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Previously on Fire Country. There's a new fire on Zabel Ridge and 42's next up

on deck.

I understand why you're upset, but I had to get you out of there.

Which is all the more reason why you should have left me there!

The only reason why I'm standing here and he's not is you!

What about you and Francine? I think kids are great, but right now my focus

on the Three Rock.

The ATF believes that someone set the Zabel Ridge fire.

Everything about it points to arson.

You cannot go vigilante on this. No, I mean, I want to help with 42 if we can.

You know, I keep looking over my shoulder at somebody who drives the same

as us.

Somebody who sat down the bar from us, maybe even sat with, set our town on

fire.

Keeps me up at night. We don't know that whoever started the disabled ridge fire

is even from Medjugorje. Okay, so what?

Like there's someone who was just rolling through, tossed a cigarette?

Still pisses me off. What's getting pissed gonna do?

Nothing. Us out here helping the ATF, out in arsonists, then we got something

be pissed at.

Wow.

Woody Leone, the voice of reason.

Hey, Agent Ruffin.

Are we searching all the way up to Boulder Ridge?

Yeah, we've narrowed the origin points of this five -acre stretch.

So you're looking for any evidence to support our theory that Zabel Ridge was

human -caused?

Anything you find, no matter how small, ATF needs to analyze it.

Hey, booty.

You sure you're good with being here today?

Deep diving on Zabel Ridge.

This investigation is enough to set any one of us off, especially you.

Hell, we got the okay from the ATF to be here.

Hey.

You're almost a free man.

Your parole ends tonight at midnight.

Yeah, I'm good.

Hey, hey, gee.

Look, I've got eyes on him.

Our boy's gonna cross that finish line.

Let's hope.

Hey, Agent Ruffin.

I got something over here.

ATF, you're with me? I need a radius now.

Firefighter, drop the tool, please.

Yeah.

Told you. I'm good.

Wow, you really brought the Edwards special into the woods, huh? I mean,

business, babe.

Coffee?

So I've been thinking about the next big step, and I got you this.

Will you accept this key to my place? Because I think it's time you had your

own.

Yeah.

You wanted to talk about keys.

Yeah.

Okay. I wanted to talk about the other K word.

Kids. Kids. Kids.

Yeah. So when I say that I want kids, I don't mean right now. I mean, like, in

five years. Yeah, and I want to want them for you.

Yeah. And I just don't.

What if we foster?

We can help a kid.

We can help another family through a hard time, and it gives you and I a

to sort of test drive. Well, I don't think you should talk about foster kids

like they're a car. Not a kid, Eve.

Parenting. You want to start a family in five years and, like, test drive

parenting now? It's just, this is, like, a lot, Fran.

I kind of already applied, Eve.

And my evaluation is next week. That is why I pushed to have this conversation

today. You applied to be a foster parent without telling me? Yeah, well, you

haven't wanted to talk about anything real, Eve, for months.

And I do understand.

After Zabel Ridge.

Maybe I do.

But what I took from being back on my little island alone, when we weren't

talking, is that I need to stop putting my life on hold.

So you made this decision alone?

I think I deserve some time to think about it.

Also, alone.

Evidence vague?

Wait, that?

Fire exhaler.

Fits your suspect profile?

One detail and a chain of evidence for assembling.

Can't comment on it beyond that.

What, Smokies?

So it really could be someone from town.

Or anyone.

Someone just passing through.

Hey, hey, hey. Hey, knock behind the tape, please. That's an old lighter from

the restaurant that my family owns. I can help you. Behind the tape,

Leone.

Chief Perez, a word?

My apologies if you're laughing.

Station 42 is here because your division chief promised me you could stay in

line. See a record and reputation from through your rocket precedes you.

So does Leonie. How the hell is that even relevant?

Inheriting a battalion's a tough gig, Chief Perez.

But if you can't handle your people, I will go up Cal Fire's chain of command.

Copy.

Really, Bowie?

Overstepping with the feds?

