Fire Country Season 3 Episode 16: Dirty Money

Sharon's stepsister, Sheriff Mickey Fox, arrives in Edgewater as her estranged father Wes Fox is out of prison and running an illegal marijuana farm. Mickey's daughter Skye has relapsed and returned to rehab. Wes offers Sharon fifty thousand dollars in cash toward Walter's care, and Mickey tells her the money is dirty and cannot be accepted.

Bode has been clearing brush on the farm as side work. His parole officer warns him that the association violates his parole, so Bode tells Wes he will stop and tries to return the money. Wes refuses to take it back.

A rattlesnake with its rattle removed bites Wes. Bode drives him to Station 42 for an antivenom shot instead of the hospital, and Vince's insistence that Wes go to a hospital turns into a standoff. Mickey arrives and gives Wes the shot herself. Wes names Mojave Sutton as the person who planted the snake, but questioning Mojave exposes the accusation as a diversion so that Wes can go after the real suspect alone.

Bode drives Mickey to the farm, where Wes is arguing with Ozzy, his second in command. Ozzy turned on him after learning that the farm was to be left to Skye. Ozzy draws a gun and the farm catches fire. He escapes toward a bank where Wes has buried money, and an aircraft water drop saves Mickey and Jake from the flames. Wes survives and tells Mickey he is too old to change.

In the Oxalta thread, Violet's inside knowledge lets Sharon force the company to clean Three Rock's water supply and to free Manny early. Eve is unhappy that Violet is Oxalta's general counsel, Oxalta argues that Manny and Birch were injured because of their alcohol addiction, and Violet reveals that she knows about the crack in the Three Rock well. She then leaves her phone where Eve can read Oxalta's internal testing, which shows that a Nashville plant dumped chemicals that led to four deaths. Sharon uses it to bring Oxalta back to the table.

Bode confronts his mother for silencing the inmates, and Vince tells Bode the station will one day be his, a remark that convinces Jake he will never command it.

The Wes Fox thread closes with him alive in hospital and the attempt on his life explained: his own second in command, Ozzy, turned on him over who would inherit the farm. The Oxalta thread closes with the company agreeing to clean Three Rock's water supply and Manny walking free early.

What the episode leaves unresolved is what Wes's refusal means for Mickey, whether Ozzy is ever caught, and whether the Oxalta settlement is accountability or a payoff. The episode does not confirm that Oxalta has been punished, does not establish what happens to the Three Rock inmates who signed away their silence, and leaves Jake's future at Station 42 open after Vince declines to promise him the job.