Morena Baccarin has done her crimefighting homework .

The actress stars in CBS ’s new “Fire Country” spinoff “ Sheriff Country ” as Sheriff Mickey Fox. The procedural follows Mickey as she heads up her small hometown police force while grappling with her daughter’s battle with addiction.

“It’s been so fun to understand law enforcement, to train in that way,” Baccarin tells me on Zoom video during a lunch break on the Ontario, Canada set. “We always have somebody on set with us, helping us with things like if I’m suspecting somebody’s going to come at me and they’re potentially armed and I’m walking out of my car and I’m parking, how do I do it? Do I pull my gun out?”

Removing her gun from a holster takes a lot of practice. “ Matt Lauria [he co-stars as deputy Nathan Boone] a

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