Fire Country (2022) s03e13 Episode Script
My Team
1
- Previously on Fire Country
- You know what this means?
I win.
Were you ever gonna ask
where it is I'm going?
- Canada.
- Japan.
MANNY: Birch, is that contraband booze?
Don't know what you're talking about.
I know you drink
'cause this job is hard.
But bettering yourself,
that's even harder.
JAKE: Secondary slide incoming.
(BODE SHOUTS)
Hey, yo, B. Your leg okay?
Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.
It's just bruised.
- RAFAEL: Help!
- Someone's buried under there.
JAKE: All right,
let's get him out of here.
- Nice to meet you, Rafael.
- It's almost over.
JAKE: Bode! We're here!
We got medical supplies!
♪
("DAMN GOOD LIFE"
BY CODY JOHNSON PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Now it's paycheck Friday ♪
MAN: Over here. Next one's on me.
- That's you.
- WOMAN: Thanks, Bode.
Make a little noise ♪
Perfect.
Sideways ♪
Going all the way to the top here.
But damn, we got a damn good life ♪
(BELL RINGS) (CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
(BELL DINGS) Order up.
You ready?
- May need a few more minutes.
- Sure.
Take all the time you need.
I'm all out of time, Bode.
(MUSIC SLOWS, DISTORTS)
Because you couldn't save me.
I tried, Rafael.
I'm so sorry.
(LOCKER DOOR OPENS)
You slept here before shift?
I had a late night at Smokey's,
so this was just
the closest place to crash.
You said Rafael's name.
Did you have a nightmare?
I-I wasn't trying
to eavesdrop, but I ju
but it's your first shift
since you lost him and
Checking in, firefighter to firefighter.
(SIGHS)
In baseball, I learned
to put losses behind me,
drown them with wins.
Just move forward.
So that's, um, that's what I'm gonna do.
Thank you so much, Dr. Verma.
Was that about Dad's appointment?
- Yes.
- Love you.
You're a saint. Thank you.
And a scheduling genie.
Home health care worker's
going home at 7:00 tonight
I will pick up the shift then
uh, but Audrey is out of town,
so we're down one firefighter
while she picks up
her things in North Carolina, but
I already took care of that part.
Also, uh, moved up
the beer order for here,
- because
- 'Cause you're you.
Beautiful. Last thing we want,
bunch of alumni bleeding out our taps.
Yeah. Adults using
a high school baseball game
as an excuse to get sauced.
You are not gonna judge the County Clash
just because Edgewater
is going to get its ass kicked
by Eel River again.
Eternal rivals.
Yeah, fierce ones.
(LAUGHS) Um
RENÉE: Ooh, I love your planner.
You have great taste.
- SHARON: Ah!
- (BOTH LAUGH)
Right back at you.
Uh, Renée. Hi.
Vinny.
- Oh, my goodness.
- "Renée" Renée?
Oh, my God, your high school girlfriend.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. Um
uh, this is my wife Sharon.
I want to hear all about
high-school Vinny,
and if you have any
embarrassing photos to share,
I'd pay some good money.
- (LAUGHS): Oh.
- That'd be fun. Um
you here for the game?
For work.
Yeah, I just had a gig in Louisville.
Oh, and before that, I was in London.
I saw Abbey Road.
Did you ever take that trip, Vinny?
I didn't even know you
wanted to go to London.
Can you please stop by the fire station?
Shall we plan it?
(LAUGHS) Yes. I love her already.
(BOTH LAUGH)
RENÉE: Oh, wow. Oh, look at that.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
(HUMMING SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
Ooh.
County Clash twins.
Not your twin, and not your house.
Yeah, but my house doesn't have any food
because Gabs keeps ignoring
the roomie chore chart.
And that's my problem how?
You know what?
I don't like it when
you look at me like that.
Eh, well, stay out of my damn cabinets.
Yo yo!
What are you looking for?
(WHISPERS): No, but is that
the new waitress from Smokey's?
Bro, I was a phenomenal
wingwoman last night.
- Oh
- What happened?
Uh you were, uh, but like I told you,
I am looking for real connections,
not one-night stands.
Did you even get her number?
Okay, so, real connections.
We got to build a bridge by what?
Asking for the number.
I did ask.
And she didn't?
(SOFTLY): I'm so sorry.
- Look, man (SIGHS)
- That's crazy.
I'm not good at putting myself
out there anymore.
- Mm.
- I guess everything was just
easier back when
When you were emotionally
immature and a playboy.
- You weren't gonna
- No.
- I'm sorry. Mm-hmm.
- What I was going to say is,
back when I didn't carry around
this "almost life"
- Mm-hmm.
- with Cara and Gen.
- You remember them, right?
- Right.
Okay, look, look, look.
I know what it is.
You've lost some mojo.
But I can help you with that,
'cause right now,
me and Francine,
we're vibing romantically,
and me and Manny, we're vibing
professionally.
And so, when one friend
has less mojo than the other,
I must break off my mojo
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- for you.
♪
I'm not taking that personally.
With my daughter back in my
corner, I can actually see the light now.
How about you guys?
Got anything you're looking forward to?
Looking forward to shaking off this cold
that's ripping through camp. (COUGHING)
- Feel you, bro.
- Cover your mouth, dude.
You all right, man?
You need the prison infirmary, Birch?
No, I'm clean now.
One step back into prison,
my sobriety's out the window.
Eh, give yourself
more credit than that, bro.
You've really been working this program.
There's no Manny
looking out for me in prison.
Hey, you go in, you get your treatment,
you're right back here at camp.
Yeah?
That's what they told Kosugi.
And Carter.
You see them back here?
All right.
All right, we'll get you
some treatment here.
No infirmary, no prison.
I got you.
I promise.
It's just lunch. It's no biggie.
It's weird.
(LAUGHS) You just
hanging out with my girlfriend
from high school?
- That's weird.
- Kind of hot.
LUKE: Did I hear correctly?
Renée's in town?
- Leave it, Luke.
- Hey.
Are you the firefighter
filling in for Audrey today?
One last shift
before I ship off to Japan.
(AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKS JAPANESE)
Means "Hi, I'm single" in Japanese.
- (LAUGHS): Of course.
- Let's stay on topic here.
Renée. She's trouble, Shar.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Uncle Luke?
- Hey. Bode.
- What's going on, man?
Bode Coyote. Look at you, all decked out
in your Cal Fire blues.
- Yeah.
- Uh-oh. Probie year taking its toll, huh?
(GRUNTS) Had some tough calls.
But I got Coach Dobbs
in my head, saying
ALL: "Forget the last play."
Senior year County Clash game's
when I got injured,
got derailed, but
today I'm spending it firefighting.
Well, that is a hell of a way
to look forward, kid.
Hey, why don't you help me
look for some turnouts, yeah?
Yeah.
"Forget the last play."
Know what that means?
No.
Means leave the past in the past.
Ah. Grown men quoting
their high school coach.
Just lunch, Vinny.
♪
So, tonight is the annual rivalry game.
And Edgewater has a team this year.
The Eel River Eels are going down.
Ooh, kind of an obvious choice
for a mascot, Chief, don't you think?
JAKE: Yeah.
I'm sorry, did-did I just hear
the probie ask for an extra week
of toilet duty?
LUKE: Yikes.
VINCE: Anyway,
it's also an annual headache,
because the kids
just spend the whole day
playing pranks on the rival school.
Kind of like when Greg Shinkle
TP'd our house.
I'm still pissed that Dad
wouldn't let us get back at him.
I wish kids were still into TP.
Now they steal stop signs
and cause car accidents.
They release bees into classrooms.
- Obvious problems
- MARGOT: They superglued
my costume. Some Eel River kids
raided the locker room with superglue,
and now my sister is trapped in this.
DISPATCH: Station 42, structure fire,
9000 Bel Air Boulevard. (ALARM SOUNDING)
That's Eel River High.
GABRIELA: Right on time.
Okay, Jake, why don't you take
the walk-ins?
Everybody else, head on
into the truck with Vince.
(GASPS)
Ow.
SECURITY GUARD: Some kid was trying
to rig the smoke bombs in the dugout.
They took off when they
saw me coming, though.
VINCE: Well, I'd appreciate
it if you could go look for him.
Fire like this,
he could have some injuries.
- Thank you.
- DREW: Hey! Hey.
My team's got a game tonight.
I need you to put this out.
Yeah, hi, Drew.
Uh, that's kind of what
my team is here for,
you know, the hoses and stuff?
Leone?
