Fire Country (2022) s04e03 Episode Script
The Tiny Ways We Start to Heal
1
Previously on Fire Country
JAKE: 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.
RICHARDS: I'm not here to rebuild 42.
I'm here to keep you alive
because I don't trust you to do it.
BODE: Don't worry about me.
AUDREY: You're fighting with Jake,
- you're living at the station.
- [RETCHES]
AUDREY: I know when something's up.
There's something you're not telling me.
EVE: Vince left me his guitar.
Sharon said he put it in the will.
Just Sharon Leone. Is she around?
No. I'm her son Bode.
Oh. Uh, Renée.
You used to date my dad.
JAKE: We've got a active
flame on that grill.
Probably natural gas.
I'll find the shutoff.
- RICHARDS: Looks like a shoddy DIY situation.
- Yeah.
Take Leone.
[WHISTLES]
All right, we're looking for
the gas line feeding that fire,
and I don't think I have to remind you,
everything's a test with that guy.
Yep.
Hey, I ran into a buddy
from 58 last week.
He said Richards has been
asking around to see
if any stations are low on bodies.
He's trying to figure out
where to send us
if he disbands 42.
And I heard he gives a station two weeks
to sink or swim. That's it.
Last week. You're just now
saying something?
Well, hey, it's not like
you've been looking for
conversation with me these days.
There's the source.
Locked?
I got it.
[GAS HISSING]
[HISSING STOPS]
Gas cleared, Chief.
RICHARDS: Copy. Fire's already dying.
That my dad's axe?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, he left it to me.
The hell he did.
Look, I don't know what to tell you.
Your mom put it in my hands.
It's been in my family for generations.
- I can't speak for your dad.
- No.
No, you for sure can't.
He made his will right after Riley died.
You weren't a firefighter.
I was.
Right.
I was an addict and then a criminal.
That's what you want to say,
go ahead and say it.
Hey, look, you don't want
to run your mouth in front of
- Richards.
- You don't want to give me
orders unless it has to do with a fire.
Okay, I have been killing myself
trying to prove to Richards
we are a solid house.
Pushing everyone to study and work hard.
You don't feel like
getting along with me?
Feeling's mutual. But, Bode,
if you do nothing else today, fake it.
Sure, sure.
I'll pretend that if my dad had
gotten out of that fire alive,
he wouldn't have ended your career
right then and there for
holding me back from helping.
I didn't realize you were
back to being the Bode
who didn't give a damn
about anything but himself.
And if your dad had gotten out alive,
he would've kicked your ass out.
Again.
AUDREY: So, what's your
read on Bode these days?
You had eyes on him when
I couldn't, when I was gone.
Ah, you know Bode,
carrying the world on his
shoulders is kind of his thing.
He's just grieving.
What about you?
You're-you're fresh eyes.
What's your read?
Are you worried?
[LAUGHS]
Trying not to be.
But he's just so
bottled up.
You don't think
he's using again, do you?
No, no.
I don't I don't think so.
[SIGHS]
Somebody gave him some pills.
What?
And he told me that he flushed 'em.
Now I'm telling you.
Well, as you know
addicts lie for breakfast.
I'm not saying he's lying.
Not yet.
So let me ask you this.
If someone had forced you
to talk back then,
when you were using,
would it have worked?
- No.
- See, the truth is,
Bode's on one of two roads:
the one we hope for
or the one which
lands him at rock bottom.
But whichever road he's on,
he's gonna show us soon.
All right, so you're saying
I shouldn't try to force him to talk?
No, I'm saying that
that the worst thing
you could do is isolate him.
BODE: Almost there. Come
on, keep going. You got this.
- [STOPWATCH BEEPS]
- Done.
Seven knots, 74 seconds. Not too shabby.
- MAN: All right, man.
- 42's still got it.
Should be able to do it
in under a minute.
You're up, Leone.
Everyone else,
push-ups until he gets it.
Let me know when you're ready.
[CLEARS THROAT]
- Go ahead.
- Go.
♪
- Done.
- Stop.
68 seconds. Yikes. Try again.
And go.
BODE: Damn it.
And break. Done.
Trending in the wrong direction.
72 seconds.
[MEN GROANING]
Stop. Get up. Go. Get out of here.
Man
[INDISTINCT MUTTERING]
I don't care how you tie knots
on your best day.
It's how you perform on your worst.
You're gonna need to work on that.
Keep or donate?
I don't know.
We can take a break.
No, no, no. No.
The donations for the fire
victims have dropped off,
and I have so much
since he
You know, the things
that he put in his will,
they're-they're so easy to give away
because that's what he wanted, right?
But the rest of it?
It's like I just want to go back in time
and harangue him into just
writing every single thing down
'cause this is too hard.
Let's change the topic.
Today, it's, um,
a special day.
You gonna do something for it, or
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Oh.
Uh, enter at your own risk.
- What's up, bud?
- Hey.
- [YAWNS]
- MANNY: Wow.
You starting your own
thrift shop in here?
[YAWNS] Sorry.
I haven't slept very much.
MANNY: Ah, you should try what I do.
Just go to bed senior early.
EVE: What? That's such a sad adult life.
You're single, you got to
put yourself out there, dude.
Do whatever straight people do
to find each other. Ooh.
You know what?
What about the councilwoman?
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- She liked you a lot, bud.
You said you had something for me?
I do. [CLEARS THROAT]
Aw.
Vince's challenge coin.
SHARON: Yeah.
He said he wanted you to have it.
Oh
I'm honored.
You sure you want to do this today?
Yeah, I already brought that up.
Edgewater needs stuff,
and-and we have stuff.
I kind of thought
that Vince would like it
if we did this today.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
- I'll see you later.
- Okay.
EVE: Thanks for helping
me with Sharon's donations.
Well, you know, it's easier
to haul Vince's things around
than to go through 'em with Sharon.
- Especially on your day off.
- Yeah, I'll be honest,
it hasn't been easy.
Especially, you know today.
It's Vince's birthday.
You forgot.
Yeah. Damn.
That explains Bode's reaction
to seeing me with Vince's axe.
I didn't handle it well.
How are we supposed
to handle any of this, man?
It's like Vince's whole
life is reduced to stuff.
Stuff to donate, stuff we fight over,
stuff to wonder who
we give it to when we're gone.
You know, it's very early
for you to be so morbid.
No, I'm serious, dude.
Like, Vince was like a parent to us.
When the parent generation goes,
the next generation levels up.
Remember when we were younger,
and we used to dream
about what being an adult would be like?
Yeah.
No school, ice cream for
breakfast, married to Jessica Alba.
Right. And I don't feel
any closer to grown-up Eve.
I just feel like the same me.
Well, if it makes you feel any better,
I never thought that, as grown-up Jake,
I'd be getting into it with Bode
over stuff or old beef.
Can I be honest?
I think Richards is
pushing you, Bode, all of us.
It's kind of like a stress test
and we're cracking.
- [SIGHS]
- So, give yourself a break.
That's very grown-up of you to say.
I kind of felt that, too. Huh.
You make the Leone mud?
- How'd I do?
- It's thick enough
to eat it with a fork.
It's perfect.
Uh, look, uh, I know what you said.
I'm just not ready to talk.
I get it.
Sorry. Shouldn't have pushed.
You know, my, um
my dad left Jake his axe.
And that's bad because
you wanted the axe?
