.
- My wife almost got killed
because of some cop on the take.
- We're on top of it. - Well, what's the hold-up?
- Hey, it's a police matter, let the police handle it.
- You're not! - Stay in your lane.
You just lost yourself a valuable friend.
- How come you're going along with me in all of this?
You don't even like me.
- Chief Boden sees something in you.
This has been a chance for me to see it for myself.
- It's you I'm worried about.
You haven't slowed down even for a breath.
[dramatic music]
- Casey and I broke up.
- So can you help me?
- Yeah. - Great.
- Listen, and I get that,
but I've been a lieutenant for a while,
and it seems a little off that I don't have my own quarters.
- What are you talking about?
I waited five years.
Like Minnesota Fats said, "Them's the breaks."
- Uh-huh.
- It's a seniority issue.
You're third in line.
- You really don't understand marriage, do you?
- [laughs] - Always support your wife.
- You were agreeing with me!
- Listen, I cannot keep using this room
as my temporary workspace.
It's not right.
- How's your partner doing?
- Between Casey and the paramedicine incident,
not good.
- That was one hell of a one-two punch.
- Yeah.
I got to take her out or something,
get her mind off of everything going on.
- Okay, people, I got a lot to go over,
so let's get to it.
First off...
gutter duty.
[all groaning]
Okay, get your griping out the way.
You got ten seconds.
[all shouting]
- Evan's gonna spend more time commuting in his car
than out doing his job.
Busted down to District 6.
- That blows. - Yeah.
Guess I shouldn't complain.
At least we don't have to sneak around like a couple--
oh.
Uh, what am I talking about?
You don't want to hear about my nonsense
when you're going through what you're--
- No, Violet, no walking on eggshells around me.
I mean it. Just because--
- Brett, can I grab you for a second?
Richardson at dispatch has the inside track
on some new radios for our ambulance.
- Carver.
- Hey, Chief, just grabbing a maintenance request form.
- You in a hurry?
- No, no. What's up?
- Well, you've been with us for a few shifts now.
I just want to check in with you,
see how you're liking it.
- Very much so.
It's a great house.
Best group of people I've come across in the CFD, hands down.
- I certainly think so.
And you and Kidd, how's it working?
- Great.
Sorry. I cut you off.
- Hmm.
I just wanted to ask how you and Kidd are getting along.
- Yeah, great.
[pensive music]
- We're alone, you know.
Speak your mind.
- She's an outstanding lieutenant.
As for our personalities, sure, we're a little different,
but that just makes the job more of a thrill ride, right?
- Right.
- Hey, don't mind me. - Okay.
- Did you agree with the incident report format
that Boden was talking about this morning?
- I hadn't thought about it.
- Well, it seems like if we have been filing the reports
in a certain way for literally forever,
we don't need a new system for uploading the files.
You know, so what, headquarters can not review them sooner?
- What are you doing?
[soft playful music]
- I am talking about incident reports.
- No.
- Okay, best I can eyeball it,
your office is about 80 square feet?
- Sure. - Well, that's perfect.
There's plenty of room in the-- [siren blares]
- Truck 81, Engine 51, Ambulance 61.
Pin in accident.
- To be continued.
[sirens wailing]
[suspenseful music]
♪
We got two injured drivers.
One is pinned.
- All right, let's get a line ready on this sedan!
- Brett, we need C-collars, a second ambulance.
Gallo, Mouch, get the jaws and cutter.
- Copy that. - Copy, copy!
- Uh, Lieutenant?
♪
- [screaming]
.
- [screaming]
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Gallo, Carver, grab flares.
Go to the end of that street. - Copy.
- I don't want any animals hit.
- Copy that.
- Mouch, you got the jaws? - Yeah.
All right, take it easy. Try not to move, ma'am.
We're gonna get you out of there.
- [whimpering]
[tool buzzing]
- Good. Let's go.
- You doing all right, sir?
- Ellis.
- You doing all right, Ellis?
- How is she?
- She is conscious, so that's good.
