[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Fire Country Season 3 finale, Episode 19 “A Change in the Wind” and Episode 20 “I’d Do It Again.”]
Heading into the two-hour Fireplace Nation Season 3 finale, airing on Friday, April 25, one of many main questions is whether or not Jake (Jordan Calloway) will truly go away Station 42 for a captain place elsewhere with the flexibility to maneuver as much as battalion chief; everybody is aware of that’s Bode’s (Max Thieriot) at 42 as soon as Vince (Billy Burke) finally retires.
The promo, nevertheless, additionally teased the potential for a serious dying: Bode tries to combat his approach inside a constructing about to break down together with his whole household inside. Jake is seen holding him again. Earlier than seeing the episodes, we will solely assume he means Vince, Sharon (Diane Farr), and Walter (Jeff Fahey) — a fireplace is threatening his care facility — however others (the city is Edgewater could be very a lot a household) could possibly be inside as nicely.
Learn on for a whole breakdown of the two-part Season 3 finale.
“A Change within the Wind”
Finn (Blake Lee) stays very a lot a menace in the beginning of the two-part finale: Manny (Kevin Alejandro), who has submitted his Cal Fireplace software now that he’s out of Three Rock, spots his daughter Gabriela’s (Stephanie Arcila) stalker outdoors station 42 and follows him. He calls Bode and alerts the sheriff, however Finn will get away after, as soon as he sees Manny and hurries to flee, he units fireplace to a gasoline station. Bode, Manny, 42, and Three Rock (off their celebration that Tye White‘s Cole obtained parole) are in a position to put the hearth out and rescue the civilian inside, however Bode walks away from the incident with an apparent limp. Vince sidelines him because of his twisted knee for the remainder of the episode.
Station 42, in the meantime, holds a farewell breakfast for Jake, who’s taking the job in Butte (for now? a lot can change in these two episodes). However Vince is struggling to discover a alternative and, as Sharon tells Jake, a large number about him leaving. Nobody may even clear his footwear, not to mention fill them, Vince admits to his father, and Walter wonders why he’s even looking for somebody when Bode is correct there. Positive, he’s a probie, however he thinks Vince can simply do what he did with him and get him into form very quickly. Jake, too, thinks that Vince can practice somebody to get to his degree, when the chief tells him there’s no finer captain than him. It’s on the finish of this episode that one other candidate (the plain one) is claimed out loud, when Sharon calls Manny to purpose for that open captain spot. However instantly after he has extra necessary issues on his thoughts…
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As soon as Finn has been noticed, Vince tells Gabriela to return to the Leones’, and Audrey (Leven Rambin) joins her, off Sharon’s orders. (Their friendship? Probably the greatest elements of this second half of the season.) Too late, Gabriela realizes that Finn turned on location sharing on the cellphone he gave her (Audrey mentions a man in her previous who gave her a Fitbit to trace her), and so by the point they act, he’s already in the home, armed with a taser. Gabriela’s gun is out of attain, on a facet desk close to him. Finn retains saying that he needs to guard her, and Gabriela says what she must attempt to discuss him down, however he makes use of the taser on Audrey then tries to plan their escape. Gabriela and Finn find yourself preventing for the gun, however all we hear is the gunshot go off from Manny’s perspective outdoors. When he races in, Finn’s (seemingly) lifeless, Gabriela’s holding the gun, and Audrey is standing behind her.
Elsewhere, the subject of children comes up for Eve (Jules Latimer) and Francine (Katie Findlay) whereas babysitting the previous’s nephew. Francine needs one, whereas Eve gladly places off the dialog till close to the top of this episode. The excellent news? They love one another. The not-so-good information? Eve’s focus proper now could be Three Rock, and she or he doesn’t suppose she’s going to alter her thoughts about having children. Outdoors as they discuss? The beginning of a fireplace approaching Three Rock…
That fireside is a part of the one which Sharon had been bracing for, from Zabel Ridge. Whereas she heads out with 42 with the hearth leaping the freeway, Bode stays benched together with his damage. Effectively, that’s, till Walter calls, seemingly not remembering Bode (calling him captain), to satisfy him on the market with the hearth on its approach. “A Change within the Wind” ends with Bode grabbing his gear and heading out of 42.
