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00:06Previously on Fire Country, I had just found out that my dad was having a baby with another woman.
00:11And a part of me always wanted to find him.
00:14He lives in Drake County.
00:15You know that application that you filled out to foster kids without telling me?
00:18Yes.
00:19You could list me on the application not as a co-parent, but as your girlfriend.
00:24Here's to your freedom.
00:25To whatever's coming next.
00:30It's going to be okay now.
00:33Mama's here.
00:42Just finished cold trailing at Domino Ridge, clearing the scene and returning to station.
00:47Copy, 1591.
00:48I spied him for four hours, brutal.
00:51You thought that was brutal?
00:53That section was gnarly.
00:56You see that?
00:57What?
00:59Another hot spot.
01:00Where?
01:03Oh, yeah.
01:04Yeah, yeah.
01:05You know, let's get that.
01:06Is it right there?
01:06Yeah, I see that.
01:07Yeah, right there.
01:07Let's get it.
01:08Yeah, I see that.
01:20Hey, hey.
01:23Hey, wait.
01:24Hey, wait.
01:25Wait, wait.
01:25Time out.
01:26Come out.
01:27It's my hair.
01:28We're done.
01:28For real.
01:28Because I have to look respectable for the social worker.
01:30Oh, come on.
01:32Wait, you're really fostering an actual kid?
01:36No, Francine is.
01:38I'm just going to meet the social worker and say,
01:40hello, I'm the girlfriend.
01:42Oh, wow, you are a month away from a minivan.
01:45So are you.
01:46Because the second you meet your brother,
01:47you're going to leave us in the dust for your blood relations.
01:51You're finally going to meet Malcolm?
01:55I don't know.
01:57Well, maybe you should reach out to him.
01:59You can email him, call him.
02:01Okay, okay, hey, look, I haven't decided yet.
02:05All right, just chill.
02:07What about you, man?
02:09I mean, the world's your oyster now that you offer parole.
02:12Any big plans?
02:14No, I never really thought that I'd get here,
02:15so I didn't make any plans.
02:19Trying to figure it out.
02:22Oh, until then.
02:25I guess there's one thing I want to do.
02:28Yeah?
02:28Yeah, yes.
02:31I knew you were going to do that.
02:33Come on, get it, get it.
02:34Hey, oh, she on the run.
02:37What are you doing here?
02:39I said don't come.
02:41I was clear.
02:42There's nothing confusing about it.
02:44What do you want, Ruby?
02:45It's mom.
02:46No, it's not when you extorted my husband for money that we didn't even have.
02:50That whole thing was his idea.
02:52Oh, that you ran with to the tune of $26,000, and you didn't see me or Bodie in 10
02:57years.
02:58Oh, how is my sweet boy?
02:59Oh, no.
03:00What do you want?
03:01Oh.
03:03Why are you going to make me stand here and grovel, or will you offer me a seat in a
03:07beverage
03:07so I can tell you?
03:18Really, Crawford, you know your way around all these big, loud tools, but you still have
03:24not fixed my bathroom sink.
03:26Violet, hi.
03:32I kind of internet-stalked your half-brother.
03:36What?
03:37He's amazing.
03:39Jake, really.
03:40Like, he played soccer in high school, and he got scholarships to play in college, but instead...
03:47Okay, look, Violet, I wasn't even sure if I was going to call him, so slow down.
03:52You have to call him.
03:54He's just like you.
03:57It's like those twins separated at birth stories, and then when they meet as adults,
04:03they're both mechanics married to women named Betty.
04:05Wait, are you telling me his girlfriend's named Violet, too?
04:08Amber.
04:09But Jake...
04:10No, no, just stop.
04:13I don't want to know his private business.
04:15He's a firefighter.
04:17What?
04:19Yeah.
04:24His phone number.
04:34I take a glass of wine.
04:37It's 10 a.m.
04:38Give an old lady some Chardonnay for courage, please.
04:40You remember when we used to go to hotels, and you were never happy with the room?
04:46Okay.
04:47So we'd have to move a million times until you were happy.
04:51And I finally had a say to some hotel clerk.
04:55My mom is picky, so skip the first two rooms you're going to show us and just give us the
04:59third one, the good one?
05:00I have to get to the truth of why you're here.
05:07Okay.
