Everyone on Chicago Fire is in the crosshairs this week as a looming threat against the house emerges. As a few problems resolve, an even bigger one emerges and one member of the house has a dangerous health crisis.
It’s been a few weeks since Brett and Chili delivered a baby in the ambulance where the mother died. The baby is still in the hospital and Brett has gone to see him so many times that it comes to Boden’s attention. Everyone around her thinks that Brett has a problem and needs to stop seeing the baby immediately, but she persists. Unfortunately it becomes such a distraction that Brett ends up putting Chili and herself in a dangerous situation without meaning to. Not even this is enough to deter Brett, who convinces psychiatrist Dr. to get her the name of the baby’s father. Her confrontation with him is quick, but he does come around and comes to claim his son.
In the midst of everything Casey is trying to whip Jimmy Borelli into shape. The candidate shows tremendous potential, and Casey sees that, so he challenges him. If only Borelli’s brother Danny would stop interfering. Danny comes to 51 and after insulting Borelli’s coworkers, tells his brother he put in a request for him to be transferred out of 51. But Borelli is hard working and doesn’t want to leave, something he is even more certain of after watching Casey pull off a particularly difficult elevator save. This decision doesn’t sit well with Danny at first, but we see that his anger comes from a place of concern. It seems Danny made his mother a promise to look after Jimmy, and he’s having trouble entrusting that to someone else.
Boden, Casey, Severide and Patterson are all stressed and agree to keep a tight a lid on the Internal Affairs investigation from the rest of the house, if only to keep them from being distracted. It doesn’t help that the first call they get after this meeting is a crush injury on the same street where this mess started. The call turns out to be a blessing in disguise. The wife of the man they saved is so grateful that Firehouse 51 saved her husband that she gives them a tape that could clear them of all wrongdoing.
In the meantime Dawson is doing her best to try to help 51 by investigating the arson. For someone who is so used to the rush and chaos of running into burning buildings, the slow process of proving arson is trying for Dawson. With a little help from Severide’s new girlfriend Dawson finds a new suspect, the owner of the property Roger Maddox. It turns out this real estate developer has bought several properties with big insurance policies. There’s little doubt Dawson is probably on the right track, however she has to cross all her t’s and dot her I’s if she hopes to build a case. She thinks that she has, but her supervisor tells her otherwise, so she goes to Boden for help. Boden publicly accuses Maddox of wrongdoing, but when he and Dawson go to find both the electronic and hardcopy files, they are gone. But all of that is forgotten when in the last minute Gabby gets a sharp pain, indicating that both she and her baby are in danger.
Severide and Jamie are still going strong, for whatever that means for Severide. Actually by this point everyone is starting to see subtle differences in Severide’s latest relationship. He’s letting her borrow his car, wear his favorite hockey jersey, so things seem to be hopeful. That is until she decides to represent the man Dawson and Boden believe is responsible for the arson fires.
Given the preview for next week, will Dawson and her baby pull through?
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