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Previously on Fire Country...

You and me while you're with Jake,

it's over the line.

You don't want me to call at all?

Rebecca, I'm flattered. But I'm not the cap's daughter?

That's different. Yeah, she's out there,

we're in here. Let's escape.

You know what I liked most about you diving?

Let's not do this again, Dad, please.

That look on your face every time you dove.

I saw that same look today.

The car's teetering over the edge. It goes over,

it takes both those kids with it.

Let's get them out of there.

Good job. Get me out of here!

This car is falling apart. We need a plan B.

Bode, no don't! Bode!

Get him out now, or this was all for nothing.

Get Bode, get Bode.

Take my hand. Grab my hand, Bode!

Come on!

No, no, no, no, Bode!

Bode!

An incarcerated firefighter

inserts himself into a precarious rescue

without being ordered to do so.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg

of a call that went so sideways

even the rescue is under review here today.

Sorry, is that a question?

Chief.

I'm with Cal Fire, too.

I'm here to help you. But I do have to ask you

and your team about what the hell happened out there.

State your name and rank for the record.

Battalion Chief Vince Leone.

You were the incident commander on the day in question, yes?

Yes.

When would you say

you lost control of the call?

I wouldn't.

Either you did or you sanctioned this mess,

which is much worse.

So, I'll ask again,

when did you lose control of the call?

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Probably when a, uh, firefighter

went off a bridge into the water.

This is not happening.

Maybe he survived the fall.

Oh, my God.

Bode? No!

Check the other side of the bridge.

Bode!

I don't see the car!

Which of the two firefighters who went off the bridge

are you referring to?

Call Swift Water Rescue.

Greencrest, Engine 1591,

emergency traffic. We have an inmate firefighter

who's fallen over the Ledgewood Bridge

into rapid river waters below.

We have no sight on his location.

Gabriela, what are you doing?

No, no, no, no...

Probie! No!

- No! Vince, that's my daughter. - Anybody see her?

That's my daughter, Vince. FIREFIGHTER 2: Negative, I can't see her!

No!

State your name and rank for the record.

Captain Manuel Remy Perez.

How would you describe your relationship with Bode Donovan?

He's an inmate on my hand crew.

That's all he is to you?

An inmate firefighter that I work with. That's it.

And Gabriela Perez?

She's my girlfriend.

My only daughter.

She's my best probie.

Chief. If she's your best probie,

help me understand how she went off a bridge

before going MIA with your own son,

unsanctioned?

It was a unique situation.

But I'm afraid legal is gonna want more specifics.

Legal?

A life was lost.

You can't be surprised when people want answers.

Chaos often starts at the top.

Firefighters match their commander's tone. That's you.

But you weren't the only authority figure that day.

If you're waiting for me to throw a fellow firefighter

under the bus, we're gonna be here a long time.

How would you describe

your state of mind that day, Captain?

My daughter jumped off a bridge. Take a guess.

It's the worst feeling in the world,

knowing that your child needs you

and not being able to help.

Not being able or not being allowed to?

Is there a difference?

What were your stress levels before Gabriela jumped?

Look, the only reason that I was on edge

is because my daughter was in danger.

Did you blame Bode for that?

No.

I blame Bode for a lot of things,

but that wasn't one of them.

Of all the people on that bridge...

Bode's captain, his crew,

his own father...

Why do you think Gabriela was the one who jumped?

Bode!

It's a steep fall.

She must have been scared.

I'm sure she was.

Is she prone to making rash decisions?

Was that just a yes to you moving in?

I'm still thinking about it.

No.

Eve Edwards.

Can't say I ever expected to see you here.

You surprised I didn't quit after the academy?

I'm a tough trainer.

You know, it wasn't until I made it to Station 42

that I was able to get your voice out of my head,

saying that I didn't have what it takes

to be in Cal Fire. The girl I saw was meek,

indecisive, lacked confidence.

Well, that was, that was five years ago, what...

I'm happy to be proven wrong.

We are on Ledgewood

and our leadership is exercising questionable judgment.

I have an inmate firefighter

hanging off the side of a damn bridge.

Now, that girl is decisive.

