Fire Country Season 3 Just Proved Manny Right About Bode & Gabriela (With A Twist)

By Mike Garcia 10/06/2025

Warning! SPOILERS about Fire Country season 3, episode 5 ahead.

Ever since Fire Country season 3’s premiere, Manny has been openly campaigning against Bode and Gabriela being romantically linked, but season 3, episode 5 proved he was right at last – despite being so for the wrong reasons. Fire Country season 2’s finale showed Bode willing to confess his feelings for Gabriela, being at peace with crashing the wedding if it meant Gabriela finally knew the truth he had been keeping secret since he returned to Edgewater. Manny succeeded in stopping Bode, kickstarting his firefighting journey, but Gabriela’s choice in Fire Country season 3’s premiere eventually showed she couldn’t marry Diego.

Working together in the aftermath of the helicopter crash showed Gabriela both the good and the bad of her and Bode’s bond. Indeed, Bode was the most supportive when she had to treat the helicopter pilot in unstable circumstances, but Bode’s choice to cut Gilmore’s medical alert necklace to protect her also highlighted how volatile they always made the already difficult situations Bode and Gabriela found themselves in. This prompted Gabriela to ask for some distance, which only worked until Fire Country season 3, episode 4’s ending, when Bode and Gabriela hooked up in Vince and Sharon’s Airstream trailer.

Manny Is Right About Bode & Gabriela, But It's The Other Way Around

It's Gabriela That Is Bad For Bode

Kevin Alejandro as Manny Perez and Diane Farr as Sharon Leone in Fire Country season 3 episode 1

Gabriela’s realization about her and Bode in Fire Country season 3 reached Manny’s same conclusions about Bode and Gabriela bringing the worst out of each other. However, Gabriela was unwittingly trying to sway Bode negatively in Fire Country season 3, episode 5. From trying to lure Bode to the trailer while he was on shift to refusing to consider his feelings, Gabriela only thought of herself. Manny told Bode he thought he was bad for Gabriela when Gabriela was behaving terribly with Bode, proving Manny’s point Bode and Gabriela shouldn’t be together, which would benefit Bode more than Gabriela now.

Gabriela Has Been Acting Strangely Since The Fire Country Season 3 Premiere

Gabriela’s Attitude With Bode & Manny Changed Greatly From Season 2

Similarly, Gabriela shut down any conversation Bode might have wanted to have about their relationship progressing to more than a casual fling. This was evident in Gabriela’s repeated allusions only to hooking up and attempts to shut down any conversation about a future together in Fire Country season 3, episode 5, but even more so when Bode questioned whether she was alright, to which she just stormed away. Gabriela’s behavior even became volatile with patients at work, highlighting a progressively more worrying situation that Fire Country season 3 will have to tackle before it’s too late.

New episodes of Fire Country season 3 air every Friday at 9pm on CBS.

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