05:13So, um, after Riley died, Vince reached out and said that I, um, upset you.
05:24Yeah.
05:24I think that might have had something to do with calling me a bad mother on the day of
05:28my daughter's funeral.
05:30You know I would never use those words.
05:33It was a difficult day for everyone.
05:35But then the idea that my, my mere presence was somehow triggering for you, that you needed
05:42space.
05:43I mean, it was absurd.
05:44You needed me.
05:45And, uh.
05:47Yeah.
05:48I needed you.
05:50I was hurting too, you know.
05:51I had just divorced Paul, the chinless bastard.
05:53Oh, the third room, Mom.
05:55Get to the third room.
05:58So Vince suggested that I take a trip.
06:02Go away.
06:03Lay on a beach somewhere.
06:04As if I could afford a vacation.
06:06Okay.
06:07So he gave you some money to stay away?
06:09Why shouldn't I let my son-in-law buy me a trip?
06:11I was crazed with grief.
06:12And then for the next ten years when you continued to take that money from him, and then when
06:17you wrote him a threatening letter saying you were gonna tell me and blow up his life,
06:21that was grief?
06:22It was Vince's idea.
06:24I just told you that.
06:25Yeah, but Vince is dead, so I can't really ask him, can I?
06:28I haven't had an easy time, Sharon.
06:30And I'm not perfect, but who is?
06:32Are you?
06:34Is this your version of an apology?
06:38Because that's not how you do this.
06:40Of course.
06:40I'm sorry.
06:42I'm sorry.
06:44What?
06:45What do you want me to say?
06:46I'm sorry.
06:47I'm sorry.
06:49Well...
06:51You know, the only reason I stayed away was because I thought it was what you wanted,
06:55and I was doing the loving thing.
06:56So now what?
06:57I'm the bad guy?
06:58How does that happen?
06:59I...
07:00I can't.
07:05The third room.
07:07What is this?
07:08Everything that Vince gave to me, plus interest.
07:18I...
07:19I have to go.
07:20I know.
07:22Well...
07:23Thanks for the be-no.
07:30Mom.
07:36Is this check gonna clear?
07:42Yeah.
07:44It's gonna clear.
07:57It's gonna clear.
07:59Well, well, well.
08:02Who'd have believed it?
08:05It's gonna clear.
08:05Come on, Ruby.
08:07One second, he's running around the yard with my garden hose, pretending to be a firefighter.
08:12The next second, he's the real deal.
08:16Yeah, there are a lot of years in between there.
08:19Not all good ones.
08:21Oh, I know, honey.
08:23That's why you're the second stop on my apology tour.
08:27I should have been around more.
08:30Sure stopped as well.
08:32Sure was.
08:33And, um...
08:34Look, uh...
08:37Back then, it was...
08:39Okay, it was complicated.
08:40I was an idiot, and I'm sorry.
08:42Okay?
08:44I'm...
08:46Really very...
08:47Very sorry.
08:49How'd she take it?
08:50How do you think?
08:52If she needs a target, then I can be that for her.
08:57Oh, come on.
08:58Give me a hug.
08:59Unless you think I'm the devil, too.
09:03Lord.
09:07So...
09:08Tell me...
09:10How are you?
09:12Can you leave this?
09:14I...
09:15I'm off parole.
09:16Of course you are.
09:18You were always gonna find your way out of that mess.
09:21I just wish...
09:24We'd all done things different...
09:26When you were falling into it.
09:31Oh, um...
09:32Put your number in my phone, so we can catch up.
09:36Oh...
09:37Damn it.
09:37I forgot to give this to your mom.
09:40Your mom gave me this when she was little.
09:42For luck.
09:44Figured...
09:44Now she's the one who could use it.
09:47Give it to her for me.
09:49You can give it to yourself.
09:51With your mom, anything from me is better coming from you.
09:56Thanks.
09:59Hey, guys.
10:00Can you not...
10:01Sorry.
10:02I was just texting Luke.
10:03He's moving back to the States.
10:04Give me that.
10:05Yo!
10:05Quit it, dude.
10:07Oh, so you're on another station's socials.
10:09What, you gonna jump?
10:12Again?
10:13It's Drake County.
10:14Violet found out Malcolm's a firefighter there.
10:18And you...
10:19You just followed him.
10:20With my name.