Well, there were lives at stake.

Do you regret your insubordination?

No. It didn't even do anything.

It got you written up,

which I'm not sure I even agree with.

A write-up is a piece of paper.

My call was too late to be significant,

to stop everything that...

went down after.

The life that was lost.

No, n-no, n-no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Bode.

Wh...

Bode is a loose cannon.

He's always been.

I don't know, I should have...

should have had him sent back to prison when I had the chance.

How would you have done that?

Doesn't matter now.

I didn't report him back then, I'm not gonna do it now.

Please have a pulse.

Oh, crap.

Okay, airway's intact.

Come on, Bode.

I'm alive?

You better be after I jumped after you.

You jumped to save me?

Why?

You fell

to save Sam, a stranger.

I did the same,

except you're no stranger.

Where are we?

We went downstream,

a few miles, maybe.

♪ Tracing our life... ♪

I'm guessing my dad didn't sanction you jumping.

I'd never ask you to do any of this for me.

Well, it's a good thing I didn't give you a chance to say no.

♪ Truth in our eyes ♪

♪ Maybe... ♪

Did I hurt your rib?

It happens. Not your fault.

Where are you going?

You're hurt.

Ribs will heal themselves.

We got to get out of these woods

and get back to the road before it gets dark.

We should s-stay. They're gonna...

They'll be looking for us.

They're gonna check the water first, and then they're...

they're gonna do a grid search

and follow the river until they find us.

That'll take way too long.

Night's gonna fall.

You're soaking. You're gonna freeze.

You too.

Don't worry about me.

I don't-I don't want to be responsible

for hurting you or anybody ever again.

We got to walk east and then we'll eventually hit the road.

We can flag someone down and call 911.

Yeah, um...

We'll rescue ourselves,

and then we'll let your dad

yell at us both.

Well, let's go.

Bode's record at Three Rock

is a gripping read.

Well, fire camp's not the academy.

No. It's stricter.

Or it's supposed to be.

Bode wandered out and met someone on an open road.

He assaulted a firefighter.

Did Jake tell you that?

Lucky guess.

I thought you were on our side.

I am,

but I can't help if I don't have the whole truth.

So, tell me.

You had plenty of opportunities

to send Bode packing. Why didn't you?

Manny, I'm sick.

Because he's a damn good firefighter.

But he's also reckless.

That doesn't explain why you kept him.

And if I'm asking,

so will the victim's lawyers.

I think I need a minute.

You and Manny need to get your stories straight

or that woman is gonna eat you alive.

I know her. She's a human lie detector.

Manny won't listen to me.

Just like he wouldn't listen to me out there.

Hey, lower your voice.

Hey, Sharon.

Can I talk to you real quick? Of course.

You can't tell her anything. I'm gonna tell her.

What? What?

She can't know what you did.

I think she'll understand.

No, she won't. No one will. We're firefighters.

Sharon, Bode put us all in a very difficult position here.

You think Bode's the problem? That's not what I'm...

You know that I'm grateful that you took a chance on me, right?

You have a strange way of showing it.

Sharon, that's how you're gonna come at me right now?

Because it was my gratitude

that kept him here in the first place.

And I shouldn't have done that,

but I did it because you asked me to,

and you shouldn't have done that.

Don't make it worse for us.

I got to-I got to te...

I got to tell the truth. No, Manny,

you are gonna give her the sword to stab you with.

I have to.

Are you cold?

A little.

It's only gonna get worse now that it's getting dark.

We could huddle together

for some body heat.

Do you hear that?

Sounds like a baby.

It can't be.

It could be coyotes.

Hey, someone out there?

Oh, thank God.

Please help me.

I can't move very well, and I think my leg might be broken.

What are you even doing here?

I was hiking.

In heels?

Those

facial lacerations...

That must have been some fall.

Yeah.

You're the driver from the car wreck on the bridge.

You're the hit-and-run driver?

You're the reason we're even out here.

I'm so sorry.

The turn was so sharp I lost control of the car.

I didn't mean to hurt anyone.

That turn is too sharp, but you were also speeding.

I know. I'm sorry.

And you ran from the scene.

