Fire Country (2022) s04e07 Episode Script

1
- Previously on Fire Country
- I had just found out
that my dad was having a baby
with another woman.
And a part of me always wanted
to find him.
- He lives in Drake County.
- EVE: You know that application
that you filled out to
foster kids without telling me?
- Yes.
- You could list me on the application
not as a co-parent,
but as your girlfriend.
Here's to your freedom.
To whatever's coming next.
It's gonna be okay now.
Mama's here.
♪♪
[BIRD SCREECHES]
JAKE: Just finished cold
trailing at Domino Ridge.
Clearing the scene
and returning to station.
DISPATCHER: Copy, 1591.
[SIGHS] Hot-spotting
for four hours. Brutal.
[SCOFFS] You thought that was brutal?
My section was gnarly.
- You see that?
- What?
- Another hot spot.
- Where?
Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
You know, let's get that.
- Is it right there?
- JAKE: Yeah, I see that.
- JAKE: Let's get it.
- Hey, hey. Hey!
Oh, so that's how you want to play.
That's how you want to play.
Hey. All right.
Well, I got my boots and my guitar ♪
Yeah, I'm a bad
mother-shut-your-mouth ♪
Came all the way from Georgia
down to Tennessee ♪
Oh, look. Hey, hey, wait!
Wait! Wait! Time out. Come on.
My hair, for real, 'cause I have
to look respectable
- for the social worker.
- JAKE: You look good.
BODE: Oh, come on. Really? Wait.
Y-You're really fostering an actual kid?
No. Francine is.
I'm just gonna meet
the social worker and say,
"Hello. I'm the girlfriend."
Oh, wow. You are a month away
from a minivan.
So are you, 'cause the second
you meet your brother,
you're gonna leave us in the
dust for your blood relations.
[SCOFFS]
You're finally gonna meet Malcolm?
[SIGHS]
I don't know.
Well, I don't know. Maybe
you should reach out to him.
You can email him, call him.
- JAKE: Okay. Okay. Hey.
- Text him.
Okay, okay, hey,
look, I haven't decided yet.
All right? Just chill.
What about you, man?
I mean, the world's your oyster
now that you're up for parole.
Any big plans?
No, I never really thought
that I'd get here
so I didn't make any plans.
Showdown ♪
Trying to figure it out.
Well, until then,
I guess there's
there's one thing I want to do.
JAKE: Yeah?
- Yeah.
- BODE: Yeah. This.
- It's a hoedown ♪
- Oh!
I knew you were gonna do that.
- Come on, get it, get it.
- [EVE SHOUTING]
JAKE: Oh, she on the run.
What are you doing here?
I said don't come.
I was clear. There was nothing
confusing about it.
What-what do you want, Ruby?
- It's "Mom."
- No.
It's not when you extorted
my husband for money
that we didn't even have.
That whole thing was his idea.
I had no
- That you ran with to the tune of $26,000.
- [SIGHS]
And you didn't see me
or Bode in ten years.
Bode. Oh. How is my sweet boy?
Oh, no. What do you want?
Oh. [LAUGHS]
Are you gonna make me stand here
and grovel,
or will you offer me a seat and
a beverage so I can tell you?
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
VIOLET: Really, Crawford?
You know your way around
all these big, loud tools,
but you still have not fixed
my bathroom sink?
Violet. Hi.
Mwah.
[LAUGHS]
I
kind of Internet-stalked
your half brother.
What?
He's amazing, Jake, really.
Like, he played soccer in high school,
and he got scholarships
- to play in college.
- Okay.
- But instead, he
- Okay,
look, Violet, I wasn't even sure
if I was going to call him,
so, slow down.
You have to call him.
He's just like you.
[SIGHS] It's like those
twins-separated-at-birth stories,
and then, when they meet as adults,
they're both mechanics married
to women named Betty.
Wait, are you telling me his
girlfriend's named Violet, too?
Amber, but Jake
No, no, this Just stop.
I don't want
to know his private business.
He's a firefighter.
What?
Yeah.
His phone number.
[SIGHS]
I'd take a glass of wine.
- It's 10:00 a.m.
- Give an old lady
some chardonnay for courage, please.
You remember
when we used to go to hotels,
and you were never happy with the room?
So we'd have to move a million times
until you were happy,
and then I finally had
to say to some hotel clerk
"My mom is picky,
"so skip the first two rooms
you're gonna show us
and just give us the third one,
the good one"?