[SIGHS] No.
But
it's just, my mom is like,
she's doling out
all of my dad's stuff,
and it's just
It's a reminder he's gone?
Yeah.
And, um, I'm pretty sure that
there's no way he left
anything in there for me.
[SIGHS] But now that my dad's gone
I just don't want
me and him to end that way.
Want some?
No.
Just wanted to get your hands free.
[ALARM BLARING]
[AUDREY SIGHS]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[FIRE TRUCK HORN BLARES]
Call came in as a fall from heights.
Up there.
What'd he fall from, an airplane?
Well, if he fell any further,
this would be a recovery, not a rescue.
Help! I'm stuck,
and my friend Dex he fell down there!
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[JAKE SIGHS]
Well, it looks like we got one of each.
RICHARDS: Yep, a rescue and a recovery.
♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
I need to dispel a rumor
going around about me. Yes,
I have been known to disband a station
when it is dead.
But as far as I can tell, 42
is still breathing. Don't want
to call time of death.
Show me I don't need to.
Perez, James, you're on
our fall patient. Crawford,
take Leone up on the line. Let's go.
Hey, uh, Bode, about the axe
Be easier to fake it if we didn't talk.
MANNY: This overgrowth
is out of control.
Yeah, this place is chock-full of
tinder without Three Rock around.
There. Hey, Dex.
Dex, can you hear me?
Looks like he's breathing,
but he's unresponsive.
Oh, hell.
Oh, man.
That's a textbook compound fracture.
Keep assessing him.
Got a pulse, respirations steady.
That chest wound, we got to get
a dressing on it.
Pupils are good.
MANNY: Richards is calling
in the ambo, but we can't move him yet.
We have no idea
how close this broken bone is
to the femoral artery,
and one millimeter
in the wrong direction
He could bleed out.
All right, stay with us, Dex.
JAKE: Hey, there.
I'm Jake. This is Bode.
What's your name?
Name's Gage. I just got snagged
on my way from there to there,
where I was gonna set up.
My-my friend Dex tried to help
when I got stuck,
but he slipped off his line like a noob.
Is he okay?
Our crew is taking care of him.
Okay.
Yeah, just sit tight.
We'll get you down.
[LAUGHS]
Oh
[CRYING]
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Come in. Eve?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR SHUTS]
I'm sorry.
I texted, but when
my dad died, the ladies from the church
brought over casseroles
and kind words for my mom,
and then, three months in,
people went back to their lives
and it stopped, and
the words, she could've used the words,
and today is Vince's birthday,
and ask me why I'm standing here saying
any of this instead of hi.
I-I don't even know if you want
Vince's high school ex
here in your house.
I am sorry.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's nice to see you,
Renée. Thank you.
[LAUGHS]
[GROANS] Did you just see me
[SCOFFS]
smell his shirt through the window?
You did, didn't you?
It's laundry day.
- Yeah.
- [GROANS]
My dead husband's ex,
standing in our home,
offering me a shred of dignity
after seeing me stick my face
in his dirty laundry.
I am so sorry.
- I'm gonna go.
- No, no, no.
It's a kindness.
It's just so surreal, right?
I mean, you, here, in that spot
where I have laughed with him and argued
with him and smelled the food
he was making for me to welcome me home.
I'm sorry. [CHUCKLES]
I just really wanted to say
that he was a really good guy.
While also always being
such a lovable ass.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Who
kind of smelled like pine trees
and Dial soap and
the occasional joint that
he didn't think I knew about.
He was still doing that?
Oh, yes.
So, do you think you could
help me sort through this
to see what doesn't smell like him
so I can clothe Edgewater with it?
In the name of Vince, yes, I can.
What's the plan?
Figuring out if we can
get out there to him.
Not a question of if we can, it's how.
Find a way, Captain.
I just did.
We'll flip this pulley
upside down, jury-rig it
into a trolley. Leone, harness up.
You'll trolley out to Gage,
clear the snag,
I'll pull you both in with a tether.
RICHARDS: Solid rope work.
That should do it.
You good to go out on the line?
Yeah, I'm good.
Wow.
A probie has to approve my orders now?
Well, he's probably just worried
that you might drop me.
Yeah, well, don't tempt me.
- And then he fell from the tree.
- [LAUGHS]
After all of these
big proclamations about being
the last protestor on-site,
he is then the first one
carted away in an ambulance
naked.
No, no, no.
Too far?
Was it "naked"? I I think I found
- the line.
- No, no.
I am so happy to hear new Vince stories.
I didn't think I was gonna get anymore.
I want to hear all of them,
but have you seen
a brown leather jacket?
Like, really well worn?
I don't think so.
It's his favorite jacket,
and it was in this pile,
and-and now I don't know where it is.
Well, it's got to be here somewhere.
No, it-it doesn't have to be,
because Jake and Eve, they took
a load to donate already,
and what if it got
mixed up in that load?
Well, then we go find it.
I'll drive.
Come on.
Okay.
Okay. Hey, Gage.
Bode's gonna come out and get you.
All right.
All right, hey, look.
Before you go out there,
I just wanted to say I didn't realize
it was your dad's birthday, all right?
No need to. Not your dad.
BODE: All right, buddy, almost there.
Where are the people who work here?
GAGE: That would be me.
Uh, I've got mad zip-lining skills,
it's just that this was not
how this was supposed to go.
My girlfriend Naomi thinks
we're just going zip-lining,
but when we got over there, I was
gonna ask her to marry me.
- Romantic.
- Yeah.
I just had to get over there
to set up some things first,
but when I zipped out, this got stuck.
- What is that, a blanket?
- Yeah.
For the picnic.
Naomi loves the girly stuff.
But, uh, it flew up and got
completely stuck in the wheels.
I tried to pull it out, but
BODE: You didn't want to risk
yanking the pulley off the wire,
end up like your buddy there
on the ground.
GAGE: Exactly, you just got to
get me down before Naomi shows up here
and sees me dangling like an idiot.
All right, I'm gonna cut it free.
Yeah, dude, it's, uh
BODE: Yeah, don't move.
If I get too close to the line,
we're both on the ground.
SHARON: He wore it on our last real date
to the drive-in theater.
That jacket probably
smells more like popcorn
than pine trees now.
What movie did you see?
Oh, we were trying to pretend
we were young again so
So you didn't watch the movie.
No, we did not.
Ugh, the popularity of this abomination
and the ones like it around here
is why I left Edgewater. No offense.
None taken.
You were meant for bigger ponds.
Sharon.
You inspired me to donate
some of my own clothes.
- [YAWNING]: Oh, good.
- Look at you two.
You're hanging out or
Uh, looking for Vince's jacket.
- Uh, the dusty-brown one.
- Oh, his main jacket.
- Yeah.
- You donated it?
RENÉE: Didn't mean to, so we're digging.
Oh okay. Again, sorry. "We?" You two
are
Yeah, we have a shared history.
A man. You shared a man.
RENÉE: He was more like a boy
when I was with him.
But the nicest kind.
SHARON: What else, Renée?
What other stories do you have?
RENÉE: Okay.
[CHUCKLES]
One time, he left
a chocolate bar in my locker
and it melted all over
my homework, and I remember
running after him
in the hallway and being
so mad about something.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
I'm sorry. I just, uh,
I have all these memories
and nowhere to take them now.
Here. You can take them here.