(LAUGHS)
I haven't seen you since they
carted you off this field.
Sorry about the injury.
We're all good, Kimbro.
They played baseball together?
Drew pretty much wrecked Bode's MCL
his senior year in high school.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
You know, I-I was worried
when you threatened to meet me
in the parking lot, but, uh
guess you got held up by rehab.
VINCE: You can probably save the
trash talk for the game tonight, Drew.
♪
- VINCE: 42, let's get on it.
- Hey. Hey.
Forget the last play, yeah?
Keep your head down and fight
fires. Don't let this guy derail you.
I won't.
Lower, Bode. Seat of the flame.
Outside the strike zone.
Classic Leone. (GRUNTS)
Fire's spreading, Vin.
If that fire touches my field
Yeah, what, is there a game tonight?
- It's the County Clash
- I know, Drew!
Let us work.
- Hey, Cap.
- Yeah?
(COUGHING) You got a quick second?
No offense, Birch,
you're not looking too hot.
You need a trip to the infirmary?
MANNY: Actually,
we were hoping that we could
treat it here, you know,
maybe get him some ibuprofen
or something like that?
Yeah, well, I got
to document the request.
What are your symptoms?
Uh, congestion, headache, nausea
Couldn't stay sober, huh?
Yeah, I am sober. 22 days.
MANNY: Come on, man,
he's not lying to you.
Please, Cap.
Captain Edwards isn't in charge
of dispensing the medication.
I am. And he's not getting a thing
till I know what else is in his system.
Come on, Jones. I mean, look at the guy.
Look, I have some rapid blood
alcohol tests in my office.
Let's go.
Cap, don't subject him to that.
You know he's clean.
Well, then he has nothing
to worry about, right?
Let's go.
It's cool.
MARGOT: Can't you go faster, fire dude?
Well, I'm going as fast
as I can, Margot.
MARGOT: Ugh! On literally the one day
that I'm not supposed to be
in this thing.
Um, Heather R., the cheer captain,
rolled her ankle, so Heather M.
is taking her place as flyer,
meaning that my sister can
get out of the mascot
and take her place as a spotter
at the pep rally.
Understood. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
All right. We're gonna
get you out of here.
MARGOT: You stopped?
Violet, why'd he stop?
Well, um, unfortunately, Margot,
the costume is glued to your skin.
MARGOT: Okay, well, can't you just,
like, I don't know, pull it off?
Well, do you want skin
for your out-of-costume debut?
(SIGHS)
- Yeah.
- JAKE: Yeah.
Please, yes. Skin.
We can start with soapy water,
but hang tight, let me go
dig for some acetone.
- Hang tight?
- Actually, um
- will nail polish remover work?
- JAKE: Yeah. Wow.
Perfect. This'll,
this will work. Thanks.
(CHUCKLES)
MARGOT: Can you two
stop flirting or whatever,
and just get me out of here?
- Sorry.
- Uh, yeah. Absolutely.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Roof fire's out.
We could still use
a little help down here.
VINCE: All right, my team. Great work.
Soak it down, let's mop it up.
LUKE: Good job, kiddo.
Yeah.
DREW: You almost lost the dugout, Leone.
Like you lost in '09.
You took me out of the game.
No. I beat you to the bag.
It's not my fault you smashed into me.
You were blocking the base path.
A dirty play.
Dirty? I'm not the one who had
a hard time staying clean, am I?
What's your problem, man?
We just saved the field.
No, you didn't save anything.
You're always acting the hero,
but you're a loser, Leone.
You lose.
- Parking lot's right over there
- Let's go!
- Yeah, want to go?
- Hey. Hey, hey!
- Walk away. Walk away!
- Hey! You cannot
get triggered on a call
like that, Bode, you hear me?
Back it up.
Walk away.
Yo, Perez.
(EVE CLEARS THROAT)
- What's up, Cap?
- So, good news.
Birch's test came back negative.
I knew it would. (MUTTERS)
Jones gave him the meds
and, uh, sent him off for a nap.
You know, when I was captain,
I did everything I could to make sure
that my guys never felt like criminals.
Yeah, man, but you know how Jones is.
You don't get the meds unless
you get the proof, and I got the proof.
Hey.
We're on the same team.
- It's just my team.
- It's your team, I know.
Look, and I need you to rally the troops
'cause we got to pick up trash
at the Eel River pep rally.
- Oh, man.
- Look, look.
Make that sound fun, okay? (SNORTS)
First saw. (CHUCKLING)
All right, Three Rock.
You boys ready for some
community beautification?
Let's go touch some grass.
Perez, I don't mean to snoop here,
but something is up with my
nephew and you're usually in his head.
We aren't
We don't have that type
of relationship anymore.
Okay, well, then has
Firefighter Perez noticed
anything up with Probie Leone?
- Firefighter to firefighter?
- Yeah.
He's been having nightmares
about a patient he lost last shift.
It was a rough loss.
Bode sat with him
when he died and after.
Do Vince and Sharon know?
About the nightmares?
VINCE: Security guard still hasn't
found our smoke bomb kid yet,
so I'm gonna need the two
of you to make a couple laps,
see if we can't help find him.
- Uh, Bode
- Yeah, I'll join him. I'll go.
VINCE: Great.
Everybody else, back to
the station, restock. Let's go.
Wow, you really made
those tiny Post-it notes work.
You know, I couldn't find a way.
I just like them better
than the stickers,
but then, look at this, you make this,
you make, you make all of
this look classy. (CHUCKLING)
Thank you for coming here today.
The kids and their antics just have me
on high alert, I don't want to leave.
Are you kidding? I'm thrilled
to see this place again.
I mean, we used to sneak
crappy beers up on the roof
- when Walter was on calls.
- Come on!
That was high school Vince's
idea of a "date."
Not that far from adult Vince's
idea of a date.
It's certainly closer
than "Abbey Road Vince."
Yeah, well, we were kids.
We had all kinds of big plans.
Like?
You know, teen dreams.
See the northern lights,
Great Barrier Reef,
and then
And then?
Plans change when one person
wants to get married
and the other one doesn't.
I mean, Vince handled it
pretty well at the time,
I just think
You didn't know that he proposed to me.
I am so sorry. I-I didn't mean it to
No. No, no, no.
It's okay, really.
It was a million years ago.
Yeah, uh, I have got to get going.
- Okay.
- So
thank you for lunch.
And for the chat. (CHUCKLES)
- Yeah. Okay.
- Keep in touch.
Yeah. Great.
- (LAUGHS) It was a pleasure.
- Okay.
♪
No sign of our prankster.
No.
Hey, you said you had some
tough calls recently, huh?
- Yeah. Why?
- Nothing. You're just
talking about forgetting
the last play one minute,
getting into 15-year-old beefs the next.
It just feels like something
more might be going on,
- that's all.
- I'm fine.
Drew just got in my head. That's it.
That's it, huh?
Okay, well, now you're lying to me.
Wow. Really, Uncle Luke?
Perez told me
about the nightmares, Bode.
You're talking to Gabriela about me?
"Forget the last play" doesn't
mean you bury your issues, okay?
That's not what I'm doing.
I know that Drew's responsible
for your injury.
No. He-he stole my life.
He didn't steal anything from you.
Playing through the pain,
sneaking pills?
That wasn't on him, okay?
Look, I-I
I'm not blaming you for your addiction.
But this pattern of behavior,
it took baseball away from you
and I just don't want to see it
take firefighting away from you, too.
♪
All right, Margot, almost out of there.
And then you can prep
for your pep rally.
You can show the whole school
what you've got.
Okay, wait. I'm not ready.
All those people and just me?
No eagle head to hide behind?
Margot, you didn't sign up
for cheer squad
just to be the mascot.
I need tips, fire dude.
I need calm, I need cool,
I need confidence.
Well, uh
calm and cool and
confident aren't really
in my wheelhouse right now.
(VIOLET LAUGHS)
Oh, I'm sorry, I just, um
I (CHUCKLES)
I just meant look at you.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, well, uh, you know,
tell that to the women of Smokey's.
You are striking out?
Yes. Yes. I-I am striking out.
Because my fiancée passed away and
I don't know how to bring it up
or if to bring it up.
And then I get awkward.
Kind of like now.
Well, look, too late
to glue you back up.
Nothing left but to rip
the Band-Aid off.
Or in this case, the eagle head.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You've got this.
Uh hi.
I'm Violet.
I got divorced last year and
moved in to my parents' house,
with a mountain
of student loan debt, um,
and yes, sometimes
I still miss my husband,
but that doesn't mean
I'm not ready to find love.