I have to get to Smokey's,
so skip the first two lies
you're about to tell me
and just get to the truth
of why you're here.
Okay.
So, um, after Riley died,
Vince reached out and said that I, um
upset you.
Yeah. I think that might have
had something to do
with calling me a bad mother
on the day of my daughter's funeral.
You know I would never use those words.
It was a difficult day for everyone.
But, then, the idea
that my my mere presence was
somehow triggering for you,
that you needed space?
It was absurd. You needed me.
And, uh, yeah, I needed you.
I was hurting, too, you know.
I had just divorced Paul,
the chinless bastard.
- Still
- Oh, the third room, Mom.
- Get to the third room.
- Fine.
So, Vince suggested that I take a trip,
go away, lay on a beach somewhere.
As if I could afford a vacation.
Okay, so, he gave you some money
- to stay away?
- Why shouldn't I let
my son-in-law buy me a trip?
I was crazed with grief.
And then, for the next ten years,
when you continued
to take that money from him,
and then when you wrote him
a threatening letter,
saying you were gonna tell me
and blow up his life
that was grief?
It was Vince's idea.
I just told you that.
Yeah, but Vince is dead, so I
can't really ask him, can I?
I haven't had an easy time, Sharon.
And I'm not perfect,
but who is? Are you?
Is this your version of an apology?
'Cause that's not how you do this.
Of course I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
[SCOFFS] What do you want me
to say? I'm sorry!
I'm sorry!
Well
[SIGHS]
You know, the only reason
I stayed away was
because I thought
it was what you wanted,
and I was doing
the loving thing, so now, what?
I'm the bad guy?
How does that happen?
I I can't.
The third room.
What is this?
Everything that Vince gave
to me, plus interest.
I
Have to go. I know.
Well, thanks for the vino.
Mom?
Is this check gonna clear?
Yeah.
It's gonna clear.
[DOOR OPENS, CLOSES]
Well, well, well.
Who'd have believed it?
Oma Ruby.
[LAUGHS] One second
he's running around the yard
with my garden hose pretending
to be a firefighter,
the next second, he's the real deal.
[LAUGHS] Yeah.
There were a lot of years
in between there.
Not all good ones.
Oh, I know, honey.
That's why you're the
second stop on my apology tour.
I should've been around more.
First stop was Mom?
Sure was. And, um, look, uh,
back then, it was
Okay, it was complicated,
I was an idiot, and I'm sorry.
Okay? I'm
really, very very sorry.
- How'd she take it?
- How do you think?
If she needs a target,
then, I can be that for her.
Oh, come on. Give me a hug.
Unless you think
I'm the devil, too. [LAUGHS]
Oh Mm.
So, tell me
how are you?
Can you believe this?
I I'm off parole.
Of course you are.
You were always gonna
find your way out of that mess.
I just wish
we'd all done things different
when you were falling into it.
Oh, um,
put your number in my phone
so we can catch up?
Oh. Damn it. I forgot
to give this to your mom.
Your mom gave me this
when she was little for luck.
Figured now she's the one
who could use it.
Give it to her for me?
You can give it to her yourself.
Mm, with your mom, anything from
me is better coming from you.
Thanks.
- Hey, guys, can you not?
- Sorry. Sorry.
I was just texting Luke.
He's moving back
- to the States.
- Yeah, well, give me that.
Yo, quit it, dude.
Oh, so you're on another
station's socials?
- What, are you gonna jump?
- [JAKE SIGHS]
BODE: Again?
It's Drake County.
Violet found out
Malcolm's a firefighter there.
[SIGHS]
And you you just followed him.
With my name, which is his name.
- Great.
- [EVE LAUGHS]
Well, look, man,
now you got to call him.
- Hey, Eve?
- Yeah.
- Where are we with Three Rock?
- Uh, the prelim plans are done.
I got city council to sign it,
but I think we need some start-up funds.
Yeah, and once we get the cash,
how soon before we're up and running?
Like, maybe six months?
Six months? No. Try yesterday, Eve.
- Right.
- We need bodies.
- Okay.
- Now I got to put Bode and Jake
on defensible space projects
today because
Because we need Three Rock. Right.
I'm I'm on it, and, um,
I'm sorry to disappoint you.
- [MANNY SIGHS]
- [EVE CLEARS THROAT]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
MANNY: All right, everyone, sit down.
