Fire Country (2022) s04e01 Episode Script

1
- Last season on Fire Country
- Here. These help.
Pop one every now and then for the pain.
SHARON: Zabel Ridge
Fire just jumped the freeway.
I'm coming with you this time.
Not you. Not with that knee.
- I'm fine.
- Bode, you're hurt.
We're pulling out Three Rock. It's over.
GABRIELA: No, I was scared, Finn.
- (SCREAMS)
- (SHOUTS)
Oh, you bitch.
- (BONES CRACK)
- (SHOUTS)
My knee just gave out.
VINCE: Almost home free, Dad.
Where the hell did he go?
Don't question me, Bode. Go.
Take him. Now.
And ice that knee.
- Come on.
- JAKE: Listen up.
We've got four of our
own inside. Let's move.
We got to go.
- Come on.
- (PANTING)
- Move, move, move!
- (SCREAMING)
(GRUNTS) No, get off me!
- (EXPLOSION)
- Get
♪
JAKE (ECHOES): RIT, Command.
We have two firefighters
and one civilian unaccounted for
inside the structure.
You are now Rescue 1 and 2.
I need you interior now.
- Jake, you got to let me in there.
- Bode, no.
The whole building's gonna go.
That's exactly why I'm keeping you here.
- (SIREN WAILING)
- (DISTANT SHOUTING)
You need me. You need me.
I can, I can help.
Bode, it's not your call.
Mom! Dad!
Stand down.
- Bode, stand down.
- I'm coming!
- (GRUNTS) Get off me!
- Hey, hey
JAKE: I need backup right now!
- Get off!
- Get him back.
Take him to the carrier.
- No! Get off!
- Take him to the carrier now!
Now!
All right, put out the spot fires,
make sure it doesn't touch the timber.
I'm done losing to fire today.
- It's Camp. I tried to save it.
- It's okay.
- It's okay. It's okay.
- I-I'm sorry. I we tried.
Look, there's no
time for that, all right?
- I need you to put Three Rock on hoses.
- No, we're stopping the spread.
Eve, put them on hoses now.
The Leones are in there.
Jake sent a RIT, but they need water.
Come on, come on.
- Jones?
- JONES: Yes, Captain?
Pull them off the line
and put them on hoses.
- Now. Move.
- Copy that.
Hey. I need your keys.
I am Incident Command. Keys, now.
Jake, what the hell are you doing?
JAKE: No time to explain.
I need you to take hoses
down on Charlie side.
Let me go!
(GRUNTING)
- Let me go!
- Get him in there now.
Get him in there. Come on.
JAKE: Stay there.
Listen, it's for your own good, Bode.
I will never forgive this.
That's my family in there!
Rescue 1, I.C.
Update me on the search.
(LOUD BANGING)
♪
- (GLASS SHATTERS)
- (ELECTRICITY SPARKS)
SHARON: Vince?
(COUGHING)
Walter, where's Vince?
I couldn't see him!
We got to get out of here!
We got to get out of here!
(SHARON SHOUTS)
SHARON: Walter, you might
be okay leaving Vince in a fire.
- I'm not!
- Sharon, we got to get out of here!
- SHARON: No! Walter, no!
- We'll get to him.
My son will kill me
if I let you die in here.
Let me go! Let me go!
No!
RIT FIREFIGHTER (OVER RADIO):
Charlie side.
No sign of the trapped firefighters.
Advancing search.
JAKE: Copy. Advancing search.
RIT FIREFIGHTER: Advancing
towards the stairwell. Hey.
We got something.
We're making our exit out
of the side now with two firefighters.
JAKE: I see you. Get
Division Chief Leone
into the first rig to the hospital.
Papa Leone in the second one.
Go. Rescue 2, I.C.
Any sign of Battalion Chief Leone?
Come on, Dad.
RIT FIREFIGHTER 2:
Negative. Continuing search.
I.C., RIT. We've located Chief Leone.
(PANTING)
(EXHALES)
♪
♪
Manny, I got to get to the hospital.