Can I buy you a drink?
Is what I say
when I'm meeting new people.
It's just putting it all out there.
Flirt later, let's go!
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Do you want
uh, help getting
getting the costume to your car?
Sure.
EVE: All right, gentlemen,
drop your vests
before you hit the showers.
They've touched Eel River property,
so we will be burning them.
(COUGHING)
Hey, Birch.
You still not feeling better, bro?
(COUGHING)
That medicine didn't do crap.
Hey, Cap.
- No, Manny.
- I have to.
What's up? The meds not working?
No, nothing's working.
Okay, well
Birch, I-I think we got to
get you to the infirmary, man.
Please, I can't.
MANNY: I'm gonna
check up on you every day.
Make sure you're still
working the program.
We'll get you right back here.
What if I get stuck so long,
I lose my spot?
Look, I'll make sure
that doesn't happen.
But I-I can't afford to have you
get worse, all right?
- Hey, Jones.
- Yeah.
Can we get him on the first bus
to the infirmary in the morning?
I'll start the paperwork.
All right. Look, I'll go to the kitchen,
get you some chicken noodle,
some fresh water,
and we'll work it out, man.
- MANNY: Thanks, Cap.
- EVE: Yeah.
Hey, bro.
- I'm sorry, man.
- It's my own fault.
For trusting you.
Beat it, Perez.
(COUGHING)
(SIGHS)
That kid's probably run home by now.
Why don't you tell your dad
we're on our way back.
DISPATCH: Utility 1543, Greencrest.
- Status check.
- Utility 1543.
We're still on scene,
Eel River High School.
DISPATCH: We have a report of
a patient trapped, name's Nolan.
He called us from his smartwatch,
and we're trying
to pinpoint his location.
Can you patch us through?
NOLAN: Hello?
Yeah, hey, Nolan.
Can you tell us
where you're trapped, buddy?
Uh, a-a drain pipe? I-I don't know.
It's-it's round
and it's cold and it's weird.
Okay, well, do you know where you are?
Any landmarks or anything?
It's near the baseball field.
I-I don't know.
I saw a guard and I took off.
I tried to hide in here.
Okay, hey, Nolan?
When you were there
at the baseball field
and you took off, which way did you go?
Were you were you on
the first baseline
or the third baseline?
The third. Crawled a ways down
and I got stuck.
- I see an exit.
- BODE: That's the exit
on the west side of the field.
Okay, hey, Nolan? We're coming to you.
Let's hit it.
(SIREN WAILING)
(SIREN WAILING)
(SIREN STOPS)
NOLAN: Hey. Hey.
I-I'm in here.
Hey, it's Nolan, yeah?
- NOLAN: Yeah.
- LUKE: Okay, I'm Luke.
We talked on the phone earlier.
Can you tell me which part
of your body is stuck?
I felt something sharp pierce my side.
All right, don't move.
We're gonna find a way
to get you out of here, okay?
Okay.
Greencrest, utility 1543.
We located the patient just
west of the baseball field.
Start an ambulance code three
and roll Engine 1591.
- DISPATCH: Copy
- Bode, grab the camera.
- We're gonna need eyes in here.
- Yeah.
You hang tough for me, Nolan, okay?
(WEAKLY): Okay.
Hey.
How was your lunch date?
With your almost-wife?
She was
- my almost-fiancée.
- Mm.
Because we were kids.
And yeah, I proposed. And she said no.
And you proposed to me
less than a year later?
Because you were ring happy,
or I was a rebound?
We've been married for over 30 years.
Okay, okay. So then
why didn't you tell me?
The past should stay
in the past, like I said, right?
No.
Not gonna cut it this time. Mm-mm.
For better or for worse,
I-I need to understand.
Okay, um
- DISPATCH: Station 42.
- (ALARM SOUNDING)
Report of subject stuck in storm drain.
9000 Bel Air Boulevard.
LUKE: Okay, now get that
camera as close as you can
and make sure the two-way mic
is up and running.
(WHIRRING)
BODE: Right there. There's our
junction chamber where it drops off.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Hey.
So, city blueprints are
showing a junction chamber
in the culvert about ten yards in.
That's where we think
the kid is trapped.
He said he's hung up on something sharp,
possible puncture wound.
We told him not to move.
All right, let me see.
JAKE: (SIGHS) Anyone
call his parents yet?
He says they're out of town.
I'm not sure I believe him, though.
Well, he's an Edgewater High kid, right?
You call the school?
I'm not so sure about that.
JAKE: Is that an Eel River Baseball hat?
Coach Kimbro's gonna be so mad.
Well, there's an adult we can talk to.
You tried to sabotage your own dugout?
I couldn't lose again.
We lost three in a row because of me.
Striking out, giving up runs,
all I do is lose.
The principal said if anyone
pulled pranks during the game,
she'd cancel it.
So you were gonna set off smoke bombs
and make it look like it was Edgewater.
Hey, Chief? Take a look at this.
Kid's snagged on rebar.
Yeah, we're not
getting him out this way.
- Get me Three Rock.
- To do what?
To dig.
Down to the culvert,
we bust through the concrete.
Lift him up from above.
Um, we got to pack that wound
as soon as we can.
All right, I'll check for a saw.
- I'll grab medical.
- Hey, hey, hey.
The kid's losing blood.
The clock's ticking.
Hey, Nolan. How you doing
in there, buddy?
Cold.
I can't feel my fingers.
Hey. Temps are dropping.
Hypothermia's gonna set in soon.
All right, we got to get in there.
LUKE: Yeah?
No, not seeing any concrete saws
on the rigs.
We're gonna need serious tool
power to get through that concrete.
Got saws at the station. Go.
DREW: Nolan!
(VINCE SIGHS)
- Nolan.
- What? Whoa.
Hey.
I get a call that my starting
pitcher did this to himself?
Coach, I'm so sorry.
It was it was dumb.
Damn straight it was.
What the hell were you thinking?
Drew. Not helping.
Don't tell me how to talk to my players.
Right now, that's my patient.
This is my rescue.
- Get out of here.
- BODE: Kimbro. Kimbro, hey.
Come on. Come with me.
Need some help grabbing tools
that are gonna save Nolan's life.
Hey. You sure about this?
Come on.
EVE: Three Rock's
two minutes out, Chief.
VINCE: All right, guys,
for us to reach Nolan,
I need you to dig down to the culvert.
Dig from here
to here,
give us access to the junction chamber.
Thank you, Three Rock.
All right, copy that, Chief.
Gentlemen, let's get those
shovels moving, all right?
Let's go, boys. We got to be
faster than this. Let's move it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
EVE: Nice, y'all.
Pace yourself, Perez.
W-We're just getting started, bud.
We're down a man, Cap.
Someone's got to pick up the slack.
It's like what you said, right?
(GRUNTING): We got a man down
it's not all on you.
MAN: All right, let's do it.
EVE: Come on, Three Rock!
Let's dig,
but pace yourselves, all right?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
We got the tools.
Finally gonna let me know why
you forced me on this little field trip?
Some sort of power move?
This isn't about you and me.
It's about helping Nolan.
Two years in the minors.
Season in the majors.
Years of coaching under my belt.
But somehow you're the expert
on helping my player?
I know what he's going through.
No way that's true.
Nolan's not a washout, he's a good kid.
He planted the smoke bombs
because he doesn't want to play tonight.
Why would he do that?
Because he's taken all your
team's losses on his shoulders.
(STAMMERS)
He didn't say (GROANS)
Wh-What is he gonna say?
What, say
tell you that he's struggling?
My guess is he thinks
that that'll make him
look like a loser in your eyes.
I was a good kid, too.
Hey, just try and be easy on him.
Just don't don't let Nolan go
down the same path that I did.
I can help him.
Then help him now.
Kid's cold, scared
Just coach him through it.
Hey, Chief, we got 'em.
VINCE: Great. Bring 'em up top.
Soon as Three Rock hits the
culvert, fire 'em up and go to work.
Copy that. Let's go.
Eve, how's it going?
EVE: Yeah, we got about one foot to go.
DREW: Hey. Can I talk to Nolan?
And no more tough coach.
Okay? I swear.
Hey. Nolan.
I'm back.
Coach
I'm so sorry.
Nothing to be sorry for, Nol.
We're gonna get you out of here.
Okay.
(BREATHING WEAKLY)
(WATER TRICKLING STEADILY)
Hey
Hey, Coach?
It's, uh (EXHALES)
It's it's getting loud in here.