As you all know, I went down
to Sacramento for a couple
of days to do some training,
and they put me in this
presentation about fire season.
Well, we all know damn well
there is no fire season anymore.
Thanks to climate change,
it's all year round.
Just just keeps getting worse.
Last year,
little more than 8,000 wildfires
and over a million acres burned.
Here in NorCal,
we had Zabel Ridge.
And we lived it, and we fought it.
We saw this.
It took land.
It took homes.
And lives.
Right now, snowcap's at 30% of normal,
which means we're gonna have
a really dry spring.
And if we don't get significant,
and I mean significant winter storms,
they're saying
it's about to look like this.
So we got to be ready, guys.
We were this close,
this close to losing our town.
But this?
This will make the Zabel Ridge
Fire look like a baby.
We cannot wait for it.
We have to act. Now.
I'm talking resources,
I'm talking training.
I'm talking, whatever you got
going on, set it down.
Single focus, no distractions.
Because what's coming
ain't stopping for nothing.
We're at war.
♪♪
- There you go.
- Ah, this looks great.
Ooh, right on time. Thank you.
Our fryer's on the fritz.
If you're wondering,
that's why I gave you these chips
- instead of the onion rings.
- Mom. Mom.
Oma Ruby got to you?
She, uh, she surprised me, too.
It's been so long since I've seen her,
she looked, um she looked smaller.
Nothing about her is small.
I know it's different for you.
She's a much better grandmother
than she was a mother, but
She seems sorry.
Sorry is what you say
when you're late for lunch.
- Do you believe her?
- I do.
This morning, at, uh, a briefing,
Chief told us that Sacramento says
the fires are coming for us, hard.
Manny said that?
It's a war, and the fire's winning.
Mom
we know better than anyone,
that it can all go away in a second.
You don't want to have regrets.
Did Oma Ruby put you up to this?
No.
I-I know that she did some crazy things.
I know you guys have a history, but
maybe she deserves another chance.
She wanted me to give you this.
Said that you gave it to her
for luck once,
now she's giving it back.
[SCOFFS]
[CHAIN SAW BUZZING]
I can't believe
this place is still standing.
JAKE: Yeah, well, it shouldn't be.
42 issued a notice months ago,
and it got condemned.
The one thing that the Zabel Ridge Fire
should have taken out and it didn't.
- [MOTOR SPUTTERING]
- [GROANS]
It's flooded. You don't
You don't want to choke it out.
You know that, right?
Maybe I'm just working harder than you.
Yeah, never.
There's a Pulaski right there
if you want.
Ha-ha. Hey, you know, uh, Manny
he seems shook, you know, by Sacramento.
Yeah, it's pretty scary.
Puts things in perspective, you know?
Like, what really matters.
[SCOFFS]
Just do it, Jake.
[SCOFFS] Do what?
Call your brother.
What? What, now?
Why not?
Okay.
Okay, yeah, sure, I'll-I'll call him.
[SCOFFS]
Voicemail. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hey, hi. Um hi.
I just, uh
You know, I wasn't sure
if I should call,
uh, but
This is weird. Uh
Okay, let's let's start over.
Uh
I'm your brother. Well, half brother.
Um, your dad, uh, was my dad,
so, same dad.
And, uh, I'm-I'm a firefighter, too.
You know, Station 42 in Edgewater.
Uh, so I guess that runs in the blood.
But, look, um, if there's anything
you ever want talk about, or if
you want to talk about my dad
Your-your dad.
Our dad, uh
That was it.
Uh, so, um
you know what?
You can call me back, whenever.
Um, Jake Crawford.
Um okay. Cool. Bye.
Uh, thanks.
- Smooth.
- Shut up.
Is that how you landed Violet?
- Shut up.
- No, it was really good.
I'm just saying, like, it was great.
- [CLATTERING]
- [YELLING]
Should probably check it out.
Structure is non-negotiable for me
when approving foster parents.
So are support systems.
A healthy bank account, family ties.
- And a partner?
- Mm-hmm.
You are listed as a significant other.
- Mm-hmm.
- I'd like to talk about that.
This might feel a little uncomfortable,
but we'll start with your sex life.
Um [LAUGHS]
- We like it? I don't know.
- Yeah, sure.
No details needed,
- but you don't live together.
- Sorry.
