let my guys get thin elsewhere.

I took my eye off the ball.

I should have done more.

But you know what?

Now, I'm going to find a way to get this day to reopen through rock.

I will not hear no.

Good work out there today.

You send a vouch for me?

Well, I do.

There it is.

Now, the truth.

I was holding on to those pills as an escape hatch.

Something to numb out if things got really bad.

I took one a couple weeks back.

Yeah, but your test came back clean.

Because I spit it out.

I was just close.

Now we're finally talking.

That's good.

Progress.

Listen to me.

And we should take these and flush them.

For real.

Aren't you going to watch?

Nah. You come and clean with me right now.

Shows me I don't have to.

Go on.

I'll take care of Richards.

You were right about Leone.

Yeah, there's a lot of different ways to look at it. Yeah?

What's your way?

Well, he didn't have a good reason to keep the pills, but he copped to it.

And I know him.

He's fighting his way through it now.

You're recommending a pass?

I am.

And I know what it sounds like.

Same old, same old at 42, right?

But you stand by it.

I do.

Maybe I didn't see things right.

Maybe Bodhi isn't the problem.

Maybe my focus on the 10s and 18s clouded the truth.

Which is what?

42 needs family healing.

Well, I'm not going to fight you on that.

Let me tell you what I saw out there today.

A lot of emotional intelligence from you.

Especially about a probie who lost his dad and is under more pressure than

anyone can imagine.

Now that said, the way he butts heads with authority, that's going to continue

to be a problem. I don't disagree.

You managed a captain who was upset about not being IC.

You were respectful, but honest.

Firm.

You see all the angles.

You're exactly what 42 needs.

I'm naming you the new battalion chief.

Hey, hey.

What's up, Manny?

Wanted you to hear this from me first.

What's up?

Richards is leaving.

Oh, great.

I was afraid after that boatie business, he would camp here forever.

There's more.

He just named 42's permanent battalion chief.

It's me, Jake.

There's still a lot of steps we gotta go through, but Richard's gonna make sure

it gets over the line.

Do you even want the job?

Do I want it?

Yeah. No.

But I feel responsible to answer the call, to keep it in our 42 family.

Look, Jake.

Jake, you're going to make an excellent battalion chief one day.

Just not today.

you know, I guess, whatever.

Boy,

here's what I do know.

I need you, Cap.

And I don't know if Vince ever told you, but 42 does not run well without Jay

Crawford.

Because we're family.

And you're part of that.

And he knew that.

I don't know, maybe he just had a hard time saying it, but I don't.

Please don't make my appointment your reason to leave.

I'm sorry.

I'm good.

You wrinkled this one.

I meant about what I said this morning.

You're not a narc.

I was being stubborn.

But I can see it now, you know what?

You were just trying to help me.

You made it too.

Holding those pills.

I can see why you wanted to take them.

I wanted to take them.

They were burning a hole through my hand, too.

Bodie, I feel like when we were apart, I got good again.

And being back here where Finn was and everything that's gone on, I can feel

that progress starting to slip away.

We can get through this together.

I'm ready now.

We can get through it.

But I don't know about together.

We just got back to being us.

Us is not the problem.

Nothing was ever broken there.

It's just that staying clean feels so fragile right now.

And I'm just scared that being fragile together would sink us.

So I think we gotta get through this apart.

I know.

I'm sad, too.

But it's like I said.

No funerals.

Are you going to go back to the Nets?

No.

I'm still determined to finish my probie punch list before you.

Richard says 58 needs bodies.

42 is star probie. Didn't sound too bad to them.

Start probing? Mm -hmm. Oh, really, really?

Mm -hmm. Ask him. What?

Win

me

back.

We love a romantic comeback.

What time are you packing up and leaving now?

Oh, you heard?

Yeah. And I'm torn because I'm happy for Manny, but I'm disappointed for you.

Yeah, I'm disappointed too.

And myself.

I mean, don't beat yourself up, man.

You worked your ass off. I'm not that.

Eve, trying to get this job has changed me.

I mean, this morning I was ready to ship Bodie off.

What kind of friend does that?

Jake, we have been through a lot.

You still have that Vince letter?

Yeah. You want to tell Sharon about it? No. No, the opposite.

I want to protect her.

Look at you, ignoring the clothes sign.

Here, I thought you were a rule follower.

Thought we chiefs might share a brew on my way out of town.

You know what they say about rules.

Heard about Manius, B .C.

Great choice.

I say, as a little surprise, I was convinced you were going to dig your

here for good.

I want these puppy paws.

Oh, I got stung by a yellow jacket today at that chosen farm.

Oh, you think it's funny?

Edgewater, bit you on your way out of town?

Oh, even Vince would find that funny.

Is that a battle scarf?

Yeah.

Structure fire at Clear Lake Oaks seven years ago.

Not one of those quiet morning calls. Supposed to be simple.

That does not seem simple. I'm sorry.

My mentor.

She stepped on a spongy roof.

Realized it too late. Sunk like a stone.

By the time we found her.

About the mentor.

Let's just say you and I have something in common.

Your mentor was your wife?

Who died in the line of duty?

Why didn't you tell me?

It wasn't exactly a warm room.

Hey, come on. You have to tell me the truth, then.

Does this get...

Easier?

Yeah.

Kind of.

But, I mean, I feel guilty admitting it sometimes. It does.

It takes time, though.

But you're in it right now.

I'm sorry to say.

And I'm also sorry to say...

The real reason I'm here is to tell you something else.

The ATF's investigation into the Zabel Ridge fire is shaping up to show that

someone might have started it. The fire that nearly decimated this town was set

by a person?

Looks like it.

And I'm sure your son, with his passion and sense of justice, he's going to have

feelings. I would watch out how he gets the news.

nothing but a liar yeah i walk right out the fire

yeah you try to keep me down try to put me underground but

i'm only going higher i can hear you in my head in my bed

when i'm dreaming you try to be my friend but you're blowing

Hey, uh, Bodie, you got a fight?

What's the rules?

You can ask Manny if you want. No, that's your business.

Look, I'll stay out of it.

Unless you need support, then I can be all up in it.

I'm good.

Bodie, don't.

We've all been going through it since Vince passed.

And now you want to push away Jake?

I'm not going to let you guys get as bad as you did when we lost Riley.

Look, I don't want to get back to that place again.

That place wasn't a good time.

With Audrey leaving to go to 58, I'm gonna need someone to hang out with.

So Audrey's leaving?

Well, look, man, whatever you need.

Hang a night out.

Bowling. Yeah, we're family.

Right, y 'all?

Yeah. Which is why we wanted to show you something. Something I think should

stay in the family.

It was in your dad's guitar case.

I wasn't sure what to do with it.

Keeping it from you felt like the wrong move.

Look, this person, or... Which could be Renee.

Whoever it is, they were something to Vince. And if her threats have any bite

their bark, Bodhi, she's coming after your mom.