- Bode.
- I'll ride in my dad's ambulance
- if it's still here.
- Bode.
Your mom and your grandfather
are on the way to the hospital.
They're stable.
My
My Dad, I just heard, I heard on
the radio that they got him out.
Yeah, they found your dad.
It was too late.
He's gone, Bode.
♪
He's gone.
I'm so sorry, mijo.
♪
(BAGPIPES PLAYING)
♪
♪
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
First time I tried shaving,
I stole my dad's razor.
And I had, I had m-maybe
three hairs at the time.
Definitely had no business
touching them.
But you know, I-I did.
And I cut the hell
out of my face doing it.
I tried to hide it with a,
with a bandage,
and, uh, Dad, he-he saw.
And he knew exactly what I had done.
"You banged up your face
real nice, kid."
Then he said
"But you won't next time.
Let me show you."
And he showed me.
♪
And the next time, I got it right.
And that's my father's legacy.
It's all about finding the fix.
The Leone house, Station 42,
will be here to find the fix
for Edgewater
after the Zabel Ridge Fire
took too much.
My dad, and so much
of what he loved to protect.
And I'm gonna spend the rest
of my career doing the same.
Protecting my father's town.
My father's station.
My father's mission.
As long as I'm still standing.
♪
♪
♪
GABRIELA: That was
a beautiful eulogy, Bode.
(EXHALES)
I keep thinking that he's gonna walk
through the front door
and make a big fuss
about the engines
not being clean enough.
SHARON: Ah. Thank you.
Vince left me his guitar.
Sharon said he put it in the will.
MANNY: I can't even
picture him writing a will.
Well, Sharon made him.
- Well, that I could picture.
- (SOFT LAUGHTER)
Look, um, I know we all agreed
not to talk business today, but
Manny, Vince called in a recommendation
to fast-track you
getting reinstated at 42.
- (WHISPERS): Let's go.
- What?
- These Leones are way too good to me, man.
- Mm-hmm.
Oh, there's like, eight
battalion chiefs here right now.
MANNY: Yeah, and they're
all eyeing Vince's locker.
(CLEARS THROAT) Well, look, we
can get into this more tomorrow, but
what if I told you I might be
your new battalion chief?
You're questioning the job at Butte?
I have to question everything.
I missed the procession.
(EXHALES) I can't believe
I missed the procession.
BODE: Forget it. Don't worry about it.
(EXHALES) God, Bode, I'm so sorry.
What'd your lawyer say?
Um, the D.A. is still reviewing
the deputy's incident report,
deciding whether or not to charge me.
To charge you
to charge you with-with what?
If they don't buy self-defense, then,
assault with a deadly weapon, at best.
Attempted murder at worst,
which means I go back to prison.
There's no, there's no way.
That's not gonna happen.
Well, I'll believe that
when the D.A. says so.
(SIGHS)
But you know the thing
that really gets me?
Is after all this work,
I, uh, I shot a guy.
Firefighters don't shoot people.
Hey.
- (SNIFFLES)
- Let me take you home.
No, no, no. I'm fine. I
Do you want me to take you home?
I can.
Listen, here's what
we'll do, okay? We're gonna
I have, I have a whole army of people
in here w-who have my back.
All right?
So, you're gonna book a flight
and you're gonna go
to Lynette's, your mom's.
She's gonna take care of you, okay?
And we-we'll talk
on the phone every-every day.
But only if you promise me, Bode.
That army of people back there
that has your back?
You got to promise me
you're gonna let them.
Don't worry about me.
- Oh, I am.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I'm worried about those pills
that you're holding.
People like you and me,
we can't go through all this
without being tempted.
I know.
I know. That's why I flushed them.
(SIGHS) Come here.
We'll get through this.
I have somehow gotten
more pity stares today
than I-I even did when Riley died.
(SNIFFLES) I really don't
want to lose it here.
How can I help?
You could smuggle me out of here
before one more person hugs me.
Drive me home.
