Chills with Emotion: Chicago Med "Cold Front"

Like a cold front being the cold air, a new Chicago Med brings another tremendous power.

"Cold Front" will be rememberedembeforom its emotional and powerful stories of our heroes facing the odds to help save their patients. If there's an episode that best describes what the show is about, it would be this very episode.

When a blizzard hits Chicago, it causes a massive pileup on the highway, and it looks like everything will be coming to Med. Choi and Jeff are there to treat as much as they can, alongside Casey, Severide, and Bowden being there. There, there was a family of four in a van, a man who was in an explosive truc,k and a pregnant woman who was found away from her car.

Let's start with the family: a family of four, one being a cousin, comes in as the father was taken to the OR fast, the mother being treated for cuts and wounds, but it was the boys that needed treatment—one with a hip fracture and the other with a leg fracture.

Both were in dire need of blood, but with a storm, none can't come in; the hospital was low on blood, but there were only a couple left. It left a heavy decision time for both doctors and even the mother/aunt as to who gets the blood. The one who'll survive would be the lady's nephew. Do you think that her husband agreed with it? No, he couldn't believe she let them pick her nephew over their son.

Let's move on to probably one of the most memorable stories in this episode was of Dr. Ethan Choi, who treated the burned victim from the crash. But when Dr. Latham saw him, he wanted Choi not to give him treatment because he burned over 95 percent of his body, but Choi tried to fulfill his patient's dying wish to tell his wife how much he loved her.

But after putting him on the vent, Rhodes tells Choi that they needed it because of the shortage due to the storm. Choi took his patient off the vent and helped him pump air til his wife got there, but Rhodes later wanted him to help put a tube in for another patient; at that point, the patient heard what was going on and grabbed his arm to tell him that it was okay to let go. I don't know about you, but I was literally in tears throughout Choi's story. But here's probably another one: as soon as Choi is done with that other patient, he overhears Halstead and Manning about the son's condition and that he needs- blood now. Choi is blood and gives as much as the kid needs.

Over moments: Rhodes and Latham had another good-to-WTF moment. Dr. Charles meets a loud patient who needs a refill, but when he leaves the hospital and "his brother" calls to tell Dr. Charles that he has died, it sets Charles down a moody path. But here's a surprise: the patient didn't die. He wanted to mistreat Charles, but he would pay the piper at the end: being held for 72 hours. And I think we might need to keep an eye on Wheller down the road; I'm a bit worried about him after the last couple of weeks.

"Cold Front" is another excellent and mighty one-hour television. The writing was so powerful, and the acting was on another level. I want to give Brian Tee the performance of the night, maybe even the performance of the week, as he was just outstanding. Also, Gehlfuss and Torrey gave their best performance, but mostly, we got to see a couple of #Manstead moments. Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med when they return in the historical television Chicago Crossover event on Wednesday, March 1st at 8/7c on NBC, and new episodes return on March 2nd at 9/8c on NBC.