10:21Which is his name.
10:22Great.
10:24Well...
10:24Now you gotta call him.
10:27Hey, Eve.
10:28Yeah?
10:28Where are we with Three Rock?
10:30Uh, the prelim plans are done.
10:32I got city council to sign it, but I think we need some start-up funds.
10:35And once we get the cash, how soon before we're up and running?
10:37Like, maybe six months?
10:38Six months?
10:39No.
10:40Try yesterday, Eve.
10:41Right.
10:42We need bodies.
10:43Now I gotta put Bodhi and Jake on defensible space projects today because we...
10:46Because we need Three Rock.
10:47Right.
10:48Um, I'm on it.
10:49And, um, I'm sorry to disappoint you.
10:57Alright, everyone sit down.
10:59As you all know, I went down to Sacramento for a couple of days to do some training and
11:03they put me in this presentation about fire season.
11:06Well, we all know damn well there is no fire season anymore thanks to climate change.
11:11It's all year round.
11:12Just...
11:13Just keeps getting worse.
11:14Last year, little more than 8,000 wildfires and over a million acres burned.
11:21Here in NorCal, we had Zabel Ridge.
11:24And we lived it.
11:26We fought it.
11:26We saw this.
11:30It took land.
11:32It took homes.
11:36And lives.
11:38Right now, snow caps at 30% of normal.
11:40Which means we're gonna have a really dry spring.
11:43And if we don't get significant, and I mean significant winter storms, they're saying it's about to look like this.
11:50So we gotta be ready, guys.
11:53We were this close.
11:54This close to losing our town.
11:56But this...
11:59This will make the Zabel Ridge fire look like a baby.
12:04We cannot wait for it.
12:06We have to act.
12:06Now.
12:07I'm talking resources.
12:09I'm talking training.
12:11I'm talking whatever you got going on.
12:12Set it down.
12:14Single focus.
12:15No distractions.
12:17Because what's coming ain't stopping for nothing.
12:23We're at war.
12:37There you go.
12:38This looks great.
12:40Oh, right on time.
12:43Our fryer's on the fritz.
12:45You're wondering that's why I gave you these chips instead of the onion rings.
12:49Mom.
12:51Omar Ruby got to you?
12:53She, uh, she surprised me, too.
12:56Been so long enough to see her.
12:57She looked, um...
12:59She looked smaller.
13:01Nothing about her is small.
13:04I know it's different for you.
13:06She's a much better grandmother than she was mother, but...
13:10She seems sorry.
13:12Sorry is what you say when you're late for lunch.
13:15Do you believe her?
13:17I do.
13:21This morning it's, uh, a briefing.
13:24Chief told us the sacrament.
13:26Says the fire's coming for us hard.
13:29Manny said that?
13:31It's a war and the fire's winning.
13:33Mom.
13:36We know better than anyone that it can all go away in a second.
13:41You don't want to have regrets.
13:45Did Omar Ruby put you up to this?
13:47No.
13:49I mean, I know that she did some crazy things.
13:51I know you guys have a history, but...
13:54Maybe she deserves another chance.
14:01She wanted me to give you this.
14:06Said that you gave it to her for luck once.
14:09No, she's giving it back.
14:26Can't believe this place is still standing.
14:28Yeah, well, it shouldn't be.
14:2942 issued a notice months ago, and it got condemned.
14:33The one thing that the Zabel Ridge fire should have taken out.
14:37And it didn't.
14:39It's flooded.
14:41You don't want to choke it out.
14:42You know that, right?
14:44Maybe I'm just working harder than you.
14:46Yeah, never.
14:49We'll ask you right there if you want.
14:50Hey, you know, Manny, he seems shook.
14:54You know about Sacramento?
14:56Yeah, that's pretty scary.
14:59You know, puts things into perspective, you know?
15:01Like, what really matters?
15:06Just do it, Jake.
15:08Do what?
15:11Call your brother.
15:13Wait, but now?
15:14Why not?
15:17Okay.
15:18Okay?
15:19Okay, yeah, sure.
15:21I'll call him.
15:29Voicemail.
15:30Yeah, yeah, yeah.
15:31Hey, hi.
15:33Um, hi.
15:34I just, uh...
15:37You know, I wasn't sure if I should call.
15:41Uh...
15:42But...