This month, I had to pick between rent money

and car insurance. I picked rent.

I thought, if I stay,

I go to prison.

I was scared to see what damage I caused.

Did I kill anyone?

We got everyone out alive.

Oh, thank God.

What's your name?

Meg.

You'll still help me, right?

I can't walk on my own.

I'm so sorry.

I'm Bode, this is Gabriela,

and of course we'll help you.

Thank you.

Some people see you as a hall monitor,

but I know better.

You're one of us.

No wonder everyone loves you.

This department, this town.

A lot of people would be willing to do you favors.

And sometimes you let them, right?

Is that what Manny told you... That he offered?

Oh, that's very nice but that's not true.

I asked him to keep Bode at Three Rock.

And because you asked him

Captain Perez chose to ignore the fact

that your son's broken multiple rules?

I saw a chance to keep my incarcerated son,

my only living child, close to home,

so I asked an old friend for a favor.

Does he often bend the rules like that?

Like going over a bridge to save someone's life?

Way more often than I would like, but that's who Bode is.

I'm talking about Captain Perez.

Does he have a habit of circumventing protocol?

You think they could pin this whole thing on Manny?

Tell me what happened out there

and I'll answer that question.

Sharon, Swift Water Rescue is back.

No sign of them, still?

Swift found Bode's shirt washed up.

Is there an implication here?

We have to consider the possibility that they drowned.

Is there any other implication here?

Your son's an inmate.

He could be using this as an opportunity...

Oh, I dare you to finish that sentence.

If they somehow made it out of the water,

they've been walking around in the cold, soaking wet.

We're likely looking at two hypothermic,

disoriented, injured persons.

And in this weather...

I don't know how they make it through the night.

Because we are professional search and rescuers.

So, we search and then we rescue them.

Hey, Chief.

Search perimeter's too far out.

We don't have the manpower.

Perimeter's not the problem.

Those rapids were challenging even for our Zodiac.

You know what, bro, my daughter didn't swim in the Olympics

just so she could drown in Edgewater.

She's out here somewhere.

With my son, and we're going to find them.

Right?

I'm requesting volunteer fire department for extra eyes.

And I'm calling in the K-9, too.

All right, Meg, we're gonna stabilize your leg

with a makeshift splint, okay?

It'll get us moving. Mm-hmm.

I keep hearing animals.

Lot of wildlife out here.

This is karma.

I'm a horrible person who fled a scene

and I'm gonna die out here in the dirt.

Well, look,

I'm an expert on self-punishment.

Okay? I get it.

Right now, we just... we got to keep working.

Deep breath, okay?

Okay.

You could go

get some help while I stay here with Meg.

No, I'm-I'm not leaving you.

- Either of you. - He's right.

You two save people.

The world's not losing a firefighter 'cause of me.

Least I can do is limp through this.

Listen, we need to-we need to start moving faster.

Can't have anybody getting hypothermia.

That's a good call.

We could keep each other talking,

uh, stay alert.

So, you're a firefighting couple?

You two have a baby, it would be like having the baby Jesus.

It's, uh, it's not like that.

We're-we're friends.

You jumped in the river for "just friends"?

Not quite.

Friends talk, even if it was just on the phone.

We just see each other at work.

I think what Bode's trying to say

is that we're coworkers.

Ready? Let's go.

Good? I'll help you up. Hold on.

Okay. That's it, right?

Mm-hmm. Two...

Three.

Ooh!

Ready? Mm-hmm.

Gabriela! Bode!

Gabriela!

We've only covered 20% of the grid, Chief.

We need more people searching.

Yo, Cap!

We're here.

I took the crew back to camp,

like you asked me to, but...

We heard about the search for Bode.

And if Cap's looking for his daughter,

then we're looking, too.

Thank you, firefighters.

- Let's go. - Gabriela!

Gabriela!

Bode! Bode!

Aah!

Are we lost? No.

Oh, no. Bode, are you okay?

This is a bad idea. We should just wait for the rescue team.

We'll freeze to death.

Leave me behind. I'm slowing you down.

This is all my fault.

Just help me light a fire to keep the animals away,

and then go get help.

