Fire Country Season 3 Episode 17: Fire and Ice

Renée Hoffman, Vince's ex and now a lawyer, arrives at Smokey's to talk to Sharon about the Oxalta deal rather than to reconnect with Vince. She offers to bring a class-action lawsuit against the chemical company. Bode takes the offer to Sharon, who is furious that it could wreck the settlement; Bode wants Oxalta to admit fault publicly.

Manny, struggling with the NDA he signed, meets Renée, who explains how Oxalta avoids consequences by moving on to poison somewhere else. Manny hires her as his attorney, and he and Bode agree to help her collect statements from the Three Rock crew.

Station 42 responds to a ski resort where a chair lift has collapsed. Jake, Bode and Audrey search the mountain while Sharon and Gabriela set up triage. The first patient is a girl named Blair, whose leg is trapped by a collapsed chair; her father Danny is missing, and the crew finds him in hypothermia-induced cardiac arrest before Gabriela takes him back to base camp.

A fire breaks out at the top of the lift. Finn spots the smoke while taking photographs and alerts Sharon, who orders the crew off the mountain and plans a water drop. Bode proposes using the snow cannons instead, and Sharon refuses to hear it. Jake disobeys her, follows Bode's plan, and after the crew gets the frozen water pump running, puts the fire out. Sharon suspends him for a week and later apologises to Bode for their earlier argument.

Vince finally visits Walter at the memory care centre, where Walter greets him as his brother Luke. The specialist Noah tells Vince about his own mother's dementia and persuades him to stay and cook the family's Sunday sauce with his father, which helps Walter remember that Vince is his son. Gabriela and Finn share their first kiss, and Finn's talk of a wedding and five texts in a minute push her away. Jake calls Luke to ask for advice about leaving Station 42.

The ski resort thread closes with the fire out and Danny alive, and the Jake thread closes with a one-week suspension rather than a reprimand. The Walter thread closes with him recognising Vince as his son. The Oxalta thread closes with Manny hiring Renée to sue the company.

What the episode leaves unresolved is whether Sharon's settlement will hold once Renée files, how far Finn's behaviour will go, and what Jake will do about his future at Station 42. The episode does not confirm that Oxalta will face a court, does not establish what the Three Rock crew will say on the record, and leaves Gabriela's relationship with Finn open after the kiss.