But you sit tight until we can have some paramedics
come and take a look at you, okay?
- Nah. Nah.
Oh, hell's bells.
- Got her open, Lieutenant.
- Ma'am, tell me what hurts.
- I just looked down at the radio for a second.
- Yeah, we get that a lot.
All right, can you follow my finger with your eyes?
Okay, that's good. No concussion.
How about the rest of you?
- My side, it really hurts.
- Cracked rib?
- I don't hear stridor or diminished lungs.
Okay, we're gonna get you to Med and have
a doctor check you out, okay? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay, easy.
Come on, easy. Just lay on your back.
That's it. - [sobbing]
- Well, that's--thank you.
- Ellis, we got a second ambulance on the way.
I really want you to take it.
You should at least get your head looked at.
- I really don't need all of that stuff.
What I do need is to get my goats out of the road
so some fool don't run them over.
[goats bleating]
[soft playful music]
- Give me a second.
Hey, Hermann. - Yeah.
- How's about a little wager?
- What you got in mind?
- Well, Ellis here needs his goats corralled.
- Uh-huh.
- So how about the one of us who
gets the most goats back in the animal carrier...
gets your office?
[laughter]
- I already got my office.
That's not how a bet works.
- Okay, if you win, I'll work in Molly's for a month for--
- You're on!
- Sheesh.
[laughter]
[all shouting, laughing]
- All right, all right, all right.
- Ooh. - [bleating]
- Number seven! - Whoo! 51, baby!
[cheering]
- And that is how you do it.
- I may not have thought this one through.
- I'm Chicago born and raised.
But every summer, I go to Wisconsin
to my uncle Leslie's goat farm.
- [snorts] Of course you did.
- 51, pack it up.
Lunch is on me when we get back.
[all cheer]
- I'm sorry again for chattering on about Evan.
I know what you're going through.
- Dispatch, we're going down in order to restock equipment.
- Copy that, 61.
- What are we restocking?
- Our stomachs.
Listen, I'm gonna give it to you straight.
I like hearing about you and Evan.
I like seeing you two together.
In fact, because he's going to be leaving the district soon
and your chances of seeing him during shift
are gonna be remote, I thought it'd be nice
if we all grabbed lunch together.
[sentimental music]
- Oh.
Brett.
- Come on. I'm starving.
- Chief. - Stella, what's on your mind?
- Well, I am glad you asked, Chief,
because I'm just gonna come right out and say it.
I need my own lieutenant's quarters.
- Stella, I've been down this road many times.
This is a firehouse with three apparatus
and only two officers' quarters.
- Here's the thing, Chief. I've thought about that.
The laundry room is more than spacious enough.
- The laundry room?
- It's right next to the bunk room,
so I'd be close to my men.
And it can easily be cleaned up and refitted
to accommodate a desk.
Also, let's be honest.
It is a little off that I am the only female officer
at 51 and--
- Fine.
Laundry room's all yours.
- Someone looks happy.
- Someone is happy. - Hmm.
- You wanted to see me, Chief? - Ah, yes.
Just had a phone call from Chicago PD.
They have a crime scene around the corner.
And they have asked for your help.
- Me specifically?
- Well, the detective says Trudy Platt told them
that you have a nose for these types of things,
whatever that means. - Intriguing.
- Yeah.
Get Cruz to cover squad while you're out.
- Will do, Chief.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- You Severide?
Come take a look at something for us, will you?
- Sure.
♪
This who was carted out of here?
- Yep.
Best we can figure, he's the homeowner
who was supposed to be out of town
with his family on vacation
but had to cut his trip short for work.
Surprised the guy breaking into his safe,
gets a bullet in his head for his trouble.
- And you called me because...?
- Well, the safe is supposed to be fireproof.
And what we need to know is what
the killer used to open it.
The desk sergeant at 21st said you might be
the man who would know.
If we could figure out what the perp used
to put a hole in the fireproof safe,
maybe it'll give us a clue to the killer.
- Hey! What's he doing here?
