"I Held Her Hand"
When a fire rescue goes wrong, Casey believes it was set up, while Severide doesn't. Plus, a graffiti sign is left at the Fire House, and it pushes Herrmann's buttons.
Let's start with the fire call at a home, where Severide picks up the husband, who was yelling for his wife in the other room. Casey and the team tried to get there but couldn't and used the truck later to get to her. With sold glass windows, Casey breaks through but can't break them any harder in time to get her out as he witnesses her skin turn burnt.
The rescue gets stuck into Casey's head, and when he inspects the place, he spots something that doesn't seem right. He makes a report, and an arson investigation is in place, but Severide doesn't believe the husband had anything to do with it. Even further to go through the study, the victim's sister comes to the 51 and tells Casey about how her sister's marriage wasn't good.
Meanwhile, Dawson and Britt get a call about a boy falling from a tree, for which he was trying to impress a girl to go to prom with him. That didn't go well, but he made it on to fail prom videos online as a viral hit. After he turned out to be okay, the girl he was trying to ask out visits but also told him that she had a date with someone else.
Graffiti has been appearing at House 51; Herrmann is pissed about it and gets everyone on the lookout. After cleaning it off and heading home the next day, it was up again. After a call, Herrmann sees the same art, stops the truck, and runs after the kid. They bring him back to the firehouse and try to get him to talk, but he won't. But after that, the kid's aunt gets there to pick him up; Herrmann gives the kid a shirt because he gives him a speech about friends and family at 51. That got a lot of laughs in the locker room, giving Britt the idea to take that kid to the prom, something I wish happened to me in high school.
The investigation came to an end with no further arrest of the husband. Severide tells Casey that he found video cameras of the husband at another location at the time of the fire, but Casey doesn't believe it and walks away with a look towards him.
Plus, Boden's son, James, comes back after making a creepy first impression with his wife, and it looks like Sheets Under Fire won't come out after all. But I still would love to read that book!
"That Day"
Casey pushes more on the investigation, Boden gets pressure to come to New York City, and Dawson gets blindsided.
Casey pushes the investigation into the fire from the previous episode. Severide gets the news from the husband and confronts Casey about it. The two still butted heads, but they came together to investigate it themselves. When they couldn't find anything, Casey left the room,m but Severide found something: some Wi-Fi system that someone could control the house alarms and such with an app. When they went to the husband's new place, he was just about to leave when they searched his phone for the app and usage, which proved that he started the fire that killed his wife.
Out on a call, trying to get to a victim of a fall with glass and steel pipe sticking out, Dawson and Britt try to get there even though traffic is beginning to look like crap and never when the sirens are on. But when cars moved over, they started heading out until someone walked in front of them.
Blindsided by what they saw, they treated and took the guy to Med while Casey and Herrmann had to wait for another ambulance. But instead, they took the victim themselves to Med. As they brought that victim in, Dawson got pushed into questions about what happened and needed to be right on the mark about it. That made all the buttons with not only her but Boden, too.
Then come the lawsuits, and with the help from Antonio, they get info on the guy that Dawson hit. The guy has been trying to kill himself for a while but has failed to do so. She got the information and took it to the victim's son, and the lawsuit was dropped.
Boden has breakfast with a former colleague, pressuring him to go to New York City, but he doesn't want to. Boden brings his son to the station and gets him to try out a few training and observe the job if he wants to join or not.
The reasons why Boden didn't want to go seem to be out of fear. After his former colleague asked him again in front of his crew, he looked at photos he had received and showed them to his son and started talking about the events of September 1 and 2 the day after September 11, 2001. There, we hear him speak of the event and the meaning. Not only did he go, but Casey and Severide went with too. They stopped at the firehouse and then visited the 9/11 Memorial. Boden gives a speech about how something can be hard to find when you lock it in your mind, but hope has something to unlock it if you want to.
Thoughts
"I Held Her Hand" happens to be a good episode, one that follows the clues if someone caused the fire. Plus, I can't help but see the facial looks of Casey and Severide when they don't agree with one another. I couldn't help but laugh whenever Herrmann got upset about the graffiti. The guy makes me laugh, bad or good. The writing was good, and the characters from Britt and Herrmann also stood out in this episode, along with Casey and Severide. Overall, I give this episode a 7/10.
"That Day" this episode stood out with not only humor but emotion as well. First, let me say that Herrmann had the best storyline in this episode, interviewing for a higher position. He fills in for Casey as Casey steps back and watches Herrmann. The guy can do it, but his truth-telling is more than just helpful; it is like firecrackers. I couldn't stop laughing when he told the captain of his thoughts, too much! I can help to be moved from Boden's storyline near the end—fear of going back and trying to forget that day. The words we heard from him about it just overwhelmed me with tears. And that speech at the end moved me unlike any other. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.
You can catch Chicago Fire on Tuesday nights at 10/9c on NBC.
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