[CHUCKLES] It's okay
if it feels weird to you.
That's all right.
It feels good to me.
But this jacket is not here.
It-it has to have gone
to another donation center
already, so then
it's just gone.
AUDREY: That good?
No.
No, there's still movement.
His leg needs to be completely immobile
to protect that artery,
so grab some more gauze.
We're not out, are we?
Damn it, his wound's still bleeding.
Put some pressure on it.
[ECHOING]: Audrey, put pressure on it.
Hey, are you okay?
[GUNSHOTS]
[WHISPERING]: I can't move.
All I see is Finn.
Manny, I'm sorry.
Audrey.
[FINN GASPS]
JAKE: Hey!
You need anything?
Nope.
Hey, when you were down there,
did you see my phone?
No.
I accidentally dropped it
when I called 911.
We're firefighters, not lost and found.
GAGE: Oh, careful. Careful, dude.
[CLOTH TEARING]
Oh, sweet. You got it.
You're good. You're free. Okay.
Bringing you in.
MANNY [ECHOING]:
Hey, Audrey, stay with me.
I need you.
This man needs you, too.
You shot me.
- [AUDREY SCREAMS]
- [SHOUTS]
That bitch shot me.
Serenity.
S-E-R-E-N-I-T-Y.
MANNY [CLEARLY]: What?
Spelling. It helps.
Okay. Well, keep-keep doing it.
Fracture. F-R-A
Fracture. F-R-A
- That's good, keep going.
- F-R
A-C-T-U-R-E.
Good, good, good.
You need me?
Okay, one more.
Corporeality. C-O-R
P-O-R-E-A-L-I-T-Y.
All right.
I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Okay, his chest still needs
pressure. Can you do it?
- I'm on it. Yeah.
- Yeah? Great.
- Keep it there.
- Okay.
[AUDREY EXHALES SHARPLY]
It's stopping.
Nice. Add some gauze to it.
And when you're done there,
get your ass back over here
and help me finish up
the splint, all right?
Hey.
Good work.
I guess if my phone dropped on something
soft, it might still be good.
Can't believe I dropped it. So dumb.
You know, you're making it really hard
to disagree with you, Gage.
MANNY: All right, just remember,
no sudden movements, all right?
We have no idea how close
those broken bones are
to the femoral artery, so we're
gonna go gentle. I'm talking
"moving a sleeping kid from
a vehicle" gentle. You got it?
- On James' count.
- All right.
Three, two, one. Now.
Three, two, one.
Down.
Nice and steady.
Clear a path back to the road for 'em.
Yes, Chief.
[GRUNTING]
Got you.
- All right, now you, Gage.
- [GRUNTS]
[CHUCKLES]: Whoa. Whoa.
I could make out with this platform.
Oh.
- Thank you. Thank you very much.
- All right, it's secure.
[SNIFFLES] Yep.
- [GRUNTS]
- Good here.
[DEVICE CLICKS, BEEPS]
Uh-oh. Oh. Uh
What? What? What is that?
Okay.
- You good?
- Yeah.
All right. Smooth as butter. Here we go.
- [FIREWORKS BOOMING AND WHISTLING]
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- [PAINED GROANING]
- [URGENT CHATTER]
Stay still!
All right, stop, stop, stop.
You're fine.
Don't move. Don't move.
JAKE: What the hell?
What the hell is that?
It's the remote detonator
for the proposal fireworks.
- Gimme.
- JAKE: All right, look,
we got to get down there now.
All right. Oh.
It's just a couple of
Roman candles, pinwheels
[CHUCKLES] whistlers.
You know, they were only
supposed to go off
after Naomi said yes.
Fireworks. In the dry season.
JAKE: All right, Gage, follow me.
Don't do anything stupid.
Yeah, I know.
Technically, I should have got a permit.
But I totally spaced.
JAKE [OVER RADIO]: Chief,
patient's secure. We're on our way down.
Hurry it up. I need a line
on this five minutes ago.
Perez, James, are you good?
- We're good, Chief.
- Yeah, we're good.
[PAINED GROANING]
DEX: Oh, what happened?
Hey, Dex, hey. We're Cal Fire.
You fell and you broke your leg, okay?
MANNY: Hey, buddy, we're
gonna need you to stay as still
as you possibly can. I know it hurts.
- All right?
- RICHARDS: All right, good.
Let's get you out of here.
Ambulance is on its way.
MANNY: Are you ready to move,
Dex? We're gonna move you now.
I'll make you a deal.
If you take big, deep breaths,
we're gonna get you out of here
nice and smooth, all right?
Deal? All right, let's go.
Leone, Crawford, get onto hoses now.
Oh, oy. Okay.
Vince always kept a bottle
of my favorite one
right behind the napkins for me.
Ah, yeah.
I think we we need this today.
Well, we didn't hit
every donation center
before they closed.
There's still that feed store
out on Skyline.
[GROANS] I
I'm gonna survive.
It's just a jacket.
Okay.
Here's to your dead ex-boyfriend.
And to your dead husband.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Ah. And there it is.
Joel?
Hey.
- Hey, Sharon.
- Where'd you get that jacket?
Oh, you-you like it? [CHUCKLES]
Just scored it today.
Donation place at
the hardware store on Piedmont.
Yeah.
Gertie and me lost everything
in that Zabel Ridge Fire.
Didn't really want
to take any help at first,
but Gertie said
had the wind blown in a
different direction, then
Oh, you'd want to help, too.
Yeah. [SIGHS]
Yeah.
Uh, would you
Can we hug?
Mm, yeah.
♪
Thanks again for saving me. [GRUNTS]
I'll never listen to that idiot again.
[GROANS]
Take care.
[SIGHS]
"Corporeality"? [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Didn't expect that one.
Fourth grade spelling champ.
Wow.
Well, color me impressed on all levels.
You good now?
Other than being embarrassed, sure.
Got nothing to be embarrassed about.
You had stuff come up and
you worked yourself through it.
When I was in it, I sure
wanted drugs more than spelling.
Would've been nice to drug
myself into a happy place.
This is the kind of thing that
used to send me off on a bender.
Yeah, but it didn't.
Not yet.
- You know how I know you won't?
- Ugh.
'Cause you dwell in optimism
like a sparkly little butterfly?
'Cause you're talking drugs
instead of taking them.
This is exactly the kind of day
we prepare ourselves for.
If you prepare for 'em.
Yeah.
Hey, Chief, uh, Dex, he's
en route to the hospital now.
Nice job, Cap.
I saw how you handled James.
Got her through it.
Eh.
Eh, she got herself through it.
And 42's getting through it, too.
I hope you see that.
AUDREY: Hey, Gage,
your friend's gonna be okay.
He's on his way to the hospital now.
JAKE: Yeah, we got
to get you checked out.
Well, my gear's completely soaked.
The fireworks were, uh, expensive.
Damn. I thought this was gonna
be the coolest proposal ever.
BODE: You know what would've been cool?
Proposing in a damn restaurant.
Bode.
Firefighters risk their lives
every single day.
We know we could die on the job.
We prepare for it.
Okay, Bode, not tonight, okay?
We write wills about it,
for going out
over something that matters.
Hey, Bode, enough!
You could've lit up this
whole town again. For what?
For what a-a proposal with a bang?
RICHARDS: Leone!
You will listen to your captain
or you will be suspended.
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
- Bode.