15:42This is weird.
15:45Uh...
15:45Okay, let's, let's start over.
15:49Uh...
15:50I'm your brother.
15:51Well, half-brother.
15:53Um, your dad, uh, was my dad, so...
15:57Same dad.
15:58And, uh...
16:00I'm a firefighter, too.
16:02You know, Station 42 and Edgewater.
16:05Uh, so I guess that runs in the blood.
16:07Uh...
16:08Look, um...
16:10If there's anything you ever want to talk about, or if you want to talk about my dad, your dad...
16:17Our dad...
16:19Uh...
16:21That was it.
16:22Uh...
16:23So, um...
16:25You know what?
16:26You can call me back whenever.
16:28Um, Jake.
16:30Crawford.
16:31Um, okay.
16:33Cool.
16:33Bye.
16:34Uh, thanks.
16:37Smooth.
16:38Shut up.
16:40Is that how you landed Violet?
16:42Shut up.
16:42No, it was really good.
16:43I was just saying, like, it was great.
16:50Should probably check it out.
16:58Yeah.
16:58Structure is non-negotiable for me when approving foster parents.
17:02So are support systems, a healthy bank account, family ties...
17:06And a partner.
17:08You are listed as a significant other.
17:11I'd like to talk about that.
17:13This might feel a little uncomfortable, but we'll start with your sex life.
17:19You like it?
17:20I don't know.
17:22No details needed, but...
17:25You don't live together.
17:27I'm trying to get a sense of who sleeps over where and how often.
17:32If we place a child, we need to know that the home they're going to is safe.
17:37Stable.
17:39Any child placed in my care would be staying at my home with me.
17:42Mm-hmm.
17:43And if Francine needs support, she's sick.
17:46As someone in the child's life, you'd help up?
17:52Uh...
17:53My job isn't as...
17:55Isn't flexible, so...
17:58Um...
17:59Right, but you could ask Manny for less shifts or for some time off.
18:02No, I mean, not really.
18:03I mean, not now, no.
18:05Manny just did a briefing on the fire season, and he needs us to lock in, so time off isn't
18:10really an option.
18:11Right, but you could do a couple of desk shifts even.
18:14California is burning, Francine.
18:16Like, I can't...
18:17I can't put out fires behind a desk.
18:19I know.
18:22Oh.
18:25Please...
18:25No, please...
18:26I'm sorry.
18:27Please do not take that right now.
18:28I'm sorry.
18:29I'm sorry.
18:29Hey, Chief Green?
18:31Yeah.
18:31Thank you for returning my call.
18:35Door!
18:44I'm breaking and entering.
18:45Is this what we're doing now?
18:48Hey!
18:50I'm over here!
18:53Come on, muscles.
18:54Take help!
18:58Wait!
19:01Hey!
19:01Hey!
19:02Hey!
19:02Don't!
19:03Don't!
19:03That's how I fell through!
19:09Firefighters.
19:09It's just my luck.
19:12Yeah, I think the words you're looking for, I think.
19:15You want to get rescued, or do you want to stay in that hole?
19:24Hang on, okay?
19:25We're coming for you.
19:26What's your name?
19:27Just come on!
19:28Get me out of here first!
19:30We need a bridge, not boots.
19:33Alright.
19:35Are you living here?
19:36Does it matter?
19:38Hey!
19:38Stop!
19:38Don't go through my...
19:39Hey!
19:40Stop!
19:40Some clothes in here?
19:41We can tie them together and make a line?
19:43Uh, that's not enough.
19:46Tyler here should've packed more.
19:49Screw you!
19:50He's 17.
19:56He's just a kid.
19:58Yeah.
19:59We gotta find something to get him out of here.
20:01Hey.
20:02Think of it as a, uh, rescue on a frozen pond.
20:06We need something that can distribute our weight out.
20:09With this table right here.
20:11Yeah.
20:12Yeah, that'll work.
20:13Here, let's flip it.
20:14Alright, just hold on, okay?
20:15Hold tight, we're gonna get you out.
20:17Don't...
20:20Yeah, I know transferring all my guys back to Three Rock is a little unorthodox, but how long would it
20:25take?
20:26Hey.
20:27When are you coming back?
20:28Yeah, well I need other options.
20:29Faster ones.
20:31Sorry, I have to make another call.