Sorry, Nolan, that's
all the digging up top.
No
(GASPS SOFTLY)
It, uh
sounds like
like like water.
There's a, uh, drainage pipe,
leads to the culvert from up north.
The part of the county
that got hit by rain today?
(WATER RUSHING)
GABRIELA: Guys?
What does that mean?
Okay, hey, um listen, Coach, um
the junction chamber,
it's filling up with water.
And if it fills faster
than we can get him out, then
He could drown.
Coach?
(PANTING)
Please! P-Please hurry!
Try to stay calm, Nolan.
Three Rock's almost done digging.
NOLAN: It's getting closer! (PANTING)
What do I do? What-what do I do?!
Hey. Nol.
You remember that curveball
you threw against Central
that won the game?
Okay, just imagine that pitch.
Relax your shoulders,
you found the seam,
you cranked back (INHALES)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
and you let it go, smooth.
(MEASURED BREATHS)
Just like that. Let's do it again.
(INHALES SLOWLY)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
Luke, how we doing?
Yeah? (SHOVEL THUDDING)
Chief, we've got a
visual on the culvert.
Three Rock, fall back.
Hey, give us some space. Shovel.
EVE: Hey, let's prep the ladder.
MANNY: Prepping ladder.
Fire up the saw.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
We're gonna cut
a three-by-three pattern.
Two cuts. Maintain a 45-degree bevel.
(BUZZING)
JAKE: Chief, the water
is a foot from his face.
Keep monitoring, Jake.
All right, get up there, Perez.
Immediate interventions
only. Doesn't have to be pretty.
It's just got to work.
(SAW BUZZING)
All right, we're through. Pry bars!
Here you go, firefighters.
Prepping gauze.
- In the edge, yeah?
- Yep.
Water is about to reach him
and he is losing consciousness.
(LUKE AND BODE GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING)
We're through. Ladder!
EVE: Nice, y'all.
(WATER RUSHING)
♪
All right, Bode, it's all you.
Bring in the spine board!
- Nice.
- Spine board.
EVE: Careful.
I got him! I got him.
BODE: Easy, easy.
Going down.
Lean back here, there.
Okay, he's in, bring him up.
One, two, three.
Pull!
Let's go, nice and easy.
LUKE: Nice and level, guys.
Get him over. Here we go.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Down.
- Hey.
- It's Luke. You hear me, buddy?
- Hey, Nolan?
- Nolan?
- Nolan, come on, buddy.
- GABRIELA: Come on.
Come on. Come on.
LUKE: Come on, Nolan!
Hey, can you hear me? Nolan?
Come on.
- Come on, Nolan.
- LUKE: Hey.
(NOLAN GASPS)
Hey, there we go, there we go.
- He's good.
- VINCE: Great work, my team.
Let's get him in an ambulance.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(SIREN CHIRPS)
Yo, fire dude.
Hey. How'd the pep rally go?
I crushed it.
Attagirl.
(LAUGHS) Got to get to the game.
(SIREN WHOOPING)
Hey, hey. You know what?
Um
Hi, I'm Jake.
My fiancée
died before I could even propose.
I want to be the father to her kid,
who's in Idaho with her biological dad.
And that kills me.
And if that doesn't scare you away
I would love to get your number.
O-Only
if you'll use it.
(LAUGHS)
Hey, Kimbro? Kimbro!
Told you I'd meet you
in the parking lot.
(CHUCKLES)
You, uh, you going to the hospital?
Ah, Nolan's parents are out of town.
I want to be there for him.
Yeah, well, let us,
uh, let me know how he is.
Hey, I I saw you
nursing your knee earlier
at the dugout fire.
Is that the the old injury acting up?
Nah, this is something new.
Yeah, well, tore my shoulder
a few years ago.
It's what ended my career.
Here. These help.
I pop one every now
and then for the pain.
Consider it a thank-you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Firefighter to firefighter,
I don't know what kind of
relationship you have with Bode, but
you read his storminess
like a book out there today.
You really get him.
I think he has someone else
who gets him now.
Okay, well, you know,
it was just an observation.
You know, I
Uncle Luke, you got a sec?
Hey, Gabs. Yeah, of course. What's up?
Oh! No way.
What's on your mind?
I can't let a patient loss
cost me firefighting.
I won't.
Okay.
So don't let it.
Look, Bode.
Losing a patient,
it's a bad outcome, you know?
Holding a man while he dies and
sitting there
with him the whole time
afterwards, that's
well, that's one of the worst
possible outcomes.
Unfortunately, it's
not gonna be your last.
I just
I didn't realize it would
take me out like it did.
You and my parents make it look so easy.
Just fun.
Yeah, well,
that was a disservice to you.
And I'm sincerely sorry
if we made it seem that way.
Like I said, more losses
are coming to you,
to us, to anybody in this field.
But that's what the chiefs are for.
Yeah, that's what your fellow
firefighters are for.
Gabriela, for instance.
- She and I aren't
- Yeah, I know.
But I think she gets you, man.
Just an observation.
Anyhow, Kyoto's only
a 16-hour time difference
and a phone call away, so
so pick your poison, Bode.
'Cause you're gonna have
to lean on someone.
Otherwise this job
will eat you up alive.
♪
You are not the rebound.
You were my partner in the rebuild.
Into what I am today.
I thought that Renée loved me
and wanted to be with me, but
when I told her I wanted to
stay here, be a firefighter
turned out she had other plans.
And she made me feel like I was making
the biggest mistake
I was ever gonna make
by not coming with her.
And I tried to talk to my dad about it,
but he just told me
real men don't show weakness.
You know
So I never
I never spoke to anybody about it again.
Walter.
I-I love the guy, but
he really is the gift
that keeps on giving.
(EXHALES)
You love everything that I love.
And you still manage to love me.
So
way I see it,
Renée prevented me from making
the biggest mistake
I was ever gonna make.
'Cause she took off.
Let me find you.
I love being your partner.
- (DOOR OPENS)
- LUKE: Hey, Vin?
Sorry. (CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Why? Why?
(SIGHS) (CLEARS THROAT)
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- Okay, Luke.
I'll miss you.
Yeah, I'm sure you will.
You ready?
Yeah. What's in the bag?
- Nothing.
- What's in the bag?
It's it's nothing.
I thought we were going to the game.
Yeah, we're not.
But Greg Shinkle is.
Oh, come on, Vin, hey.
Come on, man,
it's my last night in town.
It's just harmless fun.
Your stash looks a little light.
(LAUGHS) We'll take my truck. Come on.
Hey, get the door! Get the door!
Bye, Sharon.
Ooh, wait till you see this.
Read 'em and weep, fellas.
How do you do it every time, bro?
You want in, Birch?
Yo, Birch?
One hand before you have
to roll out, bro.
Birch?
Come on, homie, it'll be fun.
Hey, Birch?
Hey, bro, wake up.
He's sweating, but no fever.
Hey, Birch.
Wake up, brother.
Hey, hey.
Birch?
His fingers are blue.
No. No.
Hey, somebody call Cap,
tell her to call 911.
Big Mike, grab me a med bag quick.
On his side, on his side. (GRUNTS)
Let's go.
Hey, buddy, I got you, hey.
Birch, Birch, Birch. Come on.
- DISPATCH: Station 42.
- (ALARM SOUNDING)
Patient in distress.
5175 Averthal Drive.
That's Three Rock.
(SIREN WAILING)
MANNY: We found him unconscious.
Eve lost his pulse
- about 15 minutes ago.
- Okay.
I got it, Dad.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
What happened?
Did he get hurt?
He had a cold.
("SAVE MY SOUL" BY NOAH RINKER PLAYING)
Gone by day ♪
And gone by night ♪
It's not an easy road ♪
That leads you to the light ♪
It's winding now ♪
But someday ♪
(MONITOR FLATLINES)
It'll straighten out ♪
And it's worth it on the other side ♪
When it brings that city down ♪
I'm no good ♪
And I'm no saint ♪
I won't pretend to be ♪
Somebody I ain't ♪
I'm not perfect ♪
And I never claimed to be ♪
And I'm so glad the good Lord ♪
Is makin' time for me ♪
You only get one shot ♪
Everything to lose ♪
Lord, take me now ♪
I'm broken and bruised ♪
Can you save my soul ♪
'Cause I need you ♪
'Cause I need you. ♪
- Previously on Fire Country
- You know what this means?
I win.
Were you ever gonna ask
where it is I'm going?
- Canada.
- Japan.
MANNY: Birch, is that contraband booze?
Don't know what you're talking about.
