Fire Country (2022–…): Season 1, Episode 9 - Episode #1.9 - full transcript
Previously on Fire Country...
You and me while
you're with Jake,
it's over the line.
You don't want me
to call at all?
Rebecca, I'm flattered. But
I'm not the cap's daughter?
That's different.
Yeah, she's out there,
we're in here. Let's escape.
You know what I liked
most about you diving?
Let's not do this
again, Dad, please.
That look on your face
every time you dove.
I saw that same look today.
The car's teetering
over the edge. It goes over,
it takes both
those kids with it.
Let's get them out
of there.
Good job. Get me out of here!
This car is falling
apart. We need a plan B.
Bode, no don't! Bode!
Get him out now, or this
was all for nothing.
Get Bode, get Bode.
Take my hand. Grab
my hand, Bode!
Come on!
No, no, no, no, Bode!
Bode!
An incarcerated
firefighter
inserts himself into
a precarious rescue
without being ordered to do so.
And that's just the
tip of the iceberg
of a call that went so sideways
even the rescue is
under review here today.
Sorry, is that a question?
Chief.
I'm with Cal Fire, too.
I'm here to help you.
But I do have to ask you
and your team about what
the hell happened out there.
State your name and
rank for the record.
Battalion Chief Vince Leone.
You were the incident commander
on the day in question, yes?
Yes.
When would you say
you lost control of the call?
I wouldn't.
Either you did or you
sanctioned this mess,
which is much worse.
So, I'll ask again,
when did you lose
control of the call?
Probably when a, uh, firefighter
went off a bridge
into the water.
This is not happening.
Maybe he survived the fall.
Oh, my God.
Bode? No!
Check the other
side of the bridge.
Bode!
I don't see the car!
Which of the two firefighters
who went off the bridge
are you referring to?
Call Swift Water Rescue.
Greencrest, Engine 1591,
emergency traffic. We
have an inmate firefighter
who's fallen over
the Ledgewood Bridge
into rapid river waters below.
We have no sight
on his location.
Gabriela, what are you doing?
No, no, no, no...
Probie! No!
- No! Vince, that's my daughter.
- Anybody see her?
That's my daughter, Vince. FIREFIGHTER
2: Negative, I can't see her!
No!
State your name and
rank for the record.
Captain Manuel Remy Perez.
How would you describe your
relationship with Bode Donovan?
He's an inmate on my hand crew.
That's all he is to you?
An inmate firefighter that
I work with. That's it.
And Gabriela Perez?
She's my girlfriend.
My only daughter.
She's my best probie.
Chief. If she's
your best probie,
help me understand how
she went off a bridge
before going MIA
with your own son,
unsanctioned?
It was a unique situation.
But I'm afraid legal is
gonna want more specifics.
Legal?
A life was lost.
You can't be surprised
when people want answers.
Chaos often starts at the top.
Firefighters match their
commander's tone. That's you.
But you weren't the only
authority figure that day.
If you're waiting for me to
throw a fellow firefighter
under the bus, we're
gonna be here a long time.
How would you describe
your state of mind
that day, Captain?
My daughter jumped off
a bridge. Take a guess.
It's the worst
feeling in the world,
knowing that your
child needs you
and not being able to help.
Not being able or
not being allowed to?
Is there a difference?
What were your stress levels
before Gabriela jumped?
Look, the only reason
that I was on edge
is because my daughter
was in danger.
Did you blame Bode for that?
No.
I blame Bode for
a lot of things,
but that wasn't one of them.
Of all the people
on that bridge...
Bode's captain, his crew,
his own father...
Why do you think Gabriela
was the one who jumped?
Bode!
It's a steep fall.
She must have been scared.
I'm sure she was.
Is she prone to
making rash decisions?
Was that just a yes
to you moving in?
I'm still thinking about it.
No.
Eve Edwards.
Can't say I ever
expected to see you here.
You surprised I didn't
quit after the academy?
I'm a tough trainer.
You know, it wasn't until
I made it to Station 42
that I was able to get
your voice out of my head,
saying that I didn't
have what it takes
to be in Cal Fire. The
girl I saw was meek,
indecisive, lacked confidence.
Well, that was, that was
five years ago, what...
I'm happy to be proven wrong.
We are on Ledgewood
and our leadership is exercising
questionable judgment.
I have an inmate firefighter
hanging off the side
of a damn bridge.
Now, that girl is decisive.
Well, there were lives at stake.
Do you regret your
insubordination?
No. It didn't even do anything.
It got you written up,
which I'm not sure
I even agree with.
A write-up is a piece of paper.
My call was too late
to be significant,
to stop everything that...
went down after.
The life that was lost.
No, n-no, n-no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no!
Bode.
Wh...
Bode is a loose cannon.
He's always been.
I don't know, I should have...
should have had him sent back
to prison when I had the chance.
How would you have done that?
Doesn't matter now.
I didn't report him back
then, I'm not gonna do it now.
Please have a pulse.
Oh, crap.
Okay, airway's intact.
Come on, Bode.
I'm alive?
You better be after
I jumped after you.
You jumped to save me?
Why?
You fell
to save Sam, a stranger.
I did the same,
except you're no stranger.
Where are we?
We went downstream,
a few miles, maybe.
♪ Tracing our life... ♪
I'm guessing my dad didn't
sanction you jumping.
I'd never ask you to
do any of this for me.
Well, it's a good thing I didn't
give you a chance to say no.
♪ Truth in our eyes ♪
♪ Maybe... ♪
Did I hurt your rib?
It happens. Not your fault.
Where are you going?
You're hurt.
Ribs will heal themselves.
We got to get out of these woods
and get back to the road
before it gets dark.
We should s-stay.
They're gonna...
They'll be looking for us.
They're gonna check the water
first, and then they're...
they're gonna do a grid search
and follow the river
until they find us.
That'll take way too long.
Night's gonna fall.
You're soaking.
You're gonna freeze.
You too.
Don't worry about me.
I don't-I don't want
to be responsible
for hurting you or
anybody ever again.
We got to walk east and then
we'll eventually hit the road.
We can flag someone
down and call 911.
Yeah, um...
We'll rescue ourselves,
and then we'll let your dad
yell at us both.
Well, let's go.
Bode's
record at Three Rock
is a gripping read.
Well, fire camp's
not the academy.
No. It's stricter.
Or it's supposed to be.