20:32I thought you were gonna take this seriously.
20:34I...
20:34I am.
20:35I...
20:36You walked away from the interview.
20:38I know.
20:39Look, it has been a day.
20:41And getting Three Rock up and running, that's my priority right now.
20:45I need it to be the priority for one day.
20:48You're right.
20:49Just, Manny dropped this on me, so maybe you should finish the interview without me.
20:53Would you want me to walk back to the booth by myself?
20:55How does that look?
20:55Like I have a stressful job.
20:56Or like you don't actually want to do this with me.
20:59Yeah, well maybe I shouldn't.
21:04Okay.
21:12Oh, you could be.
21:16I'm almost there.
21:17Yeah, I've got eyes.
21:19Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
21:20Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
21:21Slow, slow, slow, slow.
21:23Okay.
21:24Keep going.
21:26It's all right.
21:26It's all right.
21:28Teddy?
21:30One more.
21:31One more.
21:32One more.
21:33There you go, Biscuit.
21:40I'm trying.
21:42Come on.
21:46Legs up there.
21:47Great.
21:52Okay.
21:53Okay.
21:53All right, let's go and take us home.
21:55All right.
22:02You're good.
22:03You good?
22:04Does anything hurt?
22:06I'm fine.
22:07I'm fine.
22:07I'm good.
22:08I'm fine.
22:08You guys can go now.
22:14Okay, we're not going anywhere.
22:17Someone got a new toy.
22:19Tabletop exercise.
22:20Down in Sacramento, I heard that some of the stations actually used them to train for real-world situations.
22:25I heard about your takeaway from Sacramento.
22:28Death is imminent.
22:29Everyone should panic.
22:30That's science, Chief.
22:32Other law, fighters will come.
22:34You just got your first look behind the curtain.
22:36Yeah.
22:36All I did was get me motivated.
22:38Motivated is good.
22:39Fear is not.
22:40All those firefighters in your charge.
22:42You want to keep them interested and engaged and telling them everything, telling them every
22:47little detail.
22:49That's not the way to do it.
22:50Do you have something you need to tell me?
22:52Something about 42?
22:55No.
22:57My mother came into town.
22:59I knew I should not have called her, but I did.
23:01And now she's here.
23:02And she went and saw Bodie and gave him this.
23:06I told him this cute little story about how I gave it to her for luck.
23:11She left out the part that it was because she was going on a date and really wanted to like
23:14the guy.
23:15So I sat home alone and I was eight years old.
23:19Sounds bad.
23:21Yeah.
23:22But I refused to tell him the terrible part.
23:24So now he thinks she's sorry.
23:26Bodie's a grown man.
23:27You cannot blame him for having an opinion.
23:31No.
23:31He wants me to give her another chance.
23:33Yeah.
23:33Well, maybe he's right.
23:35Your mom's out there.
23:37If she didn't come today, she might have come tomorrow or sometime.
23:40Point is, Sharon, you were going to have to deal with her someday.
23:42Maybe that's now.
23:43So just deal with it.
23:46No.
23:54I saw you had a baseball in there.
23:56I used to play with, uh, what's your position?
23:59Keeping the bench warm.
24:01Alright.
24:02You guys got any more questions or are we done here?
24:06Alright, uh, let's go outside and we'll call your mom and your dad.
24:11I don't have a dad.
24:12Okay.
24:12I don't need you guys to call anyone.
24:14Okay.
24:14Well, look, we have to.
24:15Oh, yeah.
24:16A big man.
24:18Firefighters.
24:18Yeah.
24:19Yeah, you guys weren't such heroes when you couldn't stop that fire from taking out half
24:23the town, huh?
24:24Okay.
24:25Let's go.
24:26No, let me get my stuff first.
24:27No, kid.
24:32Wait!
24:33Tyler!
24:42Oh, sucker punched by a kid, huh?
24:45You might have to give up your prison car.
24:47The police will know how to handle them.
24:50We don't gotta jump straight to police.
25:01He's upstairs.
25:03Right.
25:04Right.
25:05Cause then a house with crumbling floors, why not go up so there's farther to fall?
25:15I'm good.
25:18I'm good.
25:19I'm good.
25:19I'm good.
25:20I'm good.
25:20I'm good.
25:22I'm good.