I'm not trying to overstep. That lighter is from the bar that my parents own

that changes everything. You know that.

You want to push, you push tomorrow. Today you play by their rules.

Hey.

Hey.

I decided I'd be helpful and take a stack off your fleet.

What evidence have I ever given you or my husband that I am someone that needs

to be handled?

I'm guessing that you still have no clue as to why Vince was paying off your

mom?

Well, she may be crazy, but he wasn't. There must be a reason.

Well, you know, there is still one person around who can actually answer

question for you. My mother?

Hard path on opening up that unmedicated can of worms.

No, it's your call.

Today, I'm focused on Billy.

Are you nervous?

Wow, it feels really good not to be the nervous parent.

No, it's just that in my experience, things tend to go sideways in the last

stretch.

Huh. I never would have pegged you as superstitious.

You didn't see him out there today.

After they found that Smokey's lighter.

Bodie got right in there.

And Ruffin got my face about him.

She brought her records into the conversation.

That's irrelevant.

I will call.

No, no, no, no. I'm all over it.

What?

Walter's old Buena Vista bill.

$600 less a month than Vince told me.

Walter's going to know something.

Or you could just...

Call your mom.

Don't know.

Huh? I don't think I'm eating or anything.

Yeah, right?

That lighter we found this morning.

The police need to use those here to light birthday candles. Yeah, before

parents ban that very obvious fire hazard, what are you thinking? It

matter. Bodie, if you piss off the feds, you risk being thrown back in the

prison. I'm working on getting you a gift of names that can do the job.

Okay, what happened to focus in on what you can't control?

I have info.

Okay, it's too close to home to sit on our hands.

Only employees had access to these lighters. All right, they're locked away

storage.

And these are all the people who worked here when Smokies used them. And they

only lasted like six months.

Small town, short time frame, short list.

Jeff Brannick.

Didn't the sheriffs catch him with a bunch of illegal fireworks a while back?

Okay, not helping, Eve.

Jeff quit working at Smokies.

Three days after Zabel Ridge.

I mean, if you started a fire that killed a man, would you want to work

alongside his widow every day?

Hey. Hey, no, Bodie.

Bodie.

I owe you an apology this morning.

A lot of feelings when fires are close to home.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah. You and your neighbors.

Tip line's been blowing up. Here's another one.

Um, Jeff Grant.

He got into some trouble a while back with the law over fireworks.

And he used to work here as a bar back.

But he quit three days after his able raise.

Oh, okay.

Tip line.

Yeah, I don't understand, but I'm giving you the tip right now.

Calling this in could take weeks.

Weeks? That'd be fast for an ATF investigation.

Do you actually want to solve this case?

This is a solid lead.

If you're not going to see it through, then maybe I'll just pop on up over

to explain myself. Okay, okay.

Obstructing an ATF investigation, that's a chargeable offense.

The way you tried to lunge over the line this morning and now this.

Doesn't take a stretch of the imagination to see how you ended up

It's no secret that I've done time in prison.

And that's why you should be listening to me right now, because if I were Jeff

Branick and I saw your ATF cars all over town, I'd be on the run.

Yeah, I've seen your record.

Oh, have you? Yeah. Well, it sounds like maybe you're spending a little too much

time investigating me and not other people.

What, you think that I did it? You think that I killed my dad and burned down

this whole town?

Lost my appetite.

Jeff Branick, get justice for my dad or I will.

What's up?

You know I have the day off.

Apparently you thought that it was a good idea to run Agent Ruffin out of

smoking?

Right after you agreed to play by their rules?

It wasn't like that.

Well, you no longer have the day off.

I don't need a sponsor.

No, but you need your chief, Bodhi.

You're on shift.

That's an order.

Ruffin's not playing around. She judges our past, so do not prove her right.

Let's go.

Hey,

I thought you had the day off.

Man, he's flexing his teeth, Badge.

All right, team, we got a smoking fire at a structure in the backwoods. Keep

your eyes peeled for a plug.

