I Want Fire Country to Bring Back All of Bode’s Exes for a Season 5 Rescue Mission

Four seasons of Fire Country gave Bode Leone a lot of things.

His dignity back, a badge, a path to redemption, and an almost supernatural talent for making every woman in a fifty-mile radius fall for him at least once.

By the time the Fire Country Season 4 finale wrapped, the man had worked his way through Cara Maisonette, Gabriela Perez, Audrey James, and Chloe Makenzie, collecting romantic near-misses the way Three Rock collected brush fires.

Fire Country Season 5 is on the way, and we know Edgewater will be back and that Bode will probably throw himself headfirst into another crisis before the third commercial break because that is simply the contract this show runs on.

We have a modest proposal for CBS that costs nothing and would immediately improve the viewing experience for everyone who spent four years watching Bode heroically save the day while quietly developing a tension headache about it.

Bring all his exes back. Put them in one episode. Let them coordinate the rescue, and let Bode sit in the burning building for once, waiting for somebody else to get him out.

It would be chaotic and funny, and absolutely what this show deserves. And if the day got saved by the women Bode spent four seasons orbiting without ever quite figuring out how to keep, so much the better.

Bode’s Exes Assemble!

Out of all of Bode’s relationships, Gabriela Perez ran the longest route.

Three seasons of will-they-won’t-they, full of kisses before weddings and lies told on each other’s behalf, their story was left with less water than Station 42’s tank on a crucial mission.

She left in Fire Country Season 4 knowing Bode still loved her, and he knew it was mutual. The door being left open was kind of the central problem in both directions.

Gabriela would arrive at any rescue operation already knowing the three things Bode was about to try wrong, and she’d have them corrected before he finished explaining the plan.

Meanwhile, Audrey James was the most honest of the lot. She transferred out of Edgewater specifically because staying in a relationship with Bode was a genuine threat to her sobriety. 

Audrey, too, left the door open, and apparently had the good sense to stay on the other side of it.

Her coming back to rescue Bode from his own nonsense, while being not so shocked about him forgetting their promise, would be genuinely amusing to watch.

Then there’s Chloe Makenzie, Season 4’s math tutor turned single mother turned recipient of Bode’s “I love you” in the finale.

Chloe might not technically be an ex yet, but given this show’s track record with Bode’s relationships, the odds for Fire Country Season 5 were worth acknowledging in advance.

Let Them Have the Episode. Bode Can Wait.

Bode’s instinct in a crisis has always been to throw himself at the problem.

His track record across four seasons made this predictable enough that even Edgewater’s civilians could probably call it in advance. 

The Fire Country Season 4 finale had him battling a catastrophic flood and telling Chloe he loved her in the same episode, which was very on-brand, and that man simply did not have the gear to stay in the vehicle.

An episode where all three women had to coordinate a rescue, with Bode pinned somewhere and unable to do anything heroic, would do more for this show’s tonal range than any single storyline since Vince’s death.

Not because Bode shouldn’t be the hero of Fire Country, but because the most interesting version of a hero was one who occasionally had to be reminded that the people around him were competent too.

Gabriela’s firefighting and paramedicine experience and three seasons of knowing exactly when Bode would make the wrong call, Audrey’s sobriety and discipline and refusal to be impressed by him, and Chloe’s whatever-she’d-bring: the drama would rival your favorite sitcoms.

Reunite them for one episode, point them at the same problem, and let the audience watch what happens when Bode has to stay put and act like the damsel in distress, much to his annoyance.

And of course, to our amusement.

Which of Bode’s exes would you want running point on the rescue operation, and who shows up with the best speech once it’s over?

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