I'm trying to get a sense
of who sleeps over where
and how often.
If we place a child,
we need to know that the home
they're going to is safe,
stable.
Any child placed in my care
would be staying
- at my home with me.
- Mm-hmm.
And if Francine needs support
if she's sick
as someone in the child's life,
you'd help out?
Uh, my job isn't as
isn't flexible, so, um
Wait. But you could ask Manny
for less shifts,
or-or for some time off?
No, uh, I mean, not really.
I mean, not now.
No. Manny just did a briefing
on the fire season,
and he needs us to lock in,
so time off isn't really an option.
Right, but you could do a couple
of desk shifts, Eve.
California is burning, Francine.
Like, I can't I can't
put out fires behind a desk.
I know.
- [PHONE BUZZING]
- Oh.
- Plea
- No. I'm sorry.
- Please do not take that right now.
- This is about Three Rock.
Okay. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
Hey, Chief Green.
Yeah, thank you for returning my call.
JAKE: Door.
- [CLATTERING]
- [MAN GROANING]
[GROANING CONTINUES]
JAKE: Breaking and entering?
Is this what we're doing now?
MAN: Hey!
I'm over here!
JAKE: Come on, Muscles.
MAN: Somebody help!
[GRUNTING]
- Wait.
- [SCREAMING]
- [FLOORBOARDS CREAKING]
- Hey. Hey. Don't! Don't!
That's how I fell through.
[CREAKING CONTINUES]
Oh, firefighters.
It's just my luck.
I think the words you're
looking for are "thank you."
- [BREATHING HEAVILY]
- BODE: You want to get rescued,
or do you want to stay in that hole?
[GRUNTING]
Hang on, okay? We're coming for you.
- BODE: What's your name?
- Just go on.
Get me out of here first.
We need a bridge, not boots.
All right.
Are you living here?
Does it matter? Hey, stop.
Don't go through my bag.
- Stop.
- Some clothes in here.
We tie 'em together and make a line?
Ah, that's not enough.
Tyler here should have packed more.
Screw you.
He's 17.
- He's just a kid.
- Yeah.
We got to find something
to get him out of here.
Hey. All right, think of it as a,
uh, rescue on a frozen pond.
We need something that can
distribute our weight out.
- There's a table right here.
- [TYLER GROANING]
Yeah. Yeah, that'll work.
Here, let's flip it.
BODE: All right, just hold on, okay?
Hold tight. We're gonna get you out.
- Two, three
- [GRUNTING]
Yeah, I know
transferring all my guys back
to Three Rock is a little unorthodox,
but how long would it take?
Hey. When are you coming back?
Yeah, well, I need
other options. Faster ones.
Sorry. I have to make another call.
I thought you were gonna
take this seriously.
I am. I
You walked away from the interview.
I know. Look, it has been a day.
And getting Three Rock up and running
that's my priority right now.
I needed to be the priority for one day.
You're right. Just,
Manny dropped this on me,
so maybe you should finish
the interview without me.
You want me to walk back
to the booth by myself?
How does that look?
- Look, I have a stressful job.
- Or like
you don't actually want
to do this with me.
Yeah, well, maybe I shouldn't.
Okay.
BODE: All right.
JAKE: You good, B?
Uh, we're almost there.
Yeah, I've got eyes. [GROANS]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait.
Slow, slow, slow, slow.
[WOOD CREAKING]
Keep going. Further.
- It's all right. Steady.
- [JAKE GROANS]
[GROANING]
A little more.
Little more. Little more.
There you go. That's good.
[TYLER YELLING]
[TYLER GROANS]
- [CREAKING]
- Here.
- I'm trying.
- BODE: Come on!
[PANTING]
BODE: Legs up there? Ready?
[PANTING]
Okay.
Okay. All right, let's go. Take us home.
All right.
[STRAINING]
- [JAKE GROANS]
- You're good.
- You good?
- Is anything hurt?
No, I'm fine. I'm fine.
No, I'm fine.
You guys can you can go now.
[PANTING]
Kid, we're not going anywhere.
Someone got a new toy.
Tabletop exercise.
Down in Sacramento,
I heard that some of
the stations actually use them
to train for real-world situations.
I heard about your takeaway
from Sacramento.
"Death is imminent."
- "Everyone should panic."
- That's science, Chief.
The mother of all fires will come.
You just got your first look
behind the curtain.
Yeah, all it did was get me motivated.