Not much water access out there.

Well, you know the place. Yeah, Mabel's Smoked Meat.

Her husband's been telling her to move the smoker outside for years.

Now she probably knows why.

All right, Crawford, you roll with me.

Eve, take the rig. 42.

Let's roll.

What's up with the look, Cat?

Hmm? You know the place.

What, you got beef with pulled pork?

Um, I used to go there when I was a kid.

With my dad.

And I haven't been back since he passed.

I'm sorry, that was a poorly timed joke.

No, no, it's okay. It's just the restaurant.

I doubt they'd even recognize me anymore.

Yeah.

Just straight up parading.

Bodhi. You can stalk Jeff Franek on your own day and time.

Art, you know what? Give me that.

Don't screw your father in.

Okay, Mom.

So, what do you think of me fostering?

Fostering what?

A dog?

I don't think you have enough time. No, fostering a kid voted.

Oh.

Well, I think that you have even less time for that.

You want, kid?

Okay, come right this way.

Hey, you smell that?

First time a fire's made me hungry.

Hey, probe me. Read the smoke to me.

Color appears abnormal.

A tree of wood may have gotten into the smoker.

We worry about that. Why?

A tree of wood can release chemicals like arsenic when it's burned and make

people sick.

That's good.

All right, team, let's run some hoses and get to work.

Jay Crawford?

Is that you?

I guess she remembers you.

It's been too long. I wouldn't have recognized you.

It's good to see you, Miss Mabel.

Wish you were under better circumstances.

And it's, um...

Captain now.

Captain. Hey, Jake.

Bodie, come on. Let's get on the toasters.

Come with me.

Keeping Edgewater's best barbecue all to yourself?

Nah. I haven't been here in a lifetime.

Special delivery from Red Cedar Memory Care. I'm fine.

Happy now? You can cut the leash?

Head back to the kennel?

He's with her today.

Lucky you.

Lucky me.

Thank you for shuttling him. You betcha.

Okay.

Walter, I didn't invite you here to cook for me. Yeah, I know.

But let me do it anyway. Sharon, I need a do -over after last time I was here.

Leave the steak for a minute and just try this fancy ham that I got for you.

Yeah.

So then he can tell me why my mother was extorting your son.

Yeah. I know that he was sending her money and lying to me about the cost of

Buena Vista to cover it, and I can see from your face you know exactly what I'm

talking about.

Sharon, there's some things that just have to stay between a father and a son.

Absolutely, except your son is not here.

And I'm really trying to understand.

How about I make a meal first and get my thoughts straight?

I'll be here all day.

Come on.

Give me that.

Bozo, he put water on a grease fire.

All right, Eve on, Eve back.

Okay, everybody, out of here this way.

Get him out.

Jay Crawford, all grown up.

Remember when I would tell Mabel to put that godforsaken smoker outside?

I sure do, but Gus, right now I need to get you and those burns out of here.

Seems like you came here a lot. Yeah, well, every weekend with my dad after

church, but no time to waste. Let's go. Work to do.

We got a full house.

Hey, guys.

These are my grandkids lucky they were outside when the fire started

That's right here, it's gonna help your grip, okay Here we go. Put this on your

mouth, sir.

You know hold that for me We're gonna show grandpa how to breathe take a nice

deep breath you go Nice steady breath deep breath

You got kids of your own?

Nope. I grew up the oldest.

Four brothers.

So it was a lot of entertaining, cleaning up. Now that's a full house.

I only have one.

Yeah. I wanted more.

Maybe she wanted the smokehouse.

I guess you can see who won that battle.

Okay.

All right.

Eve's overseeing the patients.

Smoker fire's out.

Fire's not over.

Something's still burning.

Dark smoke.

Thing looks angry.

Fire must have gotten to the vent. Yeah, maybe the attic, too.

Hard to fight a fire that we can't see.

Exactly. So we need a thermal imaging camera. And a hose line with a piercing

nozzle. Right, right. Stat, let's go. Let's go. We're on it.