- I'm gonna go crash.
[CHUCKLING]: Hey, bud, what's up?
- Why you manhandling me?
- Okay, calm down.
Um, I need your help.
I made Sunday Sauce
for Vince's birthday.
Oh, you know how to cook now?
Well, I ran by Papa Leone's,
and I got Vince's mom's recipe,
which was handwritten and very old,
and Vince didn't really follow it, so
Oh, no, that's 'cause
he always measured by taste.
Right, that's what I'm trying to say.
So it may not taste the same,
um, but, still,
can you just make sure
that Sharon gets there?
Uh, I'm gonna text Bode, Manny, Renée
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up.
Renée? As in Vince's ex?
Thank you. It's weird, right?
Uh, yeah.
Well, apparently,
she's inner circle now.
Look, I-I may not be ready
for some adult things,
but I am grown enough
to know that this is about
what Sharon needs.
Look at us being grown-ups.
Yeah. It's mostly me, but yeah.
[HEART BEATING FAINTLY]
♪
[HEARTBEAT STOPS]
Hey, stranger.
Hi, Mom.
I heard you lost it on a patient today.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
He turned a proposal into a forest fire.
[SHARON LAUGHS]
I see you inherited
your father's lack of patience
for fire hazards.
How come you haven't come by the
house to see what he left you?
I don't expect anything.
I-I know the place that he and I were in
when he made those decisions.
Oh, but that wasn't the place he was in
when we lost him.
I I think, maybe,
officially, on paper,
he didn't leave you anything,
but we talked about this all the time.
We-we talked about you and
the life that you've made for yourself
and how proud we both are of you
and the man you are today.
♪
He left you his wedding ring.
He wanted you to have it.
He loved you so much
right up until the day he died.
Sorry, I think I'm gonna cry
right along with you.
[CHUCKLES]
This is so hard. [CHUCKLES]
And I miss him so much,
but I miss you, too.
[SHARON SNIFFLES]
Are we okay now? You back with me?
Please don't worry about me.
["LOOK UP" BY JOY OLADOKUN PLAYING]
[LAUGHTER]
I was like, "Mm well,
you'll see, actually. Yes."
[LAUGHTER, LIVELY CHATTER]
Sometimes your life feels like ♪
A broken roller coaster ♪
All right, uh, somebody taste this,
make sure I'm close.
Uh, okay. Hey, I-I volunteer as tribute.
[SHARON LAUGHING]
Hey, Share, would you like me
to go check on Bode?
Uh, no. We talked and we hugged,
and I think he's dealing in his own way.
Mm, all right.
- SHARON: Thank you.
- MANNY: Mm-hmm.
JAKE: Mmm.
That's that. That's it right there.
Tastes like Vince's? I-I got it right?
Not even close, but it's good.
[LAUGHING]
I didn't even know how much
I needed this. Thank you.
JAKE: It's good! It's good!
- You ain't You don't get none.
- Oh!
I know it's a little strange,
but these are the tiny ways
we start to heal.
Listen, you said it, ma.
Hold on, 'cause somebody loves you ♪
You know trouble's
always gonna be there ♪
Don't let it bring you to
your knees, yeah, look up ♪
[LIVELY CHATTER]
- With gla With shades on?
- Oh, my God.
Man, Vince would be mad right now.
'Cause I think this sauce
is better than his.
Right? Ooh!
- Bite your damn tongue.
- Right?
- [EXCLAIMING]
- [LAUGHTER]
I know I killed it,
but here's the thing.
- Why were you trying it?
- Because he said it was
With all kinds of mystery ♪
It's a blank page for your poetry ♪
If you let it be ♪
- So don't tell yourself ♪
- [GUITAR PLAYING "LOOK UP"]
It's raining ♪
The clouds are in your head ♪
You tell yourself it's better ♪
To jump before you fall again ♪
Before you lose it all again ♪
Look up ♪
Do you see the sunlight? ♪
Look up ♪
There's flowers in your hair ♪
Hold on, 'cause somebody loves you ♪
You know trouble's
always gonna be there ♪
Don't let it bring you
to your knees, yeah, look up ♪
[GRUNTING]
Don't let it bring you
to your knees, yeah, look up ♪
Don't let it bring you
to your knees, yeah ♪
Look up. ♪
[LAUGHING]
Ah!
I am so glad Vince left you his guitar.
- I appreciate you.
- So good.
- [LAUGHTER]
- I'm done. Thanks.
- Ooh, zero spots.
- [YAWNS]
- Renée's got the magic.
- [RENÉE LAUGHS]
Oh, go to bed. We can finish.
SHARON: It's not like
I'm gonna sleep in there.
I haven't slept alone
in this house in 33 years.
Well, what if Bode came
and stayed for a while?
You know, keep you company.
Mm, I don't want to put it on him.
He has his own grief to deal with.
MANNY: I'll do it.
- [CHUCKLES]: No.
- Seriously.
We can't have the D.C.
running on empty, right?
I got your back.
Come on.
You're a good friend.
Oh, thanks. [CHUCKLES]
He's family.
I'm actually only doing it
for the comfy Leone couch.
[LAUGHTER]
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Of course.
♪
EVE [QUIETLY]: "Vince, call me back
"or I will blow up your life.
"I have Sharon's number,
and I will use it.
From, R."
[MANNY AND RENÉE CHATTING
AND LAUGHING QUIETLY]
What the hell?
MANNY [CHUCKLES]: Okay.
EVE [QUIETLY]: Renée?
[LAUGHING]
♪
♪
Crawford, question.
Got any pets?
Uh, no.
No, sir.
I do. Cats.
Two Bengals and a tabby.
I didn't go looking for that last one.
Uh-uh. She found me.
Three of them help keep
the damn squirrels out of my garden.
Point is I like them.
I mean, I like the cats.
I love the garden.
I love it.
And I'd much rather be with them.
But when I got here,
things didn't look good.
Thought it was gonna be a long haul,
but now I'm thinking
that might not be true.
Okay.
I mean, I don't like
to hand out "attaboys,"
but 42 is working hard.
I see it, and I see
you've been pushing them.
So now I'm thinking maybe I can get home
sooner rather than later.
Because maybe there's someone
here who can take over as chief.
Maybe that person is standing
in front of me right now.
Uh
Sir, I would be honored.
But leaders have to make hard calls,
and whoever ends up in charge here
is gonna have to make a real hard one.
42 has a problem: Bode Leone.
Now, yesterday, you handled him.
That's not gonna be every day.
And I know he came out of con camp,
and I'm the first person to believe
in the power of turning things around.
I love a good redemption story.
But Leone is not one.
Way things are going,
there's a damn good chance
the next battalion chief will
need to cut bait and let him go.
What the hell is this?
- Audrey, are these yours?
- No.
[SIGHS] I was keeping an eye
on Bode, like we said.
But after he lost it on that
patient, I just had a feeling
that something was wrong,
so I dug through his stuff
Stop, stop, stop.
Are you saying
that these pills are Bode's?
[SIGHS] The ones he said he flushed.
You were right.
Addicts lie for breakfast.
And he lied to me.
And, God, he's gonna hate me
for telling you this,
but he needs help.
That's you and me, Manny.
We got to help him.
♪
Previously on Fire Country
JAKE: 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.
RICHARDS: I'm not here to rebuild 42.
I'm here to keep you alive
because I don't trust you to do it.