I know you drink
'cause this job is hard.
But bettering yourself,
that's even harder.
JAKE: Secondary slide incoming.
(BODE SHOUTS)
Hey, yo, B. Your leg okay?
Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine.
It's just bruised.
- RAFAEL: Help!
- Someone's buried under there.
JAKE: All right,
let's get him out of here.
- Nice to meet you, Rafael.
- It's almost over.
JAKE: Bode! We're here!
We got medical supplies!
♪
("DAMN GOOD LIFE"
BY CODY JOHNSON PLAYING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Now it's paycheck Friday ♪
MAN: Over here. Next one's on me.
- That's you.
- WOMAN: Thanks, Bode.
Make a little noise ♪
Perfect.
Sideways ♪
Going all the way to the top here.
But damn, we got a damn good life ♪
(BELL RINGS) (CHEERING, APPLAUSE)
(BELL DINGS) Order up.
You ready?
- May need a few more minutes.
- Sure.
Take all the time you need.
I'm all out of time, Bode.
(MUSIC SLOWS, DISTORTS)
Because you couldn't save me.
I tried, Rafael.
I'm so sorry.
(LOCKER DOOR OPENS)
You slept here before shift?
I had a late night at Smokey's,
so this was just
the closest place to crash.
You said Rafael's name.
Did you have a nightmare?
I-I wasn't trying
to eavesdrop, but I ju
but it's your first shift
since you lost him and
Checking in, firefighter to firefighter.
(SIGHS)
In baseball, I learned
to put losses behind me,
drown them with wins.
Just move forward.
So that's, um, that's what I'm gonna do.
Thank you so much, Dr. Verma.
Was that about Dad's appointment?
- Yes.
- Love you.
You're a saint. Thank you.
And a scheduling genie.
Home health care worker's
going home at 7:00 tonight
I will pick up the shift then
uh, but Audrey is out of town,
so we're down one firefighter
while she picks up
her things in North Carolina, but
I already took care of that part.
Also, uh, moved up
the beer order for here,
- because
- 'Cause you're you.
Beautiful. Last thing we want,
bunch of alumni bleeding out our taps.
Yeah. Adults using
a high school baseball game
as an excuse to get sauced.
You are not gonna judge the County Clash
just because Edgewater
is going to get its ass kicked
by Eel River again.
Eternal rivals.
Yeah, fierce ones.
(LAUGHS) Um
RENÉE: Ooh, I love your planner.
You have great taste.
- SHARON: Ah!
- (BOTH LAUGH)
Right back at you.
Uh, Renée. Hi.
Vinny.
- Oh, my goodness.
- "Renée" Renée?
Oh, my God, your high school girlfriend.
- Yeah.
- Yeah. Um
uh, this is my wife Sharon.
I want to hear all about
high-school Vinny,
and if you have any
embarrassing photos to share,
I'd pay some good money.
- (LAUGHS): Oh.
- That'd be fun. Um
you here for the game?
For work.
Yeah, I just had a gig in Louisville.
Oh, and before that, I was in London.
I saw Abbey Road.
Did you ever take that trip, Vinny?
I didn't even know you
wanted to go to London.
Can you please stop by the fire station?
Shall we plan it?
(LAUGHS) Yes. I love her already.
(BOTH LAUGH)
RENÉE: Oh, wow. Oh, look at that.
(GRUNTS SOFTLY)
(HUMMING SOFTLY)
(SIGHS)
Ooh.
County Clash twins.
Not your twin, and not your house.
Yeah, but my house doesn't have any food
because Gabs keeps ignoring
the roomie chore chart.
And that's my problem how?
You know what?
I don't like it when
you look at me like that.
Eh, well, stay out of my damn cabinets.
Yo yo!
What are you looking for?
(WHISPERS): No, but is that
the new waitress from Smokey's?
Bro, I was a phenomenal
wingwoman last night.
- Oh
- What happened?
Uh you were, uh, but like I told you,
I am looking for real connections,
not one-night stands.
Did you even get her number?
Okay, so, real connections.
We got to build a bridge by what?
Asking for the number.
I did ask.
And she didn't?
(SOFTLY): I'm so sorry.
- Look, man (SIGHS)
- That's crazy.
I'm not good at putting myself
out there anymore.
- Mm.
- I guess everything was just
easier back when
When you were emotionally
immature and a playboy.
- You weren't gonna
- No.
- I'm sorry. Mm-hmm.
- What I was going to say is,
back when I didn't carry around
this "almost life"
- Mm-hmm.
- with Cara and Gen.
- You remember them, right?
- Right.
Okay, look, look, look.
I know what it is.
You've lost some mojo.
But I can help you with that,
'cause right now,
me and Francine,
we're vibing romantically,
and me and Manny, we're vibing
professionally.
And so, when one friend
has less mojo than the other,
I must break off my mojo
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- for you.
♪
I'm not taking that personally.
With my daughter back in my
corner, I can actually see the light now.
How about you guys?
Got anything you're looking forward to?
Looking forward to shaking off this cold
that's ripping through camp. (COUGHING)
- Feel you, bro.
- Cover your mouth, dude.
You all right, man?
You need the prison infirmary, Birch?
No, I'm clean now.
One step back into prison,
my sobriety's out the window.
Eh, give yourself
more credit than that, bro.
You've really been working this program.
There's no Manny
looking out for me in prison.
Hey, you go in, you get your treatment,
you're right back here at camp.
Yeah?
That's what they told Kosugi.
And Carter.
You see them back here?
All right.
All right, we'll get you
some treatment here.
No infirmary, no prison.
I got you.
I promise.
It's just lunch. It's no biggie.
It's weird.
(LAUGHS) You just
hanging out with my girlfriend
from high school?
- That's weird.
- Kind of hot.
LUKE: Did I hear correctly?
Renée's in town?
- Leave it, Luke.
- Hey.
Are you the firefighter
filling in for Audrey today?
One last shift
before I ship off to Japan.
(AUTOMATED VOICE SPEAKS JAPANESE)
Means "Hi, I'm single" in Japanese.
- (LAUGHS): Of course.
- Let's stay on topic here.
Renée. She's trouble, Shar.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Uncle Luke?
- Hey. Bode.
- What's going on, man?
Bode Coyote. Look at you, all decked out
in your Cal Fire blues.
- Yeah.
- Uh-oh. Probie year taking its toll, huh?
(GRUNTS) Had some tough calls.
But I got Coach Dobbs
in my head, saying
ALL: "Forget the last play."
Senior year County Clash game's
when I got injured,
got derailed, but
today I'm spending it firefighting.
Well, that is a hell of a way
to look forward, kid.
Hey, why don't you help me
look for some turnouts, yeah?
Yeah.
"Forget the last play."
Know what that means?
No.
Means leave the past in the past.
Ah. Grown men quoting
their high school coach.
Just lunch, Vinny.
♪
So, tonight is the annual rivalry game.
And Edgewater has a team this year.
The Eel River Eels are going down.
Ooh, kind of an obvious choice
for a mascot, Chief, don't you think?
JAKE: Yeah.
I'm sorry, did-did I just hear
the probie ask for an extra week
of toilet duty?
LUKE: Yikes.
VINCE: Anyway,
it's also an annual headache,
because the kids
just spend the whole day
playing pranks on the rival school.
Kind of like when Greg Shinkle
TP'd our house.
I'm still pissed that Dad
wouldn't let us get back at him.
I wish kids were still into TP.
Now they steal stop signs
and cause car accidents.
They release bees into classrooms.
- Obvious problems
- MARGOT: They superglued
my costume. Some Eel River kids
raided the locker room with superglue,
and now my sister is trapped in this.
DISPATCH: Station 42, structure fire,
9000 Bel Air Boulevard. (ALARM SOUNDING)
That's Eel River High.
GABRIELA: Right on time.
Okay, Jake, why don't you take
the walk-ins?
Everybody else, head on
into the truck with Vince.
(GASPS)
Ow.
SECURITY GUARD: Some kid was trying
to rig the smoke bombs in the dugout.
They took off when they
saw me coming, though.
VINCE: Well, I'd appreciate
it if you could go look for him.
Fire like this,
he could have some injuries.
- Thank you.
- DREW: Hey! Hey.
My team's got a game tonight.
I need you to put this out.
Yeah, hi, Drew.
Uh, that's kind of what
my team is here for,
you know, the hoses and stuff?
Leone?
(LAUGHS)
I haven't seen you since they
carted you off this field.
Sorry about the injury.
We're all good, Kimbro.
