Moving Forward: Chicago Fire "Wow Me" review

When we lost Shay, everyone was devastated, both the characters and fans. Now, as we move forward, things are still hard for some of us, but not as much as Severide.

 In this week's episode of "Chicago Fire," the second episode of season three, "Wow Me, "mostly this epi,sode if the title stands, is about how Herrmann wants Mouch and Cruz to devise an idea to make Molly's successful franchise. In the style of the famous Donald Trump, Herrmann wants them to do a task like in "The Apprentice."

When Mouch and Cruz talk, Cruz wants Otis to be a part of it to help. They wanted to discuss it, but Mouch had everything under control until about two days before the pitch day when he was reading and getting ideas from Trump's books.

And that's when Cruz took over and got the idea for Molly's to go mobile, that is, service truck-wise. When Herrmann heard it, he gave his signature sign that he loved it. Molly's is going to be a food and beer truck service.

Wouldn't we all want that? I might not know much about food trucks. Do they service beer and other alcohol?

Meanwhile, the other focus goes to Casey and Dawson. Dawson is waiting for her transfer to be accepted to Firehouse 66; she drops by the house and gives the guys a bulk of beer so they might like her. They don't, with the look from Tom Welch, who gives Dawson and Casey a hard time.

As soon as Dawson thinks of the change that will happen, Casey asks if she needs help with more training up the stairs; as she goes up and to the top of the roof, she sees a small box. Casey comes by the door and then soon asks her to marry him.

With a bit of celebration, I'm saying a bit lightly, during the evening, the following morning, Dawson gets an overwhelming emotional feeling about Shay and that if anything good has happened to her, Shay is the first person she tells her.

But then, she got called up to the boss. She runs into Welch, and as soon as she gets to talk to the boss, he tells her she is no longer accepted at 66 because they found another better candidate. She's upset about it and was told that it was not a gender issue, which is the way Welch has been acting these last few episodes from last season til now.

And now that only leaves with no wedding between Dawson and Casey.

Peter Mils got to see where his father has been over the years without knowing from his mother. His father's family didn't like him dating a black woman, and they had to go their separate ways.

But later on, in their second rescue mission of the episode, two guys are stuck underground at a gas line where they are unresponsive. Severide sends in Mils by going down there upside down and hooking them with a handcuff bracelet so they can be picked up.

As soon as the second is up, Mils is unresponsive and stuck. They get him out and question what happened. Could it be the equipment? Could there be something wrong with Mils? I'm leaning into more of the second question on this one.

But mostly, for our sake, this episode was mainly about Severide and seeing him dealing with the loss of Shay. Yeah, he might be back to work, but he hides his feelings like a tough guy would do and carry on his duty. The only thing that will take him away from it is drinking. He tells Casey that he's been staying with Lindsey (Chicago DP) as he said to her that he was going to be hanging with the guys.

He's dodging everyone. It wasn't until the stunt at Molly's that some of the guys from 51 thought about him physically and mentally as he was drunk and thought that Brett looked like Shay. That seems to be where he went off the deep in.

At the end of the episode, he forgets his dinner date with Lindsey, and she gives him an ultimatum that she knows what it's like to lose a friend. Still, she will only be a friend and not a girlfriend who gets stood up at a restaurant, and that's the point of Severide facing his emotions and talking about it.

In the meantime, during the episode, Boden and his wife are told by the doctor that she needs to be careful during her pregnancy due to her age and that there are risks.

Dawson tries to help  Brett with new apartments because of her location and the fact that they were called to a scene of a junkie getting high just up the street from her place.

This episode still deals with the loss of Shay. For us, the viewers and fans, I think we either rely on Dawson's side of emotion or Severide's side. We see that Severide has finally accepted that his best friend is gone. We sometimes do the same thing he has done when someone that he cared for and loved and has been there since. Who knows when we just shut people out?

There was a lot of humor in this episode due to Molly's franchise idea from the guys. Rule number one: don't take advice from Trump's book unless you understand it completely.

I like Brett, the new member of the team. She's exciting, and I hope we get to know her more. This might be a good time for her and Dawson to have a girl's weekend getaway.

Next week's episode seems to be putting more fire to the flame as both House 51 and 66 have crashed into each other.

You can catch a new episode of "Chicago Fire" on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on NBC