When that door shuts behind me, Manny
I know myself, this horrible wail
that I've been suppressing all day
is gonna come out of me, but you, like,
y-you can't even look at me.
Copy, Chief.
There was one more thing, though.
I see your child taking care
of my child, and
he's letting her.
You got to get Gabriela
to keep doing that,
because all I want to do
is go mother him,
and he's not gonna let me.
- I got you, Chief.
- (EXHALES)
- Okay.
- (SIGHS)
(SNIFFLES)
Is that Brett Richards?
- MANNY: I-I don't know who that is.
- SHARON: That is him.
Vince hated that man.
Why would you come to the funeral
of someone who hates you?
And what am I supposed to do with that?
Am I supposed to be, like, this
polite widow
and just accept condolences?
You don't have to do anything, okay?
Let me take you home.
But then, I'd have to leave
Brett Richards in Vince's station.
Nope, not doing that.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Sharon. I am so sorry.
Here's what you're gonna do.
You're gonna take that shrimp cocktail
that you've been enjoying
that I paid for
and you're gonna turn around and
you're gonna walk away from me
and then you're gonna leave.
I came to pay my condolences.
I don't want them.
Station 42 needs a battalion chief.
- I can't believe that's true.
- No, I hate it, too.
But it seems like it should be
somebody from inside the station.
BODE: Wow. You're using his funeral
as a, as a job opportunity?
Are you kidding me, Jake?
You're what, you're-you're
conducting business?
Wow.
Okay.
You know what? First of all,
I'm not conducting business,
and I resent the hell
out of that accusation.
Vince was like a father to me.
He was my actual father.
And now he's gone
because you locked me in a cage
- at that fire.
- No.
- We're not gonna do this today.
- No, no, no, hold on real quick.
You know why? You know what
would've saved Vince?
If you followed his orders.
He would have done the exact same thing.
The hell he would've.
You just, you know everything, buddy.
You got it. Just keep kissing ass.
Keep kissing ass all the way up
until you're battalion chief.
All right? But you know what?
When you're sitting in
my dad's chair, just remember:
you're renting it.
It's my birthright,
and I'm coming for it.
Your birthright?
That is your problem.
This is not about what's yours or mine.
- I don't have to listen. Yeah.
- I know this is a difficult time.
Please don't assume
I'm here for any reason
other than to show support
for an ailing station.
- What? Do not call us that.
- Okay.
- You see what's going on over there?
- I see.
BODE: I won't be one forever.
- You might want to get control.
- Thank you.
Station 42 is back in the game tomorrow,
and we need a battalion chief.
- BODE: Okay. Yeah. Right here.
- That is the reality.
- Right here. Take me.
- SHARON: New reality.
Station 42 is not getting
a battalion chief tomorrow.
Look at you. Look around.
Everyone is looking.
They can see that
this place is broken.
Station 42 is suspended
from active duty,
effective immediately.
Till when?
- Who did that?
- Me.
Your division chief.
♪
("SWAY/ENDLESS HIGHWAY, PT. 2"
BY WATCHHOUSE PLAYING)
(LEAVES RUSTLING)
Damn fire hazard.
The flight into the night ♪
Unlearn to live like prey ♪
Morning.
I didn't mean to fall asleep here.
You're entitled.
I've been a couch hog.
This is true. Hmm.
I couldn't have survived
the past two months without you.
You'd have survived.
You'd just be sleep-deprived,
starving and lonely.
I'm serious.
This felt like old times.
The feeling is mutual.
How do you know how to do all this?
I don't.
I just know you.
(PHONE RINGING)
GABRIELA: Answer it.
Maybe she heard back from the D.A.
Hey, Auds.
(MOUTHS)
Gabriela.
BODE: All right, well,
how-how long did they say?
Mm-hmm.
You first. Is she eating?
Only when I put food in her face.
Is she un-benching 42?
(SCOFFS) When I asked her that,
she threw a banana at me.
(BOTH LAUGH)
Now you.
Is he sleeping?
Not in his apartment, but yes.
He has moved into the lounge
and is eating
and is working on his probie list.