They played baseball together?
Drew pretty much wrecked Bode's MCL
his senior year in high school.
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
You know, I-I was worried
when you threatened to meet me
in the parking lot, but, uh
guess you got held up by rehab.
VINCE: You can probably save the
trash talk for the game tonight, Drew.
♪
- VINCE: 42, let's get on it.
- Hey. Hey.
Forget the last play, yeah?
Keep your head down and fight
fires. Don't let this guy derail you.
I won't.
Lower, Bode. Seat of the flame.
Outside the strike zone.
Classic Leone. (GRUNTS)
Fire's spreading, Vin.
If that fire touches my field
Yeah, what, is there a game tonight?
- It's the County Clash
- I know, Drew!
Let us work.
- Hey, Cap.
- Yeah?
(COUGHING) You got a quick second?
No offense, Birch,
you're not looking too hot.
You need a trip to the infirmary?
MANNY: Actually,
we were hoping that we could
treat it here, you know,
maybe get him some ibuprofen
or something like that?
Yeah, well, I got
to document the request.
What are your symptoms?
Uh, congestion, headache, nausea
Couldn't stay sober, huh?
Yeah, I am sober. 22 days.
MANNY: Come on, man,
he's not lying to you.
Please, Cap.
Captain Edwards isn't in charge
of dispensing the medication.
I am. And he's not getting a thing
till I know what else is in his system.
Come on, Jones. I mean, look at the guy.
Look, I have some rapid blood
alcohol tests in my office.
Let's go.
Cap, don't subject him to that.
You know he's clean.
Well, then he has nothing
to worry about, right?
Let's go.
It's cool.
MARGOT: Can't you go faster, fire dude?
Well, I'm going as fast
as I can, Margot.
MARGOT: Ugh! On literally the one day
that I'm not supposed to be
in this thing.
Um, Heather R., the cheer captain,
rolled her ankle, so Heather M.
is taking her place as flyer,
meaning that my sister can
get out of the mascot
and take her place as a spotter
at the pep rally.
Understood. (CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
All right. We're gonna
get you out of here.
MARGOT: You stopped?
Violet, why'd he stop?
Well, um, unfortunately, Margot,
the costume is glued to your skin.
MARGOT: Okay, well, can't you just,
like, I don't know, pull it off?
Well, do you want skin
for your out-of-costume debut?
(SIGHS)
- Yeah.
- JAKE: Yeah.
Please, yes. Skin.
We can start with soapy water,
but hang tight, let me go
dig for some acetone.
- Hang tight?
- Actually, um
- will nail polish remover work?
- JAKE: Yeah. Wow.
Perfect. This'll,
this will work. Thanks.
(CHUCKLES)
MARGOT: Can you two
stop flirting or whatever,
and just get me out of here?
- Sorry.
- Uh, yeah. Absolutely.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Roof fire's out.
We could still use
a little help down here.
VINCE: All right, my team. Great work.
Soak it down, let's mop it up.
LUKE: Good job, kiddo.
Yeah.
DREW: You almost lost the dugout, Leone.
Like you lost in '09.
You took me out of the game.
No. I beat you to the bag.
It's not my fault you smashed into me.
You were blocking the base path.
A dirty play.
Dirty? I'm not the one who had
a hard time staying clean, am I?
What's your problem, man?
We just saved the field.
No, you didn't save anything.
You're always acting the hero,
but you're a loser, Leone.
You lose.
- Parking lot's right over there
- Let's go!
- Yeah, want to go?
- Hey. Hey, hey!
- Walk away. Walk away!
- Hey! You cannot
get triggered on a call
like that, Bode, you hear me?
Back it up.
Walk away.
Yo, Perez.
(EVE CLEARS THROAT)
- What's up, Cap?
- So, good news.
Birch's test came back negative.
I knew it would. (MUTTERS)
Jones gave him the meds
and, uh, sent him off for a nap.
You know, when I was captain,
I did everything I could to make sure
that my guys never felt like criminals.
Yeah, man, but you know how Jones is.
You don't get the meds unless
you get the proof, and I got the proof.
Hey.
We're on the same team.
- It's just my team.
- It's your team, I know.
Look, and I need you to rally the troops
'cause we got to pick up trash
at the Eel River pep rally.
- Oh, man.
- Look, look.
Make that sound fun, okay? (SNORTS)
First saw. (CHUCKLING)
All right, Three Rock.
You boys ready for some
community beautification?
Let's go touch some grass.
Perez, I don't mean to snoop here,
but something is up with my
nephew and you're usually in his head.
We aren't
We don't have that type
of relationship anymore.
Okay, well, then has
Firefighter Perez noticed
anything up with Probie Leone?
- Firefighter to firefighter?
- Yeah.
He's been having nightmares
about a patient he lost last shift.
It was a rough loss.
Bode sat with him
when he died and after.
Do Vince and Sharon know?
About the nightmares?
VINCE: Security guard still hasn't
found our smoke bomb kid yet,
so I'm gonna need the two
of you to make a couple laps,
see if we can't help find him.
- Uh, Bode
- Yeah, I'll join him. I'll go.
VINCE: Great.
Everybody else, back to
the station, restock. Let's go.
Wow, you really made
those tiny Post-it notes work.
You know, I couldn't find a way.
I just like them better
than the stickers,
but then, look at this, you make this,
you make, you make all of
this look classy. (CHUCKLING)
Thank you for coming here today.
The kids and their antics just have me
on high alert, I don't want to leave.
Are you kidding? I'm thrilled
to see this place again.
I mean, we used to sneak
crappy beers up on the roof
- when Walter was on calls.
- Come on!
That was high school Vince's
idea of a "date."
Not that far from adult Vince's
idea of a date.
It's certainly closer
than "Abbey Road Vince."
Yeah, well, we were kids.
We had all kinds of big plans.
Like?
You know, teen dreams.
See the northern lights,
Great Barrier Reef,
and then
And then?
Plans change when one person
wants to get married
and the other one doesn't.
I mean, Vince handled it
pretty well at the time,
I just think
You didn't know that he proposed to me.
I am so sorry. I-I didn't mean it to
No. No, no, no.
It's okay, really.
It was a million years ago.
Yeah, uh, I have got to get going.
- Okay.
- So
thank you for lunch.
And for the chat. (CHUCKLES)
- Yeah. Okay.
- Keep in touch.
Yeah. Great.
- (LAUGHS) It was a pleasure.
- Okay.
♪
No sign of our prankster.
No.
Hey, you said you had some
tough calls recently, huh?
- Yeah. Why?
- Nothing. You're just
talking about forgetting
the last play one minute,
getting into 15-year-old beefs the next.
It just feels like something
more might be going on,
- that's all.
- I'm fine.
Drew just got in my head. That's it.
That's it, huh?
Okay, well, now you're lying to me.
Wow. Really, Uncle Luke?
Perez told me
about the nightmares, Bode.
You're talking to Gabriela about me?
"Forget the last play" doesn't
mean you bury your issues, okay?
That's not what I'm doing.
I know that Drew's responsible
for your injury.
No. He-he stole my life.
He didn't steal anything from you.
Playing through the pain,
sneaking pills?
That wasn't on him, okay?
Look, I-I
I'm not blaming you for your addiction.
But this pattern of behavior,
it took baseball away from you
and I just don't want to see it
take firefighting away from you, too.
♪
All right, Margot, almost out of there.
And then you can prep
for your pep rally.
You can show the whole school
what you've got.
Okay, wait. I'm not ready.
All those people and just me?
No eagle head to hide behind?
Margot, you didn't sign up
for cheer squad
just to be the mascot.
I need tips, fire dude.
I need calm, I need cool,
I need confidence.
Well, uh
calm and cool and
confident aren't really
in my wheelhouse right now.
(VIOLET LAUGHS)
Oh, I'm sorry, I just, um
I (CHUCKLES)
I just meant look at you.
(CHUCKLES)
Yeah, well, uh, you know,
tell that to the women of Smokey's.
You are striking out?
Yes. Yes. I-I am striking out.
Because my fiancée passed away and
I don't know how to bring it up
or if to bring it up.
And then I get awkward.
Kind of like now.
Well, look, too late
to glue you back up.
Nothing left but to rip
the Band-Aid off.
Or in this case, the eagle head.
(CHUCKLES SOFTLY)
You've got this.
Uh hi.
I'm Violet.
I got divorced last year and
moved in to my parents' house,
with a mountain
of student loan debt, um,
and yes, sometimes
I still miss my husband,
but that doesn't mean
I'm not ready to find love.
