Fire Country Season 3 Episode 13: My Team

Station 42 responds to a fire in a dugout before the annual County Clash baseball game. The pitcher, Nolan, set off smoke bombs in his own team's dugout because he was afraid of costing his team another loss, and he ends up stuck in a drain pipe. His coach, Drew Kimbro, is the man whose dirty play injured Bode in high school and sent him toward opioids. Kimbro needles Bode about his addiction during the call, and Bode calms him down so he can help coach Nolan out of the pipe.

Bode and Kimbro reach a truce once Nolan is rescued. Kimbro then gives Bode a bag of painkillers from his own shoulder injury. The episode does not show whether Bode takes them. Jake frees a cheerleader from a mascot costume the rival school glued on, meets her recently divorced older sister Violet, and asks for her number.

Vince's ex-girlfriend Renee Hoffman returns for the game. She tells Sharon that Vince proposed to her and she turned him down, and Sharon accuses Vince of making her the rebound; Vince tells her that Renee was the mistake, not her.

At Three Rock, Nathan Birch complains of a cold. Manny convinces Eve to give him ibuprofen rather than send him to the infirmary, and Birch is put on the prison transfer list the next morning. He tells Manny he will never forgive him for the transfer, and is later found unresponsive in his bunk. The crew performs CPR but Birch is declared dead.

The County Clash thread closes with Nolan rescued and Bode and Kimbro on speaking terms, and with Jake and Violet exchanging numbers. The Three Rock thread closes with Birch dead at the camp after CPR fails.

What the episode leaves unresolved is what killed Birch. The episode does not confirm a cause of death, does not establish what was wrong with him, and does not show whether Bode takes the painkillers Kimbro gave him. Whether Manny's decision to keep Birch at camp contributed to his death is also left open, as is whether Luke's departure for a job abroad will go ahead.