(country rock playing)
Come on, come on, come on.
Come on. (exhales sharply) Is this the year?
This is gonna be the year. Yes, it's happening.
Okay, all right, listen, the two of you, stop jinxing it.
We've been burned before.
♪ I've had you on my mind, I've been thinking ♪
♪ 'Bout you all day long... ♪
Hey, Gabs! Sit, it's about to happen.
No, I'm just grabbing takeout.
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
You are not blowing us off again to eat
some cold chicken tenders alone in your Airstream. Come on.
I'm just saying,
the chicken tenders are better fresh.
Here.
With us.
On the verge
of Edgewater history.
There you go. That's it.
All right? Can't miss it.
Thanks.
Hey! It's happening!
It's...
(customers murmur excitedly)
Oh, no.
No, that's not it. Sorry.
My bad.
EVE: Man. Sorry.
Man, when you gonna hatch?!
GABRIELA: Okay, don't hate me for asking this,
but why is everyone watching eagles hatch
like it's the Olympics?
Well, Eve is obsessed
because her ex-girlfriend studied eagles
for her dissertation.
Ah. They had matching binoculars. It was cute.
You wanted to get eagle wings tattooed on your back
to honor our high school mascot.
Yeah, okay. That was just a joke.
A joke that you hired Bode to do a custom design for?
BODE: It's true. AUDREY: Did I miss it?
Did they hatch?
Not yet. Oh.
But, uh, it's happening.
I'll get your order.
You want your usual?
♪ Couldn't get any better than this... ♪
AUDREY: Hey, Perez,
you have, like, any tips for impressing D.C. Leone?
If you want to impress D.C. Leone,
don't do what I did my first day with her.
Yeah, she cried. Yeah.
(chuckles): Okay.
Tell me everything.
SHARON: Oh, I can feel it.
They're-they're gonna hatch.
Pretty sure you said that last night, too.
Come on. We're gonna have two cute little eaglets.
Cute? Aren't they actually kind of ugly when they break out?
You enjoying that yogurt?
I thought this was for everybody.
Oh, 'cause it says my name right on the side?
Is that what gave it away?
No, they're not ugly.
They are... they are newborns.
Oh. Enjoy.
VINCE: San Medina Park, seven years ago.
Crown Fire wiped out their entire habitat.
So, eagles repopulating, that's...
a sign of Edgewater's resilience.
It's a good thing.
Edgewater loves the eagles.
Got it. (chuckles softly)
(whispers): He's got it.
Not only does he send Bode into fires too soon
but he hates eagles.
Casey's, uh...
got some character flaws, yeah,
but he's a good firefighter.
Uh, maybe we just...
Let the sociopath continue training our son?
Okay. Let's try it your way.
You know, Gen's room is free right now.
In case you need a place to crash
other than a tin can on wheels.
Jake, stop worrying about me.
♪ ♪
WOMAN: Hi.
WOMAN 2: I think you should.
(chatting indistinctly) (chuckles)
Uh... do-do we know her?
She's flirting with you.
Oh. Um...
♪ ♪
I'm sorry.
(chuckles) But, um...
I'm taken.
Okay. That was a bold move, girl.
Smooth.
BODE: You might not know this, but, in Edgewater,
I'm kind of a big deal.
Ooh. People know me.
Yeah. I'm the guy who took care of an eagle once.
Saved his life.
Really? Yeah.
JAKE: Eagle story. EVE: My favorite.
I was ten. EVE: Yep. Yep.
And, uh, my mom found this little baby eagle
that had a broken leg on a call.
And so my sister Riley and I took care of it.
Okay, you're missing the best bit. AUDREY: Mm?
Which is that Bode made a cardboard cast
for the eagle. AUDREY: Aw.
(laughing) I did.
AUDREY: Okay. So you're really just
a giant marshmallow under all...
that.
Stop. (giggles)
That's good. At least, uh,
I know I'm leaving Fury in good hands.
Uh, Fury?
My cat.
My queen.
Bode's gonna look after her.