Motivated is good.
Fear is not.
All those firefighters in your charge
you want to keep them
interested and engaged.
And telling them everything,
telling them every little detail?
That's not the way to do it.
Do you have something
you need to tell me?
Something about 42?
No.
My mother came into town.
I knew I should not have called her,
but I did, and now she's here,
and she went and saw Bode
and gave him this.
Told him this cute little story
about how I gave it to her for luck.
She left out the part
that it was because
she was going on a date and
really wanted to like the guy.
So, I sat home alone,
and I was eight years old.
- Sounds bad.
- Yeah.
But I refused
to tell him the terrible part,
so, now, he thinks she's sorry.
Bode's a grown man.
You cannot blame him
for having an opinion.
No, he wants me
to give her another chance.
Yeah, well, maybe he's right.
Your mom's out there.
If she didn't come today,
she might've come tomorrow or sometime.
Point is, Sharon, you were gonna
have to deal with her someday.
Maybe that's now, so just deal with it.
- [SCOFFS]
- No.
[SHARON SIGHS]
I saw you had a baseball in there.
I used to play. What, uh
what's your position?
Keeping the bench warm.
All right, you guys got any more
questions, or we done here?
All right, uh, let's go outside,
and we'll call your mom and your dad.
I don't have a dad, okay?
I don't need you guys to call anyone.
Okay, well, look, we have to.
Oh, yeah, big man firefighters.
Yeah? Yeah, you guys weren't such heroes
when you couldn't stop that fire
from taking out half the town, huh?
Okay, let's go.
- Let me get my stuff first.
- No, kid
[GRUNTING]
Wait! Tyler!
Ah, sucker-punched by a kid, huh?
You might have
to give up your prison card.
The police will know how to handle him.
We don't got to jump straight to police.
[GAS HISSING]
BODE: He's upstairs.
Right. Hey,
'cause in a house with crumbling floors,
why not go up
so there's farther to fall?
[WOOD CREAKING]
[GROANS]
I'm good. Okay.
- I'm good.
- JAKE: All right.
[GRUNTS]
Little punk's lucky he didn't
fall into the basement.
JAKE: Stairs are cement.
We can go right up.
Floor seems solid up here.
- JAKE: Tyler. Tyler?
- [KNOCKS]
Look, we need to get downstairs
and get outside.
You said you wanted to be with me.
I do, Francine.
I do.
You said you wanted to support
me through fostering.
Yeah, I meant that. I still mean it.
It's just, what that
caseworker said, it
I don't want to make promises
I can't keep.
'Cause Manny needs you?
Yeah.
So, what if I do, too?
You know I can't walk away from my job.
It's too important.
And I'm not?
That's not what I mean. That's
You are.
You are important,
and because I love you,
I want to make you and the kid
and my job work, but
Your job would always come first,
and I would be frustrated.
And so would I, 'cause I can't
walk away from 42.
I'm not asking you to.
And I'm not gonna go half in on a kid.
I'm It's either all in, or
Nothing. It's all or nothing.
Yeah.
[SIGHS]
[FRANCINE LAUGHS]
You keep this in there?
Yeah.
It's a reminder to do what I love.
You are a reminder.
I never want either of us
to ever be people
that don't do exactly what we love.
- Are you sure?
- Francine.
I No. I know. I'm sorry.
I just need to hear it.
Are you sure that you could never
[SNIFFLES]
Just someday see yourself with kids?
We're not someday.
We're today.
And I love you, Francine.
I love you so much.
[EVE SNIFFLES]
But today,
my answer is no.
Hey, kid, we're just trying
to keep you safe.
[BANGING ON DOOR]
- Jake?
- Yeah.
You smell that?
Gas. Hey, Tyler?
Tyler, did you mess
with the gas line in here?
[BANGING ON DOOR]
BODE: Listen, you're not in trouble,
but we have to know right now.
If you turn on the gas,
it could be real dangerous.
I turned it on to-to heat up some food.
A YouTube video showed me how to do it.
- It could be leaking everywhere.
- Yeah.
Greencrest,
this is Captain Crawford, Station 42.
I have a serious natural gas
leak at 214 Pruiss Street.
It's 214 Pruiss Street.
Tyler, listen. Hey, listen up.
This place is filling up with gas.
All right, unless you want us
all to suffocate or blow up,
open this damn door!
