Fire Country Season 3 Episode 11: Fare Thee Well

The crew is called to the local renaissance fair after a fire-breather loses their balance and sets off a tent filled with fireworks. The fireworks explode, the fire spreads through the fair, and a stampede traps several people, among them a knight impaled by his own sword and a woman pinned under a collapsed display.

Sharon oversees Three Rock while Eve is off duty, and she tells Manny that he is on thin ice and cannot yet apply for early parole. The crew is ordered not to touch any civilians while working the fair, so when Manny finds the trapped woman he fetches help instead of treating her himself. Vince takes incident command, and Bode and Audrey bet on who will make the most rescues during the day.

Vince learns from Bode's phone that Sharon and Bode took Walter for neurology tests behind his back, and he freezes Bode out. After talking with the impaled knight, he admits to Bode and Sharon that accepting Walter's illness was hard for him. Sharon takes the call from Walter's neurologist: Walter has early signs of dementia that could develop into Alzheimer's.

Bode beheads the fair's runaway mechanical fire-breathing dragon with a sword, cuts his hand in a swordfight with Audrey, and kisses her. Francine tells Eve that she is hiding who she is; Eve tells her friends that she loves fantasy and cosplay, and she and Francine kiss. Gabriela tells Manny that she wants to find a new hobby.

The fair fire is brought under control: the stampede is cleared, the mechanical dragon is destroyed, and the crew stands down. Manny follows the order not to touch civilians and the injured woman is handed to paramedics. Bode and Audrey kiss, and Eve and Francine reconcile.

What the episode leaves unresolved is Walter. The neurologist's call gives the family early signs of dementia that could develop into Alzheimer's, but the episode does not confirm what the final diagnosis will be, how fast it will progress, or who will take on his care now that Luke is leaving the country. Whether Manny will be allowed to apply for early parole is also left open, and the episode does not establish whether the extra minutes Manny spent fetching help caused lasting harm to the injured woman.