- Oh, easy, Detective. I got his name from over--
- Forget it. I want him out of here.
.
- Look, you clear it with me
before you invite in an outsider, Luke.
- Sergeant Platt said he could be here to help--
- Is she in charge of this scene, or am I?
- Hey.
You don't want me here, no problem.
But Pryma, you should know
there's no such thing as fireproof.
If you get any metal hot enough, it turns to liquid.
Could have been done with an acetylene torch
or an Arcair torch.
Could have been punched with nitroglycerin or C4 or RDX.
But I won't be able to tell you
because you have a personal beef.
- Fine. You want to take some pictures?
Send us your thoughts. The city thanks you.
[tense music]
♪
- I was gonna pick up the check.
- No way. Are you kidding me?
You made my whole day when you called.
- Well, thank you.
- Violet's lucky to have friends like you.
- Aw.
- Speaking of friends, I know it might be a little soon,
and feel free to yell at me, but...
- Evan, I don't know.
- I have a good buddy who I play hockey with.
He's a great guy.
He runs a bar in Logan Square,
volunteers a ton at Lurie Children's Hospital.
And I just thought you two might hit it off.
- Oh, that's so sweet of you, but yeah, a little soon.
- Told you.
- No, no, it's awesome of you to think of me.
I really do appreciate it.
- Anytime.
And you didn't yell at me, so there's that.
Thanks again for setting this up.
And I will see you tomorrow after your shift.
- Can't wait.
- I love you. - Love you too.
Sorry about that.
- Aw, he is a ridiculously good guy.
- And that lunch idea was ridiculously
thoughtful of you.
- Well, I was, and always will be, a hopeless romantic.
It makes me happy to see you happy.
- Carver?
- Lieutenant.
- Your construction gigs, were you more of a hammer
and saw guy, or would you map out renovations,
that kind of thing?
- I've done a few fixer uppers.
Flipped a house down in South Shore.
- Great--come help me convert the laundry room
into my office.
- Doesn't facilities do that?
- Yeah.
Yeah, this is more of a,
"I am not gonna wait six months for facilities
to approve the paperwork" kind of thing.
- Hmm.
[soft playful music]
- What?
- It just seems like you're asking for my help.
- Yeah.
- But you didn't ask.
You more like gave an order.
Or you know what? No problem.
Lieutenant, team player.
I'll take a look.
♪
Okay, lots of space to work with.
- So what I'm thinking is, Coke machine, gone.
Washer-dryer, gone.
Desk goes right here.
- Floating shelves on this wall.
- Really? Even into this brick?
- Hammer drill with a carbide tip, zhoop-zhoop, two seconds.
- Really? - Mm-hmm.
- Okay, then.
- And you've got plenty of power and light.
- That's what I'm saying.
Hey, Kelly.
Can you help me find a new home for the washer-dryer here?
- Help Kidd find a new home for the washer and dryer.
- We're getting ready to--
- Or you could run drills on the roof
till the sun goes down.
- Fine.
- Thank you, gentlemen. - Hmm.
We're gonna have to run temporary hoses
and accordion ventilation.
- I'm sure you can figure it all out.
Come with me.
- What are you guys doing?
- We have to move these out of Kidd's new office.
- Oh, well, finally a job that suits your talents.
Something that doesn't require thinking.
- Hey, Chief.
I just--I just wanted to say thank you
for letting Javi play candidate last week.
- Oh, always great to see him, which got me thinking
that you might want to bring him over,
and then Terrance and he,
they could just toss the football and talk.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, that would be great.
[both chuckle]
- Excuse me.
Hey. What are you doing?
- Relocating the washer and dryer into the briefing room.
- No, you're not.
Find somewhere else.
♪
Let's take this in my office.
- Knock, knock.
- Van Meter!
Hey, I just wanted you to email me your thoughts
on the photos I sent.
- I was heading over to the academy anyway.
These are all the old safe cracking/arson files
I could pull from the OFI archives.
They go back about ten years.
- That's more than I thought. - Yeah.