He's probably going crazy
right now, though, huh?
Everyone is.
Here we are, in 42,
working around the station
and we can't even go out on incident.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
- Engines have never shined brighter
- Hmm.
Boots have never been more buffed,
and these towels are capital C clean.
And Sharon is almost
capital C catatonic.
It's like she's frozen, man.
I don't even know how to move her.
Bode's moving.
That's what Vince
would've wanted for Sharon.
Yeah.
Are what about you?
Are you moving?
On the Cal Fire Recruitment offer?
- Hmm? Come on, mija.
- (LAUGHS SOFTLY)
My little girl, touring the country
inspiring new firefighters?
I kind of love it.
Even if it means leaving here?
Even if it means leaving me.
- (LAUGHS)
- What?
I love seeing you in uniform again.
Yeah, it feels really good.
But it'll feel a hell of a lot better
once 42's off the bench.
I'll tell you that much.
Hey. I think you should do it.
I think you should do it.
EVE: Okay, next one.
S-2T airtanker range?
500 miles fully loaded.
Okay, and what about empty?
- Uh Okay.
- Three, two, one.
- (IMITATES BUZZER)
- Look-look Look,
why would I ever need to know that?
Okay, it's been eight weeks
of me helping you
with this battalion chief exam,
and now you gonna sass me?
Huh. Okay.
What's Vince say about it?
(SIGHS) All right. Let's see.
Um
Uh
Ah. 800 miles empty,
but "if it's empty, you're screwed."
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)
You know, reading over
Vince's old manuals,
it's like he's still here.
Teaching me.
Yeah.
Feels like he's watching us.
Okay, hey. Yo, would
- you open it already?
- I don't know, just, opening
No, no, look, he left it for you,
meaning he wanted you to use it.
Well, just (SIGHS)
I don't know, opening it just
makes it feel like he's really gone.
Just like Three Rock.
Until city health says that
it's safe to go back in there,
I can at least pretend
that it's not gone, either.
(SIGHS)
What about you and Francine?
Uh, with everything that's going on,
we put a pin
in the whole kid conversation.
I don't know,
I'm just sealing myself off
from all the hard and scary
things in my life right now.
JAKE: "Don't be a wuss. Rip it open."
Bro, what is with this sass?
Oh, yeah, no, it's not my words.
It's Vince's.
See? Right there.
- Ventilation tactics.
- (LAUGHS)
Okay. Well, feels like I need
to take a little time-out.
And you should call Violet.
- Mm.
- Let her know you still exist.
- Right.
- And I will see Whoa.
Bro, you should take a shower,
'cause that's that's crazy.
(SNIFFS)
♪
(MAN STRAINING)
Please. Please save my little girl.
Sir, just take-take a breath. Okay?
We're gonna get you both out of here.
I can't! (GRUNTS)
(SAW BUZZING)
(SCREAMING)
- Dad.
- (WAILING)
Is the screaming really necessary?
Course it's necessary.
I'm simulating a real patient
in distress here.
All right? Uh, a-a probie
wants us to go hard on him,
so that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna go hard.
- We can do that? Okay. Can I
- Yes, Dad.
Can I continue now?
- I'm just doing
- (SAW BUZZING)
(SCREAMING)
Is that okay? Is that too much?
- GABRIELA: That's perfect.
- All right, remember your technique.
Attack the hinge from above.
GABRIELA: If I spill a drop,
that means your cribbing's not stable.
(MANNY GROANS)
Can't breathe!
GABRIELA: Doing great.
MANNY: Ow!
Attaboy.
Hey, Leone.
42 got any extra hoses laying around?
Pinot Platoon's lines couldn't
tough it here in Edgewater?
(LAUGHS) And here I thought,
us camping out
in your town for months
time away from family
that you might just have
a little bit of gratitude.
(CHUCKLES) We are grateful, man.
We're grateful that Mendocino
is holding it down
- while we're taking a break.
- Yeah.
Any idea when you guys will be cleared
- to get back in the game?