Bode wandered out and met
someone on an open road.
He assaulted a firefighter.
Did Jake tell you that?
Lucky guess.
I thought you were on our side.
I am,
but I can't help if I
don't have the whole truth.
So, tell me.
You had plenty of opportunities
to send Bode packing.
Why didn't you?
Manny, I'm sick.
Because he's a damn
good firefighter.
But he's also reckless.
That doesn't explain
why you kept him.
And if I'm asking,
so will the victim's lawyers.
I think I need a minute.
You and Manny need
to get your stories straight
or that woman is
gonna eat you alive.
I know her. She's a
human lie detector.
Manny won't listen to me.
Just like he wouldn't
listen to me out there.
Hey, lower your voice.
Hey, Sharon.
Can I talk to you
real quick? Of course.
You can't tell her anything.
I'm gonna tell her.
What? What?
She can't know what you did.
I think she'll understand.
No, she won't. No one
will. We're firefighters.
Sharon, Bode put us all in a
very difficult position here.
You think Bode's the problem?
That's not what I'm...
You know that I'm grateful that
you took a chance on me, right?
You have a strange
way of showing it.
Sharon, that's how you're
gonna come at me right now?
Because it was my gratitude
that kept him here
in the first place.
And I shouldn't have done that,
but I did it because
you asked me to,
and you shouldn't
have done that.
Don't make it worse for us.
I got
to-I got to te...
I got to tell the
truth. No, Manny,
you are gonna give her the
sword to stab you with.
I have to.
Are you cold?
A little.
It's only gonna get worse
now that it's getting dark.
We could huddle together
for some body heat.
Do you hear that?
Sounds like a baby.
It can't be.
It could be coyotes.
Hey, someone out there?
Oh, thank God.
Please help me.
I can't move very well, and I
think my leg might be broken.
What are you even doing here?
I was hiking.
In heels?
Those
facial lacerations...
That must have been some fall.
Yeah.
You're the driver from the
car wreck on the bridge.
You're the hit-and-run driver?
You're the reason
we're even out here.
I'm so sorry.
The turn was so sharp I
lost control of the car.
I didn't mean to hurt anyone.
That turn is too sharp,
but you were also speeding.
I know. I'm sorry.
And you ran from the scene.
This month, I had to
pick between rent money
and car insurance.
I picked rent.
I thought, if I stay,
I go to prison.
I was scared to see
what damage I caused.
Did I kill anyone?
We got everyone out alive.
Oh, thank God.
What's your name?
Meg.
You'll still help me, right?
I can't walk on my own.
I'm so sorry.
I'm Bode, this is Gabriela,
and of course we'll help you.
Thank you.
Some people see you
as a hall monitor,
but I know better.
You're one of us.
No wonder everyone loves you.
This department, this town.
A lot of people would be
willing to do you favors.
And sometimes you
let them, right?
Is that what Manny told
you... That he offered?
Oh, that's very nice
but that's not true.
I asked him to keep
Bode at Three Rock.
And because you asked him
Captain Perez chose
to ignore the fact
that your son's
broken multiple rules?
I saw a chance to keep
my incarcerated son,
my only living
child, close to home,
so I asked an old
friend for a favor.
Does he often bend
the rules like that?
Like going over a bridge
to save someone's life?
Way more often than I would
like, but that's who Bode is.
I'm talking about Captain Perez.
Does he have a habit of
circumventing protocol?
You think they could pin
this whole thing on Manny?
Tell me what happened out there
and I'll answer that question.
Sharon, Swift
Water Rescue is back.
No sign of them, still?
Swift found Bode's
shirt washed up.
Is there an implication here?
We have to consider the
possibility that they drowned.
Is there any other
implication here?
Your son's an inmate.
He could be using this
as an opportunity...
Oh, I dare you to
finish that sentence.
If they somehow made
it out of the water,
they've been walking around
in the cold, soaking wet.
We're likely looking
at two hypothermic,
disoriented, injured persons.
And in this weather...
I don't know how they
make it through the night.
Because we are professional
search and rescuers.
So, we search and
then we rescue them.
Hey, Chief.
Search perimeter's too far out.
We don't have the manpower.
Perimeter's not the problem.
Those rapids were challenging
even for our Zodiac.
You know what, bro, my daughter
didn't swim in the Olympics
just so she could
drown in Edgewater.
She's out here somewhere.
With my son, and we're
going to find them.
Right?
I'm requesting volunteer fire
department for extra eyes.
And I'm calling in the K-9, too.
All right, Meg, we're
gonna stabilize your leg
with a makeshift splint, okay?
It'll get us moving. Mm-hmm.
I keep hearing animals.
Lot of wildlife out here.
This is karma.
I'm a horrible person
who fled a scene
and I'm gonna die
out here in the dirt.
Well, look,
I'm an expert on
self-punishment.
Okay? I get it.
Right now, we just...
we got to keep working.
Deep breath, okay?
Okay.
You could go
get some help while
I stay here with Meg.
No, I'm-I'm not leaving you.
- Either of you.
- He's right.
You two save people.
The world's not losing a
firefighter 'cause of me.
Least I can do is
limp through this.
Listen, we need to-we
need to start moving faster.
Can't have anybody
getting hypothermia.
That's a good call.
We could keep each
other talking,
uh, stay alert.
So, you're a
firefighting couple?
You two have a baby, it would
be like having the baby Jesus.
It's, uh, it's not like that.
We're-we're friends.
You jumped in the river
for "just friends"?
Not quite.
Friends talk, even if it
was just on the phone.
We just see each other at work.
I think what Bode's
trying to say
is that we're coworkers.
Ready? Let's go.
Good? I'll help
you up. Hold on.
Okay. That's it, right?
Mm-hmm. Two...
Three.
Ooh!
Ready? Mm-hmm.
Gabriela! Bode!
Gabriela!
We've only covered 20%
of the grid, Chief.
We need more people searching.
Yo, Cap!
We're here.
I took the
crew back to camp,
like you asked me to, but...
We heard about the
search for Bode.
And if Cap's looking
for his daughter,
then we're looking, too.
Thank you, firefighters.
- Let's go.
- Gabriela!
Gabriela!
Bode! Bode!
Aah!
Are we lost? No.
Oh, no.
Bode, are you okay?
This is a bad idea. We should
just wait for the rescue team.
We'll freeze to death.
