Warning! SPOILERS about Fire Country season 3, episode 16 ahead.

Bode’s journey in Fire Country’s spinoff Sheriff Country during the 2025-2026 TV season.

The involvement of Mickey’s father, Wes, simultaneously resolved the big mystery of Bode’s more unsavory connections per his parole officer’s words and shaped the basis of Mickey and Wes’s relationship, which will undoubtedly be at the heart of the Sheriff Country. However, Fire Country season 3, episode 16 also massively focused on Cal Fire and Three Rock’s newest enemy Oxalta, with Eve, Sharon and Manny hoping to convince them to pay for the restoration of Three Rock’s water supply. This storyline and its unexpected resolution nonetheless put an unlikely pressure on one of Bode’s more stable relationships.

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Kevin Alejandro as Manny Perez in Fire Country season 3, episode 16

Fire Country season 3, episode 16 ended the best possible way with Violet’s help in the form of the report confirming Oxalta was poisoning Three Rock’s water supply, as having proof gave Sharon a better starting point from which to ask for Oxalta to repair the contamination. Manny’s surprise appearance outside Three Rock effectively revealed that not only had Sharon succeeded in asking Oxalta to pay for the restoration of Three Rock, but she had also bought Manny’s freedom in exchange for Manny not revealing to anybody what had happened to him and what Oxalta had done.

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This revelation however shocked Bode to his core. Fire Country season 3, episode 16’s ending showed Bode vehemently opposing Sharon’s plan after it had already been concluded, as it might have gotten Manny his freedom back, but that came at the expense of the truth of Manny’s experience and the terrible actions Oxalta had committed. Bode and Sharon’s exchange in Fire Country season 3, episode 16 showed him on the offense and Sharon bewildered, as she celebrated how she had gotten Manny out, not being able to see that Bode viewed the acceptance of Oxalta’s as them winning.

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Sharon & Bode Have Never Been Truly At Odds In Fire Country

Throughout Fire Country, Bode and Sharon were never on opposite sides of an argument or truly at odds with one another. Whether it involved Bode’s initial return to Edgewater that Vince opposed but Sharon welcomed, Bode’s stay at Three Rock, or even his parents’ of Bode after he was forced to it he had relapsed to protect Freddy and make sure his conviction would be overturned, no matter how that wasn’t true, Sharon and Bode never fought as badly as they did in Fire Country season 3, episode 16.

Sharon accepting money from Oxalta to help their community is something Bode can’t respect, changing their dynamic irreparably.

Bode feeling betrayed by Sharon’s choice to put Three Rock and Manny’s well-being ahead of everybody else’s effectively changes Sharon and Bode’s bond in Fire Country. Even when Sharon couldn’t accept what she believed was Bode’s relapse, Bode didn’t fault her, instead giving her space. However, Sharon accepting money from Oxalta to help their community is something Bode can’t respect, changing their dynamic irreparably ahead of Fire Country season 4, which can help make their bond stronger in the end if they come out of their fight with a better knowledge of one another.

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1

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2

Firing Squad

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3

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4

Keep Your Cool

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5

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6

Not Without My Bird

November 22, 2024

7

False Alarm

December 6, 2024

8

Promise Me

December 13, 2024

9

Coming in Hot

January 31, 2025

10

The Leone Way

February 7, 2025

11

Fare Thee Well

February 14, 2025

12

I'm the One Who Just Goes Away

February 21, 2025

13

My Team

February 28, 2025

14

Death Trap

March 7, 2025

15

One Last Time

March 14, 2025

16

Dirty Money

April 4, 2025

17

Fire and Ice

April 11, 2025

18

Eyes and Ears Everywhere

April 18, 2025

19

A Change in the Wind

April 25, 2025

20

I'd Do It Again

April 25, 2025

Fire Country season 3 airs new episodes every Friday at 9pm on CBS.

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Fire Country
Release Date
October 7, 2022
Network
CBS
Showrunner
Max Thieriot, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater

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Writers
Max Thieriot, Tony Phelan, Joan Rater