Hey, it it's-it's stuck.
I-I can't get out.
Here. For the empty tables.
I was surprised to hear from you.
How'd you get the money, Ruby?
The old-fashioned way.
Pawned the diamond necklace
Gordy gave me.
Sold our trailer, too.
Wow. Where's Gordy gonna live?
Wherever the hell he wants.
That loser left me high and dry.
Oh. I'm sorry.
Yeah, so was I at first, but then,
after I stopped crying,
I realized, "Wait. I've been
here before way too many times",
"because it's always been
about a stupid man."
It should've been about you
and your brother, and I should
have said this a long time ago.
I never should've said
anything different,
but you're a really
you're a really good mom, Sharon.
What do you want?
Nothing.
I mean it. I'm not your problem.
I came here to pay the money back,
and to see your face,
and Bode's too, and I'm
Well thank you.
[SIGHS]
Here's the thing about me. I
I really like a plan.
I love a schedule.
And, um,
I just need to feel like I have
a little control in the world.
So, my plan right now,
on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8:00 a.m.,
is to sit right there,
and I'm gonna drink coffee,
and there will be a crossword puzzle.
And the seat across from me
will be empty.
[SNIFFLES]
And, um I can sit in it?
You know, I I seem strong,
and I I even feel strong, I do,
but I don't really know if I am.
You know, I can't tell.
And, Mom, you are the only person
who always has the ability to break me.
So I just got to ask you this one time.
You cannot break me, okay?
Oh, honey, I won't.
I promise.
Then you can sit in that booth.
[BOTH LAUGH]
Got it.
Let's get you out of here
right now. Let's go.
Stay between us.
[SIREN WAILING]
Are those cops?
Wait. Are those coming here?
- JAKE: Hey, careful.
- Hey, hey, wait.
Whoa!
Watch out!
Put it out. Put it out.
Hey, keep your head down.
TYLER: No, it's my fault.
No. No. It's my fault.
It's all my fault.
- Hey, we got this.
- JAKE: All right, listen, kid.
You want to help? You got any liquid?
B, cut the gas.
TYLER: Uh, yeah. Yeah.
I've got some water bottles.
All right, we got it.
Okay, hey, listen,
hit the base, not the flame
with that water, Tyler.
TYLER: Okay.
Now what? [PANTING]
- Hey, Chief?
- Hey.
Uh, about Three Rock.
Looks like I got two options for you.
Hit me.
Okay, so, first one:
we can put in transfers
to get our guys pulled
from all the camps
and prisons they were sent to.
That's great.
How soon can we get 'em?
If we're lucky, eight weeks.
[CHUCKLES] Eight weeks?
Eve, that's too long. We need bodies.
What's option B?
Okay, um,
the D.O.C. has a pilot program
for young inmates.
And looks like we can get them
in something like two weeks.
Two weeks?
Manny, these guys have no experience.
They're only, like, 18 to 25 years old.
Yeah, but that'd be your job, right?
Get 'em into fighting shape.
- Okay.
- Look, Eve.
[SIGHS] I get it.
It's hard to let go of your old crew.
And I love 'em, too.
Yeah. Okay.
Yo, Eve, hold on. Hold on.
Is there something else?
Are you good?
Um
Francine and I broke up.
I'm sorry, Eve.
No. You know, um,
it's like what you said.
World's on fire, so, uh,
I don't need to get distracted.
No. No, no, Eve,
that's-that's not what I meant.
No, no, no. Um, you know what?
I'm gonna let you know
when we get the pilot program
locked in, okay?
Eve.
[SIREN WAILING]
This is crap.
I'm not hurt. Just
We got to get you checked out, okay?
Why don't you go ahead and give
your mom a call or something?
- She's out of town.
- Without a phone?
Okay.
Look, you know she's gonna
find out about all this.
- Might as well get ahead of it.
- What, are you?
You're gonna write,
like, a report or something?
Huh?
What's it gonna say?
[SIGHS] The truth.
What happened in there.
I wasn't running away.
Seemed like you were.
[SIGHS]
It's-it's not. I was
I was just exploring.
I was just exploring.
I was just, like,
looking around at things.
Come on. Come on.
Don't say that I ran away.
Please, just
I didn't think there was
another way that my mother
could surprise me, but she did.
- Not even in a bad way.
- Lay it on me.
Oh, I think I might have done
enough of that earlier.
But the truth is, you were right.