BODE: Don't worry about me.
AUDREY: You're fighting with Jake,
- you're living at the station.
- [RETCHES]
AUDREY: I know when something's up.
There's something you're not telling me.
EVE: Vince left me his guitar.
Sharon said he put it in the will.
Just Sharon Leone. Is she around?
No. I'm her son Bode.
Oh. Uh, Renée.
You used to date my dad.
JAKE: We've got a active
flame on that grill.
Probably natural gas.
I'll find the shutoff.
- RICHARDS: Looks like a shoddy DIY situation.
- Yeah.
Take Leone.
[WHISTLES]
All right, we're looking for
the gas line feeding that fire,
and I don't think I have to remind you,
everything's a test with that guy.
Yep.
Hey, I ran into a buddy
from 58 last week.
He said Richards has been
asking around to see
if any stations are low on bodies.
He's trying to figure out
where to send us
if he disbands 42.
And I heard he gives a station two weeks
to sink or swim. That's it.
Last week. You're just now
saying something?
Well, hey, it's not like
you've been looking for
conversation with me these days.
There's the source.
Locked?
I got it.
[GAS HISSING]
[HISSING STOPS]
Gas cleared, Chief.
RICHARDS: Copy. Fire's already dying.
That my dad's axe?
Uh, yeah.
Yeah, he left it to me.
The hell he did.
Look, I don't know what to tell you.
Your mom put it in my hands.
It's been in my family for generations.
- I can't speak for your dad.
- No.
No, you for sure can't.
He made his will right after Riley died.
You weren't a firefighter.
I was.
Right.
I was an addict and then a criminal.
That's what you want to say,
go ahead and say it.
Hey, look, you don't want
to run your mouth in front of
- Richards.
- You don't want to give me
orders unless it has to do with a fire.
Okay, I have been killing myself
trying to prove to Richards
we are a solid house.
Pushing everyone to study and work hard.
You don't feel like
getting along with me?
Feeling's mutual. But, Bode,
if you do nothing else today, fake it.
Sure, sure.
I'll pretend that if my dad had
gotten out of that fire alive,
he wouldn't have ended your career
right then and there for
holding me back from helping.
I didn't realize you were
back to being the Bode
who didn't give a damn
about anything but himself.
And if your dad had gotten out alive,
he would've kicked your ass out.
Again.
AUDREY: So, what's your
read on Bode these days?
You had eyes on him when
I couldn't, when I was gone.
Ah, you know Bode,
carrying the world on his
shoulders is kind of his thing.
He's just grieving.
What about you?
You're-you're fresh eyes.
What's your read?
Are you worried?
[LAUGHS]
Trying not to be.
But he's just so
bottled up.
You don't think
he's using again, do you?
No, no.
I don't I don't think so.
[SIGHS]
Somebody gave him some pills.
What?
And he told me that he flushed 'em.
Now I'm telling you.
Well, as you know
addicts lie for breakfast.
I'm not saying he's lying.
Not yet.
So let me ask you this.
If someone had forced you
to talk back then,
when you were using,
would it have worked?
- No.
- See, the truth is,
Bode's on one of two roads:
the one we hope for
or the one which
lands him at rock bottom.
But whichever road he's on,
he's gonna show us soon.
All right, so you're saying
I shouldn't try to force him to talk?
No, I'm saying that
that the worst thing
you could do is isolate him.
BODE: Almost there. Come
on, keep going. You got this.
- [STOPWATCH BEEPS]
- Done.
Seven knots, 74 seconds. Not too shabby.
- MAN: All right, man.
- 42's still got it.
Should be able to do it
in under a minute.
You're up, Leone.
Everyone else,
push-ups until he gets it.
Let me know when you're ready.
[CLEARS THROAT]
- Go ahead.
- Go.
♪
- Done.
- Stop.
68 seconds. Yikes. Try again.
And go.
BODE: Damn it.
And break. Done.
Trending in the wrong direction.
72 seconds.
[MEN GROANING]
Stop. Get up. Go. Get out of here.
Man
[INDISTINCT MUTTERING]
I don't care how you tie knots
on your best day.
It's how you perform on your worst.
You're gonna need to work on that.
Keep or donate?
I don't know.
We can take a break.
No, no, no. No.
The donations for the fire
victims have dropped off,
and I have so much
since he
You know, the things
that he put in his will,
they're-they're so easy to give away
because that's what he wanted, right?
But the rest of it?
It's like I just want to go back in time
and harangue him into just
writing every single thing down
'cause this is too hard.
Let's change the topic.
Today, it's, um,
a special day.
You gonna do something for it, or
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Oh.
Uh, enter at your own risk.
- What's up, bud?
- Hey.
- [YAWNS]
- MANNY: Wow.
You starting your own
thrift shop in here?
[YAWNS] Sorry.
I haven't slept very much.
MANNY: Ah, you should try what I do.
Just go to bed senior early.
EVE: What? That's such a sad adult life.
You're single, you got to
put yourself out there, dude.
Do whatever straight people do
to find each other. Ooh.
You know what?
What about the councilwoman?
- Okay, okay, okay, okay.
- She liked you a lot, bud.
You said you had something for me?
I do. [CLEARS THROAT]
Aw.
Vince's challenge coin.
SHARON: Yeah.
He said he wanted you to have it.
Oh
I'm honored.
You sure you want to do this today?
Yeah, I already brought that up.
Edgewater needs stuff,
and-and we have stuff.
I kind of thought
that Vince would like it
if we did this today.
Yeah.
Yeah, you're right.
- Thank you.
- Okay.
- I'll see you later.
- Okay.
EVE: Thanks for helping
me with Sharon's donations.
Well, you know, it's easier
to haul Vince's things around
than to go through 'em with Sharon.
- Especially on your day off.
- Yeah, I'll be honest,
it hasn't been easy.
Especially, you know today.
It's Vince's birthday.
You forgot.
Yeah. Damn.
That explains Bode's reaction
to seeing me with Vince's axe.
I didn't handle it well.
How are we supposed
to handle any of this, man?
It's like Vince's whole
life is reduced to stuff.
Stuff to donate, stuff we fight over,
stuff to wonder who
we give it to when we're gone.
You know, it's very early
for you to be so morbid.
No, I'm serious, dude.
Like, Vince was like a parent to us.
When the parent generation goes,
the next generation levels up.
Remember when we were younger,
and we used to dream
about what being an adult would be like?
Yeah.
No school, ice cream for
breakfast, married to Jessica Alba.
Right. And I don't feel
any closer to grown-up Eve.
I just feel like the same me.
Well, if it makes you feel any better,
I never thought that, as grown-up Jake,
I'd be getting into it with Bode
over stuff or old beef.
Can I be honest?
I think Richards is
pushing you, Bode, all of us.
It's kind of like a stress test
and we're cracking.
- [SIGHS]
- So, give yourself a break.
That's very grown-up of you to say.
I kind of felt that, too. Huh.
You make the Leone mud?
- How'd I do?
- It's thick enough
to eat it with a fork.
It's perfect.
Uh, look, uh, I know what you said.
I'm just not ready to talk.
I get it.
Sorry. Shouldn't have pushed.
You know, my, um
my dad left Jake his axe.
And that's bad because
you wanted the axe?
[SIGHS] No.
But
it's just, my mom is like,
she's doling out
all of my dad's stuff,
and it's just
It's a reminder he's gone?
