[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for the Fire Country Season 3 premiere “What the Bride Said.”]
Considering how Gabriela (Stephanie Arcila) is at her own wedding (she kept looking at her ex instead of the groom), it’s probably a good thing a helicopter crash interrupts it on Fire Country!
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