7,000 robbery-burglaries a year in Chicago, my friend.
These represent oh but a tiny portion of the troubles
that ail our fair city.
- Did you look at these?
- Yeah.
- If I figure out what device was used
to burn through this safe, CBD says they can
narrow the suspect list.
- I'm gonna guess an Arcair torch,
but dig through these,
see if there are any that look similar.
A bunch of them were solved, so they probably
have the methods detailed.
- Yeah, will do. Thank you.
- On that note, I got to get to the academy.
Good luck. - Yeah.
- Hey, Chief.
You remember that fire about two weeks ago
in North Erie, the one with the fire-resistant safe
up in the bedroom?
- I do. I pass by it on my way to work.
It's still boarded up.
Yes, you can go check it out.
I'll let Cruz know.
- Thanks, Chief.
[suspenseful music]
♪
.
- What the hell are you doing here?
- This is a fire scene, Pryma.
The better question is,
what the hell are you doing here?
- I was looking over suspicious cases in the area,
and this house stuck out-- bedroom on fire.
- With a floor safe nearby.
- Exactly.
- I was doing the same thing.
- Our detective working the case
said the safe was never opened.
- Fire investigation said the same thing.
Ruled it arson.
- Yeah, but CPD couldn't figure out a motive.
- Homeowner?
- Spends half the time in Florida,
wasn't in Chicago when this happened.
Interviewed him remotely, but we didn't
get a bad hit off of him.
I looked through both addresses to see if there's
any connection, but I'm pulling zeros right now.
- This is a similar model to the cracked safe
this morning, which drew both our attention,
only this wasn't opened.
- That's correct.
[suspenseful music]
- The fire started here...
Here...
And here.
Meaning someone lit the drapes or curtains on fire.
- Okay.
- Okay, what if our safecracker,
he comes in, he moves over to the safe,
he tries to torch his way in,
but he doesn't know what he's doing yet.
He gets spooked or pissed or whatever and he gives up.
Then he decides to...
Light the room on fire out of frustration.
- Or to cover his tracks.
So you're saying this safe was his first attempt?
- Well, most arsonists start small.
They work their way up.
Partly a mental compulsion.
It's also practice.
Maybe safecrackers do the same thing.
- So he fails here, waits a few weeks,
and then cracks the safe on West Hersh.
- Exactly.
- All right, it seems like if we find
a connection between the two houses,
we land on a suspect. - We?
- Experience tells me you're gonna see this through
whether I want you to or not.
So you share anything you find in your files.
I'll do the same thing.
- Done.
- That's why I called equipment and supplies.
I don't have the hoses you promised me in August.
I'm looking at my calendar, Larry.
What do you think it says?
It says October.
Hang on a sec.
Hey!
- Chief, we thought-- - No.
- Carver?
- Yeah, Lieutenant?
- You work construction, yeah?
- I did.
I still do, apparently.
- These are from a fire scene a couple of weeks ago.
These studs here and here, they're different, right?
- Yeah, you can see them here.
This house had some renovations done.
Behind this sheetrock, old studs that are pre-1964,
actual 2x4s.
And over here, that's newer construction.
Those studs are--
- No.
Go on.
- Those studs are modern 3 1/2x1 1/2s.
And light and color.
I'm saying this is recent work,
like in the last couple of months.
- Thanks, Carver.
- You got it.
- What's this?
- Here you are, going through it,
and all you think about is making my day better.
So I made you a failed attempt at Asiago cheesy bread.
- Do I eat it or...?
- No, you can throw that right away.
But I wanted you to see my effort
and to say thank you again for lunch today.
- Look, Violet, I really appreciate you saying that
and baking me this,
but I'm fine.
I--
I've been thinking a lot about the fact
that I had this call a few years ago.
This woman had been stabbed by her neighbor
in her bedroom,
and I got there too late, and she died in front of me.
At the time, it really got to me.
And I ended up bawling my eyes out in my car later,
completely shattered.
[solemn music]
But this job, this life...
It forges you in steel.
I'm a lot stronger now.