Every year, fire season is worse.
And every year it feels like
we're fighting for our lives.
But what I meant to say,
is we can't lose sight
of what we're fighting for.
Right? The fire's gonna
be relentless every year,
no matter what.
We have to remember that people
need hope and relief.
But we have to give something back.
We have to give people their lives.
Ah, Chief.
I'm so far ahead of you.
Look at this.
Really?
Really.
This house two adults,
four kids, one in a wheelchair.
Over there an elderly couple,
both on oxygen.
Across the street abandoned
but evidence of squatters.
Edwards?
All right, y'all. So we have
plugs here, here and here.
And we have a downed power line
obstruction right here.
The fire is gonna come
from the edge of town.
But it's coming in.
Now, I.C.'s established here.
So, what is our first order
of operations?
Start a firebreak
on the Charlie side of
the closest structure.
Yeah, well, we can't because
we don't have the bodies.
Yeah, well
now you do.
Wait, is that?
Three Rock? You're damn right it is.
Wait. You guys got the cash?
You got the cash.
All I did was apply for the grant,
and it came through to fill in the gap.
Captain Edwards made a miracle happen.
[APPLAUSE, WHISTLING]
Sorry. Th-They said this
was my son Tyler's room.
It is. They just, uh,
they just took him back
to do some some scans.
Bode Leone. Cal Fire.
Leone right.
Um, sorry about your father.
I'm Landon.
Thanks.
And, uh [CLEARS THROAT]
Tyler Tyler said
he didn't have a dad.
Uh, I'm his stepdad.
Not on paper, me and his mom
aren't actually married.
Tyler hates me like it's his job.
Yeah, I, uh, you know, I spent
some time with him today.
Yeah. Well, then you see it, right?
A year ago, he was a sweet kid.
But recently? The pushing back,
the mouthing off.
Did something change recently?
Kid's had a real tough run.
His father died
right before COVID, and
the Zabel Ridge Fire took our house.
We had to move into a smaller place.
This-this isn't my business
but Tyler wasn't exploring.
He was running away.
Why would he?
I-I'm sorry, I'm at a loss here. Um
We don't know what to do with him.
I'm really sorry to hear that.
I might.
Know what to do.
[EVE SIGHS]
Finally called your brother.
Didn't think that was gonna happen.
I kind of can't believe it, man.
Well, it wasn't his best work.
Oh, shut up.
[SNICKERS]
What about you? Hmm? How you doing?
I'm gonna go with bad.
It was pretty damn bad. Um
I called to get my name changed
on Francine's foster application
from "relationship" to "reference."
And the caseworker wanted me to
give the reference right then and there.
Whoa. What'd you say?
I said that she's gonna be
the best mom in the world.
And loves with her whole heart.
And that she's really funny.
And, um, can't catch a damn ball either.
Just the eye coordination.
But anyways, other than that,
she's perfect.
And [CLEARS THROAT] I also said
that they're never gonna
find anybody else like her.
JAKE: Come here.
Thanks, bud.
So, yeah, I gotta figure out
how to be a free woman again.
Like Bode over here.
- Whoa. Come on now.
- [LAUGHING]
- Who you calling a woman?
- JAKE: What happened?
Whoa-whoa. You'd be lucky to be one.
[CHUCKLING]
I might be a little less free now.
Mm.
That kid that we got out of the house?
Gonna try and stay in touch.
See if I can help him in any way.
Oh, so you like getting punched
in the face?
Got it.
- Listen
- [OVERLAPPING CHATTER]
Same kid who felled Jake like a tree.
You you brought
you brought his mama into it.
[CHATTER CONTINUES]
[BREATHS HISSING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
WOMAN: Jake Crawford?
Hey. I'm looking for Jake Crawford.
Yeah.
Hi. Hi. That's me.
You want to stay out of my
brother's voice mails, and his DMs.
- Your brother?
- Malcolm.
- My brother?
- Hardly.
He and I share a mom, share a childhood,
share siblings.
You? You happen to share genetics.
Which you ended up telling him
over a voicemail,
of all the ways.
Uh, look, I was just trying
He's pissed my mom never told him,
that I never told him.
He and I have never even had a fight
and now he won't even speak to me.
Okay, look, I never meant for
I don't care what you meant to do.
What you did do
is hurt my little brother.
You want to do right by Malcolm?
You stay the hell away from him.