‘Fire Country’ Recap: Season 1 Episode 2 – ‘Fresh Prince of Edgewater’

This week on CBS’ Fire Country, Jake held Bode’s destiny in his fingers, relying on whether or not he informed Vince about getting slugged by his ex’s brother or not. But it was one other secret that wound up deciding if Bode would get booted from his hometown.

Episode 2 opened with a flashback to when Riley was alive, and a birthday celebration on the bar. In thanking all these in attendance — Vince, Sharon, Eve, Jake and Bode — Riley very conveniently related any final dots we wanted, concerning who’s who. (Namely, Sharon and Vince are each her dad and mom, and they’re each additionally Bode’s.) During identical occasion, Bode discovered that his sister had begun courting Jake, and that he in brief order broke her coronary heart.

Back within the current, it grew to become evident that Vince could be high-quality with Bode being despatched again to jail as a result of his “rogue” actins through the Buckeye hearth. Manny makes clear that it’s his name, as soon as he has collected all of the details. Her curiosity piqued by one thing Bode mentioned to his father, Sharon requested Vince about an “order” he as soon as gave, however Vince places her off in the meanwhile.

The “fire event” of the week concerned a dry lightning storm, which threatened a rec heart (and the rugrats to whom Gabriela was giving swim classes), and which later almost zapped the jail bus which Bode satisfied Manny to ship the youngsters to security in. In the course of treating the motive force (who had a slab of sizzling asphalt catapulted by the windshield and onto his chest), Eve grilled Jake about how he broke Riley’s coronary heart; ultimately, he confesses that he had cheated on Bode’s sister (Secret No. 1!), and hadn’t made amends earlier than she died within the automotive crash. Jake additionally says that Bode punched him through the Buckeye rescue, and if he tells Vince, there is no such thing as a approach Bode isn’t despatched again to jail. Eve urges him to withhold that data, if their very own household is to rebuild itself.

After the lightning storm passes, the Cal Fire crew gathers on the bar to rejoice. There, Eve takes one other crack at asking out Aydan, however the barkeep takes a rain test, suspecting the firefighter is merely on a “just saved a guy’s life” excessive.

(*2*)Vince in the meantime tells Sharon that after Riley died, he informed Bode to depart city and by no means come again. An aghast Sharon reminds her husband that she successfully misplaced two youngsters the day Riley died, as a result of of this “order,” and he or she can be damned if she is going to miss out on the possibility to reconnect with their son. Vince then says “there is more…,” that he suspects Bode gave Jake the shiner he has been sporting, which might seal their son’s dismissal from the hearth camp program.

Sharon checks in on Manny’s choice, and it turns into evident to us that Jake determined to not disclose the punch. Manny is about to switch Bode to a different hearth camp, however Sharon reveals to him that she is dying of a power kidney illness (Secret No. 2!), and desires Bode close to.

Manny later tells Bode that he’s maintaining him at Three Rock, and when he meets resistance, he argues that regardless of the place Bode is stationed, his father’s voice will all the time echo in his head. Manny additionally reveals that he, too, had been an inmate within the hearth camp program (Secret No. 3!), and that it was Sharon who believed in second probabilities and paved the best way for him to hitch Cal Fire correct. Manny then challenges Bode to remain and show himself to be the individual his mother thinks he might be, and never the deadbeat his dad suspects he’s.

What did you assume of “The Fresh Prince of Edgewater”?