Leave me behind. I'm
slowing you down.
This is all my fault.
Just help me light a fire
to keep the animals away,
and then go get help.
We shouldn't split up,
but stopping to light
a fire is a good idea.
If we stop, we'll die.
You're hypothermic. You're
not thinking clearly.
It's not hypothermia.
Shivering? Check.
Stumbling? Check.
Confusion...
No, listen, we-we
just, we got to keep
going uphill, okay?
I can't see the stars
right now to tell
which way is north.
All right, guys,
everyone closer together.
Keep an eye on the
person next to you.
Bode!
Gabriella!
Chief, I'm pulling
my unit. Shift's up.
Wait, no. You
can't do that, man.
The dogs are tired. It's
only gonna get worse.
The heavy rain is gonna
suppress the scent
and the strong winds
won't help either.
Our crews need a break, too.
So, what, we're
just gonna give up?
No, I'm not giving up.
I'm not resting
until I find my kid,
but we can't ask our crews
to do the same, okay,
it's been too many hours.
Yeah, too many hours,
which means that Bode
and Gabriela are already
out of time, Chief.
We need to find them.
Or we got to make them find us.
Freddy, come here.
Yes, sir.
Turn around.
Manny, what are you doing?
Cal Fire... They got
a prescribed burn
scheduled for just a
mile from here tomorrow.
I'm gonna start it early.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We starting a fire out
here? That's right.
Hey, good idea. Bode's
rubbing off on you, Cap.
No, no! We are not doing that.
The burn's already
permitted, Chief.
But we're not the ones
permitted to do it.
We got no resources, no backups.
That fire gets out of control,
we got no way to stop it, Manny.
The road's just
right there, man.
It's gonna act as
a natural line.
Come on, Vince, it's the only
way our kids are gonna be able
to know how to find us.
Screw this. Three
Rock, who's with me?
Hell yeah, I am. Let's do it.
Chief, what are we doing?
All right, let...
Manny. Manny. What? What?
You want to do this,
I'm not gonna try and stop you.
But I can't get
my crew involved.
Understood.
But plan on thanking me later.
- Grab your tools, guys,
let's go. - Let's go.
Captain
Perez is a good man.
He runs into those
flames when every other
living thing is running out.
And he built a
really loyal crew,
so don't even think
about trying to get
one of his guys to flip.
I'm not trying to flip anybody.
He's as devoted a
captain and a firefighter
as he is a father.
Captain Perez made
many exceptions
for your child. And...
if he would do that for
someone else's kid...
how far would he go for his own?
Oh, my God!
Something hurts
worse. I'm so sorry.
I have to stop.
Here. Okay?
Slow. Slow. Go slow.
Is the swelling normal?
Uh, a little,
but, uh, this much, no.
I can't get a distal pulse.
Meg, can you feel this?
All I feel is pain.
Skin looks really pale.
Paleness... paleness
is...
paleness is a sign, along
with pain and pulse.
There's five of them, and I...
I... They all start with a P,
but I can't... I can't
remember the other two.
Hey, hey, what's wrong?
What does she need?
I'm a probie.
I barely have any
medical training.
I have no idea what I'm
talking about, Bode.
Doesn't sound that way to me.
Yeah, because I've-I've read
up, I've watched tutorials.
I know the theory.
I... Tell
me the theory.
It's-it's compartment syndrome.
With bone fractures,
tissues from the bone
seep into the blood, cau...
causing so much swelling that
it cuts off the circulation.
If it's not treated,
she could lose a leg.
Or even worse, she could die.
She needs help right
now, and I-I can't...
Hey, hey. It's just a theory.
How is it treated?
A fasciotomy.
You cut into the leg and
relieve the pressure.
But that needs to be done
in a hospital by a doctor.
Can it wait?
In theory?
No. No, it can't wait.
And then she said
she was gonna call
another witness.
Who is it?
She's gonna find out, Sharon.
And my career's over.
I mean, how the hell do I
explain starting a fire?
Am I gonna go back
to jail, Chief?
Okay, Manny,
she's on our side.
She's trying to
contain a lawsuit.
Sharon...
you've been in
administration too long.
Should have just kept
my stupid mouth shut
like you told me to.
Okay, what if this other witness
is some other angle?
What if this witness is...
Exactly who she
needs to nail me.
This was supposed to
be a controlled burn.
It's spinning out fast.
The fire's jumped.
Freddy, over here.
Jump in on this, here, come on.
Shovels over here!
Go, go, go, go, go!
Hey, stomp that out.
Cap, these hand tools
are not enough. We need water.
That's good, crew.
You're out of your
damn mind, Manny.
This is out of control.
But I can't let you hang for it.
Watch
out.
Hey, hey, spot fire.
Watch out, watch out.
Starting to regret
volunteering for this.
You volunteered?
What can I say? I
like Bode too much.
Hey, well, I know the feeling.
Yeah, but I didn't
also think that
we were searching
for my competition.
Cap's daughter?
I mean, anyone can see they've
got eyes for each other.
Uh...
that's my girlfriend.
I... Shoot, I'm sorry. I...
I didn't realize, and
I'm probably wrong, so...
Well, let's hope so.
For both our sake.
Okay.
I can disinfect the eyebrow
razor with hand sanitizer.
Clean the skin before you cut
so it doesn't get infected.
Okay.
Ready?
Uh-huh.
You got this.
Okay.
Ah, that feels better,
which is crazy 'cause you
just sliced my leg open.
Her distal pulse
is back. It worked.
That was incredible.
You smell that?
Smell what?
Gab.
That fire's probably
only a mile away.
Oh. I've never been
so happy to see smoke.
That's our North Star.
Where there's smoke,
there's Cal Fire.
We can get there by
morning. Let's go.
On this search and
rescue, you operated
under Captain Perez's
leadership, correct?
Yes.
Then you saw him light the fire.
I have nothing but
good things to say
about the way Captain Perez
conducted himself that night,
and in general.
And if you don't mind,
that's all I'm gonna say
without a lawyer present.
Because I don't want this to
go the way these things go.
These things?
I'm in prison for
something I didn't do.
I know how this goes down.
How does this go down?
You stand there and
ask me questions
in just the right way
to make me say something
I don't want to say
and trick me into
confirming whatever theory
you got going on.
And suddenly I'm under a
bus I never saw coming.
Or someone else is.