- Nah. Not yet.
But I'm-a get you those hoses.
We appreciate you, Nichols.
- Anytime.
- Hey.
- Yeah.
- My daughter, she's still trapped.
Ah. Help.
My neck.
I'm bleeding.
Help.
Can you just go a little faster?
'Cause I got to go pee.
Wait, is it this glove
that I put on first?
Oh, my God.
(LAUGHS): Come on.
(BOTH LAUGH)
You ain't getting out.
Mmm.
Why is everyone
always trying to feed me?
Maybe 'cause you don't eat enough.
Eight weeks of sad widow casserole?
- No, thanks.
- (LAUGHS)
- Happy?
- Come on, Sharon.
- Can't eat like a rabbit.
- WALTER: Found the pecorino romano.
- I'm making these
- It was under the seat.
I don't know how it got there.
Sharon.
It's good to see you.
Why would you assault me like this?
It's been two months since Vince passed.
Dad just wants to talk. That's all.
I'm gonna count to five,
and then I'm gonna scream.
- One.
- Sharon.
What you said at the fire,
about me being okay
leaving Vince, that-that's not true.
- Two.
- LUKE: Sharon, he's having a lucid day.
You know how precious this time is.
- Come on.
- SHARON: Three.
I understand why you're upset,
but I had to get you out of there.
- Four.
- Vince was
He was too far away.
Wh there was no way we could get
Which is all the more reason
why you should have left me there!
I was the highest-ranking
officer in that fire.
He wasn't just my husband,
he was my responsibility.
And the only reason
why I'm standing here
and he's not is you.
- (CRYING)
- LUKE: I'm sorry. Dad, let's go.
- SHARON: Get out of my house.
- LUKE: Dad. Come on, Dad,
let's go.
Sharon, I'm sorr I'm sorry.
I didn't mean
SHARON: Leave me
alone. Just leave me alone.
- I didn't
- Leave me alone.
Get out. Get out. Get out.
(DOOR OPENS, CLOSES)
♪
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Thanks, Mrs. C.
Sure.
All right. Walnut Nursing Home's
gonna come pick these up tomorrow.
- Sure.
- Those need to go out to the parking lot.
EVE: Bode's been killing
these donations, man.
JAKE: Yeah, someone
really likes playing chief.
- EVE: What?
- What?
Bode has been here, bro.
Day and night.
The people see him as the leader
and you've been busy.
Yeah, busy studying to be
the actual chief of this place.
There's enough room for the both of you.
And it's been eight weeks.
- Enough's enough.
- Eve.
This is the new normal.
- Get used to it.
- (PHONE RINGING)
Captain Crawford.
DISPATCH: We know Station 42
is currently down.
Like, uh, we-we tried
DC Leone, but she just
What do y'all need?
Uh step back, Bode.
Mendocino Captain Nichols
called with interface fire
at Fraley Lumber Mill.
They need backup.
Closest active crew is an hour out.
- We'll go.
- Bode.
- Stand by.
- (EVE STAMMERS)
We are not in service.
We lose that mill,
then we lose building materials.
East Edgewater's in shambles, I mean
we need all the lumber
we can get to rebuild it.
- J-Jake
- I am the captain of this station.
- Your ranking officer.
- All Nichols and his crew
have done is help us, for two months.
And now they need backup.
- We're it. We're it.
- Just shut-shut up, okay?
- Shut up and let me think.
- EVE: Guys,
we don't have time to think.
Greencrest needs an answer.
BODE: Yeah. Go on.
Give them an answer, Captain.
(ALARM SOUNDING)
First call back, 42.
Might be a little rusty,
but get some, be safe.
I keep thinking about Vince,
pulling out in his truck
for the last time
and not knowing it.
Yeah, me, too, mija.
I'm terrified of taking
that recruiting job,
but I'm more terrified
of not betting on myself,
because who knows
if we'll be here tomorrow.
Are you saying
it's your last job with 42?
- For now.
- (ENGINE STARTS)
Let's make it a good one.