“I’d Do It Once more”
“That is going to be a protracted night time,” Sharon says early on within the second of the two-part finale. There’s Manny focusing Gabriela and Audrey on saving Finn — he tells his daughter she doesn’t wish to stay with the guilt of killing him — after which, when it turns into clear an ambulance can’t get to them with all of the fires round city, he decides they should take him to the hospital themselves. He additionally needs Gabriela to say that he shot Manny, having are available and seen him endangering the 2 girls. However his daughter reminds him he was the one to inform her to get her gun, which did shield them. Gabriela saying that the gun protected them makes us marvel: Did Audrey shoot Finn? And it seems she did, having gotten her arms on the gun whereas the opposite two have been preventing. After Finn threw Gabriela down, then started advancing on her, Audrey shot him. Gabriela had simply taken the gun from her when Manny got here in. When the hearth blocks their street, Manny tries reaching Sharon, Vince, and at last, Jake, who tells him to hyperlink up with them on the care facility.
In the meantime, the firefighters of 42 and Three Rock are busy and overwhelmed with a number of fires, together with on the fireplace camp and Walter’s care facility. Bode arrives on the latter and helps his grandfather persuade the employees there to start out evacuating, which is able to take quite a lot of time, as in all places begins dropping energy (and Three Rock’s water pump within the nicely fails because of this). Eve sends Francine away as quickly as she notices the hearth. Violet (Nesta Cooper) worries about Jake, who assures her he’ll be positive (the worst factor a primary responder can say on a TV present) earlier than having to hold up as soon as the decision is available in about Three Rock’s troubles.
However then Jake’s rerouted, simply as Eve studies that Three Rock has misplaced a number of buildings, and so he tells her to get out if the hearth reaches the set off factors: No constructing is value their lives. The excellent news? Francine returns, with fireplace extinguishers to assist. And Cole comes up with the thought to attempt a bucket brigade to attempt to save the hearth camp. Whereas that works for a short while, the hearth reaches the second set off level. Francine leaves earlier than she will’t, and Eve pulls everybody again: It’s not value risking dropping one in all their lives. They’ll clear up at a neighboring camp after which get again to it — and take a second to have a good time that Cole is a free man because it’s after midnight.
Bode and Walter assist to evacuate the care facility, however one of many latter’s buddies isn’t outdoors and he thinks his listening to aids aren’t in so he didn’t hear the alarm. Whereas Sharon orders Bode to remain outdoors and maintain his grandfather with him (she needs she may floor him), Walter insists that the hearth burning inside him that they each have is all of the backup they want. And with that, Bode grabs his gear. As soon as inside, Bode wonders if Walter obtained confused, if his good friend exists, however when his grandfather remembers one thing he advised him throughout drill day, that individuals disguise in closets, they discover Otto. Bode begins carrying him out, however then his knee offers out … after which their approach out is blocked by the hearth.
As soon as on scene, Sharon and Vince each head inside, so as soon as Jake arrives, he establishes incident command. It takes a minute, however the Leones do hyperlink up inside, just for Walter, simply as they’ve gotten to the exit, to show again. Sharon and Vince insist Bode convey Otto out whereas they go after him. Bode, after all, needs to return in, however Jake holds him again, at the same time as he protests his complete household is inside. “Your complete household wouldn’t know a boundary if it hit them within the face,” Jake says, simply earlier than there’s a fireplace explosion inside.
Inside, Sharon and Vince have cut up as much as search for Walter, and it’s his son who finds him, making an attempt to ventilate an workplace. He even tries to provide Vince orders, pondering he’s nonetheless battalion chief, however Vince pleads together with his father to take heed to him to get out — and Walter does, solely to cease in the midst of the lounge to apologize for being a awful father and acknowledge that Vince is a greater one than he’s. “We’re not going to die in right here,” Vince insists, forcing him to maneuver. Sharon calls out, seeing an exit. However…
Manny arrives on scene with Finn at the back of his automobile, and Audrey turns herself over to the police, declaring she shot him in self-defense. Gabriela has simply crammed Bode in on what occurred when the care facility begins to break down. Vince, Walter, and Sharon try to make their approach out when one other part seemingly collapses on high of them…
Bode, seeing what’s turning into of the constructing, tries to run again in, however Jake and different firefighters maintain him again. The constructing collapses, and Bode collapses to the bottom.
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