I don't want to
trick you, Freddy.
I want to know
what happened that night.
Next you're gonna tell
me you're on my side.
I am on your side.
And what I think
I'm hearing you say
is that while you were
combing through the grid
that had been set up as part of
the search and rescue operation,
you spotted a fire in the woods
that started spontaneously.
With the storm, it
would make sense.
Lightning struck and
started a brush fire.
Thank goodness you
were all nearby
and could get it
under control quickly.
So, tell me, what happened?
We made it through the
night. We're almost there.
Are those sirens?
You'll be punished,
but I promise,
what you're doing
to yourself inside
is way worse, trust me.
Gab! Here, stop.
Hey, hey, you okay?
You okay?
Hey, talk to me. Talk to me.
Talk to me. What's
wrong? What's wrong?
Gab.
She's unconscious and
she's barely breathing.
I can't lose her!
Leave me. Take her.
Af-After everything
you've done for me,
it's the least I can do.
I'll-I'll come
back for you. Okay.
I had to make a choice.
I don't know if it
was the right one.
I don't know either.
All I could think
of was saving Gabriela.
I couldn't see anything else.
I got her. I got her.
What's wrong with her?
I don't know. I don't
know. She was fine.
She... she was coughing some,
but she was able to walk,
and then she just... she
just started wheezing.
Sounds like secondary drowning.
There's water in her lungs
because she jumped
off that damn bridge.
Tell the paramedics
they need to have O2 ready.
Her pulse is racing.
There's still-there's still
another injured civilian
that's down there. Civilian?
The hit-and-run driver. Eve.
Arthur, come on.
All right, yeah.
She was in-she was in
better shape than Gabriela,
so I grabbed Gabriela
and I started... I
just started running.
We tried to fix her broken leg
and her compartment syndrome
as best that we
could. Okay, okay.
You have to save her.
Somebody get
me a warming blanket.
Gabs, listen to
our voice. Come on.
Come on, open your
eyes. Come on.
At the time,
Gabriela had collapsed.
I didn't know what it was.
Meg was fine. She was up and,
and she was talking.
But as it turns out,
she was bleeding internally.
We had no way of knowing.
She was a traumatized civilian.
And you are an
incarcerated firefighter
who made all the choices
that led to her death.
At least that's how her
parents' lawyers see it.
I am deeply sorry.
I liked Meg.
She made a mistake.
I did my best to try
and give her a long life
to overcome it.
Okay, Donovan,
back to camp.
Bode?
No, it's me, Jake.
You're gonna
be okay, mija.
We're gonna get you
to a hospital, okay?
She awake? Yeah.
You're g-you're gonna make it.
I'm gonna call and check
on you so many times
you'll be sick of me.
What a friend would do.
After speaking with all of you,
I have some recommendations.
Eve, I'm undoing your write-up.
I strongly recommend that you
climb the Cal Fire ladder.
You're an asset, firefighter.
Jake...
despite your personal
entanglement with both
MIA firefighters,
you put your badge
before your heart.
DC Leone,
I look forward to you
returning to work.
The department will
be stronger for it.
Battalion Chief Leone,
your leadership style... It
deviates from the handbook,
but there's no bottling
this job in a handbook.
I get that.
Cap.
There's a narrative
here that you started
a prescribed fire early,
an incredibly reckless choice.
But there's another
narrative that suggests
lightning started a brush
fire that you put out.
That's what Freddy said.
Like I said, my goal
is to protect you.
Protect us, Cal Fire.
So that's it,
then? We're good?
If it were up to me, yes.
But I'm afraid there
are parents and lawyers
who won't rest until
someone goes down for this.
My recommendation is Bode.
No! What? Oh, God.
He's an inmate who directly
treated the deceased civilian.
He-He's a small loss
to the department
compared to any of you, and
from what I've gathered,
Bode's been on thin ice before.
I was the one.
It was me. Write that down.
Tell the parents to tell
the lawyers... Chief...
Bode covered for me
i-in saying that he treated Meg.
He rescued Meg.
I treated her.
So...
truth is, her...
Her death is my fault.
There's no evidence
to support that.
Listen...
I can lose my job.
That's okay. I'll-I'll
figure it out.
But my son cannot
go back to prison.
That will kill my wife.
I'm sorry. it's over.
Bode's done.
Uh, all right, can I just, um...
Can I...
Can I just ask for one favor?
No parent should have
to bury their child.
It's unnatural.
And it's cruel.
And I'm sure you're
struggling right now
with why it happened
to your family.
Happened to mine, too.
You lost a child?
♪ And I can't change... ♪
Yeah.
My daughter.
When we first lost
her, I thought I could
punch my way through the pain.
But...
just made everything worse.
If you're trying to
talk us out of this...
Shh, Charles, just let him talk.
This lawsuit... it-it
doesn't just sue
a nameless, faceless
organization.
It's got a-a person's
name attached to it,
and that-that name is
shaping up to be my son.
Um, he and I,
we rarely see eye
to eye on anything,
but what he did out there
for your daughter, what...
He did-he did everything right.
He killed our daughter. No.
Meg succumbed to
internal bleeding
after she walked
away from the crash.
Please believe me, I'm not-I'm
not blaming your daughter,
but if you blame my son...
Cal Fire loses
a very valuable firefighter.
And that could put
somebody else's kid
at risk someday.
♪ To a brighter place... ♪
And worst of all, it's not...
not gonna bring Meg back.
You got to grieve your daughter,
love each other.
Blaming the wrong person...
That's-that's not gonna
make anything better.
♪ All of these chains ♪
♪ Weighing down... ♪
I'll talk to the lawyers.
♪ All of these chains ♪
You want to tell me about her?
What was she like?
♪ I'm down on my knees ♪
♪ I need some relief ♪
♪ Some quiet and peace... ♪
Hey.
♪ I've been here before... ♪
Hey, how are you feeling?
So much better being
out of the hospital.
I missed you.
I came straight here.
♪ Weighing down on me ♪
♪ Weighing down ♪
I missed you, too.
♪ All of these chains ♪
♪ Weighing down ♪
But, um...
♪ Weighing down... ♪
are you sure you're
feeling better?
Seriously.
♪ All of these chains... ♪
I'm horrified
that we lost Meg
after all of that,
and it's gonna
take me a while to
shake that. Yeah.
But... physically, I'm good.
♪ Weighing down... ♪
Okay.
