Fire Country Season 3 Episode 19: A Change in the Wind

Station 42 holds a farewell breakfast for Jake, whose new job is at a station a few hours away in the next county. Manny spots Finn watching the firehouse from a new car and calls the police and Vince, and Bode follows Finn to a gas station.

Finn speeds off taking a fuel tank with him, runs over a gas station attendant and knocks over the station sign, and the sparks ignite leaking gasoline. Three Rock is the first engine on the scene but has no emergency water supply, a teenage girl named Inez is trapped inside the store, and Eve finds a cage of propane tanks close to the flames. Manny pulls the cage clear of the building with Inez's Jeep as the tanks explode. Station 42 arrives with tank water, and Bode gets inside, triggers the fire suppression system and brings Inez out, twisting his knee.

Gabriela is sent to the Leone house with Audrey. She nearly shoots Audrey at the door, and Finn then climbs in through a second-storey window, tases Audrey and struggles with Gabriela over her gun. A shot is fired, and Manny arrives to find Gabriela standing over a bleeding Finn. He takes the gun, empties it and finds Finn still alive, then loads him into his truck.

Walter calls Bode from the memory care centre during a dementia episode to warn that the wind is changing and the Zable Ridge fire will turn towards Edgewater, putting the centre in its path. Bode packs his gear and heads out in violation of Vince's orders. Cole Rodman works one last fire with the crew before his parole, and Vince starts reviewing applications to replace Jake.

The gas station thread closes with Inez rescued and the fire contained, and the stalking thread closes for the hour with Finn shot and alive in the back of Manny's truck. The Walter thread closes with Bode heading to the memory care centre against orders.

What the episode leaves unresolved is who fired the shot at the Leone house, what Manny and Gabriela will tell the authorities, whether Bode reaches the care centre in time, and what Finn's condition means for the charges against anyone. The episode does not confirm that Finn will survive, does not establish whether Gabriela or Audrey fired the shot, and leaves the Zable Ridge fire burning as it turns towards Edgewater.