Mm-hmm. And my plants.
I'm fine.
Mm. You're housesitting now?
Yeah. Just a couple nights while she's in North Carolina.
Yeah, I figured he could use
some time away from Mommy Chief's nest.
(chuckling)
Maybe don't call Sharon that tomorrow.
Yo, they're hatching for real!
(cheering)
Yeah! Yeah!
Yeah!
Hey! How 'bout that? That's what it takes!
(cheering, whooping)
(squeals)
♪
AUDREY: Yes. Yes!
(cheering continues)
(yelps) Yes!
You know what I'm talking about! That's for real!
Hey! Let's go!
♪
Fun call?
(chuckles)
Hey. Since it seemed like you were wondering last night...
...Audrey and I are friends.
Good for you and Audrey.
Are you jealous?
No.
(chuckles softly)
I-I'd be jealous if you were talking to some other dude.
I mean, especially since it seems like we're in this now,
which-- I-I can't be in this
with you, Bode.
I-I-I have to figure myself out first.
BODE: I can help with that.
CAMDEN: Leone.
Bring me that combi tool.
Now.
(whirring)
Now, sometimes you'll be operating
the combi tool just inches away from the patient.
And as much as this job is
about running in hoses blazing...
(cadets exclaiming, chuckling)
...it's also about finesse.
Push-ups.
Leone, you're still in this.
Let's go. Come on.
("Face of War" by Psychosis playing loudly)
♪ This is your last mistake! ♪
(music stops) Distractions are frustrating, aren't they?
I won't drop it again.
Yeah, I'm not just talking about the egg.
I don't like my cadets losing focus.
Like... you and Perez.
Sneaking around Airstreams,
hushed conversations
and sad little faces.
Very broody.
It's complicated between us. Nah.
I don't need an explanation.
I need you to snuff it out.
You know, I look around this place.
I see a lot of things pulling your focus--
parents, high school buds,
a-a girlfriend.
She's not my girlfriend.
Eagles, for God's sake. (scoffs)
Buddy, I'm offering you
a path to reach the highest levels of this job,
alongside the best of them.
Elite firefighting.
And you,
you could be excellent.
But you have to choose, Bode.
Distractions?
Or firefighting?
I've already chosen, Cap.
Firefighting.
♪
Yo! Team FireEducated
has now cleared all the roads in and out of town!
Look at all that gorgeous defensible space.
FireEd's on fire.
All right, y'all, great work this morning.
All right, y'all are all making a solid case
for Vasquez's First Saw title
now that he's been released out of here.
And one of you edged out the competition.
Let's give it up the O.G. himself, Mr. Manny Perez!
(cheering, applause) (laughs)
Yeah, man! (chuckles)
All right, you can relax.
You earned it.
Yo, Cap, you sure about this?
I'm the new guy here. Yeah.
I mean, you have more leadership experience
than everybody in here.
I mean, I appreciate it, Cap.
But Cole, man... Cole really wanted this.
Okay,
you want to be challenged?
Yeah.
You've been in his shoes.
Lift him up.
All right?
You're right. Right. All right.
Let's go. Hey, guys.
Hmm?
MANNY: Yo, that San Medina fire's taking off, huh?
Yeah, it's headed right for the nest.
DISPATCH: Three Rock Crew Four.
Vegetation fire. San Medina Park.
All right, Three Rock, let's hustle up!
MANNY: Let's pick it up, boys, pick it up.
We got to move, y'all! Let's go!
What's wrong?
What? Uh, nothing.
Hey.
(grunts)
You're driving.
Not your job anymore.
And you're messing with your watch,
which means you feel guilty.
I'm-I'm not feeling guilty.
I know you.
What's up?
(sighs)
Okay. Last night.
The woman at the bar.
You're not ready to move on.
That's okay. You don't have to feel guilty. I don't.
Yeah, I know you, too.
And I wasn't the only one who was worked up
over a woman at the bar.
Audrey. (stammers)
Bode and I are just friends.