♪
JAKE: All right, 42, let's go.
(SIREN WAILING)
(HORN HONKING)
Happy to see you, 42.
Captain Nichols. Catch me up.
Well, been able to hold the
blaze to this area of the mill,
but it's encroaching on lumber,
that pile of sawdust and this guy.
EVE: Mm, nope.
I don't like working
with that hanging over us.
Staff were loading the logs
onto a flatbed
when the fire broke out.
- They all panicked and rabbited.
- GABRIELA: I don't blame them.
Everything here is flammable.
Manny, Gabs, pull an
inch-and-a-half to that pile.
- On it, Cap.
- Eve, Bode,
link up with Mendocino on the lumber.
Hey. Hey.
Hey! That mulch pile
is starting to take off.
NICHOLS: Station 20, get back.
- That's gonna break!
- Station 20, get out. Harrison!
- BODE: Get your guy out of there.
- JAKE: Get him out of there!
Get him out of there.
Get him out of there!
- Hey! Hey!
- Get out!
- JAKE: Is everyone okay?
- MANNY: Yeah.
I think so.
All right, I need every hose
on this fire.
Low pressure on the pile.
We don't want to risk
a further collapse.
GABRIELA: Nichols, you with us?
Barely. Could use a little help in here.
MANNY: Hey, Cap, it's confirmed,
he's up against that shipping container.
Hey, Eve, please tell me
we can cut through the back
to get to Nichols.
EVE: Yeah, we're working on it.
Okay, so, bad news.
This container's filled with lumber.
So unless you want to pull
all of this out of here
- Eh, it'll take too long.
- GABRIELA: Nichols,
can you take your pulse?
Thready but holding on and
my head is ringing like crazy.
A 4x4 got my leg.
I think I nicked a-a vessel or
or two pretty good.
EVE: Hey, guys. We
can't extricate Nichols
from this container,
but we have some good news.
Container's holding up
the back side of the collapse.
So, gives us time to work.
Nichols is losing blood.
We might not have that much time.
All right, once we knock down the fire,
we stabilize the collapse
and core a path to Nichols.
We need wedges and cribbing. Bode?
Eve, grab a saw. Hey, Manny,
I need an eye on that fire.
Gabs, on Nichols. Let's move.
Let's go. Get water on that right now!
GABRIELA: We're gonna
get you out of there, Nichols.
Hey.
Look, I just
I wanted to apologize for ambushing you
with my dad the other day.
- I didn't realize
- That I would be traumatized
by the death of my husband?
What else can I illuminate
for you so you can leave me be?
Walter went to the funeral of his child.
Okay, I can't relate to that,
but you can.
I just thought it might be a good idea
for the two of you to talk, that's all.
Look (SIGHS)
you both went through something awful,
together, and I wasn't there.
- You know?
- No, you were in Japan,
doing whatever it is you do in Japan.
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)
Sharon, I am here for you,
I swear, but if you're trying
to imply that it's my fault
that my brother died because
I was out of the country,
- training firefighters
- I would never imply that.
- It's my fault that he died.
- (SIGHS)
Would you please
- stop saying that?
- Stop saying
- Yes.
- that I was the highest-ranking officer
at that fire? No.
The only reason I answered
the door is 'cause I'm waiting
for Cal Fire to come by
with some disciplinary actions.
Very insulting that they haven't.
DISPATCH: 42 is on scene
(FADES): for backup
at the Fraley Lumber Mill Fire.
42, the station that I benched,
is doing what?
(MOANS)
MANNY: Hey, Cap. Fire's out.
All right, 42,
start placing those wedges.
(OVERLAPPING CHATTER)
Let's go. Move, move, move.
MANNY: All right. Thanks, man.
FIREFIGHTER (DISTANT): Break it down!
Remember, work outside in, outside in.
Come on, let's go, let's go, let's go.
Thank you.
JAKE: Stabilize that beam right there.
- Good?
- BODE: Yep.
Primary stabilization complete.
Time to extricate.
Hey, Bode, grab another saw.
