The girl I'm dating, Renee,
she's transferring to Madrid for her job.
I can't go with you.
Sky would have been the limit for us.
Herrmann, how serious are you
about renting that apartment out?
I thought that you and Severide were...
We are, but we moved in
and we skipped the dating part.
I'm just starting to think it was a mistake.
I don't care where you live.
Wherever you are, it's where I want to be.
There's this girl I went to high school with.
She's married. She said she's...
getting a hotel room and that we should meet there.
You cannot go through with this.
You're too good a guy.
[light muzak playing]
♪ ♪
[contented sigh]
♪ ♪
- Come on, let's go! - Come on, boys, defense!
Stay on him!
C'mon, ref!
Alex! Move it around out there!
Does this guy have an off-switch?
Hey! This isn't a first date.
Get on top of them! On top, on top!
Enough already.
C'mon, ref! Call the damn foul!
Paul! Shut your trap or you're out of here.
Our team's playing like
a pack of Girl Scouts, Herrmann.
You could drill them a little more on defense.
He's drilling them fine, thanks.
They're losing by 12.
Hey, everybody! Shut up! Sit down!
Or we're going to forfeit this game.
Got it?
Seriously, it was less like youth rec basketball
and more like a feeding frenzy.
I thought you swore off kids' sports forever
after that hockey fiasco a few years back.
The kids are never the problem.
It's the parents.
Do you include yourself in that?
- It's the other parents. - Mm-hmm.
Hey, have you guys seen my money clip?
ALL: No.
Hey, where were you last night?
I didn't hear you come in.
Oh, I got stuck, uh,
at Leon's house,
helping him put together furniture.
I had to watch a fixer-upper marathon alone.
Yeah.
Yeah, we just had a bunch of beers,
watching the game, so I just crashed on his couch.
Well, maybe that's where your money clip is.
Hey.
You've been approved for a new Visa,
and Value Savers thinks you're a Swedish guy
named Stell Stellakidd.
[sighs]
You know you can just throw these away, right?
Nope, gonna keep handing them to you
as punishment for moving out on me.
Oh, you miss having my hair ties
all over your kitchen counter.
I miss you.
Then ask me out on a date.
A real one.
Fine. Swift and Sons,
you and me, tomorrow night.
[alarms blaring]
Squad Three, Ambulance 61, single vehicle accident at
- 659 West Cermak. - Table will be reserved under
Stell... Stellakidd.
[scoffs]
[chuckles]
[dramatic music]
[siren wailing]
♪ ♪
- Hey, Greg, you all right? - Guy didn't see us.
I caught some water when we swerved out of the way.
That spun us.
You got a patient?
Bee sting, nothing too serious.
But Jamie got thrown.
[grunts]
You okay?
I can't move my wrist.
Paramedic's banged up. Looks like she broke her wrist.
The side door's jammed. If you can pull up
a little bit, we can open up the back.
- Yeah. - I tried,
but she didn't budge.
Think the drive shot's busted.
- Cruz, get this door open. - On it.
You... you're not going to break the door, are you?
Can't you just tow it out and go through the back?
I'm responsible for this thing.
Hook up a winch Let's do this fast.
Copy that.
Okay, all right, just hang in there.
[sputtering]
Hey! Hey! Your patient!
[gurgling]
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Guys, we can't wait. We got to get in there now!
[tense music]
♪ ♪
[mechanical whirring]
♪ ♪
His IV must have blown. His throat's swelling.
We need a tube.
♪ ♪
[man choking]
♪ ♪
Good!
[sputtering]
- Hold him down. - I can't.
Hold him down!
I got him. Okay.
Damn, he's unconscious.
You're in.
Hey, waiting to take that door off almost cost you a life.
Can't believe we considered
going private for even a minute.
You'll wish you'd gone private
once Commissioner Staton's gone.
What does that mean?
You haven't heard?
Fire commissioner's taking a big FEMA post.
Word is the whole CFD's getting handed over
to some desk jockey.
Thanks for the gauze.
[sighs]
[horn beeping]
Can I help you?
Hi, is Joe Cruz around?
Looks like the rig is still out.