And when I was attacked on that paramedicine run,
my mind wasn't saying, get out of here, run, get help.
It was saying, stay cool and handle this, Sylvie.
And with Matt,
I can either bawl my eyes out,
or I can get back to work
and get better at living every day.
That's what I choose to do.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- Hey, Detective Pryma.
So I have an idea of what ties the two houses together.
Both were recently remodeled, and I'm gonna guess
by the same contractor who knew where the safe was
and when the owners would be away.
There's a sign in the yard of the first house
that says Big T Construction, which is located
about a mile from here.
I'm gonna go poke around.
♪
- Help you? - Yeah.
I'm Kelly Severide with the Chicago Fire Department.
I was hoping to talk to somebody from Big T.
- I'm Tom, the owner. How can I help?
- Hear anything about a robbery at 5317 West Hersh?
- Yeah, I did, actually.
I'm doing the bathrooms over there.
When I showed up this morning, the police said
it was a crime scene and to keep away.
- That's all they told you?
- Yeah.
- You do the renovations at 2221 North Erie?
- No.
You know, we did bid on that job, and they turned us down.
But the plumber we work with, Jack Howard,
he did both those renos. - Really?
- Yeah, he's here. We share a space.
You want to talk to him?
- I would, actually.
- I got your message.
- Yeah, the guy was just telling me about it.
- There he is now. Hey, hey, Jack.
These guys are looking for you.
♪
.
[suspenseful music]
♪
- [groans]
- Oh!
This is Detective Prima.
Send me two squads and an SI unit
to Big T's Construction on South Campbell.
We've got the guy.
- Hey. - Hey.
- There something you want to say to me?
- Lots of things, yeah.
- I mean about the shelves I put up.
You saw them, right?
- I did. They're good.
Thank you.
- Good or really good?
- Somewhere in that range, yeah.
[pensive music]
- You know, if you give me a compliment
or say "great job," you won't turn to dust.
You should try it sometime.
- You're very needy.
Do you know that?
[siren blares]
- Hey. Where you been?
- I've been out with the CPD. You?
You look like you've been rolling in dirt.
- Yeah, I had to climb under a house
where a little kid thought it'd be a great idea
to play hide and seek and got himself stuck.
- You look like Pigpen.
- [laughs]
- Yeah.
I'm gonna hit the shower.
- What'd I miss?
- Nada.
With you playing fire cop and Tony and Capp
moving that washer and dryer all over the house,
I've had the squad table all to myself.
It's been pretty nice, actually.
- Looky here.
- Right? - Coming together.
- I stole a desk out of the blue office.
- These are cool. - Yeah.
Carver.
Yeah, he puts up perfect shelves.
I still want to punch him, but.
- Well, you made it happen.
You had an idea, you got it done.
What I love about you.
- Oh.
- Where'd the washer and dryer end up?
[soft playful music]
- [humming]
Huh?
♪
[alarm blares]
- Squad 3, Truck 81, Engine 51, Ambulance 61.
Structure fire, 3447 South Damen Avenue.
[sirens wailing]
[suspenseful music]
♪
- I don't know what happened. It sprang up out of nowhere.
[coughs] - How many people inside?
- I don't know.
I saw some people trapped by the screen.
And Brady and Ivy are down in the storage room.
- Severide, we got two trapped downstairs.
Kidd, primary search inside the theater.
- Copy.
- Herrmann, get two lines in there.
- Got it.
- You hold it back as long as you can.
- Copy that. Let's go, boys.
- Guys, we got two minutes in here, not ten.
- How many in there? - Two.
- Truck, primary search inside the theater.
- Brett, set up triage outside of the collab zone.
I've already called in EMS Plan One,
so cavalry's on its way.
- Okay. - But you keep them back.
This building isn't gonna last much longer.
- You got it, Chief.
Everyone come to me so we can get you on oxygen
and make sure you're okay.
Be patient. We will get to you.
- Let's go, let's go, let's go.
♪
- Ready, Truck? Let's move our asses!