Then we need to talk.
About?
You and Bode.
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You and me while
you're with Jake,
it's over the line.
You don't want me
to call at all?
Rebecca, I'm flattered. But
I'm not the cap's daughter?
That's different.
Yeah, she's out there,
we're in here. Let's escape.
You know what I liked
most about you diving?
Let's not do this
again, Dad, please.
That look on your face
every time you dove.
I saw that same look today.
The car's teetering
over the edge. It goes over,
it takes both
those kids with it.
Let's get them out
of there.
Good job. Get me out of here!
This car is falling
apart. We need a plan B.
Bode, no don't! Bode!
Get him out now, or this
was all for nothing.
Get Bode, get Bode.
Take my hand. Grab
my hand, Bode!
Come on!
No, no, no, no, Bode!
Bode!
An incarcerated
firefighter
inserts himself into
a precarious rescue
without being ordered to do so.
And that's just the
tip of the iceberg
of a call that went so sideways
even the rescue is
under review here today.
Sorry, is that a question?
Chief.
I'm with Cal Fire, too.
I'm here to help you.
But I do have to ask you
and your team about what
the hell happened out there.
State your name and
rank for the record.
Battalion Chief Vince Leone.
You were the incident commander
on the day in question, yes?
Yes.
When would you say
you lost control of the call?
I wouldn't.
Either you did or you
sanctioned this mess,
which is much worse.
So, I'll ask again,
when did you lose
control of the call?
Probably when a, uh, firefighter
went off a bridge
into the water.
This is not happening.
Maybe he survived the fall.
Oh, my God.
Bode? No!
Check the other
side of the bridge.
Bode!
I don't see the car!
Which of the two firefighters
who went off the bridge
are you referring to?
Call Swift Water Rescue.
Greencrest, Engine 1591,
emergency traffic. We
have an inmate firefighter
who's fallen over
the Ledgewood Bridge
into rapid river waters below.
We have no sight
on his location.
Gabriela, what are you doing?
No, no, no, no...
Probie! No!
- No! Vince, that's my daughter.
- Anybody see her?
That's my daughter, Vince. FIREFIGHTER
2: Negative, I can't see her!
No!
State your name and
rank for the record.
Captain Manuel Remy Perez.
How would you describe your
relationship with Bode Donovan?
He's an inmate on my hand crew.
That's all he is to you?
An inmate firefighter that
I work with. That's it.
And Gabriela Perez?
She's my girlfriend.
My only daughter.
She's my best probie.
Chief. If she's
your best probie,
help me understand how
she went off a bridge
before going MIA
with your own son,
unsanctioned?
It was a unique situation.
But I'm afraid legal is
gonna want more specifics.
Legal?
A life was lost.
You can't be surprised
when people want answers.
Chaos often starts at the top.
Firefighters match their
commander's tone. That's you.
But you weren't the only
authority figure that day.
If you're waiting for me to
throw a fellow firefighter
under the bus, we're
gonna be here a long time.
How would you describe
your state of mind
that day, Captain?
My daughter jumped off
a bridge. Take a guess.
It's the worst
feeling in the world,
knowing that your
child needs you
and not being able to help.
Not being able or
not being allowed to?
Is there a difference?
What were your stress levels
before Gabriela jumped?
Look, the only reason
that I was on edge
is because my daughter
was in danger.
Did you blame Bode for that?
No.
I blame Bode for
a lot of things,
but that wasn't one of them.
Of all the people
on that bridge...
Bode's captain, his crew,
his own father...
Why do you think Gabriela
was the one who jumped?
Bode!
It's a steep fall.
She must have been scared.
I'm sure she was.
Is she prone to
making rash decisions?
Was that just a yes
to you moving in?
I'm still thinking about it.
No.
Eve Edwards.
Can't say I ever
expected to see you here.
You surprised I didn't
quit after the academy?
I'm a tough trainer.
You know, it wasn't until
I made it to Station 42
that I was able to get
your voice out of my head,
saying that I didn't
have what it takes
to be in Cal Fire. The
girl I saw was meek,
indecisive, lacked confidence.
Well, that was, that was
five years ago, what...
I'm happy to be proven wrong.
We are on Ledgewood
and our leadership is exercising
questionable judgment.
I have an inmate firefighter
hanging off the side
of a damn bridge.
Now, that girl is decisive.
Well, there were lives at stake.
Do you regret your
insubordination?
No. It didn't even do anything.
It got you written up,
which I'm not sure
I even agree with.
A write-up is a piece of paper.
My call was too late
to be significant,
to stop everything that...
went down after.
The life that was lost.
No, n-no, n-no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no!
Bode.
Wh...
Bode is a loose cannon.
He's always been.
I don't know, I should have...
should have had him sent back
to prison when I had the chance.
How would you have done that?
Doesn't matter now.
I didn't report him back
then, I'm not gonna do it now.
Please have a pulse.
Oh, crap.
Okay, airway's intact.
Come on, Bode.
I'm alive?
You better be after
I jumped after you.
You jumped to save me?
Why?
You fell
to save Sam, a stranger.
I did the same,
except you're no stranger.
Where are we?
We went downstream,
a few miles, maybe.
♪ Tracing our life... ♪
I'm guessing my dad didn't
sanction you jumping.
I'd never ask you to
do any of this for me.
Well, it's a good thing I didn't
give you a chance to say no.
♪ Truth in our eyes ♪
♪ Maybe... ♪
Did I hurt your rib?
It happens. Not your fault.
Where are you going?
You're hurt.
Ribs will heal themselves.
We got to get out of these woods
and get back to the road
before it gets dark.
We should s-stay.
They're gonna...
They'll be looking for us.
They're gonna check the water
first, and then they're...
they're gonna do a grid search
and follow the river
until they find us.
That'll take way too long.
Night's gonna fall.
You're soaking.
You're gonna freeze.
You too.
Don't worry about me.
I don't-I don't want
to be responsible
for hurting you or
anybody ever again.
We got to walk east and then
we'll eventually hit the road.
We can flag someone
down and call 911.
Yeah, um...
We'll rescue ourselves,
and then we'll let your dad
yell at us both.
Well, let's go.
Bode's
record at Three Rock
is a gripping read.
Well, fire camp's
not the academy.
No. It's stricter.
Or it's supposed to be.
Bode wandered out and met
someone on an open road.