(chuckles)
Yeah, no, that's never been true.
It's half true.
It's messy. (chuckles)
No, messy is being in love
with a woman who's no longer on this earth.
You two are single,
alive, and...
...clearly still in love.
It's a clean situation, Gabs.
Hey.
There's-there's the eagles' tree.
Chief says not to park too close. Yep.
♪ ♪
(horn blaring)
(indistinct radio chatter)
All right, gentlemen,
an unattended camp stove sparked a surface fire deep in the park.
Other battalions will be heading up the heel in Division Bravo,
and we will join 42 to make sure
it doesn't spread to Grove Ridge.
Can we get a pic with the eagles?
(laughter)
Listen, you can ask the park ranger.
The eagles are a protected species.
So the Park Service oversees the nest.
We will be consulting them on our tactics today.
All right? (murmured agreement)
Yo, switch out with me real quick, bro.
Oh, sup, Cole? (exhales)
You up for being my swamper out there today?
I don't need a consolation prize, Manny.
(laughs)
No, man. I'm just saying that it...
it could be good for your parole, too.
Yeah, I'm not worried about my parole for me.
I'm worried about my kid.
He's getting into fights at school.
He quit the basketball team. I need to be there.
He needs his father.
I'm sorry, man. I had no idea.
That's 'cause you just got here.
You flunked your way back to fire camp
just in time to take the title that I earned.
Watch out.
There it is.
JAKE: Yeah, well, where are the eagle parents?
I think the fire scared 'em off.
All right, fire's still about a half mile out.
Jake, Gabriela, spin the weather, report back.
Gear up, everybody. Let's go! GABRIELA: Copy, Chief.
(indistinct radio transmission)
You here to protect my birds?
Francine?
Eve.
That's Francine.
Eve's ex.
The one with the eagle dissertation?
When did you become a park ranger?
Oh, I, uh... CAMDEN: As interesting as I'm sure her résumé is,
uh, there's a fire we're here to put out.
Francine, you got a park map?
SHARON: Vince's team has landed at Grove Ridge
in Division Delta.
Okay, so, they're trying to stop
the flank of the fire here? Mm-hmm.
Okay, so, we just watch these dots
move around the screen all day? Yeah.
Are you bored already, Cadet?
Oh, no, no, no. I, uh... I just...
You know, I thought Incident Management meant
we would be on an incident.
You know, in the action?
(sighs)
Great. I've already stepped in it.
I was trying not to pull a Perez. (phone ringing)
(laughs)
Oh, my shoulder.
Hey, Bob. What do you need?
30 minutes? No.
Because we need those dozers right now.
Because people and eaglets are in danger.
I need you to dispatch those dozers now.
Good boy, Bob.
I know Captain
90210 likes you "in the action" every chance he can get,
but if you're gonna learn from me,
we're gonna do this my way today, from here.
(clears throat)
So, you just moved those dozers just by yelling at people?
Uh, by managing.
(grunts softly) My job is to make sure
that all the resources get where they need to go.
(fan clicks) (sighs)
Maybe I was a little cranky with him.
Oh, no, no, no, you were so...
in your power.
(phone ringing)
Okay. Well, then,
let's do this call on speakerphone, together.
Chief Peters, what do you need?
(indistinct radio chatter)
Hey, Jake, give me status.
JAKE (over radio): Moderate rate of spread.
Winds blowing east by southeast.
Fire could be here in a couple hours, Chief.
All right, here we go.
Um, I think if we, uh, punch a line
on the western ridge right about here,
we can hold it off
from ripping into town.
But that leaves the eagle tree completely exposed.
Yeah, you know, the-the thing
you're supposedly here to protect,
that I've built my entire career on,
which I will, I should tell you,
defend with a tranquilizer gun
if you or your tools
or your floppy hair get anywhere near it.
(chuckles) I get it.
You know, I-I rescued a beached fin whale
my probie year in Malibu.
I'd give my paycheck to save the entire species,
but we can't save everything all the time.