Yeah.
And, um, I'm pretty sure that
there's no way he left
anything in there for me.
[SIGHS] But now that my dad's gone
I just don't want
me and him to end that way.
Want some?
No.
Just wanted to get your hands free.
[ALARM BLARING]
[AUDREY SIGHS]
[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]
[FIRE TRUCK HORN BLARES]
Call came in as a fall from heights.
Up there.
What'd he fall from, an airplane?
Well, if he fell any further,
this would be a recovery, not a rescue.
Help! I'm stuck,
and my friend Dex he fell down there!
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
[JAKE SIGHS]
Well, it looks like we got one of each.
RICHARDS: Yep, a rescue and a recovery.
♪
[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]
I need to dispel a rumor
going around about me. Yes,
I have been known to disband a station
when it is dead.
But as far as I can tell, 42
is still breathing. Don't want
to call time of death.
Show me I don't need to.
Perez, James, you're on
our fall patient. Crawford,
take Leone up on the line. Let's go.
Hey, uh, Bode, about the axe
Be easier to fake it if we didn't talk.
MANNY: This overgrowth
is out of control.
Yeah, this place is chock-full of
tinder without Three Rock around.
There. Hey, Dex.
Dex, can you hear me?
Looks like he's breathing,
but he's unresponsive.
Oh, hell.
Oh, man.
That's a textbook compound fracture.
Keep assessing him.
Got a pulse, respirations steady.
That chest wound, we got to get
a dressing on it.
Pupils are good.
MANNY: Richards is calling
in the ambo, but we can't move him yet.
We have no idea
how close this broken bone is
to the femoral artery,
and one millimeter
in the wrong direction
He could bleed out.
All right, stay with us, Dex.
JAKE: Hey, there.
I'm Jake. This is Bode.
What's your name?
Name's Gage. I just got snagged
on my way from there to there,
where I was gonna set up.
My-my friend Dex tried to help
when I got stuck,
but he slipped off his line like a noob.
Is he okay?
Our crew is taking care of him.
Okay.
Yeah, just sit tight.
We'll get you down.
[LAUGHS]
Oh
[CRYING]
[KNOCK ON DOOR]
Come in. Eve?
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR SHUTS]
I'm sorry.
I texted, but when
my dad died, the ladies from the church
brought over casseroles
and kind words for my mom,
and then, three months in,
people went back to their lives
and it stopped, and
the words, she could've used the words,
and today is Vince's birthday,
and ask me why I'm standing here saying
any of this instead of hi.
I-I don't even know if you want
Vince's high school ex
here in your house.
I am sorry.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's nice to see you,
Renée. Thank you.
[LAUGHS]
[GROANS] Did you just see me
[SCOFFS]
smell his shirt through the window?
You did, didn't you?
It's laundry day.
- Yeah.
- [GROANS]
My dead husband's ex,
standing in our home,
offering me a shred of dignity
after seeing me stick my face
in his dirty laundry.
I am so sorry.
- I'm gonna go.
- No, no, no.
It's a kindness.
It's just so surreal, right?
I mean, you, here, in that spot
where I have laughed with him and argued
with him and smelled the food
he was making for me to welcome me home.
I'm sorry. [CHUCKLES]
I just really wanted to say
that he was a really good guy.
While also always being
such a lovable ass.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Who
kind of smelled like pine trees
and Dial soap and
the occasional joint that
he didn't think I knew about.
He was still doing that?
Oh, yes.
So, do you think you could
help me sort through this
to see what doesn't smell like him
so I can clothe Edgewater with it?
In the name of Vince, yes, I can.
What's the plan?
Figuring out if we can
get out there to him.
Not a question of if we can, it's how.
Find a way, Captain.
I just did.
We'll flip this pulley
upside down, jury-rig it
into a trolley. Leone, harness up.
You'll trolley out to Gage,
clear the snag,
I'll pull you both in with a tether.
RICHARDS: Solid rope work.
That should do it.
You good to go out on the line?
Yeah, I'm good.
Wow.
A probie has to approve my orders now?
Well, he's probably just worried
that you might drop me.
Yeah, well, don't tempt me.
- And then he fell from the tree.
- [LAUGHS]
After all of these
big proclamations about being
the last protestor on-site,
he is then the first one
carted away in an ambulance
naked.
No, no, no.
Too far?
Was it "naked"? I I think I found
- the line.
- No, no.
I am so happy to hear new Vince stories.
I didn't think I was gonna get anymore.
I want to hear all of them,
but have you seen
a brown leather jacket?
Like, really well worn?
I don't think so.
It's his favorite jacket,
and it was in this pile,
and-and now I don't know where it is.
Well, it's got to be here somewhere.
No, it-it doesn't have to be,
because Jake and Eve, they took
a load to donate already,
and what if it got
mixed up in that load?
Well, then we go find it.
I'll drive.
Come on.
Okay.
Okay. Hey, Gage.
Bode's gonna come out and get you.
All right.
All right, hey, look.
Before you go out there,
I just wanted to say I didn't realize
it was your dad's birthday, all right?
No need to. Not your dad.
BODE: All right, buddy, almost there.
Where are the people who work here?
GAGE: That would be me.
Uh, I've got mad zip-lining skills,
it's just that this was not
how this was supposed to go.
My girlfriend Naomi thinks
we're just going zip-lining,
but when we got over there, I was
gonna ask her to marry me.
- Romantic.
- Yeah.
I just had to get over there
to set up some things first,
but when I zipped out, this got stuck.
- What is that, a blanket?
- Yeah.
For the picnic.
Naomi loves the girly stuff.
But, uh, it flew up and got
completely stuck in the wheels.
I tried to pull it out, but
BODE: You didn't want to risk
yanking the pulley off the wire,
end up like your buddy there
on the ground.
GAGE: Exactly, you just got to
get me down before Naomi shows up here
and sees me dangling like an idiot.
All right, I'm gonna cut it free.
Yeah, dude, it's, uh
BODE: Yeah, don't move.
If I get too close to the line,
we're both on the ground.
SHARON: He wore it on our last real date
to the drive-in theater.
That jacket probably
smells more like popcorn
than pine trees now.
What movie did you see?
Oh, we were trying to pretend
we were young again so
So you didn't watch the movie.
No, we did not.
Ugh, the popularity of this abomination
and the ones like it around here
is why I left Edgewater. No offense.
None taken.
You were meant for bigger ponds.
Sharon.
You inspired me to donate
some of my own clothes.
- [YAWNING]: Oh, good.
- Look at you two.
You're hanging out or
Uh, looking for Vince's jacket.
- Uh, the dusty-brown one.
- Oh, his main jacket.
- Yeah.
- You donated it?
RENÉE: Didn't mean to, so we're digging.
Oh okay. Again, sorry. "We?" You two
are
Yeah, we have a shared history.
A man. You shared a man.
RENÉE: He was more like a boy
when I was with him.
But the nicest kind.
SHARON: What else, Renée?
What other stories do you have?
RENÉE: Okay.
[CHUCKLES]
One time, he left
a chocolate bar in my locker
and it melted all over
my homework, and I remember
running after him
in the hallway and being
so mad about something.
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
I'm sorry. I just, uh,
I have all these memories
and nowhere to take them now.
Here. You can take them here.
[CHUCKLES] It's okay
if it feels weird to you.
That's all right.
