It’s Crossover Week, and things got started with Chicago Fire last night and will conclude with Chicago PD and Law & Order: SVU in back-to-back episodes tonight. A case which is discovered by the Chicago Fire Department will evolve into a devastating investigation, but there’s also some difficulty going on within house.
The firehouse is still in a fragile place now that Mills has moved on. Everyone is basically walking around moody, and Mills sending the house a case full of pies makes it hurt more in a bittersweet way. Members of the house are not exactly welcoming to the newest paramedic, Jessica Chilton, as a result, which leaves a furious Boden telling his unit to get over it as they are not children. Brett should get credit on her part for really making an effort to get to know her new partner, who is extremely perky. It will be interesting to see how Chilton finds her place in the house.
Rice has already been a member of the house for some time, so his full-time promotion is not unexpected. Otis is particularly touchy to the newest recruits, but he may have reason to be towards at least one. Otis suspects that Rice may have ducked out of a fire leaving Severide alone. Given how very serious an accusation that is, the few people Otis confides his suspicions to tell him that he is going to need pretty damning evidence to make a claim that could destroy a man’s career. Otis knows in his gut that he is right, but when Severide finds out about the whispers going around the house, he is furious and adamant that Rice is an upstanding fireman.
Casey is still working club construction for Jack Nesbitt, but he’s keeping his suspicions about his boss to himself. That doesn’t mean he can’t keep digging into Nesbitt on his own, or rather by way of working one of Nesbitt’s strippers. Casey is suspicious of Nesbitt’s investors, so his intention is to agree to work construction for a chain of clubs Nesbitt is opening, but his boss’s attitude only causes him to quit.
Finally, the fire of the day starts off Crossover Week. The firehouse is called to a complex fire where they find a woman badly burned and left for dead inside. The case turns dark when Antonio tells his sister that the victim was raped before being left in the fire. The downstairs neighbor, Billy Carson, is immediately looked at as a suspect, but Dawson believes he had nothing to do with the fire or the girl’s rape. Knowing in her gut that this man is innocent but that something isn’t right, Dawson asks Severide to go with her to take a look at the wreckage.
Sure enough, the fire started in the room where the woman was being held, and it had help from an accelerant, a clear sign of arson. They run into a neighbor on their way out who saw a doctor in scrubs lurking around the complex before the fire, and from here, our crossover officially begins. Benson hears about the case through a specialized database, and when Voight tells her some of the particulars, she realizes there are too many similarities to a case she worked a decade earlier. Benson takes a flight out to Chicago and meets with Voight and Chief Boden (Justice League of America moment alert) to look at the details for herself. Benson examines the files and flashes back to ten years earlier; she’s certain that this is the man who got away once before.
With the clue about the doctor, Billy is cleared of any suspicion regarding the fire. Billy, however, doesn’t know that he is no longer considered a suspect. Dawson gets a bad feeling that this good man is going to do something drastic since he thinks no one will believe him. Her intuition is right. The house finds Billy about to jump from a bridge in a state of despair. Boden trusts Dawson to climb out to the ledge to talk Billy away from it, though I don’t think he expected her to unhook her harness and risk her own life in the process. Dawson is able to save Billy, and at least one part of this horrific story ends well.
Tune in for the conclusion of the crossover on Chicago PD and Law & Order: SVU.
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