And right now, our priority
is keeping that fire from burning up this park
and the rest of Edgewater.
Seems to me we can do it all.
If we just cut our line here, instead,
that saves the park,
the town and a protected species.
Okay. Win, win, win.
CAMDEN: The terrain on the eastern ridge is so much worse.
It'll take twice as long. It's a waste of our time.
Saving lives, never a waste.
Eastern ridge, we join our handline
with 5743's dozer line.
Francine, just tell us where we can work.
FRANCINE: All right, from there to here.
That's 200 feet from the eagle tree, all right?
MANNY: Copy. Thank you.
So, it's not how I planned on seeing you again.
I'm-I'm sorry for how it all ended.
You mean, you ghosting me?
So you're still upset about it?
Please, it's been six years. Don't flatter yourself.
I've got it here, if you want to...
All right, uh, Three Rock!
We're gonna stay on this side of the boundary.
Away from the eagles' nest.
Cap, this terrain is wack.
Normal cutting isn't gonna do it.
Uh, First Saw, you want to lead them?
Copy, Cap. EVE: Yeah.
All right, gentlemen,
we're gonna cut this thing bump-up method, all right?
All right, we don't advance until we got it all. Understood?
Sir, yes, sir.
♪ ♪
Six feet apart. Let's go.
(indistinct chatter)
All right, let's move with purpose, gentlemen.
Let's go.
Line's looking clean, Leone.
42 might never need a dozer.
Don't let my dad hear that.
Hey.
How serious were Eve and her ex?
I'm trying to focus on the work right now.
Work is what we're doing.
I can't talk. Cap's watching. Sorry.
ETHAN: Uh, help?
(panting): Help, please?
JAKE: Whoa, whoa. Uh, please help.
Okay, hey, hey. I've got it.
I was climbing and-and I fell and I think I...
(grunts) ...I think I-I got stuck on a branch.
Okay, yeah, that's not a branch.
Perez! I need you.
(moans)
Ethan, we're gonna give you something
for the pain after we examine you, okay? ETHAN: Yeah.
GABRIELA: Okay. Good news is, this rib didn't
puncture your lung; bad news is,
you broke a couple others in a few places.
Breathe in for me?
(ragged inhale) Breathe out.
(ragged exhale)
Okay, easy, easy. It's okay.
Paradoxical breathing. Flail chest?
W-Wh... what does that mean? (grunts)
It means your ribs detached from your sternum
when you fell.
That's why it's hard to breathe.
(grunts)
We need to splint him.
Okay. CAMDEN: Leone.
Hey. With me.
Some snags over here got to go.
We're crossing the boundary? Yep.
(chain saw revs)
Hey. That border's there for a reason.
Yeah, to-to protect one nest.
But the ash is here. Fire's not far behind.
That nest is a distraction from the big picture.
I think I got a handle on the big picture.
Bode, back on the other side of the line.
He's my cadet.
He answers to me. You want to be in charge?
Take him back to the station, run some drills.
Out here, you both follow my orders.
Remember what I, uh, told you about distractions?
The ones that keep you from the right things?
You got to follow your dad's orders right now,
but you don't have to follow his example in your career.
Pain medication's working.
Ah. (laughs softly)
I was up there, I was trying to get a better view
of Thelma and Louise.
That's the name I gave the eaglets.
Link and Zelda.
Lucy and Ricky. (laughs)
(Ethan chuckles)
Got up and ran towards the nest for help.
Figured somebody would be around.
They led you to us.
Hey, they saved you, man.
In more ways than one.
I lost my job about a month ago.
(sighs) It was just getting harder and harder
to get out of bed, you know?
(chuckles): But there was, there was just something
about those eagles, they just gave me hope,
and, uh...
...shook me out of my funk.
Well, we all get stuck, in all kinds of funks.
I guess I just needed
a little push.
Even from a couple of baby birds.
(exhales)
(chuckles)
(monitor beeping) Oh, no, he's crashing.
What you got? GABRIELA: Patient fell
from a significant height. Flail chest.
