Who is Mickey Fox on Fire Country season 2? (What to know about the Sheriff's Sergeant)

Fire Country season 2, episode 6, "Alert the Sheriff," introduces us to Sheriff's Sergeant Mickey Fox, played by Morena Baccarin (Gotham). Her debut in this universe has been highly anticipated as her casting has the potential to expand the franchise. While this episode is not a backdoor pilot to the spin-off that might move into development should CBS see fit to greenlight one, it does change up the dynamics as well as shed some light on Sharon Leone's backstory.

Mickey is Sharon's sister by marriage. When the pair were teenagers their parents married and the end of that union was disastrous. I'm not talking about yelling, screaming, crying, and broken furniture. I mean the kind of ruinous that involves an FBI raid, the revelation that your father is a drug dealer, and that he has committed a felony, leaving you to pick up the pieces.

Despite their folks splitting, Mickey and Sharon maintained their sisterhood until, in her capacity as law enforcement, Mickey arrested Bode for stealing. This fractured the siblings' relationship to the point of estrangement. It's unclear how long it's been since they'd spoken but enough time has gone by that, when Sharon initially reaches out to fix things, Mickey isn't willing to try to heal their bond.

It takes the two being thrown into a case involving an escaped Three Rock inmate by the name of Rudy Varda for the sisters to work out their differences. The old hurts between them have to do with judgement. Sharon felt that Mickey looked down on her for the way she was raising Bode and that it's her fault that he wound up being an addict. He's sober now and doing good time, but Sharon has spent season 2 working through the ways she failed in her other relationships by chasing after her son.

Meanwhile, Mickey felt that her sister holding her feet to the fire for doing her job, even when it's family that's messing up badly, was beyond the pale. She'd given Bode chances, he didn't take a single one and finally she had to do what was necessary even though it hurt to do so. She did, however, admit that she had judged Sharon only for it to blow up in her face when Sky, the daughter she raised to be "perfect," also fell victim to addiction and is now in rehab.

Mickey reached out to Sharon to talk about what happened but when her call was ignored, it made her feel like her sister had walked completely out of her life. Being able to talk through their sides of the story helped the two to begin to move past all that had kept them from being in each other's lives.

As for her work, Mickey tries to be compassionate and have empathy. She knows that someone committing a crime doesn't negate their ability to be a good person. Her father is an example of this. Though he's not the stable, reliable person she needed in a parent, he's still in her and her daughter's life. The person she did look up to, however, Sheriff Fred Watkins (Michael St. John Smith) is murdered in episode 6. If her spin-off does move forward, it will likely focus on her stepping into the role of Sheriff either in the interim until an election can be held or we'll be seeing her make a play for the position and campaigning whilst doing her job.

Mickey is the kind of small town officer who knows everyone. Her connections to the people of Edgewater and the roots she's established will go a long way in a spin-off. Not to mention, it would open the door for us to learn more about this town which always seems to have a crisis brewing. And as Fire Country director Bill Purple put it "Sheriff's Country is like Fire Country with guns" so we know it's always going to be a wild ride. I mean, we're introduced to Mickey as she's in hot pursuit of a fleeing criminal via helicopter and the first case we're on with her she flexes her investigative skills to root out departmental corruption. A show with her as the lead would be a good watch.

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