They might have caught another call,
but I can give him a message.
Okay, thanks.
Could you tell him Delia came by?
Sure.
I'm sorry. I'm a friend of Joe's,
from high school.
Okay. Yeah, I'll let him know.
Thanks. Oh, also...
Could you give this to him?
[soft dramatic music]
He dropped it on the floor last night.
Yeah, sure.
Let him know I didn't take any. [laughs]
Thanks.
♪ ♪
Yeah.
Yeah?
What, you think it's for sure?
All right, Cal. Thanks.
Staton's definitely leaving?
Landry says Deputy Commissioner Nelson
- has the inside track on the job. - Who is Nelson?
He came up through administration.
Guy's never crawled a hallway in his life.
His big thing is efficiency, doing more with less.
Which is just corporate talk for four-man trucks
and forced retirement.
- Fewer supplies. - Older gear.
I think the best thing we can do right now is to stay calm.
I've heard the same rumors as you,
but, so far, that's all that they are.
So instead of getting worked up about things that
are beyond our control, let's just stick to our work.
- Sure thing, Chief. - Yeah, Chief.
[sighs] Excuse me.
Hey! Hey.
Everything okay?
I don't know. How's Leon's couch?
What are you trying to ask?
Delia came by.
- Brett, listen... - She's married, Joe.
I-I know.
And I know that you said I shouldn't see her,
but it is more complicated than that...
It's not complicated at all.
You lied to me.
[dramatic music]
I'm sorry. I shouldn't have done that.
The Joe Cruz that I know, the one pre-Delia...
he doesn't lie to his best friends.
And he doesn't cheat.
What happened to that guy?
♪ ♪
Oh, this day is about to get interesting.
Who is that?
Her name's Renee.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Hi, Kelly.
♪ ♪
After all that back and forth to New York,
I just kind of figured that it was time to settle down,
at least for my son's sake.
Nicholas is his name. He's a great kid, too.
He just makes me laugh all the time.
And it's just me and him, so...
He's a real mama's boy.
Well, he sounds great.
Part of why I moved back
was to take the lead in a pro bono case
that my law firm is handling for the CFD
involving a fire in an oil refinery.
So, I'm thinking, "Who is the smartest,
"most knowledgeable firefighter,
"with just enough
rugged good looks who could sway a jury?"
Look, I don't know that I have time to help...
Two firefighters were injured.
We're doing everything that we can
to help take care of them.
We can work around your schedule
and there's a stipend involved.
The... all I'm asking is that
you take a look at what I've pieced together,
and if you think you can help, great.
And if you can't...
say no more.
[laughs]
I know I have...
I have zero right to ask after...
After what happened before.
But I could really use some help.
And I trust your expertise.
Hey.
So this is not the Renee that he was engaged to.
Worse.
I wasn't crazy about her when they were dating,
but after they broke up, she came back
and she told Severide she was carrying his baby,
even though she knew it was someone else's.
[gasps]
Yeah. Shay did the math,
Severide caught on, and that was finally the end.
Well, until now!
Yeah, but...
Truly, he... he never looked back.
It was like a hard and fast line.
[sighs]
Hey.
Figure out what was going on before with Brett?
Brett is furious at me over this Delia thing.
I warned you about all this,
all these feelings with Brett.
This is not about me and Brett.
- This is about me and Delia. - No, it's not.
It's about why you're really throwing yourself
into this mess with your married high school girlfriend.
It all comes back to Brett,
which I specifically told you to forget about.
[sighs]
Look, please,
don't get all up in my head about this, all right?
This has nothing to do with Sylvie.
I mean Brett.
You're wrong.
Commissioner Staton is here.
He just walked right up that apron
and into this firehouse.
- What? - We gotta clean this place up.
What's going on?
What was that?
Relax, 51, this isn't an inspection.
Commissioner. [surprised laugh]
Good to see you.
- Matt Casey. - Captain.
Yeah. Otis, go get the chief.
So, uh, what can we do for you?
I'm just making the rounds, going house to house.
I know there's a lot of scuttlebutt out there.
Feel you all deserve to hear it directly from me.
Commissioner Staton.