BP's 90/60 but deteriorating.
Gonna need some extra hands on this one. JAKE: Yep.
One, two, three.
AUDREY: Okay, with, uh, heavy fire here, I think that...
Charlie Division, left flank, needs some extra backup.
You have a knack for this, James.
And you're having
a much better first day with me than Perez did.
(laughs)
Well, I did not mean that as a knock on her, I just...
I asked her for some advice about you, and, uh, she...
said that I-- she... Said that I was a bitch?
(laughs) No.
I was pretty hard on her, and she did almost break.
But she's like family now.
Hey, maybe she'll actually be family if she and Bode
can get their heads out of their asses. (laughs)
(chuckles)
(indistinct radio transmission)
Hey, thank you.
For your time.
For letting me shadow.
Oh, you can shadow me anytime
if you know how to fix an air conditioner,
or have any advice about shoulder pain.
Uh, Chief, I was noticing, um...
I was wondering if you've considered
that you're in perimenopause?
Excuse me? I'm not in menopause.
Oh, no, uh, perimenopause.
Aching shoulder, joint pain.
You said you were cranky earlier.
Okay, now we're calling my management style "mood swing"?
Chief, I am freezing in here.
You think this is hot flashes?
Oh, my God, it's hot flashes. (exhales)
How do you know this?
You're 12. I watched my moms
go through this whole hormonal roller coaster.
(moans)
Okay, little advice, Cadet James,
do not bring up your boss's hormones at work!
Hey. Any sign of the parents?
No.
I'm really worried about all this smoke.
The eaglets' lungs are still developing.
Well, the eagles are lucky to have you in their corner.
Caring for them, just like you always wanted.
And you're a fire captain.
Just like you always wanted.
Yeah, look at us.
Mm-hmm. (both laugh)
Yeah.
I shouldn't have ghosted you.
I just couldn't have anybody around me
that didn't support my dream.
Not my parents, not my brothers, not you, even, and...
Uh... You think I didn't support your dream?
Hey, Cap. I need some wedges.
Saw got stuck on a downed log.
Should've anticipated the tension on the trunk.
Yeah, um, yeah, there's a lot of tension going around today.
Yeah, I know. Me and Cole, too. It's crazy.
Yeah, do you need me to step in?
Nah. No. It's exactly the kind of work I need.
I'm-a figure it out. All right.
I'll figure this out, too.
Like you always do.
All right, break's over. Back on the line.
Let's go.
All that stuff Casey was saying, about distractions?
He wants to make me the best firefighter I can be.
He doesn't know you.
Maybe that's a good thing.
He said people closest to me can pull my focus.
So, people like me
and your mom,
we're the problem?
He wants me all in on the job.
The kind of firefighter I am?
I'm all in. On all of it.
The job, and the town,
the friends and family I come home to.
Come home for.
The kind of firefighter Casey is?
Seems a bit different than that.
You do have to choose,
Bode, what kind of firefighter you're gonna be.
I'm not gonna push my way on you, like my dad did to me.
Choice is yours.
What's it gonna be, kid?
(chain saw revving)
Yeah, baby. That's what I'm talking about.
Good work.
(grunts)
Yo, I know you're pissed,
but not pulling your weight on an incident?
That's how crews get hurt.
Yeah, and having a First Saw that can barely work one
doesn't really help, either.
You know what, bro?
I'm tired of your disrespect.
You want to parole for your kid, right?
Well, you're setting a damn good example for that.
Hey, guys! Don't.
See, look who's talking.
Everybody here knows that your kid
can barely even look at you, Manny.
The hell did you just say?
FIREFIGHTER: Hey. Hey, hey, hey.
Yo, chill out.
(firefighters shouting)
You heard me.
I didn't stutter, Manny. Hey, stop! Hey!
Stop! Hey!
I said... stop!
Both of you.
Both of you, with me, now. Move. Now!
(siren wailing)
You hanging in, Ethan?
Why are we stopping? PARAMEDIC: They're turning me around.
Fire's hit the road about a mile up ahead.