We cut our way to Nichols.
Hey, Cap.
He's deteriorating.
He's losing a lot of blood.
He needs fluids. Send me in.
There's an opening right there.
Send me in, I'll keep him alive
- until we can get him out of there.
- Mija.
All right, Perez. You're up.
- Go.
- I'll grab my bag.
Mija, this is crazy.
Like Jake said,
that's one of us in there.
We do everything we can
to save him, right?
That's the job.
But risking your life,
on your last shift with 42?
Come on, mija.
Dad
BODE: Your last shift?
Why didn't you say anything?
JAKE: Perez, Nichols is
deteriorating. Need you back ASAP.
Bode, I have to go.
♪
All right. Let's go.
Hey.
(CREAKING)
EVE: Steady, Gabs.
- Steady, Gabs!
- MANNY: Gabriela!
GABRIELA: I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good.
I'm going in deeper.
Nichols.
Stay with me.
Stay with me. Hey.
I've located the patient.
Best egress is through the delta side.
You guys hear that? Delta side. Go, now.
All right, Perez, what's his status?
He's got a deep leg laceration.
He's unconscious. We're losing him.
- (INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
- (SAW BUZZING)
Come on, Nichols. Stay with me.
- (GROANS)
- Yes.
Okay, Jake, he's conscious,
but this is just a Band-Aid,
he needs a hospital.
We're working on it.
Good work, everyone. Let's keep moving.
- Whoa, whoa.
- Back up, back up, back up.
EVE: The logs are
shifting things, y'all.
Cap, these saws are vibrating this pile.
Yeah, well, then, we need to stop.
We got two lives in there.
We cannot stop.
Gabs, we cannot risk this
collapsing on top of you.
GABRIELA: Nichols is collapsing.
If we don't move, we lose him.
"Find void space
with structure and cover."
Collapse mechanics.
Checked that off
my probie list last week.
Okay, Probie. Walk me through it.
Secure wedges into any joints.
Build cribbing under
potential collapse points.
- What the hell are you doing?
- I'm gonna build a defendable space.
I have a bunch of lumber here
that I can use
as makeshift wedges.
JAKE: I can't see you. I
don't have eyes on you,
so I can't sign off on this.
Jake, you sent me in here
because you trust me.
Trust me.
That's my little girl in there, Jake.
- I know.
- That's my little girl, Jake.
♪
(GROANING)
GABRIELA: Almost there.
(GRUNTS)
- GABRIELA: We're ready.
- All right.
(ENGINE STARTS)
(SAW BUZZING)
- Get back!
- (ALL SHOUTING)
- (SHOUTS)
- (WOOD CREAKING)
MANNY: No.
- Gabriela!
- Gabriela!
- Gabs?
- Gabriela!
GABRIELA: The cribbing.
We're good.
We're good. It worked.
(PANTING)
- Get us out of here.
- Need some help, here.
Here, now!
Remove the wood as fast as you can.
Turn around.
Ready? One, two, three.
(BOTH GRUNT)
JAKE: Get that wood out of there.
Let's go, let's go.
(GRUNTS)
- (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
- Yep.
One, two, three.
JAKE: We got you.
- BODE: All right, you're gonna be okay.
- One, two, three.
BODE: There you go.
(GRUNTS, SHOUTS)
MANNY: Hey.
- Come on, mija.
- JAKE: Got eyes on Gabs. Hey, watch out.
- Watch out.
- We're good.
EVE: Watch out.
- All good?
- We're good.
- Oh, mija.
- (CHUCKLES)
(LAUGHS SOFTLY)
That is not what I meant
by "Let's make your last day
at 42 a good one."
JAKE: All right.
Hell of a way to get off the bench, 42.
Let's go. Get out of here. Come on.
EVE: What's up, boss?
Yo.
- Got you a little something.
- (LAUGHS)
- You shouldn't have.
- Ask me where I got them.
- Where'd you get them?
- Three Rock.
- Really?
- Yeah.
They said it was safe enough
to step foot there again?
Yeah, it's bad, Manny.
