The third season of Chicago Fire closes out with a resolution to the feud between Truck and Squad. This is not put to rest without hard work, though. By the end of the hour, the firehouse loses a member, but may well be adding a new one.
First things first, Chili finally has her first successful “Chili’s” patented product, which can instantly make champagne chilled. It’s an exciting moment for the newest member of Firehouse 51, and Herman gets the idea to get celebrity sponsorship for the product. All seems to be going well, until a rival competitor begins marketing Chili’s product before she can. It’s a difficult blow to Chili, but Herman assures her she will recover and that he believes one day she will come up with the next great business idea.
The tension within the firehouse is at an all-time high. Severide, ever the hothead, won’t listen to Casey in or out of the field. When the situation gets so bad that it almost gets the entire house killed at the site of a gas leak, Boden really has had enough. It’s enough weight on him that Boden tells Donna he really doesn’t know what to do, especially since Truck and Squad are even divided by their leaders. Casey refused to take a side for as long as he could, but he straight out tells Severide that if he didn’t check out Rice’s story about having faulty equipment on a call, then Severide is being naïve. Severide finally decides to find out the truth once and for all, and it turns out Rice has been ducking out of calls out of fear that he could leave his son an orphan. Rice is fired, and as a way to build a bridge between Truck and Squad, Cruz, who secretly worked to get squad certified, is offered his spot. Otis is still in an “us vs. them” mentality about this revelation, but eventually, he comes to realize that Otis deserves this opportunity.
The last thing Casey needed to be dealing with right now is Severide’s temper, given everything else he has going on. At the top of that list is working undercover for Chicago Intelligence in order to bring down Jack Nesbitt’s trafficking organization. Unbeknownst to anyone, Jack already has his suspicions about Casey working for the police. Boden allows Casey to take the next shift off in order to get the job done, a decision I’m sure he’s going to regret given what happens at the end of the hour; more on that later.
A routine call goes horribly wrong when both Dawson and Severide get trapped inside. They both run out of oxygen, and only Boden goes in after them, with strict orders to his men not to go in after him. Another firehouse chief abandons those trapped inside, and prevents anyone else from going in. Cruz loses it and threatens the other chief, but all three make it out of the fire alive. The members of Firehouse 51 return to a more relaxed environment after this call, and as a show of solidarity, everyone unanimously agrees to take the fall for Cruz’s actions against the other fire chief.
The firehouse is going to need to come together as a unit soon due to the revelations of the last few minutes of the hour. Not only does the hour close out with a potential Dawson and Casey baby on the way, Dawson shows up at Casey’s door only to find the dead body of one of Jack Nesbitt’s dancers there.
Until next season everyone. Do you think Firehouse 51 is about to get a new bouncing baby member?
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