Guess we'll try the parkway now.
You guess? (Ethan exhales)
JAKE: All right, he's hypotensive.
GABRIELA: He's losing consciousness.
We need to get him to a hospital now.
If this develops into a hemothorax...
Hey, don't even say it.
The eagles didn't save him for us to lose him.
(monitor beeping)
(line ringing)
SHARON: Tell me you are not calling
with bad news about my eaglets.
Look, we have a patient in an ambulance
that needs a hospital.
We just lost Red Bank Road to fire.
GABRIELA: We need a new route, Chief.
James is gonna navigate you out of there.
Me?
Yep. I need the fastest route from eagle tree
to Edgewater Memorial,
and they're blocked by fire at Red Bank.
Okay, uh, the parkway's a no-go, but...
Tell them what you see.
AUDREY: Okay, um...
Fire's moving up the drainage adjacent from Oakwood.
And it looks like it's starting to spot on the other side,
if that makes any sense.
We can circle around the fire via Bear Creek, but...
that'll take an extra 20 minutes.
His chest is filling up with blood.
We don't have 20 minutes.
We need to find a different way.
N-No, no, none of these routes are fast enough.
Uh, a medevac...
Yes. ...could get there in ten.
That's right.
All right, take Green Road to 36.
There's two potential landing zones there.
Yeah. Go, go, go. That's it.
Green Road, now.
Four-foot scrape, down to the mineral soil. Let's go.
Cap! Chief!
Fire's here, Chief.
Like it or not, it's time for a new plan.
(indistinct shouting)
I'm so disappointed in you two.
Cole, and you think you deserve to be First Saw?
It's a hell of a way to prove it, man.
And you?
Picked you to be a leader.
Instead, you're starting fights?
That's the same damn behavior
that landed you back in fire camp.
Get back on the line.
But if you two pull this again, I'm writing you both up.
Copy, Cap.
FRANCINE: Wow.
They really respect you, Eve.
Winds have picked up. Yeah.
Spot fires are here.
VINCE: Francine, I need an eye on that fire.
FRANCINE: Yep, got you.
There she is.
GABRIELA: He's crashing.
Okay, we're almost there.
Hey, James, do we hit the east
or west LZ? Uh...
Can-can you please jump in?
Smoke's clouding both of the landing zones.
You are running this, Cadet.
Uh, okay, um...
Um...
Uh, all right, well, with the way the fire's moving,
I say west.
On it.
He needs volume.
(siren wailing)
JAKE: Hey, what's the ETA
on the medevac? Uh,
any second now,
if I picked the right landing zone.
Hey, there. Right there.
Okay, he's gonna make it.
Let's prep for transport. Okay.
(exhales)
Great save, Cadet.
I had no idea what the hell I was doing.
And you hung me out to dry.
Pushing newbies to break
might be your thing,
but forgive me if I don't want any part of it.
(exhales)
EVE: Spot fires are still east of the boundary.
Means our line is working.
No, no, no. The fire could jump our line any second.
Call for a water drop,
and a retardant drop after that. What?
No, no, no, no. A water drop could overturn the nest.
Too much focus on these eagles, not enough on the work.
Every second we're out there trying to stop that fire
with hand tools, it's winning.
We need a water drop.
We have the manpower to finish tying in our line.
Let's just do that.
Our manpower has endured brutal terrain all day.
I'm not putting my cadets in any more danger.
I'm pulling them.
Wait, uh... that doesn't mean what I think it means, right?
Well, we can't finish tying in without those cadets.
Chief,
I hate to say it,
but Casey might be right.
(sighs)
I'm sorry, Francine.
Tanker 37, Division Delta.
Requesting a water drop.
Stand by for coordinates.
♪ ♪
(indistinct chatter)
CAMDEN: Cadets!
Pack it up. We're out.
Wait, w-what? We're bailing?
42, Three Rock, water drop in five.
Water drop? What about the nest?
The captain's pulling your crew.
You heard him. Move out.
(sniffles)
Where's she going?