It's like unsalvageable bad.
And yet, you're still smiling.
Those, like, fire followers
are growing everywhere.
Breathing new life
into the place, and
I'm like, "If they can do it,
I can do it."
So, I'm gonna convince Sacramento
that our Three Rock's scrappy
little story doesn't end here.
I like it.
- Yeah?
- And I'm with you
- I appreciate you.
- Always.
- (LAUGHTER)
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Thank you for meeting me.
I should've said something. Uh
I just y-you were going
through so much and I
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I thought I was gonna lose you today.
GABRIELA: No.
I know.
You're leaving. I know.
- Will you tell me about it?
- Yes.
(SNIFFLES)
- (EXHALES)
- (SIGHS)
Do you know how the Internet
latched on to that whole
"Olympian-turned-paramedic
who saves her stalker's life"?
Would have been kind of hard to miss.
Yeah, well
Cal Fire had this idea of me
speaking at recruiting events,
and that idea got bigger and
now they want me to go
make more young firefighters.
Recruiting's your new gold medal.
But that's not the only thing
I need to tell you.
Bode, I know that you're with Audrey.
And I know that it hasn't
been our time, but
I still love you.
("NO MAN'S LAND"
BY MIRANDA LAMBERT PLAYING)
And I just needed to say that
out loud because who knows
what your dad would've wanted to say
before he went and-and
That's it. I
I love you.
Love's never been our issue, Gabs.
She might be 90 miles from Pecos ♪
This was your dad's.
And Jake gave it to me
when I was a probie.
Freedom in her hair ♪
BODE: Patron saint of firefighters.
GABRIELA: I think
Vince would've wanted it
to stay here with you.
To watch over you.
And even when ♪
How do I say goodbye to you?
She's still no man's land ♪
You say "goodbye for now."
Goodbye.
For now.
Like a wild thing ♪
Better let her run free ♪
If she wants to love you ♪
You let her love you ♪
You give her everything ♪
The fire in your chest ♪
The very last breath ♪
Of the boy who's unravelin' ♪
The man who's obsessed ♪
With the woman, the girl ♪
The wide-open world in your hands ♪
She's no man's land ♪
(MUFFLED):
So love her like a Mustang ♪
- (PANTING)
- (HIGH-PITCHED RINGING)
Better let her run free ♪
If she wants to love you ♪
You let her love you ♪
You give her everything ♪
She might be 90 miles from Pecos ♪
Light-years from anywhere. ♪
LUKE: I'm sure you called
me here to ream me out,
but I got to say, Chief,
seeing you back in uniform
is a sight for sore eyes.
- Don't push it.
- All right, copy that.
I didn't call you here to ream you out.
I called you here to thank you.
Ooh, I'm listening.
Because of your lack of boundaries,
I got to see 42 un-bench themselves.
Well, technically, Greencrest
Oh, really? Right here
in the middle of my thank-you?
- Sorry. Continue.
- Uh-huh.
Hearing our crew in trouble
without a battalion chief,
- it-it woke me up.
- God, I could not agree more.
- They need a leader.
- And after we talked,
I may have called Cal Fire.
What?
You said that you were
waiting for them to call,
I greased the wheels a little bit.
Wait. The department didn't tell you?
SHARON (DISTANT): What did you do?
- What?
- LUKE: Hey. You wanted
Sacramento's involvement.
You wanted consequences,
and now you say you want
(HEART BEATING)
SHARON: Always. It's
always like you can never
LUKE: Well, because
it was a they told me
SHARON: They didn't tell me anything.
I didn't even know What is this?
(ENGINE TURNS OFF)
LUKE: Well
Brett Richards?
Oh, good. You two know each other?
Before you say anything, Sharon,
- I'm here to be of service.
- No.
- Sharon.
- 42 needs to be rebuilt.
- This is not the guy.
- I know.
I'm not here to rebuild 42.
Because I think we can
all agree that wasn't working.
I'm here to reinvent it.
On what authority?
I'm 42's new battalion chief.