We shouldn't split up,

but stopping to light a fire is a good idea.

If we stop, we'll die.

You're hypothermic. You're not thinking clearly.

It's not hypothermia.

Shivering? Check. Stumbling? Check.

Confusion...

No, listen, we-we just, we got to keep

going uphill, okay?

I can't see the stars right now to tell

which way is north.

All right, guys, everyone closer together.

Keep an eye on the person next to you.

Bode!

Gabriella!

Chief, I'm pulling my unit. Shift's up.

Wait, no. You can't do that, man.

The dogs are tired. It's only gonna get worse.

The heavy rain is gonna suppress the scent

and the strong winds won't help either.

Our crews need a break, too.

So, what, we're just gonna give up?

No, I'm not giving up.

I'm not resting until I find my kid,

but we can't ask our crews to do the same, okay,

it's been too many hours.

Yeah, too many hours, which means that Bode

and Gabriela are already out of time, Chief.

We need to find them.

Or we got to make them find us.

Freddy, come here.

Yes, sir.

Turn around.

Manny, what are you doing?

Cal Fire... They got a prescribed burn

scheduled for just a mile from here tomorrow.

I'm gonna start it early.

Whoa, whoa, whoa.

We starting a fire out here? That's right.

Hey, good idea. Bode's rubbing off on you, Cap.

No, no! We are not doing that.

The burn's already permitted, Chief.

But we're not the ones permitted to do it.

We got no resources, no backups.

That fire gets out of control,

we got no way to stop it, Manny.

The road's just right there, man.

It's gonna act as a natural line.

Come on, Vince, it's the only way our kids are gonna be able

to know how to find us.

Screw this. Three Rock, who's with me?

Hell yeah, I am. Let's do it.

Chief, what are we doing?

All right, let...

Manny. Manny. What? What?

You want to do this,

I'm not gonna try and stop you.

But I can't get my crew involved.

Understood.

But plan on thanking me later.

- Grab your tools, guys, let's go. - Let's go.

Captain Perez is a good man.

He runs into those flames when every other

living thing is running out.

And he built a really loyal crew,

so don't even think about trying to get

one of his guys to flip.

I'm not trying to flip anybody.

He's as devoted a captain and a firefighter

as he is a father.

Captain Perez made many exceptions

for your child. And...

if he would do that for someone else's kid...

how far would he go for his own?

Oh, my God!

Something hurts worse. I'm so sorry.

I have to stop.

Here. Okay?

Slow. Slow. Go slow.

Is the swelling normal?

Uh, a little,

but, uh, this much, no.

I can't get a distal pulse.

Meg, can you feel this?

All I feel is pain.

Skin looks really pale.

Paleness... paleness is...

paleness is a sign, along with pain and pulse.

There's five of them, and I... I... They all start with a P,

but I can't... I can't remember the other two.

Hey, hey, what's wrong?

What does she need?

I'm a probie.

I barely have any medical training.

I have no idea what I'm talking about, Bode.

Doesn't sound that way to me.

Yeah, because I've-I've read up, I've watched tutorials.

I know the theory.

I... Tell me the theory.

It's-it's compartment syndrome.

With bone fractures, tissues from the bone

seep into the blood, cau...

causing so much swelling that it cuts off the circulation.

If it's not treated, she could lose a leg.

Or even worse, she could die.

She needs help right now, and I-I can't...

Hey, hey. It's just a theory.

How is it treated?

A fasciotomy.

You cut into the leg and relieve the pressure.

But that needs to be done in a hospital by a doctor.

Can it wait?

In theory?

No. No, it can't wait.

And then she said

she was gonna call another witness.

Who is it?

She's gonna find out, Sharon.

And my career's over.

I mean, how the hell do I explain starting a fire?

Am I gonna go back to jail, Chief?

Okay, Manny, she's on our side.

She's trying to contain a lawsuit.

Sharon...

you've been in administration too long.

Should have just kept my stupid mouth shut

like you told me to.

Okay, what if this other witness

is some other angle?

What if this witness is...

Exactly who she needs to nail me.

This was supposed to be a controlled burn.

