[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Fire Country Season 2 Episode 6 “Alert the Sheriff.”]
Fireplace Nation might be increasing with a brand new spinoff, centered on the sheriff’s workplace, and the newest episode introduces Morena Baccarin as Mickey, who additionally occurs to be Sharon’s (Diane Farr) estranged sister. It’s not a backdoor pilot—that is very a lot an episode of Fireplace Nation, although one which does introduce us to a unique a part of Edgewater—but it surely does give us an thought of what we might see, partly, if a brand new collection does occur.
We meet Mickey in a helicopter, chasing down a suspect for cash laundering; when he dumps the money out, the Three Rock inmates instantly seize it, then Sharon’s the one to deliver it to the sheriff’s workplace. It’s by way of the scenes with Sharon and Bode (Max Thieriot, who directed the episode) that we get to know extra about Mickey. (They’re not sisters by blood; their mother and father married.) Sure, her father was a drug seller. It ended badly (with an FBI raid). The sisters haven’t talked as a result of Mickey thinks Sharon blames her for the way Bode’s life turned out after she arrested him as a teen for stealing baseball cleats from a retailer. Sharon says she doesn’t and even apologizes, admitting she is aware of she was nuts when it got here to Bode after dropping Riley. However Mickey turns down her supply to be a greater sister.
As Mickey later factors out, certain, Sharon had emotions about her arresting her son, however the sheriff had arrested her nephew. Actually, Mickey referred to as her sister a month in the past, and Sharon at first claims she didn’t see the decision then admits that she did. Mickey reveals that she reached out as a result of her daughter Skye is in rehab. She thought she raised Skye to not be like Bode, that she was going to be the proper child as a result of she was the proper mother, and it seems, she was out shopping for medicine from a man she met on social media. It’s additionally by way of Sharon that—not less than in keeping with her—we discover out that Mickey, when scared, will get imply.
The episode additionally provides an opportunity to see Mickey in motion a number of instances. She and Sharon discover the sheriff, useless, and Lieutenant Andy Kubiak (Alberto Frezza) injured. Andy says the escaped inmate shot them, however as Mickey ultimately realizes, together with by operating the gap he would have needed to cowl from the place he was final seen, it couldn’t have been Rudy. Somewhat, Andy’s corrupt, however as soon as Mickey realizes that (questioning why she didn’t see that or the issues with Skye sooner), Bode reveals him the place the escaped inmate is probably going hiding. Although Andy has a plan to kill each Bode and Rudy, Bode can outsmart him. By the point Mickey and Sharon arrive on the scene, they’re out of a burning cabin, and each Andy and Rudy take off in reverse instructions; Mickey uncuffs Bode and sends him after his fellow Three Rock-er. Each are taken into custody, and Mickey’s going to offer Bode credit score in her report.
And so with that, we’ve met Mickey and gotten a way of the sheriff’s workplace, although if this does find yourself changing into a collection, there would have to be a wholly new group of characters round her, since Sheriff Watkins (Michael St. John Smith) was killed and Andy arrested. And it’s potential that something we’ve seen from Mickey might change, provided that she and Sharon are in a significantly better place by the tip of the episode.
“Our greatest purpose on this episode was to introduce a personality who felt like she was very a lot part of this world already and that she lived in and felt genuine to Edgewater and this group and all these different characters, like she’s only one different piece of the larger puzzle,” Thieriot tells us. “However I feel the large factor as properly was as a result of we have been exhibiting as a pretty big focus of the episode the sheriff’s workplace for the primary time—we had seen completely different jobs within the present, often branches of Cal Fireplace, perhaps neighboring fireplace stations or volunteer fireplace departments—and we have been actually going to spend extra time with Mickey on this episode and see this sheriff’s workplace, we felt prefer it was necessary to offer that somewhat little bit of a unique really feel whereas additionally retaining it in the identical world.”
He continued, “It’s a bizarre steadiness the place you need it to be distinct and distinctive and stand out and have somewhat little bit of a unique look, however on the similar time, you don’t need it to be such a distinction that it doesn’t really feel like Fireplace Nation. In order that’s kind of the juggle and why we performed round with coloring the episode somewhat otherwise, utilizing some longer lenses in a few of these scenes and compressing issues somewhat bit, making them tender, but in addition nonetheless sustaining the overall Fireplace Nation really feel.”
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