Chief Boden. I was just telling your people
here about my new job at FEMA.
They've asked me to serve as the US fire administrator.
- Congratulations. - Indeed.
Thank you. The mayor's got a list
of very qualified candidates to replace me.
I'm going to do what I can to help steer that process.
I want to make sure I leave this department
in the hands of someone who loves it as much as I do,
who's going to go to bat for our firefighters
- and paramedics. - That's good to hear.
So, do you love this guy or what, huh?
Best battalion chief in the city.
You got that right, commissioner!
How about a tour of the place, Chief?
It's been too long since I visited 51.
You got it. Right this way.
All right.
Hey.
What's wrong?
Brendan's mom called me twice today,
saying she's taking him off the team.
Then I ran into Gina Haskins at the grocery store,
and she gave me an earful.
- Are you serious? - Everyone's just fed up
with Paul Colannino and I can't blame them.
[groaning]
I'll reach out to Paul, eh,
give him a talking to.
I'm sorry to dump this on you.
It's fine.
- All right. - Mm.
All right.
Okay...
Here's what I've been thinking.
Tell me if I'm way off base here, but...
I think Boden should throw his hat into the ring...
For commissioner.
That's a pretty big jump from battalion chief.
But it's happened before.
And you saw him with Commissioner Staton today.
He reveres Boden.
That probably had more to do
with the recommendation that Grissom wrote for him.
What recommendation?
Before Gris backed out of his plans for retirement,
he wanted Boden to take over as deputy district chief.
That just makes my point. Boden's an up-and-comer.
But the mayor appoints the next commissioner
and he's already got a list of names.
So, remember the mayor's aide Boden saved from
that hotel fire last year?
Maybe he can get Boden's name added to the list?
Okay, but that's a political process
and we both know that Boden doesn't do politics.
That's why we need to do it for him.
Work our contacts, drum up support.
It's a little crazy.
And truth is it's better for both of us
if Boden never leaves 51.
He's the only reason Dawson and I
can work in the same house and he's helped you out
of more than one jam with the brass.
There's no one who does more for his own.
But...
The whole department could benefit from that.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm willing to give it a shot...
if you are.
Okay. Let's go for it.
The door's are jammed tight,
and we can hear people screaming inside.
I'm telling you, I thought I was going to die
- in that ballroom. - And you might have
if Boden hadn't brought up the hydraulic ram.
That's how he got you out.
Saved us all. Dozens of us.
Even if we get Boden's name out there...
how do we know he's gonna make the kind of deals
- he needs to land the job? - He probably won't.
It's just not in his blood.
But if you ask me, that's exactly the kind of guy
the department needs.
He's got my vote.
The CFD needs leadership that understands
the rank and file, someone with actual
on the ground experience.
Boden's a-a real hero and a hell of a leader.
But can he run an entire department?
- That's a different skill set. - You're right.
So let me tell you about the time Boden took on
a corrupt real estate tycoon who was committing
an arson for profit scam.
Great. Now I got to meet Colannino at Molly's tonight.
- Hey, you gonna be there? - Ugh, I'm not sure yet.
I've got something I'm supposed to do... I-I mean..
I said I would do it.
But I don't know. I've been thinking about it
- and... - I was asking Otis.
He's on the bar-tending schedule.
Oh.
[sighs]
[soft dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- Don't be mad at me. - I'm not.
- Brett. - I'm not, I mean it.
I shouldn't have yelled at you before.
It's your life. You're a grown up.
I have no right to give you a hard time.
You can do whatever you want.
♪ ♪
Oh, okay.
Cool.
♪ ♪
Thanks.
Hey.
I'm the worst.
I totally forgot that I have to open tomorrow.
But I'm sure we'll find some way to see each other.
Hey, so, um, listen...
- Renee... - Yeah, Renee.
The only reason why she came back is she wants
help with a legal case. It's nothing.
Well, if you want to do it, it's fine.
- I don't know. - Look, I'm serious.
If it's a good deal, take it.
I just want to spend more time together.
Yeah, me too.
- Hey, Paul. - Hi, Danny.
- Come on in. - What's up, man?