It's spinning out fast.

The fire's jumped. Freddy, over here.

Jump in on this, here, come on.

Shovels over here!

Go, go, go, go, go!

Hey, stomp that out.

Cap, these hand tools are not enough. We need water.

That's good, crew.

You're out of your damn mind, Manny.

This is out of control.

But I can't let you hang for it.

Watch out.

Hey, hey, spot fire. Watch out, watch out.

Starting to regret volunteering for this.

You volunteered?

What can I say? I like Bode too much.

Hey, well, I know the feeling.

Yeah, but I didn't also think that

we were searching for my competition.

Cap's daughter?

I mean, anyone can see they've got eyes for each other.

Uh...

that's my girlfriend.

I... Shoot, I'm sorry. I...

I didn't realize, and I'm probably wrong, so...

Well, let's hope so.

For both our sake.

Okay.

I can disinfect the eyebrow razor with hand sanitizer.

Clean the skin before you cut

so it doesn't get infected.

Okay.

Ready?

Uh-huh.

You got this.

Okay.

Ah, that feels better,

which is crazy 'cause you just sliced my leg open.

Her distal pulse is back. It worked.

That was incredible.

You smell that?

Smell what?

Gab.

That fire's probably only a mile away.

Oh. I've never been so happy to see smoke.

That's our North Star.

Where there's smoke, there's Cal Fire.

We can get there by morning. Let's go.

On this search and rescue, you operated

under Captain Perez's leadership, correct?

Yes.

Then you saw him light the fire.

I have nothing but good things to say

about the way Captain Perez conducted himself that night,

and in general.

And if you don't mind,

that's all I'm gonna say without a lawyer present.

Because I don't want this to go the way these things go.

These things?

I'm in prison for something I didn't do.

I know how this goes down.

How does this go down?

You stand there and ask me questions

in just the right way to make me say something

I don't want to say

and trick me into confirming whatever theory

you got going on.

And suddenly I'm under a bus I never saw coming.

Or someone else is.

I don't want to trick you, Freddy.

I want to know

what happened that night.

Next you're gonna tell me you're on my side.

I am on your side.

And what I think I'm hearing you say

is that while you were combing through the grid

that had been set up as part of the search and rescue operation,

you spotted a fire in the woods

that started spontaneously.

With the storm, it would make sense.

Lightning struck and started a brush fire.

Thank goodness you were all nearby

and could get it under control quickly.

So, tell me, what happened?

We made it through the night. We're almost there.

Are those sirens?

You'll be punished, but I promise,

what you're doing to yourself inside

is way worse, trust me.

Gab! Here, stop.

Hey, hey, you okay? You okay?

Hey, talk to me. Talk to me.

Talk to me. What's wrong? What's wrong?

Gab.

She's unconscious and she's barely breathing.

I can't lose her!

Leave me. Take her.

Af-After everything you've done for me,

it's the least I can do.

I'll-I'll come back for you. Okay.

I had to make a choice.

I don't know if it was the right one.

I don't know either.

All I could think of was saving Gabriela.

I couldn't see anything else.

I got her. I got her. What's wrong with her?

I don't know. I don't know. She was fine.

She... she was coughing some, but she was able to walk,

and then she just... she just started wheezing.

Sounds like secondary drowning.

There's water in her lungs

because she jumped off that damn bridge.

Tell the paramedics they need to have O2 ready.

Her pulse is racing.

There's still-there's still another injured civilian

that's down there. Civilian?

The hit-and-run driver. Eve.

Arthur, come on. All right, yeah.

She was in-she was in better shape than Gabriela,

so I grabbed Gabriela

and I started... I just started running.

We tried to fix her broken leg and her compartment syndrome

as best that we could. Okay, okay.

You have to save her.

Somebody get me a warming blanket.

Gabs, listen to our voice. Come on.

Come on, open your eyes. Come on.

At the time, Gabriela had collapsed.

I didn't know what it was.

Meg was fine. She was up and,

and she was talking.

But as it turns out,

she was bleeding internally.

We had no way of knowing.

She was a traumatized civilian.

And you are an incarcerated firefighter

who made all the choices that led to her death.