25:22Little punk's lucky you didn't fall into the basement.
25:24I'm good.
25:28Stairs are cement.
25:30We can go right up.
25:36Floor seems solid up here.
25:38Hey!
25:39Tyler!
25:41Tyler!
25:42Look, we need to get downstairs and get outside.
25:51You said you wanted to be with me.
25:54I do.
25:57Francine.
25:58I do.
26:00You said you wanted to support me through fostering.
26:03Yeah, I meant that.
26:03I still mean it.
26:04It's just what that caseworker said.
26:07I don't want to make promises I can't keep.
26:10Cause Manny needs you?
26:11Yeah.
26:13So what if I do too?
26:16You know I can't walk away from my job.
26:18It's too important.
26:19And I'm not.
26:21That's not what I mean.
26:22That's.
26:23You are.
26:24You are important.
26:26And because I love you, I want to make you and the kid and my job work.
26:32But your job would always come first and I would be frustrated.
26:35And so would I.
26:37I can't walk away from 42.
26:38I'm not asking you to.
26:40And I'm not going to go half in on a kid.
26:42I'm.
26:42It's either all in or.
26:43Nothing.
26:44All.
26:44It's all or nothing.
26:45Nothing.
26:49Yeah.
27:11You keep this in there?
27:13Yeah.
27:15It's a reminder to do what I love.
27:20You are a reminder.
27:28I never want either of us to ever be people that don't do exactly what we love.
27:36Are you sure?
27:37Francine.
27:38I know.
27:38I know.
27:39I'm sorry.
27:39I just need to hear it.
27:40Are you sure that you could never.
27:44Just someday.
27:46See yourself with kids.
27:52We're not someday.
27:55We're today.
27:58We're today.
27:58I love you, Francine.
28:01I love you so much.
28:05But today.
28:07My answer is no.
28:16Hey, kid.
28:17We're just trying to keep you safe.
28:20Jake.
28:21Yeah.
28:22I'll smell that.
28:26Gas.
28:27Hey, Tyler.
28:28Tyler, did you mess with the gas line in here?
28:33You're not in trouble, but we have to know right now.
28:35If you turn on the gas, it could be real dangerous.
28:38I turned it on to heat up some food.
28:40A YouTube video showed me how to do it.
28:43It could be leaking everywhere.
28:44Yeah.
28:46Greencrest.
28:47This is Captain Crawford, Station 42.
28:49I have a serious natural gas leak at 214 Pruish Street.
28:53This is 214 Pruish Street.
28:56Hey, listen up.
28:57This place is filling up with gas.
28:59Right?
28:59Unless you want us all to suffocate or blow up, open this damn door.
29:05Hey, it's, it's stuck.
29:08Wait, I can't get out.
29:15Here, for the empty tables.
29:23I was surprised to hear from you.
29:25How'd you get the money, Ruby?
29:27The old fashioned way.
29:29Pawned the diamond necklace Gordy gave me.
29:32Sold our trailer, too.
29:35Wow.
29:36Where's Gordy gonna live?
29:37Wherever the hell he wants.
29:39That loser left me high and dry.
29:43Oh.
29:43I'm sorry.
29:45Yeah, so was I at first.
29:46But then, after I stopped crying, I realized...
29:48Wait, I've been here before way too many times.
29:52Because it's always been about a stupid man.
29:59It should have been about you.
30:01And your brother.
30:03And I should have said this a long time ago.
30:06I never should have said anything different.
30:07But you're a really...
30:09You're a really good mom, Sharon.
30:20What do you want?
30:23Nothing.
30:24I mean it.
30:25I'm not your problem.
30:26I came here to pay the money back.
30:28And to see your face.
30:29And Bodie's, too.
30:30And I'm...
30:33Well...
30:45Here's the thing about me.
30:46I...
30:47I really like a plan.
30:51I love a schedule.
30:53And I just need to feel like I have a little control in the world.
30:57So, my plan right now, on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8am, is to sit right there.
31:03And I'm gonna drink coffee.
31:04And there will be a crossword puzzle.
31:07And the seat across from me will be empty.
31:12And, um...
31:14I can sit in it.
31:19You know, I...
31:21I seem strong.
31:23And I...
31:24I even feel strong.
31:25I do.
31:26But I don't really know if I am.
31:28You know...
31:29I can't tell.
