We’ll meet Walker and Supernatural star Jared Padalecki’s Captain Camden Casey on tonight’s episode of the BC-filmed series Fire Country.
“It’s my job to make a firefighter out of him—my way,” Captain Casey says of Max Thieriot’s cadet Bode Leone..
Features Jared Padalecki’s bare foot bar fight.
I’m your new boss.
Cal Fire Station 42 and Three Rock respond to an airplane that made an emergency landing outside of Edgewater.
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In real life, Jared [Padalecki] and Max [Thieriot] are friends and you can feel that chemistry. You could feel it on set, you could feel it once the director calls action, they just shine on screen. — showrunner Tia Napolitano. to TV Insider
This is the start of Padalecki’s three episode arc as So-Cal firefighter Camden Casey.
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Camden is more Bode [Max Theriot] than anyone else on our show. I think they’re twin flames and similar and Camden’s able to encourage, draw out maybe the dangerous side of Bode, but he sees the talent and leans into it. He doesn’t try to put lightning back into the bottle. — showrunner Tia Napolitano told TV Insider.
The guest arc may lead to a spinoff series tentatively titled Fire Country: Surfside.
What’s Fire Country about?
Seeking redemption and a shortened prison sentence, convict Bode (Max Thieriot) joined an inmate firefighting program called Three Rock in season one that returned him to his small Northern California hometown Edgewater, where he and other inmates worked alongside his parents (Billy Burke & Diane Farr) and other elite Cal Fire firefighters from Station 42 to extinguish massive blazes across the region.
Then in the season one finale, Bode tanked his own parole, sacrificing himself for fellow inmate and friend Freddy. After six months in prison, Bode returned to the Three Rock crew in season two and a lot of changes: Manny (Kevin Alejandro), who got demoted after Bode went back to prison, ended up at Station 42; Manny’s daughter and Bode’s love Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) trained as a paramedic and got engaged to her trainer Diego (Rafael de la Fuente); and Eve (Jules Latimer) took Manny’s place as boss of the inmate firefighters.
Where did we leave Fire Country at the end of season 2?
Bode got an early release and is a free man.
Manny, who was about to be arrested for punching Luke (Michael Trucco) for trying to shut down Three Rock, briefly went on the run but returned to walk Gabriela down the aisle at her wedding to Diego.
At the wedding, Manny stopped Bode from trying to talk Gabriela out of it and we were left with her turning to look longingly at Bode as he left the church.
What has happened in season 3 so far?
Bode got an early release late in season 2 and is a free man.
A helicopter crash interrupted Gabriela and Diego’s wedding and the couple broke up.
Later Gabriela decided that a relationship with Bode was not the right thing either. They’re too combustible — so combustible that they hooked up in the last episode.
Manny is sentenced to Three Rock as a convict firefighter for punching Luke (Michael Trucco,) in season 2 for trying to cancel Three Rock.
Bode became a cadet in the Edgewater training program under his friend Captain Jake Crawford (Jordan Calloway) and advanced to Phase 3 under Jared Padalecki’s Captain Camden Casey.
Fire Country Season 3:
Episodes: full season,
BC filming dates: July 11 2024 – March 03 2025.
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Creators: Tony Phelan, Max Thieriot.
Showrunner: Tia Napolitano.
Cast: Max Thieriot, Kevin Alejandro, Billy Burke, Diane Farr, Stephanie Arcila, Jordan Calloway, Jules Latimer, Michael Trucco, Tye White, Rafael de la Fuente, Jason O’Mara, Leven Rambin, Jared Padalecki.