Not our problem, Bode.
You want to be a serious firefighter, Leone?
Or you want to, uh, be distracted
by whatever misguided cause your friends
are all putting themselves in danger for?
What's it gonna be?
Leone. Are you with me?
Ames, over here.
EVE: Gentlemen, keep looking out for spot fires!
I'm with them.
Dad! Hey.
FIREFIGHTER: I'll pull it, I'll get it back to the truck.
(indistinct chatter)
Francine, get down!
Water drop's coming.
It's not safe.
FRANCINE: No, I need to save these birds.
(grunting)
(creaking)
VINCE: Look out! BODE: Francine!
(screams)
Get back.
(gasping) BODE: Francine!
Eve?
We got to separate this downed trunk
from the eagle tree.
All right, First Saw? Get it.
Copy, Cap.
Cole, Ames, you're with me.
Let's do this. I got your six, Manny.
(chainsaw engine revs)
Bode, go grab a ladder. We're gonna get her down.
(exhales)
(grunting)
Got you, Manny. Thanks, man.
EVE: All right, let's prep for the water drop.
Nice, gents, nice.
All right, Francine! You need to come down.
Not yet.
Not without my birds.
(grunts)
(panting) (chirping)
Oh. Hi, sweeties.
Hi.
Okay. Be really gentle.
Okay.
Oh, hi, sweethearts.
(rotor whirring)
BODE: Hurry! Now!
EVE: She's not climbing down fast enough like that.
The water drop's gonna take her and the eagles out.
Francine. Throw them to me.
What? No. No way.
We're running out of time.
I-I won't drop them, I promise.
(panting)
Okay.
PILOT (over radio): Be advised, drop in two, drop in two.
VINCE: Tanker here. Water's coming.
(grunts)
EVE: Come on, come on, come on.
VINCE: Everybody down, now!
Everybody good?
MANNY: Good! Yeah!
(panting)
Bode. How are they?
(chirping)
BODE: They're chirping.
That's a good thing, yeah?
(both chuckling)
♪
Audrey, I owe you an apology.
Uh, not for letting you navigate that call on your own.
Staying calm in an emergency's about 90% of this job.
I'm sorry for shutting you down emotionally.
I... I felt like a cadet
just handed my youth a death sentence.
(laughs) Oh, I could barely keep up with you in there.
Your mom raised a good egg.
Eh, my mom raised nothing.
My parents left me at a bingo hall when I was 11.
And they never came back.
Belonged to the state after that.
But you said your mom...?
Right. You don't speak "prison."
Yeah, I meant my moms.
Yeah, she, uh, was the woman that looked after me
in Chowchilla.
She was the closest thing to family I ever had.
That must have been so hard for her.
It was prison, everything's hard.
But she did say that
after she got vitamins
and the hormone replacement therapy,
that she felt like the Tin Man getting the oil back.
(laughs)
So if she could do it in there,
you can roll with it out here.
Easy.
Thank you.
(chuckles)
♪ ♪
I won't say anything.
(chuckles)
Okay, um...
Yeah.
Last night, when I realized that woman was hitting on me,
I did feel guilty.
Because...
I liked it.
(laughs)
Yes!
She gave you that little push.
Maybe you're ready to get out there...
No, not yet.
But... with time.
I was jealous of Audrey.
Oh, I know. (chuckles)
I didn't want to be, but... (sighs)
That the push you need?
To commit to Bode.
Last time I acted on my feelings for Bode,
I blew up my life, destroyed a wedding,
drove Diego out of the country,
and my relationship with my dad is just--
So what's left to lose?
(laughing): Oh, what?
Yo, thanks for the assist out there today, man.
Mm-hmm.
I, uh...
(clears throat)
...felt like you took something from me.
Something I needed to parole,
and it, uh, triggered some "Old Cole" anger.
That's not who I want to be anymore.
I mean, hell...
I thought that "Old Manny" showed up today, too.
But after seeing this behavior,
and this...
I don't know, lack of control...
