[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Fire Country Season 4 Episode 3 “The Tiny Ways We Start to Heal.”]

“The next battalion chief will need to cut bait and let him go,” Richards ( Shawn Hatosy ) warns Jake ( Jordan Calloway ) at the end of the latest Fire Country . The good news? He’s thinking that chief could be Jake. The bad news? The “him” he’s referring to is Jake’s best friend — sure, they may be on the outs right now, but that’s still true — Bode ( Max Thieriot ).

This comes after the episode begins with Richards eyeing the two as they discuss him and then fight after Bode learns his father left Jake his ax. Jake heard that Richards is asking around to see which stations need firefighters so he knows where to send people if he disbands 42, and Bode can’t

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