31:31And, Mom, you are the only person who always has the ability to break me.
31:36So, I just gotta ask you this one time.
31:40You cannot break me, okay?
31:45Oh, honey, I won't.
31:48I promise.
31:51Then you can sit in that booth.
32:05You got it.
32:06Let's get you out of here right now.
32:07Let's go.
32:09Stay between us.
32:13Are those cops?
32:14Wait, wait, are those people in here?
32:15Hey, careful.
32:16Hey, wait, wait, wait.
32:16Hold on.
32:18Hold on.
32:21Watch out!
32:22Hold on, hold on.
32:26Hold on, hold on!
32:30Hold on, hold on!
32:34Put it out.
32:36Put it out!
32:36Hey.
32:37Hey.
32:38Keep your head down.
32:41No, it's my fault.
32:44No, no.
32:45It's my fault.
32:49It's my fault.
32:50All right, we got this.
32:52All right, listen, kid, you want to help?
32:53You got any liquid?
32:54B, cut the gas.
32:58Yeah, yeah, I've got some water bottles.
33:07All right, you got it.
33:09Okay, hey, listen, hit the base,
33:11not the flame with that water, Tyler.
33:21Okay, now what?
33:27Hey, Chief.
33:29Hey.
33:29About three rock.
33:31Looks like I got two options for you.
33:33Hit me.
33:34Okay, so first one, we can put in transfers to get our guys
33:37pulled from all the camps and prisons they were sent to.
33:41That's great.
33:43How soon can we get them?
33:44If we're lucky, eight weeks.
33:48Eight weeks?
33:50Yeah.
33:50That's too long.
33:51We need bodies.
33:52What's option B?
33:54Okay.
33:55Um, the DOC has a pilot program for young inmates.
33:59Uh, looks like we can get them in something like two weeks.
34:02Two weeks?
34:04Manny, these guys have no experience.
34:06They're only like 18 to 25 years old.
34:08Yeah, but that'd be your job, right?
34:12Get them into fighting shape.
34:13Okay.
34:14Look, Eve, I get it.
34:19It's hard to let go of your old crew.
34:22And I love them, too.
34:25Yeah.
34:27Okay.
34:29Yo, you, hold on, hold on.
34:32Is there something else?
34:34Are you good?
34:41Um, Francie and I broke up.
34:45I'm sorry, Eve.
34:47No, you know, um, it's like what you said.
34:50The world's on fire, so, uh, I don't need to get distracted.
34:54No.
34:55No, no, Eve, that's not what I meant.
34:58No, no, no.
34:58Um, you know what?
34:59I'm gonna let you know when we get the pilot program locked in.
35:02Okay?
35:03Eve.
35:08This is crap.
35:11I'm not hurt, just...
35:13We gotta get you checked out, okay?
35:15Why don't you go ahead and just give your mom a call or something?
35:17She's out of town.
35:19Without a phone?
35:21Okay.
35:23Look, you know she's gonna find out about all this.
35:25You might as well get ahead of it.
35:26What, are you, you gonna write, like, a report or something?
35:31Huh?
35:32What's it gonna say?
35:35The truth.
35:37What happened in there?
35:41I wasn't running away.
35:43Seemed like you were.
35:47It's not, I was, I was just exploring.
35:51I was just exploring.
35:52I was just, like, looking around at things.
35:54Come on, come on, don't say that I ran away.
36:07I didn't think there was another way that my mother could surprise me, but she did.
36:12Not in a bad way.
36:13Lay it on me.
36:15Lay it on me.
36:15Oh, I think I might have done enough of that earlier.
36:19But the truth is, uh, you were right.
36:21Uh, every year, fire season is worse, and every year it feels like we're fighting for our lives.
36:27But what I meant to say is we can't lose sight of what we're fighting for, right?
36:31The fire is gonna be relentless every year, no matter what.
36:34We have to remember that people need hope and relief, but we have to give something back.
36:41We have to give people their lives.
36:43Ah, Chief, I'm so far ahead of you.
36:46Look at this.
36:49Really?
36:50Really.
36:54This house.
36:56Two adults, four kids, one in a wheelchair.
37:00Over there, an elderly couple, both on oxygen.
37:03Across the street, abandoned, but evidence of squatters.
37:08Edwards.
