Fire Country Season 1 Episode 5: Get Some, Be Safe

Manny makes Bode the First Saw of Three Rock Conservation Camp — Manny's right-hand man and the one who handles the chainsaw. Bode's uncle Luke, Cal Fire's North Ops communications director, comes to the camp and appreciates his work; Luke tells Manny he has been trying to convince the board to build a new camp and that Three Rock is the gold standard. When the camp alarm sounds for a vegetation fire at San Medina Park, Three Rock handles it, and Bode's work as First Saw is recognized.

Vince takes Sharon to her consulting doctor, but Sharon tries to hide her symptoms from Vince while pursuing entry into the clinical trial; her collapse brings a diagnosis from her consulting doctor: her kidney disease has reached Stage 5, which disqualifies her. She insists she is fine, and Vince is worried. At the station it is Gabriela's first day as a probie, and she tells Jake that her father Manny is not acknowledging it because he never wanted her there.

Later Jake answers a call on Gabriela's phone — it is Bode — and disconnects it, wondering why Bode would call her; doubt begins to build. Sharon meets Luke at the bar, and after he tells her about the new camp and mentions meeting Bode, she invites him home.

At the station, Jake is annoyed that Gabriela is talking to Bode and asks her about it; she says she does not want him questioning her choices, the way her father does, and Jake warns her that Bode will take advantage of her generosity. The alarm interrupts them: a vegetation fire at Cross Creek Road. Vince's team, including Gabriela and the other probies, and Three Rock all head to the scene, where they find a locked gate. Freddy and Jake break the locks with axes, and Freddy cuts his hand but hides it under his glove.

Bode notices and wants to tell Manny, but Freddy begs him not to, because being declared unfit would send him back to prison. Bode stays quiet.

At the property, a house with an attached barn is on fire. Vince orders an evacuation and learns Manny has made Bode the First Saw. The house is clear, but they hear a female voice from the barn, and Vince goes in to find a woman and her daughter along with their horse, Henry. He persuades them to leave while he stays to try to bring the horse out; the fire is spreading. Outside, Three Rock digs a scrape, but Freddy struggles with his wound, and Bode takes him aside to clean it. Manny finds them and sends Freddy back to the carrier, and he is angry at Bode.

Sharon is at the doctor's office again, and the news is bad: her kidney disease has reached Stage 5, disqualifying her from the clinical trial, and she needs to begin dialysis. She breaks down. Back at the barn, the fire has covered the entrance and the only way to get the horse out is to cut an escape, so Vince asks Manny for his First Saw. At that moment Freddy rushes up to say that the little girl, Reese, has gone back inside the barn for Henry and is now trapped.

Night has fallen. Bode starts cutting an escape in the barn's back wall while Jake takes Gabriela and the other probies to find more water; Gabriela discovers an underground water tank. Vince enters through the escape and finds Reese, and Bode follows him in. Vince carries Reese out, but Bode stays behind to bring out Henry, finally luring the horse out with a small box of sugar cubes he found inside the barn. The fire is put out and Reese hugs Bode for saving Henry.

As things settle, Jake apologizes to Gabriela for his earlier behavior. Vince asks Bode how he managed to lure the horse out, and Bode shows him the sugar cubes; the two laugh, the first time father and son have shared a laugh since Bode returned to Edgewater. Manny orders Three Rock back to camp, gives Freddy kitchen duty until he heals, and Bode is no longer the First Saw.

Back at the station, Sharon shows Vince her Stage 5 report. Vince is heartbroken; Sharon says they have to tell Bode, and she is optimistic that dialysis will soon make her eligible for a transplant. Luke meets Manny at the bar and asks him about a piece of information, learning that Manny had been going to send Bode back to prison until Sharon said something that changed his mind. Luke asks whether Sharon blackmailed him, and Manny warns Luke that if he exposes information about Sharon, his nephew Bode will go back to prison — so Luke, who wants Sharon's job, will not do it. Manny leaves.

That night Gabriela visits Bode at the camp, asks whether he would see her if she came to meet him, and he says yes; the two smile.

The Cross Creek Road barn fire is resolved: Reese is carried out by Vince, Henry is lured out by Bode, and the fire is put out. The episode also delivers a quiet victory for Bode and Vince, who share their first laugh since Bode's return.

The episode leaves several threads unresolved. Sharon's Stage 5 diagnosis and her need for dialysis are established, but whether she will be eligible for a transplant is left open. Luke's ambition is contained only by Manny's warning, and whether Luke acts on it later is not resolved here. Gabriela's visit to Bode — and the suggestion of something more than friendship — is left as a question rather than a decision, and Bode has lost his First Saw role without knowing how the Freddy situation will affect him going forward.