All right, you find the fire, then blast it. First time I got to use one of

these. Well, you jam the spike into the wall, and then you spray where the fire

is. And water goes where water has no business going.

Got a lot of grease buildup in this vent.

Yeah, well, Gus, he probably hasn't cleaned those drippings since 1995.

All right, right here. Key signature.

Knock it down.

Select.

Ready? You're good.

And you weren't kidding about this piercing nozzle.

All right, one fired down.

Now we'll find the next one.

Tell me that voice did not come from inside this mess.

Oh, it sure did.

Somebody's up there.

All right, I hate to tell you, Chief, but we have voice contact. I'm a victim

trapped in that attic.

Switching to rescue mode.

Well, Jake, you know what to do. Get up there.

O .T. Perez?

I think someone is still in there. Our waitress, Jasmine.

She's missing.

Her shift just ended, but her purse is still here.

Please, I'm so worried. Okay.

Okay, thank you, thank you. We got this.

Hey, Cap?

Your victim might go by Jasmine.

Copy, Chief.

Access in the attic now.

She's just want to keep the dressing clean, okay? Stop it, Cap! Breathe!

What?

Hey, Maddie, grab the BVM and start swelling up because of the smoke

Hey, Dion, Dion, won't you be a good big brother? Take your little sister and

take her over there, okay?

I got you, okay?

Haven't heard her in a while. Yeah, she probably passed out from the smoke. Grab

the halogen and bring down that door.

Watch your back. Coming down.

All right.

Gelfire, pull out.

Coming up.

Okay, Gotham, I'm going to assist you with your breathing.

You're going to take this hand. You're going to squeeze my arm when you want

breath. We're going to do slow breath. Here we go.

Take your time.

All right, let's go.

There you go. There you go. There you go.

Okay. The coffee's good. It just means your swelling's going down.

The kids.

The kids. They're safe. They're safe, Gus.

Hey, Gus. Gus, if you don't calm down, I'm going to have to strap you to this

chair, okay?

Kids or no kids?

You got that mom voice down?

All right, let's get him some water.

Rub's ready.

No side dishes, huh?

No need to dress this up.

And I don't want to dress this Ruby business up either.

Oh, please don't.

Wow.

Vinnie and Ruby had an arrangement, and Vinnie asked me to keep my mouth shut

about it, so I did.

The only way right to the bitter end.

Vinnie thought it would be best to keep her away from you after your motorcycle

accident.

How do you know about that?

Vinnie never came to me for help about anything, ever.

But that day he did, Sharon.

He thought you had a death wish.

After Riley's funeral, he was worried sick about you.

He knew Ruby could...

push all your buttons and thought you were hanging on by a thread and he

going to allow her to unravel you, so he just paid her to stay the hell away

from you.

She had insinuated that if I had been a better mother like her, I would

probably still have both my kids and I didn't know if she was right.

Well, she wasn't.

Thank you. I really was not sure of that.

So I took the motorcycle out for a think and I just, you know, I was driving too

fast and the bike flipped. I was not trying to hurt myself.

You don't have to explain anything to me. I know a thing or two about being

broken.

Thank you for telling me.

There's something else I have to tell you, Sharon.

This is about the night of the fire.

Jasmine!

Jasmine!

Okay, I got him!

You got your two o 'clock!

Jasmine, can you hear me?

I can hear you!

Jake, he's alive!

Jasmine!

You got a hot spot in your back. Be careful.

I got her.

Hey, hey,

knee signature to your left. Stay to the middle.

Come on, B. Watch your step. Right here. Follow my voice.

Coming, coming.

I got you. I got you.

There you go. Right here.

All right. Give me your leg.

Careful.

It's okay. I got you.

I got you.

I tried to get to the chimney.

I couldn't see through all the smoke.

You gotta close the damper. We're gonna lose this place. Okay. First priority is

get you out of here. Bodhi, take her outside.

Yeah, on it.

Come with me.

