Fireplace Nation simply made Bode and Gabriela’s romantic future much more unclear after introducing a stunning hookup.
In the course of the Friday, December 6, episode of the hit CBS sequence, Bode (Max Thieriot) and Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) had been each coping with the ramifications of their break up — however in two very alternative ways. Bode threw himself into work as he ready to graduate from the Cal Fireplace coaching program. Gabriela, in the meantime, continued her downward spiral and to the priority of Sharon (Diane Farr).
Bode in the end handed this system and formally turned a firefighter, celebrating the information by cooking dinner for him and newly single fellow cadet Audrey (Leven Rambin). The pair acquired very flirty, however stopped wanting taking their relationship any additional. As an alternative, the ultimate moments of the episode targeted on Gabriela hanging out on the bar together with her ex, Jake (Jordan Calloway).
“The whole lot with me has been an excessive amount of nowadays,” Gabriela admitted to Jake about her current emotional turmoil. “Working, ingesting so I couldn’t really feel after which cliff-diving in order that I might really feel one thing — even when it was simply the smack of the ocean. Perhaps I’m an excessive amount of.”
Jake, for his half, admitted that he was coping with his personal points.
“I’m dropping [my late girlfriend’s daughter] Gene to [her biological father] Rick,” Jake revealed. “Rick referred to as and Gene desires to remain in Idaho, she desires to enroll [in school] and she or he desires me to ship her stuff. I maintain telling myself that it’s going to make it actual however I feel I actually wish to keep in shock or I’d simply lose it.”
After Jake urged Gabriela to “change the topic,” the paramedic introduced up their romantic historical past, saying, “Are you able to consider we had been right here not too way back at this bar and I mentioned I like you? It looks as if 1,000,000 years in the past. We had good instances although.”
The episode ended with Gabriela and Jake having intercourse in his automobile outdoors of Smokey’s Tavern. Whereas followers had been involved about Bode’s budding friendship with Audrey, it’s secure to say that nobody noticed Gabriela and Jake’s reconciliation coming.
In season 1, which premiered in 2021, Gabriela shaped a reference to Bode whereas relationship Jake. Gabriela ended her relationship with Jake to attend for Bode till he was launched from the California Conservation Camp Program. Bode broke issues off when he was despatched again to jail, and by the start of the second season Gabriela was engaged to Diego.
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Season 3 rapidly wrapped up Gabriela’s relationship with Diego earlier than they acquired married — however that didn’t imply she was able to be with Bode.
“There’ll all the time be love and you’ll all the time really feel that,” Arcila, 34, solely advised Us Weekly in October relating to Bode and Gabriela’s new dynamic. “Most relationships — most long-lasting relationships — begin off with friendships. You get to know one another and construct that relationship outdoors of it. That is going to be an excellent alternative for them to get to know one another in a special place of their lives.”
Arcila went on to defend Gabriela’s determination to not rush into something with Bode.
“It’s essential for anybody in any relationship — and for folks seeing it from the skin — to see the battle between your thoughts and your coronary heart and what needs to be and what shouldn’t be. All of that’s so human,” she mentioned of Gabriela’s conflicting emotions. “Society has constructed these fairy-tale tales, particularly for girls. The truth that folks get to see Gabriella query issues and never know the place she’s going is a fantastic a part of the story.”
Arcila continued: “Lots of people are offended and lots of people are like, ‘Wait, what’s occurring? What are you going to do? What is that this?’ However on the finish of the day, we’re simply all completely flawed people. … There’s going to be a number of modifications. It is a season that undoubtedly reveals her imperfections, which I’m so excited for as a result of we’re all human. We’re not excellent. We make errors and all of us deserve forgiveness and redemption. So, this can be a story about redemption.”
Thieriot, 36, in the meantime, didn’t rule out a Bode and Gabriela romance — ultimately.
“It’s about discovering that [storytelling] steadiness. You don’t wish to have complete on the spot gratification … [we’re] making an attempt to stretch a few of that out and earn these moments. It was simple to do this when he’s at camp and there’s solely a lot they’ll do. Now that he’s free, that’s been one of many challenges,” he defined to Us that very same month. “Determining the right way to keep in slightly little bit of that grey and struggle by means of their relationship versus simply completely open the floodgates and have it turn out to be a factor.”
Fireplace Nation season 3 airs on CBS Fridays at 9 p.m. ET.