He assaulted a firefighter.
Did Jake tell you that?
Lucky guess.
I thought you were on our side.
I am,
but I can't help if I
don't have the whole truth.
So, tell me.
You had plenty of opportunities
to send Bode packing.
Why didn't you?
Manny, I'm sick.
Because he's a damn
good firefighter.
But he's also reckless.
That doesn't explain
why you kept him.
And if I'm asking,
so will the victim's lawyers.
I think I need a minute.
You and Manny need
to get your stories straight
or that woman is
gonna eat you alive.
I know her. She's a
human lie detector.
Manny won't listen to me.
Just like he wouldn't
listen to me out there.
Hey, lower your voice.
Hey, Sharon.
Can I talk to you
real quick? Of course.
You can't tell her anything.
I'm gonna tell her.
What? What?
She can't know what you did.
I think she'll understand.
No, she won't. No one
will. We're firefighters.
Sharon, Bode put us all in a
very difficult position here.
You think Bode's the problem?
That's not what I'm...
You know that I'm grateful that
you took a chance on me, right?
You have a strange
way of showing it.
Sharon, that's how you're
gonna come at me right now?
Because it was my gratitude
that kept him here
in the first place.
And I shouldn't have done that,
but I did it because
you asked me to,
and you shouldn't
have done that.
Don't make it worse for us.
I got
to-I got to te...
I got to tell the
truth. No, Manny,
you are gonna give her the
sword to stab you with.
I have to.
Are you cold?
A little.
It's only gonna get worse
now that it's getting dark.
We could huddle together
for some body heat.
Do you hear that?
Sounds like a baby.
It can't be.
It could be coyotes.
Hey, someone out there?
Oh, thank God.
Please help me.
I can't move very well, and I
think my leg might be broken.
What are you even doing here?
I was hiking.
In heels?
Those
facial lacerations...
That must have been some fall.
Yeah.
You're the driver from the
car wreck on the bridge.
You're the hit-and-run driver?
You're the reason
we're even out here.
I'm so sorry.
The turn was so sharp I
lost control of the car.
I didn't mean to hurt anyone.
That turn is too sharp,
but you were also speeding.
I know. I'm sorry.
And you ran from the scene.
This month, I had to
pick between rent money
and car insurance.
I picked rent.
I thought, if I stay,
I go to prison.
I was scared to see
what damage I caused.
Did I kill anyone?
We got everyone out alive.
Oh, thank God.
What's your name?
Meg.
You'll still help me, right?
I can't walk on my own.
I'm so sorry.
I'm Bode, this is Gabriela,
and of course we'll help you.
Thank you.
Some people see you
as a hall monitor,
but I know better.
You're one of us.
No wonder everyone loves you.
This department, this town.
A lot of people would be
willing to do you favors.
And sometimes you
let them, right?
Is that what Manny told
you... That he offered?
Oh, that's very nice
but that's not true.
I asked him to keep
Bode at Three Rock.
And because you asked him
Captain Perez chose
to ignore the fact
that your son's
broken multiple rules?
I saw a chance to keep
my incarcerated son,
my only living
child, close to home,
so I asked an old
friend for a favor.
Does he often bend
the rules like that?
Like going over a bridge
to save someone's life?
Way more often than I would
like, but that's who Bode is.
I'm talking about Captain Perez.
Does he have a habit of
circumventing protocol?
You think they could pin
this whole thing on Manny?
Tell me what happened out there
and I'll answer that question.
Sharon, Swift
Water Rescue is back.
No sign of them, still?
Swift found Bode's
shirt washed up.
Is there an implication here?
We have to consider the
possibility that they drowned.
Is there any other
implication here?
Your son's an inmate.
He could be using this
as an opportunity...
Oh, I dare you to
finish that sentence.
If they somehow made
it out of the water,
they've been walking around
in the cold, soaking wet.
We're likely looking
at two hypothermic,
disoriented, injured persons.
And in this weather...
I don't know how they
make it through the night.
Because we are professional
search and rescuers.
So, we search and
then we rescue them.
Hey, Chief.
Search perimeter's too far out.
We don't have the manpower.
Perimeter's not the problem.
Those rapids were challenging
even for our Zodiac.
You know what, bro, my daughter
didn't swim in the Olympics
just so she could
drown in Edgewater.
She's out here somewhere.
With my son, and we're
going to find them.
Right?
I'm requesting volunteer fire
department for extra eyes.
And I'm calling in the K-9, too.
All right, Meg, we're
gonna stabilize your leg
with a makeshift splint, okay?
It'll get us moving. Mm-hmm.
I keep hearing animals.
Lot of wildlife out here.
This is karma.
I'm a horrible person
who fled a scene
and I'm gonna die
out here in the dirt.
Well, look,
I'm an expert on
self-punishment.
Okay? I get it.
Right now, we just...
we got to keep working.
Deep breath, okay?
Okay.
You could go
get some help while
I stay here with Meg.
No, I'm-I'm not leaving you.
- Either of you.
- He's right.
You two save people.
The world's not losing a
firefighter 'cause of me.
Least I can do is
limp through this.
Listen, we need to-we
need to start moving faster.
Can't have anybody
getting hypothermia.
That's a good call.
We could keep each
other talking,
uh, stay alert.
So, you're a
firefighting couple?
You two have a baby, it would
be like having the baby Jesus.
It's, uh, it's not like that.
We're-we're friends.
You jumped in the river
for "just friends"?
Not quite.
Friends talk, even if it
was just on the phone.
We just see each other at work.
I think what Bode's
trying to say
is that we're coworkers.
Ready? Let's go.
Good? I'll help
you up. Hold on.
Okay. That's it, right?
Mm-hmm. Two...
Three.
Ooh!
Ready? Mm-hmm.
Gabriela! Bode!
Gabriela!
We've only covered 20%
of the grid, Chief.
We need more people searching.
Yo, Cap!
We're here.
I took the
crew back to camp,
like you asked me to, but...
We heard about the
search for Bode.
And if Cap's looking
for his daughter,
then we're looking, too.
Thank you, firefighters.
- Let's go.
- Gabriela!
Gabriela!
Bode! Bode!
Aah!
Are we lost? No.
Oh, no.
Bode, are you okay?
This is a bad idea. We should
just wait for the rescue team.
We'll freeze to death.
Leave me behind. I'm
slowing you down.
This is all my fault.