[indistinct chatter]
Herrmann.
All right.
Hey, got your message. What's going on?
We both know that you're being that guy,
the dad who gets too involved in his kid's game
- and pisses off everybody. - You know what...
Hey! They're just a bunch of kids, all right?
So, firefighter to firefighter.
I need you to step back,
I need you to keep your butt on the bleachers,
and keep your mouth zipped.
I ain't asking here, Paul.
[melancholy music]
Look... I wasn't there so much
for my older son,
between the department and the side job.
The kid, he's 18 now.
In a bad way, barely talks to me.
So when I see how much Alex is into basketball...
I've been shooting hoops with him every night.
And he loves it.
He loves it.
So, you know, maybe...
maybe I'm putting a little bit too much on it,
trying to make it more than what it is
so I don't...
fail him,
like I did his brother.
I don't know.
But...
But this is all I've got with him.
♪ ♪
Just keep the theatrics to a minimum, okay?
Can you do that?
I'll try, Herrmann. I-I promise.
- Yeah. - All right.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
- Hey. - Hey.
You look good.
- You look better. - [chuckles]
So...
Are you freaking out a little?
- Because I am freaking out. - Yeah.
I'm freaking out.
I know.
It's like, when I saw you the other day
and then being with you...
I didn't have to think twice.
It felt right, didn't it?
Yeah, it did.
Then afterward...
Maybe the best thing to do is for us
to put the brakes on this for now.
Maybe it is.
But we are already here.
Maybe we can have one drink first...
Spend a few minutes...
Not freaking out...
Together.
[exhales sharply]
[groans]
[melancholy music]
I'm so sorry, Delia. I...
♪ ♪
It has been great seeing you again.
♪ ♪
But I need to go.
♪ ♪
[sighs]
♪ ♪
So you're Joe Cruz?
Oh yeah, but I...
[groans]
Ow! Okay.
- Seriously, I can do this. - Really?
Do you have 18 months formal paramedic training?
Okay, it's not an IV. It's just a bag of peas.
I got it, I got it. [sighs]
Well, I guess it goes without saying, you were right.
Hmm, actually, I think it should be said.
[laughs]
- I was an idiot. - You were.
Look.
I hate it when you get mad at me.
But just for the record...
I hate it even more when you don't.
Please, don't just give up on me like that.
[soft dramatic music]
As much as I might want to, I never could.
♪ ♪
Imagine my surprise when the calls started coming in,
asking if I was really putting myself up for commissioner.
I mean, how the hell does that happen?
Then I told myself, no.
My people wouldn't go around my back
and embarrass me by begging for favors
on my behalf, because that would be
an absolute breach of trust.
So please...
Help me figure out what could possibly be going on.
We didn't mean to go behind your back, Chief.
And yet you did.
Only because we knew that you wouldn't put yourself out there.
- That's right. I wouldn't. - It was my idea, Chief.
Oh, was it now?
All right, the thing is,
people in the city respect you.
And it's because of something you've taught us since day one.
You get respect not just by earning it,
by giving it.
That's why we would follow you anywhere,
and why we think others would too.
I know you've been feeling like you don't have
anything left to teach us, but...
I'm telling you.
You do.
And you should be teaching from a higher perch,
where every firefighter in Chicago can benefit from it.
[clears throat] Anyway...
That's all we were thinking.
[warm music]
♪ ♪
Okay.
♪ ♪
[indistinct chatter]
So when you said you had a few documents?
Oh, well, believe me, to a lawyer,
this... this is a few.
Um, okay, so, like I said, you don't
have to commit to the case.
Just, you know, just take a look
and see if you find anything interesting and...
If you do, then I'd love to have you on board.
- Okay. - Okay.
Oh, Nicholas, honey, come here, come here.
- I'm so sorry. - Mama!
I couldn't find a sitter.
- It's fine. - Baby, what did I say?
Don't touch anything.
What am I looking at here?
Bringing the kid in is a super ballsy move.
- [grunts] - [cheers]
Probably shouldn't have moved out.
[alarms blaring]
Truck 81, Engine 51, Squad 3, Ambulance 61...
