‘Fire Country’ Sneak Peek: Gabriela Questions Bode Romance

Placing out relationship flames? Hearth Nation’s Gabriela Perez and Bode Donovan Leone’s relationship hits a tough patch throughout the upcoming Friday, April 21, episode — and it’s only the start.

“Do you keep in mind the night time we met?” Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) asks Bode (Max Thieriot) in Us Weekly’s unique first have a look at Friday’s “Watch Your Step” episode. “I known as my dad after, and I turned you in.”

Bode isn’t stunned that Gabriela reported him for being on the principle street as an alternative of at Three Rock Con Camp that night time.

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“You didn’t know me but and it was the best factor to do,” he says, noting that he was only a convict who seemed to be escaping after they first crossed paths. (Bode is a prisoner hearth camp working to knock day off his sentence by aiding with wildfire containment within the California forests.)

Gabriela — who fell for Bode whereas he was below her father Manny Perez’s (Kevin Alejandro) watch at hearth camp — confesses that her emotions for him have began to cloud her judgment.

“Again then once I didn’t know you but, the distinction between proper and improper was crystal clear,” she says, hinting that Bode’s life-style is rubbing off on her.

The Cal Hearth beginner admits she “simply lied to my dad a second in the past” about an unknown matter. The omission is seemingly linked to Bode’s dealings at convict camp.

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“I need to be with you so badly, however our grey space simply retains rising and I don’t know if that’s a superb factor,” Gabriela tells Bode, to which he replies, “I’ll hold you out of all my hearth camp enterprise till I’m out. I promise.”

Whereas the duo didn’t reveal what “lie” Gabriela instructed, it could possibly be associated to the bag of cash that Bode was handed throughout the “Off the Rails” episode, which aired on April 7. In the course of the episode a practice hopper, and doable robber, gave him stacks of cash that he unknowingly introduced again to camp.

On the time, Bode instructed his pal Freddy Mills (W. Tré Davis) to offer the backpack to Manny, however the alternate was not proven earlier than the episode got here to an finish.

Hearth Nation premiered in October 2022 and was picked up in January for season 2. The sequence, which was created by Thieriot, 34, follows a gaggle of inmates who’re a part of a firefighting program in Northern California. All through the present, the lads work with Cal Hearth’s native firefighters — led by Bode’s father, Cal Hearth Battalion Chief Vince Leone (Billy Burke) — to cease wildfires from spreading and as a reward they’ll parole early.

Watch Us Weekly’s unique Hearth Nation sneak peek above — and watch all-new episodes on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.

Hearth Nation may also be streamed stay and on demand on Paramount+.