Just help me light a fire
to keep the animals away,
and then go get help.
We shouldn't split up,
but stopping to light
a fire is a good idea.
If we stop, we'll die.
You're hypothermic. You're
not thinking clearly.
It's not hypothermia.
Shivering? Check.
Stumbling? Check.
Confusion...
No, listen, we-we
just, we got to keep
going uphill, okay?
I can't see the stars
right now to tell
which way is north.
All right, guys,
everyone closer together.
Keep an eye on the
person next to you.
Bode!
Gabriella!
Chief, I'm pulling
my unit. Shift's up.
Wait, no. You
can't do that, man.
The dogs are tired. It's
only gonna get worse.
The heavy rain is gonna
suppress the scent
and the strong winds
won't help either.
Our crews need a break, too.
So, what, we're
just gonna give up?
No, I'm not giving up.
I'm not resting
until I find my kid,
but we can't ask our crews
to do the same, okay,
it's been too many hours.
Yeah, too many hours,
which means that Bode
and Gabriela are already
out of time, Chief.
We need to find them.
Or we got to make them find us.
Freddy, come here.
Yes, sir.
Turn around.
Manny, what are you doing?
Cal Fire... They got
a prescribed burn
scheduled for just a
mile from here tomorrow.
I'm gonna start it early.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
We starting a fire out
here? That's right.
Hey, good idea. Bode's
rubbing off on you, Cap.
No, no! We are not doing that.
The burn's already
permitted, Chief.
But we're not the ones
permitted to do it.
We got no resources, no backups.
That fire gets out of control,
we got no way to stop it, Manny.
The road's just
right there, man.
It's gonna act as
a natural line.
Come on, Vince, it's the only
way our kids are gonna be able
to know how to find us.
Screw this. Three
Rock, who's with me?
Hell yeah, I am. Let's do it.
Chief, what are we doing?
All right, let...
Manny. Manny. What? What?
You want to do this,
I'm not gonna try and stop you.
But I can't get
my crew involved.
Understood.
But plan on thanking me later.
- Grab your tools, guys,
let's go. - Let's go.
Captain
Perez is a good man.
He runs into those
flames when every other
living thing is running out.
And he built a
really loyal crew,
so don't even think
about trying to get
one of his guys to flip.
I'm not trying to flip anybody.
He's as devoted a
captain and a firefighter
as he is a father.
Captain Perez made
many exceptions
for your child. And...
if he would do that for
someone else's kid...
how far would he go for his own?
Oh, my God!
Something hurts
worse. I'm so sorry.
I have to stop.
Here. Okay?
Slow. Slow. Go slow.
Is the swelling normal?
Uh, a little,
but, uh, this much, no.
I can't get a distal pulse.
Meg, can you feel this?
All I feel is pain.
Skin looks really pale.
Paleness... paleness
is...
paleness is a sign, along
with pain and pulse.
There's five of them, and I...
I... They all start with a P,
but I can't... I can't
remember the other two.
Hey, hey, what's wrong?
What does she need?
I'm a probie.
I barely have any
medical training.
I have no idea what I'm
talking about, Bode.
Doesn't sound that way to me.
Yeah, because I've-I've read
up, I've watched tutorials.
I know the theory.
I... Tell
me the theory.
It's-it's compartment syndrome.
With bone fractures,
tissues from the bone
seep into the blood, cau...
causing so much swelling that
it cuts off the circulation.
If it's not treated,
she could lose a leg.
Or even worse, she could die.
She needs help right
now, and I-I can't...
Hey, hey. It's just a theory.
How is it treated?
A fasciotomy.
You cut into the leg and
relieve the pressure.
But that needs to be done
in a hospital by a doctor.
Can it wait?
In theory?
No. No, it can't wait.
And then she said
she was gonna call
another witness.
Who is it?
She's gonna find out, Sharon.
And my career's over.
I mean, how the hell do I
explain starting a fire?
Am I gonna go back
to jail, Chief?
Okay, Manny,
she's on our side.
She's trying to
contain a lawsuit.
Sharon...
you've been in
administration too long.
Should have just kept
my stupid mouth shut
like you told me to.
Okay, what if this other witness
is some other angle?
What if this witness is...
Exactly who she
needs to nail me.
This was supposed to
be a controlled burn.
It's spinning out fast.
The fire's jumped.
Freddy, over here.
Jump in on this, here, come on.
Shovels over here!
Go, go, go, go, go!
Hey, stomp that out.
Cap, these hand tools
are not enough. We need water.
That's good, crew.
You're out of your
damn mind, Manny.
This is out of control.
But I can't let you hang for it.
Watch
out.
Hey, hey, spot fire.
Watch out, watch out.
Starting to regret
volunteering for this.
You volunteered?
What can I say? I
like Bode too much.
Hey, well, I know the feeling.
Yeah, but I didn't
also think that
we were searching
for my competition.
Cap's daughter?
I mean, anyone can see they've
got eyes for each other.
Uh...
that's my girlfriend.
I... Shoot, I'm sorry. I...
I didn't realize, and
I'm probably wrong, so...
Well, let's hope so.
For both our sake.
Okay.
I can disinfect the eyebrow
razor with hand sanitizer.
Clean the skin before you cut
so it doesn't get infected.
Okay.
Ready?
Uh-huh.
You got this.
Okay.
Ah, that feels better,
which is crazy 'cause you
just sliced my leg open.
Her distal pulse
is back. It worked.
That was incredible.
You smell that?
Smell what?
Gab.
That fire's probably
only a mile away.
Oh. I've never been
so happy to see smoke.
That's our North Star.
Where there's smoke,
there's Cal Fire.
We can get there by
morning. Let's go.
On this search and
rescue, you operated
under Captain Perez's
leadership, correct?
Yes.
Then you saw him light the fire.
I have nothing but
good things to say
about the way Captain Perez
conducted himself that night,
and in general.
And if you don't mind,
that's all I'm gonna say
without a lawyer present.
Because I don't want this to
go the way these things go.
These things?
I'm in prison for
something I didn't do.
I know how this goes down.
How does this go down?
You stand there and
ask me questions
in just the right way
to make me say something
I don't want to say
and trick me into
confirming whatever theory
you got going on.
And suddenly I'm under a
bus I never saw coming.
Or someone else is.
I don't want to
trick you, Freddy.
I want to know
what happened that night.