(sighs) I know it's not in my past, you know?
I mean, it's the work that I got to do on myself right now.
Listen, bro, these guys, they got,
they got a gathering together.
We sit around in a circle and we talk about...
stuff.
And the work.
(chuckles) Uh-uh.
My problems are...
...are between me and God.
I respect that.
Mm-hmm.
But, listen, bro, just so you know.
Therapy, on your file?
It looks almost as good up for parole
as First Saw does.
(chuckles) Come on, bro.
Yeah, all right. Ah...
That's more like it.
(grunts)
Got fresh meat, boys. (chuckles)
♪ ♪
VINCE: Captain.
I am returning your cadet.
My cadet?
(clears throat)
Not too sure about that.
See, my cadets, uh, know how to keep
their emotions in check and follow my lead.
They know how to go all in on firefighting.
Captain, all due respect,
I'm all in on firefighting.
But I'm also all in on my people.
(chuckles)
Bode, you want to give us a second here?
That Bigleaf Valley Fire about ten years ago.
Nine firefighters lost their lives.
One's name was Casey.
That was your brother, right?
Patrick.
Two years younger than me.
I'm truly sorry for your loss.
Bode lost his sister.
She was younger, too.
Point is, it-it's taken a little time,
but he is finally crawling out from underneath that loss.
The pain's never gonna go away, but...
he's all in.
On honoring his little sister
by doing everything he can to heal himself.
Just wondering if you're all in...
on that, for yourself, Captain.
(inhales)
I'm not here for therapy, Chief.
EVE: Were you able
to repair the nest?
Yeah, I did what I could.
But Mom and Dad still aren't back yet.
I guess only time will tell on this one.
(gasps softly)
Thank you. (chuckling) You're welcome.
(sighs)
(indistinct radio chatter)
I did support your dream, Eve.
I did.
But I felt like you were leaving me behind.
You were just spending more and more time
with the Leones and Jake.
Hmm.
I really never saw it like that,
but I just felt rejected,
and then I bounced, so... Right.
And then, your family felt rejected
and then, so did I.
I have missed them.
I've missed you.
Should reach out.
You know, you're so confident in who you are now,
I almost didn't recognize you.
Thanks.
Oh, stop making me blush.
(chuckles) No.
(gasps) Look, look, look, look!
Mom and Dad are back.
Hi, guys.
Hey.
("4x4xU" by Lainey Wilson playing)
I really didn't think this would happen.
♪ I'm the kind to take the keys ♪
♪ Don't sit in a shotgun seat 'less I want to ♪
♪ And you make me want to
♪ Hypnotized by the white lines... ♪
Cadets are on kitchen rotation?
(chuckles softly)
I wanted to bring you dinner.
To apologize for shutting you down on the call.
We need to talk.
♪ From the bayou to Kentucky... ♪
GABRILA: Mm.
Talk about...?
(sighs)
Today, Casey basically told me that I needed to choose
between being the best firefighter I could be
or a watered-down one because of distractions.
Like life, and like you.
He said that?
But he's wrong.
This life that I'm building?
And this career? I want it with you.
I know that you want it, too.
Don't...
don't lie to us both by saying that you don't.
I'm not ready for that.
Maybe someday.
Someday?
I've waited years to start this life.
I can't keep waiting.
I can't keep waiting for "maybe someday."
Uh...
Like, "maybe" to me is the same thing as-- as "no."
It's...
"Maybe" to me is...
"we're done."
Promise me that you're taking care of yourself, Gabriela.
(Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home) by King & Lambert playing)
♪ I got some money in my pocket ♪
♪ Got some trouble on my tail ♪
♪ I can hear the dives a-knocking ♪
♪ Guess I'm heading off the rails, singing ooh ♪
Tequila. Neat.
♪ I'm talking about you ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh ♪
♪ I got some new best friends forever ♪
♪ See, I met them at the bar ♪
♪ Well, the whiskey goes down better ♪
♪ When they don't know who you are, singing ooh ♪
♪ Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh. ♪
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