Fire Country Poll: Would You Watch a Sheriff Mickey Fox Spinoff?

CBS’ Fire Country this Friday introduced us to Mickey Fox, a sergeant with the Edgewater County sheriff’s department.

Played by Morena Baccarin (Gotham, Homeland), Mickey made her grand entrance at the top of the episode via bit of a helicopter chase, between her/her pilot and a drug runner. The suspect lobbed his duffel bag of cash out the ‘copter door, veritably raining bills down on the Three Rock inmates below. The ill-gotten cash was promptly rounded up, though, with (almost) all of it accounted for.

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What did we learn about Mickey? Well, she is none other than Sharon’s sister, by way of Mickey’s dad years ago being married Sharon’s mom (if only for a spell). Mickey has a daughter, Skye, who should be a freshman in college but is actually in rehab, she eventually shared with Sharon.

But first and foremost, Mickey and Sharon have been estranged for years, due to the fact that Mickey had a young Bode arrested for stealing (baseball cleats); Sharon in turn came to blame Mickey, verbally and loudly, for how Bode’s life of addiction and incarceration turned out.

A humbled Sharon offered an olive branch pretty early on in the episode, but Mickey would not accept it at first. By the end of the hour, the estranged sibs had reached a certain peace, as Mickey opened up about “perfect” Skye’s rehab, and after the ladies teamed up on a manhunt for escaped Three Rock inmate Rudy (who has cancer and just six months to live, and just wanted to see his kids).

On the professional front, Mickey works for Sheriff Fred Watkins (played by Michael St. John Smith) and supervises Lt. Andy Kubiak (Alberto Frezza). Neither of them will be continuing on to any potential Sheriff Country spinoff, however, seeing as Andy turned out to be dirty, and in the course of covering his tracks killed Watkins.

Baccarin signed on to guest-star in this “not a backdoor pilot!” episode, with on option to lead any potential spinoff as a series regular. Based on your first time spent with Mickey, would you tune in for a sheriff-centric offshoot? Vote down below!

Elsewhere this week: With the action picking up a month after Cara’s tragic death, Jake is still and understandably reeling, to a degree that he has kinda been blowing off Gen (for fear of breaking down in front of her). With Gen’s possi-dad at Three Rock, Sharon and Vince were named the tween’s custodial guardians, and the latter spent much of the episode helping her build a volcano for a school project. By episode’s end, Jake got his s–t together enough to return to Gen’s side and help with the volcano’s finishing touches.

As Jake did so, Sharon got wind of the paternity test results, and… Bode is 100% not Gen’s father. Sigh. Sharon shared the news first with Mickey (?!), and then later Bode. Bode of course was crestfallen to hear by the truth, noting his vow to take care of Cara’s kid (and by doing so, do one thing right in his life). But as Sharon noted, he still can do that, with support from the extended Leone family.

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