Hey, Chief.

Bodhi's coming out with Jasmine.

Permission to stay behind and cap the chimney.

Jake, this fire's ripping.

I'm seeing angry black marshmallows in the smoke. It ain't good.

Yeah, we have a window of opportunity. Maybe a minute. I can get up there and

take care of it. That window's closing, Jake.

Move it.

Bodie's on his way back in.

Copy, Chief.

Jake, you got a hotspot on your right.

Chimney's about 20 feet ahead on your left.

Yeah, I see it.

I'm going for it!

This floor's getting hotter, Jake. The structure could be compromised.

Damn it, Claude.

Are we looking?

Not good.

Smoke is still pouring out of that chimney.

Hey, that chimney could be full of grease.

We gotta get out of here.

We tried.

Let's move out.

Wait. I can use the piercing nozzle to get through the metal pipe and knock

thing down for good.

Chief, I'm your eyes in here. And I know we're a new team, you and me, but I'm

asking you. Trust me. I got this.

30 seconds or I drag your ass out.

idea how much fire's inside that pipe.

Come on, Jake. We need to get out of there now.

Jake! The whole floor's about to go. You gotta get out of there.

All right,

Cap. We got white smoke.

Fire's coming.

Get out of there.

Crawford. Hey, Captain, do you copy?

Cody, I lost eyes on it.

Yeah, I lost my feet too. I'm going in.

Let's get the rest of this slide put up.

When we came around the corner, we were all together.

Walter, are you hanging in there?

And then the ceiling came down.

Oh, oh, oh!

When I woke up, I couldn't see

anything I couldn't see.

Two feet in front of me in the smoke and the fire. And I was looking.

I looked through the debris.

And that's when I saw him.

You did?

I couldn't get to him, Sharon.

He was...

You've already gone?

Yes.

And I couldn't tell you because

I knew if I told you, there was no way I was going to be able to pull you out of

there. We've got to get out of here! We've got to get out of here!

Walter, where's Smith?

You have to believe me.

I would never leave my son.

The way this day started, I did not see you being the one holding me back.

At least we're not predictable.

I can't believe you went head first towards the pipeline fire.

Yeah, well, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try.

All right, good.

Your chariot awaits.

I feel the medic that your O2 stats look good.

Thanks for giving me more time with my grandkids.

And I smoke meat.

Look, I'm just happy that your second child is still standing tall.

Yeah.

Mabel was begging me for this smokehouse for years.

What made you finally say yeah?

Mabel wanted it.

I wanted Mabel.

You compromise in the name of love.

It's not such a bad thing.

Safe trip, Gus.

I'll be out of your hair in a minute. I already called the aid. There we go.

You're a tricky one, you know that?

You did make me realize that there is something I need to do on my own after

leave. Well, every once in a while I try to do something right.

That's my ride. I better go.

Yeah.

Ruby. Mother.

I know Vince was sending you money. He's not going to be doing that anymore

because he died.

I don't want any condolences. I don't want anything.

I want you to keep staying away from my family.

So please, keep doing that.

From our wall of fame. Look.

Wait,

you

took us down?

Small space.

New rib -eating champ.

You know, we ate between six pounds of ribs that day.

You and Barry used to be fixtures around here.

And then you all stopped coming.

My dad, he and I would always order Tiger

Woods with spicy sauce.

Well, your daddy got spicy sauce.

What?

You were giving me mild?

Yeah, to spare your feelings.

Wow.

Well, it's a shame that the smoker is out of commission because I would kill

an actual Tiger Woods with spicy sauce.

Now you think I wouldn't have extras in the freezer.

Come on now.

Hey, what's up,

fellas? Hey, what's going on?

Yo, where's that other truck at?

1543. Yeah, Bodie, he said it was low on gas, so he volunteered to fill it up.

Damn it, Bodie.

Look, he's just getting gas.

Not robbing a bank. What's the problem? The problem is I filled it up last

night, Jake.

Problem is he lied.