37:10All right, y'all, so we have plugs here, here, and here, and we have a downed power line obstruction
37:18right here.
37:19The fire's gonna come from the edge of town, but it's coming in.
37:24Now, IC is established here, so what is our first order of operations?
37:29Start a fire break on the Charlie side of the closest structure.
37:33Yeah, well, we can't because we don't have the bodies.
37:35Yeah, well.
37:38Now you do.
37:40What is that?
37:41Free Rock.
37:42You're damn right it is.
37:44Wait, you guys got the cash?
37:47You got the cash.
37:49All I did was apply for the grant, and it came through to fill in the gap.
37:52Captain Edwards made a miracle happen.
38:02Sorry, they said this was my son Tyler's room.
38:05It is.
38:07It's, uh, just took him back to do some, some scans.
38:11Bodie Leone, Cal Fire.
38:13Leone.
38:14Right, I'm sorry about your father.
38:17I'm Landon.
38:19Thanks.
38:22And, uh, hey, Tyler, Tyler said he didn't have a dad.
38:29I'm his stepdad.
38:31But not on paper.
38:32He and his mom aren't actually married.
38:35Tyler hates me like it's his job.
38:39Yeah, I, uh, you know, I spent some time with him today.
38:42Ah, well, then you see it, right?
38:47A year ago, he was a sweet kid.
38:49But recently, the pushing back, the mouthing off.
38:52Did something change recently?
38:54The kid's had a real tough run.
38:57His father died right before COVID, and the Zabel Ridge Fire took our house.
39:02We had to move into a smaller place.
39:09This, this isn't my business.
39:14Tyler wasn't exploring.
39:16He was running away.
39:19Why would he?
39:22I'm, I'm sorry, I'm, I'm at a loss here.
39:25Um.
39:26We don't know what to do with him.
39:31I'm, I'm really sorry to hear that.
39:41I might.
39:44Know what to do.
39:48Oh.
39:50Finally called your brother.
39:53Didn't think that was going to happen.
39:55I kind of can't believe it, man.
39:57Well, it wasn't his best work.
39:59Oh, shut up.
40:01What about you, hmm?
40:03How you doing?
40:05I'm gonna go with bad.
40:08It was pretty damn bad.
40:10Um.
40:12I called to get my name changed on Francine's foster application from relationship to reference.
40:20And the caseworker wanted me to give the reference right then and there.
40:29I said that she's gonna be the best mom in the world.
40:36And loves with her whole heart.
40:39And that she's really funny.
40:43And, um, can't catch a damn ball either.
40:47That's the eye coordination.
40:48But anyways, other than that, she's perfect.
40:54And I also said that they're never gonna find anybody else like her.
41:01Come on, man.
41:05Thanks, bud.
41:07So, yeah, I gotta figure out how to be a free woman again.
41:10Like Bodie over here.
41:11Whoa, hey, come on, man.
41:12What do you call a woman?
41:13What happened to her?
41:14Whoa, whoa.
41:15You be lucky to be one.
41:18Come on.
41:22I might be a little less free now.
41:24Mm.
41:25That kid that we got out of the house.
41:27And try and stay in touch.
41:29See if I can help him in any way.
41:31Oh, so you like getting punched in the face.
41:33Him.
41:33Daddy.
41:35Listen, same kid who fell like a tree.
41:37You brought his mama into it.
41:40Yeah, yeah, yeah.
41:42Yeah.
41:44Yeah.
41:50Yeah.
41:53Yeah.
41:55Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
41:56Yeah.
41:57Yeah, that's me.
41:58You want to stay out of my brother's voicemails and his DMs.
42:01Your brother?
42:01Malcolm.
42:02My brother?
42:03Hardly.
42:04He and I share a mom.
42:06Share childhood.
42:07Share siblings.
42:07You, you happen to share genetics.
42:10Which you ended up telling him over a voicemail of all the ways.
42:14Uh, look, I was just trying.
42:16He is pissed my mom never told him.
42:18That I never told him.
42:20He and I have never even had a fight and now he won't even speak to me.
42:23Okay, look, I never meant for...
42:25I don't care what you meant to do.
42:26What you did do is hurt my little brother.
42:30You want to do right by Malcolm?
42:32You stay the hell away from him.
43:07You're looking for a victim.
43:07You are just F
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