Fire Country Season 2 Episode 8: It's Not Over

Station 42 and Three Rock host the 22nd Annual Firefighters' Ball, with the inmates serving to push a petition to save the camp. The governor is in attendance. They later learn she closed Three Rock only after Luke argued to shut that one camp to spare the broader con-camp program; Manny fights Luke over it. During the scuffle a curtain catches fire, which the firefighting inmates extinguish, impressing the governor. After a photo op and Bode's speech, she reverses the closure.

Gabriela's mother Roberta surprises the ball - Diego invited her, hoping Gabriela would face her before the wedding. Roberta and Manny have a charged confrontation and rekindle old feelings with a kiss. Roberta tells Gabriela her absence was her own failing, and warns her daughter she is still in love with Bode.

Vince hides a heart condition. Early in the episode he struggles with cufflinks and later is found incapacitated with arrhythmia; Gabriela uses a defibrillator when he flatlines, saving him, but Vince threatens her into silence to protect his career. He later tells her he sees her as a second daughter and explains he wants to fight fires with Bode, who has just over a year left.

Throughout, the out-of-control Lazarus fire grows; Three Rock is sent to the campaign fire as the ball concludes.

The ball achieves its goal: after the inmates extinguish a curtain fire and Bode speaks, the governor reverses the Three Rock closure. Roberta and Manny reconnect, and Gabriela is warned about her lingering feelings for Bode.

What the episode leaves open is Vince's concealed heart condition and the growing Lazarus fire, to which Three Rock is dispatched. Whether Gabriela will go through with the wedding, and what the campaign fire demands of Vince, is left for the next episodes.