Fire Country Season 3 Episode 10: The Leone Way

Walter Leone is back in town for Bode's graduation, except that he has missed it by a week. Sharon thinks the confusion warrants testing, while Vince treats it as a slip and blames Walter's drinking. Walter settles in at the bar Sharon bought and tells exaggerated stories, and Bode decides that getting the family fishing again might lift him out of his funk. Bode organizes a trip with Vince, Luke and Jake; Sharon is the only one who thinks it is a bad idea.

On the trip a lot of old history surfaces. Luke says he has been the one checking on Walter, and he tells Vince that he has accepted a job out of the country with a new Cal Fire program, so Vince will have to step up. Vince refuses, arguing that he has always pushed their father onto his brother. Jake, meanwhile, tells Luke that he slept with Gabriela, and Luke advises him to come clean. That night Walter wanders off into the woods and Bode follows him; Walter stumbles across a man trapped in his car and Bode goes back for the others.

The man had been trapped for four to five days, surviving on rainwater and ketchup packets, and the men work together to keep him alive.

Back at Station 42, a baby is surrendered under the safe surrender law. Sharon cares for him with Audrey and Gabriela, then calls DCFS, and the baby is placed in an emergency foster home. His mother, Brenda, returns for him, and Sharon talks her through the steps to reclaim her son.

Jake tells Bode that he and Gabriela slept together, and Bode tells him that they are still brothers. Bode then tells Sharon she was right about Walter, and together they get him to agree to be tested on the condition that his sons are not told. At Three Rock, Eve finds a bottle of prison wine, and Manny refuses to name the inmate who made it; the guilty party eventually comes forward, and Manny apologizes to Luke for hitting him.

The episode resolves its two threads for now: the trapped man is rescued and the crew keeps him alive until help arrives, and the surrendered baby is reclaimed by his mother, Brenda, after Sharon helps her through the process. Jake tells Bode about Gabriela, and Bode tells him they are still brothers.

What it leaves unresolved is Walter. He agrees to be tested only on the condition that his sons are not told, and the episode does not confirm that he has a cognitive problem or what the test will show. Whether Vince will take on caring for his father, given Luke's departure for a job out of the country, is also left open, as is what happens at Three Rock after the prison-wine incident.