It feels good to me.
But this jacket is not here.
It-it has to have gone
to another donation center
already, so then
it's just gone.
AUDREY: That good?
No.
No, there's still movement.
His leg needs to be completely immobile
to protect that artery,
so grab some more gauze.
We're not out, are we?
Damn it, his wound's still bleeding.
Put some pressure on it.
[ECHOING]: Audrey, put pressure on it.
Hey, are you okay?
[GUNSHOTS]
[WHISPERING]: I can't move.
All I see is Finn.
Manny, I'm sorry.
Audrey.
[FINN GASPS]
JAKE: Hey!
You need anything?
Nope.
Hey, when you were down there,
did you see my phone?
No.
I accidentally dropped it
when I called 911.
We're firefighters, not lost and found.
GAGE: Oh, careful. Careful, dude.
[CLOTH TEARING]
Oh, sweet. You got it.
You're good. You're free. Okay.
Bringing you in.
MANNY [ECHOING]:
Hey, Audrey, stay with me.
I need you.
This man needs you, too.
You shot me.
- [AUDREY SCREAMS]
- [SHOUTS]
That bitch shot me.
Serenity.
S-E-R-E-N-I-T-Y.
MANNY [CLEARLY]: What?
Spelling. It helps.
Okay. Well, keep-keep doing it.
Fracture. F-R-A
Fracture. F-R-A
- That's good, keep going.
- F-R
A-C-T-U-R-E.
Good, good, good.
You need me?
Okay, one more.
Corporeality. C-O-R
P-O-R-E-A-L-I-T-Y.
All right.
I'm good.
I'm good, I'm good.
Are you sure?
Yeah.
Okay, his chest still needs
pressure. Can you do it?
- I'm on it. Yeah.
- Yeah? Great.
- Keep it there.
- Okay.
[AUDREY EXHALES SHARPLY]
It's stopping.
Nice. Add some gauze to it.
And when you're done there,
get your ass back over here
and help me finish up
the splint, all right?
Hey.
Good work.
I guess if my phone dropped on something
soft, it might still be good.
Can't believe I dropped it. So dumb.
You know, you're making it really hard
to disagree with you, Gage.
MANNY: All right, just remember,
no sudden movements, all right?
We have no idea how close
those broken bones are
to the femoral artery, so we're
gonna go gentle. I'm talking
"moving a sleeping kid from
a vehicle" gentle. You got it?
- On James' count.
- All right.
Three, two, one. Now.
Three, two, one.
Down.
Nice and steady.
Clear a path back to the road for 'em.
Yes, Chief.
[GRUNTING]
Got you.
- All right, now you, Gage.
- [GRUNTS]
[CHUCKLES]: Whoa. Whoa.
I could make out with this platform.
Oh.
- Thank you. Thank you very much.
- All right, it's secure.
[SNIFFLES] Yep.
- [GRUNTS]
- Good here.
[DEVICE CLICKS, BEEPS]
Uh-oh. Oh. Uh
What? What? What is that?
Okay.
- You good?
- Yeah.
All right. Smooth as butter. Here we go.
- [FIREWORKS BOOMING AND WHISTLING]
- Whoa, whoa, whoa!
- [PAINED GROANING]
- [URGENT CHATTER]
Stay still!
All right, stop, stop, stop.
You're fine.
Don't move. Don't move.
JAKE: What the hell?
What the hell is that?
It's the remote detonator
for the proposal fireworks.
- Gimme.
- JAKE: All right, look,
we got to get down there now.
All right. Oh.
It's just a couple of
Roman candles, pinwheels
[CHUCKLES] whistlers.
You know, they were only
supposed to go off
after Naomi said yes.
Fireworks. In the dry season.
JAKE: All right, Gage, follow me.
Don't do anything stupid.
Yeah, I know.
Technically, I should have got a permit.
But I totally spaced.
JAKE [OVER RADIO]: Chief,
patient's secure. We're on our way down.
Hurry it up. I need a line
on this five minutes ago.
Perez, James, are you good?
- We're good, Chief.
- Yeah, we're good.
[PAINED GROANING]
DEX: Oh, what happened?
Hey, Dex, hey. We're Cal Fire.
You fell and you broke your leg, okay?
MANNY: Hey, buddy, we're
gonna need you to stay as still
as you possibly can. I know it hurts.
- All right?
- RICHARDS: All right, good.
Let's get you out of here.
Ambulance is on its way.
MANNY: Are you ready to move,
Dex? We're gonna move you now.
I'll make you a deal.
If you take big, deep breaths,
we're gonna get you out of here
nice and smooth, all right?
Deal? All right, let's go.
Leone, Crawford, get onto hoses now.
Oh, oy. Okay.
Vince always kept a bottle
of my favorite one
right behind the napkins for me.
Ah, yeah.
I think we we need this today.
Well, we didn't hit
every donation center
before they closed.
There's still that feed store
out on Skyline.
[GROANS] I
I'm gonna survive.
It's just a jacket.
Okay.
Here's to your dead ex-boyfriend.
And to your dead husband.
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
Ah. And there it is.
Joel?
Hey.
- Hey, Sharon.
- Where'd you get that jacket?
Oh, you-you like it? [CHUCKLES]
Just scored it today.
Donation place at
the hardware store on Piedmont.
Yeah.
Gertie and me lost everything
in that Zabel Ridge Fire.
Didn't really want
to take any help at first,
but Gertie said
had the wind blown in a
different direction, then
Oh, you'd want to help, too.
Yeah. [SIGHS]
Yeah.
Uh, would you
Can we hug?
Mm, yeah.
♪
Thanks again for saving me. [GRUNTS]
I'll never listen to that idiot again.
[GROANS]
Take care.
[SIGHS]
"Corporeality"? [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
Didn't expect that one.
Fourth grade spelling champ.
Wow.
Well, color me impressed on all levels.
You good now?
Other than being embarrassed, sure.
Got nothing to be embarrassed about.
You had stuff come up and
you worked yourself through it.
When I was in it, I sure
wanted drugs more than spelling.
Would've been nice to drug
myself into a happy place.
This is the kind of thing that
used to send me off on a bender.
Yeah, but it didn't.
Not yet.
- You know how I know you won't?
- Ugh.
'Cause you dwell in optimism
like a sparkly little butterfly?
'Cause you're talking drugs
instead of taking them.
This is exactly the kind of day
we prepare ourselves for.
If you prepare for 'em.
Yeah.
Hey, Chief, uh, Dex, he's
en route to the hospital now.
Nice job, Cap.
I saw how you handled James.
Got her through it.
Eh.
Eh, she got herself through it.
And 42's getting through it, too.
I hope you see that.
AUDREY: Hey, Gage,
your friend's gonna be okay.
He's on his way to the hospital now.
JAKE: Yeah, we got
to get you checked out.
Well, my gear's completely soaked.
The fireworks were, uh, expensive.
Damn. I thought this was gonna
be the coolest proposal ever.
BODE: You know what would've been cool?
Proposing in a damn restaurant.
Bode.
Firefighters risk their lives
every single day.
We know we could die on the job.
We prepare for it.
Okay, Bode, not tonight, okay?
We write wills about it,
for going out
over something that matters.
Hey, Bode, enough!
You could've lit up this
whole town again. For what?
For what a-a proposal with a bang?
RICHARDS: Leone!