I really thought we were out of the woods with him today.

He's driving up Linda Flora. There are no gas stations up there.

No, it's just Jeff Brannick.

Look, if he's caught trespassing or if he gets into it with them... Then he

right back to prison. Yeah.

Damn it, Bodie. Pick up.

I'm sorry.

I wasn't left with much of a choice.

Everything's a choice, Bodie.

You chose to slip out and take the truck. Now choose to get back in it.

Choices have consequences, Bodie. You know that.

This of all days, man.

Think about it.

You got fireworks up here.

It's full on out in the open, flaunting it. And what are you flaunting, huh?

Are you some kind of a big badass vigilante?

Is that how you want all this to go down, huh?

For what, man?

Damn it, Bodhi.

Bodhi!

Bodhi, answer me!

Don't hang up.

Did not hang up.

I had your voice in my head.

Bringing me back.

I ain't going.

Jeff Brannick is not worth my freedom.

Nothing is, man.

Nothing.

It looks like they took your tip seriously.

Hey, follow me back to the station, all right?

Now. Let's go.

If I wanted to... Go, go, go.

I spent the day wondering whether or not I could change my mind about kids.

And right now, I'm not really up for it.

It's just, um, I can't.

I spent all day thinking, too, and I can't

change my mind about wanting to be a parent.

I don't want to.

Yeah, we don't want you to.

But I don't want to lose you.

And, um, I don't know, maybe there's a way that neither of us have to give up

anything.

Like, maybe we can find a compromise.

What do you mean?

You know that application that you filled out to foster kids without

Yeah, I know. I'm sure you're really upset about that. Yeah, and we will be

listening to my music in the truck for, like, the next month.

Sure.

Maybe you could list me on the application not as a co -parent, but...

That's your girlfriend.

The one who's in your corner.

I mean, I don't know. Is that crazy? No.

He's not crazy.

He's like, maybe like the little crazy. He's not crazy.

I'll take that key now.

Just... Yeah.

Maybe we can take the... back to my place and see if you can work.

Yeah.

Hey,

you know what's harder than being on parole?

Being off it.

I mean, I was free for years, threw one punch, ended up right back in jail.

But tonight, you proved that you can walk yourself away from the ledge before

anything like that happens to you.

Thanks.

But you shouldn't be close to the ledge to begin with, am I right?

Bodhi, it's not just your future you're playing with.

I just got this job.

And I may not have a P .O., but I sure as hell got people looking over my

shoulder.

Keeping tabs on me, waiting for me to mess up.

Waiting for you to mess up.

And it doesn't matter what my title is or what yours is.

You and I will always be ex -cons in some people's eyes.

So we proved them wrong.

That's right.

It's an update on the investigation.

Jeff Brandek had an alibi.

So the arsonist is still out there.

But I know after today, You're going to leave chasing that person to the pros,

right?

All right.

12,

16 a .m., B.

You are officially a free man.

How's it feel?

Release.

Or to get excited about finishing something I never should have gotten

into. Nah, nah, nah, nah. Come on now. You've also got yourself out.

You know, maybe it was my dad's favorite. Or at least I thought it was.

But I think it was my favorite.

That's why he always took me there.

And you remember when he passed?

Yeah.

We, uh, we went to Brewer's Pond.

Hey, you showed up at my place with a bag of rocks, asking, hey, do you want

throw these?

You didn't know how to skip them. No, you sucked at teaching me. No, don't

forget that you bounced one out of my face.

I never told my parents how I got that black eye. Okay, and thank you, thank

you, but listen, my point is, I don't have a bag of rocks, but

I got this.

Vince's favorite celebratory drink after a long campaign fire.

Whiskey ginger.

Now, I figured ginger beer for you, whiskey for me.

Celebrate.

Well,

here to your freedom.

To our dads.

To whatever's coming next.

It could be great.

Honey, I got your voicemail.

From a week ago when I asked you not to come? Vince died.

It's going to be okay now.

Mom is here.