At least that's how her parents' lawyers see it.

I am deeply sorry.

I liked Meg.

She made a mistake.

I did my best to try and give her a long life

to overcome it.

Okay, Donovan, back to camp.

Bode?

No, it's me, Jake.

You're gonna be okay, mija.

We're gonna get you to a hospital, okay?

She awake? Yeah.

You're g-you're gonna make it.

I'm gonna call and check on you so many times

you'll be sick of me. What a friend would do.

After speaking with all of you,

I have some recommendations.

Eve, I'm undoing your write-up.

I strongly recommend that you climb the Cal Fire ladder.

You're an asset, firefighter.

Jake...

despite your personal entanglement with both

MIA firefighters,

you put your badge before your heart.

DC Leone,

I look forward to you returning to work.

The department will be stronger for it.

Battalion Chief Leone,

your leadership style... It deviates from the handbook,

but there's no bottling this job in a handbook.

I get that.

Cap.

There's a narrative here that you started

a prescribed fire early,

an incredibly reckless choice.

But there's another narrative that suggests

lightning started a brush fire that you put out.

That's what Freddy said.

Like I said, my goal is to protect you.

Protect us, Cal Fire.

So that's it, then? We're good?

If it were up to me, yes.

But I'm afraid there are parents and lawyers

who won't rest until someone goes down for this.

My recommendation is Bode.

No! What? Oh, God.

He's an inmate who directly treated the deceased civilian.

He-He's a small loss to the department

compared to any of you, and from what I've gathered,

Bode's been on thin ice before.

I was the one.

It was me. Write that down.

Tell the parents to tell the lawyers... Chief...

Bode covered for me

i-in saying that he treated Meg.

He rescued Meg.

I treated her.

So...

truth is, her...

Her death is my fault.

There's no evidence to support that.

Listen...

I can lose my job.

That's okay. I'll-I'll figure it out.

But my son cannot go back to prison.

That will kill my wife.

I'm sorry. it's over.

Bode's done.

Uh, all right, can I just, um...

Can I...

Can I just ask for one favor?

No parent should have to bury their child.

It's unnatural.

And it's cruel.

And I'm sure you're struggling right now

with why it happened to your family.

Happened to mine, too.

You lost a child?

♪ And I can't change... ♪

Yeah.

My daughter.

When we first lost her, I thought I could

punch my way through the pain.

But...

just made everything worse.

If you're trying to talk us out of this...

Shh, Charles, just let him talk.

This lawsuit... it-it doesn't just sue

a nameless, faceless organization.

It's got a-a person's name attached to it,

and that-that name is shaping up to be my son.

Um, he and I,

we rarely see eye to eye on anything,

but what he did out there for your daughter, what...

He did-he did everything right.

He killed our daughter. No.

Meg succumbed to internal bleeding

after she walked away from the crash.

Please believe me, I'm not-I'm not blaming your daughter,

but if you blame my son...

Cal Fire loses

a very valuable firefighter.

And that could put somebody else's kid

at risk someday.

♪ To a brighter place... ♪

And worst of all, it's not...

not gonna bring Meg back.

You got to grieve your daughter,

love each other.

Blaming the wrong person...

That's-that's not gonna make anything better.

♪ All of these chains ♪

♪ Weighing down... ♪

I'll talk to the lawyers.

♪ All of these chains ♪

You want to tell me about her?

What was she like?

♪ I'm down on my knees ♪

♪ I need some relief ♪

♪ Some quiet and peace... ♪

Hey.

♪ I've been here before... ♪

Hey, how are you feeling?

So much better being out of the hospital.

I missed you.

I came straight here.

♪ Weighing down on me ♪

♪ Weighing down ♪

I missed you, too.

♪ All of these chains ♪

♪ Weighing down ♪

But, um...

♪ Weighing down... ♪

are you sure you're feeling better?

Seriously.

♪ All of these chains... ♪

I'm horrified

that we lost Meg

after all of that, and it's gonna

take me a while to shake that. Yeah.

But... physically, I'm good.

♪ Weighing down... ♪

Okay.

Then we need to talk.

About?

You and Bode.

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