Next you're gonna tell
me you're on my side.
I am on your side.
And what I think
I'm hearing you say
is that while you were
combing through the grid
that had been set up as part of
the search and rescue operation,
you spotted a fire in the woods
that started spontaneously.
With the storm, it
would make sense.
Lightning struck and
started a brush fire.
Thank goodness you
were all nearby
and could get it
under control quickly.
So, tell me, what happened?
We made it through the
night. We're almost there.
Are those sirens?
You'll be punished,
but I promise,
what you're doing
to yourself inside
is way worse, trust me.
Gab! Here, stop.
Hey, hey, you okay?
You okay?
Hey, talk to me. Talk to me.
Talk to me. What's
wrong? What's wrong?
Gab.
She's unconscious and
she's barely breathing.
I can't lose her!
Leave me. Take her.
Af-After everything
you've done for me,
it's the least I can do.
I'll-I'll come
back for you. Okay.
I had to make a choice.
I don't know if it
was the right one.
I don't know either.
All I could think
of was saving Gabriela.
I couldn't see anything else.
I got her. I got her.
What's wrong with her?
I don't know. I don't
know. She was fine.
She... she was coughing some,
but she was able to walk,
and then she just... she
just started wheezing.
Sounds like secondary drowning.
There's water in her lungs
because she jumped
off that damn bridge.
Tell the paramedics
they need to have O2 ready.
Her pulse is racing.
There's still-there's still
another injured civilian
that's down there. Civilian?
The hit-and-run driver. Eve.
Arthur, come on.
All right, yeah.
She was in-she was in
better shape than Gabriela,
so I grabbed Gabriela
and I started... I
just started running.
We tried to fix her broken leg
and her compartment syndrome
as best that we
could. Okay, okay.
You have to save her.
Somebody get
me a warming blanket.
Gabs, listen to
our voice. Come on.
Come on, open your
eyes. Come on.
At the time,
Gabriela had collapsed.
I didn't know what it was.
Meg was fine. She was up and,
and she was talking.
But as it turns out,
she was bleeding internally.
We had no way of knowing.
She was a traumatized civilian.
And you are an
incarcerated firefighter
who made all the choices
that led to her death.
At least that's how her
parents' lawyers see it.
I am deeply sorry.
I liked Meg.
She made a mistake.
I did my best to try
and give her a long life
to overcome it.
Okay, Donovan,
back to camp.
Bode?
No, it's me, Jake.
You're gonna
be okay, mija.
We're gonna get you
to a hospital, okay?
She awake? Yeah.
You're g-you're gonna make it.
I'm gonna call and check
on you so many times
you'll be sick of me.
What a friend would do.
After speaking with all of you,
I have some recommendations.
Eve, I'm undoing your write-up.
I strongly recommend that you
climb the Cal Fire ladder.
You're an asset, firefighter.
Jake...
despite your personal
entanglement with both
MIA firefighters,
you put your badge
before your heart.
DC Leone,
I look forward to you
returning to work.
The department will
be stronger for it.
Battalion Chief Leone,
your leadership style... It
deviates from the handbook,
but there's no bottling
this job in a handbook.
I get that.
Cap.
There's a narrative
here that you started
a prescribed fire early,
an incredibly reckless choice.
But there's another
narrative that suggests
lightning started a brush
fire that you put out.
That's what Freddy said.
Like I said, my goal
is to protect you.
Protect us, Cal Fire.
So that's it,
then? We're good?
If it were up to me, yes.
But I'm afraid there
are parents and lawyers
who won't rest until
someone goes down for this.
My recommendation is Bode.
No! What? Oh, God.
He's an inmate who directly
treated the deceased civilian.
He-He's a small loss
to the department
compared to any of you, and
from what I've gathered,
Bode's been on thin ice before.
I was the one.
It was me. Write that down.
Tell the parents to tell
the lawyers... Chief...
Bode covered for me
i-in saying that he treated Meg.
He rescued Meg.
I treated her.
So...
truth is, her...
Her death is my fault.
There's no evidence
to support that.
Listen...
I can lose my job.
That's okay. I'll-I'll
figure it out.
But my son cannot
go back to prison.
That will kill my wife.
I'm sorry. it's over.
Bode's done.
Uh, all right, can I just, um...
Can I...
Can I just ask for one favor?
No parent should have
to bury their child.
It's unnatural.
And it's cruel.
And I'm sure you're
struggling right now
with why it happened
to your family.
Happened to mine, too.
You lost a child?
♪ And I can't change... ♪
Yeah.
My daughter.
When we first lost
her, I thought I could
punch my way through the pain.
But...
just made everything worse.
If you're trying to
talk us out of this...
Shh, Charles, just let him talk.
This lawsuit... it-it
doesn't just sue
a nameless, faceless
organization.
It's got a-a person's
name attached to it,
and that-that name is
shaping up to be my son.
Um, he and I,
we rarely see eye
to eye on anything,
but what he did out there
for your daughter, what...
He did-he did everything right.
He killed our daughter. No.
Meg succumbed to
internal bleeding
after she walked
away from the crash.
Please believe me, I'm not-I'm
not blaming your daughter,
but if you blame my son...
Cal Fire loses
a very valuable firefighter.
And that could put
somebody else's kid
at risk someday.
♪ To a brighter place... ♪
And worst of all, it's not...
not gonna bring Meg back.
You got to grieve your daughter,
love each other.
Blaming the wrong person...
That's-that's not gonna
make anything better.
♪ All of these chains ♪
♪ Weighing down... ♪
I'll talk to the lawyers.
♪ All of these chains ♪
You want to tell me about her?
What was she like?
♪ I'm down on my knees ♪
♪ I need some relief ♪
♪ Some quiet and peace... ♪
Hey.
♪ I've been here before... ♪
Hey, how are you feeling?
So much better being
out of the hospital.
I missed you.
I came straight here.
♪ Weighing down on me ♪
♪ Weighing down ♪
I missed you, too.
♪ All of these chains ♪
♪ Weighing down ♪
But, um...
♪ Weighing down... ♪
are you sure you're
feeling better?
Seriously.
♪ All of these chains... ♪
I'm horrified
that we lost Meg
after all of that,
and it's gonna
take me a while to
shake that. Yeah.
But... physically, I'm good.
♪ Weighing down... ♪
Okay.
Then we need to talk.
About?
You and Bode.
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