- [indistinct chatter] - Auto-body shop fire.
16th and Loomis.
[intense music]
[sirens wailing]
♪ ♪
[indistinct radio chatter]
♪ ♪
- What do we got? - [indistinct chatter]
Battalion 25 to Main,
- give me a still and box alarm. - Copy that, Battalion 25.
One of the cars they were working on caught fire
and they couldn't get an extinguisher on it fast enough.
- Everyone accounted for? - All but one, Julio.
Junior mechanic. No one's seen him.
That roof is gonna come down. We better find him fast.
Okay. We have one more inside.
Truck 81, primary search through the front door.
Squad 3, recon the back. See if you can find him there.
- Mouch, Otis, raise the aerial. - Copy.
Kidd, you're with me. We search left.
Herrmann, find a partner, go right.
Engine 51, 37, get two hose lines through the front door.
Cover out search teams.
The fire is in the trusses.
You have five minutes max.
Stick together. Let's go, let's go, let's go.
♪ ♪
Hey. You gonna yell at me again if we do this?
Nah, you're good.
♪ ♪
- I got nothing. You? - Zero.
Fire department, call out.
It's getting too hot down here.
Even if we do find him, he'd never survive this.
Fire department! Call out!
- Herrmann, report. - Right hand side is
still negative, Chief, but we're pushing through the rear.
- You're running out of time. - Hey, give me one more minute.
This kid's got to be here some place.
♪ ♪
These bow trusses are out rolling.
Squad Three, report.
Rear entrance is lit up, Chief... we can't get in.
[creaking, glass breaking]
♪ ♪
Battalion 25 to all fire companies,
evacuate the building immediately.
Somebody! Help!
Hey, you hear that?
Right there.
[coughing]
Got him. Go!
♪ ♪
Come on.
[grunts] Go!
Everybody else out?
Not yet.
Herrmann, are you coming?
Finding our way out.
Go.
Colannino, where'd you go?
Colannino!
♪ ♪
Hey!
- Okay, we got him. - Good save.
Where's Colannino?
He's not out?
Oh, God.
He went back for us.
- I got to get him, chief. - It's too unstable.
No, no, he couldn't have gone far.
- I got to look. - Herrmann!
[explosion]
♪ ♪
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Hold the cannons.
Go.
- [alarm whistling] - Hey, I got him!
♪ ♪
I got him.
Hey. I'm here, Paul.
♪ ♪
- Medics. - Copy, on our way.
Okay.
[coughing]
Anything?
He's not breathing.
Hey, Paul! Paul!
Paul, come on!
Come on!
His pupils are blown.
Come on! Come on!
Come on.
Come on, Paul...
Come on...
Herrmann. Herrmann.
No. I got this. Come on.
- Herrmann! - I got it! Come on!
Hey!
Come on. Let's get him up.
[somber music]
♪ ♪
Kid's doing okay.
The mechanic.
- Saved his life. - Good.
That's good.
God bless.
You know...
Colannino was the first guy to show up
when we passed the boot at Molly's for Jones,
- you remember that? - Yeah.
That guy did stuff like that always.
He was a solid guy.
He was a smoke-eater.
He was facing the wrong way, Mouch.
When we found him, he was headed back in
looking for me.
I don't know how we missed each other.
You couldn't see. It happens.
The kid... He got caught on a...
a floor jack or something.
It only took a second to unhook it.
Maybe half a second.
And when I looked back up...
he wasn't there.
Hey.
It's one foot in front of the other, buddy.
You just keep it moving forward.
We're going to go out there.
We're going to put our gear in the turn out room.
And we're going to get a cup of coffee.
We're going to pack up and head out.
And then we're gonna go be there for his family.
You hear me?
You hear me, Herrmann?
♪ ♪
- All right. - That's it.
I'm going to look after this department
and these people.
I'm going to throw my hat in the ring for them.
Thanks.
Hard times.
Tragic day. [clears throat]
There'll be time for this later,
but I want to let you know that I'm going to take a run
at the commissioner spot.
Moments like this, I know that I got to give
to this department everything I got.
♪ ♪
[hoop rattles]
[ball bouncing]