When Morena Baccarin guest-starred on “Fire Country,” there were hints that her storyline could be turned into a series.

“Having to create this character very last minute, without any police training in a show that was about firefighters” was daunting, she says. “It wasn’t until we got here and started training that I really realized what I was doing and how I was getting my bearings, so it was a little bit of a flyby.”

"Sheriff Country" stars Morena Baccarin as straight-shooting sheriff Mickey Fox, the stepsister of Cal Fire’s division chief, who investigates criminal activity as she patrols the streets of small-town Edgewater. Sergei Bachlakov, CBS

The appearance clicked, producers ordered “Sheriff Country,” and the law aspect of Edgewater, California, came into focus.

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