Ready? Stand by to charge the line.
[fire alarm blaring]
- All right.
- Come on. Keep moving! - This way!
- Keep moving! - This way!
[people coughing] - Come on!
Keep moving. Keep moving!
♪
- Okay, everyone, stay calm!
Walk, don't run to the nearest exit!
Okay, spread out!
Get as many people out as you can.
Come on out! This way!
Come on! This way! - You too! Let's go!
Chief, we need hose lines ion the theater.
It's cooking in here. Come on.
- 51, get in there with that hose line.
- Copy that, Chief!
- Smoke inhalation to the left, burn victims to the right.
- Got it.
- Hey, Chief.
I'll take over directing triage.
- Thank you, Chief Hawkins.
♪
Okay.
One more minute, and I want everybody out of there.
I do not like the way that this looks.
- The door is jammed!
- Help us!
- Cruz, Halligan!
- Copy!
- Please hurry!
- Here we go.
- Run out that way!
- Right this way. Sir.
- Go all the way down. You got him?
- Stay low. - Stay low, stay low.
- Come on, man.
Coming through. Coming through!
- Keep it going. There you go.
Here we go.
- Hey! - This way! Come on!
- Hey!
Over--hey, hey!
No, not that way. - Gallo!
- Wait!
.
- Mayday! Mayday! Chief, it's Gallo!
Gallo's down! Gallo's down!
[tense music]
- Stay focused. They'll get him.
- Gallo! - Gallo!
- [coughing] Mouch!
- Got 'em, got 'em!
- Go!
Capp! Tony!
Come on! Let's go!
- Gallo?
- Here we go. This way!
[people coughing]
- Come on.
Gallo!
- Go!
- Come on!
[fire alarm blaring]
- Gallo!
Carver, you see Gallo? - Negative, Lieutenant!
I don't have him.
- Gallo!
♪
- Hey, where's Kidd and Gallo?
- Okay, Kidd, need a report on Gallo.
- We got Gallo, Chief.
We're coming out.
- Primary search is complete.
PAR is all good.
All firefighters are clear.
- Okay, let's go defensive. Bring out the water cannon.
- You got it, Chief.
♪
[siren wailing]
- [groaning, coughing]
- Hey. Hey, hey, hey. Come on.
What's your name?
- Gabriel. [coughs]
- Okay, Gabriel. Gabriel.
Let's go.
- Chief Boden, looks like Hawkins needs help
with a victim over here.
- That's it. That's it.
[rumbling, cracking]
- Mayday!
[all shouting]
Mayday! North side!
We got two! Hawkins and a victim!
Come on!
Get in there.
- Easy, easy.
Watch it, watch it, watch it! Watch it.
- Got him!
Severide!
- Backboard!
- Coming in! - C-collar!
- Lieutenant!
- Lift him. - Oh, God. Oh, God.
- Okay, easy, easy.
- One, two, three.
- Easy, easy. - One, two, three.
- Back, back!
♪
- Got him!
- Keep working, guys!
- Watch your step.
- Keep working! - Got to get him clear!
- Sliding down.
- Gotta get these doors out of here.
- Don't press!
- Watch it, watch it, watch it!
- Watch it! Careful!
- Get out, get out, get out! Move, move! Go!
Come on, Evan. Come on, Evan.
Talk to me, Evan. Come on. Talk to me.
Just talk to me. Talk to me, Evan.
Talk to me. Please, please, please.
Please.
Please, please, come on, Evan.
Evan, talk to me. Come on. Talk to me.
Come on.
Please, God, please!
Please, Evan, please!
Please, no! No!
I can do it! - Let them work.
- I can save him, please. No!
- Let them work.
Let them work.
- No, Evan! - Let them work.
[somber music]
[sobbing]
- No.
- One, two, three.
- No!
No. No. No!
He was just looking at me.
Please, Chief, let me try. - I got you.
- Let me try. - I got you.
- No! No, no!
No!
[sobbing]
No, no, no, no, no.
♪
[dramatic music]
♪
[wolf howls]