S1E7 - The House on Fire S01E07

The smoke comes before the fire does.

It starts two houses down — a flicker in a second-floor window that no one moved fast enough to stop. By the time the roof catches, the block is already becoming something else: a heat trap, a panic funnel, a killing ground where frightened people are moving without direction and desperate men are watching for exactly that kind of confusion. Canton is no longer a neighborhood. It is a box with no lid and not enough exits.

Mark Smith has run every calculation about staying. He has hardened this ho...