I can’t think of what the T’s in this week’s episode title could possibly stand for other than Trouble and Trouble. While the guys try to find the right kind of trouble to send Mouch off to marital bliss, Casey only finds the dangerous kind on every corner (literally). Let’s recap what happened this week on Chicago Fire.
After last week’s awkward encounter, we finally get the story of how Severide and new firefighter Kidd know each other. While he was training her Severide embarrassingly showed up on Kidd’s doorstep with a 12-pack of beer and some ideas. Nothing actually happened between them, and he had no idea that she was married at the time. Nothing may actually come of Kidd working closely with Severide now, but it is hilarious to watch Severide tip-toe around her.
After rescuing a father and son from a freak accident, Brett senses that something isn’t right with the situation. The father says he and his son are all each other has, but the little boy says something specific about his mother’s house. On a hunch Brett has Roman run the father’s fingerprints, and sure enough there is a warrant out for his arrest and an Amber Alert out on the son. Brett wonders if she did the right thing after realizing that the boy’s mother is an addict, but it’s too late to take her decision back.
The whole house is shocked when Mouch tells Herrmann that he is not his best man, Trudy’s half-brother Logan is. Logan is…well he’s not Herrmann, let’s just leave it at that. He’s perfectly nice, but this is an oil and water situation that just doesn’t mix well. So it’s a huge surprise to Mouch when they show up to the party Logan has planned and it’s the typical Bachelor Party Bonanza. What’s more, it was Trudy’s idea to set up the charade that Logan was planning a horrible party, and all of Mouch’s friends were in on the plan. A great sendoff, but they definitely look like they need aspirin the next morning.
Casey is in the thick of his race for alderman, and he is not at all prepared for how dirty politicians play. Casey just wants to affect change without compromising his ethics, but that’s especially difficult when the attacks become personal. Becks uses his influence to put a billboard up in front of the firehouse attacking Casey’s family, and quite frankly I’ve never seen Casey so furious. What’s more, the bad publicity forces the Commissioner to move the Friends of Firefighters Benefit from Firehouse 51 to another house. Becks doesn’t let up, throwing flyers all over the neighborhood telling people that Casey once worked at a strip club. Later the house responds to a call of gang violence in front of a high school, and Casey realizes that he needs to figure out a middle ground if he’s going to affect change. Not to mention he has to stay in the race unless he wants Dawson to give him a good swift kick in the behind. So Casey goes back to the table with the gangs and agrees to their compromise if and only if they stop the drug deals going on outside the school. Is it the pure thing to do? Absolutely not, but it’s the lesser of two evils, and it’s what Casey has to do to keep everyone safe and further that cause.
Do you agree with Casey’s compromise?
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