Can I buy you a drink?
Is what I say
when I'm meeting new people.
It's just putting it all out there.
Flirt later, let's go!
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY)
Do you want
uh, help getting
getting the costume to your car?
Sure.
EVE: All right, gentlemen,
drop your vests
before you hit the showers.
They've touched Eel River property,
so we will be burning them.
(COUGHING)
Hey, Birch.
You still not feeling better, bro?
(COUGHING)
That medicine didn't do crap.
Hey, Cap.
- No, Manny.
- I have to.
What's up? The meds not working?
No, nothing's working.
Okay, well
Birch, I-I think we got to
get you to the infirmary, man.
Please, I can't.
MANNY: I'm gonna
check up on you every day.
Make sure you're still
working the program.
We'll get you right back here.
What if I get stuck so long,
I lose my spot?
Look, I'll make sure
that doesn't happen.
But I-I can't afford to have you
get worse, all right?
- Hey, Jones.
- Yeah.
Can we get him on the first bus
to the infirmary in the morning?
I'll start the paperwork.
All right. Look, I'll go to the kitchen,
get you some chicken noodle,
some fresh water,
and we'll work it out, man.
- MANNY: Thanks, Cap.
- EVE: Yeah.
Hey, bro.
- I'm sorry, man.
- It's my own fault.
For trusting you.
Beat it, Perez.
(COUGHING)
(SIGHS)
That kid's probably run home by now.
Why don't you tell your dad
we're on our way back.
DISPATCH: Utility 1543, Greencrest.
- Status check.
- Utility 1543.
We're still on scene,
Eel River High School.
DISPATCH: We have a report of
a patient trapped, name's Nolan.
He called us from his smartwatch,
and we're trying
to pinpoint his location.
Can you patch us through?
NOLAN: Hello?
Yeah, hey, Nolan.
Can you tell us
where you're trapped, buddy?
Uh, a-a drain pipe? I-I don't know.
It's-it's round
and it's cold and it's weird.
Okay, well, do you know where you are?
Any landmarks or anything?
It's near the baseball field.
I-I don't know.
I saw a guard and I took off.
I tried to hide in here.
Okay, hey, Nolan?
When you were there
at the baseball field
and you took off, which way did you go?
Were you were you on
the first baseline
or the third baseline?
The third. Crawled a ways down
and I got stuck.
- I see an exit.
- BODE: That's the exit
on the west side of the field.
Okay, hey, Nolan? We're coming to you.
Let's hit it.
(SIREN WAILING)
(SIREN WAILING)
(SIREN STOPS)
NOLAN: Hey. Hey.
I-I'm in here.
Hey, it's Nolan, yeah?
- NOLAN: Yeah.
- LUKE: Okay, I'm Luke.
We talked on the phone earlier.
Can you tell me which part
of your body is stuck?
I felt something sharp pierce my side.
All right, don't move.
We're gonna find a way
to get you out of here, okay?
Okay.
Greencrest, utility 1543.
We located the patient just
west of the baseball field.
Start an ambulance code three
and roll Engine 1591.
- DISPATCH: Copy
- Bode, grab the camera.
- We're gonna need eyes in here.
- Yeah.
You hang tough for me, Nolan, okay?
(WEAKLY): Okay.
Hey.
How was your lunch date?
With your almost-wife?
She was
- my almost-fiancée.
- Mm.
Because we were kids.
And yeah, I proposed. And she said no.
And you proposed to me
less than a year later?
Because you were ring happy,
or I was a rebound?
We've been married for over 30 years.
Okay, okay. So then
why didn't you tell me?
The past should stay
in the past, like I said, right?
No.
Not gonna cut it this time. Mm-mm.
For better or for worse,
I-I need to understand.
Okay, um
- DISPATCH: Station 42.
- (ALARM SOUNDING)
Report of subject stuck in storm drain.
9000 Bel Air Boulevard.
LUKE: Okay, now get that
camera as close as you can
and make sure the two-way mic
is up and running.
(WHIRRING)
BODE: Right there. There's our
junction chamber where it drops off.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
Hey.
So, city blueprints are
showing a junction chamber
in the culvert about ten yards in.
That's where we think
the kid is trapped.
He said he's hung up on something sharp,
possible puncture wound.
We told him not to move.
All right, let me see.
JAKE: (SIGHS) Anyone
call his parents yet?
He says they're out of town.
I'm not sure I believe him, though.
Well, he's an Edgewater High kid, right?
You call the school?
I'm not so sure about that.
JAKE: Is that an Eel River Baseball hat?
Coach Kimbro's gonna be so mad.
Well, there's an adult we can talk to.
You tried to sabotage your own dugout?
I couldn't lose again.
We lost three in a row because of me.
Striking out, giving up runs,
all I do is lose.
The principal said if anyone
pulled pranks during the game,
she'd cancel it.
So you were gonna set off smoke bombs
and make it look like it was Edgewater.
Hey, Chief? Take a look at this.
Kid's snagged on rebar.
Yeah, we're not
getting him out this way.
- Get me Three Rock.
- To do what?
To dig.
Down to the culvert,
we bust through the concrete.
Lift him up from above.
Um, we got to pack that wound
as soon as we can.
All right, I'll check for a saw.
- I'll grab medical.
- Hey, hey, hey.
The kid's losing blood.
The clock's ticking.
Hey, Nolan. How you doing
in there, buddy?
Cold.
I can't feel my fingers.
Hey. Temps are dropping.
Hypothermia's gonna set in soon.
All right, we got to get in there.
LUKE: Yeah?
No, not seeing any concrete saws
on the rigs.
We're gonna need serious tool
power to get through that concrete.
Got saws at the station. Go.
DREW: Nolan!
(VINCE SIGHS)
- Nolan.
- What? Whoa.
Hey.
I get a call that my starting
pitcher did this to himself?
Coach, I'm so sorry.
It was it was dumb.
Damn straight it was.
What the hell were you thinking?
Drew. Not helping.
Don't tell me how to talk to my players.
Right now, that's my patient.
This is my rescue.
- Get out of here.
- BODE: Kimbro. Kimbro, hey.
Come on. Come with me.
Need some help grabbing tools
that are gonna save Nolan's life.
Hey. You sure about this?
Come on.
EVE: Three Rock's
two minutes out, Chief.
VINCE: All right, guys,
for us to reach Nolan,
I need you to dig down to the culvert.
Dig from here
to here,
give us access to the junction chamber.
Thank you, Three Rock.
All right, copy that, Chief.
Gentlemen, let's get those
shovels moving, all right?
Let's go, boys. We got to be
faster than this. Let's move it.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
EVE: Nice, y'all.
Pace yourself, Perez.
W-We're just getting started, bud.
We're down a man, Cap.
Someone's got to pick up the slack.
It's like what you said, right?
(GRUNTING): We got a man down
it's not all on you.
MAN: All right, let's do it.
EVE: Come on, Three Rock!
Let's dig,
but pace yourselves, all right?
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
We got the tools.
Finally gonna let me know why
you forced me on this little field trip?
Some sort of power move?
This isn't about you and me.
It's about helping Nolan.
Two years in the minors.
Season in the majors.
Years of coaching under my belt.
But somehow you're the expert
on helping my player?
I know what he's going through.
No way that's true.
Nolan's not a washout, he's a good kid.
He planted the smoke bombs
because he doesn't want to play tonight.
Why would he do that?
Because he's taken all your
team's losses on his shoulders.
(STAMMERS)
He didn't say (GROANS)
Wh-What is he gonna say?
What, say
tell you that he's struggling?
My guess is he thinks
that that'll make him
look like a loser in your eyes.
I was a good kid, too.
Hey, just try and be easy on him.
Just don't don't let Nolan go
down the same path that I did.
I can help him.
Then help him now.
Kid's cold, scared
Just coach him through it.
Hey, Chief, we got 'em.
VINCE: Great. Bring 'em up top.
Soon as Three Rock hits the
culvert, fire 'em up and go to work.
Copy that. Let's go.
Eve, how's it going?
EVE: Yeah, we got about one foot to go.
DREW: Hey. Can I talk to Nolan?
And no more tough coach.
Okay? I swear.
Hey. Nolan.
I'm back.
Coach
I'm so sorry.
Nothing to be sorry for, Nol.
We're gonna get you out of here.
Okay.
(BREATHING WEAKLY)
(WATER TRICKLING STEADILY)
Hey
Hey, Coach?
It's, uh (EXHALES)
It's it's getting loud in here.
