[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Fire Country Season 2 Episode 16 “Dirty Money.”]
“Man, Leones are cussed,” Fireplace Nation star, co-creator, govt producer, and director Max Thieriot reminds us. In different phrases, it’s not going to be really easy for Bode and Sharon (Diane Farr) to see one another’s facet in the case of their battle on the finish of the newest episode.
Following the reveal that chemical firm Oxalta was behind the poisoning of the effectively water that made all of the Three Rock inmates sick (and killed one), Eve (Jules Latimer) and Sharon met with their lawyer (J. August Richards) and different representatives to see what could possibly be carried out. As soon as Jake’s (Jordan Calloway) girlfriend Violet (Nesta Cooper), in a brand new job with the corporate, slipped info to Eve about how Oxalta has carried out this earlier than, Sharon used that to get a deal: Oxalta paid to wash up Three Rock, and Manny (Kevin Alejandro) received launched early, in trade for everybody signing NDAs. As Bode noticed it, it was soiled cash — and Oxalta can simply go and do the identical once more.
“For probably the most half, [Sharon’s] at all times type of been [Bode’s] protector, and he or she’s at all times been Mama Bear,” Thieriot tells TV Insider within the video interview above. “Storytelling-wise, it felt fascinating to have the ability to see a bit of bit totally different facet of their relationship and what occurs when these two individuals don’t agree on one thing. It actually has a unique feel and look to when Bode and Vince [Billy Burke] aren’t seeing eye to eye.”
And it’s not going to be fairly really easy for that to vary as a result of aforementioned stubbornness of this household. “There’s normally not loads of assembly within the center,” admits Thieriot. “I believe the best way that it unfolds is absolutely enjoyable, however I believe it’s protected to imagine that almost all disagreements are solely actually realized when anyone finally ends up being the winner within the scenario.”
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We additionally noticed how cussed this household could be on the opposite facet of it for Sharon, along with her sister Mickey (Morena Baccarin, set to steer the Sheriff Nation spinoff subsequent season) and Mickey’s father Wes (W. Earl Brown). One of many males who labored for him in his legal enterprise tried to kill him on this episode, resulting in Bode and Mickey teaming as much as examine and save him. However when Mickey requested him to “go authorized” so they might have a relationship (since she’s the sheriff), he refused.
Thieriot confirms they left that relationship like that as a result of the spinoff is coming. “We have now to have an enormous arc for these two on this sequence and simply preserve that kind of battle of getting a father who’s the epitome of every thing that she’s not and what he represents versus what she represents and why she grew to become a sheriff and the childhood that she had,” he says.
Elsewhere within the episode, Jake started worrying about whether or not or not he’ll be capable of develop at Station 42 like he needs; everybody is aware of that the “keys to the dominion,” a.okay.a. Vince’s job, is Bode’s in some unspecified time in the future. Vince overheard him speaking to Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) about it, however when Jake tried to speak to the battalion chief, he simply brushed it off with the cliche “I’m not lifeless but” line.
“It places a bit of pressure on Vince and Jake’s relationship, however greater than something, I believe it’s not about being upset with anyone, it’s extra a type of conditions the place individuals are a bit of damage and disenchanted,” explains Thieriot. “I believe that everyone kind of is aware of, actually as soon as Bode was employed by Cal Fireplace and confirmed up at 42, that Leones have run that station for many years. And so I believe that Jake isn’t blind to that, whether or not he hears Vince say it or not, however I believe on the similar time it truly is forcing Jake to take a step again and kind of take a look at his personal life and take a look at his personal aspirations and the place he needs to be and what he needs to be doing.”
Watch the total video interview above with Thieriot for a whole breakdown of this episode and what’s nonetheless to return.
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