You will listen to your captain
or you will be suspended.
[ENGINE SHUTS OFF]
- Bode.
- I'm gonna go crash.
[CHUCKLING]: Hey, bud, what's up?
- Why you manhandling me?
- Okay, calm down.
Um, I need your help.
I made Sunday Sauce
for Vince's birthday.
Oh, you know how to cook now?
Well, I ran by Papa Leone's,
and I got Vince's mom's recipe,
which was handwritten and very old,
and Vince didn't really follow it, so
Oh, no, that's 'cause
he always measured by taste.
Right, that's what I'm trying to say.
So it may not taste the same,
um, but, still,
can you just make sure
that Sharon gets there?
Uh, I'm gonna text Bode, Manny, Renée
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold up.
Renée? As in Vince's ex?
Thank you. It's weird, right?
Uh, yeah.
Well, apparently,
she's inner circle now.
Look, I-I may not be ready
for some adult things,
but I am grown enough
to know that this is about
what Sharon needs.
Look at us being grown-ups.
Yeah. It's mostly me, but yeah.
[HEART BEATING FAINTLY]
♪
[HEARTBEAT STOPS]
Hey, stranger.
Hi, Mom.
I heard you lost it on a patient today.
[SCOFFS SOFTLY]
He turned a proposal into a forest fire.
[SHARON LAUGHS]
I see you inherited
your father's lack of patience
for fire hazards.
How come you haven't come by the
house to see what he left you?
I don't expect anything.
I-I know the place that he and I were in
when he made those decisions.
Oh, but that wasn't the place he was in
when we lost him.
I I think, maybe,
officially, on paper,
he didn't leave you anything,
but we talked about this all the time.
We-we talked about you and
the life that you've made for yourself
and how proud we both are of you
and the man you are today.
♪
He left you his wedding ring.
He wanted you to have it.
He loved you so much
right up until the day he died.
Sorry, I think I'm gonna cry
right along with you.
[CHUCKLES]
This is so hard. [CHUCKLES]
And I miss him so much,
but I miss you, too.
[SHARON SNIFFLES]
Are we okay now? You back with me?
Please don't worry about me.
["LOOK UP" BY JOY OLADOKUN PLAYING]
[LAUGHTER]
I was like, "Mm well,
you'll see, actually. Yes."
[LAUGHTER, LIVELY CHATTER]
Sometimes your life feels like ♪
A broken roller coaster ♪
All right, uh, somebody taste this,
make sure I'm close.
Uh, okay. Hey, I-I volunteer as tribute.
[SHARON LAUGHING]
Hey, Share, would you like me
to go check on Bode?
Uh, no. We talked and we hugged,
and I think he's dealing in his own way.
Mm, all right.
- SHARON: Thank you.
- MANNY: Mm-hmm.
JAKE: Mmm.
That's that. That's it right there.
Tastes like Vince's? I-I got it right?
Not even close, but it's good.
[LAUGHING]
I didn't even know how much
I needed this. Thank you.
JAKE: It's good! It's good!
- You ain't You don't get none.
- Oh!
I know it's a little strange,
but these are the tiny ways
we start to heal.
Listen, you said it, ma.
Hold on, 'cause somebody loves you ♪
You know trouble's
always gonna be there ♪
Don't let it bring you to
your knees, yeah, look up ♪
[LIVELY CHATTER]
- With gla With shades on?
- Oh, my God.
Man, Vince would be mad right now.
'Cause I think this sauce
is better than his.
Right? Ooh!
- Bite your damn tongue.
- Right?
- [EXCLAIMING]
- [LAUGHTER]
I know I killed it,
but here's the thing.
- Why were you trying it?
- Because he said it was
With all kinds of mystery ♪
It's a blank page for your poetry ♪
If you let it be ♪
- So don't tell yourself ♪
- [GUITAR PLAYING "LOOK UP"]
It's raining ♪
The clouds are in your head ♪
You tell yourself it's better ♪
To jump before you fall again ♪
Before you lose it all again ♪
Look up ♪
Do you see the sunlight? ♪
Look up ♪
There's flowers in your hair ♪
Hold on, 'cause somebody loves you ♪
You know trouble's
always gonna be there ♪
Don't let it bring you
to your knees, yeah, look up ♪
[GRUNTING]
Don't let it bring you
to your knees, yeah, look up ♪
Don't let it bring you
to your knees, yeah ♪
Look up. ♪
[LAUGHING]
Ah!
I am so glad Vince left you his guitar.
- I appreciate you.
- So good.
- [LAUGHTER]
- I'm done. Thanks.
- Ooh, zero spots.
- [YAWNS]
- Renée's got the magic.
- [RENÉE LAUGHS]
Oh, go to bed. We can finish.
SHARON: It's not like
I'm gonna sleep in there.
I haven't slept alone
in this house in 33 years.
Well, what if Bode came
and stayed for a while?
You know, keep you company.
Mm, I don't want to put it on him.
He has his own grief to deal with.
MANNY: I'll do it.
- [CHUCKLES]: No.
- Seriously.
We can't have the D.C.
running on empty, right?
I got your back.
Come on.
You're a good friend.
Oh, thanks. [CHUCKLES]
He's family.
I'm actually only doing it
for the comfy Leone couch.
[LAUGHTER]
- Thank you. Thank you.
- Of course.
♪
EVE [QUIETLY]: "Vince, call me back
"or I will blow up your life.
"I have Sharon's number,
and I will use it.
From, R."
[MANNY AND RENÉE CHATTING
AND LAUGHING QUIETLY]
What the hell?
MANNY [CHUCKLES]: Okay.
EVE [QUIETLY]: Renée?
[LAUGHING]
♪
♪
Crawford, question.
Got any pets?
Uh, no.
No, sir.
I do. Cats.
Two Bengals and a tabby.
I didn't go looking for that last one.
Uh-uh. She found me.
Three of them help keep
the damn squirrels out of my garden.
Point is I like them.
I mean, I like the cats.
I love the garden.
I love it.
And I'd much rather be with them.
But when I got here,
things didn't look good.
Thought it was gonna be a long haul,
but now I'm thinking
that might not be true.
Okay.
I mean, I don't like
to hand out "attaboys,"
but 42 is working hard.
I see it, and I see
you've been pushing them.
So now I'm thinking maybe I can get home
sooner rather than later.
Because maybe there's someone
here who can take over as chief.
Maybe that person is standing
in front of me right now.
Uh
Sir, I would be honored.
But leaders have to make hard calls,
and whoever ends up in charge here
is gonna have to make a real hard one.
42 has a problem: Bode Leone.
Now, yesterday, you handled him.
That's not gonna be every day.
And I know he came out of con camp,
and I'm the first person to believe
in the power of turning things around.
I love a good redemption story.
But Leone is not one.
Way things are going,
there's a damn good chance
the next battalion chief will
need to cut bait and let him go.
What the hell is this?
- Audrey, are these yours?
- No.
[SIGHS] I was keeping an eye
on Bode, like we said.
But after he lost it on that
patient, I just had a feeling
that something was wrong,
so I dug through his stuff
Stop, stop, stop.
Are you saying
that these pills are Bode's?
[SIGHS] The ones he said he flushed.
You were right.
Addicts lie for breakfast.
And he lied to me.
And, God, he's gonna hate me
for telling you this,
but he needs help.
That's you and me, Manny.
We got to help him.
♪