Fire Country season 3 episode 5: Camden Casey’s tragic backstory

We knew entering Fire Country season 3 episode 5 that we were going to learn a lot about Jared Padalecki as Camden Casey. If you were curious as to how a whole spin-off could someday center around this guy, we got a good sense here in just a half-hour.

Now, we knew entering this episode that Jared’s character was going to help Bode prepare for a larger future within Cal Fire. However, what we were not aware of in the slightest was how Camden would be set up. This began with seeing him get into a fight with some dudes harassing Gabriela and Bode over Diego. From here, we saw him pushing Bode to go all-out when it comes to a mission atop a crashed aircraft.

So, why do this, and effectively go against a lot of commonsense rules? Well, it turns out that there is somewhat of a method to the madness here, though it is a particularly tragic one. We learned thanks to a scene between Camden and Max Thieriot’s character that the former lost his entire crew during a devastating fire in the past — and all because he listened to a superior and opted to ignore his own gut. There are different ways that story could have gone, but he chose to follow orders. This is why he is pushing Bode to trust himself, since that could be the better way to save lives.

Now, where things could be pretty interesting moving forward here is in the event that there is a tremendous amount of blowback over some of Camden’s methods, which we 100% imagine that there could be! He is someone who is a risk-taker and a rebel, and that’s a dangerous thing for Bode to follow given that his future does still very much hang in the balance. He will have to navigate some of those moving forward, no?

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