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The following contains spoilers from the April 26 episode of CBS‘ Fire Country.
This week on CBS’ Fire Country — in the wake of inmate Rudy’s escape and the unrelated murders that followed — Three Rock received a most untimely visit from locals who want the nearby prison fire camp shut down. NIMBY! and all.
What made the protest untimely was it came just as Three Rock fire chief Eve was being interviewed by a news crew, doing her best — with steering from Cal Fire Division Chief Luke — to put a positive spin on the fire camp and the good that it does.
Three Rock, in fact, did some good not long after, when a wayward pickup truck careened past the fence that Bode & Co. were busy erecting around the camp (as an olive branch of sorts to the spooked community) and into a utility pole, sending live electrical wires snaking to the ground.
Three Rock alum Manny saved one protester’s life by shoving him out of the barreling truck’s path. And later, when the truck’s driver needed to be removed from its cabin and rushed to proper medical care, it was Bode — following Jake’s lead — who caaaaaaaarefully shuffled across the electrified ground to carry the driver on a spineboard to safety. Even the loudest protester had to comment on how an inmate had risked his life to save a stranger’s.
All is forgiven, right…?
Not so fast.
The following day, as Eve celebrated the news crew’s flattering report and the subsequent restoration of phone and visitation privileges to her inmates, Luke arrived to deliver a damning letter from the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation.
“I’m sorry but that news report was too little, too late,” he shared. “CDCR handed down the order — they’re shutting down Three Rock.”
That un-dodged bullet leaves us with many questions about the CBS drama’s three remaining Season 2 episodes. Starting with: What happens to Bode, Cole et al when their fire camp is closed? Are they all sent back to the regular hoosegow? Remanded to some other form of “out-inmate” public service?
“I don’t want to give too much away, obviously, but that is addressed,” says Michael Trucco, who recurs as Luke and returns for next week’s episode. “That is brought up in the ensuing episodes.”
But maybe, just maybe, Three Rock has one last trick up its sleeve, to avoid being shuttered forever…?
In the wake of CDCR’s shut-down order, “Let’s just say that there is some damage control, and there are a few unexpected turns in the fate of Three Rock,” Trucco teases. “And Luke again finds himself in the midst of this controversy and this chaos!”
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They carefully mentioned the act of heroism knocks 12 months off a sentence. Bode has one on camera…. hmmmm
Also, remember what that other inmate, Sleeper, said to him at the beginning of the season… that if he saw Bode in prison again, he’d kill him. So that may have been foreshadowing a final confrontation.
Not that I care about the rating, but I’m curious why anything I said in that post received so many downvotes. Did I say something to upset people? Obviously they aren’t going to kill off the main character, and they aren’t going to make the main character actually kill someone and make the premise of the show moot by his ineligibility to continue.
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The conflict (if they go back to jail briefly) will get resolved, the program will be restored. Bode might get an early release for his act or heroism, but then he’ll just join the regular firefighters and end up an advocate/liaison for the program like Manny before him.
Or it may mean Bode has to be transferred elsewhere or held in protective custody. Imagine if they left the finale with Bode being taken to a different prison for his safety – they did say it would bookend.
The problem with this show is it was built on a unsustainable premise. We’re already getting sick of Bode continually having to go back to jail, taking the fall for others etc. He should be out on parole – but that would destroy the whole premise of the program, so they are going to have to keep putting him into jeopardy to keep Three Rock as part of the show.
I think the future of the show is him being released and joining the family business, eventually (by the end of the series) taking over Three Rock from Eve or whoever is in charge by then.
The only ways this show goes forward are Three Rock closing and Bode joining 42, or Three Rock staying and becoming a rotating class of inmates, likely new each season with one or two featured arcs and one or two of the main cast in charge. Ideally they’d have at least two CalFire supervisors because no way are CalFire paying 24/7 on call rates to everyone (that’s why country services have volunteers here, because staffing one station with 2-3 shifts would cost disproportionately much, so they maintain the equipment and have volunteer programs and training then sent paid engines out to support in crisis situations) so there’s a narrative justification to share or rotate the role rather than have it entirely split off as it is now, where Eve’s only real interactions are with Bode, occasionally Luke, and on calls. Someone has to be there if Eve’s at the bar getting advice from Manny, why can’t it *be* Manny next season?
But the whole point of the inmate firefighter program is they get out *early* with some skills and community exposure. They can’t keep it as ‘people sneaking in to see Bode’ without things blowing up, and while this show does love blowing things up even more than 911, the focus of the show is the family and not the calls, so throw too many obstacles in the way and it’s going to feel forced.
I realise they probably kept it because they want to build a ‘verse out of it, but the show can barely sustain itself; Edgewater is too small to support two shows that don’t cross over, and it’s going to lose its premise and viewers very soon.
This show has lost its MOJO. Enough of Bode going back to prison. It’s ridiculous.
I think the community members who observed the inmates’ actions after the accident will rally around them and save 3 Rock. Why the comments re: “Bode continually going back to prison”? He only went back once. Jake telling Bode that Gen didn’t want to live with Bode was a gut punch, but necessary. Besides, Bode and Gabby will end up together again.
Why are there so few episodes of Fire Country, this season?
This is a awesome series and 3 Rock should not be closed down it is essential for the camp to be there for the community and surrounding towns and the inmate fire fighters deserve to be there to prove themselves