Sorry, Nolan, that's
all the digging up top.
No
(GASPS SOFTLY)
It, uh
sounds like
like like water.
There's a, uh, drainage pipe,
leads to the culvert from up north.
The part of the county
that got hit by rain today?
(WATER RUSHING)
GABRIELA: Guys?
What does that mean?
Okay, hey, um listen, Coach, um
the junction chamber,
it's filling up with water.
And if it fills faster
than we can get him out, then
He could drown.
Coach?
(PANTING)
Please! P-Please hurry!
Try to stay calm, Nolan.
Three Rock's almost done digging.
NOLAN: It's getting closer! (PANTING)
What do I do? What-what do I do?!
Hey. Nol.
You remember that curveball
you threw against Central
that won the game?
Okay, just imagine that pitch.
Relax your shoulders,
you found the seam,
you cranked back (INHALES)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
and you let it go, smooth.
(MEASURED BREATHS)
Just like that. Let's do it again.
(INHALES SLOWLY)
(EXHALES SLOWLY)
Luke, how we doing?
Yeah? (SHOVEL THUDDING)
Chief, we've got a
visual on the culvert.
Three Rock, fall back.
Hey, give us some space. Shovel.
EVE: Hey, let's prep the ladder.
MANNY: Prepping ladder.
Fire up the saw.
(INDISTINCT SHOUTING)
We're gonna cut
a three-by-three pattern.
Two cuts. Maintain a 45-degree bevel.
(BUZZING)
JAKE: Chief, the water
is a foot from his face.
Keep monitoring, Jake.
All right, get up there, Perez.
Immediate interventions
only. Doesn't have to be pretty.
It's just got to work.
(SAW BUZZING)
All right, we're through. Pry bars!
Here you go, firefighters.
Prepping gauze.
- In the edge, yeah?
- Yep.
Water is about to reach him
and he is losing consciousness.
(LUKE AND BODE GRUNTING)
(GRUNTING)
We're through. Ladder!
EVE: Nice, y'all.
(WATER RUSHING)
♪
All right, Bode, it's all you.
Bring in the spine board!
- Nice.
- Spine board.
EVE: Careful.
I got him! I got him.
BODE: Easy, easy.
Going down.
Lean back here, there.
Okay, he's in, bring him up.
One, two, three.
Pull!
Let's go, nice and easy.
LUKE: Nice and level, guys.
Get him over. Here we go.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
Down.
- Hey.
- It's Luke. You hear me, buddy?
- Hey, Nolan?
- Nolan?
- Nolan, come on, buddy.
- GABRIELA: Come on.
Come on. Come on.
LUKE: Come on, Nolan!
Hey, can you hear me? Nolan?
Come on.
- Come on, Nolan.
- LUKE: Hey.
(NOLAN GASPS)
Hey, there we go, there we go.
- He's good.
- VINCE: Great work, my team.
Let's get him in an ambulance.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(SIREN CHIRPS)
Yo, fire dude.
Hey. How'd the pep rally go?
I crushed it.
Attagirl.
(LAUGHS) Got to get to the game.
(SIREN WHOOPING)
Hey, hey. You know what?
Um
Hi, I'm Jake.
My fiancée
died before I could even propose.
I want to be the father to her kid,
who's in Idaho with her biological dad.
And that kills me.
And if that doesn't scare you away
I would love to get your number.
O-Only
if you'll use it.
(LAUGHS)
Hey, Kimbro? Kimbro!
Told you I'd meet you
in the parking lot.
(CHUCKLES)
You, uh, you going to the hospital?
Ah, Nolan's parents are out of town.
I want to be there for him.
Yeah, well, let us,
uh, let me know how he is.
Hey, I I saw you
nursing your knee earlier
at the dugout fire.
Is that the the old injury acting up?
Nah, this is something new.
Yeah, well, tore my shoulder
a few years ago.
It's what ended my career.
Here. These help.
I pop one every now
and then for the pain.
Consider it a thank-you.
(DOOR CLOSES)
Firefighter to firefighter,
I don't know what kind of
relationship you have with Bode, but
you read his storminess
like a book out there today.
You really get him.
I think he has someone else
who gets him now.
Okay, well, you know,
it was just an observation.
You know, I
Uncle Luke, you got a sec?
Hey, Gabs. Yeah, of course. What's up?
Oh! No way.
What's on your mind?
I can't let a patient loss
cost me firefighting.
I won't.
Okay.
So don't let it.
Look, Bode.
Losing a patient,
it's a bad outcome, you know?
Holding a man while he dies and
sitting there
with him the whole time
afterwards, that's
well, that's one of the worst
possible outcomes.
Unfortunately, it's
not gonna be your last.
I just
I didn't realize it would
take me out like it did.
You and my parents make it look so easy.
Just fun.
Yeah, well,
that was a disservice to you.
And I'm sincerely sorry
if we made it seem that way.
Like I said, more losses
are coming to you,
to us, to anybody in this field.
But that's what the chiefs are for.
Yeah, that's what your fellow
firefighters are for.
Gabriela, for instance.
- She and I aren't
- Yeah, I know.
But I think she gets you, man.
Just an observation.
Anyhow, Kyoto's only
a 16-hour time difference
and a phone call away, so
so pick your poison, Bode.
'Cause you're gonna have
to lean on someone.
Otherwise this job
will eat you up alive.
♪
You are not the rebound.
You were my partner in the rebuild.
Into what I am today.
I thought that Renée loved me
and wanted to be with me, but
when I told her I wanted to
stay here, be a firefighter
turned out she had other plans.
And she made me feel like I was making
the biggest mistake
I was ever gonna make
by not coming with her.
And I tried to talk to my dad about it,
but he just told me
real men don't show weakness.
You know
So I never
I never spoke to anybody about it again.
Walter.
I-I love the guy, but
he really is the gift
that keeps on giving.
(EXHALES)
You love everything that I love.
And you still manage to love me.
So
way I see it,
Renée prevented me from making
the biggest mistake
I was ever gonna make.
'Cause she took off.
Let me find you.
I love being your partner.
- (DOOR OPENS)
- LUKE: Hey, Vin?
Sorry. (CHUCKLES)
(CHUCKLES)
Why? Why?
(SIGHS) (CLEARS THROAT)
- (DOOR CLOSES)
- Okay, Luke.
I'll miss you.
Yeah, I'm sure you will.
You ready?
Yeah. What's in the bag?
- Nothing.
- What's in the bag?
It's it's nothing.
I thought we were going to the game.
Yeah, we're not.
But Greg Shinkle is.
Oh, come on, Vin, hey.
Come on, man,
it's my last night in town.
It's just harmless fun.
Your stash looks a little light.
(LAUGHS) We'll take my truck. Come on.
Hey, get the door! Get the door!
Bye, Sharon.
Ooh, wait till you see this.
Read 'em and weep, fellas.
How do you do it every time, bro?
You want in, Birch?
Yo, Birch?
One hand before you have
to roll out, bro.
Birch?
Come on, homie, it'll be fun.
Hey, Birch?
Hey, bro, wake up.
He's sweating, but no fever.
Hey, Birch.
Wake up, brother.
Hey, hey.
Birch?
His fingers are blue.
No. No.
Hey, somebody call Cap,
tell her to call 911.
Big Mike, grab me a med bag quick.
On his side, on his side. (GRUNTS)
Let's go.
Hey, buddy, I got you, hey.
Birch, Birch, Birch. Come on.
- DISPATCH: Station 42.
- (ALARM SOUNDING)
Patient in distress.
5175 Averthal Drive.
That's Three Rock.
(SIREN WAILING)
MANNY: We found him unconscious.
Eve lost his pulse
- about 15 minutes ago.
- Okay.
I got it, Dad.
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
What happened?
Did he get hurt?
He had a cold.
("SAVE MY SOUL" BY NOAH RINKER PLAYING)
Gone by day ♪
And gone by night ♪
It's not an easy road ♪
That leads you to the light ♪
It's winding now ♪
But someday ♪
(MONITOR FLATLINES)
It'll straighten out ♪
And it's worth it on the other side ♪
When it brings that city down ♪
I'm no good ♪
And I'm no saint ♪
I won't pretend to be ♪
Somebody I ain't ♪
I'm not perfect ♪
And I never claimed to be ♪
And I'm so glad the good Lord ♪
Is makin' time for me ♪
You only get one shot ♪
Everything to lose ♪
Lord, take me now ♪
I'm broken and bruised ♪
Can you save my soul ♪
'Cause I need you ♪
'Cause I need you. ♪